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And then Sadly Realizing that Ilnc l‘lllna- man had Fooled film. From the New Orleans Picayune. A plump little Celestial. his almond eyes twinkling with delight and an extraordinary )grin lighting up his yellow countenance. drop- , ped into witness the lottery drawing the other day: Perhaps the most destructive work made by a shell among troops occurred a. few miles be- low Vicksburg. A Federal gunbost was fired upon by light artillery from the bank, posted in plain view. There were two six-pounders working close together. and each had fired a shot when the gunboat opened with a sixty- tour-ponnder. The shell struck between the guns and exploded. The guns were thrown high in air and came down a. wreck. The eighteen men around them were all killed out- right. and fifteen others who had been lying under cover rushed up just as the caisson ex- ploded. 0f the fifteen eleven were killed out- right, three wounded, and one escaped unhurt. but so dazed that he set down and waited to be captured by a. boat which pulled ashore. Two of the wounded died the next day, leav ing only two men alive of the thirty-three who had composed the battalion. Nothing was left of the gun-carriages but splinters, and the guns themselves were terribly bat- tered. The only remains of e caisson that could be found was the hub ofme wheel filled with broken spokes. Most o the dead had been blown to fragments, and the bushes were covered with shreds of flesh. When the caisson exploded the head of one of the vic- tims was blown high in air, and fell into the water withm a few yards of the eunboet. He watched the blindfolded boys draw the numbers from the wheel with apparent inter- est, and bore the jokes of the crowd around with evidfigt good nature. "Say, J ohntyou washes that man’s shirtee ‘2" naked one of the crowd, pointing out to one of the benevolent lacking commission- ers. ~ “Have 3'01: got aticket, J 0115 ?" inquired the man in the crowd. The man in the crow-d looked at the number, and scanning his list, found that it had come in {gr 957$50707prize. “I washee henpee plenty shirtee if I winee phzg,” replied the b1qnd Mopgolign. “Well, me tlikee me habee,” replied the Cbinaman, drawing one from his pocket. “Tyckee Win ?'_’ he inquired. 7 “Well, Jolin," replied the man in the crowd, very innocently. “ I think you’ve lost." "Chimes man losee allee time," said the subject of the Flowery Empire, "gotee no luclgge, glessg tlov! tic_kee gway.” “Yoru‘needn’t do that, Johfi,” said the man. with a patronizing air. “I‘ll give you a dime for it.” “A dollar’s too much for a ticket, that can’t win. We’ll split the difference and call it half a dollar, eh ‘2” said John’s kind infor- mant. uDlime too lillee. Glimme a dollar,” said the Celestial. “Chinee man glottee no luckee; Melicun man takee allee mlonee. Takes the tlickee and glimme flo‘ bittce ;" and John passed over the ticket in exchange for the money. The man who had made the lucky invest- ment handed the ticket over, when his friend exclaimed : “Why. George. it was drawn last June 1” “ Is that so ?” asked the man. dumb- founded. the revelation that he had been duped dawning upon him. “Where is that lying rascal of a heathen Chinee who put up this job on me 7" w --Mushk-i-Alum. it is said, is preaching in behalf of the Afghans. Things must be in a pretty pucker thereaway now that Alma has come to the rescue. Whâ€"en the Mongolian‘s grinning features had disappeared the man chuckled and re- marked that hp had f‘got her phis time.” , , â€"An agricultural paper, in a. discussion, says: " What is a comer in pork, anyway ?” Well,the man who pickles the hams. Isn’t he a corner in pork? . â€"The number of brides who have visited Niagara Falls this year is 428, and all but one tried to look as if they had been wives or years. “ Let’s see the tick‘ét,” said one of his friends. 'At Frederieksbum. as the Union infantry marched in solid masses up the valley be- yond the town, the Confederates opened fire from behind a stone wall. The fighting along this line was over in ten minutes. and 5,000 Federals lay dead within reach of each other. A shell from a. gun on the hill exploded in the midst of Home New Hampshire troops and killed a sergeant. a corporal and twelve pri- vates and wounded six others. Before the Union troops crossed the river, and while shelling the town. a shell struck a house and At the battle of Savage Station, during Mc- Clellan’ s change of base, a solid shotg fired from a Federal field- -piece into the head of an infantry column marching by fours. killed twenty-one men and a. horse before its pro- gress was checked. The first ten men were reduced to bloody pulp, and the others crushed and bruised to death. At this same battle a rebel shell exploded under 9. Federal an and killed four artillerymen, dismounted he gun. wounded two men, and the butt of it flew 05 at a. tangent and killed a. second liegtenant of infantry who was eighty rods sway.“ At Cold Harbor a. shell exploded in an Ohio regiment advancing against a. battery, and sixteen men were wiped out in an instant. 0! these nine were blown to fragments and the others horribly mutilated. The battery was firing thirty or forty shells per minute, and thiswas the work of a. single one. One dis‘ charge of grape in this same fight killed four- teen men in a. Michigan regiment. and a New York regiment which went in with 703 men in line came out with only 300. On one acre of ground the burial party found over 700 dead men. In a bit of woods where the battle lines had clashed more than 2,000 dead were found in a. space no wider than a square in a. city and no more than three times as long. At Fair Oaks, the Third Michigan had its first real baptism of fire. The boys had been held back on other occasions, and now when given opportunity they went for the enemy posted in the edge of the woods on thedouble- quick. and with yells and cheers. A part of the regiment had to swing across a glede, and while so doing lost fifty or sixty men in the space of sixty seconds. One company lost twenty men who went down together in one spot and scarcely moved a limb after falling. Details of five men were made from each company to advance as sharpâ€"shooters. and of these fifty men who plunged into the woods as a