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Dreadful Steamboat Accident
From the NY Tribune. 40 or 50 lives lost!! By our St. Louis
papers received yesterday, we have accounts of an appalling loss of life
as well as property in the destruction of the Ohio steamboat Shepherdess,
Capt. Howell, eight days from Pittsburg with emigrants, moveables and goods,
at 11 pm of the 3d inst., by striking a snag in the Mississippi, three
miles below St. Louis. The Republican of the 6th says: “We have seen
misery in many shapes, but, with the exception of one or two blow-ups of
steamboats, we have never seen any thing so harrowing as was presented
to us yesterday. The history of the matter is as follows: “The Shepherdess,
from Cincinnati to this port, about 11 o’clock at night, when within three
miles of the city struck a snag, just above the mouth of Cahokia creek.
The concussion was very severe and must have torn out several of her planks.
At the moment of striking, most of the passengers in the gentleman’s cabin
had retired to their berths. The ladies were generally undressed
for the night. Upon deck, so far as we could ascertain from the officers
and passengers, there were some 60 or 70 passengers, young and old.
Four or five men were sitting up in the gentlemen’s cabin at the stove.
In a minute or two, the water rose to the lower deck, where most of the
passengers in that part of the boat were asleep. One of the pilots
went into the hold, but had scarcely entered before the rush of the water
drove him out. The Captain, who was on duty, ran to the ladies’ cabin
and assured them that there was no danger, and returned to the forecastle,
which was the last satisfactory account we could get of him. About this
time screams and shrieks were heard from the deck below, and one or two
ladies who rushed to the stern of the boat, say they saw a number of persons
in the water. Certain it is, the water rushed in with tremendous
rapidity, and in about three minutes was up to the floor of the upper cabin.
A portion of those on deck were saved by getting into the vawl, which was
cut loose and rowed to shore with a broom. The water rose so rapidly that
it soon became necessary for all to seek safety upon the hurricane deck.
Much difficulty was experienced in doing so, for the bow was sunk so deep
that the only access was by the stern. So far as we could learn,
we believe all the inmates of the cabin reached the hurricane roof. After
the boat struck the snag, it drifted down the stream, and a few hundred
yards below struck another snag, which was far out of water.--This threw
the boat nearly on her beam’s end on the starboard side. Drifting
from this snag, she again lurched to the starboard, and at each lurch,
several persons washed off. Some of them reached the shore, but many
were drowned. A short distance below, just above the first shot tower,
the hull struck a bluff bank, which again earned her nearly on her beam’s
end. Here the hull and cabin parted. The hull sunk and lodged
on a bat above Carondelet, and the cabin floated down to the point of the
bar below that place, where it lodged and remains. The Henry Bry was lying
at the shot tower above Carondelet, when the cabin passed. The cities
of the passengers aroused the captain, and he and his crew rendered efficient
service in rescuing the passengers in their yawl. We are told that
the captain of the Bry worked until he was entirely covered with ice. About
3 o’clock, the Icelander, one of our ferry boats came along, and went to
the rescue, and took off all who remained upon the wreck (over 100).
It is due to this company to say, that in addition to the service rendered
by the Icelander, upon her arrival at the wharf, three men in a yawl were
immediately dispatched to the assistance of the persons on the wreck, and
they rendered essential service to them. In Carondelet and Cohokia,
the kindest attentions were shown to those who got on shore.” (Wednesday,
January 31, 1844, Tioga Eagle, Wellsborough, Tioga Co, Pa.)
Harriet Catlin
In Charleston, Oct. 23d, 1843, Harriet, daughter of Cyrus Catlin, aged
4 years. (Wednesday, February 7, 1844, Tioga Eagle, Wellsborough,
Tioga Eagle, Wellsborough, Tioga Co, Pa.)
Jesse Catt?
In Charleston, Jan. 14th, instant, Jesse Catt?, aged 76 years.
(Wednesday, February 7, 1844, Tioga Eagle, Wellsborough, Tioga Co, Pa.)
Judge Alexander Porter
Death of Judge Porter.--We learn with regret the death of Hon. Alexander
Porter, U. S. Senator from Louisiana, at his residence in the parish of
St. Mary’s, on the 13th ult. He was a native of Ireland, whose father
perished on the scaffold, a martyr to the cause in which Emmet and his
companions laid down their lives. Immediately after the event, the
son emigrated to this country, and settled down in Attakapas, in Louisiana.
He has been a member of the Legislature, Judge of the Supreme Court, served
out one term in the United States Senate, and was, in 1842, elected for
a full term of six years, from March, 1843. Mr. Porter had been eminently
successful in his private affairs, and died wealthy. (Wednesday, February
14, 1844, Tioga Eagle, Wellsborough, Tioga Co, Pa.)
Mrs. Abigail Stone
In Delmar, on the 8th inst., Mrs. Abigail Stone, consort of Israel
Stone, in the 41st year of her age. (Wednesday, February14, 1844,
Tioga Eagle, Wellsborough, Tioga Co, Pa.)
James Dolan
Execution of James Dolan--We learn by a friend that James Dolan was
executed on Friday last in the jail yard at Towanda, precisely at 1 o’clock
pm. Mrs. Dolan was respited by the Governor for the term of six months.
Our informant states that about 40 persons were within the enclosure, and
that every place in the neighborhood, which afforded a sight of the scaffold,
was crowded with people. The number of strangers in Towanda at the
time of the execution was estimated over 3,000! The editor of the
Bradford Argus gives the following account: “We entered the cell of the
culprit about 10 o’clock, at which time he was perfectly calm and collected;
conversing freely at times and expressing himself perfectly resigned to
the fate which awaited him. Fathers O’Reily and Fitzsimmons, the
attending clergymen; had a short private interview with him about half
past 11 o’clock, at the close of which he appeared quite cheerful; remarking
to some one near, (alluding to his shroud) “You see me in a new suit.”
