Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-05-26

Mason Wood, of Stratford, Montgomery county, went
down into a well Is feet deep for the purpose OF clean
ing out some quick-sand which had run in about fonr
feet in depth; when standing on two opposite stones
at the bottom, one of them gave way--he made a
spring to ascend by means OF a rope, but a stone al
that instant struck him on the head and knocked him
down, and he whole mass of stone fell in and cover
cd him to the depth of thirty six feet. One of his
hands happened to be confined so near his mouthrthat
he could brush the earth away, and give himself by
that means a chance to breathe, whom fins hand had
been confined IN any other position, he must have
been sufiocated from the quantity which kept cousi ant
lIy falling, in consequence of moving the stone above.
He wastaken out IN about 6 hours and thirty minutes
very much bruised, but had no bones broken, and.ap-
pears in a fair wayto recover.
The manner in which the s.ones we're taken out
deserves to be noticed; there vere two poles laid
them sSrmsng loops in which were laid ivo nlansa
across them (which formed a scaffaId for two men 10
stand upon and take the stone from those below; and
when another scaffoid was required, other chain,
we're hooked INTO them. which formed loops below in
which more planks were placed and so on alternately
70 the bottom, making eight sea61ids in the whole.
BY this means, the stones were Il ken out in much less
lime than would have been required 10 draw them out
IN buckets, by a windlase; and considering the anSie-
ty natural on such an occasion, and the great number
OF people present, every thing vas managed with
great regularity and care.-Liufe FaNs Gas.
TRIAL OF TUSKINA.
Fuskina %as tried for knowingly and wiIfnlly Oh
SiuS'h5 tuo PooS"Sc W tHo v. states mali Oh the
9Th lust. in Mobile. Verdict guilty, and sentence, a
bne OF $l0O-Thus, says the Mobile Register.
"bas ended an affair, trifing and unlmportant in
itself, but which, by the ridiculous exaggerstions OF
Two or three terrified travellers, and the peculiar as
pect OF our Indian relations, has thrown the whole
country into eommo,ion, draws out the troops Of the
Government, and accustomed q parade and show of
authority that, as the times ore, would ardly be ex-
.ceeded, were the dissolution of the Union to he AT.
tempted.
"From The turn the matter had taken, il vas hipb-
ly necessary and proper for the sake of example, that
the prisoner should be punished; but we confess we
could not repress a feeling of mortified pride
in rejecting, that a single Indian, in a whiskcy
froIic, should be able 10 stir up the Government to
such an exhibition of ITS power Had the driver DOS
sessed a particle OF Intrepidity, or had the passengers
been governed by The ordinary frmncss of men, the
stage would have Kept on its way. and The public ear
would not have been abused by exaggerated tales of
Indian interpositlon We must not be understood in
these remarks, as bes,owing censure OH the Govern
ment or It's agents, for their conduct in this unfortu-
pate affair; on the contrary, we are aware TINT tho
course they have pursued, was rendered ,,ecessarv
by circumstances which they could not CONTROL"
A correspondent of the Philadelphia Chronicle.
gives the following particulars Of The destruction Of
tho steamboat Tigress. on her way from New Or.
leans TO Cincinnati
Al Rockport, ~abouttwo hundred miles below Losfs.
vile, the cabin roof took Ere. IL was found impos-
sible to extinguish the flames. and the boat yos r,n
ashore. Knowing that she had three hundred Kegs
OF gunPowder on board, the passengers fed, with
the exception OF one or two attempted to scuttle the
vessel. Failing in this they left her; and, in two min.
utes after, she exploded. filing the air with hardware.
&C. a quantity of which was thrown upon the land.
No lives were lost; but Of the books, papers, baggage.
&c. nothing was saved. The Tigress wos principal
~ loaded for Cincinnati, where the Insurance. Offices
suffer Tbs boat had been insured at New Orleans.
but the policy is said TO have expired. The total loss
Is supposed 10 be between SIXTY and eighty thousand
dollars.
FROM the BALTIMORE PATRIOT.
The nsrt Eeetpon.-At a large and respectable
meeting IT the citizens Of District No. Q at The
house Of Mr. Noah A. Shufer. in Frederick, Md, on
"Wednesday the 18th OF May. Hoses Woman was
called TO the Chair, and Richard Potts appointed Sec
rotary After several addresses, tho following reso
lutione V1erc unanimously adon,od