skirmish line only six came out alive, and every one of these was wounded from one to three times. After Gettysburé, one of the Union burial parties buried eighty Federal soldiers in one trench. They were all from a New York regi- ment, and all seemingly fell dead at one vol- ley. They were almost in line, taking up but little more room than live men. All were shot above the hips. and not one of them had lived ten minutes after being hit. Here lay what was then a full company of men, wiped out by one single volley as they ad- vanced to the charge. Some had their muskets so tightly grasped that it took the full strength of a man to wrest them away. 1 Others died with arms outstretched, and others yet had their hands clasped over their ‘ heads, and a. never-to-be forgotten expression on their White faces. In the excitenlenk of battle the full of a comrade is scarcely heeded. and half a com- pany might be wiped out and the other half fight on without the knowledge of it. It is only after the loud~mouthed cannon and the murderous mueketry have ceased their Work that the hideous face of war shows itself (0 make men shudder and turn away. Soldiers who have not gone over a battle-field or been one of a burial party have missed half the grimness and awfulness of war. THE lllDEflUSZFACE OF WAR‘ FOOLING ll CHINAMAN ST. Acousrmn, Fla., Sept. 4.â€"The steamer City of Vera Cruz foundered at 5.30 on Sun- day morning. Of 70 persons aboard only 13 are known to have been saved. On Saturday afternoon the steamer encountered a strong gale, which soon increased in fury, and the Vera Cruz labored heavily for some hours. It was found necessary at 4 o’clock on Sunday morning to hrow out drag to keep her head about. The gale had now grown to a hurricane. Im- mense waves began breaking over the doomed steamer until her deck was finally swept clear, even the rigging being torn. The drag ceased to fulfil its functions. The seas deluged the decks and soon reached the furnaces and extinguished the fires, the hatches having been torn from their fasten- ings. The fires being out the engines soon stopped, and the Vera Cruz lay at the mercy of the storm. Not even the donkey pump could be worked to relieve the vessel of the water she was rapidly making in her hold. Capt. Van Sice ordered the men to throw overboard the deck load, but the sea was 00 heavy. Several men were carried off heir feet and many washed overboard. Capt. Van Sice and officers acted courageously but they were one by one washed overboard. The Capt. perished fully an hour before the vessel succumbed, and as nearly all hands were lost the few remaining alive took life pre- servers, and as every boat and life raft was stove in, the sailors and passengers seized the fragments, spars, state-room doors or other moveable articles and awaited 9 end. The vessel was about thirty mile off the shore. With one awful lurch the steamer suddenly sank. the swirl carrying down many of the living. The 13 survivors are all menâ€"3 pas- sengers, 8 deck hands, 1 engineer and 1 oiler. They were all in the water bufieted for from 24 to 26 hours. No doubt but for this ordeal many more would have been saved. I was only able to obtain the names of two survivors, both sailors, Mason Talbot and James Kelly, the first a native of England and the other of New York. One of the pas- sengers saved was a young man, but states that he does not wish his name sent for pub- lication, but that he was a companion of Gen- eral Torbert. The bodies of the victims came on shore thirty miles south of this place. Among them was that of Torbert. His body was placed in a cask and buried Wednesday. The bodies of two steerage passengers were found. The bodies of three females were re- covered from the waves,and four men, proba- bly sailors. The schooner Ada J. Simonton of Rock- land, from Pensacola to Boston, went ashore near Mosquito Inlet. All were saved. A bark, name unknown, went ashore at the same place. All were saved. New YORK, Sept. 4.-â€"The steamer New Orleans. of the Cromwell Line, was also caught in this same cyclone 011 the coast off Florida. and it is at present lying at pier No. 9. North River. Carpenters and .shipbuilders are busy at work repairing the ship‘s sides and bulwarks, which had been terribly dam- aged by the storm. More than half the life- bosts had been swept away. as well as some of the cabins and Jeck houses. The first mate. Mr. Robinson, an old see-fearing men, was questioned respecting the storm. “ The cyclone begun last Saturday at about 2 o’clock in the afternoon,” he said, “ and long as I have been at sea I have never witnessed anything to equal it. We were in sight of the Florida coast at the time, but soon en- tered into the Gulf Stream, which runs at a. northeasterly direction at that point and is thus of great service to Southern vowels bound for New York and Boston. The Vera Cruz having on the other hand left New York last Wednes- day week. she probably sighted St. Augus- tine, on the Florida. coast, at about the same time as we. But as vessels bound south are, to avoid the Gulf Stream, forced to keep very near land, when a cyclone takes place they become exposed to far greater danger than vessels in the open sea. NEW YORK, Sept. 4.-â€"Tlie following tele- gram was received by the Board of Under» writers toâ€"day: The steamship City of Vera. Cruz foundered at sea. on Sunday at 6 a. 11). Captain lost ; all hands went down with the vessel; only 3 passengers and 8 of the crew saved. The crew are now in Jacksonville, in distress, waiting for assistance from the owners. “ The heavy clouds which began; to over- E shadow the horizon early Saturday morning ‘ were sure forerunners of a coming storm. but 1 not until the afternoon had it become evident 1 ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, Sept. 3.