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Relocate to represent iu
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We I'pe to
d'ier iu the County pioent upon that in
teresting occasion. For particulars rel
ative to the Convention, to be held at
Easton, see notice in another column.
Mail Robberies. The son of the
post-master at Wcllsvillc, Ohio, has been
arrested and taken to Columbus for trial
on a charge of robbing tbc mail. From
the Detroit papers we learn of the arrest
in that city of Henry Gumming?, post
master at Harrison Valleys Potter coun
ty, Pa., on a similar charge. lie has
been sent to Pittsburgh for trial.
A Villarous Fraud.
The Ci ncinuati Enquirer narrates the
following distrcs?ing affair that occurred
on Thursday evening last, near Osborne,
Ohio :
It appears that about three years since
n. farmer named William Ricketts left
bis family to seek bis fortune in the gold
mines of California. About seven months
hiuce Mrs. R. received information from
a person representing himself as coming
direct from San Francisco that her bus-
baud had died. The wife believed the
j-torv and manifested much distress of
niiud upon the receipt of the intelligence
Her informant, whose name is WHUan;
T. ' Gaylord t inanife.-ted much sympathy
for Mrs. R. in her bereavement, and fre
quently visited rue house to condole with
her in her affliction. The unsuspecting
wife, appreciating the kind nets of Gay
lord, tendered him the hospitalities of hei
house and home. Gaylord, with an ap
parent indifference, declined the offer, but
finanly proposed to accept the same on
condition of marriage. The astonished
Mrs. R. at first declined, but afterward.1
agreed to let the matter stand open until
Gvlord should call- again. In the inter-
im Gaylord abstracted from the post of
fice all letters directed to Mrs. Rickett-;
and one from her husband he opened.
terued. and then destroyed. The letter
etated that he did not intend to return
home for three years, but was very anx
ious to see his tvife. Gaylord again cal
led on Mrs. Ricketts and insisted upon an
-answer to his proposition. Mrs. R., nftei
a few moments' reflection, consented to
the union, and the time for their marriage
vas set. The day came, the- were mar
ried, and by their marriage Mr. Gaylord
came into possession of a farm valued at
cveral thousand dollars.
Soon after their marriage Mr. Gaylord
proposed to his wife to sell out and move
to Kansas, and there locate for life. The
wife consented, and the farm was adver
tised for sale at a sacriGcc. The adver
ment was seen by Mr. Ricketts in San
Francisco. Enraged and chagrined, Mr.
R. took the first steamer and arrived in
Osborne on Wednesday evening last.
2Ir. R. made diligent inquiries, and learn
ed the facts as above stated. Arming
himself with a knife and a brace of pis
tols, he went to his house about 10 o'
clock at night. All was quiet. Ricketts
raped at the door several times. It was
finally opened by Mrs. Gaylord, and
Ricketts entered. Mrs. G. threw on her
drcsp, and, lighting the candle, turned to
look upon" the. Btranger who had come at
such an unseasonable hour of the night.
A shriek, and the expression of 'Great
God 1 Ricketts is that you!' followed,
and the astonished, affrighte d wife fell
insensible to the floor. Gaylord, who war
in an adjoining room rushed out to sec
what had happened. Ricketts immedi
ately seized him by the throat and plun
ged the knife into his tide, and then went
to where his unfortunate wife was lying,
cut her on the shoulder and neck, and
nnM.unL Tim trtfVv roffncnrJiin
informed tho neighbors of what had trans
pired, and itnmcdiato search was made
for Ricketts. He has undoubtedly made
a successful escape. Gaylord was lying
verv low when last heard from, and the
probability is that he must die.
;
A Drunken Husband Murdered Ms Wife.
At Topham, Maine, November lt.,
Chas. Crisp murdered his -wife in a most
brutal manner, by pounding her with a
piece of a sleigh shoe. Several who Eaw
the corpse say they never saw a human
body so disfigured, being lacerated and
bruised from head to foot Tho misera
ble, brutal husband, Bays she died in a fit.
There is reason to belive that after the
fatal deed was.consumated, tho villain
hauled the corpse two nrilosin-a wagon,
washed the blood from it. and returned it
to tho house. The man is a drunken
scoundrel, and it is said she was in the
habit of drinking with hitu at times. j
The murderer is in prison,
i'ji i W rn
Elections were held on 'lluesdann
of the Northern- States, which-clcot sixty
B')tbti of Corigres, ;-cw
York, Nvr Jersey, Illinois Michigan,
Wisconsin, ami Massachusetts.
