MISCELLANEOUS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3045, 30 April 1867, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

McMullen, third assistant-engineer ; Frank Dougherty and Antoine Martin, seamen ; Jacob Look now, of New York, pilot ; Michael Griffin, porter ; Hugh Farmer, stoker; and four gentlemen passengers, names not aicertained, became missing, and are supposed to be lost. The steamer and her cargo are a total loss. The hose-carriage intended as a present from the New York firemen to the Columbia firemen was on board." (Here follows the list of saved and lost in the ill-fated vessel.) Loss op the Pilot Boat "William Bell, No. 24.— Parties who cime up from this vessel last evening report her as lying a mile inside ox the outer bar, eighteen miles west of Montauk Point, new the village of A magausett. She is full of water, and stands upright. There were four pilots on board at the time she struck on the beach ; the wind was from the east by north, and snowing heavily. She went on at half-past three a.m., of Monday, and those on board were rescued at Beven o'clock by a surf-boat from the beach. This pilot-boat was, in part, the result of a subscription made for the pilots of the boats William Bell, No. 24, and the James Funck, No. 2.2, which were captured by the privateer Tallahassee in August, 1864. She was built by Mr. B. F. Williams, ot Greenpoint, L.1., in 1865 ; wan 130 tons carpenters' measurement, and cost, after heingcoppered, nearly or quite 25,000 dollars. She was owned by the following pilots :— Captain Joseph Henderson, five-sixteenths, partially insured j James Callahan, five-sixteenths, no insurance ; John Van Duzer, four-sixteenths, insured for 5,000d01., and William Anderson, two-sixteenths, partially insured. The sails were saved in a damaged condition. The vessel will probably prove a total loss.— New York Herald, March 11. Loss of x Steamkr on the Mississippi.— Memphis, March 9, 1867.— The steamer Clermont ■truck a log last night at half-past ten o'clock, and sunk, six miles below this city. Her cargo consisted of 200 bales of cotton, which, with the boat, is a total loss. She sank in twenty minutes in twentysix feet of water, and is covered. The chimneys and boilers fell over. The crew and passengers, except one, were rescued by small boats. The Clermont was valued at 15,000 dollars.— lbid. Receipts from Customs.— The receipts from Customs at the principal ports of the United Statei for the week ending February 28 were : — Boston, 211,521 dollars; Philadelphia, 122,138 dollars; Baltimore, 104,414 dollars ; San Francisco, from January 27th to January 31st, 67,809 dollars ; New Orleans, from February 16th to February 23rd, 112,775 dollars. The collector of New York has not yet made returns of the receipts at that port. — Ibid. Aebival op Coals. — Two British ships arrived in this bay on Monday, the 13th instant, from Cardiff, the Blackwall and Albion, the former in 180 and the latter 144 days, with 3,488 tons coal to the P., N.Z., and A. Co. — Panama Mercantile Chronicle, March 24. The s.s. Sacramento, J. M. Cavarly, commander, left San Francisco, March 9th, at 11.5 a. in., with 287 passengers, 51 packages of U.S. mails, 87 packages of specie t for New York, value 891,991 dollars 85 cents; 47 packages for England, value 127,217 dollars 9o cents ; 7 packages for South America, value 193,123 dollars 67 cents ; and 5,000 dollars for Panama, 778 tons merchandise for New York, 36 tons for Panama, 76 tons for Manazillo, and 4 tons for Acapulco. — Ibid. The R.M. steamer from Southampton arrived at Aspinwall late yesterday ; the mails did not arrive here until 10 p.m. The news is anticipated as usual.— lbid.