The New York Herald Newspaper, May 21, 1871, Page 6

er 6 A PLAGUE-STRICKEN (CITY. Dreadful Ravages ef Vellow Fever in Buenos Ayres. Seven Aundrea and Fifty Deaths in a Day. FLIGHT OF THE POPULATION. Over Twelve Thousand Victims Pestilence Still Raging. A Tram Railway Built to Carry Out the Dead. Bodies Lying Unburied in the Houses. Feroism and Martyrdom of the Physicians. -The Burniag or Abandonment of the City Recommended. MONTEVIDEO, April 15, 1871. ‘The Diack wings of pestitehce are hovering with Sombre shadows over our neighboring city of Buenos Ayres, and a population which ten weeks since num- bered at least 200,000 souls is now reduced by death abd fight to 40,000. Up to this date there have been over 12,000 deaths, @nd the daily average moréality for the past week has been over 450. On Saturday last, a week ago to-(ay, lve hun Grea and one deaths took piace. Seven hrndtred and sorg-nine bodies Were counted atthe cemetery gates as the mortaiity billof Sun- Gay, and this, a8 in many other cases, was doubtiess Short of the actual Dumber, as 16 cmmprised Inter- meats ocly. Over 309 fatal cases were reported np to two e’clock P. M. of Monday, the total report for the day being Jive hundred ant thirty seven, Tuesday showed somewhat of @ docrease, the @ay’s interments being only Wrree hundred and ninety-three. On Wednesday, up to haif-past ono o'clock, taree bundred and three burials were revistered, the mor- tality for the day reaching sour hundred and teenty-seren. ‘Thursday Witnessed a considerable diminution in the nunsber of death s, there being only two hundred and ninety-seven—one bundred and thirty cases less thanon the previous day. Yesterday, according to the report of the Prest- Gent of the Public Commission, the deaths up to one o'clock FM. were two hundred and thirteen, and he expresses the opinion in his despatch that the fever is diminishing somewhat; but it is a ais- case that varies greatly, as 1 will show presently. In order to present to the readers of the HERALD aS exact an idea as possihic of the terribie condition | of affairs, 1 have obtained the tollowing list, cor- rected up to yesterday, 14th, from various avatlabie daia, embracing newspaper, telegraphic and pri- vate despatches, showtng the morwiity since te outbreak of the disease: mB MORTALITY ROLL. February 1 to 4) March 19 | Pepruary 21 +16 Murch | February 12 March 2 j Februar, + 18 March Feoruary 4 March 2 5 Februar, March February Mareh Fepruary February March 2 March April 14 to1 P, M teeter ents weenee +-10,842 Ada ten per ceat (the estimate allowed here) for inaccuracy aud bodies undiscovered or buned elsewheie gives. 11,922 Allow eignty additional a ay, trom 1 P. M., gives. e+e0012,002 The mail closes today before despatches com- plete of yesterday's deaths or of the mortullty of to- day can ve Tecelved, bit the above figures are sam- clenuy exact to convey a true idea of ‘ts provable extent. . in the compilation of the foregoing table an aver- age of about ten per day has been given to the first twenty days of the plagae, and this Is not over. estinated. The figures given for the succeeding days are In almost ali cases the prinbers reported as interred by actual count by the empioyés at the cemetery; but these fall short m raany cases, as tt 1s frequently reported that bodies are abandoned ana remain for days at @ ume in the houses boture they are discovered. Families are broken ap and scattered; husbands abandon their dying Wives; mothers leave thetr clul- dren to due alone, and in some cases entire families are Swept away. AS many as Sve or six corpses have becn discovered in a single house, and there 1s @ lack of daborers to perform tbe dulies of removal and sepulture of the dead. There is also, as might Balurally be supposed, a scarcity of physicians ana murses to attend the sick ia ihe vailous hospitals, largely to the fact that those who remain are the are people—those who have not the means to eave, perhaps—and the Public Commission, a plus lanthropic association ongauized for ine emergency, 1s BOW proposing to send away irom the city on the rauroa’, by Jorce if necessary, such as are not yet affected’ by the fever. This Public Commission em- braces Some s0¢ members, many Of great wealth and good position, aud ts deserving of enduriig honor. Several of the members have already been sacrificed to their self-imposed duly, but the work 4s carried ov nevertheless, The Commission has supreme cou rol over everything in the doomed city, and hos just prockamed a feast for twenty days, Which wilt end on the Ist of May, This has been resolved upon bo preyent financial «isasier or ewbarrassment among the commercial houses, conseynent upon the tofal stagnation of busmess. Ol course, ail notes, drafts, bills of exchange and maturing Commercial paper of every description are eyonice duriug Wat time, and the proclamation feast, in duct, prohibits business or labor of every kiud, On the 12th the Bank of London and the Rio de la Plata closed 1ts doors, and will not resume busi ness tll the end of the month, A quarantine has been established in ail the river towns, and tor ail practical purposes Buenos Ayres 18 shut out from he world. About twice a week local vessels leave this port to convey to Buenos Ayres the matis and hospitad supplies; but no person or ting, not even & lever, Is permitted to be orought back, anc tife only communication the people of the unbappy city can have with us 1s by telegraph. A lew daye since eVen telegraphic communication Was irregular and very uncertain, as some of the Operators ut the other end of the line died, aud their places couid not ve filed readily. Now, how- ever, comuunication is very good, aud arrange. ments are almost completed 10 remove the Buenos Ayres oifices to the carp, some miles from tho cily, despatches to be torwarded thence to the« by ‘wheeled conveyance or mounted — couriers Steamers of ove of the British mati luge leave here on their route for Buenos Ayres as vsual, but do not call here on thelr retura, as they are not permitted to do so, Tak is the line owned by Messrs, Lam- bart & Holt, who rua a line also between Rio Janeiro ud New York, Mr. Kirk, United States Minister to the Argentine Confederanon, aud Mr. Clapp, United States Covsil at Bnenos Ayres, have both let the city, aad soaglt safely somowhere in the rural districts, Montevideo, Colonia, Rosario, Sania Fé, all (he yaVer and interior Lowns, are doing their utmost to assuage the sudering of the place, but with com. paratively little effect. The contagion has reached tat stage When man seems puny in lis edurts lo Stay lis ravyagos. In every hotel, counting house, newspaper or pubite office here stbseripvion lists have been opened; jadies and gentlemen In private life canvass Lheir gircles of aeguatutauces for Lunds, beneiit perfermaiées nave becn aud are shill being iven at the teatres, the ctreus and by the tull- iguters, and all are iberally responded to and