The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1865-07-19

! THRILLING ESCAPE FROM Az IcEBERG-The team
ship Scotia, which sailed from New York May l7th,
met with narrow escape, which is thus described by
passenger in letter to the Boston Saturday Gazette
! On Sunday after leaving port, at 10 O'Clock a m
saw large iceberg on our lee bow, about half a mile
distant, but quite enough to satisfy the many
who had expressed great desire see one OF the
ders of the Arctic regions the terror Of the sea to all
sailors; but how little did they think what imminent
danger was approaching from this source of their
great curiosity Soon after II o'clock a n-the fog
so thick as to cut off all sight beyond the ships
lengtl-the sailor on lookout gave sudden alarm of
large iceberg dead head and almost under the bows
Of the ship.
The signal whistle Of danger was sounded Instantly
while the first officer who was on deck, cried ~
voice Of thunder, 'hard-a-port hard-t-port ;2dT
helm; but another officer, in the confusion of the
moment, who probably took another view OF the dan
ger, sang out, stdrboaTd hard to starboard" Mean
while the captain was signaling the engineer to stop
her, black her" and other impatient orders which
skifully and rapidly obeyed, before even the.
passengers were aware Of it, 50 completely checking
our speed that the striking Of the slip against the
mountain of solid ice scarcely Scared the back aint
on the ships portbow, and surging round alongside
the ponderouS and gigantic mass it came quite near
enough to the quarterback to satisfy every beholdcr
for it could be touched with common boats our As
opened the distance, and the danger passed. there
was never before seen such a shipoad of thankful
grateful souls, IS rendered up their braise TO Him
who had Eouchsafed them their great dcliveranee.
When the iceberg was first discovered we were on
the deck quite the forward smoke-stack and as
wewere looking forward, the approaching danger
quite the sailors the look out The sight
such to fill hearts with fear and the horror
with which instantly realized our awful situation
can neither be imagined nor described Our com
plete destruction seemed inevitable So near were
TO tire Iceberg that it appeared the ship would strike it
and sink before the passengers could aft, which
they all commenced to do being anxious 10 get as far
from the conclusion possible Not enc on board
who sawthe danger but fully concluded we were lost
The day closed without further interest," save the sight
of still another iceberg about six miles distant sui
ciently near to keep every person on board aBake
through an extremely rough and stormy night. i
81 MISERIES OF NLLoSAIREs.-Under this heading
the New York Times reads forcble homily upon the
idea that all is not gold that gters and that the man
who has made his pile has not in consequence sowed
among his days. The Times, in illustra-
ton, gives three Picturesa riunc OF wcalth-n the
following sitting: - -. r. v
automatic gait along Broadway glaueng neither
to the right nor the left, and evidently deeply i'm
mersed in mental arithmetic Manifestly be is the
oppressed s'pack horse" Of his great afarsp-a
being that might have trpped gay through the world
with light heart and thin pair of breeches, had he
not been pet Of Plutus; but who it is, stooPs
der weight Of rent roll and bond and mortgage, al
most too heavy for elderly humanity to bear. Unfoy
tunate financial Atlas, with world Of wealth upon
his shoulders and and anxiety sitting like twin
incubLpcrched upon its top, how we pity him And
yet such Is the effect of habit in reconcilipg and even
attaching man to his burdens that he would be more
likely to denounce than thank u.s. should We phian
thropically offer 10 case him of part of his.
Commodore Vanderbilt seems to have more back |
bone than Mr. Astor and bears his forty millions with
porter like pluck Wesa forty millions because Mr.
Parton, his biographer appraises his 'real and per
sonal" at that sum. We fancy Mr. Ps figures little
over the mark, but tho commodore is nevertheless
very solid nan, and viii no doubt ''cut up very
- "a Is ~ sEtsh /
Alexander T. Stewart, who is, wcpresrnne, about as
far advanced in the millions as the commodore always
appears to TO be working out complicated sums in
compound interest as he walks the streets Although
lightning calculator be public at east the most
Of men. We are quite sure that
making money is to him sedatve and not an excit- (
ant Are We mistaken in suppoging that he mer
rler and happier years ago clerk than he now is
as the controller of say FIVE and twenty millions
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a FREAK or TIE TELEGEAru.--0f. ell Tic freaks of |
the telegraph the following is the most laurbable
which has come under personal know ledge Not
oBg since graduate from one of our eastern theo
ogical schools, called to the pastoral Charge ofs
church in the extreme southwest. When about TO /
start for bis parish he unexpectedly detained
oy the incapaey of his presbyery to or,lan him. m
order toex plain his non-arriYa at the appointed time
le the following telegram to tile deacons Of the
:lurch "Presbytery lacked quorum to ordain.n In
he of its journey the message became meta.
norphoSed and reached the astoDshed deacons in this
hape: "Presbytery tackled worm on to Adam The /.
ober church officers were greatly discompo5si and +
nystihed, but after grave consultation concluded it
Tas the minister's facetious way Of announcing that
e had got married and accordingly proceeded to I
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