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The Arctic gone down at Seal!

The Arctic gone down at Seal.
New YORK, Oct | It'll.
The Collins steamer Arctic is lost She left
Liverpool on the Goth Of September with
about 80 passengers, and crew, all told, of
11j. On the 9th, at noon, in dense fog
about 10 miles from Cape Race, Newfound-
land, she came in collision with large iron
mrquc-rgged propeller bound eastward with
all sails set. The Arctic was going at the
rate of l3 knots per hour. The shock to the
Arctic appeared slight, but to the propeller it
was frightful. The boats were ordered to the
relief of the propeller, and the chief mate,
boatswain, and three sailors left. 1t was then
discovered that the Arctic had sustained in
Jurics, and that the water was pouring into
her bows. The pumps were vigorously work
cd, and AN anchor and chain thrown over
board, but in spite of all excrtions the water
extinguished the fires, and the engine stop
ped.
Four Of the five other life boats, believed
to have been well rrovisoncd and containing
the engineers, sailors, and Il few passengers,
and all the officers except the captain and
third mate, loft the ship at an carly stage.
\ majority Of the passengers were working at
the pumps, and firing signal guns, and others
launching spars under the directions of Cap
tain Luce, and Mr. Doricn, the third mate
all on board and a rush was made for
the raft, a large number got upon it and
into the boat. The sea was then flush
with the headlights, and in few minutes
more the Arctic sunk, and NIL on board per-
ished
At five o'clock on the afternoon Of the 2Sth
the survivors Of the boat espied sail, and
raised IA handkerchief to attract attention,
which they succeeded in doing, and found the
vessel to be the bark Huron, Of St. Andrews,
New Brunswick, Capt \. Wall, bound to
Quebec, which took them all on board.
The raft was seen in the distance with one
poor man only clinging to it; boat was
Immediately sent and rescued him He
states that after the steamer sank he counted
90 men and women ON the raft, hut at half
past he was the only one alive.
During the night of the 2Sth, Capt. Wall
hung out extra lights, fired rockets md kept
a horn blowing, in hopes of falling in with the
remainder of the boats, but his efforts were
fruitless
On the evening of the 2Sth lie spoke the
Ship Lcbqnon, Capt. Story, bound for New
York, by whom Is Of the number wero taken
off The Lebanon afterwards transferred
them to the pilot boat Christian Bcrg, No, lG
Nv which they reached this city. The fate o
the Propeller and the five boats Of the Arcti,
is not positively known. The propeller il
supposed to have been the Charity from Mon
trcal to Liverpool. Capt. Wall, Of the llu
ron. on the morning Of the 2Sth, saw sin
gular luukinS craft bearing to leeward bu
was unable to tell whether shc was a stcame
or s,ilinc vessel. lie says she lad monde
script appearance and may have been tn
wreck Of the propeller
The following were saved in the sixth boa
and taken to Quebec, 10y the Huron j
Adry, ships cook l.. McCaffety, Joseph Con
ollory, Richard Makan, 7. Conor, j. Conor
j Duurv. {. Morany, j. Ward, &. Callahan
Greman; r. Watson, assist, engineer Robt
j. an, David Barry, Erastus Miller, wai
crs,
Arrived at tbs port in the Lebanon. J
BRYAN, p. Nahum, T. Garland, F. Casey, J
Tobin, d, Carnaghan, frcmen Nichols Sci
ly Islands, passenger, Henry Jenkins, do
james Thompson, n. o., Capt. Paul
tirann, \, Y, Geo H. Burns, Philadelphia
passengers, Francis Dorian, \. y, third of
Ger, Thos Brennan, assist, engineer; ,
Connolly, T. Stanton, stewards Canagal
porter Michael Mclaughlin, boy Pet,
McCady waiter, picked of the raft,
The five boats which may have reached lar
or been picked up, are known 10 have co
tanned Mr.. Gourlic, the LIST officer, Thom
wilde, boatswain, Mr.. Balam, ID officer, NJ
Graham, 18th officer VIM. Moon, N, Y, IA
scnger, Mr. Rogers, chief engineer, NJ
Drown, LIST ass. Mr.. Walker, "a do, NJ
Willett Sd do, d. Connolly, j, Moran,
flanagan, and p. McAulry frcmen; also N
Dingell. engineer, Mr.. Kelly, do, Mr.. Wis
do and young man named Robinson, unc
instruction in the engineering departmeI
besides sailors and quartcr-mastcrs.
Among those last seen on the quarter dee
while fastening life-prescryers IN the female
who must have sunk with the ship or Pcrs
ed from the raft, were Captain Luce and so
Mrs +. X. Collins, and Master e. Collins.
Further Particulars.
BoSToN, 3, =. N.
despatch from Halifax gives further II
ticulars of the loss of the Arctic. Two boi
had reached land with - persons, most
crew, with a few passengers belonging