ILL-FATED STEAMERS.

Dunstan Times, Volume 642, Issue 642, 7 August 1874, Page 3

ILL-FATED STEAMERS.

(NEW YORK HERALD.) The following is a list of the losses of transatlantic steamers from the year ISII to date

President (Br.) —Left New York March 11. 1841, and waa never heard from. Among her passengers were Tyrone Power, the comedian, and a son of the Duke of Richmond. Columbia (Br.) —Wrecked in a fog on the coast of Nova Scotia, July 1, 1543. Great Britain (Br).—Lost in a storm on the coast of Ireland, September 22, 1340. Helen Rloinan (Br).—?Foundered in mid ocean, November, 18.50 ; 9 lives lost. St. George (Bi). —Destroyed by fire at sea, December 21, 1852 ; 51 lives lost. Humbolt (Car). —Wrecked near Halifax, December 5, 1853. City of Glasgow (Br).—Never heard of after leaving Glasgow in spring of 1854; 480 lives lost. Franklin (Am). —Wrecked off Moriches, L. 1., July 17, 1854. Arctic (Am). Run down By a French steamer Vesta, off Newfoundland, Septem--27, 1854 ; 300 lives lost. City of Philadelphia (Br). —Wrecked in 1854. Pacific (Ain).—Never heard from after leaving Liverpool, January 23, 1850 ; 200 lives lost. Le Lyonnais (Fr).— Collided with ship Adriatic, off Nantucket, November 2, 1850 ; 120 lives lost. Tempest (Br). List with all on board; never heard from after she left Now York, February 20. 1857. New York (Br). —Lost at sea, month of June, 1858. Austria (Ger) —Burned in mid-ocean September 13, 1858 ; 470 lives lost. Argo (Br). —Wrecked in a fog on the coast of Newfoundland, June 23, 1859. Indian (Br). Wrecked on the coast of Nova Scotia, November 21, 1859 ; 27 lives lost. Hungarian (Br).—Wrecked off Nova Scotia, February 20, 1860 ; 205 lives lost. Connaught (Br) —Burned off the coast of Massachusetts, i ictober 7, 1860. Canadian (Br). —Wrecked by sunken ice in the Strait of Belleislc, June 4, 18151 ; 35 lives were lost. North Britain (B). —Wrecked during a storm on Paraquct Island, November 5, 1801. Norwegian (Br). —Wrecked on St Paul’s Island, Junel4, 1803. Anglo Saxon (Br).—Wrecked off Cape Race, April 27, 1803 ; 203 lives lost. Georgia (Br). —Lost on ’Sable Island, in afog, August 4, 1803. Bohemian (Br).—Wrecked off Cape Elizabeth, February 22, 1804 ; 20 lives lost. City of New York (Br). —AY recked on Daunt,s Ruck, Queenstown, March 29,

1864. Juha (Br). —Wrecked off Liverpool, November 3, 1534. lowa Br). —Wrecked off Cherbourg, December 10, 1864. Glasgow (B).—Burned off Nantucket, July 31, 1863. Scotland (Er). —Collided with ship Kate Dyer, Sandy Hook, December 1, 1866 , 13 of the Kate Dyer’s crows lost. Hibernia (Br), —Foundered off Tridi Coast, November 29, 1868 ;00 lives were lost. United Kingdom (Br).— Left New York, Apil 17, 1860 ; never heard from ; 80 lives lost. Germania (Er).—Lost in a fog on the coast of Newfoundland, August 7, 1300. Cleopatra (Br). —Lost in a fog on the coast of Newfoundland, Augusts, 1809. • City of Boston (Br).—Loft New York January 23, 1870 ; called at Halifax, and was never afterwards heard from ; about 160 lives lost. Cambria (Br).—Wrecked on Irish Coast, October 19, 1870 ; 190 lives lost. Dacian (Br). —Wrecked near Halifax, April 9, 1872. Tripoli (Br).—Wrecked on Coast of Ireland, May 17, 1872. Britannia (Br). —Wrecked in Firtk of Clyde, January 27,1873. Atlantic (Br). —Wrecked on Macr’s Rock, N. S , April 1, 1873; 502 lives lost. City of Washington (Br)). —Wrecked o coast of Nova Scotia, July 7, 1873. Ismalia (Br). —Loft Now York, September 22, 1873 ; never beard from. Missouri (Br)).—Wrecked oil the Bahamas, October 1, 1873. Villc du Havre (Fr).—Foundered at'sea December, 1873; collided with British ship Lech Earn , 226 lives lost. Scandeira (Br). —Sailed from New York, October, 1872 ; never heard from. Anna (Nor). —Left New York, February 1873 ; yet unheard from. Europe (Fr).—Abandoned at sea, April 3.1874. Amerque (Fr). —Abandoned eighty miles from Brest, April 14, 1874 ; one life lost. (Picked up by an English crew the next day, and taken safely ‘into a British Port'.

