American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-12-16

=; The glare ofthe lights that were now brought
in fell full on the face of the magistrate who
had taken his scat, and then shot their brilliant
glare across the group of spectators until it res
ted on the weeping child At that sight the
magistrate started. He got up and looked over
his desk more closely at the boy.
"The lad really seems in want, SAID he,
with kinder tone, leaving his chair and ad-
vancing to the culprit, whose hand no took
care you not the match boy met tonight"
The lad looked up, and the recognition was
mutual
ooh! yes, strand what told you was true.
Mother lives just up the alley-No. 46, in the
cellar. You may go there and see. Don't
send me to Jail 1t will break her heart In
deed-indeed, didn't mean to steal--but we
are starving"
"This must be inquired into. Good God,
thought the child cheat. But his lips are blue
he is shivering- boy, eat that"
He broke off piece of the loaf as he spoke,
and gave it to the lad, who devoured it with
an avidity that convinced every one of the truth
of his story. In minute Waterman came
in, who said he had been to the cellar the child
named; a sick woman was really there, IN
state of great destitution. She was sobbng for
! bCt uDSCIl ooy) WIZ VhSit ShO S"iN3 w NV
been at home long since.
"Heaven forbid we should punish the child,
! them" said the magistrate fervently. GLOW
fortunately he was ARRESTED by me- it saved
him from prison; for no one else wodld have
believed his story. Gentlemen, will see to
the boys wants. | s9ppose you dismiss your
complaint" he added turning to the baker.
ooh! yes sir, said the man, che is welcome
| to the loaf. wouldn't have refused any one
who really was in want; but there are SO many
cheats about.''
"Ah! there it is,'' said the magistrate with
sslfreproach, 1--WE think all beggars deceivers,
and never trouble ourselves to enquire into the
truth oftheir story. Had done so for this boy,
he had not stolen your loaf.
The magistrate kept his word to the lad
Immediate relief was administered to the mo-
theirs necessities and his; and subsequently re-
gular though humble employment obtained for
each They are comfortable, happy and trust
worthy. Would it have been SO if the boy had
been sent to Jail?
Reader! this is no fancy sketch. Such incl
dents occur almost daily in our great cities
eco thou and do likewise"
INTERESTING STEAMBOAT STATIsTICs-.Num-
Der of accidents, Less Of Lives, SC. A writer
in the New York Evening Gazette, furnishes
the following ''scraps of curious informaton:"
The first steamboat accident in this country,
happened in 1916 to the Washington, on the
Ohio river According to letter to Congress
by the Secretary of the Treasury, written in
1888, the whole number of steam engines OF
every kind that were then in use in the United
States, was SOTO; of this number, 500 were in
steamboats,; $50 in locomotives 1860 in man
ufactories of different kinds.
The number of accidents TO steam engines
up to that time, causing loss of life was 260, OF
which number. 230 were in steamboats,.
The greatest loss of life by steamboat acct
dent was by the collision, and sinking of the
Monmouth in 1887 on the Mississippi; the num-
Der of lives lost was 800.
The greatest loss of life by the explosion of
steamboat boiler was in 1888, in the case OF
the Oronoka on the same; the Number OF lives
lost was 100.
The boilers of the steamboat Nloselle, blew
up at Cincinnati, Ohio, destroying l2O per-
sons
The greatest loss of life by smuggling, was
in the case of the steamboat ST. Louis on the
Mississippi in 1884, when there were ID lives
lost.
+ The greatest loss of life by shiprreck was in
, the case of Home in 1887, on the coast of N.
Carolina, when 100 persons were lost.
The greatest loss of life by the burning OF a
steamboat up to that time, was in the case OF
the Ben Sherrod on the Mississippi in 1887.
The number Of steamboats, lost up to 1928
was 90. During the year 1897 no less than 50
steamboats, were lost on the Western waters.
During the ten years from 1880 to 1910 eighty
steamboats, were lost by explosion, in the Uni
= ted States, by which means 1870 persons were
killed outright, and 296 wounded badly, OF
: which number 254 died from the injuries re-
, ceived
On the l4th of June 1887, the steamboat
Pulaski was destroyed by the explosion of one
of her boilers while on her passage from
Charleston to Baltimore, and 1872 persons per.
Il ished.
u About the same time similar accident oc'
u Cured to the steamer Washington Oh Lake
Ellie, by which so lives were lost
One hundred -and-seventy lives were lost by
the destruction of the Lexington in lS4O. Inc
: particulars of this sad disaster are familiar &c
. every New Yorker, and therefore 1t would be
worse than useless to repeat them.
!. The burning Of the Erie, on Lake Erie, II
~ August 1871, sent to their untlmely graves Ia
- persons--and it is but short time since oui
=, sympathes were aroused by the destruction OF
y the Inflated Swallow.
= Accidents to steamboats, are alarmingly Ire
!, quent, and scarce a newspaper reaches US iron
:, the South or West, but chronicles the destruc
y ton of one or more. As these accidents in Mint
- cases out of ten happen through gross careless
a ness, the persons responsible should be punish
II ed as the sacrifice of human life requires.
le FLAT BOATS SUNK-Great Loss of Property
The ice on the Ohio, between Cincinnati an
Ia Louisville, has made sad havoc among the fla
t, boats. At Madison five had been sunk, an
II their cargoes, consisting Of several thousan
barrels of -four, saved in a damaged state