Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1840-11-10
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PRESIDENT STEAM SHIP.

NEpiDE1N1 - 4 EAM OIllI
Violent Gales and shortness of Fuel.
Sailing again Tomorrow mt ten o'clock.
A great sensation created in this city yester.
day morning between 8 and 9 o'clock, by the an
nouncement Of the telegraph, that steam ship
was in the ofing. The announcement ON the
telegraph ran thus
er, with three masts coming in slowly under
steam
The public anxiety was intense to know what
steam ship it was, as none was due or expected
about this time. The Queen had only been out
eight days, and therefore il could not be her and
some supposed it was the new ship Columbia,
whose place taken by the Britannia. At 10
o'clock, the telegraph had this announcement -
"Outside the Hook-the steam ship President,
put back apparently in distress"
All the mercantile men were running hither and
thther to enquire the of her return and alarm
sat the faces Of all who had friends board Of
her And it was not until halfp past eleven that the
cause was ascertained from the telegraph ballctin
which ran thus
"Half past ll-President steamship, 8 miles off
the West b INK returned, with her starboard wheel
disabled; coming up slowly under steam"
What had caused this accident, we were then
unable to learn although from the recent high
tides, and heavy gales the coast, we had no
doubt that she experienced tremendous storm or
perhaps succession of gales and heavy seas.
The President sailed from this city last Monday
o. Ay-
the passengers were the following:
SBackinghan, lady and son, Alex Brown. two
ladies, child and servant, W Thomas, John Dixon,
Charles Basley, c Richards, John Graham, Henry
Lees, Joseph Taylor, Charlesw orth, all OF Eng
land; Cowdin, c Kenworthy, Jas Byrne, c
Thorburn, Richards, William Cochran,
Goodall w Barton, j w Cochran, George AAles,
Thomas Jackson, } Gaillard, Jr, John Robinson, A
Oakeys, Drsmmond, r Foulds John Labron,
lady. Alsop and lady, Philadelphia; B Ogden,
Liverpool Jaudon, London; Mrs Judge White,
Tennessee; Campbell and lady, Quebec; Bart.
lett lady and an, servant, Philadelphia; Captain
Mrs L Thompson and four children, Toronto;
Dulany, Virginia; Aramburn, Cadiz; Joseph
Fisher, Philadelphia; = Watson, Ireland; Geo At
LADDERS; Judge H Carleton, N. Orleans; Jos Frost,
Liverpool; Capt Fullerton, Scotland; T Aries,
France; ID Cullen, London; Jas Watt, Dundee;
Robert Milne, Chicago; r Wightmsn, Toronto; p
Clark, Scotland; X Kidney, Ireland; Mrs. Ocott
and child, Liverpool; X Winterbottosn, Yorkshire;
LSteenfadt, and 1--WE servants-total, So
Mr. Jaudon, Mr.. Brown, and Mr. AlsOp, all ofthe
U. S. Bank, were going out TO London, to make the
final arrangements for the resumption of specie pay
ments by that bank and had made all their cseula-
lions relative to monetary matters, based the be-
lefthat the President would arrive out on or about
the 18th Of the month. This delay will be produc-
tive Of sad Inconvenience in this respect alone, and
overthrow all the arrangements made in England.
Bills will become due and be protested, and quite
small explosion will succeed. Many Of our most
eminent merchants have also made similar calcua-
tons in regard to money matters, all Of which will
be overthrown to the surprise and arrangement Of
the mercantile world in England.
Added to all this, will be the intense and ago.
zins excitement produced in other quarters in Eng
land by her non-srrivaL The Acadia left Boston ON
Sunday, the LIST inst and will reach Liverpool next
Saturday, with the positive intelligence that
the steamship President was to follow her
next day, and carrying out the names Of many
who to leave in her. The President will be due
in Liverpool aext Monday. But that day will pass
over, and the day after that, and the whole week
viii by, and yet there will trace ofthe Presi
dent. Aud eyes will grow dim with watching, and
cheeks look pale with fear, and fond hearts ache
with agony for the supposed loss of all they love-
For when 10, Il and perhaps Ii days roll by after
4. la. .uI IF L. Al.
of England (for aone reach until the Patrick
Henry arrives abou, the 18th inst y the con-
clusiou Of a majority will be, that she has gone
the bottom with all on board There will be IL days
Of intense Suspense; asd Ia days is age in money
matters, commerce, or love.
At2 o'clock We Issued Postscript with further
particulars, TINS -
Our Commodore, Robert Martin, Esq, has Just
come up from the Lower Bay. He boarded the Pre-
sdent before apy other boat, and informs tina, the
previous anHouneemen, On the Telegraph, wa. in
correct. The President 10 not injured at all She
put back for rant ofJaei
She is now at her dock, safe and sound, takes in
coal all thi. afternoon and night and leaves this port
again on Wednesday morning. She has experienced
nothing but heavy head winds from the north east
ever since .he left and has had to lay 20 nearly the
whole time. She mace 80 little head way that
on Saturday the Captain called meeting Of the
passengers, and IL was decided to return. At two
p. NJ on Saturday. her head was put uP for New
York, and she reached here ntwo r. VI. this day
(MondayD A card will be Published exsnoratipr
Capt. Keane from all blame, and rronosneins the
President TO be glorious sea boat.
sixee her departure heses her average eonsump-
ten Of coal ha. beea thirty-s'e ton. day. Aeeor
ding 90 the shove the Essi.~er reported that she
consumed but twenty-five tons-fer tons less Aan