The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-04-09
DOWN IN THE SEA.
List OF MESSING STEAMSHIPS, yRox THE
Loss OF THE PRESIDENT. IN l841. UP
TO THE DIsAPPEARANcE OF THE CITY
OF Boston.


OF BOsToN.
The President, which left New. York
March IL, l84l, having among her
passengers Tyrone Power the comedi-
an son OF the Duke of Richmond and
other noted persons. is in this dismal
catalogue. and 30 is the City of G!as-
gov, lost in 1854. and the Pacific in
1856; but we recollect no other vessels
of similar character that have 90 van
ished and "left not rack behind"
! Consequently the chances would seem
| to be that is, in the cases of the troop
ship Birkenhead and the packets St.
George. Central America, Sarah Sands,
! Austria Auglo- Saxon and London, y
greater or less number of the passen-
gers of the two missing crafts may have
been saved.
Such. it will be remembered, was also
the fact as regards the Lady Elgin,
sunk by collision Oh Lake Michigan,
Scot. 8. 1860. OF her 1856 passengers,
237 perished, among whom were Mr..
Herbert Ingram, n. P, the founder of
the illustrated London News, and his
con. OF the passengers and crew u
Hungarian. on the other hand, which
was wrecked on the coast of Nova
Scotia, Feb. 10, of the same year. all
on board were lost. The Birkenheed,
wrecked off Simon's Bay, South Africa.
Feb. 26. 1852. lost 4S4, and saved 1874.
The St. George, which was bound from
Liverpool TO New York. was Destroy
ed by fire at sea. Dec. "a 1882. lost 81,
while 70 were rescued. and taken to
Havre by the American ship Orlando.
The Central America, which foundered
on her way from Havana to New York,
Sept. IL. 1857, carried $40 persons, of
whom only lie were saved. OF the
53S on board of the Austria, burned in
the middle Of the Atlantic, Sept. Is,
1858, but 81 survived.
The Sarah Sands. which sailed from
Portsmouth for Calcutta in August.
1857, took FIRE in November, and af-
| forwards experienced q tremendous
gale, carried all on board safely into
port. The Anglo Saxon, wrecked on
q reef of Cape Race. during dense fog.
April u, 1868 Lost 237 out of 446 in,
dividuals. The London. which found.
cred in the Bay of Biscay. January IL,
1865. on the passage from England to
Melbourne, lost 22O lives. amoug whom
were DR.. Woolley, Principal Of the
University Of Sydney, ard Mr.. 6. V.
Brooke. the tragedian. Two instances
have befallen during the past two years
when the dramatic incident, so much
used by novelists and drama,ists, of
single life being saved from among all
on hoard lost ship, has really been
exemplified. These were in the cases
Of the Dalhousie. wrecked off Beachy
Head. October 10. 1853, and the Duo
bar, wrecked off Sydney, August 20,
1857.
In the latter instance tho survivor
was thrown By q gigantic wave into a
| tiny aperture high up in the face of
precipice-the chance of such a thing
| occurring being about the same as that
of throwing pea in q nail hole in the
side of q wall-where he lay insens;ble
for many hours. but was finally discov.
cred and saved by a daring fellow. who
caused himself to be let down from the
top OF the activity by ropes.
The facts we have named. and others
that might lie cited, indicate strong
prepooderence in favor OF the SD pposi-
ton that even should the City of Bos-
ton and the Schmidt have been over
| taken by calamity, many and perhaps
all OF their passengers and crews may
have been saved. We do not, however.
like to abandon the hope thai joyful
telegram may yet fash over the Allan
tic cable, announcing that those fine
ships themselves, as we'll % those who
intrusted their lives to them, are still
above water.-Ne,0 York Times.
GIANT TREES OF AusrRAl1A.-Trees
have been lately found in Australia
which ia height, though not in bulk,
seem to exceed the celebrated forest
giants of California. Sequoia We4ing-
tonia, the highest Of which rises to
about $50 feet. Until lately, the hig:l..
est known Australian tree was Karri
Eucalyptus, &c colossea,) and measured
about 400 feet high, growing in one Of
the glens of Warren river, in Western
Australia. The hollow trunk OF this
tree was sufficiently large to admit of
three riders, with an additional pack
horse, entering end turning around in
lit without dismounting. At :he re-
quest of DR.. Muller. the Government
Director of the Botanic Garden, at
Melbourne. Mr.. Boyle measured fall
len Eucalyptus. { E. a,nygdalina> in the