Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-04-08

let WoruHnSa cease their bitter taunting,'
And hollow moekery be no longer heard, 80 ,sI -
Let vanity and pride more be haunting "a
The heart where once such feelings have been stirr'd
PLEASANT Valley, ONO. April. 1853 .a sa
Explosion of the Steamboat Farmer. :
we, gave, some days ago, a short telgraphic ac-
count Of the explosion of the steamboat Farmer in
Galveston Bay. The following, from the Calves i
ton News of the25th nlt, are the first particnlats
which have Ieached ns:H ~ sti 10 -ao'Saye sbl d
The Neptune and Farmer were racing at I'M.
time. The Neptune was close by W hen the explo
sion took place, and mme diately took off the Sur y
viyors and some ofthe killed anu vou n,led
Among the killed were S. E. Hart, w. Hubby.
i. Pale, the assistant barkeeper, and several ot-
ers. Missing and supposed to be killed are Cant.
Webb the commander, Thos. Pritchard, the clerk,
Caleb Robertson, who kept coffee house in Gal
vestonI " m. w amer second engineer and C. Ii.
Stems, Among the wounded are Mr.. Dixon, Blake
man the mate, Curtis the engineer, Mccormick The.
pilot, G. Hunter of Cncinnati,s and McReynoltls.
The ladies all escaped unhurt. The Neptune " as
an hour in taking of the killed and won ntl..,l
The scene of dStressis described rs heartrend,n,r
in the extreme. Nh. Westrop, the steward of th,.
Farmer,T is badly wounded, anil can hard Iyl btr.
cognized VIM. Hale, assistant steward is also
badly wounded, one leg being broken. His recoy
cry is doubtful. Mr. Hunter, of Cincinnati. is Sc
verely hurt Mr. BeSnum, of Maine, had to have!
his arall Manipulated: Games Cotton, of Houston Isl
one oil the missino. Mr. Geary, formerly connec-
ted with the Journal OF Galveston, is also among
the missing. ~ ~ ''a+ ..7 '1-r -
MIR. E. NJ. Stackpole was slightly wounded. II
is said that he was exposulating with Cant. Well,
against such reckless exposure of the lives of Ills
pass engers, when the boat blew w, and was GET
ting the passengers to sign written protest ~ ~
The mail, books, papers and money are lost
The boilers are also totally g.ne. We add the
names of some of the passengers who are saved
Cav. Hubby. w. snodgrass, Mr.. McCown,l Il.
n in Ray Paf tpn,t N
rurley. slightly hurt. J. P. Dave, MIR. Stansbnr,.
5. a. Nichols, Gen., Sherman, Ex-Goy Wool
with some two or three others, left the Farmer
while boats were locked together, nd Ewas on
the Neptune when the accident took place.
LATER-Friday Morning. March 25 EFhe steam
er Star State, with number of our citizens spent
most OF yesterday at the wreck, and at night came
III with five dead bodies, Mr.. Cotton, Mi Geary
furniture OF the Farmer. Mr.. Woodward, manager
OF the Houston Railroad Company, Is missing c.
ST. John, formerly II Lynchburg, but residing nj
Belevile, Austin county, died last night at eleven
c1ock. aaete are yer many passengers whose
gers, and their names will probably be found ON
the registers of the Houston hotels '7.l ps-s;tu
\. thirteen OF the farmers crew have been killed.
and fourteen saved. .
Alessrs. McReynolds, Dixon, Hale and Hunter,
are considered in very critical condition. '''ri d I.
Pa's engers killed, whose bodies have been
found eight; officers and killed. thirteen Vi. =,
Passengers escaped, including wounded, TWEEN
adding 10 these. eight killed, and surprising ac-H
cordng to the best Information, that The total mum
Der OF passengers was forty five, we have seven
teen Others missing and conse quently killed. max
ing the total number of souls lost thirty-slx.;
FuRTHER-The steamer Star State again return.
ed frt IN the wreck of the Farmer this afternoon.
bringing the bodies CT Captain Webb, thomas
eritchard, clerk, A. F. Dunley, carpenter, and a
German, (name unknown,) who was passenger.
Three of these bodies were found by graphing
about sixty wards ahead n he vrao - f-''- fss
1t IS known that there are five others killed
whose bodies have not been recovered One of
THESE, the, second engineer, it is supposed, was
blown 10 atoms, as the bricks of the furnace were.
scattered with much apparent force in the direction
OF his usual position. 2 80
~ 1t is believed tina but a small amount Of money
was IN the clerks charge, as the safe which prit
chard the second clerk, had formerly held the key
o. was sold in Houston, and Mr.. John, the chief
clerk OF the Farmer remained here on her last trip
andEheld the key sof the other. AS the gsecontiS
clerk had'then no safe into which to deposit mon
ey, we presume he would not receive any large
amount, g stf,,,a 1e., ~ .,,. ,.s.E ,rs,f' -
Point Bolivar beach for miles is strewn with
fragments of the wreck. The pieces are generally
as small as would be split for kindling purposes %
The SCIENCE OF CANDLE BuRNING.-Before Won
put the candle out look at it. 1t has been burning
sometime unsnuffed, and gives little little or no
lght' the wick'is long, and is topped by a heavy
black clot, lump of unconsumed carbon ;rtakr
the candle in your hand. and move it gently from
side to side; the superfuous wick burns away
and the candle is again bright. When you ask
yourself Why Is this, you learn that flame is hollow
and it admits no oxygen, which is necessary fol
combustioll;i the wick which it surrounds re-.
mains unconsumed, and diminishes the light.aSl
4 " hen the flame, by motion, leayesthe wick expo
sed at intervals to the oxygen of the atmosphere
ltspeedly burns away. Note the valuable deduc. =
ton from this fact; the formation of wick which
constantly turns outward and reaches the exterior
air, and SO gives us candle requiring no snuffing
There is mnch philosophy in the burning of a can
de- The wick, YOU may think, is intended to
burn and give light; but this is not exactly the fact
The wick is simply to bring the melted taliow 81
oil If lamp, into that finely divided state in which
it is best fitted for Combustion. The heat applied
to eight the candle decomposes into its constit
uents the small quantity of tallow next the wick;
heat and light are produced in the operation, and
the heat 50 produced carries nthe decomp osition.
The Builder. x ~ Asi>z = - itS' "
&N5The Illinois railroad lines now building stand
sogreatlyn need Of laborers that some of the COM
panies are importing men directly from lrelandto
supply the deficiency. .s4ssH tAFt.ts,l-
G-The feed store of Edward Chasmer, at New
York.owas burntlast Friday, and threeihorses per
1.-THE annual meeting of the general Baptist
Association of Virginia will be held at Fredericks-
burg, commencing on the I'd of June next.'ltl
urseyen hundred tons of ice from Sandusky.l
Ohio, haze been delivered at Cincinnati for IS per
ton. 1t sells now for S30per tom e 80
IRA building at Manayunk. near Philadelphia,
known as Eckstein's paper mill was destroyed BY.
fire last Sunday. Several other buildings were.
destroyed. asiIs,l
MA movements on foot to build II railroad
from Belyille, New Jersey toNew York. s,;hu i1r
aTBoston has now in itsenSirons four cemeteries
embracing ntallnpwaIds of three huAdrei ibnd ff-
ty acres. EIiLs 7s e7i4 81 Asdstd7pl % iv s1lalo
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