The New York Herald Newspaper, April 3, 1873, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD] “rem BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Heracp. jade Oi ea THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the gear, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. Volame XXXVIII AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street. —Davip Gannick. ROOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth avenue.—Dappy O'Down. r GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth av.—Uncie Sam. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third @v.—Manion. ROWERY THEATRE, ‘Lovens in tux Corxen. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Dmama, Boruxseue xp O110, NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- ‘Way.—ALixe. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway. corner Thirtieth st.— Mavum Cex. Afternoon and Eveuing. Bowery.—vack Hargawar— ATHENEUM, No. £8 Broadway.—Granp Vartsty En- FERTAINMENT, NIBLO'S GARDEN. Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets.—Tax Scouts oF Tak Prarie, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. between Houston Qnd Bleecker streets. —Humpry Dumrty. UNION SOUARE THEATRE. Union square, between Broadway and Fourth av.—Covsin Jack. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Montague st— Bouon Suincie, &, BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st.. corner ‘Oth av.—Neceo Minstaxisy, &c. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Vanity ENTERTAINMENT. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—Granp Con- Orne. BARNUM'S GREAT SHOW.— Now open, Afternoon and Night. Rink, 34 avenue and 6id street, LENT’S CIRCUS, MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Fourth By. and 26th st, Alternoon and Evening. ASSOCIATION BALL, 23d street and 4th av.—Lecrore, “Far Nontaxun Lire ani ueRY."? QUADRUPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, April 3, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. PorBapa Contents of the Herald. “PROM THE WRECK OF THE ATLANTIC! THRILLING DETAILS OF THE DREADFUL DISASTER!’ —LEADING EDITORIAL TOPIO— Ei@uta Pace. HORRORS OF THE ATLANTIC CALAMITY ! DIRE SUFFERINGS OF THE SURVIVORS ! THE AWFUL ROLL OF DEATH ! 560 LIVES LOST ! 418 RESCUED! 100 OF THE DEAD FOUND! GRAPHIC DETAILS OF THE AW- FOUL SCENES BEFORE AND AFTER THE VESSEL SUNK—Firrn, NINTH AND TWELFTH PagEs. WAITING FOR NEWS FROM THE ATLANTIC! WHAT THE HUNGRY WAVES HAVE SWAL- LOWED! A MOURNING METROPOLIS! THE AWFUL DISASTER AS' VIEWED BY THE PUBLIC, THE WHITE STAR OFFICERS, OFFICERS OF OTHER LINES AND SEA- FARERS—SIXTH PaGe. ANOTHER MANSLAYER CONVICTED! MICHAEL NIXON FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE! HE WILL BE SEN- TENCED THIS MORNING! THE EVENTS OF THE CONCLUDING DAY OF THE TRIAL— SEVENTH Pack. DEATH FROM VIOLENCE! KERWAN, THE AL- LEGED WIFE MURDERER, ACQUITTED— THE GOODRICH MURDER—SEVENTH PaGE. AMENDING THE CHARTER! THE CHANGES MADE BY THE LEGISLATURE YESTERDAY! OFFICIAL TERMS, DUTIES AND SALARIES— AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OARSMEN—ART AND LOCAL ITEMS—SEVENTH Pace. STREET RIOT IN WALLACHIA! SEVERAL PER- SONS KILLED AND WOU: iD! A PUPU- LAR WELCOME TO Q VICTORIA! TELEGRAMS BY THE EUROPEAN CABLE— EmGuTi Pace. CONSOLIDATING CABLE COMPANIES! THE VA- RIOUS ATLANTIC LINES TO BE IMMEDI- ATELY AMALGAMATED—EIGHTH PAGE. THE ERIE INQUIRY! MR. TILDEN REFUTES YHE CHARGES AGAINST HIM! HE RE- CEIVED A FEE OF $10,000! MORE “EXTRA LEGAL" DUTIES! MODERN-IMPROVED BOOKKEEPING—THIRTEENTH PaGE. NEW DOMINION ANNEXATION! PRINCE ED- WARD ISLAND WANTS TO BE INCORPO- RATED WITH CANADA! FEATURES OF THE SCHEME! FINANCE AND THE FISH- ERIES—THIRTEENTH PAGE. AFFAIRS IN WALL STREET! MONEY AND STOCKS FLUCTUATING! THE TREASURY CHIEF DECLINES TO INTERFERE IN THE MONEY MARKET! THE WESTERN INFLOW! GOLD AND GOVERMENTS—ELEVENTH PaGE. THE INSURANCE MUDDLE IN THE COURTS! JUDGE FANCHER ON THE KICKERBOCKER OOMPANY! GENERAL LEGAL BUSINESS— TENTH PAGE, & GRAND HARLEM REGATTA IN JUNE—RE- MARKABLE ROBBERY ON THE PACIFIC COAST—CORRECTING HARBUR ABUSES— NEW YORK EAST CONFERENCE+Tatir- TEENTH PAGE. EXTENSIVE REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS— MONTHLY REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF STATISTICS—ELEVENTH Pace. WITY AND COUNTY FINANCES! THE MONTHLY EXHIBIT—MEETINGS OF THE OLD AND NEW EDUCATIONAL BOARDS—TenrH Pace. Tae Mencuants who are beseeching the Secretary of the Treasury to issue more paper money should look to a remedy for their relief which is nearer home. Let them lay their grievances before the District Attorney and insist that he shall bring to justice the bun- dreds of ‘‘shylocks’’ who are breaking the usury laws so outrageously in Wall street every day. This making so much ado about a tight money market and doing nothing but implore help from the Treasury make the merchants ridiculous. Let them club together, hire a detective to detect the usurers and