The New York Herald Newspaper, October 16, 1854, Page 2

Rething else 00 this terrestrial glods eo imoeratively his being— is simichty power aud Gol Leal, te Got's. He formet the deeys untnows, ood te the one certain prescribed Limits Now, @ elagle | Gens. e mystery Examice - aaslyzt it—pro eee tte tie = You cuovo! d» it—no mortal can it Meemeconds all creature powers Wateris God's crea Ht Us the product of his window; cvery deop bespea'cs | God. Bot how pe-f-ot!y incslealacle is the aamber of | Grops that exter int) ac1 oson'itule ® river, a lake, th: Mea, the ocoan 0 each ove ig God’s work. Hox Simasing—how overwheimiog sa argument for a God la poen merely io the es! Ih® racred writers dwell cou- stant!y upon the iven They speak of the sea as God's - ‘Ba his sorvent—a+ the treatre of bis graadest operati us, Bo Tae Godot the univ ise, tues, isthe God of the pes. at his command f4 b som heaves, irs bil! vise, {t fosees ite fi nen, 1t Inshos the tremol ng shore: Be speaks, ant its waves lie down, os peace Ml and as calm as tae infaut reposia, ite mother’s breast So «ps» tho youthful pro Jeeves of Newerovn. when the 04 of Uallive was swept with the farf Ls) coouot lo cesort, and the ailrizhtod Mariners cried oat, ‘ave us 0 Lord or we perish,’ and he auid to tho sen, ‘H’race, v9 a{d!; aad thee wasa great alm.’ The reverend gent emae ten went on to say that Litre Was 20 class who ovgh® wo be more impressed wit a | Goep seated couvimos of the exis once aad entire seve Reigniy cf the bei bty ‘hen ‘hose «hose cailiag was oa the oceam. The sailor «slo olten brought to see that hho was ia the bands of Gd 10 @at>rtaia a dowdt of God's xisteoce, The s-ilor w ght 96 wild, for the sen was wild} ho migh! ree! woder ‘he - acteurs ut of. maddaning drial, for ho reeed 08 shiphoors ni sa: bo might be profane, for he was on ou can® from chs enatuars; he mht do Wrorg—be @ hud. # Vielouy man nay, a very Mead incac- Rate; bus the sailor envio ve cer pas0me the victia of a Dlind ox)lous tue! fhe ees how isues; they aro many ond great, Co! wove uot uot ia vain, It i the cbief supporter o: vik mree trial life: it is the gras Feserveie whonoe his es thwnd wil thet is th re'n derive Bhcir ou rimens rom ite bosom are exhalet the Wapors, waich, borve oy tor inugud air, are oon. Bodecd snd dirti let io cow) aod gevial showers, and Srenchirg rains sud furious storms of ball, Bupplying the fount-io», g wrth to gontie rifts Amurmuring stresws leavin cataracts, broad rivers end wide pias, wateriog ths earth aad coveria’ t crops aad golden harvests would eon become a wide, arid enit would soon be Bp. therhow wach ougnt we wot to value the oscan Ase yact, bonefentug ot of the Creavor in the Of the exutn’s economy? Lely moracvor, a voice that is heord to the exd of the sar'b, Ttis a mighty preacucr— God's preseher, avd It prea: +s the presehing he bits Ht. Initenefal storms oud tempesta it speaks of the majesty of Got, of the oiidtingss of the Most Gigh, and Of the destruction that wil! overtake unbesding and un Fepontiog sinners ye» in its quictont moods ite #till voice tells us ef “the ome which passeth ali unter. Btanding’’—of “he adiiing «f its porors—of the orepa- ‘vatwon for the o micg storm. Ita terrora try moa’s fouls, brirg prov? sinters to thet keoos, and put the hopes of thy humble belin er to the test, It is a voice that can pierce the were of ths “eat end awaken the vory ead; when the stenithy tread of pestilence, tho waidag Volos of famine had be head in vain, the sea speaks, pniallissiiont “The: sorrow oa ths 60a '? Om the coasts cf Greece, near Salamis, whoa 2,5 ago the Greek and frre an fiseta ooatenies for tis , mare than two hund ed skips, with their y i of bumen beings, were sunt in the dopths— * there was rorrss oa ti 7? and algo when Octa ‘wius déetroyod the power ais alversary at Actiau; when, io 1688, ada, surnamed the ** Ipvincttde.”” be« draak of ~pric, ‘With soue 2,000 bards mariners, wore vanquished in Seoce enn conte by hewi dsani waves—*thore was on the ses” Voea on November the 24th, 1703, that ‘gros: storm,”’ one of the t destrustive Ou record, swept over Furope— ‘there was sorrow on theera.”” When at Trafsigsr aod N: ‘ino, the sos pol al eoyacles jaws and awoll down hor de— § there was sorrow on the aca Whee the lurid flamwos upon vin ry =~. of January, 1840, ‘wrapped thewerlves srounc ‘tho ill-fatet Loxington on fs'pua Sourd—shen the newle Pre-itent sant un Ide. to her tome Dp the atiantic was wrecked @pen Fisher's [ land—e j sgow silently 89 ma yother crafts nave gone down ‘with their tivizg bucdens, Lot loving a survivor to tril ‘Phe nad tidicge— ‘there wao sorrow on the sea.” And Rew, once mere that watline voice {+ hoard ‘The 2th of ceytember 14 4, witli not be soon forgot Sen; it bax Inft its mck up oho be.rts—sick, sad, ,crushed—or thousends, ip high pices and 1) + end rout a thrill of horror throughou! the lend le have scarcely as yet recovered © om the shock of (as ing of tee Henry Cliy, in +862, amd tue tecci diseater ot Norwalk bri ge, ano “he founicriag the Francisco last ieosmb-r Rut those endall slaitir calamities, wiih which we of lats yours have been marie go fa. iltsr, bave beea completly overshadowed by ‘the O/strearivg calamity wb ch covers the land wi h its Gismal pall of crief. Oto rent cala aity of the «iad, in ovr remembrance. hax 69 psinful a record beea m Got fortéd wo may have to wake such another Toe nas ta'e of laxari «with But tor the se. tee erie Gocolste Cert aie things te surf gmef yseoon tod Un the 20th of Soo tember, st the wal hour, the smerican steamer aretic, with ime two burdred and ffty passongere, miny | cia dle, intelligent, oater- iow York; abe sleo to k «tb bers hoavy mail and car. ge. Such was the desire on the part of tho travelling Community to avail themseiyes of her suportor accommo dations ord seittoers of evilirg, that not s few were sadly dinopsinted aod grieved in taciog that every berth ip her had deen takea previous to the hour of “heir Own sppticstion. Then, »gr io, the intentions of others 4o take peseage in her were overruied by the o erations of an All senpg Provioerce. I may moution one, my in the miisrry, Sev Dr. Magoon, found himself ‘from the force of circ:imst srces ob! ged to forego his in- tention of masing the voyege sores the Atliarie ta that EL-fatod vee! >osice y a weok bas pressed and tno no die steamer has crossva the oan: ‘he western world is almost in eight, but for a dease fog, nud a few hours would bring them in right of land. ‘he voyage so far has been very sucecessful—the winds ang wares have bern most propitious. ‘They bare mide ® splendid pasnge, and may confidently hope fo be tn port early in October. to spend the abdith uson the soil of their dear america. Not an appreheusion Greases the mind of ene of tee expectonts: their nearte deat gtrovg)y wits the prospect of mestiog the lore 1 oues at home—aiseaay they terl the fond embrace of the anx- fous parent, the do wg child, tv Joving husband, the arent wife. A monvnt more snd th-ir doom is seated | Doberalded, urbeard, av! woknows, the faeal blow is poset Arctic is a sinking ar ck,—the ses ts poaring bo the breach — wer on earth can save, she mast pow and mase bor bea in the deop, shor thousands gone before ber, and now the foarfal trash flasbos Dpon the capte'n, the cw, and era. Ah! the horrors of that bour !—the bitterness of that ansulsh that surged over young and old, ths honore! Wd the lovely the hige born aod the lowly! Hor csa ware Geccrive it?