GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor.
VOLUME XXm.-NO. i 75.
•rtrEDDING CARDS, INVITATIONS
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MARRIED. ■“
McCnUKK-PATTKItSON.-In Allcalieuy. October
ffltb, by tbcltcT. a ; fijiOlarb. D J)„ luw&fcd by the Bor.
2r \ Al^|* I ,'; cl S ro ’ of Pittebnrgn, to Slits
M. A goon I'.ttfreon.tir Allegheny. ,
DIED.
..AUTEMUH.—-Suddenly, qnjths 31st ult., Susannah,
Hawley, daughter of Alfred C.and Mary W. Altcinns,
aged 11 weeks.! ■ \ - ,
I)qo notice of the funeral will bo given. •
CARHAK.--0n Saturday, aoth ult.; at the residence
°f George Ord, No. 674 South Front street. Mar
garet Cannon, aged 89 years.
Her relatim and friends aro respectfully Invited to
nttend her funeral, on TnehiLvy morning next, at 10
o’clock. 1 *
JIAjJ DSONOn Saturday, October 30, Sarah, widow
or Nathan Hnvfdsou, aged S 7 yean.
The fiftierol will take place from her late residence
H. V» v vorner of Girard and Corinthian avenues, o,
Tnwtfty. November 2d. at 2 o’clock P.M. • *«
w ilOYLlt.—lu Harrisburg, October 29th, 1809, Sarah
JlnTcr
HIItIhHAM.--Tblii Diorninr, William Kirkham, in
tbe7(Uh vcarofliisage. «
; ~9 n ovenieg, October 29th, Mr. Wil*
Ham Y. Leech.
0 The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully
tnvitod to attend the funeral, from his late residence,
2012 Walnut street, on Tuesday afternbon, November 2d,
-ot 2 o clock To iiroceed to Laurel Hill Cemetery. **
LLM>BA\;~“In Harrisburg, October 28th, at the resi
dence of her sister, Mrs. William b, Hallock, Miss Agnes
31. LfmJsHy,of Charleston,B.C.riutoof Philadelphia),
aged ftfjN-urs.
fllAJOIt.—(Hi bunday, October 31st, Letitia, wife of
Isaac Major, in the Aid year of her age.
The relative* and friends of the family are respectfully
invited to attend her funeral, op Wednesday next, at 2
o’clock, from the residence or her husband, 2103 Delaney
Street. ■ rw
NKAL.—On the 39th ult., Wm. Neal, Sr., aged7oyenrs.
The relatives and friends of the family, also Harmony
.Lodge, Ko.-fiS; Columbia - Hv"BrA-.i No.-air'A i’TvM; 2
Penn Lodge, N 0.25.1.0. of O. F., aud thesatlmakera of
this ettv^are respectfully invited to attend the funeral,
from hu late residence. No. 812 North Fifth street, on
Wodneaday afternoon, the 3dinat., at 2 o’clock;
WILLIAMS.—On Saturday. Oct. 39th, Mary A., only
daughter of James Williams,M. D., in her 18th year. *
Funeral on ir»t., at u <vclock A.M..frotn
the residence of her grandfather, ?. Gaul, Esq., No. 142
North Twentieth afreet.' To- proceed to Woodlands
Cemetery.' ‘ •» • 1 ' - •
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THE SCIENCE OF LIFE.
PROF. JAMES McCEINTOCK, 91. D.,
Uommenr«« hi* PopahrLectureo. Illustruted.with THE
OXYUYDBOGEN LIGHT, FRBNCH MANIKINS,
Ac., in CONCERT HALL. MONDAY EVENING,
Not. Lit., at Bo'clock,continuing every eveuing, closing
TUESDAY EVENING, Npt. 9th. „ '
Two Private Lectures to Ladies, WEDNESDAY and
SATURDAY AFTBRNOONS, Nor. 3 and 6,at3 o'clock.
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DAY EVENINGS, Not. 6 and 9. _
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jp^^FcrsEYVirorrrECTO^ESi-WMr
.ley L.- DENNIS, Esq., ban the pleasure to announce
*» course of Four Lectures, entitled “THE PONEY
VILLE LECTURES.” the first of which will be given
on TUESDAY- EVENING, November 2d, 18S9, at the
ASSEMBLY BUILDING (large Hall). Subject-“Dr.]
* > lf > sliBDAYJ?iov!9’, “Our Church and Congregation.”
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 17, "Social Fossils.”
TUESDAY, Nov. 23, "Mrs. Wiggins and Hor Party.”,
Tickets for the Course, with secured seats $2 00 '
Single Lecture, with secured scat 75
Admission 50
Lectureat 8 o’clock. ■ , ,
Tickets can be had at Tramoler’s Music Store. oc3o tf§
K SCIENTIFIC I-EOT GEES AT THE
FBANKLIN INSTITUTE.-Thc> Winter Course
eminence on TUESDAY EVENING, 2d inst., at
8 o’clock, and will include courses on Organic and Inor
ganic Chemistry, Electricity and Heat, Light and Me
chanic*. . nol 3t
jv-S» GEORGE C. NEEDHAM (IRISH
i*Sr Evaugelißt) wilt preach every evening this week
attsßrlng Gurdcn Hall, northwest corner Spring Gar
den and Thirteenth.streots, at quarter before 8 o cloi-k.
