The New York herald., 1878-11-27

She was constructed Of wrought iron and al a pre-
| caution against fire the holds were traversed by
steam pipes from which vapor cond be emitted at a
| moments notice. Her average speed was fourteen
and half knots an hour. without sails. her highest
speed being 3Os miles in twenty-four hours fifteen
| and one-third nautical miles hour. She pro-
vied with patent steam steering gear and had dis
tilling apparatus supplying daily forty hogs
| heads of fresh water.
CARGO SHIPPERS.
The total value OF the cargo Of the Pommerania was
S2243sl. The following are the details of the differ
ent articles Of freight. with their values and the
names of the parties who shipped them:-20,0 600
Mexican dollars worth S17.50O, gold. James b. Col
gate 4 Co.: lard 1858 ticrces, $500, Baumann
Co.. lard 300 otierces. 963. Muller Kruger ard 400
tierces. $4,000. j. NJ. Il H. Webb; butter, 2O6 tubs.
s1.45o. Pinney q Johnson lard. 1872 tierces s33S.,
George H. Hines; leather 81 bales. SIS, 400. George
Paen Co.: leather 30 bales 49, 400 J. v. Van Woert
Il Co.; leather 25 bales s3.419. Kunhsrdt & Co..
cotton. 800 bales. s12,Go1. Kunhardt Cot
rubber goods, 13 bales. 81 500. Kunhardt 4 Co..
machinery, IL cases, S1,215, Kunhardt L. Co..
cigars cases, s1.s77 Kunhardt Co.; butter, 1926
pounds sl.ol6, Kunhardt Co.. lard. 200 tierces.
S4Aso, Kunhardt Il Co.; caviare. 237 kegs, S475O.
Kunhardt 4 Co.; miscellaneous goods. 81 $50 Kun
hardt Co.. bacon, 23 750 pounds, s1,175. Armour
Plankinton Co.; butter 495 tubs S2,O95. G. c. Abel
& Co.. butter, 234 packages, $500. George S. Hart
Coz butter, 143 ubs, $500. William Only; lead, 115l
bars, 5000 Laidlaw 4 Co.. sewing machines, 5000.
s3o,72o. Singer Manufacturing Company drugs. %
packages, $500. J. Domergue; oil of peppermint,
25 cases, sl.l05, Hajemeyer Brunn; canned meats
400 cases, S27O0 Wilson Packing Company grease
972s pounds $500. J. Y. Davis Co.; clover
seed. 1850 packages. S131O0. Burlage Co.;
apples. so barrels, s3I6. John d. Kerklotz;
lard 33 tierces $736, John d. Kerklotz; seed $50
bags, s279O John d. Kerklotz grass seed, $50 bags
800. Brent Co.: lard, 40 terces s5.216. Decker
Co.; domestcs, IS cases. 81 l30. r. Scheitlen Co.;
trunks $780, f. Scheitlen 4 Co.; basam, cases.
$500. FISCHER Keller; oysters 80 barrels, $780, Dor
Ion Il schsfer; oysters 35 barrels. $780, P. Els
worth extracts 300 boxes $3.50. Jansen Co.; clover
seed $50 bags, $2.7O2. q. Amsnck Co.; lard. so
tierces. s1l2o Robe Brother; meats 745 cases.
Sc, 500. Rossiter & Skdmore: donestics packages,
$419, l. Sippili butter, 112 tubs. $4S3. Lloyd /.
Seaman cheese, 102 boxes, $780, Lloyd l. Sea-
man; lard 100 tierces, $4,000, Herman Brock;
tobacco. "a hogsheads. $9,575. Kremelberg Co.;
corn. 1887 bushels. $780, Kremelbcrg Co.; hard
ware. "a cases, $6a5. wiebusch Hger Hardware
Company; knitting machines cases. $1,275. Knauth.
Nachod 4 Kuhne; domestics. bales Ss37 Knauth.
Nachod L Kuhne; furs, packages. $4,000. J. L.
Chemidlin; clocks. 43 packages. $702, Waterbury
Clock Company; copper material, 93 bags, $4,000.
clocks, 81 packages. s1,452 F. Kroeber; ores. 80
boxes S54ss f. Alexandra 4 Sons; cigars. 36 cases.
$1637, +. Alexandra & Sons; sweetmeats, 12 cases,
Sl,60O +. Alexandra L. Sons; extract 900 boxes,
$4497, L. Ripke; leather. 16 bales, $4,000. ]. H.
Rossbach Bros; leather 20 baes $3.50, Pickard
Andersen Total values, S224,3s1.
The goods of domestic manufacture in the above
list valued at 500 779 and the value Of foreign
made articles when were reshipped was s146o2 The
cargo was as general thing. insured in companies
scattered all over the United States.
LETTERS.
Postmaster James reports that the mails on the
lost steamship consisted of Is letters and s31G
grammes Of printed matter. This is all supposed to
be lost except the English mall which was landed at
Plymouth The lost matter consisted of letters and
147 grammes Of printed matter in the French mail
s4ss letters and 72o grammes of printed matter in
German and Austrian mail; 200 letters and 24915
grammes Of printed matter in the Denmark MALL
1888 letters and 377 grammes of printed matter in
mail for Sweden; 1000 letters and 26.274 grammes OF
printed matter in the Norwegian mail.
THE vEsskr. INSURED.
It is understood that the vessel insured for o
small sum not at all. In little book. published
by the company and circulated at the Philadelphia
Exposition they call attention to the fact that their
vessels insured all "a striking proof Of
the efficiency Of their ships and crews and of tho
soundness Of the principles Of management which. as
the result OF an experience Of than twenty years.
arc adhered to in all the branches of the service"
THE DISABLED BARK
The bark Noel Eiian, the vessel with which the
Pommerania coded. is Of iron; was built at Sunder
land in 1877 and belongs Liverpool. She is Of los1
tons measures 22l feet in length 35 feet in beam and
little more than 81 feet in depth of hold.