The New York Herald Newspaper, October 6, 1857, Page 1

WHOLB NO. 7705. MORNING EDITION—TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1857. PRICE TWO CENTS. THE CENTRAL AMERICA CALAMITY. ney WONDZBFUL AND MIRACULOUS RESCUE. Twe Second Engineer, a Passenger and a Fireman Picked up at Sea. TERRIBLE SUFFERING ON THE OCEAN, * NISE DAYS WITHOUT FOOD. Thrilling Narratives of the Saved——Other Passengers seen three Days after the Wreck—Names of flore of the Lost. ‘ Statement of the Mate and Crew of the Boston é Schooner El Borado, &., wo Xx. Tarce more of the unbappy sufferers of the steamer Centra! America have becn almoat miraculously restored ft thetr friends, after enduring agonice which none but the ‘Wi fele1 castaway io the solitudes of the ocean can con eelve For nine cars thoy were struggling for life on portions of the wreck, in fearful suspense, without fond or water, erpored to ihe rays of @ scorching sum, with the alt water breaking over ‘hem, until their bodies became ® mase of sores. Then, through the mersy of Pr:videuce, they wore seen end pioked up by the brig Mary, of Grown @ok, bound from Cardenas to Qneenstown, Ireland. Attbe time of their rescue thoy were almost periehing from star vation snd exhaustion; and, though restored to their Romer and familice, (betr present condi'ion is most de- plorabie from the effects of their crue! cufferings. ‘The Bremen bark Lacra, Captain Wilmssen, from Bre- men, whinh arrived yesterday morning, reports that on Gept. 28 in Ist 40.64, long. 60,8t2 P.M, sho sr0ke tho Brite brig Mary, Captain Shearer, of Greenock, from Cardenas for Queenstown, and took from her:— John Tice, second engineer. A-exander Grant, fireman, and @ W. Dawson, rassenger—whom the Mary tad rer ued from the Orntra! America. ‘The following is from Cap'ain Shearer, of the British brig Mary:— At Sea, Sent 78-2 P.M. Lat 40 64.N, long. 28. To Wrom rr way Jorcunw —This tr to certify that three Wen (vemes oncermentioned ) were picked ap et ea in ap it, by the brig dary, 0° Greenock, from ae bond to Queens pames of thoro resrued are J Tice, second eng'veer; G W. Dawson, semnee, and Alexander Grant, fremen.' Yours, respectfully. . COLIN SHEARER, Master. The above men were transferred om (he 23th to the Bre- wen bark Laure, which arrived yestercay m woing. Mr. Tice was seventy-two bours driftiag on aplank On the fourth morning drifted by » boat and s.cceeded tn getting (jwto her, and on the ffih picked up Alex Grant, a firemen, who bad been five days on part of the hurricane deck, Grant having swam to tho boat. The two then pulled for the berricare deck, and took from it@ W. Dawson, a pas wenger. ‘There bad been twelve men on that part of he wreck, the names of sowe of whom are— Reorge Batdington, third engineer, died. Johp Bank, coal passer, died. Purick Carr, do. do. Patrick Fvers, a freman, and six coal passers, names epkpown, all died. Messrs. Tice, Dawson and Grant were eight days with oat water or provisions, the sea making « breach over mem mot of the time Yhe second day after the steamer went down they saw ‘a number of passengors on pieces of wreck, but aguld not assist (bem Mr. Tico saw Capt. Herndon just before the ship won down. Meesrs. Tice, Dawson and Grant are in ® sad cond!‘irn, Raving been badly bruised, and are covered with bois, Baving been constantly in the water. ‘The resoved men state that there were oric'nally twelve persons who took refoge on the harricane deck, but one by one, sad to relate, they did from hunger and exbaus fon, excerpt the two men Grant andflawson, wha were taker Inio the boa\ picked up by Mr. Tice, om the fifth day ‘for the steamer sunk. They also state that on Monday, ‘me 14h of September, two daye after the steamer wen) down, thoy saw a number of the passengers clinging to Pieces of the wreck; and thongh {t may seem sonewha, @trango that the [orton schooner F! Dored, which reports Baving remeined {x the vicinity till after daylight the morning following ihe disaster, should not have been fable to observe any of the sufferers, that may be ac counted for by the faot—and it {# an extraordinary ene—that the mon picked ap by the brig Mary had drifted nearly siz hundred miler from the wee of the wreck before they were rescued, Captain Bart, cf the Marine, givos iho position of the sicamer when she ‘went down, at Intitnde 81 40, longitude 75 60; and Captain Shearer, of the Mary, states that he picked up Tice, Daw” gon and Grant in Intitude 96 40, longitude 71. They were Griftirg in the Golf Stream, which there rurs at the rate of three miles an hour, #0 that in eight days they would Rave Soated, with tho aid of the siream alone, fire hun @red and seventy siz miles Ii je stated, also, thatthe El Dorado is « low, rather fat- Dettomed vessel, and drifted rapidly to leeward; #0 far, \n fact, that sho was not seen at all next morning, from the ‘Marine or the Filen. Ii le to be regretted that Capt. Slocum, of the schooner & Townsend, bound to Charleston, who reported that cn the 17th inet., about afty mi! . E. of Onpe Hatteras, be paseod the hurricane deck, wheel house, pilot house, Ao , Of a large steamer, did no! endeavor to dissover whother ‘Qay One was clinging to these portions of the wreck, as it ‘14 possible that some of those seen by Mr. Grant might Rave beon sitll alive, andholding on to the pilot houre or Wheel bourse, for the 17th was the yory (ay on which Grant and lawson left the deck for the email boat. ‘There seems litte hope left that the ga!ant Capt. Hern- don still ives. The three sufferers who arrived here yes. terday are probably the nat we shall ever boar of from amor g the parsengers or crew of the ilifated Cen ral Amo rica. Capt Herndon has beon erroneously styled @ liea- ‘tenant in tho United States Navy, but since 1656 he bold the rank of commander. It is somewhat remarkable that the perion after whom poor Herndon was named, Capt ‘William Lewis, also s native of Virginia, porished at son {a the very same month, forty-two years ago—Sepiembor 181b—wD'le commar ding his veese!, the United States brig Epervia, oa ber homeward voyage from the Mediierrancac. THE PARTICULARS. Immediately