All are invited, 1 ' ■ It*
ir=a. HALE YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN
ttSr ASSOCIATION, 1&0 CHESTNUT atreot.
The classes for instructor! lor 18<iS-70 wiirbe , organ
ized tho first week in November, in the following
branches: Penmanship, by Prof. J. WJ Shoemaker;
French, I’rof. Jean B. fine ; German,Prof. J. M. Haliel;
Elocution, Prof. Bufna Adams, and Music, Prof. Jolm-
Bower iv -i
Terms to members online dollar for twenty lessons.
Application for admitieion to-be made at tho Rooms.
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D OnSo every TUESDAY and FRIDAY, from 11 to 1
Services tnatuitouH to tho poor.
ATTENDING SURGEONS
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. Residence, 1121'Chestnut street.
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, • 1127 Chestnut Btroet
ITS* CHOICE PEAR TREES FOR SALE.
—Several thousand Bartlett, Scckel, Duchcsae,
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edlcal treatment andmedicino furnished sratni to ualy
a the poor. ~
—Michel Chaslcs informs the world that
ie has to prosecute a paltry forger tor making
ilia beUove ;that Haunah Smith signed herself
•Miss Anno Ascougli Newton.”' We cannot
llow the anagram whicli we formerly gave
o drop—“ Sign such a npmo, son! not we!”—
UJicnayui n.
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This great series of frescoes (like those of
Fra Angelico on the ceiling and back wall of
this chapel) have served as libraries of art to
famous painters, whose names are more fa
miliar to the general reader and observer than
is that of Duca Signorelli. The pictures of
Michael Angelo and Raphael—especially
those of the former—seem hut as divisions of
one great Symphony, of which these at Orvieto
are not only the prelude, but the theme. The
bold foreshortening of the grand forms in the
Fvmiriati compartment; in the Antichrist, also
in the Resurrection, and the terrible realities
in the Inferno, show plainly where the great
Florentine studied, —for in these are the very
originals of some passages in the famous Sis
tirie Chapel pictures. $
In Siguorelh’s “Paradiso” we can see Ra
phael’s style. The angels are truly Raphael
esque. One Sappho-like figure among the celes
tial throng is tuning alnte in the mostcharming
preoccupied manner. The beautiful face is
over the instrument, which rests on her ’
lap; the fingers grasp it firmly and tune the
chords—the action is so strong you almost hear .
the twang of the strings. You see she is en
gaged in getting the proper diapason,and en
tirely detached from the sweet confusion of
sounds which the happy multitude about her
is making. The grouping in this picture is es
q»ti\itcly natural and graceful. Lovely angels ,
float down with crowns and garlands for the
blessed; others sit aloft with lutes and sing
hymns of rejoicing, while the redeemed stand
beneath inan-ccstasy of happiness as they en
ter this- heaven of divine beauty and har
mony. ) / ‘ r
The .most Tcmaflkable, however, of these
great Signorelli frescoes is the Instory of Anti
christ. The inspired story of the Apocalypse
and grand prophecies of Ezekiel take form
and shape, and are expressed with wonderful
strength and effect In the background is the
court of that Temple/‘which is cast out and not
measured.” I There are the two witnesses,
Enoch and Elias, “whose bodies shall lie in
the streets Of the great city.” One is be
headed, the other just meeting death, by or
der of Antichrist In the foreground is Anti
christ again. This tfme he is preaching, and
the Devil Is whispering In his ear. In the
heavens, far up in the left-hand corner, is the
fall of Antichrist and the rain-of blood.
Whenever Antichrist is represented, the
caricatured resemblance to Our Lord is
painful. In one corner of this picture, to the "
extreme left of the foreground, stand two men
as spectators. One, dressed in a cloak and
cap, looks out on you with a doubting, dis
gusted, discouraged expression. The other,
robed iita a priest’s dress, with cowl and ton
sure, points with sad surprise to the gronps in
the foreground. There avarice, violence,mur
der and other mortal sins are represented as
going on at the very feet—in the actual
presence of Antichrist,. This sorrowful-look
ing priest is a portrait of Beato Angelico. The
uhbelieviDg, despairing face belongs to the
artist who painted the fresco—it is the portrait
of Signorelli'himself.
The carved and Inlaid work of the Choir is
liner even than that of the Sienese Cathedral,
.but so decayed and time-worn that in many
places they are replacing parts of it by .accu
rate copies. The Sienese and Orvieto wood
workers and carvbrs are famous in this .day as
they were in past ages. The whole church is
sadly out of repair, hut they are putting it in
order, and intend, I believe, to restore it to its
former grandeur. The place, however, has a
look inside—as if devotion
had left it—quite unlike tlie warm, cosy, com
fortable Sienese Cathedral, which seems made
nooks and cornets that are full of the ‘
very atmosphere of prayer and thanksgiving.
We- clambered up a dizzy number of dark
little steps which" led to the arcaded gallery
that runs around the roof edge of the Choir.
