Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-07-04
DAILY IIRGINIAN.


Tur LATE ACCIDENT IN AN ITALIAN THEATRE
The accident by fire in theatre attended
with great loss of life occurred not at Florence
ns stated, but al Leghorn The following is from
photographic despatch in the Pars Moniteur.
LEGuoRS. June 3, 1857.
A piece ddftifee set fire yesterday to the
stage at the theatre of the Acquedotti. where the
inking Of the malakof was being represented:
The fire quickly spread to the other parts OF
the house which were filled with q numerous
company. The number Of victims amounts to
nbou, 300, reckoning the killed as well as the
injured. The soldiers sent TO render assistance
showed have persisted. Hauing been informed
by telegraph ofthis catastrophe which has thrown
30 many families into mourning the Crank Duke
arrive at Leghorn this morning and Immediately
went to the hospitals 10 visit those who were in-
lnrod.
From the Liverpool Mercury, June III
terrible catastrophe occurred at Leghorn
on the 18th. Upwards of three thousand persons
were assembled ia the theatre degi Aquidotti to
witness the representation of the taking of So
bastopol, when suddenly one of the rockets lot
of TO initiate the bombardmen. set fire TO tho
side scenes A sudden panic seized tho public
tho people in thu pit rushed TO tho doors, and
many of those who were in the boxes and gal
lerics attempted to1 save themselves by jumping
INTO the pit The earbineers vainly attempted
to stem the current by assuring the people that
there wns sufficient time to 60 out quietly; many
being fright ened out of their sense, threw them
selves out Of the windows, although the British
consul, Mr.. Mnobean had caused ladders to DO
placed at some of them. This disaster Is the moro
10 be regretted as there was no occasion for suoh
II panic the dre beng got under almost m'nedi-
ntt ly afterwards. before it had time to spread
Tho Monifore T'oScaso states that d3 persons
wrro killed and 1H wounded. On hearing what
nd occurred the Grand Duke immediately set
out Tor Lcghorn, aud visited those that had been
enrred to the hospitals.
BLINK BoNNy AND NEwARK.-As we havo
already stated, Blink Bonny. the winning mare
Of the Derby aud Oaks rncos, in England. is the
property of Mr.. William Hanson, brother OF
Miles rAnson, of Nnw York city CORES
pondcnt of the New York Dispatch says:
Mr. William rAn-on, whose noble mare.
Blink Benny. won the two great events at the
lnte Derby Day. in England thereby netting tho
enormous sum of nearly S200,Oo0, has three
brothers und Two sisters III this country, nil nt
whom have lived in the city Of Newark, N j.,
and its suburbs for twenty years, Their
parents were of honorable stamp. Their iathor
died. after returning from this country, in their
nniivc plnce. Mddleham. Yorkshire.
Mr. Miles l'Anson, the oldest OF the fanily'
hns his beautiful homestead within sight OF his
molhrr's aud youngest sisters grave. lie Is
now in England and was u witness To Blink Bon
ny'E great performances at Epson. He laid in
the stable with her n week previous to the races,
aud IL now no doubt. amply r"pnld by his famed
bedfeow's performance of n task which beats
everything on record for more than half centu-
ry past
Why 30 NOT NEGROES MAKE THEIR HOMES
AMONG THE ABoIIrIoNIsTs.- The following OK
irac which take from an article in the Gin
oinnati Enquirer. contains an idea worth looking
after;
There Is remarkable and very suggestive
fnot in regard 10 the negro emigration into this
Siatc II is ihls: OF the twenty five thousand
FREQ negroes in the State, the vast majority re-
side in counties where there are very few Aboli-
tonists, aud which have been chiefly settled
by cmgrnnt- from the Southern States. Those
negroes appear IL have grent dread ot,the Ab-
olilion counties they give them wide berh,
Thus for example, A,btnbua bas n negro popu.
lnton of forty three, Genugn Of seven, rrunbull
sixty. five. III ether counties on tho lake have
II proportonate number of negroes. These
counties nre settled almost exclusively by New
England crngrants On the other hand. Ross
county, u NiIginlu settlement, has one thousand
nine hundred aud six negroes: Gnllia has ono
thousand one hundred and ninety eight and Ham
iltou comfy has over four thousand. In these
counties the negro is regarded an inferior,
cialIy and politically. and the Abolitionists has
but slight hold What is the cause of this stri
king di, crcpnncyl Is it that the negro feels AID
know, li- inferiolty.nnd naturally attaches him
self to the population which is disposed to regard
him NJ AN inieliorl OF it is that the whites in the
lake shore counties nre Aboliionists from an ig-
uornncc of the renl character OF the negro! Ger
tuny there is no better mode of curing n neigh
bolhood of Abniionsm tbnn by inhicting
them n colony of free negroes. The only way in
which Gddings cnn ever be defeated will be by
| "A few more such phnnthropc efforts as those of
Colonel Mendenhal. in settling II few hundred
North Carolina or Kentucky negroes in Ashta-
buIn. II our Southern friends will send US their
surplus negro popnlntion. let them provide that
they may be located among their kind and gene
rons friends IN the Western Reserve. Such ear
nest philanthropy as they profess ought not to be
,,wn,tpd on tn, desert mir.