The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-22


LONDON, April IA terrific gale has
ragged in the English Channel the past three
days Many ships, names unknown, have
been wrecked, and all on board lost.
THE EUROPE DISASTER.
LONDON, April 1.-THE Herald cOrrespOn.
dent has had an interview with the manager
of the National Line, Mr.. McAllister, who
strongly animadverts on the ingratitutle of
the captain Of the Europe, who, he says, was
first scared and afterward jealous of Mr..
Buck, and went on prating about his
wounded honor.
McAlllster SAYS the company stands by
Buck, and has ordered a lawsuit against
Captain Lemare and the French company.
Bucks statement is substantially AZ fol-
lows:
a consulted with Capt. CrOgan, who con-
sented to tow the ship but the hawsers
broke. The barometer was falling. The
Europe became now unmanageable, owing
to the bulk of the water in her hold. Capt.
Crogan slgnalled all hands to return.
l reluctantly obeyed, not wishing to risk
the lives of the volunteer crew, felt sure
of saving the Europe, bnt the French
pumps were wretched inefficient. After
considerable search, found deck pump
slowed in the fore part, which reduced the
water in the cargo compartment. When the
Egypt was sighted. there was every indica-
ton of southwest gale. The water was
rising in the ship, and the weight OF it was
surainng her bulkhead. The water rose
eighteen feet in the engine-rOOm and stake
hole.
Everybody speaks highly of the pluck.
and daring Of Mr. Buch.
ELECTION OF SUMMERS SUCCESSOR.
Especial to Cincinnati Commercially
Ill
sets people in Washington are in high
state Of excitement over the announcement
that Gov. William B. Washburn is elected to
succeed Sumner in the Senate. OF the
eleven Representatives from the Bay State,
only four, viz: the Hoar brothers, GOOch
and John NJ. s. Williams are pleased at the
result. Many of the best informed do not
hesitate to charge that Washburn's election
was secured by fraud and corruption. They
denounce Washburn in the severest terms
for accepting the position, as they all assume
he will They claim that he sacrifices Dawes
for the sake of his own advancement, and
hold that this is q heinOus Offense, in view
of the circumstance that Dawes has uni
formly stood Washburn's friend, and has
made him all that he il, practically.
1t seems that in all Of Washburn's career
Dawes has been chiefly instrumental in ad
vancing his political fortunes, and the re-
mark is Indignantly made tonight by men of
prominence in Massachusetts, that if it kat
not been for Dawes Washburn would still
be out in Greenfield making pals and tubs.
1t seems that Dawes would not have felt par
ticularly hurt if Wendell Phillips, Emory
Washburn, or some such person, had been
agreed upon by way Of compromises. The
talk is loud and long, and threats are made
that, to punish the men who thus sold and
delivered Dawes, Democratic Governor and
Legislature will be elected in Massachusetts
this fall, through the efforts and as
sistance of the Dawes Republicans, and
as consequence a Democratic Senator
chosen from that State the coming winter.
Dawes friends have freely asserted during
all of this Senatorial struggle that he would
never consent to come back to the House
that if he failed to be elected Senator he
would retire finally from public life. The
concluding part Of this assertion is repeated
tonight with great emphasis. II is . little
peculiar that while the opinions Of every
other Massachusetts Congressman are quo
ted to night, no reference is made to Bout
we'll They don't count Boutwell, any more.
PREPAYMENT OF NEWSPAPER POSTAGE.
The Postmaster General has written a
letter to Congress urging the prepayment
of postage on newspapers.
THE CASE OF EX-COLLECTOR DOCKERY.
NEW YORK, April IA Havana letter
says: Frederick Dockery, Ex-United
States District Attorney at Key West, about
the clumsiest individual to have been sent
on any mission requiring deal of tact, has
come to grief, owing to his stupidity in sup
posing that he had a right to 70 abont as he
pleased. 1t is said that he came here on a
mission from Gen. Quesada, trying to arrange
matters with Cespedes, 80 that Qnesada
could land with an expedition. On the 9th
inst, all tattered and torn, DOckery pre-
scented himself at the Office Of the United
States Consul, or agent, in Nuevis!a, telling
him that he had just come from the insur-
rection and was DESTROYS Of surren,lering to
the Spanish authorities, oubtedly think
ing he would at once receive passport to
go buck to Key West.
The consul went with him to the military
Governor of the place, aud he referred the
subject to General PortillO, who ordered
that Dockery aud the consul be placed in
solitary confinement. Concha ordered the
release of the consul, but approved q cOnrt-
martial to try Dockery as a spy. Thursday
following, the court-rnartial sentenced him
70 death, and the case was submitted to
General Concha, who: it is rumored, intends
to spare his life az q matter Of courtesy TO-
wards the United States.