The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-09-27
The BURNING srH s16Hn-THH
PATE or HER PASSENGERS.

az LASSEN0EEkS.
4 great deal Of anxiety Il fslt n ascertsis The
ate Of the passenssrs Who we're ON the burniDs
ssssner discovered BY the brig Arabiau, sad sbe
had Left the ship before she wss discovered. The
following Is dispatch received ID New Yorx from,
Halifax, Saturday morning:
ysw YoHx, Sept Is.
Capt. Shaw, Of the bark Arabisn, which arrived
shis morning, reports that 81 seven o'clock on the
morning OF the 18th inst, he fell In with an Iron
screw steamer on TIRE, appsreusIy of twelve han.
Ared tons She hsd gilf crown tigure head, aud
q straight stem, head fsked we'll forward. aud her
bottom had red psint on. Tief upper works were
ses all consumed Her masts were goue and her
sides were falling in
The fusnel cas- laying on the starboard eide, bat
ito color could not be told. The Arabian passed
round the stern Of the steamer, bat no name was
She 10 suppcsed to have been burning forty.
eight hours. The Arabian sighted q brig fur
mites 70 ieeward; coaid not descfy boats or signs
Vi sufferers in the distance.
dispatches to private parties in New York cor.
roborate the abeve. The description given makes
is almost certain that the burning vessel wss eih
er the .Austria' or "Aps," while the statement as
to the fgure-head would seem to show that the
former Is the Ill fated steamer that Of the Alps be-
ing merely scroll head, while the Austria's was
az Austrian Eagle. The Austria is known to have
left Hamburg on the 1st, and Southampton on the
Alb instsn ut, for New York, and 10 consequently
now nineteen days ont and several overdue
There is much anxiety about her, and IL IL feared
she may prove to be the unfortunate ship. Her
list of cabin psssengers from Hamburg is AZ fol.
lows, and it is not known whether she took any on
board at SouihA ton
Herm sonlhs:m, wife and five children New York;
MfQC6u. f.xrI
NettuaG, New Yoi J Bugel ana wife, New urlea,s:
Mrs Emile tezin ANA three children, fhiladelphis;
Atss Ih.rese Won Mengershausen, Arnsbu r.; 4
Eisield, Mrs julie Ebbinghaus and daughter, A
" Weiss-nborn, New York; Mls Anna paypers ana
Knsn' Konix.D.Ts: ~ Wedm.na Iqs; s aUs,a. Tsrt
JACOB Friendly and wife, Wittelsdorf; Weisksr I,
New Ycri; With stachel. Cincinnati; Miss HE'D y is
starnsne. ssw York; MIS- Car line eli .wi.a Vsi
EIopenlasssSS4 Y Gorrisen and wife. Hamburg; Mrs
Messs uopennasenH kSssnth. VIE and
In Giannensklee, New York: Fr Bartels, Fan Fran
cisco; D Trott. Massury, Zauzlbar; hermann
I'd Begei, New York; IL v Durfeiat, Lresdep; Ad
Hermann, wife and seven chlidren, Igelo; Ja,ius
Busch, New York. 49,
Besides these, the vessel probably had large
number OF steerage passengers.
The burning wreck was seen in latitude As Il,
longitude Al s, Greenwich. Nov, the HAMBURG
stealners coming from Southampton to New YORK
never take such southern direction, for the main
lines generally pass in latitude 45o TO $40 and Ion.
glt1de 40 AZ These steamers al ways 20 as far 70
ihe north as possible, in order to evade the east
current Of the Cult stream, and get Into the
at the drift stream. In these northern latitudes
the winds are generally Blowing in westward di.
