The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-06-18

Association, have fought for years with sue
cess. Irish workingmen, follow the
example which your brethren in England
are about to give, and enter the great
brotherly union of workingmen of all cOun-
tries. Associate yourselves at last with
your natural, and therefore most trust
worthy allies, the organized workingmen,
for the great battle against our common
enemy, the ruling capitalist class and their
government. Only in this sign, united
with them only the victory can be yours
Your special secret organization has hitherto
been Of no avail to you, but has solely
placed your hard-earned means into the
hands of unskilled and unreliable leaders,
who have wasted the fruits Of your labor and
blood for nothing.
Irish workingmen, learn that you can free
yourselves and your country only by your
own labor in union with your fellOw-WOrk-
ingmen Of all countries.
Join US ! We offer to you the hand Of
brotberly fellowship Long life to the Irish
Republie and the workingmen's republic Of
all countries.
GERMAN WoRKINGMEN' UNION.
Missing ships
The mysterious disappearance in the At
lantic of the steamer City of Boston, with 3
large number Of passengers on board, recalls
to mind many similar cases In the annals Of
ocean navigation. Two occurred the
eighteenth century, which attracted general
attention. The first Of these was the disap-
pearance, in 1869, of the British frigate Au-
rora, bound for India, which, after touching
at the Cape Of Good Hope, was never again
heard Of. The poet Falconer, author Of "The
Shipwreck, was on board of her as purser
The other instance, was that Of La Perouse,
the French navigator, who, after q long
cruise of discovery in the Pacific Ocean
with the frigates Astrolabe and Boussole,
left Botany Bay, early in 1888, and was
never heard of again ; though, in 1923,
traces of wrecks were found on the New
Hebrides, which are now thought to have
been those Of the missing squadron. The
disappearance of the President in 1841,
cause the most unparalleled excitement.
Ocean steamers were novelties in those
days. for only few years had elapsed
since a well philosopher had pro-
nounced it impossible to cross the Allan
tic by the aid of steam alone. The Presi-
dent left New York carly in January,
and was despaired Of in April. Tremendous
weather had prevailed during the interval,
and unusual quantities Of ice had been
seen in low latitudes. Among her passen-
gers were Lord Fitzroy Lennox, son of
the Duke Of Richmond, and Tyrone Power,
the celebrated Irish actor.
In 1854, the screw propeller City of
Glasgow, left Liverpool for Philadelphia,
on the lst Of March, with four hundred and
eighty persons on board in all. She has
never been since heard Of, and no fragments
which could be identified have been dis
covered.
In 1856, the Collins steamer Pacific left
Liverpool on the 2Sd of January, with one
hundred and eigAty-six persoas on board,
among them Messrs. Eliot Wsrburton,
and Catherwood, the artist. Nothing has
since been heard Of her, and SIZE is supposed
to have struck on an iceberg
In 1862, the steamer Lifeguard, which
left Newcastle on the 20th Of December,
disappeared, and is supposed to have found
cred off Marlborough Head.
These are the only cases within our
knowledge, where large steamship has dis
appeared totally without leaving behind a
trace Of her existence but, as an example
of the manner in which such terrible ca
lamities may occur, we may cite the case Of
the Lefort, a Russian vesse[of- war Of
eighty-four guns, which, in the year 1857,
keeled over and went down bodily in the
Gulf Of Cronstadt, within sight Of three Of
her consorts. The whole ships company,
amounting to eight hundred and thirty-six
persons, were drowned. No human tongue
survived to tell how the Hungarian, q Can
adian steamer, was wrecked. She was dis
covered in 1859, on the rocks near Cape
Sable, Nova Scotia, and though two hun
dred persons had been on board, only three
bodies were found, while the mail bags
were reduced to pulp. The Prussian
corvette Amazon may doubtless, be en-
rolled in the list of missing ships. In
1861, she disappeared from the ocean, and
some arm-racks, containing swords and
guns, marked IF. W." Frederick VIII
liams), found on the sands off the Helder,
are the only proofs Of her wreckage.-Ap-