The New York Herald Newspaper, January 3, 1876, Page 3

STEAMSHIY viSASTERS. Anrival of the Unfortunates of the Mosel and Deutschland, STORIES OF THE WRECK. More About the Dynamite Explo- sion and Its Author. / ‘The passengers of the steamship Deutschland, who were lucky enough to escape from the wreck of that ill- « fated vessel, went back to Bremerhaven for the pur- pose of being reshipped to New York. They went on Doard the German Lioyd’s steamer Mosel, and just as this ship was about to weigh anchor for America, — umber of them were killed by the explosion of a ma chine which Thomassen bad contrived for the purpose of wholesale slaughter on the high seas. By thisternble explosion ne less than eighty human beings were Jaunchea into eternity and 200 more became maimed for lite or suffered trom wounds of aifferent kinds. The Mose! was 100 much injured to be sent on her voy- age, and the passengers who were to have gone on her, including the remainder of those rescued from the Deutschland, had to be transferred to the steamship Salier. The Salier, with nineteen cabin and forty-five steerage passengers from the Deutschland and twenty- eve cabin and sixty-cight steerage passengers from the Mogel on board, left Bremerhaven tor New York on the 16th ult. and op the 18th touched at Southamp- ton. While the passengers remained at that port the sam of £1,200, which had been collected by various persons in London who sympathized with their suifer- ings, was divided pro rata among them, After the Salier left Southampton she encountered very heavy weather for eeveral days, and fell in with a succession of dense fogs between Newfoundland ‘and New York. She cautiously worked her way we: ward and entered the upper bay yesterday morning at seven o'clock, Before eight o’clock the news of her Arrival bad reached Quarantine Station, and the port Health OMicer, Dr. Masier, put out in the stéamer Fenton, in company with a representative of the Hxraip, to visit her. When the vessel was reached Captain Francke positively refused to allow anyone to board her but the Heulth Officer, He went on board the Fenton to explain his position, He stated that he carried a letter from the European agents of the German Lloyds io the German Consul here, and was strictly prohibited from allowing anyone to get on or off his vessel before the Consul received that missive and visited him. This mysterious order saused a good deal of comment among the friends of surviving passengers fromthe. Deutechland and Mosel; and among these there were some who looked upon thie seemingly unnecessary pro- hibition to visit their escaped relatives as a piece of impertinent red-tapeism that was quite out of place, Bome thought it was a ruse of the steamship company’s officials to procure an opportunity of making ® good impression by dividing among the beceseitous passengers the sum of £51 10s, which, in addition to the £1,200 already distributed in Southampton, had been remitted from Bogland to the German Consul General in this port, Neither the German government nor the steamship company to which the Deutschland and Morel belonged have given adollar of money tothe sufferers, The fompany did only what it could not avoid, that was to Xeep the passengers at its own expense while they re- mained in Southampton, ‘The Saher reached her dock In Hoboken at a quarter after eleven o’ciock, and at won she was moored at ber berth, AT THE WHARP. sc A long line of wistiul faces was behind the wooden railway which stretched across. the =~ wharf, in the neighborhood of the Custom House pifice, There were the sorruwing, wait for further details of some loved one who had b turriediy rushed into eternity e theron the Deutschland or the Mosel. But there were joyiul faces, too, brim- ming over with happiness at the kvowiedge that a joved friend or relative was safe on Custom House officers, who as « rule are ne ressionable class of beings, pre wed for the landing of the y foport circulated at this mon that tb buggage of all the passengers was to be examined with the ‘greatest minuteness to see if any explosives or tlockwork machinery for exploding the same could Le found, It was also said that German detectives had tome us passengers by the Salier to see if any clew could be gathered implicating Thomassen. or brother. Another whisper was that the cargo was to be carefully appraised. An attache of the German Cousulate was seen with a list in his hand on which were marke and numbers, aud it was conjectured that the list referred to some items of the cargo. HOME AGAIN. Meanwhile the gangspiank leading to the ship from the wharf had been run out by a dozen lusty ‘longshoremen, | Among the first to come ashore was the weather | & pilot, and soon afterward came the Custon officers, with the passengers’ deciarstions as to the | duuable or non-dutiable contents of their baggage. Phen cameghe passengers in a stream from the ship's Hide. Some looked glad, some sorrowful. People ery- Ing for joy and kissing each other with an ener Almost wonderful! to behold, if the circumstances oi the tase were not remembered; others sadly asking for de tails about a relative’s death, formed one of the Most striking pictures conceivable. As Miss Petzold, of Deutschland fame, was seen coming down the gang” way, she was recognized, as was also Mr. Hermann, who so nobly saved heron the occasion of the fearful | ipwreck, ‘Then came the Deutschlaud’s celebrated by, carried in the arms of its smiling mother, Mrs, Hamm, of Dallas, Texas. The youngster looked the ertection of health. The bright sun, which had i- juunined the middie of the day had, however, begun to | ude before all the first and second cabin passengers bad taken their departure from the wharf. THE DYNAMITE DISASTER. THE ACCOUNT OF MR, BOERNEMANN. Mr. Boernemann, of Philadelphia, took his return passage by the steamer Mosel, Captain Fraucke. At the time of the dynamite explosion he was standing on | board the vessel, about a couple of paves from the | Bleps of the saloon door. He suddenly felt a terrible shock and heard a dreadful noise as of heavy artillery, To his utter horror and consternation be saw a cloudy mass of human beings thrown up into the air as far as bis sight could reach. He felt an immense shock, as if some ponderous body had {alien upon him, but be was not physically burt, although the shock to his nervous system was 0 great that he has. been sick | ever since, The blackened, burned and torn limbs of the unhappy victims = fell, in’ ehower on the deck, bespaitering it with their blood and shapeless remains, The explosion took place amidships, between the second cabin and the wheel honse. Mr. Boernemann was thrown off his teet by the shock and concussion The scene was,horrible to Witness, No one knew what to do. Four ead bodies and a large number of wounded people on various ei) of the ship. It s:emed to be & common tinpulse jor those who had escaped unimjured to rush toward the stern of the ship. The vessel was very se damaged forward; part of the bow was Liown away andthe bulwarks’ rent iu pieces. At the moment of the explosion the steamtug Simson came along under OMS app ‘hed her the bows of the Mosel and two wy : from Lioyds’ Hall, one with the mai! and the other con taining goods. The whole