The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-01-14


port with two days later adyices from Europe. The
Importance Of the news brought by the Baltic
additional information to be locke for with consider
able anxiety. On reference TO our commercial
columns it will be seen that the suspense concerning
tue actual state Of affairs with regard to the Turko
Russian war had a very depressing influence in the
stock market yesterday The offerings were small,
and sales were generally effected at decline Little
was doing in cotton but prices were steady. Bread
stuiis rather rner in price, and in better de-
mand. The days business reached some eighteen
thousand barrels Of -four, fifytwo thousand bushels
Of wheat, sixty eight thousand bushels Of corn, and
between six and seven thousand bushels of rye.
The liling Of the steamship Nashville, for Havre,
via Southampton has been postponed till Monday.
Tbs Fate or ;he San Frnncisco The New
from the Wreck.
The copious details which will be found on
the first page Of our paper this morning con
corning The wreck Of the steamer San Francisco
viii be read with painful interest far and
wide. Tic loss Of nearly two hundred souls
washed overheard or killed or dying from the
exposure, sickness and hardships of the wreck,
is the melancholy feature Of the story; but the
saving Of from four to FIVE hundred lives by the
kilby, the Three Bells, and the Antarctic, is
matter for sincere congratulation. There was
chance that all might have been lost-the
ship, and every soul on board leaving, as in
the case Of the ill-starred President, no vestige
afloat to tell the tale. While we lament, there
fore, the fearful loss of lie from this last fatal
disaster, we rejoice that SO large proportion
Of her passengers, soldiers, aud crew, were
sDatched from the hungry waves
Ii will be seen that the fatal sto, m struck the
ship On the 2tth December, two days out from
his port; that on the 18th (Cbristmas day.
she was rendered wholly unmanageable from
the dislocation Of her machinery and her rig
ging; that on the same day her decks were
swept clean by heavy sea, carrying away all
the upper saloon, ard the mass of the people
who were lost. Or that day the ship, but for
the extraordinary strength Of her hull, nast
have gone down, yet she continued drifting in
The Gulf Stream. and under a succession Of
heavy gales, almost unparalleled on our Allan
tic coast, still inhsbitable though unmanagea-
bic. till finally relieved, and abandoned on the
9th Of January. Perhaps there is not another
steamer afoat that could have withstood, in her
dismantled condition, The buffeting of fort
nights such wintIy storms in the trough Of the
sea.
When first struck by the gale. on the night
Of the 2ith, the San Francisco was bat one
hundred and fifty miles out from Sandy Hook
when abandoned, on the 9Th inst she was some
seven hundred miles OF, having loundered
away to that distance. at The mercy Of the
winds the waves and the Gulf Stream.
On The 2sth Of December CATER having pre-
yiously spoken two vessels, which were lost
sight Of upon the heavy sea in the night,) the
bark Kilby, Of and for Boston, hove to- and took
off hundred persons, including the women
and children on board. On the 3lst. the British
ship Three Bells, OF Glasgow, came up; and on
the Sd Of January she was joined, while lying
by the wreck 10y the ship Antarctic, Of this port,
bound FOR Liverpool; and on the 9th, between
the two relieving vessels. the wreck was re-
lieyed Of every remaining soul on board, and
left in q sinking condition to her fate.
Last evening the Three Bells arrived of the
Battery. and the following modest report is
from the log of her captain =
British ship Three Bells, (of Glasgow Creighton,
Glasgow, 45 days, with mercha nd sc and l6 passen
gers, to McD maid Il Co. Dec. 81, lat. 40 II, Ion.
90 so, spoke tie steamship San Francisco, of New
York. Capt Watkins, hence for San Francisco. hay.
ing on board United States troops The ! +. being
in a disabled condition, having had decks swept. 81,
ard wanting assistance, concluded TO lay by her
which we did for six days. ard succeeded in &C ting
on board two hundred and Thirty of her passengers
and brought them to this port.
This is, we repeat, modest report but
Capt, Creighton has not told all. Those from
the lost ship say that the Three Bells was leak
ing all the time, had TO keep her pumps going
constantly; that tn ship had lost her sails, and
was snort Of water and provisions. But in this
last item. the Kilby, the Three Bells aud the
Antarctic were plentifully supplied from the
abundant stores OF the wreck, or they could
not have carried of so many passengers with
any other prospect than immediate starvation.
To the captains and crews OF the three reliev-
ing ships, though they simply discharged their
duty in the premises, something more than or
binary credit is due, for the case was an extra
ordinary one in the labors aud hazards of the
rescue. Our government as an act of recipro-
city and of sound policy, should approve the
gallant conduct Of the relieving parties, and
especially Of that genuine Jack tar and bis
crew Of the British ship Three Bells.
II is estimated that the Antarctic carried of
for Liverpool some two hundred passengers,
soldiers and crew-that one hundred were tax
on TO Boston or Bermuda-as she had q leading
wind for that standby the Kilby, and two
hundred and thirty were brought to this port
by the Three Bells making total Of FIVE hun
aIca and thirty saved. The San Francisco sail
ed honce with on estimated total Of seven hun
dred persons on board, 90 that perhaps one