on the reception of the news at our offlce of the safety of three more of tho wrocked persone on ‘oar! of the Contral Amorica, we despatched our reporters fm quest of tho survivors, two of whom, Mr. Tioe, the s0- ond assistant engineer, and Alexaador Grant, one of ihe firomen, they found at Castle Garden, where they had born landed shortly before, in advance of the rest of the pas- @ongers of the Laura, by permission of Mr. Keneedy, eu of the place. Mr. Dawvon, om landing, enld that he wishod to go in quest of some person from whom fhe could raize euiictent fands to get home, as he was very fick. He accordingly left his companions at the Garden, ‘end etarted off through the city in quost of fande. Mr. floc, by the adrice of Mr. Kennedy end others, ro cmalped at the Gar intil proper shoes oould |) provided for bis fect, as be was suffering extremely from salt water Polls o8 both foot, He sooordingly went om beard of the Doctor Kane, a steamtug employed at the Garden for wowing barges, 40, and remained in the engine rooms while his comrade, Mr. Grant, went in quest of fuitable pair of slippers, stockings, &o., for him. In the meantime, the Dooter Kane, with Mr. Tice on board, Joh the Garden and proceeded of to the Laura, for ine Harpers of towing a barge load of passongors from that vawe! to the Castio, During the absence of the towboat, Mr. Grant returned to the Castle with the shoor, &o., for Tice, whore our reporter prooared the foilo ring f narrative of his adventures, from the time of the America’s going down, until he, with Mr. Tloo and Dawson wore picked up by the being in the water 4 tasting foo! pr fresh at Soottish brig Mary, — | STATEMENT OF ALEX AND! OF THE FIREMEN. I was one of the fremen cm board of the Central Ame loa, and wp to the time of the phip’s going down hed doue all im my power to save her and the passengers. About Steen or iwenty minutes before wine o/elock on the Saturday evening on which sbe sank, knowing tha: he must go down some time durieg the night, I, with nine others, turned to for the purpose of ouiting away the har- Tieawe deck, on whieh, if possible, to save our lives and as many others ss we could get on. Ihad juct completed owtiing away the last piece of rope whios held Ht down, when upon rising and looking sround mel saw that the veese! had gone down unde’ us and left us floating on Wp of the deck. Nothing vas to be seen of hey but her pre sengers as they rose one after avojher to the surface of tie ‘water, and a few pieces of the wreck which wre floating about as they arose from the decks of the steamer. ‘The names of the persins on board of the hurricane deck, as near as I can dow revollect, wore as fo.lows:— George Buddington, third assistant engineer, John Bank, fireman. Alexander Grant, dreman. GRANT, ONE ‘The names of the other three I cannot remember. The deck floated away to leeward, and we soon lost sight of the floating passengers of the wreck Oa the follow.ng (Jun day) morning we came across and picked up a colored man named George Dawson, who was ® passenger on ‘board of the ship, and whom we found floating in the water, supporting himself by a piese of board. Shortly afier picking up Dawson we came across and’ picked n> apotber pacsenger, whrse name I never learned, as be aled on the fourth day after we picked him up, from sheer abavstion, From the time of our being wrecked up the fifth day after, (Tharsday,) ten out of the twelve onthe raft, including the ten who were on at ths time the ship wen\ down and the two picked up subsequently, ten baa died of extaustion and exposure, leavirg none but Dawson and myself ative. On the fifth day of our floating about on the hurricane deck I discovered a small boat some dis. tence off, and at once siripped mynecif of all my outsiie clothing, determined to swim to the boat or die im the attempt. The task, emaciated exhausted and ‘a2 I was was no amall one, bot I knew that it was my only hope, as we bad endeavored to discover a sail in vain since our being wrecked. On arriving at the bort I found led me to Eg ip; we then pallet the boa apd took Dawson, who was almost 101 exposure, on boara. We ifted away to looward with the wiad, not knowing where we were, uniil, on the eighth day after the wre k ) ® brigaptine off to the leeward of make oorteives heard 0° ssn, was soon lent to our view Oar Le those on board F course and te the veasel, whieh Immedistely 0 at the time, teres stood directly for us. It being pretty calm we were very easily taken on the vessel, which proved to be the big Mary, of Greenock, Soouland, from Cubs, bound to Cork, with s load of molasses. I tention which It was in the power of Ber captain to rex der. Tcannot rem: mber the name of tbe cartain of the Laura at present. I have a wife end one child living ai No 36 essen cteees, How Zoek, he St eee beeps nb te BO ‘This is the third time that Mr. Grant has been ship- wrecked from steamebioe, a@ follows: once on board of iho steamship Arctic: once on the steamship Crescent Cliy, and the Inst time on ‘he Cemiral Amerios. He presented’ this ornieg a most emaciated and eickly appearance, so much #0 Indeed that t#ice, while narrating the above to our re Pada Dade on wae dighie: fhe pd reat for a fow m efore ding, and only concluded his tive with yy monthe be diMoulty. Is will be many weeks and Aber of the survivors will be fit for active iidest and best of treatment. , Our reporter found Mr. | gentlemen in the engine room. from whom he procured the annexed statement of his adventures of the wreck up to the time o/ his arrival ot this olty. ANOTORR STAYEMERT PROM MR. GRANT— FURTHER AND FULLER PARYICULARS OF THE RESCUE. Thinking that perbaps a fuller and more correct state- mont might be procured from Mr Grant, as tothe death of the ten persons with bim on ibe horrivane dock, after he had had time to recover some bat from his recent hardships, apd meoting with bis family and friends, and by a quiet conversation with bim away from « crowd of anxious People, all talking with him ata time, our reporter vistied him at his house, No. 9¢ Vandam streot, yerterday afer. noo, aod there found bim in