—how cau we nave ny conception of it? eave us from such a terrific npoctacle! The fatal Bowen! omer—she fiils—sve sinks, ond one long and Gearfat thrick ond oll is over! Th- eee paris togive her oom, and the next m ment closes cod leaves ny singio tence’ Of all that throng of haman veings which co fear Hessly peoed the deck of that splendic steamer on the of that fatel Wednesday, not « hundred 7 aly remain! They sleoy by hundreds, that loog vep—they pave found a watery graro—they have Gone with the csrta—they hare g ne betoro their Maker. ‘‘Uhere is sorrow on the sea,” and such porrow as is eeldom kcown And ‘“ticro is sor: owen the cea,”” but more on land As tho fearful dmteligence reaches our port at the expiratioa of nearly ‘@ fortnight of most auxious suspense, and is borac on wires, with au almost more than lightning |, throughout the exient of the couatry, one loud jtetion barsts from the hearths of ‘tae Union. pds ef expecting, aoxious friends are smitten | mnt the awful tidings—‘acber, mother, husosat, | alfe, son. Ceughter—al are crushed to tho earta be- jenth this torribie stroke | Buch « bar of woe has seldom been enacted on | this earth. ire is a lasting sorrow, to puss pot away with the going town of thysua Isis a sorrow thet will | Byer rema n with them; it embictersall their joys, blests all their foudest prospects, writes vasity upon thole as- | for wes'th or position, and mates tre su almost | ‘olereble burthen, and death a welsome frend We ‘will pot attem ot to cesoribe the grief of the jong line of mourners in every part of tho ond The heart Knowoth | ite Own woe, and God alone #nowe'h the heart. To tne | God of every providence we comumend them. fle only crn | ‘ind up the hearts so bruised; + ouly has balm for such | “Whatsoever the Lord pleases ‘hat doss he a." It was God wbo gaided the Vests and the | fixed their speed, xbeood their course, and t thom a: the same momest to thesamos otoa | ‘wito waste of woters A momest eariier or a momeut and they had passoi unbsrmed slightest | in the eparture, the speed or course of either, have preventes the collision. It was no mere met one in a million of chances could have them iogether God knew it—suffered it— it. Ibis pags bend that eps Hp te yo | is paroxyem of anguish us hear tart Go. if you #ili to tue broken hesrted ask him—wbat areal the wealth, fortano, thats life of heap tre tan and hn oma him, row. Ab! if yoweoud give bia ‘od wie that lovely daughter, that pro- you might ¥ AL i : B (13 ie fe i id take all the rest. how tyily, ively ia God saying to ov all, “for tu such you think not the <on of “42 coworl ’’ Uitle thought they at tae brevkfast hour upon day, that before the poing down of ta un, 00 thom wouls be ushered foto the p-eaenes of ‘Alas! wo kn © not rhabaday aty Ur og core cfour roadie is our very last exte: wo Ue 4 after io sin, pa ting fartue: f om as the Bon the hope of tho beiloving Christiaa, On! when @fll you ri-e 209 cal: on jo", yy Hty nen eraftemen, yoo glidy frivolous soos «: PP easunt dpel tanger oa tals J ure! Bek ‘but may the m-roifal Gol give you geo, ew, Worse aad chidren to make sats vith t’g lows the hope of the Caristiaa, pardon, } Joy, in believing. F THE SRA. me. ] Ty aay. jens m’OAULEY. "The Gest discourse of & series before the Young Men's {Association of the Suth Dutch Cuaron, corner of Firth ae end Twenty first street, was Geitvored last ersa- Ly Veh Ber, dea wovanley A : ; i i i ba | foliow! It having been prevtounly announced thet the subject gested by the loss of the Arctic,” the charch was erewded ‘The services commenced with the chanting of the Cloria in Excelets by the choir, when the pastor read | from the Scriptures the 19th Psaim. Tor simple and hopreseive services of this denomiua- (ire of Christians Laving been performod, the Rev. Mr- McCauley commenced his diccvarse by saying, that this was the Oret of s series to be delivered on cach Lord’s | Day evening end that be bad thougnt proper to direst tho atienti n of the congregs tion on thit occxsoa to the great topic which was pressing upon every mind, and to draw a lesson from the 64d oslemity which had over whelmed a pation with wor, He then alluded to travel- i ftoto and the fact that as i rgud, so ‘ts factlities were extended. As pew comlorts have adorred man’s dwelliog —as his fields have been more proouctive—os marks of cigilize tion have been epringing ap arcuad bim so hls conve- uiences for travelliog have improved Direct commauat- cation bas becn secrred with the most distant climes, Le gathers tho ricres of the hitherto unknowa nations. To effect these now modes of communiestion, the scleace end shill of Christendom have been called into effect. Mountains heve been levelled, railroads built, ocean winds and currents hive been watched day end night, that the shortest time of passage may be shortened. Livery hird of vessel bes beca tried, grace, lightuess aod speed have been etucie?, sud every detail has beea the subject of earnest protracted thought The result bas been the noblest triumph of hamam skill in our ships, Which have borne cur Sug to distant ports to the admi- ration of the world. ‘he power of stexm has also been called lo, and the most perfect mash nery has been con- stucted In theeo steemers wo flud oar country’s Doast, From th- smallest rivers to the greatest lake, We Lave tho finest stoomera /n ourcommerctai career wo Cepend upon speed Few men bave suce-oded 60 well ta thin respect astheclesr sighted originnier of tLe New York end Liverpool ne of Colted svates mail ste«mers. Fo bas given ue a line of packets which challenge cae od wira‘ion of the worlt, Foreign mochaaies have sen tke a losson are fittet with Ta obliged to conqner their prejuciess aa {rem Ameriesn ship yarcs he ves spirit of the age, and e thing is secondary to vet evyoything, unconscwoux that daoger incroases with ot permdventure with the oxmo ravidity. This | danger is grest on the lend, but greater ox th» bu* still scerd ie demanied, both ia sailing Onew, Vessels ‘at night slow ened speed; now the contrary is the caso But the faust lies With the community The only inquiry about ber sproa and, nutil'e grest d-al of life ‘he Areti> wa of the wob'es boats of the liae Nothing was ip her construction to add to her strergt bas eroi-d the atlantic and beauty. Sh forty seven tit haa been triol in all weathe » Ber crew and oflicers #+ro woll sclectad. end hor captain, 24 Loble hiarted Luce, was a man of the high- nding in bis profession the owuers 9: the lime evtrustyd thei- own families to the ship and i's comment Such was the vestel and sach its commancer. which let Liverpool on the 20th Sep:o.n ber with two hundred end vhurty two passaagera, one hundeed and forty six fa tue oem, followed by tbe goo wishes of bundrids On the 27th the coll’sion took The captain conld not restrain his crew, cofficer wavabront fhe dremen thought it was not their business to copatruct ratte for the safety o! the passepgera: the scam-n «oe infected with the evil example, avd the captsin found himeelf without aid. | The conduct of these men was castaraly cowstdine —nn- matehed impadence—a blot anda stain upon the page of *merican history With ous or two noble examptions, the captain was deserted by hismen. On that dock wore assembled men no nomes are known wherever the English language in speden; goa'le women, atill mivis- tering angels even in the last honre; strong maubood gave woy.as the ship gra‘uslly suok bepesth them. How shall ¥o learn the lessons taught by this sad ce- lamity? Even while the shaiow is over ua, #0 lve wich the worki for our Leavew. The ordinary course of Pro- vidence is full of instructive le-sons, which pass wa heeded. Somstimes like that of the staunch and noble arctic is presented to our view—a moment all Ic and strongth and beauty, tha next buried beneath tao waves. What scenes ore thus