The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1841-08-25
+ From the N. Y Commercial Advertiser, Aug. IL.
DREADFUL DISASTER:

| From the ~ Y. Commercial Advertiser, Aug. IL
| DREADFUL DISASTER:
We have this afternoon to record ano
lher dreadful disaster by fire on Lake Erie
by which, so far as accounts have reached
us upwards ofone hundred and sepenty lites
have been lost, by the destruction of lhe
elegant steamer Eric by fire.
Fi6a. the Bu6ala Commercial Of Monday eusntng
The Erie, one of M Reeds best boats
has been completely rehttrd, painted, &C.,
by the Pressue Isle people, and put for
The present on the Chicago line. She left
this afternoonwith q large invoice of dry
goods and Hardware. The Erie never
looked better than at present.
The above paragraph is all we have in
print. For the following we are indebted
10 private sources.
Seth Grosvenor, Esq, Of this city, r..
ceived letter this morning from H. n.
Seymour, Esq, Of Buffalo, on the outside
of which is the following endorsement:-
"Tuesday, 8 A. NJ. steamboat Erie was
burned last night, near Silver Breek, and
only II out of 200 saved. Capt. Titus is
here"
Passengers who arrived in the city this
morning state that the accident was caus-
ed by the bursting of carboy of vitrol.
which had been shipped as part of the
baggage uf some painters, who were on
their way to pain. new steamboat
When the Erie left Buffalo it was blow
ing fresh gale, and it is added tha. Capt.
Titus, her commander, was averse to leay-
ing port, but the De Witt Clinton hay-
ing departed, it is belived he was inAu-
enced thereby, and after waiting some
two hours, got his boat under way, and
proceeded up the lake.
About 8 o'cluck the carboy burst, and
set fire 10 the baggage, end in few mo.
men,s, being famed by the strong breeze
which was then blowing, the boat was
enveloped in flames.
In The desperate stale in which the pas.
sengers were placed, they had only the
alternative Of being burned to death or
jumping overheard, meeting death in ano.
iber form, each grasping at any thing
they could lay hold Of to support them in
the water.
Those who were saved were picked up
by the De Witt Clinton, which had pul
into Dunkirk, some ten or fifteen miles
further up the lake, and which, on see
ing the Erie on fire, hast.~Aal-- 10 The re.
lief of the sufferers.
We believe that the boat, when the fire
was first discovered, was about twenty
five miles from Buffalo. The Erie was
one of the best boats on the lake, and
Capt. Titus very popular commander.
We shall tomorrow expect further par
ticulars, as Capt. Titus, it appears, wa:
among those who escaped. Mean time
we hope that more favorable accounts may
reach US.
1t is reported that about one half of 'ht
number lost were forward deck passen
gers.
Interesting to Israelites,-About the
time of the late persecution Of the Jews II
Damascus and Rhodes in consequence o
an ancient prejudice which ascrIbed Il
them the sacrifice Of a human being in or
der TO use the blood at the feast of The
Passover, Sir Montefore, who was then a
Constantinople. C obtained from the Sultar
firman which confers high advantage!
upon every Jew in the Turkish Empire
1t grants to them the same privileges
which are possessed by the numerous o'he
nations who submit to the Sultan. To Sc
cure this objec. the most positive orders
have been issued that the Jewish nation
dwelling in all paris of the Empire shall
be as perfectly protected as all other suo
iects of the Porte, and that no person shall
modest them in any manner whatever, lex
ce pt for a Just cause) either in the free exer'
else of their reIigiun, or in tha. which con-
Germs their safely and tranquility. The Is
raelile may now hope to sitin safety under
his own vine and fig tree, even in desolaiet
Palestine.-[M. Y Jour. of Com.
THE WEDDING FINGER.
There are few objects among the pro
ductions Of art contemplated with suci
lively interest by ladies. after certain
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