tho bear! of his family, sar- rounded by ‘hree or four female friends, and so entirely changed in dress and appearance that he was toarce'y re cognized as the same person whom ho saw at Castle Gar den in the morning, he baving donaed an entire obange of wearing appare!, and otherwise corrected and ame doc his totlet. His wife did not for some time after hearing of his safety believe !t, and was at Orst quile indignant with tho person who informed her of ihe fact, thinking that he was twiting with her feelings, and not being able to sce how he could have possibly been saved) When he was at leogih driven w the door in carriage and #he became fatisfied that he bad really been saved, her joy and expressions of atisfaction and thankfolners, as may wol! be concetved, were unbounded. What was Joy to her, however, proved to be uiter grief and woe to another poor woman living on the same floor with her, named Wilson, whose husband wae one of those lost by the wreek, The sews of Mr. Grant's safoty fell like « thunder clap on ber, and upon learning that he had no in telligence from her husband, ehe swooned away, and ov" Unved from one fainting Mt to another, for several hours, before abe could command wuificlont strength to resist her feelings. Mr. Grent, who appeared to feo! mach better than in the morning, cave our reporter tne following interesting de. tells of each day's proceedings on board of the burricane deck — ‘The Central America went down about a quarter to nine o'clock, to the best of my recollection. The nicht was ‘very dark, with © few stars to be seen in the skies; thore wae no jichtning nor rain, We could see over one hundred ‘all around us olinging to pieces of the wreok. were all around us, crying tg RF moment, and 8 muoh as we could hi Lit as op to day light on Bcrnar tale oom on be that morning ten ten or twelve persons arcund were all too far off, creeps lar. Bowers, any aasiotance, Mr. Dawson was on o plank, tus, and ¢limbed up on the hurricane deck with as. vinet DEATH. a PtH Before night three more died, whose names I do know. Two of them very much exhansted Sunday sight there were fodr more of oar nam- ber @ Of exhaustion and swallowing too mooh salt water, 4 name of one of these I do not know. He be. the stewerd’s department, and was a colored = sg Seen 6 Ge Chere were Rurrington, third engineer. Patrick E-aze, coal passer if i 2°43] MORE BATES oa Bome boure prior te pight coming or, Kennathy, one ‘the eon! paorers, became: }, aud was wholly on conscicus of bis condition, and dnring that nigtt both he on¢ one of the survivors of the hurricane denk, ® pas senger, whose name I 40 not know, ‘lied from exhaaation nd swallowing salt water, Taere were now bul two— myset 6 out of the twelve Perrone whe were atone Hime on tbe hurrivane deok wtih ip weat dowa We were bob very much exbausted, but resolved to d> tbe best we could to save our lives. ‘Wopmrepay.—The eee was net quite so rough as it bed Deep, aithe there was = pretty good swoll rolling. Sobieg © °F pole coourred during the day. Tuvsenay, the fifth day, Igaw ® boat about ihree miles eff, but oonld dot tell whether there wat any oue in it or pot but thought there was. I resolved, however, to retwod {if poestble, end sccordingly I divested mysoif of all but wy vnder clothes, and tlelpg a life rréserver aro ind we 1 JOMp 4 Into We sea, and swam towards the boat «ita all @y wight I cennot say how long | was defore | Seally resoned the poat, but befcre I gat to her I discovered a ‘wan sitting down and trying t+ skull the boat towar «me On reaching the side sf tho boa, the man (who proved to be Mr. Tice.) belped mein, fhe boat, which, whan #0 ovred by Mr. Toe was full of water, had besa balled oat by Mm tbrougb the ald of a buckot and tin pan wnioh he had fonnd in it, im addition to three cars ip goed order wsich bad remained in the bom after being ewamped, The hole in the bottom of the os for allowing the water to drain out on being taken on board ship, and whigh was open when dironvered by Mr. Tice, bad been plugged up by him by athole vin, so tbat when I got nto berabe was in Gnetrim. Mr. Tice enc myo If immediately puller the boat se fast as porriblo to the burricane deok, ana took Mr. Dawson in. Ho wae as trong as cither of us, as we had all been withont food fiom 12 o'clock at noon of the Saturday before, and were complete y oxbaurted, as we bad been incersanti: at work for some thirty six bens before the ship won! down, ia trying to eve ber, and nove of ue had cared to oa: but a very jitthe during the whole of that time After tekivg Dawron on board we allowed the boat to drift with the wind to seaward, ret being sbie to help ourselves if wo had wivhe¢ and net knowing which way to pull. Bofore she wreek I ne: thought I could bogin to go throngh yn ohe: half of what I have, and do notthink J coula over jo it again Fripay axp Sarcrpsy.—Wind light and pleasant wea- ther; pechirg worthy of note ecourred Bunray, Ficura Day.— Woe still continved to drift to leo werd w1.b the wind, delng per‘ectly resigned to whatever fate‘awatted us, In the sfternoon we ditoovored « brigan- tine to the leeward of us w cooriderable dintarce, We mede every posaible effort to attract tho attention of some ‘ene om board of ber, but to no purpore. as she was {10 ‘ar off. The wind was blowing pretty stiff at the time, aud the was onder ebort pals, with reefed topsatis She parsed on Der Course, #nd was out of cur aight in about two hours Mospsy, Yurra Day.