preeented ! The gentie girl, who had be- fore beon kept from every rude bregr*, tremoles as sho feels the shroud placed around her s‘filliviog form And the noble boy, #ho refused the meane of safoty that it might be gtvep to avother, stan is with her, ready to go down together. And the ship is sinking, siating fast. Her sails are useloss, her machicery clogges, She stowiy sottles, and with one ery her livicg freight is buried in the sea. Who can regard tuch a scene without sympa- thy aud sorrow Who can forget the werging, ¢ Be thou also ready, forin such au hour the Son of Man coneth for thee!” By the sozrows of others the »:mpatbies of hen areenlisied, and thus men are kni;togother The gricf of therich man when he Liye his Sret born in the temb, receives from us & homage which his pride nevor could Feve precuced Thus the edges of antipatyy ond animosity aro smoothed, When the heart is sud ‘by grict Joss tells you of sin, which dosorves th» Yo prepare as besrt for tue teachings of reli- gion the preneher woul: take his of mourpirg. How great te consolation from the Nght which bursts from the throne ho thot believeth ia Him shal betaved fie calieth to the ccean to give up its deal, and the millions of tae saved shall ariee acd appear in chialog ros aroaad the throne of tho Redeemer The preacor el xed with nont pe-oration, calling upon his beerers to M; elvos for the companionship of the sain'y in the Joraslons of Bim who is Lord of Lords and King of ngs. GOD'S PUNISHMENT OF LINE3s. REY. HENRY WARD BEECHRR AT PLY- MOUTH URUROH, BROOKLYN. The lose of the Arctic was snaoanced as the subject of last evening's sermon by Hency Ward Beecher, and ‘in consequence Plymouth sburch was, for a full half heur before the time fixed for the services to begin— 734 P.M —erowded to i's utmostoapacity. All the afsles and Coorways of therather spacious edifice were jamme} up with por-ons striving to procare good sitting or standing room. Eyen the Minister's platform was taken possessicn of by some score of ladies and olders, so that there was hordiy rect loft for the preacker. after a volw on the organ, in the nature of a Gixge, the choir chanted the 48th psalm, as follow: God is ovr hope and strength a very proseat help in ouble Yhereforo will wo not foar, though ths earth be meved, and though the hills oe carried Into tue midst of bi MAN'S WORLD- SERMON OF hereof rage and swell, and though t the tempest of the same. The rivers of the flood thereof shall maneglad the | city of God; ihe holy place of ths tabernacle of tue most highest - . God fin the mfdst of her, therefore shell she not be removed; God sha’! help her and that right early ‘she heathea make much ado, and the Kiagdoms are moved; but soa hath showed his voice, ani tho earth shall melt awa ‘The Lord of Losta is witn us; the God of Jacob is oaye! refuge O come hither and behold the works of the Lord, what éestruc'ion he hath brought uvon the earth. Re maketh wars to cvsae ta all tae world; H® braakoth the bow, ond knappeih she spear in sunaer, and bacn- eth the cbario's im the Ore He still then, and know that am God; I will be ex altec oriong tue heatnen, and I will be exaltod ia tho | earth, the Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refoge A feeling and appropriate prayer was thea offered to / tho throne of graco by the pastor, thet God migat ranctify the recent torribls cala nity, by impressing men with the mode in which he rovuked thelr wozlilinces, abd showed that all man’s skill, and strength, and wis- eo. ‘were as Daught; and that when he petteth forth sis arma tho work of man diszppoars, as toe moth fretteth the garment. The same psalm—as yorsifed—was then sung by the choir and congregstion, aod at the closo of the einging, Mr Beecher addrcesed to the coagragution tho mpressive sermon. MN. BEROMER'S SERMON. Tread the first, second, and thicd vorsoe of the 46h palm: God is our hope sud atrer trouble. ‘Therefore will wi foar though the earth be meved, nod though the Bills be car ied iaty the Midst of the sea. hough the watora thereof rage and swell, and though the mountaias shake at tho tempest of the same. There is no oxperience of the soul more noble and evcr groad (han its power of setting aside the sensos of material things, and of relying on the invisible, of lifting itself up in its most desperate oxtre mitios to repose on the presence and tho strength of a being who is invisible to the outward man, whe is not obvious to the senses, but only tothe spirit ‘That hour tn whick the soul rests on God is onein which all natural human forcosare disregarded, and th+ teom- bling of the body is the hour of tho coul’s glorification. ‘The spirit triumphs ovor its clay; the oul is supreme, the body subdued. This supreme trust in God, so won- desfal, #0 fall of all riches, of joy and posce, has re- ceived illustrious expression in almost ail the writings of the Old Testament But by none is it oxpressed more nobly than by David. The soxt is ous of those tributes of truo heart—trast ia @od. Siraagors vis Zz South America or the Me ‘iterraneaa couotrios are ofwn very a very present help ia | curious of witnessing an earthquake, and are quite de- dirous of experiencing the sparations whish thay produce. It is sold that that man waa never known who dosized the sensation m than onro So great is the sh ek to all preconorived feoliogs ard habits the fooling | of instability where we wero seoustame i t» locate ata | bility—the oseiflation of the earth swinging woesth | our fect—the alternations ¢f lurid ight soa horcid dark- ness, tho ohesms yarn euddealy, the sioking of theearth, the cracls sn! Gesures of the mavataias, the | sinking Of rivers and lakes, ard the terrivie rive 0° the | | qgean beyond [ts dounds—thess thingy vo aggal the sure is Jost, the same spores will be strempred, | His | a starding aud appalisg scene | 78 to the house | Eyoa on “he ocean | ; wind ond reverse ite experience, moking the otatile things | of the eermon would be ‘ Thoughts and Reflections sug- | unstable, and the solid things dissipates, that ee men : | Comes forth from the bat oith ehock bo overcome by patient aaa | prod moss Hi seilor caa pever grow come careless in an hi it poor hup an beart, left % own quakes and the roasdng of the storm 6 donsxens of ite streogta aud these contenat g fo cos a nature. Yan msy be mghty when he-is peacefully tinh ing of peril; he msy be wise whea he hss tims 10 | form ngenious p.ans; but when he comes to vp 2080 ull | the wisdom and strength that is in him to te power of mature, be is whistied dowm by the wad with as litte ceremony and as iy as 5 bind | orfeather Such i- the ecormoas d sor por dun between tho etrergth of man end the ua ural forces, Oxt nothiaz seems riciculour except strt'e or resistance Ail oro- portions are lost, and te united efforts of a thousau! men ae no more epprectavie thao woals be ths sighias ofa bsbs’s breath This truth cone know vo wel ox | they who bave seem mousteins rocked by eartog isco | ex tithe slpsend ndes were mero burns; a8 tuey wa have trembled to tue very marrow wacn the worm welkoo throngh the alr ex if God was going forcp +> | teke Vongesnce os myn Yet fa tne neact of « geotie Wou ag, of of a mun accustomed to teas: fa God, eur gives way to faih they fear no evil, for rince Ch tt enlwe the sea of Gelilee, thoss who truly veo» in sim lockto his arm fersefery. ‘They know bet “God is their hope acd etreegth, 8 very pressat belp ia | trouble” So, «hen famine stales adrord gaa gach thirgs Lappeo as made poor { € and the gaz wat pity of the «orld, now puny then 6 ¢m all men’s power vad greatness. But to such times there are tose wao cau smile in trusiin'inres and