“The hour appointed for the execution having arrived, Dolan embraced his
wife, and exhorted her to be a good woman and not to get drunk any more,
attended by the Sheriff and his deputies, and the priests in attendance,
and a number of others who half remained in his cell, walked with a firm
step to the scaffold, and ascended the steps to the platform with the same
unfaltering nerve. He was soon joined by the attending clergymen,
and Sheriff, who asked if he had anything to say. He stated in reply
that he murdered Gere, whom he found on the bed with his wife, but he did
not know what became of the money which the murdered man possessed; he
stated further that his wife did not know anything concerning the murder
until the deed was committed--she being drunk at the time--that Gere was
the first person he ever murdered but that some ten or twelve years ago,
he snapped a loaded pistol at his wife. He expressed much gratitude
to the people for their goodness to him, and disclaimed having any anger
towards a single living being. The ministers then engaged in prayer
with him for a few moments, when the Sheriff adjusted the rope around his
neck and pulled the cap over his face. This took but a moment.
Immediately after, he took leave of him by shaking his hand and in less
than five seconds cut the rope and the wretched man was in eternity! “The
body fell about three feet. The hands and feet jerked convulsively
after hanging about three minutes, shudder passed over the frame, and life
became extinct. After hanging some forty minutes, the body was taken
down and placed in a coffin, and handed over to his friends.” (Wednesday,
February 21, 1844, Tioga Eagle, Wellsborough, Tioga Co, Pa.)
Asa Mann, Esq.
From the Illinois Free Trader. Died--On Monday, July 10, 1813,
at the residence of Mr. John Hoffman, Peru, Ill’s, Asa Mann, Esq., in the
62d year of his age, of the painful disease of cancer in the stomach, under
which he languished, in severe suffering, nearly one year, but which he
bore with a patience and spirit consonant with the character which he had
long sustained for fortitude and firmness to resist the misfortunes and
ills of life. Previous to his emigrate on into the state of
Illinois, in the year 1838, Mr. Mann resided in Tioga county, Pa., for
more than 30 years, during which time he was a highly respectable and enterprising
citizen; distinguished as an efficient merchant, farmer and lumberman;
eminent and a uniform, consistent, and influential politician of the Jeffersonian
school. At two different periods he was elected by the people of
Pennsylvania as Elector of President and Vice President of the U. S. in
each of which instances the candidate voted for by him was sustained and
approved, by the nation. In private life the whole tenor of his conduct
has been such as to draw to him the warm affection of his relatives and
intimate friends, and the confidence and respect of all who knew him.
(Wednesday, February 21, 1844, Tioga Eagle, Wellsborough, Tioga Co, Pa.)
Benjamin Green
In Sullivan, on Saturday, Feb. 3d, Benjamin Green in the 73d year of
his age. (Wednesday, March 6, 1844, Tioga Eagle, Wellsborough, Tioga
Co, Pa.)
Huldah Spencer
Died, in Spencerville, Tioga county, on the 29th ult., Huldah, daughter
of J. G. Spencer, Esq., and consort of Mr. Henry Miles, after a short illness
which she bore with Christian fortitude and resignation, in the 23rd year
of her age. (Wednesday, April 10, 1844, Tioga Eagle, Wellsborough,
Tioga Co, Pa.)
Peter S. Duponceau
Death of P. S. Duponceau.--The Ledger of Thursday last, says.--The
venerable Peter S. Duponceau, a native of France, but a citizen of the
United States, and for a long series of years an inhabitant of this city,
departed this life early on Monday morning at the advanced age of 84.
The deceased was one of the most learned and distinguished civilians and
linguists of the present day, his works being universally quoted throughout
all Europe, besides being extensively translated into every continental
language of any importance. In addition to his literary scientific
labors, he held the most distinguished stations in the scientific and legal
institutions of this country, and he contributed greatly to the advancement
of the same, and the cause of learning in connection therewith. (Wednesday,
April 17, 1844, Tioga Eagle, Wellsborough, Tioga Co, Pa.)
Diehl’s wife
Murder of a wife by her husband and of a child by her Father.--An extra
from the office of the Pittsburg Chronicle, of Monday last, furnishes a
record of one of the most heart-rendering murders it has ever fallen so
our lot to notice. The deed was committed by a man named Diehl, about
9 o’clock on Monday morning. Diehl is a painter by trade, and resided
in an alley on Sixth street, in that city, rear of the Fifth Presbyterian
church. Indicated by his evil passions, which it is said, had been
inflamed by the immoderate use of intoxicating drink for the last two weeks,
although he was not drunk at the time the act was committed, deliberately
killed his wife by striking her on the head with a hatchet, fracturing
her skull, and disfiguring her head in a most horrible manner. He
also killed one of his children at once, and injured the other in such
a degree that its life is in imminent danger. He then inflicted a
gash in his own throat with a knife, and sat down upon a stool himself
bleeding, and the reeking bodies of his wife and children around him.
In this situation he was found by his neighbors, who called to some person
who was going by, and had him secured. He was taken to the Mayor’s
office, his wound dressed, and he was committed for a further hearing.
When at the Mayor’s office, he assigned to the officer who arrested him,
that jealously was the cause of the act, alleging that his wife had told
him that the children were not both his children, which so enraged him,
that he resolved to kill them all. (Wednesday, April 17, 1844, Tioga
Eagle, Wellsborough, Tioga Co, Pa.)
