The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-09-15

lidav Street Theatre tonight Mr.. Clarke makes his
last appearance and will be in three of his best
characters pcheese in the drama of Robinson Cru
soc: Mr. Ttoist, in The Prince at Cape Nay, and as
Paul Pm. There will no doubt be crowded house,
and all present enjoy themselves.
SANFoRD's OPERA TRoUPE.-Ths excellent troupe
continues to draw crowded houses at the New AS
sembly Rooms. Every evening some new attraction
is added to the entertainment. The songs, dances,
dialogues, dresses &c, are all "nigger' to the life
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THE LAKE MICHIGAN CALAMITY-FUR-
THsR PARTICULARS.
to filled with the narrowing details of the loss of
the Lady Elgin. We CLEAN the following
ANOTHER OF THE WORLDS HEROES
From conversation with one of the survivors
of the wreck we have gathered some facts not spe-
cially enlarged upon in the newspaper accounts.
A Lake Superior miner, named James Bellman,
an Englishman by birth, arrived in the city yes
| terday morning to take the first boat from this
| city for the haven which the Lady Elgin failed to
reach He was on board the boat at the time of the
| disaster, and gives somewhat confused account
| of the occurrences. When the vessel struck the
steamer he was lying down between decks and
| was thrown from his position several feet by the
conclusion. Unravelling the bewildered and dis
connected tale which he gives, we have glmpses
| of terrible panic among the passengers, in the
midst of which everywhere appears the selfpos
sessed commander, giving orders and overseeing
such measures as were most conducive to the gen.
| eral safety. The cattle were driven overheard,
and the freight and luggage Immediately followed.
| Passengers were wakened from their slumbers by
sturdy blows of the which dashed in their state
| room doors and called them to a sense of their
| danger. All were finally collected deck, and
| when the steamer went down, the hurricane deck
which constitutes the roof of the upper cabin float
ed clear of the hull and sustained the crowd. Mr..
| Beman says that on this extempore raft not less
than three hundred persons were collected the
| majority of whom chung to their places until
| daylight. The raft was mostly under water, from
the weight of its living burthen, and very few who
chung to it but were above the waist in the turbu-
| lent The captain constantly on his feet,
| encouraging the crowd and to have been
| the only who dared to stir from the recumbent
position which was necessary to keep secure hold
on the precarious raft. He carried child, which
he found in the of exhausted and sub
merged woman, to an elevated portion of the raft,
and left it in charge OF woman, when it was soon
lost. He constantly exhorted the crowd to keep
silent, and not only to make noise, but to
frain from moving, in order that the frail frame
work might last the longer. Beman says that
during the time which elapsed while the raft kept
together, there was scarcely a sound from man,
woman child
They chung to their places in silent terror, and
neither groans nor prayers were audible; voice,
save that of the captain, raised aloud in encourage
ment and good cheer, being heard amid the of
the wind and the ceaseless splash of the foaming
waves Finally the constant action of the water
broke up the raft and large parties hoated off on
detached pieces, and gradually the multitude melted
away by couples and solitary individuals, until but
1.-THE of the whole number remained The swell
tumbled the light RATS about like feather weights
and weary struggle the hapless survivors had dur
ing the long drift of ten miles intervening to the
shore. Beman ten hours on his raft; and says
that he capsiZed and thrown into the sea with
| his two companions every third minute When they
reached shore, they were dashed about heplessly
| in the surf, and, more fortunate than their com
panions, were lifted upon the beach by the break
ers, and dragged ashore by strong hands which
awaited them. 1t was here that, having surmounted
the perils of that terrible voyage the commander
succumbed and gave way to the irresistible force
| which had worn out his strength and viror Per-
haps he had rather died thus than to have lived in
the exercise of more selfish motives than those
winch marked his character through the whole of
| this rying Ordeal.-DetrOu Free Press.
! A DEED OF HERoIsM.
