The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-07-23 00:00:00

went, or to withhold our best wishes for the success of all
who are, in good faith, labouring for their establishment."

The celebration of the 4th of July at New York was
attended by n, merous accidents of an appalling cha-
racter. Among the most melancholy was the follow
ing, which is thu, narrated in the Weekly Despatch :

"On Thursday afternoon,at three o'clock, as tie steam-
boat Samson was returning to the city from Stoten
Island, with an immense number of passengers on
board, while opposite Itibbins' Reef, the stanchions
supporting the upper or promenade deck gave way,
when the whole mass fell upon the main deck, burying
beneath it several hundred human being,. Fortunately
for the most of those underneath, in falling, it lurched
.towards the stern of the boat, one end resting on a
box above the taffrail, and the other upon the wheel
guards forward, being several inches above the heads
of the passengers. The lodgment, however, caused
the falling deck to separate in the centre, underneath
which part it came in contact with the dense mass of
passengers, killing instantly Mr: Joseph Chambers,
and a Scotch lady, supposed to be a Mrs. Johnson,
both of this city. The brother of Mr. Chambers was
at his side at the time of the crash, and sprang for-
ward a few feet, escaping thereby the awful fate of Mr.
C. Mrs. Johnson was standing up with a child in her
arms, near the centre of the quarter deck—the child
escaped unhurt. Nearly every one who was standing
in that part of the boat was more or less injured
Among those dangerously wounded by this accident
was Mr. Jacob M. Henriques, broker, of Wall-street,
who had his breast and collar bones broken, and his
ribs nearly all dislocated or broken—he has since died.
David A. Paton, a Wall-street broker, was also seriousl,
hurt. Two or three persons either fell or jumped
overboard during the confusion, and were picked up by
the steamer Sun, which came along side at the moment.
Captain Clark, of Brooklyn, agent ot one of the In-
surance Companies in this city, was al-o severely
wounded, as was his lady. Both are now in a pre-
carious situation. One old man had his leg cut off
entirely below the knee.
" It is due to Captain Daval, who had charge of the
boat, to state that after the accident, he took the best
possible measures for relieving the sufferers; we are
equally bound on the part of the community to say,
that a great many more passengers were admitted upon
this boat, than she could safely accommodate.
" The verdict of the jury was simply that the de-
ceased came to their death by the falling of the pro-
menade deck on board the steam-boat Samson.'

" Mrs. Johnson, one of the killed, had engaged her
passage for Liverpool by the packet of to-morrow."
In the same paper we find an account of the ex-
plosion of the boiler of a locomotive engine upon the
Harlem railroad, by which the engineer and a pas-
senger were killed on the spot, and several other per-
sons were dreadfully injured. Several minor accidents,
arising from the use of fire-arms had also taken place.
Mr. Webster. who is at present in England, has ad-
dressed a letter to his friends at Boston in which he de-
clines becoming a candidate for the Presidency.
The news from Canada is unimportant. A party ot
refugees from Troy, Vermont, •joined a party fron.
Holland, and on the first of June entered Canada, a.
Barnston, armed with muskets, pistols, and• bowit
knives. They set the house and, barn of Cart. But -
rought on fire ; but, on demanding from him his arm:,
he and his sons attacked the marauders, whom the)
beat off, capturing one of them, a fellow names
Sweetzer. The entire border is described as being it
a very unquiet condition.
It appears that the nototious bucanneer Bill John-
son, is still at large. The Weekly Dispatch furnishe
us with the following particulars :—" Affidavit wa
made before the U. S. Court, late in session at Canan-
daigua, that Bill Johnson is now upon one of tht
Thousand Islands, or in some part of Jefferson county.
and threatens death to any one who attempts to arres
him. The affidavit was made to procure the release o
his first hail, and takes the ground that his subsequen
imprisonment at Albany, releases those who were
bound for him. It seems he was again released, of
other bail, which, proving insufficient, the District At•
torney wished to hold the thrmz-t bail. "I he court ex-
pressed an opinion that the first bail were released, bu
postponed a decision until the next term of the Court
in November.

" This Johnson matter appears to be a pretty piec.
of business. That he should find bail in the first place
was singular enough ; and after it was found that it
was necessary to imprison him again, his procuring
hail a second time would seem more singular still, but
for the fact that the bail proved to be insufficient—a
circumstance they were probably aware of, when sign-
ing the bond. Now, it seems, like a regular bandit, he
bids defiance to the laws, and threatens death to who-
ever attempts to arrest him—a threat he will be fat
enough from executing, if we judge of the fu ure by
the past. The disposition however is the same.; ana
those who can make a deity out of an old reprobate who
thus deceives his friends, are welcome to their divinity.
We cannot worst: ip in the same temple. Where-the
obligation of a bond is the payment of money, for-
feiture may be made, and bail implicated, from neces-
sity on the part of the personal bail, and without
moral dishonesty. Where the condition is the simple
surrender of the carcass, the case is different, and no-
thing excuses the treachery that leaves a friend to
suffer for his kindness."
The following are the only other extracts of im-
portance