~Oc Mond: ‘abdoat four o'clock, ‘We taw another rail, io which we le #1 the stynsls of distress ia our powar, which wero fortunately seen by thore on b. ard, and the verse! stood directly do »n for us. We alzo pulled all wo were able to tor the vorrel, which proved to be the brig Mary, of Greenwk, Scotland, from Uardevas, Cubs, witb mosses, bound to Cork. We saw the vessel some time defore she saw us, [ think, and made sigoaleto her Shortly a'ter five o’clock we were picked Copsequence corun ed up to the time of our arrival al this Mr. Tive, who isa young wan without femily, resides to thir city, at the corner ot feventh avenue and ave nue B, and sucoceded In saving otyt) dollars in bank jis, moatiy On Fe Bank 6° North Amerioa, ts ye A 4 watsh, which he breught to thie ol ‘ell the aone0 ance of a shipewre wed map. and, when oar reporter saw bim, wee dreseed ia @ piles cloth pesjackst and pair of dangere- pants, without sheeo or siook'ngs, The kin wae pesied from bein of bie feet from the tine of bis tose to his ankles, in addition to which, betng so len; nalt water had cawed avery to the vicinity of bm to wear any othe: larger than bis feet, Bis sores had bean dresset on hoard of the brig a well as circumstances would permit of, the raga being willl wound wound kip ankles APDITIONAL. PARTICULARS RESPECTING MR. TICE. Mr. Jobn Tice, the frst asme\ant oegineer on the Contra! America, is a young man of apparently twenty five years of oge, and bas been in the employ of the oompasy, on tne George Law, for abot four years, He is vary intelligent, and as 2000 as he ie abie to converse will have the ability te give a graphic and deep'y intercstirg narrative of his barrow escape from drowning and starvation Upon ar riving atthe office of the oomp:py, Mr. J J. Holliston, and the chiof evginoer, Mr, Ath)y, conveyed him simos ip-mediately im a carriage to bis residence. When in the oity he boards with ove ‘f hie relativos, ard his retarn was wet by the diferent mombers of the family with va ried and powerfui feelings of emotion. As to Tice bimeelf, his strevg bh «90 ead to alnk ano fal! under the excita nent ond be wes at once assisted to bed, where be remained doring the day, obtaining some degree of rent ani soli. tude, anail of ble many friendeand overs were not all wed to visturb bim, He siaied hile riding to the hone that ho wae three days on the pank hofore he perowivet ore of ike hfe boats pear bim, sod imm odiately swam te it He found that one of hor tsides had been stove tn, and ebe wan frilof water, He alno parcalved a large hole in her boitem, wbich he plugged, and theathsiled out tbe water. Up te thie time be bad rlect but litle As secon as he bad prepared the boat he ley down aud went to vices, The som wan comparatively calm, and thus he ‘irated about unlil pleked op by the brig Marr, four dass after Son after geiting into be brat, Alexaoder Grent, one of th firemen joined Dim. The Jatter bad ewam from @rafi formed out of the burricane d+sk, and which war fv wing about three miles dient Ther then rowed and paccl*d back to the reft, and took on board the doat the colored man, Geo W Dawron who was tre only sur. viver of elevendwho had origivally taken refuge on it Whfle on the plenk he was constantly on the alert for rharks but eae nore, although large numbers of dolphins were plsying abont bim at various times. Tho long ox porure fo tbo clements hax reruord him to 80 low and weak a state that moch care is necesssry on ihe part of bie frien“s to guard him from eny undue excitement, or 4 severe illxess may be the result. STATEMENT OF . DAWSON, THE PAS- SENGER. up by be vessel, where we were received by al! hands with itmoat kindness, Everything was done for as that covid be, The boat in which we were raved was also ‘aken op boerd of the Mary wits of When we ot on board the verse! we were so much ¢x- sted that we could not stand alone, and were to get hold of something to snpport ives. Weremained on hoard of the Mary until the following Menday, when the capteln fellin with the bark Laura, from Bremen, wiib a ioed of passengers for Now ‘ork, and asked the captain if be would take us on board, which be reedily consented to do, and immediately sent bis for Here we were sino received with the ut- and a'fention, and vothing was left undone we or crew for our comfort. tion of ber machinery, or about the disaster previove to the golng down of the shi,,, co not th'nk, from sil leaving the vi 1, that he is at all to biame ip the matier. Tom prey certain thet he left ihe ship by the captain's re. POUR FINES WRECKED. ‘This js the fourth time thet I beve been shipwrecked, The firet time was when | was about siztcen years of »; om the brig Atlas, of Windaor, Nova ola, bound to Fall River with a load of ooal. Shoe foundered Our reporter visited this gentlemen yesterday, et No. 12 Leopard street whore ho Js being cared for by his friends. On our fret visit Mr. Dawson wes lying round avieep on» sofa, and not wisbing to disturb his slambers we arranged to cee bim at four o'clock. On our second tatroduction, Wo were struck wita the emaciated appearance of a tall, well built and mvesular colored men, apparently aout thirty-five years of age, and who must have bad an (roa constitetion to have endured the more than human soilurings bis tale of horrors recounts. Boils have broken out all over his body, the ‘es peeled off his hands, and besides sunken cheeks, brulsod iimbes, apd all the signs of bard hardships, a largo sore bas made ite appearance on bis forehead. He wat a pitia- ble object to look at—his powerful frame strongly coa tresting its present deplorable condition, and showing ‘hat ho purchaeed iifeat = great sacrifice. Ho was mifering much from general debility, and with difficulty could draw! out replios to the few qacstions which sympathy for bir condition permitted us only to ask; aud even these fow ‘were (oo many for bis strength, for he requested us not lo continue, as he was unable to reply. Bitting beside bim a4 sea, about one hundred mies from Boston 1 was then taken from the wreck before ebe went down, by the Amazon, of Holland, and taken to Now Brunswick. The second time wat en board of the steamehip Aretio, when J was in the water fi ty two hours, 1 was then picked up by the Cambria. The third time wi the Oreecen City, and the fourth and last time on ‘the Central America. We suffered very much from the water beirg to warm, the hest being about seventy degrees, which, with the heat of the sun, made it very oppreseive. When we were taken on boerd of the Mary we were ‘with salt water boils. several of them being on my nove These Dave now all disappearct, with the excepion of these on my lips. STATEMENT OF JOHN TICE, SESOND EN- GINEER. I was on board the Central America at the time of her going