From its stone arches we looked down on
the Choir frescoes. They wore painted by
Vgolino di I’rete da Siena, a contemporary
of Simono Memmi. They are said to be full
of the expression peculiar to the early Sienese
school—enthusiastic sentiment and lyric feel
ing—but I had no time to study them. From
tliis gallery we groped, on up to the roof and
looked over the mountain town, the valleys of
the Paglia and Tiber and the Umbrian Ap
ponines.
—The afternoon we drovo-away from Orvieto
I looked wishfully back oh the grand old his
torical city of the Middle Ages. I watched the
sun sink behind t})j! hills. It was a glorious
sight. The rod and amber-flood of autumn
Italian sunlight bathed a landscape every
point of which was like some gorgeously il
luminated missal, throbbing with rich-hued
memories of that, medial val past whose history
is so dear to the art-student. I resolved then
and there that Orvieto, like Siena, should be
another “Yarrow Revisited.” Next spring;
when the railway route from Rome to that
point is completed, I shall go there again; I'
trust, and study more closely and leisurely the
Other frescoed chapters of Bible and gospel
history which }ts great old Cathedral contains;
the famous bas-reliefs on the facade,the many
beautiful sculptures, and its other art posses
siotm.
oc3o-lmrps
The acoustic question of the Counpil Hall
is satisfactorily settled. The report sent in to ■>
the Pope was by persons who wore ignorant
of the facts. Count Vespignajii Jins commit
ted no blunder. The north” transept of St
givon to him to prepare in suoh a;
manner that it would -accommodate a certain’
number of persons in a certain way. This ho
has'dono most satisfactorily. The architect
haarep resented to thePopethatifthishall
in the body of the church will bo needed for
oratory, the vaulted roof will of course have
to be-covered with a ceiling.—But this seems :
liindly necessary, as the hall of the Gena—the
place over the Atrium in which the Pope cele
brates at Raster the Apostles’ Supper—will be
FOREIGN CORRESFOHDENCE
IEITEB FBOM BOKE '
The Bellylons Frescoes of :Orvleto.~Tlie
Connell Kail in St. Feter's—Yaylnc of
lb© Corner Stone of the Commemora
live Column—Novel and Impressive
Ceremonies—The Copt Blsbop and
other Itlffnltarles—UhkCs Domestic
Trouble. , ’'
[CerresjidhdeaM! of the Pbiladelpbia Ereniog Balletln J
Rome, Oct. 14th, 1809.—The History of Anti
christ, Resurrection, Holl and Paradise, are
the four principal frescoes of Duca Signorelli
in the Capclla Nuova of the Orvieto Cathe
dral. Resides these frescoes there are also
decorative pictures in chiaF osenro, by. the
same artist, of the poete Hesiod, Dante and
Virgil, with medallions that contain scenes
from “ Works , and Days”, the ASneid and
“Vivina Comm clia.”- ■
PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1,1869.
employed for all meetings of deliberatioH
and discussion. The north transept hall 1
wiUheHised for the grand public ceremonies
of the Council. ■ The architectural work Of the
transept is completed. I hope to have the
pleasure of giving you a report of the appear?-
once of the hall from personal. view shortly.
The King of Belgium is to present the Fope
■with the carpet for this vast plied, it will be
the largest carpet in the world. Superb velvets
and gold decorations are to be sent from all the:
great manufactories of Europe as donations;
The vexed-question of Ambassadors is under
stood now to be settled. The representatives
of France, Austria, Fortugal, &c., and'a
special plenipotentiary from Spain, are to be
present/but take no pari; in the deliberations.
Yesterday afternoon I saw the laying, of the
corner-stone of the column which , is to be
erected in commemoration of. the Vatican
Council. The ceremony took' place where
the column is to stand, onthe Janiculum Hill,
in front of the Church St: Pietro in Mont’orio.
Reserved scats were arranged on either side
of the column, enclosure walled in, and car
peted with.rich old tapestries, so beautiful I
hated to tread on them. Through the. kind
courtesy of Mr. Lanclani, the brother-ip-law
of Yespignani, we bad excellent places' di
rectly in front of the Cardinal and place of
ceremony, and only a few chairs distant from
r the Princesses of the- Neapolitan Bourbon
family. My eljair was on the very’edge ofthe
Janiculum summit.
x ' "We started in good as to enjoy the
drive up to the hill. It was tho sweetest of all
October afternoons, and the streets hnd roads
leading up were thronged with carriages and
foot passengers, all hurrying to the sight. Oc
tober is a gala, month in Rome—the month of
the vintage and family feasts—of general holi
day. When we reached the place and ,tobk
our seats, we found we had a good half hour
to enjoy the crowd, the preparations, and
above all the superb landscape which lay be
neath and around .us,, swimming in a sea of
rich sunlight. The Janiculum Hill is the key
of Rome. From its summit is the best point
to look on this great city and its divine hori
zons. —'
But, beautiful as were the Alban hills and
Sabine mountains; delightful as it was,to show
how well I had conned .the dear lesson of
localities, I soon left off pointing out the disj
taut towns which lay on the mountain side
and the great buildings ef the city which were
spread out beneath our feet as on a map, for
the assemblage around us took np all my atten
tion. Before us, under a crimson and gold
canepy, hung the fair white corner-stone,
whose burial deep down in the earth we had
come to witness. . The opening into which it
was-to be lowered was covered with a sort of
table, hung also with enmsoh and gold, on
which the corner-stone seemed to rest. On
another table was a superb silver seal; a large
.silver inkstand; red sealing-wax; red ribbon; a
handsome candlestick and wax candle; the
leaden box which was to be placed in the
stone; the contents of this box, and the stone
lid which was to cover the aperture hollowed
out in the corner-stene.
