New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-15

Fron The Springfield Republican.
DIR. Smith OF this city writes home the following
graphic account Of the narrow escape of the steam
chip Arabia from sudden and terrible wreck on Fasnet
Rock Cape Clear, Of which brief account has been
given:
STEAMSHIP ARABIA, IL a. M,
FRIDAY Ang. 3, 1860. (
In the midst Of life we are in death. Jost bali an
hour AGO. while standing on the bows, the ship run
prg IA knots hour nndsr ate am and sails in thick
foo heard a loud shout - land ahead J" turned to-
ward the captain, OF rather had my eye on him that
moment. His face could not bsve expressed more
bo ror if he had seen He gates op-ned de sprung
to thu gire be at the zane time shouting nArd a.
mort your helm" A c'unt,r order OF " sarooMd
wss given. The captain leaped fron hs footlng,
sbouIq 90 that his voice was heard above the escap-
ING seam, "hard a-port, in G1d name HIS order
was obeyed Then turning forward amorg huOouo
of voices shouting " we are lost, GOD nave mercy
on us," &c., &C i sac the rocks not twenty leee
fro 10 the ships bows. On their top WIS hghthouse'
AS we swung around it seemed as if we should every
mon en feel the shock Of striking. The huge swell OF
the Atlsnc revert Grating, and the spray nylug
all a. Ound us The Fails took sbtck, heeng us over
so that the deck stood mp like the roof II house
Won en- we're screaming, ssauen running to and fro,
and above all the captain and lieu5snHuis rhoutDg 80
az 10 be heard above the shr escaping steam ha's a.
port hard hard !" Brace around the foreyard!
'Let fly the hayards aad shee fore and ait
stepped abaf the oIemas TO be out Of the way OF ITS
fall and waited for the shock. Bat
"Th,re's a swee. little cherub who sits up aoft
And locks after the life OF poor jack
We approached rs all agree wi hin ten feet OF the
rock and then b. gan to rcede. Jusreaze that there
ss opy ten feet between us and eternity. II IL the
opinon of ssstarng board tna' the ship, II she
had struck would have sunk ia five minutes, Tor itls
sharp ledge Of rocks SIX seven miles from any shore
and deep water all around. The boats could not have
been got ready ard if they conld, they never could
have lived in the heavy surf Noif she had gone ten
feet fu Their we should have been almost instantly pre-
cipaied into a raging ses, where SIX or segel miles
from land in dense fog, few of us woold have e.
caped We should have all persisted as miSera6iy as
did those in the Hungarian. Three seconds more
would have tolled the death-kne Of mos If not all
of u.s. for were 80 enve oled In tog ana lar IRON
land and also boat at the light house, that II we
had sized fragments of the wreck they would bave
been torn from our gr8sp by the sea boiling as IN q
caudron over the sunken reefs hours before our tate
could have been known. j knew there was no time
to run below for fe-presercers-w are huag up
by ca BERTRAND go con ented myself win Ju''
Swinging up my nerves for buffet with the waves:
For three minutes, | can assure you, ma1 sn)weo
what he is when expecting the King OF Ierrors' ,
Two or three ladies took it heroicauy, and seemed
to draw in strength from toe scene around them. IL
was q terrible mon ent for the captNn-Capt. stone
of the Royal Nsyy-frr as we swung around, the sails
taking shack and heeug Us over everybody expect.
20 feel the grinding crSsh Der cath our feet fet lOf
him for all bis great rashness aud gladly say tha TO
Lis del ifOn in our hour OF need we owe our ives.
The rock s called Fasnet Rock and upon 1t Is the Cape
Clear light house. subs Tiption is no being taken
up among the passengers for the seaman VINO fret
shouted breakers ahead" l shall never forget to
nv diving d the face of the captain when he heard
that wild shout. have seen distress and pain IN all
their tcrms but never face like that full OF horror
perfect agony, and crushing responsibility The cry
'breakers ahead, the stopping OF the engines, the
escape Of the steam, and the shtpg the helm au oc-
CURED in one second IL seemed at the infant as ii 1t
was utterly impossible to stop the ships way IN tine
to save NJ; but God rules He put forth his ha9f
and the vessel trembling if with mortal fear yielded
to her powerful engines, receded from the rock and
we were saved.