down, and hed up to the morning of that day been busy with ihe passengers and crew 0” the veesel, in endes ‘voring to save the vessel. Seeing that all our efforts in ‘that direction would be upaval ing. abandoned the idee and turned onr attention to the safety of the paserngers. Beotng that the yeaso’ was about going down, | seized a plece of board, wilh which I leaped into the water. At the same time the vessel went down By, .bargicg op to the board, I went buta short distapce below the surface, and upon coming up could wee nothing about me but the remains of the wreck and the floating passengers, in the midst of whom I was, I immpdiately made my way with my board to leeward, Ip orde@iRd get out of roach of the crowd, for fear that I mig! come tn wig rome of thom, and thus interfere with each of ffocting our mutoal safety, I continaed drifting ta Trowad Sor three dey wiihout seeing @ single person. cr object, until to- ward the middle of the third day I couple M&k looking Object floating on the waves some distance Off. Hetng a good ewimmer, I immediately made for \t, ard soon gained suf- ficient ground to discover that tt was s boat. | then re Bewed my corte, and after three or four hours hard work, being greatly fatigued, I came ap with and laid hold of the sides of the boat, to which | clung for a few moments \n order to regain my strength. It was while I was thus rituated that I discovered that it was one of the lifeboats which bad belonged to tne Central America, but which was swamped ip being launched before thas vessel went down. The boat bad come to the surface without bearing any torious injury, her air chambers being perfect, 1 mediately, on recovering my strength, suoceeded in Creep” hug over tbe sides and into the boat, which was very nearly foll of water, tbe cork being out of the bottom, the same as before lannching from the ebip; | then tarned to and balled ae much of the water out as Iwas able todo with © bucket apd tia pan, which I found ir her, aad stopp- ea the hole in the bottom of the boat with a pleos ofa thole pin; my pantaloons, which bad beoome usejeas to ma, ‘m congequence of one leg being eatirely wore off by chafing agwinst my boarc, | threw overboard | continued (ating to leeward in this boat for two more days without seeing « singe c!jeet, anti toward ibe clowe of the second dey | saw wha! appeared to mo to be a raf or boat, with human beings on it, wards the object, and soon é\soovered tbat !t waa a port on of the burricane deck of the Central Amerion, on board of | which were two personr, (;corge Grant, one of the firemen of | the yease!, and (.corge (aweon, & Or lored passenger of the Central America. These | wok from their raft, on whieh | engineer. We somtinued drifting to coward anti! Sunday, the cighth day afier the wreck, when we, for the first time, saw a sail vearel, which proved to be a tchooner, which we endeavored to bail, but were anabdie to maze onrer!: seen by any on beard, probably owing to the faci that was a great way of and oar belng so emall on ‘ae rot 19 attract (he atvention of any, even should they be on deck; but it being Sunday, tl moet of her crew were below. Another reason why we should see ber and she not aoe us, wae the fact that were locking ont continusily for every object we could see, Im bopes of felitrg in with vamre!, while the people om the fobocner probably were not look: out for any particu. lar object. The schooner passed on to the southward of of we and wae soon ont of At this T immediatety made as mnob way an [ was adie to. wae Mr. Garrison, ancther of the providentially eure? of the Cectral America, ani to him be spoke fora short time longer, in a weakened tone. So far as we ovuld gr ther, the substance of Mr. Daweon’s s‘aiement was that be went down with tho verse! and after stroggiag for some time in the water, Gnally enccseded in fioming him- wolf cns plank. In this condition be remaine4, towed @dout, oti] the second morning, when he was takea of, and agsisted on the floating deck by such passengers as were then cn ft. At this time there were about eight out of twelve who remalnes oa lt; but one by ove they cor iin ued to Crop off, and on the day they bad all perished but four, On'the fifth day the boat ,with the aswpiant ongineor, ar. Ji and Mr. Grant left the deck and a8 not Ioog after the o:ber two Mr. Daw Dimeelr alone. His condition can be thas doscribed--Ove dage floating open ocean, without food, drink, eripg, the son washing over him. The wonder is he lives to recount bie terrible agony of sufferings Mr Tice ard Mr Grant came towards him and took him toto the dost. They were three di wre 'n the open boat, ruf- Serieg borribly from Wirt hunger, anil so weak thoy could not stand, On the niotb day (2ist ult.) picked wp by the brig Mary, of Greenock, of whict they were lied and humanely taken caro of by pain =Shearer. On tho tb alt, they were transferred to tho Bremen bark Laura, and arrived Ip the city yestercay morning. Mr Dawson was bore | York State, it wil bea long tims, if ever, before be recovers bia prirtine vigor. He is » wreck of hcwaxity at prevent, and requires great care aod oure ing to bring Bim round. We would suggest to the mem. dere of the Retief C mmitice that his case ts ono demand. Ls thelr Immediate attention He ra man, and bo Wdow rest, medicine, nourtehing fc and clothing are nooerrary to bia conval: roenes Mr. Laweon's bome is in Rocbesler: he was brooght up there. He i#an unmarried men, His father and mother are cond, but his bome ie # ith an anni. He le very anxious Ww rtart for home as toon ss posible, and talked aovoat jonying the city to dey, bot of cunrse wil’ vot be abie to ad to He s at present with Mr. litnry Sampeon, of No Lenard street, who is an old friend and seqoaintance of ibe svfferer, and attends to bis wants with great oare aod kindness, Both of them were on board the Centra! Ame Br. Sampson was trken (| in one of the boats and Mr. Dawson saved ae above narrated. Mr. Sampron in forme va that Mr Dawson wat cots passenger, bet one of the crew of the Centre! America. Tole ie not the frst time that George W. Dawson bas been