Mh.ois.Wc have very little informa
tion from this rtate, but what there is, is
encouraging.
The movement is Anti-
Nclia?ka thus far, but news has not Dcen
received from enough counties, nor defi
nitely enough, "to indicate the decided re
suit.
IViscottsi'n.rSo far as heard from, the
Republicans elect two State Senators and
mx Asseinbhrnen. and the Democrats one
Senator and 6ve Assemblymen. The
movement is Anti-Nebraska and Anti
Administration in the Congressional elec
tion?.
UlirJUan. The New York paper?
say : The returns indicate that the State
has goue Anti-Nebraska by an over
whelming majority, and the election of
the entire Anti-Nebraska State and Con
gressional ticket.
Nav York. The election in New Yoik
was for State and local officers, members
of Congress, and of the Legislature.
There were fourteen State tickets in the
field. The four principal candidates for
Governor were, Seymour, (Soft Demo
crat) the present incumbent, who was al
so supported by the Rum and Foreign in
fluence; Clark, Whig and Temperance;
Ulraann, Know Nothing; and Rrousou,
Hard Shell DvMnocrat. The latest returns
for Governor, as given in the Tstbunot of
yesterday, are as follows :
Seymour, Seft
Clark, Whig.
Soymour ahead,
127,825
25,037
2.18S
Kiie Jersey. The election in New Jer
sey was for Congiessmen, members of tho
Legislature and local officers. The dele
gation in the present Congress stands
four Democrats to one Win. In
the
next Conjrrcis it'v.ill stand four WLijzs to
one Democrat. A Whig gain of three.
Indiana. The Indianapolis papers
give the official vote for members of Con
gress in that State, from wuich it appears
that the Nebraska men are elected in
nine of the eleven districts. The Anti-
Nebraska net majority in the
Congrcs-
s-ioh
tal vote is i-i.ou.
JSInss'tchuseVs. Gueat Know Noth
ing Victory. As far as we have the re
turns of tlfe Election in this State, the
Know Nothings have elected their Gov
ernor by an overwhelming majority.
They have also in the districts heard
from, elected their Congressmen, Assem
blymen and all other officers.
Anti-Bank.
The Warren, Pa. Mail informs us that
Gov. Riglcr has signed the bill to incor
porate a bank at that place sice tiie
election. The bill was passed last wiu-
ter, ana uas ueen in excellency s.
pocket ever since. It would not do to sigt.
it while he and his party were crying out
against banks and professing hostility to
all such institut'ons; but now that the e
lection is over and nothing further is to
be gained by playing false, the bank
charter is signed, and the good citizens of
Pennsj-lvania have one more rag mill' in
their midt-t. Wc trust its paternity will
be duly remembered, notwithstanding the
coyness with which it has been acknowl
edged. Pittsburg Gazette.
Suspension of tho Citv Bank, Columbus,
Ohio.
BurFALO, Nov. 10. The City Bank
of ColumbuF, Ohio, closed its door this
morning. The liabilities arc understood
to be large.
Hard Headed. A Southerner
gave
a party to a few friends, who, happening
to converse about Sambo's power of head
endurancej the genilcman said ho owned
a negro whom no one in the party could
knock down or injure by striking on the
head. A strong burly fellow laughed at
the idea, and as Sam, the colored per
son, was about entering with the candles,
the gcutlcman stood behind the door, and
us he entered, Sam's head received a
powerful eockdologer. Tho candles
flickered a little, but Sam passed quietly
on, merely exclaiming, 'Gentlemen, be
careful wid yer elbow?, or dc lights will
be distinsuiahed !'
u.
'The victor' is not alwa-s to thestrong,'
as tho boy said when he killed a skunk
with a brickbat.
.
The virulance of yellow fever at New
Orleans continues unabated. During the
week ending 30th ult., there were one
hundred and seen deaths of this disease,
and among the victims was Lieutenant.
Gov. Farger. At Montgomery, Ala., the
disease has entirely disappeared ; and at
Charleston and Savannah the authorities
have adopted resolution; that the fever
has ceased nr an epidemic, and that it is
perfectly safo for absentees to return
homo.
A mother and son in Detroit, Mich.,
were convicted of stealing. When tho
mother had been sentenced to five years'
confinement, the sun arose and begged
tho Court to release her, aud imprison
him for five voars additional, which of
course could not b? done.
