New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-11-14

boat could weather Ha'teris in a November gale
o.rianl las mind with original IDEAS q maine
1ti.c.s and should by all means be mad our next
Secretary OF the Navy. However, there wsre o
10 ts, and they were 70 st.empt the passage, and
wsr, IN ended n be employ ed in landing troops when
we reached our desiin ton.
The Belyidere hsdou board horses and coInnisssry
stores and the Union had also lew cal,le aud soEaa
QnueTmasters stores.
Tie Fleet began 70 arrive in Port ROYAL Hafbor
Sunday nigu., but no one OF the aforementioned
missing vessels was seen unit. Thursday morning,
when he Ocean Express came in to tie great relief
Of all.
Meanwhile, mos, Joleful accounts had reached u-
Of tlo others 10 wa. asserted that The Governor
hid gone down, with 200 malines-ths number, ~
degrees, came down TO ~ lost, al which point it
steadily Iemaiued uni. aore Of the rescued men ar-
rived t. .ss tlo matter r.bl. The other m..u. yes
sels were .I believed 10 have gone down.
Il has been since ss.ert-ired, however, that the
Union went ashore, 0l tie shore o. North Carolina,
and all Ter crew were saved alive, though % were
taken p. isoners, here being tow SOLDIER r her
tie Belgidere, after srcI struggle with tac ,torm
sstev sips ever live 20 'e. of came sa.e' ou', and
Der -0ry 10 aDJWn 10 zoe pIJlei de tWo lrly boats
Ethan Allen snd Commodore Perry, finding they
could not weather the gale. lus back lOr t1iiT,-s
Moncos, which place t-ey .la.iy raacleO tie Peer
less md Governor both wea down, under cIclu-
stances which I viii briefly saetcu.
The steamer Governor started from Fortress Mon
roe with the rest OF the leet On Tuesday, OCT. ~,
and proceeded pleasantly enough until We eucouu-
tered the gale, which began on Thursday night and
which soon increased 70 tempest. On Friday she
was struck by number Of heavy seas, which made
crashing work with everything on deck. Beyond
carrying away the deck load, and smashing up some
o tie lighter woodwork, no dangerous damage "as
done until p. IL. Friday, when seven or eight ter
rlc seas in quick succession struck her. ana broke
her Los-bFacss. IL a fgw minutes another gave
Der such a blow as TO carry her smoae stack over
boaId, thus for tie moment, adding the terrible dan
ger Of IRE TO Tie pefis Of tie winds and waves. Az
?. %. he steam-pipe burst and 81 a. m. Of Sallr:
day the packing Of the cylinder blew out, thus com
pletsly disabling the engine. Al q. %. The rlddes-
chains broke leaving her for the time totally unuan'
sseabei the t.lier was presently rugged, but in few
inmates the underlined broke short OF, deprying
TIE vessel Of al bar steering apparatus, and leaving
her q helpless wreck on lie water, IN one Of The
hardest gales tia, ever blew on this coast.
Aftcr a few hoais Of 4gonizing suspense, dnring
which all on board uaie up their uinds that DEAN
was, FOR them, speedy and certain, they spoke the
gunbOat Isaac Smith, who had been attracted BY the
Governors signals Of distress, and the lark Young
Rover. Both promised to stay by her, bat n the
tremendous sea then running, neither could render
the slightest assistance. Tie Rover however,
cheered their sinking hearts by telling them ths! a
large figs,e was bearing down 70 their relief. Ire
men wen, in;o extacies Of extrayaganI JOY when
the frgS;e hove in sight. She proved 70 be the sa-
bine and Capt Ringgold promised 70 90 everythlng
IN his power for their aida promise be most nooiy
redeemed. She arrived 2; 3 p. Saturday, and 81
once commenced operations the resele Of The DIS
tessed sailors.
BY order Of Capt. Rbggol, the two shiPs were
fastened together by two powerful hAwseEs. The
Saline t5en yeered out chain enough 10 bring her
stern within % feet Of the bow OF the Governor.
Two heavy span were hen rugged from tie stern Of
tie Sabine in the direction Of TIE sinking shiP, and
were there made securely fast. These spse no"
projected nearly the bows Of The Governor, bat
sbey roe ana fell with ssch tremendous swell, -
.hai Il would have been impossible FOR any person
TO cosz from ship to the otleI by crawling along
tie spar, this, however had rot been intended Int
a sassr plan vs. adapted ~ ;1..5ws'