Commodore Edmund Pendleton Kennedy
Commodore Edmund Pendleton Kennedy, of the U. S. Navy, died very suddenly
at Norfolk, Va., on the 28th ult., of Apoplexy, leaving a wife and six
children. Com. K. at the time of his death, was in command of the
Ship of the line Pennsylvania. (Wednesday, April 17, 1844, Tioga
Eagle, Wellsborough, Tioga Co, Pa.)
Capt. Abraham Ten Eick
Capt. Abraham Ten Eick, of the U. S. N., died at New Brunswick, NJ,
on the 28th, in the 58th year of his age. (Wednesday, April 17, 1844,
Tioga Eagle, Wellsborough, Tioga Eagle, Wellsborough, Tioga Co, Pa.)
Judge Baldwin
Dead.--Judge Baldwin of the Supreme Court of the United States.
He died at the Merchants Hotel in Philadelphia on Sunday the 21st ult.,
in the 65th year of his age. The late residence of Judge B. was in
Alleghany county, Pa. Geo. M. Dalias is spoken of to fill the vacancy.
(Wednesday, May 1, 1844, Tioga Eagle, Wellsborough, Tioga Co, Pa.)
Son of Mr. Abel Nickerson
Killed.--A lad of about 14 years of age was crushed to death by the
accidental fall of a large tree last week in Charleston. The boy
we learn was a son of Mr. Abel Nickerson. (Wednesday, May 8, 1844,
Tioga Eagle, Wellsborough, Tioga Co, Pa.)
Thorwaldsen
Death of Thorwaldsen.--Thorwaldsen, the celebrated sculptor, died at
Copenhagen on the 25th ult., aged 74. A letter from Hamburg says:
“The death of Thorwaldsen, the greatest sculptor of the age, which event occurred at Copenhagen a few days ago, is universally regretted in Hamburg, where the unrivalled artist was well known and highly respected. It may, perhaps, not be generally known that for years Thorwaldsen languished at Rome in obscurity, until he chanced to attract the notice of an English nobleman, who appreciated his talent and did homage to his genius; and to this event the great celebrity which the Danish artist enjoyed during the latter part of his life-is in a great measure due, for Thornwaldsen had become disgusted with the neglect of the public, and was about to relinquish his noble profession, when a fortunate circumstance brought in his studio on individual who could appreciate his merit, and who had the means of extending to him real and valuable patronage.” (Wednesday, May 8, 1844, Tioga Eagle, Wellsborough, Tioga Co, Pa.)
Mrs. Clarinda Hatch
In Elkland, April 8th, Mrs. Clarinda, wife of B. Franklin Hatch, and
daughter of Henry and Polly Shoff, of Stratford, Coos co., NY, aged 31
years. Oh, weep not! though thus she hath fled, In the blossom and
beauty, and prime; The flowers transplanted not dead; The sunshine of Heaven
is her clime, ‘Tis cruel to pray for her back, Seen her glorified spirit
is at rest, Thee weep not, but follow her track, She has gone to the land
of the blest. (Com.) (Wednesday, May 8, 1844, Tioga Eagle,
Wellsborough, Tioga Co, Pa.)
Amanda Ellis
At Grampton Hills, Clearfield Co, Pa., on the 3d ult., Amanda, wife
of Asaph Ellis, in the 48th year of her age. She has left an affectionate
husband, ten children, and a numerous circle of relatives, and friends
to mourn her loss. She had been 26 years a member of the Baptist
Church:--was kind and affection to all, lived an exemplary and pious life,
and died in full assurance of a blessed immortality. (Wednesday,
May 8, 1844, Tioga Eagle, Wellsborough, Tioga Co, Pa.)
Judge Murray
Suicide from Love.--Judge Murray, of the Court of Muscogee county,
Alabama, committed suicide about a fortnight ago, by blowing out his brains
with a pistol. The cause of this melancholy act was love. The
Judge was in Mobile only a few weeks before, as was the young lady to whom
he was engaged, but on returning to Columbus, the father of the lady refused
his consent to the union, which so operated upon Judge M’s disposition
as to drive him to the commission of an act which has deprived the community
in which he lived of a useful citizen, an upright Judge, and an honest
man. (Wednesday, May 15, 1844, Tioga Eagle, Wellsborough, Tioga Co,
Pa.)
His Majesty Charles John of Sweden
The Late King of Sweden. His Majesty Charles John has ceased
to exist. He died on the 8th ult., at four o’clock in the morning.
His son and heir assumed the royal authority, under the style of Oscar
the Second; and announced his intention of continuing the government of
Sweden and Norway in the footsteps of his late father. The deceased, once
Marshall Barnadotte, the only one of the sovereigns created by Napoleon
who survived the crash of the Imperial dynasty was the son of a French
innkeeper, and, at the breaking out of the revolution in 1789, held a sergeant’s
commission in the guards. He was created Crown Prince of Sweden through
the influence of Napolean. In 1812, he joined the allies against
for the former leader, and, at the peace, was rewarded by the addition
of Norway to his dominions, which he seems to have governed like a wise,
sagacious, and benevolent monarch. He was in the 81st year.
The present King of Sweden is aged 44 years and six months. By his
marriage with the daughter of Prince Eugene de Beauharnois, Duke de Leuchtenberg,
he has four sons and one daughter. The new Prince Royal is 18 years
of age. (Wednesday, May 22, 1844, Tioga Eagle, Wellsborough, Tioga
Co, Pa.)
