The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-07-15

force her In the direction of the tide, which by us with
swung in that direction she did not advance an nc but
aud fell with the swell of the sea, which immediately
began TO break her brosdside, and told us PLAINLY a
she should float oyer its surface no more.
Every preparation was instantly made 10 ge' our h1
boats and the gig. being first in the water, was loaded
with the SICK the purer doctor with the ships papers
and other vauables, with view Of despaehlng her at
the shore but she swamped alongside, and The
officers could only get back board again by being hauled
in Finding that no boat could then live alonsslde no,
breakers, which Were rolling upon as with terrific violence
About II o'clock p she had feet water in the hold the
Hood tide in the other boats Were got out and loaded
with many they would safely carry, and de-
spached Casop Shore with orders TO return again on
the ebb, relieve those who remained on board After
the boats left, the masts We're cut away, and before a.
we were completely water-logged
NAMED with me on the wreck-he hood-tde gradually
crowding into limits until the bowsprit and the
quarterback houses the only habtabc spos
board and these frequently washed by the heavy
swell Each secured TO rc vessel by cord pass
ed around hima precauton which may have saved some
lives for towards daylight the surf began again to set in
heavily The boats, however soon came OFT and we were
relieved from perlous situation. The conduct of the
officers and men, during the whole of this trying occasion,
most praiseworty and to their cool exertions and
hs OF our lives The
completely untenabe hour after she was finally aban
doned, and by p not vesge OF the poor Shark was
visible.
On the 18th of November an extra from the office of the
Spectator stirred up the patriotism OF the Oregonans
with dngs oil General Iaylors victories Arlsta at
Palo Alto and Resaca, also with of the ratifca-
ton of the Oregon boundary treaty The only piece of
ordnance owned by the territory, 12pounder, was
forthwith mounted on the rocks, and salute of twenty
guns fired, under the direction OF the mayor,
Mr. Loveoy
From the Sandwich Islands.
By the same arrival from California we have Sand
witch Islands papers the 10th of January. The Poly
nesian of that date is mainly filled with accounts OF
warlikc doings in Mexico and California
IL announces, however, the arrival of fifty barrels OF
flour from Oregon, which it says came in good time
the in the Pacific ''eating the
Sandwich Islanders out of house and home"
There is some good-natured bantering between the
editors of Oregon and Honolulu The former invites the
the Sandwich Islanders TO leave their homes and settle in
Oregon, where every is landhoder to which the
Honolulu man replies that the Sandwich Islanders have
no relish for the fogs and fever and ague of Oregon all
they ask is that the Oregonans will send them plenty Of
flour and lumber, and take sugar and coffee in exchange
sensible notion, that.
MELANCHOLY LIrE.-During the late blow there
lost In the Mookai channel the passage between
Lahaina and Mookai, whale boat with of five
me u, (there were board, who saved them
selves by swimming, of whom sustained, for long
c her exhausted partner and only abandoned him from
fear of sharks, when he had been dead time j
canoe, with and his daughter; with four per
sons and another with one, lost In the last woman
saved in ALL boat and three canoes, and twelve
lives lost IL is somewhat remark able that the three who
escaped We're women.--P ofgaesia", jan D.