Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-10-30
The I.a,c sfsnsuaii plsa.ler.

Mr.. W. 5 Cook, Of Virginia, who was
on the steamer Stonewall at the time Of
the LITE awful disaster. q mile below
NeeIey's Landing, last Wednesday even
ing, called on us to-day, and we learn
from him some painful facts in con.
necron With those already published
in The LsDGEB. He states that there
we're about two hundred aud fifty souls
aboard, and of that number he only
knows of forty. five saved, which be is
satisfied covers the entire number. All
the officers were lost except two engi-
neers and the pilots. The Captain has
never been heard from since he went
down.
Mr.. Cook escaped by swimming to the
shore, o distance of three hundred
yards ct aight across, but The current
drifted him and others down the river, so
that they really swan threequarters Of q
mile. Neither Captain SCOTS wife nor
ueice was on board as at first
reported. Several persons died from ex-
treme cold and exposure after escaping
to the shore, among the number Mr..
Brennan, of Galveston, Texas. Toe
citizens in the neighborhood rendered
all possible assistance, and one of them
saved sixteen passengers 10 skiff They
built fires in the woods and made
the sufferers as comfortable as possible
There are several reports as to the
manner in which the boat was fire d: one
is that man was looking for his hat with
card o; another, that the men were
playing ris over bale Of hay; but
the most pr oable is that the fire caught
fiom persons smoking. There we're
about one hundred. and fifty deck
passengers, principally Swedes, and the
mate had great difficulty all the evening
in preventing smoking. The flames ad-
vanced so rapidly that only one of the
yawl boats could be procured. S,me Of
the deck hands seizad this one and made
off without oars. Mr.. Cook and others
tried to launch the stages, but we're run
over by the panic-stricken crowd, who
jumped into the water like so many
frightened sheep. There were ten ladies
aboard-one an old Italian lady who was
saved, but lost seven children-only two
we're saved. The smokestack fell finally,
and knocked off and killed q number of
persons who were clinging to a spar.
Mr.. Cook is the guest, at present, of DIR.
Dudley d. Sanders, of this city, an old
friend of his.
HONE MANuFACrURE.-We have often
asked ourselves the question whether it
would do any good if we were to devote
two-thirds of our available space daily to
the discussion nf the subject of home
manufacture. So much SQUAD argu ment
has been expended to no purpose, that
we think it nonsense to breach the SUBJ
convinced. Notwithstanding some of the
articles manufactured in our own city
and country took the premium over those
brought from abroad and shown at our
Fair. our people would prefer now to
send off for their goods, etc. Mr..
Charles II ,wsrd, whose candy, etc man.
ufactured by himself entirely, and which
bore of both the premium and diploma,
would, no doub', find it difficult to prove
to our over-incredulous people that those
shown at the Fair were of his own pro-
duction. But, nevertheless, it is so. He
did, and is daily manufacturing candies
and confectioneries which cannot be
equolled, much less excelled, by any
brought here from other Glitter The
only trouble with our friend Charlie is
that be understands his business, makes
his own goods, but does it all in Mem.
phis. If he were to remove to Porkepo-
lis or some other opolis in &c DIS coun-
try and commence business, the peo-
pie of our civ would more readily pa
tronize him. Bat be informs US that his
intention is to fight it out on this line !"
if it takes thousand years.