The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-06-26 00:00:00

Sikh-bricks as maybe born before a given time shall be slaves
for life; that those born after a .certain .period shall be slaves
for a given number of years; and that those born after a period
more remote shall be free at birth. They place the question
eutireWAiptin grounds of expediency: :, ' -
I•Tqw Oei.:EaNsi MAY Coot's.—The period has ar-
rived Ain intelligence respectitig.the fortheioning clops is in-
teresting to merehants and to others: Intelligence in reference
to the-crops.in this vicinity is also of impedance to.,other sec-
tions ofthe eonntry, where the planting interest prevails: The
weitherlin Franklin (Attdkapas) has lately beenvery variable.
The morning and evening required Ares, to make them,
.etan-
fortable. • The town had been visited (on the 22d, ult.) by a
storm, 'accompanied with thunder, lightning, and torrents of
rain, wind] it was feared wouldtend to-still further retard the
growth of an already partially injured, crop. The G(orid Gulf
Advertiser says, that at no period within our recollection has this
delightful season of the year been ,so backward as the present
one. Cornand cotton, which has generally been iu:a state of
forwardness at thiSdate, is this se ,son now scarcely perceptible;
and on most plantations off from the river but little has made its
appearance. On many plantations, we learn, an: entire replant-
ing, or a commence de.uovo, aslawyers.say, will be found ne-
cessary. This will, of course, place ourpbintersgreatly.behind-
hand in their:calculationt, and,. in all probability, curtail their
crops considerably. But we hope for the best.
, .( Frani. the New lurk Daily .4dvertiser of the Ist Jane.)
NEW., O.IiLEANS, MAY 15.—AWFUL. • CATASTItOPHE,—The
three story brick Wilding on• the south side of Canal-street, and
between Cainp and Niagaziiii-streets, occupied as the. Planters'
Hotel, and kept by Charles .Armstrong,.fell to the earth last
night at about half-past two o'clock. • Repairs had lately been
making io the lower story, and it is presunied that too much of
the, support had been incautiously cut-away, •
,The.hete,l was occupiedas an eating and lodging-house, and,
it is calculated, contained, at the. moment of the.dreadful acci-
dent, .between sixty-and .seventy:inmates. The .billiard room,
which had been very full. till late at night, had closed only-a
short time before. . A young gentleman. who left it but a few
inimitesjiefore the fall of the building, states,that he passedto
the opposite-sideof the street, to -his. .buarding-houte,• went-on
the gallery in. front,: where he heard three distinct and loud
(Jacks, reseinblingthe,discharge of small cannonj then a sound
like,that of an earthquake, as the mass fell, and. for a m invent
after, one, and only one appalling cry, as if. by the united voices
,uf d,he sufferers! TIM alarm.was directly given to the.citizens,
the bells rung, and engine companies turned-
We understand that: there were- about fifty persons in the
Planters' Hotel. at the time of its falL In the course of the
dily there: were taken out dead the body of a gentleman from
Yellow Banks. Kentucky, of the nanaeor,Hanna,,a. lawyer of
much respectability,. the body of Mr. .Mooney, the superin-
tendent of the tables of the hotel, and the body of a Mr. Hop-
kinsoyho, hard been during the past, season, attached to .the
Circus company.
As usual on such awful opportunities, there were some de-
mons in the shape of hunitin beings, who repaired there for the
sake. of plunder.. =We are glad to hear, fur the honor of. oaf
city, that some of them have been taken and imprisoned in the '
gaoL During the three days revolution in Paris, soinepersens,
who were similarly intlastrious, were instantly selzeil, and the
populace punished them with summary justice; we almost re-
gret not to have a parallel tojelate, fur &summary. justice is
ever justifiable, there never wasp. stronger necessity,for it than,
on the present occasion.
The following are some of the melancholy particulars:— •
Mr. Morton, slightly wounded; Mr. Kennedy; severely in-
jured; Mr. Hannah, dead. These gentlemen, together with
Mr-• Griffith, were all from Davis County, Kentucky.. Mr.
Griffith was not in the buildiiig. at the time of the catastrophe,
but instantly repaired to the'rescue of his friends.' •
Mr. Taiwan, portrait painter, had his arm greatly mashed;
Mr. Hans escaped unhurt; Mr. Morass slightly injured- •The
lifeless bodies of Messrs. gooney and dopkins were taken from
under the ruins•aCaeout tifrki o'clock yesterday. Mr: B. Ceti,
ter, exchange-broker,.escaped uninjureil; Mr, -). Eller, dead;
Mr. Ennis, of the Daily News, bruised ; Mr. Gaillard, clerk to
Messrs. Ainsley and Ryan, wounded; Mr. Ellis, bruised; Mr.
Arinstrongjun., hurt. .
Mr. Cullerton was saved by abeam resting on the bed posts ;
he extricated limself, by making a. passage through. the parti.t
tion to the next house;: escaped with a Alight scratch.
'A Frenchman, name not known, severely injured,
Various reports are in circulation as to the number of persons
who were within the walls when they gave way; but it was sup-
posed there, were not,less than sixty. What became of the
whple of them, can only be surmised;-, many, it is said, mirk
ehlously escaped at fhe testant; While one shudders to think of
what the ruins may yet conceal from the View.
• Some of.the escapes from the buildingare truly miraculous.
Mr. Rarnage was sleepingin a room adjoining that of another
individual, who was bUried in the ruins and lost, whilst. Mr, It,
was so 'situated that lie was able to dresi himself and escape
overa back wall