Lave Cependauce on the opueti cence of Goa. How brave and noble ts the trust im God whieb mates them forgot avd aisregsrd atl daaye-! ‘hee is no resoing person in the eo simuai'y wuo bas | ro, *ith polnful iuvere t, watched tae meleoch dy pry | gress of tbe news res, noting the il -fsteo es t¢ sco a | preccous freight of humon lives. The voseel itsel, wich its telow ships, #ece conrec et with the pipnlic re gerd by pattivtle frejicy Without aay uukcu: sew i | ments toward Epglon’, with sincere bindaess aad g ris wit) 08ers her, it was stell natura! aud prog® tua we thovld iejcies in tre suecess of a fair competicoa +i her on so grand « fielt as the ccoaa, ant by aa instea ment whieh ftanos at the top of all humia ea 68 to-— an ogean strawer propeled by @ marive vegive, Wo | Nould feot a rort of national sorrow and regres if ¥~ heard that that veset merely wad lying o4 th ottom funds 0” Newfouodlaad—wve woud eatocta | fee mgs of regret for the fate of tus ship wis | bad so otten carried our flug throogh light aut sor » reading her way across the Weep by that eye in the bia vhele This grief is increased @ thou-aad fo'd oy ine | dreasfal and necole-s destructi:n of presioas humis livee. In te gloom of that torrie qjsaster there ta chia consolation on y—the heruiem of afew to shom honor ard duty were more precious than life—aas the christiva cheer of many who, we my hope ta the direst wucpriss of thet evil hour fourd in God “a@ very present help in their time of trouble’ who stood serenvly there, | though the ea roared and the wavos were toss-d, ant | gave up their trus'ing souls in all faith and coa derce to the comveyance of God’s angels, who weited sround the spot te jive aweet deli and conduct them on ther passige For I snow, ond you will think, that while we have re- ports of thore who were most clamvrous, no one aot:ced those who were calm Therefo © the aco unts are filed with pic wes of Gietre*s, of terror, 0! clasptag imp.ora tion, snd nut few Witnessed the conduct and bearing cf ‘those who stood serene and rilent Sach fondly toough: | —ghese Christian hearts—as they were making this pros- perovs yoxage, they foadly thought on the morntg of the seventh dey that there wss but three dsys more to | pase tilltbey woud bs at home. Ind+ed, ther were but three hours from bofte May of them saidto them selves, ‘Once more among familiar place:, and there wo will ever more reside. We will u+ver wander more as pilgrims in strange lands. We..will never agiia tempt the pers of the deep.” and Goa said to tuat esayiog, “Verily, you never shalil’’ ‘This Christian faith and its iccaaiation in that hoar of impending costruction ia in +t-ixing contrast wita ths other hirrors of the ecene. Love tarow a na‘o over ths picture; thoy turned axay from each othor iato the raciance and soft glory of their divine friend ani bene- , rs 4 paves of private ot ity ly believe warced But who gri-f? Thouars t] ‘are, who for years will gee in every obje +t something to being to them the memory of thet dreadful caismity. very wiod to then will be adirge Every mist will remlod them of tee dark jehadows of Newfoundland Hor msny trav cilers wil thee be searshing and #stching for cars {ir tidenga of he lost ones? Some there sre, whose ile sill be ore scene of wate xing, Their dad ‘not diel On, Prey, for thove stricken, that God may allay their sor row Whet can we do bet pray for them? Whatern we do but to sa to Him who knew the terror of tse stormy tes and the d-p'a of acguish, Oh, thon man of norro vs spd scquuinted Wizh grit’, seod forth thy angels of cow #0 ation to Laose émnittan and sort swing hearts, #a0 wll go sboat gro, ing for the sepu'enres of thetr dead ia t! appaling calawiy. ama let him aay to them, “1 kao whotw you sees. They are not tere they ace rin Av@ may they look up snd behold that tucir beloved ones hove entered into gtory, an) be comforted. Ab un agriication of the terrible caluntty the rescher proceeded to view tt inthe beht of « solean joognent inflicted by the Livine B-iog on the eon mupity for its woridiines|, its reIishuces, its love of Lis cispeg od of ai to toe United -tetes or connected with is trata, wuish sullered disanters during the last yecr excesled fur thousand, white the whole number of disaste-s to the merine of the carth dit mot exces! ten thoaseed He asted, was the hesvy disprovortion ogains. us chance»? Wns it pot rather Provideree? Was tc uot ta punis. the fingitious conduc: of our basiness man ? Io 1860, the disasters to ships throughout the whol world pug bered 3.000—not one third of the pundor of U.oss for tbe past year Ta the + tims there «eve Bfty vessels ost thet have been hear sinee—smong them the Copstitutioa. the City 0” «ta vow So Among those lost were the Humovidt, the +rankiia, the on'ezuma, tue San Viancisco Ks. Ths amovet Gf Josses paid by the marive iusacance com 2. nien of New York love, wi-hin the last tweive months, is $/2 006,009. There were 201 vessels reports’ as Sin oneof the New York papers inone week. The Tok-es on land by Le ord storm within the same period were not lev ther #18,(00,000—making ihe whole loss by cea ani lant $30.00, 000 “Let ur, then,” gid the preacher, after atating these facta, “rest frem our idolat! ad bow down befors God Let cur public men revere justies, Let our citizens hold back from greediness, and come to love righteousaess. | more For God doth tive, God watches, God goverss, and puvisbes aud rewerc Nothing can reach a soul emboromed in God. Thoagh be msy be cast ¢ sball rise up age'n; wal norbivg cen secure the which is not so at rest Deavh, vature, time and chance are uponevery man’s back. Trose who trast ia God be shall gather und+r the shaduw of his wing and no harm shall c»mo to them. THUS FAR SHALT THOU GO, AND NO FARTHER. SERMON OF THE REY. Dk. CHAPIN, OF THE UNI- VERSALIST OgUROn. Avery large audience assembled Inst evening at Dr. Chapin’s church in Broadway, it hsving been unter stood that he would deliver a sermon appropriate to thé late disaster at cea Long before the hour for the com meneemeat of the cxremonies ths church wae crowded to overflowing—even every available staad ng place bo ing occupied—wi'h a very select audience. Am expros- sion of sadness was upon the face of the entire oom- pany collected here to listen to the funeral sermon of those so suddenly buried ia ths deep. After the open ng hyma, Dr. Chapia read the 20th factor; they were sna chod from the 1s of terror } and robed io the bosom of peace and soreno ropove It was a time when hundreds bad wonded thelr way from Keme and its teeasures of dead ars, and its glories of living nature from the Switzér’s mountaia and from the c+pitelr of the various nations; allof them saying in their hearts ‘ we will wait for the September gates ' to have done with thy equiccctisl fury, and then we will | embark witb all eatety on thoappeasec ocean; and inthe | gorgeous month of October. we will greet our long looked for native loud, and our bert lyved Bowe” cad iad | throng sti along fom Ferlin, from Paris fcom tha | Orient frem London still ba teoing towards the wel. come thip aaa narro aing ths distarce vot wea them aod | Bome. Nover had the aretic burae such a host of pss: sengers—Of pastor gers *o veariy related to eo many among ur Hie hour woo come. he elgoni belt foll st Groonwich. It wes known at Liverpool Tae acchors | were weighed—tho great bull srayed into tae cuc- ren!