The Nevada Democrat., 1857-11-11
SUMMARY OF EAsrERN NEWS.


MORE PASSENGERS REscUED.-On Monday. Octo-
Der 9th, three more men rescued from the
steamer Central America. arrived in New York.
They came looking almost like skeletons, gaunt
sick. exhausted. They were found drifting in
one of the steamers e-boats. some AIS
miles Northeast of the spot where the Central
America went down, aud nine days after that
sad affair the Brig Mary picked them up, on her
voyage from Cardenas (Cuba) to Cork ireland.
The Mary carried them eastward seven days,
when she met the Bremen Bark Laura, coming
from Bremen toward New York. and transferred
them to her. The Laura arrived Monday NOR
ming with the three men. Their names are J.
TIcE, I'd assistant engineer; ALEX GRANT, a
fireman; G. w. DAWSON, colored passenger.
The story of these poor fellows is briefly this:
Mr.. Tce staid by the steamer till the moment
she sank, when, with q plank that he had be-
fore provided. he plunged into the sea. He
was drawn down in the whrl, but, in coming TO
the surface again, brought his plank with him.
To this aoue he clung for three days. seeing no
sail, nor any of his late sh.pmates. On the
fourth morning he driied past al empty boat
for which, deserting his plank, be swam and af
ter a tedious pull got into it. On the fifth day
he drifted close past the steamers hurricane
deck-smply an inch board platform, covered
with oiled canvas. Mr.. Grant, one of the steam
er's firemen, who was on this hurricane deck.
jumped of and swan to Tice's boat. and the two
rowed her up Qor happily the oars had not been
lost out) to the hurricane deck, and took of
Dawson, the only living tenant it then had
The three then, drfted four nights aud three
days longer, north and eastward, up to the very
eastern edge of the Gulf Stream and out of
the track Of all vessels Tice had nothing to
eat nor to drink frOm the hour the steamer sank
until on the fifth day when he struck dog
| fish with the blade of his oar aud killed it,
This wretched provender they ate ravenously
Of raw, of course, and then till the ninth day
they had no more to eat On the eighth aud
ninth there was heavy rain. OF the water
that fell they drank freely. and would have
killed themselves with it, Grant said. but that
they had been able to save only little of it,
and the supply soon failed. Whether it is true
| that the two who were saved on the hurricane
deck bad nothing to eat is not known. They
say they had not; if they had it must have been
that they fed on human fesh But this Grant
stoutly Denies while Dawson stubbornly refus-
ed TO say ''Yes" or "No," when his friend as
delicately as bluff old sailor could, asked him
| the question.
| The two who were saved on the hurricane
deck suffered less during the first four DAYS than
did the Engineer Grant says that when he
found himself overheard still cinging TO the
piece Of wreck that held by when it parted from
the steamer there were Eine others on it, six of
them the steamers passengers. They saw no
SAIL nor could tell that any survived beside
themselves. On the second day Dawson, the
cOlore1 man, drlted to them on plank. He
attempted to get on the hurricane deck, but
they demonstrated, as the weight of those al
ready on it sank it so low that the sea washed
over it at every wave. He would not part com
pauy with them, however, but clung fast to
side, waiting until as one after another of them
dying fell off, il lifted to the surface aud Grant
vas glad TO have his company. Aswe have al
ready said, Mr.. Tice picked them up on the
| fifth day.
THE UNKNOWN ScHooNER.-In the accounts of
the wreck of the Central America. received by
the arrival of the Panama, mention was made
Of an unknown schooner having been hailed
just before the steamer sank. The schooner
proves to have been the El Dorado, of Boston
loaded with cotton. hides &c, from Galveston
Texas. When the III Dorado arrived at Boston
her comman1er, Capt. SIone, published brief
statement OF his connection with the Inflated
steamer. A more full statement was after
wards made by the mate, Mr.. Sherlock from
which we extract the following:
| Capt Stone hailed the steamer and asked if
he could render any assistance. The reply was,
Lie by me till morning." in minute or two
Capt. Stone, who was drifting away from the
steamer again asked if he could not do some
thing that night, and the reply was mo, no, lie
by me till morning" Capt. Stone then hailed,
See your lights" and 10y this time had drifted
out OF fhailing distance. The schooner was hove
to under three ree.cd main sail. reefed tri-
sail aud reefed jib. The persons on the schoon-
er estimated the number on board the steamer
at seven hundred and there was continued
roar Of their voices rising above the noise Of
the waves. which were clamOring hoarsely and
angrily for their prey. Preparations were i'm
medalely made for the reception of the steam
er passengers which were expected to be on
board the next morning. 1t was raining hard,
aud the men were ordered TO catch the water
which was running from the top of the house
over the schooner's cabin, SO that they might
be supplied with fresh water, in the meantime
lights had been set upon both vessels, and when
the schooner had drIfted about two miles dis
tAnt. at 7.45, the lights of the doomed steamer
had disappeared The hearts of those on board
the schooner were filled with anxiety. The
mate says that every one of the men seemed as
much interested in the lost steamer as if he bad
some friend on board who might yet be rescued
| from watery grave. They sailed over and
over the spot as near as they could, until half
past nine O'Clock the next morning, when they
kept away on their course homeward.
Mr.. Sherlock Gays that when Commander
Herndon hailed the schooner his voice was as
steady as if he had the best vessel in the world
under him, in smooth sea. To use Sberock's
language, "he spoke like as If be was every inch
man and sailor"
The FINANCIAL REvUIsIoN.-Notwithstan
the hopes formerly held out by the New York
papers, that the worst was over" fearful
financial panic was raging throughout the At
| lantic States at the last accounts. If not worse
it was fully as bad as the panic OF 1861
Many of the largest houses in New York, Phil
delpbia, and Boston had failed. The New York
banks contracted to an extent never before
known, and the consequences was the failure OF
some of the heaviest houses. Then came the
pressure upon the banks of other States, which
resulted in the suspension Of specie payment by
most of the banks of Philadelphia, Washington,
Maryland, and other places; and it was very
much feared that the banks of Virginia, North
and South Carolina Georgia. Tennesee and