New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-07-18


'grand right and eft" through three feet of water.
Tire pnsss Dgers kept easy through the afternoon
10 their baggage, by the OF the officers
that il " oui ali be taved; but when the ship
abaI doped at night many found 'ha, ne of their bag
gage had been saved and hardly any bad saved pl
Sale carried up the cliff soc three tents were
made. The blight wa very cold AMI the ground damp,
AID ser an unsuccessful attempt to sleep alOu side of
poor fellow bali dead with the con-u nptiDp aban-
dor cd the tent add passed the night by fire ~h ch
kept up with pieces Of spars and big Of oil
brought from the ship.
soon after we went ashore, MIR. Cumming
cond ficer dispatched to Trep.--ey about 20 mile.
distant, the nearest telegraph station and settlement
He took with him old sea captain who dissbsd
and SICK, and left hm there lie got back a. night
and reported That boats would 'Or Us from 81.
Johns, - miles from where we're. The morning.
bad just begun 10 break when caught the din out.
line Of steam tug which creeping along the
shore. We signaed with fire brands and shouted NO.
Ill the boat bad rounded to, aud lay ting for Just
outside Of our little Tue lag part of the pas
seugeis, including all bu, about dozen of the women
aud children, soon put on board the tug. The
passengers were not allowed 10 take auy Baggage on
the tug, but just word came from the tag tDai she
had got about many she could carry. captain
loaded up boat with his in0Dor0to and two or three
other ladies' Of her retinue, and abou halt dozen big
trunks belonging to them, and put them bag aud bag
gage board. As the captain must have kno~n tho.
the next boat 10 90 10 repaSsey for the disabled
captain, and that those who wect in it vouo hsve 10
be out all day and nearly all nigh, ths dismal coast
i
bad seen that two sick men and several women with
young children who were left on shore had been sent
by the fret boat even TIVE or three ladies' had had TO
wait until the next day for their half dozen trucks.
The second boat arrived, and the rest OF Us en-
banked and steamed off for Trepsssey, the first
boat going 10 st. Johns where she arrived soon after
We crossed the bay audi eered straight toward
what seemed an uBbukcn hne OF rocks. 1 tired IN
vain TO discover some sign Of town or hsrbOr aud
had almost Concluded that the prevailing style Of nay-
cation in this country was to steer straight for the
biggest rocks, when little opening appeared, aud we
rounded a sharp rock and sailed up narrow passage,
nearly para el with the shore into fine harbyr large
enough to float navy. Suaggliog ahons the 1arbor
the town, containing about 4OO Inhabitants, all
fishermen
few Of us got on shore and had charming break
fast at be house where the Catholic priest lived and
washed our faces and had quite Jolly time. We had
Lot tes with milk and sugar and bread and butter,
and some Of the little fishes that abound the coast,
fried. These fishes. called capron about long
as ordinary brook-'rout, but much scDderer, aud
they were served up for IA, very salty. Being
slender and delicate, probably the salt water pene
trated through them.
We got through oar business at Trepassey took our
disabled felow-passeDgers aboard and got back to
where the ArgO lay, about O'Clock IN the afternoon
There poor ship It'll grinding upon the rocks
inasts all gone and army of fishermen pluniering
her. The blood of our skipper, a Newtouu1anter
but smart enough for Yankee, was up at the sight
Of the wreckeIs He started off 10 chase of boa;
making off heavily laden with plumber, ard overh. sui
ing it, ordered the fellows to put their booty
boat and swore he would hang them as robbers and
pirates aud called out to get the gun ready IN tone
that made suppose we h.d got thirty so FOUNDER
on bosd. On being produced, the gun turled out to
bc old rusty musket, aud as we had no ammunition
at ALL it will be that our arm.meot was not OF the
most effective character: Bat our skipper made up
for all deficiencies. III Jumped INFO the boat, aud At
tempted TO lash 1t alongside, bat tle boat
getting entapged in of wheela AMI the Skipper
had to back to lock after that, and the boat got
loose again. and the agent of the Steamship Company
"a 4la 10 Ia tha will
their punder but il wac fault of our skipper that
be did not capture the shole fleet of fishermen.
We took on board what baggage we could carry,
and took IN tow boat load of sailors and STATED
for ST Johns. 90 our way we passed close by mag
Iicent iceberg. IL about 800 feet above the
water about the width, and some 600 feet long,
and aground where the water was several hundred
feet deep. Ii magnificent sight. Ii was very
colo that night standing that little open deck, aud
though gave up the rest OF my baggage without muir.
murng, took satisfaction In thinking OF
mermaid sporting my umbrella (the best one have
been able to borrow for long tme), could not let
quite resigned to the loss of my comfortable shawl,
even though it might he enveopng 'he far shoulders
Of wreckers daughter. We reached ST. JONAS
at o'clock Thursday morning, where we are co mort
ably anartered under the care of the agent OF the
steamship company Mr. Shea, most gentleminy aud
obging and first rae business mao, ana here Tor Inc
pre- sent rest and ABIDE.
cannot close without word or two as to the cir
cumstanccs which led to this dis tstcr An account has
been published in the papers here aud supposed iee-
graphed to New-iok, which deceives no one mere,
but which will probably be spread over the country
through the New York papers and perhaps accepted
az truth. Or one is to blaze 10 these accl-
dents. have enemieto punish, bat 1t seems 10 me
tina, plain statement Of facts IL due to the pubic ahd
while shall endeavOr TO do no one injustice shaii
state what am saii fled is the truth.
By looking op the chart, it will be seen that Cape
Pine is the western aud Cape Race the eastern point,
within which is a large bay. lhese capes are ao2uI
thirty miles apart, aud each mas light, one revolv;
ing and the other steady light. A. we had to round
Cape Race, had no business north OF the zoe
drawn belwe these two points that can see IL we
sailed ND into the bay, must SAIL out AGAIN IL Is
admitted by the capt ain aud al hands that between
and o'clock ON Tuesday morning II was clesr, and
that the lights Cape PiCe and the coast were then
distinctly seen. Between AM aquaIter pfSl o. the
time We struck, thick fog came on l canuot thnK
that we were n that fog the whole of that time, for all
the fops we have hal before AID since have come aud
gone in much lees time. But gran'Ing that we were
in the fog oil that time, 1t appears that we were gong
full two and half hours at full speed, when an hour
must have brought u upon past Cape Plns, ard As
FAY north as we had any business to GO. FROM thH
place where Cape Pine vas seen, our true coarse was
cast or little south of east, ana after rounding oae
Race It wond have been northeast. We Kept on Ill
recty or nearly northeast straight into irep --y pay
although there no way of getting To 81 Johh IN
that way but by going straight through tue lauu ol
New fuuuisnd which seems ~ have been the very
thing as attempted TIE captain and his officers deny
that they mistook Cape Pom, for Cape Rae hsh' agh
do not zee how this was possible, as one j. o'sut
revolving AMI the other a steady hght. Inc captain
defended himself first the ground tha' the copH>s
was wrong and alleged that they steered by tue
colnpass Since We hsve come To ~. John :, he anl
and his friends have preferred charges against 'he
company. Now If there was any tanlt win tue Ioh'
mass hOw did get from Nes-lOTh 10 Cape rine
without n deviation from our true course why ana
not the compass send us ashore on the Ne~'Eag!aHd
cpastl Or if the needle went of in some unusual d.
,ection Tuesday morning. why did II MOI spehi tne
dayl When we lay 90 that every one could see that
Vc al the rock steering northeast course,