Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-03-06

REPORTED PUT
TING BACK TO ENGLAND.
Mr. Charles AboFn, of Baltimore mate of the
English brig Bogert, which. arrived at St Johns
New Brunswick, from Shields England, on
"Wednesday morning last, called at the New
York Tribune Office on Saturday morning and
made the following report:
Weleft Shields on the 9TH of January last and
experienced very rough weather the whole
passage. Fell in with great quantities of drift
ice on the banks, and SAW number of icebergS
Was under the lee of ab erg for two days. On
the 18th of February, between two and three
bells q IL o'ciOck) In the afternoon, as / was
standing in the quarter deck with a night glass
IN my hand, saw steamship crossing our
lack, between two and three miles ahead, II
think about that distancc;l she was steering to
tie eastward The weather was thick and foggy
with slight drizzly rain, and blowing gale
from W.N.W. or N.N.W. Occasionally the fog
would light up. Icould see her through the
haze, but not very distinctly. thoughtit was
one of the Collins steamships, as she had no
bOwsprit know the Participating seen her
frequently. Her starboard bulwarks were gone;
starboard wheelhouse was also gone, and, think,
part of the wheel. Her wheel was in motion
very Slow so far as could see She was roll
ing very heavy, and remarked to one of the
sailors, There's a steamer that has had lick
from an old-fashioned sea- l only got a sight
of her now and then. Her foretopmast staySail
and main spencer were set. The foretopmast
was carried away. She had list to port of a
! bout three steaks. We lost sight of her in half
an hour. Our captain was drunk from the time
we left port untilwe got into New Brunswick.
managed the vessel entirely; made the entry on
the lOg-slate. When went to look at the slate
again twas rubbed out
did not report this in New Brunswick, as
knew nothing of the absence of the Pacific, and
the captain was too drunk to know anything a.
bout it. | heard that the Pacific was missing
this morning as l was passing down Fulton
street, when it occurred to me that the large
steamer which saw was the Pacific.
! The foregoing statement wears marks ofcredi-
biilty. The steamer seen might have been the
Pacific; yet, as she had signal of distress fly
ing, the suppOsition is weakened. She ought to
have been on the opposite tack, though the wind
was such she could not lay her course. She
might have been so much disabled as only TO be
| able to run with a free wind. The course she is
alleged to have been steering would take her to
the Weston Islands, then distant about 200
miles.
The Tribune also gives the following statement
founded on despatch from passenger on board
the America. 1t will be remarked that the day
on which the steamers were seen was the same.
/ Tuesday, the 10Th Of February, though their pO-
sitions were some two thousand miles apart. OF
course it is impossibility that both could have
/ been the Pacific, but the fact that two steamers
were seen, either of which might have been the
Pacific, will increase the hopes entertained for
the safety of that vessel.
Mr.. Collins received despatch yesterday af-
ternoon from passenger in the America who is
familiar with the Collins steamers, stating that
on the Tuesday after leaving Liverpool he saw a
large steamer without bowsprit, and with a sig
nal in her rigging, running for the English Chan
mel. We know Ofno other sea steamers having
no bowsprit excepting the Collins boats, and
there is a hope that the steamer seen was the Pa
citc. It's possible, however, that it was some
English steamer which had lost her bowsprit by
an accident. The Baltic arrived at Liverpool on
the Wednesday previous to the sailing of the
America, so thatit could not have been that ship
The next steamer due hero, the Baltic, may
not bring any advices ofthe safety ofthe missing
ship, even if the steamer seen was the Pacific as
she left Liverpool on Wednesday, and the Pacific
could hardly have arrived before Monday follow
ing. Still, she may have spoken and some infor-
nation obtained in that way.
~ dispatch from the Captain of the America,
at Boston, states that there is no truth in the
report that a steamer, supposed to be the Pacific,
was seen going into the British Channel