The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1850-06-26
Burning Of The sicamer GyiGsi.h.


We announced this terrible calamity las
week. The following is later:
CLEVELAND, June l7th, II o'clock A. NJ.
The Steamboat Griffith on her passage up
from Buffalo and when about 20 miles below
this port, took fire about 5 o'clock this NOM
ing and burned to The waters edge. She left
Bulfilo with large load, mostly emigrans
who had been detained by the break in the
Erie Canal, supposed TO he between two and
three hundred. The Mate who swan ashore
reached this place by land for help, and re-
ports only some thirty saved, who swan to
the shore.
The captain and his wife and child are
among the lost
The Wisconsin is just IN and reports pas
sing the burning wreck about three mics
| from land; not living s0ul OIL bolrd and the
shore Lined with people.
The Propeller Delaware had been some =
time observed sailing around The wreck and
at last was seen 10 hitch 10 her ard was tow
ing her on shore.
The lake was calm but nothing Of frag.
mens was seen afoat and the probability is
the FIRE was rapid, and the destruction of
life awful. The Troy has gone 10 her relief,
-.s. LATER.
The Delaware is JUS, in and we learn by
| D. NJ Reed who was en- board The following
particulars: He says there were about forty
cabin passengers, only seven Of whom were
saved. He thinks there must have been from
$50 TO 800 deck passengers, mostly German,
and only about 80 in all saved
| eThe FIRE was discovered about half past
3j!his morning about the smoke pipes The
IcFew endensored 10 exiinguish it without
alarming the passengers, the emgrnns sleep
ing; but without avail, and when the fire
was announced as beyond control The utmost
confusion and terror reigned.
When the Delaware left, scveral ynwIs
boats aud skiffs were hooking up The bodies.
The beach was already strewed with them
for several rpds. They lay so thick up IN
The bottom Of the lake and in such shallow
water that they we're finding them and TAX
ing Them ashore by the boat load.--7rus
Wing.
QUEER WoRLD 1His.-1he Editor Of the
Boston Mail has been shown letter from
Ca ifornja, bearing some very agreeable in.
| formatiOu to father. The wIiler-son Of
| the gentleman referred lo-was such an in
corIiebIy bad boy that the parent had TO ship
! him off to sea, in New dfUrd wLaler,
over eight years ago. The boy ran away
from lhe shipin Tahiia, lived with he natives
year, then shipped in anoher whalet, and
one day while pursuing whale he boa was
stove, aud all hands pershed, as was sup
posed but this young chap hing by piece
of the boa, thirty hours, was picked up by n
Brazil vessel and finally got into SLAYER
and eventually landed aud ran off nj San
Francisco, about the time Of ,be gold discov
cry Went to work, dug gold, succeeded,
and afler everybody nj hpmc supposed thai
he was dead and gone 'iurns up wnh snng
little fortune Of $500, 900 md coming home
10 enjoy bis money ard experience.
The Berks county sGuId Mine" turns out
TO be something else, nearly as valuable, for
We gather from paragmphin the SchneIpost
paper published al Hamburgh, in Berks
county, that an agent Of Company in New
York, recently visited the mine, The property
Of Mr.. FoCHr, Of Windsor township, for The
purpose &c negotiating (or It's purchase, After
. cafefal examination Of THE ''placer,p he Of
fefed $1,000 for each acre through which il
exiended; bat Mr.. FecnT refosed to sell, !,
determined 10 woik the mine himself. Ac-
cofding 10 public rumor, the mine contains
very little gold, but an abundance OF the
pufesl silver. - PeaasyIcaniaa. .
] The Masonic FEalernity 0f Wheeling and
neeRboFing Lodges, Chapters ind Ehcamp,
lmepts, will celebrate, 10 an appropriate Tian.
mef, on Monday next, nj Wheeling, Va, the
Festival Of their patron, 81. John The Baptist.
An Oration, Procession, &c, will form parls
Of their ceremonies