BY THE SOUTHERN MAIL.

Philadelphia.
Correspondence of the Herald.]
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PHILADELPHIA, Oct. Fl, lSA4.
frightful accident occurred in Delaware Bay
on Sunday afternoon, on board Of the steamboat
Tigress, from New York, to Philadelphia, by which
Thomas Shea, deck hand, and Nicholas or John
Ashby, second engineer, lost their lives. The
Tgress was racing with the Ashland, another
steamboat, which runs between New York and this
city, and when off Nantuckset creek, about ten
miles below Bombay Hook, the inner casing of the
steam chlmney Of the Tigress collapsed, blowing
off the boiler head, and scalding Shea and Ashby
In such dreadful manner, that they died shortly
afterwards The bodies were brought up to this
city in the Ashland, and an inquest held on them.
Shea was an Irshman Ashby belonged TO your
city, where he has left wife and children


A large body OF Mlllerites, both male and female,
and among them some of the most respectable citi-
of Philadelphia, left the city at an early hour
this morning, in cabs, coaches, cars and omn-
buses. They stated that their object was to Csc
The Lord" and their destination wherever he
thought tt to direct them. They took the road to
The State Of Delaware, and were last seen at King
sessing.


George Rennie, we'll known thief, was con-
victed Of burglary in the Court OF Quarter Ses-
sions to-day and sentenced to nine years solitary
confinement and hard labor in the Eastern Peni-
tertiary


SALES a THE srocK ExcHANoE.-e0 Bank 81, 100
Girard Bank $4,000 State IS 753 10 commercial Bank
Cincinnati 66 10 Norristown RR 81; 100 Wilmington Rn
251; SO Reading RR at; 81 Wilmington RR 96f


SECOND BOARD. .-l0O0 Reading RR Bonds, Is; 100 Gi.
rard Bank llt 402 State 20; 20 Manufacturers and
Mechanics Bank 26a los Wilmington RR 2b3 900 do 2st