Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1849-04-12

Dina should take measures 10 invite emf
grants with their capital, their indu,trv.
and their enterprise, TO come and settle
permanently within her limits. But, !,
we have said, that advice will not be fol-
lowed-at least not yet. South Carolina
will stick to her two staples, politics. and
cotton and as the latter falls off she will
cultivate the other more largely. She
will manufacture nothing. but resolutions.
In proportion as she loses her represen-
tatives in Congress, those that remain, like
the Sybilline books, will increase in i'm.
portance as the number grows less If but.
one should be left, the whole State would
scarcely be large enough to hold him; If
all should disappear, she would be repre-
scented in the lower House, as she alreaav
is in the Senate, BY gigantic shadow.
Wreck Of the Brig Fioridian-- Nearly TWO H.,-
! dred Lives Lost.
| We find in the London Chronicle full
accounts Of the wreck Of the bark Flori-
dian, Capt. Whitmore, and the friehtful
loss OF life that ensued. 1t is truly thrill.
ing and heart-rending narrative, and one
Of the'most terrible calamilies that ever
occurred on that part Of the English coast
the Long Sands, twenty miles from Lon
don. The unfortunate vessel was owned
by E. d. Hurlburt. Of New York, (where
she was insured for $4,000, J and had
been chartered at Antwerp by German
company, 10 convey emigrants to the Uni.
ted States. The London Chronicle saws:
The number Of emigrants that had come
on board before her weighing anchor, il
stated TO have been from l76 10 2OO.-
They comprised young respectable Ger.
man laborcrs, with their wives and fami-
lies, and many grades Of mechanics. A
mongst the number on board were from.
fifty to sixty women, and between twen--
ty and thirty children Of different ages
The ship was worked BY crew OF near
ly twenty, part Of whom were English
men, surgeon being on board to attend
the emigrants. 1t was late on Tuesday
evening when the Floridian put to sea-
The weather was exceedingly fine, and
the wind being fair, all bid well for plea
SAINT run through the channel. The course
taken, after clearing the Flemish banks,
ESQ say the surviving seamen, was west
ward for the Straits Of Dover. 1t contipu-
ed favorable weather up to IL o'clock,
when the wind shifted round to the S. W.,
blowing very hard, with fall Of hail and
snow, and 80 heavy was the fall that il be- y
came impossible to see the length OF the
vessel. They tackled ship and bore 10 the
northwestward until o'clock on We'd
nesday morning, and then altered her
course. Capt. Whitmore had charge Of
the watch up to 4 o'clock, when he went
below, the chief mate succeeding him in
charge Of the next watch.
Day break brought fearful weather the
wind had sprung up terrifcally, with q
greater fall Of snow, and heavy rolling
sea on. The ship kept in her course, the
intention being to make for the South Fore
land Light, running under reefed foresail,
fore-topmast staysail. and the main spen.
Ger. Although the storm increased in fl-
ny almost every hour, no alarm was man-
iiested for the safety Of the ship until about
three o'clock, when according TO the state
ment of one of the sea,nen saved the chief
mate expressed some misgivings as 10 the
course they were then pursuing, and call
ing to the second officer, requested him
to take charge Of the watch while he went
below to look into his "Coast Pilot Di-
rcctory." Scarcely had hequitted his post
before the ship struck with terrific force,
so great, indeed, that her planks and false
keel Immediately rushed up along side,
too truly showing that she was lost. A
scene Of horror instantly presented itself
on deck. The emigraHts fastened up on
deck in frantic dismay, and the sight that
followed when they beheld the fate that
awaited them 10 certainty, may be readt
ly conceived by the reader. Within .
few moments Of the vessel striking, the
sea broke into her hull with much impe-
tuosity, blowing up the hatchways, and
sweeping many Of the poor creatures over
board, while others were drowned in their
berths, being unable to rise from the eff
feet Of a sea sickness.
Capt. Whitmore, perceiving the inevi-
table destruction of the ship, gave orders
to his men to launch the boats, " hich were
carried out with the greatest dis patch, but
they were utterly insufficient for the pur-.
pose Of saving all on board for if, in fact,
they had outlived the fury Of the raging
surf, they were not capable Of containing
even one third Of the poor emigrants.-
The first boat broke adrift the moment she
was launched, and it is said capsized di-
rectly with two men who were in it. The
moment the second boat was lowered, the
captain jumped into it with Mrs Whit
more, (his wife, This led to desper-
ate rush toward the craft. Some twenty
or thirty poor creatures, men and women,
leaped from the quarter deck Of the foun-
dering ship into the boat. The result was,
that it also instantly capsized, and the
whole party were instantly lost. There
being now no possible means Of escape
left for those on board, the crew took to-
the rigging, to which they dashed them,
selves, and upwards Of one hundred ofthe
emigrants congregated OIL the quarter deck.
Here they had not been for more than an
hour before the ship broke in two amid
ships. The mainmast fell over the side
with fearful crash, and tremendous sea
carried away the whole Of the quarter deck,
with the mass Of human beings on il. A
irightful shrek filled the air, and the next
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