The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-04-14
THE DAILY DIsPATcH
LATE FRflM .rry..

By the arrival at New Oflean. ,e IL.
ehlp Meteor, Capt. Forbes, Galveston pa,sr.
10 the I'd instant, have been received ~.
We give some items of news brought H. ~.
arrival:
The WRECK OF THE ISDEPEsDEscE.-Ths
Galveston Journal, speaking of this disaster.
says: The passengers saved no baggage
everything was lost. The condition oil the
deck passengers and emigrants is distressing
being left entirely destitute.
The beach is slrewn with goods. The wreck
IS to be sold on the lst of April, as she laws,
but is not worth much, as everything of value
has been washed overheard.
FRosT.-On the 18th ult., there was some
damage done in the Valley of the Guadalupe
by frost. but the opinion is expressed that the
planters, by some extra labor, will be able to
make good crops.
The FREsHETs.-The freshets in the Colo.
rado river and its tributaries have done an in-
mense amount of damage, and it is reported
| that several persons have been drowned.-
Several grist mills in the neighbohood of Aus.
tin were carried away. At Austin, the Colo
RADIO rose thirty three feet in two days, the lIth
| and 18th utimo.
| DRowNLD.-Capt. Thompson, of the steamer
Yacht, was capsized in boat, and lost three
of his men, on the bar at Brazos Santiago, a few
days since, in attempting to sound the water
| in the channel.
SERIOUS AFFRAY.-The Houston Beacon
oil the End inst, says: A very serious ARRAY
with pistols took place about mile from this
city, at or near Crofr's Mill, last Sunday night
between man named John Goslin, and an.
| other named Peter O'Neal, which resulted in
seriously wounding both of them. 1t is ex-
pected that O'Neal's wound will prove fatal,
| but it is thought Gosin will recover. The
cause of the difficulty, we understand, was of
| long standing, about family matters.
Gen. Houston arrived athis home in Hunts
vile on the 25th ult. 1t is stated that he will
not remain long.
PoLITICAL.-The Democratic and Whig
Conventions OF Texas both resolved TO adhere
| to the Compromise measures. The Wings
| adopted resolutions complimentary to Presi-
dent Fillmore and Lis Cabinet and the Demo-
Gratis declared their determination to sustain
| the nominees of the Baltimore Convention,
from whatever quarter of the Union they may
| be taken.
| GREAT Loss OF LIFE.-The steamer Red
| stone lately commenced running between Gin
cinnati and Madison as an independent even
/ ing passenger boat. She left Madison on
Saturday Ut II o'clock NJ, and the only land
ing she made before the explosion was at Car
|
| Craig bar, three miles above Carrolton on
the Kentucky side, TO take on passenger,
Rev. Perry A. Scott. While the steamer was
backing out from this landing and when
| about one hundred feet from the landing the
fearful explosion occurred at the second
revolution of the engine! Three boilers explod-
ed at the same instant. All the upper work of
| the boat forwardof the ladies' cabin was blown
TO atoms, the hull swung round with the cur.
L Il a. on
feet water, while the stern rested ON the bot
tom, near the shore. There were on board at
the time about sixty-fve passengers, of whom
it is thought thirty-ive must have been killed.
There were but two lady passengers on board,
both of whom and the cabin maid were saved
and but slightly injured. Among the killed
are the Rev. MIR. Scott, twho had been on
visit TO bis parents, who, with his sisters, hay.
| ing just parted with him, were standing on The
shore and saw him blown to Fragments DIR.
Gobie, editor of the Lawrenceburg Press, and
| Mr.. Myers, foreman OF the same Office. The
| first engineer and second engineer and all the
| firemen were killed Instantly. Mr.. Sopes, the
first clerk, was standing near the Office, and
says that the first intinlation of the danger he
had was being lifted up full 100 feet and fall
ing into the river, and swan ashore. A mo-
menl after he heard cry of distress in the river,
| few feet distant he swan out and rescued
| drowning person. This was the captain, Pate,
rho had one of his legs broken. The second
clerk was accidentally left at Madison. The
pilots were badly injured.
The awful iorce of the explosion can be con-
ceived from the fact that large piece Of one of
the boilers was blown half a mile. lacking FIVE
or six yards, from the wreck. Eleven bodies
were blown into cornfield at some distance
| from the water; among them those of the FIRST
and third engineers.
The people of Carrolton and the vicinity
/ hurried to the scene, and twenty-five dead and
wounded bodies were Immediately borne to
small farmhouse, which was converted into
an hospital. The inmates of this house gave
/ up their rooms, bedding, and every thing in
their possession, to the suffering. The scene
here beggars all description. The mangled
and ghastly corpses by the side of the wound
ed and dying, with inadequate medical aid and
13ieans for the care of the latter, the floor of the
Efooms covered deep with blood; this. and the
view of the scattered wreck and the -strick-
| en- multitude on the shore below, made up
scene OF horror before which the intensestpaint-
/ ings of Sue and Dickens pale and grow dim.
| The river for some distance below CarrolIon
i was strewn with the fragments ofthe boat, ma
| chinery, furniture, and clothing. Small piec
/ es Of bedding and clothing were found at the
distance of very nearly half a mile back from
the river, while the the trees along the shore
/ were Uttered with the fragments OF the same
i end Of the wreck
The Hoosier State, which came along soon
| after the catastrophe, rendered every assis-
tance, and took on board fifteen of the wound
cd, of whom but two could help themselves,
/ and brought them to this city, where the ma
/ jorty have either homes or friends. One or TWO
were taken to the hospital.
The Redst0He was not racing at the time
1 with any other boat, but she was hurrying IN
/ order TO make as good time as possible between
i this and Madison.-C CiaciHnafi Gazette.
DiABoLIcAL AcT.-The editor OF the Little
Rock fArk.l Banner has been informed that a
man named Hood, from Alabama, who, with
his family were on avlsit to some relations
in Arkadelphia, 10 that State, shot his wife. In
4 is Of anger be pulled pistol from his pocket
and fred, the ball entering and breaking her