often. Bedding, meaicines and vospital supplies, and even physicians are called for in Uke public prints, apd are Torwarded to the =courged city, but of late there has been only an increase im the datly death roli. Masses are solemuized in the church ad we newspapers are fuil of comments and subscription lists ail bearmg on the same melancholy subject. — Yesterday inorning @ grand mass in honor of St. Roque was performed at the Cathedral, uader the @uspices of Lhe Ladies’ Beaeficence Associailon, as also during the evening and to-night, To-morrow (Sunday) there will be a grand venefit baii-fght, and in the evening 2 mass atthe ieiesta Matriz, with the adoration of the relics of San Koque. At the igtesia Caridad there wii be a grand ceremony of Mmtercession to Marla Bunto del Querta, aud the lunage oF this saine Will be borue procession iD the chureh. Thave been, as yet, unabie to learn of any Ameri- cons Wao have died from yellow sever, except Mrs, Bisa Douiuick, a widow lady, a native of New York, but a resident for some years im Buenos Ayres. Mr. 8, A. Wheelright, United States Consul at Rosario, was i with the fever, but has recovered, By next mail 1 will forward pames and particulars of all other Americans (if any) who have faiien vic- ums, but | have reason to believe that there are in any event very few to report. THE ORIGIN OF THIS PETER, like many other things, is @ gueston upon which tuere 1s much aivision of opinion, but all are agreed upon the assertion that tothe Buenos Ayreans Liem- selves is aléributabdle the blame for its wide-reaching destruction. By some persons it is said tat the fever owes its extstence to the suladeros, at tne Barrancas, These saiaderos are a collection of gigantic abattoira or slaughter hou on the torders of the river Riachuela, a few miles south by east of whe city. In these establishments are simughtered the gigantic herds of cattle whicd supp): aiarge partol the worid With dried snd “jerked” beet, bones, 3, horns and tallow, In some of these soled a thousand nead of cattle per day have been slaugltered, and there must of course Le mach unwhoiesowe veinse matter at ail times in the velgh- borheod, BO Matter how good the sanitary ruies may be A very prouable Teason, however, wuy the fever did not originaie there 18 to be tound in the fect that the frst cases of fever broke out In the northern quarter of the city, in the Section bounded by ine Calle rantias, the Riva. davia and the Northern Rallroad. ‘ris is seven mulles rom the Barrancas, aud ine fever was con- fined to this district for some weeks, afterwards gradually spreading Uhroughout the city. oth in Moutevideo and Buenos Ayres are thou- sands oi itulians, and to an Italian emigrant ship, which brought a large pumber of emigrants from Genow and Barcelona la January last, many persons. trace We epidemic. This vessel touched at Monte- video on her way to Buenos Ayres, and it was then | learned that sonic ten or a dozen deaths from yellow fever had occurred on tue voyage. The vessel was not allowed to enter or land anything here, and the rst cases of yeliow fever occurred in Buenos Ayres some two Weeks efter Ner arrival there. So much for theories as to the origin of the scourge, and the weight of evidence, I think, bears agains: the italian ship, pariicularly when it 48 considered that the fever Appeared in that part of the city iubabited by the poorer classes, &.@ that in these portions of ail seaports most emigrants are usually found. K As tothe blame every one Who has ever been ‘in Buenos Ayres must realize where it beloaga, Tne | city is buliton the flat shore of a vast river, tself notabie for the aeposite & carries to te sea, and which discolor the ocean tor many jeagaes, The clty 1s without any system of drainage whatever, and for 20 years nearly the inhabitants have buried all iltn, garbage and refuse matier of every description beneath their houses. This was dove by Finking bell-shaped wells to a depti of ifteea or twenty feet, the sides being straightened with a rude vrickwork. These were reached by small openings at the surface several feet an depth, aud trough tuese apertufes the {ith was deposited in the Cesspools below. Whea the sinks became full the mouih Was filed up aud a Dew Cesspool Was dug elsewhere. Ths sysicm prevailed everywhere throughout the city, and to-day the foundation or site of Buenos Ayres is honeycombed by these filthy traps. Vor seme years it it has been a mater Of cousiderable vo optain sale Ioundations for jarge new buildings, and this rouble was only recently experienced in tap- ping tora Joundution for the proposed new club house. To open these ceaspools and rid them of their contents Would en agli | — sane. ne Cleansing of the, ugean jes into the deepest kma rate. ‘The city would have to be uprooted almost to effect ft, and, leav. oatof the question the c expense it Would Involve, the nealth of the ei wowd at any time have vecu imperilled vy ration. “here nO cily in South America that {3 in all re- specis cleanly, but the erat Buenos Ayreaus ure to-day reaping @ terrible pabishmeut for the su- reme hegiect. At present there are two measures iscussed, and both are strongly recommended ta Many quarters—cne being to burn the city and the otuer to abaudon it and select a new site some dis- tance removed from the existing city. O1 course nether of these means wit! be resorted to, as an im- Menee Joss of valuable property would result, and nothing short of a terrible carthquake destroying the cily would make them sélect a se elsewhere, as was the case With Ma i the old city of Gaave- mala, aud, a few years since, at Mendoza, THE CATASTROPHE AT NIAGARA FALLS. {From the Buffalo Courler, May 19.) At 0 Guarter past four o'clock yesterday afternoon and where almost every iauablied house is.a minia- ture Logplial in disel, (he exteut of the suf | fering must he indeed dreadful, Several of the most eumluent physicians of Montevideo | Yolunieered to the succor of the stricken | Buenos Ayreans, and have jabored with a zeal in the face of an turminent and terribte deatn that | Staluwpes (uem as heroes anil philaninroplats second te BONE iD the Word's lustory. Among tle priysl | Claus of both cities Who have wituin the past week | given up their lives in the poble work are Dra. | Muniz, Riva and Poyét. Dr. Dayminio, of vias city, | Was also reported, a day ot two sino, a8 bavi: Buecuinbed to the scourge; but though his vretnr from tuis city and Buenos Ayres are t away from him st intervals of a few days, he stl! enugs Ww the work Le volau‘eered to pelorm, and is spared tims far. fica aud poor are alike stricken with the maledy, nd it Is doubiful whether yellow tever ever before, at least in the New World, held suci a ghastly car- Rival among mankind. Gencral Bartolomo Mitre, ex-President of the Argentine Repuvue, still writhed im ils ved of sunering, though both Himself and wile are at present reported ts convalescent, All lis family have ween affected, and