â€"There is little doubt that the steamer City of Vera Cruz. of the Mexican Line, which sailed from New York on the 25th of August for Havana and Vera Cruz, went down in the recent hur- ricane. Portions of the mail carried by the ilLfated vessel were washed ashore some miles south of this city. One mail baa contained letters for Cuba and Mexico which had been posted in Paris. Another lot was found hear- ing the post mark, New York, Aug. 25. This indicated that the lost vessel was a mail steamer bound for southern ports. and the surmise was that it must have been the City of Vera Cruz, as she left New York on the day last mentioned. The suspicion was con- firmed by the discovery of several bills of lad- ing of the City of Vera. Cruz. On Saturday a large steamer, supposed to have been the Vera Cruz, passed the brig Caroline Eddy about sixty miles from the coast of St. Augustine. This brig was soon after struck by the hurricane and wrecked drifting on the beach near where the lost letters were discovered. The City of Vera. Cruz must have been struck by the hurricane . and probably foundered on Saturday night or ‘ Sunday morning. The bodies of a lady and little child have been found on shore. This makes five bodies recovered, the three others being the corpses of unknown men, two of whom are thought to be passengers and the . other a sailor. The shore for forty miles south of this place was strewn with the cargo of the steamer. A trunk was found marked “ Hernandez.” This corresponds with the name of the lady on the passenger list of the Vera Cruz. The New York agents of the Havana Line say the cargo of the Vera Cruz was valued at $50,000. The telegraph wires to Havana are not open and the agent knows nothing about the reported disaster. He is inclined to dis- believe the steamer is lost. She is a wooden vessel of 1,800 tons and was built in 1874. The passenger list is as iollows : Adolfo Basque, Eutentas Filip Hernandez; Rafael Arrue, John Fledull, Walter Betchie, J. A. Garcia, Mrs. J. A. Garcia, J. Ravensburg, John Gombay, Arodignez Martinez, H. Glashof, Mrs. Sadie Fay, A. K. Owen, T. Mamer, Miss'E. Burns, Mrs. R. Arrue. Mrs. A. Clark, Geo. W. Cole, E. Littlefield, 0. P. Siloa. Mrs. I“. Hernandez, M. Welsh, Mrs. M. Welsh and child, Alex. Wallendge and son, Miss T. Rubio. Statement of llne of the ‘Rescned Passengers. THE WREGKED VERA GRUZ. DESCRIPTION OF THE STEAMER VOL XXIII. BALD BEVERITY 01’ THE STORM. l The cargo of the City of Vera. Cruz was l valued at from'tthOOOO to $150,000. This is l a smaller cargo than she usually carries. l From the information that can be obtained it is insured for about 70 per cent. of its value, but the insurance is so divided that no one company will be a heavy loser. The cargo consisted mainly of small shipments of assorted merchandise. A considerable por- tion of it was consigned to Havana, and the remainder to the Mexican ports. A Passsnoaa's sruansxr. JACKSONVILLE, FLA., Sep. 4.~â€"Thc steamer Water Lily, from St. Augustine, arrived yes- terday, having on board A. K. Owen, civil engineer, and four seamen, the survrvors of the steamer City of Vera Cruz. From Owen‘s statement it appears that the stevedores’ work was not well done, and when the gals grew fu- rious the ship had a decided list. The officers and crew comprised 51 persons. There were 31 cabin passengers, making 82 souls on board, 11 of those on heard only are known to have been saved. The Vera Cruz left New York at 4 o’clock on Wednesday. the 25 ult. The cold wave of Wednesday, with rain, continued with a brisk wind from the north-east on Thursday and Friday, but it calmed down at midnight. The ship listed all the way, and at meals it was difficult to keep the dishes on the table. The weather was cloudy with frequent rain. At lo’clock p.m., Saturday, the captain was heard to re- mark to Harris, the first oflicer: “I notice the barometer is falling rapidly; we are going to have a hurricane." Orders were given to throw overboard barrels of oil and cases on deck. The real blast of the cyclone struck us on the port bow about 25 minutes to 2 p.111. on Saturday and listed the ship almost on beam ends. During the gale three skylights in the main saloon were carried away, and the waves poured considerable water into the saloon and store rooms, setting all adrift. At 2 pm. the ship took a heavy sea, and the water put the fires out immediately, stopping the engines. A donkey engine was then started and was going when the ship sank. The purser came hurriedly below, and said the captain had sent him to tell the pas- sengers to come to assist the crew or the vessel would go down. We immediately got up. I went to the deck and to the floor of the engine room, and assisted the passengers with buckets for an hour. Captain Van Sice was in the line near the top, passing water, while I was there. It was no use, as the sea was continually breaking over the vessel and coming down in large quantities between decks. After this nothing remained but to get the life-preservers on the women. There was no excitement on board ; even the children were quiet and reasonable. Each assisted the other in arranging the life-pre- servers. The storm by this time was most terrific, and the ship listed to her beam ends at every wave. The storm was so thick we could not see a hundred yards ahead, and the roar of the wind and beating of the rain was like the rattle of musketry. At twelve minutes past 4 am. the sea broke into the engin’e-room and through the saloon, making a crash like a battery of artillery, striking terror for an instant into every one, and dash- ing the saloon passengers, tables, doors and loose furniture together into the water knee- deep. The passengers now crowded into the hall at the top of the saloon steps and said farewell to each other. We adjusted their life-preservers and extended sympathy one to another. Never before, perhaps, was there a set of passengers so quiet and unexcited under circumstances so appalling. Alex. Wallendge brought a little boy to me and said : “ Owen. I will give you a thousand dollars in gold if you will take my son and get him to land.” I said “ No.” I did not expect to live five minutes after the ship went down. I told him it would be a mercy The following are the chief officers of the vessel: Edward Van Sice, captain; F. M Harris, mate; B. Nissan, second mate; Sim. E. Whitney, parser; H. Muller. carpenter; U. Brandenburg, quartermanter; W. O’Neil, quartermaster; W. Miller, chief engineer}; E. Brooks, first assistant engineer; A. F. Loomis, steward; J. Schoen, eecond steward. The City of Vera. Cruz was built in 1874 by J. Englis & Son, at Greenpoint, L. I., for the F. Alexandre & Son’s Line. and was em- ployed in the trade between this city and Havana and Mexico. She was a wooden ves- sei, 287 