The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1828-06-09
sIEAN.Bo II ACCIDENT.

VIC DdfdHs B0N 10.
Dreadfi Catastrophe -Byrhe Steamer North
America we have received the following mclan-
caolv information On the morning of the
lith instant the steamer Car OF Commerce,
capt. G,cks on her passage hence for Lons-
VILE At the inland No. -, burst her builer ~
thp after head. "h'ch took direction through
thu hurricane deck, da,tro, ed every thing b.
fore II 10 the stern OF the boat Tho boilers
rccollrd from THEN bed to the inrccasflr leaving
,Fery thing on the pant aftbe main deck heap
~ RUNS, Inc North Amcr5Ca stopped Al Hear.
hcld's andingto take IN i cargo when the CABIN
pasSpnp eIS accompanied bv Or Near, proceed
cd with the medicine chest, 10 the relief of lie
unfortunate sufferers. On their arrival they
jnuud tine boat, the coast and the fam houses
literally ,treNed with the dead the diving and
the wounded Those IN tive main CABIN escap-
ID uahu,t but of the deck passengers AID
crew. consisting Of more than sixty persons We
=. few escaped. Dur informant remained with
tine has, at their departure II were dead and
Ia or ; considered past recovery besides from
~ To 81 more 81 less injured Many Of the I'M
happy beings we've hteralI, boiled, others seal
dcd from head 10 foot, aud skinned alive, pre-
senting = spectacle At winch Humanity Shuddcr-
cd. Somc Of them by mhalmg the hot St am
INTO then lhroats. were scalded inwardlv 10
their very lungs
Capt Cocks, who escaped unhnrt was using
indefaIia able excrtions alleviate the sulTerilgs
Of the wounded, and 10 inter the dead with de
cency.
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State Bank Of North CaOIipa-By an adver-
lisenent of the President OF thus Institution pub.
shedln the Raleigh Register, II would appear,
that no Diride,m will b. declared on tine pro
FITS ofthe state Bank, tor the last half year.
Franklin Bunk The New York Commercial
Advertiser saws The Directors of this Banl
last night resolved to suspend payment for the
present" The Chancellor this morning sta
ted from the Bench, that he had allowed an IN
junction. against the institution on the applira-
ton OF the president aud one Of the Directors.
w understand that there Is but small amount
OF bills IN circulation.
Theological Daci-Mr Robert Owen. well
known for ms new views ofsocety and repeat
ed attempts To establish aud sustain, both in Eu-
rope aud America, his peculiar social system,
recently published, IN the newspapers. at New
Orleans, an address TO the clergy of that cty
proposing to meet them with view TO public dis
cuSsion, & offering tpurovP, "thatalltheregons
Of the world have been founded on the ilgnol-
ace OF mankind; that they are directly oppos-
ed to the never changing laws OF our nature
thai they have been aud are the real source of
vice, disunon and misery Of every description
that they are now the only real bar TO the for
nation Of a socely Of virtue. of intelii-
gence, of charity IN its most extended
sense, and Of sincerity and Kindness a.
mong the whole human family and that
they can be no longer maintained except
through the ignorance Of ile mass of the peo-
pie, and the tyranny o the few over that mass. Z"
No notice, we believe. was taken Of this AFRO
| giant cdalleug", by any otthose ~ whom i vas
addressed but t0e Rev. Alexander Campbell, Of
Virginia, has takcn up the glove, and in the last
number Of his Christian Baptist makes the fol-
lowing proposition:
Now, he it known to Mr. Owen, aud all
WHOM it may concern, that I,IeAiug on the au.