ward the ship the second time. When the surf broke, the water would recoil with fearful violence against the ship, and create a whirlpool or eddy, like a mill-race, from forward, aft, alongside, and under the stern. Mr. French seemed to manage the boat well, and was approaching cautiously, when Captain Dall sang out to him, "Be careful, Mr. French: don't get into that eddy, or it will take you down!" The crew then began to back water, but it was too late: the boat was taken by the current, darted swiftly aft, capsized under the counter, and the gallant French and two or three of his crew were drowned. They were sucked out of sight in an instant, and carried out in the undertow.

About this time a tremendous sea struck the ship, carrying away the stern; but fortunately no person was aft at the moment. We did not know at this time that the other two boats were lost; and we waited for some time for them to return. Seeing that something must have happened to prevent their return, Captain Dall asked Mr. O'Neill, the chief engineer, whether he could carry a line to the shore with a boat: he answered, "I will try," taking the last boat; and all our hopes seemed centred upon it, with the belief that we might save ourselves by the line. Fortunately the boat reached the shore in safety with that means. A larger one was bent on from the ship and hauled to the beach. Miss Gregg was still on board, as was also her brother.

Numbers of the passengers now commenced to try the line. In almost every instance they were washed away from the rope before they had left the ship twenty yards. The force of the surf was tremendous. It came in from the ocean in toppling walls of water, and kept the rope almost constantly buried. Seeing the inevitable fate of those who had gone before, the next few made a running noose to prevent being washed away; but this proved a fatal expedient, for they got entangled in the line, and were quickly drowned, being unable to get above water for even a moment.

Mr. Rogers, the bar pilot, attempted to get on shore by the rope, and, when about thirty yards from the ship, came upon an unknown man, who was clinging and afraid to move. "Go on! go on!" shouted Mr. Rogers. "I

shall drown!" screamed the other. "Go on,' replied Mr. Rogers: "you can't get back now!" At this moment a huge roller burst over them, and the man, letting go his hold, clasped his companion around the waist. They were now far under water. Rogers struggled, freed himself from the deathgripe, dived, and finding he had been washed clear of the rope, buffeted with the surf, and at last was tossed on the beach nearly dead. The surf was full of pieces of the wreck, which must have killed several who were not

drowned. Meantime, Mr. O'Neill tried several times to launch his boat, but was unable to do so.

Mr. Nation, the first assistant engineer, attempted the line, and made himself fast to it with a running bowline; but, as in every other instance of this kind, he was drowned before reaching the shore. By being made fast to the line, death was certain, as it proved, for the rope bellied so into the water that there was no slipping a noose along it.

The four Chinamen were washed from the line, but reached the shore nearly dead. Mr. T. V. Smith, one of the passengers, is a remarkably corpulent, heavy man. He did not take the line, but drifted ashore on a piece of the wreck, and was not materially injured.

Mr. Perkins, a passenger, spoke to me about eleven o'clock, and handed me a pistol to keep for him. I did not see him from that time. He told me he did not believe the wreck would break up before the gale abated. He was among the lost.

Mr. Sweitzer and wife, of Oregon City, had come down to San Francisco shortly before to get the corpse of their child, with which they were on their way home. The lady was saved in Mr. French's lifeboat. broke entirely over this boat; but she lived it out, and reached the shore in safety.

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After several passengers had been drowned, the others decided not to attempt that way, and refused to leave the ship. Captain Dall told them repeatedly that it was their only chance to cling to the rope as far as they could until washed off, and then take the chances for reaching the shore.

The gale was now at its height, and the ship threatened to break to pieces at every sea which burst against her. I told the captain that I should try the line,-which he advised me to do. I stripped, let myself down, and commenced shifting along hands and feet. When about ten yards from the ship the surf rolled over me, and, though I clung to the rope with my utmost strength, I lost my hold, and felt that I was adrift. At this moment the thought came over me that no one had got ashore safely, and that I was only about to share the fate of the others. I was nearly strangled before reaching the beach, up which I struggled, and was drawn out of the surf by the group on shore.