Piercy Green
In Sullivan, on Sunday, May 26th, Piercey Green, widow of the late
Benjamin Green, in the 64th year of her age. (Wednesday, June 19,
1844, Tioga Eagle, Wellsborough, Tioga Co, Pa.)
Hon. Almon H. Read
In this Borough, on Monday the 3d inst., after a lingering illness,
Hon. Almon H. Read, aged 51 years. Mr. Read, though a native of Vermont,
has been a resident of this place [Montrose] and a Lawyer at the Bar in
this county for nearly 30 years. During the last half of this period
he had filled various prominent official stations in this State, having
been successively chosen for several years a Representative of this county--then
a Senator from this district in the State Legislature--subsequently a member
of the State Convention to amend the Constitution--then State Treasurer
by the Legislature; and finally a Representative in Congress, (having been
elected to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of the late Hon. Davis
Dimock, jr.,) of which body he was a member up to the time of his death.
A few months ago Mrs. Read was followed to the grave in this place, and
Mr. R. whose health had already became impaired, has ever since more rapidly
declined, though he went to take his seat in Congress last winter.
He was compelled to leave it several weeks ago, and succeeded in reaching
his home to die among his children, and follow his late worthy partner
hence to the tomb, according to his late desires. (Wednesday, June
19, 1844, Tioga Eagle, Wellsborough, Tioga Co, Pa.)
Jonathan Cilley
From the Lycoming Gazette. Jonathan Cilley, a member of Congress
from Maine, was challenged by James Watson Webb, Editor of the NY Courier--who
was purchased by the U. S. Bank, in 1832, for $52,000--for speaking of
Webb in debate in terms which he merited. W. J. Graves of KY, a member
of Congress and friend of Clay--was the bearer of the challenge.
Cilley replied that he did not consider Webb a gentleman, and refused to
have any communication with him. Graves, then, after consultation,
endeavored to compel Cilley to reiract his assertion that Webb was not,
in his opinion, an honorable man, and finding that he would not do so challenged
him because he would not consent to admit that a notorious blackguard was
a gentleman. Mr. Cilley informed Graves that in his opinion of Webb he
did not wish to cast any disrespect upon him as the bearer of the challenge,
and that he had not the slightest ill will towards him. Graves says
he consulted Clay at this stage of the proceedings. Wise charged
Clay with writing the challenge, which was worded in a manner to prevent
any reconciliation, and Clay has never denied either having counseled Graves
or writing the challenge. Reverdy Johnson and Charles King, both
whigs, hearing of the proposed duel, called upon Clay to interfere to prevent
it, knowing that he could do so it he saw proper. Clay informed them
that he was the friend of Graves; and, we believe, stated that he had been
consulted by him and that he could not interfere, but that they would have
time to do so the next morning. These gentleman saw plainly that
the death of Cilley was determined upon, and if accomplished that it would
bring disgrace upon all concerned in it, as well as upon the whig party,
therefore they sought to prevent it. The next morning Cilley was
a corpse. On the same day two clergymen of Washington city, having heard
of the contemplated duel, started for the court room for the purpose of
obtaining warrants to arrest the parties. On their way they met Mr.
Clay, and having great confidence in him, mentioned their business.
Clay told them to rest easy--to go to no further trouble--that he would
prevent the duel--that he would stand between the parties, if necessary,
and that they must shoot him down first before he would suffer them to
fight--or words to that effect. After receiving the solemn assurance
from Mr. Clay, the clergymen turned round and went to their homes.
They were well aware of the influence Clay possessed over Graves, and that
it was in his power to do what he promised.--The next day Cilley lay bleeding
upon the ground--his wife was a widow and his children were fatherless.
We wish our reader to observe that Messrs. King and Johnson called upon
Clay on the very same day that he pledged himself to the clergymen to prevent
the duel, and that he informed Messrs. Johnson and King that he could not
interfere!--This is the man the whigs wish to vote for, and this subject
cannot be too often discussed by the democratic papers. (Wednesday,
June 19, 1844, Tioga Eagle, Wellsborough, Tioga Co, Pa.)
Capt. William Lindsley
In Lindleytown, Steuben county, NY, on the 24th ult., Capt. William
Lindsley, aged 55 years. (Wednesday, July 3, 1844, Tioga Eagle, Wellsborough,
Tioga Co, Pa.)
Joe and Hiram Smith
Death of Joe Smith, the Mormon Prophet. An extra from the office
of the Warsaw Signal, dated June 27th, states that both Joe Smith and his
brother Hiram has been that while attempting to escape from prison--Gov.
Ford, leaving a strong body of soldiery and a large anti-Mormon force to
guard the prison at Cartharge, left on the 26th with about 120 men for
the purpose of taking possession of Nauvoo and the arms belonging to the
Legion; 2000 stand were immediately surrendered upon his arrival, and all
then being quiet, he left about 5 o’clock to camp a few miles from the
city. Soon after Gov. Ford left Carthage, a Mormon attempted to rush
through the guard, and on being repulsed; fired a pistol, wounding one
of the men. A general scene of confusion then ensued, a number of
Mormons attempting to gain the prison, while Joe and his fellow prisoners,
who by some means had been provided with arms, commenced firing upon the
guard from within. In the confusion Joe attempted to escape from
the prison window, and had almost effected his purpose, when he was fired
upon by a portion of the guard, and 100 balls entered his body. He
fell a lifeless corpse. His brother Hiram shared the same fate. The
most intense excitement prevailed.--It was feared that the Mormons would
be so exasperated that Gov. Ford and his small force would be massacred.
