The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-03-22
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hN.i LAND sLIps--C5iege Partially DESTROYED :
.. o.e avalanche occurred at Troy, N. Y. on
'af,ck 8 aay, abouts o'clock in the eyenIno
a., s' , o. refers College, a Catholic iustitu.
s'ea 'a course oil erection, at the head Of WAsh.
"E.'n ~. street was destroyed. The whis s.ys.
tne college was located upon a Iargs n,s,..,,
70 mnicn the approach was by a broad ta,.hs :,
Nv ana ,,a was tne highest building In that vcini
x x "nu nearest the hill. Be,os IL. At the has -,
.ne steps, are number OF houses unon Wsshs, ~
soa sIeet. The building was intended 10 hae :
ssay large one; 200 feet in length and Ava .,oa
hsS s ,, ,n,an, WITH two towers. Only two stor ie,
had peea completed, aud the wor, of cors,,m"s.
was IN vigorous prosecution MT tba .,.. ".
'ae disaster by Mr.. Mcclure. the n..an ~
eharge: Mount Ida commenced its ,Iono sh,', =.
lily iest IN the rear Of the building, and from
tneaee rose quite gradually to the snmmit =
avalanche was never dreamed Of A. n,.,.,' ~
,as' ,s evening the aide took place A man vho
yves near by, and was witness 10 tho 90
,as.ropae, says that the earth slid down with
very iitsie noise till il reached ths rear vi, y,
the college. Here its progress was ston.aS az VI
moment, tili gathering new strength. n hurs, ,h
oatrier, and with q sound like tistant ,hnmda.
n.ed n tne building 10 4 moment, demolsh,ny
beams, iink-walis, and partitions. and cnvar;u'.
the entire central part of the edifce Th. r.ass
~a'i was also crushed in, but it suffced 10 sta =
tue progress OF the avalanche. At tina Son,S
aooue one quarter OF the building still standing.
tn a. tne N1,'a hardly more than the end wall re-
mains IL Is said that from 900 to $l5 600 had
oeen lately expended on the work, the f,pnda,;on
being very solid. Probably two.thjrds of tb;s
amount will be "A total loss. No workmen haS
been In the building siuce the previous day. 1St
Patrick's being a holiday,) but twenty minntss
before the occurrence, a crowd of bow. were Ma
ing upon the beams and walls. The time Of sha
accident prevented fsarfni loss of life-oyer one
hundred mechanics being engaged on the build.
ing.
Az HoNEsr PoLITIcIAN.-The Washington Star,
in a notice of the decease of Mike Walsh, of New
York, has the following about his honesty In polt.
ical life:
The remarkable point in bis character wss hs
personal incorruptibility from the beginning 10
the end OF bis career, while so many with whom,
he was necessarily associated were notoriously as
corrupt as any others ia this country Mike was
never in the market, nor was he ever approachabls
by the arts or social persussions with which poll
ticians operate successfully not unfrequently upon
those to whom it would be dangerous to make sin.
later propositions iu uDmistekeable Ian guaee His
Independence of character was strictly in keepinc
With the integrity of his nature. He feared no
mau's ineueDce or ebmity, AID would oppose the
views and interests of his best friends as quickly
and vehameDtly as those of his bi.terest personal
enemies, On Judging them iuimicsi to the pub.
lie interest. He knew intuitiyely an IL was
who were and who were not to be trusted: and SO
great confidence had theusands on thousands of
those around him in bis I'D -ment and Its honesty
suSt. do hc Ncutj eitutE Win reference 10 men
measures, they were sure TO go without question
When at times without penny 10 purchase food
tor his family, thousands we're offered him for his
ibnuence TO compass the enactment by the New
York Legislature of siEister measures, he netori-
ous'y spurned such bribes with hot Indignation
10 politics, Mike Walsh was the Burns of America
as II we're: his Wit, and. genius in it's way being
as brilliant as those OF the great Scotch poet, and
bis tastes and habits as erratic: while ia the en-
dowment OF mate principle, no politician ever
sur, assed him.
OF course he must have died without a dollar
laid by for his family, for he knew NC more of
the value OF money than child but two years
old-not sufficient to compreh bend how provision
should and might be made for the wants of those
depending upon him for a week in advance Not
tbat he did not psssiona:eiy love those naturally
dependant on him. but such was the structure of
his intellect that his mind could never take in
such matters, though within the grasp of the
mind Of almost every body e,se. His place in
New York politics can never be supplied: for no
other person lives fitted to be in sl respects his
successor in them.