—the national colors suvamed abread—tue bell | Stithes, the wheols revuive, thé sigoal guos are fired trom every fortress along tho srore—ind tho Arctic gl'des gracefully forth from the Mersey, turns into «be chanzel and begs hor homow route, The pilet stove at the wheot and wes ecen by all; death stoo* en the prow and ao man bebeld kim. Whoeve svood at that wheel iu ali the voyage, death was tho pt lor who atcered the craft, aud no one know it, He nevor revealed hie presence not whispered biserrand. aa. co hope wes m all breasts, and life and gsivty dispo-ted | iteeaf, and joy wes with every guest after all the ia | conveniences of the vovage, there was still spat which | husbed every moymar—nomois not for the | ES luet eunlight has flaah+d upou thst deck; the Last voyage is mace of shir ond passengere. At nom there comos from the North that fa ed iastramoat | of dewruction iz that a tious «orond, a rast -tmo phere of mist. Both nips are holding their way with rorhing prows and revolving wheels, but invisible to @.ch other; at & leegue’sdietance unconscious, at a nearer ap proach upworned, within hail and bea iog righ down to esch other, unséyn, tnfelt till one moment more, emerg- ingfrom fhe gray mist, the Viats doatt ner a deadiy shock. | On the Arctic the ceath blow was ecarcely feli, os the | stroke on a warrior io th» best of nottle is not felt; | along her mighty hall it was rcarcely percevtible She | neither reelod nor shivered; and neither commaaior nor | officer dresmed that nbe had suffered hurt. The brave | Luce—and fet his name o¢ over spokea with admiration | ana reepect—ordered out bis boat with the first officer, | Mr Gourley, to inquire if the atranger had st fered hurt AaGou-ley weet from the sito of tne ship, oh that | some geod angel has c-lled to that brave co nmynder with | the words of Parlwhen he said “exe.t thee abide ia | the ship, ye caapot be saved!’’ He departed. and wi'h hia | the nope of the ship—for now the water gaining the bolt | and rising en the ures, revea’ed ‘ho morial blow. Ub, | ad omy that stern, brave mate been on desk—ho whom. the sailors wore wont to obe7—-had be stayouto execute | the commander's wit, I believe we woud net now have | to blukh for the cowardice and r-cblessness of the cre, | por to have wept for tho untimely dew But apparcatl every subo dua'e officer ssve on8, lost preeence of mind, ther courage their hovor. In 2 mob they rushed for the | boats, anc, sbandonieg belploss womes and children and to we mercies of the acop, they avatied themselros Oi their etrength—of theie brute strength—t> escape { desth that they might be eternslly worse than doad | Pour hours there wore from the catagirogho at clii- lon, to "he catastrophe at rt king Tu that tims nsar- two huncred sble bodied men, wel directed, might have built a raft, stored it #ith ne e warios, flied the | boars with diveretion, and put ff from the tiatiag ehip, where, ere many hours, they woul! har» been hallo? 0} some of the many craft watch pass and repacs that ill feted spot. Butit wes netto boro, Ad command was lost. The men heeded but ono impulro, and thet, the | desperate selfisneces of an aroused and con weatrated Love | of life. They ubandened their post. Thay d-sorted their i pe They betrayed theircommander. ‘hey yield-d up to | death more than two hundred heiptoss sou!s committe j to | their trast, And yet even for them let thore be some | thonghte of ensrity Let av not forget the wesknses of our fle:h, the absence o: tho first mate waom they wors ‘wont to cbay, the tersib'e force of panicevoc upon brave | men, the stnee of tho uttor hopelessness of saving so | many, the instinctive desire of seif preservation commoa to sli’ of us tiko them, and some extenuation may bo made for them They certain'y need every cover of charity to save them trom thy iad!gnation of a g tere ond outregei commanits. Individuals among thes» ed mort nob'y, ane thes@ avant sorve in some sumail way to stone for ‘the faults of the rest. [havvalreaay «aii that thie v8 6 sing e officer wto cid cliag to the Lut wanfully to bis dnty; I suesk ot tho third mate, Lorian, | and +o also oid that man # lo fired the sigaal gua and ated | at hia post fring the gua to the last; acd ‘hat engineor who would net ebandon the boy committed to his charge. let the herciem of these go to ex tenuate the disgrace of others, Let us not, therofore, speak tov rodely asd vo» careresaly even of the crew How monty in tuat torcihty econe atood Luce - colin sel!-possessed, ard detormined tottoend. Al but one wituess spe: rera, but he (#bo wse bimeol? faye the Cepain’s ja‘gent was p cavse he could dio, and coli not abasdeon th trust confided to him I do not wonder that that man misnederstocd him, and thought his jadgmont paralyz ed =I have never read—ev-n ta tho ala of the Fo mnspe—euch a trait of beroiem ae that shown whoa this heroic man, being asbed by the secoud mate to Ist him save his son, answered‘ dy son shell share my fate ‘The Inst moment ceme—and now all ovor the dock was éteplayed every form of noguich aud cesptir. the | wos overburdened, ana the tea was covored with han- | dreds straggling for their ives But tacro wore oshers in whom these signs of deepy'r end aaguish were not veen. ‘There vere mothers thore who mmo: death as if they turned their foces 10 cleep; aad there wore melds there who smiled as if they goieg to th ie bridol chamber, flow many wore thore #no coaid ay, * We wil! pot feat, thongh thy earth bo moved aad thongh the hits be canted to 0 the midst of the thereof rage nod # voll, and shen © a. the tompest of the sims’? friends prepared to dio toge:-her, with chaie trust firmly pleced ip God. Noble trust! that in the enook of sach rucoen death could look sbave the wave aa: trast ia the Megeemer | Notaing wae of worth thoa No wa,ith, nor title, nor power, m r grace, nor Leanty—nothing ex:0,t the hope that coatd Bhol’ eo mack of the glory of heaven that at willinety abandoned its hoidon earth At length th encod Chat gaat ant ‘Teaohercusly stad €d, rine { gin the oxesa with te wounds fives her ‘ast ptunge; wot with tus last oa ory comes above wil other sound4 that rar aing Crom the chimney ae if the beat groan of ali eho died thors were mingliog with Cho ‘ass groans of the snip itastt, Gh what a barial wae thee! Not a: the barie of homs. Where « DO fi gOotty carned to coon eit: and atd Deer aly uncer ‘be turf sud flowers. No priest stood by to ronour ce the borish service. It was oa» ocean grave he miet alone shrowded thea Powa, down, ther favk. ard the qoice recuratog wares eweoth out every TIpp%e; tho lacs voto~e dios away @s the ripples was proote, and the plice «hich kuew thea rao es them ao in¢re fo> ever ‘Wo cannot help oh ridering at the remoarnl-se eelra of gaze bow are men Cercured by nature! In the psalm, a8 follows:— A Prayer of Moses the Man of Got. Pree: thou hact been our dqelling pI ia all genesa- Da. ‘Thou turpest man to destructicn ; and ssyest, Return, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yester- day when it is part, avd as a wate fa tne night ‘Thou curriest them away as witha flood ; troy are as @ sleo ; in tye morning they sre ike grass which grow~ oh i In the morning it flourisheth, snd groweth up ; in thd evening i; in cut own, and withoreta. For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled ‘Yhou bust set our iniquitios before thes, our secret sine in the licht of thy countenance. Tor sli our days are paszedawsy in thy wrath: we pend our years as a tale chat is tolc. y res@y uching hearts. Bot we do, speskssg in general term-, become too cure e43—we go too frat -in ths ce sire to distance our rival; or to mane tae juickest tim dargere What tsa fe+ miouies tua vovngs across (ho oresn tos humen kif case as ap iiustrat.on of ths 5 sSeugs a reform for greater se‘ety. From the despth uf the Ocenn it Speaks; bensato the billows where this vessel . riven from the hundreds sacriticed, the appeal fur