Colonel Prederigo Mitre died ov Tuesday last. General Rivas ts just Pronounced out o! danger, but General Muneilla, Coiouel Kodriguey, Sehor Hailestero, a member of the Pabiic Commiaston; Viton, Deputy of the Cham. bers; Vou Maximo ‘Lope’ Torres, Don Mateo | Astange, Don Francisco Carrera and wile, Don | Miguei Hortgvers and many other prominent om. | olals and cHizens ave portshed within a few days. A new cemolery, to recerve the fever victuns, ras been opened im the campo south of the oily, toward the Riachnela—the old pantheons being inadequate. | A tram reitroad fias also been laid from tne city to this new necropotis, and the bodies are carried out oD the trucks tike so mach packed Lg gy } no Ume to construct coMns or burial cases. e stock Ob haod Was long since exhausted, and tho unde: takers bave in some lussauces fied from the terripie harvest of business that has sprang up. About 150,000 persons pth og a4 074 t refuge in Montevideo wos up the river Farag, but ty far te wrger portion are fo tue | campo, within a disiance of from ten to Gfty miles Cee Peassats and gawohos living in walled huts, with straw roots, have rasa | montns ago are DOW laine and sleeping thee well-dressed young men, whose respective ages were from avout twenty to twenty-five years, presented themselves at Walker's boat house, about balfa mile above the Cataract House, at Magara Fails, and asked Mrs. Walker, who was in atien- dauce, to let them have a boat She at lirst refused, but upon their assurance twat they were only gomg toa small island in the river to take.a swim, and that they would keep near the shore, they were al- lowed to t. The boat they selected was & flat-bottom scow, and in it they rowed to the island, From here they staried atraight across the river, with the evident intention of reaching the Canada shore, hever once show- ing any dispositien to up he stream. The current, a8 a matter of course, sWept them towards the rapids of tae Horseshoe Fall, and soon after Striking then the boat capsized and the three mew were carried over the cataract, They were not seen after the boat capsiaed, The Dames of the unior- tunalc nen are unknown. Une of Lhem wore a vine suit, Wh & lighi~colored soft hat; the second had on @ brown sait, With &@ brown cap, and the third Wore au Old overcoat, but had @ respectable sult au- detneath, One of the party, just before starting in the doomed boat, said to a litte boy, “If an old man comes along and asks if you Lave seen anything of us tell bim no #? It looks very much as If the young men were escaping into Canada to evade the vigilance of the oiicers of the law on this side, and had neither the tine not the courage to use the ordinary means of transportation. A lew days will probably clear up the miysiery. Camesn Ku Kiox iw Lovrsiana.—One of our comet planers, Who bas @ QUMber Of Chinese labor ere in his employ, seeing @ disposition on the part of some of whe Legroes to Annoy the Orientals, ‘prehending @ resort by the Jatver to the use or we Sharp Knives which they always wear, cautioned ube yg take the law ge their own handa, but in cage they were troubled by any negro to bri the offender before Dim and te woaka bee tat we tee was done. Accordingly one day the pina’ While sitting on his gallery, observed @ procession of the Chinamen coming from the vasraed Gh at their bead a dark ‘kage. They marched wi great deliberation aiguity up to the mansion, apd laid their burden on the gallery at the feet of the planter. 1¢ proved to be a “uhunk of a ro,’ Bet bound, as t4 Chinamen know now to Ue a parcel ot goods. ed out of his po he, e nt rT toe Uf ta) nLing to the dark 1aas, said to tue planter, “Nag: gah! 00 much | wo om apd then che whole trotted back work. It was an fy bu lis relouse, very cheerfully Scwed upon ts ou , Ver] iw] ote planter 49 "make bluiool wake, Wes. SHIPWRECK AND SURPERING A Story of Shipwreck and Murder by Savages in the Archipelago of Terra del Fuego. An American Sea Captain and Three of His Crew Butchered by Indians. Loss of the French Ship L’Ame- rique Off Desolation Island. Terrible Sufferings of the Crew—Sturvation and Death—Forty-six Days Adrift Ta Small Boats, PUNTA ARENAS, STRAITS OF MAGELLAN, April 6, 1871. A case of barbaric murder and probable canuibal- ism, in which the captain, an American, and three of the crew of @ British brigantine were the victims, has recently transpired about ninety miles west of this out-o/-the-world settlement in the Straits, and, Added to the Interest created here to-day by ne arrival of the picked up crew of a wrecked French Ship, forms an unusual stock of news for the largest settlement in Patagonia, The details of the murder case, though { have obtained them from two of the survivors by per- sonal conversation, are rather meagre, partly ow: | ing to their ignorance and partly to thelr apparent indliference to the shocking fate which has over- taken their late companions, After much question- Ing, however, of ve parties alluded to, I was enabled to make out from their combined piecemeal state- ments the following facis:— The- brigantine Proponts, of Penzance, oom- | Manded by an American named Barnes, salled from Bremen on the 16th of December last with an as- sorted cargo, consigued to the house of Gildemeis- ter & Oo., of Iguique. Her crew consisted of the mate, a German named Pingel, and seven men, or rather five men and two boys. Instead of taking the usual route for sailing vessels, by rounding Cape Horn, Captain Barnes decided that, as his vessel was a small oue and a good sailer, he would work ner through the Straits, as he was personaily desirous of making Uuat passage. This is always a matter of considerable danger, however, for sailing ships, as the Straits, weai of Cape Kroward, are too narrow to adinit of tacking, and the winds are frequently very violent, By the 4th of March he had succeeded in working her through as far as Oape Gallant, when the usual heavy westerly winds were encountered. He ‘Was then in part of the Straits about Lwo miles in width, ana not far from Crooked Reach, the narrow- est and most tortuous part, so he decided to run into Fortescue Bay, or rather Port Gallant, for an- chorage, and to awalt favorable winds. About ten o'ciock in the day three native canoes, containing about fifteen Terra del Fuegan Indians, with three Women and some children, came alongside, and by signs indicated that they wished to come aboard. The mate informs me that he advised Captain Barges not to aliow them on his deck by any means, but the advice was uiheeded, and they were all per- mitted to come on board. The Indians were coarse, brawny men, and wore no clothing savea sort of mantle of the skin of wild anlmais, which scanty apparel was as olten lying upon the deck as it was used to cover the bodies of the owners. Having got on fanittiar terms with the ship's com- pany, the savages took full advantage of the privi- leze extended them and became buld m thelr man- ners and