Evansville Journal, Volume 10, Number 8, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, 18 January 1844 — Page 2

THE JO URIN AL.

Xrjt Cik Siir's weal, but tUat of Rome.' i'f c '.tisers. eatiy -and all others. are teierrcj t-i our ta: jiace for terms, &c, from wh'cu a j at li'-ivi w Ue made in anv esse. THURSDAY,: : : JANUARY 18, 1844 FOR ?U t'.S IDENT, HENRY CLAY, OF KENTUCKY. CLAY CLUB! A meeting of the CLA Y CL UB of Pigcon Township trill be held at the Court House on Wednesday next, the 2 lift inst., at 7 o'clock. A full attendance is requested as business of ir. variance trill come before the Club. WHiviS OF VANDERBURGH. V e Have received the following communication which we wl'liogly lay before our readers. Every Whig in the County knows the necessity of a proper and timely action ia the selection of candidates to be run for the diiTereat offices, and we doubt not 'will at once cora:n-ace the work. Oa next W hieYlav the first meeting of the Your" lien's Clay Club for Pigeon Township will take pi ice, in which every Whig of the County is reque-red to participate, when ibis m itter will very probably receive the attention it deserves. ;- ; Mr. Chadler : The object of ibis commuubation is to call the attention of the Whigs of Vanderburgh to the approaching August election. We have heretofore generally de3ved takingr 3ay stens to unite our forces until it "w;-s too hie,5 there were"too many can .iJates on the field to attempt it etc.,1' iu order to avoid a repetition of the same iLhig, I suggest the propriety of cilliag a 'meeting of Whigs in each of the Townships to appoint delegates to a County Convention, to be tell at any time ageed upon by the TownshipsX All we require to secure suerss is, hv.iq and action, ana now iers go

to a-ctkvvhA say you Young Whigs cf Pi-f of the defeat were such, however, as reflectgpr; A WHIG ed great honor on the distinguished incum-

. OHIO AND ERIE CANAL. We notice th it the last Louisville Journal tukes bad', what it had previously stated ir. favor .of the estension of the Wabash and Erie Canal to tha Ol io River,and now come? P"t n fv: v i "irovement cf the Wabash Eivr ia pr-frc:ice to contianing the Cao.il. The c;; ih of Louisvilio would siT. r material! if the Canal was completed to this point, Whereas it could not fail to reap a large benefi from the improvement of. the Wdbush river, sad this we judge to be j the reason why the Journal so suddenly changes its tcrje. ' , he Tippecanoe Journal, published at .Lafayette, in an article advocating the, improve me '..l cf th-3 Wobash River, says: 'V7n .ho vever,tve are in favor of the im-p-overaeiit of the River, we are by no means epj-'?:l to the extension and completion of l ..-2 C-Stvl to Evans ville. Both of these im-p- ' triK ots meet our hearty, approbation, happy aio we to believe that the day is pot far distant when they will both be com-j.Jc-teJ. Th? interest nay the necessities of the '.in try will soon require thein both. With i i the improvement that can reason'.Av be expected on the river, it will be im!iioie to render it navigable for steamboats to any great extent, hi times of very lots tsatcr. This will occur at a season of the vei-, whsa the necessities and convenience r.f coar.rnerce will require an cutlet to the OYo. as well as the lake, and the de mands of commerce will be respected." WABASH" RIVER. We hear that the Wabash River is at present high and risjrjg sufficient water for boats of light L'an7t. The lyabas'l has been tinnavigable s:nce June last, notwithstanding the wet 8:i3on we have haJ.fj"Our State Legislature adjourned on Monday last after a session of 37 days, with out. so far as we have been able to dis cover, perfecting a single measure of importance to the -State. JIlcnEAL G. B sight, Esq., has been re ele".ted by the Legislature, Agent of the S'.ate for the term of two years, and E. F LrcAS, Sitpei interment of the Wabash and Erta C ial for the sara . term. JXrThe Eoii-.'si'ic-a of Mr. Upshur as Secretary of State, zzd Mr."-Nel3on as Attorney General were confirmed by the Senate c-a the 2:jd instant. There is much uacertaicty asre'ds ie vjst. Coop Day's W,,r. . Tiie tariff ha3 not wholly destrcyed t;amerce. The duties p;id oh imports at Co?ton last Thar3d.1v week amounted to 31,000. ' 5n'ery is now no crime byihehws pf ?rch:stan. The hw Lore foco Legfsl tjurs, it is said ztoiizlri the law against it.

