Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-12-15
Disastrous ten nm boat Collision.


Disastrous Steamboat Collision.
The St Louis Republican has the partl-
cuars of the frigbtful collision heretofore
reported by Telegraph which lately took
place on the Mississippi river between the
steamers Die Ternon and A,cher, by which
the hitter boat was sunk and lost, with all
her cargo and number Of her passengers.
The Die Vernon sustained no material in
jury. II Archer was an old and not
very substantial boat. Her pilot dlscov-
cred the Die Vernon in time to avoid a col
lision, but from some defect of his bell he
could not make it ring. The accident &C.
Cured at Enterprise Island. five mels a
bove the mouth ofthc Illinois river. at two
o'clock in the morning of the 9th ullimo.
the Archer being on her way from st.
Louis to the Upper Mississippi AT the
time, all the Passengers aud crew of the
Archer were on deck. amounting to some
forty-odd persons. OF this number TWEEN
ty-four passengers and ten deck hands
were drowncI--thc officers ofthe boat and
one young woman and little boy being
the only persons saved!
The DEMOCRATIC PARTY.-What are
the principles of the Democratic party!
An answer is furnished by the following
paragraph from the Philadelphia Nens:-
"Thc idea that the Democratic party of
the country has but 'one faith on national
questions, is obsolete. Ii may be, and at
times is, tariff in Pennsylvania. free trade
in Virginia. river and harbor improvements
in the West, and a strict construction and
opposition 10 all improvements in the
South. Col. Biglcr, its candidate in Penn
sylvana, was elected because he was
friendly to the Compromise measures
Gov. Wood, its candidate in Ohio. has
been re elected because he declared him
self opposed to them. In Pennsylvania ii
is for the Tnion; in Georgia, Mississippi
an Alabama, it is for Secession; while in
Win is district i, is all Free Soil, and in
Philadelphia all Pro- &arery.
A Grand Regatta Of all Nat;ons.-Thc
superiority of the yacht America over the
English yachts, seems to have produced a
very wide sensation in England. and the
noion-a correct one, doubtless seems
generally to prevail, that Americans are
greatly superior to the English as ship
builders and sailors. An officer of the
Royal Navy, however. has taken up the
cudgcls in behalf of his coun,rymen, and
in letter. after assigning various reason.
for the defeat of the yacht squadron a,
Cowes, he proceeds to make bold pro
position for testing the maritime capacities
of all nations. He says:
'ls England, the greatest naval power
the world ever knew, to allow herself bca-
ten in her own element! Our security,
perhaps our very existence as free ma
tlon. depends upon our naval superiority.
Our pre- cmIncnce as commercial peo-
pie will in future depend greatly upon the
speed of our ships. Let us then challenge
the whole world to complete with us in naval
architecture at grand regatta of all nations
-comPrchending men-of-war, merchant
ships and yachts-in like manner as we
have done tbs year in arts. scieuces and
manufactures. Let the different kinds of
vessels be classcd, and let every vessel
winch enters for the competition pay a
certain sum ct money towards a grand
vase tor the winning nation (having an APP
propriate inscription) as national trophy,
to be placed in its academy of arts. Of
course there might be, in addition. other
prizes, honorary or otherwise, for each
c'ass. | will venture to say that such a
grand regatta ofall nations would do more
to improve ship-building in one year. than
1t has been improved. comparatively, for
the last hundred years"
! The No's AND THE Mo's.-Every rca.
der ola newspaper, in which books are
noticed, frequently meets with the term.
q3arto. ocfdro, duodscmo. Sc; or their
authorizations. 4to, Svo. l2mo. &c. Thi.
is the mode by which the size of IA book i.
designated in print. These mos. and ro',
indicate the number of leaves in sheet
and corr espond TO the leaves, mot the
pages,) which sheet contains. Take a
sheet of given size, say medium, and
give II one fold, like common newspaper
and you have a folio. with two leaves;
give 1t another, and you have quarto, (4to. J
with four leaves; giveit another fold, and
you have an octave (svo.) or eight leaves,
and so on. BY another mode of folding
you obtain Il 12mo. elmo. &c. and by
another again an 4Smo. &c. These fig
ures and letters, though authorizations Of
Latin words, are ordinarily, in these days,
turned into rather barbarous English by
printers, publishers and booksellers for the
sake Of brevi,y. THUS they say, twelve
mo-. Unemployment, forty Gig t-mo..
instead Of a duodecimo, &c.
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THREE BEAUx To ONE STRING Tho
mas Z. Brunion, Justice Of the Peace in
sonora, California, was recently called up
on 1" perform the marriage service for a
couple who were DESTROYS of becoming
man and wife. Which, he asked the parties
to rise, two superfuous gentlemen arose At
the same time aud took their stand beside
the betro,hed. as if;hcy felt more than or
binary interest IN what was about TO take
place. 1t was impossible for Squire Brun-
ton to tell which the men was the groom,
and he asked the question with all simpli-
.ity. Each Of the three claimed the hon
or. or rather the rsht growing out OF for
mer supposed promises on her part or en-
treaties on his. She. however, being call
cd upon to decide the important question.
then and there made solemn and delihe-
rate cl'o'rc Of Joseph c. Perry. for better
OF for worse. and they We're joined accor-
dine!y. The others. like good citizens, sc-
qul-sred IN the ci,oicc, and interposed no
further obstacles 10 the conpl.;o OF Ii.
NcerrIivny.