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Empire, on her downward trip from Albany, met
with an accident, but not of SO alarming nature
as was rumored. The particulars are as follows:
There being dense fog at the time, the pilot mis-
calculated his course, and ran her at least twenty
feet through the wharf at the foot of Nineteenth
street, smashing her stem and injuring her bottom
little. As she was going at considerable speed,
the conclusion was very violent, and great confu
sion prevailed on board for some minutes amongst
the passengers, who were taken on board the
Knckerbocker, which came alongside shortly after
wards, and conveyed them in safety to the city
The Empire has been taken of, and has gone
round to be repaired IN the East River.


Early yesterday morning, the s'R. L. Stevens,
met with an accident opposite "Piank Point
which might have proved fatal to the Pilot. who
was at the wheel, were it not for his great pre.
sence Of mind. Her pillar blocks having broken
her beam shot from its place, carving with il The
piston and air pump-rods, and falling with great
violence on the slide over the wheel from whence
the Pilot tobserving the blocks give way) made an
instantaneous exit. The force of the coming
down OF the beam bent the rods above mentioned.
which If they had broken the beam would have
gene through her decks, when the forfeiture of
lives would have, IN all probability, been the con-
sequence. The steamboat "Bee" came up lust
the moment and took all the passengers on board,
from whence she conveyed them 10 their destina-
fiOn