The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-10 00:00:00

Seizure of the Alexandra

The Nassau Guardian of the 14th. of December
contains the following paragraph :
" The steamer Mary (late the Alexandra) was formally
seized yesterday by the Receiver-General, John D'A.
Dumaresq, Esq., under instructions from the Government,
for an alleged infringement of the Foreign Enlistment Act.
A detachment of the Ist West India Regiment is stationed
on board."

The Nassau correspondent of the New York
Herald writes on the 19th ult., communicating the
same intelligence. He states :

"The new Governor of the Bahamas arrived at Nassau,
which is the capital of the Bahamas, on Friday, the 9th
inst., in the steamship Corsica, from New York. He was
received by the authorities and military, who, with the ex-
ceptionof theof a
officers,
s;are
lieis a very affable, coloured,witall
aabllle, duehoeur
andsalvoes courteous,
and gentlemanly man, without any of that hauteur, re-
serve, and bluffness which so often characterise men in
office. Ho bids fair to become very popular. Among the
first :of his official acts was the taking possession of the
steamship Alexandra, in the name of tho British Govern-
ment, and putting her in charge of the military authorities
of the place. The Alexandra, your readers will recollect,
was built in England and charged by the United States
Government to be intended as a war vesseL The matter
was subjected to a protracted litigation, when she was put.
under bonds. She came to Nassau, and has now been
taken charge of by the anthorities of the place."

A THRILLING INCIDENT AT SEA.—The corre-
spondent of the New York Times, " Off Charleston,"
gives the following account of the rescue of the sole sur-
vivor of the crew of the schooner R. B. Howlett, of Phila-
delphia :—" Just as darkness wss closing around us, pilot
Hardie, of the Hancox, discovered off to seaward a larger
fragment of the wreck than any we had yet seen,
and made the suggestion that we should run down and as-
certain if it supported a human being. Capt. Post acceded,
and we had scarcely changed our course when a thrill of
joy passed through all on board at the sight of a poor crea-
ture running frantically around his narrow raft like an im-
prisoned animal in a cage, and waving his hands imploringly.
Ever and again the man would be hidden from our view,
as a mighty wave, with curling crest, curled over his frail
support. The Hancox's boat was lowered and gallantly
manned by volunteers from among the crew, who with
some difficulty laid their boat alongside the raft, not only
getting the living man on Ward, but, in obedience to their
humane impulse, bringing off the ghastly corpse that lay
bound to the wreck beside him. The boat returned int
safety to the Hancox, and after the rescued DIAZ had
warns
the the chills out of his bones by the aid of hot coffee andowaarve
clothes, he told the following :—Thestooro'd
and saide that he
was John R. Cruse, of Dorchester, NJ, _, ~_ ,oiphia.
was a hand on the schooner R. B. Howlett, ofrrnua.
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like pipe stems,
and in half-an-hour afterwards she was broken to pieces.
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The entire company got on the foremast while it remained
standing, and when it fell all managed to secure small
being to long escape drowning
pieces of the wreck, but the sea ran so high, and an ebb
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tide setting off shore, made it impossible for a human
under such circumstances.
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and the last he saw of them convinced him that not one
could hold out a great while longer. Dean, the mate, was
on a piece of the poop deck, and Cruse, drifting near him,
succeeded in getting upon it, thus obtaining better support
than the deck plank which he had seized when the vessel
went to pieces. Upon this small piece of the deck he and
his companion were carried out to sea, passing through the
breakers off Stone Inlet, where they were several times
washed off. Dean had been severely bruised ou the head
by a plank When he was thrown into the water, and only
survived the injury and his desperate circumstances until
half-past 10 o'clock on Friday night. For hours before his
death he was senseless and helpless, and Cruse's strength
was nearly exhausted in his attempt to hold him on the
raft. After the decease of his companion, Cruse divested
him of his clothing to add to his own comfort, and lashed
the corpse to the wreck, having already contemplated
the horrible necessity of feeding upon it if another
day passed without relief coming to him. When we
rescued Cruse he had been thirty-three hours without food
_ or drink."