There were all ranks of great clericals and
learned men, royalties and handsome women
assembled there in honor of the occasion. The
parchment which contained the account of the
ceroinony, and which was to be placed in the
leaden box, was taken around to the
tinguished persons present for their signar
tores. The young Grand Dnchess of Parma,
the Princess of Girgenti, Countess Trapani
and Madame Quillinen, wife of the Portuguese
Envoy, who were very near us, wrote their
names upon it, and their signaturesilooked fair
and bold. Then'the parchment was-handed
to the various distinguished men. To our
right sat a row of jolly French Monsignorcs,
and beside them was the curious-looking
Copt Bishop; whose handsome gipsy face
and picturesque costume always' attracts my
attention. His presence yesterday transported
me hack to the Richard Cosorde Liondaiys,
as described in Scott’s picturesque tale of the
Talisman. He wears a flowing Mack ..mantle
with large sleeves bordered with gold, and a
high black velvet hat, round at the top, and
hell-shaped, which has a black satin curtain or
cape on the edge 1 of tho base'. This curtain
gathers in the long jet black hair, covers the
neck and is tucked into the mantle.. - His skin
is swarthy; the long hair,a little waving, makes
a dusky framework to his face, and out of this
wierd human darkness, which is totally unlike
the Indian or African, there gleam tlio most
curious-eyes, wily and vihratiug as those of a
snake. The parchment washanded to him to
sign. Very naturally Jio began, in the Copt
manner, to write from the right side of the
paper. The gentleman who had charge of
the business oxcmfeied:
“Oh! no, not there, Monsignore. Here!
here!” and he pointed to the left of the parch
ment.
Not a feature stirred in tire Copt's lace. He
.looked quietly at the gentleman and w aited
until the explanation was made by some one;
then with languid dignity affixed his sign of
witness of the ceremony. I stretched both
eyes and neck to sco the hieroglyphics which
I almost expected to find wriggling about on
the paper in some weird"serpent-like I'ornlX
hut I was not near enough to distinguish his
writing. I noticed that his hands were deli
cate as a wdiniin’s, well-shaped, hut oven the
nails were dark, as we see in tho gipsy hand.
This little episode caused a good deal of mer
riment, and his companions, the French Mon-'
signores, laughed heartily, while he lodttetTas
imperturbable and indifferent as if he Bad no©
even noticed the incident, much less been the
principal actor.
The leaden box which was to he placedm
the corner-stojne, antlifa other contents, were
also shown to the distinguished members of
the audience. These contents were, besides
tbb parchment,fifteen pieces of Roman money,
five of gold, five of silver, and five of copper;
a largo golden-looking medal of composition
(the gilt bronze one was not ready), on which
was the monument as it will look when erected,
and an inscription of its intention, date, &c.,
and a silyer and bronze medal of St. Peter,
which axe strnck every year. These last had
on them Tonerani’a Montana monument.
Whon everything was ready, Cardinal Be
jardi and his suite came out of the church, in
grand, high canonicals, and u the services be
gan. The leaden box and its contents were
blessed, the box soldered up, the red ribbon
put around'it, and the imposing silver seal,
stamped upon the red wax which fastened 1
the ribbon to-the box. Then the corner-stone
was blessed, and the aperture sprinkled with
' holy water. I looked at the Copt when this
part of the ceremony took place, as if I ex
pected him to spread some unseen wings ah
d
OUR. WHOLE COUNTRY.
, fly shrieking a way over the hills; but there he.
-sat, and looked as.if lie was made Of some cu
rious fluid that was not human, but had as
sumed-mortal shape. - *
The leaden box was lowered into the aper
ture made for it ifa the combr-stone, the stone
lid placed down upon it, and Cardinal Berardi
, spread mortar over tin) edges with'a pretty
little gold trowel,‘which every lady present, !
am sure, coveted. After tills thq corner-stone
was lowered sixty feet down into the founda
tion-pit of the monument, while tho Cardinal
and his attendants chanted the suitable ser
vice,—and tha ceremony was over. After we
- left another heavy stone was lowered down on
top of the. corner-stone, in order to guard
against rogues, interfering with its contents.:
borne of us went and looked down into the pit.
The woodwork which has been made around
the sides to keep the earth from caving-in is a
beautiful piece of workinanshlijv Every detail
of public labor is jldne very 1 thoroughly and
conscientiotmiy ijrßome. -
We stood forsome time before going to our
carriage and gazed at the various notorieties
. w ; lio passed before us, and! must confess the
fine autumn toilettes gave us quite as much ;
pleasure sis the sight of the famous men. I
looked srij-h great interest on Father Secchi,
wishing all the while that a certain ravishing
rose-colored hat and pearl-gray ; robe and
casaque, superbly trimmed with real blitek
Chantilly lace, would, the stand.
