The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-26 00:00:00

A TERRIBLE VOYAGE.

A painful story reaches us from New York of the dig'
astrous voyage of an emigrant ship, which took three
months in completing the passage from Liverpool to NOW
York. Eighteen of the unfortunate passengers died on
the way, and many more narrowly escaped with life. The
vessel was considered to be thoroughly seaworthy at the
date of her clearance, and the emigration officers et
Liverpool found no fault with her accommodation
for passengers. However, the 146 emigrants were
huddled together in the hold, which had been
converted into a large square room, with tiers of bunks
on each side. There was an almost total absence of light,
and no system of ventilation, so that in rough weather,
when the hatches were down, the atmosphere was stifling•
It is not suprising that under these circumstances ship"
fever broke out. Four deaths occurred in rapid
succession, and a panic spread among the passengers. One
man became distraught and leaped overboard. Three
more deaths soon took place from various causes, and the
emigrants became still more disheartened while fever
raged among them. Happily they reached the end of
their voyage at last, though in so miserable a condition
that the health officer at New York refused to pernut
the vessel to leave quarantine. The passengers tell fearful
tales of cruelties practised by the captain and other
officers on the seamen of the ship, four of whom are said to
have died under their sufferings. But this is not authen'
ticated, though it is said the boatswain and carpenter
have been arrested on complaint of the seamen. It is not
surprising that the Commissioners of Emigration have
resolved upon instituting a thorough investigation into
the whole affair.

DISASTERS TO BRITISH SHIPS ON TO

FRENCH COAST.

The most afflicting accounts of disasters on the French
coast, during the storm of Friday and Saturday last, con-
tinue to be received. At Havre the tug Grand Emperor had
brought in the brig Margaret Cook, of Yarmouth ; the
latter had been picked up completely waterlogged, on bar
way from Nantes to Newcastle ; both her masts had gor3e.
Among the vessels which had entered with the tide
.
more or less damaged were the brig Hannah,
.01
Guernsey, schooner Defiance, of London ; the 6101
Hannibal, of Liverpool, and Worwaerts, German ; and
the brig Edmond, of Courseulles: the Amelia, of Guernsey'
bad also sunk at the entrance to the port. The Grand
,
Emperor had gone out again with a lifeboat to assie-
the American ship Narragansett, which left 11°1°
three days before, and which was off the coast die'
masted. The ship Zanzibar, of Havre, in the same stilt,
was anchored six miles from Arromanches. The big
Fanny, of Whitby, has gone ashore at Senneville 111:
crew are, however, saved, and the vessel may be got 01*
An English schooner, name not stated, has also
been lost between St. Valery-en-Caux and Venlettes
the master, his two children, and a seaman were
drowned; a boat with the name Rosa, Guernsey, painted
her, has been washed ashore at the same place. In ad-
dition to the Eucharis-Paul, which we have already or
nounced as having gone ashore at Cherbourg, Vet
other vessels are also in the same situation en 1116;
part of the coast ; these are the Royal Adelaide, 0"
Llanelly, Leonie-Celine, of Bayonne, Saint-Louis, of Bowen'
Confiance, of Dienette, Saint-Jean, of Chausey ; no nye:
were however lost. A three-masted vessel has been lost 0'
St. Vaast. The brigs Mogador, Jules, Flaneur, and Eugenc;
have also gone ashore near St. Servan.
fishing boats belonging to Granville have been wrecked',
their crews were saved, but their owners are quite NW ;
Such a fearful storm had not been seen on the French coax
for the last 15 years.

General Yomini, the well-known writer on niilitarl
tactics, bas died at Passy, aged 90.
The recent decree of the King of Portugal, reduc,:s
ing the number of Deputies in the National Assembly, ":111'
caused great agitation in the country. Meetings 0f

classes have been held to condemn tho measure.
Two hundred masons in the employ of the Duke
of Portland, at Welbeok, have just struck work. 11. Laren
number of dependent labourers have, consequently,
thrown out of work. The masons seek an increase of WBg-.
On Tuesday it was found that the whole of tbt:
fish in the River South Esk, from the Bridge at Braelii° d,
Bridge of Dun, a distance of five miles, had been Poison f
Not only salmon, but flukes, and every other description
fish were picked up dead, so that the river is utterly ruined.
The cause is supposed to be some pernicious material fro°
the public works on the river near Brechin. Gazet.toeu•
A strange rumour, says the Pall Mall
comes from the River Plate, that Lopez has made a el Aged
of Paraguay to the United States. The Bueos
Standard says that the report was at first dishe"
—d
in Montevideo, but that later some importance was attaclrbe
to it. What may help to accredit the rumour ja kith
United States Minister, M'Mahon, has remained
Lopez, and is his companion in his present interior retreral,
It is one thing, however, for Lopez and M'Mahon to ache t
such a cession, and another for the United States to acceP,
it. The Paraguayans would probably at once ratify
plebiscite, if it were referred to them, any such cession P—
posed by Lopez. 18th
A correspondent at Florence, writing on the
inst., says :—" The arrival of Signor Nigra here from co-
hasrar
given rise to a great number of reports about a Fr3ll
Italian alliance against Prussia, the app ointment of a tl
ew L
bassador to France, etc. 1 have reason to believe that
king
mission of Signor Nigro, has nothing whatever to do
NY.
either of these subjects, and that, so far from there in
rest:
any prospect of a Franco-Italian alliance, there is at pt
h
a decided coldness between the Courts of Florence and

Tuileries.
Mr John M. Cook, writing to us from Naples on
the 19th inst., s says:—" :—"Seeing by the English newspapers
ttw me
tohheaitnsftvoaertremyoefyxotahugetghAearltpatitnehdee reports are in circulation respecting
has for time praaislswesayatsethrveieepresent thno,
some been restored, and that on the
conducted a special train with six'tviya
I
Mont Cenis ' with perfect safety." Ur. Cook adds that an
accident which
happened to his father, who is 'didcharge
of an excursion
affect any of the excursion party.
party in Egypt and Palatine, not
thepasse7gne6th
trs Canis
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NATOB•
ASSASSINATION OF A UNITED STATES SE
—The Talhassie Sentinel has the following concerning tile
assassination of a State senator and a clerk of the
Court, ircuit
iin Marianna, Florida Florida:—":—" While we were just re:
ing at the subsidence of all political excitement an
joc :
the prospect of a peaceful future, the startling 1:101°,_° „s
fearful assassination at Marianna reaches us to Mai° "a
abo
shudder. On Friday evening, the 26th ult.,utre•
o'clock, while Major Furman, one of our State senato
raentdurJn.inLo. Ffirnolm a
ayson,
concert cleric of, the Circuit Court, were
and when
few yards of their residence, they svewreithifinte3
at by some ruffian concealed behind a tree saint.
rods distant. The gun was loaded with large buck shot,
one of which penetrated the brain of Dr. Fuck
causing his death in about an hour, while Major Futn:lit
was shot in the neck below the ear. No clue to the Pet"
petrator of the infamous deed has been discovered. Pt'
Finlayson was a quiet inoffensive man, and one
mies. NO°
would not be likely to have any bitter political ene
Major Furman, on the contrary, is a very outspoken
Radical in politics, and his political acts and speeches hav!
doubtless made him many enemies. Some think the &ifs°,
had no political bearing whatever ; that it was the reet!lb
Whateer
tne
of some private grudge or fancied injury. deploy
cause or origin of the trouble, it is one of the Most ci
able occurrences that has happened in our State, at,
coupled with the recent murders at Jacksonville, Wu'
do more to cast discredit upon our people than anything
that has transpired in the history of Florida
fora long