OUR SFNATOR. The following high

ly cemp'ementary notice of the Senator from this district, Mr. Pitcher, is by the Indiana polis correspoadent of the Wabash Courier. Our readers who are acquainted with Mr. Pitcher, will acknowledge at once the justness of the writer's description of his character: Immediately beyond and to the left of ihe Chair,is John Pitcher, of Posey ; by odd3, the strongest man, when he chooses to be so, in the Senate. Auy person who will attend to him for a few inoinonts, when discussing almost any important subject, will discover at once, that he possesses a master mind. Gen. Pitcher .s a son of New England but has spent the last 20 years of his life iu indi ana.' With an intellect naturally strong, aided by much reading and experience of tliQ world, he is capable of forming just conceptions, and few men can more readily give the information they h ave ; there is no parade, or attempt at show about him; on the contrary, he is plain ;ind sensible, and when he chooses to be so, terribly sarcastic. It appears to me, that he does not properly understand ins own steength, and that oftentimes, through timidity or some other like cause, he fails to say or do that which he could do better than most others. 1 suggest this to him, as a matter he can easily reme dy, and when remedied, will be of an advantage to him with the world. He is no politi cal brawler, and in his place of Senator wields more influence with men of both par ties, than ay other member- of the Sea ate INDIANA GEORGE H. DUNN. ; Under this head the Cincinnati Gazette pays a just and deserved compliment to a worthy gentlemandate an oiUcerofour State, who was defeated by our locofoco Legislature for the office of Treasurer. The Gazette says "Our readers are doubtless aware that Hon. George H. Dunn, the Treasurer of Indiana, was recently defeated as a candidate for re-election to that office, the Whigs ia the legislature having cn joint, ballot but 69 votes, the Locofocos 81. The circumstances ben!, and evince the highest appreciation entertained by the Whigs of Indiana f the moral worth and political integrity of Mr. Dunn. The contest was continued - nearly three days, Mr. D. receiving, on 20 successive balloting, every WHIG VOTE with out ejcceiiionx,nd m .severjil cases a number of the votes from the opposite party, though not suffiicienl to elect. The Locofocos in the meantime, though in a majority, were unable to unite sufficient strength upon any one of their caucus candidates to be successful. It was only when the Whigs found it utterly impossible to succeed in the election of thejr fiivorite, that they went, not only by one, but in an entire body, on the 21 and 22 ballots, for the least obnoxious of the Loco Foco candidates, Mr. Mayhew, who was elected in opposition to the nominee of the Loco Foco caucus; 'Mr. Dunn was formerly Representative iu Congress from the -Lawrenceburgh district. As a gentleman, a lawyer and a statesman, he stands deservedly high in the estimation of the people of Indiana; and that further and more , exalted political honors await him, we confidently predict. Let that unanimity of action exist in the Wh:g party of Indiana which has been exhibited by the Whigs in the Legislature, and our nble sis ter State cannot long remain under Locofoco misiule. . STATE PRINTER. There h.s been two elections by the present Legislature of a State Printer. On the 2nd inst D. R. Eckles, Esq., of the Greencastle Patriot, a Cass paper, was elected over the Chapman? of the Sentinel, by the Junction of the Whig members with his friends. After his election, say3 the correspondent of the Tippeca noe Journal, he was beset by 'the whole of his party, and all the threats, entreaties, an athemas and beseechrnents which could have influence over a Locofoco, were used to force him to resign. Their design was ac complished, and on Saturday the Chapmans were elected by a vote of 74 to 71 over J. C. Douglass, of this place. Even then they would have bien defeated, had it not been for the unexpected defection of two Whigs of the House, Messrs James aad Macy, who voted for Chapman. Six Locos, including the Greencasile delegation, voted unhesitatingly, and in defiance of the threats of the party, for Douglas. When the result was declared, the Hall rang with the shouts of "crow, Chapman, crow;" which were not arrested by the President. VVhereupon CoL Reybu;n of Miami, as gallant a Whig as ever breathed, sprang to his feet, waved his hat around his head aud huzzaed,"tbree cheers, boys, for Harry Clay;" which were partly given when President B'ight at last noticed ihere wis disorder, and checked, it. C-The Whig Legislature of Georgia, has ', pissed, in both houses, the bill to divide ihe State iu;o Congressional di.tricfs", ra conformity to the law of .Cvugr-jg-s,