VILLAGE EPIDEMIC. Under the above heading the Australm sian of the 11th inat. gives a valuable article on the report of Dr Coughtrny’s report on the sauitafy condition of Cromwell, from which we make the following extracts : “ The case is a most significant one. Here was a small community of people) living in a healthy atmosphere, upon a good soil and subsoil, and fairly supplied .with wholesome water. There is no reason why they might not have been perfectly free from slieh terrible visitations as epidemic fevers. But they chose to live, in absolute defiance of the laws of health. They neglected them, and broke them as if there wore no such prescriptions, instead of their being as well known and as definite ss the statutes in our criminal code, and infinltively more effective in their operation, inasmuch as the punishment attached to their breach is enforced with all inevitable necessity of a law of nature. These people sinned against these natural laws openly, wantonly. They were warned hy the local medical men, and hy the local paper, hut took no hee l till the visitation came. “There is little room for doubt that in this colony we have many a small township, and many a district in our larger cities, in wH<di tire dictates of sanitary science are as flagrantly outraged as they have been in this unfortunate township of Cromwell The atmospheric conditions of this country arc happily unfavorable to the origin and spread of diseases of this type, but in spite of this cases are constantly occurring to warn ns of the consequences of our neglect. A lar 0 e number of the poorer classes in our midst are living in a dirty, slovenly, unhealthy way, as much opposed to morals and to civilisation as to physical salubrity. For there is no doubt that the mental and moral nature of men are also influenced hy all their surroundings, and also become morbid, anil befouled, and poisoned hy the material filth and contamination around them. The cash of the little township of Cromwell shows the danger of persisting in such a course Should we slight the repeated warnings that have hetn given we may bo visited with a pestilence as much greater than the Cromwell epidemic as our population is than that of the lit tla New Zealand mining village. Should such a di.e event ever occur, doubtless many would desire to invoke the aid of Heaven against the evil, and apply to the Govern meut to proclaim a day of humiliation and prayer on account of the calamity. In that case it is to be hoped that we may have at the head of affairs a Minister as plain and bold in speech as Lord Palmerston, who gave so outspoken a reply to the Presbytery of Edinburgh when that body in I Sod requested him to proclaim a day of fasting as a means of averting the visitation of cholera. On that occasion Lord Palmerston answered in words that arc well worth quoting now. He said:—‘lt dees not appear to Lord Palmerston that a national fast would he suitable to the circumstances of the present moment. The Maker of the universe established certain laws of nature for the planet ill which we live ; and the weal or woe of mankind depends upon the observance or neglect of those laws. One of those laws connects health with the absence of those gaseous exhalations which proceed from overcrowded human beings, or from decomposing substances, whether animal or vegetable ;and those same laws render sickness the almost inevitable consequence of exposure to those noxious influences. But it has pleased Providence to place it within the power of man to make such arrangements as will prevent, or disperse, such exhalations, so as to render them harmless ; and it is the duty of man to attend to those laws of nature, and to exert the faculties which Providence has thus given to man for his own welfare. Lord Palmerston would, therefore, suggest that the best couise win* ch the people of this country can pm s in to dcs rv > that the further progress of the clioler. 3 imild be stay id, av 11 hi to employ the interval that will elapse between the prisont time and the beginning of next spring in planning and executing measiv.es hy which these portions of their towns and cities which arc inhabited by the poorer classes, and which, from the nature of things, must most need purification and improvement, may be ficcd from those causes and sources of eontagion which, if allowed, will infallibly breed pcstilcnce, and ho fruitful in death, in spite of all the prayers and fastings of a united luff inactive nation. When man has done his utmost for his o" - n safety, then i« the time to invoke the blessing of Heaven to give effect to his exertions.’ ”

The following is from the Whitehall Times, Whitehall is a town in the Statcof New York.—“ Onr readers will remember when General Kilpatrick returned from Chi i, three years since, his having a remarkable operation ' er.'ormc 1 upon, him by a physician in New York, who removed a fleshy formation from tho General’s neck by filling it full of needles, and then attaching a galvanic battery to it. Ten minutes after the current of electricity had been let on, the bunch had entirely disappeared. A remarkable operation was performed by a Wh’tohall physician a few days ago. A gentleman who had been suffering from a superabundance of adisposo tissue, consulted a physician, asked a rc’i -f from its burden. The doctor told him he could relieve him if he would consent to a painful operation. The gentleman consented, and with the medical practitioner entered the telegraph office at this place. Tho fat man was requested to remove his coat and vest, after which tiro physician surrounded him with wires, attaching the ends to a powerful battery. At a signal from the doctor, the manager let on tho current. The patient writhed and twisted when ho felt the current passing around him ; still ho stood it like a martyr. Presently he began to shrink ; he grew smaller and smaller ; his clothes hung like bags around bis fast diminishing form. Tho doctor felt much pleased at the result Of his experiment, while the formerly fat man’s joy was very great, although he seemed to bo suffering acute pain. All of a sudden there was heard a loud clicking at tho instrument, as if Pandemoniun’s great hall had been let loose. The operator sprang quickly to answer the call. He ascertained it was from the New York office, who quickly asked : * What’s up?’ An answer came back as if some infuriated demon was at the other end of the wire : “ What in the thunder are you about? Cut off your wires quick,; you are filling the New York Office with soap grease.’ ”

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