was taken toward the steamer by band carts; and when the just of these, having four cases and a barrel on board, was unloaded on the steamer, the great explosion was beard, Fighty per fons were Killed or bave died of ther wour: suffered injuries more OF lesa serious, Mr wand Boern daughior were at the ed him as one given up by the tomb. Mr. ‘y goiny curred. lence, and the concuasion bad such effect upon him that be bied from the nose and mouth. His lett leg was greatiy injured by bis falling upon '. His trends came ob to receive him off the Saler. Phi Metzler, also of aboard the Mo: je was thrown on the ship with tuch vio- n the gang Xplosion oc- AN INTERVIEW WITH THOMASSEN, When Custom House Inspector Banks had finished examining the scanty baggage ot Mr. Charles F. Mueller, human hair merchant, of Milwaukee, Mr. Mueller toid | following story respecting Thomassen ;— “T Saw THO es, THE FIEND, ! bu the Mosel while goimg down the cabin stairs, 1 thought 1 knew him as being trom Milwaukee, and I said, ‘Excuse me, but are you not from Milwaukee? He said, ‘No, sir; Lam from thé sawed States, but not | from Milwaukee,’ This reply was given in German— | ‘eb bin nicht aus Milwaukee, aber von der Vercinigten | Btaaten.’ J said to him, persistingly, ‘I thought you were from Milwaukee.’ He then said, ‘You may have ween mo there, as [ have travelled through the States pretty extensively.’ I asked him if he was going tret or second cabin, as, I told bim, I was going second " tabin He replied that he was going in the saloon, and added, ‘We can be together, any way.’ Our conversa- Won was only carried on In German at the commence- ment; subsequently in English.” | part, however, | there. Reronren—I suppose you liked his appearance and “were prepossessed by his manners? Mr, MumLLeR—I thought he looked a good, clever fel- Jow, aod | liked his appearance and thought we might mage traveled together agreeably, towed a ecnotar avd a genial fellow. 1 then went to my cabin with my valise in my hand. A few minutes after the explosion It happened just as my bead emerged on deck from the cabin. My head was about a foot above the level of the aeck, The concus- fou of the air forced me back AND I FELL ON TUR STAIRWAY, The same thing happened to one of the stewards. I asked the steward what had happened and he told me he thoughts the boiler had burst, and | said that was not | possible, as I had seen bodies and portions of bodies | flying through the air. } and could hardly collect my thoughts, I walked then a8 if ina dream T then went forward and saw the deck covered with dead | bodies and pools. of blood, The bodies were moetly stripped of their clothing, Some were perfectly naked J covered up the nakedness of several of the dead, both | men and women, | saw a Hebrew on a trunk stripped of bis clothing, and apparently wounded; his head was | falling back and he appeared to be suffocating. I took some bedelothes out of a trank burst open by the ex plosion, and mado a comfortable seat for him, Five minutes afterward he died. A sailor kindly brought him some water, but bis mouth was filled with coagulated blood, and he could not swallow the water. I then at- tended a young lady screaming for belp, denuded of all her clothing from her waist 1 covered her ever with some sheeting. She said she was wounded in her back. She had been struck with a bar of iron from the deck Tailings. She was taken to Loi’s Hotel, and was recov ering when We loft Bremen. ‘THOMABSEN’S SUICIDE, Shortly after this I heard that aman had attempted to commit suicide after locking bis cabin door, This was told me by Mey the steward, I wanted to get away from the ship, as T thought we might have another explosion, and such, in fact, was the general beitet., 1 then went ashore to a hotel, making iy way through a pile of dead bodies, mostly torn in pieces, consisting of heads, arms, legs and trunks of bodies lying both on the ship and on the wharf Nobody was hurt, by a Providential interposition, on the rear of the ship. [ then went to Lioyd’s Hotel, Bremerbaven, and did not return to the ship wil next di I asked, when 1 got there, what kind of a man it was who had attempted vo commit suicide, and from the description given me J came to the conclusion that (he map might possibly be the individual I had met at the cabin stairs, and that | | have just told you of. 1 then wont to the hospital to see him, and after asking permission of the anthorities was conducted to hig bedside and found it was the man 1 had spoken to. INTERVIEW WITH THOMASSEN. I said, “How do you feel” He looked at me with a sorrowfnl, wearied face and with tears in his eyes. Alter gasping repeatedly for breath, he sad. “wish that 1 was dead.” and then closed “hig eyé& as if exhausted by the effort of | speaking. aitibeelap baits } I said, “It 1s wrong, sir, to wish that you were dead, LT hope you will recover.’ He looked, I thought, Biaie- fully at me for wishing that he might live, but repeatea, “I wish I was dea 1 then left him, him if he was the cause of the fearful carnage, thinking itrmigkt only be arumor, Afterward I heard he con fessed being the owner of the dynamite, and mentioned that a brotier of his at Dresden was ituplicated. The Chief of Police of Bremerhaven told me afterward that the brother had been arrested. I heard uothing about the date fixed for bis trial when we left Bremerhaven. Thomassen’s wife and chiid came to see him, but the Bremerhaven police gave out that she knew nothing of hig flandish crime, This may only be a ruse on their ‘A doctor, who knew whereof be spoke, toid me that Thomasen was constantly supplicating his medical attendants to remove the bullet out of his head, Such an operation would doubtiess have precipitated his death, and perkaps prevented the world knowing of his | fearful confession, With reference to my individual loss, I may mention that I lost 126 pounds of buman hair by the explosion, which cost me about thirty-five Prussian thalera, and for which I intend to-morrow asking the agents of the North German Lloyd Steamship Cotnpany in this city to make reparation, I also lost six pieces of valuable silk | was bringmg out to make dresses for my wife, and all my bagguge. IN THE STEERAGE OF THE SALIER. A Hexaxp reporter made his way down into the steerage, where a number of the Mosel’s passengers were found. In sad contrast with the aching hearts there was to be seen a Christmas tree gayly decorated with yellow and bine preces of tissue paper, with which the unfortunates had endeavored to make merry on Christmas Day. The steerage was dark, and unless a person went to the foot of the stairs leading on deck or to the ports it was impossible to read. Several people were in their berths trying to sleep away, to them, asad afternoon, for they were to be kept on board ull this morning, when they will be removed to Castle Garden, Many of them are almost penuilves, and it is feared that many will de takea to Ward's Island unless the German Society or some other p ple of a charitable warn of mind come t ance. The North German Lloyds, said Kemmern, who lives at No. 275 paid our board bills, and given clothes destroyed by the dywat piosion while we were on the Mosel. 