Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-11-23
rerr,blo sfoa-ulpoat nceIszsnt q view orleans.

TERRIBLE stca-nboat aocident at new Orleans.
7co Hnndred Lives Lost large number rronndd, &c
Photographed for the Baltimore SUM-
NEw-ORLEANs, Nov. Is.
A little after five o'clock, tie steamer Louisiana
having on board large cargo and number of pas
sengers while about starting to go up the river burst
her boiler.
The steamer Storm, which had Just come down the
river, with number of passengers was alongside
endeayoring to reach the levee when the explosion
took place.
Many of the passengers on both boats were buried
into eternity without moments notice
l. 1t is impossible to tell how many lives were lost
The number is estimated as high as one hundredy
Many bodies have been recovered-some Dead
some iYing-and others SO much mangled, that it is
impossible to tell to which sex they belonged
There now more than twenty thousand persons
on the levee, some looking for friends with whom
| they had just parted.
The utmost confusion and CONSERVATION prevails
/ The shrieks of the wounded are heart-rending in
the extreme. @ -,
It is impossible to give the names of the missing
! The Storm had her pipes blown away and was
otherwise damaged. The Louisiana is almost COM
plete wreck
SECOND DESPATCH.
NEw-ORLEANs, Nov 16.
It is supposed that altogether 100 lives are lost,
and very great number wounded.
Already fifty dead bodies have been recovered and
the leyee is strewn with the dead and dying.
| Hundreds of citizens are assembled around the
melancholy scene, endeavorlng to and recog
Mise the bodies of the victims.
Arms, legs and heads scattered in every direc-
ton, making most sickening spectacle.
It is impossible to ascertain the names or the
Der Of those lost.
/ THIRD DISPATCH
/ NEw-ORLEANs, Nov. II.
| Captain Kennon. of the steamer Louisiana, has
been arrested and held to bail in the sum of So 600
The explosion of the boiler is attributed to careless
ness and searching investigation of the matter is to
be had.
/ Many more dead bodies have been found and it is
thought that the number killed will not be less than
two hundred, besides many wounded.
The flags Of the shipping in harbor are all flying
at halt-mast IN consequence OF this calamity.
i ANTI-RENT1sM New YoRK.-A strange specta.
Gle presented by the returns of the New York cleo
ton, which has resulted in tie all around There
are four State officers of each of the parties; foul
Judges of the Supreme Court of each and tie in the
Legislature To account for this, it is necessary tc
remember that the Ambient faction made up theil
ticket equally from names already the tickets O
the great parties-haf from the Democratic and hal
from the Wing ticket-they holding the balance O.
power. The existence of such faction, and the con
troll they might obtain the judicial elections
would go farther to stagger our confidence in thu
propriety Of eecting judges by the people, than al
most anything else. We do not know that such {
state of affairs will exist in North Carolina still
it is but fair to suppose that what has happened
in one place, may happen again in another; and i
4 is certainly worthy of consideration, now that tn
question of popular elections for judicial officers ha
been agitated in many of the States and is ikel
to be soon discussed in our own. We merely offe
t these remarks for consideration and not by way
expressing an opinion, which we have not yet form
ed, one way or the other.
: We respectfully suggest to the Wilmington jour
nal that some better evidence than the assertion
the n. York Herald is required to show that the ne
gro voters in New York either resolved to vote tn
Wing ticket or did SO vote. We have seen it state
respectable quarter (Which certainly the Heral
is not) that they did not say what party they wou
vote for.-FayetteUiUe Observer, goth inst.
Since the Observer denies the responsibility and auhort
Herald will furnish with other authority again
which think it cannot object The Boston Atlas the
gan of the Wing party in New England its issue of til
d 9Th inst. has the following paragraph:
"NEw York CoLoRED MEN.-A meeting was hel
evening last week by the colored voters of Ne,
York city, at which they voted to support the phi
ticket unanimously. We hope colOred friends i
Boston acW initiate the good resolUe Of their brethren
Nesr York. The Wing party is the party Of freedom
! and dl1rays nraS.'
Missouri SENAroR.-Col DoN1PHAN is spoken
in case BENToNs friends do not succeed in obtanin
a. majority in the next Legislature of that State
LOUISIANA Observation-Disclosures, Democrat, is ele
q ted Governor of Louisiana, by small majority
d. There very full vote polled. So far as hear
h from, the relative loss of the Wings, compare
/ with the Presidential election, is fourteen hui
n dred This is dull celebration of the anniversal
o. of old Zach's victory, in his State.
MIssIssIPPI.-The ajority for Gen. QUITMAN, tt
Democratic candidate for Governor, is from 5000
= 10000 All the four members of Congress are Der
+ ocrats. Mississippi is more Democratic than eve
;r Good for her.
Law SUITS AHEAD.-The new suspension Bird.
= thrown the Ohio river at Wheeling Va, Prov
to be obstruction to the navigation of that strear
several steamboats, having been unable to pass und
he it. Some of the proprietors threaten to insttu
suits for damages against the Bridge Company, in
der to recover the amount of the loss which they
lege they have lost by the delay The Press of Pitt
ty burg, Pa, seems quite excited upon the subject.
CALIFORNIA MARRIAGE CoNrRAcr.-A private lie
70 ter from gentleman at San Francisco to his fer
. in New York, says: .....s.. III
ryt II have been, as you know, over eight years
i'll California, and yet unmarried. My friend, M
ne c., has lately left for Scotland and have Civ
No him commission to bring out wife, of the fl
lowing description Not less than six feet, blue ey
ILL., and auburn hair. am either to marry her, or p
1t. forfeit of $4,000 do hope, the cou
I'M try is little settled about ten thousand fiji
oe rate girls will start for California have goo
c enough, and gold enough; now give us some wives
/ I'll