The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-01-11

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ship Newton OG Nantucket.
From tho New York Worl6 Dec 2s'h
dispatch was published in the World o
yesterday morning announcing the loss o
J tbs ship Newton, hence fer Hamburg, to
gether with large part other cargo, aud MI
her officers and crew. A slip from the olic,
| of the Nantucket Mirror and Inquirer readl
As follows, the date being December 2d:
About 10 o'clock yesterday afternoon, kH
| Francis Sylvia came into town with the 70
port that largo vessel had Ron6 to piece,
| on the south side Of the ISland, and that
| the shore was strewn with barrels Of ker
oaine oil Great numbers Of persons inme
diately left town for the place Of disaster
| and on their arrival found o scene Of do
| struction the like Of which was never Ooen
Oh our shores before. The beach for miles wa
strewn with the fragments Of broken bar.
| rOls, and other articles Of which her cargo
| consisted. But one of her crew reached the
beach alive He was found about half a
mile inland, naked, and had probably
| reached the shore by swimming, and is sup
posed to have started for the nearest houso
and perished on the way. He was a man of
twenty i've or thirty years of age. and on
his right arm were the initial 81. k
marked with India ink, and ON his left arm
&c. U''
About noon, 9 lifc-pressrver was found, on
which was printed. Newton, Hamburg" By
the ship Newton, 699 tons, Captain Herting.
cleared at New York on the 2lst for Ham,
burg, and this is undoubtedly the vessai
lost, though no other thing has been found
that could give any clue as to what vessel
1T was. Yesterday afternoon two more bod
les were picked up at Sisacomet, and Others
were seen to pass by in the surf It L. oati-
mated that about 500 barrols Of kerosene
And a quantity Of ebony have been saved.
Tho portion OF the cargo saved has been
taken possession OF by MIR. Peter FolRar
wreck commissioner.
This is the second vessel that han coma
ashore on the south side Of our iAland within
4S hours. whore the whole crew pGriahed
the other being tho schooner Haynes, Of
Boston, from tEaa West Indies fP Bm.on,
with load OF logwood. which came >aahor0
ON Friday night. N\S
The company on board consisted OF Capt
e. G. Herting and about twenty Others, eli Of
whom were residents of the city of Hamburg
or its envirOns 1t Is not known that there
were passengers on board, although there
was man partially insane. whom hia friends
were desirous of sending home to his native
place, Posen, In the Prussian portion of Po-
land, who may have been on board His
name was not known to the agents of the
ship, as the crew list went with the vessel,
their names also are not to be Obtained
Capt. Herting was one Of the best ship
masters sailing from Hamburg and had been
for years we'll and favorably known in the
passenger trade. He formerly sailed in the
Louis Napoleon. and had been in the en-
ploy Of his late owners for moro than eleven
years He was remarkably quiet and |
steady man and a frst-class sailor He
leaves widow and family Of young ohil- |
dren to mourn his loss.
The citizens of Nantucket, who reached
the city on Wednesday, state that on the |
day following her discovery, nothing wae
left Of the wreck except the merest outlines, |
her stem and stern, with the names Of the |
builders, Napier & Sons, being all that re- |
sembled ship, or anything appurtenant |
thereto Portions Of the cargo wero eortju- |
urlly being washed ashore 2ll along the |
shores Of the island and undoubtedly much |
Of it viii be saved, bringing to the parties |
engaged in wreoking very large return SOy /
their labor.