Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-02-24


Richmond 1T was in condition to allow of skating.
The snow storm was accompanied by a hurricane OF
extraordinary violence, which has been followed dur
ing the last two days hy equally remarkable de-
gree of stiffness.
TERRIBLE scenes AT A SHTPwRECK-The Liver
pool papers furnish full accounts of the wreck of the
ship Tayeur the Irish coast at the Island of Lam
by on the Dist of January having go souls on board
of whom near 400 We're lost. One of the passengers
saved thus describes the scene
"A raft was constructed, on which great numbers
OF persons embarked, but it drifted against the
rocks and upset, when all on it persisted. rope
then conveyed on Shore by one of the swimmers,
and about hundred attempted TO gain the rocks by
clngng to it, when the vessel suddenly fell over on
her side, which slackened one end OF the rope and
caused the entire of them to let 60 their hold The
whole of them were drowned The captain, whose
maine was Noble, saved, but the only part of his
dress that he landed in was fannel shirt The sur
geon of the ship who had his wife and child on board
attempted to swim on shore with his child on his
back and supporting his lady with one arm while he
swan with the other; the three however unfortu-
natey persisted. One lady had G3 900 in bank note
sewed in her stays; she offered $4,000 to any one
who would save her life, but in vain She also was
drowned. \ child of five months old is saved. and
both parents are drowned. A German emigrant res
cued this child's life by hearing it in his teeth from
the wreck to the shore. Only seven women are sa-
VcO. lle rest; 49, III number, are drowned. lnere
upwards of sixty dead bodies on the island,
and 200 survivors,
A CAsE'-Miss Fitznancy- elderly Maiden harg-
ed Mr. Cleaver, the gay young man who was accus-
toned to carry home her marketing, with having
forcbIv kissed her in the entry of her own house
Mr. Cleayer, although proud of his personal APP
pearance, Short-yery ShOrt-conSdering his
whiskers; his height: even in French boots. reach
ing only to four feet eleven inches. Miss Fitznan-
a. H. -
foot higher-lnd staid there being of remarkably
rigid department. She swore the abbreviated YET
the amo Gus butcher kissed her by asSault-and she
hauled him up for it. Bltcher--With some express
sons of disgust, more emphatic thar necessary-de
MED the charge. Butcher was fat-lady wasn't
Ceavcr had antpathy to what he irreverently term.
ed "scraggy'' women, ard vowed he hadn't kissed
her, and wouldn't Money couldn't hire him to
Being cross examined, lawyer inquiries of the lady
the circumstances-when, where how, &c Lady
replies with great particularly On Monday morn
ing-ten o'clockn the entry-resisted all she could
but he persevered, and triumphed
Lawyer asks" Did not he stand anything but
the floor =!
s'No! he stood on the loor--ro chair, stool, OF
anything else being brought into requisition.'
= But, my dear madam, this is impossible! you
are twelve inches taller than he How could be
reach your hps!'
Lady hadn't thought of that, but she was not to
De lfIppeu up RIlDDeSt laWyeF Ol Lnem all
she replies: = Oh all we'll know-yes TO be
sure. but then you know 5crooched little!''
Exactly! Thank you, madam thatl do
Nothing further, your honor
Verdict for the short defendant Clinton ~. Y }
Ourdnt.
IMPORTANT DECISION IN ADMIRALTY.-A case has
just been decided in the T. S. District Court at New
York, before Judge Ingersoll, in which a libel was
filed by Francis Eose, Charles L. Perkins. and John
B. Kittel. against Thomas Allen, the owner of the
British bark Majestic, for the recovery of the value
of Il quantity of pig iron, shipped at beils iceland
by Raston Goodwin Co., on board the Majestic. 10
be carried to the port of New York and there, a,
said port, the dangers of the seas only excepted to
be delivered to the libeants their assigns. About
fifty tons OF the ron of the two hundred and twenty
tons shipped, was lost at the port of New York
while the Majestic >charging her cargo by the
breaking and sinking of pIerwharf bridge, upon
which the iron placed when being landed from
the bark. and the claim OF the ibelIans is that il
so lost before 1t delivered to them, by the
carrier according the terms of the bill Of landing
executed ut the time the iron shipped Belfast
The Court held that the pier on which the iron was
landed twas safe and proper for certain quantity Of
IRON, but no: safe and proper for one hundred and f
~ tons placed on II in the manner that this iron was
placed and that in the delivery of goods from {
vessel on landing place, in order to make il e
quivalent to personal delivery. it must be prop
er place for landing, and the landing must be made
in proper landing manner. No unsafe landing place
can be proper landing place, and unsafe mode
or way of landing can be considered as a proper
mode or way Of landing the goods.
The decree Of the Court, therefore, was that the Ii
i In Il. Il