1, ny wile, my brother-in-law and mother, about $800 worth of clothing destroyed, For thi have received about $40. None of our family have anything to wear but the clothes we stand in. The company gave us beds and blankets, which ig a consideration never granted to travellers in the steerage. Mr. Von Kemmern then exbibited his clothing and that of bis family, which he had brought to this country as curiosities and evidence of his loss. There were jagged pieces cut out in all pisces, and much of the clothing looked as if it had n Gestroyed by rats, £0 many jagged edges were These goods, it must be remembered, were lightly packed in tronks when the explosion occurred. Several women showed their ragged clothing, and said did not like to go out on deck on account of their ragged clothing. The passengers of the Mosel, as a | rule, consider they are hardly deait with, THE DEUTSCHLAND’S LOSS, A GRAPHIC STORY OF THE WRECK. George Frederich, @ young man whose residence is in Albany, N. Y., and who was born in this country, gave to the writer an account of bis experience at the wreck of the Deutschland, At half-past six o'clock in the morning of the 6th of December (said Mr. Frede- rich), the Deutschland struck the sands ef Kentish Knock, near Harwich. Soon afterward the steward gave orders to all to provide themselves with life preservers. Two boats were put off with three sailors, who were told to apprise those op shore of the condition of the ves- sel. One man, named John Nichol, attempted to jump into the boat with these sailors, but he was struck over the bands with an iron bolt by one of the crew and had to release his hold on the boat. He was drowned. After the boat left the crew, who had been driuking, commenced to quarrel on the deck of the Deutschiand and some of them were severely cat in the meiée, All the passengers were put to work ut the pumps and worked till ten o'clock Monday night The doctor of the vessel told the ladies and children that they were to remain in the first cabin, and when the water rose too high in the cabin they were to pro- ceed to the upper deck, The water rose four feet in the cabin and the women and children climbed up on the tables, When it rose to eight feet they tound all means of egress blocked, and the skylight through which they were told they might reach the upper deck was fas- tened down. None of the crew went to the rescue, most of them at that time being in the rigging. In the Grst cabin I saw & man who had been drowned in the cabin with bis overcoat, vest and pantaloons pockets cut out ‘At balfpast ten o’clock on Wednesday morning I got on a raf. On that raftwere seventy-five persons, thirty-five of whom were washed off. The remainder were taken on board the steamer Liverpool, of Har- wich, The sailors, for the most were drunk and fought like demons over the spoil y bad collected from the people who were drowned in the cabin. Of five Franciscan nuns on the Deutschland tour were drowned, and when their bodies were found it was discovered that they-had been desporled of several gold rings, crosses, &¢. TUK DECTSCHLAND’S CREW INEPPICIENT. Mr, and Mrs. Franz Hamm, of Dallas county, Texas, and their two children on the ill-fated Deutsch- jand Mrs. Hamm and her children at the time of the wreck were in the first cabin with the rest of the ladies aud children, and would have been drowned there were it pot for the exertions of Mr. Hamm. He broke his way through the skylight, carried his children “one by oue, aud then his wife, ull he placed them all in the rigging. where they remained from two o'clock in the morn- ing till two o’clock m the afternoon of the 6th of December. When they were taken off they were al- most trozen. Mr, Hamm is pronounced in his denunei- ation of the management of the Deutschiand. He states that there was no discipline among the crew and that, with the exception of the Captain, all officers seemed to have lost their heads. If a determined and | organized effort hed been made by the crew, Mr, | Hamm states, not one woman or child would have bee los. ‘A BEREAVED MM. On the Bremen pier in Hoboken yesterday morning was aman pamed John Rinderer, of No, 549 Seventh avenue, with two friends. Mr. Rinderer's wife and child, a little girl about three years of age, left for a visit to Germany tu September last, and started in the Deutschland on thetr return. Mr. Rinderer could get nothing authentic from the apoyo Company's offi- cials or from any other source as to whether his family ae saved. He rote Paco sae he ceed Ing photographs of his wi! iid, and he wi anxi » After some time be and his friends made way on board the Sulier, the phoseerane were shown, and were recognized y several of his countrymen. Mrs. hema» Rotons had been a fellow passenger of Mrs. Babette Rinderer on the steamer Fecognized the portraits at one ge the heart-broken husband an. father that his wife and child, she thought, had been drowned tu the cabin. Nothing had been seen of them at Harwick, neither bad their bodies been discovered. Several other ladies who knew Mrs, Rinderer confirmed the stor} id Mr. Rinderer gave way to his grief and cried like id. The women crowded around him, bus the diggousolate man broke away. aud, with the T did not ask | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1876. Pictores of his loved ones clasped to his heart, walked off the ship pier, followed by bis friends. INTERVIEW WITH WILLIAM PLETH, Mr. Willian Pleth, of Philadelphia, an intelligent German-American, who was a second cabin passen- geron the Deutschland, gave to a H&RALD reporter the following grave Account of bis shipwreck on the Kentish Knock. On December 6, we experi- enced heavy weather and encountered a snow storm, The wind blew hard from the northwest and the sea ran high. Being unable tc p 1 got up out of bed at about four o'clock e morning of the étb. | i | | Inan hour or so afterward | felt that something was | | wrong, for the began to bump us if aground and waves to break on deck. When I'got ou deck a sea washed over it aud | threw me down. 1 got cp and made an atiempt to get | | into one of the two starboard lifeboats that were | being launchea by some ofthe | aud petty officers’ 1 was able to | one leg into the boat, but the sailors ey me by force, saying, ‘We don’t want ar fi At that time gers in here: there are enough of us.’? bot six men were in the bout and got down onthe deck a more immersed in p struck some of the crew made for the bos Parties of th men obtained possession of the two starboard hte-boats. The first’ of these that | left the ship’s side was capsized and her perished which | I wanted to get into was that wh conducted to Harwich by Quartermaster Meyer. being ejected from the boat the sea Ww a several times, but 1 being taken overboard and Wold the passengers nc this we will have no hig first engineer came along | they must psstully After shed over me along f ig, tAtter In a short time the nd told the passengers that MAN THE PUMPS, of which there were three—ote i the steerage, one on | deck, and another in the second cabin. | assisted in | working the pamps until near dinnertime. Toward | heavily, and J was thrown down in the lee side ef the second cabin. Two stewards raised me wp and | me on a lounge, where 1 lay | fora long time juseneib Here 1 | remained frow two o'clock until near five, at which | laiter time I recovered my consciousness. 