Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1845-09-17
From the N. Y. Jour. Of Com. l0th inst
ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT
WESTERN.

FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
The steamer Great Western, Captain
Mathews arrived here on Tuesday y even.
Ing, in IL days from Liverpool.
She brings las passengers: Passage
-mJTgy STI,5UU: Sns has: oyerI5UOIons
of valuable freight. This is the most
profitable trip she ever made.
Cotton is looking favorably.
The weather had been rather more ia
vorable.
There is news from India, where. we
rearer To say, the cholera was raging, with
great violence. 10 he Punjaub it had
been u,aur sad havoc, carrying off al La
hore from sou To 6O0 daily. Al Lahore
from 10000 10 $4,000 had fallen victims
To il.
american Ships Of War in the Medi.
terranean.- American double banked
frisate the Cumberland, Capt. S. L.
Breeze. bearing the pendant Of Connlo-
dore Joseph Smith. hove TO off Valetla
Harbor IN The 5th inst, from Trieste
She sent her launch on shore, communi,
caled with the American Consul, and on
It's return in The evening departed for Trip;
oil. The American corvette. the Ply.
mouth, Commander H. Henry. arrived al
Malta on the Ist instant, from Beyrout,
and took pralique this morning. The
commodore communicated with her when
OF The port.
Paris and It's vicinity were visited on
The 18th by tremendous hurricane, which
broke or lore up by the roots trees of large
dimensions, and did other extensive dam
age. The wind was still high on Thurs
day. but the weather was fine.
Accounts from Rouen, received in Far
is. state that large factory was blown
down by the hurricane on the 18th zoe
persons were said TO have been killed and
wounded
Frightful Accident-Loss Of Fifty
Lives.-The Liverpool Standard contains
The following account of frighlful acci,
dent which occurred on the afternoon o
Thursday, a, the Jarrow CoIliery, on the
Durham side of the Tyne. "On pro.
ceeding 10 the spot, we learned that about
half past four o'clock this afternoon al
explosion of fire. damp occurred in the
lower seam OF the pit. The effect wa:
terrific. Nearly 100 men were in the pi
Al, The time, and one half of them being
near the pits mouth. readily escaped
Tbiuy Eve were in The lower seam, anc
these, it is certain, met with instanlane.
Gus death, and no attempt can be made tc
recover their bodies for several days.
Orner IA, it is ascertained, were in par
of the pil where the explosion must have
been equally fatal, and Of these, three
have been brought to tie mouth of the
pit. Several attempts have been made
to descend The pit, one of which has re-
suited in the death of an underhewer be-
longing 10 the colliery."
Crops in France.--Our Paris letter
states, that with the exception Of Picar
dy,. where it rained necessarily during las
week, the weather had been favorable Il
the works of the harvest. In the Other
districts, from which that capitol draws il:
provision Of grain, and where il was gen
orally believed that the injury caused BY
the inclemency of the season was not SC
great as at fir, apprehended. The circum.
stance prevented any further rise in the
corn market on Monday. and fall ip the
prices had even actually taken place ir
several of the neighboring towns The
case was different, however, in Picardy
Champagne, AIsane, aud Flanders, where
the rise continued on account of the in
cessapt rains. which both retarded and
seriously compromised the crops. In par
Of Briuanny The harvest had commenced,
i;ond had been fayoret by fine weather.