OREGON. We notice among the Congressional pro-

ceedings on the 4th instant that several movements were made in the House in re ference to the Oregon Territory. A bill was brought in by Mr. Hughes of Missouri with a view to its settlement, and ordered to be printed. Our Representative, Mr. Owen, offered a joint resolution, the object of which was to have England notified, according to the treaty, that the arrangement permitting common occupancy to her on our territory, shouk terminate at the end of the specified term The Globe pronounces this the business way of proceeding to bring the questicn be tween the United States and Gr,eat " Britain a3 to the title to Oregon, finally to an issue and says "It is important that this joint re solution should'pass bothllouses sooN,so:.at before this Congress separates on the 4th of March, 1815, we may have an opportunity ol legislating in regard to Cegou, untrammell ed by any treaties? The following is the resolution offered bv Mr. Owen: . Ilcsohed by the Senate and House of Re presentatices of the United States of Amer ica in Congress assembled. 1 hat in accord?nce with the provisions of the second article ot a convention between - the United States of America, and the King of the United Kingdom ofGreat Britain and Ireland, of the G;h of September, 1627, continuing indefinitely the provisions of the article of the convention of 27th October, ,1818, relative to the joint occupancy by Great Biitain, and the United btatesof America, ofcertain lands on the noithwest coast of America, westward of the Stony Mountains, commonly called the Territory of Oregon, the President of the United States be requested to give due notice of twelve months to the Government of Great Biitain, that, afier the expiration of said term of notice, the United States ot America will annul and abrogate the said convention of the Oth of September, 1827, so continuing the provisions of the third article of the convention of the 20th October,1818,as afore said. - THE SUB-TREASURY. In the House of Representatives on the 3rd inst. Dr. Duncan introduced a bill to seperate the Government from the Banks, or in other words, to re-establish the Sub-Treasury Scheme. - The correspondent of the United States Gazette says, "on this the ayes and noes being called upon the question of reference, were ayes 110, noes, 58. So the House de termined nearly two to one, to establish as far ajs they have the power, that odious Sub Treasury which the peopi." so signally "Con" demised in 1840, and had before, time and again, put their veto npou. "The friends of this measure know very well that it cannot pass the Senate, though they pass it in the House ;their object is doubtless to ssl forth the principles and the issues upon which they intend to go to the people in the approching Presidential canvass. For one I rejoice that they are willing to put that election upon the issue of Clay and a sound, uniform, natioual currency, and reasonable protection to American industry ,rcrsus IV an Bcren, the Sub Treasury, and no J - - rri .1 .. 1 rn .1 1 proi.ciiou. 1 u me ouu i reasury mey have now nailed their flag, and there I hope it will stand. We shall see wheather Mr; Van Buren has sttength enough to catry such a load upon h's back, and beat the great champion of American interests. " "Many of their men manifested not a little anxiety at the way things were shaping themselves to-day. The vote on Mr. Rhett's re solution will sour the Calhoun men, or rather give them a platform to stand upon, while they take a belligerent attitude against "the misletoe" candidate. See Mr. Peyton's speech of yesterday in which he calls Mr. Van Buren "a misletoe, drawing its sustenance from the trunk of an aged hickory ."J Some of them, too, would much preferred t have said nothing about the Sub Treasury ,so as not to have presented old some-tried issues to , the people, but as the subject was brought forward there was no choice left them but to stand up to the old Sub Treasury chest, emptied as it has been by the enormous defalcations of a host of Mr. Vap. Buren's Sub Treasurers and by the extravagant expenditures during his administration, and vote for the resolution." , THE. TARIFF. The National Intelli gencersays: The decisions in the-House of Representatives, within the last two days, upon questions connected with the Tariff, may, we suppose, be considered test questions. So considered, they confirm the impression upon our mind, heretofore convey ed to our readers, that the existing Tariff will not be touched at the present session of Congress. , We now hazard, with equal confidence, the prediction ilmt the proposed dutieB upon Tea snd Coffee, in aid of the reveuue,wili not be laid at this session, if by the present. .Cocgiess. : i CrA petition hag been preseuted in the Senate of the United States signed by 71) steamboat captains, asking Congress to opcj a ship Ca.ti.al round .the Falls, on the Indiai side of the Ohio River.

