Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1837-10-20

Lending to all a magic light
That fresh new day in which
To breathe and move no more alone
The golden sun, light OF that dream,
So bright and ah! ALL all our own
Who that hath felt e'er forget!
EN- through an age weary Woe
Loves young dream is with US YET
The brightest earth can ever know.
BY this time it was near twelve o'clock. Fart OF
the company then separated, and the rest resumed
till the cock cried "cock doodledo" next morning.
Indeed am not sure bur they are there yet
The next dinner at the City Hotel will be even
greater than this None bat the choicest society is
admitted.
FURTHER PARTICULARS RELATING TO THE Loss
OF THE HoME.-The only passengers in town saved
from the wreck of the Home, are Mr.. Holmes and
Mr.. Roland. They both agree with Mr.. Vanderzee's
written statement that the packet ship lay beating
on the Romer shore for four or five hours in leaving
this port.
We are given to understand that this was only the
Captains second voyage. And he appears to have
been altogether untitled for his task, or he would
never have taken out the vessel a second time, she
having, from the statement of the mate, who IS
drowned, started her beams in her previous voyage
He seems to have had ne decision OF character and
to have sacrificed the lives of his passengers ultimate
ly to his care for the ship
In the first place, with The first appearance OF the
unfavorabe state Of the weather for such vessel, he
ought TO have put into Norfolk or Chesapeake.
On Sunday when the storm was coming on, Capt.
Salter who was on board addressed Captain White
upon the situation in which he had got his boat
'What do you do under lee shore and a storm
coming on. How will you get her OIL 2" asked Capt
Salter.
"With the paddles" was Capt. Whites reply
During the early part of Monday the after part Of
the vessel was observed by Mr. Holmes to rise with
almost every motion of the waves. This was the
first startling occurrence to him. The steward was
asked by some one to 90 down and see What was the
matter.
"No," said he, she will port there and for ought
] know might port when am below"
IfCaptain White had been man of determination
and nerve, he would have run the boat at This time
through the Swash. The passage is short and he
would then have got Immediately into smooth wa
ter under Cape Hatteras instead ofputtng off as he
did to round the point, by which the vessel torn
to pieces by the violence of the waves
The utmost good order prevailed at the first an
nouncement of danger-the women and men assisted
to bail cheerfully and without any lamen,asn. But
when the frs, sea broke over her and washed away
part Of her deck furniture every abandoned his or
or her useless labor and sought to save themselves
Mr.. Holmes was saved as we have before stated
the forecastle which he with the Captain and five
others, managed to reach. This was in itself
most perilous task and may doubtless persisted in
essaying il. Nohisg but the certainty Of pershing
where he was could have induced Mr.. Holmes to have
attempted il. He watched the moment that one
wave had swept over the boat-thcn rushed to the
nj al. : he
and then gained the forecastle.
This gentleman describes his feelings rs perfectly
benumbed by what he had gone through. The fol-
lowing day he went to the beach and gazed upon the
dead bodies washed on shore, without any Of those
agonsed sensations which such an event would at
any other time have occasioned. II was only upon
arriving at New York, which he did fortunately be-
fore his relations had heard of the disaster that hi
feelings resumed the woted course and all the horrors
efthe dreadful scene burst upon him. He has passed
in his dreams a second time through the shipwreck.
and the struggling with the waves, and the parting
of the vessel and the agonised cry Of despair have
been to him as reality.
There was one gentleman on board named Course,
Freedman, who has fought in all Napoeons bat
ties He has for some time been a resident Of the
South. Alas that one who has faced death in bat
Ties 80 often, and under such General, sheuld have
perishedat last SO ingloriously.
A. w. Roat OF the firm of Roat a. Taylor, of
Charleston, had taken a passage in the Home. He
gave up to Mr. Woodbmn, and went himself in the
Philadelphia boat He was saved, and Mr.. Wood
burn, who took his place, penshed Mr.. Woodbmn
hsd considerable sum Of money with him for Sa-
vannah house.
We have received a full and authentic account
of the construction of the Home She was built by
Brown & Bell on proposition made by John p. Al
lare Esq II is well known that TO tho enterprise Of
Mr. Allaire we are indebted for the first establishment
of steam-paCket lines to Charleston. He was no
beat builder himself nor knew any thing of the bust
nees. He merely furnished his own and other boats
with boilers and engines.
About two years ago. Mr.. Allaire went to Brown
4 Bell. IL want" said he, TO make an improve
ment in the steam navigation to Charleston. The in
tercomse between thus city and Charleston warrants
IT, want one Of your best built strongest and most
substantial boats What will you build one for ~
They calculated, and replied "sl00,000
"very well, said Mr.. Alane-"you shall have