The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-03-17
Lost at sea.

New York was much sgitatel yesterday
over u cable telegram TINT the missing
Inman steamer, City OF Boston, had ar.
rived in a foreign port, and by subse.
qu@t dispatch pronounciBg the tlSt q
hoax. t. Is dtacult tp eopcetgeJ what
motive could move any 6Is2to trifs with
matter SO painful to many, by sending
thsefalss' reports. } Thistwas the second
report Of the kind circulated in New
York. Tho same heartless species Of
hoaxing has been indulged in England.
The London Telegraph Of the 81 had a
paragraph saying that q priAte'diSpatch
had been received at Bristol announcing
the safety Of the missing steamer Those
having friends On ths City of Boston, have
now almost abandoned hope, and the pub.
lie ia4xieties with regard 10 'her hte arc
nov unhapplly Increased by the uncertain:
ties attending the non.arrival of the
Cunard steamship Samsria at New York,
where she Is now overdue week, having
sailed from Queenstown on the 27thofFcb-
ruary. The average length oethe salnaria's
trips scros the Atlantic have hitherto
been twelve days. She had on board,
when she sailed from Queenstown, two
hundred passengers, mixed cargo of
smlil wares and dsBritiSh mail . She Is
now eighteen days out, but Us on form.
er trip she was fourteen days in making
the passage, there Is yet fair ground for
hopc that the delay is not caused by dis
astGr. .....,
In the case.ofi the City Of Boston, how
ever, the chances of her ever returning to
port are unfortunately very slight. Varl-
ous theories, have been offered to account
for her n6h:appearance, and scvcral.ac-
counts OF, wrecks seen, and unknown
steamers passed at sea have been publish
ed from time to time. Tho latest intellt-
.gence received, which seems TO afford o
possible clue to her fate, Is the following
paragraph published in the London Eeh0
Of March2:f.,nar eraHfnfT
"The harbor authorities ut Kingston re-
ceived report on Sunday night which
seems to indicate that the missing steamer
City Of Boston has been wrecked. Mr..
John Collingwood, master Of the bark
Russell, from MariAnople TO Dublin, with
wheat, reported that when at sea, on The
morning Of Saturday, tho Smalls' Lights
lin Cardigan Bay bearing northeast by
north about thirty-two miles, weather
fine, he passed the funnel Of steamer, ap-
parently belonging to very large ship,
last to portion Of wreck, and lifted up
and down from six to eight feet III the
water. Tho Russell passed. the funnel
about thirty yards to the windward. II is
to be feared that this was the funnel Of the
City Of Boston, screw steamship, now 80
long due. A Liverpool correspondent
states that tile underwriters Of the vessel
aro moro confident than they were on Sat
urday, and thNt sixty guineas premium
could command any amount Of insurance" "
] &dded'tD these wehave the case Of the
iron.clad Atlanta, which LEFT Philadelphia
about the 1st Of December, for Hayti
She had on board about 12O souls. Some
limc since she was reported wrecked on
an island, but this is contradicted, and The
friends of those on board havc bnt little
hope for their safety. l-J
The season has been unusually stormy
and ocean navigation on tho Atlantic ex-
Z icSeptanably perIlods. Whlel the los; s;OE
'lS by 6eSqp tfnYsl maynOs q ] tISiaSer- q
age exceed that by railway or river, IN
ocean disaster always excitcs more sympa-
thy than any other, especially where
nothing IS ever known Of, the cRcnm.
stlnSeS,5 There sla strnuge5and aw-
full interest, which every ono feels but
none can describe, In the fhte Of theIship
that goes down 10 sea ffeightelwith pre-
CiOus lives, and which once swallowed up
in the horizon iSnever heard Of more; and
the mystery of her fate, and The possibility
that Il may one day be cleared up, keep
alive the interest long after It IS rcasona-
bly, certain the ship and all on board arc
nj the bottom Of the deep.