lay the | evidence before the District Attorney, Micasz, Nixon, tae Caataam Square Bomiciwe, was yesterday found guilty of mur- | der in the first degree. The hearing of evi- dence began on Tuesday, and the testimony id net diverge far from the actual facts of the | killing. After two honrs’ consultation the | returned # unanimous verdict. The shooting of the poor carter, Charles M. Phyfer, was a bratal act, without anything palliatory fm it, and the verdict will be accepted with general acquiescence by the community. The convicted man will be brought up for sentence to-day. We hope to see swift justice done, Wreck of the Atlantic— ‘~ Details of the OMrcedful Disaster. With our special Haraup despatches we devote a large portion of our columns this morning to the thrilling details incidental to the wreck and total loss of the steamship Atlantic, from officers and aaved. We also give special passenger lista of the ship, telegraphed by the HznauD correspon- dent in London, including the saved and the lost, a list which will carry a life-long sorrow to thousands of anxious hearts on both sides of the sca, but which will also relieve many of their fears. Oonsidering the rock-bound coast where this frightful disaster occurred, the heavy sea, the time, the sud- denness of the shock and the swift destruction of the ship that followed, the special wonder is, not that so many as nearly six hundred of the thousand souls on board went down to death, but that so many as some four hundred and twenty-nine were rescued from the en- gulfing waves of that angry sea. Many, no doubt, were lost by being dashed against the rock between the ship and the island; but many that were lost would have been saved if time had been given them to awake from their dreams of security and to comprehend the dangers which enveloped them and their chances of escape. From’ the. statement of Captain Williams it appears that he had found it necessary to head for Halifax for coal, his supply on board being nearly exhausted; that at midnight on March 31 he judged the ship to be some forty- eight miles south of Sambro; that he then left the deck and went into the chart room, leaving word about the lookout and to let him know if they saw anything, and to call him at three o'clock, as he intended then to put the ship's head southward and await daylight. His first intimation of the catastrophe was the striking of the ship hard and fast. Tho sca immediately swept away all the boats on the port side, when the officers proceeded to clear away the boats on the weather side; but before they could be cleared, only ten minutes having elapsed, the ship careened, and they became useless. The Captain then got the passengers that were on deck into the rigging, or to the forward part of the ship, which was highest, some of the officers, mean- time, having established communication by means of ropes to the outlying rock, some forty yards distant, and by these lines, four in number, two hundred people passed. Be- tween the rock and the neighboring island there was a space of water of a hundred yards to be passed, and a line over this passage was next established, whereby fifty persons passed over safely to the land, though many others were drowned in the attempt. By six o'clock the islanders came to the rescue with three large boats and took off all the passengers that remained on the side of the ship and the rock, landed them safely, when they were taken in charge and kindly cared for bya poor fisherman and his daughter. The Captain further reports the survivors from the wreck at four hundred and twenty-nine, drafted off to the various houses scattered about in that wild region, but during the day they were all carried off by steamers sent up from Halifax. From the plain and convincing statement of Captain Williams we are satisfied that on the night of March 31 his precautions and instruc- tions were well considered for the safety of his ship near a dangerous coast; that his conduct and that of his officers from the striking of the ship to the rescue of the last living passengers left on the vessel and the rock was that of brave, humane and heroic men ; that the measures he adopted on shore for the immediate care of his rescued passen- gers and for their speedy transfer to Halifax were the best that could be adopted under the circumstances; and that Captain Wil- liams and his assisting officers throughout ex- hibited the finest qualities of the seaman in their coolness, discipline and self-possession. But while we have columns of interesting facts and painful scenes and incidents con- nected with this appalling shipwreck we have no satisfactory explanation of the causes or the responsibility for this awful loss of human life. The causes of this calamity may be charged to the peculiar construction of the steamer; her scant supply of coal for even an average trip; her approach in the night to the rock- bound coast upon which she was