Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-10-25
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few DAYS since the burning OF the moo
E. X. Collins on Lake Erie and the loss OF
twenty-odd of those on board. And now we
are called upon to chronicle wo more acct
dents of the same nature by which a large
number of human lives were lost.
The Princess was from New Carthage, with
a cargo of 3O39 bales Of cotton. She took fire
and was totally consumed on Sunday morn
ing. the 9Th inst, at about 5 O'Clock, and when
two miles below Fort Adams. Boat and cargo
a total loss.
The fire originated under the boiler deck,
and spread with such fearful rapidlty that
the pilot, who was at the wheel, had barely
time to run the boat ashore. So quick, in
deed. was the destruction, that neither the
officers. of the boat, the crew, nor passengers,
could save anything belonging to them.
The Princess was one of our first class stea-
mers and highly popular IN her trade; Inc
officers are all gentlemen of acknowledged
merit, and we but express the sentiment OF
our whole commercial community when we
say that independent of the melancholy loss
of life, the destruction. of+he Princess falls
upon New Orleans as a sad calamity.
The steamboat Malta, Capt. Frazer, from
Louisville TO Memphis, With about two hun
bred and fifty pazsengsE "a board, struck a
snag at the head of Hurrk3He Island, about
fifty miles above Paducah, on the morning of
the 29th ult., when she Immediately sunk in
about twelve feet water. Most of the cabin
passengers rushed on the hurricane deck,
while the deck passengers commenced jump
ing into a ffatboat swinging at the time, and
threatening to capsize. From information
derived from one Of the passengers, the mum
Der drowned must have been between thirty
and fifty, all, except two, being deck passen-
gers, among which were several women and
children.
New York; Oct. 16.-The steamer Baltic
arrived this evening at 6 o'clock, bringing
dates to the Sd inst. The Baltic left Liver
pool at 8 o'clock on the morning of the 7th
with 222 passengers. On the 18th, off Cape
Race, spoke and was boarded by the British
schooner John Clemens, cruising for the
missing boats, &c. of the Arctic, and learnt
from her the particulars Of the catastrophe.
The Africa arrived out or the morning Of
the 1st inst. The steamer Brandon arrived
out on the Sd inst.
The u. s.. steamer San Jacinto put back
to Southampton with her machinerydamaged,
having off Fexel broken one of the fans of
her screw, and would be detained for repairs
five or six weeks.
CAPTURE OF SEyAsroPoL. Eight hours after
the departure of the Europa, official news
was received of the great battle Alma river,
in the Crimea.
: On the 21st inst. the allies stormed the
1 Russians entrenchment after four hours fight
= ing. In this battle the Anglo-French lost
$500 killed and wounded, and the Russians
lost 5000.
Private dispatches supply the rest of the
: news, viz that the Russians, under Mems
r chikof personally, rallied on theriver Katscha
on the 23d; and again gave battle to the allies,
but were again defeated and driven to the
: entertainments behind Sevastopol.
Y They again rallied, however, and fought
the third battle, and were a third time defea-
ted, and fed into Sevastopol, which was
b~eleaguered by land and by sea.
On the Goth Port Constantine was invested
by sea and land, and after an obstinate de-
fence wasAearrie5 by stGEnI Ike allies then
bombarded the city and fleek and ten Rus.
q sian ships of the line were $rnt and sunk.
The remaining forts were carried one after
the other, and 800 guns were silenced and
$4,000 prisoners taken.
The Russians loss in dead and disabled is
estimated at not less than $4,000 in Sevas.
topol alone:
= Menschikoff with the shattered remains Of
IS his forces had retired into a position in the
inner harbor, threatening to fire the towr
a and blow up the remaining ships, unless the
" victors would grant him honorable c~apitula
lions. The allied Generals demanded his
unconditional surrender, and in the name O.
humanity gave him six hours consideration
A later despatch says the Menschikoff hac
re surrendered, and that the British and French
flags were over Sevastopol.
ig The entrenched camp of the Russians or
the heights of Alma contained $4,000 men
r. and numerous cavalry aud artillery, and wa,
- carried at the point of the bayonet, after fou1
~ hours hard fighting.
IS No General officer of the British force wa
lie wounded.
Marshal St. Amaud and General Raglan
commanded in person. General Thomasson
.. a French officer, is thought to have been ia
nc tally wounded, Gen. Canrobert was wounde,
at in the shoulder.
~ The second engagement, on the plains @
Kalantar, lasted several hours and was YER
n sanguinary. It ended in the total defeat g
10 the Russians, who were pursued to the en-
trenchments before Sevastopol.
on The dispatches state that the garrison @
Savastopal were offered free withdrawal, bu
ng surrendered as prisoners of war.
ad The dispatches were very conflicting
at One dated Berlin, Sd, say that telegraph
ra- dispatches had been received there direc
from st Petersburg to the effect that Mems
chikof has telegraphed, under date of Sci
US. TENDER 18th, that he had withdrawn his trooI
unmolested from before Savastopol toward
I'd Bakstchi Screi, and that be will there ava
~. reinforcement and adds that SeVastopol ha
go not been attacked up to the 26th.
H. The Russian accounts do not conceal tt
&c facts of severe reverses. in the Crimea. De
10 patches from Berlin tS34A goth say that Il
a. return of the French feet from the Baltic h,
been eountermanded.
md New YORK, Oct. 20. The steamer AfriC
M. arrived at l o'clock, from whence we ha,
Ter. received a summary Of the news by t~elegragI
She brings mostextraordinary and astoun
i. ing news, which has caused a sensatic
ION throughout Europe.
The rejoicing in England and France b
nt- been suddenly checked by the announceme
SKA that Sebastopol is not taken-that the d.
100, trnct;on of the Russian Gont l. folso -
IL explosion of Fort Constantine is false-aI
that Omar Pasha's despatch was a forger
7. According to the accounts given, the
ton. lied troops on landing in the Crimea, 200
and of the Russian troops and seamen had be
ipp, carried off by the cholera. The disease W
most destructive on land, and the seam
had been landed to man the walls.
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this following in relation to the beneficial inf
ence exerted upon health by trees
Ioo It is a well known fact, that trees in
!sE streets of a city absorb, through their folia
a portion of noxious vapor and gases VIII
iLe:n1 are evolved by the rays of the sun. I
Ninu comfort which we enjoy from their COOL
shade, and the pleasure we receive from tn
oor gay and ~enlivening appearance, are not til