Sefety 1 bere is apother providential meaning gro viagout of thin Outof the d»rk comes iight. How could we preci oh goed thee nO wisery. “ihe are: in known bi sour. Outof great woe comes gros er frith fr God, reliance uvep his word, jhe shock of death calls up vlambe ing soal ead points it to the @raveand to eternity. It eifects the moral priaciple ia us, ond though an «rde.l of sorrow dis ils the grosser poture ttl this mora! principle burst tate iife. We raw this burst forth ic tat gaileat ® MAriyra orown. roa the cavevheasrted fety, left helpless women perish aod thet gallant comm: like ap otd Roman, we ven onto death ear cesert my Fbip, but How great the eonti Baller. gunner. who ev thunde: o'er the rea the »'gnal of dist oss, and who with the booming ot Bis causoa plunged fats tne iotuiw Tine we reads pofadle lesson in the tercors of this disaster wbich has carried so much waidng Yhroughout d, It nowask* cowartics, smd revests victue: is it re the miad te chastsing fo Psat, it ney ing: of od coran snd the death ‘shrieke ef tue sinking mess, ‘ Tlither sbail thoucome but no farther ”? SERVICES AT TIE BROOME STREET BAP TIST CHURCH. At the Baptist Churob, Brot me atrest, Rev, Dr. Cone, before concluding his sermon, took occasion to allude to the late calamity. In impressing upon his bearers th re eessity of living in fellowship with God, he beli»r-d ne might draw an illustration from recant events, It wes but ashort road trom the deck of # steamer to glory in tlerkies And how easy for that mau, wa9 hed ivetio peace with the Lord, to exclaim under such circum. tsn- oer language of stephen, ‘+ Oa, Lord, receiremy 9) CAPTAIN LUCE’S STATEMENT. wEsuo, Oct, 14, 1854. KE. K. Contixs:— _ Dark “1n—It becomes my painfal duty to iaform you of the total loss of the Arctic, under my command, with Jour wifo, om acd daughter. ‘The arctic ssiled from Liverpool on Wednesday, Sept. 20, at11 A M., with 233 passengers and aboat 160 of a crew Nothing of special note occurred during the pas. sage until Wednesday, sept 27, when, at moon, we Were on the Banks, in lat. 46:45 north, and long. 62 west, steering west by com pasa. ‘Ibe woather had beon foggy during the dey; general'y & distance of balf to three-qua:tors of a milo could be seen, but at intervala cf a few minutes a very dense fog, followee by being sufficiently clear to see one or tvo miles, At nocn I left the deck for the purpose of work- ing out the position of the ship [no about fifteen minutes I hoard the ery of ‘Hard starboard’’ from the officers of the dock. I rashed on deck, and had just got owt when I felt s crash forward, end at the same mowent saws steamer under the starboard bow; st tbe rext moment she struck egainst our guazis, and pessot estern of us. ‘the bows of the strange vee] ecemed to bo literally cat or crushed off for full tem feet; and seeing that sho must probably sink in « few minutes, and tasing @ hasty gience at our own ship, aud believing that we wero comparatively un: injured, my frat impulse was to endeaYor to save ths lives of those on beard the sinking vessel. Tho boats were cleared, and the first officer and «ix mon left with ‘one boat, when it was foand our owa ship was leaking fearfully. The engineers were sot to work, being instrusted to put The deye of oe foare aro threo score years aud ten ; and if by reason of stength they be fourseore years, yet is their stzength labor aud sorrew ; for it 18 nova cus off, end we fly 2; ho knoweth power of thins anger? oven accord- ing to tug tear, so is thy weath, So teach us to numoer our days, thai we may app y our hearts unto wisdom. Return, O Lord, how long? ard let it repent thes coa- corning thy servants. O satisfy us early with thy mercy ; that we may re- Jot.o and be glad all ovr cays. Tho reecing of this chspter was followed by a prayer; after which ar other hymn was chasn‘ed. The Rev Ir. Chapin then preached from the follow- irg toxt, found in the Book of Job, 38th chapter ani Lith ‘vorre.—~ Aitherto shalt thou come, but no farther; and here shal thy proud waves be stayed ‘The most expressive sign of a grent sorrow is «deep silence, for the calamity that smites most heavily the pubiic heart strikes below the surfa:9 of emotion aad smothers words. Hence that look of apeechlevs affliction —honce the wolcome we give to tears. A noble vessel. ® great symbol of modern achievements, ono of the wighty links that blo¢s continents together, and joias man to man ocroes the occan—s ship which has so often defied the powers of the stormy sea, and safely made many voyages across the Atlantic is struck, and vcrishes, ‘The pisture is brought vividly to our hom of eriof goes up from every heart. We were, in the very whirlpool of the great ship, and sec it go down with all on board, sce the struggling frieads sround us, pee the’aoguish upon the faces of the ¢yiag as ‘they eink to rire no more, ani we wi h no power to hetp orsevo. But, my friends, if there is a time for silovec, there fs alco « time for spevch. Tha press, with its migh*y voice, bas alroady spoken, ani the awful tals hes been repeated in every portion of our laad; but the pul pit is also expected t) make its comment, aad to draw its lorsons from the eeuse of all our wo: I nom, then, take up this subject to night, bocause you expect me to do 82), and Very property, for the pulpit should deal with wat. over to fueh on extent affects the public mind. We are thonk‘ul. when wo reflec: upon this calem ty, that {t is someshat less than at first scpposed; but, as it is, it shocks humanity throughout the world, and in spite of a) we can soy of it, it will stand ont as one of the great calamities of the age, long \o be remembered, and long to mak? men sbu¢dor at the terrors and the dangers of the wild uncertain sea. The extent of this calamity cannot be xed by our oa 'culatious. It hes spread a pall of goom on the steam pumps, and the four deck pumps were worked by the passengers and crow, and the ehip Leaded for the land, which I judged to be about fifty miles dis- tant. Iwas compelled to leave my boat wii tie first officer and crew to take care of themselves. Several ineffectual attem sta were mada to stop the leak, by getting sails over the bows; but finding th» leak gatatog on us very feat, notwithstanding all our very powerfal effets to keep Ler free, Ireawlved to get t20 boats ready, end as many Indies aod chiliren placsd ia thon as porrible; but no sooner had the attempt beea mate than the firemen and ethers rushed inte them in spite of opposition. Feoing this atate of things, I orderel ths boats astera to be kept in resdiness until order could be restored; when, tomy dismay, I raw them cut the ropes in the bow, and soon disappear astern in the fog. Another boat was broben down by persons rushing at the davits, and mavy ‘were precipitated into the sea and drowned. This oc” curred while I bad been ergaged in getting the starboard guard bost ready, and placed the second ofilcer ia charge, when the same fearful scene as with the first boat was being enacted—men leaping from the top of the rail twenty fects puhing and maiming thoee who were in the Boat. I then gave orders to the second officar to let go, and row afer the shi keeping under or near the stern, to be ready to take on board ‘Women and children, as soo an the fires were out and the engines stopped. My atrention was then drawn to ‘the other quarter boat, which I found broken down. bat hanging by one tackle A rush wasmade former aleo, and some fifteen got in, and cut the tackle, and were soon out of sight, lfound that not s seaman was left on board, or carpenter, and we wore without aay tools to assist us in building @ raft, as our oaly