wrecked; the darkness and a heavy sea, and the awful mis- take of the officer in immediate charge of the ship, in supposing the light intended to warn him from destruction to be the light inviting him to the safety of a friendly harbor. It has been the boast of the White Star line that their ships are built expressly to meet the three essential conditions of “safety, speed and comfort.” Itis also true that down to this dreadful misfortune these ships have been proved by thousands of pas- sengers to be safe, speedy and comfortable. But a ship four hundred and twenty feet long and only forty feet in width, with a draught of twenty-three feet of water, and rising twenty | odd feet above the water to her top deck, pre- | sents on a lee shore a most inviting broadside to the heavy breakers of a rongh sea, To such aship, in a situation like this, there is no escape from ‘speedy destruction; for, against the millions of tons of rolling waves beating upon her side, all her ‘modern improvements” go for nothing. She must have sea room in running a dangerous coast or she is lost. But she was short of coal and was heading for Halifax for a fresh supply. She should not, however, have been short of coal. And here, as we have already presented it, lies the great responsibility, together with a loss to the company, immediate and prospective, for which a hundred thousand tons of coal would probably not be an equivalent. With a sup- ply of coal for two days more in her bunkers the steamship Atlantic, instead of lying to- day a shattered wreck among the rocks of the coast of Nova Scotia, would have been, no doubt, in New York harbor safe and sound, for we cannot suppose that anything but a disabled ship, with a good supply of coal for New York, would have in- duced Captain Williams to hug that perilous coast of Nova Scotia on such a night as the 3ist of March in that quarter. The heavy re- sponsibility for this great disaster, then, lies with the White Star Company, and their “penny wise pound foolish’ policy of a short supply of coal at Liverpool on a close caloula- tion that so much may be saved by just enough for Halifax, But still the mistake of the officer in charge of the ship at three o'clock on the morning of April 1, in supposing the Prospect Point light to bo that of Sambro was the fatal mistake. On the 6th December, 1853, the steamship Humboldt, Captain Linos, from Havre, bound to this port, was wrecked some twelve miles below Halifax. ‘he accident occurred in tho morning, in a thick fog, the ship being in charge of a pilot at the time, and, having got short of coal, sho was putting into Hal- ifax for the needful supply. After striking, which was on a rock near Sambro light, she was got off; but finally in a sinking eon- dition was run into Portuguese Cove, some ten miles from Halifax, where she grounded in eighteen feet of water, with six feet of water in her hold. From this it appears that the approaches to Sambro Light from the east- ward, as well as the approaches to Prospect Light, threaten the coming ship with destruc- tion among the rocks. We cannot avoid the conclusion that there was some mistake in the reckoning of Captain Williams at twelve o'clock on the night of March 31, or he would have given instruc- tions to keep the ship's head rather seaward than landward till the morn- ing, for of all things, froma rocky, treach- erous and stormy coast on a dark night, a ship with twenty-three feet draught should be sure of her soundings and plenty of sea room. Itis given out, however, that an im- mediate investigation is to be ordered to ascertain, as far as possible, the causes of and the responsibility for this heavy dis- aster. It may, therefore, be proper to withhold any positive judgment until we shall have the facts and the testimony from this official investigation; but meantime the fact that a short supply of coal took this ship from her true course to the rock on which she foundered, leads to the conclusion that the probable calculation by the Company of the difference in the cost between a ton of coal in England and a ton in Halifax fixes the re- sponsibility first and heaviest upon the Com- pany for the heavy sacrifice of life involved in the loss of one of their finest steamers. The Charter Critics ticians, The critics are doing as much as the poli- ticians to befog the real issues involved in the New York charter amendments now under consideration by the State Legislature. Somo of them seem to suppose that the sole duty of the party now in power is to give the metrop- olis what they call a ‘non-partisan’’ gov- ernment, or, in other words, to divide the various municipal departments equally be- tween republicans and democrats, and they insist that this was the intention of the people who elected Governor Dix, Mayor Havemeyer and three-fourths of the Assemblymen last November, Others appear to believe that the whole city government must be started anew, and that the verdict