The citizens were leaving Warsaw by every means of conveyance, it being
feared that it would with Carthage be burned to the ground. (Wednesday,
July 17, 1844, Tioga Eagle, Wellsboro, Tioga Co, Pa.)
Dwight E. R. and Joseph S. Hoard
In Mansfield on the 17th inst., of Scarlet fever, Dwight E. R., son
of Joseph S. and Laura M. Hoard, aged 2 years and 5 months. “So,
fides the lovely, blooming flower, Frail, smitting solace of an hour;
So soon our transient comforts fly, And pleasure only blooms to die.
Is there no kind, no healing art, To sow the anguish of the heart?
Spirit of grace, be ever nigh; Thy comforts are not made to die.”
(Wednesday, July 24, 1844, Tioga Eagle, Wellsboro, Tioga Co, Pa.)
Mr. Enos A. Nichols
In Wellsboro’, August 12th, after a short illness, Mr. Enos A. Nichols,
aged 30 years. (Wednesday, August 14, 1844, Tioga Eagle, Wellsboro,
Tioga Co, Pa.)
Henry A. Muhlenberg
From the Democratic Union of Aug. 13. The arrows of death fall
thick and fast around us! Scarce has the fatal javelin ceased to
vibrate in the heart of one victim, ‘ere the “King of Terrors” has sped
another from his exhaustless quiver, to execute his office of destruction.
On the present occasion we have a duty to perform of peculiar solemnity.
A great and good man is no more! Hon. Henry A. Muhlenberg, the Democratic
candidate for Governor of this Commonwealth, died at his residence, in
Reading, Pa., on Sunday afternoon last, of an apoplectic stroke.
It is the general impression of his neighbors, that the recent foul calamnies
uttered against Mr. Muhlenberg, by the Federal press, weighed heavily upon
his perhaps too sensitive spirit, and produced this catastrophe. He had
passed through a long career of eminent private and public usefulness,
and his reputation had never, until now, been made the subject of vituperation.
He was a man of high and noble bearing, alive with the keenest emotions
of honor, and has probably sank under the fiery ordeal of Federal persecution.
We do not envy the feelings of his traducers. Mr. Muhlenberg’s departure
is not alone an irreparable loss to his family, of which he was the idol,
but will be seriously felt by the people of the whole Commonwealth.
He had served his immediate district, ably and faithfully, in the United
States Congress, and represented the interests of the Nation, with signal
fidelity, at the Court of Austria, but there was still another sphere of
usefulness waiting to receive him. The Democratic State Convention,
which convened at Harrisburg, on the 4th of March last, placed Mr. M. in
nomination for the office of Governor, and had it pleased Providence to
prolong his life, he would certainly have filled the Executive office the
next three years. But this pleasant hope is now, alas, forever blasted.
It hath pleased the Almighty to translate him to “another and better world,”
in the hour when his countrymen were about to entwine still fresher laurels
around his brow. But yesterday he stood on the loftiest pinnacle
of fame, attracting the admiration and envy of all-now he sleeps in the
narrow tenement, from whose gloomy depths the humblest recoils with mysterious
horror! What a fearful realization of the words of the inspired Psalmist:
“Promotion cometh neither from the East, nor from the West, nor from the
South, but God is the Judge, He putteth down one, and settleth up another.
By on inscrutable dispensation of Divine Providence, our friend and fellow
citizen, Hon. Henry A. Muhlenberg, has suddenly been removed from this
life. But yesterday he was mixing among the busy throngs of men,
full of vigor and in a state of health, promising long years of honor and
happiness to himself, and of usefulness to society.--to-day he is laid
low in Death, and the places that have known him shall know him no more.
We cannot speak of him now as we could wish. Our mind, distracted
with the grief which pervades this whole community, is incapable of addressing
to the people more than the simple announcement of their loss. The circumstances
which attended this melancholy bereavement, are these: Several gentlemen
from abroad had been passing the last evening with Mr. Muhlenberg, at his
house, where they remained until probably about 10 o’clock. When
they left he accompanied them to the front door, at which, after they were
gone, he seated himself upon a chair, as was his custom, to enjoy the coolness
of the night breeze. Several gentlemen who passed between that and
half-past ten or later, saw him sitting there. At about eleven he was found
prostrate and insensible upon the step--with his head down, stricken with
Apoplexy. Every effort that medical skill could suggest was made--but
in vain. He never spoke after he was discovered, but remained insensible
until he expired, which was at four o’clock this afternoon. The remains
of Mr. M. were committed to their last resting place on Wednesday Morning,
at 10 o’clock.
(Wednesday, August 21, 1844, Tioga Eagle, Wellsboro, Tioga Co, Pa.)
Henry Spencer Miles
Deceased, August 3rd, Henry Spencer, aged four months, son of Henry
and Huldah Miles, at the residence of his grand-father J. G. Spencer, Esq.,
at Spencerville. Rest in peace, thou gentle spirit, throned above,
Souls like thine, with God, inherit life and love. (Wednesday, August
21, 1844, Tioga Eagle, Wellsboro, Tioga Co, Pa.)
Benjamin Coleman
In Elmira, NY, on the evening of the 9th inst., Benjamin Coleman, formerly
of Tioga Village, but lately of Williamsport, Pa., in the 27th year of
his age. A more mysterious and afflictive Providence seldom occurs.
A large circle of kindred and friends have been deprived of one of gifted
and cultivated powers and remarkable loveliness of disposition. All
who knew him, felt his charms, and freely yielded him their hearts.
