The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-08-25
BY TELEGRAPH.

-FOUR own Geographic dispatches having failed
to reach US yesterday through our regular agent,
We use number which We find in the Baltimore
Patriot of last EVENING" -..
20 u. Further Particulars # The Collision.
BUFFALO, August 23.-Mr. B. +. Field, with his
wife and two children, reported rs Loaf, safe,
having been picked up floating on portion Of the
wreck. s
Among the lost arc Thomas Lewis. of Detroit,
whose body, together with that of little girl, was
picked up yesteadsy by the steamer st. Louis also
Mr.. Marks, of Wilietown; Mrs. Elizabeth Van
Hoganburgh, Of Half Moon, Saratoga county, New
York; Mrs. Williams, and Mr. and Mrs. Fox, of
New York; and q little girl, nine years Of age,
who going to her friends i'll Milwaukee, in
charge of "a gentleman whose name 10 unknown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman Birch Mr.. and Mrs. Van
Hoganburgh and Alias Phoebe Birch, each with life
preserving stools, with which the steamer was sup.
piled. committed themselves 10 the water. Mrs.
Birch lost her stool, and chung to Mrs. Van Ho
ganburgh, when Mr.. Birch sprung forward to as
| sist her MIR. Van Hoganburgh and Miss Birch
were saved; all the rest drowned.
Almon Collin, formerly OF Geneva, New York,
had a mirac uous escape He was unable to swim,
but sprang into the water ut the moment Of the
collision, and, catching hold Of a rope, chung
TO it desperately. Fifty or sixty persons came
pouring over the sidc OF the boat directly ON
| him, carrying him down. He rose and seized
hold Of the rope again, when he found himself
seized by O dozen hands under the water. lie
fell from the rope again exhausted and knows not
now he was subsequently, eaVCu. Ills legs were
covered with marks where the nails Of the dying
were buried in his flesh.
.. p. [sEcOND DEsPATCH.]
AUGUST 23--About fifteen bodice found to.
day without clothing, and nothing by which they
could be identified. ...,.
causes oI the disaster. - ..
MIR. LangdOn, cadet from lest Point, who was
reported lost, ia safe. . .E".
..' "' 1n0theT Steamboat Disaster.
ST.. LOUIS, August 24.-Thc steamer Franklin,
No 2, exploded her boilers yesterday the river,
about six miles below this city, on her way to Lou
isville The explosion was tremendous. Some
twelve or fourteen persons were instantly killed,
and thirty very badly scaldcd, some Of whom arc
not expected to survive. Six of the passengers
are missing. 1t ia supposed they were blown
board and drowned. The numbers of the killed
| and wounded have not yet been ascertained. The
larger portion of them were emigrants. 1t ID not
known to what cause this accident ia to be attri.
buted.
| CHAnLEsroN, s. c., August 24.-The extensive
| bakery establishment Of Mr.. Stratton, Oh Market
street near King, was totally destroyed by fire on
| Monday night last. The loss Is quite heavy-par-
| tally insured. $780, .....
| The cotton market is dullcr under tho recent
| European advices by the Atlantic, but no actual
| change to notice in quotations..
Tremendous Flood Great Loss Of Property.
NEW YonK, August ga tremendous flood
and freshet has taken place in the Selkirk settle
ment. twenty-five miles of the colony are under
| water. Four thousand families said to be rem
dered houseless The loss, it is supposed, will not
| fall far short of y ,O0O,0 900.
| The extensive establishment known az the Glen
barn Cotton Mile, New Fishkl, has been entirely
consumed by fire. Loss $4,000.
Philadelphia Political Movements.
| PHILADELPHIA, August 23.--The Democratic
County Convention have nominated VIM. Good
win for the State Senate, in the place Of MIR. Fe-
| mon, who declined the nomination.
The Wings have nominated Henry T.. Pratt
| The Democratic City and County Conference &C.
oupied the whole day in balloting for a candidate
for Sheriff. They had eleven unsuccessful ballots.
| The two most prominent candidates John
| Kline and Jacob Peters. The last ballot stood 81
| for Peters and 10 for Kline.
Singular Suicides.
LOUISVILLE, August 23.-Two young girls at
| Henderson, Kentucky, on Monday last, committed
suicide by tying their hands together and walking
out into the Ohio river, when they laid down and
| drowned themselves. They sisters, aged Ii