New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-07-28
MARINE AFFAIRS.
loss OF THE PARANArTA.

The British Mail steamer wrecked near 81. Thomas
is doubtless the Parama,:a- Merlin, stated BY
telegraph from Bcston. The Panama Star Of the 9Th
says:
"The magnificent steamship Paramatts Was
wrecked Oh the Island OF Anegsda.
"Tbe Paramsrta is the fr-t Of a class Of iron
stesmers being bu!t by the Royal Nal Com pany,
and WAS on her first trip ont. She N the lar est
and finest ste that ever sailed iron England,
berg 500 tnns b. lsh register 800 horsepower and
about AGO fee. IN length.
1--WE have TOT heard rhether she will be total
wreck or whether the cargo vii be lost, but the mss
and passengers have iortuLa,eiy been saved.
"Ibe Par-mat;a bai mal- y hne run out of l. days,
and when within 90 nles Il 81. TDomas ran aground
on n coral rect, where she lay at lat accounts, with
bow in twenty feet WAFER ann her stern in thirty feet.
"The island of An.gaia, whe'e this misfortune oc-
CURED the mort norteIy pat OF the Antilles Brit
ish West L. dies Is miles north OF Virgin Gorda. IL
/. low and If cora formation; at lis tt eA.rem
ity is a LOG reef extending 10 la - outward upon
which many yesses have been wrecked before.
'As the Royal Mail Company insnre their own
ships this will prove a severe To them should they
not succeed in ravin. the vessel it will probably
lat up the eLtire fond they had ON hand a.
their last report, t2,n,'HD.
This Company have been exceedingly unfortunate,
hsyir lost ON an aver .ge sb vessel each year
tor the past years and j. greatly 10 be regretted
that ~ fine ship the Paranatta should BE- the
70 whose the pre-ent nrcideut has b.faleu We
trust however 70 receive news Of her being saved by
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VOYAGE OF wAsHISGroS.
The VOYAGE of the steamer Washington from New
lork to San Francisco was, in many respects, ~.
Inarkable one. Her report says:
The Washington wss detsued three weeks at st.
Caiharine and in Coronel, Cbih nearly two months,
on account of the revolution the poems being engaged
IN The war ard at the tine no Coal was mined, and not
pound to be bad. Not having coal enough to
7. acn Valparaiso, obi. en, aft.r much delay 70
put the ere VoTtitn ut the passengers "a work
Coalirg. On Sunday, Aphl ~, John Nc
Laughn, sailor fell from the pm' gangway, aud wa,
drowned. I.ife-stools were thrown overheard, aud
every means used to biz life, butof no svs. He
could hot swim Al d sauk almost immediately. lls
parents reside IN CalJo MIA, and he boarded, while IN
New-lork, at Nike Flsbnerys, No. IS Washington
street. -
" bile a. Corore one Of the passengers, Britain T.
Hoppe of Long Branch, n. j., murdered by one
of the natiy es snort distance from the port. The
parties concerned 10 the murder arrcsef, after
reward of $50 bad been offered for their apprehension
ard the murderer wa sentenced 10 be shot.
HE effects are IN charge Of the Purser, Mr.. Juhus
Scbepck, who will give further information relative -
the matter.
June II, Alexander Cameron from Kingston, ia
maca died OF the heart di,.ase and buried at
WRECK or A TURKISH sTEaNLR-LOss or SEVENTY
SEVEN LIVES, AND oUTRAGEs BY THE CREW
A letter from ex4ndra Of the :prh ut says:
"A frieh,ful catastrophe has thrown the European
inhabitants of this city ino The steamer
Siis'ria, OF the Ottoman Company which lett Al-xsn
dria tor CoDstaDupoplo the 9th, with about $50
Turkish and Chri-tan passengers board foundered
at sea in sequence % leak which she sprung in
few hours after she left the port. Only 273 oil the
persons on board were saved by small Egyptian
transport, the remaining II having perishcd The cap
tain and Turkish Of the vessel said to hsve
sctsd with the greatest barbarity, preventing, by
violence and murder rhe ubfor innate Christians from
avaiug themselves If the Asst a0ce hus provi entia
ly sent to them. During tie lew hour previous TO the
vessel gO down, Of carnage took place the
deck between th. crew. The orders Of their cap
tain, and the Europeans on board. Venetian hsd
his head open by q cut from Ratchet, aud others
were killed in the Struggle. The Christians, in sdd-
tim TO losing all their property board, robbed
OF all the moLey and j-welry they hsd abou. them.
The captain and Of the steamer on being brought
book 10 Alexandria, were pa into confinement to
await investigator mo The affair. We consider it our
duty to mehton the noble conduct Of - Austrian
sailors, who we're passengers on board and through
whUse asss snce q number OF lives were saved which
vnuld uiherwi-e have been lost"