hope. The only officer Jeft was Mr. Dorian, the third mate, who aided me, with ‘qhe assistance of many of the pas-engers, who deserve great praise for their coolness and energy ta doing sil ia their power up to the very latest moment before the skip surk. . ‘Tho Chief Epgincer, with o part of his assistants, had taken our swallest deck boat, and before the ship went down pulled away wih about fifteen persons. We had succeeded nm getting tae fore and main yard and two top gallant yards overboard, and ach other small spars and materials as wo could collect, when! was faily convinced that the chip must go down in a very short time, and not » moment was to bo lost in gettiog the over States, and plunged femilie: ia grief and sorrow pesrly to despair. Many have gone down to death whose is we have grasped whom we hsvs kcown, Ab friends and relatives, and whose iaces come up be- fore ua, ghas ly with the coldness of the grave. There #0 lovtons of moral snd roligious euzgestions growing out of this @vent that necd our comstderation. ithe dis- ® ter with which our minds are now filled is io oe view & material divaster Man lives in this wid, and enjoyn its gifts, ite pleasures sad its cfferinga, upon’ terms whieh’ he cannot evade vmphs, with alt his crona of victory geicel in woudl tought battles in tho great drama of lite, death will spars lashed together to forme raft, t0 dowhic) it be came necessary to get tle lifeboat, our only remaining Dost, into the water, This being accomplished, I caw Mr. Dorian, the chief Officer of the boat, tating care to keep the oars on board to prevent them from leaving the ship, nopiog still to get moit of the women and children in this boat st last. They hel made considerabie With | Ptogress in coilecting the spars, when an alarm was si bis schiovmence, with al! hia glorious tri- | given that thoship was sinking, and the boat was rod, off without oars or anything to help thomselves h-Vo it* courso—irou shatis wl: breag, epars, saila aad | nd when the eblp sank the boat had go) clear, proba” cord-eo WL cre.k and tear before the bellowing gale, | bly an eighth of a mile to leeward. : liew wilt Dura, and oreens will ougalph. Toe vast an- bounsed sea, with ila hue of au that ts boeutifa —wich its peach, tte Jewels, t © Leavens up 2 its bosom and its uafathomaole seta at ceflarco sli the moral forges of the 4, spcaking im th» roor of is farloca waters ¢ weder of its crarhiog Warcs, says—'‘Htthorts rbait thou come, but po farther; and hore sha;) thy proud waver be stayed.’’ (be ccosn has ite limits, but man fastinotively shad- Core at ite dangers Upon it, no one fests 62 secure as uponkad [tis not our ehment—it is a fc -- we cannot till it—we cannot master it, as the earth. Th ig wild ia pavure and cannot bo tamed Wo travel it with feoliogs of terror—we oronn it upon she numbers it Baa carried away neath its raging waters. Woo: this timo those who sunk into itea:ms only dave ago. they wont down without a windiog sheet, parting werd with friend of relative, dowa int) the rosbiog waters they sunk, Aelish cowardice leaving them to perish. They have gone iato ths wa: t#5y grave; Apart Perio Phyb Shad ise) by their witm nt ove perting , with go to amoaty pillow, but down amid the shriek gorgl.ng of the dei resting Jace, no tel toa |. No hind haad can mark treir let to tei to succeecing generations of the dying apithe | him lifeless in the wator, Jn an imatant, about @ quarter to five P. M, the chip and its curioutios—wi'b the bine | went down, carrying every soul om board with her. soon found myself om the surface, aftera brief strug ging with my own helplers child in my arma, whon again I felt myself impelled downwards to a great depth, and defore I reachea the surface s second time had nearly perished, and lost (he hold of my child. Aa l again strng- gied to the surface of the water, a most awfal and heart- power | rending scene presented itself to my view—over two hun- dred men, women and children struggling together amidst With awe | Pieces of wreck of every kind, calling on esck other for buried be | help, and imploring God to amslet them. Sach an ap- palling scene may God preserve me from ever witacss. ing again. I was im the act of trying to save my child when a portion of the paddle box came rushing up edgewise, jnst Me, | gresing my head, felling with tts whole woight upon the heed of my darling child. Another moment I beheld T euceseded in getting on to the top of tha paddle box, in company with eloven ) tLeir viriuea or their love, but ‘lost at sea”” is ali that | others; one, howover, soon left for another pleco, flad cun b¢ eld, the uncertainty the know) aumierinn ® hope worse thea 'desth ptt hay ode thes may yet bo well, the flickering hops that rescas pay be ex onded, that voyages so foreiga og May De mode, treat perila uuknowa may be easounts Ios @. 6d yet setarn aCter yeare of woo, to tara woeping foto Wwughrer. We o.nsot feel the peace taat comes to us when we ov 6 end whom we seo plicod to rest upen onr moth. err breast, Uron the oocuce-noe of @ calamity hae t's, man, ha ease moment, is re Bs} cr: out, “Where the promisc’ goadeess o! PLere ts all nis benefloovee, that Wola witha Diow like this?? Thowe shove duty it is to j ratify the waye of God to mag, cadast sey that the ocr has itsdomain end ita special powers. Ho wio Loce el in he pala of bis hand, Gireo's it, ani it iv hes ons who ona aay co it, « Hither ebalt thoa come, be jartbor, ana bere shal ‘hy proud warns oe 4" “hs Cooun gives mae good busit tacer par for that goct, and we enjoy it and bare & upon o he should visit tue | Jett. In ing that it could not supportso many. O-hers remained until they were One by one relieved by doath- Wo stood in water, at a temperature of forty.dve dogroes, up to our knees, and trequently the sea broke dirextly over us. ‘We roon’ seyarated from onr friends on other parts of the tuose who pass meay dofore our | Wreck, ond pessed tho night, each one of us expecting every hour woult be onr Isst’ At last the Wished for morning came, anrrounded with a dense fog—not & Uving fovl to be seen but onr own party--eoven mon being the course of the morning We saw somo water cocks and other things belonging to our thip, bat nothig thas we con'd got to afford us any relief, Onr ratt was Te pisly eettitog, as it absorbed water. + bout noon Mr. 8, M. Weedraff, of Now York, war r lLovad by Centh. All the ethers now began to ealer very severely foe wnat of water, except Mr: George F. we dior gard prudence ond rua the geartet of aacat | {d> 00; rfer to the present | ud agsin see the Nght of another day wore of ous suffering were relieved by “Alten, ¢ or! x man, wi this way slept a little throughout the night, aad be- esme ecomewhst refrerhed. 