feet in length, 37 feet beam, 26 deep and had a draught of 19 feet of water. Her tonnage was 1,874 tons. She was brightn- tine rigged. had two masts, one smoke stack. and was propelled by a. screw 15 feet 6 inches in diameter with a pitch of 23 feet. She had three decks ; her timbers were of white oak, chestnut and hickory. Two cylinder engines supplied the motive power. The vessel was strengthened by iron stripes and was consid- ered one of the staunchest in the line. The cabins of the vessels were finely finished and comfortably furnished ; electric bells were provided for communication between the dif- ferent departments. The mail room was next to that of the purser, near the centre of the ship. There were eight life- boats in allâ€"four on the port side and four on the starboard side. The place where the baggage was stored was about midships. “If the Vera Cruz has succumbed to this cyclone,whioh is more than probable,1hardly think a soul on board will have been saved. The vessel must have been wrecked between St. Augustine and Cape Canaveral. a very dangerous coast, consisting of sand banks and reefs. Besides this, the violence of the storm probably made the use of the life-boats impossible. Captain Van Sice is an excellent seamen and I know him well, but all his science would be thrown away in a. cyclone such as those which pass over the West India Islands.” that a cyclone was upon us. All the ordinary precautions were taken by the captain, but prepared as we were to|cope with the elements we little thought what was in store for us. ‘ The tossing of the vessel became stronger . and stronger every minute, and huge waves broke with violence against the bulwarks and hurricane decks. As the tempest increased in fury the atmosphere was filled with ‘ a thick mist, making breathing diffi- cult. A little before the storm we had seen several vessels within a few miles of us, but now not a vestige of them was visible. Nothing but the heavy fogs met our gaze, and nothing but the bowling of the circular-sweeping winds and the noise of the breakers reached our ears. Every man of the crewâ€"thirty-three in numberâ€"was mean- while at his post, and although death seemed imminent, cheered by the Captain‘s voice, none of us faltered. Toward the evening a sad incident occurred. Au enormous wave smashed into the pilot house and broke down the wheel gear, One of our best men, Julius Johnson, rushed to adjust it again, when another wave no less violent than the first ‘ swept him overboard. He was seen no more. The approach of night did not diminish the fury of the hurricane; indeed the horror of our situation was only on liancel by the darkness which enveloped us. One after the other the boats were jerked out of their fit- tings and washed overboard. The bulwarks were smashed into atoms and the cook’s house was broken away. The sea at some moments was as high as the top of the smoke stack and we feared every moment that the machinery would be overflooded and put out of order. The Saturday night we passed was as horrible at time as I ever had, and we all thanked God when Sunday morning slightly calmed the raging of the elements. DESCRIPTION OF THE BTEAMBEII’. RIUHMOND HILL, THURSDAY, SEPT. 16, 1880 â€"-At a. ball-matchmaking mamma to her marriageable daughter : “Virginia, dear, don’t lose sight of that gentleman in mourning. He may be a widower.” PARRY SOUND, Sept. 1.â€"The members of the Agricultural Commission, now visiting Muskoka. arrived here this evening, having travelled by one mode or other some two hun- dred miles through the district. 0n Sutur- day they held a sitting at Port Cerling,where settlers from the townships of Medoru and Watt were examined. On Monday, at Rosseau, the townships of Humphrey and Cardwell were well represented. At Meganet- tawan on Tuesday witnesses were present from Croft, Chapman, Spence, Ryerson, and Lount, and to-dey at the village of McKellar. and Ferguson. Great interest was everywhere manifested in the enquiry. To-morrow the Commissioners hold a. session at this place, and on Friday leave for home. -â€"Doctor X. is as bad a hunter as he is a physician, but this does not prevent him regu- larly as the hunting season comes round from spending a fortnight in the fields with his dog and gun. “ And that is the only period of the year when he dosn’t kill anything,” said one of his colleagues kindly. â€"-No pumpkin which thinks: anything of it! size will fail to attend the State Fair. “ Well, it was a. kinder old-fashioned, but it kept , the straightest time you ever saw. Every clock within fodr miles was run by that watch.” “What was it worth.” “Well, I’d been offered seven dollars forit.” “It isn’t such a great loss, than ? ” “ItISn't the money value that hurts me, though I don’t care to lose seven dollars any more than any other man. You see, it was the only time-piece we had to run our prayer- meeting by, and when the deacon rose and asked me what time it was the minit I began to haul out that ticker every young man dropped his head, and every gel pricked her ears and ached for me to been her home. It made me solid all along the town-line and put me ahead at the country dances, and I’ve either got to git it back or go home and tell the folks that I came across a blamed fool and sold it for a twenty.” “And you wouldn’t do that ? ” “I might, you know, but the minit the old man wanted to give me his note for nineteen of it I’d have to own up or shake . his paper, and dad’s a man who draws his notes with a fist as big as the top of your hot i” A young man who belonged to an excur- sion party visiting Detroit last week, called at the City Hall to make complaint to the Chief of Police that he had been robbed of his watch. “What sort of a. watch was it ?” inquired the Chief. to himself and his son to go down as quick as possible. I told him I could see nothing to hope for in a storm like this. Miss Sadie Fay asked me in her sweetest manner to take care of her, but I said to her and to others that there was nothing to be done but to stick to the ship until we were washed from her, and then to cling to the fragments as long as possible. This plan was carried out by every passenger. The captain was seen just before a sea smashed in the pert side of the upper decks, at 12 minutes past 4 a.m., but whether