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 . lady, standini, ujidu the deck betweentwo gentlemen, one of whom had his hat,and the other the breast of his coat takenoff, escaped unhurt. The secretary ofstate, Mr. Upshur, left a wif
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 . lady, standini, ujidu the deck betweentwo gentlemen, one of whom had his hat,and the other the breast of his coat takenoff, escaped unhurt. The secretary ofstate, Mr. Upshur, left a wife and daugh-ter, to mourn his untimely death ; Secre-tary Gilmer, a wife and eight children—the eldest but fifteen. Commodore Kennonleft a young wife, and children by his firstwife. Mr. Maxey also left a wife andchildren; and Colonel Gardiner two accom-plished daughters, leading belles in thesociety of the metropolis. The only cir-cumstance calculated to relieve the all-per-vading distress, was, that of the multitudeof ladies who were on board the ship, notone was materially injured. As illustrating the effect of such a phe-nomenon, upon those who were nearenough to have their sensations and emo-tions wrought upon to the highest degree,without actual injury to their persons, theexperience of Senator Benton—Iertainlyone of the strongest-minded of men—is an ?11 GEEAT AND MEMORABLE EVENTS. 443. EXPLOSION OF THE GREAT GUN ON BOAUD THE tNITED STATES STEAMSHIP PRINCETON. interesting case in point. In that sena-tors account of the occurrence, he says,among other things: Lieutenant Huntcaused the gun to be worked, to show theease and precision with which her direc-tion could be changed, and then pointeddown the river to make the fire—himselfand the gunners standing near the breechon the right. I opened my mouth wide toreceive the concussion on the inside as wellas on the outside of the head and ears, soas to lessen the force of the externalshock. I saw the hammer pulled back
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