Father Secchi, however, carried the day.
Shame to my womanhood, the great Jesuit as
tronomer Was tho more attractive of the two.'
Bose-colored hats and bewitching gowns are
always in existence, I thought, but Father*
Secchi might die before I could have another
chance of seeing him. He is a small man;
has a gOod-ehaped head, good skin, a huge:
month, bold, firm jaw, and the most
eyes that were ever set in a human face. This
great astronomer has the reputation of being
one of themostleamed men living; he is head,
of the Jesuit Roman College, and at the same
time commands the esteem and regard of;, the
whole scientific world, Catholic, heretic and
heatnen.
Liszt was also present; He looks careworn.
The late unfortunate domestic trouble with
his daughter and her husband, Yon Bulow,
the celebrated pianist, gives' Liszt much un
happiness, and the manner in which his best
friend, Wagner, the great composer, is entan
gled in the unhappy matter, adds, of course,
to Liszt’s distress. I should not allude to the
afiair if I had ncit heard to-day that the Ger
man journals are ringing with it. Of course,
the whole trouble is greatly exaggerated, by
the public, and when the truth is known, I
have no doubt it wifi turn out to be much less
of a scaifdal than is reported.
THE MISSISSIPPI HORROR
Particulars of the Burning oftlie Steamer
Horrible Scenes on Board—»The River Full
[From the St. Louis Papers of Friday Huniin" |
THB DISABTEB.
. The warning cry of “ fire” was given by one
of the deck passengers, who. ran to the engine
room and shouted to George W. Fulton, the
first engineer, who was then on duty. Dark
ness had sot in, and the alarm came with a
terrible significance; Here the boat was at a
point where the river is one and a half miles
wide, with much that was combustible on
board,_.and_with no means of escape except
what'might bo obtained by running the ves
sel against the bank. The alarm was given
immediately upon the origin of the fire, and it
was not unheeded. Fulton rushed out and
saw a bale of hay in the afe portion of the boat
burning. So small was the fire that it could'
have been extinguished with one or two
buckets bf water if they had been at hand,but
these were not there.
It beggars description: words fail—imagina
tion is atfault. Two hundred and eighty souls
ushered into eternity. A blazing lire behind
them and a death amid icy waters before them.
1 1 was about 6.30 in the evening. In the cabin
the supper-table was thronged. Some had left
and werq, smoking their evening cigars—
others chatting near the stove. Few were on
deck, for the night was dark and the air
chilly and piercing.. Down on the deck a
motley crowd of a hundred and fifty'emi
grants, and working people were gathered.
Many had eaten their supper; others were
taking their last mouthful, when asmall blaze
not larger than your hand broke out on a
pile of gay, and a solitary deck hand ran for
ward and cried, "Fire! fire!” From mouth
to mouth tho soul-stirring cry ran, and in a
moment the deck-passengers were palsied
with fright and, desperate with excitement.
Hardly heard in the cabin, tlie ttrst.-yyy was
regartlcd as a ruse—perhaps a row among the
deck-passengers. Seine were a little full of
liquor—then in a second twinkling came the
second cry—a yell—a maddening, deafening
yell of “Fire! fire! fire!” thatpierced the deck
and rang through the ears of the supper eaters
like a death knell. Now there could be no
mistake. It was no foolishness now. That cry
meant life or death, and every one felt it. To
the upper deck, to the cabins fore and aft,
people ran. Panic, fear and frenzy ruled the
hour. There were seventy-five life-preservers
in the staterooms, but only one man secured
one. There was a yawl,but some of the deck
passengers seized It, and, without oars, indis
criminately piled in and paddled ashore with
their hands.- From thesmall blazo on the hay
near the boiler deck, the fire spread to the
coal oil, and the wbelo ship was m a blaze.
The boat was" loaded with bacon and other
solidities, and the flames spreading with fear
ful vapidity soon found the solid combustibles,
and an intense heat was generated.
the scene was most fearful. Ono hundred and
fifty passengers, mostly foreigners—lrish,
Italians, Dagos, Germans and Americans—
some with their wives and families, all in con
fusion grand; trying to save their lives. The
boat grounded two hundred yards from the
shore;- the ponderous' engines thumped afitH
worked in vain. The passengers were ram
pant and wiki. Efforts were mode to adjust
tho hoffe to the donkey engine, but the crowd
would not allow it. Some tried to throw out
planks and stagings, hut the crowd rushed to
the edge of the deck, and, in their eager
ness to securo positions, prevented- the
staging from , v -being put out. All
Bhoutcd, “ Get off. the: staging!” and
the man who cried the loudest was, the very
man who was. in the middle of the staging.
Tho poor deck-passengers know not what to
,d.o Peddlers with their packs, like themiser.
at Herculaneum, clung to their last worldly
remnants, and found a watery or won a fiery
grave beside their fllthy pelfr TriShmen, with
their picks and shovels, going to work South
ern roads,-their, oldielay-pipes half filled with
Tobacco, and their all. done up in a red ban
danna,' were there; and. dark-haired Italians
going tb the . sunny South ! tb expose their
wares in amonpy-miudngmart; Dagos,Frenoh
emigrants going whore their own-language
was spoken, were there. These people
were the first to see the fire—the first to catch
he fright—th| most uncontrollable—tho most
Anne Brewster.
