Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-10-14
Burning of the Princess.

FOURTEEN LIVES LosT-3, O39 BALES CoTToS
DEsTRoYED-To the ever-attentive and cour-
teous clerks of the Inflated steamer Princess,
Mr. Jas. Izod and Mr.. Jos. Case: we are in
debted for the following full particulars of the
destruction of that favorte packet. She was
commanded by Capt T. c. Holmes.
The Princess was from New Carthage, with q
cargo of 3,039 bales of cotton. She took fire
and was totally consumed on Sunday morning,
the 9Th inst, at about O'Clock, and when two
miles below Fort Adams. Boat and cargo
total loss.
The fire originated under the boiler deck, and
spread with such fearful rapidity that the pilot,
who was at the wheel, had barely time to run
the boat ashore So quick, indeed was the
destruction, that neither the officers of the boat,
the crew nor passengers, could save any thing
belonging to them
The number of persons who persisted by this
melancholy event, so far as known, is fourteen.
Of these, as passengers, were Mrs. Jacob Weis
and child, of Red River Miss Maria E. Wilson,
of New Orleans; small white boy from st.
Louis, name not known; negro woman and
child, belonging to s. M. Routh, Esq.
OF those attached to the boat who were lost
we're Geo. Brandt, first engineer; Andrew
Thomas, steersman Tim. Holmes, (colored,)
second steward Arthur Spencer, (colored,)
cabin boy; Bill (colored,) cabin boy; Timothy
Conner, (white,l and Bob Holmes and John
Riggs, (colored,) firemen.
Most of the surviving officers, crew and pas
sengers we're brought to the city yesterday by
the steamboat Cora No. 2, Capt. Mosby.
To Mr.. W. A Taylor, of ''Clarksville Plan
tation,' the sufferers express the deepest graft
tude for his kind attentions to them in their
distress; and to Capt. Mosby, his officers and
crew, their thanks are unbounded. Not only
did the Cora go to the relief of the Princess and
render assistance in saving those who were
floating about the wreck, but to the destitute
sufferers her noble captain offered everything in
his power. Clothing and other necessaries were
freely offered without money and without
price,"
The Princess was one of our first class
steamers, and highly popular in her trade. The
officers are all gentlemen of acknowledged merit,
and we but express the sentiment Of our whole
commercial community when we say that, in
dependent of the melancholy loss of life, the
destruction of the Princess falls upon New Or.
leans as sad calamity.
We deeply sympathize with Capt Holmes and
his officers. May they soon be on their legs"
again.-Picayune, 10Th inst.
WHEEL OF FoRTuNE.-A successful practi
toner at the "bar'' under the Maine-law dis
pensation must be a Know Everything and a
KnowNothing at the same time. Thus, as we
learn from violent Maine-law paper, a stranger
in Hartford who may chance to feel like taking
a gentle ssmile" or inhibition is conducted by
one Of the knowing ones into building in by
street. and, after going up stairs and down
stairs, through hall ways and various winding
ways, finally arrives in a room, on one side of
which is small round hole in the WALL in which
is small dumbwaiter; over it is inscribed
g The wheel of fortune A person wishing to
try his fortune writes upon a small card, and,
with piece Of money, puts it in the dumb
waiter Away goes the waiter, and shortly re-
turns with glass of Otard punch, or any thing
you may have desired. Inquire who keeps this
place, and the answer comes through the little
hole, in hoarse voice, g A Know Nothing"
st "a Boston Chronicle.
FAcTs.-Of every 70 inhabitants in the United
States, one dies every year.
f Of the free inhabitants of the United States,
II, 200, 600 and few more are natives; 1900
900 and few more were born in other countries.
Of the youth of the United States, 1900, 900
were at school on the first Of June; thatis there
was one youth under instruction for every FIVE
free inhabitants. s ~
In the United States there is one church for
every 646 of the population. s,< .as3a
These figures are according to the census of
1850.