Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-08-29

den Purchase. f"
THE FonEIoN APPOINTMENTS We
understand that Mr. Buchanan will G1l-no
more foreign appointments until Congress
meets.
1t Is said some of the friends of the Hon
j. IS. Preston have presented his name for
the mission to Austria. The adn1inistra-
ton could not make an appointment more
acceptable to South Carolina. tits seldom
the opportunity occurs of obtaining the
services of gentleman so. omincntly quail
ted IN every respect to represent us ut any
court. 1T he will accept such position,
there should be no hesitation i'm the Cabi.
net Cotuubia South Curolinion, 1871
instant
Steamboat Collision at Long Island.
About two o'eloek, on Saturday morning
the steamer Metropolis, bound from Fall
river to New \ Urk, just after passing the
Falkland Islands, encountered the propeller
j. n. Harris under full headway, cutting
her lin TWAIN amidships aud causing her to
sink immediately. Twelve of the passen.
gers and crew wore picked up, and the re-
malndcr, nearly or quite twenty persons,
slightly injured on the bow, remained about
the scene of the disaster for nearly three
hours, and her boats were several times
sent out i'll various directions, but after the
hrst half hour no trace of life was discover
able An Intellectual attempt was made to
find the wreck or portions of it, Barrels
and other relics of the clrgo in considcra
bic Quantities surrounded the steamer until
she left.
The exact number of passengers on board
the propeller, and consequently the exact
number of the lost, is matter of uncertain-
ty. The following are among the lost:
stephen Prentice, mate of the propeller;
three deck hands; Clara Williams cook
Mary Withcrs, chambermaid; John, aged
nine years, Elizabeth, aged seven years,
Mary, aged five years, children of Can't.
Leonard Smith; William Buncc Miss
Gordon, daughter of Mr.. s, Gordon, of DO
lice department, New York; wife of Alfred
w. Smith daughter of A. w. Smith.
aged eleven years. a gentleman, wife and
bIbc, names unknown; other passengers,
namesu unknown
The Metropolis was scommandcd by Capt.
Brown, and the propeller by Capt. Leonard
Smith The latter has sustained Il severe
less. Six Of his children had died previ-
ously. He hasa wife and one. child now
living at New London. The three now
lost were returning from an excursion they
had been making during their school vaca-
ton. He says the blow to his. wife will be
ovcrpowcring. An additional circumstance
in his af1liction is tho loss Of Miss Gordon,
who was placed under his care by herfath-
or, friend of Capt. Smith He owned
portion of the propeller, which was pro-
tocted by a fire but not by marine policy.
The passengers in the cabin were almost
helpless The doors opened to the inside,
and as the sinking boat declined they were
closed, and egrcss was impossible. The
passengers sprung for the sSy-light and
those who were saved escaped that way
Mr.. A. w Smith was separated from his
wife and child at this point, The water
was pouring in as he got his head through
the aperture, and he was at once submerged.
1t Is wonderful that any of them were saved.
The cause of tho collision was mislln-
derstanding as to the proper way of pass
ing. As tho steamer ncarcd the propeller
the pilot supposed it a sail vessel, the smoke
pipe not being in sight, and that it belonged
to him to pass it on hisstarboard side. ..As
soon as hc perceived the danger, he rung
for the reversal of the engine, but it was
too late to mako any pcrceivable difference
in the rate of speed
About half an hour after the collision,
George Fappau, Esq, of New Bedford,
who was passenger on the Metropolis, and
eagerly discussing with several persons the
possibility of danger to that steamer, fell
down in an opoplectic fit and expired
HoRRInLE AND ExmrISq SaENEs. -
On Saturday night the western bound train
of the st. Louis, Alton and 1'errc Haute
railroad broke through a bridge about a
mile from Bunker Hill Edward Warden.
the fireman, was instantly killed and vii.
cox, the engineer, was seriously scalded.
The baggage master, Mr.. Byron Dmnine,
and a man named james Kin0iimf, and
the conductor air. Geo. .Garnitz, hurt
slightly. James Howard, travelling agent
of the Michigan railway, and Herman Ma.
Ter, brtkep.an, were also bruised. ihe car
next the emigrant car, containing n nnm-
Der of ladies and gentlemen, fell in after
the engine and was turned mp on It's for-
ward end, At the time OF, tho accident
hard thunder storm was prevailing, which
added to'the terror of the accession. An.
other thing which contributed to the dis.
may OF the passengers was the coniniunica.
tiOn 0f fire IN a ,anYt tso,, n tlsa t,.,, - Al