1 was | alarined to see the second cabin floor covered with | Water and at once made my way up stairs to the frst | salon, The pumps were stopped, by order ot the first engineer, at nine ‘o'ciock in | the morning (Monday. December 6), who said uothing | further could be done, as the ship was full | of water. The second cabin was then submerged and | | the water began to rise in the first cabin. At vbout ten o'clock the second and third oMcers, with the purser, | came into the first cabin, where nearly all of the pas: | sengers were assembled, and advised the get on the tables where the water would | | prevent them from standing on the livor, At | one o clock the water rosé so fast that it reached the | height of the dining saloon tables, covered them, and stil! continued to rise, The people then commenced | to climb up on the tables; the water continuing to rige | ali the ime unui those on the tableg were up to their armpit ® . All this time the storm figed and | the bhip ibired Weltily:: The Captain and diher | oflicere were in the main cabin from one o'clock 1m the morning, but went on deck several times by wading up | to their necks to reach the saloon gangway. In this | | manner also some of the passengers passed out and in Ataboat half-past two o'clock i the morning | Some one among the passengers remarked that | | when the water would get too high for them to | stand on the tables they could break ahole throngh the skylight und so escape on deck. ‘This was at. | | tempted, bat I don’t kuow with what success, In | | wading to the gangway the men generally went out | betore the women, and some of these were left to shift | for themselves; but some of the male passengers re- malued with thei wives and children, AND THUS PERISHED, | Of all the people who were in the cabin, some were | drowned there and others escaped on deck to meet the | saine fave, while the remainder were lucky enongh to | get into the rigging and hang on until rescued. 1 went | by the gangway up on deck about nalf-past two | o'clock. ‘The water was in some places three feet deep. | on the deck. 1 tried hard to open the cabin skylights | but could not The larboard side of the slip was dry near the wheelhouse, The third officer attempted With me to open the skylights; the sea washed both of us of our feet. I caught bold of a line, and holding | ‘on to it, made toward the rigging on the larboard side. | The slip was not heeled over, but the wind and waves came strong trom the Euglish coast. 1 got | into the shrouds about midships at three o'clock. At. daylight 1 saw a number of suips and sailtoats in the distance, about five or six miles off, None ot these vessele attempted to approach the Deutschland, ai- | | though repeated signals of distress had been made. I saw sitting on the dry part of the deck an old | an Of about sevebty-five years of age, named | 1, from Pennsylvania, He bad a rope i his | ned nearly frozen todeath. The third | officer called out for some one to take him away. This was done, and the poor old man was wrapped up in a | namber of flags in the wheelhouse, and, ag you eee, | THE SAILORS DID NOTHING engers. ‘They were ri ge Up the masts. The sought ref e nearly ail ha drunk. Two of them (Italians) broke the compuss in the binnscle, When the Captain heard of this he | | scolded ae just a little, They tid bim | / to mind bis own business and lock — out | for the ship. After nine o'clock the | told the passengers to come down trom ther. | The wind then calmed, and the tide being low lett the deck dry, Some provieions were hunted up. | | The wor and children who remained in | the cabin tried te come on deck i } some of them were saved, but others were drowned. At half-past ten o'clock the ship Liverpool approached, she anchored 200 yards off and gent us two boats tl took off two loads of women and children, after whic this vessel came alongside the Deutscbland and took the Temaining passengers of about noon. During the night I saw twenty or twenty-five dead bodies in the cabin. They were of both sexes, young and old During the above narrative by Mr. Pleth a number of nodded assent to his statements, THE RESCUING OF MISS ANNA PRTZOLD, Miss Petzold. a daughter of Dr. Petzold, who lives in East Futy-third street, was rescued from the inundat cabin vy Mr. Herrmann, of Erfurt, Germany. He took her through the water, up the gangway and to the shrouds, He got outside and bad to pull her throngh the ratiines, Both, with the other passengers, bad life preservers. They remained in the rigging from avout two o'clock until balf-past nine A.M. DIVIDING THK MONEY | with the seeretary of the German Consul Gene | on board the Salier to distribute the $280 among the eedy passengers, This 1s equivalent to (1 10, which remamed over from the £1,200 that had been subscribed in England for the sufferers. A pumber of men declined to receive any of the money. THE DEUTSCHLAND’S PASSENGERS. The following is alist of the rescued passengers of the Deutschiand who arrived in this city yesterday on the Salter:— Finst Canix—Wilhelm Leiek, Obio, Skconp Canin—Miss Anna Petzold, New York; Mr. Ad. Hermann, Erturt; Mr. Hein, Egner, Freduchoba- fen; Mr, Franz Hamm, Heppenheim; Mrs. Augt. Hamm, Heppenheim, with one baby and one boy five years of age; Mr. Herman Nathan, United States, Mr. Praonpi, Popolkof, Russia; Mr. George F. Saner, Baflalo, Mr. G. Schell, Buffalo; Mr. Edward Stamm, Mrs E Stamm, with six year old daughter; Mr. Theodore 5. Tudemand, New York; Alfred Wuettig, Jena. SreexaGe Passexcens—Tichy Anton, Bohemia; Flo- rian Banerle, Ebradt, Wirtemburg; Joseph Churan, Bavaria; Franz Charat, Bavaria, Karl Elling, Naseh- hansen, Nassau; George Fretdret, Albay, George Gis- | sick, Russia; Nicolas Gros, Norscholz, Germany, John Gass, Sachtingen, Baden; George Hoernd, Wild- stedt, Baden; Valentine Hauser, Krozingen; Francis Holy, Bavaria; Fredrick Hartel, Baccha- rach on the’ Rhine; Osip Kedischefl, Rassia, Joseph Kubl Nevendort, tlolstein; Peter Kister, Russia; Fritz Muller, Hanover; W. Nurge, Dohren on Minden; Carl | Otter," Cuswel;” Joseph ' Popp, ——; | Wiliam Plueiseh, Zwicken; August Saul,’ Dobbel Adolph ‘Saul, Dobdbelu; Joban Stepkan, Bury Schaefiner, Beckstein, Baden: Markenkerchen, Saxony; Vincenz Schafarick, Bavaria; Herman Meng, Krozingen; Miss Catharine Muller, New York; Miss Maria Stewernagel, Schwabenroth, Hekec: Miss Anna Hobner, Endulf; Mrs, Kister, Mrs. Hart Mra Anna Mary Gmel Kursdorf, Mise Jacot Sohwarta, Schweizen; Miss Catharina Bil, Butzbach ; Mrs. Catharine Schafer and Car! Schafer, three years ola, Philadelphia; Mrs. Catharine Mary, Gisseck; Mrs Mary Stepka, Franz Stepka, Miss Frank Georgin hemia; Mrs. Franzske Schavanck, Vincenz; Schavanck, aged nine. Mr. George Wise, one ot the Deutscbland’s paseengers, did not come by the Salier, but reiurned from Harwich | to Germany. THE SCENE IN HOBOKEN LAST NIGHT. There were wild rejoicings among the Teutons in Hoboken last evening in consequence of the arrival of the surviving passengers by the Deutschland and the Mosel. Throngs of interested spectators stood round asthe former told the fearful scenes they had wit- nessed during that dreadful night when the Deutech- seemed to be at an end, while