He suffered a long and distressing illness. None but those whose
privilege it was to minister to his wants, can have an idea of the severity
of his pains. Every part of his person became keenly sensitive, and
the operations to which he submitted, seemed the refinement of torture.
But never did so much as a murmur escape from his lips; and it was deeply
affecting to witness his anxiety to suppress the faintest emotion of uneasiness,
particularly as indicated near his last moments, when he earnestly inquired
whether on impatient expression had escaped him. It was a great satisfaction
to be able to assure him that nothing of the kind had ever been heard.
Previous to his illness, he was a peculiarly admirable young man; but he
soon became convinced that merely natural endowments would not avail at
the tribunal to which he was hastening. He felt the plague of his
heart as well as of his body, and the desert of his sins, as well as the
consequences of his disease. For a time, a spirit of resignation
to the divine will, seemed to be the ground of his hope;--but this was
abandoned, and his position taken on the Rock of Ages. To this he
firmly cleaved, and by this he was wonderfully supported amid the rackings
of pain and the convulsions of death. A prized Bible was always seen
at his side, and he could never be induced to accept of any other book
as even a temporary substitute for this. As his best friend, that
same bible lay nearest him when he entered the valley of the shadow of
death.--The realities it describes, are this moment, we doubt not, and
forever will be his joy and his praise. (Elmira Republican.)
(Wednesday, October 30, 1844, Tioga Eagle, Wellsboro, Tioga Co, Pa.)
Mr. and Mrs. Kelsey
Tragical Occurrence.--The Meadville (Pa.) Republican, records an awful
tragedy which recently took place in Coneaut township, Crawford county.
On the Friday the 4th inst., a Mr. Kelsey, left his residence as he alleged
to transact some business with a neighbor about a mile distant, but not
returning, on Saturday a search was commenced, when he was found in the
woods near his house with his throat cut, and a razor still in his hand.
He was taken home and an ineffectual effort made to close the incision--Report
was rife in the neighborhood that in constancy of his wife was the cause
of the rash act, still she was night and day by his bedside, attending
to his wants, and not a murmur was heard to escape her lips. On the
evening of Monday the 11th, with those feelings which injured female innocence
can alone appreciate, she declared to Dr. Lake the attending physician,
that she could not brook the thought of the world’s suspicions that misconduct
of her part had driven her husband to attempt to take his own life.
Soon after she left the room. The next morning she was found about
forty rods from the house, a corpse. She had taken poison.
Up to the 17th the husband was still living, the partially deranged.
There was no hope of his recovery. They have left three children
the youngest a child of two years. (Wednesday, November 6, 1844,
Tioga Eagle, Wellsboro, Tioga Co, Pa.)
Terrible Steamboat Explosion
Explosion of the Lucy Walker--60 to 80 Killed and Wounded! The
Louisville Morning Courier of the 24th ult., furnishes us with the following
account of a most heart-rendering catastrophe: It is with feelings the
most acute and painful that we record the following fearful disaster, and
the loss of so many, valuable lives. The steamboat Lucy Walker, Capt.
Vaun, left this place for New Orleans yesterday, crowded with passengers.
When about four or five miles below New Albany, and just before sunset,
some part of her machinery got out of order, and the engine was stopped
to repair it. While engaged in making the necessary repairs, the
water in the boilers got too low, and about five minutes after the engine
had ceased working, her three boilers exploded with tremendous violence,
and horrible and terrible effect. The explosion was upwards, and that part
of the boat above the boilers was blown in to thousands of pieces.
The U. S. Snag-boat Gopher, Capt. L. B. Dunham, was about 200 yards distant
at the time of the explosion. Capt. Dunham was immediately on the spot,
rescuing those in the water, and with his crew rendering all the aid in
his power. To him we are indebted for most of our particulars.
He informs us that the Lucy Walker was in the middle of the river, and
such was the force of the explosion, that parts of the boilers and the
boat were thrown on shore. Just after the explosion, the air was
filled with human beings and fragments of human beings. One man was
blown up 50 yards, and felt with such force as to go entirely through the
deck of the boat. Another was cut entirely in two by a piece of the
tire boiler. We have heard of many such heart-rendering and sickening
accidents. Before Capt. Dunham reached the place where the Lucy Walker
was, he saw a number of persons who had been thrown into the river, drowning.
He however saved the lives of a large number of persons by throwing them
boards and ropes, and pulling them on his boat with hooks. Immediately
after the explosion, the ladies cabin took fire, and before it had been
consumed, she sunk in 12 or 15 feet water. Thus is presented the
remarkable circumstance of a boat exploding burning and sinking, all the
space of a few minutes. The screams and exclamations of the females,
and those who were not killed, is represented as distressing and awful.
We believe none of the females on board were injured--some, however may
have been drowned. The books of the boat were destroyed and of course
it will be impossible ever to ascertain the names or the number of those
killed. There were at least 50 or 60 persons killed or missing, and 15
or 20 wounded, some dangerously. Capt. Dunham left the wounded at
New Albany, all of whom were kindly and well cared for by the hospital
and humane citizens of that town.--Captain Dunham deserves the thanks of
the community for his humane and vigorous exertions to save the lives of,
and his kindness and attention to the sufferers. He stripped his
boat of every blanket, sheet, and every thing else necessary for their
comfort. Mr. John Hixon and Mr. Henry Rebee, passengers on the Lucy Walker,
deserve notice for the coolness and their efficient exertions in saving
the lives of the drowning persons. The following are the names of
the dead, missing and wounded, so far as we have been able to learn them.
Killed and Missing: Gen. J. W. Gegram, of Richmond, Va.; Samuel M.
