The Sun.
London, England, 1837-11-16 00:00:00

TILE SUN, LONDON, THURSDA.Y, NOVEMBER 16, 1537.

TIM UNITED SI'ATES.

LOSS OF THE STEAM-PACKET " HOME" AND
FROM EIGHTY TO NINETY LIVES.
From the New York Journal of ammerce, received to the
`..:7s ult.)
A very deep sensation was produced in the city yester-
day, Oct. 18, by the receipt of intelligence that the new
steam-packet Hone, which left this port on Saturday the
7d irst. for Charleston, was lost on Monday evening fol-
lowing, near Ocracoke, N.C., with most of the persons on
board. The particulars were soon obtained from Messrs.
Rowland and Holmes, survivors from the u reek, who had
just reached the city, and from the Philadelphia papers and
liimore Express slips, which arrived by the same con-
vcyance. All the afternoon and evening the bulletins were
uov:ded readers, many of whom were seeking to as-
certain the fate oF relatives and friends. The annexed letter
from the captain of the Home to her owner, which has
been furnished us for publication, gives a brief statement of
Ce disaster and its melancholy consequences. Out of about
150 persons on board, including 45 belonging to the boat,
it appears that not above 40 have escaped :
" Ocracoke, N.C.
" Mr. James P. Allaire, New York.
" Dear Sir—l have now the painful duty of informing you
of the total loss of the steam-packet Home, and the lives
of most of the passengers and crew.
" The following passengers are saved :—Mr. H. Van-
derzee, New York ; Capt. John Salter, and Capt. Alfred
Hill, Portsmouth, N. H. ; J. S. Cohen, Columbia, S. C. ;
Andrew A. Lovegreen, Charles Drayton, B. B. Hussey,
Thomas S. Smith, Mrs. Lacoste, and Mrs. Schroeder,
Charleston ; C. C. Cady, Montgomery, Ala ; J. D. Ro-
land, New York ; James Johnson, jun., Boston ; John
Bishop, New York ; Darius Clock, Athens, Georgia ;
William S. Read, New Haven, Connecticut ; Jabez
Holmes, John Mather, and Hiram Anderson, New York ;
Co e .1 Quin, Jersey City.
" Twenty passengers saved is all we can find. The fol-
lowing persons of the crew were saved :
" Firemen—Levi Miller, Stamford, Connecticut ; Wil-
liam Bloom, Thomas Smith, and Timothy Stone, New
York. Deck Hands—Michael Burns ; James Duffee ;
John Trust ; James Jackson ; Samuel —; Calvin
Marvin, boy, New York ; David Milne, steward, and six
waiters (names not given), making 18 belonging' to the
boat. Twenty passengers, nineteen hands, one captain—
Forty souls saved.
" There can be very little saved from the wreck. We
had a heavy gale of wind after leaving New York, from
N.E. The boat sprung a leak a little to the northward of
Hatteras ; at first we were able to pump the water out as
fist as it came in, but the leak soon increased, so that it
gained very fast on us. We scuttled fife cabin-floor, and
all hands, passengers, gentlemen, and ladies commenced
baling with buckets, kettles, &c., but the water soon came
up to the furnaces, and put the fires out, and we were
obliged to run under sails only. By the time we came to
the shore the water was over the cabin-floors ; we ran her
head on, but, owing to her having so much water in, she
stopped in the outward breakers: The first sea that came
after she struck stove the weather quarter-boat, and all the
houses on the deck were stove in ; and twenty-five minutes
after she struck she was all to pieces, and 1 suppose about
eighty souls were drowned. Both mates, all three of the
engineers, and James B. Allaire are lost. Most of the
passengers saved have lost nearly all their baggage. I have
lost everything ; have nothing but one pair of pantaloons,
and a shirt that I had on when I was washed ashore.—ln
haste, yours respectfully,
(Signed) " CARLETON WHITE."
The names of the passengers in the Home, as published
about the time of her departure, are as follow :
Messrs. C. C. Cady, J. Root, Tileston, J. Johnson, Jr. T.
Smith, J. M. Roll, T. Anderson, James Cokes, Vanderzee,
J. D. Rolands, W. S. Read, Captain Hill, Kennedy, C.
Drayton, Walker, Fuller, Cohen, Benedict, M. Cohen, A:
Lovegreen, J. Holmes, J. Boyd, G. H. Palmer, H. C. Bangs,
W. Whiting, Rev. J. Cowles, B. B. Hussey and lady, C.
Willeman, H. B. Croom and lady, Miss Croom, H. Ander-
son, Wiley, Weld, 0. H. Prince, Clock, J. Paine, A. F.
Bostwick, Miss Levy, Miss M. Levy, Mrs. Camock, Mrs.
Whiting, Mrs. Hill, Miss Stow, Miss Robert, Mrs. Prince,
Mrs. Boyd, Mrs. Faugh, Mrs. Flynn and two daughters,
Mrs. Miller, Miss M. Croom, Mrs. Levy, Mrs. Schroeder,
Mrs. Bondo, Mrs.. Riviere, Mrs. Lacoste, Mr. Desabye,
lady and servant, Mr. A. Desabye, F. Desabye, Captain
Saltus, Professor Nott and Lady, Master Groom, C. Quin,
Mr. Smith, Larocque, Brocquet, lady, child and servant,
P. Domingues, Labadie, Walton, Hazard, Caruthers, and
Finn.

