The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-11-19
The west.

The telegraph furnishes a synopsis OF the
statement of Neal O'Haley one of the two sur.
vivors Of the Pacific disaster. He says
About $50 people were on board. When the
shock occurred ran on deck. Everything
was in confusion, and the passengers crowding
on the hurricane deck. The ship fell off into
the trough Of the sea. / saw long vessel
under sail, which they said struck the steamer.
The passengers crowded into the life-boats,
against the command of the officers. /, with
the chief engineer got the port boat forward
into the water got fifteen women and six men
in her. She was capsized by the rolling of the
ship. / saw none of them afterward. / sup
ported myself by floating skylight about
fifteen minutes then got on portion Of
the hurricane deck, with some eight
others. On looking for the steamer,
found she had disappeared, leaving
mass Of human beings. The
screams for help were fearful, but soon ceased
and we were alone on the raft. There were
the Captain, second mate, second cook, and
four passengers, including young lady. At
o'clock next morning it blew gale from the
southeast, the sea making clean breach over
the raft. We dashed ourselves on. About 4
m. the sea washed overheard the Captain,
second mate, the lady, and another passenger.
About the second cook died. 1t cleared up
about p. m. saw land fifteen miles distant,
and piece of the wreck with two or more on
it. About 5 p. m. another man died. On the
morning Of the 9th, at p. M, large empty
box foated near me, and got it on the raft
for shelter. slept sound that night for sew
eral hours. On the morning Of the 7th, at 8
O'Clock, was rescued by the cutter"
The mystery which at first shrouded the loss
of the steamship Pacific has been cleared up.
A vessel cruising for survivors in the vicinity
of the disaster discovered upon an island the
Master and crew OF the ship Orpheus, which
ran upon reef and sunk. The Captain Of the
Orpheus states that his vessel collided with an
unknown steamship, undoubtedly the Pacific.
and sustained serious damage. He imagined
that the steamer had received little injury,
and that she would put about and render him
needed assistance. But the steamship kept
on her course, and finally disappeared in the
distance. The Master Of the Orpheus affirms
that he used every means possible to avoid COL
Gding, but that for some reason the lights Of
the Pacific we're not visible when they ought to
have been. and she bore down upon the Or
pheus as though utterly oblivious Of her pres
ence The vessels struck and parted when the
Orpheus sought harbor, but, making mis-
take in her reckoning, she struck reef and
went down, all hands being saved.
The jury in the great Ward will case, at De-
troit failed TO agree On a verdict. Eight were
in favor Of breaking the will and four in favor
of sustaining it.
Col. joyce, ex-Revenue Agent, who was re-
Gently convicted at Jefferson City, NO., OF
revenue frauds, has been sentenced to three
and half years Imprisonment in the Peni-
tentiarv. joyce made ali eloquent appeal to
/, Coart IN mitigation Of his sentence as
s,,,lng his innocence and declaring that lie
,ros ,rn -icted on the testimony Of perjured
witnesses.
The nomination of Kansas, according to the
new State census, is 543,OOO.
The Western millers propose to give gu 'heir
Eastern-bound freight to the baltimore ana
Ohio railroad, provided il will keep out OF the
trunk-lne combination
Advicea from the Back Hills report the dis
covery Of rich diggings in the northern hills
party Of miners who were driven out OF the
Black Hills at the point of the bayonet have
arrived at K&nsss City. They report having
found rch placer dggings, and, if let alone,
could have easily earned s10 a day to the man.
Eighteen Mormons living at Franklin Idaho
have been indicted for polygamy.
Counterfeit fves on the First National Bank
of Peru, H., and First National Bank Of Ga
lena, H., are in circulation. Look out for
them.
There was general fall of snow throughout
he Northwest on the 1ith inst, the first Of the
season.