Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1847-09-08

j OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES interest II was 10 cou
4 .ceai iTit, several weeks afterwards a young
lad !. az "a Distant part Of ihs country, sale
to me |: e less me, Mr.. Cox, | had The
slrapge gest dream last night. ! thought
your mot lHEE:in law came 10 my bedside
aud told me she bad been buried alive, al
IWillingfoE y
WooaenF legs Us. Railroads-Some
time since railroad beat the magnetic tel.
egraph; aud now we have an instance
where a wooden les beat or thought il
could dbsaf railroad in speed. The Ha.
gorsloW1'. orch Light tells the story al
the expense of The Franklin Railroad,
which pfsarsio be rather .'a slow coach"
A gentleman at B Barnum's in Baltimore
was accosIeds with earnest inquiries as to
its locality as curiosity was excited by the
following 5ke; as the cars were: passing
j along one day, oniheir way 10 Chambers.
burg, the driver whois a very humane
man, seeii1 u poor fellow with a wooden
leg sitting ia a fence corner, alongside Of
the road, AT once drew up, and the follow
ing colIoqity eEsued-"Hallo, stranger,
which fway To Chambersburg sir. -
sssWelI yoSssem 10 be very tired and a
cripple atihat, won'lyou gel up and take
a sea, with T.. Well, Captain you are
very skiad much obliged, indeed
would do I'd, but I'm in a very great bury
aud must oadle on"
Dfead Shplureck One hundred and
sevsnty -ttr6 persons droDned.-.A Telegraph.
ic despate6 receiyediu ibis city, dated
Boston, last evening". says that the ship
Shanungas Patlen, from Liverpool, bound
TO Bostons same in contact, on the morning
of The; ;9i6sinstanl, Qatitude and longitude
moi given lsabout one o'clock, in The thick
fog, wilhaGes Swedish bafque lduna, Capt
A, AIobef from Hamburg, bound TO New
3York, ,sWiiIftro hundred and sirty persons
on ltodrd
Thirty minutes after the collision the
barqne swoh clown, carrying with her one
hundred sdrag gseuenty. tpO souls. Captain
Patten, sofS sshe Shanunga,, Immediately
afler;thec lksion, lowered the boats and
sent tfefri Ia The rescue oflhose on board
The Iduna whom they succeeded, with
one boat fsopls The barque, in rescuing
l.tbirly-foaf
Tie fosowing are the names of the
spassepgeFsE sayed-Edward Kaiser and
efesa hner, cabin passeDgers; Carle
|:IEausef,, saaard Roshuber, A alVester,
ghaE!ss ssassap % pasMlss, g
hanna ysuselII I1H. iF, Rohlose y
From .is,e above, we should Judge that
nearly The Whole. ofthe crew Of the lduna
were saved. The lduna sailed from
Hamburg on ihe2d Of July.-.N. Y. Cem.
Adu. 17thinst. it.,sy.-,g.sss ..sItg
TAeIish Heart The London. cores
pondeut of the Pittsburgh Commercial
Journal gives The following scene:
s.'Fhe olher day scene occurred on
Eden Quay,iniD nblin, quite characteristic.
A family had come from the interior, and
among them was a niece who had some
money of herown. She and 'neigbbor
bow were 10 have been married when the
summons .came:it was the time. Of lent, so
they agreed 10 postpone the marriage I'LL
they reached America. and she paid his
passage. While waiting in Dublin the
cowardlyswain r,ed. The damsel applied
at the Office 10 have the money refunded.
No it was a con,ract; the berth was there
for him. She stood on The deck and shout
ed, is there. e'ere decent boy would like
10 come out to America Here's a free
PASSAGE "A holman listened, a stout,
likely fellow. He flung hod and mortar
on the ground. crying out, 'Bedad, I'll CO.
Never say .it7twice.' cried she, be quick,
we're off, In fve minutes he had on his
coat, and with a bundle in hand, was on
deck ;and 5wilh.his arms around her waist,
away down the river went the fair ship
on her voyage to New York"
Hitching;the Cussed Thing.-We have
seen good many funny stories about
railroads, bur none that surpass The follow
ing, whichiwec clip from New Hampshire
paper. 1t seems .that.the writer was trav.
elling on the New Haven and Hartford
Railroad, and that ihs train stopped at
! Meriden TO wood up, when 6dget,ygen-
1leman who vas probably for the ,6rst time
in his life on a railroad car, and who held
on to his seatwith both hands, from the
moment lhec cars left Hartford, looking as
though he expected every moment 10 be
shook, out Lofthes window, suddenly stepped
out on ylhes platform, and look a rapid. look
atihe locombtive. ..Any thing the mat
ter?'' inquired; ;a sWas whohad greatly
enjoyed alhes cou1tryman's perturbation.
"Anygrhing the matter?' II should think
there something sihe matter, if you
noticed y, ili.ye stopped right in the
middle.oft theroad, and baint hitched the
! lthe cussed Ting S pose'n, it should start,
hey sguels! some of US d be in the
kingdom cone, afores night. 8s
american Gontfibuiioas.-The amount
Of the scontrisu.ionsfin money, provisions,
&c., raised This country for the relief Of
Ireland.is estimate al el 60 600, or about
SSO0,0 4. Five hundred thousand dollars
!. Of this amount has been acknowledged by
The Central Jommitle the Society of
i Friends in dublin; about seventy thou.