Mr. Edward Russell was saved by falling between two posts,
whilst his bed was crushed to pieces.
A gentleman ronlidlithself in the sfreet, he knew not how;
but recovering, himself,, and tindipg that he had,nutones broken,
he returned to'the -spot fieMi whenee he Caine to seek for five
thousand dollars, which he found, we: believe. • .
Among' the first,. picked flom the ruins, was a man who had
his scalp taken off as completely as it it had been chine by an
Indian,—no tear, but: allaroUnd as smooth as if cut with a knife;
we Saw the scalp at ;Mr. Sickles, druggist shop.
Mr. Cox, a yoUhigentleman, was caught in the ruins by the
foot, but escaped withunt any injury.
' Sanibel Kennedy, mentioned in the Daily News, as being one
of the, missing, land thirong, the ruins of the Planters' Hotel, was
dug from the rubbish at a ,quarter before four 'o'clock,' and
..,
• al-
though having rem“ined there eleven or twelve hoUrs, in a situ-.
ation where it might he supposed a man could not exist mi-
nutes, is hearty, and with the exception of being severely bruised
about the arms, is in good cOnclition,,and likely to recover his
usual vigour iu a few days. • .
M. Hertz was taken froth amidst the ruini, just under two
joists; the'fall of which was stopped within 'an inch of his Kodry.,
(From the Trherliky Gazette—grtra., Monday,.May2s; 18,3))
ANOT.fikit STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION—FOBry PERSONS Miss-
ti:d.—By the arrival at this port this morning of oe.steamikipt,
Warsaw,' Captain Keatinz„ we learn the painful intelligence,
that the :steamboat Majestic, while stopping at Memphis, Ten-
nessee, .on her way from New Orleans to St. Louis, on Wednes-
day;-the 13th instant, burst her boiler, by which disaster 40
persons'*ere either killed or missing. Eight bodies had been,
found on Tuesday morning, when the Warsaw passed. The,
passengers were principally German emigrants, and there were•
twenty cabin passengers in addition from various 'parts of the
union. We' have no other particulars of this melancholy occur-
rence, though the papers will doubtless furnish them in a day
or two.

[Here is another of thoie dreadful disaiters Which proceed
generally from. a disregard of the most obvious ilictates.ot pru-
dence. The-engineer probably neglected, or wilfully forbad, to
let off the steam during the stoppage'of the boat, and thus, per-
haps; to save fifty cents. worth of fuel, he destroyed forty lives.
We have been attentive observers 'of the steamboat disasters,
reported with such 'appalling frequency by theneWspapers, and
we-do not remember one Of them which has not evidently re-,
suited from neglect; inebuipetency, or wilful mismanagement.
It would seem as if those who usually have charge of the
engines of our steamboats, Were unaware of the tremendous
and dangerous power 'of those agents,• and of the necessity
which exists for the utmost care and vigilance in their manage-
!tient. EVery instance of disaster from them convinces us more
and More that the only effectual preventive, is to make the
owners pay heavily for all damage arising.from their explosion.
We shall thenhaVe safe boilers, and 'a guarantee for their care-
ful in a.safe in an age men t.]--Nationetl
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS OF THE STEAMBOAT EX PLO-,
sroN.—Tlie C?iictnn-nti Republign, of the 2,3 d, has the following
accotint of this fiightfqdisaster :
A gentleinan who arrived in this city hit evening in the
steamboat Splendid, '.direct from New Orleans, called at our
office; on Ids way through this city, and informed us that the
steamer Majestic had-exploded one of her boilers, while on the
eve of shoving, from the wharf at Memphis, 'producing a, most
melancholy loss 6f life and limbs. 'About 60 persons were
scalded, a large poetion of them mortally, and nearly' all of
them 'dangerously.
The collapse is
.Supposed to have been occasioned by the
passengers flocking 'upon one side of the boat, causing it to
careen, so as to produce a transfer of the ivater from the star-
board to the larboad boiler. Our informant was on .shore at
MeMphis, and visited the .hbuse in which the wounded were
confined. He represents the tpectacle there exhibited as heart-
rending beyond conceptiob. 1 o add' to the distress of the suf-
ferers, the cholera is prevailing at Memphis to an alarming
extent.