thipwresked Nearly two yeare be was cn board the Oty when whe was casi away. He les man that has aiways borne « {ood charactor, though he bes goxorally led the adventa- ous life of a sailor. ie bears up manfally exceerive eofferings, wnt apprars po de jrated. i in very comfortable quariers bow, Me Bal snout bot for that reason be neglected by those who have the disburse mett of public charity gives, for the benetit of such cases tata theif hanes. He is uuable wo go to them; they enould gow dim THE SCHOONER DORADO AND THE CENTRAL AMERICA. Twill be remembered that when the schooner F) [bo TaGo arrived at Bosion, ber Commander, Captain Sone, publiabed @ brief slatement of bis connection with the |!) fated Central Americs, We give, in the anmexed letter, s full statement mace by tbe mate (Mr. Sherlock) and rome of ibe crew, which Will Be found bighly \mtererting jast ai this time, whes three moro of the sufferers have been re stored. The Ri Dorado was the iast vessel to leave ine visinity of the wrecked steameb!p, having laid to all night tm bope of saving seme of the passengers, but withow avail = TO THR BDITOR OF THES. ¥. WRRALD. Bowrom, Ost. 8, 1867 The arrival of the Ki Dorado im Roston with no tidings of Captain Herndon, the commander of the (ll starred aod ‘ated sleamer Centra! Americs, extinguished (the last bope fer the safety of that gallant offcer, Captain Stone, of (be Fl Dorado, tas gone to bis bome \n Portland, after baving mace @ partial siatemont of clroumstanoss con neoted with the ¢isaster, which mas beon published \n the papers of thie city I bave bed an interview with Mr. herlotk (mate and crew of the El Leredo, who corrobo- rate \he statement of Captain Sone, sud from them I bare learned some Interestirg particulars. ‘The Fl Dorado, a schooner of two hundred and twelve tons, 1s owned by MoCroady & Mott, of South street, New Gieappolniment, oor bearte and ocurege elmoet failer, bot believing that while ‘here was life there was hone, we tried to yp CUr Courage as well ae we could, thinking thet we mipht pot fal! in with relief before it wae too inte. On Monday, the ninth dey of ovr remaining in the water, ‘And the Zlet of the meath, sboat 5 o'olonk 'n the afarnoon, we dircovered nother sail bearing directly in our direc: thon, to which ei toward.us. She the brig Mary, rom Greenock, Scotland. @ came Up and took us on board, and pave us each arsisiance ae wal ip thelr power to roncer. '@ wore al! greatly emaciated and almort entirely heipless from bunger, thirst and expo- | more, baring been jn the alt water, ina tropical clime, | eight days and twenty hours, without teeing a particle food er a drop of fresh waier, We sli guilered extremely | from the heat, which at fimos war Intopse and almost an. endurable The Mary being from Uardenas, In Cabs, ioaded with melasren, and bound to Cork, roland, and not wish- ing to be taken fo far out of oor course, (he Captain, | whote mame I dieremember at present, kinaly onnesnted | to put oe om hoard of the first yoere! be feel in with boond for the United States, which proved to be the Bremen brig Laure, wih « ined emigrant, with which be fell in on Me , the 8th of Seplember, The captein of the Lanra kindiy took ws on board, and gave ve Ail the sid toward dresing our scree and provid ing for our necessities im his power, Nothiog farther 0, | York, and her cargo, which consisted of cotton and hides, wes Compigned to Pierce, Bacon & Oo., of this city, from Galveston, Texes, She ie & square built, broad beamed veuse! calculated for much stewage and dal! galling. Bhe Indore heavily in a bad sea, and ships her water over the quarter rau, On her presant voyage she was loaded down to her chaina, and tho peculiarly ehaped Darnecies of Mamgorda bay are vis!bie upon her bull, almost np te Ler obains, She eprvrg her boweprit so badly in the late tale thal the leaked, and her cotton @ damaged wih water, Her foreratl was carried away, ber forerall spi to rags, ber bulwarke stove and abe was badly strained She must be put on tbe ways for thorouga repairs ov her return to New Yort. It appears from the log of the schooner—an extract (rom which | give below—taat sho experienced & sucsemion of anies for several days previous and several sibseqaent to that on which the steamer was ost, The brief notes of BS logbook do not convey to the mind of « landeman « {ithe of the dangers and sufferings and invors of # crow in treh a time of perii se tbat, The mate, (Sherlock,) why mays that he pieced througd a beavier gate than tals in nearly the same latitude, iast January, remarks, wiih the ste piielty of a bardy mariner, ‘I like a good gale of wind once ima while to wake us up, but this wasa litle too ” ‘The plain, prectical statements of those on board the O Dorado wevld fail to give the reader an adequate iden of fell ia faculties and tbe imagination must be called ‘the details and give a proper coloring to the re. AC coroing to the stetement of tne mate, ur. G rok, Ceptral america wee discovered y tant on the bow, the schooner bel g to M. ofvil time, or Sonday by paati in ‘che log ‘a kept. The steamer was low in the water. so thet the soa was deshing upoa her whee! house guards, She was down by the head, and it !¢ the opipion of Mr. Sherlock tbat cables bad mn hove overboard sne might bavo Mer cme bours longer than she 114 Capt. asked if ne oculd render aay y mo till morning;” ina ho was drifting away from ‘ould not do some hing tha! 0, ie by met till morning”? siled, “Be yrur lights,” and by inie time bad drifted ont of hailing distance” The schooner was bove to uncer @ three reeled maiavall, a yeefed tri nd reefid jb The persons on the scbooner estimat ed the pomber ou bosra the tteamer at sevon hundred, ard there was @ continued roar of their voloes : istog above the note of tne ea, which woe clamoring beerrely and epgrily for their prey. Prerara‘tons were immediately made for the reception of the steamor’s pas rergers, which were expected to be on bosrd the next morr'ng [ts was raining bard, and the men were ordored w caich the water which was running from to top ef the bouse over the ooaer’s cabin, sc thet they