New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-30
MARINE AFFAIRS.


For EuRopE.-The new steamship Arago, Capt
lin cs sailcd from this port Saturday for Havre
with one bundled and seventy passengers. She also
took ont sCO5 SIS in specie. Among the passengers
was the Hon Elijah f. Purdy Of this City.
DETENTION or Az AMERICAN VESSEL BY THE Al
LIED FLEET The bark Eastern Star, Baker from
Boston 10 ArcbGpge, arrived at Elsineur July g. and
was refused permission to 60 any further by the allied
bOekHdiDg fleet.
ADmFT At SEA The Hamburg ship Louis Napo-
Icon, Capt. wienboltz, which arrived on Saturday
from Hamburg, on the 10th July in lat 40 3s lon.
40 ST. fell in with and picked up small boat from
the Portuguese fishing schooner Asorao from Lisbon,
fshug on The Banks The boat contained two men.
The mate. who ha6 been with them, died two days
previously They stated that on the 2sth June in lat.
49, lon 800 seven boats of the schooner for the pur
pose of fishing, when thick fog came on and they
Loot sight Of The vessel, and had been drifting about
twelve days when picked up by the Louis Napoleon.
They had plenty Of provisions in the boat, but had
had no water for three days. Their names are Jose
de Searls and Antonio Mendes The mate who died
was named A. Mamiel The survivors were brought
to this port.
SHIP on FIRE AT SEA-Captan Isley of the ship
Grecian, whose vessel had such miraculous escape
from being destroyed by fire while the passage
from Liverpool to Manila via Rio Janeiro with cargo
of Goals, &c. furnishes the annexed account Of the
disaster TO TIE Portland Adrertiscr for publication
"SoURABAYA, Acril %, 1855.
"On Friday, the 7ih of April, ia the afternoon per-
teviDg GEE escaping from the Goals on tn main hatch,
we Immediately made examination Of every part of
the ship and tried the Goals with iron bars in several
places and found no extra heat and nothing TO cause
any suspicion OF fire. and supposed the gas all to
from the surface of the Goals III the square of the main
hatch and thinking thai some warm wa er might have
found is way down the hatch concluded to stop at
AnseDam, from which place we were about twenty
miles distant and there discharge Goals from the man
batch until discovered the cause of the gas At
r. Nj. tackng ship, beard an alarm Of fire below;
m the ship was round TO IN" officers aud myself
went below aud stopped some time bat found no signs
of smoke and supposed the alarm had cone fro the
smoke from the galley fire beating down the hatch
when the ship was head 10 wind.
Having been up all The night before had iust
laid Gown on deck 10 get nap, en- tho mate came
up to and requested NE 70 step TO the main hatch
looked forward AID in the moonlight, could see
Ighi blue gas risng by the naiumast. still did not
think OF hrc suppOsng II TO be same gas we had been
smelling ali the evening, but / had not got of the
quarter de, before there came column of smoke GU
of the main hatch mast head high like the smoke nom
burning "A large quantity OF gunpOwder. We got eur
engine al work mmt diaiey, bat before we fairy got
stream below the smoke and gas drove us out now
saw that nothing remained to be done but to make the
ship 1T, which done IN very short time By
bnng down the matches and stopping every hole from
which he smallest particle of smoke could escape.
- IL fore finally GOt her pOflehcl dONu We nal
five men faint on deck from the ciecs of the gas Al
midnight anchored at Ansenan in the Island OF
Lombcck got pilot and at a. NJ. slipped the
chain aud at IL ran on the mud with Pix feet Of water
IN the hold, twenty nugor-hoos bored below her water
line plank shear decks, &C., matches and the out
ward plank OH the port size very hot, smoke es apng
from every pst of the ship aud every thing 10 shOg
larpe BODY of fire. In the afternoon got schooner
alongside and put out all spare sails and every
thing uOyCahlc-alsO got out our boats aud loaded
them. NJ, twelve feet Of water in the ship; every
thing 80 hot that were fearful of an explosion.
All hands left ard went on hoard OF the schooner.
From TO A. NJ. of Sunday the ship com
pletey CuvelOped in a cloud OF steam. AZ 3,
the disspated, the Off oors and myself went
board and found sixteen feet of hot water IN the
ship and steam escaping from every part Now salts
fed that The water had reached most of the fire, sent
for the and engine, and as everything
ready took of all the ha let the foul cir escape,
then put oil on but main hatch TO stop the draft
The FIRE burst ont from the air-hOles aud from
over the upper-deck knees the pot side aud gave
four hours OF hot and hard fighting before ~o got
it under command; II was so excessively hot below
that we could not stand but very few minutes at
time.
"At DAYLIGHT three chiefs came from the Rada of
IOmbock with ofers of adj and every assistance il lay
in tloir power to grant-they Immediately sent for
three hundred men. Nog plugged part OF the holes
in the side kept the engine at work throwing water
into lie between decks, where the Goals were still
badly burning, throwing over everything we come at
10 make room A. night stopped the remainder of the
hoes-then nineteen feet of water in the ship Mon
day morning two hunored men arrived fro n the Radia
got the pumps at work. Engine constantly at work
forward where there still FIRE and the ship so
hot that II was impossible TO stop belOy than
five minutes at n time. An of the cargo and prOy.s
ions completely saturated with Understanding over
everything forward 20 make room TO WORK and get at
the fire.
" MAY LIST. the ship is row all discharged, and is
burned ON the floor IN one place the port side of the
main hatch about four feet square through the ceiling
aud three hoor-timbeTs about half on Sister keelson
badly clarod main keelsOu not touched in the least
The FIRE then yorsed its way mp through to the lower
dCck, without touching the see and Just charrng the
manmest in one place.
" The fine then went under the lower deck The
lower deck and columns and beams, are badly burned
for Elk Teens forward from the maiumast abatt the
mainnasi Here was no hre IL also went over between
the lower deck knees and deck i'm two places tax
ing Zen iimben and the lower deck water ways, and
thick work, and in oue place running up 20 the
plank shear, taking the timOers outside The plank and
cCiug.
u heve no doubt bu, tha, the fine took very nea
the foor, aid has been buroIng for lOny time proba.
bly, from The time we passed the Cape. When we lef
Rio We had large number OF rats; one evening in had
weathe,, before we passed the Cape the rats made a
regular stampede out of the after hatch; the decks
were full of them. Since thon we have never seen
hut two. believe they found out the fire and node
s,rais ut lire overheard. If had known then the
situstion ofthngs should have been foT leaving my
seli"
= VESSELS IRON NORFOLK AND PORTSMOUTH TO BE
SuARANIiNEb.-PRoCLAMA IIhereas, from re-
liable information received from the ports OF Norfolk
and fousmon'h IN Virginia, this Department is al
vHed mat the elbow fever prevails in both of
those porte BE il there fore known 10 ali men that by
yntue Of the power in vested and by and with the
save and consent Of the Board Of Comm ssioners of
Meath Of this port, Isaac o. Barker Ac,ug MAYOR
81 he City of New-fork DO issue this NV Proclaim
Ion, declaring said Norfolk aud portsmouth in the
. lnfeCfpt a.u.