Cleaves Penny Gazette (Newspaper) - September 11, 1841, London, Middlesex Hi Vol. IU No. 48 SEPTEMBER 11, 1841. 3.05. OP THE ERIE BY AND THE LOSS OF 170 left the dock at 4 o'clock p.m. August 9th, wuh merchandize destined for as as cm now be about 200 passengers and on although the was blowing everything promised a pleasant occurred to mar this prospect till about eight when the boat was off Silver eight miles and 32 miles from when a slight explosion was instantaneously the whole was enveloped in Captain who was on lit upper deck at the rushed to the ladies cabin terrain the life but so rapid had been the of the he found it impossible to enter the He returned to the upper on his way giving tn stop the the wind and the headway of the boat increasing the fierceness of the flames and driving them The steersman was instantly directed to put the helm lard The vessel swung slowly and the were three on board then ordered to he Two of the boats were in consequence of the heavy sea and the headway of the they both swamped as soon as they We will not attempt to describe the awful and appalling condition of the Some were frantic with fear and others plunged headlong madly into others again seized upon buoyant upon which they could The small boat forward had been it was alongside the with three or four persons in when the captain jumped and the boat immediately dropped astern and filled with A lady floated by with a on sbe for there was no safety in the The captain threw her the only oar in the she caught the and was In this condition the boat was a mass of fierce and the passengers and crew endeavouring to save themselves by or supporting themselves by whatever they could They were found by the at abost 10 p.m. It was a fearful All the upper works of the Erie had been burnt The engine was but the hull was a mass of dull red The passengers and crew were floating screaming in agony shrieking for The boats of the Clinton were instantly lowered and and every person that could be seen or heard was picked and every possible relief By 1 a.m. all was except the dead crackling of the Not a solitary individual could be seen or heard on the wild waste of A line was then made nut to the remains of the Erie's and an effort made to tow the hapless hull About this time the up and lent The hull of the Erie was towed within about four miles of the when it sunk in 11 fathoms By this time it was The lines were cast off. Of those saved several are badly hut none are dangerously so far as we have Among the passengers were six to They had with them demijohns filled with spirits of turpentine and unknown to Captain were placed on the directly over the One of the firemen he had occasion to go on- the seeing the removed They were but by whom it is not Im- mediately previous to the bursting forth of the as several on hoard have assured a slight explosion was The demijohns had probably burst with the and their inflammable taking fire* to every part of the which having been freshly varnished caught as if it had been Not a paper nor an article of any kind was Of it is Impossible to give a list of those on Of cabin Captain Titus thinks there were between 30 and 40, of whom 10 or 12 were In the steerage were abont 140 nearly all of Whom were Swiss and German were mostly in with the usual proportion of and it is a singular coincidence that the Erie was burnt at almost identically the same spot where the Washington was burnt in 1838. Captain who commanded the Washington at that happened to be on board the and was very active in saving the survivors of the THE LATEST of tlie brandy fast winning race A Tall who lays long in inmates of a Hard bite a tenpenny get off from your your friend Wattles ' Gone to New Orleans few the came his health down there V arp used as the chew of tobacco said to the A new broom sweeps as the inspector said the new collector turned him ' 1 im a lover of as the little boy said when ate up his sugar in doors made to peep border to find out what your neighbours are is a person who fords a river like one who a crucifix Because he gets Why is a reformed drunkard like a person who puts oa of Because he leaves off his bad is Samuel astride of a horse like a certain good - new he is a not die as the pie said when the Cuff you no minu vou said j lazy you always is more benefit gib wittles for your Mr. Engine can't you stop your steamboat or Stop the what for at your of its we hear man and wife ' my each other We uess they a Sood 1uantlty of why is thy countenance red with 6aid a kind mother to her gay said the ' I was afraid my tears had all the red 1" liard work to do and have too much of it - 1 1 ' - - and it is hard work to collect a debt of one who pay it very latest case of modesty is that of the young P always wore green spectacles because she objected at gentlemen with her naked 31 in fur as the thief said when imprisoned for feat we have beard of late is one performed rider out who enters his own eyes and of his horse's We saw a two-legged puppy reading one of the Mayor's proclamations authorising the slaughter of He did not seem to consider himself included in the An Englishman having asked a son of Erin if the roads in Ireland were Pat they are so that I wonder you do not import some of them into England let