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A brother-in-law of the writer of this, had written him that he would take passage with his family, consisting of a wife and two children, on the Southerner’s trip, of the middle of September, (exact date not called to mind,) to leave New York on a Saturday. The ensuing Sunday, a most terrific storm occurred, carrying off the roof of Trinity Church, washing away the immense stones forming the Battery wall, and inundating the lower portions of the city of Charleston.

A brother-in-law of the writer of this, had written him that he would take passage with his family, consisting of a wife and two children, on the Southerner’s trip, of the middle of September, (exact date not called to mind,) to leave New York on a Saturday. The ensuing Sunday, a most terrific storm occurred, carrying off the roof of Trinity Church, washing away the immense stones forming the Battery wall, and inundating the lower portions of the city of Charleston.

Confidence in the ability of the steamships to withstand a tempest was not established at that time, consequently those having friends at sea, were extremely anxious for their safety. The Southerner being due at Charleston on Tuesday, many persons visited the wharves, to obtain intelligence of her on that day, and the general feeling was, that it was doubtful if the Southerner conld have survived such a storm as had been witnessed.

Confidence in the ability of the steamships to withstand a tempest was not established at that time, consequently those having friends at sea, were extremely anxious for their safety. The Southerner being due at Charleston on Tuesday, many persons visited the wharves, to obtain intelligence of her on that day, and the general feeling was, that it was doubtful if the Southerner could have survived such a storm as had been witnessed.

In the family of the writer, was a mulatto girl, the reverse of ''spirituelle, ''who had frequently been mesmerized, and given evidence of extraordinary powers of clairvoyance. While on the wharf, the idea occurred, that this would afford a capital test of the powers of this girl, and with this idea predominating in his mind over all others, he hastened home.

In the family of the writer, was a mulatto girl, the reverse of ''spirituelle, ''who had frequently been mesmerized, and given evidence of extraordinary powers of clairvoyance. While on the wharf, the idea occurred, that this would afford a capital test of the powers of this girl, and with this idea predominating in his mind over all others, he hastened home.