those of the More! told of the fearful carnage inflicted at Bremerhaven when case of dynamite exploded At Weber's Hotel the baby of Mrs, hamm, of Dallas, Texas, crowed with all its might and played with a number of ninepins, as if fully conscious that it was one of the heroes of the Deutschland wreck. was drunk over and over again in brimming measure, likewise that of its courageous mother, who modestly received the compliments heaped upon her. Her hus- of some four summers, The father was highly compli- mented and wished many happy New Years. Occas!onal- ly some sturdy Teuton would, in the exuberance of his Joy, burst into “Die Wacht Music was not wanting to make the scene a joyous one, and the merry sounds were interspersed with songs dear to the children of Germania, “Prost Neu Jahr’ were also wished by the hundred, and the occasion was a very happy ove, At Busch’s Hotel there were alvo similar merrymakings. THR CANARY MEN. Word had been sent over to Hoboken to Mr. Charles Reiche, the importer of wild animals, birds, &c., that | two of his empleyés, named Grim aud Lane, had per- ished, with upward of Gfleen bundred canaries, The — men, fortunately, were saved, likewise the birds. Had these men risen trom the grave their welcome could not have been more enthusiastic. The #tnal hours | were approaching before the good people of Hoboken | wished good by ad their triends who bad s0 miracu- __Jously excaped From the Jaws of dewite | very large ip his fellow passengers listened to him and occasionally | An agent of the Bremen line ot steamers, together | i, were | Bo- | land was on the Kentish Knock and all hope of rescue | Its health | band, it may be remembered, saved another child, aboy | Will be made apom ib by the THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. The Senatorial Elections Question— Danger Ahead, EXCITEMENT AND UNE ASINESS ON THE BOURSE. _ Parliamentary Government—Extreme Po- litical Parties Panis, Dec. 15, 1875, rary break up of the conservative party is, of course, the one topic of conversation for those who take an int in politics, The number of these per- sons ve before had occasion to remark, is not France, Parisians, indeed, like to be with the gossip of the lobbies over their alter- ysinthe, and the narrative of the last ‘stormy as lh amu: no | scene’? in the Assembly may pass half an hour agree- | ably euough, but that the mass of Frenchmen care very ven the | seriously for those matters may be doubted, intelligent and educated classes appear to study political howe rather with an eye to the fluctuations of the Dight the wind increased in force, the ship. iurched | Money market than with much heed to the principles, | “immortal”’ or otherwise, which may be at stake, And the real importance of THE PRESENT CRISIS unquestionably lies in the fact that the Stock Exchange £ extremely uneasy, The funds are not as yet much affected, but there is felt a sense of anxious expectation | ag to the resuits of the hberal victories which continue | from day to day. Republicans in the Old World are bound to confess that whomsoever else they may have succeeded in reconciling to their ideal form of govern. ment, they are still « long way from having secured the confidence of moneyed men. fo this day they are paying tor the sins of their political ancestors—tor the gnats” and other unsatisfactory financial ex- pedients of the First Republic, Nor can it be denied that whispers as to the expediency of repudiation have been audible under the Third Republic, That they are only found on the lips of those who are etyled by their engmsce Socialisté and Communists is a circumotance Not absolutely reassuring to gentlemen who live in the Faubourg St Germain or the Avenue des Champs Riysées; because the leaders of the republican party while they honestly abhor Communism do, as a matter of fact, exercise their influence in the councils of -the vation through the support of Communist electors at the polls, they come into power, the “ferce democracie” which ‘as will have placed them there will expect its reward, It | will demand a readjustment of taxation, amounting to afine on large incomes; and the organization of na- tional workshops: these measures, already condemned by political economists, will bring no relief to distr will frighten property out of the country, increase the price of the necessaries of life, and assure a succession of deficits which the Minister of Finance will have to meet as he best can. diation may become the question of the day, the last re- | source for a government face to face with an angry mob demanding, as in 1793, “HREAD AND NOT §| BS. The Stock Exchange is proverbiaily timid, and it is a prospect of this king with which conservatives, who are not, perhaps, Ue dupes of the fears they affect, en- avor to wlarm 1h yn causing a full in business, and making men pause rather longer than usual before investing in government securities, but the political and {nancial atmosphere is meanwhile charged with vague and disquieting rumors, and the question in everybody's mouth is, ‘What next??? TUR FUTURE is, in truth, fraught with enough of real danger to make ita work of supererogation to suggest perils which are remote ifnot visionary, The situation may be briefly summed up. Up to last night forty-two Senators Lad been elected. Of these, vbirty peen borne on the liste of the Left, three u the Right and one on both lists, The Ministers Buffet and | Wallon have withdrawn their candidature, and the | Cabinet has avowedly sustained a serious morai defeat, Whether phey will continue to hold office is donbtful. tis said, by pertons who ought to be well iuformed, that M. Buffet makes Nght of the check he bas re | ceived, regarding the voto of a Chamber which has de- | creed its own dissolution as of little importance | Nevertheless, he will probably challenge a vote of con. | fidence before the close of the session on the question of the state of siege. M. Albert ivy will move, as | soon as the Senatorial elections aro concluded, that the extraordinary powers intrusted to the military authori. + since the war shall immediatel art of the government, couse. vcted to propose , cOLLInUIng THE STATE OF SIEGE Paris, Marseilles and 1, and to etand or tall by decision of the Assemb! By this apparent bold. ese may be guessed that be will risk nothing, for the alliance between the Ls | be longlived, legitimists aud repablicans having simply agreed to coalesce for a definite purpose—viz., the ex- | clusion of Orleanists from the Senate, This object accomplished they will be ouly too eager to part com | pany. ihe adherents of the Comte de Chambord | , above all, the utmost desire to conciliate the su- | perior officers of the stare of siege to the government of crvilians. | the former there are ali sorts of pleasant allowances | | th ries, 60 say nothing of the digi acquire in the district they way be called op tmupister, and the rewards in the shape of decorations | and promotion which may be won by the display of an adequate amount of zeal in keeping the radicals of a provincial town in order. THR BONAPARTISTS, | t00, are anxions to oprry favor with the army, and may ve Counted apon to & man to uphold martial faw where- | ever an excuse can be found for tt. Is