The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-13 00:00:00

DISTRESSING INCIDENT AT SEA

Considerable excitement was created on Monday morning
on the arrival of the Troubadour at the North wall, it hav-
ing been ascertained that out of 300 sheep, 300 pigs, end
15 head of horned cAt le, constitating her deck freight, the
greater number of the two latter classes of animals were
lying dead on board, having perished on the passage, owing
to the severity of the weather at sea. On irgairy it appeared
that the Troubadour, a merchant steam; r, the property of
Mr. Beimont, of 'Waterford, and commanded by Captain
Birk, left the port of Cork on the ebb of th
at 9.30 on Thursday, the 4th inst.,
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owing to the PAVC7FC rind and heavy sea, to make her
destined port. She had consequently to bear up, and keep
in mid-channel off shore. Her supply of fuel ran :hart,
end during the severity of the gale the greater number of
the pigs and many of the horned cattle perished. On the
fuel running short, and it appearing inevitahl 'bat
the vessel would drift ashore and ba lost unless the
machincry was kept in motion, the carcases of 150 of tha
dead pigs were thrust into the bi,iler fu'nscee, and
used as fin 1, together with every spar and piece of
loose timber cn board, ss as to keep up steam. After
encountering dreadful weather, the Troub odour sue
needed in reaching Dublin harbour, and arrived at the
North-wall at half-past 8 o'clock yesterday morning. Police
sergeant Jonas and a body of police attended on duty at
the wharf. Mr. Byrne (clerk of the market) was also
promptly in attendance; but the carcases of the dead ani-
mals have not been disposed of, as it is expected that the
owners or shippers of the stock will arrive from Cork this
day. There was but one passenger on beard the steamer,
and happily no. loss of human life has taken place, nor has
any serious injury been suffered by any of the crew, al-
though at one period, it is said, the destruction of the ves-
sel and all on board her seemed imminent during the fury
of the storm. Police constables have been placed on special
duty to prevent the removal of the carcases of dead pies,
c Ade, &c., until disposed of under the direction of the clerk
of the market.—Dublin Paper.

RELICS d SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.—At a meeting of the
Royal Geographical Society this week, Captain Sherard
Osborn reported that he had just heard from Captain Cator,
formerly of her Majesty's ship In'rer id, Conservator of the
Humber, that Captain Parker, of the Truelove, announces
that the Esquimaux had large sledges of wood, which they
'tad got from a ship that had been broken up on the beach,
'Wild that there was, another vessel pressed up in the ice, but
'bot yet broken up, down Prince Regent Inlet. The wood
the sledges were made of had trenial holes. These nativei
frequent Pond Bay, in Baffin Strait. Captain Osborn
believes these vessels to be two more of the deserted squa-
dron.
A Nwv WAY TO ACCOMMODATE BOARDERS —Most of
our readers will remember how frequently, a few months
ago, inquests were held on the bodies of " unknown men
found floating in the river." Scarcely a day passed without
one or more such in lusts, and some days there have been as
many as five. Almost without exception, these men were
recognise I from their dress and appearance as deck-hands on
the river ; but that was all that could be discovered con-
cerning them. There was generally nothing found in their
pockets except some tobacco, a pocket-knife or pipe. For
several months past there has been sc rcely an inquest of
this description held, and the two fac's taken together pre-
sent a quite significant aspect. Some circumstances which
have lately come to our knowledge furnish the solution.—
About a year and a half ago a Spaniard opened a boarding-
house on the levee,near the waterworks engine, a house which
was frequented by a great number of boatmen, princ-pally
deck-hands. We learn that it was a constantly recurring
circumstance for boarders to leave in a very mysterious
manner ; even their most intimate friends not being aware
of it until they were missed: The fact finally began to attract
attention, and it was observed that the men who disappeared
were never seen any more, nor even heard of. At length a
watch was set, and the keeper of the house was seen at a late
lnur one night to carry out a man in an apparent state of
s'upor, and proceed to the river with him as though he were
carrying him to some boat. The watch followed • him and
sa him deliberately throw the man into the river. An
attempt was made to arrest him, but without success, and
nothing has been seen or heard of hi,rn
From that
time to this but few bodies of unknown men have been found
Id ia'ing in the liver. There can be but little doubt that
that the villanous Spaniard gave his boarders dragged liquors,
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and after robbing them threw them nto the river. We
obtained the statement from an ex.policernan of some note.
In' the wall of a rancho, occupied by a man wiese brother
has been hung for murder, on the road to the diggings, the
bodies of twenty-six men have been found. It is supposed
that they met with a similar fate as that of the
:Clove mentioned.—Calkfornia Pape,-

boatmen