The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-05-12
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MORE DISTRESSED cALIFoRNIANs SEVERE HAIL
sToRM-AccIDENTs AND Loss OF LIFE-rRApE.
Correspondence of the New Orleans Picayune
BELIZE, April III, 1852.
The brigantine Syphide, in her passage to
Chagres, in charge of Charles E. Porter, her mate,
Uhe captain, William Parker, of your city. formerly
master and half owner having been put on shore
at Ruatan Island, where he died,) arrived in this
port on the last of March, in distress, having carried
away her foremost She had on board seventy
odd passengers, mostly poor persons. with only
enough to carry them to their journeys
end, with good luck and economy. The cap
tain not being able to raise money to
repair without 1t, these passengers have been
reduced almost to state of despair Owing
to this fact, the captain finding his stores
nearly all gone, informed his passengers that he
could no longer furnish them. and that they must
take care of themselves. A large number nearly
all. about forty who had means, left on a sloop for
Ysabal, whence they went to procure mules and pro-
ceed across the country to the Pacific. II is hard to
conjecture how they will get to California from
there The Sylphide has nearly completed her re-
pairs. and is taking in water and provisions and
will leave in day or two for Chagres, with the
remainder of her passengers.
The weather has been unusually hot and dry, all
signs of vegetation are dried up, and our walks
and gardens look like burnt prairie. Iester-
day, however, the sky became couded, and ut
evening we were visited with q severe hail
storm, the first and only one ever known here,
which lasted several minutes, and for the time fur
nshed us with home made ice. During the night
it rained and this morning the air is cool and de-
lightful. Another vessel has been wrecked on our
coast since my last, making eleven this year. These
are large vessels, which here to load on the
coast with mahogany, and, as they lay on the open
sea- opposite the rivers where they are to load and
as the bottom is made of quick sand, they often
driven on shore by sudden change Of the wind.
With only one exception, the crews were all
saved A small craft in attempting to cross the
bar at the mouth of the river Peruch, capsized,
and seven of her passengers, mahogany cutters,
were drowned. Asmall vessel, belonging to the same
parties called the Eclipse, on her way up from that
river, was capsized in squall and sunli-her crew
having only time to cut away the painter Of her
derry and jump into her thus were five persons, one
Of them, Mr. Follin, brother of the U s. Consul at
Omoa, who was passenger, for several hours in the
water-for they were repeatedly upsct-unti they
finally drted on Of the keys and were brought to
Belize.
Our trade is very dull Provisions are plenty and
low, in view Of their cost in America The ma
hogany cutters busy getting out Their wood.
Their cattle are failing on all sides-many having
ded-and fears now entertained that instead OF
the years product being larger than last, will fall
far short.
FORGERY DETECTED.-A check was presented at
the Bank of Albany this morning by coored man,
signed D. - Sanders Co.. (merchants the dock)
ST 100 The cashier detected the signature forgery
when the negro said II handed him by man in the
ctr VIII q did know n goiDg Ia he mot