?3
F&diers of 'the War of 1812-14. ;
- "National Convention at WAsnia
TON. The defenders of the country in
the second war of independence who still
survive and tho children of such as are.
dead, arc requested to scud delegates to
the city of Washington, to attend a
Convention, to be held there on the
8th of January nest, 1855 to adopt
such measures as will induce Cou-
ress not only to do ju:tice to them, but
uHo to the widows of those who have
gone to their last account."'
Ry the above it will be seen that a
convention is to be held at Washington
City, on the Sib day of January,! 855, to
your interests. The soldiers, volunteers
and militia, who served in that war, resid
ing in tho Congressional district, com-
posod of the counties of Northampton,
Carbon, Monroe, Pike, and Wayne, arc
requested to assemble at the Court House,
in the Rorough of Easton, on Ihursuay
ovening, the 30th of Nov. hist., at & o'
clock, to take measures to have the said
district properly represented in the said
Convention, in order that justice may be
done to them and to the widows and
children of their brother soldiers.
James M. Porter,
Peter Nunscsser,
Conrad Heckman,
Philip Reichardt,
John Ludwijr,
Adam Hawk,
Rcuj. F. Arndt,
George Rcichardt,
Chriitain Mclzgar.
George Straub,
Samuel Wiihelm,
Abraham Miller,
Frederick Mattes,
John Yohe,
John De Hart,
Samuel Walter,
William Walter,
Andrew Wilbour,
!'Io!'n lossr
Valentine Deily,
Stephen Raines,
Samuel Rachman,
Peter Everhardt,
saac Carey,
Simon Frantz,
Jacob Walter,
j Nicholas Dawnlt,
Michael Kichline,
John Luchcnbauch, Samuel Moore,
Gharles Genther, Joseph Horn,
Mclchoir Horn,
George Dingier,
P. F. R Schmidt,
Joseph Weaver,
Peter Lawall,
John Correll,
Jacob Kilpatrick,
Eli Mettlcr,
Adam Ward,
James Barnes,
George Hess,
George A. nice,
Wm. Joline,
John Soloman.
Hcrrible Affair in Philadelphia.
A woman is under arrest in Philadel
phia, charged with infanticide, having
killed several of her children, at the
time of their birth. It secmst that the
mother of the slaughtered children, whose
name is Pamela Snyder, has lived for a
number of vears in the neighborhood of
Rising Sun 'Village, in the Twenty-Third
Ward" She was in the habit of perfor
ming domcstis labors for families in the
vicinitv, and for a number of years has
been known to have given birth to several
children, but thev generally disappeared
mysteriously, and rumors were rife that
they had been foully ncait with.
Within a few days Mayor Conrad re
ceived by letter an intimation of thc-
nianner in which the woman has made
way with her offspring, and he immediate
ly despatched limb Constable Uiark ami
Special Officer Seed to ferret out the facts,
and if the circumstances would warrant
it. to take the female into custody. The
woman was accordingly arrested on Sun
day last, and she voluntarily confessed to
the officers that she bad, difierent tunc
within the paat six years given birth to
six children, which had cither died about
the time of their birth, or had been mur
dered by their mother !
Tlmco r.liilflrnn wlm-Ji werfi nil of course
neaitimatQ wcre tne re5Uit Qf intercourse
j with different men ; and to make the af-
! fnXr. nynyn c Vi l nr I no" tllO linflO ff t Il4 11111.
crable woman, a man named W. Snyder,
is charged with the paternity of two ol
them. Snyder is now in prison, having
been arrested yesterday, tie is a mar-
ried tran. He is also accused of having
been an accessory in tho murder of some
of the children
Pamela, after her arrest, made a full
confession of her crimes.
She lies very low from the combined
effects of her late accouchmcnt, her after
nc-lcct and exposure, and her more re-
cent excitement.
The miserable woman is but twenty-two
or three years of age, and is said to be
quite prepossessing in appearance
fc .ii i -
rgyThe American party in the Leg
islature of Pennsvlvania proves to be
much stronger than was supposed. There
arc sixty members, (says the Harrisburg
Telegraph,) of the next Legislature known
to belona; to the American order
A Model Banking System.