it not their dearest hope that dissatisfied general may adopt a chatom ip vogue on the other side of the Pyr- | enees and ‘pronounce’? for Napoleon 1Y, one | bright morning when the country sual) be disgusted | with the etrife of parties and willing to accept peace even at the price of despotism? The military yovern- ment of acivil community 18 & species oF organized anarchy, and 4 cond:tion of anarchy 18 precisely what lnperiallst conspirauurs desire. M. BUPFET. Doubtiess, then, M. Builct and his colleagues will find the muyority of the 24th of May once more united | and compact, w | of repression in the great centres of ‘ree thought aud liberal aspirations, Whether the Premier and his coi- leagues will remain long in power after the meeting of | the new Assembly is quite another matter. It might be well for France if the present Ministry could be as. | sured of a reasonably long tenure of office, it is composed of men who mean well, and have not the | courage to exercise @ resolute tyranny, even ifthey had the inclination to do so, With an opposition strong enough to control, but not strong enough to tarn | them out, they might carry ou the business of the country in @ tolerably satisfactory fashion. But itis very much to be feared that neither M. Buffet nor M. | Gambetta will be able to command a decisive and } disciplined majority tn the next Chamber. To enable | M. Buffet to maintain himself in office with any self- | respect it would be necessary that he should be backed | by nota necessarily large, but stil) absolute, majority of moderate covservatives, excluding legitimists and Bonaparuste Similarly M. Gambetta would require an absolute majority of liberals, exclading ultra | republicans, and it seems at present too much to hope | hat either the one statesman or the other will be #0 | fortunate, The chances are that the Assembly of 1876 | will consist of legitimists, conservatives sympathizing | with Orleanism but ready to accept the Republi Bouapartists, republicans and socialists. The ley | and socialists will alike be few in numbers, | may nevertheless hold the balance of parties, either section may have it in ite power to render a stable parliamentary government impossible, 4 WISTORICAL PARALLEL The legitimists especially may be expected to play | the part which was long played with considerable suo- cess by the Irish Catholic members in the British | House of Commons. When |iverals and conservatiy were nearly equally balanced they put op their vores | Gn vhat 18, they gave them to the party which promised to do most for Ireland and for the Catholic Church, In 1850 they drove Lord Derby trom power and put Lord Palmerston in bis place; and there is no saying what concessions they might hot bave wrung eith from Mr. Gladstone or Mr. tion of 1874 bad not rendered the tories independent of their support, As in England Mr. Butt and hw followers have resolved to know nothing tave bome rule and Ireland for the Irish, so “the Light Horse,” re called, will have no care except wo further the in- tereste of the cherey, and to render any government | bat that of Henry V. imporsible. The Church will | benefit little by their policy, for on clerical questions | itis probable that the next Assembly will be united | and decidedly antagonistic to ultramontane 35 | nor will the exile of Frohsdorf be restored by their | tactics to hie grandfather's throne, but they probatiy will succeed in producmmg much confusion and giving France one weak administration after anotner, Per- | haps they will Pint ate the hands of the Bonapart/*ts; perhaps they will be responsible for another inwurroe- tion of the mob of Belleville and Montmartre. The danger of a feeble conservative government t# that it May goVe ap ambitious soldier the coveted excuse for 4 COUP D'RTAT. Similarly the danger of a feeble republican govern ment will conmet in the outrageous demands whieh populace, A refusal to And it is naturally feared that when once | Under such circumstances repn- | So far they have only succeeded | M. Buffet, | t and the extreme Right cannot | ariny, who naturally prefer a Under | | and entra pay with which to eke out their scanty sala- | ity and importance they | u to ad- | itis proposed to uphold the system | tor | perfectly honorable renee) to the highest bidder— | naraelt if the general elec. | as the reckless partisans of the Comte de Chambord | Sitios MEAS {| submit to the ‘etates of the Red party would in alt Iikelibood sad tone erection of barricades, @ street fight, followed by a street massacre, and the uswal mili- tary measures of retahation, Society in France, as in other countries, wit] always put down Communism with # stern band, and would alWasg prefer a Louis Napo- Jeon to a Kocbetort for its ruler, but itis a saddening prospect when the old spectres OMvegarism and revo- tO BEM again to 1o%n ees ag alterna 5 } t ° compelled to untry may | chodse the.one or the other. | Among the incidents of the SenatoPe) elections | few have attracted more notice than the réeated de- feat of Mgr. Dupanioup by M. Laitré eh at th), the Bishop o gait votes below the great positivist, anc yesterday ing he was still ten votes behind hin.” No wonder Nye people are asking themselves if this Is indeed the AM sembly which was once called clerica! reactionary, 1am sorry to say that M. de Prose« most elo. quent of Protestant pastors, bas been compelled, by the exigencies of party tactics, to withdraw hs candi. | | dature for the Assembly, i} M. PAUL DB CASSAGNAC | and M. Tarbé, editor of the imperialist Gauic | ing been summoned before the Tribunal of Cor Police of Paris for “exciting citizens to bi tempt of the government,” have been will be remembered that M. de Cassagnac an organized a meeting at Belleville, In which a good deal of indifferent oratory was wasted ow ‘the virtues of Napoleon’ ML, the sovere efhieacy of plébiscites, &e, By the Press law, as it stands (which MM, Buffet and Dujaure are s0 anxious to change), the offeuding Bonapartisys had the efit of trial by jury; and Prench jurymen a! invariably lean to the side of freedom of speech 1 the right of association. So the imperialist vic- tory in the law courts js generally hailed as a triumph forthe good cause of liberty, though won by its foes, The Orleanists alone are furious with the government | for not availing itself of the state of siege and hand- ig over M, de Cassagnac and his colleagues to the | tender mercies of General de Ladmirault Govern- ment presumably refrained from so easy a cours cause, in the frst place, General Ladmirault is sus- pected of imperialist sympath.es himself, and would in Avy case prefer to reserve the terrors of the military code for republicans; and, in the second place, because the Bonapartists might, if the state of siege were made use of to vex their frieuds, bethink them of earning a litle cheap popularity by voting for its abolition; | whereas, as | have just shown, they would be tts natu: ral supporter# if it were only apphed to vex other persons than themselves, THE BIRD-MASON CHE 8 MATCH, In the eighth game Mr. Mason speedily obtained such an advantage as to have secured him the game, with proper play. He failed, however, to make the most of | his splendid position, and lost the partie. The opening