Stonewalls
of Drowning People.
the sound.
ON DECK
lacking in judgment, and consequently tlit
most severely suffering. They rushed to tho
edge of the vessel and seeing the flames that
illuminated the heavens aha glistened on the
dark waters—feeling the beat that scorched
and burned—hearing'the explosion that thuu
dered from the engine-room: and machinery
department—and dumbfounded and frightened
by the noise and confhsion,aswell as Winded
1 by'the smoke, they plunged pellmcll into
the waters. Some. clang to Spars, and
hits; of (wood,, but found uothing to hold;
swam'or floated for a short time, and then,,
benumbed by the icy chilliness of the waves,
and blinded by the smoke, they sank to watery.
f raves. Many mules and horses were on
oard, and with; the deck-passengers’, and—
poor dumb creatures, who could expect them
to display moro reason than human beings ?
they rushed with thepeople and jumped into
; the water viitli them, and on them and ovor
.them. Some few started and swam ashore,
: but most of them swam around the - boat in,
circles, drowning men, women and' helpless
children. One mule jumped into a crowd of
people struggling in'-the water; and by liis
.frantic movements drowned six people.
IN THE CAJUN.
: Before thehews reached the cabin, the deck
passengers were wild with excitement. The;
lirst cry was hardly realized, but the second'
carried too much conviction in the wildness
of its notes to bo.neglected or mistaken, and
all rushed for safety, some to cabins and state
rooms, and others an; and on deck. The cabin
soon filled with smoke, a blinding, suflbeat
4H)g~smoke, a smoke that would not, he
checked, hut was the forerunner of more
deadly flashes. There wero only three lady pas
; -sengers in the cabin, one helpless old lady, a .
mother with two young children, ;one a baby
still in swaddling clothes, and the third lady
, a wife, going, to meet her husband,
from whom she had long been separated, in
Lousiama.. Out on the boat's edge, what were
the cabin passengers to do ? They were only
about forty in number, hut their plight was
one of peril. All around them the lurid
flames; Deneath them the dark waters,
welcoming them to anything but hospitable'
. graves. Just under, the frantic deck passen
gers, the. maddened animals rushing to and
fro, uncontrolled, uncontrollable—all shriek
ing, shouting, praying and imploring for
.lifeand safety. To jump the distance was
fearful, and the leap was certain to he to leap
to- the grave; to remain was' death by burn
>ing. Every one was ftantic;, offi
'cers tried in vain to keep the crowd quiet.but
the danger was too imminent—the death too
certain. The little children clung- in vain to
the arms of their mothefsf 'tli'6'laaies shrieked
and fainted too late; the men rushed to and
- -fro r and selfish'in.stinct-prevailed, and 'every'
one shifted for himself as best he or she could.
Had.people kept Cooler,more would have been
saved; but tke blind instinct or infatuation of
a mob to follow leaders ruled,and tlie oxample
of the deck passengers was .followed by the ,
cabin passengers abovC. The flames were ap
proaching them,and whenso many were jump
ing into thewater.why should not all V Alas,
the water was chilly and cold, and the bar
was only a slight one and a strong current ran
on either side. Many jumped, struck bottom,
and bad their feet earned from under them by
the swift and treacherous undercurrents;
others, blind with frenzy and excitement,
rushed to where the crowd was thickest, and
jumped in among-the mules struggling and
kicking, and among the stout and hearty
laboring men, whose presence of mind had
left them, and whose only thought seemed to
lie that safety was only secured by all
jumping together in one vast grand heap, on
top, in between, and among each other. Thus .
a sure death was secured. With everybody
the question wits “touch and go,” impulse got
the better of judgment and reason, and com
mon sense, that would have rushed for life
preservers and taken doors off from hinges,
took a back seat.. Men lost hope, and infatu
ation seized every one. The Hire was by no
. means a lingering or' a lazy one; the flames i
neither tarried nor lingered, hut spread from j
bale to bale, from hogshead to hogshead.from :
huge piles of hay to slumbering sacks of oats, >
from combustible and easily-excited coal oil i
to solid and juicy bacon, from cold J
and inanimate provisions to human |
life, that a moment before was 1
buoyant with hope and brimful of expecta
tion. The flames rolled and crept and licked
their way along,TKro—stealthily.nowrush—
ingly, now with smoke and snap "of spark and
cinder, and anon bursting forth in lund fierce
ness. Many were burned and scalded, and
not a few never reached the deck to make
even fruitless efforts for safety. Over the side
of the boat the lambent flames ran, down near
the engine, over the wheel, over the texa's,
and away, up round the blackened smoke
•stack. The intense heat hurst the pipe, and
the explosion only added to the consternation.
- . . ONLY ONE SKIFF. -
There was only one skiff available to take
passengers from the burning wreck. It made
several trips from theboatto the land. Besides
being the means of escape for those on the
stage plank, it was used to take Fulton from
his perilous position. He was the last
brought away; after that no one escaped
from the boat. It was feared that some,
hemmed in by the flam&s, were burned to
death, and rumor had it that some met with
such a dreadful fate in the cabin.. How many
will never be known. It; can only be
hoped * that they till succeeded in j limp
ing into the river and ' got to shore.
