The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-10-21

the qaarries at Portland, and he was conso-
quentIy put to work in the Hdrying.room," where
he had the undigni6ed occupation of hanging
up linen. With others, he was lately sent to
Botany Bay.
Walter Savage Laodor has taken up his resi-
dence at Genoa, where his family possess o
fine estate and one of the curious effects of
the late trial is, that it has led to reconcilia
ton between the aged poet and his wife, after
separation of forty years.
The King of wurtemberg has been fully ap-
priced of the origin of the falae rumor as to his
change of creed. 1t is traced to q connection,
no secret for years, with q lady no longer young,
Frau Stubenraucb, whose influence is supposed
to have already obtained from the aged mon
arch a sort of concordat, almost "a objection
able to bis subjects as the Austrian humlia.
ton.
Intelligence has been received from Mr..
Charles Anderson, author of Lake Ngami, who
has undertaken to explore the Osampo country,
in the direction of the river Cunene. 1t appears
that after successfully prosecuting several hun
bred miles of his journey, he was compelled
to return, owing to the scarcity of water and
the duplicity of his guides.
Mr. Thomas Woolmer, whose fine statue Of
the Poet Laureate was exhibited some two
years ago, has executed in marble bust of
Rajah Brooke, the hero of Ssrawak. The
features are true, clear, bold, and might be
those of nc BILE Roman. An admirable bust
of the Rev. E. F. Maurice has also been exc
cuted in the same studio.
The sum required for q monument to the
memory of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy is
complete, and the work is begun. 1t is to find
its place before the building of the Sing
Academic at Berlin, and Professor Fischer, the
Berlin sculptor, has been intrusted with the
execution.
Carl Formes is singing in concerts at the
West. Some of the papers think that his voice
is not quite 30 powerful as Jenny Limbs was;
others believe it is, but doubt whether his exc.
aution is equally good. On the whole, howev-
er. the Westerners are very much delighted.
Henry Thomas Buckle, whose History of
Civilization IN England is attracting SO much
attention, is a young man only SO years of age.
He was born in Kent, Eng, in November, 1922.
Gov. Wise, of Virginia, has recently address.
ed long letter to the people of Norfolk, on that
chimerical hobby of the South, direct trade
with Europe; and that eccentric but brilliant
occasion, as he has often before, rome sound
prsctical advice, which is too direct and sensi-
bic to be altogether acceptable to them. The
Governor tells the merchants Of Norfolk:
1t is in my opinion no paradox to say that
the way most certain and speedy to get direct
trade with Europe, and to be our own importers
thence, is to bend all our energies to our trade
with the West Indies and South America, by q
commercial steam connection, and to make the
latter bring about the former. We have all
the materials, and it remains to be seen whether
we have the wit to find out the ways. One
thing must say: Let us be ashamed to utter
one murmur of sectional jealousy against Bal
timore, Philadelphia, New York, or Boston,
while we have 80 much capacity in ourselves,
and yet, like the fool of Horace, stand waiting
on the banks of the stream for the waters to
pass by before we cross over"
But this is not the kind of advice that the
people of the South look for. What they want
is governmental assistance Of some kind they
do not want to have the advice offered them
which Hercules gave to the WAGNER; they
want Government subsidies first, and after that
nothing is 80 grateful to them as to believe that
all their mistortunes are owing to the greed
and grasping meanness of the North, which is
forever depriving them of the direct trade with
Europe, the mail steamers and Eues of packet
ships, which ought 10 belong to the ports south
of Mason and Dixon's line. Gov. Wise has in.
dictated the true policy for them to pursue, if they
really want direct trade with Europe but there
is not the least probability of his advice ever
being needed.
New York, Oct. 13, l858--Last evening, at
about half past eight o'clock, the steamer Em-
pire State ran down and DESTROYED small
sloop, the Exchange, from Dartmouth, bound
from Newport to Bristol. The acc dent &C.
Cured off Sandy Point, about ten miles north.
east of Newport, the steamer being on her pas
sage from Fall River. Capt Ford, of Bristol,
R. l., who had chartered the sloop for the trip,
was passenger on board of her, and was lost.
The crew, consisting of three men, were taken
off by a boat from the steamer, the sloop still
floating, although complete wreck, her main
sail only being saved by the steamers boat
Capt. Ford was floating near the stern of the
steamer for fifteen minutes after the collision.
1t WAS not very dark, yet he could not be seen,
and his cries for help excited intense interest
among the passengers to save him. Chairs and
life-preservers were thrown to him, but he
failed to reach them, or it was feared that some
of them struck him; and before the small boat
could be got ahoat and brought round the
stern, he had sunk for the last time.
There seemed to be an unaccountable delay
in getting the boat ahoat, suge eating to the
passengers the little reliance to be placed in
the boats OF steamer, in case of accident re.
curing their use. The steamer was detained
an hour by the sad occurrence.
After 1t was ascertained that Capt. Ford
could not be saved, cries were heard from the
wreck, which could not be seen, and was sup
posed to have been sunk entirely, by which the
small boat was put in direction, and in some
thing more than half an hour after the collision,
brought the men on board. The names of two
only of the rescued crew were ascertained BY
the writer-they are Trip and Williston-the
regular captain of the sloop having been left
at home.
The steamer struck the sloop little abaft of
midshsips, in quartering direction, WHICH had
the effect of lifting the stern, breaking the boom,
and sinking the bows, where Capt. Ford was
standing, by which he was thrown overheard.
l observed, as l sat in the saloon, that the en-.
CINE had stopped; and when the collision took
place, the shock was 80 slight, that 1, who had
not precisely noticed the hour, supposed we had
merely touched the wharf at Newport.
will add, that the sloop had lights before
the collision, and one of the men was swinging
q lantern the moment before when he dropped
it, and seized the quarter rail, to prevent being
thrown overboard.-C NJ p. Er. Post.
Gov. King, of New York, has issued his proc
lamation, appointing Thursday, the 18th Of No
vember, to be observed as day of general
Thanksgiving and praise throughout the State
of New York.
The Louisville Journal says, tie stream of
water now thrown out in q jet is q most beauti.
full feature ef the artesian well, and is worth
going a long distance to see. 1t was bored
through solid limestone, alternating at various
depths with seams of sandy and argillaceous