Total 81, including 26 females, besides servants ; only
two of whom, Mrs. Lacoste and Mrs. Schroeder, arc saved.
It is understood that a few persons went on board just as
the boat was getting off, whose names are not included in
the list ; so that the whole number of passengers, including
servants, must have been from 8.5 to 90. The number of
persons belonging to the boat, we understand, was 45.
Probably some whole families perished. We observe five
parsons by the name of Groom, three by the name of Levy,
four by the name of Desabye, three by the name of
Brocquet, three by•the name of Flynn, &c.
Professor Nott, who is among the victims of this catas-
trophe, was a son of President Nott, of Union-college ; and
at the time of his death held the office of Professor in the
College at Columbia, S. C.
We learn that the Home was insured for 40,000 dollars ;
which is doubtless much less than her cost. She had no
cargo on board, except one box-of specie. Her length, we
understand, was 220 or 230 feet. Boats of so great length
must be very strong, to endure such tremendous seas as are
often met with in the vicinity of Cape Hatteras. The Home,
we are told on good authority, was observed to be " sprung"
while lying at the wharf in this city.
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.
(From the Baltimore American.)
We have conversed with Messrs. Rowland and Holmes,
the two passengers on board the Home, who reached this
city on their return to New York to replace their lost
pprF, &c. They state that the Home made rapid pro-
gress er stse left New York, and had proceeded as far
as to the southward of Cape Hatteras, when the wind,
eli;ch bad blown very freshly all Monday morning, Vie 9th
instset, ircrea.ed to a gale about two o'clock, Ism., and
caused the boat to labour very much.
It was soon very generally manifest that her frame was
not strong enough to withstand the violence of the sea, and
we learn that she raised in the bow and stern at least three
feet from her proper line. It is supposed that she leaked
freely, for she soon settled so deep in the water as to ren-
der her wheels entirely useless, and her sails were then
raised to run her on shore. About seven or eight o'clock,
tem , the water had quenched the fire under the boilers,
and she continued nearing the land by means of her
sails until half-past ten o'clock at night, when she struck the
shore near Ocracoke, and immediately went to pieces.
The passengers were now in the greatest confusion and
alarm ; some leaped overboard and were drowned in at-
tempting to swim to land, while others possessed themselves
of pieces of timber and floated ashore, nearly exhausted
wi:h cold and fatigue. One of the gentlemen above men-
tioned informs us that he remained quietly on the forecastle,
and flo l'ed ashore on it after the boat went to pieces. Mrs.
Schroeder, one of the two ladies who were saved, lashed
he.sslf to one of the timbers, and reached the shore in
safety. Mrs. Lacoste, although a very feeble old lady,
aged about seventy years, was safely dragged out of the
surf ; she is supposed to have been buoyed up by a settee.
One of the passengers had on a life preserver, and got
safely to land by its aid. The boat was entirely broken
into fragments, and the few trunks which were washed on
the beach next day were more or less injured, Messrs.
Rowland and Holmes remained at Ocracoke tleo days be-
fore they could get a conveyance to Norfolk. They state
that about twenty bodies had been washed ashore, and were
buried before they left the beach ; among them the bodies
of two or three of the ladies.
The list furnished above, we ara sorry to add, is believed
to contain the names of all who were preserved from this
most distressing disaster.
We learn from Mr. Holmes, the gentleman alluded to
by the Baltimore American, that the bodies, about 20 in
number, which washed ashore before he left, received every
proper attention from some of the inhabitants of Ocracoke,
particularly Messrs. Howard and Littlejohn, by whom they
were provided with grave-clothes, and decently interred.
The individual who was saved by means of a life-pre-
server was no swimmer, and would in all probability have
perished but for this simple and cheap precaution.