he got excited and jumped over- board or was swept away is not known to any of us. The first cfi‘icer, second mate and one or two of the crew took to the starboard bow boat, and were killed before the boat could be got free. Miller and his engineers stood by the ship until she sank. The quartermaster, William O‘Neil, and a sailor stood at the wheel until the ship sank. The captain never came near the passengers during the storm, nor did he send to inquire into their condi- tion, and it may be sincerely hoped that no other passengers may be left to so thoughtless and indifl‘erent a man. It was six o’clock when the ship went down, breaking in the middle. Thousands of pieces of wreckage , were clashing together in the water, and five minutes after the ship went to pieces men, women, children. horses, cats and rats were mixed in :the trough, and over this mass the waves were fifty feet high, in peaks like sugar loaves. When - we went up on one, it was not to go down on the other side, but to be turned over at the top and sent rolling through the air to the opposite one back and forth. This lasted two or three hours, after which the waves took a more natural charac- ter and came in swelling ridges. General Torbett was picked up by Charles Smith, one of the crew, fifteen minutes after the ship sank. He was then weak and could crawl on fragments of the wreck only with assistance when the fragment on which he was turned over. A minute later (Smith came up on the other piece and never saw the General again alive. The wind was so terrific that when a plank, raft, box or trunk would reach the top of the wave it was whirled through the air with a force terrible to behold. Among i the living or dying i never passed a person 1 who was not bleeding from some wound in- } flicted by passing fragments, and half were . dead and dying fifteen minutes after they took ‘ to the waves. It was most appalling to see heroic women struggling against the timbers and waves. I stood by the main mast till the water rushed in over the hur- ricane deck. I then climbed up the rigging twenty-five feet and was washed off by the waves. In an instant after the fragments of the wreck were piled on and over me. I was stunned by a blow across the head as Iclimbed first upon one thing and then on another for half an hour. I rushed up one mountain of water then down another until finally Icaught hold of a piece of the ship 2? feet long. This was part of the side of the dining saloon. Through one window was the head and shoulders of a man, Thomas Grambool. He asked me to break the frame, but as that was impossible I shoved him down and he came up through the next opening. We now threw off our life preservers and stuck to the wreck through thick and thin for 24 hours. During that time we were at least two-thirds of it un- der water in the night. We were both com- pletely blind from the salt deposited in our eyes. When we struck the surf at four o’clock a. m. on Monday our raft went to pieces and we were turned over six times be- fore coming to the surface. ,We were landed at Batefurh‘s farm, near Alcona, 60 miles south of St. Augustine and 12 miles north of Mosquito Inlet. Chas. Smith, J. H. Kelly and Mason Talbot, of the crew, landed near us within five minutes of each other. Charles» Bradenbury and John Greenfield, of the crew, landed at Mosquito Inlet. Twenty others of the crew and two passengers are at Syrna, south of the inlet. Their names we were unable to learn. None of the ladies were saved, and but three passengers and eight of the crew are known to have been saved out of eighty-two. A LONDON MAN ON BOARD. LONDON, Sept. 4.-â€"Mr. J no. Gourlay, of this city, was one of the ill-fated passengers on the Cuban steamer Vera Cruz, and was un- doubtedly drowned. Mr. Gourlay left here on the 22nd of August and sailed from NewYork on the 25th for Remadice, Cuba, 300 miles from Havana, where he has been on a sugar estate for the past eighteen years. AGRICULTURAL COMMISSION Examination of Muskoka Selllera. WIIEKE TIIE LOSS “VA! The history of the undertaking, so for un- der the control of the Canadian Government, is as follows: The first expenditure on con- struction was toward the end of 1874. Con- tracts were then entered into for the telegraph from Lake Superior to British Columbia along the route of the railway, including the clearing of the forest land to 11. width of 132 feet. The line was divided into four sections, on three of which the work was prosecuted with vigor and the telegraph completed from Fort William to Edmonton 1,200 miles, so that messages could be transmitted. The re- maining section across the mountains to British Columbia remains incomplete. In It cannot be said that much confidence is felt in the success of the parties who for the present have the ear of the Canadian officials, but there are rumors of a powerful combina- tion of Anglo-American bankers who are con- sidering the question of making alternative offers should the present negotiations break down, as is not unlikely, on the question of the necessary guarantees. In proper hands there can be no doubt that a great success would attend efiorts to raise the money, what- ever the ultimate result of the outlay may be. Canada and Canadian investments are popu- lar here at present. The Grand Trunk and Great Western Railway properties have within the past year emerged from the cloud of dis- credit which has so long hung over them, and give promise of returns to holders of all classes of their securities whose chances of receiving a penny of dividends until recently looked almost hopeless, The past rather shabby treatment of the Grand Trunk Company by the Dominion gov- ernment has been forgotten in the liberal terms given on the purchase of the Riviera du' Loup section of the line, the proceeds of which unremunerative railway enabled the company to acquire its valuable Chicago con- nection. The agricultural distress here has turned popular attention to the vast Western prairies. whose produce competes so keenly with home grown breadstufi‘s, and the only comfort to ultra-patriotic Englishmen is de- rived from the beliefâ€"be it right or wrong â€" that the worst part of this competition in the future will come from the "‘ fertile belt ” of country within British territory, to be opened up