The Empire County argus., 1854-11-18
Arrival of the Golden Gate !!
Two weeks later from tEle Atlantic
States and Europe.

on Monday last thirteen days from Panama She
brings dates from New York to Oct. Goth; fort
night later from Europe to Oct 4th, II days later
than previous advices
The Panama Railroad is progressing rapidly.
Col Tctten expects to run the cars from ocean to
ocean in January next.
Loss OF THE COLLINS STEAMER ARcTIc.-The
New York Tribune says
The most startling and melancholy news that
has reached New York for years arrived on
W ednesday morning, Oct IL. About 2 2oclock A.
| M. q vawl boat glded into White hall slip, bearing
Mr. George H. Burns Adams & Co.'S Express Mes
senger from London, who reported that the steam
ship Arctic, Capt Luce, with 226 passengers, ex
elusive of children, l75 employees and valuable
cargo had sunk off Cape Race on Wednesday,
Sept. 81 in consequence Of a collision with steam
propeller during dense fog, and that every soul
on board, except himself and about thirty-one
others, who had been picked up, were lost
Late as it the principal hotels were at once
the scene of intense excitement. and at the st.
! Nicholas, where Mr. Burnes stopped the anxiety
cagerness for news, the alternating hope and des
pair, most painful.
! New York overcast that morning with far
reaching and impenetrable cloud of sorrow. Death
was sitting in the highway, on the market-place
and by many hearth stone Business was sus-
pended; trade ceased its bargaining, and labor its
| JuSlCe Sluycu HcI tlaiu luc COultS were
journed. meetings postponed and places Of evening
resort were tllinly and sadly filled. Meetings were
held and resolutions Of coincidence and sympathy
were passed, and everybody felt as though dread
ful calamity had fallen on himself.
The Arctic was lost of Cape Race on the coast
of Nova Scotia, the 9th of Sept, about noon.
She was steering w. by compass and running l3
knots, in dense fog, when she came in collision
with the iron propeller Vesta, steering E. S. E.
crossing her course.two points with all sail set, and
striking the Arctic in her bows when rising on the
sea. The Vesta at the moment plunging in the
trough, thus breaking the plankng of the Arctic
below water line, leaving portions of her bows and
an anchor in the side of the -fated steamer.
The Arctic began to fill rapidly in spite of super
human cxertons at the pumps. She ac-
cordingly headed for the land forty miles distant,
but her fires were extingushed, when IN
indiscribable scene Of horror ensued, hundreds of
men and women called on God for assistance and
at few minutes to p. M. the Arctic went down
by the stern. Capt Luce remained by his ship and
stood, hero upon her decks with his little son,
when she was engulphed, having made every exer-
ton to his passengers and refusing to escape
himself to let his darling boy be taken away in
the boats, saying that he no better than others
and must take his chances with him. Capt Luce
was saved of the sinking of the ship, he says:
''In an instant. about quarter to 5 p. NJ the
ship went down, carrying every soul on board
with her. soon found myself on the surface after
brief struggling with my own helpless child in
my arms when again felt myself impelled down
ward to a great depth, and before [ reached the
surface second time, had nearly pershed, and
lost the hold Of my child.
AS again struggled TO the surface Of the water
Il most awful and heart-rending presented
/ itself to my view. Over 200 men women and chill
dren struggling together amid pieces Of every kind
of wreck, calling on each other for help, and i'm
plOring God to assist them. Such an appalling
scene may God preserve from ever witnessing
again
was in the act OF trying to save my child when
a portion Of the paddle-box came rushing up edge
wise just grazing my head, falling its whole weight
upon the head of my darling child. Another mo-
ment beheld him lifeless in the water.
The coast near Cape Race is very dangerous and
near this place. the Cunard Steamer Columbia, the
Humboldt and City of Philadelphia have been lost
The awful catastrophe of the Arctic, will probably
bring the travelling public to their senes for short
time little more may be exercised hereafter,
and the community relieved Of a portion of their
anxiety to beat rival lines by five minutes IN cross
ing the Atlantic at the risk Of running steamer
and her living freight into the jaws of death.
Cafornians will be reminded of the blasphe-
nous ourages on the Pacific Coast in the naviga-
ton Of steamers, which, compared with the loss of
the Arctic, is much worse in principle, as the
loss of the Arctic, compared with the wreck of
a fishing smack, is appalling. OF the 4lO persons
on board the Arctic only seyenty-fve are know to
be saved
Ns--PENNsYLvANIA-In In this State the
administration candidates nearly all defeat
ed and the Wing candidate for Governor elected by
majority of 10000. The Legislature is decidedly
Anti-Nebraska and the election of an Anti-Nebras-
ka S. Senator certain.
OHIo-The election in this State like that
in Pennsylvania, has gone against the Adminisra-
ton.
The Congressional majority will be over 10000
for the Ant:-Nebraska candidates.
VERMoNT--Ilon Jacob Callamore and Hon. Law
renee Branard have been elected u. S Senators by
the Wings and Freesoilers of the Vermont Legsla-
/ ture, the former for the long term.
NDIANA.--The entire Delegation to Congress
from this State is Ant-Nebraska. There is also an
Anti-Nebraska majority in the Legislature and the
Anti-Nebraska State ticket is elected by seven to
ten thousand majority.
SoUru CoRoLINA.--The election in this State
/ tor -,,In .,