We could not see the ship from the beach. It was raining and blowing, and the surf rolling in tremendously. There were then several dead bodies along the beach. The place where we landed was near a village with but two houses, called Centreville. The people had already gathered to the beach, and lent all the succor possible. The women were taken to a house and cared for. It was piteous to witness their distress,-especially that of Mrs. Sweitzer, whose husband had already been drowned. The people had seen our rockets, and heard the firing when it first

But the most sorrowful spectacle was that of the body of Miss Gregg, which, after her death, during the horrors of that dreadful night, the force of the surf had not been able to wash away from the iron to which she had been securely lashed. The other two bodies were gone,-only the lashings remaining. The surf, at times, ran clear over the body of the unfortunate young woman, and had washed away every vestige of apparel. The head hung down with the long hair floating over the face. When the surf broke, the body would swing out, and with the recoil fall back again against the iron. This was witnessed from the beach, there being no means of removing the corpse until the tide fell, when a line was formed by men joining hands and thus extending themselves out into the surf. The water was not then more than four feet deep,-a large sandbar having formed inside of where the wreck had been. The last one climbed up upon the wheel and cut the corpse down, when it was taken ashore and placed with the

rest.

The statement that Mr. French had returned to save this young lady in particular is erroneous. He went back to the ship, as he said, for all on board. Nor can his death be attributed to her refusal to go in the boat, as under any circumstances a boat could not have lived alongside in the eddy.

In the morning fourteen bodies were found on the beach. Some of them bore marks of bruises about the head and face, received, doubtless, from the pieces of the wreck floating in the surf. These were all buried behind a small hillock a few hundred yards from the beach. The day I left the place, I heard that two more bodies had been found by the Indians, several miles up the coast; but I was unable to get there.

Two of us went along the beach as far as Eel River, and hunted faithfully for any bodies up to the day of my departure for Humboldt; but, although we found innumerable fragments of the wreck, not a body could be discovered. It is probable that the bodies of Mr. French, Mr. Gladwell, and Mr. Nation were carried out to sea by the undertow. They may prove to be among the two above mentioned.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 6. SHOCKING DEATH.-In Philadelphia, this day, a colored man, named James Battis, residing in Little Pine Street, above Seventh, was found frozen to death in an outhouse of a building at Seventh and Bradford's Alley. He went there whilst sick, and,

ance.

INFANTICIDE IN DAYTON, OHIO.-In Dayton, Ohio, this day, Hannah Gill, a servantgirl in the employ of the Rev. Mr. Willard, was arrested upon a charge of infanticide. It appears that two boys, sons of Mr. Willard, heard something like the wail of an infant in the privy on their premises. They searched for the cause of it at the time, but found nothing. They said nothing to any one about it, thinking that they might probably be mistaken. But when the attention of the older members of the family was called to the appearance of the girl, they stated their suspicions of the day previous. The Marshal was then called upon to arrest the girl, who confessed that she had been accidentally delivered while in the privy. The vault was then examined, and under a pile of straw and rubbish the body of a full-grown male child was discovered, whose features closely resembled those of the mother. The girl is about twenty-two years old, and not very intelligent.

DEVOURED BY RATS.-In New York, this day, an unknown man, of genteel appearance, was committed to one of the cells of the Jefferson Market Police Court during the night, and the next morning he was found dead. The poor man's body had been nearly half devoured by rats! and the spectacle presented to the coroner was one easier imagined than described. He was afterwards recognised by his son as a German, named Jacob Steubenford, aged fifty-three years.

CHILD KILLED.-In Philadelphia, this day, in Durham Place, running north from Race Street, east of Sixth, as a carter who had hauled a slaughtered hog, weighing 316 pounds, was carrying it on his shoulder to a house at the far end of the Place, he slipped, and the hog fell upon a child, two years old, killing it instantly. It was crushed in a shocking manner. The coroner held an inquest, and a verdict of accidentally killed was rendered.

DEATH OF AN AGED COUPLE.-In Iowa, in St. Clair township, this day, Abram Stone, Sr., died, aged 90 years, and on the 22d, Eunice Stone, his relict, aged 87. They were born in Connecticut, lived forty years in Moriah, Essex county, New York, and removed to Iowa in 1850. They died surrounded by their children and their children's children, down even to the fifth generation. Mr. Stone gave his first vote for General Washington,-probably the only man in Iowa who had that pleasure, although a citizen of Davenport saw Washington and heard him speak.

