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SCANDAL.
,..o., destruction Among Fishing Vessels.

NEW YORK, May Zo.--1He report OF the
subcommittee regarding the Methodist
Rook Concern indicates large SWindle in
nearly all the departments.
It is stated that Capt. Hallenbeck, of the
unfortunate steamer Epsilon, remarked
that he had the best boat in the harbor;
that she would carry 100 pounds of steam
without straining a bolt or opening a
4 valve, and that he could not get up steam
enough in the boiler to burst it. Men are
engaged in graphing for the bodies. The
wreck will be raised in few days.
1t is estimated that 5000 men engaged
in the strike in this city.
Thirty persons were injured by the ex-
plosiOn of the Epsilon; six fatally. The
bodies of the captain and the fireman have
not been recovered. Low water in the
boiler is said to have caused the disaster.
The following are the names of the YES
sells engaged in seal fishing and known to
be lost off the coasts of Labrador and New
fOundland, during the spring season, as
ascertained by the New York Times: The
Maid of Judah, ninety-seven men; Shark,
one hundred and two men bloodhound,
steamship, one hundred and twenty-five
men; Eclipse, ninety-nine men; Rover,
ninety men: Retriever, steamship, one
hundred and fifty men; Saver, r. q. Y,
one hundred men. All hands perished.
Aurora, seyenty-fOur men; Lapland,
eighty men; Witch of the Waves, ninety
three men; Edgar DOran, one hundred
and two men, Twin Sisters, ninety-eight
men; Swami, ninety-One men; Terra
Move, one hundred and fifteen men
Flash, one hundred and one men; Leo
nora, siXty-twO men; First Merit, seventy
five men, Lord of the Isles, seventy-five
men, EsquimauX, one hundred and four
men; Aster, ninety-sCVen men; Marga-
rite: fOrty-five men; Hawk, steamship,
one hundred and fifteen men; Emily
Ann, one hundred and thirteen men; Me-
teor, seventy men; IrOnsides, one hun
dred and fifteen men; William and Mary,
ninety-One men; Pride of the Sea, one
hundred and seventeen men, all known to
be lost. Hector, one hundred men;
Brothers, ninety men; Iron-clad steam
ship, one hundred and thirty-two men
Hero, fOrty-tWO men; Nightingale, sixty
five men; men all known to be lost.
Balaklava, seventy-nine men; Byzantine,
eighty men Herbert Libby, ninety-eight
men; Queen of the Isles, ninety-siX men
Hunter, fifty men. Men all known to |
have perished. Mary Jane, forty-three |
men; Redman, siXty-tive men; Home Of
the North, one hundred and thirty-twO |
men.
The others have not yet been heard |
from, but all those recOunted above have
been totally wrecked and their crews have |
not been accounted for, except in very
rare instances; and the few who Were |
saved could not give any definite intelli- |
gence of those whom they had left behind |
them. Out of 1000 souls, only 175 have |
been accounted for. Most of these vessels |
were dashed to pieces on icebergs and |
fields of ice during a terrific hurricane. |
Many of them were insured in American !
Insurance Companies, and merchants in |
this city and Massachusetts, were largely |
Interested in the fleet. This wholesale |
disaster spreads poverty and ruin through |
out Newfoundland, where the victims |
nearly all belonged, and where the vessels |
generally belonged.
During the night Of the loss, the steam
ship Retriever and sixteen sail vessels |
were hemmed in by high bOulders and |
bCrgS of ice, over which tremendous seas
dashed high and wild.
While this fleet lay to as q last effort to |
survive the hurricane, many of the crafts |
cut down each other, and one fearful in 7
stance is recorded wherein vessel driven
on an iceberg by huge sea fell back with |
mighty crash upon the brig Twin Sis
ters, which lay beneath the berg. A large
number of men were instantly crushed to |
death and the Twin Sisters was literally |
burst in two. Only fifteen out of ninety
eight clung to the spars and were by
chance picked up by the crew of the Re-
triever. The day after the storm the ice
opened and the steamship Retriever made
land, on reaching which she sunk and
kGeled over, but her crew succeeded in
escaping to the shore. She was the only
vessel that reached the shore out of a fleet
of sixteen in her vicinity during the hur-
ricane. Hundreds of the fleet are still to |
be heard from, and their fate NAV be as
gloomy as that of the fOrty-One vessels of
which the above account is given by the
- 1
of the 11th of April. The ruin of the
seal fishery is complete.
BOSTON, May 2S.-The reported whole
sale destruction of the Newfoundland |
whaling fleet is not credited here.
A letter from ST. Johns, newfoundland, |
by last mail, says that ten or twelve YES
sells in all are lost or missing, but the two |
or three vessels missing have not been out |
SO long as to be given up for lost.
The crews of vessels known to be de-
stroyed were all saved, except fOrty-five
out Of sixty men on the brig Huntsman.
IWenty-nine of these men leave widows
wil about one hundred and fifty chill
drel, and subscriptions were being taken
10 obtain means for their support.
bishop Harris presided at the Methodist
General Conference to-day.
The reports of the committees on tracts,
sunday school, &C., were received and
adopted.
a resolution of thanks to DIR. Durbin,
the retiring Secretary of the Missionary
Society, was adopted.
A resolution also passed continuing DIR.
Durbin's salary for three months after his
retirement
The Conference then adopted rules for
Ime tI, election of General Conference officers.
me Hne vote was taken by hand. Rev. J. ID.
vincent was elected editor of Sunday
schooI books and periodicals; DR.. VIM.
NNaST, editor of the C7triStJiche apologize;
VI. henry Leibhardt, editor of the Ger
tracts and books, and DR., y Wheedon. ed
itor of the Methodist OuarterIy Review.
On recommendation of the Committee
on ltinerancy, the basis of representation
IN the General Conference was changed