of the election must be interpreted as meaning the wiping away of all the past, whether good or bad, and the entire remodelling of everything from beginning to end. Others, again, imagine that the city should be lett just as it was before election, and that no change is required either in the laws or the persons who execute them. It is easy to single out the disinterested parties who entertain these several views. Their ideas of what the charter ought to be are controlled by their ideas of what they and their friends ought to receive under its pro- visions. When the last election took place the Tam- many Ring had been overthrown; but some of its allies and followers still remained in office and its rule in the city had been suc- ceeded by a mixed and inharmonious govern- ment under which the public interests were seriously suffering. The people desired such a reform as would secure the removal of the last vestige of old Tammany from the munic- ipal departments and give us an efficient, honest and harmonious administration instead of the irresponsible muddle then called a gov- ernment. There were two ways of accomplish- ing this result; the one, by sweeping away all the present office-holders, giving us an entirely new charter, with the absolute unre- stricted power of appointment and removal vested in the Mayor; the other, by amending the existing charter, keeping what was good and altering what was bad, and weeding out the departments, keeping efficient and honest officers in and turning dishonest or incompe- tent officers out. The former would have been the most direct, honorable and disinterested policy for the State Legislature to adopt. Mr. Havemeyer had been elected by the people as a trustworthy man, and would, no doubt, have filled the departments with persons of char- acter and integrity. Atall events the prin- ciple would have been sound and the respon- sibility would have been direct. The large power unexpectedly gained by the republicans excited in the minds of the leaders of that organization the hope of being enabled to redeem the metropolis from the hands of the democracy by seizing upon the whole ma- chinery and patronage of the city government as party spoils and using them as party capi- tal. They determined to monopolize the offices, to appoint none but republicans to municipal positions, and thus to make New York, like Philadelphia, a republican city. Mayor Havemeyer refused to lend his aid to the scheme, because his associations were with the reformed democracy and he sympathized with the efforts of Green, Tilden and Kelly to rebuild the time-honored organization on a new basis of honesty and principle. He de- clared his intention to appoint democrats as well as republicans to city offices, requiring only the test of integrity and ca- pacity. The republicans, believing that they had a_ perfect right to enjoy the fruits of the victory they had won, re- solved to act without the Mayor and to take the offices in spite of his opposition. They argued that the responsibility for good govern- ment rested with them; that, inasmuch as a Legislature three-fourths republican must pass the new charter, they would be held account- able for its fature working, no matter whether the law gave the appointing power to the Mayor or to any other authority, and they insisted upon their right to entrust the de- partments to the hands of their own political friends in preference to placing them in the hands of their political enemies. The people were careless who might enjoy the patronage, and the Poli- and would just as rendily have seen the offices all filled with republicans as with demo- crates; but they did insist that the new charter should be based on sound principles and What the administration of the laws hands, After three months’ wrangling between Custom House rings and Weed rings the Senate has agreed upon a charter whioh atill fails to satisfy the critics and the politicians, and it begins to be evident that there is a settled. secret purpose on the part of some republicans, as well as on the part of the democrats, to prevent the passage of any charter this session and to leave the govern- ment just as it was before tho eloction. The State Legislature may or may not be @ party to this intrigue. There is a universal feeling that honesty of purpose has as little to do with the legislation of 1873 as it had with the legis- lation of 1872. If this opinion does injustice to our present representatives they can readily remove the bad impreasion they have suc- ceeded in creating. Let them now go to work and pass the charter as it is, giving the Mayor the appointing power, subject to con- firmation by the Board of Aldermen, or let them sweep away all the old propositions and place the sole appointing power in the hands of the Mayor alone. They cannot afford to trifle with the patience of the people any longer, and unless the Assembly pursues one or other of these courses