- 310.1tRIBiE CATASTROPHEI - Steamer ..SrVie In (41ision.tnit4 an Iron, Pript&r. . TOTAL _WRECK of THE ARCTIC. PROBABLE Ltigi. OE q'RUSDRED LIVES, Trobahle Losq if a Boitisk Steamship, with a Regiment of Troops on Buctrd: ! The ship Lebanon arrived at New York early on Wednesday morning, _bringing the sad in telligence that 6C noble.Ainericars steamship Arctic, of the Collins line, had 'been sunk at sea, by a collision, and a large number of her pagsengers lost. The loss of the President and City of Glasgow, and now the sinking ,of the Arctio i forni melancholy epochs in the history .Of .Atlantic steamships. =The following detailed account of the terri ne catastrophe to the Arctic is furnished by 3.11. Geo. H. Burns, the empress messenger of _Mims .LS:, w o was on .oar , an ortu pately escaped the perils of the disaster. .Statement of Mr., Burns.—The steamship Arctic, wall 226 passengers, exclusive of child ren, 175 employea, a valuable cargo, and hea -vy mail, is lost._ Of the more than four hund red souls who left Liverpool .on the 20th ult., full of hope, gayety and health, many return ing from an European tour of pleasure. only thirty-two are known to have been saved, and not more than one hundred can, by any possi bility, have escaped a watery grave. In addition to all this, another large steam er, freighted with hundreds of human beings, has, in all probability, met a like fate, The &Tails of the horrible disaster are as follows : . On Wednesday, September 27, precisely at 12 o'clock, M., in a dense fog, we. came in con tact with a bark rigged iron propeller, with black hull, salmon colored bottom, lead colored', poop and boats, and black pipe. She was 'bound eastward, and had all sail set', with a strong, fair wind. The speed of the Arctic at , the time was about 13 knots an hour. The shock to us appeared slight. hut the damag_e_, lo the fttlivevessel was . frightful. Capt. Luce instantly_ ordered the quarter boats cleared away, and the chief mate, boatswain and three sailors wept to her relief; before other boats left, the order was countermanded.' The arc tic then described a circle twice round the wreck, during which time I caught a glimpse , •of more than t*o hundred people clustered on her, hurricane - fleck. ----At-thiS-juncturc it was first_ascertained_that ' 6.. .ire had Sustained injury, mid the' water. was pouring in at our boss. When the first officer I came alongside to report, the captain was lina ble 'to take him up, but headed -N,. N. W. in the hope of making land. Our position on the prei'ious day, at' 12 o'clock, was • latitude 48 -3,,longitude 45 27. We had run about three hundred and ten miles from the time of this observation until the moment of colliSion, and wCrc supposed to be about 40 miles from Cape - Race. The puieps were vigorously worked, and an an or Chain thrown overboard.; but in .spite of alMertions - , the engines stopped. and the water extinguished the fires. Four of the five other life boats, helieved to have been - well -provisi , m.d, containing the engineers, sailors, a few ,passoigers and all the officers, except She captain and third mate, left the ship'ilt; an - party, stage. The majority of the passengers were workin the:pumps—soine-firing the sig nal, guns, and others launching ,spars. under the 'direction of Captain Luce. and Mr. Dorian, the third mate, to form a raft. order to facilitate this latter work the sixth 'and' last boat was lowered. Dorian. one or two.firemen, three of the other passengers saved, and myself, were busily engaged lashing •ivater casks and settees to the main yard,'two top gallantyards, and several smaller spars; the , captain. ,with a number of gentlemen, pro tecting the work by keeping back the crowd— 'when a Panic'seized all on board, a rush was made, passengers and firemen precipitated themselves headlong over the 'bulwarks on to 'Abe raft, and in a moment our little boat was full. :Ind in imminent 'danger of being sunk. In this' emergency, Dorian ordered the rope held the steamer Co he cut. and with our hands and axes we paddled from the raft's side; The mate, Who throughout preserv'ed great presence of-mind, and . labored with he roic energy. cried out : "For God's sake, cap tain, clear the raft, so that we can work. 1 won't desert the ship while there's a timber above ivaer." lint we sea was now flush .with the dead ligots. In less than three minutes from the - time he spoke, the-stern sunk—the foam went belling over the tumbling heap of lonian' b 6. ings--tuany were dashed finwat d against the pipe. I heard one wild yell. (still ringing in my ears.) and saw the Arctic and the strug gling mass rapidly engulphed. Numbers yet clung to the imperfectly constructed raft ; but. alas, we could render them no aid. Our own situation was no less precarious ; and, cruel as it seemed, we were forced to abandon them to fate. Heaven forbid that I should ever Witness suchrinother scene. We however picked . up ttfb 'snore men, and then,' with an overloaded, boat, without oars. tholepios, food or drink, avoiding with difficulty the fragments of the - wreck, and passing many dead feinales, pre- • pared for-a night upon the ocean. - We secured a' floating pumpkin and cabbage to guard against immediate starvation, lashed a spar to the bow of our boat to keep her bead to the wind tun' sea, and thuS drifted until daylight: the night was cold and fon , gy, with a heavy and. in a cramped. drenched and half naked condition, we