The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-04-14

| tahu On Ine IA Mafcn, al l.2u +. NJ. Just as
some sixty men had ascended from the Arley
Mine. and while they stood on the brow of the
pit, they were alarmed by hearing very loud
report, which was Instantly follow ed by great
| rush OF air up both shafts. So violent was the
rush up the up.cast shaft, that il forced up the
| thick iron plates around the mouth of the pit.
Dense volumes Of smoke, sulphur, and coal
dast, ascended the up-cast shaft for nearly
twenty minutes; and, though the down cast
was not so bad, still the rush up that was very
fierce for the time. Some idea may be formed
of the extreme violence of the shock, when We
state that, though the workings are more than
four hundred yards below the surface OF the
earth, the tables and other movable things in
| the Navig alton Inn, and other houses near the
Britannia Bridge, were shaken and this, too,
at distance of three hundred yards from the
mouth of the pit. Tidings Of the calamity
spread rapidly through the town, and the great
est apprehensions were felt for the safety OF all
in the pit.
The underlooker, two browmen, and few
| other persons, were on the brow at the time
they heard the report. and they Instantly set in
motion small pumping engine, which raised
| water from Il back well fed by the canal, and
poured it into the towncast shaft This was
done to drive out the sulphuTous air or "choke
damp" which now filled it. ltwas 2 o'clock
before the state Of the air enabled any person
| to descend; and the first TO go Down were
Jones, the underlooker, and Henry Burrell,
underlooker of the adjoining camel mine,
which belongs TO the same company, with
some other men who had volunteered. On
reaching the bottom, they found all the lights
extinguished by the rush of wind, but by the
aid of the lamps they carried, they looked
upon an awful scene. Men lay in different
directions some bruised, stunned, and nearly
suffice vcated-others dead. All the air doors
and other stoppings were blown down, and
everything seemed perfect wreck. Jones and
one or two other men stayed down, but the
others ascended, the air being impregnated to
such an extent that they could not breathe
sufficiently, and those who did stay down were
{ unable TO enter the workings.
Finally, on clearing out the pit, there were
found the bodies of forty dead persons, and six
, wounded. Others known TO have been in the
mine, could not be found.
4 - Kendall, of the Pieayune, when in Pa
riswrote the following in letter to that paper:
A most terrible sig ht recently met the eye of
an English diver, who was sent down in the
cabin of the steamer Victoria, wrecked few
days since near Dublin, with great loss of
Il life. The diver went down into her cabin once,
and succeeded in bringing up all her plate.
/. but nothing could indnce him to go down a
second time-not all the riches at the bottom
of the sea. 1t should be understood that the
u bodies of some twenty the unfortunate pas
r sengers Of the Victoria were never found
!. The diver says, that on entering the cabin he
r thought he was in wax work exhibition; for
u the corpses had evidently not moved from
t their positions since the vessel sank. There
!. were some eighteen or twenty persons in the
= cabin one and all of whom, although dead for
days. seemed to be holding conversation with
each other; and the general appearance of The
: whole scene was so life>like, that the diver
was almost inclined to believe that some of
At H.. A.
sitons and countenances, he thinks they could
have no idea of the disaster which was hasten
; ing them on TO so untimely an end. Over and
over again the diver said that he would not &c
: down iato that cabin second time. Seldom
have heard more terrible tale coming from
down among the cead men,"
Three deaths of persons of note are reported
8 from Germany-the Prince Charles ANTHONY,
, of henzollern-Sigmaringen whose abdica.
, ton with that of the Prince Hohenzolern.
Hechingen, in 1S48 broug ht the HohenzollerE.
, territory under the direct domination of the
. King of Prussia. The Prince died atBologna,
, on his way to Rome, and in his 66th year -
, The second death is that of the venerable
. Professor of Medicine, Christian Hairless, of
Bonn, who had attained the age ofeighty years
, of which he had devoted more than sixty to
science and the profession of which he was an
illustrious member. The third demise is that
| Ot H1 htStueTJ 10 WnOU some 1DtereHt attaChEQ
from his being the son of the lady whom Goethe
personifed d in his Charlotte III. Kestner died
in his 76Ih year, and for some time past had
lived upon small pension at Rome.
HAYNAU's FATHER.-The kc!sische Kst-
tuag states that Hay nau was the son of Will
liam |. of Hesse Cassel, and MADAME Won
Lindenthal, which makes him the son of that
Elector who sold his subjects to England.
ANCIENT AGRICULTURIsTs.-Th srst thrss
, men in .the world, were a gardener, a plsw
man. and a grazier: and if any man object that
! the second of these proved amurderer, ne W ill
please remember, that as soon as he was 90, hs
quit the profession, and began to build iown.
The powder mill of Mr.. Garesehe, situated
two miles from Wilmington, Delaware, blaw
up about six o. clock on Friday evening, with
a Tremendous noise. There were two distiacs
explosions. The engineer was Instantly killed
being literally torn to atoms. The hands
employed in the mill had just left work. The
mill was totally destroyed. Hf
: paper was lately read before the institute
OF British Architects, setting forth that, coniFa.
ry to the opinion of the London Health Board.
soft water instead ofhard is ipj urious to anifaal
life. The position is sustained by many facts
showing the low tone Of the systsm, md the
glanduar affections, induced by the absence OF
lime, in any form, in the water, 10 be as decided
as tne excessive development OF the saEg1ine
temperament produced by too great proper.
ton of these substances.
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MODEL VALEDICToRY.--The most singu.
lar valedictory address on record way deliver.
ed by Sidney Smith TO ayoung English mis-.
sionary who was about 10 proceed 30 Van Die.
mans Land. 1t was as follows:
Farewell, my dear friend, fare we'll Van
go TO country where it is the cas,om of the
aborginals to have a clergyman bn their side.
boards every morning for breakfast; but let US
hope-iet US earnestly hope --sL.st uou so;U
prors rery indiges.tble 10 tss aassge rho
eSts y0n."
AVALuAsLR CUDoEL.--Ths fallowinr srn,ir,,,.
paragraph is from the Bath tEngl) Chroracls
"a friend of ours, whose ayssstions ro..,pe, ,;,,
to travel much In the DARK. esEz nahe.i - 4 lu S
nights ago, by exhibiting espisI uesrea sf ,.ar
anu osience IsKing bgsa u pocket 9hat au
Pea.ea 70 os s,oo' conssaesys staf, be struck il
smsrtIy against the greand In an inssni hiszs
brilliant that eveyythiag - - psr NJ : 1 sne
,a i, s,s'gsat ~, tconlinned to bR 40 for