New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-04-21
Marine AFFAIRS.
FURTHER FROM THE WRECKS
LIE rNDERMRITLR


,,rlbost Of the steamer Delaware, which went to the
assistance Of the ship Underwater when ahoge Sqaan
Beach al Of whom drowned by the upsettng of the
bo., was washed ashore yesterday and brought this
CITY Coroner o Donnen held inquest upon the body
and tbe Jury redered verdict of accidental death
THE PowHATrAN
The remains Of the Powhsttan on Lone Beach, drift
ing on shore pieces 1t is supposed she wrecked
Bganns Shoals broke up, and then went the bea,h
letter to the Board of Underwriters, received yesscr
Day contained the following
TONS RIVER, n J., April u.
81 arrived at Long Beach at A. VI to-day, and found
Abe wreck TO be the ship Powhsttan, Of Baltimore Capt
Myers, from Havre for New York.
She lie total loss. and every soul that was board
perished She went Saturday night and broke up at
+. NJ. on Sunday
About rs so packages Of passengers baggage are
IN charge Of Mr.. Jennings wreck master.
The bodies Of twenty seven passengers and two
men have como ashore and from the fragments Of pas
seDgers luggage, estimate there were TWO HUNDRED
AND FIFTY on board.
About forty feet of the sarboard side anilshps and
larbctrd side. aft high and dry fifty feet apart Not
yesge of anything indicating what her cargo consisted Of
Tho schooner Manhattan, Of Bangor, from Phiadel-
fbia for Bangor total wreck and half miles be
low the Powbatan and fifteen miles south Of Barnegst
All hands lost except seaman named George Gfhths
"On my way up received yours Of yesterday, and will
proceed at once to the Underwater
THE wRYCK or SHIP SEA NYYPH.
Capt Sser OF the packet ship Abcr Gallatin arrived
yes,edsy from Hsve staes that the 2ith Of March in
it 49, Ion So he fell in with the of the ship Sea
Nymth before reported lott
sCProsED LOs % THE PACKET SHIP Stafford Win
BOARD
From The Philad. ehis Baetiu Of last evening
The intelligence from Absecom Beech, about twenty
miles south Of the beach where the above disasters
cured il equally distressing. On Tuesday a number Of
dead bodies were washed ashore on nDsecIm Deach a,
Long Beach Up TO last evening the whole number
fifty eight, consisting OF men, women ana children.
hut Yesterday piece of bedding marked Packet ship
Stafford" ded ashore and is thought to furnish tho
name Of The lost ship from which the bodies wabod
ABsEcoM. n. j April 90, lsji-i4 A. NJ.
We reached this place at u o'clock this mora
ing and leave az o'clock for AbsecOm Beach, which is
seven miles distant.
We have examined the clothing of of the drowned
persons washed ashore at the Beach The stockings ap
Iareniy Of Holland manufacture seem to have belonged
IL boy of IL or ~ years old His linen marked in
bsld red letters, 90 j. Judging from the clothing Of
fhe victims they either Scotch German and they
appeared have belonged to the respectable class
OF emigrans Between fifty and sixty bodies have been
washed ashore The impression is that they from the
ship Stafford" from Liverpool bound to New York.
Mr. Collins Of Leeds Point which is Little Egg
Harbor Bay, west of fuckers Beach and Long Beach,
says that German foeed ashore at that place last even
OF hsrecovcry lie is supposed to have been from
ARsrcoM Thursday april eel NJ.
From the best information that can gather from
persons on the beach, about thirty bodies have been
ashed Ashore Absecom fifty sixty on Brgantine
and forty on Long Beachin all about one hnndred AMI
thirty Four washed ashore this morning on Brig
antine Beach
All the bodies appear to be those of the better class Of
German erhgrants. The younger persons were in their
night clothes.