RIO DE JANEIRO, AUG. 23.—The President
of Atagoas having applied for a man-of-war to be stationed
in the port of Jaguara to prevent the contraband trade in
Brazil wood, and the defrauding of the national duties, the
Regent has ordered a schooner to be fitted out for that
purpose. A despatch from the Minister of the Interior to
the President of the province of Bahia, informs him that
the Minister for Foreign Affairs, by a note of the 27th of
last month, stated that not only the British Minister at
this Court assured him that he would give orders for the
punctual fulfilment of the existing stipulations between the
Imperial Government and that of Great Britain, in conse-
quence of the proceedings at the Consulate at Bahia, re-
lative to the mail brought to that place by the English
packet the Star, but also that he had addressed a fresh
note to the same British Minister, insisting on indemnity
for the injury which had been done to the public treasury.
On Monday morning last, as the steam-vessel
Freedom, of Stockton, was towing two vessels out of the
river Tees, the boiler burst, and the vessel was blown up
and sunk immediately. There were three men on board ;
two of them were much injured, but are likely to recover ;
but the master, John White, was blown up with the vessel,
and his body has not yet been found.—Sunderland Herald.

RUSSIA.

We quote from the Cormier Franom some details re•
lative to the recent excursion of the Emperor Nicholas into
the Gillea3l.lS, and the real state of the war in that country,
which reduces to their just value the statements published
in Germany and France on this subject. The Emperor, on
quitting E‘iiiiplittropnlis, in the Crimea! visited Kertch and
and the Peninsula of Taman, then Anapa, the most inipor-
taut place in these cantons,, and Saudjouk Kale, a mari-
time position in some sort annexed to Anapa. He
proceeded thence to Ekaterinoslav, the chief town of
the Cossacks of the Black Sea, where their pulks had
been assembled by Genc..al Zajinski. The Czar after-
wards advanced towards the North-East, on the. right
bank of the Cuban, as far as the two brigades put in
movement on that side could afford him their protec-

t:on. He, however, (lid not push his excursions be-
yond the plains which flan a sort of neutral ground te-
tween the two belligerent parties, and on the points inces-
santly invaded by the Tcherkeses, whom the Cassacks sel-
dom attack. It is also improbable that he should have re-
ceived deputations and submissions from those people, as the
emissaries sent into the Kahardas were unable to penetrate
amongst them, though furnished with a pass as flags of

truce, and were sent back to Anapa without any answer.
It was at first believed that the Emperor would proceed
into Georgia, and some officers had been sent to Gouricl
and Batoun to examine into the expediency of taking the
road of Imiret in preference to that of the ex-Pashalik of
Akhalzik, but it appears that the idea has been abandoned,
and that after proceeding from the Steppes of Bulehei to
Asof, the Czar will inspect on the spot the works of the
Junction of the Don to the Volga, and will return by
Voranci and Toulee to Moscow, where the Empress ex-
pects to meet him before the end of November. All the Rus-
sians count upon Gcn. Yermoloff to re-crstablish the affairs
of the army of the Caucasus and to resume the offensive ;
hut the ,difficulties are immense in a military point
of view, and the expenses by no means trifling in the pre- i
sent state of the finances of the empire. In a moral point
of view the difficulties are not less, considering the complete
antipathy that on every possible point of contact exists be-
tween the Circassian mountaineers and the Russians, who
will not succeed in rendering the former tributary, like the
Kalmucks and the Baschirs of the plains. One of the ablest
Generals of the Emperor Nicholas has declared to him that
it would require at least 100,000 men to take possession of
the Caucasus, and this assertion is said to be one of the
causes of that officer's disgrace. The operations of the
blockade on the side of Abasia have produced but slight
results ; in the first place, because the inhabitants of that
district rely only upon their own resources, and derive their
force neither from their trade nor their manufactures; in the
next place, because the unfavourable state of the weather
will not allow the Russians to be always at their post. Thus
last October several vessels from the Turkish coast entered
the ports of Soubachir and Kodoch.