, 1865-08-26
SAN FRANCISCO.

Am 1eean Steamer Lost with Two or
Three Hundred Pn&.enEcrH--Tlc PI-
rz,tc Shenandoah Among tlac Hyha-
Iers--Dcxtruc1ion of Telegraph by In.
dIank--A Flight With tile Indians, dc.
new YonK, Aug. aa-The steamer Ocean Queea
lrings Sam Francisco papers Of August %.
The steamer Brother Jonsshan. from S.n Fran.
cisco July ash for Portland. Oregon and Victoria,
viii, between 200 and 200 passengers, was totally
lost rear Cape Lincoln Oregon, June 2oth. only
fourteen men and women were fayed. Among Inc
passengers werc Brig. Gen. Wright md tanllF,
Liert. Wait, Surgeon A. 1n!Erahan Of the armS,
and Can't. Chaddock OF the revenue serF1ce- 40
pa.tlcuiars received. Gen. Wright was tn routt to
take command Of the Department OF Columbia.
Among the passengers On the LOST etcamer,
Brother Jonathan, VIE James Nesb1t- foF m1ng
years onc Of the editors Of the San tsanc'sco 9m-
fettn.
Tho nitrate Shenandoah had destroyed the barque
susan Abigail. near the gulf OF Ansilajr. 1t seems
:he Susan Abigail had San F.ancifco ra2crs Of the
18th Of July, containing accounts Of the eoapse OF
the rebellion, but Waddel the pirate captain, would
not credit the as they came from Northern papers,
scd announced his intention OF burning every
American vessel he could find. Afer destroying the
Susan Abigail, the pirate went toward BehEins s
Staita and the Arctic Ocean. At St. Lawrence t.
land be burned the ship General Williams, OF New
Londop and nexr morning burned five more YES
ee1s, The bazqnc General Pike had arrived 1t SIN
F{ancisco with the c1rws Of tic seven 'esses, viz
rr1g susan Abigail, ship General Williams, barque
VIC. Nc. Of New Bedford; t,arqne Gypsy, Of New
Bedford; baranes Catherine, Nimsod and Eaoeila'
MI of New Bedford, Massachusetts,.
The parpled prisoners report that Capt- NSe. o.
the A1icsl must haye succeeded in notifying sorae
ynssc OF the proximity Of the pirate, as four Escrf
scen nutt}nr back foon after. and with thoae notl
ced fy the Gen. Pike, come thirteen were turned
back. The Gen. Pike uus bonded by the pirate 1ol
saa,eoa, and III officers and men Of the destroyed
/ wha1c ehips mt on board for San Francisco
Among those turned lack BY the Gen. Pike ,yer'
the Addison Pierce md Canton packet. both
/ New Bedford Ii Il believed the pirate VAL GET
tafnly destroy fy more VESSELS, as they were al Il
the Sorthvard. Tie barque Richmond Was alst
| warned oil. and sailed lrom Flower Day for th
| Sandwich Islands.
| In conversation with Capt Smith. Of The shil
| William Thompson, the pirate asked the news
| Copt. Smith replied that President Lincoln ha'
been aseasafnated. II wna prepared to hear that,
said the pirate, exnltingly. He would not bel1es
| TINT Leo had surrendered.
Among the people en- the Shenandoah WIS
Eng1ishman, who seemed to be prospecting for M
vessels 10 nut on line between Australia n.a Se'
zealnnd. and probably would purchase sono Of tb
captures made by tie pirate. The officers Of ii
Shrrarloah talked OF arming two ol Tho wllaler'
10 70 up and destroy whalers whtre they could nj
get, and were very dc:irous to enlist the capture
crews: In some instances being sueeessimftn o.
tanning Kanskas. An English vessel laden stt
| co21 was sccn By tho shtp a, u. Nin1tu, ooao0 II
| the Shenandoah.
A ScE Westminster despatch, nj the so1h
.;u1y. announces the arrival Of Col. Charles
| I,ui,.1cv ora party who uoul1 coon proceed up Il