-Yhirty-foUr deaths. by eholera had already occurred In that
ill fated city, up to his' departure, and four Lad transpired on
the day'of the accident. l'he deck paSsengers were the exclu-
sive siitTerers. The cabin passengers were supposed to' have
entirely escaped. A more full and satisfactory statement of
the particulars of this deplorable catastrophe may be expected
in our Monday'S paper.

LONDON GAZETTE.---TUESDAY, JUNE 23.

IN_SO4VENTS..

- June 23—James Hutton, Ple-Ca4illy, London, baker—John Watton.
Ppper Bedford-place, London, surgeon.
RANKRUPTS.
' Robert Smith, Gra'resend, bricklaN'er.
Charles Pearson, GreenWich; thatibfactnring-chemist.
. George Simmons, King's-cross, St. Pancras, surgeon.
George Exton Turner, Cheltenham, auctioneer.
:Joseph Wrigley, SaddlewOrth,..YorkshiN,, woollen-cloth-merchant.
Ehtmezer liancock,sheffield, hackney:llan.
Vt'illiani Clark, Kinas(On-ripo9-iiril); 'hop-mercharit.
Jaqies•Greenw ay,' Plymciuth, merchant.
Peter. Lee; 'W in chester, scrivener. • •
DIVIDENbS.

July 17, J. Hodson, Liverpool, timber-merchant—July 17, J. Lees,
' Newton-moor, Cheshire, cotton-spinner—July 16„T. Salter and W.
Pearson, MancheStyr and
.Lnudoo, merchants--July 15,. J. and J..
:Whitehead, Dsnsluiw, Yorkshire, ruetchants.—luly 17. L. Flersheim,
Birmingham, merehant—JUly 13, W. Edgson, ,7lrchester, North rap-
tonkhire, btitcher--Aly 15,' J. Lairaiert, 13fritigh:' Westmoreland,
carpenter--Juiz 16. J. Almond, Pemberton, Lancashire, woollen-
draper—July 11, W. C. Winterbottom and W..'DickSon, Oldham,
'Lancashire, fustian-manufacturers--July 21. H. Wallington, Stock-
port, Cheshire, builder July 'l4;-T. 'Matthew, Margaret-street,
London, coach-maker—July 13, IL Rowed and .J, W. Green.shields.
'West mlnster,-tall'or I 4; "brown; Camberwell, carp"eitte>r
R.. Gatenhy, Shaciwell, grocer-July 16, .J. Carter, London,
wa in
dlen-warehOusean—Ailg. l, s. Sadd, London;'viettiailerJuly
15, T. .P. Dann,, Cain'-s-cross,' near 'Stroud, Gloucestershire, wool-
merchant—July 15, T, 8: Pearson, Leeds;linenAraper—July 15, J. S.
Stevens, Puke-street, :London, plumber—July 15, I. Forth, Castle-
street,.§outhwark, . hatter—July Li H. De.an) Fore-street, London,
cheese-monger—July 14, P.' Wootton; Birehington, Kent, 'grOcei—
July-14',- L. Huntingdon, Stintlf Ntotiltori -A trettv London, thilor—July
16, T. layeOck; M Modes, SI Opiteller.J-July 14. North Wharf
road, Loll-o°n; scavenger—July 16, T. Carter, Cateatotustreet. London,.
cloth-factor-4 uly 16, N. Brown and A.Wallington. Aldersgate-street,.
London, Foackproprietors. . .
CERTIFICATES
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To be granted, unless cauit, h( shown to. the contrary on or before
the 14tYday of July.
J. M'Cturn. Liverpool, comnion-brewer—R. Chambers; Chirk-
bank, , Shropshire, shopkeeper—W. E. Browne, Brompton-grove,.
London, morcharit—T. F, choman, Littleharri and Exmouth, Devou.„
shire, hotel-keeper—J. Adams. Bridge-foot, London, epra-dealer---
J. Hayward, Tottenham-court-road, Loitulon, butcher—J. Oldhhin,
Friday-street: London, lacein'ah—W.-Ditksorf,-Olciligrn,-Landishire,
fustian-manufacturer—T. Dean; Astylum-buildingS, London, cow-
keener. ,