me there's the road to strewed with to through nettles to through the camp to through the law and to the undertaker's through Have you any road to said the we but that is the dirtiest road in the Au Irishman remarked to his on observing a lady did you ever see as thin a woman as that replied the I seen a woman as thin as two of Two men melted the other of them melted a piece of the other a huge mouthful of the first the latter shad to death The thermometer got up so high on Tuesday week that we reach if the weather grows much warmer we be surprised if it went up out of A member of the says the Hartford was discovered on Tuesday sitting on top of the State House As he was thought to be the question was asked bim what purpose led him He replied that was infernal hot down he had climbed up there to see the Elegant lady who was married to gentleman of most winning manners and and with whom she had many slight quarrels and sweet once that he made her shed tears for the pleasure of kissing them Heaven's chap who did not heed a wet was obliged to fly from a storm of hailstones and take refuge in a ' I thought you never feared heaven's the and lightning are well said I don't mind blank but when it comes to it's too much for A certain peace-loving Quaker was once beset by a pugnacious who aware of broadbrim's administered him a smart blow on his right The Quaker in accordance with the command of the scripture forthwith unto him the other which being in like manner and considering the letter of the law he deliberately pulled off coat and gave the aforesaid pugnacious one a to his great inconvenience and 1 Circumstances alter as the cat said when she jumped in the printer's Destruction of contemporary advises putting the heads of under a triphammer to destroy A better way is to read to them the leading article from a sixpenny which will put into a sound 8)eep, and then put a pan of charcoal their which will do the business for them in a short However white your teeth may be careful not to display them Bear in mind that the best as has been quaintly are nothing hut naked They are placed ia the bead as a good contrast to a pretty they must seen only under An open a hanging and a display of has spoilt many a pretty A drunken crew of sailors hearing the wind roar in the house in which they happened to be were so fully that they were on board a and in danger of that they threw all the out of the window under the idea that they were lightening the The just 1 am I am assassinated They have ruined they have stolen my money 1 Who can have done it What has become of it Where can I find where shall I seek Not Stop bis own restore me my Ah 'tis My mind is troubled I know not even who I where I or what I am my poor my poor money 1 my dear They have deprived me of and with thee I have lost everything My consolation All is over with I have no more to do in the Without thee it is impossible I can I am I am Is there no one to by restoring my or telling me whereto find there is no So cunningly was it Just when I was speaking with my traitorous It must have been so. Go I go in search of Justice I will have The question shall be put to the whole to Ah and myself Who are these assembled lean see no one without each appears a thief to Ha what say Are ye speaking of my beseech you have tidings of my tell me. What noise Is not the thief there he not hidden amongst you? They are looking at me 1 almost laugh They are doubtless accomplices we shall ye ' provost j I will hang the whole world and if f do not find my I will hang myself at ' | Extraordinary Capture of a following instance of cool intrepidity and presence of mind has been related to us by a gentleman who was an eye witness to the A an African by commonly known by the name of King about three or four weeks diving in the Pass at in search of copper from the bottom of the schooner which was wrecked there some time On his first King John remained a considerable under coming was observed by his comrades in a boat close by to be engaged in a severe struggle with a which be soon succeeded in bringing to the It was a five feet in King John on descending towards the be found the monster lying quietly by the vessel's fearing that he would be soon seen or scented by the grim from whose jaws there could be no hope of the expert diver determined at once to make a desperate carefully avoiding the direction of its he clutched it at the of the thus the monster was conveyed to a boat from a depth of six or seven fathoms of Lucia Free May 2". Puzzle for one of the counties of a case has been produced by which furnishes the Hungarian lawyers with an opportunity to exer cise their On a steep declivity of the river Hernch lay two one above the the higher detaching itself from the glided down the upon the lower which it now entirely The question who is the owner of the and who is considered the No. 24 of the present vol. of this there is a description of an exactly similar which happened among the Maronites of but the mountaineers of Lebanon are entirely of all the happiness sequent on the uncertainty of the therefore the point in dispute was speedily settled by the judge of the by an equitable adjustment between the contending Is not the humble hod who toils unceasingly at his laborious and