Brown, Post Office Agent of Lexington, KY; J. R. Cormick, of Virginia;
Charles Donne, of Louisville; Philip Wallis, formerly of Baltimore; Rebecca,
daughter of A. J. Foster, of Greenville, Va.; James Vanderburg, of Louisville;
Mr. Hughes, formerly of Lexington, KY; Mr. Matlock, of New Albany,
engineer of the steamboat Mazeppa; Nicholas Ford, formerly of this
city; David Vann, the Captain; Moses Kirby, pilot; Second mate; second
clerk; second engineer; bar keeper and three deck hands; names not known;
Four negro firemen. Wounded: W. H. Peeblee-very badly hurt;
Mrs. Rufus, of Va., do; First Engineer, do; Capt. Thompson, pilot--arms
fractured; Mr. Roberts of Phila, slightly hurt. It is supposed that
John N. Johnson and Richard Phillips were on board--if so, they are lost.
The boat was owned by Captain Van, of Arkansas, and was insured.
(Wednesday, November 6, 1844, Tioga Eagle, Wellsboro, Tioga Co, Pa.)
James Garnett
Love and Suicide--A young man named James Garnett committed suicide
at his room in Gravier street, New Orleans, recently, by taking laudanum.
From a letter written by him previous to his taking the fatal dose, explaining
the cause of the act, it appears there was a lady in the case. (Wednesday,
November 6, 1844, Tioga Eagle, Wellsboro, Tioga Co, Pa.)
Capt. Jesse Locey
Died.--In Middlebury township, Tioga Co., Pa., Capt. Jesse Locey, a
Revolutionary hero, in the 86th year of his age. (Wednesday, March
19, 1845, Tioga Eagle, Wellsboro, Tioga Co, Pa.)
Ephraim B. Gerould
In Covington, on Tuesday, the 22d inst., Ephraim B. Gerould, long a
resident of this county. (Wednesday, April 30, 1845, Tioga Eagle,
Wellsboro, Tioga Co, Pa.)
General Jackson
Andrew Jackson is dead. How these simple words will thrill through
the Union and the world. The bern and statesman expired full of hope
in the Redeemer, at his residence in the State of Tennessee, on Sunday
evening, the 8th of June. In the morning he had swooned away but
towards evening he revived again, and calling his friends and domestics
around his dying bed, spoke an affectionate farewell to all; and soon after
his spirit took its flight to the God who gave it. We feel as if
a guardian genius had been taken from this country--his watchfulness for
her interests, but impetuosity for her honor, his devoted anxiety for her
prosperity, and his never-tiring energies of mind bent upon her and her
alone, made him a beacon light to all. The feeling that the great
man of the age is gone is universal. He has no one with whom he can
be assimilated or compared--he will find, in all time to come, a place
in the hearts of his countrymen, close to the permanent abiding place of
George Washington. Over his grave let the voice of partly be forever
silenced, and the cry of faction forgotten. The magnitude of the
calamity baffles the power of language, and were volumes to be written,
they would not express the deep sublimity of that single sentence.-- “Andrew
Jackson is dead!” From the Daily Keystone. Death of Gen. Jackson.
We have the melancholy duty of informing our readers of the death of Andrew
Jackson. He expired at the Hermitage on Sunday afternoon, the 8th
inst., at 6 o’clock. Our country will mourn, her people will doubtless
feel, the loss of--a patriot of pure and lofty views, of upright and magnanimous
sentiment, of frank, honest, fearless and independent character, of--a
statesman whose highest ambition was to serve, with all his abilities,
a country for which, in peace or in war, he cheerfully yielded all his
energies of mind and body--a warrior, who in defence of his country and
in honor of her flag knew no fear, and covered again with glory the American
arms--a man who, in all relations of life, manifested at once the kindness
of his heart, with the iron sterness of his disposition--and when in positions
of authority or power, decided on a course he thought right, and took the
responsibility attending it. Few names connected with American History
will live as long in the gratitude and respect of the people as that of
Andrew Jackson. And now his sun has set, which, when at its meridian
height, shed lustre on the American name, and illuminated with the brightness
of American Democracy. The whole people with one accord must say
a great and good man has been gathered to his Fathers. General Jackson
was born on the 15th of March, 1757, in the Waxhaw settlement, South Carolina,
near the North Carolina line, and was therefore on the day of his death
in the 79th year of his age. We hope the most appropriate honors will be
paid to his memory, so that his death may serve, as his life was devoted,
to awaken the people to a just appreciation of their rights, and a resolute
determination to maintain them. (Wednesday, June 25, 1845, Tioga
Eagle, Wellsboro, Tioga Co, Pa.)
Mr. James Knowles and others
Fatal Accident. There was an exhibition of fireworks in the rear
of the President’s Mansion, Washington City, on the evening of the 4th.
The U. S. Journal says:-- “A half dozen rockets, supposed to be top-heavy,
or disarranged on the frame, went off together, taking a horizontal inclination,
in various directions, like so many fiery arrows. One passed the
heads of horses attached to a carriage, when the animals frightened, ran
at full speed, separating the dense throng standing in the street, at the
imminent peril of life. A black woman, we were told this morning,
was struck by a rocket, the stick penetrating below the shoulder joint,
and in consequence of the wound has since died. Mr. Sutton Magee
had his wrist dreadfully wounded, and his children were scorched.