actions, appropriating sundry trifling articles, making considecabie noise and performing varlousrude anttes, Captain Barnes seemed vo ap- prehend no danger, however, and evinced consider- able amusement at their doings. This state of atairs contion 4 until night approached, when they were dire ted by signs to leave the sip. Here the first real dimiculty was encountered. They objected to the wishes of the captain, and in various cunning Ways tried to remain on board, and were only com- pelled to leave by the utmost deciston on the part of tue ship’s crew. All the savages theu disappeared Bullenly toward the shore, About noon On the next day the captain took one of the ship's boats, with a crew of twomen and a boy, and proceeded to the shore, probably half a Tuite distant, saying he wished to have a look at the country. Abont five o’civck the mate became anxious regarding the captain's long stay on shore, and, taxing @ telescope, went into the rigging to see if they were visible. The hilisides down to the wateredge are covered by @ scravby growth of trees, and nothing could ve seen of the men, bat ‘thelr boat was discernable drawn into a little bay on the bouch. Pingel new became alarmed, and went to the captalo’s wife, Who wason board, and, stating to her his fears, suggested that the other boas crew should go ashore to look for their comrades, Of the atitability of this lady there there ts much room for doubt if half tne opinion of the crew be taken as authority, They represent her as being the “controllmg spirit” of the vesse under all circumstances, and she peremptorily re- fused to permit the mate to go ashore and search for her husband. Dreading the worst, the mate assembled the few Temaining men, and had every means taken for defence or escape, in theevent of an attack by the savages during the night, but morming came and Matters remained as on the night previous. Again the captain’s wile refused to permit the mate to take the other boat ashore, but he persisted in tak- ing up one of the anchors and putting the other in coudition to slip the cable and make sail at a mo- ment’s warning. The day passed in great anxiety, and on the next morning, in spite of the lady's ob- Jection, Pingei took the boat and landed for the search. The captain's boat was found arawn pretty weil up on shore, ana the party then entered the dark gna rly jorest to seek their comrades and hallooing to atiract their attention, Fil yards trom shore, among the undergrowth, they encountered tne dead and mangled body of Captain Barnes, tying partly on his side, with both legs cut of, in @ crucl and backing fashion, just above the knecs. He had also been pee aed of his clothing and two deep wounus were found on bts person, gue on his forehead and the ether in his left breast, These wounds appeared to have been made by spears—clabs, spears aud arrows Torming almost the sole weapons of these savages, A tew minutes later, and while searching for the Other missing sailors, @ boy, whom the mate had jeft as a jook-out in his poat, gave the that savages were upproaching. The ba ag body was carried to the shore to be m on board ship, bat about @ mile distant were three canoes rapidly nearing the ship, Jrom an island along shore, captain's body was abandoned and the mate and his men pulled for life toward their vessel, and reached it just m ume to escape. The anchor cable was sipped, a sail and the brigantine began to make headway only when the Indians were wilin two or three hundred yards of her, in the cauoes were aoat forty savages, hatlooing defiantiy, swinging clas aod making other warike cemonstrations. shot from @n old masket on board ve brigantine Was sent to them, but without effect. This musket, With some axes and bia is, formed the sole ar- an of the Drigantine, aud Nad the indians suc- cy tm reaching ‘er they would hi Ieft no white man to teil the tale of the tragedy woatl have followed on board the Propont vessel now began to wake good headway, aud, the savages seeing pursnit useless, went ashore and were soon lost sight of. The Prepontia returned to Us setcement, und is now iying here awarting a crew, to be forwarded from Valparaiso by the tain's widow, Who Went there some days since for that purpose, The mate informs me that Mrs. Barnes, the captain's Widow, ts the principal owner ot ren cnathe Go learn the was ul learn ace of nativity of tie murdered captain or his tre me, and of tie three olber victims. ‘Nhe mate states that the boy was named Sch & native of Labe k; ene of the sajiors wasa Russian and the other a Scandinavian, hore ts litte doubt among the settlers here that uree men have been killed and eaten, as the natives along the south side etral all cannibals; aodealthongh thin vongeds ocurred i rth or Patagonian shore, the 8: ps ed from thetr dress, weapous and manners, are Lis espe to have been natives of the islands which coll vely form the group generally known as ‘Tieria del Fuego, With regera to the mate's views concerning Mra, evurse in to allow him to land, it may be considered as gu propane that her y Pate] Tem: of = po . a8, hed they oa Ea reat ata een NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY. MAY 21, 1871-QUADRUPLE SHERET, hands of the same band of savages who murdered the Cu; tain. WRECK OF THE SHIP L'AMERIQUE. The loss of the French shi, to which | have re- ferred in the opening of this letter isa matter of deep concern also, a8 by it a valuable vessel and cargo have becn swaliowed by the waters, and the | crew experienced extraordinary privations ond tiseries, resulting in the death of one of their num- ber. They arrived here last evening on board the British Royal mau steamship Patagonia,Captain P, C. Petrie commander, en route from Vaipi England, and were picked up from their Captain Petrie avout fifteen miles west 01 this place, between Port Famine and Freshwater Bay, forty-six S after (he logs of thei ship. he ship sailed from Bordeaux Deceraber 6, with about 950 tons of generai cargo, bound .or Guayayttt and Punta Arenas, Costa Kiea. She experienced fair winds, and had ronaded ‘the Horn’ with great g000 fortune, up to latitude 55, when she met wih strong winds and thick weather. Durlag the night | of the sth ef Rebruary a stil gale was blowing aud | the ship was on her course for Cape Pillar, At toree orale on the morping of the ivth the ship was leering north by east, and scudding under close- vefed topsails, With strong winds and a hazy rain, when the waton reported a large dark bank of tog directly ahead, The captaia, Who was asleep at the time, came immediately on deck, and, as he himself stated to me, shading his eyes with his hand agatast the driving rain, peered into the heavy fog bank. He immediately looked upward and saw that the “iog bank” towered apparently a thousand feet in the air, and was only half a cable length distant. in another instapt the hn 3 broke ber bowsprit agelngs @ clit, and her bows were almost out of water at the