that patience will be exhausted. PRESIDENT GRANT. His Movements in the City Yesterday— Rumors of His Reasons for Coming— Mrs. President Grant and Miss Nelly’ Shopping—Rumors of an Approaching Prosidential Marriage. President Grant, after having arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on Tuesday night, at half-past eleven o’clock—being delayed about two hours by the water on the tracks—retired soon to bed. In the party are Miss Nelly Grant, the daughter of the President; Mrs, Grant and General Babcock, his chief of suite. They rose about eight o’clock yesterday morning and had breakfast in their private parlor, No. 64. The President then received a few calls. At ten o'clock Mrs. Grant took a carriage, with her daugh- ter, Miss Nelly, and went shopping in Broadway. They were thus engaged for several hours, going from one store to another making purchases. The result of this expedition was the arrival in the evening at the hotel of several portentously large packages, which were taken up to parlor 64. THE PRESIDENTS FINANCIAL POLICY. General Grant himself went out about eleven o'clock in company with General Babcock, and, taking a carriage, the two gentlemen drove down town. The President called at the Adams Express Company's offices in Broadway, and after trans- acting a little business on his own account was shown around the building by Mr. John Hoey, Jr., the son of the Presidentof thecompany. After this little divertissement the President went into Wall street a few moments and took lunch with a weil- known banker and financier who is said to be very deep in the affairs of the government, and who finds his profit therein. While at lunch the con- versation ran on the present state of the money market, and the financial gentleman expatiated at some length on the present illooking state of affairs, the Sanne in money and the rise in gold. He spoke particularly of the report which had been circulated on the street the alternoon before that the President had been in consultation with the of the Treasury, Judge Richardson, for several hours the day before in Washington, and how it was announced that the result of the conference was a determination to let 10,000,000 in greenbacks go on the strect to make ie money market easier. To this tirade onithe art of the financial gentleman aforesaid General rant answered, while eating a mutton chop;— “My dear sir, If these good people want the money market to be any easier and money plenty why don’t one million meeals put their hands in their pockets and each draw out a twenty-dollar bill? ‘This would produce twenty millions of dol- lars, and if put upon the treet would immediately make money very easy.” Was this meant for a Presidential joke, or was it meant in earnest? That is the question. But it at all events shows little disposition on the part of the President to do anything to relieve the pres- sure which just at present is making Wail street @ pandemonium, and some of our prominent mer- chants send bushel baskets of telegrams to the Secretary of the ‘ireasury begging for some relief. After lunch, which occupied about one hour, the President did not visit the Berar as had been expected, but re-entered his carriage and drove back to his hotel. During the afternoon many people called upon him. Among these were General Hancock, General Sigel and many others. The conversation is said to have been mainly about pe and army matters. The President told one of these gentlemen that he did not expect to retura to the capital for some two or three days. RUMORS OF A COMING MARRIAGE. The visit of the President was much commented on yesterday in the lobbies of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and several opinions were expressed. It had been at first thought that the reason of the visit was to see General Hillhouse and decide upon the issue of the $10,000,000 in greenbacks. General Hillhouse, however, yesterday told a HERALD re- porter that there was no truth in this, and that he had not seen the President. It was whispered last evening around the lobbies of the hotel that the real object of the visit was to Secreta make arrangements about the ben ts oy of Miss Nelly Grant. One gentleman said that he knew all about it—that Miss Nelly was engaged to the son of Mr. Thomas Murphy, the late Collector of the Port of New York. ir. Thomas Murphy, Jr., is a young man of about twenty-three years of age and etl apes He Lon tongeeneer iG Ca possessing appearance, and wi very richly endowed, it is said, by his father, whose wealth is well known. Miss Nelly is a young lady of about nimeteen years of age, and, while not pretty, has a fascinat ing, Pleasant, jauny look and a nerally very fashionable appearance. She looks on the present trip better than ever, and has already seen a good deal of the world. She is the special pet of her papa and mamma. The re- rt is that the intention of the two families is to ave the marriage solemnized