SHOOTING A SEDUCER.-In Chicago, this day, a German, named August Williams, shot a countryman of his own, Charles Kaufolz, with whom the former's wife had arranged to elope. A criminal intercourse had existed for some months between them, which was confessed by Mrs. W. The enraged husband procured a pistol and sought his victim, whom he found about midnight, shot him on the spot, clubbing him with the butt end after shooting him in the breast. No words passed between them. Williams surrendered himself next day.

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.-In Boston, this day, Henry Merchain, of Dickinson, Mass., shot his wife, in the presence of her parents, and then shot himself dead. The motive of the rash act was his jealousy of his wife.

DEATH OF JOSEPH BARKER.-Judge Joseph Barker, the oldest white native of Ohio, died at his residence at Newport, above Marietta, this day.

DEATH OF BISHOP NEUMANN.-Died, suddenly, in Philadelphia, this day, the Right Rev. John N. Neumann, D.D., Catholic Bishop of Philadelphia. About three o'clock in the afternoon the bishop complained of feeling strangely. Soon after he left the Episcopal residence on Logan Square, and was walking along Vine Street near Thirteenth, when he fell suddenly dead. The remains of the deceased were removed to his late home, and the physicians who were called in expressed the opinion that death had resulted from apoplexy.

Bishop Neumann was born in Bohemia, on the 28th of March, 1811, and he was, consequently, not yet forty-nine years of age. He came to America about the year 1834, and was ordained a priest by Bishop Dubois, in New York, on the 25th of June, 1836. He officiated as a missionary in the western part of New York, near Buffalo, for several years, with marked success. On the 16th of January, 1842, he made his profession in the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, and officiated as the Superior of the congregation at different times in Baltimore and Pittsburg, in which latter city he brought about the building of the church of St. Philomena. He was appointed, by the present Pope, Bi-hop of Philadelphia, and was consecrated such on the 28th of March, 1852, succeeding the present Reverend Archbishop of BaltiHe was the fourth Bishop of Phila

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delphia. Bishop Neumann was a profound scholar.

trian Empire, but was master of the various tongues of modern Europe, in addition to the dead languages studied in the course of his professional career. The deceased was much beloved by the members of his own church, and he enjoyed the respect and esteem of all others who knew him.

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GREAT FIRE IN NEW YORK.-In New York, this day, about a quarter before five o'clock, a fire broke out in the extensive looking-glass and picture-frame manufactory of Black, Gramm & Co., on Beekman Street, between William and Gold. The insurance patrol were promptly on the spot; but the flames had then made such headway that their efforts to check them were unavailing. fire spread with great rapidity, and the whole building was soon enveloped in flames. The alarm was sounded for the Seventh and Eighth Districts, and an army of firemen were soon upon the ground. The cold was intense, about 4° above zero; but fortunately the hydrants were not frozen, and a dozen streams were playing on the fire in a few minutes.

The flames spread from the starting-point to the buildings on the right and left, and, before they could be checked, had destroyed the large stores occupied by Cyrus W. Field & Co., paper-dealers; Buckley & Brothers, paper-dealers; and Haydock, druggist; besides the establishment of Black, Gramm & Co. These buildings ran through to Ann Street, and were stored with goods from cellar to attic. Little or nothing was saved.

The store of Mr. Edrehi, perfumer, was destroyed, and the iron-pipe manufactory of Nason & Dodge, on Ann Street, was greatly damaged. The Second District Station-House, and other buildings in the neighborhood, were saved with difficulty.

The fire, crossing Ann Street, caught upon the rear of the building (fronting on Fulton Street) occupied by G. A. Prince & Co., melodeon manufacturers, and A. Weingartner, lithographer, and others, and nearly destroyed the premises. Other buildings on the right and left were slightly injured. At this point the fire was checked.

The entire loss is not far from $500,000, a large part of which is covered by insurance in various companies.

At an early stage of the fire, a rear wall on Ann Street fell with a tremendous crash, and buried No. 5's engine in the ruins. The men who were working the machine saw the wall tottering, and barely escaped with their lives.

SAD ACCIDENT.-This day evening, Mr. M. C. Pendleton, of Darlington, S. C., was instantly killed by the accidental discharge of a pistol which he was loading.

