Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-08-19
LATEST NEWS
FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE-AR.
RIVAL OF THE COMMERCIAL,

with dates from Liverpool to August 9th has. ar
RIVED here.
The steamer Africa arrived out on the Cd Au-
gust.
The L. S. irieate Susquehanna arrived at Glib
ral,el on the 3i inst.
The news by this arrival is scarce
The city of Saragosso surrendered to Queens
troops under Gen. Duce. On the evening of Fri.
day the lst, the Royal troops entered the city.
without opposition aud disarmed the citizens. No
definite particulars are known. but the whole at
fair seems to have been effected without blood.
shed.
All Spain has now submitted To O'Donnell
Ills future policy is not known, but it is reported
TINT be will attempt To make up matters with
the Liberals.
FRANCE.
There is no news from France of importance.
General Pelissier had returned and been mede
u Duke.
The Emperor Napoleon it is reported is suffer
ing from spinal disease.
ITALY.
italian affairs are unnegble as ever
There are reported remoustranoes to Sardinia by
France in favor of Italy.
The Emperor of Austria and the King of Prus-
STA are having an interview at Toplitz.
DENMARK.
Denmark proposes to tortify the Sound to
which course it is said to be. advised by Rus
STA.
great fire occurred at Saoniea which caus-
ed great loss of life and property.
COMMERCIAL.
LIVERPOOL, Aug. 6-Cotton firm and un-
changed. Sales for three days in reach 81 700
bales. Flour declined Is Cd a2s; in some cases
the decline reaches IS. Canal 2is n27s Cd South
ern Bis ABS; Ohio ;'2s. 33s. Wheat de.
ciined Cd AID. southern white Is lld.aI0A. Id;
Red 9s. Cd los Corn unchanged with limited
business. Provision unchanged.
Manchester advces favorable.
Crops excellent.
Money more stringent, with q Temporary de.
mand at per cent.
Consols for mony 95d a95s.
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS OF THE STORM AT
THE SoUTH--ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY SEVEN
LIVES LosT.-New Orleans, Aug. 1--we have
additional particulars of the storm which took
place in this vicinity on Sunday, and lasted all
day Monday. Its effects most disastrous
at Last Island, a great summer resort, and which
our accounts represent to have been entirely in
undated. Every building on the Island is said
to have been swept away. and no less than one
hundred and thirty serea Ices are reported to
hare been lost!
The steamer Star, Capt. Smith. which left here
on the 9th saturday. with large numbered pas
sengers encountered the storm before reaching
Last Island. aud became perfectly unnanagea
BILE, and soon after became complete wreck
The scene among the passengers terrific.
there being no less than two hundred and fifty
passengers clinging to the wrecked fragments Of
the vessel, each anxously waiting the arrival of
some vessels to take them off. Whether any of
this company have been lost is not yet known
though hopes are entertained that all were saved
steamer is understood to have gone to their
reet.
Gallon Island has also been submerged but the
accounts from thence IRE very meagre. 1t is
ported however, that an immense amount of pro-
perty and many lives have been lost.
The ships Bowditch and Elerslie, as also the
brig Creole, which were lying near the mouth of
the river, have all been seriously damaged by the
storm.
On the lake and river we also hear of numer-
Gus steamboats,. flatboats and other vessels being
injured.
Nearly all the wharves at the watering places
have been inundated and the buildings thereon,
bath houses, etc, etc, swept away.
Altogether the loss of property must be very
heavy. but it is impossible now to calculate the
amount.
The crops, it is feared, have also suffered So
verely.
rhe steamer Philadelphia just arrived from
New York. via Havana, escaped the storm.and is
now lying safely at Quarantine, with all well on
board.
SECOND DISPATCH.
NEW ORLEANe Aug. l5.-Accounts from Last
Island verify the sad story Of yesterday One
hundred and eight pers are ascertained to have
been lost and it is feared that Grand Gallon Is
land, another watering place has shared the same
fate. The corn. cotton, and sugar crops have
been incidentally injured. The steamers Nau-
titus, and Perseverance, are several days over
due from Texas. The steamship Texas he's
gone in search fthem. The storm extended as
far up the river as has been heard from
AT the Government hospital. at Baton Roug e,
fourteen inches of water fell between Sunday
evening and Tuesday evening
THIRD DISPATCH.
New ORLEANS. Aug l6.-The survivors of
Last Island reached here this morning. They
estimate the loss of life at two hundred; one h nm
dred and eighty two having already been count
ed. Many of the survivors wounded, W it'll
bruised and broken limbs. The dead bodies were
plnndered by set of pirates who inhabit the Is.
land. The Perseverance, has arrived but the
Nautilus is not yet heard from
FOURTH DISPATCH.
New ORLEANS. Aug. T,-There is moth ing
definite from Gallon Island, but there was un-
douhtedy great loss of life there. 1t is repor ted
thot thirty dead bodies had been found on one
end OF the Island. Loss in property estma ted
at 500 900.
The loss on Last islands 100000 1t is sup
posed that $4,000 in money in the pockets of
the victims fell into the hands of pirates besides
5000 in baggage.
At Bayou Sy the river banks gave way, and
three residences were swept off. hut no lives lost.
Several vessels went ashore at the mouth of the
Mississippi. and the telegraph line from thence,is
damaged severely.
REMARKABLE ACCIDENT AT THE BLUE RIDGE
TUNNEL.--A correspondent of the Baltimore
Sun, writing from Staunton, Va. on the lith.