this Spring, and that immediately atter the young couple will proceed to Europe on a bridal tour. it was even said that the purchases made yesterday were for the ‘weddin; Frousseau of Miss Nelly Grant. Whether all this is true or not the HERALD does not vouch ; but it was the common talk last eveningjat and around the Fifth Avenue Hotel. At five o'clock in the afternoon the family had again assembled together. They then proceeded to dress for dinner, and, accompanied by Generat Bab- cock, went to dine at Mr. Thomas hy ie house, at the corner of Park avenue and irty-ninth street. There they remained until a late hour in the evening and spent a pleasant evening. It was entirely a private party and not in any way a poli- tical gathering. At about half-past ten the President and family returned to the hotel. They will remain in New York for two or three days to come. SPAIN. The Populace of the Capital in Menace to the Municipality—Cadiz in Corporate Opposition to the Cabinet. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Maprip, April 2, 1873. The population of Madrid manifest a hostile dis- position towards the municipality of the city, and as the latter are determined not to resign, trouble isapprehended. The Municipal Hall is guarded by mailitia. The municipality of Cadiz have demanded of the government the withdrrwal of all troops from that city. "FRANCE. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Paris, April 2, 1873. A telegram from Versailles reports that M. Grevy, in consequence of the extraordinary scene of yesterday, did not attend to-day’s session of the National Assembiy, and in his absence his resigna- tion of the Presidency of that body was presented and read. The Assemb), vote of 349 against 251, refuse to again accept the position. PRBSIDENTIAL AND PARTY FACTION IN THE PARLIA- MENTARY CRISIS. President Thiers, Count de Remussat, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and M, Goullard, Minister of the In- terior, called upon M. Grevy this evening and en- deavored to persuade bhfm to Lid assume the Presidency ot the Nationai Assembly. M, Grevy, however, was firm in his determina- tion to relinquish the office, and announced that he would not again accept the position. The Deputies of the Left called upon M, Grevy and congratulated him upon his firm attitude, Tt is believed that M. Grevy will accept the leadersuip of the party of the Leit in the Assembly. at once re-elected M. Grévy bya It is believed that he will ————————————————CLLL—“ ‘OSC YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET. should be placed tn honest and capable | ATLANTIC. | THE LATEST DETAILS. Pifty-four Additional Names of Perseus Savea. Haxorax, April 2, 1873. The following saved from the Atlantic were brought up in tha steamer Lady Hoad: — Anderson, E. Jones, A. Lepper, James. Leiper, William. Lee, Rudolph.: Lophain, William, Merlo, M. Meilley, Henry. Miley, Albert. Meyer, James. Neilson, Olaf. Neilson, W. Parsons, Neil. Penson, Martin. Peters, John. Pugh, Evan. Partignessen, Olaf. Peterson, E. Rift, Thomas. Ronack, James. Redfon, Thomas. Schuppal, William. Svenson, Mr. Svensen, 0. Svensen, E. ° Svensen, U. Thorne, Charles. Tolsard, Daniel. Tyonarizer, William. Unson, Peter. Ulston, J. Wade, William. Wade, William. Warden, James. Wenser, Charles. Ward, B. Another Statement by a Cabin Passeu- ger. Mr. Truman D. Markwald was interviewed by a Chronicle reporter. He says:—I turned into my berth at nine o'clock on Monday night and was aroused by the shock of the ship striking. All the men in the cabin rushed upon deck to see what was wrong. I went into the saloon on deck. I observed by the clock that the time was twenty minutes past three. Rockets were being fired within fifteen minutes from the time the ship struck. She careened. The Captain, with his officers, behaved bravely. The cry was raised:—‘‘Take to the rigging; it’s your only chance.” At daybreak a fisherman’s boat came out and res- cued a number of us and landed uson Meagher’s Island. A handful of the peoople there warmly welcomed us. They gave us food and clothing and did all for us that they could. Edmund Ryan, a magistrate, Dennis Ryan and their wives were especially active in ministering to our wants. There were three boats’ crews whose names deserve a high place on the roll of honor. The first boat was manned by Dennis Ryan, James Coolin, Frank Ryan, John Blackburn and Ben Blackburn. The second boat by James O’Brien, Michael O’Brien, P. Dollard, William Lacy and T. J. Toorg. I regret that I have not the names of the other crew. To these men chiefly belong the credit of having, at the risk of their lives, rescued from death over four hundred souls. They, as well as several others of whose bravery I have heard, should certainly receive some record of their noble conduct. Coming up on the Delta there were ringing high praises of the gdilantry of the boats’ crews already referred to, as well as of