The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1852-09-08

conspicuous mark for the enemy's bal !
lets In every war Gen. Pierce start !
ed on Q I" piunging sleed." and faiafed
down tofoot back Iron there TO bed. and
from bed home. before his 6rst war sss
ended. Knss sky Rifs
THE LAKE ERIE DISASTER.
We have stzlemeni from one of The
offirer Of each oi The iwo yessels whose
collision on Lake Ere sens come fuo
hundred persons suddenly 10 death On
Friday lssi; and their declarations merit
close sl,enlion. The 6ui male of The
OgdeAsbErg. DE- GRAss McNKu. was on
watch that night, and saw the Atlantic
sshes three miiss ef all her liehss being
displsyed 40 usual open nesiing her.
abe seemed 10 have changed her course !;
he ordered the engines 10 be stopped ten
minutes before the collision. but dad n0i
order The engine backed, or the helm
sisrbosfd. until about fwo minutes before
she struck. Afier The collision. snd sAer
asceriainiig that The Ogdaasburg would
noi sink. she went 10 The relief ol The IT.
ianfie. and came up TO her N ABOUT AN
HoUR! So much for The conducl ol ms
Officers Of the Ogdens6urg. The mate
Of the laflanfic. JAMES CARNEY, vas an
wa ch ll,a, night, and ssw the propeller's
ligh, only two minutes before the colt
sion. tie Immediately ordered The helm
apori. bus il was 100 lale 10 prevent The
catastrophe.
Ii serms from these statements thai
neither fog, nor smoke. nor darkness had
any share in this collision ;--lhai lighls
we're np and visible and seen. a, al events,
by the propeller's watch and thai The
disaster was The result Of simple careless.
ness. The men on watch did not take
any pains 10 prevent . collision, or even
think whether there vas any danger o
one or NOT. The man on duty on board
. The Ogdensbs,rg vas probably sleepy, OF
lazy. or stupid and careless; ;-snd ihs
death Of iwo hundred persons has been
| ihe penalty Of his laziness or stupidity
The Steps isken to rescue her victims, by
! ,he 0gdensburg. were very much lik'
her measures 10 prevent The catastrophe
. both being characterised by Needless in
I difference. IL took her an hour 10 &c
! alongside The sinking boat.
Il 10 al idle 70 ,sIk shout punishin
|. anybody for criminal negligence in .hi
! malier. !, cannot and will not be done
r Nobody will be punished for The whols
sale slaughser on board the Henry Cas
!. |, 10 even doubtful whether there 10 an
law which will reseh The perpetrators (
4 the, gigantic and cold.blooded homicide
end we consider il quite certain, ~helhs
there is or not, thai no punishment wi
be inflicted. Public opinion, even. ez
= hausls i,s indignation in . weeks e6e
: vesceuce; and within fortnight sfls
iha. catastrophe. hundreds and thousand
= of passengers were crowding The decks {
:, day boats, racing over the same track, al
: apparently sieering for the came ise ;
the Henry Clay. In this Lake Erie ca'
there viii be siill less said or done. Re
= cued passengers will publish sbrir stat
mems resolutions will be passed; u
. formal farce Of . Coroner's inquest vi
! :, be performed; ind gnant editorials "
: be written; . few old women will sIs
= at home for whole season rather lh;
:. risk their lives 10 perils by steam; b
the world in general will go on as u.ui
!. We may as well make up our minds
- consider death BY steam as among The {
le binary incidents Of life, 10 be deprecate
!. :. Of course, but only a. consumption al
- the cholera are deprccsted-not with a.
p hope Of taking effective precautions
: gainst them.
oi The Law 10 the perfection Of reason
W II viii consign 70 the dungeon. with i
ne flexible and remorseless rigor. The pc
N mother who cannot longer brave the a
a. pealing looks Of her starving babes, Al
ar takes loaf she can neither buy nor bt
of TO stay their hunger; but il cannot tou
q the man whe kills hundred persons
IL win bet. nor even rebukc the lazy rec
as lessness which sends two hundred ,c
., walery grave, TO cave itself the trouble
IL ringing bell. Will not somebody wr
'e- new Ode on the majestic beauties.
us iranscendenl equities, The infallble justi
no of the Law N. Y. Times
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