Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1857-10-03
tor Of Lees Garden. San Francisco, intended
TO visit PHILADELPHIA.

SrATEAENr or h. NJ. LEX, NATIVE or
IIfrsBURGH, PA CuRIoys I4ciDRNT-
The captain OF the bark which brought us TO
Hampton Roads treated every one with the
greatest kindness in his power. lie told me
the following incident which occurred imme.
dlstely before he fell in with us as We were
drifting about at the mercy OF the waves on
onr pianss &c. The captain sayg:-I was
forced By the wind TO sail little out of my
course before came up with you, aud on al
terlng II small bird hew across the ship once
or twice and then darted into my face.
however took no notice Of this circumstance
and the same thing occurred again which
caused me to regard the circnmsta ance as
someihing extraordinary. and while tbinking
on 1t Ia this way the mysterious bird for a
third time appeared and went through the
same very extraordinary mauDuvers. Upon
tins was induced to re.alter my course iuto
the original one, which 1 had been steering
and on trying to discover what they proceeded
from, discovered that WIS in The midst Of
people who had been shipwrecked.'"
| MHs. CArrAIs SNALI.-Describes the de.
meanor OF Captains Ilerhdun as sud but firm
he found time to say to her, oh Mrs. Small
| this IS sad. an sorry l could not get you
nome safe" She says: Some OF the ladies
| snceeeued IN saving their money and yaua-
| bies, lremember one young lady TO whom
| her hther handed $1,000 TO keep for him and
take with her but she thinking it was too heu-
W gave it back again. The father was lost
There were five ladies in the san,e boat with
mo crossing over TO the brig. The sea was
| very rough and we were obliged to bale out
all the way. The chief steward who had
bleeding Of the lungs aud was quite feeble,
was in tie captains room with tho lldiss, to
he taken oiy with them in the boats; but he
-Ai avin tu afsr inin ha
steamer. One old gentleman WIS saved. 1t
seemed to be the general desire TO save the
feeble, sick, woman and children.
MIR. AND Mrs, O'CoENEK's STATEMENT
Mr.. II. 4. O'Conner Of California gives the
chief engineer the character OF q man either
jrunk or crazy. He describes in interesting
language the whole voyage. lie was saved
by ths Ellen. lie closes his statement
thus:
There was no carpenter on board, aud no
tools to be found to make box pumps; ] thiuk
We might all have been saved hud the psmps
been in good order, and had the vessel been
supplied with capenters aud tools we could
have kept her up until assistance reached us.
In my opinion it was not the storm that de-
stroyed her.
Mrs O'Conncr says that her suffering from
suspense in regard TO the fate of her son was
have not had similar experience. 1T was FIVE |
days before she knew his iute, aud each day |
seemed ike years She has not recovered |
from the effect of her suilerings and Says that |
the joy Of tho discovery that her boy was |
safe comepletely ovcrcame her.
MRs. ID / 5 llAwLEY says she, her husband |
and her two children were on hoard until she |
aud the children got on the Marine by the
second boat. She thinks her husband was
lost, as he went down with the steamer. She
watched the progress Of the bai:ng all night
and SAYS: asked my husband if he WAS not |
tired and replied Yes am tired but | can
work rorty-eight hours longer in the same way
if necessary. am working for Your life
for you and my children" lie had been very
sick aud had scarcely recovered.
Miss WISiFRED FALroS --G.ves the FOL-
lowing among other facts:
"When we were being taken on board the
Marine the waves ran very high should think
as high as fifteen feet and we had gerat diff.
Guilty to get into boats. There were great
many of the men before the brig came IN
sight who went to bed or locked themselves
up in their staterooms aud refused TO work.
Some cursed aud swore, and the scene OF con.
fusion terror and anguish hns mnde an i'm.
preston upon me which can never be etfnced
OrHER STATEMENTS ohm Cummings and
Thomas Bride pitch into engineer Ashby
savagely for his conduct before desertng the
ship Bride paid $500 in gold to be let on
board Ashby's boat, but Ashby pulled out
knife when he tried to get in. Cummings
says:
"Mr. Astby landed at Norfolk and wanted
to come on in the Empire City but Capt
McGowau would not have him on board and
told him that if he had served him tCuptar
McGowanl so hy descriing his ship be would
have shot him."