suffered terribly. Without dwelling upon our miseries, alle viated mirth be the consciousness that we had endcavofed to do our duty to our fellow men. suffice it to say that at 5 o'clock on the after noon of the 28th, we espied a sail, and raised a handkerchief to attract attention. We were successful. With the rude substitute for oars which we had constructed. during the day by lashing planks to capstan bars, with a view of attempting to gain land when the sea subsided, we pulled towards the ship. On our way-we passed - the remount of the raft, with one man -on it apparently alive. The barque ptuved to be the Huron. of St. Andrews, N. 8.. Capt. A. IVall. bound for 'Quebec. Our men safe on • board. the noble inaarted Dot ian, with sonic of the Huron's crew, returned to the ran and - rescued the poor fel low who lOr twenty-six hours haul clung tothe spats. He states that after the steamship sunk, he counted seventy-two men and four women en the raft, but at Si. o'clock he was the only one alive. In the mornitio• two bodies vi beside him, melt eaten by fishes, and a t tin time he saw our boat he_was on the point of v duntati - ly (bopping into the sea to end his 4 .. pny. Miln; from the raft Dorian enroun tertd and eXamined the life car of the Arctic.' Ii contained a bottle of water, some cheese and , -a lady's garment. By the humane captain-of the Huron, and Mr. winin g tw, a son of the owner, We were received with great kindness, our grounds dressed, fires kindled, and food and „ „ ti lling provided in abundance. During the pruibpi t of the 2&h, - Capt. - 11 all king teit extra s, fired rockets, and - kept a horn blowing, ' . vs of falling in with the rest of the boats. .endeavors were fruitless. On the e% en mil 8 , 29th, he rpoke_ the ship Lebanon, s' TV RE•• • - 7 b&md for N. York, by wh om SS (X (.11 . 1.1: _Beteg& , nn w‘ niber were taken off, kindly wel- Zrimmisigsto ell treated. We have this too , Atteil Yor k , by pilot boat Chris .o4o• 16, to Which we were trans- .- . , . 1 ' 1 : I lei $ 11!:5_ , L.' 00 i a )ou tle sante - - 1 at - _ire under great obligattons. • .quantity to Engin wi. This promises to be an' those whi.N.n / l ast u.nw on the qurter- 4 Ml:it:use trade ere long. . deck, whilst fastening lire preservers to the fe males, and who milgt have sunk with the ship. pr . perished on the raft, were Capt. , Luce and son, Mrs. E. K. Collins, Master Colt Collins. Miss Collins, Mr.• Brown and family; (connec tion of the' senior of. the Cirm of Brown. Ship ley-ACO,-Liverpool;) Mr. Thomas, importer of hosiery, New York : Mr. Adams, Brooklyn: Mr. Bowen, Cincinnati, Mr. Charles Springer, Cincinnati ; James "M ui rhead, Jr., Petersburg. Li • • 1)e Republican , itompt Va.: Mr. Hewitt; 'Mrs. Hewitt and daughter, Fredericksburg, Va.: Mr.. Wood, N. Y.: Mr. Ysaki, Mr. Schmidt,_Miss Morton, Falmouth, • England ; a nephew of Mr. Bk*lgood, hotel keeper. Philadelphia, residing in Albany ; the Duke de Crrammont, of the French Embassy: 2d steward, wife and child; A nnie,4a- colored girl. and Mary a stewardess, Miss. ; Mr. Petrie 'and lady, Ste Wart Rollin, Washingteii, C.: J. Cook, Opelousas, La., with "many more. whose names I did not know, but whose lea-, tures are indelibly ini . printed on my . memory. ' _ r emittent &snatches from France anti .England, entrusted to my care anaw, I could not save. Reipectfully, Ggo. 11. Butss, Adams & Co.'s_Expresss, Phil'a. New York, Oct. 10, 1854. The number of board the-Arctic was as fol lows : _ _ _ Passengers, Crew,, Total, 431 Mit 57 of this'number are known to be saved 7'he Steamer Mat - Run into the .9reiic Busxox, Oct. 11.—It is belkved here that it was the steamer Cleopatra. which left Quebec on the 24th ult., with the 71st regiment aboard, that run into the Arctic. Such seems to be the general impression founded upon reasonable probabilities. The excitement here is very great, especial ly amongst those who have friends aboard. There are strong hopes that a greater num ber of the Arctic's passengers were saved than wield appear from previous reports. PIIILAISELPHIA, Oct. --There is terrible anxiety here, as a large number of the passcn gers on the Arctic were 'Philadelphians, in cluding Prof. Henry Reed. of the Pennsylva nia University, and laity, the brother and sis ter. of Wm.-B. Reed, Attorney General of this city. _ Further Partietilnrs=:S'afely- of Ihe Iron Pro peller—Further Rtsrues if the .41etie's Crew. HALIFAx.,Oa. 12.--We have dates from New fonnUland to the4l - th, , Whichrinnoinice theitrri val of the French_ screw stear»er Vesta, at St. Johns, on the, 3d inst:; with her fitretnast-and bows shattered to pieces, she being the vessel that came in collision . ' with the Arctic. She picked up and brought into port 31 of the Arc tic's crew. , The Vesta lost 13 a her passengers, supposed to be those who Were run down by the Arctic in a small boat. Three of the Arctic's honig have not yet been heard_from, but being life boats, they arc sup posed to have been picked up. The vessels sent in search returned `6n the 3d without suc cess—nut having found the slightest trace. BosTON, October..l•2 A gentleman u who ri Nil here this morning on the train from New states that there was a report at Fall River that a vessel, loaded with railroad 'Hai, had arrived , at Wari:en,'R. 1., with 40 per,ons picked up from one of the missing bOats'of the Arctic. Majoritieg ' for Governor. The returrei arc very incompleic. The fol lowing only have reached us: BioLun. '