Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1829-07-17


them start like a tailcr's apprentice the
first time he touches a Rot goose, and they
will have knowledge of heat. Let these
gentlemen who put forth such excellent
and praise worthy regulations for living
through hot day, try a night or two of
our weather, and they will be altogether
willing for US to keep it for ''home con-
SUMPTION" On! we would ourselves give
any price short of pound of ice, for a
few minutes recreation at the furnace of a
New York steamboat: there would be
something SO refrigerating about it,
What lll-natured .mastiff was 1T that first
bestowed upon us South Carolinians the
epithet eliot Headed I" He ought to be
baked in Monsieur Chaubert's oven till
that eminent fire eater came out blowing
his fingers. There is most cruel impiely
in talking about our hot-headedness We
are the coolest headed people under Hea-
ven, considering the Caloric we live in.
The same funny fellow who discourses so
wisely TO "hot people," would fine his
head with tail to it as long as Encke's
comet, upon three days residence
in ke,shaw district. Let him try it
and he is most veritablc saamander
1t he do not find our words true Talk a,
bout peoples excepting their temper w A
walk through Broad street would take the
temper out of Rodgers best "cast steel"
and there is no way to put it back again,
but by aJump into Capt. Carriers mill pond
remedy that we have tried So often late
ly, that we have become case hardened
ourselves-bv tho way, this latter crcum-
stance is lucky, for the water there,is get
ting so hot that man would otherwise
cook in it.in less time than'it. you'd take to
boil corn dumping. Let us hear no
more about hot weather in New York"
The Wheeling (Vir) Compiler, dated
on the first ms, contains the following &C.
count OF most disastrous Steam Boat ac-
cldent which occurred a shor, distance be-
low that place. Keeping up and not let
ting oil the steam, whiea boat is lying to,
appears to be the height of imprudence.
and ought not to be permitted
DREADFUL STEAM BOAT DISASTER. A
citizen of this place. who has Just return
ed from Louisville, gives us the following
particulars Of the explosion of a boiler Of
the ). Is. kenawha, and its consequences.
which took place on the Oath ut, at the
mouth o. Guyandotte, on hoard of which
he was passenger at the time.
The Kenawha had stopped to discharge
and receive passengers. After the boat
was pushed off, the Engine was started,
and the pump put in motion to supply the
boilers with water The boilers being ra-
Their low, and very hot at the time, and but
little steam having been let off during their
stay at the shore, the moment the cold.
water came in contact with the starboard
boiler, 1t burst both ends blowing off, the
boiler itself breaking quite asunder, about
midway of its length, one half of which
was ripped lengthwise and spread out in
the form OF a piece of sheet iron, and the
Hue co!lapsing, was cast upon shore a
considerable distance, by the violence of
the explosion.
There were at the time about 25 Cabin
and 90 Deck passengers on board, the
former OF which escaped uninjurcd. Or
the latter, including hands, the following
is a list of the persons killed and injured
by the explosion:
Killed 4. Abraham Barnes, Fireman ::
Thomas Bryant, Passenger; James Sher-
lift, do, child Of three years old; HamiI-
ton, do. lad, sirname not known but
." hose father resides near Sunfsh, Ohio.
Died IF ScakdS and Wounds an to 7 o.
clock, a. W. Of June 20, A. &. Davis,
coioured man passenger.
Joel Sloop,
Thomas Phillips. ENGINEERS.
Lewis Handy, Deck hand.
Dangerously Injured, A. Captain
Rodgers, Fl. St. Clair, John Bremwell,
late of Poplar Springs A. Williams, col
ored man, cook
slightly injured IT, Joseph Sheriff,
saddler, formerly of Pttsburg, who served
his apprenticeship with Mr. Little. Mrs.
Sheriff had her heel bone broken, and was
slightly scalded, and also 3 children of the
above scalded; Ann Riggs. Mary Ann
Graham, Martha Woodruff and child, c..
Rust, aud Samuel Edgar--all deck pass
engers.
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