the \ EING'S GAMEIT DROLINED, Muson. Bird. HPwk4 PwK4 2 PwKBA Pwo | 3—K P takes P Pio KS 4—BtoQB4 K Kt to BS | 5-QKttoB3 BwQb4 | B=P10Q4 P takes P (en p) | 7—P takes P Castles S-P wad BtoQ kts < K to K xq ch | Kt takes @ 1)? Biakes Q Kt PUKBS 3-QtoK RS PwQBs 14—B 10 Q3 Piok B4 15—Q to B Th K to R sq | 16—R to K BS ROK Ss 17—B takes BP 3 | 18—B takes B 19-Q to RS | 2-QioR4 21—B to Q2 | 22—-R to K R3 3—P to K Kid wd—K Q takes P 26. Qo Q2 2i—Q R to K B sq Kiw K3 | 2—B iw RO QKiwK Kteq { 2—P OK R 3 KitoK Kua 80--B takes Kt R takes B | B1—K to Req Qok s | &—K RtokK B3 k R to Kt2 —Q R to K sq QtoK Kis M—Q K to K Bq Qo K 6 —K to R2 QwK 2 b—Q to Kt 3 QwQbe | 87—Q takes Q K R takes Q BP WO QRA PwQRS | 89—R to QB sq Kilo QKLS | 40—P takes P RK P takes 41—K to Kt K to Kt 42—Q R to K Beg QRio K sq | 4 to KR KRwWKZ At—P to K htS Riok6 45-—P to K RS Kio Q4 46—R takes R R taker Reh Kto Ki4 R takes BP after a few more moves Mr. Mason resigned », 2h, 45in, ‘The attack certainly bad a won game at the sixteenth me The ninth game short and dashing one, Mr. Bird tried an | IRREGULA OPENING. | Mason. PtoK4 PwQ3 3—P takes P Blakes P 4—KtwK BS QBw KS -Piok4 KitoK BS | oP wQs | 7-QBto Kts | 8B K2 | 9—B takes B | 1o-Kt to QBS 11—Q to Q2 | 12—Kt to Q sq 13-—B to K 3 | 14—B takes B 15—Q to K B2 16—Q to Q2 1i—Kt to QB3 | 18—QtoK B2 | 19—B to Q sq wo W—Kt to Qo R takes Kt 21—P takes R Qto Kt ch 22—Q to Q2 Kt takes QP ch Mr. Mason wing, Time, 50 minutes. In the teuth game Mr. Mason opened with the BISBOP'S GAMBIT. ' Mason Bird | 1—PtoK4 PioK4 | ePrwok Bs P takes P B-BwQhSE PwuRKBS 4—QwK2 Kt KBE 5—P tw KS Ktto K 5 6—Kt to K B3 BtoK2 7—Casties PoQd &—! takes P (en p) Kt takes P 9—B to Q Kis KtloQ bs | 10-P wae Kitok 6 1I—QwQ Bt KtitoQ3 12-Qt0Q 5 Kt to Q Kis 13—Q to K 5 K to Bsq 14—Q takes P (B 4) PuoQhé 15—Q P takes P Ktto KS W—Q Ktto B3 B takes P ch 1i—Q Bio K3 QwQkis 18—B takes B Kt takes B 19K to Req Kt takes B | 20—R P takes Kt PuoRKR4 2I—Ktw Qr4a QtoQ Kea 22—Q to Q6ch Kiokg? | 28—K Kt to Kt Sch Mr, Bird resigns, Time, Ib, 20m, The eleventh game was won in ninety-cight moves by Mr. Bird, after 6b. 10m. of hurd | fighting, the score of the match at its conclusion stand. ing, Mason, 5; Bird, 3; drawn, & - RIFLE SHOOTING AT JAMAI y dak Jamaica, L. 1, bad ateam match at rifle shooting on of the foggy weather they were obliged to shoot from the 150 yard stake, and even at that distance the bulls- eye could scarcely be discerned. ‘Two score swere made— | one of a possible 40 and the other of a possible 25. In the former Mr, William 8, Kimendorf lea with 32 points, and in the other Mr. Theodore Rogers led with 21 points, The members assembled at their rooms on Fulton street in the evening, and thence proceeded to the residence of their Preaident, Mr. George H. Creed, | from whom an invitation bad been received to partake | of his hospitality, They took with them a large Bo~¥s¢ of {pataral flowers, which was presented to the ! wile, WATSON’S RACING GUIDE, | The annual edition of this valuable pocket guide to the turf is now out and it will pe found a very neces. EW gary and useful handbook to all Interested tn turf sporta It containg the racing of 1875, nominations for stakes of 1876, with an index to both. There are also complete tables of winners of important races in | America and abroad, tables of fastest tim colors and other necessary information. printed and neatly bound jn cloth, aud the price, | Places it within the reach of all, LONG ISLAND CITY SCHOOLS. The annual report of Mr, Alanson Parker, Superin- | tendent of Schools for Long Island City, shows that | $26,908 09 wns recoived inet year from taxes, State | school moneys and other sources. Of this sum, if | 690 88 was paid for teachers’ wages, $1,992 80 for school | apparatus, $2,225 for rent of schoo! houses, $1,407 79 for repairs and insurance, $40 for fences, improving sites, &e., $75 60 for furniture, $081 50 for fuel, $161 53 for building fires, &e., $2,104 for salaries of $1,683 94 for salary of eperigmaees), aud incidental expenses, The number of children over five and under twenty-one years of Leming Ay Long island City at the date of the report was 4,713, 200 Of whom were registered as attending private fchools. The average attendance, however, was only ‘The amount of liected school tax on Octo- was $7,802 0%, and ‘hat of the past year exceeds $9,000. CORONERS’ CASE, harine Driscoll, aged forty years, died her rooms at No. 1,322 Third avenue, notified t@ bold an inquest impractica- | The members of the Rod and Rifie Association of the afternoon of New Year's day, but in consequence $e NAVAL AFFAIRS.’ enorme WOLK ON THE FRIGATE TRENTON—THE TOR- PEDO BOAT INTREPID—THE SUPPLY TO SAIL TO THE EUROPEAN SQUADRON. ‘The frigate Trenton, launched on Saturday and now tn ary dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, will be putin | the hands of the workmen to copper this week. Itis | not known as yet precisely what the intentions of the Navy Department may be in regard to this fine vessel, y ap acute altack of impecuniosity has and it seems to be an open nds will bold out long enough for the cousiructor to Gnish his part of the work on Nhe ship preparatory to turning her over to Mr. John | ach Ww be e ned and Lited with the tent torpedo boWer a rics, AS the flagship Franklin, forty { guns, has about completed her allotted cruise with the Mediterranean squadron, it is generally believed that the Tren will be fitte ag her sne- cessor. a fine, roo ship, and will have excéWent ac ations for the Rear Admiral imanding the Europecs squadron and staff; and as and fighting craft, with her formidable armament guns, she wou prove NO Inean contestant in department ton whether the pmo ao) nary contest alloal, either against an iron clad or a easel The boat Intrepid, Commander Charles 1, | Huntington, bas been hauled alongside the cob dock and will probably Jay . some cont y should arise to make her presence heeessary with tho North Adantic squadron at Port | Royal, which is to be its rendeazvous the present | month, Whiie t repid ig not quite ap to the mark in speca Gerous adversary if» tance of any craft wiv And if she cannot her arr tion against ordinary ord The following is a list of Le the Intrepid :— he wil undoubtedly prove a very dun- » can get within striking dix- bor tremendous torpedoe \ volerably good proteo- ers now attached to Commander—Ch: L. Huntingte Lieutenant and Ezxecurive Usicer—\.. T. Woodman. Lieutenant—'. T. Wood Masters—Samuel Cowley and Martial ©. Dimmock, Engineer and Passed Assista Potts, Assistant Suraeon—E. M. Martin, Assistant Paymaster—Rean Frazier. The storeship Supply, two guns, Commander Haye ward, will probably sail for the European squadron atanearly day. She will carry any small packages for the officers and men of tbe European squadron, at Lisbon, if they are gent to the Naval Lyceum ab the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The squadron pow con- sists of the frigate Franklin and the corvette Alaska ‘The balance of the squadron is now due at Port Royal, mt Jobn Lowe, stacy COMPLETION OF THE SCREW STEAMER MARION AT KITTERY NAVY YARD—A DESCRIPTION OF THR VESSEL—TO SAIL THIS WEEK FOB EUROPE, Posrsmourm, N. H., Jan. 1, 1876, The United States screw steamer Marion, third rate, which has just