Benjamin Turner, a resident of Brgantne Beach,
generously attended to the requirements OF the dead
bodies One man was found who, from his dress was
No vestge Of the ship has yet been washed ashore and
all IL yet conjecture Some suppose she is the Powhaan
but tie following inscription on nattrass may afford
A,ueyiconisohe Line FIR PACKET ScliGatrt Vaintig''
Torrense Meyer, Hamburg SieiHhofi Lirerpoot re.
gent Road, toc,ng BramicymOOr Dock NeT York. 90
Westa"
in,erm,nt Miss Bass of Absecom prepared number OF
bodies for burial The people generally were aIaid TO
touch them ,,, l.,
some villains the beach.
The Government have no provision mere 10 P'CFo"'
such Expectations
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
ThsboIk Edna Capt Harvey arrived this port yesterday
morning from Narcotics repOrts March 90, lat 80 OF NJ
lon 296 So was boarded by the L. frgae Constitution
Commander Mayo from the Coast of Africa on cruise
Received from her letters C with the following report
The sloop ofwar Dale was on the North Coast The
L. S ship Marion Lebins. The L. s brig Perry on
LIST or orrIesRs ON BO,Sp CoSsTITUTIos cOmm'gds
'si' b S0 .%@s S 'T' p'f
ClaIy Chi" heDcnoush Surgeon OF the Fiseh M M
ssn.. wsdion Passed sasson Z Burt. Asst.
sssGV f''fT Fa,i f. Poas
Bradford Aimee. Arsrops CLERKS wster' Wn H. s"sy'e'
Richard Keudon BosswRin, r Chsmbeilaini Gunner A
Lewis CArpeote Lewis Holiness snnsker, "m benae Mas
tiers Mate John Collins.
THE FUIroS Al WAsHNGroN-The United S'1'es
steamship Fulton. Capt Watson, arrived at Washington
from Havana on Tuesday. Her officers are rs follows
Lieut. Comm.ndics Jsm. Watson Acas M';fsr noon'5d
Passed MdSicmtD sh a car %ins, Henry wson
fsnt r. H. Long "a assistant warner 81 asssl.ns q"
WooSend. r. b Qun and Jas b himsall
LOSS or TIN SUR ROBERT L. LANE
The Commercial AGrtrt,ser of last evening says
"Jut a. we 20 10 press learn that The fine new pax
ct ship Robert l. Lane, from New YORK or NeW
with assorted cargo, was lost ON inc Jerry iso"IS
Oesr Nassau n l. The date is not gwen; IAe IL ~
Lane as built in this City in 1888 and valued AZ s'V'o
"The ship Orlando while going into the Haroor OF
Nassau, In charge Of the Vice Admiralty Was sunk.
Only about 100 boxes Of sugar were saved nom her up 10
}ast accounts. 49,, III -.
"A bark in ballast brig with provisions and another
with shocks, were also reported ashore on the Derry
islands on the 2Gth of March p.A
"P S-A wrecking vessel arrived from the ship ROD
ert l. Lane with letter from Capt Cornell setlag tnaI
The vessel struck Harbor Cay, berty lShds on no
seth Of March at A. NJ The Captain Of The wrecSns
vessel stated that there were several wrecAinS
sisting to get the ship off by taking ont cargo &c
DISASTROUS VOYAGE OF SNIP NORTH STAR
Cant Rsrolav Of the ship North Star from Liverpool
Ma St Thomas arrived at this port yesterday after
very hong and disastrous passage She sailed from Lv'
,rpoo on the 18th January last Cork iiarbor on the lot
&C Eebrusrv and las, from St Thomss where she had
been driven in distress When six days ont from Liver
,oo about fifty miles west of Cape Clear, while lying 10
an sonh westerly gale she had her man,oPsaii 'pt anu
cargo shifted She bore up for Cork hareoFO reP vi
,smaces In lat 80 deg lon 90 deg Wnsh twenty cNS
nm, f,ou Cork and while lying to in heavy gaze no
s. w she was struck by q sea with sach violence Ius'
n split the rudder and carried away the rudae, heaa
In The same gale she had ner mann a"a s Of Iiver