The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1854-06-11

iyAt HaJSitS th i " ~ " W hAIie
- Teeuf4 or 7Hp1tY Persons Sup-
posed ~ be hiifsR-A Dispatch to
the Evening pieayune, dated Phia-
delphia. May 81, gives the following
particulars Of one Of the most terrible
powder explosions ever recorded:
At Wilmington, Del, this morning,
Two Of. nuponts powder mills and
their wagons full Of powder exploded
within lie city limits, 1T the corner OF
Ifourtoenth and Orange streots. Three
drivers and fifteen horses were blown
TO atoms on the spot. Seven resi-
dences and six stores were totally
demolished, and fifty other buildings
more or less seriously injured Among
the residences destroyed was one small
cottage, the entire family inhabtlng
which we're killed Ia Bishop Lees
house which was partially demolished,
some Of the servants were killed and
some members of the family are
missing. Many others also have been
injured, and yet Others are missing.
job Keys, Thomas Chambers, John
Winters and Thomas Hughes are the
names of some of the killed At least
twenty arc believed 10 have been
killed
According to the Washington Star, il
il said that Horace Greeley, q the New
York Tribune. will be arrested for
urging the abolition members Of Con
gress, and those who herd With them,
to burn the Capitol
". Merriman, the meteorological
renews the recommendation to apply
cold water freely to persons who have
been struck by tightening. In all
cases where persons ars struck down
by tightening use cold water on the
body for hours do not be discouraged
if immediate success is not attained,
but continue to persevere, and it, At
ter three or four hours drenehing, an
imatiou is not restored, add salt t.
the watar aud continue the drenchil6
have an account # q person struck
down h7 tightening on Staten fsland,
several years ago, who was restored If
tor seYeral hours drenoIing with cold
water, This case alone is sufficient 10
prompt to exertious in all 6ases beyond
the time usually devoted 10 restoration
Of animation III eases where persons
have heen struck down by lightning.
A GnAorrol Aor The New
York Mirror tells ia that there has
passed very pleasant correspondence
between the Queen Of Spain and The
President Of the United States Through
the respective authorities Of each Go
vernment) in relation to the saving Of
the passengers and crew Of the Span
ish ship Persegeranoia, off Cape Horn,
BY Capt Vim. Burrows, Of the Amer.
can ship Henobia, who took from the
sinking vessel twenty.three souls. 4
massive antique chased silver trumpet
with an inscription thereon, has been
presented 10 Capt. burrows by t1uccn
Isabol----PtcayUne.
~ The Hong Kong Register says
hat over 5000 emigrants lately left
hat port for California within seven
weeks, and that 600O wero waiting for
conveyance.
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LFFEors OF WAE--A missionary
clergyman has lately written from
Jonstantinoplo melancholy picture
If tho distress which tho Eestcrn wm
las already occasioned among the
poorer classes Of that great city. llo .
'ays that there is no commerce, no bu-
iness going on, but little money to be
cen, and thousands Of human beings
ire dying Of hunger, thirst, uakedness
md disease. Rats and mice are eat
n BY many to allay the cravings Of
langer, and people who but few
months since were comparatively rich
II worldly goods, now beg for bread.
A Panther measuring seven and half
Get from the tip Of the tail to the nose,