The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-08-13
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; ~ preparatory TO starting on . pleasure excur
son, was blown up with terribly fatal effsct Thu
DeIla mas the following description Of the wreck.
/ Inc view abaft Of the shaft was obs,ruc.ed ,v
aIDoard boiler on one side aud portions Of ths
.,i.N ~ ascs on Ine starooard side. Standing up
"a cnair near the starboard shaft We couis s.s
,ne sids aud portions Of the bottom of The Ia.
posrd boiler. IL presented q terrible siRht-shs
iron rent In twain In all directions makinr frs
nendous opening, through which the fues ror,,
be seen jumbIed up together, plainly. Creso;,a =
turougn the rubbish, We gained the sfeps vbicS
| !eo rom the lower to the upper saloon but fhsv
sa now up stairs II Is true the floor Of the saloon
was entirely gone, and nothing ieft to allow =
person to walk aft without endaogerius lifa and
iimo. The door Of the upper saloon had been
liitedsup bodily and let down again edeeways.
wa,cn feat on the part Of the steam divided as it
were, the lower saloon into two spartm epts. The
hurricane deck was lifted up aud let dow into m
ladies saloon In the same manner
/ Ihe whole OF the larboard ssate-rooms, above
ana below, are smashed into thousand pieces,
eyen az far back as the very last. On the star
board side the destruction to the state-rooms II
hardly any less, and With but two or three excsp
/ tiohs. they arc all shattered and mashed up. In
tne lower cabin, just in the rear Of where the
| clerks offce stock, there is perfect medley Of
ruined articles OF furniture, &c, chairs, tables,
BOXES, distinguishes, books, &C., &C., and ali
| thrown together 10 one mass. It would have been
M Mnara 10 nave made the destruction more complete
Inc vessel around the larboard boiler IL torn and
rent asunder in every direction. The boiler Frame
OF wood boited together, some six feet thick was
| cut into asone would cut into splinter with
peaknie. Ihe iarboard wheeihouse is torn away,
and the lower deck is ripped mp like she had taken
asnag on board. Aft of the wheels, every stauuch-
con and brace in the ship is started
Inc nrst engineer, at the time, was In the hold
paekIng small pump The second engineer was
lying down on sofa in the upper cabin, for ward.
Both OF them escaped. How the former mana 9ed
| TO do so, We are at loss to know. We should
! have supposed that he would have been smothered
"a AM nr fttA1k 49, -
| out by the boiler
The body the missing cook has not been found
part OF his hat was found lying near the clerks
John Doyle, the mate; Samuel c. Poor. fireman:
Prosper Blair, pantryman, were killed; aad Pat
hennef, the cook, jumped into the water, aud was
| drowned.
The Picayune says that the steam had not
been gotten up sufficiently even to turn the wheel.
| and the boiler had plenty of water in IT, 1t was.
without doubt, the result of large quantity of
powder placed in the furnace. Had the explosion
occurred after the excursionsts were on board the
| slaughter would have been terrible.
HEALTH OF New 0RLEANs-Epidemic Fsoryd-
In n o ) last week, there were "a yellow fever
deaths reported at he hospitals against 2 the week
before. The Picayune says IL has reason to be-
lieve there is also the same increase of deaths
in private practice aud considerable increase of
new cases. 1t adds:
There has been considerable increase of the
| number of deaths by yellow fever during the past
week over that of the preceding-e4 againxf 15
The cemetery reports Of intermeuts for the whole
city are not made up until Monday. We have rea..
to believe that there s also the same increase
in private practice, and that there
aggregate increase of new cases lateIy Soma.
thing of this s due to the remarkable weather dur.
| ing the week. 1t has been extremely unfayorable
to health, intensely hot in the suns' rays, with
| cold northeriy Winds
The disease is, however to be cousidered n.
spreading, but not with the proportions OF an epi.
demic year. and is not yet pronounced to be an en-
demic The Board of Health, whose vigilance in
not doubted, have not thought it sufficiently seat.
| ed to be pronounced epidemic, and some of our
| uiost discreet and experienced physicians do not
| believe that it will become so.
1t is confined thus far to particular localities
| along the shipping and in the Third District 1t
has hardly made its appearance at all above and
in the First and Fourth is not spoken of as exist
| ing at ALL Still these omens are not infallbls -
The existence oil so many cases within the ciiy
mts, and their steady increase for several weeks,
are facts thatour readers at home and abroad have
| q right TO know, to enable them to act at their
| discretion. THERE'S yellow fever here; whether il
will become epidemic or not, another week is like.
| ly to determine.