A letter states that of the banks of
Indianna, " there are two or three, the
entire body corporates of which are car
ricd in the hats of the owners." Some
banks are situated in inaccessible parts
of tho State, requiring a week's journey
on horseback to reach them, -.and therefore
the notes caunot be protested., These
banks ficure with large capitals in the
statement published a day or two since
It is probable the capitals thus stated are
not in existence, as the mnahitants ot the
inaccessible parts of the State do not get
uiany discounts. StiiUheir notes are sown
broadcast over many of the Western
State., inflating prices of almost every
article to the highest pitch ; then falling
almost worthless upon the hands of their
deluded holders, and finally bought up at
a heavy discount by the very speculators
who originally issued them and received
dollar for dollar. Verily,- this Indiana
Free Banking system may well be term
ed "free swindling." "
Cholera at Messina. A corres
pondent of the Boston Atlas, writing from
Marseilles, states that the English Coun
sul at that place had received reliable
information that the most fearful rava
ges of cholera wero dovasting Messina,
no less than Fixteen thousand persons
have fallen victims, out of a population of
40,000 ! A mortality hardly less than
during the prevalence of the great plague,
in 1743.
o
Dreadful State of Affairs. In
the town of Crockett, Texas, there is said
to be not a single marriageable female.
What a chance for old maidb !
Foreign Sews.
ONE WEEK LATER FROM EUROPE.
Arrival of the America at Halifax,
Sebaslopol not yet TakenTrouble be-
tween Austria and Russia toulo not
Allowed to Enter France.
The Royal Mail Steamship America,
Captain Lang, from Liverpool of the 28th
ult., arrived at Halifax on Thursday af
ternoon. The Collins .steamship Atlantic, from
New York on the 14th ult., arrived off
Holyhead, at noon, on Wednesday, the
25th, but could not enter the Mersey un
til 3 o'clock on Thursday morning.
The St Louis sailed from Southamp
ton, for New York, on the 25th ult.
The screw steamship Alps arrived t
Kingston, Ireland, on the 23d, with troops
frotu Halifax, and reached Liverpool on
tho 25th.
The ship Triton, from Glasgow, bound
to Eoston, was abandoned on the 11th
October. The crew beiug taken off by
the North Wind, arrived at Havre.
The London Times says : 'Wo are in
formed that Mr. Soule, American Minis
ter at Madrid, was, on Tuesday, the 25th,
refused permission to pass through France,
on his return Irom England to Spain.
The London Morning Post, announc
insi semi-officially the acquisition of Sa
mana, says : 'It" amounts virtually, if not
absolutelv. to the annexation of St. Do
mingo. The acquisition, by the United
States, of so important a position in the
West Indies a position threatening on
either hand the Spanish Islands of Cub
and Porto Rico, and so directly affecting
the British West possessions, cannot be
received with indifference.'
A letter from the Hague of the 21st.,
mentioning the departure of Mr. Gibson
for America, states that he took with him
the result of the conference of American
Ministers at Ostend.
The War.
Sobastopol is not taken. The. latest
advices show that twenty days elapsed
between the departure of the besieging
armies from Ealaklnva, and their opening
fire upon Sebastopol. Roth tho French
and English had their batteries ready on
the 15th. On the 17th fire was opeucd
on the nlacc from land and sea. The
bombardment continued till night. Th
Russians lost 500 killed and wounded.
Admiral Kornileff was killed. The Rus
sian fortifications suffered very little
On the next day (18th) the bombard
ment was resumed, Irom tho allied bat
teries only.
Russian dispatches say that the garri
son make frequent sorties
When the mail left Constantinople on
the 10th, five steamers had arrived
at
Balaklava with men wounded in repelling
a creat sovtie of 20,000 strong
Generals Radian and Canrobert had
formally summoned Sebastopol to sur
render, and required women and children
and sick to be sent away, and flags to be
hoisted upon the hospitals.
So far as is known, the Russian Army
is concentrating on thn Upper Belbek, and
already numbers 45,000.
The allied army is divided into a siege,
army and. army of observation. The let
ter i? posted on the extensive table land
whioh separates Balaklava from Sebasto
pol. accessible only from two points the
ravine of Tchernaya on the nerth west, aud
pass of Balaklava on the southeast. 1 Im
position is defended by sixteen redoubt?
The Russians are hovering on the out
side of the allies' positions. On the 7th,
thev made a strong demonstration in the
northwest extremity of the camp, but
were kept iu check by artillery, and re
tired without giving battle.
