Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-09-29

bv fear, others madly crying to be saved; bat few perfectly calm and collected. The flames pressed so closely upon them that many jump ed,into to sea: relatives clasped in each others arms. le,ped over and met watery grave; two girls, supposed to be sisters jumped over and sank kissing each other A missionary and wife leaped into the sea, together, and the stew ardess and assistant steward, arm in arm, follow ed. One Hungarian gentleman. with seven fine chidren. four of them girls, made his wife jump
 in then blessed his six eldest children, made them jump in one after the other and followed them with an infant in his arms.
 l. about this time, was stanaing outside the bulwarks, holding on by the davits. leaning out to avoid the flames, which were leaping to- wards me. saw swamped boat under me- spinning by rope still attached to the ship; as the oars were tied in her, thought if could get to her I would be enabled to save myself and others. I let myself down by a rope, pas sing over a man who was clinging to it, but who refused to come with me. I took out pen knife to cut the tackle; the large blade broke, and then severed it with the small blade.- The ship past ahead. As the screw approach ed found the boat drawn towards it. tried to keep the boat of, but the screw caught and capsized her over me- dived away from the ship and came to the surface near boat which was keel upwards; I got on her, and by pressing on one side with the assistance of wave she righted. but was still swamped. The oars had been knocked out by the screw; the only thing could find in her to paddle with was some laths nailed together as sheathing for the sides.
 When looked around the ship was aquarter
 1T. I n q dies and gentlemen jumping off the poop into the water in twos and threes, some of the ladies in flames. Several hestated to leap from the burning ship until the last moment, as the height was twenty two feet, and were only at lengE compelled to throw themselves off to av0d 8 more painful death.
 In half an hour not soul was to -dc seen on the poop pulled after tle Zip and picked up German who was swtnmlng strongly; got Jim beside me on the boat, and we pad ! aled afther the ship with the laths. now saw vessel under sail apr oaching; she reached the steamer abnat 5PA we continued puihng towards the.n, and ah. tllalf-past seven o'clock
 after being five ho E in the water, got within
 ha;}afthe sailing vessel, which put off boat and took us on board. She proved to be the French shin Maurice. Capt. Ernest Renaud, of Nan les. DO1nQ IfDfn ~ N6WlOuuuidud io AoiO VI DNtti- bon5with fish. She had. up to that time, res- cnei forty passengers of the burning steamer chiefly taken off the bowsprt, though few
 were picked up floating around. At about seigy o'clock one of the metallic boats came up with about twentv-three persons, including the first and third officers; afterwards three or four men were picked up, floating on pece ot the broken boat. The second officer was taken up, fn Hnat him.. for six hours. The second and third off, cers were severely burned; one male passenger was burned frghtfullv, and some other male passengers slightly. There were but six wo- men saved three of whom were burned, one Tn a shocking manner.
 Captain Remand acted with the utmost kind ness. He gave clothes as far as he could fur nish them to the suffering passengers, and acted people. dressing the wounds of the females with a delcacv and tenderness that evinced bene- voent and amable disposition.
 .. did not see an officer of the ship during the fire, and am certain there was not one of them or the crew on the poop, except man at the wheel for short time I understand that when the captain heard of the fire, he rushed on deck without cap, and when he saw the HatUFS, tAcidiiHSu' tO "lO "'i iNSN- iiO tried to get out boat which, when let down, was swamped, and he, whether accidently or not. do not know, fell into the sea, and was soon left far behind The fourth officer was in this boat. He cut her loose from the davits; she was carried under the screw and smashed, and several in her drowned; three or four men escaped on fragment and were picked up by the Maurice as before stated. About the 4;, Iio E(ahn,t lat from the port bow and swamped, but got clear ed away with about thrtv-three persons in her. including the first and third officers and seve- ral mnrnep Thor in the hnat cansiaad- her two or three times, in trying to clear her or water Ten persons were thus drowned, in cluding some women. They afterwards baied her out with life preservers cut in two, and pulled to the Maurice, hiving picked up two or three passengers before reaching the bark. Altogether, there were sixity-seven souls taken into the Maurice during the night
 A Norwegian bark came up with the steam CT the next morning, and boat was observed going around the burning ship. They may have picked up few persons, but only very few The Maurice had no communication with the Norwegian. At about 7 o'clock the Maurice sailed for Fayal to deposit the res cued passengers. At about o'clock the same afternoon she fell in with the bark Lotus, Cap tain Trefv, of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, from Liverpool for Halifax. As I was aux ous to get on British territory, Captain Trefy kindly gave me passage He was also anxious to take all the American citizens, but there was such rush of foreigners into the boats that only one load of eleven could be got of, and even seve- ral of these were foreigners.
 The fire is known to have arisen from very culpabe negligence of some of the crew. The captain and surgeon considered it expedcnt to fumigate the steerage with burning tar. The operation was to be performed by the boatswain under the superlntendence of the fourth officer. The boatswain heated the end of chain to dip in tar to produce smoke. The end became too hot to hold, and he let it drop upon the deck, to which it set fire. The tar upset, and imme- diately all about was in flames. A feeble at- tempt was made to extiuguish it, but without effect. There was nothing at hand to meet such an emergency.
 The rescued passengers saved nothing but the clothes on their backs, and even the greater part of these were torn off ana otherwise lost
 Six hundred souls were supposed to be on board, including many women aud children.
 MT. Brews is the only British subject saved. He is in the British civil service aud on his way to British Columbia. He will proceed to Boston in the steamer Eastern State (to-day) ea route for New York.
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