New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-29
WHOLE NUMBER 1873.

| In by high b0ulders and berps of ieo .,,,o,.
which tremendous seas dashed higb and
| wildly.
Willie this fleet lay to as a last effort to
survive the hurricane, many tossing craft
cut down each other
One fearful instance is recorded wherein
| a vessel, driven on an iceberg by a huge sea
fell back with mighty crash on the brig
Twin Sisters, which lay beneath the berg.
A large number of men were instantly
crushed to death, and the Twin Sisters was
literally burst in two. The rest of the
crew, fifteen out of ninety-eight men, clung
to broken spars, and were by chance picked
| up by the crew of the Retriever.
The day after the storm the iee opened
and the steamship Retriever made land, on
| reaching which she sunk and keeled over,
/ but her crew succeeded in escaping to the
shore. She was the only vessel that reached
shore out of a fleet of sixteen in her vicinity
| during the hurricane
Hundreds of the feet are still to be heard
from, and their fate may be even as gloomy
as that of the torty-0ne vessels Of which the
| above account is given.
/ The disaster occurred on the night of the
eleventh of April. The ruin of the seal
fishery prospects, at least for the present
| season, is complete.
Boston, May 28-The reported wholesale
| destruction of the Newfoundland whaling
| heet is NOT credited here. a letter from
| st. Johns, Newfoundland, by the last mail,
/ says that twelve vessels in all are lost or
missing, but that two or three of the miss
ing have not been out 30 long as to be given
| up for lost. The crews of vessels known to
| be destroyed were all saved, except forty
| five out of sixty men on the brig Huntsman.
Twenty-nine of these men leave widows,
with about $50 children, and subscriptions
were taken to obtain means for their sup
port.
A shipping merchant of this city repre-
senting the Newfoundland firm of Harvey g.
| Co., confirms the dispatch from Boston in
reference to the exaggerated accounts of
the sealing fleet disaster He said @he re-
port is entirely false with respect to all but
| three vessels, and that he has advices of the
| safe return of most of the feet.
NEW YORK, May 28.-It is estimated that
| there are 10000 men engaged in the various
trade strikes in this city.
The report of the subcommittee to the
Methodist Conference, regarding the Meth
| Odist Book Concern, indicates large swim
dies IN nearly all departments Of the CON
Germ.
Bishop Harris presided at the Methodist
General Conference to-day. Reports of
committees on Sunday school tracts, etc.,
were received and adopted. A resolution
of thanks was rendered to DR.. Durbin, the
retiring secretary of the Missionary Society.
| A resolution was also passed continuing
DIR. Durbin's salary for three months after
his retirement. The Conference then
adopted rules for the election of General
Conference officers. A vote was taken
| by hand, and the Rev. J. H. Vincent
was elected editor Of Sunday school
/ books and periodicals DR.. William
Mast, editor of the Ch,istlicbe Apogete DR..
Henry Liebhardt, editor of the German
Family Magazine Sunday school tracts and
books, and DR.. ID. d. Wheedou, editor of
| the Methodist Quarterly Regie1g. On recon-
mendation of the committee on itineraey,
the basis of representation in the general
conference was changed to one delegate to
every f0rty-fve instead of thirty-nine as
heretofore The voting for the editor of the
Ladies Repository proceeded, but none of
the six candidates received enough votes
for election, The election was postponed
until tomorrow, after which the conference
adjourned.
Thirty persons were injured by the ex-
plosion of the Uugboat Epsilon. The bodies
OF the captain and fireman have not been
recovered. Low water In the boiler is said
to have been the cause of the explosion.
1t is stated that Captain Hollenbeeh, of
the unfortunate steamer Epsilon, remarked
that he had the best boat in the harbor;
that she would carry hundred pounds Of
steam without starting bolt or opening q
valve, and that he could not get up steam
enough in her boiler to burst it.
Men are now engaged in graphing for
the bodies. The wreck will be raised in q
few days.
This forenoon, Christian Trefz, baker,
stabbed his wife fourteen times. She was
living with Franz Linderman, who was also
stabbed. Trefz then stabbed himself, and
it is thought that all of them will die.
The striking wOrkmen are quiet and con-
fident of the success of the movement.
majority of the pianO-makers are in favor
oteOneeding the demands of their employees
The Steinways, who employ 500 men, viii
give an answer tomorrow evening.
The Post, which yesterday Intimated that
there was evidence to connect the name of
Governor tthen Mayor Hoffman with city
frauds of 1868, says, editorially, to-day: "It
is due to the Governor to state that moth
ing was discovered in the report of the
Committee of Seventy to warrant the infer
ence that has been drawn"
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs to
day opened the bids for Indian supplies in
presence of B. +. COwan Assistant Seere-
tary of the Interior, and the members of
the Indian Board. Contracts for q 600 900
pounds of beef on the hoof will be awarded
at 81 "a to 81 60 per hundred pounds-half
the former price, all deliverable at the diff
ferent agencies
City lab0rers held a meeting last night at
Union square. About 5000 persons were
present. Several speeches were made.
Frank Purcell said he would not advise a
strike at the present time, because there
were plenty of men ready to fill vacancies.
No definite action was taken by the meet
ing.
Money easy at 507 o cent on call loans,
with exceptional loans at 4. Exchange
firmer at ga. Gold I13zs 01l4. Govern
ments closed strong at ls advance on last
nights prices; new fves 1929; skies of 1881,
coupons, 1898; fve-twenties of 1862, ll3&;
1864, II39; 1865. lis; new issues Il6l5; 1867,
ll7as; 1868, ll7ls; ten-fOrties II2A. State
bonds very dull; Tennessees, 70; Vir-
ginias, old 4S, new So; Louisianas, old 60,
new 55; levee skies "a, eights 81 Ala
bama eights &c. fives so; Georgia skies 20,
sevens SO; North CarOlinas, old 30, new 20;
South Carolinas, old 81, new 30.
Arrived-Steamers Parthia, Vile de
Paris, San Jacinto and Champion.
The railroad war is renewed IN Long
Island CITY, where the wOrkmen of the
CrOsstown Railroad Company and the East
river ferry to-day took turns in laying and
DESTROYING the track of the former company
A riot is imminent.
A dastardly attempt was made yesterday,
at Brentwood, to throw the Long Island
railroad mail train from the track. The
engine and tender were wrecked.
Notwithstanding Hanover and West
phalia; steamer Cuba, from LlyerbOol
At session of the Grand Council Of
Orangemen resolutions passed for Orange
societies all over the Union to parade on
the twelfth of July, and leave the route of
procession open to the dietatiOn of the DO
lice authorities of each city.
Judge Curtis of the New York City Ma
rlne Court, to-day decided that the case of
John Mitchell against General Dix for i'm