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Heart.rending Acciden.-A most Iamentu5le
accident occurred on our levee last evening, by
which little girl, some eight or nine years of
age, lost her life. She was the daughter Of DR..
Gum, Of Louisville, KY, who, with his wife,
was Just leaving the steamboat Ben Franklin No.
7, about starting for the Ohio river. The little
girl. who was ahead Of her parents, was crushed
to the earth by hogshead Of sugar which dray.
man had just rolled from bis dray in great haste.
She was deprived of all consciousness at once,
although the breath Of life fingered in her mu.
tilated form for hours.


The case is one Of the most heart. rendlna we
bnve ever been called upon 10 record. The body
Of the little girl wns at once taken on board the
boat. but how can we describe the anguish Of the
mother, who then first knew how deep. how ab
sorbng, was her devotion to hor chiidl For hearts
90 wounded no balm can DO offered. The young
victim was oil play yfulness aud vivaci,y tho mo-
ment before the acciden,-in tho mex, moment,
il required u mothers love to recognize her, and
long after the breath had left the body of the
hapless child the wallings Of that mother were
heard crying over one that was not. An elder
sister was present, too-,he wife Of the cIerk of
the boat-and she wns stricken by the cruel ca.
Iamty with an intensity Of grief that for a while
beieft her Of reason. The little girl had been
singing and playing upon piano in the cabin
for she was rare musician for child of her ago
--and had just parted from one who felt for her
an affection no one but a sister knows. She had
parted from her while her guiless prallle and
innocent mirth we're yet fresh-her gay carols
were still! ringing in that sisters ears but second
elapsed and she was carried back, 10 I'll the
hearts Of those she had SO recently gaddened with
mourning. Time may in measure heal the
wounds Of those who have been thus sorey bruised
but to offer present consolation would be Of no
effect.


We are told that this occurred from haste and
gross carelessness on the part of the dra ayman,
he having been warned that hs was endanperipe
the lives Of the very persons leaving the boat at
the time. We rust that he may be arrested an d
the affair investigated to the bottom. Numerous
accidents are daily occurring from furious driving
and an example should at once be made that thew
may Put a stop TO it.--Pic.