base of the rock, with a reef under heramlaships. Two hours afterwards she “hogged,’” breaking im two across her waist, but the crew, bastily gathering together some provisions and clothing, bad already sctambled up on the rocks and had hauled up two boats also. ‘That night the ship went to pieces, her stern sinking of shore. All this was 4 matter of the deepest inexplicability to the captain and mate, as at the time the ship struck they believed themselves to be 120 miles from land by their course, and though the ship's justruments were saved from the wreck they were unable to take an observation on account of thick weather, and had no idea where they were cast away. On ihe alternoon of the 19th the crew found 4 grotto in the rocks, about twenty yards from where the ship strack, but the cliff was so steep that they were able to reach this cavern only hy means of ‘their boats, Here they took up quarters, the cave being large enough to accommodate sixty or seventy men; but the sea broke into it for a cousid- erable distance, and they were compelled to retire to Jt8 iarthest recess, Next day the captain, mate and two men took the sextantand chronometer, and c.imbing, by circuitous routes, for several hours, reacheu the summit of the rock and took an obser- vation, which showed that they were on a small, nameless island east of Mon iay Island, in the Weeks Isiands group. It was necessary that they should ascend the rocks, for the reason that they were 80 high that the sun, which was to the northward, was hidden from them by the precipice, they belag on the south side, The ascent was made with great boats by | to | board they were pi | featiment exten: anead some miles, and believed them to be native ‘anoes, one of them, the “long boat,” @p- peaved very 5 fora pauve craft, and both’ boats carried satis—an appilance waich the natives do not | understand or appreciate much. On pearing them, however, the eh flag at the stern Of one of the poats their nationality. Half an hour later they were hatied, the steamer siepped And took them on beard, and this morning they are in @ fair Way of soon reaching France to tell the siory of their mishaps. As soon as they were on rovided with baths, food and eak in the highest terms of the led to them by Captain Pe rie and beds, and all 5) ae Capponi 'ue Sur'vivora, who are seventeen in number, wlll be taken by the Patayonia 10 Mouteviueo and burned Pver to tie care of the French Consul at (hat place. ‘Their nates are as follow: J. Z. Nand; vboatswain, Captain, J. Proux; mate, Olivier; carpenter,’ Menard; appreniice, Desprit; Seaimen—Liuvert, ry, Elias, Mimoret, Lemowl, Mery, Leienill, Dauor and Corobeur, with’ two boys, Charles and Louis, and a Chinawan, em- known as ployed as a waiter, Ah-Ping, The negro cook, who di: named Alexis Alexandre, is a mere boy, of evident gente breeding, and bel Lo one of the vest families in Bordeaux. He was studying the scionce of navigation under Cap- tain Proux: and, though his first experience 1s cesar. he takes matters rather easily. The China man, however, possesses more genuine sang fro than ail his French comrades combined, | When changtug from one encampment to another on one of the islands west of Santa Inea, Ah-Ping was, owing to some circumstance which bas not been explaived to me, left behind. Kour days rward, the weather having been siormy meantime, search was made for bln, and he was found near the old camp, ei joving a refreshiug sleep against the trunk of a tree. He neither scolded anybody for deserting him nor thanked them for returning to rescue fun, and Seemed to be as “ohiidlike and bland’ as Ah-Sin, with a greater penchani for slumber than any otler man in the crew. Tne ship L’Amerique was of 560 tons register, tive Years old, built at Bordeaux and owned by setus Fils, of that port, Captain Proux states that his chronometers were deranged, making at least tnree degrees of lougl- tude of difference in that latitude, and observanons had been taken on the isth of February, both vy himself and his mate, witn corresponding resuits, In the course of tue forty-six days craise in the boats the crew sailed nearly 400 miles, and their tarpaulin or oilskin overalls ‘@ Worn to pieces by long sitting and rough usage. Singular to relate, a little white poodie dog, delicate looking enougi Lo bea lady's lapdog, survived the shipwreck and the Subsequont suifering and only needs washing to become @ preity hero among drawing room pets. FROM THE CAR TO THE GRAVE, of Anxious Point, was The apprentice, Desprit, Alleged Outrage by a Railroad Conductor— Pushing a Man from a Car—Ho is Run dimenity by cilnging to roots and shrubs, and the time occupied in Uke descent aloge was an hour aud @ quarter, On U.e 21st the crew took to the boats and went to Graves’ Island, but experiencing much hardsnap and inclement weather in One of the small. bays there, they left it_ two days afterward and sailed northerly some ten miles, Laking refuge in a smull inlet on the south shore of Desolation Island. During nearly ten days they remained tn this re- treat, subsisting upon shelidsh, with one biscuit per day, awattiug @ tayorabie wiud, their Intention be- ing to make Cape Pillar, about fifty miles noru, aud. thence run tnto Magellan straus. The wuss contin- ued uu‘avorable, however, and, again taking to the boats, they coasted to the south and made a landing on Landfall Island, Sere a deep inlet promised then shelter, on the south side of the island, but a strong wind drove the water with such force and tury into this cove that they nastily abandoned tt for a point more easterly, Here they remained three days roaming over the island in search of game, but found none, and again tne two litile craif were put to sea, sill heading south, the course veing laid for Cape Gloucester, the westerjy point of the Gratton group. Here they eucamped five days, enduring the saine privations and suffering greauy fromthe cold. {t had rained almost incessautly from the aight the slip was cast away up to this time, and everything they possessed was drenched with water. Was thought, how- ever, that trom this poimt they might descry some vessel on the cape passage, and the ume was spent, like that of Enoch Arden, All day watehing, waiting for a No salt from day w ‘ay. i The situation was now becoming desperate, and the captain delermined to make an atiempt to reach Mageilan Straits, lecliug assured that he wouid there fail in with one of the #riush mail | steamers. ‘Tne sails were once more holsted, and with a sup- ply of mussels tor provisions tne boats again stioved Irom shore, crossing Stokes Bay. and, 1 through Acelaide Passage and Ceckburn Channel, entered Magdaien Sound. Nothmg unusual oc- curred on this passage—tt was the same terrible period of cold, huager and fatizue, overshadowed by the prospect of probable death in many forms. Over and Killed. The death of Frederick Trainor, a German, thirty-eight years of age, who kept.a barbers’ shop, corner of Third avenue and Astor place, im Bellevue Hospital was yesterday reportea to Coroner Hermann. While suffering in the hospital Trainor stated that on the 1ith inst. be was riding on the front platform of car 146 of the Third avenue lue, when the eonductor, for some cause, pushed him off, His hat fell to the pavement, and. in his efforis to re- gaia it sand) = reach the front platform of the car again, ‘Trainor slipped = and fell before the wheel, which passed over and crushed his left foot in a shocking manner. The conduetor denies pushing deceased from the car, and behleves an examination will result in fully es- Vabitshing bis innecence. Coroner siermaaun las set the case down for Wednesday next, A Breoklyn Ruilroad Company Run Over and Kill a Boy and Buy Of the Father tor One Huvdred Dollars. On Thursday last a boy named Earnest Gast, who resided with his parents atthe corner of Wyckoff sweet and Liberty avenue, was run over by one of the Kast New York cars, at the corner of Broadway and Whipple street. The boy was riding on the front platform of the car, and when he had reached his destination he says he asked the driver to siop the car so tuat he might get o#. Tho driver told him to Jump off, but, fearing to do so, he rode some dis- tance further. Finally he couciuded to jump, but in doing so his clothes caught, and ho was dragged under the wheels and had his leg crushed. This re- sulved in nis death. The company settled the case with the father of the untortanate boy by agrée! to pay all the ex- penses and giving him $200, The man being in reduced ctrcumstances thought he bad better take this beggarly sum than bring @ suit for damages, ‘The Geroner will hela an Inquest over the body of the boy next week, and in all probvabiifty will hoid ‘The scenery was sublimely grand at times, but It ‘Was the cold, terrible grandeur of a coast with snow- capped mountams and precipices rising like walls Trom the ocean; of islands, Uke towers of sullen bine rock, striped here and there with a scrupby verdure, inhospitable and dssoiate, innabited, if m- babited at all, by @ race of biood-thirsty and capni- bal people, and frayed by a tempestuous waste of waters. At night they landed on some one of the hundreds of tsiets which Got these channels and made fires, at which they roasted their bivalves. Rownd these fires they bivouacked and siept as best they could, always maintaining a iookout to guard against the approach of savages. Cruisin atong the western shore of Magdalen Soun they approached a small island near the entrance to Hope Harvor, and were warned of the existence of an Indian encampment by the appearance on shore of some dogs. fne animals ran up and down the beach, barking and evidently excited at the appear- ance of the strange faces, and a little later the en- campment was seen on the shore. There appeared to be some ten or a dozen savages, but for obvious reasons no attempt Was made to communicate with them. After passing the Island the boats turned into Hope Hw on Clarence Island, and here the night was passed; but carly m the mornmg the party sailed across the chavnol to the long, narrow peniuswa jutting northward trom Terra dei Fueg: fetwecn Magdaten Sound and St. Gabriel Channel. The suffering crew now felt as though there was some pect of relief, ax they were almost within the waters of the stra:ts, south of Cape Froward, the driver Of the car responsivie lor the boy's death, A DEFAULTING UNITED STATES AR} OFFICER. v A Sketch of His Career. (From the Kansas Oity (Mo.) Times, May 16.) Last evening detective officer Fitzpatrick arrested & Man amed James Stuart at the Union depot in this city, who is charged with abscouding from two aif. ferent places with several thousand dollars in money belonging to Otter parties, Previous to the war Stuart was an officer of the line in the regular army, and on the breaking out of the rebellion ne eatere the Tenth Minow cavalry as adjutant, and aiter- wards was promoted to the rank Of colonel, which position he filed in a most creditavle manner, acieved considerabie notoriety as a brave and eMcient omcer, and bis name ts honoravly men- tioned in many places among the milital the Blinots volunteers, In thi his regiment was mustered out of the service In Texas, where, in connection with Colonel Samuel N, Hitt, eutenant colonel of ‘the regiment, Stuart engaged in vue catile trade. in the spring of 1566 he went to Springfield, Lil., for the purpose of raising more money to iuves in the though the Cape is distant not less tien perbans fiity miles from where they then were. On a small isiand-o Anxious Pomt, the northern extremity of the peninsula, the crew ae landed and remaiped here four days. Here thetr sufferings began to assume a serions aspect, xs the lack of sa@icient | food, the extreme cold and frequent ratn drench. ings, Coinbined with fatigue and anxiety, were be- ginning to take effect in many forms. Tire eyes of Many of the men were sunken and their faces emaciated, and a sort of scurvy or salt water sore had broken out on their hands and feet. Their lips cracked and dried, and they were becoming so weak that rowing, When there was no wind for sailing, ‘was very laborieus. ‘The cook, a French negro from Martinique, who had been faliing gradually from want of clothing to keep warm, died on the second day of their stay here and was buried in a shallow grave scooped out with sucks. A small catra of stones was erected over the remains. On the morning of the fourth day the Indians, who had deen Hope Harbor, came over in their canoes and iwnded at theen- campment or the shipwrecked crew. There were two families of them, with their wives and four cmmidren, in all about ten persons. They at once entered Into communication with the Frenchmen by signs and with guttural jabberings and repeatedly w the word “tobacco,” signifyme their actions that they desired some oi ine “weed.” Very livtle trading was done, for the very good reason that neither party had anything to barter, aud re- embarking an hour or two later tiey Headed their 0e8 bein re vette ae igen e captain, fearing that the saveges might have staried for reinforcements, wherewith to rere aud Inake an attack on his already aMicted crew, dever- mined on an immediate “change of base,” and crossed the sound to the northwest, landi more on Clarence Isluna, neat Mount Vernal. cam dag for son's Island, ‘Ite wind favored them on thts yoy- age afd they encamped for ten or twelve days ina cove on a small island near Port San Antonio, Durtg thts period their sofermgs became more terrible than at an other time, Cold rains and piercing winds in Bud thelr feet became so swelled by the cold and wet that they could not keep their wornout shoes on them. When they took of their shoes they wete unabie to pnt them on again, and for a week they were actually obliged to walk on their knees, their feet being so benumbed and swollen that it was unpos- sible © @aad upon them. The