limits his expenses to his daily more truly honorable and deserving of than the merchant who lives far beyond his and at least defrauds his creditors by It may be said that all persons engaged in business are liable to sudden and unexpected impossible to of demand our warmest when one who is only nominally a merchant or professional contracts debts which he knows his income does not we contend be is far beneath the lowest whom he may have and for whom he affects so much sovereign NEW * The following brief analysis exhibits the strange variety of character contained in the Parliament of the United It is as great a curiosity in its kind as Noah's or the Tower of We find in it- Men of different 1 2 1 and 1 Birds and as will be presently and ' and &c. &c. The disposition of the electors seems to have been as strangely for those of New and North were most all of them crying out successfully for while those of Shoreham were for On the other the voice of the Tories for Middlesex and and qf the Liberals of and is peaceably echoed through the The washes of the Dorsetshire people repose quietly on those of the Fermanagh Burghers float upon a those of the Wick Burghers are reflected in a Lock and the inhabitants of Evesham and North Salop look pleasantly towards the The Elgin Burghers are to got in their Hay this as they bad lost it for several The electors of Frome are very appropriately under the guidance of a The good citizens of Waterford to a whilst others look confidently to for the accomplishment of their r The people of West in the have put their interests in a of Stamford trust them to their to their of Cirencester to their The votes of Newark and North Leicester were caught by winning The electors of Radnor have their Hertfordshire employs a Bury a and The Member for Cashel remains Stock North and West Worcester return really Knights of the Winchester looks vigilantly to the Dublin to the and South Durham watches the 6j Cambridge refers its matters to Carrickfergus confides in its The Tories of South Northumberland summoned by a and have agreed to concentrate their voice in its York sends forth its New with the premonitory counsel I am York North and are respectively represented by a a aud a A Hear dancei in front of a Hogg bristles up and a Fox has stolen into the Tower Gal and chosen Martins to twitter in their The Dudley have sent up Hawkes to pounce upon Peterborough has chosen from its swamps a and the amphibious folks of Dartmouth a The sportsmen of South Leicestershire let loose again their Tory Parte in the Purlieus of Tipperary has shut up her interest m a and the temperance men of Kilkenny have not yet discharged their Foreign influence would seem to have intrigued itself into some parts of the why should a Fleming sit for should Roscommon throw herself under French or Hastings under that of The men of Carnarvonshire have raised their Westminster has chose a and though weak in displays Scarborough has guarded itself with a Gateshead takes shelter beneath a Guildford behind a and each trusts to a North Wilts and Maldon have been guided in their choice by the their quality being of minor so they have selected one and the other is proud of having sent the only flower to blushing The imprudent constituents of and Worcester must have a care to the disposition of their The first is the second and the third None of these qualities are suitable to the steady purpose of Lord following appears in a recent number of the New York It is not unworthy of at the present Never the indiscriminate we have sometimes been the sharp censors of Lord but truth and justice compel praise from lips unused to Brougham is the only man of his own high class of intellect in public He in his done service to the cause of which no one but himself could have as he has at times perilled a high reputation with a wantonness in which no less robust a genius could have indulged without utter and irrecoverable stands now in the maturity of bis mellowed by experience and with all bis energies He stands forth emancipated from party By reliance on bis own genius and persevering be bat taught an assembly which cannot be expected to sympathize with him to listen with and He is regarded with a kindly even by the most excited portion of the He can plead the great cause which is now witb more greater variety of argument and and more impressive power than any other living orator he can plead it more acceptably to the House of Lords than any other man he can count upon a more willing attention from the Chartist than Will be given to any By becoming the exponent of heedless as to whether men applaud and follow him or he can make himself the of the rights of the central point in in which discordant wills may meet in He can do for free trade all and more than he formerly did against the orders in thereby rendering a service to his country as much his former services as the matured powers of Lord Brougham exceed the wayward energies of young Henry At have come over bis mortal but an opportunity is now afforded him to efface their recollection for and to cast a light on what may be the closing scene of his stronger and steadier than has shone on any portion of his previous To be truly and really independent it to support selves by our own
