Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-11-17
RETURN OF TIE PRESIDENT STEAMSHIP.
Nrw YnnE Nov O lsin

NEW YORK, Nov. - lciD
great sensation was created in this city this morn
ing between 2 and Q clock, by the announcement OF
the telegraph that team.shp was seen in the oifng
The announcement on the telegraph ran thus
80 o'clock-ln the ohing large British steamer,
with three masis coming in slowly under steam.
The public anxiety was intense TO know what steam
ship it was, rs none was due expected about this
time. The Queen had only been out eight days and
therefore it could not be her. and some supposed II was
the ship Columbia, whose place was taken by the
Britannia. AT 10 o'clock the telegraph had this an
nogncement
"Outsde the Hook, the steamship President, put
back apparently in distress"
All the mercantile men were running hither and th-
Their TO inquire the of her return, and alarm sat
the faces Of all who had friends board of her
And it not until half past eleven that tie cause
ascertancd from the telegraph bulletin which ran
thus:
"IIalf past 11-Prcsident steam ship three miles off
the West Bank returned with her staTboasd wheel
disabled coming mp slowly under steam
What has caused this accident W" are yet unable to
learn although from the recent high tides and heavy
gales on the coast we have no doubt that she expe-
rienced tremendous storm, or perhaps succession
Of gales and heavy
The President sailed from This city last Monday with
81 passengers, aud $4,000 in specie. Among the
passengers were Mr. Jaudon, Mr. Brown and Mr.. Alsop,
all Of the L. S Bank, who going out TO London to
make the final arrangements for the resumption oil spe-
Gle payments by that bank and had made all their cal
reintVc 10 monetary on
lief that the President would arrive out about the
10Th of the month. This delay will be productive of
sad Inconvenience in this respect alone, and overthrow
all the arrangements made in England. Bills will be-
come due aud be protested and quite small explosion
will succeed. Many of our most eminent merchants
have also made similar calculations in regard to money
Matters all of which will be overhrown to the surprise
and arrangement Of The mercantile world in England.
Added 10 all this will be the intense and asonizing
excitement produced in other quarters in England ~
her non-arriya The Acadia left Boston on Sunday
the LIST instant and will reach Liverpool next Saturday,
with The positive intelligence that the steamship Pres
dent follow her next day, and carrying out tie
names of many who were 10 leave in her. The Presi-
dent will be due in Liverpool next Monday. But that
day will pass over and the day after that, and :he whole
week will BY and yet there will be trace of the
President And eyes will grow dim with watching, and
checks look pale with fear and fond hearts ache with
agony for the supposed loss Of all they love- For when
TO- II, and perhaps IL days roll BY after she DUE and
tdings of her reach the shores of England or
reach until the Patrick Henry arrives on or about
the Goth inst) the conclusion of majority will he,
that she has gone to the bottom, with all board
There will be fourteen days of intense suspense and
fourteen days is an age in money matters commerce,
or loye.-Heraid.
Tico o'eicek-All that we can learn is that she has
returned TO port for supply of COAL having encounter
ed tremendous gales from the time she left.
From Monday, the day of sailing till Saturday, at 3
p NJ understand that she made only three hundred
mes.-Com. .9dr.