GEN. JACKSON'S FINE. f

J This everlasting subject "is up again in give ' . . Congress. Having afforded a theme lor the every little locotoco m our legislature to tne make a speech upon during the late session, to it will now run the round of the bigger locos in Congress, By the time the matter is settied it will cost the Government more money ihnn the Florida war. But that matters not . . . i i p t,i- i- t with the locofocos. Their ob ect is to make what capital they can for. the approaching campaign, regardless of the suffering condition of our Treasury. A writer in the B.il- . . i- ..u:..,,,M timore Patriot, speaking ot this matter says - It has always appeared to me, that the proposition, at this late day, to refund this fine, whicn an aumu, was lawiuuy inuicieu,uui - ..i it i 1 f-.ll fl: J or with a very ill grace tronj the men who, 3 6 though in control in the General Government for twelve years, never breathed any lhinr of the kind, whilst they held the powwill as little aid him now as then. Gen. - . I Jackson has got more out of the public Irea- - , -, , . sury than he deserved; arid whatever may have been the character ofhis public services, ie has been abundantly paid for them. I saw recently a calculation in a Western pa- ...... uA.a :..,i .wt ,;.,ri,H pei mm u uau ,.. a 'million of dollars from the public crib,which is enough, in all conscience, for all the good . ,j j u vv, service he ever d.d the country. Were the evil he has inflicted upon it taken into calculalion, and its amount charged to him as damages, it would" make, perhaps, an hutidred millions of dollars. According to the last accounts, Gen. Jackson was in very feeble health, and may soon be expected to die. We would gladly see the mantle of ... . , i , . obl'.vion thrown over all his acts, and it is . cruel on the part of his professed friends, to bring up this matter ot the line, as itexhibits in the most glaring colois, the arbitrary 1 . 1 .u , 1 1 .';i t, l.t.rti characterot the man's mind, and the highhanded outrages against individual liberty and public law which he was capable of performing. : A Banker. The Tippecanoe Journal . . ' . says: "A resolution was passed at a recent meeting of the Tippecanoe - County Clay Club authorizing a committee to procure . ' r n. ... t..", u.. 4k I . . . Ladies of the Battle ground county, to be presented to ihe Whigs of such county in this State, as shall give the largest Whig uaajuntv. in nrooortion to the cutijDer ol votes cast (herein, at the Presidential Election November next. Who'll win it?1' CLERK OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The selection of N. C. M'Nulty for this station, has excited no little surprise. His moral qualifications are not such as fit him tor any respectable office ; and it is axceedingly strange that some other applicaut of the same political party,possessing more purity of character, was not chosen. The following paragraphs, related of him as a memberof the-Ohio Legislature, exhibit him in a correct light; On one occasion, when a bank charter was before the Legislature, McNully declared "he would see the material universe wrapt in etherial flames before he would give his vote for a bank charter in any shape." In speaking of the Rev. Mr. Springer, of Z anesville, M'Nulty in one of his speeches pronounced a tirade of abuse against the cler gy, generally,assertiug that they were a class of "liars aud dishonest men." Jr-The feeling in he South in favor of Mr. Clay, like, in all other sections, is cor dis!, warm, enthusiastic. I; is said when the steamer Julia Choteau passed Memphis, a few weeks since, the citizens were hourly expecting the arrival of Mr. Clay on his way to New Orleans. Great perparations were made for his reception; and the steamer Alex Scott with a large committee and a number of gentlemeu and ladies, had been despatch ed up the river to receive him. Well could the Democratic Review remark, that the warm, deep-seated affection entertained for Mr. Clay by a large class of the American people honors him mote than would the most exalted station within the - gift of the Republic, Mr. Calhoun. The Washington Specta tor, in reply to a question from the Richmond Enquirer, whether Mr. Caluoun will abide by the decision of the Baltimore convention, says that it knows, but is not at liberty to tell, ha ving learned it in private conversation or by letter, from Mr. Calhoun. But it goes oa to say that so fir as its own opinion is concerned, if the convention admits other than members elected on the district system, The calboun men would have nothing to do with it. We may fairly infer that this is Mr. Calhoun's determination. Beautiful Thought Childhood is like i miior, caiching and reflecting images all around if. Remember that an imp ous o; profane thought uttered by a parent's lip-! miy operate upon ay-mug he trt like caieless spray of wafer thrown upjii polished steel, siam.ng it with rust, which no after scourin can efface.

