New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-06-30
MARINE AFFAIRS.

LARGEST LIVE CARGO SEASON
The packet-shp Joseph Webster. Capt Lavrsacc, ar
rived this port yesterday from Liverpool with "iae
hundred aad torfy5fps immigrants. This we believe 10
The largest number that has yet been brought to New
York in one vessel james Wton, German, " the
st,eraee passengers committed suicide the passage BY
taking poison.
SNIP JOSEPH WAIVER.
ATTEMPTS TO RAISE ssR.-iesorday crowd Of South
ST. shipping merchants and Others assembled On the wharf
near The foot Of Roosevsst Eat River, 10 witness the
operation Of steampumps employed n raising the hai OF
the packets hip Joseph Walker. ihs vessel, II WIN %
r.co,cied burned snd sunk IL Deeetnocr last a. the
of the dosu, ton OF the ehpper-shps ret hepuoc
White Squat fire. which commune ated ID ther
sails and rigging by enaors from the coniarasion IN
Wa.er-si.
The surken hull of the Joseph Walker has remained in
the dock upward of months with about three hinire
bales of cotton end large quantity OF dour grain aud
resin board IL was ier the recovery 90 ths suo-
merged property that Captaa Bell contracted to raise tho
vessel.
Eight thousand dollars it 10 said have already been
PENDED IN attempts the ship The contractor buzz
up her sides and with boards to prevent the water
towing into her and placed canvas covering entirely
the hull AT first he rugged up small steapunp
and set il 10 work but did not seem to be OF sufficient
power make impression on the water IN the haii OF
10 raise the vessel at ALL
The canvas around the hull too, did not do It's office
properly, and the work suspended for while Mean
time The bag WAS removed, are inormed and upon
examination found TO be open under the bottom oil
the ship.
Everything was arranged Yesterday however and Cap
tain Bell and his men resumed the larger scale
Two steam pumps placed on platform erected near
the hows in the after part c the ship, ana AZ
three clock the afternoon when the TIDE WA running
ont they were set motios. The largest pumped out
about eehtyhve barrels OF water minute and the other
two at tie rate OF forty and sixty during the same ume
Besides the steHm-pumIs, there were TWO capacious
square wooden clippers constantly employed IN throwing
water from the hp the river. One oil the dippors
was operat.d by steam.engine ca the whari ahu TO
moved about twenty barrels oi water per minute IRON tho
ship The other, smaller dipper. was employer ~ mo
the bow did good IN carrying oat larger bodies
of water The latter worked ~ horse power on tho
wharf.
The steampumps aud other apparatus were IN operation
ill evening but il the general impression when tho
work was stopped that here as much water IN he
ship ms when they first began. Captain Ben Is sangiDo
of success in raising he ship although up 10 the prcsn
time il has seemed Ike punpng ont the East kver mo
hin lies I'm thirty feet OF low tide and IL only
AT such times that the eau go on with hsr arinous
ta,k Evening Post 29th
FOUND DROWNED.
Francis T.. Pratt male of the brig Augusta, OF new
York now living at our wharves tound drowned yes
t,rday morning ia the whechOuse OF the steamer O,son
An uaue,t was held the body at clock by toroisr
Eo.n The testimony aring the disappearance oil the
s On Wednesday night last he was seen ab'
"a clock by the cabin boy, lying his berth on board
ne Augusta AT lO the second mate and cabin boy hetru
heavy splash beside THEN vessel. They rushed on doc,
and Gaming over the side of the brig asked any one wss
th.t. and receiving they again wen, below.
The m ate war not till his body dseov
cred as above described. Verdict accidental drown
inc lSe, llnah News, 25th