iectloH; therefore the Austria could not be seen
30 IAr ~ the south. All the reports that We have
from the steamers that arrived from the tenth 10
the fifteenth of this month state that the winds
have blown southwest, which would bring ship
moro up to the north. The delay in the arrival vi
the Ausiria would therefore fiud an explanation
from theae storms. we also hear THAI the Aus-
trIa left On the 4th inst at ~ O'clock from South
an ptoD, and from the rate of speed at which the
Hanloufg steamers from Southampton, for the irst
SIX or eight days OUT generally go-eleven or
twelve miles an hour-th5 Austria would, on the
ioth inst, have been more to the west than Ion
gitude Al 49, We must also take into account
that III g. broken out on the eleventh or twelfth
of this month on board a steamer, would ieta,d
her progress; but il 10 much moro probable to
have been steamer from New York, because the
point where the burning steamer was seen il ex
actly on the line Of the steamers running from
New York TO Europe, aud the Southern deviation
oi this line, making it only fifty to sixty miles
can be explained by the direction the Gui
Stream would give to the burning wreck The
burning steamer is reported to have had a wakin.
beam. The Austria had no walking BEAM and Il
that report be true the lost vessel ca,not De tht
Austria.
1t is also rep orted tha. the steamer seen had q
y
With a white line. If We put together all these
facts anu circumstances ut least have right 10
Hope that the ship seen ia flames was not the OK
Pected aud missing Austria.
Among all the steamers that run between Eu
rope ana America hone has more experienced
captain than the Austra-Captaia Heidtman-or
more jadIcious engineer. Tue delay in her arri.
val may be explained BY storms u disarrange.
ment OF her screw. The Hamburg steamers have
generally forty days provisions, and have Goals
| D,,ur urd sf,ra he
delay caa be of no danger to passengers. The
Austria carries eight large sized Francis patent
lie boats aud material board to build four lAore;
in the worst Case these woald be sufficient 10 save
a good macy passengers. Ii this misfortune te the
Austria shosid be trus, the greater number OF
passengers probably saved from the vicinity VI
Inc Azure Islands, and the tact that the Gulf cur
rents would briug boats to those islands.
mercantile firm in New York, hayiag an In
voice of some ve thousand dollars worth of goods
on board tue Austria, offered Friday to pay under
writer's twenty-five per cent against a total loss,
but they deciiaed to take the risk. The " Y
Express says:
There still exist many corjecsures as to what
steamer it can be, but there IL now more settled
opinion that it is the British screw steamer Alps
which sailed from this port on Sunday, the 5th
inst, tor Liverpool The Alps was painted red on
a cross decx walking'beam on her second deck, Q
iact not generally known; and If her first deck
mad been burnt off, it would be visible.
The Alps touk out passengers, and only
freight enough for ballast.
A letter iron New York says:
From hour to bonr the very serious anxiety felt,
especially by the German population of New York,
increasing With respect to the fate of the Ham
burg steamer Austria, and the news which We have
from Haiifax about the steamer seen burning in
the ocean has increased this sorroWsul anxiety ia
the widest circles of our population. Two hun
dTed and twenty passengers, among whom are q
great number of American German families, who
have been ON visit to their old home for the last
summer, on board the Austria, and never q
steamer brought from the continent of Europe &c
valuable freight, consisting in great part o1
velvet and silk winter dry goods.
UsIvERsALIsr CoyvSsrIos.-Thes sNational" Con
vention of Uuiversatists, at Providence, has I'D
journed sine die. Rochester. IN. 10 to be the
next place Of meeting. A resolution In favor 0
admitting women to the pulpit vas introduced
just before the adjournr eut but negaiived, ayes
Is, nays Il. Strong ant-sizvery resolutions wers
adopted.
NRw IssrifUrIox-In Binghamptou, N. Y.
on the 2ith ius the corner ston6 Of the State In
ebriate Asy ium was laid Over 5000 persons wer,
/ present. Addresses were delivered by Hon. I'd
ward Everett, Rev. DIR. Bellows, of N. u, ane
others.
HKAyY SEyrENcE.-McCary, who was tried fo
murder at the recent term Of the fluvanna coun
ty fVaI Circuit Court found guilty of jussina