Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-03-08
Condensed News of the Week.

stead of the twelve lives reported lost,
there were seventy. The accident
was caused through the carelessness
of the officers Of the boa. About
fifty miles above Memphis they put
the steamer through cut of, which is
five miles nearer than by the regular
stream. Ii was known to be full of !
snags very dangerous, and on that &C !
count seldom entered. The steamer
struck a suag with such force as to
stavc a hole in her bottom so large
that the steam pumps could not begin
to throw out the water as fast as 1t
came in, when resort was had to throw |
ing in bales Of cotton 10 stop the leak, !
but all to no purpose. SoundingS
showed that the water was seven feet
deep on one side and eighteen on the
other. The boat was but eighteen or
twenty rods from shore, still the lat
ter could not be reached but by the
most snperhumar cxcrtions. in conse
quenco OF a strong wind blowing from
it. thus driving the struggling men and
women towards the channel of the riv
err. A few. however, reached the
shore. some OF whom persisted almost
as soon as they reached it, owing to
the intense cold and their long expo
sure. The only WON An saved was the
coIored cbambernaiI.
A rrighuul railroad accident occur
red a short distance from Oxford, Mis-.
si.sinni On line 25th uIt.. when fifteen
nersors were killed ant, several 9TH
crs wounded In pa,,sin over a ra.
vine at Bgckner's Crossing, on the
Nissi.,ipni Central RaiIroa d, the bag
oooo cvnrcss and three passenger
cars ran off the track and were pre-.
cinitated into the ditch some orty feet
below Cau,e Of accident St pposed
to be an unsound timber in the trestle
work.
Roy Father Edgo Of Lawrence.
Mass lately deceased had a most i'm.
nosino funeral ON the 28th nit. There
we're some three thousand people in
the church IN hear q discourse from
Rev p. O'Byrne Of Rozbury. 1t is
described as being most effective
The funeral nroccssion was of great
lenrtb and embraced several societies,
RELIGIONS and otherwise.
Senator Brownlow of Tennessee,
publishes a card in the Knoxville
Who Of the 9TH nit. in which he ad-
vocates setting aside the nresent state
Government Of Tennessee. also the
doinos of her state convention and the
acts or the Icyislature. and in favor of
annoiptino n military governor TO be
hacked Inv national troops. This he
asks in order IN mt = stop to the
indiscriminate and Wholesale murder
Of pnionists He saws he has no doubt
CONGRESS will do so. and the paper
from which wo ca,hor our ncws SAYS
hi, card has caused immense excite.
mont No doubt il has. The nnona.
ciors old g n,rso," is nc canablo of
crootipg an ovcitcmpnt - any man
I;vioc uo may no ri.,bt in his 70.
oposts hut wa ora far from holiavipg
that concrpss will grant Thorn. We
+hi,L tho do, of military ruIe i over
ovep IN the soptb We furthermore
bol;ovo tbo,e i No nccessitv ror if
7, gonna 70 mo onr nrovinre th;.
rvool, n record , moro than pspol pum
bor or occido,ts and ono If tho vors
il the sinkinr of the American steam
OR Oneida hv coming in collision will
tbo P.i,;.h stoouor Pouhov q (ou
n;los o,t g Yokohama I,ron ohor
tho . rah.,orr ,.hon :, :. soi,
tbot ana brndrod and sivty rersor
lost tbair I;ros Tho occidort hon
norod oorIv n tho ovor;rc Anon
fftv woro sarod II ooorootior wit
tho loss If tbi, vossoI and its nohl
erow wo have 70 snook 81 ,ho ;ro,
nlicable and inbpman conduct If III
canta;r If tho Rombav who not oDI
Maid No attention n the hail Of III
oro;do,s orow 70 astond OF Or 70
will rrn 10 down - hrt of,or tho oros
came he hauled his vessel off an
sou,red awav for Yokohama witbo,
OFFERING tho 1oast assistance and III,
too when tho crew Of the sinking ve
sol frod o,rrs 20 orrorroo tbo;r 4;
tressCul condition. INT kent on h,
course and did not even renort Il
collision on arriving ut Yctobama
When the disaster was known h,
captain said he heard no GUNS. alth