by the new Canadian enterprise. In the truth or falsehood oi the glowing accounts as to the fertility of the soil between the Red River and the Rocky Mountains, and the con- sequent continued attraction of emigrants to the region, lies apparently the success or fail- ure of the Canadian Pacific as a commercial enterprise. The most favorable reports are, however, generally believed here,and they are put forward with all the authority of Canadian blue books. It seems, therefore, certain that, launched under proper auspices, a Canadian Pacific railway company would find any amount of capital required. Money remains a drug in the hands of the investing public. Waran by past experience of bubble com- panies and defaulting governments, capital has been accumulating here for several years past, and the result is seen in the almost pro- hibitive prices to which the best British and American railroad and other securities have been driven. If placed in an attractive form before the public any large enterprise like the Canadian Pacific Railway would be welcome as affording a relief to the exist- ing plethora. c Negotiations on these bases have been for some months on hand. and it is at least an open secret that the late visit of Mr. J. H. Puleston, M. P., to Canada was in connection with an ofier to find the requisite capital. A number of names are freely mentioned here as likely to be associated with the the corpo- ration, if one can be formed, but it is certain that up to the date of writing nothing what- ever has been definitely decided upon. The Canadian Ministry have powers under the act of the Dominion Legislature either to continue constructing the line as at present or to subsidize a company for the purpose, and they certainly will not conclude any bar- gain with any party of capitalists unless the latter are prepared to furnish. ample guaran- tees for the proper completion of the work. Upon this point, it is said, the matter for the present “hangs fire.” Among the parties who. it is said, nave been approached by the promoters to take seats on the Board of the proposed company is Mr. John Fender, the great submarine telegraph magnate, and Sir Henry Tyler, M. P.. the chairman of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada. has been re- quested to join in the hope of bringing in the aid of the large constituency of proprietors he rep- resentsâ€"some eight or nine thousand in numberâ€"supposed at present to be very san- guine and with plenty of capital, considering the enormous recent rise in the price of their securities. It is difficult, however. to see why Grand Trunk stockholders should be eager to support a project which must be, to a certain extent, in competition with their own line, which it would only join at Montreal. and if the proposed branch to Sault Sainte Marie is constructed, the connection with American lines at that point would absolutely take traf- fic away from the_Grand Trunk system. (New York Herald Correspondence.) LONDON, Aug. 17, 1880.â€"â€"Rcadcrs of the Herald are aware that the Premier of the Dominion of Canada, Sir John Mac- donald, and other leading oflicials are now in this ccuntry, and it has been publicly an- nounced that their visit is in connection with plans to secure the construction of the long talked of Canada Pacific Railway. This work was commenced a year or two ago as a Govern- ment enterprise, but the Ministry have ap- parently become somewhat frightened at the magnitude of the task or have become dis- couraged by the absence of aid from the Im- perial Government,which was expected at the inception of the undertaking. Be the cause what it may,it has been determined, if the pro- per parties come forward ,to hand over the work to a public company, assistance and induce- ments being offered to promoters, as was done in the case of the transcontinental lines on the other side of the boundary. The total length of the projected system is 2,200 miles, of which it may be said that 600 miles ave either completed or under construction. The Government, it is announced, are prepared to grant a subsidy of $20,000,000 in cash, payment to be spread over the period of ten years, assumed to be necessary for the con- struction of the line, an amount equal to 310,000 per mile, or about one-third of the estimated cost. A further grant will be made of 35,000,000 acres of land, to be located in alternate sections along the route, as was done in the case of the Union and Central Pacific companies. The 600 miles under construction will be handed over to the com- pany without cost. 'l‘IIE PACEFIC CABLE. History and Estimated Cost of the Line. Progress of the Negotiations in England. an ALLEGEDâ€"Pâ€"BoPOSITION. UM .NABA PACIFIC RAILWAY. HISTORY OF THE ENTERPRISE THE FINANCIAL SITUATION â€"Capt. Warren, ' in Cork landlord, Went to the farm of one of his tenants. named Middleton, for the purpose of distreining for rent The people collected around him and threatened bun. whereupon he drew a revolver. Astone was then thrown at him from behind a hedge, and he was beaten by the mob. What does eéery baldheaded man put on his head? His hat. â€"â€"The observatory on Etna. will soon be an accomplished fact. The obj ect is the study of vulcanology, and therefore it has been built at the base of the central cone. You never saw a baldheaded man with a. low forehead. Bald than are the coolest-headed men in the world. Some bald men have heirs. What does a beldheaded man say to his comb? We meet to putt no more. Motto for e. baldheedâ€"Bare and fur-bare. However high a. position a baldhended man holds, he will never comb down to the world. ‘ The baldheaded maxi never dyes. Advice to baldheadersâ€"Join the Indians, who are the only suecessfpl hair raisers. Shakespeare says:â€"“There is a. Divinity thgt ghapes our en_ds." It has never been decided what causes bald heads, but most people think it is dand- rough. Avgood novel for bald heads to readâ€"“The Lost Heir.” A baidheaded man is refined and he always shows his skull-sure. The last report of Mr. Fleming also covers urgent recommendations as to the establish- ment of a Pacific submarine cable in connec- tion with the Canadian Pacific telegraph sys- tem. Thercable, it is suggested, may start from one of the deep water inlets at the north end of Vancouver’s