The ’ coal oil—fortunately not a large
quantity—and the bacon burned very iiereely.
The Stonewall was burned to the water’s edge
in about one hour aud a half after the lire was
discovered. But long before this there washo
living seul in it. The scene was a terrible one
—one never to be forgotten by the survivors.
The lamentations, groans aud shrieks of the
dying men and women mingled with the noise
of the craekingtimliers, and to intensify the
horror of the moment, burning spars, fenders
and beams felhpver into, the water where
nearly 200 human beings were trying to save
themselves ii‘om the jaws of tleatu.
rdWKHLE&i TO HELP.
There were numbers of people on the shore
who had docked from the houses in the neigh
borhood of the JLanding, but they Were unable
to give any-assistance except what a few could"
render with the skiff’ before mentioned. They
saw many an tiiifortunate passenger taking iris
last leap, and as some wlio liail managed to
get hold of a.sparer piece of timber drifted
from the wreck, they eagerly sought to give a
helping hand to some poor fellow as he neared
the shore. The people did all they possibly
could to mitigate the horrors of the night, and
at different points of the river for a mile be
low assisted persons to get on shore. Tim
number so saved, it f s regretted, was but
small.
THE OF THE STOXEWAKE/.
A Harder Added to the Horror.
The St. Louis Democrat, in its account, of the
-burning of the Mississippi steamer Stonewall,
gives the following:.
A telograin from Cairo last oveniug an
nounced a most revolting termination of a
struggle for life, when one'victim stabbed and
killed another, and was soon after drowned
himself. A group of men in the water sought
to save themselves by the aid of a floating bale
of hay, Which was too small to float them all.
A savage contest arose for its possession, all
struggling to obtain a lodgment upon.lt, whon
one more desperate than the rest was roused
to demoniac passion, and drawing a knife
.plunged it -intoia companion’s body, and the
lifeless form rolled over into tho current,
which was reddenod by his blood. The 1 act
of fiendish impulse was speedily avenged, for
tho whole party are believed to have'been
drowned. - - • .
.—The Shakespeare J/utmum is the title of a
new journal, published .since October in
Leipsfo/designed as an “organ for reciprocal 7
gromotion in the study and understanding of •
hakespearo.” It is edited Sind published by
Max Moltke, a well-known Blmkospeareau
scholar and translator. . ,
F. 1. OTHER™.
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PRICE THEBE CENTS.
t From tho Orerl»n<l Monthly f9rN»lrw»li)r:J :
Tlio Mountain > c
By scattered rocks and turbid watenuJiiUlngy- ,
' By furrowed glade and dcß, !*:!
Tofevcrishmenthy calm, sweet face : u^Bffesj^ii !
;• . ing, " > "'’lfiap;
Tliou atayest them to tell
The delicate thought, that cannot find exkrfes {,
sion, ,• •
, - Fbrrudor speech too fair, , ;, v ®
/That, like thy petals, trembles .impossessiMt' 5
; And scatters on the alrr— " ’ > - ■* .
■;
The miner pauses in his rugged labor, •-$ y n
, And; leaning.an his spade,
Laughingly calls outer his comrade-neighbor’ *1 s
To see thy charm displayed; i "
. But in his eyes a mist imwonted rises, “V,;
And for a moment clear,
Borne sweet home, face his fooksU *thoitglii!'l4?; ft
surprises > SMi
And passes in a tear— 1 > ’ ■</
~ ' , : 4
Some boyish vision of his Eastern village, ,
Of uneventful toil,
Where golden harvests followed quiet' tiling* •
Above a peaceful soil: *
One moment only, for the pick; uplifting,.
Through root mid'fibre, cleaves, "jSt v
And on the muddy current slowly drifting “ >
Are a weptrthybl'uised leaves.
And yet; O poet, in thy homely fashion,-
Tliy work thou dost fulfill,
For eirtho turbid current of lus passion •
Thy face is shining still! *
—Wat Tyler is to be the subject of Mr. G-. A.
Sola’s forthcoming burlesque. - i
—Cmiksliank ’is one of the workers in tk*' ■'
temperancecausein-England. '
—The favorite authors of Prince Napoieo* .
are Shakespeare and Virgil. .. . ; • •
—The Emperor will meet- the Empress at A
Nic<> on her return from Egypt. ■'■it
-A Detroit hunting .party killed 63 buffaloes ■
on the P. It. B.
—Henry Ward Beecher hopes that his old.:,
ago may be an October, probably because thafcV'-' ’
is the season for fine old ails. v ,'?t
■ —Bichard Wagner said lately that he would ' '
compose no newoperas. For which let ns f
give thanks, . ’ •
. —Why were the Duke of Wellington’s boote d -
like Abraham’s female servants'/ Becausa'
they were hand made ’uns.— Ex. i
—-AEaptaim.Johnson,—of St. John, N.-8,,
was' lucky enough to die with 3280,000 insu- /)'
ranee on his life. ' '
—A young woman in New Haven lias killed
herself for the sake of her complexion, taking ,
arsenic. ’
I—A 1 —A ‘•Hymn of Peace,” by the Duke of
Saxe-Coburg, has been: performed at the
Brussels Festival. : •
—lf Greeley is elected Comptroller of New
Vork State the first signature upun his bond
will" he that of Jeff. Davis. So says an ex- ’
change. ■■■•■ . "• ■
, —TheJParis photographs tho late
Marquis de Boissy.(husband of Jba Guiccioli/. ;
in one line: “A gamin of Parisin a Senator’s ‘
robes.” ' ’
—A shower of ants, lasting for about two! t •
minutes, is reported from Lausanne, on Lake -
Geneva. Millions of winged insects fell, co-'
vering the streets so that it was impossible to
walk without crushing a number.