SHOCKING MUaDER.-The murder of Mr.. j. Dorsey
| Robbins, farmer, in Wilson county, N. c., has
| been noticed. A correspondent of the Petersburg
(ya) Democrat says:
The murder was committed last Tuesday, but
the body was not discovered till the following Sun
day. In the meantime, Mr.. X % absence being m
accountable three of the negroes were arrested on
| suspicion OF having murdered him, and carried to
Wilson Jail. In searching for the body subse.
Iuenily, the flight aud congregation of burzsrds
as particular spot attracted atten tion, and upon
visiting the locality the legs of the murdered man
were seen protruding above ground In the branch.
After the discovery OF the body, the coroner and
some others went TO Wilson, and they we're seen
| approaching the Jail, the murderer said TO his
| companions, IF they've found master, Pm ruin.
| ed" Upon being informed Of the discovery of the
body, he made confession, saying that he was
down at the branch ehopping about, when his
| master came up aud asked him what he WAS doiDg
| He made some reply, which caused his master to
strike him with bis stick, and he (the negro) then
| turned in and killed him with an axe, beating and
| cutting his head into q jelly. After committing
| the deed, he went to work and dug hole in he
branch aud buried the body ia q bent position,
With his face u5 Subsequently he fed the hogs on
the place, 80 that their roofing would lui all suspi
ciou, should the newly turned earth be discovered.
But 'mrrder will out" and the hogs in roofing
about, rooted the earth from Mr.. RS knees so as
to expose them and the scent arising from the de-
caying FISH attracted the buzzards, and they at.
| tracted the searchers, and thus the body was
found. If the negro had buried the body four feot
| deep, the discovery would never have been made
| until the day of Judgment.
| The murderer informed the coroner that before
/ :
ct Of his masters paataloons and buried them in
another place, and directed the officer to the spot
where, upon examination, they were found.
| BosToN METHOD OF ENFORCING DOMESTIC DIS
| clpLNE-Last evening the attention OF Lieutenant
Whitcomb Of the second police station, was called
| toa woman who was sitting on the steps OF the
court house, apparently in distress. He found her
| to bel matron OF the mature age Of As or there
abouts, and IN reply to his interrogations she
stated that her name was Anna Fitzgerald, and
Iivedin Congress- street. Finding that the sitaa-
tion not altogether comfortable, the officer re-
| quired her to rise She reluctantly compiied.- -
The officers curiosity still further raised by
what be observed aud he requested her 20 advance
\ step two. She did so, aud her movements led
the lieutenant to further Investigations lie gently
raised the garments which would have covered
the crinoline, If the lady had INDUCED in such q
luxury, and by so doing he made the discovery
that, attached TO the ladys ankle by stont chain
J and heavy brass paddock was q large Nat iron
This arrangement. IL is needless to state, serious
ly impeded her movements. At FIRST che stead
, fasty refused to relieve the officers mind BY In
, forming him how she came to be thus equipped
but the suggestion OF night IN the tomos inducee
her 10 disclose. According to her story, her hus
band ordered her rot to leave his house during tn
, day. aud especially warned her not TO visit Mrs
Dunlap'e snpfr establishments for tho purpose
purchasing her commodities, and In order to en-
force obedience to his commands, invented and ep
piled the abovo described apparatus The machin
did not work, however, for the wife went oni
bought snuf, and when accosted by the ofiieer sn
. was engaged in filing her box frem the paekag
which she carried. she was relieved OF her tncoa
venient appendage by the police. Tho husban'
will be obliged to resort to some more eiiecsiv
method OF enforcing family discipline.-Bosto
Post, Asg. 7.
The TELsssAPH News AT BEDFORD, PryN.--Mr
Ann q. Stephens, the authoross, WAS ct Bedfor
5prings, Pa, when the news Of the successful IL,
ing Of the Atlantic telegraph received at tbs
J place. large company were at dinner at 81
! hotel, and among them Presi1ent Buchanan. Mr.
sert, gentleman came breathless into the diniu
room and requested the attention OF ell, when B
announced the joyful tidings. For moment "a
room Was silent - death-next Clustering eye
pcered into giistering eyes, and then, no longs
: able 70 repress their emotions, the whole compas