5 About an bcur before day'ight—now Fridey, the 200m woe saw a vessel’s light near to us. We all three of us exerted Ourselves to the utmost of our stfeogtt im belling ber, until we became quite exhausted. Ie about ® quarter of an hour the light disnepsesred to esst of us. Soom after deylighs ao bark hove in sight to the mortawest, the fog having I'ghtened a li:ti+—steertag apparentiy for us; but fo & -hort tims she seoned to have changed | mer course, amd again we were doomed 10 @issppelat- went; yet I felt hopes that some of our feliow sufferers may have been seen and resoued by them. Shortly after we bad given up all hopes of being rae cued by the bark. a ship was discovered t> the east of as, steering directly for us. We now watehod hor wite tae mort intense saxiety as she epprosohed. The wind chenging, caused ber to altet ber course several pointe. About Loon thy fortavately disooverod a mac oa a raft near them, and succeeded in saving piers 4 tae second mate jumping over the side, and masicg a rope fast eround him, when he wasg%t on board eafely. this man saved proved t> be a Frenchman, who was a passa, geron buard the ateamer which we came ino Lusioe wits. He informed the Captain that others were near ea pieces of the wreck; aud, going sloft, he saw usaad three others. We were the first to which the boat was sent, aud safely taken om board aboot three P.M. the aoxt was Mr. James Smith, of wissisifpi, secon i class pas singer. ‘the others seved were five of our ficemen, Tae hip proved to de the Cambria, of this port, from Glas gow, beurd to Momtreul, Captain John Russell, who com- monded the ark Jesse Steons, amd was reseud by Cagt. Nyerf the Pacific. Of Capt. Rusrell 1; would rosrosty be porpible to eay enough in his pratse for the kind treat. ment we every one of us have received from him, during he time we have bean on board hisship. His own com- forts he gave up in every respict for our relief, The Fov Mr. Waiker and lady, aud another gentleman, whe wore passengers by the Cambria, have bren unoonsing in their endeavors to premote our comfort. To them, and to all on bosrd, we shall ever owe & debt of gratitude for their unbounded bindness to us. From ihe Frenchman who was picked up, we learned that the steamer with which we came in collision was the ecrew steamer Voxta, from 8t. Pierre, bound for aad belonging to Grenville, Franc®. As near as we could learn, the Vests was steoriog cast southeast, and was crossing our course two pointe, with all suils set, wind west by couth. Her anchor stock, about seven by fear inches square, was driven through the bows of the Artic, about eighteen inches above the water line, and an immense bole hed been made, at the same instant, by the fluke of the anchor, about two feet below the water line, raking fore and aft the plank, and finally breaking the ehains, leaving the stock remaining in and through the aide of the Arctic, or it {3 not un- likely that, as so much of ber bows had been crushed in, that some of the heavy longitudinal pieces of tron rupping throngh the ship may have been arivea through our side, causing the loss of our ship, and, I fear, hundreds of most valnable lives. Thave safely arrived at Quebec, and I am left without & pepny in the world with which to help myself, With sincere gratitude to thase from whom I have received such unbounded kindness since I have been providen- tially thrown amongst them, I am about to separate ta go to New York—a home of sorrow. T learned from the Doctor, at quarantine, lags pyening, soav ths Vesta had reached St. Johos with sevaral,pas- bsengeré from the Arctic, but could not learn the partica- prs. 48 soon aa I can got on shero I shall make arrange. ments to leave for New York with the |: ast pessible delay. I take the steamer for Montreal this aftermoga. 1am, very respectfally, Your obedis nt servant, JAMES 0, LUCE. ‘The following {a a correct list of those saved wits Captain Luco :— Parsengers—Frederick May, G. F Ale, rnd James ot tha Arctic; J. a. Govet Frangoa, of vhe Vesta feamen—Petrick Moran, Alexacder Grast, Michael Zussoll, Jobn Biley, wud John Patterson. “be names of thoxe who arrived yexterdzy ou the chip Huron, are:—Luke McCarty, sichari Mashive, Jamea Abbys, Christopher Moran, fresius Milter, Joba Vrary, dames Wari, David Benny, Ri bert tsryson. Joxepe Coa. neliy. Jamee Connor, Thcrous Wilson. ond —= Conway. ‘These belonged to tho Burns and Dorina party, STATEMENT OF JOUN DEGNON, SENIO! FIRST ASSISTANT ENGINEER, TO THE EDITOR OF TUS NEW YORK HERALD. Division Avenve botween Fourth and Fifth streets, Wiliamaburg, Oct 14, 1854 On looking over the papers I find a wholly irccrre:t impression bas beon formed respecting the situation and condition of the unfortunate beings lost on the steam- sbip arctic. Although I have already made a statement, I feel it my duty to repeat the same, with the many particulars connected with it Kight bells had just been struck. I was standing im the passagoway leading from: the deck to the engice room, when I heard the ery, “top the evgives.” Immedia‘ely after the bell rug Mr, Rodgers, te oblet eogiseer, and myseif, ran below, and before resching the working platform, Mr. Wolett, then on duty, had stopped the engincs. The bell rung to “pack the et zines,” waich was done. At this moment Ur. Redgers acd myself looked over the railing iato the Uilge. He exclaimed, ‘ What! is that water?” “Yes,” 1 replied, ‘i: ts coming in torrents.” He then gavo orgers toopen the bilge injections, Thomas Brennan, an , ox.d myself, opened them, with Mr. R.’a asaist- ance Luring this time, which wes about fire minutes, the engines had been backing ; the signal was given to “go aheod;”’ the engines star'ed forwardegain. Mr. R. then told me to run forward and see. that the Worthingion pumps wore started. Going into the fire-room, I found ir. Drown, junior first assistant engineer, aad a fireman, Pat Trbin, engaged in startivg tho port pump; I jamped forward snd started the starboard pump; Mr. Walker, eecond assistant, and John Holt,» fireman, assisting in openizg the bilge valves, &c., all this occupying ten minutes; by this timo the water was up over the fire- wan’sfioor I then ran om deck and mot Capt. Lace coming down from the upper deck on the starbeard aide; 1 seid to him, “Copta’n, the ship is simking; nothing can fave us unless we manage ‘oget a sail over the hole in the ebip’s site.” «I will try what oan bs done,” aeld be. Ttben ordorsd—persnaded—soveral fromen and eval pass- ere to go bolow and keep the fires up, telling them thet everything depended om the pumps, Oa going below I found the water nearly tothe grates of the lower fur- naces. I went round and opened the remainder cf the Dilge valves, (thare being eix in all.) In reaching down to them was under water. Within thirty mi- nutes ofter Aision the lower fires were all put out down to fire the upper far- time had fallen from eighteon the working plat from At Afteen minutes past ove the water had reached the grate bars of tho upper furnace on the port side, (the ship havirg a list to that side.) At this time, Mr Bash lam came below to inquire what ihe chances were with the pumps; I was then sicne in the engine room. He then pointed to tho fires, and said, ‘ You see these fires will all be put ont; unless you get a sail over the shin’s tide she will sink very soon.’ Tle Went om desk, and cetly after the water washod the Sires out, sending up threvgh the hatches a heavy c!ond of smoke and steom. ‘The stoam was thes only oneand a half pressure. I then wont forward to the chanees were lost with the pumps. Re ee ae He replied, “Tt could not; for so mush of the bow propel cag out (rom the side of our ship that It was imporstble te get the sell over it” The Captain thon went aft and endeavored to seat the passengers in the We-doate, Most of | on the port quaster of tho ship. I mot Mr. Drown, the assistant engineer, on the uper dcok, and propoted to him to get the mon tog-thor to construct a raft He would not agree with ms, saying it would be of no use, aa they would swamo it imme. distely., At this moment 1 heard Mr. Bushlam's voles over the ride of the ship giving orders. T look d eves; end raw Mr. B, with Avo or six men, loworing the best. ‘The captain then stood oa the upper deck superiatending the came, and, es I thought, intended the bost for am ¢special purpose. T went out on the guard, and asked Vr Bashiom ‘hall I got into this boav?” He made ae cnewer, Iesked b ma second time without recel ing a | reply. T wae thes convinced Mr. B, was acting ant). ‘he orders of the oaptain, then on the upper dick The