the Rev. Mr. Ancient, who rescued the perishing chief officer, Frith, and of Quartermaster Speakman, and of Owens, who first established communication with the shore. The kindness of the people of Prospect was also universally acknowledged. The Cunard agents have had about two hundred and fifty of the wrecked passengers provided with warm clothing and personal requisites, and have also arranged to forward them to Portland on Thursday morning. The Legislature has voted for the survivors whatever sum may be needed. REPORT FROM BOSTON. Bostox, April 2, 1873. The loss of the Atlantic has been quite a general topic of conversation on the street to- day, and anxiety among those who think they may have lost friends on board to learn who were lost has been intense. Among those Bostonians presumed to have been on the steamer were John 8S. Eldridge, Jr, and a telegram has been sent to Leap 29 to learn if he sailed thence, and Henry M. Wellington, a oung man who has been travelling in Europe. it is known that he intended to sail on the Atlantic, but it is not known whether he was saved or not. The report that Russell Sturgis and Frank- lin W. Smith were Uregaag, by the steamer Atlantic is incorrect. ‘hey took another steamer. AT THE LONDON AND LIVERPOOL OFFICES, -—— + Lonpon, April 2, 1873, The announcement of the wreck of the steamship Atlantic, and the appalling loss of life caused thereby, created a profound sensa- tion in this city and at Liverpool. The disas- ter is the universal topic of conversation. The offices of the agents in both cities have been thronged all the morning with people— friends of the passengers on the ill-fated steamship—all anxiourly inquiring for the names of the survivors. ‘the information sought has not yet been received from the United States, and meanwhile a feeling of wost painful angicty orevaila = 1 TERRIBLE ACCIDENT. Explosion of Boilers in a Plan- ing Mill. Four Killed and Manv Wounded. Witmrnaton, N. 0., April 2, L878, ‘This city was. startied early this morning by @ moat fearful disaster, At fifteen minutes to sovem o'clock a terrible explosion was heard end felt all throagh the city, and (t s00n became known that the boilers at Messrs. Colville & Company'sateam sawmill, at the foot of Walnut street, had exploded. The HesaLp reporter hurried to the spot, where @ scene of wreck and ruin was presented to the view. About two-thirds of the mill building tay crushed and out of shape. The engine was broken while the boiler house was laid level with the ground, To the north of the spot where the house stood, and about thirty feet distant, resting oa a pile of lumber and elevated at an angie of about twenty degrees was found the boiler that was near- est the pump. It is uninjured, with the exception of @ hole about six or eight inches in diameter. The second of the three boilers, being that which ‘was in the centre, was found lying in Colville & o.'a enclosure, and against the fence that divicea {t from Natt street, It had been carried a distance of about two hundred feet, all except one end, which had taken an opposite direction, passing through the mill, which it shattered, and falling ia tho river beyond it, ‘ ‘HE THIRD BOILER, whioh was farthest from the pump and next to the chimney, was taken up and carried through the air a distance of about four hundred and fifty feet, taking off the top of one house and the chimney ot another on Nutt street, beg fences, outhouses and trees, and finally landing the basement of Ghe butiding on Front street occupied above by James Moir and George Williams, and below oF, two colored families. The basement of this builaing was guarded by a solid brick wall on the side facing to the mill, but this was ‘OBUSHED LIKE AN BOG SiIBL and the course of the boiler was stayed only ore stone embankment built against the streeg and low ita level. As an illustration of the force with which it was thrown, it must have gone nearly on a level from ita first altitude as it passed under the telegraph wires on Nutt street, and but for the embankment under the house on Front street would probabiy have continued its course for 300 feet further. Front street is about onalevei with the top of the mill, This boiler must have 1d broadside through the air until it reached a row of shade trees in the yard of the Front street premises, when resistance offered by them, turned tts course, and it entered the basement of the house length- ‘Ways; otherwise the entire house would have been demolished and the accident would have been stilt more fearful in its results. The steam oylinder, which passed from the boiler room to the engine, was torn in half, o..epart jalling in the deck to the north of the the other passing thi fh the t shattering everything as by went, fad falling on ‘THE OASUALTIRG wharf beyond it. amount to three persons Killed outright, one probae bly mortally wounded, two seriously wounded and —— others more or less injured. These are as