might be suppited with fresh water. ‘p the mesntive ligbte bad beep set upom both vosrels, apc wbep tbe rcbr< per bad crifted ab: at two molles dis- tent, et 746, the igbte of the doomed steamer had dirsp rare’ The hosris of thore «n doard the 8 hooner wero filed with eraisty, The mste says that every one of the men seemed as much {pterested in tho lost steamer as if be bat scme friend op board who might: et be rescued from a watery grave, They sailed over end over the apt on peer as (bey oould optit bait past mine o’siock the next morning, ween they kept» on thelr coarse bome ward Mr. Sherlock eaye that when Commander Heradon hetiet the roboorer bis voice was as steady as Ifo had be beat ver } ip the world ander bim, ia a smooth sea Toure sherlook’s langiage, * he spoke ike as if he was every inch ® men aud ® sailor.” The schooner bad only ope malt jolly boat, whic was Iasbed over the siorn rel! hott m opward, fo prevent it from boing washed away by the heavy sear, Crone seas, and ‘ confused”? seas men- \ioned ip the rate’s Ing ‘There \# sy apparent diserepanoy between the state aent of *atair Stone snd that of one of the pyesengere who the spot where thes eamer bad unk the previous ev ening, while the pasterger saya that he, beirg {n tne wa er, sup ported by m smal: piece of board, the schooner at Cay light OMeen roles off at least Capta'n Sione may have erred somewhat in jadsing that he waeao near the apot, and en ibe evber band ‘he passenger most have been mis- taken { ray ing that be was eo far off From the elevation of & ycerel’s deck, if one can make outs large craft at ten miles distast ¥ib the naked eye, bis vision is very good, The ormrexity of the ocean would shut out of wigbi \bo E) Dorado’s masts at dftcen miles die tapce, end if ihe er saw her that vpder the circ mrtances mentions, have been more than five milos off therefore reeily » confirmet! of tbat of Oept Stone's, end El of Hs statement ia In al! importent respects, that the cifloers of the iecharging her cargo, between the mate Mr, Jemap of /hie olty lot onahew statement tine bile be was etroggling tm the water, thie ed the mtte with charges that by his vomel MD, gbrok was faleo, the msto thet hie own flosncial postion wes o bave given an immense sun ot id ave taved his nop! 2 Vike an hovest, bluff, did pot care for his money—t atthe vatulartion of having saved ons lite of Wote op board the steamer would 90 more by him than all tbe money the rich tncle of bis porsested, and all that was eupk Ip the Central America to boot. ber. look asked to be corfronted with the passenger referrod fo, acd when be was brougtt forward, exclaimed, ‘Are says that we ran ¥ without offering d you sew ur fiteen miloe cif ths next morn- Joan otly may ¢2a8 Tin sorry wrime wan who could speak the trauh [give @ copy of «portion of the Et Dorado’s log, which heavy and toe continued gale was ex would sem to disprove the horricano was ® circolar o9e, or a tpecies of whirlwind like those which are a» sucdenly fey im the China tens. EXTRACT FROM TUR LOG OF BCHOONER RL DORADO, Sart 7 —(Navtic ng strong, *ith ahoavy crome ten; echoorcr plopgipg heavily and stralaing, tacked ‘a distant ten miles. northward: tremendous 0 stream running north reofed jib: ship makin , Heavy gai e reefed main her and laboring aering bor rqvelie ar and short, bree kicg over boweprit. and jibb om tirsining veesel very mech 8 o'clock A. M —Heev: tquails ane rain, at nocn blowing a perfect gale from norh e AY 9 —Blowing ¢ { malveall), Ab oolook wore whip oN W,; silt i}; lowered downto re 4PM; ship roling and sirsining heav'ly , arrylog me ay doadese ntrape acd ringing main gait and At night, 12 M., n08 heavy; squaile of drain, At4 A.M, vessel lurching heavily, taking inrge quantitics of water, keeping decks ranain pater. Noon, los wind and soa; tacked to eatwa ,10 —Blowing weather; heavy beam sea; sbip ily; water over her decks At 5 o’cloom let At n’ght, rq lle, cloady with Fight o'clock A M., (noressing aoa; voesel heavily; heel’of bowsprit working up and do: inches: head pear badly strained der clowe re’ed guile; reese! making an increase Al reen, coptinornce of gale, squalls and rain. Lat 20 40.N. (Observation donbtfnt. ) Primay, 1—Continved gales and squalia, and tremen done soe romping; veasel lanoriny heavily, etrainiog epere end rigging Pacty ; employe? in scouring thins in the beet menrer por \bl*; pompe contincally attended 10, 10 o'clock P. M. wind veering to north west, with heavy rain; mid- night, weather di malpeal!, and bove to under three ree’ed foreeail; ai c'eleck A. M. carried fore ‘and splis forewat| all poler, at 4 o'clock an, decks weebing — at 9 o'clock A colting it reefed; cleared away wreck sil; noon, blowirg heavy cele of wind, traintr g, td endangering everytning on deok, gear oT (bo pie and chafing them badiy; succeeded in bendicg storm trysatl and aff snd fore heavy rain; prmee constantly attended to Lat. 29 40.N ee continned gales of wind, with tremendore crote sea snd oonstent rain; vesso! Iaboring and strainize things al lo pieces; hove to under reefed storm tryea’), nal ron of water over decks; at mid- wight beavy eqralls: besvy, confased sea: ship rolling 10 a8 to endanger all ber masts; bowsprit working ap and down six ‘moves in the heel, straining eck and pall bias badly, carrying away jomper stays on the mainmest blowing foreopeail and slayeall, which were stowed Away, Out of the gaskets; sea ing away some of the belwarts on the port side; cabin windows nailed up, Sun tne tee Gove is Ieee Guae ion, boase and ling into cabie in large quant wetting cl beds and provisions. § o'clock A M.—Wind sonthwent, ect reefod maineall ‘ioe under bare po reaten\ng weatber Scrpay, 19 —Contiouation of heavy weather; le scouring boweprit in best manner possibie. 