On the 2d, 5th and 11th, the garrison
of Sebastopol made sorties, and destroyed
some small works.
On the evening of the 5th, a convoy of
4,000 Russians succeeded in entering Sc
bastopol.
The city docs not appear to be yet
surrounded, but only on two sides.
The Allies now numder 110,000, and
8 000 additional French were ready to
embark from Marseilles on tho 21st, and
8,000 Turks from Varna.
Letters of the 12th say that the nature
of the ground a foot of earth on solid
rock renders scientific approaches im
possible; that the allies have, however,
300 guns battery, and after a few days
fire will attempt to storm the garrison
which is estimated at 40,000 men, with
plenty ot ammunition ana supplies, it is
supposed that although tho allies should
carry the town, the Russians can make
a protracted resistance in Fort Gonstan-
tmc.
It is true that the Russians have sunk
eight ships across thfi channel, which is
700 yards wide, and fine-of-battlc ships,
anchored close to the shore, complete the
barricade.
Altogether tho prospect of the speedy
fall ot Sebastopol is not so favorable to
the allies, but nevertheless intelligence of
tho victory is expected by the people in
England and France from hour to hour.
Admiral Machimoff, who commanded
at Sinope, is commandant of Sebastopol.
He has published an address, saying that
he will defend it to the last, and any one
is welcome to shoot him if ho don't.
Advices from Constantinople, of the
13th, ba' that the Russians had retaken
Eupatoria, and that the English garrison
of 500 men had retired with the loss of
one gun. This is denied in tho English
papers.
Au allied force i3 sent under General
Bosquet and Achraet Pasha to Perekop
to prevent the advance of the Russians.
Heavy rains had retartded the advance,
but tho weather was again fine.
A rumor became current in the allied
camp that on the 11th the Russian army
trom bimpferopol would attack them, and
that the Greeks in Bulakalva would sim
ultaneously fire the town. The Greeks
were consequently all expelled.
Danube.
There is no doubt that tho Russians
have re-entered the Debrodja in force, but
details are wanting.
Austria.
Affair3 look black berween Russia and
Austria. A great council of war was held
at Vienna. The Emperor presided, and
Rarou Hes9 was present. It is reported
that Austria-summons Russia to withdraw
rom the frontier of Gallicia.
The whole Austrian army was to be
put on a war footing on the 20th. The
garrison of Vienna has orders to be ready
or march at forty-eight hour37 notice.
Russia, meantime, continues to menace
Austria.
The Czar hn9 pone to Warsaw. His
eldest son took command of the Guards.
Gen. Rudiger commands the Grenadiers,
and Prince Pashkiewitch Comnnder-in-Chief
of the asmy of the WTest. All are
concentrating on the Austrian frontier.
Little doubts are entertained at Vienna
that, ere long, there will be actual hostil
ities. Prussia.
Austria has returned an answer to the
last dispatch of the Prussian Government,
rcnentinfc that Austria will adhere infiox-
ible to her policy expressed in tne noie u
tti an.1i fipntpmher. The action wmcn
Prussia would take was looked tor wun
nn viotv.
The Princo ot I'russia nas accepieu mu
... . . i.jii..
commana oi tne icucrui luiuwa
i- . i .i . i r n.. at o t?
ence.
Great Britain.
The British fleet ia to leave the Baltic
about the cud of November, returning in
sqadrous to Portsmouth, Sheerness, 1 ly-
luouth and Uoric.
Five floating batteries and twenty gun
boats, drawing four feet water each, arc
building in England for spring operation.
Another Polar Expedition is to be sent
next spring to bring home the remains of
Sir John Franklin s pari'. Vr. itae wn
have the command.
A fralvanic apparatus was being con
strucU-d at Ncw-Castle-on-Tyne to blow
up the tulips sunk off Sebastopol.
An extensive Ore at Liverpool had dc
stroyed six warehouses, and property val
ued at 20.000. bclonsnns to various
. J 4 Of
merchants, but chiefly to Messrs. Holy
rcux, Hutchinson & Co. 40(30 bales o
cotton and a large quantity of naval store:
were burned.
At Manchester, the warehouses of Had
den, Searle & Co.. and Thodc & Co., had
also been destroyed by fire
Tho national subscriptions for the
wounded soldiers exceed 10,000.
France.
The Emperor has written a letter
condolence to Madame St. Arnoud, aud
be.-tows a nension of twenty thousaud
X -
francs as a national rceompens
The whole camp of the South is to em
bark for the East, as required
Spain.