Island, and be sunk in a direct course to Japan, or it may touch about midway, Ambia, one of the Aleutian islands. At Yeddo, in Japan, the connection would be made with the Asiatic telegraphs. As an alternative route the submarine may land on one of the Kurile Islands north of Japan. and thence extend direct to Hong Kong. Either course would complete the connection with the whole Eastern telegraph system and effect important results. Such a line would cen- nect all the great business centres of America with China and the principal ports of Asia much more directly than by the present lines of telegraph by way of Europe. The new line would be employed for the most part by the English speaking people of both hemis- pheres. and the frequent mistakes of polyglot telegraph operators in Europe be avoided. The further inducement is held out that it would bring Great Britain, Canada, India, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and all the outer provinces and colonial pos- sessions of Great Britain into unbroken telegraphic communication with each other in entire independence of the lines which pass through otherEuropean countries. Totals ‘ 1,956 $00,000,050 The above does not include cost of explora- tion and preliminary surveys over a wide ex- tent of country between latitudes 49 den. and 56 deg 3., along the route,s amounting to over 33, 000, 000 nor the cost of the Pembin’a branch, $1,750,000. nor other amounts with which the Pacific Railway account of the Government is already charged. In the course of the surveys three alternative routes through the mountains into British Columbia have been laid down in addition to the -line as finally fixed to Burmrd Inlet. All of these are further to the north thanthe selected line, and average about two hundred miles greater length. They follow respectively the Peace River Pass and the Pine River Pass, and it is recommended that one or the other be constructed when practicable on account of the value of the territory thus to be opened up. Fort William to Selkirk”. Selkirk to Juspm- Valley... Jaspar to Lake Kamloops Luke Kamloops to Yale, ... Yale to Fort Moody. Add any... ..... WHAT IT WILL COST. The cost of the route will, it is said, bear favorable comparison with that of the other completed and projected transcontinental lines. The general summit to be attained is lower and the gradients more moderate. While the Central Pacific in climbing the Sierras attains a height of over 7,000 feet, and the Union Pacific passes the Rocky Mountains at an elevation of over 8,000 feet, the Canadian Pacific has but one summit on its route at Yellow Head pass. where a level of 3,640 feet is reached. The cost of the 406 miles from Fort William to Selkirk, approaching completion. will be about $17.- 000,000, and for the Pembina branch the outlay has been 851,750,000. For the whole route from Lake Superior to the Pacific coast Mr. Sandford Fleming, the Government Engineer-inChief, has made the following estimate, including a fair allowance of rolling stock and engineering during construction : Total under construction ........................ 722 A second 100 mile section west of Red River has recently been let, making a total of 822 miles under construction, consisting of main line 720 miles and Pembina and Winnipeg branches 102 miles. In April last the rails were laid 136 miles west of Felt William and 90 miles east of Selkirk, and traffic trains are regularly run from Emerson to Cross Lake, 161 miles. The length now under construction is thus as under: Fort William to Selkilk 'nmiu line) ...... Selkirk to Emersoua’embina b1 unch)1.. West of Red River (main line and Winmpeg branchfiu..." ................. In British Columbia. (main line) i the same year (1874) the grading of the Pem- bina branch of sixty-three miles north of the international boundary was commenced. In 1877 the grading was extended to Selkirk un- der the same contract, and in 1878 the track was laid on the whole length, eighty-five miles. In 1874 the extension of the Canada Central Railway to the eastern terminus, near Lake Nipissing, was subsidized. Early in 1875 two sections were placed under con- tractâ€"the one from Fort William, thirty- three miles to Sunshine Creek, and the other east from Selkirk, seventy-six miles to Cross Lake. An extension east of Cross Laken thirty-six miles to Keewatin, at the outlet of ‘ the Lake of the Woods, was placed under contract in January, 1877. In‘ 1876 a. contract was made for an extension from Sunshine Greek west to English River, eighty miles. In 1878 the Georgian Bay Branch was undertaken ; but this work was subsequently abandoned. For the spring of 1879 the line between English River and Keewatin, 185 miles, was let in two contracts, and in the summer following a. section of 100 miles west of Red River, in- cluding a branch from the main line to the city of Winnipeg, was placed under contract. At the British Columbia end of the line ground was broken toward the close of last year, when the grading, bridging. track lay- ing and blasting. from near Yale to Sevona’s Ferry, 3 distance of 127 miles, was placed un- der contract. WHOLE NO. 1,159.â€"â€"N0, 16. BALDIIEADED PEOPLE 896 A PACIFIC CABLE. Miles‘ 1,000 335 $ 17 000,000 13,000,000 15,500,000 10,000,000 3,500 .000 1 £00,000 Miles. 410 127 have been burned out. As these are all French Canadian families the number of homeless people may be set down as between 300 and 400. The fire burned everything, and left hardly a trace of any of the bums or buildings. It is impossible to say to what extent the devastation has gone in directions other than that over which I have traveled. They say here in Upton that altogether FULLY A SCORE 01‘ BUILDINGS, while every few acres we met people coming in with articles saved from the flames. Corn was standing roasted, and the potatoes were baked. Carcases of cows were lying in the ditches. while the furrows were filled with ashes which drifted about in the wind with blinding efiect. The fires were burning fierce- ly on all sides, but whether they were doing any damage cohld not be learned. ma DESTRUCTION T0 PROPERTY. While I am writing comes a message from St. Valien to say that already in that vicinity $40,000 worth of farm property and stock have been consumed. The loss here is esti- mated