Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1853-05-10
.Telegraphic accounts from oedensbure fl,


the soft ripping murmurs which fell fainter and faint
er ON his ear.
Topographic accounts from Oedensburg fur
nish particulars of the loss of the steamer Ocean
Wave on Saturday last, on Lake Ontario. She took
fire from her furnace on her downwad trip, about
forty miles above Kingston at o'clock in themorn
ing. When the fire was first discovered she was
about mile and half from the Shore for which she
Immediately headed but intense the heat that
her Machinery gave out and she drifted to sea: The
upper cabin was consumed in about fifteen minutes
and in two hours the hull went down. There were
on board fourteen cabin and nine deck passengers,
besides four children and the crew making the number
about fifty, of whom twenty-five were saved These
were picked up by the schooner Georgianna but
few minutes before the sinking ofthe wreck. Among
those lost arc Mrs Donald, nurse and three chill
dren of the cashier ofthe Gore Bank Hamilton; three
ladies names unknown and Mr.. Lyman B. Fiske of
Ogdensburg. The progress of the flames SO rap
i'd that it was impossible to launch any of the boats
which were on board.
SEA Washington correspondent of the New
York Commercial says:
The President it is said, does mean to confer
Office aRy of his relations The stories of his de-
Ginning health are unfounded. He looks quite we'll
and Is active and elastic. While in church Che at
tends the New School Presbyterian twiceo Sabbath1
his countenance is fixed pale and thoughtful as If
with the associations of the place entertained
the image of his lost In his office dealing with
all sorts of men, all his powers called into activi-
y, and ne looks like different sort of man. though
the weight of that huge grief still presses on his
heart. Never was beleaguered by office
seekers But he smile refusal with an exempla-
~, ulhane and interchangeable decision He has Mr.
FllmO:rS Irish porter at the gate of the palace and
his English antechamber usher relieved by the proS-
unity of his own orderly sergeant, model of mill
tary and GIRL man, possessing good share of the
courtesy of his chief"
..Hon. n P. Tallmadge formerly Q. S. Senator
from New York. writes to the National Intelligencer
letter expressing his firm belief in the spiritual rap
pings and other similar demonstrations He says he
has had frequent communications from John C. CAL
houn Daniel Webster and Henry Clay, and that these
communications all characteristic of the ndivid
nals of those from Mfr. Calhoun being, both in
style and sentiment worthy of him in his palmiest
days in the g. S Senate
-. The Earthquake the shock of which hns been
noticed as having been felt at Washington and Wheel
ing, was quite severe at Lynchburg, Va At the rail
road depot 1t shook the desk on which Mr. F. G. Nor
ris the Secretary and treasurer was writing to such
extent that he was compelled to stop glass half
filled with water, on the desk had the water al
most thrown out oft 1t lasted about a minute and
n half
-: The extraordinary diamond recently found in
Brazil is said to be stone of beauty The dis
'eoTerer was an old black slave woman, who immed-
atety carried it to her master, Brazilian in very
NEEDY circumstances. He Immediately gave the slave
her liberty. and sent his brother Kio with the dia-
Enond The Commercial Bank advanced him 1000
"eentos, about 10000 on the gem.
----A correspondent of the Richmond Enouirer
says that the cholera is prevailing in Gainesville
Meckienburg and On some of the plantations on the
Roanoke river.
-. James Polk, EST late Naval Officer of Bal
txnor 1t Is stated has received the appointment of
Coal Agent for the Navy Department in the place of
j 1amIsou, E=c- removed. The salary is $1,000
yea- tRrt tie conl.sstn purchases makes the Of
Ace quite lucrative
IA late Paris 5ct*er says Taul.,rtinc tie r.
7oTned hero Of lS4S is said to he TOTALLY ruined
and re'uea 10 state Of fortune quite to power
~ For MANY years the pcet had bccn living in q
Large tSsel, 80 SO Rue de ii;RIvarsite: hut he has
moved into very small apartment at No ~ same
street where iIe iRteds 6sTo1 himself to the writ
gag of books. and that orIy "
-Franconi's Hippodronsr VAS opened in New
York on Monday night Over nine thousand persons
SSerc present at the performances
Hon foht. G. Shaw who died in Boston on
RSeSday left an immense property estimated al be
tween Two Saa three millions of dollars His CON
trihutions TO objects OF charity during his Hf-tinc
are stated in the Boston Transcript To have amount
ed TO the large of four hundred thousand CfoiiS
.-.-Tomatocs-a small supp!y-wrrc exposed for
sale in the Centre market, Washington, saturday
Gore last. They werc 1rcncht from Tic South
wrapped in paper and packed in boxes after the nam
Der of imported oranges ana lemons. Sound ones
only fifty cents dOzcH and those partially dcr:cd
twenty-five cents
THE receipts of Coal ut Alexandra f,r TIC
month of April, stated below. have bccn iSi9l
tons. being nearly 30 per cent. more than those Of
March. which FIVE and twenty pcr cent more
than any precious mOzth.