Mr. Soule's return to Madrid caused
nuite an excitement, and a clamor jva
-j
being made to induce the Spanish Gov
ernment to solicit his recall.
Queen Isabella has abandoned the idea
of abdicating. Cabrera is in Paris.
The legitimists are preparing for a
movemeut.
Austria.
Austria has just concluded an immense
financial operation, .by which she has
transferred to a company of capitalists,
represented by Messieurs Andre, or Par--,
Sinn and Eskclcs, of Vienna, all the
railroads constructed aud woiked by the
Government iu Hungary and Bohemia.
The company pays 200,000,000 francs,
on which the Government guarantees five
per cent.
The Latest
There ia nothing of importance, via St.
Petersburg, from Sebastopol.
On the 21st the operations of the be
siegers continued, and their fire was ef
fectively answered. Tho fortifications
were little damaged.
Trerizond, Oct. 19. The Abasia
Chiefs have refused to receive Shamyl's
Envoy. Hazif Pasha has, consequently,
cut of? all communication with the coast
of Abasia.
Paris, Friday niht There is no con
firmation of the entry of the Russians in
to the Dobrodjn, it is therefore doubtod.
Sir John Burgoyne, on the 1'lth, fixed
the sites for batteries which will destroy
the Russian shipping. They are to be
mounted with four, eight, and ten-inch
guns, about 1'JOO yards from the vessels.
A Russian war steamer had been cap
tured bythc- fleet.
The Moniteurof this morning contains
an accouut of a victory over the Russians
near Gumri. They lost their baggage
and thirty guns, and a Russian General
was killed. The Turks began to besiege
the citadel of Gumri, when the Russian
corps which formerly defeated the Turks
at Bajazid, advanced to the rescue from
Erivan. It wa3, however, repulsed, and
shut in a defile, where it suffered consid
erable loss.
The clipper Visson has arrived at Liv
erpool in 103 days passage from Hong
Kong, with the first cargo of new teas.
On Friday noon, a countryman nam
ed William Walker fresh from the sandy
soil of New Jersey, was attracted to a
well known Peter Funk establishment on
the corner of Greenwich and, Rector
.-treets, by the vigorous cries of "going,
going, gone 1" Unsuspecting, he enter
ed the eeller, and found himself away at
a rapid rate for a "choap and splendid
nold watch." He reached the sum of
-$35 in bidding, and the 'gold' watch wa
knocked down and handed to him, and
the dollars promptly paid. With his
prize he started-for his friends at Wash
ington market, who had been selling out
their produce, and who on examining his
purchase, saw at once how he was duped.
Taking their friend in company with them,
they Ftarted for the Funk rendezvous,
and, without any notice whatever, fell to
heating them with the butt end of their
whips. The Peters left the premises in
double quick time, leaving behind them
five fine watches, from which out hero
selected one worth S75, and then left the
premiies.-r-jV. Y. Sun.
A Wealthy Woodsawyer. It in
stated that there is a wood sawyer in
Boston whose interest income is $800 per
year, and that his occupation yields him
an average income of 54 per day.
I0SS OF THE SHIP NEW- ERA
Frightful loss of Life,
tU 9 o'clock Monday morning, Mesara.
Charles. C. Duncan & Co., of South-st..
received a telegraphic dispatch from
onir Branch, on the Jersey Shore, in-
brminff them of the loss of tho packet'
shin New Era, consigned to them, with
" i f 13 rpi.
passengers ana cargo irom xiikmku. uu
first dispatch merely stated the bald fact
that tho 8bip had grounded on the outer
Bar, off Deal, some 12 miles to the outh ,
of Sandy Hook.
The consignees immediately teiegrapn
cd to the steam-tugs Achilles and Levia
than, then lying inside of the Hook, to go
to her assistance.
Subsequent telegraphic dispatches inform .
us that the ship went ashore in a dense
bg, with over 400 passengers and a crew.
of 30 men on board. It appears that".
the ship lay thumping on the sand-bar-through
the night, firing signal guns for
assistance from the shore. But owing to
the fog, the darkness of the night, and
the heavy sea tnen on, it was impo38inio
to approach her.