—-At Bologna there died, recently, Alice
Cenei,-who claimed to be the last survivor of
the unfortunate Cenci family, celebrated’in .
the drama of Shelly, and the remarkable novel,
of Guerrazzi. .
—The chairman of a Dent meeting, at Jack
son, Miss., introduced a colored Democrat,
John F-. Harris, of Memphis, as an orator,
“and a gentleman asTar -as-politics are con-'d
cerned.”
—The meanest man has been found ia
Michigan. A laborer was buried by the
caving in of a veil on his premises, and he
objected to any attempt at rescue on account
of the expense for a man who was dead.
—A Quaker lady recently explained to her
domestic that' washing-day came on’every
Second Day. The girl left in high dudgeon.
She didn't go to be washing every other day.
Not she.
—’Mr. Jones, of Hartford, thought he smelt
gpiLtbe other nignt and lighted a match .to sea
it. ’He next found himself in the street, all
ablaze, when a friendly policeman put hint
oiit by rolling him in the gutter.
—There is a manoin-New Jersey who insists
on having liis manage 'ceremony repeated
every year, going through the Whole ceremony ~
of new dress for his wife, dinner to his frietillsj
&c. ’ ■
—A. Republican Convention forßedwotxl
county, Minnesota, passed, among others, the
following resolution:
Jiesolveil, That we brand as sore-headed bolt
ers those Republicans who have this day met
in convention at the blacksmith shop.' t '
—ln a forest tree latoly cut down, in "Wis
consin was found an ludian arrow-head com
pletely imbedded and grown over. It appears,
from eounting. the-la.vera of wood over it, that
ninety yoars have elapsed since the. arrow >
which it tipped was shot at the tree!
—A California correspondent, criticising, a.
gory sunset painting, remarks that “ the sun is
poetically described...as .lowering 7
tinted drapery around his evening, couch; Ue
never pulls down a blood-red woolen blanket
to hide himself.” ' ‘ 1
—Tlio Russian Emperor lias recently become 1
singularly averse to riding on horseback or ins
carriages. It always costs his adjutants con
siderable trouble to persuade him to do so ,
when His Majesty’s presence is required at -'
military reviews or on other public occasions.
—A Cincinnati religious paper is about to
publish a lii'e of John Smith, and explains that
it is not that man whose life jyaft' saved by Po
cahontas, but that other man, eminent above V
his compeers for wit and humor, as well as for
his power as a preacher, popularly known as
“ Raccoon” Smith.
—Two Americans at Badeurßadcn the otliffls- 1 '
day were dining with—a~pair...of Paris ladi&..;
when a Russian Prince who, perhaps, wished
to pick a quarrel, purchased two gloridbs
bouquets and sent them to the ladies withlhla..
compliments. The Americans merely'glanced. ,
over to his tablo, bowed cordially, and sens
him back by-the waiter two-Nnpoleojbs.;; He
was so much chagrined that he left the r00m...
—Professor Biot is stirring.the. hashes,of
Row Jersey’s kitchen fifes, and founding an ,
order..of stewdious fryers on thephilosophy of.
Bakin’. His missionary efforts from the-cpli-. ;
nary foastrum will be forwarded by the pray-.- - -
..era Of all Christian travelers; for no stranger,
in Jersey over ate a meal without wishing it- i
ameliorated, and mentally exclaiming, “Blow
their cooking!”— Ex. • ‘.
—Mr. Brvnnt, it is reported, and wo believe' ,
truthfully,' recently thus advised a young
newspaper contributor; “My youngfirluud, l - .
observe that you have used sevoral French,
expressions in your article. I think if you,-
wifi study tho English language, that you wili v
find it capable of expressing all the ideas yon,.:
..may have. I have always found it so, add in
all that I have written I do not secall an in- ■
stance wbero I was tempted to use a foreign '
word, but that, on searching, I founcLa batten ,v
one in my-own language.” ..» ;„i‘V ,
—The Alta California describes tho discoveiy '
by a party of miners.of a raagnittcont cave, th»'
entraneo so small that it barely admitted .Is® , , ,
passage of a man. ;Aftor getting 1
chamber with ceilings SO feet hi£b,Up4fifMßif ■ ■»:
stalactites which reflected liglrt
torches, was found. So vast was this natural .
structure, that the explorers, atter,vtraift“W*’ ir y
its marble floor for half a mile didnotflUtt. "
tho end. Another party will leave In a.-faw-ii-’. ■ .
days tb explore more thoroughly. th|3|i»at.J'/-
wonder. "
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