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From the Alexandria Sentinel. Noy So1
UNFORTUNATE AND EVENTFUL VOYAGE
OF THE BRIG CR0CUS FROM THE SOM
BRERO ISLANDS TO THIS PORT.
The brig Crocus, Capt W. H. Herbert, owned by
the Messrs. Bradstreet, of Gardner, Maine, with
guano from the Sombrero Islands, arrived at this
port ON the night of the 2Sth, consigned to Fowle
d Co. From the vessels log, kindly shown us BY
the captain, whose misfOrtunes we sincerely com
miserate, we make the following account: The Gro
Gus left the Island of Guadalupe on the 9TH of Oct
with clear bill of health, and not until the 23d of
that month, while loading at the Island of Som
brerO, did the misfortunes of her captain commence
On that day his youthful wife, to whom he had
been married only five months, died on the Island
OF the fever which had been prevalent at Guadalupe
early In the autumn. On the Goth of October the
vessel, with crew of ten men, all told, three of
whom were doomed never more to see the land,
lett Sombrero for this port, all in excellent health
When out three or four days the mate was taken
sick, and remained so during the entire VOYAGE
not being well enough at any time to be on duty
John Cordery, foreigner, was taken sick about
the same time that the mate was and died of the
bilious fever, on the Sd of November
On the 10th of November, about 10 o. clock A. NJ
of Cape Hatteras, Peter Brown, promising sea
man, belonging to st. Johns, Newfoundland fell
from the main-topsail yard to the poop deck
breaking both his legs and rupturing one of the
bloodyessels of his lungs. He lived only one hour
and half and was buried at o'clock the same
evening. Scarcely had the effects of this lament
able occurrence been fully realized when another
If anything, more terrible happened, for on the
lith, the next day precisely at the same hour Louis
Eugene de Feyreur, youthful seaman, of Point
Petre, Guadalupe. fell from the fore topsa yard
while shaking the reef out OF the sail upon the
main deck, breaking his neck, driving his head
completely into his chest, and killing him instantly
The same evening this poor fellow, encased in can
vass, was committed to watery grave to Join his
two companions sent before him.
Heavy seas and two severe storms prior to the
2lst of November, weathered with compare
tive ease, but that day in lat. $40 4Oi long 75o
the brig encountered the most terrific gale ever
experienced by those on board, losing during its
continuance, sails, spars, and one anchor, and al
most firing ont, and rendering futile the superhu-
man eXertions of the Captain, second mate cook
and two seamen upon whom devolved the whole
working of the vessel, the rest of the crew beipp
sick Ill luck, having as seemed to the crew, an
parently appropriated the whole of the trip, they
are not staggered when informed, as the storm
abated that the provisions had almost given out,
but each took his limited portion with thanfulness
and thanked the God of seas and lands that it was
no worse.
Our RELATIONS WITH JAPAN-We learn through
a letter published in New York journal that the
trade in kanagawa, Japan, is in a most depressed
state This is said to be mostly owing to the daily
changing value of our dollar in that country Our
treaty provides that American coin shall be receiv
ed, weight for weight, with that of Japan in pay
ment for goods; but the Government seems to paw
no more attention to that instrument than if it
were so much brown paper. 1t is strange but new
ertheess true, that at the last dates the Mexican
dollar was received for only seventy cents by the
native merchants, while the japanese government,
in barefaced violation of the treaty daily put up an
official notice to the effect that it was worth sixty
nine, seventy or seventy one cents, as the market
might be.
The BENICIA Boy EAGER TO FIGHr AGAIN-The
New York Clipper of this week has the following
announcement: We have it from pretty good au-
Benicia, would have no objection whatever to a
passage at arms with the conqueror of Paddock in
the late fight for the Championship of England,
and now universally known as the ''Staleybridge
Infant" provided he could be assured of an even
show on British shores. He would prefer, however,
to have the battle take place in America, and give
Hurst $1,000 to come here, if the stakes were placed
as high as SIS 900 a side.