Mr. James Knowles, who had been married but a short time, was sitting with
his wife, on the wall, far, as they supposed, from danger--the distance
between them and the pyrotechnics being about a fourth of a mile--but one
of the rockets, after skimming along the heads of the crowd below, struck
him on the left breast, directly over the heart. His wife, it is
related, discovered the calamity as she saw him falling from her side,
and in a moment drew out the stick. He died instantly, without a
struggle. The most piteous and harrowing lamentations filled the
air from one thus, in the twinkling of an eye, reduced to widowhood; and
as she was led through the graveled walks, with her white garments stained
with the blood yet warm, her cries-- “He is dead, oh; my husband, he is
dead!! caused a general outburst of sorrow from the thousands, who, with
her, were hastily leaving the tragic scene.” (Wednesday, July 16,
1845, Tioga Eagle, Wellsboro, Tioga Co, Pa.)
Mr. William Backe
Died.--In Wellsboro, on Wednesday, the 9th, Mr. William Backe, aged
74 years. (Wednesday, July 16, 1845, Tioga Eagle, Wellsboro, Tioga
Co, Pa.)
Miss Rosalie Huelbig and bridal party
A bridal party drowned.--On the 11th ult., Miss Rosalie Huelbig, her
mother, two sisters, and Miss Dressel, were drowned in the Kaskaskia river,
Illinois, which they attempted to cross on their way to Prairie du Long.
Miss H. left home that morning with a bridal party, to be married to Mr.
E. H. Kettler, who with his friends were waiting at his residence, some
miles distant to receive his bride. Being alarmed at the delay, he
proceeded to the river, where he saw the father of the young lady, who
was on the river bank, with the five corpses lying near him. The
father was nearly frantic with grief. The corpses were taken to the
house of the intended bridegroom, and the marriage festivities were changed
to funeral rites. (Wednesday, August 6, 1845, Tioga Eagle, Wellsboro,
Tioga Co, Pa.)
John Stewart
Another Murder.--On Saturday night, 19th ult., John Stewart, of Nippenose
bottom, near Jersey Shore, was killed in an affray, by John Hunt, of Lock
Haven. Hunt is a brother-in-law of Stewart. All that is known
is from Hunt’s own confession, who says that Stewart and himself quarreled
as they were going out to the field for Hunt’s horse, about 11 o’clock
at night. That in the affray he drew a dirk knife and stabbed Stewart.
The knife entered the left breast, cutting off a rib and penetrating the
heart. Hunt went to Jersey Shore, and next morning gave himself up
to the authorities, and is now confined in the jail at Williamsport.
(Wednesday, August 6, 1845, Tioga Eagle, Wellsboro, Tioga Co, Pa.)
Mr. William Kendall
Homicide.--Mr. Wm. Kendall, son of Amos Kendall, Esq., was recently
shot dead in Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, by Rufus Elliott, brother-in-law
of John C. Rives. (Wednesday, August 27, 1845, Tioga Eagle, Wellsboro,
Tioga Co, Pa.)
Clark T. Johnson
In Covington, on the 21st ult., at the residence of his brother, Clark
T. Johnson, late of Richmond, Va., aged 35 years. (Wednesday, September
3, 1845, Tioga Eagle, Wellsboro, Tioga Co, Pa.)
Judge Joseph Story
We have the painful duty to announce the death of Joseph Story, L.
L. D., one of the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, and Dane Professor
of Law in Harvard University. He expired at his residence in Cambridge
on Wednesday evening, at a quarter before 9 o’clock. His pulse ceased
to beat, and his hands were cold before 8 pm. His disease was stoppage
of the intestines, or strangulation, the same sickness which ended the
life of Mr. Legare in this city in 1843. Judge Story was 65 years
of age. He graduated at Harvard University in 1798, and was appointed
to the Judgeship of the United States Court by President Madison in 1811.
He has filled a high office in the judicial service of his country, and
a higher station in the public eye, and he has left a space which will
not be easily filled.--Keystone. (Wednesday, September 24, 1845,
Tioga Eagle, Wellsboro, Tioga Co, Pa.)
Rev. Mr. Powers
Fatal Accident.--We regret to learn that the Rev. Mr. Powers, pastor
of the M. E. Church in this place during the past year, was run over by
a pair of frightened horses near the Painted Post, on Sunday last, and
so severely injured that he died in about six hours after the occurrence.
(Wednesday, October 1, 1845, Tioga Eagle, Wellsboro, Tioga Co, Pa.)
Hon. John White
Suicide of the Hon. John White. Former Speaker of the United
States House of Representatives. The Lexington, KY, Observerer of
Wednesday, Sept. 24, says-- “Our city was thrown into great consternation
yesterday morning, by the intelligence from Richmond, that the Hon. John
White, of that place, had on Monday evening committed suicide by blowing
his brains out with a pistol. We have no further particulars than
that some time in the forenoon of Monday, he told his family that he would
retire to his room, and wished to be private--not to be interrupted.’
He did so and about 3 o’clock the report of a pistol was heard, and upon
going into the room it was found that he had put an end to his existence
by placing a pistol against his right temple, and blowing a ball through
his head. Pecuniary embarrassment is assigned as the cause, though
nothing had been discovered, when our informant left, which indicated the
reason.” For some months Mr. White’s health had been very feeble,
accompanied by great depression of spirits. He had left an amiable
wife and several interesting children to lament the loss of a husband,
father, protector. (Wednesday, October 8, 1845, Tioga Eagle, Wellsboro,
Tioga Co, Pa.)
S. B. Coleman
In this village of Tioga, on the 6th inst., S. B. Coleman, son of Charles
S. and Charlotte Spencer, aged two years, seven months and eleven days.
(Wednesday, October 8, 1845, Tioga Eagle, Wellsboro, Tioga Co, Pa.)
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