Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1837-08-14

gust
Incendiares are abroad in that city. An attempt
was made to fire the buildings Of Mr. Mnturn, on the
4th, but il was frustrated.
Mr.. Gibson Of the True American ascribes the ma
MIA to duellng in New Orleans to the dog days. that
began the 18th Of July. He says that the puppies
have been very busy under belief in the truth OF the
proverb, that "every dog must have his day." 10
Kill your man once, is honor enough for the balance
Of your life.
The police of the Second Municipality have caught
one of Squres runaway gang in the marshes.
Two pilots have been appointed for Galveston Bay.
All vessels bound hher will receive pilot by hoist
ing flag at the foremost head
The Bee is paiting the New Orleans Herald, sour
rilous penny ocofoco paper, on the back, and de-
scends into the of controversy with the block
heads that conduct it's columns. Par mobile fra
trum.
The General Council of the three municipalities
cannot be got together. No great loss to the public
welfare!
The ministerial candidates for Congress in Missis-
sipp are 1000 votes ahead at the latest advices.
Gen. Bustamente, we learn, from Tampico letter
in the Bee Of the 9Th instant has asked Of the clergy
millions. Their pres,shps don't like this and have
proposed second coalition with Santa Anna. The
government having got wind of this, sent order to
the hero of st. Jacinto appear at Mexico and
swer to charges against him in relation TO the Texas
campaign Spartan-like Santa Anna wrote:
"No Puedo, no debo no quiero."
al cannot / should not and will not" A detach-
ment was sent to Mango de Clavo, his country seat
arrest him. but est nrentus. 1t said he
gone to Jalapa or Vera Cruz Victoria and Bravo
have turned Santa Anna men.
The Bee is cut funously upon the City Bank of N.
Orleans and it's worthy President Samuel J. Peters,
Esq. for resumng day and suspending the next.
The banking system is in bad way every where, but
why don't the Bee probe it the bottom scientifically
| instead of resorting to personalities
| Two boatmen got into row at the Upper Cotton
Press on the evening of the 9Th, and went to work
with Spanish knives: Resut-one stabbed in the
cheek and the other in the side. Cause Of the battle
says the Picayune low price of tobacco.
| German charged with counterfeiting 2nd munich
pality notes, killed himself in prison by taking poi
son.
The Louisiana Courier is said to be first rate autho
rity on "poultry and chickens" We may adj, that
the Bulletin is to be depended on, for its confidence
in restoring editorials AMI advertisements"
The Union Bank Of New Orleans being sued on a
parcel of their bills directed the Marshall to levy on
piece of property pledged to it for payment of debt
by one of its debtors. This created quite stir. The
banks strange bodies willing to keep others to
the line of justice but 60 wide from it themselves
They will be brought to their senses by and by. The
Union undoubtedly had a right, however, to direct
the sale of pledged property, if the debtor would not
pay up.
There are said to be no old maids in the ID Munich
pality. We never saw one Happy city in this hap
py land!
A writer in a Georgia paper says he knows no diff
ference between bank that will not pay its debts and
an individual that will not This is the whole truth of
the matter in nut she'll Honesty is honesty.
The Coach DIsAsrER.-CLEAR SPRINGS, (Md.)
10th August, l637-The postscript TO my last letter,
relative TO the terrible stage accident stated that Miss
Clarke's shoulder was disocasd. 1t affords me
pleasure to say such is not the She is bruised
Though poor girl silent grief that deep coroder of
| the heart is making sad nroads upon her frame
| The gentleman l alluded to, whose death was
expected a moment or two after last wrote is yet
alive; and one of his attendant physicians has some
/ hepe of his recovery.
His name is said to be Wells, of Memphis, Missis-
sippi. He is agent for steamboat company in the
South, and is on his return from New York and Phi
ladelphia, where he had been TO give orders for pc
cuar sort of boilers for the engines of the YES
sells that to ply between the Mississippi and Mo-
bile. Mrs. Clarke was on her way home with two
coored children and their mother, which she had OBJ
Subjoined are some particulars of this shocking az
fair which had not time to embody in my last des.
patch.
II appears by the tracks Of the coach that enc of
the hind wheels several inches over the edge Of
the precpce eighteen feet before reached the place of
DISASTER AT length the two wheels Of that side got
beyond the edge, and the coach tilted and went over
the side Of the precpice and for several moments ac
tually hung suspended from the brink
At this heart-chilling juncture, the poor horses
made a most noble effort TO right il, for all of them
pulled, and strained and struggled Gas the marks in
the road most clearly indicated, and the passengers
bear testimony to, most incredible as il seems) but
nought avaled them for the weight of the coach pre-
ponderated-drew the horses 10 the brink and all
were rrscpitated 80 feet down an almost perpendicu
lar rock The coach first reached the bottom-was
dashed TO pieces, INSTANTLY scattering It's contents)
and Of the leaders fell upon Mrs Clarke and the
child They, with the animal, were killed on the
spot!
A young gentleman who came off nearly scaithless
found himself lying near the legs Of the other dead
horse
Poor Wells was found dreadfully battered. sur
rounded by fragments of the coach.
We have dates Mobile 7th, Savannah sth, Angus
ia 9th and Charleston 9th Aug.
The bible society has been well attended at Mobile.
committee of twenty five persons were appointed
to visit every house in the city, for the purpose of
L. svhsf families destitute and IN G,xc;.L