The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-15
The Louisiana Double Murder.
THE MISSING STEAMER.

Tho Cuunrd stenmer Snmaria sixteen Days
tut from uueenstown-A Surmise About the
City of BOstOn-HOpe Dying out.
Public attention has been so painfully attracted
to the perils of ocean navigation within the last
few days by the prolonged and unaccountable de-
tention of the City of Boston, that even the
slightest delay in the arrival OF another steamer
is seized upon by rumor's busy tongue and
spread about as portentous omen OF disaster.
A rumor of this kind respecting the Cunard
steamer Samaria caused considerable excitement
Yesterday. Various stories we're in circulation,
some connecting in a vague way the Samaria
with the City of Boston, and all containing more
or less of sensationalism. The simple facts in
the case are given below, In order to show how
little real cause there is for alarm as yet.
The Samaria is first-class screw steamer OF
about 2400 tons register, built on the Clyde in
1865 and owned and employed by the Cunard
Steamship Company as passenger and freight
boat. She is not usually employed as a mail
boat but is at present bringing a British mail.
She sailed from Liverpool on the 10th
and from Queenstown on the 27th ultimo,
under command of Captain Harrison, and
bringing a mail, some two hundred passengers
and general cargo of small merchandise, all
consigned to G. g.. Francklyn, the agent of the
Cunard line in this city. She has been sixteen
days out, but on one previous occasion occu-
pied fourteen days on the passage, and another
steamer of this line has occupied eighteen days
The Huniers Current In England-The Wreck
on the Cardigan Coast-The steamer said to
he spoken.
Mr.. William Inman sends the following tele-
gram from Windermere, dated last night
az see second letter in the Times of to-day about
the CITY of Boston. She left Halifax without any
SeIe ssa Steamer e Druid vent to sable Iand last
week but we believe the rockets reported were sent
mn by the Canadian steamer Nova Scotlan."
A private telegram is said to have been re-
ceiyed at Bristol announcing the safety of the
City of Boston, and that she had been spoken
off ireland. but that both of her cylinders are
gone.
From the Echo.
The harbor authorities at Kingstown received
a report on Sunday night which seems to indi-
cate that the missing steamer, the city OF
Boston, has been wrecked. MIR. John Colllng-
wood master of the bark Russell, from Mariana
ple to Dublin with wheat, reported that when at
sea. on the morning of Saturday, the Small
Lights lin Cardigan Bay), bearing N. E. by N.
about SO miles, weather fine, he passed the
funnel of a steamer, apparently belonging to a
yery large ship, fast to portion of wreck, aud
lifted up aud down from SIX to eight feet IN the
water.
wards to the Windward. 1t is to be feared that
this was the funnel of the City of Boston, screw
steamship, now so long due. A Liverpool cor
respondent states that the underwriters of the
vessel are more confident than they we're on
Saturday, and that sixty guineas premium
conld command any amount Of insurance. The
opinion of experienced masters is that the City
OF Boston is coming on under sail, and that she
will be heard of off the Irish coast about Thurs
day.
From the London Da,ly Telegraph.
private telegram is said to have been re-
ceived at Bristol yesterday announcing the
safety of the City of Boston steamer. She is re-
ported to have been spoken off the Irish coast,
with both cylinders broken. (We have made
INQUIRIES, and regret to say that we are unable
to confirm this rumor in any particularly
From the LONDON Daily Ne1s.
The Allan Companys steamer HISTORIAN,
which has arrived at Portland from Liverpool
had the toughest westerly passage ever encoun-
tered by that ship. The gales commenced on
Saturday, the 9th, and continued throughout
Sunday. The sea at the time ran uncommonly
high, but being completely decked in the vessel
lived through 1t. During the gale a sea came
over her port quarter, earring away the
pinnacle near the mizzenmast, bursting
in the doors of the smoking-house
lust forward of the mizzenmast, and the
Conclusion was such as to smash all the stained
glass in the house, which at the time was covered
with wooden shutters. An officer was standing
on the starboard side when the sea came over
holding on the mast pins, which, although
heavy and of brass were bent before he let go
He was thrown into the mizzen rigging, anC
had his nose broken. The Bessie, which hai
arrived at Liverpool from New Orleans, encoun
tered fearful weather. Her decks were swept
the wheel broken, her sides stove in, and thu
cargo much damaged by the seas which swep
over her.