-p.. i ..r,-.,., i lire biieDtierdess. trom Cincinnati to

er to carry u, ne revival i n wuuuiv -,.,,,- i. i -.i . J ,. ., , . . port, about 11 o'clock at night, when witii nr. oIoctinnooriiKT pynfiflinnt. tn am the sink- : . .. , .

lL" o r- ' m three miles ottne city struck a gnag, just ing fortunes of Mr. Van Buren in 1810, and above the mouth of Cahokia. creek. The

. below from the St. Louis Republican of . .... - . .1 5tb Jn3t., a detailed account cf the loss ol - steamboat hepherds, wun irorn u two 100 lives: TERRIBLE CALAMITY. Yesterday morning our city was thrown into consternation, by the report of the loss of the steamboat Shepherdess, in Cahokia bend, within sigut ot trie city, ana oniv tnree fL. i',A ':.u ,u (ieath of many persons. One of (he boats belonging to the old ferry was desp itched early in the morning, and the Agatha was sent bv Mr. Collier. On the latter we took - . UdOUgVJ Ut glib I 11 U i.iiivulllltf far ag we were ab,e tQ ga(her lfae iu the midst of confusion .and heart-rending v - - v - ....,. . - ftiuiQ Mhirh vun ?ll niacnri Wphnro aAn ' .f K. of oneortvvoblow upsof steamboats,we have never seen anything so harrowing as was presented to us yesterday. The history of the matter is as follows: tnis concussion was severe- and must have torn . : 1 1 i 1 . .u " V1- ,uo 01 striKtng, most 01 ine passengers in me , bj had relired ,Q their berthsThe ladies were generally undressed for the night. Upon deck, so far as we could ascertain from the officers and passengers there was some sixt' or seventy passengers young arici 0t(j. rour or fivo men were sitting upj a the geutlemens' cabin at the stove. In a j minute or two, the water rose to the lower aecK, wnere most oi me. passeueis in m-i . ' p . p;,otg went into the hold? bnt .t1;uj scarcey entered before the rush of tlie water drove him out., The captain, who was on duly, n to llie cafi,u ,iina . asw"c iaf,:n mere was no u uiyer, una iuiuii.vu iu nc forec.:i3tle, which w is the last satisfactory account we could get of him. About J his lime, screums and shrieks were heard from the deck below, and one or ... . , , . r , two ladies who rushed to the stern ot tae boat, say that they saw a number of poisons m the water. Certain it is toe water rusued in with tremendous rapidity, and in about three minutes was up to the floor of the up- . ,K were saved by getting into the yawl, 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 shelter upon the hurricane deck. Much difficulty was expei.;enced a doing so, for the bow sunk so deep that the only access was by the stem. So fur as we could learn, we bel.eve all the inmates ot tne cabin-reacnea tne nuiricane deck After the boat struck the saag, it dnf:ed down the Stream, and a few hundred yaids below struck another snag, which was tar out of water. This threw the boat nearly oa her beam's end, on the larboard side. Drifting from the snag, she again lurched to the starboard, and each lurch, several persons were washed off. Seme of them reached the shore, but many of them were drowned. A short distance below, just above the first shottower, the hull struck a bluff bank, which again careened her nearly oa her beam's end. The hnll sunk and lodge I oa a bar above Carondelet, and the c.ibia flo ited down to the point of the bar below thai place, where it lodged and remaius. The Henry Bry was lying at the sho!-fower-above Carondelet, when the cubin passed. The cries of the passengers aroused the captain, and he and his crew ren h red. etScient service in rescuing the p-ssen-gers in their yawl. Wean tol I thit th3 cap tain of the Bry worked until he was entirely covered with ice. About three o,clock,the Icelander, one of our ferry boats, came along, and went to th'J rescue, and took off nil who rem lined up.n the wreck. It is due to this company to say, that in addition to the service rendered by the Icel.anded, upon her arrival at tho wharf, three men in a yawl were immediately despatched, to the assistance of the persons on the wreck, and they rendered essential service to them. Iu Cuondelet and . Cahokia, the kindest aitentious were shown to those who got on shore. This is the general history. We now speak of pirticulars, aud here we h ive so many instances of disregard of personal safety, in order to secure that of others, that we scarcely know which to mention. One instance deserves record. A young man, Robert Bullock, of M.iysville, Ky., was up at the time the boat struck. He seems to have abandoned all idea cf himself, and turned his whole attention to saving the women and children. When every male person had deserted the cabin, he went from state-room to state-room, wherever he heard a child cry, aud took it oat aud passed it up to the hurricane roof. In this way he saved several women and children. His last effort was to pass up the Ohio fat Girl 240 pounds. With the ass;stance of one or two others on the hurricane deck, he suceeded. A short time after getting on deck, the boat made a lurch, and Bullock took to the water and swam to the Illinois shore. His coat he had given to a lady on tne wrecK. When tie reached the shoie, he found two young ladles, . who bad been put ashore in a skifl, and who, benumbed with the cold, were determined to go to sleep. By gieal exertions, he succeeded in getting them to Cahokia. We have several interesting incidents o! the heroic bearing of this young man, which we may give hereafter. Most of the baggage belonging to the cab in passengers will be obtained. The ferry boat brought up all the passengers at Caron delet and Cohokia. An English family from Manchester, ten in number, were all sivod. Five succeeded in getting to the Illinois shore, four to the Missouri side, and onewds taken off the wreck; they were all re-united oa the ferry boat at Cahokia, at a momen when e tch piny supposed the other dead. Such a sosua as that re-union, we have never before witnessed. Mr. Muir, of Virginia, and his brolhe were oa board, with their mother, and nie

LOSS OF THE SHEPHERDESS.—We

slaves. Seven of the slacss were lost ms

- . . . ,i wnites were an saveu. . . , . T.evi Craddac.k. from. Davidson COUntV. , . ;.(i;Mlftnh:mS(,if wife W children were saved. Mr. Gieen, from the same place, lost n 8 - wife and three children, and is left Mth two helpless infants upon bis hands. T "Dungest is but a few months old. i "V. Mr. Snell, who'fonneily resided V two miles of Louisville, lost a sou and ter. A Mr Wright, of Mecklenburg Cv Va., wa- lost, and two children. His with those saved, but in a very distre condition:" v The captain, A. Howell, of Covington,"' is undoubtedly lost. From all we cc. learn, we think he was in the act of ring, g" the bell, when, the boat made a lurch, wbth carried the boilers, part of the engine, yand chimneys overboard. In doing so, it f3 be lieved that he was disabled and dowm-d. He leaves a wife and eleven chiUwren to mourn his loss. His eldest son wayi with him on board. - - ' "if" r The bodies of two children, of j about 12 years of age, were brought up fron Carondelet. They had perished from tip cold. ; A negro man who had died, will hp buried by " the people of Carondelet. liocking at the number of children in the company, and their tender years, it is surprising how they escaped perishing. JS When we reached the wreck, we found ' the mayor, Mr. W rimer, exerting himself for the relief of thelstressed. We cannotf close ouv account without paying a tribute to the ptilauthiophy of Mr. Yeatrnin, and a few other gentlemen, who furnishes a' large lot of clothing, shoes, c, for the destitute, and otherwise interested themselves in their behalf. They mayor caused all who were picked -up by the boat to be conveyed to the Virginia Hotel, where they will be amply provided for. - . . " It is p;oper to remark, that X;om all the facts we were able to eoliee'-, we do not believe the loss of life will exceed thirty or forty. We cannot make out quite 20 in number, but ii3 the boat's register is lost, and the passengers are scattered, it is impossible to lie very accurate. The Mr. Peck, of Illinois, who was on board at the time, make the estimate much larger then we do. Dr. Mnssie, of St. Charles, and Mr.. Irwin, of Pittsburg, were particularly efucient in their eftorts to save the Iive3ot other passcngers. , . " One man lost $3,000 in money and another 33 negroes, Several children were frozen to death before they could be taken ashore. Capt. Howell had lately bought the Shepherdess for 3,000 and this was her first trip 'since the purchase. He had lost several boats before. Some of the truaks, cccwere saved and left at the store of Davis tStc.t. Loui3. The Gazette says: "A young lady, who was suffering from pleurisy, was drawn through one of the stateroom-doors up to TITeruii arcane deck, when the boat careened; but she was so debilitated by p. in and fright- as to be unable to stand. Siie was accordingly Lid upon one of the wagons with which the boat was freighted, and upon the -vessel making uioihec lurch, she precipitated into the water! The captain, when 1 ist recognized, was climbing one of the irons which sutport the chimneys." - . - -"-'; The St. Louis papers differ materially in the names of those saved and other particu' lirs. The Gazette and New Era estimates : the nu nber cf lives lost from seventy to one s hundred. -Who can doubt the speedy an3 com-. plete revolution of Virginia? Her many ab'e Whig papers and her scores of large and enthusiastic Clay Clubs are are at work with a determined energy that nothing can with . stand. The last number of the Wheeling Gazette say s : "We cannot refrain fom giving to the young men of Virginia their proper meed of praise. Their Clay clubs exist almost every whete, and they go into the fight like men determined to do or died. Upon thei. ef- . forts the contest rests they will achieve the , victory which we already shadowed forth. How can it be otherwise? The ladies (God biess them!) are urging them on to action, and, as in Loudoun, where they preseuted a fl ig bearing the inscription, 'one thousand majority you can and you must!' so throughout the whole Stats they expect to see every one do his duty, with his fair coun- 1 try wcmen.apprcbation second only in view of correct p onciples and elevation of spproved men. We war in this c impi'gn with no oidiuary inducements to do our best to see -Virginia 'redeemed, regenerated, disenthralled.' would be 'glory enough for one day, and such is to be the t ewed of every good Whig who continues steadfa st to his faith.' . Mr. Clay in New Orleans. The' .-New ' Oi leans Picayune, of the 4th inst has tho ' following: , "Yesterday the members of the Hoase cf Representitives, accompanied by Mr. Derbigney, their Speaker, visited the Goveruor, and tended to him their respective greeting.. They then, with the Governor at their head, visited Henry Clay, to whom they paidal.k. mark of courtesy. Acts like these, we think, evince a high tone of leSnement, and p ove that, in generous minds, the spirit ofpiiy is always suppressed when good bieediug corn mds the discharge cf more agreeabie duties." - COf'The press of bu-kiess this -peek h3 prevented our giving the usuii quantify or variety of matter ia to-days pa per. Wo aant void falling a little short some tirae.". Crr-JA5iES Morrison, Esqr., bs cu t'.e rd inst. elected President of she State H:u t Indiana by our Legislature, oier Mr. ler rii. .