Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-10-06
BURNINaa eEHg 81 Austria,

accounts of the b9lms Of this steamer. Tho
Austria sailed from Bremen on the 4th instant
with total numbep passengers and crew es-
timated at betweehS50 and GOO-upwards Of
500 Of whom have:bfsn lost:
HALIFAX, September N.-The bark Lotus
arrived here yesteMN with twelve of the sixty
seven passengers tkat were saved from tile
steamer Austria, Which was burnt at sea on the
18th. The passengsfKreport that little after 9
o'clock, on the afternoon of the 18th, dense
volume of smoke HasSt from the after-entrance
of tho steerage. Ispeed of the steamer was
instantly slackenedda e;;half, at which speed she
continued until ths sMagazine exploded, when
the engineers, it wAAsnpposed, were instantly
sulocated. The Malext burst through the
lights amidships, travelling oft with fearful rapid
ity. A boat let doMnafro the port side was
instantly crushed, add another from the star
board side was swaiaped, from the number OF
passengers rushing igtoSit. All the cabin pas
sengers were on the poop, excepting few gen
tlcmen, who must lHye been smothered in the
smoking room. of the second class pas
seIsers were also oH3he poop, but large num-
Der were shut in theEabin by fire. Some were
pulled up through thgYentiators, but the great
er number perishedsgsThe last woman drawn
up said that six hadAlready suffocated Seve-
ral men and wolneiEwho were on the poop
jumped into tho sea- ;twos and threeS. Some
Of the women werefeady in flames. Others
hesitated till driven4dk the last moment by the
advancing flames Mhalf an hour, not soul
was left on the poopa The French bark Maui
rice, Capt. Earnest Ienaud, came alongside at
5 o'clock, and succeeaed in rescuing forty pas
sengers; they were. faken chiefly off the bow
spirit, but soma of tham were picked up strug-
Cling in the water.
At 8 o'clock, one ;d the metallc boats came
up with twenty y-two Persons including the first
and second officers. Subsequently, four men
were picked up floating on piece of broken
boat. The second Office was afterwards rescued
from the water Both himself and the third
officer were severely Burnt Many of the male
passengers were frightfully burnt Only six
women were saved, three OF whom were shock
ingly burnt.
A Norwegian bark went alongside of the
steamer next morning and sent a boat, which
may have picked up afew persons The Maui
rice had no communication with her. The
bark Maurice proceeded to Fayal with tue Aus
trials passengers, except those onethe Lotus.
A passenger says that when the captain of
the Austria heard .of:the fire, he exclaimed :
awe are all lpst-let'town the boat,n which
was swamped. IIetfal into the sea and was
left far behind. %
The fire arose fronGtbo culpable negligence
in fumigatng the stserage with burning tar,
which was under thu superintendence of the
fourth officer. & sg Il q =
BayIA ss5
! Texas corresponding ofsthe Louisville journal
gives the following particulars Of the brutal
treatment Of man, named Harrington, a de-
serter from Ca.np Colorado, who had been re-
captured. lie was a.natye of Louisville:
Young Harrington was enlisted for the Second
Cavalry, but deserted, and was brought back to
Fort Smith. Tho citizen who brought him
back must have been more of tiend than hu-
man. lie travelled day and night, and until
ter o'clock the next day without giving him
mouthful to elt.
Capt. N. G. Evans, of this regiment, was-at
the Fort at the time, and Harrington was put
in his company, and th.t day he had to walk
u miles, handcutled and dragging a ball and
Chain, before be got anything to cat The Sc
cond days march from Fort Smith was over
road called the " "Narrows," the roughe,t that
wagons ever travelled suppose. The wagons
in going over it, would bounce and slide off
from the rocks four feet at n time.
On the morning Of the second day tue cap
tain ordered Harrington to he tied by the hand
close up to the tail gate Of the wagon. At that
time his wrist and fingers were so SWOLLEN that
lie could not bend them. The sentry who was
put over him says that for more than 1000 times
the ball which was attached to him hy chain
and placed in the feedbox, would, when the
wagon came out Of hole or slide off rock,
Jerk his feet from under him and all bis weight
would come on hs wrist, and his breast strike
the fcedbox. The sentry, who saw that the
man was almost dead took the responsibility to
let him get in the wagon, out of the sun and
dust, and gave him water to drink. He began
to enl,ven and feel better, when the sergeant of
the guard came up and raised HI, and made
the sentry tic the r,or fellow up again. He
did not 90 more than three miles before the
sergeant, seeing that the man was almost dead,
ordered him to be cut down, but before he
reached the ground, lie breathed his last.
1Iarrington:s breast was beat almost to jel-
ly, and his back, from his chin down, was as
black as could be. He told them, in the morn
ing, that if he had to walk that day, tied to the
wagon, he would be dead man before night.
lie begged and prayed them to shoot him, and
put him out Of his misery.
Mrs. N. was very useful and excellent lady
who had done the village of IA vast ser
vice in the way of washing, etc. Many of the
young sparks of the village owed to their dickes
and shit-bosm. as they came spotless from her
tub, much of their success in love affairs. At
the close of days hard service, the lady Of the
house-good hearted woman-mixed up cup of
warm rum and toddy for her washwoman. The
latter took a hearty swallow, and turned up her
nose in evident disgust. ",Poor, dear woman p
exclaimed the lady, you don't like rum, do
you7 Well, hope you will excuse me- didn't
know you was a temperance woman-most wash
women amt" "Don't like rum!" calculated
Mrs!N., II don't like to drink whole well of hot
water to get thimbleful of itr'
CHANGES OF LIrE.-How numerous the
changes of life! Let an individual who has at
tanned the age of fifty, pause for a moment and
gaze around him. He will discover that the
! children who long after he had attained the
years of manhood played about his knees, are
! now among the fathers and mothers of man.
kind; while those to whom he looked up in
} boyhood, are either decrept and tottcring with
} age, or have passed to the Valley Of the Shad-
oyv of Death - The span of human life-hoW