6.30 o'clock Suriey (Saturday afternoon by civil time) spoke steamship Central America tn a sinking conditicn, sean down, tm ‘alitude 31 96 north, longituds 7710 west; wae seked by her oaptain to lay by her aniil morning, which we immediniely propared for doing; at 745 P. M. mise. log ber Lgbts, wore round and preceeded to where we #0; cd ber to be; not being able to make her lights out. Kept wearing round and round in search of ber ail Se wl Sag age; continued our eearch until 9.F0 o’olosk A. M., wiibout beiry ab¥e to discover anything of ber; kept be fore the wind in hope of finding her or some of her boats, but ¢id rot muoceed: three other veasels were lying by, ry ally in search of her; #osilzed the bark Saxcay of New York; strove to speak her, but she, net willing, delng to the ward, Kept out of our reach; kept our ‘verte! away on ber conree, frarieg thatthe steamer wae foundered a 746 P.M, taking down with all on Monpay, 14, P. M—Wind tnoreatine and sen beavily; echoower running unéer close reefed canvas $y blowing weuher equal nad an oes vasatne ko vy blowing er: And rain: sea rui aaa confosed, breaking over wouter "a pompe constantly attended to, mene U,) to the castward, © quarter weather rail; At 1 o'clock A. M topmesthead gone from beavy sqrall, wind and rair; all bands employed in setting ftp bead gear and working about the bowsprit; sun ob Aecordivg to the log tho schooner ex heavy weather ano galce two or three days longer. By the ob- torvation taken on beard the Fl Dorado at the spot wi tho Central Amey ica went down, It Ofiy miles northwest by one haif from Oape Fear. ~ FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE, ARRIVAL OF THE ANGLO-SAXON, COTTON AND CONS80LS USCHANGED, BREADSTUFFS DECLINING, ke. he. he Frvm pv Lovr, Oot B=] P. M, The Montreal Bteamsbip Compiny’s screw steamor Apgio-Baxon, from Liverpoo! on the 38d ultimo, ha passed this point on her way to Quebec, where she will arrive this afterno a. A brief despatch enly bas been landed here, and the Dalanoe of the news will bo transmitted from Quobec. The Earopean advices generally by thie arrival are unimportent. ‘There is no Jator nows fromi India, bu! highly intercet- tpg detatls are published, General Havelock bad resume his march ou Laokrow. ‘Small detachments of troops wero being sent to India by the Overland Mall roate. General Reid died before Delhi. Apother motiny in one of the native regiments ad Bombay bad been suppressed. Great fears were felt for the indigo district. ‘The merchants of Calcuta bad sent a strong petition t° the Queen to take the control of the Indian empire into tho bands cf the British government General Banks, who commanded im the recent engago- mentat Lucknow, ied The grvernment evinces incressed activity in sending re infor cemen # to India, aua the of the fleet of we Japa route | ad been accented by the [at!a Company. Lord Elgtn’s mission to Celoutte, it was understood, tad reference to the transfer of the Indian tro ‘pe to China, a ovieie in the Santen ould be no changes ta the Cadi. cause of the tronble wasthe Queco’s refusal emove Concha from the Governorehi of Caba. jtland refuses to give up ihe Islana of Penam to — alliance «ith Rus+ia Is te bell int egain brought before the Caambera. orkmen of Ghent were on « strike, and a rising wap feared. ane affaira in Austria continued very unsatisfas- ny, A Teconellistion ,dotwoen Austria and Rassia wao pol 4 The Moidavien cleotions were largely in favor of a unioa. The Evengelical Allienoe at Berlin adjoarned on tho 17h ole Darte jecls had been sunk in {be har- ber of G 13 time forty-two Hives lest. © accepted th oposition to tako tbe pominal © own Prince of ~weden for ar yegont. nolera was raging in the North of Earope. of Washington left Liverpool fer New York at ¢ time as the Anglo exon. 6 7d steamebip America, from Boston om the %h, Srrived et Liverpool on the 20th Jeptember The steamabip Vanderbilt, from New York 12th Sep- tember, arrived at Southampton carly in the forenoon of ‘the 224; and the Colline steamship Atlantic, from New ‘York the same day ‘and bour, reached Liverpoal at FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. LONDON MONBY MARKET, The London money marset wes geaeral Copsols for money cloned at 90); a 90K, 90), w O36 American railway securities were slightly lower. A LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKBT. The Liverpool cotton maraet was uscoaog |, cineing 08 the 224 quit but steady. Too sales of the ihree dayo were 14,000 bales—uearly all to the trate. LIVERPOOL BRBABSTUPFS MARKET. Flour wae generally qaoted steady, hough some aatho- rites say 6d. lower. Wheat had declined 84. Mosers. Riehardeop, Spence & Uo. qrote red wheat 86. a 86. ad. ; wh fa a 94. Od ; Wester Canal flour, Sle «8%; Pai- ladelpbia apd Baltixore, 829. = 33e; Onis, 83s a B40, — corn, 378. 6d. a 58s.; yellow corn, J86.; walle, dis, ca LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET. bas p Pag A Domioal, pork dail, becom arm, qn une! 02 Im price; tallow in It i and prices weak paid LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET. wen haceducs Gadi ee bo 81 44. 64 for common; iri\e torpentine 4 ; Olle ‘unchanged; bark quiet; sugar quiet; rice dull. howse open the boty of Peter one huotred and | accidental’ rom over and ki ‘oun cu LONpow MARKETS, wee dail, an lower Sager was Cote cull, Tea drm is Tallow Grm. Linseed ol! 40s, 1g Pe THR LATRS LivEnro%t, Sept. 23—Nooa. The marketa are all very quict, and without change of importance. News fom ARRIVAL OF THE ©. —~OaBR OF THE SLAVER MAZRPPA—8TOCK OF BUGAR AND MONBY MAUKED DROLINE OF YRULOW PRVER. The United States mail stoamehip Cahawba, Capt Bul- jock, ‘rom New Orleans by way of ijevana, arrived inst evening. She left 'ievana on the 20th of September. ‘The siaver captured to the eastward, of Cardenas, prov- ed to bothe American ship Mazeppa. It is said that she hed on board 1,6(0 rlaves. Pogare cn baad, 196,000 bores. co) ingon the 30th ait, gaye —Ovr business is a'ecied by your Suanctal ovadition, and a) hough exchanges are betier, (he pames on the paper are closely seratinized Lieoterant Goverter of vantio, | hear it steed, but deen arrested fer receiving bribes of ihe glave dealers he @Wur: CANTREVILLE COURS, L. TROTTING. A trot for a purse of $500, twe mile hosts, in harness, m, Lady L'toh- flto entered for this purse, but she did not live to contend Greene, the mas who wse ed om the Third avenve raik road, oar Fifty ninth street, om @unday aternoon,