DEATH FROM A HOG-BITE.-James Murphy,

a laborer in St. Louis, Mo., in attempting to extract a bone from the throat of a hog, was slightly bitten by the animal. In less than a week he was attacked with all the symptoms of hydrophobia, and died in horrible agony on this day.

HARTFORD (CT.) MUNICIPAL ELECTION.This day, in Hartford, the whole Democratic city ticket was elected by an average majority of 466. The Republicans have onehalf the councilmen and all the aldermen.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.-Rev. Mr. Alberton, who was arrested near Montgomery, Alabama, a few days since, on suspicion of peddling treasonable books, reached his home at Glastonbury, Conn., this day. He had paid a fine of $60, and after his release, and while on his way home, he, in a fit of derangement, jumped from the cars and was badly injured.

DEPARTURE OF JOHN C. HEENAN FOR ENGLAND. This day John C. Heenan left New York for England, for the purpose of engaging in a fight with Thomas Sayers for the championship of that country.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7.

HORSE-THIEVES LYNCHED IN IOWA.-At Perry, Tarra county, Iowa, this day, the bodies of two men were found hanging from trees in a grove not far from the village. The snow around was much trampled, giving evidence of a desperate struggle. The men were hung one upon the limb of a fallen tree, which was but six feet from the ground; the other not much higher. The one farthest west was evidently hung first. His hands were tied behind him, crossed at his wrists. The knot in the rope round his neck was behind his right ear. His legs were turned back, the feet resting on the ground. There was no rope around his legs; but evidently there had been, for the purpose of pulling them from under him; otherwise he would have rested on the ground, and the rope around his neck would have had no effect. His cap and shawl were lying near him. The other was secured like the first; the knot was at the back of his head; a rope was around his legs, used for the purpose of pulling them out from under him until he died. His cap and shawl were lying beside him. Blood was, or had been, issuing from one nostril. A coroner's inquest was immediately held, by which it was shown that the deceased persons were two brothers, named Bunker, who had been seized and put to death by three men named Small, Seamans, and Klingaman, who arrested them for horsestealing. While in their charge the prisoners had unsuccessfully attempted to escape,

and were thus summarily dealt with to save further trouble.

SUICIDE IN ROCHESTER, N Y.-This day Mrs. Margaret Haley committed suicide by hanging, at Rochester. She was about fortytwo years of age, and subject to occasional fits of despondency. Leaves five children, mostly helpless.

SENTENCED.-In Philadelphia, Wm. Kraft, who was convicted of arson in firing his factory, No. 916 Filbert Street, on the morning of the 8th of December, was this day sentenced by Judge Allison to ten years' imprisonment at hard labor (solitary confinement) in the Eastern Penitentiary. The prisoner was unmoved at the passage of this terrible sentence, and he preserved the same stolid countenance that has been observable throughout his trial.

HORRID CRIME.-In Chenango county, N. Y., this day, Julia Ann Cady attempted to murder a bastard child, four years old, by putting it head foremost into a stove and then leaving the house, which took fire. The child escaped, but was badly burned. The unnatural mother has been lodged in jail.

DEATH OF A REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER.This day the Rev. John Strait, a soldier of the Revolution, died near Gallipolis, Ohio, aged 101 years, four months and seven days. He was born in Rhode Island, August 31, 1758, and enlisted at Brookline in the Massachusetts service in 1775; was at the battle of Long Island, and served in the Continental service about three years. He went West in 1815, and settled near Marietta, in Washington county, afterwards removed to Butler county, and from thence to Gallia, which was in the year 1820. He was among the oldest Revolutionary pensioners, and a minister of the gospel for over seventy-five years. He was three times married, and was the father of eighteen children. Up to the last two years Mr. Strait retained his mental and physical faculties to a remarkable degree, and was in the habit of visiting Gallipolis frequently. He has since March, 1831, been semi-yearly in the receipt of the pension due Revolutionary soldiers.

FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT.-Jas. Kennedy, a brakesman on the Pennsylvania Railroad, was fatally injured this day about twenty-five miles from Philadelphia. The deceased was on the top of the car, and was knocked off by a bridge. He fell in front of the car, which passed over both legs, nearly severing them from his body. He died in a few hours. Deceased was married and a resident of Philadelphia.

DEATH OF PETER A. BROWNE.-This day,