wind, dasi the waves so heavily into their little harbor that their boats were in danger; but the situation was sock that they could keep a it on the straits for passing steamers, and they determined not to leave 11, and Oufit with great labora rude breakwater of loose stones to protect the boats, At last a steamer was seen ploughing through the ‘Straits to the Westward, but unhapptis it was in the t, and it was useless to attempt to Teach her, as ¢ night time they would perhaps be mistaken for savages in canoes, Again A move was made With the view of reaching @ narrower part of the trata, where it bie ng wae r wy uae eiane oen f & Paaming vom, Bad 8 ing was or Port Fan on the mainiand of Patagonia. ‘They were now favored with milder weather, and, under sneiter of the nighiands, which here rive from 1,000 to 2,600 feet, from the cold winds which had so ee at Port En: here for the night, a start,was made next rt San Antonio, to the northeast, on Daw- attem pt wae made to ran back, Westwardly, to Cape ‘an narrowest part of the channel, be- tween Cape Froward and Ponta Arenas, but the wind was against bem and they tarned easterly, in- tending to reach Freshwater Bay and work up ‘thence to thts sevtiement, From the ivth of Febru business, with authority to draw the money de- ited there to the credit of Colonel Mitt, amount- ing to $5,100, and to borrow $10,000 additional. He having letters, written for tm purpose, from Colonel Hitt, Stuart secured the $5,000 at once,and with the letters eusily succecded in borrowing the $10,000, drom Major General John A. McCle:nand and ot! ofthat piace. He then left Sprnetsls, ostensibly to reiura to his partner in texas, bu failed © do #0, About one year thereatter Major J. 8, Smith, formerly major ot the Tenth regi- ment under Stuart, met the latter m New Orleans, out betore @n arrest could be made Swart eladed hun, since wich time until yes- terday nothing has m seen or heara of tue defsulung volonel by the gentiemen who loaned him the money. Yesterday morning Mr. John H. Barret, who wis quartermaster of the regt- ment, under Stuart, was coming from the Post Omice in this city, when he met Colomel Stuart, face to face, on Main street. Of course, the surprise was mutual, and their interview was an embarrassing one, and ended as soon as possible. The fact com- ing to the ears of Detective Fitzpatrick he sought Mr, Barret, learned the circumstances, and from the latter's description at once recognized at as being that of @ man whom he was looking for, as having absconded from Jefferson, Texas, where he was employed in the artermaster’s Department, in March Iast, with §5,000 in apie ie none 85 w was in gold, and for whose sriest ‘oii tewara wag oftered, if cap- tured with the mouey, or $800 for lis per. Fitzpatrick and Barret at once Aalarted in search of the man, and abont fouro'clock the ther recognized him by the description given sitting in the waiting room of the Union depol, and at once took him in charge, Mr. Barret telegraphed to Springfield for tuformation, while the detective sent despatches to E. C. Dewy, at Austin, Texas, and A. A, Attocha, New Orleans, who hat offered the re- ward, stating that the arrest had been made. When arrested Stuart had on his person a fine gokl watch and chain,several other valuables and $118 in money, besides show tng that he had purchased some considerable quantities of land in diferent parts of the country, and has about $1,500 deposited ina ‘bank In Utica, N. Y. Suuart is @ man of genvemanly appearance, dressed in a plain but substantial basi- ness sult, and is of very pleasing address and well calculated to impress any one with confidence. Le was ly esteemed by tis companions in arms, and had trosts of frienits in Miinots before he ab- scOnded from Springfeld. “FIRE IN THE WO0DB. Long Island Forests Ablaze—@One Farm House Buracd—Leew $10,000. For the past few days fires have been raging at Intervals In the forests on the south side of Long Island. One hundred acres betonging to Elis Bt was burned over, A house belonging to John Hengier was dest! a8 were also Reveral summer honses and about 1,000 acres belonging to Gifferent parvies. The toval loss 16 entimatod at from $5,000 to $10,000, THE HOBOXEN POLICE. The med who have recently been elected Tax Commissioners in Hoboken propose the reduction of the appropriation for the marmtenance of vhe police force from $36,000 to $30,900, The citizens generally object to this despotic and high-handed measure, averting that it wonld be a little wiser to guard sw! of the city by rr and Jovbers Py to i equate 1 tne m who are 8D well the city the mearstons f thieves and rowdies. Most of officers have jarge families, for whose subsistence $1,000 per Year is litte @ THE STEVENS MOUSE SUICIDE. Roonmsran, N. Y., May 20, 1671. ‘The atatement that the young indy who committed ‘Stevens sutoide at the House, New Sead of Liew‘enans Governor Selden, sun vo , Betton never before heard of erate a niece bearing nis PROBABLE MURDER IN PATERSON A White Man Attacks Two Negroes and Injures One Fatally—Mr. Grant's Soldiers Wanted. A bloody affray occurred at the corner of Broad- way and Main street, Paterson, about half-past three o'clock yesterday afternoon. Two negroes— one named Henry Harrison, of Ramsey, Bergen county, @ young man, and the other advanced in years, named Gil. Day—were enjoying themselves and parading the streets, both being drunk. On the corner of Broadway aud Math, street sat a soldier named Corpora: Jobn Lorence, who had lost both lege waile fighting in the Ninth New Jersey regi- went at the battle of Roanoke, This old solaior earns his pennies by grinding a wretched old hand organ. The young negro Harrison, irom Ramsey, approached the soldier and demanded the privilege of taking turn on the hand organ crank. The Soldier refused, put the drunken negro insisted upon it, whereupon a man standing near by— Richard Floya—ordered the negro off, Some words ensued between Floyd and the negro, when te former, with a tremendous blow, e FELLED THB SEGRO TO THE PAVEMENT, splitting his ear. This negro (Harrison) then Jumped up and ran to the Recorder's ofiice to make a complaint against Floyd, As soon as the other negro (Gil, Day) saw his friend prostrated py the blow from Floyd he staggered to the rescue of him and launched a torrent of drunken invective at the white man, who did not seem to pay much attention to it other than ordering him to “quit.” By tnis time there had gathered four or five hundred people, the street peing crowded at the ume, even the drivers of the passing vehicles stop- pling to sce the muss, and thereby clogging up the streets, The organ grinder kept up his incessant music the while, apparently not noticing the seene of confusion of which he was almost the very centre, Floyd soon became exasperated, and felled GU Day to the ground with a powerful blow, the negro striking the back part of his head upou the curbstone with a heavy thud. The