Another instance of herOism has been related
| which took place at Winetka on Saturday last.
| Among the fragments of wreck tossing in the surf
one raft was anxiously watched, to which
clinging five persons, among them was John Jervis,
| of Milwaukee, his wife and child. As the raft was
drawn into the surf it was capsized, and all disap-
peared for moment beneath the angry waters.
| When it rose, Jervis alone was cingin to it. He
instantly left it, however, and swan for his wife
and child, and recovered them, Twice and thrice
he repeated this heroic act. Finally, when the
shore almost reached, the raft for the last
time capszed, and when it reached the surface
Jervis alone was ciinging to it. Again he left it,
| and swan for long time in search of those whom
| he had so long and so nobly protected, but all in
vain, and he was obliged at last to swim to the
raft to his own life. Such act of selfsacri-
fcing devotion needs no praise of ours Chicago
| Herald.
| PREsEYTIMENTs OF THE CALAMITY.
The Milwaukee papers contain the following in
| regard to the disaster:
Prom he Free Democrat
Singular Presenttment.-We are told that Beck,
chief of police the morning of the late calamity
and about the hour it is supposed to have occurred
suddenly awoke from his sleep with the strong i'm
preston on his mind of an impending calamity of
some nature This impression he was unable to
shake off, He naturally thought if it meant any
thing it was in connection with his duties towards
the city, and therefore supposed that fire, burga-
~, murder, or something of that nature might
| have TRANSFERRED or transporting. He repaired
| to the police headquarters, and found all right
there, and successfully visited nearly every ward
| in the city with the result. After daylight
| he returned to his room and bed with the impression
| still weighing on his mind, never however,
| during the whole time connecting his impression
with the excursion, or thinking of it. About nine
O'Clock he got up again, and came down street. and
soon after heard OF the terrible calamity.
We have heard Of another case where lady,
whose husband was on board and among the lost,
dreamed, about the time of the accident, that ex-
preston came to her informing her of the death of
her husband, which, however, she refused to be-
lieve.
We have just heard of still another case where
mother, when leaving, requested friend in whose
charge she left her children, to give them in charge
to the Sisters of Mercy in she should never re-
turn This request was made playfully, if the |
mother attached particular Importance to it; at
the same time she would not leave until she had
exacted solemn promise to that effect.
We suppose many more similar cases might be |
cited.
Mrs. Boyd informs us that on the night of the ac-
cdent she dreamed that Frank, her son, was strug-
CLING in the water and that he came home bruised |
and haggard, as hardly to be recognized-facts |
subsequently verified
The wife of Capt. Barry dreamed that the Elgin |
was wrecked, and her husband sink in the |
waves.
From the SsntiueI
We now have the following from the lips of the |
parties well known In this city, and whose char
acters are sufficient guaranty of its truthfulness
The lady had retired on Friday night as usual
Her husband came home at ten and retired Also
About two o'clock the wife woke her husband up in
the midst of the storm.
ror, but, give expression to her feelings.
The husband asked her earnestly what was the
matter, and she finally replied that she did not
know, but there '1ds something dreadful happening.
He then rallied her and laughed at her terrors at
tributing them to the violence of the storm.
But the same undefnabe impression of some
thing dreadful chung to her, and they finally got
up-the husband supposing her to be sck-and
they spent the rest of the night in their parlor.
In the morning they both came to the conclusion
that it the effects of nightmare until the as
founding intelligence of the catastrophe reached
them. 1t is somewhat singular, too, that the fam
lily had no relatives or near friends the Inflated
vessel.
The aspect of affairs in the Third ward is indeed
heartrendng. There cannot be less than two hun
dred orphans in this ward alone. We know of one
family of seven children, helpless and friendless,
whose parents were engulphed in the ruins A.gen-
tleman who devotes much of his time to errands of
mercy informs that he found family of five
Irish children in this ward whose father and mother
were lost, and who ignorant of the calamity,
nor did any one have the heart to break the news
to them.
One family went off on the excursion and left an
infant baby with a neighbor. They all lost,
and on Sunday the infant died.
Mr. Collins, one of the lost, took the boat at Chi
cago to arrive here sooner than he would bv other
conveyance. He leaves young and interesting
wife, who is wellngh distracted.
CHURCH SCANDAL.-Trouble has for some time
existed in the Graham avenue NJ. E. Church How
it originated or the exact cause of the difficulty
has not been disclosed 1t seems however, that ;
two weeks ago, at prayer meeting, the pastor of