At daybreak the beach was nneu wnu
tho fishermen, wreckers, and surf-men
who had congregated from many miles a
long the shore, to render assistance to
tho stranded ship and her unfortunate
passengers. The roughness of the, surf,
however, prevented them from attempting
to get on board, and as the ship was
broadside on, and thumping heavily, tho
ca all the while making nearly a clean
sweep over ner aecKs, me ouiy avuuuuiv
means of assistance were the mortar and-
life-car. The stake was foon driven bm-
ly into the sand and the hawser secured
to it, but up to our last accounts, after re
peated attempts, owing to tho great dis
tance of the vessels Irom the shore, wo
learn that they had been unable to send
a shot and line over her, so that the life
car had not been brought into use. The
fog, which continued to prevail through
the day.occasionally lifted, when thesccna
from the beach is said to have been truly
appalling. The screams and cries of ter
ror from the passengers of the doomed
ship blauched the check aud made tht?
stoutest hearts quail. The hardy coast
men almost raved in their utter impo
tence, and frequent and desperate at
tempts were made to launch the surf-boat.1,
but each effort only served to show the
impossibility of keeping a boat afloat in
such violeut breakers. As the fog now
and then cleared up for a few moments,
the pcoj.ie on shorj could see the poor
emigrants clinging to various parts of the
ship, to sae themselves from beiug wash-,
ed into the sea. 'J he bulwarks had been
washed away, and men and women, clamp
ing their children in their arms, implor
ingly beckoning and crying for succor,
might be seen scattered over the upper
deck. And then a tremendous sea would
sweep over them, washing numbers from
their frail hold into' the boiling breakers
below. A few of these sot ashore alive,
but the greater- portion were drowned.
Those who succeeded in reaching the beach
had lashed themselves to planks and spar3
or clung to fragments of the bulwarks,
and by their aid managed to swim past
the undertow, when they were caught by
the surf-men and saved.
The captain and some twcny or thir
ty ot the passengers were said to have
i cached the beach in safety, but no names
are given. It is stated but the author
ity ia not given that nearly one-half of
the passengers were drowucd in the steer
age shortly after the vessel struck. It
certainly appears that large numbers of
dead bodies were washed ashore during
the whole of yesterday.
At last accounts the steam-tog Achir
los had reached the neighborhood of tho
New Era, but the strong sea renderd
near approach impossible.
A later dispatch to the consignees
states that the ship was fast breaking up,
and that some 380 to 400 passengers still
remained on board, nearly one-half Qf
them drowned in the 'tween decks; end
though every effort was being made, but
slight hopes were entertained of saving
the lives of the remainder.
The New Era is a new ship of 1,340
tuns, having been built at Rath, Me., in
April la.t, and was on her first voyagu
when she went ashore. She sailed from
Bremen with a cargo of 600 tuns of chalk
and 400 passengers, for this port, con
signed to Chas. C. Duncan & Co., of No.
52 South-st., consignees of the illfated
Powhatan, loss off Barnegatt last spring.
She was commanded by Capt. Thos. J.
Henry, formerly commander of the Cor
delia. It is not known whether the Ne.
Era had any cabin passengers on board
or not. The vessel was owned by Messrs
Ilitchcocktfc Co., of Bath, and hi'r cap
tain. The Mutual Office, of Bath, Me.
have an insurance of 10,000 upon her;
the remainder of her value, 70,000, iit
insured in Boston Offices.
A Startling Statement
Last Sabbath evening the Rev. Henry
Ward Bt.eeher delivered a sermon on the
recent disaster to the steamship Arctic,
and in the course of his remarks he stated
upon tho authority of individuals deeply
interested, that during tho last twelve
mouths, more than four thousand Amer
ican vessels, including those on the lakes
aud rivers, have been lost. During tha
same length of time, the number of ves
sels lo.-t throughout the whole world was
ten thousaud ! Up to tho year 1850, tho
average uumber of vessels lost all over the
world, averaged 3,0l)0 a year. The a
inount of iusuranoe paid by the Marino
insurance Companies in New York, last
year, amounted to twelve millions. Tho
los-s on land by railroads and otherwiso
amounted to eighteen millions, making
the total loss by sea and land, to be thir
ty millions of dollars.
F. Glcnson, Esq., has disposed of his.
interest in Gleason's Pictorial and Flag
of our Union news papers, to Maturin MT.
Ballou, Esq., for the round sum of $200;
000; This is tho largest newspaper sale
ever effected in this ooantry. Mr. Bal
lou has been editor of the two, publications
since their corainenoament.