The weekly Anglo-African. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1859-1861, 1860-06-30

all the same to him. "There's good time
coming, boys, wait little longer"
Terrible Explosion ship Sunk !!
A terrible explosion, followed by great
loss of life, politically speaking,) occurred
at Baltimore last week The catastrophe
occurred on board the well-known old ship
Democracy, which had so long been in the
service of the government-or the South,
which is one and the same thing She had
ON board at the time of the explosion quite
a number of government officers, Southern
gentlemen and Northern Doughfaces, most
of whom were either blown up or drowned
in jumping overheard to save themselves
from worse fate. Scarcely enough were
saved alive to care for the dead. Among
the saved were Stephen A. Douglas, alias
the "Little Giant" and some of his person.
al friends, who, being astern, chung to the
old. hulk to the very last, and at the latest
accounts were still clinging to her, and re-
fusing to be removed from the dear old
craft
In which they'd had many happy times
Such jolly rounds of life and fun together
How could they give her up-like rats forsake
At the last pinch, in wild and stormy weather.
AT the first shrek of the wounded, some
few of the Southern gentry, who were at
a safe distance from the workings of the
engine, and hence from danger, ordered
themselves taken ashore, which was prompt
ly done, few only receiving damage.
Breckenridge, of Kentucky, and Joe Lane,
of Oregon, jumped overheard soon after
the occurrence, both considerably injured /;
and Ex-Governor Fitzpatrick, of Alabama,
who was last seen in company with the
Little Giant, was picked up some three
days afterwards nearly exhausted, and
fears are entertained of his recovery. Ca
leb Gushing, of Mass, is among the dead
politically Poor Choate, who went be-
fore him, treally went ought now to be
here to deliver his funeral grafton. Who,
alas, is there now to do it, and do him jus.
tice ( Webster is naught, and what son
of Massachusetts is there now equal to the
task2 Everett we had, in looking over
the small-fry who had escaped from the old
ship, forgotten Everett-the smooth,
the classical, the honey-worded Ever.
EFT but as he has already three i'm
portant engagements on hand, the Mount
Vernon business, the Ledger, and the ring
ing of the dumb Bell from Tennessee, we
doubt if the great present one-speeched
son of Massachusetts will consent to pro-
nounce the funeral eulogium upon poor
Gushing.
Among the lost there are several from
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New
Jersey. Horatio Seymour and Daniel H.
Dickinson, Of New York; Josiah Randall
and son, of Pennsylvania; Yancy, of Ala
bama; Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi; Ste
phens, of Georgia, and many other distin-
guished Democrats whose names, in the
haste of the moment, we could not we'll
ascertain, are among the dead, politically
speakingn and great gloom everywhere
prevails.
Several bodies have been recovered and
restored to their dear friends, and at the
time we write the black pail is spread in
every state, and the funeral train is seen
solemnly marching everywhere through
the eountry-that is, politically speaking
The old ship is total wreck Every
plank is rotten to the core, and no hopes
are entertained of her restoration; and we
have now but to mourn her loss as we
would piratical son brought at last to the
gallows. A black flag hangs at her only
remaining spar, as warning to all future
crafts that shall engage in a like service Of
the fate dishonesty, injustice, and corrup-
ton assuredly bring. 0, ye Republicans,
flushed with coming victory, as we pass be-
hold the old ship Democracy as she drops
piece-meal into the gulf Of oblivion, and
remember that if the same wrongs, the
same dark deeds, mark your own course
the same fate awaits and will as surely
and as speedily overtake you.
HE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN THIS STATE
will be celebrated by the friends of free
dom in Jefferson and the adjoining coun-