Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1844-03-09
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Tfoust or RffHEsfsTArtyfs-Ihf Tho House
certain messages we're received from lid Pres
ideai--among t10n, one suggesting The proc
ptiety and Importance Of constructing several
ships Of war oil The principle oftte Princeton,
but If n larger class And tho President also
fet6tHrnpiids The construction III i nayal deBot
on The ~ %ssissippi liver.
Among tie resolutions presented was one
FIR tho a~b0lis1meut Of the Military Academy
at West Point. The resolution lies gysf
The following resolution, which was offered
bY Me- HINT. lies over one day, 8gresably to
the rules oftho House
Rsto1fed, That the Secretary Of War be dt
raeted TO communicate to this House sueh in
formation as may be In possession of the De-
partneni, IN relation u the military eatUft If
traders from Independence Mo, 10 the Mexi-
can line, on the route to SANTA r., including
the reports Of Ire officers commanding The es
Cort, and all orders issued IN relation thereto.
We refer or reflers te i communication
in another column, under the head Of 'Ths
C9aUeatiga 50 precisely the
views we have formed OH the subject, that we
call the careful attention of every true friend
ofthe laws aud constitution TO the Importance
Of the subject II we cannot be governed by
established and recognised thtitutiona. II our
present constitution, the recognised govern.
ment Of our State, since Ia admission INTO Tie
union, is 10 bo made null and void by a latitu.
dinarian construction Of its meaning, then we
arc not far from anarchy and mob law Too
much attention cannot be paid to this sll.im.
portant subject BY every thilkipg.man.
DREADFUL STEAMBOAT DISASTER.
On Friday morning, 2hd instant, between
3 hnd4 o'clock, tie steamers buckeye and
DE- Soto Che former bound up 10 Ouaehita
and tho latter to New O~rleaha) came in coli
1ision III The middle ofOLl River d little below
the Atehalataya, by which the Buckeye was
80 much damaged that she sunR in five min
ufes 10 her hurricane roof The De Sofo
struck The buckeye iuet about The fore hatch.
There was H1ppused to be 300 souls On the
BHckege nj the time Of whom between sixty
or seventy (black and whita) persisted.
Amongst the last was d daughter Of MI
HYAMs, of A e8andfia, AGED ten years, and his
H]fster.t1 law, 1tea SatfH, Mr. II. also lngi
Fifteen negroes. ME- J0HH BLUNT, his wife
1 +Nf
and child and I heRfoee. Mr. A. MtKERatt
Lost lie wife, I children and 4 negfpes-Col
KING lust Y children Mr.. BfARD attempted
10 swim ashore with bis nephew on his bach
and Both were drowned.
There were a great many deck p1esengerf
both white and black, many Of y HON were
drowned
The bodies Of Mr.. HYAMB' eisfer-in-laN
aud child we're recovered after The acciden
and brought 10 the city ii Tie De Soto. TIE
bodies Of four other tlildreB,1imss unknown
we're also recovered. Tie Ds Soto remained
along side the Buckeye until all the Harviyert
we're rescued The upper works ofthe Btck
eye parted from The Hall and fl0ated ashore
bef6re the De Soto left.
al young man, ut White Landing, q fev
hours before The collision got on board thi
Buckeye with his two Histefs-both Of whom
were lost. The night was clear and thi
| moon shining bright when the vessels cam
together.
I The Bachege was commanded by Cap
. CALDWELL and the De Soto by Capt REEF
! We have seen cards. humerously signed b
; the rurviying passengers Of the Buckeye, com
? mendalory Of the exertinns Of tie captains {
= both v%egseia after the accident From a
= that yet appears, 1t was one OF those CASUAL
!. ties which no foresight can prevent, and tn
! saddeat that has occurred for many d day.
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