at $125,000. and so far none of the losses that I have met are insured. All I have seen live on the St. Helene road. The St. Helene and St. Guillaume road losses cannot be estimated yet. as thevery roadways are on fire and the bridges burned. The fire at one time was so near the centre of the vil- lage that the hemlock bark yard of Messrs. Goodhue Bros. took fire. Had it not been quenched the whole village would have been burned. The wind now seems to have turned about in the direction opposite to that taken by it yesterday, and it may be that the worst has been done. One of the most remarkable escapes was that of Pierre Cote. He owns the farm which adjoins that of the Curriers, and when his wife and children started to escape he, like Lot‘s wife, looked back, and then went back resolved to see the last of his splendid barns and crops. He saw his barns catch fire and the fire in one or two places in his yards among the chip piles. Then he turned to flee for dear life and found the St. Helene road shut in by the flames. He then turned back resolved to fight the flames to the last. He had but four pails of water with which to do it, and the river was more than a. mile away, but he used his water economically, and when it failed he used a spade and threw earth upon every spot that took fire. Then he tore down the fences, and once when a stump took fire at the barn he tore the burning pieces off one by one and at length he managed to move the stump bodily away. He is a small man, five feet three inches in height, and the last man that one would take for a man of nerve or en- ergy. On the road from the station to the residence of CurrierI passed the ruins of Louis Cliche, who was one of the wealth- iest men in these parts, also remained to fight the fire, but. was not sucessful, and after seeing all his barns and houses de- troyed managed to escape. He suffers very much. Xavier Maor was burned while trying to save his house and barns, and it is sup- posed he inhaled some of the flames in es~ Gaping. Dr. Gauthier received his burns in the cause of suffering humanity. He had been called to attend a. patient some distance on the road to St. Guillaume. and was provided with a. fleet horse wherewith to escape on horseback. His horse became frightened and th1ew him into a pile of burning brushwood, burning him very severely. The doctor describes higs es- cape as little short of miraculous, and says that occasionally the flames seemed to have the speed of a race-horse as he ran along to escape them. and when they found this impossible tried to escape, but found retreat impossible. The body of the old man Was discovered face down‘ wards in a ditch near his house, and the ac- tion of fire upon his body had drawn the back up until he formed a. bow with bis'feet and . head touching the ground. When the thirties discowed his body liglegs a. hate. which had sought refuge uiidet it. jumped into m and escaped. The body of Joseph was dis- covered in a. ditch just in front of the house, and that of a lad was in a. field near by, THE WOUNDED AND BURNED are 2â€"Xavier Major burned in the head, shoulders, arms, and feet so badly that he cannot recover ; Dr. Gauthier burned in the left hand, arm and face ; Louis Clinche, both hands. arms, and right side of the face bad 1y burned. The unfortunate Curriers, it seems, endea- voured THREE worms. This morning several of the missing turned up. some of them badly burned, but there were three who could not escape, and who were found opposite their farm on the St. Helene Road, their bodies burned to a crisp. Their names are Pierre Currier, 81‘ years old ; Joseph Currier, 28 years old ; and a’grandson of Pierre Telesphore Currier, a lad 17 years old. especially in the St. Helena road, across which almost for its entire length the flames swept with great rapidity. Those who had escaped by the road to Upton were gathered together in the houses of friends at night,and in counting those present a. large number were supposed to be missing. The follow- ing are the names, as far as could then be ieumed, of those who had their houses, outbuildings, and crops deserted :-â€"J B. Ledoux P. Curlier,L. St. Pierre, L. Potvin, F. Colette,P. Deserci, J. Petit J Pouiin. L. Clinche, L. Clinehe, Jr., E. Evalide,-J.B. Louisell, A. Moquin, P. Cole, F. Brenvineau, P. Boissenette, J. Toupine, and S. Tad- ousseau. A PERFECT GALE. The fire began to encroach upon the village, driven from the south. Men were compelled _to give up work in the fields, women and children fled for shelter, and for the next two hours the St. Helene, St. Germain, and St. Guillaume roads were thronged with them, each family seeking the safest place. The flames rose i LIIFE “mama FIRE. UPTON VILLAGE, Sept. 7.â€"Your correspon- dent leftltlontreal this afternoon at 3.15, and arrived at the scene of last night’s disaster just before dusk. Every few miles after leav- ing Montreal dense volumes of smoke could be seen from the woods, and in many spots the indications were that the whole country was on fire in various quarters. The fires burned in a heavily wooded country, which as yet is unsettled, but in other instances the clearings. and farms seemed in jeopardy. As we neared Upton the smoke seemed to in- crease in volume, and now and again we could see the sharp tongues of flame dart out from the dark clouds of smoke and go curling up some tall maple. The atmosphere was heavily charged with smoke, so much so that even on the train our eyes sufiered and breath- ing was uncomfortable. A vxsrr TO THE BURNED DISTRICT. Upon arriving at the depot Mr. Moore, the G. T. R. telegraph operator, kindly volun- teered such information as he could give, and furnished with a smart trotter and a light buggy I started for the burned district. if any part can be singled out as the burned district. From all that can no earned the fire has hovered about the village for more thana week past, and some districts that could not have been cleared for years were levelled in a very few days. No one seems to have appre- hended any danger, and matters went on as usual yesterday afternoon about three o’clock, when the wind increased to Three Men Burned to Death. SEVENTYHVE AND MADE ESCAPE DIFFICULT, TO SAVE THEIR PROPERTYx A RE MARKABLE E BCAPE . SOME 75 FAMILIES FAMXLIES HOMELESS.