The Republican journal., 1873-03-20

TIE ABANDONED Brio Capt Win
chester, who was sent to Gibraltar to
inspect brig Mary Celeste, picked up AT
sea abandoned near the Western Islands
reports the result OF his examination to the
New York journal OF Commerce. Capt.
w. says there was nothing in or about The
vessel to furnish a hint of the eas0n why
she was forsaken. The Captain Benjamin
S. Briggs of Marion, had his wife and
child with him. and their wardrobe WH-
LEFT untouched, and her work rs She IaiA
it down, perhaps at the moment Of leaving,
precisely as it would appear in any wells
regulated home if the mistress had stepped
tor moment to the door and been uncN-
pectedly shut out. A report was circulated
that bloody sword was found, but ibis
Capt Winchester examined and decided
that the mark IN question, supposed to be
blood, was only a spot of rust. Nothing
was missed from the captains stores but
Il quadrant, his personal effects otherwise
remaining intact. In the toreca>tle the
order was still more remarkable. The
chests OF the crew contained abundant
provision OF clothing, some of if entirely
new, and none of it disturbed to signaiizr
any preparation for exit. In one chest a
good draft on u foreign banker for so
was carefully placed as when the owner
left port These appearances forbid Ill
suspicion of mutiny or quarrel among the
little company who thus took TO the boats
and left a sound ship under full sail TO its
unguidcd course. The vessel itself was
worth more than her insurance, so that
the underwriters have no suspicion of any
foul play or intended wrong. The most
reasonable supposition is that she ground
ed on a shoal, which certainly lay in her
intended pathway, and only toated after
she had been abandoned by her officers
| and crew 1t is certainly to be hoped that
the missing company viii come safely to
land at last to unravel the seeming my9-
terry, bet the distance of time which has
elapsed leaves but slender chance Of
such recovery. She sailed from New
York for Genoa, as our records show. on
the eth of November The last record in
her logbook was November 24th, and She
was discovered by the brig Del Gratia ten
days after, that is December 4th. Il is
not yet too late to hear that the wanderers
were saved, but every day which elapses
without tidings from them lessons the
chances of their safety.
THE LAST WHALEk. Through a letter
received in town by A. M. Myrick, from
Calao, we learn that the bark r L. Bars
tow of this port has been sold, and that
Capt. Jernegan and Mr.. Luce, his mate
may be soon expected home. This winds
up the list of Nantucket whalers, The r.
! l.. Barstow being the last vessel in the
business to bear the name ''NantucE;ct"
on her stern. We who can lool, back to
the time when we sent nearly hundred
large ships into the Pacific Ocean only
thirty Years aegean hardly believe it
possible that we have lived to see the last
of the business. Nantucket Inquirer
ANOTHER New YORK BUrCHERr. The
telegraph brings report Of n horrible
butchery at a lager beer saloon on 10th
street New York City, Monday afternoon
Three men afterhaving drink in Schmidt
lager beer saloon refused to pay. Schmidt
seized one of them when all three knockcd
him down, beating and kicking bin ter
ribly. His wife came to his assistance
when they beat her and fatally stabbed
her in three or four places. The brutes
then again fell on Schmidt biting one ear
nearly off, biting one finger off, and beat
| iH5 MN over tne ntdu WIN Il peer DOttle.
Mr.. Young, q neighbor who Went TO
| Schtnldt's assistance. was stabbed in the
abdomen, the rutfians turning the knife
the same rs Simmons did when he stabbed
Duryea As Young fell to the floor they
| beat and kicked his head into a shapeless
mass They then fled, and reaching a
| plank which crossed an excavation OF rock
between 74th and 10Th streets, met John
Luby, who was passing, into whom they
plunged the same knife with which they
| had stabbed their other victims.
Both Mr. Young and Mrs. Schmidt will
die, and coroner has been notified to
take theirla last statements; but Mr.. Schmidt,
though in horrible condition, may live,
and Mr. Luby will recover il Inflammation
does not occur. The police has 10 clue
| to the ruftians
Bethel, Me. expects soon 10 have 30, 900 sugar
maple trees on tap.