The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-10-08
READFUL STEA MBOAT EXPLOSION-SEV
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READFUL STEA MBOAT EXPLOSION-SEV
ERAL LIVES LOST.
The steamer Bayou City, Captain Forrest, a reg
uar packet plying between Galveston and Houston,
exploded her boilers on the night of the 9th nit.
killing seven, and injurng some ten or twelve
, others. From an extra of the Galveston Mems wa
extract the following:
Our city was startled this morning bv renort
that the steamboat Bayou City, Captain Forrest.
) one OF the packets plying regularly between this
port and Houston, and which left here last evening
had exploded her boilers when near Lynchburg
causing much loss of life and wounding many. It
was known that there was large number of pas
sengers on board, besides the full complement of
officers and crew.
There were, far as we could ascertain from
various sources, about sixty seventy passengers
on the Bayou City, including five six ladies and
some children. None of the ladies or children
were hurt, though piece of iron flew into their
part OF the cabin. Two BOYS were saved by one
OF the stewards, cOlored man, who stopped them
as they were running to the bow alarmed hv tbn |
noise; took them up in his arms ran down a hal |
way and placed them on the barge.
AS the clerks office, with the safe, books and
papers, was blown to pieces it is not likely we shall
ever nave complete list of passengers
Several of the latter, with some Of the crew
Jumped overheard, and we have yet no means Of
knowing how many were saved and how many lost
!
point where the accident occurred those who could
swim had jumped overheard, unniured by the
steam, had good chance to save their lives
The explosion injured the boat we understand
only Immediately above the boilers
Oaptain Sterrett sent the Mary Hill back to the |
wreck at once, and will go up early in the Nep
tune TINS afternoon. great many of the pas |
sengers and several of the officers remained with
the wreck. WI"
The Neos of the 10Th has the suboined addition
al facts: N'"'i
Mr.. j. T. Irwin, Speaker of the Georc;, uo,,,o
OF Representatives, and of the most prominent
} men In the State, was on board with family of
nine negroes, and his brotherin-law Mr.. o. H.
Battle, OF Egypt Wharton county. He was seen
rushlng alt, and 1t Is believed he jumped overheard
and was drowned. None of his negroes were in.
lured. Nearly all the people killed were negro
hands employed on board the steamer-out of the
lot seven were killed outright. Many of the pas
sengers and crew were scaIded.
DEATH OF Gov. WILLARD, OF INDIANA NA-Itis with |
sincere sorrow and great pain that we announce |
to-day the death of Ashbel p. Willard, the presen.
Governor of our sister State of Indiana who ex- |
pired at st. Paul, Minnesota, on the 3D. to which
he had repaired in the hope that its clear and bra
cling atmosphere would be beneficial, at least tenn |
porarlly, to his declining system The disease has
been one under which the Governor has been LONG
languishing-that of the terrible DESTROYER, con.
sumpti0n-and which, by slow but not mpercepti-
BILE stages, had taken hold of its victim and was
bearing him inevitably to the tomb. Although
the shock was not expected-although it was
known that he could not long survive--yet it has
terrible and crushing force.
Asbbel p. Willard was emphatically selfmade
man. Unaided bv wealth or family connections
by the force of his talents and energy he rose
! To be Governor and Lieutenant Governor of his
adopted State at an age when he was barely eligi-
BILE to those offices by the Constitution lie was
elected Lieutenant Governor in 1852, with JOS A.
Wright as Governor; and when the latter retired
from the Gubernatoria chair he was elected to sue
ceed him in 1856, by decided majority, over a |
strong and popular opponent. His time would have
expired In January next. The duties of the office
Will now devolve, for time upon Lieutenant Gov
I ernor Hammond.
Although Governor Willard has been prominent
| " identified with the political contests of the |
day, had many sharp encounters with gentlemen |
OF different school in politics, yet all, without dis.
tnctlon OF party, loved and respected the man, and
throughout Indiana the tidngs of his decease will
inspire general sorrow, that so gallant and gener
| Gus man should have been struck down in the
hover OF his days and usefulness.-C Cincinnati En-
/ q0irer Of Saturday.
The PRfNCE IN BosroN.-Mayor Lincoln has re
ceived the following letter from the Duke of New |
castle in response TO invitation to attend ball
in Boston:
ST. LOUIS, September &c, 1850.
