New-York daily tribune., 1858-09-28

.;sb an infant in his own arms. !, about ''''
.ie, v,. standing outside the bulwaks, holding G"
g. Ssvits leaning out to avoid the names,
-. iearjrg toward me. l aaw swamped
s1s' .ndsr me. spinnng by rope 'tai auacneo
pc' .b;, Az The oars were tied IN ner,
sb could get to her. l wou'd
s,.bIed to save myself aud some "ne'' ~
- down by rope passing over 'I,oa,. "''"
.s,e;pe TO il, but who refused to come WI - ' -
,as penknife TO cutthe tackle the iarge o'",r
ID I then severed it with the small osa' r .Lr
,...-ed ahead. As the screw sppros'''' 49,, .er
tos, drawn toward it. tred 70 k',P -,
Ind the screw caught and cap''~'p - -
5vod away from the snip aud ealh' ~ '"o
a boat which was keel upward x" y" ~ ' -
...o..;ro On one side, with the a'7'',sI'o "a
p.e -, vas still sgsmped. The oars had been
rsh,e", ~. nv the screw The only thing could
h"'" ., n.dlle with was some lahs nailed b..
p". "' .has,bipc for the sides. When looked
Bsa ,bs sh;pwss quarter Of q mile aNey from me.
fOua ,hs sdes and gentlemen jumping off The poop
water in twos and throes, some Of tLe ladies
in'S several hesitated to leap from the burning
.,r ,be ls.. mon ont, the hight was twenty
go st and we're only at length compelled TO throw
.,..I,s. off TO avoid painful death. In half
:, hon, moi soul was to be seen op the poop pulled
"a. the ,hip and picked up German who was
..,.u;,o strongly got him beside me On the boat,
."S ws psdded after the ship with The laths now
vessel under sail approaching she reached the
,,..,ns, al about ) p M. we continued pulling TO-
,.,d tbem and about hali-past seven O'Clock, alter
ling FIVE hours in the water, got within hail of the
..,rpe vessel, which put of boat and took
=. on board. She proved 70 be the French
ish Maurice Capt. Ernest Remand, Of Nantes,
hand from Newfoundland for the lsle of
Bourbon. with fish, She had up to that time, rescued
,oav passengers of the burning steamer, chiefly taken
I'd the bowspnt, though few were picked up floating
around. At about O'Clock one Of the metallic boats
rsme up, with about 90 persons including the first
and third officers; aterward three or four men were
,icked up, floating on a piece of the broken boat.
The second officer taken up, having been swim
ming with nothing to float him, for six bours. The
second and third officers severely burned; one
male passenger burned frghtfuly and some other
male passengers slightly. There were but ak women
saved three OF whom were burned, one Ia
shocking manner. Captain Renaud acted with the
ptmost Kindness He gave clothes o. far ss he
could furnish them to the suffering passengers, and
acted as nurse doctor aud surgeon TO the burned peo-
pls dressing the ~oupds Of the females with deli
Cscy and tenderness that evinced u benevolent and
amiable disposition. ! did not see An officer OF the
shin during the fire, and om certain there was not
one of them or the crew on the poop except man
nj the wheel for a short time. I understood tbat
when the Captain heard of the fire, he rushed on
deck without cap, and when he saw the flames, ex
claimed, 1--WE are all lost" He tried to get out q
boat, which, when let down, was Swamped, and he,
sshether accidentally or not do NOT know. fell into
the ses, and was soon left far behind. The fourth
officer was in this boat. He cut her loose from the
dsyjts she was carried under the and smashed
and several In her drowned; three or four
rsIed 90 fragment aud were picked up by the @au.
nee as before stated. About the same time one me
tslic hfe-boat was let down from the port bow and
swsmped, but got cleared sway with abont 33 persons
in her including the first and third officers and several
women. The men in this boat capsized her two or
three times, in trying 20 clear her of wcter. Ten
persons we're thus drowned, including some women.
They afterward bsied her out with life-preservers
rut in two, and pulled to the Maurice, hav-
ing picked up two or three passengers before
reaching the bark. Altogether there were 81
souls taken into the Maurice during tho night.
Norwegian bark came up with the steamer the next
,nornipg, and boat was observed going around the
bulbuS nnlp. ihey moy bu'V Picneu UP o. ~" w
sons. bet only very few. The Maurice had 10 CON-
municstion with the Norwegian At about O'Clock
the Maurice sailed 10 Faya to deposit the rescued ps-
sengers. At about O'Clock the same afternoon, she
fell in with the bark Lotus, Capt Tefy, Of Yarmouth,
Nova Scotia, from Liverpool for Halifar. As l was
spxous to get on British territory Capt Ireiy kindly
gave me passage He was slso anxious TO take oil the
American citizens bu, there such rush of for
egners into the boats that only one load OF eleven
could be got of, and several of these were for
egpers. The fire is known 10 have arisen from very
Cupsbe negligence of some of the crew. The captain
and surgeon considered it oxpedert to flngste the
storage with burning tar. The operation was TO be
performed by the bostswain under the superntendence
u the fourth officer. Tie boatswsin heated the end
al chain TO dip into tar to produce smoke. The end
became too not 10 bold and he let it drop upon the
eok 10 which il set tire. The tar upset, and imme-
ds,ely all about in tGInce. feeble attempt was
made 10 exnguish it, but without effect. There was
nothing at hand to meet such an emergency TIE res
cd passengers saved nothing but the clothes on their
backs and even thu greater part OF these were torn on
aud otherwise lost Six huadr souls wege supposed to
le on board including insny women aud children MT.
brew is the only British subject saved. lie Is In the
British civil service and his way to British C0lum-
bs. lie will prcceedto Boston ID the steamer Eastern
State on Tuesdsy, en- route for Ncw-fork-
The following is the statement Of Prof. Ihe"-
dorc G.. Glaubensklee, Of New-lorh Ciiy'
PROF: GLAUBENskLEES STATEMENT.
A, about quarter past two p NJ, Sept. IL, being III
my state room, heard the cry Of Fire" fastening
ou deck, SAW the flames breaking through the
middle deck. The captain WAS trying TO get the
people out of tho second boat the por. eide, to
have It lowered. l fastened to the fore deck to