Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-08-27
The Meeting last Monday MI ht.

The meeting ir the Masonic Hall to make ar
engagements for offering some mark Of respect to-
Hon VIM. r. KING on his way home, was much
larger than could have expected, considering the
short notice gven-not more than half a day and
there was also an amount of enthusiasm displayed.
which was highly gratifying and speaks we'll for
the feeling pervading the ranks of the Democratic
party Few expected so large an attendance .stiIl
fewer expected be called upon for any speech yet
the several gentlemen who addressed the meeting
on the sudden impulse of the moment acquitted them
selves with credit, and gave pleasure and satsfac-
sion to the audience. No nominations have ever
more perfectly united the party than those of FRANK
LIN PIERCE and VIM. R. KING, and none have ever
promised to lead more triumphant result.
Awful Steamboat DIsastcr-At Least Two Hundred
Lives Lost
About two o'clock on the morning of the Goth in
stant the steamer Atlantic came in collision with the
propeller Ogdensburg on Lake Erie, when about y
miles from Erie, Pennsylvania The Atlantic was
so much DANA ged, that she sunk in few min
utes. There was dense fog at the time. The
number ofpassengers on board the Atlantic about
five hundred and fifty, of whom not than hall
were saved The passengers were all in their births
asleep at the time, which made the catastrophe more
destructive and what added to the horrors of the
r scene and loss of human life, was that the great
maj ority were Swed sh OF Norweg ian emgrants
who did not know word of English, and could not
understand the directions given by the officers Of thu
boat, for the purpose of endeavoring to then
e by throwing out settees chairs and so FORTH ant
cnging to them until picked up by the propeller
o the Of which excrted themselves to the utnos
S for that end. The Ogdensburgh reached Erie, Pa
h on the morning of the Goth, leaking badly
d course it will be found that there is nobody t
h blame > at any rate it is impossible from what
now known, TO tell who is ehargeable with this mel
= ancholy affair.
The boat valued at eighty thousand dollars
70 An Express Company had fifty thousand dollars i
D specie on board She sunk in twenty-five fa,hom
c. water. ..-...
> RaFSTEPHENs of Georgia, came through here las
:, week, and scared of ScorT's friends bad b
- giving his opinion that SCoTT was not certain
- more than one State -Vermont-and was bound
Z be the most badly beaten of any that ever wa
- started for the Presidency. STEPHENS has alwa,
been looked upon very close calculator of poi
" teal chances.
bol Political WORCESTERSHIRE Democrats held
st Pierce and King jubilee in New Hampshire at Hill
boro. we believe, at which it is estimated that
Is least twenty thousand persons were PRESENT.
10 New York Herald puts it higher. -
e.d The Wings held meeting at Harrisbur
:. Pa last week telegraphic despatch in the Phi
>, adelpha Bulletin of the 2lst says that the numb
of strangers at Harrisburg did not exceed FIVE hu
- drea
- FAILING OFF OF EMIGRATIoN.-The emigrati,
oil from Great Britain to this country has fallen off
er ry considerably since the discovery the Australia
,e Gold Mines Apart from the regular packets. the
if are more passenger vessels at Liverpool 4pp''
" ! Australia than for the Jrh I'd States.