Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1857-10-08

lllU btANttu Nht lNO lhiNlTo tithii'A
claiming son, and husband wife the ca
ger scanning of each face IN agonizing
fear and expectation, the JOY or grief
manifested as recognition or disappoini-
ment awaited the gazer, was touching IN
the extreme, straning The heart strings
and moistening the eyes of many hitherto
unused TO such manifestation. A portion
remained on board the brig, preferrlng to
90 up to Norfolk, and when all who wish.
ed had been taken on board, the Empire
City again started with her freight OF UNI
~fortunales for New York.
N,nely-six in all were reported TO have
been saved by the brig, exclusive of the
colored stewardess, who died from ex-
haustion, shortly after having been taken
from.the wreck. All speak in the high
est terms of the attention paid them, and
the humanity displayed by the officers and
crews of both brig aud bark the former
conveying the women, was about TO serve
out her last days ration of water, and had
not nj opportune supply of provisions been
received from a passing vessel, they must
have been driven to great straits, with
hunger as well as thirst.
The bark Ellen had previously had all
her boats stove in the gale, and every in
diyldual of those saved by her were drawn
on board by lines thrown them as she
sailed through the drifting masses of
drowning men-her captain handling his
vessel as only a sailor could, going ahead,
going ahead, getting sternway on her,
and drifting to leeward, as the cries OF
those about him, from those whom he
could not see through the darkness of the
night, dictated. Their escape is unequal
ed in the annals of marine disaster and
relief. The officers of the Empire City,
grieving for the loss of their brother OFF,
GERS, have yet a feeling of pride and salts
faction in knowing that they died at their
posts, striving TO save life to the last, and
point to the fact that all the women and
children were saved mot an infant lost
as an instance of self-devotion, GOODNESS,
and ~manliness, seldom excelled, if equal
ed. Should it please Providence hereaf-
ter to place them in the same strait, they
wish no nobler eulogium.
INcIDENTs.-Many of the survivors
state that there was seldom so large an
amount of money owned by passengers as
was the case of those who came by the
Central America. Many were persons
of large means, and there we're but very
few whose immediate wealth did not
amount to hundreds, while numbers reck-
oned their gold by the thousands Of dol
lars. The greater portion of the passen'
gers were returned miners, some coming
hither to invest the capital they had real.
lied in hopes to live a life of greater ease
as the result of their industry, and other,
to get their families and once more go tc
the land of gold. But as the storm con.
tinued to rage, less and less was though
of gold, and when, on Saturday, it became
evident that they were likely at any mo
ment 10 be buried beneath die waves, veal
thy men Invested themselves of their treas
ure belts and scattered the gold upon tn,
cabin floors, telling those to take it witt
would, lest its weight-a few ounces o
pounds-carry them 10 their death. Ful
purses, containing in some instances So,
900, were laying untouched on sofas
Carpet-bags were opened by men and TIT
: shining metal was poured out on the foo
r with the prodigality of deaths despair
, One of the passengers who has fortunatel,
been rescued, opened a bag and dashe,
1 about the cabin $4,000 in gold dust, an
4 told him who wanted TO crafty his gree
= for gold TO take it. But it was passed b
: untouched as the veriest dross. A fe,
: hours before he would have struck dow
p the man who would have attempted to TAX
a grain of that which he now spurned fror
e him.
The passengers rescued from the wreck
ed steamer by the brig Marine, subscribe
e and presented to the captain, officers an
crew of the latter vessel, as follows: T
the captain, $500; first mate, 500; secon
b mate, SO; two cooks and steward, Sl5(
sailors, S25.
A young mar by the nume of Caldwell
II who was rescued by the brig Marine, SUI
G ceeded in saving twenty pounds of gold dus
d the result of his IaborS at the mines. II
d stopped at Norfolk with the intention
proceeding home by land.
The following is a synopsis of IL
Constitution of Minnesota, agreed upo
r by the two Conventions, to be submitte
: to the people of the Territory, to Cover
their future State, at the approachin
I. election -
d., The new Constitution prohibits Slav,
y ny and guarantees liberty of the press, tr
ID al by jury, &c. The first Legislature
lie to consist of thirty-seven Senators al
eighty Representatives; pay, So per da,
s. There is to be a Governor, Lieut.. Cove
D. nor, Attorney General, Secretary
J. State. and Treasurer elected for two year