Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-09-21

ROHFd-RtYC Hundred Lives SupRonCu -
be LosI-ForIy Passengers Saved-S1,-
100000 iu Treasure Gone.
We published on Saturday morning. under
our Geographic head, some account Of the loss
of the Central America. We now subjon a
moro extended, yet still unsatisfactory account,
from the mails. We learn from private sour
ces, that several persons from the neighboring
counties in Ohio, were on board, it is supposed,
this steamer. Our New York advices say that
a dreadful foreboding, which had weighed upon
the city all last week in reference to the Calfor-
MIA steamship Central America, was at last dis
pelled-a dispatch from Charleston announcing
the arrival of vessel there, that had, on the
10Th, spoken Norwegian barque off Cape Hat
teras, with forty of The passengers of the ILL
fated steamer-Dhich .touadered on tho l2h
4 INST and NJ 6etWeen Fire and Sir Hundred Pas
sengers on board, only Sixty icere Iett to tell the
tale! This is dreadful, dreadful news indeed,
and our pen trembles as we record it. But here
is the news to speak for itself:
The steamship Thomas Swami, from New
York, had arrived Mt Charleston, and reports
having spoken on the 18th inst, about fifteen
miles north Of Cape Batteras, the Norwegian
bark EIoisc, which had on board forty of the
passengers of the steamship Central America
! The passengers stated that the Central America
founLcred on the 18th inst, and that only sixty
I out of over five hundred passengers were saved.
/ Nothing is mentioned concerning the specie
she had on board.
/ This Charleston despatch is bricf-conveying
no particulars beyond the general announcement
I of the disastcr,-but il tells enough, alas to
carry mourning to-day to many a household
and TO make US all feel that great public calnm-
ity has happened, and one which will throw, not
only an entire community, but the whole coun-
try in mourning
In the presence of so awful sacrifice of hu
man life, it seems out of place, almost, to in
dulgc any vain regrets for the vast amount of
treasure which, in all human probability, has
gone down in the wreck yet, so many hopeful
calculations were based upon the addition of
million and a half of coin, this week, to the
available resources of the Money Market and the
Banks, that the disaster will be likely to create
bitter disappointment, if not new embarrass-
mentS, in business circlcs,-yet let these sink
into insignifcancc,. when we think OF far more
precious trcasures,-thc loved and lost ones that
i lie buried in the deep!
A torturing suspense must eXist,-until we
know tile names of the sixty passengers saved.
All who had relatives or friends on board will
naturally cling to the hope that among the res
cuod is his father, or brother, or her husband.
or sister,-and until we know the whole truth,
that hope must be in death-struggle with the
despair, which, it is painful TO reflect, must so
soon extirguish it altogether.
The Elose, it will be seen, had but forty oil
the rescued on board, but Us the dispatch says
-'tsixtyr were saved, we must conclude that some
other vessel has twenty on board, and from this
vessel as well as the EiOise. we may expect
soon TO hear full particulars.
The Central America, it will be remembered,
left the harbor of Havana at Q o'clock on the
rr-if1N hun 1pnID n6i
twenty-five passengers, and one million six hun
drcd thousand dollars in specie, from California,
for New York, exclusive of what was in the
hands of passengers The Empire city, which |
stcanied out from HaVana at 10 o'clock, but one
hour afterwards had the Central America in
sight and kept after her until the afternoon, |
when she out ran the F.. G. so far that they lost
sight of her, and that was the last that was
heard Of her, until the report of the Elose came
to hand. As she foundered on the 12th-when |
four DAYS out from llavaDa-she must have en-
the tremendous gale which was e&pe-
rienccd by the Savannah steamer, and drove the
Columbia from this port into Charleston in dis
.rcSs, almost wreck il
At late hour last night, there were many
anxious enquirers 1T the huuse of Marshall o.
(owner Of the Inflated vesselD in the
Fifth Ayenue,-in the expectation that that gen
lIeman might have some additional details, -but
Mr.. Roberts had no tidings beyond those com
by telegraph
Mr.. Roberts was not sdre,-but he thinks the
Eloise is bound to Boston,--but, he that as 1t
may, we may reasonably look for further par
ticulars at any momcut. The F. is no doubt on
the coast by,--if not the other vessel
with the twenty on board.
The steamer Webster which sailed on Thurs
day afternoon had orders to keep in the track
of northern bound vessels, and look sharply for
the Central America. The Empire City also
EO-h HOY.
and would 90, need be, as far as the Bahamas.
stopping ut Nassau. 1t was supposed that if t
an accident had happened to her machinery, the
Ccntrnl America would put in at Nassau.
The C. y. was built in this city four years
ago, and before the last time she LETT port was
thoroughly overhGuied. Her machinery was
supposed to be III excellent order. She had an
abundant supply OF coal when she left Havana
She was guarded against fire with extraordinary
care. and no apprehenSons were felt on that
score. She had two steam WorthingtOn pumps
and two or three hand force pumps. She car
ried six boats capable Of sustaining 90 men
each, and plenty of life prescrverS. There were
also facilities for constructing RATS if necessary.
The California Mail will suffer no detention
by the long absence of the Central American
The Northern Light is being fitted out with all
possible despatch and will sail on Monday next,
the regular day, for Aspinwall.
Since the above was in type, we have received
further particulars by telegraph, to which head
we refer our readers.
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F.lLunEs, ASSIGNMENTS, &c-The following
are among the reported failures, assignments,
| &c, of last week:
Boston.-Enton, Hill & Chandler, Drugs, fail
cd. W. F. Freeman, failed Freeman orne,
gone into insolvency.
Nlio YorE.-NcSmith Co., Suspended
i CARPENTER, Ide & Co., Straw Goods, suspended.
| Frederick c. Swan, assigned; liabilities said
about 81 zoo, 600 Foster & Nickcrson, suspend
ed. Joseph f. Moyses, Dry Goods, suspended.
Grant, Sayles & Ford, Produce, suspended
Taussig, failed Walker.P Jones, Liquors, sus-
pended. William j, Bell & Co.. Bankers, sus-
pendcd. Frost & Pierce, Hats, suspended
Isn,.n,,i 4 rrnnhrreli Liquors sIIsncnded G.