The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-11-21

gale, which began on Thursday night
and which sooD increased to a tempe.t
On Friday she was struck by number
of heavy seas. which made crashing work
~ith everything on deck Beyond car
ryins away the deck load. and smashing
up sone of the lighter wood work, no
daueerou- damage was done until 3 D
N Friday. when seven or eight terrific
seas in quick succession struck her, and
broke her hoe braces. In few minutes
another ~es gave her such blow as to
carry her snoke-stsck overheard. thus,
for the moment adding the terrible
danser of fire to the perils of the winds
and waves. At p N. the steam pipe
burst, and at a Cd. of Saturday the
packing OF the cylinder blew out, thus
completely disabling the engine. At a
the rudder chains broke. leaving
her for the time totally unmanaeeable;
the tiller vas presently rigsed but in a
few minutes the rodder head broke short
off deprivius the vessels of all her steer.
ing apparatus. and leaving her helpless
wreck on thr water, in one of the hardest
gales that ever blew oD this coast
After a few hours of ago7izing sus,
rense. during which all on hoard made
Up their minds that death was. for them
speed, and certain, they spoke the gun
boat Isaac Smith, who had been attract
ed By the G oyerbors al nails Of distress,
and the bark Young Rover, Both prom.
i-ed to stay by her; but in the tremend
ou~ sea then running, ueither could rem
der the sli hte-t assistance. The Rover,
however. cheered their sinking hearts BY
telling them that large friRste We bear
iug down to their relief The men went
into extaeies OF extrasagant joy when the
fripate hove in sight She proved to be
the Sabine. and Capt RiDFgold promised
to do every thing in hi power for their
aida promise be most nobly redee emed.
Sh arrived at 3 ?. N Saturday, aud at
once commenced operations for the rescue
of the distressed sailors.
By order of Capt Riug1old, the two
ships were fastened to- ether by two pow.
eriul hawser-. The Sabine then veered out
chain enough to hrine ber tern within 80
feet OF the low of the Governor. Two
heavy SPAR were then rigged from the
stern of To" Sabine in the direction OF
the Slnklns ship. and were there made
securely fast. The-e spars now projected
nearly over the bows CT the Governor
but they rose and fell With such tremen
ous swell, so that it would have been i'm
possible for any person to cross from Que
hip to the other By crawling along The
spar; this, however, had not been iIte o
ded but safer plan was adopted, as fol
lows:
From the ends Of the spars we're lower.
ed strong ropes. rigged to run ca lily
through pulley blocks at the end OF the
rope that dropped on board the Governor
a running loop vas made. and the crew
OF the SahiBe manned the other end; all
things being ready. the loop wa. made
fast under the arws of q an the crew oil
the Sabine gave quick ron aft, and in
TAR less time than it takes to tell it, the
rescued man was rai-eo into the air and
swung on hoard the fri4 ate.
Thus we're shout thirty men saved,
wheu both bawsers troke and the ships
were adrift from each other; the Cover.
nor was hen brought close under the
quarter of the SsIDe, and about forty
more men lraped to her decks, aud the
Others wer, finally assisted on board and
thu all we're saved but seven, corpora
and SIX meB
Ofthe four ~ere lost trying to cross
on the baw-ers from ship to ship. They
would take hold OF the hawser when i
was slack. aud atteD eDpt to pull the D-elves
hastily across. but a. the waves threw tht
hips apart and tie htened the rope witt
suacien stralu, the unhappy men would
be ierkcd from their hold fifty feet into
the air, and would then tall into the bun
gry sea Oue man was crushed to deatt
between the vessels, and the other three
dipped overheard and we're drowned.
The names OF the drowned are as fol
lows-they we're all marines
Corporsl-Thous as McKeowD; PriVate'
TIN otby Lacy. Edward Ii. Miller. X
Campbell. - Walker, - Gorman
Manus Brown.
The rescued men express the IL ost live
" gratitude to apt. Ringsold and hi
Grew, who all bcbsven most nobly Capt
jane Wiley OF the Marines. vas als'
most efficient in assisting to save the men
They sased all their mu,kets cut 2O
10 900 rounds of cartridges. aud smal
quantity of clothing The marines ar
now to 90 to Bag Point to garrison. tn
latelt captured Fort b. auregard
The Governor was not an old boat, au'
was built to run between Bangor and Bos
ton. At S a. %. on Sunday. Nov 3, sh
turned tottom up and sunk.
LOSS OF THE PEERLESS.
This was a small steamer. chartered t
be used in the shallow waters OF the South
ern rivers aud creeks She had on boar
at fir-t 100 beef cattle. but by slauz hter
ing for the troops they were reduced t.
81. With which nuWhe .he started 20
tb. destination c. the feet BesDs caugh
10 the gale. tbe captain ruu up signals Q
distress, vheD tbe Star of the South ra