Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-10-15
Burning Of IKE Louisviiic.
ONLY ONE LIFE LOST

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our paper went to press, propeller was discov-
cred to be ON FIRE some di stance out in the Lake
and thatit was generally supposed to be the
| LouiSeiUe.
We have since learned all the particulars rel
alive to the disaster and the public will be glad
to learn that out of the forty or fifty persons on
board but one life was lost.
| From Capt Caldwell. the commander of the
Louisville. we learn that the propeller left this
port on Tuesday evening for ST. Joseph, Michi-
gan, tn complete her cargo there and sail thence
| TO Ogdensburg. She had thirty-nine passengers
bound from Iowa TO Ogdensburg, four hundred
barrels of -four twenty-five cords ofwood, thirty
bales of broom corn one hundred and ninety bags
seeds and 1--WE horses. AS it would be necessary
TO re-stow the cargo at St. Joseph, it was put on
board with view to its being readily handled
the flour in the hold, the broom corn and seeds
on deck aft, the horses amidshps and the wood
just abaft of them.
When about ten miles out, and at ii o'clock at
night, fire was discovered about forty feet from
the machinery, between decks, but in such a
position, owing to the crowded condition of the
cargo, that only the light of ii could be seen and
it was impossible to get at it. The only way of
getting between decks was forward, aud the fire
was amidships. By the time they could reach
it, it had made such Roadway and it WAS so hot
between decks, that it was impossible to extin-
guish it.
Every effort was made by Cap. Caldwell. his
crew and passengers to subdue the flames, but
in spite of their exertions the fire made rapid
Roadway and it soon became evident that the
steamer was doomed. Capt. Caldwell then had
the boats got in readiness to save the passengers
and crew and every preparation was made so
that the steamer could be abandoned at NOM
ent's notice These preparations had just been
completed when the schooner Elbe, Capt. Ruger,
bound for South Haven, bore in sight, and the
steamer was Immediately headed towards her,
while the schooner bore down for the steamer.
The vessels were some two miles apart, and
rapidly neared each other. When within short
distance of the schooner, finding it impossible to
remain longer on board, the engines were stop
ped and the three boats Were launched, into
which al! hands got safely. Five persons got
into the small boat, which, rolling into the wake
from the propellor's wheels upset, and the fire.
man, John Hannan,o Ogdensburg, was drowned
The rest were picked up by the other boats and
all got safely aboard the Ellie. Capt. Ruger at
once put about and brought the whole company
back to the city, arriving about daylight yester
day morning. Capt. .CaIdwNA speaks in the
highest terms of the gallantry and humanity of
Capt. Ruger, who spared no effort to st0hribute
to the comfort of the survivors.
John Hannah, the fireman who was drowned.
has been on the propeller but short time and
was from Ogdensbnrg here he leaves family
Some five or six tugs Vent from thisCfsy 10 the
assistance of the steamer, but when they arriv-
ed she had been deserted and they saw nothing
of the survivors. Her upper works were entire
ly burned off when the tugs left her, and it is pro-
bable she sank before morning
The L0aiSpiHe was owned by Mather ~ Co.,
of this city and run in the Ogdensburg line. She
was valued at about So 900 and her cargo at
about $4,000. She was insured for $5000 in
each the North Western, of Buffalo, and Mutual,
of cleveland. On the 17th of September, 1856
~ ,sA H.
;ssefa Lake Erie port, and soon after rebuilt.
n Hhe lake was quite smooth, with light north
Hwind, but the night was chilly and those who
went out in the tugs suffered considerably from
the cold.--Chicago Tribune.
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Buchanan VS.. Clay, Douglas and Himself
Mr.. Buchanan, in his late letter to certain cit
liens of New England, uttered the following
memorable doctrine:
Slavery existed at that period, and still exists
in Kansas, under the constitution Of the United
States. This point has been at last finally set
tied by the highest tribunal known to our laws.
Hoio could eper haze been seriously doubted, is a
mystery. If a confederation of sovereign states
acquire new territory, at the expense of their
common blood and treasure, surely set of the
partners can have no right to exclude the other
from its enjoyment, by prohibiting them from
taking into it.whatever is recognized to be prop
erty by the csmmon constitution But when
the peopIe--the bona tide residents of snch terri
tory-proceed to frame State constitution
then it is their right to decidethe important ques-
ton for themselves, whether they will continue,
modify or abolish slavery. To them, and to
them alone, does this question belong; free from
all foreign Interference
Mr.. Clay, on the 22d of July; 1850, period
of great political darkness, it is true, deliv cred
himself as follows
''Mr. Clay. am aware that there are gen
tlemen who maintain that, in rirtae Of the con-
sttt"t,0R, the right to carry slaves south OF that
line (35 sly already exists, and that, of course,
those who maintain that opinion, want no other
security for the transportation of their slaves
south of that line than the constitution. II had
not heard that opinion aroleed, should haze regar
ded 1t as one of the most eItrardiadry assumptions,
and the most indefensibie positions Uat Gus cuer
taken By man. The constitution neither created
nor does it continue slavery.
1t the constitution possesses the paramount au-
thorty attributed to it, the laws of even the free
states of the Union would yield to that para
mount authority. If, therefore, it be true that
under the laws now i'll force in California, New
Mexico and Utah, slavery cannot be introduced
If such is the ter-toct, the constitution of the
United States is as passive and neutral upon the
subject as the constitution or government ofany
other country upon earth. In my opinion,
therefore, the supposition that the constitution
of the United States carries slavery into Califor-
MIA, supposng her not to be a State, is an as.
sumption totally unwarranted by the c onstitu-
ton
Con-. Globe, roll % part2.
Mr.. Clay. for the last three years. has been
high authority on the slavery question, with Ma
tiOnal Democrats.
In 1859, Senator Douglas used this language;
'No citizen ,ehetker from tie North or South,
can take this species Of property (stares) ,oh him
and hold, sell or ase 1t at his pleasure, in all the
Territories, because il as prohibited By the focai ia1
in Oregon by the statues OF tn. Territory
and in the Indian country by the Acts of Con
gress. Nor can man 90 there and take and hold
his Stare, for the same reason
Now hear Jas. Buchanan in 194S:
Having urged the adoption of the Missouri
Compromise, the inference is irresistible, that
Congress an mig opinion, possesses p0trer TO tegis
late upon the subject Of siarery in the Territories.
Letter to Sandford
Hear him again in 1856
This legisIation-the Kansas and Nebraska
bills founded on principles as ancient as free
government itself, and in accordance with them,
has simply declared that the people ola Territory
like those Of a State, shalt decide for themselves
,chether siauery shall or shall not exist ciiia its
limits, ''-AccePtaHee Of nomination for the Pres
idency.
Now Buchanan takes the ground that the peo-
pie of a Territory have no right to prohibit sla-
very till they come to form State constitution.
If the declaration of Buchanan be true, that
slaves are recognized as property by the U. S.
Constitution, and that shareholders may rightful-
ly carry their slaves into Kansas. in virtue of the
Constitution, then it follows. as Mr.. Clay well
says, that slavery overrides the laws of the Free
States and that slavery is the paramount law at
the north as we'll as the south, and that it is by
the suffrance and courtesy of our southern mas
iers, that slaves are not introduced and held in
Wisconsin, in defiance of our State Constitution
And it will be done soon as the government
of the slave olgarchy becomes little stronger
/ If the doctrine of President buchanan ia sustaju