Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-02-12
EASTERN intelligence.
DEBATE ON THE RIVER AND
HARB0R BILL.
A Number of Missing Steamers.
GREAT ANXIETY FOR THEIR SAFETY
SOME OF THEM THIRTY DAYS
OVERDUE.
A Number of Missing Steamers.
GREAT ANXIETY FOR THEIR SAFETY
Number of Cases of Smallpox in
New York.
Special to the sEsrrsE1.l

NEW YORK, Feb. 11.-None of the miss
ing steamers have been heard from to-day,
and some are undoubtedly lost. The two
which attract the greatest attention are the
Batavia of the Cunard Line and the
Bristol City. The Batavia had a large
passenger list, mostly New Workers. The
company's are unwilling to believe she has
gone down. 1t was thought the steamer
Bothnia would have some news, but that
vessels report is that she did not see a
sail from leaving Queenstown until off
Fire Island. The names Of the Batavia
passengers are in the London Office and
with the purser. While the Cunard agents
fail to identify the vessel sighted within
200 miles of Queenstown, Messrs. Arkell q
Co. Of Pearl street believe they see in the
description Of the vessel the Bristol City,
out ~forty-four days, and even allowing for
the unusually heavy weather of the last
two months, is thirty days overdue. She
was heavily laden with grain, and only sup
piled with coal for a short trip, and with
either broken machinery or running out OF
coal, her passage would necessarily be a
long one. Mr.. Arkell refuses to believe
the vessel lost, but admits that he is ex-
tremely anxious. Arkell adds If we
should not hear from her in another fort
night l shall conclude she has foundered.
II the steamer is still afioat she will be in
no trouble. She has plenty Of spare ma
terial and stores, and if the latter should
u short, she is laden forward with hams,
bacon, cheese, butter and -four, SO that it
would only be necessary for the crew to
open the hatchways to secure all they
might need. The crew consists of twenty
seven officers and men, mostly English,
and the vessel is fully insured, while most
of the cargo is covered by two-thirds of
her probable selling value. She has no
passengers of the steamer Josephus, foun-
dered on Ship Island. 1t is said that if
nothing should be saved of the vessel or
cargo the loss will be about 5000, 600.
LATER P. M.-The steamer Batavia,
long overdue, is now being towed in with
her propeller gone. The Sound feet re-
manned outside all day yesterday, fearing
to move through He'll Gate in the fog.
Small POx Cases in New York.
New YORK, Feb. ia map has been
prepared, dotted, to show the places in
which cases of small pox have been dis
covered between Jan. 1 to Feb. S. Eighty
six cases have been reported in that time.
Twenty-seven were concentrated upon a
few acres inclosed by Pearl, Park, Chat
ham,, Canal streets and the Bowery, built
up with tall, wretched tenements, and in
Guiding the whole of the old Five
Points" The other f~fty-nine cases were
distributed over Manhattan Island. In
two houses of a block, between Grand,
Crosby, Elm and Brown streets, there were
five cases. In a house on East Forty.sixth
street three cases, and as many in a tene-
ment on East Sixty-sixth street. Three
cases were also found in the adjoining dis
trict. The whole number Of cases of small
pox in this city since July 1 is 1887.
Pages speech ON the River and
Harbor Appropriation Bill.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.-During a debate
on the River and Harbor Appropriation
bill to-day, Representative Page made a
fve-minute speech, in which he
severely criticised the Commerce Commit
lee for their unequal and unfair distri-
oution OF the amount which it appropriated,
he contrasted the item OF 5000, 900
the Kanawha River, in West vir-
yinia, with the total of less than $40, 900
accorded to the vast stretch of sea coast
md great rivers of California. He said,
to the Sacramento and San Joa-
luin rivers, that wheat was rotting beside
he railroad track for want of navigable
improvement OF these natural highways,
which should be made capable of bearing
he of the Pacific Coast Empire.
n conclusion he announced that if he lived
0 assist in the organization Of the next
House, he would labor to procure the cleo
ion of some man for Speaker who would
ecognize that there is a country west of
he Missouri River. This remark was
reeted with hearty applause by all the
aembers from the section referred to.
Disastrous Railroad Accidents.
ALLERToN (Pa.), Feb. ia disastrous
abroad accident occurred at Rock Hill