Ws — Sam Carter, colored, the engineer, killed. He was at the engine at the time of the CE etd work on it, and was feund afterwards abeut ten feet distant uoder the fy wheel, which was broken by the concussion, horribly scalded and mangled. ceee Bynam, colored, @ lad abeut seventeen years old, employed as millhand, had been at ‘work there only about a week. At the time of the accident he was near the furnace door, pene some shavings to the fire, and was thrown, wit the J pee under the fy wheel. He was taken up de: William Taylor, colored, the fireman, was badly scalded on the face and on the leit side, and 16 is feared that he cannot live. He was near the fur- nace when the explosion occurred. Guilford Taylor, colored, the sawyer, was in the mill at the saw, and was hort by the tum- bers. He is severely, but not considered danger- ously, scaided and bruised. Richmond James, colored, was hauling timber through the mill. He is scalded on the face and otherwise badly injured. Hannah Anderson, a colored girl, about fourteen | bend old, was killed outright. She was in an out- ouse in the yard of the premises of the house om Front street, more than 400 feet distant from the mill, and was killed when the house was demol- ished by the engine on its extraordinary flight. Cataline Hall, the mother of this girl, was in the room in which the boiler lodged, and was some- mee injured by the bricks that were thrown about Austin Farmer, colored, and his wife Esther Farmer, who were also in this room at the time, were slightly injured in the same manner. THE BOILERS weighed 7,000 pounds each. They were thirty-five feet long and three feet in diameter, and had been in use at the mill about one year. They were among the newest and best Squigpes boilers in the city, and were generally worked under a pres- of eighty pounds of steam. The engine was stopped on Tuesday spe ag usual, and was started again at six oclock this morning with the usual are about one thousand feet of lumber hav- ing been sawed previously to the explosion. boilers were fastened very securely in their posi- tion in the boiler room, clamped dewn to an iron bed and placed as solidly as it was possible for them to be. The power of the fastenings was eati- mated at 40,000 pounds. The boiler room was of brick, seven feet igh, the walla being three feet thick, the whole secured with iron bands, ENGLAND. Royal Visit to the Victoria Park and Loyal Re ception of the Queen—Rate for Money on ‘Change and at the Bank—American Industrials in the Metropolis, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALB. . Lonpon, April 2, 1873. Her Majesty the Queen paid a visit to Victoria Park this morning. The authorities of Hackney, Shoreditch and Bethnal Green, through which she passed, presented loyal adaresses to the sovereign. The entire route traversed by the Queen was lined with people and the streets appropriately decorated with flowers and bunting. RATE FOR MONEY ON 'CHANGE AND AT THR BANK. The rate for money at the Stock Exchange om government securities is lower than the Bank of England by one-half per cent. AMERICAN FINANCIERING FOR HOME PRODUCE DE- VELOPMENT. The London Times, reviewing the prospectus of the British-Colorado Smeiting Company, in which forty-five per cent dividends are promised to steck- holders, says it is ‘a severe stigma upon the practical capacity of Americans for them to come here for money for their enterprises and give to Englishmen their management.” AMERICAN INDUSTRIALS EN ROUTE TO VIENNA. General T. B, Van Buren, Chief Commissioner of the United States to the Vienna Exhibition, and Dr. A. Ruppauer, William M. F. Round and Joha 8. Cunningham, Assistant Commissioners, have ar- rived in this city. After remaining here a few days they will proceed to Vienna by way of Paris, DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALO. Bucwanrgst, April 2, 1873. A collision between carmen and the military, growing out of the refusal of the former to pay cer- tain taxes, took place in Giurgevo, a town of Wal- lachia, about forty miles from this city, this morn- ing. Several persons were killed and wounded. ‘The latest despatches report that tranquillity had been restored, WEATHER REPORT. WAR DEPARTMENT, Orrice OF THE CHIR SIGNAL OFFIORR, Wasninaton, April d—1 A. M, Probabilities, For Thursday in the Guif and South Atlantic States generally clear weather and rising tempera- ture. In the Missouri Valley falling barometer, accompanied by increasing southerly winds over the Southwest and Ohio Valley, Fort the Middle States westerly winds and partly cloudy and clear weather, For New England northwest winds, cloudy and clearing weather. For the Lower Lakes southwest winds and partly cloudy weather. For the Upper Lakes winds tacking to southeast, with partly cloudy and clear weatner on Thursday moraine, followed by cloudy weather Thursday night. The low baro- meter in Montana will extend castward inte the. Muswourk Valea.