Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-03-22

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that large majority ofthem have died or will die.
! The number lost by being blown or staggering
overheard, il is impossible 10 know The clerk
will be able 10 tell how many persons aboard,
\ but he cannon tell what became Of them as those
I who were not injured commenc reed leaving AT once.
| One badly scalded person came up on the Europa,
and was taken 10 the Commercial Hospital.
The Reindeer, as we mentioned yesterday. was
going 10 81. Louis 10 take the place of the Kate
I Kearney, another Inflated boat She was litile
more than two years old. and had been The rival
of the famous Eclipse in the Louisville and New
Orleans passenger trade She is $50 feet in length,
and her cabin furnished in elegant style. The 81.
Louis company were 10 pay $4,000 for her. The
boat itself injured little, yet this stain on
her reputation will greatly depreciate her value for
time.
Il will cost about 500 10 repair the Europa, but
her owners don't mind that, considering the good
service she performed in the cause of humanity.
Capt. Hawley deserves high praise for the prompt
and efficient manner in which he manHuvred to
the wreck from utter destruction, 10 which
she was drifting.
Riot at New Hayeu.--NEw HAVEN, March
lS.---Our city was dsgraced last evening by row
and riot, which resulted in The death of an Irish
man, named Patrick ONeil, the particulars OF
which. as we have been informed by Capt. Bis.
sell, follows:
Il seems that namber OF students who al
tended lIomanS Athenanm last evening, were
followed from The exchange after the perform
ancc over. by crowd OF men and boys, who
on account Of a disturbance that occurred among
them The night previous, were exasperated al the
coliegiaDs, and took the occasion 10 vent their
spite by hoolings. and hssings, ana the throwing
OF stones. The crowd proceeded up Chapel
street far a. Temple, when general fight
with stones and brickbats enrued. Capt Bssell
who the spot with bis assistants, did all
IN his power 10 quell the riot, but had not sufi-
cieat force to accomplish his purpose.
During the melee number of pistol-shots were
fred, mo-; Of which were discharged in the air,
and wrthout doing injury TO any person Several
were hit with stones and other missiles, but no
one WAS seriously hurt until the crowd arrived in
front Of the bookstore OF Mr.. L. w. Fitch, when
C'Neil was seen TO stagger and fall upon the
pavement. :
lie was picked up and Immediately conveyed
TO The police Office, where he expired in few
/, moments. Doctors Knight and Jewett were
called in, and, upon an examination. found that
the deceased had been stabbed in or near the
heart.
!, is no, yet known by whom the murder was
committed, and no arrests had been made up 10
II O'clock.
| ONeil, we understand. was arrested on Thurs
day evening for being concerned IN the disturb
ance which occurred at tina. time, and after being
warned by the officers, and making promises Tor
the future, was discharged from custody; and
early next evening he was again spoken 10 and
advised 10 90 home, hut he remained and has thus
come 10 IN awful end.
This bloody affair created freat excitement in
the street, and il feared for time that it would
lead 10 more serious difficulty. Several church
bells rung an alarm, and large crowd OF people
We're gathered about the corners, but the~poice,
aided by large number Of law abiding and peace
able citizens, succeeded in quelling the disturb
ance, and WHEN We went TO press, peace and quiet
were apparently restored
An inquest aud examination upon the body OF
O'Neil viii be bac this afternoon.
LATER RY TELEGRAPH
Mr. r. III. Scofeld who was quietly passing up
Chapel street, received ball in his left arm.
About seven pistol-balls fired into the crowd
by the students.
The bells were afterwards rung, and two can
non brought upon the green, loaded, and pointed
| at one OF the College buildings. The rot was
finally quelled by the city authorities and college
faculty, who are busiiy engaged in ferrcing out
the guilty.
From Utah Territory we have news to De-
cember /. The wall around the temple block was
making good progress. A wall around the whole
city of the Salt Lake was also being built. The
Indians continued hostile, and had burnt small
mill in San Pete county. The Utah legislature
was 10 meet at the capitol, in Salt Lake city,
| on the second Monday in December Land in
! Utah is very fertile squash weighing one hun
| dred and FIVE pounds had been raised near Salt
/ Lake. A farm of twenty-eight acres, in Davis
! county. yielded last season fifteen tons and nine
! hundred pounds OF wheat, besides fifteen bushels
! damaged by hogs, twelve tons Of corn, nine hun
cred pounds Of oats. forty tons OF potatoes bee,s
carrots, parsn ps. and turnips five tons Of onions
| and cabbages, four tons of lax and iaxseed, and
| twenty five tons Of pumpkins. squashes, &c, and
twenty 1--we tons of straw, fodder, and chaii
The Know Nothings, in Wahham, Massa.
chusetts on the first Monday in March, elected
| their whole ticket as il were by magic. Nobody
could tell where the ticket came from, where II
was printed. or when and where got up. II has
been town talk ever since. II is said We have
| a strong organization of the kind amongst us, and
yet no knows anything about il. All is clouded
| in mystery and darkness. Just before the election
an obscure notice was posted up calling upon GER
tain persons 10 meet nobody knew when or where,
unless some secret hicroglyphcs, cut out OF the
| slip OF paper posted, apparently, with penknfs
gave the know-aothings themselves the necessary
| INFORMATION. The town OF Newton seems 10 be
| blessed likewise with sprinkling OF this know
nothing. ism.-Boston Trarelsr.
Later from Texas.-The U. S. mail steamship
Louisiana, Captain ]. Smith, arrived al New Or
| leans on the 18th inst, from Galveston which
| place she left on The 18Th inst.
MOVEMENT or THE MEXICAN TRooPs on THE
NORTHERN fRoS1IER.-From letter received by
the Galveston Nems dated Brownsville, February
| 9th, we learn that Gen. VOL is on the march. nth
| hls entire command. 10 Camarso, with view 10
establishing his headquarters at that place. The
| heaviest pieces Of ordnance have been taken 10
| Monterey. G-n. Cruz remains in command al
| Matamoros. There is rumor afoat, in the latter
city, TO the effect that 'lhe section of country y.
ing between the Rio Grande and the Sierre Madre
has been sold. ~ and the report is generally
credited by the Mexican> OF the place.
Colonel Fremont, who sometime since started
on the trip across the country through the Coo
chatope pass 10 California in the winter test lis
| praclcability for railroad route, has Just been
heard from. Lord Fltzwam, Of England who
returned few days ago from the Plains informs
the ST. Louis Republican that he arrived al Bent
Houses, situated about two miles below the river
| de los AnmoS, tributary ofthe -rkansas, at the
Point Of Rocks IN the Big riuber, on the same
day that Colonel Fremont left, but did not see or
speak 10 him. AT t'ent's Houses inc learned tina,
the colonel had lost, at Salt creek, on the Crow
river, seven animals, and afterwards had five more
stolen from him by the Cheyennes. Lord F. has
been on an extensive tour, and has visited much
| Of the Oregon and Washington Territory, Puget's
sound, and Vancouver's island.
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| Philadelphia Items.
REiSTERREp.-On Friday afternoon. the re-