The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-10-26

inc above report caused q vast amount OF excite
ment among those interested In the safety OF tho
missing boats, and. indeed, through the community
generally Inquiries last evening at the ofce OF the
Anchor line OF steamships elected the following YER
sion OF the story.
Yesterday morning the following telegram was
received by the agents OF the Cambria AT the Office
In Bowling Green:--
To nEsprrsoy BnoTHEEs, bowling Green, N. Y:
have received following from D. Il. Hudson :-"Hsd
cHARLEs ". BINGHAM
Mr.. Bingham is brother OF the late agent OF the
company, VINO, with his family, was also q passen-
ger on board the unfortunate vessel. The Messrs
Henderson. from the fact that they had heard no
news OF the matter themselves from the agents in
Glasgow, wore inclined To doubt the RenunenesS or
the above telegram. Inquiries were ut once made
by them at the ONCE OF the Western Union Telegraph
Company, No. las Broadway, aud III reply the fol-
lowing letter was received from Mr. Eckert the GEN
era superintendent
To Messrs. HENDERSON, BROTHERS, Bowling Green, New
GrSrLKaEs-In reply to your inquiries OF this date /
the able passed ,hrsngh ths city on the
evening q The ia instant. az follows
We not, course. any evidence Of its genunenes
aas nss sS%s to u.s. In ne segs Fern Very
General superintendent Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, IA Broadway.
Oh course the answer OF Mr.. Eckert thoroughly
satisfied the agents Of the truth OF the telegram re-
ceived nom their Pitsburg correspondent but still
they confident that this telegram only referred
to the fact that MIR. Albert Hodson had made his
voyage In the Cambria. Though his name appears
in the passenger list Of that vessel they OF Opln
ion that he must have gone by the Caledonia. II is
the custom OF the Office to check or the
names on the passenger list immediately be-
fore the vessel starts, and his name has
not been thus checked on on the list
OF the Cambria. It is also the custom when pa S.
senger changes his intention of proceeding by cer-
vessel by which he actually makes the voyage. In
his Intention VI proceeding In the Cambria, and
most fortunately Tor himself, took passage In the
Caledonia.
Nothing appears IN the telegram TO Mr.. Hodson, In
Indiana to indicate that ms brother had been pas
senger board the lost SHIP and they believe that
tho latter, in his anxiety to relieve the sus-
pense OF his brother IN America, who sup.
posed that he was on board the Cambria,
had sent the laconic telegram 'Safe.n which has
produced all this painful anxiety among the friends
OF the ill-fated passengers and through the whole
OF New York. No news has been received by Messrs.
Henderson from home yet on the subject, and it Is
decidedly most probable that either In his telegram
to his brother Mr. Henderson would have men
toned something OF the fearful disaster or that the
agents here would have heard news from Glas-
Cow II anything had been heard from the missing
boats All things considered the views taken by the
Messrs. Henderson seem the most probable that nc
message from the sea- has yet been received In
Scotland to tell the fate OF the unfortunate passen-
gers Of the Cambria.