been built by the government at tho Navy Yard on the Piscataqua River, and is now fitting and pearly ready for sea, js a splendid specimen of ure, er, a word as to the name and location | of this naval yard or station, Up te within four or | five years ago the tile was Portsmouth yard; but a Maine man, who was then at the head of one of the naval bureaus and the Maine Congressmen, procured the passage of a bill by Congress Oxing the official names of all the yards us that of their exact location, viz., Kittory (here), and Charlestown, Brooklyn, &c, | naval archite | First, howe Ajoke comes in here, that the bill was passed lo- cating this yard at Kittery, N. H., and had tobe changed next session, Kittery and the Navy Yard being incontestably located on the Maine side of the river. This whole subject of names was suggested tome y, by the inscription on the bell of the new ship “Navy Yard, Kittery, the Marion,’” but the boxes of torpedoes, aud most of the stores on board wore marked Portsmouth, N, H, The great naval station | of England, from which this settlement was undoubt- edly named, Portsmouth, has there its Gosport, an {sland some two miles away; as we have bere also | one of tho Isles ot Shoals, ten miles at ea, and upon which the great oceanic summer hotel was recently | pourned, being named Gosport. Portsmouth, Virginia, has also its Gosport; but whether Portsmouth, ‘Ohio, keeps up the fashion I cannot But to the Marion, ere she sa: tention of Captain Bradford to put her into commis. sion the first of next week. This is doubtiess the dnest craft that ever acknowledged paternity from this river since John Paul Jones stood on its banks to oversee the construction of his pioneer America. No expense have been spared in the « Marion to render . as itis now the tn- frigate? pains or reasonable construction and furnishing of her what ebe is, by asort of general understanding or ‘ common consent, destined to be—a representative ves | sel of the United States Navy. Withoat positive or- | ders, itis thought that she is to proceed to Rngland and France 1o bring distinguished guests and contributions to the delphia Exhibition, as “part of which sho will herecif remain there. So all concerned have been inspired to do Whetr | best upon her, and the result is in every way gratitying to all true Americans who have seen her, she taking the of the old Irigate of the same nat Her dimen- vength on the load line, 216 feet; length 49 feet; extreme breadth, 37 feet; depth of = | over all, hold, from top of spardeck beam to throat of floors, 19 feet; depth in the clear between decks, 6 feet; draught es; draught ait, 17 feet placement, 1,840 tons. ail surface of 19,545 of water forward, 18 feet 9 inc 6 inches; tonnage, 910 tons; d he is ship rigged, having @ to square feek She carries no studdingsals, 1 was pleased to see that the bobtaied and cropeared style of the British Navy b was copied to closely by cut- ting short the sts and spars = of our navy vessels at one time, has not. becn | adhered to in the Marion. 0, for a return | tothe "wet sheet and flowing sail’ btyle of the old United States Navy when Perry fought and Cooper wrote. Tho Marion is aupplied with eight boats, all of | which, like most of her furniture and fittings, were built at this yard. The steam launch especinily is a beautiful specimen, AER DATTERY. The Marion's battery consists of one il-inc& Dablgren pivot gun, six 9inch Dahigren broadsid | guns, one 60-pound ‘Parrott rifle on topgallant tore stie, two 20-pound Dabigren howitzers and four atling guns, Her powder magazine and shell and tor- pedo rooms can be flooded at wil from several water | supplies, and every appliance for efficiency and safey is provided in this case, ax in all other departments, THR BNGINKS, | She has two horizontal back-acting compound en. | gines; diameter of high pressare cylinders, 42. inches; | low pressure cylinders, 64 inches; stroke of pision, 43 | inches; steain pressure, 60 pounds, calculated to make | © revolutions per minute; Indicated horse power, 1,100 pounds; suriace condensers; diameter of the shaft, LL inches, She bas a toar-b d screw; expanding pitch frotn hee! to periphery; diameter of screw, 18 feet 6 inches; pitch, 21 leet; area of blades, 79 feet 6 inches, | There are ton lugh-prossure horizontal tabalar boliers; | length, 8 feet 1 inch; diameter, $ feet; grate surtuce, | 240 square feet; heating surface, 5,050 square feet, | Coal consumption, about 24 tons each twenty-four | hours; coal carried in bunkers, about 180 tons. She carries cowl enough for hurd steaming seven ami a half days, but under moderate head of steam it would last fifteen days. ‘The ship is supplied with Baird’s freshwater distil- ling apparatus, capable of making 2,000 gallons of po- table water every twenty-four hours, Her engines and bovlers are supplied with all the modern improvermenta. The engines were designed and built by the govern- ment at the Washington, Brooklyn and Chariestown yards and have been placed in the vessel under the im- Mnediate superintendence of Chief Engineer David B. | Macomb, Unived States Navy, who is in charge of the | Steam engineering department of the yard, | HER FRAME. The frame of the Marion is of live oak entire! planked with white oak and copper fastened. Tho materials of all kinds used in ber construction are of + the very best quality, aud it is believed that a better vurlt ship does not float on the world’s waters to-day than this, She was rebuilt from plans designed by the Chief of the Bureau of Construction, Chief Navai Con- | strnetor Isaiah Hanscom, She wus built and launched under direction of Naval Constructor Thomas Yebb, and completed and fitted out ander direction Naval Constructor Theodore D, Wilson, Captain Jonathan Young, the Equipment Officer of this yar deserves great credit for the neat and bandsome set o! rigging with which she Js furnished. An old naval officer, who has been located ut all the yards from Pensacola to Maine, says that no better than this | can be found, and thatthe mechanics of all kinds for | shipbuilding are the poers of the very best, and, f will add, on the general verdict of our peopie, that rarely | be bag be been better oficered than now. | The Marion will be bec yee gi Captain R. FP. | Bradford, and carry a crew, all told, of about 200 of whom about forty will be “boys,” naval appre | who have been enlisted, drilled and instructed on schooiship Sabine, at this station, | THE FIFTY-THIRD STREET TRAGEDY. | Deputy Coroner Dr. MacWhinnie made. at | the Morgue, yesterday, on the body of y Minster, who was shot by her husband at No. 960° East Pitty. third street, on Wednesday last, She had been shot twice; one bullet had entered her head a little abo and behind the right ear, through the right hemisphere of the brain, sad Todged rey above the pons varollt. The other entered the left eye brough the base of the skull, penetrating the brain. — wound would have been sufficie La iced the COMMENCING YOUNG. Bernard Delaney, aged eight years, was arrested ob New Year's Day by an officer of the Nineteenth sub net on a charge of intoxication. Acting Sergean Stewart, who was on desk duty, discharged the boy oF account of his extreme youth, He was taken home hi bis brother | wot aee: