Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . e Secretaries of State and of the Navy, and Other Eminent Persons, Instantly Killed.—MiraculousEscape of the President.—Sudden Transition from the Height of Human Enjoyment to the Extremeof
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . e Secretaries of State and of the Navy, and Other Eminent Persons, Instantly Killed.—MiraculousEscape of the President.—Sudden Transition from the Height of Human Enjoyment to the Extremeof Woe.—Stocktons High Enthusiasm.—His Vast and Beautiful Ship.—Her Model and Armament.—Styled the Pride of the Navy.—Invitations for a Grand Gala Day.—President Tyler Attends.—Countless Dignitaries on Board.—Array of Female Beauty.—Music, Toasts, Wit and Wine.—Firingof the Monster Gun.—Its Perfect Success.— One More Shot! by Request.—A Stunning and Mur-derous Blast.—Bursting of the Gun,—Death all Around.—Frightful Shrieks and Groans—Scatteringof Mangled Remains.—Agony of Womans Heart.—Standing Place of the President.—Absent JustOne Moment—The Dead in Union Flags.—Funeral at tlie White House. *My tongue would fail me to ezpresB, and my pen to portray, the e^oniziog heart-ttlroes—the mingled wa;ling8 and frenzy — ot thatawful hour.—PltBSIDENT VKELY is there found in the pages of a huii-dreil years history, the record of amore awful catastroplie—shocking,indeed, in all its circumstances,concomitants, and results—thanthat which occurred on board theship Princeton, Commodore Stock-ton, on the afternoon of Februarytwenty-eighth, 1844, whilst underway, on the river Potomac, somefifteeen miles below war steamer had just been .STOCKTONS GREAT GUN, TUE PEACEMAKER. , j. J • -j. i^ T>1,1 constructed m the city ot Ihila-delphia, according to improved plans enthusiastically advocated by Captain Stockton,
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