negro became atonce unconscious. Dr. Van ‘k Happening to pass examined the body, and ex- pressed luis opinion that the negro, from whose nose and mouth the blood was fowing, was DANGEROUSLY HURT, Ho was carried to the doctor's drug store near by.. Floyd, meanwhile, stood in the crowd, manifesting no ineilpaiion to run off, At ths time oillicer Wat son, of the police force, arrived, and at least flty persons cried to him to arrest that man. But the oiicer declined to make the arrest, as, ac: cording to the law on the subject, he said he could make po arrest unless he ac. tually saw the disturbance, or had a warrant, ‘The crowd closing around Floyd in a somewhat unpleasant manuer, he leisurely walked across the street and eniered the Woodman’s House, in West street, trom which, it seems, he had come. When he entered the doors were civsed and jocked, but almost instantly Floyd coolly took mig Stand upon the front balcony even with the second stury Windows, ana qitietly gazed upon THR SCENE OF EXCITEMENT below. At last, some fiteen minutes after hi arrival, the oilicer was consirained to enter and take Fioyd Into custody, upon the assurance of a score of persons that they Would make a charge. ‘The officer then took Fioyd to the Kecorder, Judge Warren, who, alter hearing. the circumstances of the casa, cou:mitted him to jall to await the result of the negro Day's injuries. ‘The negro's injuries being further examined at Dr. Van Dyck's drug stove i Was ascertuimed that tha back of his SKULL WAS CRUSTED IN, there being a 1ouse place which could be pushed ta almost halt the lengin of a tiager. There were both concussion aud compression of the brain, which are supposed to wave been caused by his head striking the curbstoue when knocked down. ‘Theve were no signs of consciousness when ho waa being removed to his Lome. The doctors say that his liie may possibly be saved by a trepaunlng ope ration, but Lis recovery is very doubtful, ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR. Death ina Court Room—Provably from the Effects of Vivience. Cornoner Keenan has under investigation a cas¢ of death which seems somewhat mysterious, Os Monday might last William Burkhardt, an aged Ger- man, apparently a vagrant, applied to Sergeant Ahearn, of the Eleventa precinct, for lodging, and Was placed in @ room with seven or eight other persons, and there remained quiedy all night. Early the next morning Burkhardt was dis- charged with the other lodgers and efi the station house. Hall an hoar later Hurkhardt returnea, per- fectly sober, saying lo the sergeant that he had no home, iriends nor means Of support, and wished to be sent to the Isivnd. The applicant maue no com. pe of having been injured accidentally of therwise, aud oMcer Sullivan was requested to take him before the magistrate at the Essex Maré ket Pvlice Conrt. At te corner of Essex and Broome sireets Burknardt fell to ine pavement and was carried to the court room, Where he died before the arrival of the magistrate. The body being seng to the Morgee, Wooster Beach, M. subsequently made a post mortem oxany luation, @ud found that three of Burkhardts ri on the rigut side had been fractured, the port of one Of them. having penctiated and iacerated the jung, the hemorrhage from whioh las been exces. sive. Death, in the doctor's opinion, resuited from the injuries above described. As-yet there is no evidence to show that deceased lad been beaten by design, aud from the fact that be made no complaint to that effect to Sergeant Ahearn 11 1s not believed by Uhe police that he was. He may have been vio- lently pushed from some porter house where he had called for liguor without means to pay and fell heavily on the pavement. or he may have fallen a cidentally, Captain Kenuett and sergeant Ahearn, Of the Kieventa precinct, are endeavoring to Jearn something further coucerning the mysterious affair. BRAINED WITH A BUNG STARTER, A Murder That Was Not a Murder—‘etting Fire to @ Newspaper—The Asoniluct Es. capes. On Monday evening last John Tilien, alias “Scouse,” a hog and cattle driver, usually found ground the Nort river docks, entered the porter house coruer of Beach and West streets, and seating himeelf to read @ newspaper, soon iell aleep. While thus enjoying Miimself s9me one in the varroom set fire to the paper which Hillea still clutched in his hand. When the fire reached Hillen’s hand he jumped from bis seat in ® Tage at the fan enjoyed at his expense and left tie place afver au exhibition of anger. ‘The following night Hillen entered tne same grog- gery, and, meeting Robert Simpson there, charged him with bemg the man who fircd the paper the night ‘previous, Simpson, of course, denied the charge, and angry words ensued between them, durimg witich, 1 ts alleged, Simpson SEIZED A BUNG STARTER, with which he dealt Hillon a powerfal blow on the head, The latter, on recovering trom te shock, hastened to the Leonard street police siation and had the wound dressed, In answer to a question ac “ad iim Hillen said he (tia not want to have man arres(4d, €s It was only a little row with a ste: boat man. He reised to give bis name and left station house. Early last Thursday morning omticer Hanna, of the Fifth precinct, found Hitlen tn the rear of premises No, 80 Beach street in a State of In- sensibility and conveyed him to the Centre Strece Hospital. It was then sapyosed iat his sknil had been fractured by the blow on tne head with the bung starter. TILLEN NEVER RALLIED and died on Friday night, After the assault Detecfive Field, of the Fitth Pree cinct, learned that Simpson was an enginecr on board the steam towboat Stevens, and had a room iv West street, Search was mado for Simpson, ed, he Nad escaped, and is Coroner Herrman, who. waa r. Cushman to hold & post-mortem examination on the body. fle found excessive disease of the kidneys, liver, bh other organs, and, in the doctor’s opinton, decer could have lived bat a few days, at most. the blow on the head may have nastened death, but ‘as to that Dr. Cushman is not so certain. KU KLUX IN MISSOURI. Attempt by Masked Murrauders to Rescue Prisoners from the Custody of Goverament Officors. St. Lovrs, Mo., May 20, 1871, The Democrat this morning publishes a statement derived from & reliable source that United states Marshal L. B. James and Valeniine Prewett ar rested, a few days ago, in Bollinger, Mo, Jonn A. McCleary and Frank Ro chi with thicit distil When near re ‘with thelr prisoners the party was tod ome 1 maskea men on Norse! and on foot 0 demanded tho surrender of McCieary an® Which was Forpseds Wr botea m they fred mm the ofcers, wound! Larsnal Janes the . ‘The oficers returned the fre and, it nought, wounded some of thetr ni oy then put spurs to their horses ant tt riIsoners Were brought here ‘ast night sud. Torged a Jal to await trial, THE BOYLSTON BANK ROBBERY, W. A. Glover Held in $50,006 Batt, Bowron, May %, 0671, Wiitam A, Gover was herd 000 Bittl fot EEL mazes, arged acy