My Dear Sir The Prince of Wales will have
very great pleasure in accepting the invitation of
the citizens of Boston to ball during his short
stay IN their city. think the evening of his arri-
VAL the 18th, would not be altogether convenient,
but whichever of the next two days is most conve-
the Prince. If both equally convenient to them
would suggest the 18th, as it will be necessary to
leave Boston very early on the morning of tie 2Oth
/ cannot say with what kindness the Prince has |
been received in those cities which he has vet Wis
tied in the United States. If each individual had been
instructed what to do, the whole people could not
have shown greater delicacy of feeling nnd cOnsid-
Grafton for the position he occupies in England,
though without the slightest surrender OF their own
| claims to independence of action. They have all |
| looked MIN as guest, and resolved to treat
! hi" as such, but without overriding the character
! Of host.
and shall continue to be made elsewhere to crafty
tho amiabe curiosity OF good cousins to the
son OF Queen whom they love and respect almost
as much as we do.
am, my dear sir, yours, very truly,
NEWCASTLE.
His Honor the Mayor of Boston,
! THE GREAT FIRE AT FoRr SMrrH-The Times of.
| fce, CHy Hotel and Post Office Bu-nt-Loss Estiaa-
ted at $3.50 00O.-It has already been announced by
telegraph that destructive confiagratiOn occur
red at Fort Smith, Arkansas, on the goth ult
which destroyed property to the amount of $780,
900. We now have the following particulars by |
mail:
Among the houses burned are McKenzie's City |
Hotel, the large brick house occupied by Cline as
drug store, and Gridley billiard saloon, the
Fort Smith Times office, the Post office, the stores
of Sutton, Spring Co, Benton Il Walton and |
Benton and Foss, and the law office of Clark &
Spring, the whole amount of loss being estimated
at Two nundreu ana Htty thousand dollars, ana up
on which there is supposed to be only partial in
surance. The fire is the most destructive one that
ever occurred in Western Arkansas, and the
houses burnt are probably the finest ones in the
State-the storehouse Of Sutton, Spring & Co.,
and others, having cost about forty thousand dol
lars. The St. Louis, California and Memphis stage
offices, which were kept in the City Hotel were, of
course, burned, as was the postotIice, kept in
Cne's drug store.
THREAD FOR SEWING MISUNDERSTANDING the many
tiac otto linz fba ipfrp Of
machines the nature of thread manufactured.
The common sewing thread, which had been good
enough for seamstress and tailor at the rate of so
or 60 stitches minute, found to be too imper-
feet and uneven for the rate of $50 stitches a min
ute-we might say for the rate of 800 stitches
minute, since good sewing has been done at this
speed 1t took years to overcome these objections,
and before the last could be surmounted, i'm
provements and inventions had to be made in the
art of manufacturing thread-especialy silk thread,
which was rarely of uniform size in the same skein,
and unfit for machine sewing, whilst it was
essential article in many kinds of work. But
the new demand called forth the requisite skill and
invention, and now American f'machine twist rules
the market and suppants the foreign article, both
in the factory and The household. The production
is about 200 900 year, and the increased sales
of spool cotton since machine sewing ntroduc-
ed amount to more than S50O,0O0.
A MATRmoNAL SwrNDLER HAmISG FROM BALTI-
MoRE.-The Saline Herald published at Arrow
Rock, Mo-, on the 25th of September, gives de-
tailed account of the 'systematc schemes of Villai
nv" practsed upon a widow lady of that place by
) Baltimore man named o. Cham berlain, a tailor
~ trade 1t appears from the statement that about
; fifteen months ago Chamberlain located in Arrow
Rock, opened shop, and did very good business.
He became acquainted with very respectable
2 widow lady and married her. Under pretence of
going to St. Louis to purchase additional stock
of goods he succeeded in getting about So, 900 from
his wife, in addition to other moneys before obtain
ed from the He departed, and has not
, been heard of since. Chamberlain is about forty
five years old, weighs about one hundred and eighty
, pounds, inclined to corpulency-rather "pursy"-
about five feet eight inches high. gray hair, blue
! eyes, deep set in the head, usually very neat and
precise in his dress, and is rather retired in his
manner.
! The NoRwALK TRAGEDY.-The last vestge of the
l memorable accident at Norwalk, in 1853, dig
posed of yesterday, by the breaking and burning
of from thirty to forty chests and trunks, taken
] from the ruins at the time. Since the occurrence
L this baggage has been slowed by the company in
this city, subject to the order of the friends of the
victims. Some has been claimed and given up, but
for several years it has remained in one huge and
undisturbed pile until now, when all prospects of
the remainder being restored having vanished, the
> officers of the company very reasonably feel that
they justified in disposing of it. 1t was sorry
Z sight-those damaged and dilapdated goods, not
4 article of which but suggestive of sorrow
and suffering, and, if recognized, could not fail to
u draw tears from many friends of the unfortunate
> kwas thn n1nsinU in ~ ha unos