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STILL LATER INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVAL OF TIIE "JAMES BAINES."
TERRIFIC STORM IN THE BLACK SEA
AND GREAT DESTRUCTION.
OF LIFE AMONG THIE ALLIED FLEETS.
By the arrival of the magnificent clipper
ship James Baines, after an unprece-
dented run of 64 days from land to land,
we are placed in possession of news from
England to the 9th December. No
further operations of any magnitude,
are reported, except that the siege is
still carried on with vigor; but the
Allied fleets had sustained dreadful
losses during a hurricane which devas-
tated the Black Sea on the 18th of Nov.,
the particulars of which we give in
full in our issue of this (late. The de-
tails are most harrowing, and the ac-
counts of the barbarity of the Russians
in firing upon the defenceless crews, will
be read with feelings of indignation and
disgust.
TIHE STORM IN THE BLACK SEA.
Of the many and great losses suffered by the
Anglo-French expedition from one cause or
another, the storm on the 13th November, of
which we have at length the melancholy details
may almost be regarded as the worst, The
total loss of men at the various stations on the
coast of thie Crimea on the disastrous 13th
cannot be less than a thousand,- besides those
that have fallen into the hands of the Cossacks.
The loss of the vessels was thirty British and
French wrecked and half as many dismasted at
Balaklava, and eighteen wrecked or dismasted
at the mouth of the Katscha. Our men-of-war,
thanks to the precaution of frequently trying
their cables, have come off with no further
damage than the loss of guns, of masts, or
of rigging. the twisting of rudders, or springing
some leaks. The French live lost theiir Henri
IV., a noble three-decker, and a favourite war
steamer. Thus far we have sustained no loss
beyond the ordinary drain of war; but the
greatest calamity is that of which we scarcely
now know the full. The Prince, a magnificeent
new screw steamer of 2,700 tons, carried out
the other day to Balaklava the 46th regiment
(which she fortunately had time to land), all
the winter clothing for the troops engaged in
the siege, including 40,000 greatcoats, flannel
suits, underclothing, socks, and gloves; beef,
pork, and other provisions; hospital stores for
Scutari; and a vast quantity of shot and shell
to carry on the siege. These are wholly lost,
and nothing remains of the Prince but half a
dozen of her numerous crew, who managed to
get on the cliffs when she was " broken to
powder" against them. The Resolute with 900
tons of gunpowder, also went to the bottom.
The value of the Prince, as she floated, is
reckoned at £150,000 and her cargo at half a
million. There must have been nearly 200
souls on board. 'The thirty transports utterly
lost, with most of their crews, at Balaklava, are
put down at £15,000 each. The other losses
enumerated above, the French ships of the line
and war steamer, the transports lost on the
western coast, the many vessels of all kinds
disabled, make up another million to be added
to the naked pecuniary estimate of the loss.
It appears that, in order not to any longer
expose our squadrons to these hurricanes, which
are so frequent at this season, it has been de-
cided in a council held by the admirals on the
16th that a considerable part of the fleet should
return to the Bosphorus. The Marengo and
the Alger are to anchor at two cannon shots'
distance from Sebastopol, in the port of Kami-
sech, where the merchant transports are. Two
English ships of the line are to remain at
Balaklava, and the screw ships of the line and
the steam frigates are to cruise before Sebas-
topol to watch the nine Russian ships which
are sheltered there.
We subjoin details furnished by. various
correspondents:
Crimea, November 17.
From Monday morning, the 13th instant,
until the afternoon of Thursday, the 16th, the
most terrible gale ever known in this part of
the world has been raging throughout the
length and breadth of the Black Sea. Pilots
accustomed to the navigation of the Euxine
cannot remember a tempest so violent as the
one which has just passed over us. The preva-
lent wind was from the south-west, with occt
sional shifts to other quarters. It commenced
about seven o'clock on Monday morning, and,
with thie abruptness common to this sea, soon
lashed itself into a perfect hurricane. Ever
and anon through the gale fearful gusts came
sweeping down - the wind blinding men with
hail and mist, snatching strong ships from
their holding-ground, and snapping the iron
cables like bands of tow. Whenever this
"scud" lifted, another and again another
hapless craft was seen dashed miserably
upon the inhospitable shore. It was im-
possible to give them help of the faintest kind
in the midst of the resistless swell of that wild
surging sea and the mad howling of the tem-
pestnotns wind.
The first mishap which occurred in the
anchorage off the Katscha (where the com-
mander-in-chief is stationed, and the larger
number of the allied vessels) was to her
Majesty's ship Sampson, which together with
other steamers, had got up steam the moment
the gale began. This unfortunate ship fell
foul of the transport Pyrenees, and was dis-
masted by the concussion. The latter vessel,
however, in consequence of the accident,
snapped her remaining cable and slowly drifted
ashore, where she struck with great force upon
the beach, and her masts immediately went
over the side. Her master managed to find for
her a most "comfortable berth," if such an
expression is not a contradiction in terms.
The Pyrenees was followed during the day and
the succeeding night by the Rodsley and the
Ganges. T'ho Lord Raglan also went ashore
lower down the bay and nearer the mouth of
thie Katscha. Eight French brigs, freighted with
horses and men, were also cast away, and
several of them went to pieces at once, or were
pounced upon by the Cossacks, who, ever at
hand, quickly discovered the disaster, and
prepared to turn it to the best account. Infor-
mation was also speedily sent to Sebastopol,
and in a few hours a carriage drawn by four
greys was seen coming over the downs, and
continuing evidently an officer of high rank.
To his presence, probably, may be ascribed the
humane treatment the shipwrecked mariners
experienced at the hands of the masters of the
cliffs, who might easily have destroyed every
soul, by firing over the cliffs upon the ships
below. These although for the most part armed
were perfectly helpless, the guns being imprac-
ticable and the powder being saturated with
sea water. Tile Russian officers came to the
tops of the cliffs and lifted their hats, beckon-
ing the sufferers to come on shore-an offer
which, for the most part was respectfully declined.
On Wednesday afternoon a lull occurred, and
Commander Franklyn, the agent of the trans-
ports, put off in a boat to attempt to reach the
admiral's ship, a feat which he fortunately
acecomplished with safety. At the same time
Captain Mitchell of her Majesty's ship Queen,
requested by signal permission to send assis-
tancde to the wreck. This was readily granted,
and three boats from the Queen, under the
charge of a lieutenant, at great risk, succeeded
in fetching the Pyrenees, in spite of the surf and
heavy sea. A boat from the Britannia put off,
but 1 believe was nearly lost in the attempt;
and an officer and boat's crew from the Ville
de Paris, who so gallantly endeavoured to aid
their compatriots, were all made prisoners by
the Russians, the sea having forced them on
shore.
About forty or fifty men and two soldiers'
wives belonging to the 95th regiment were
rescued on Wednesday evening, and taken on
board the Queen. The Cossacks on the beach,
seeing a portion of their expected booty slipping
through their fingers, fired on the retreating.
boats and a bullet, passing through the bonnet
of one of the women, killed a seaman of the
Queen. The enemy closed the day by firing a
smart volley upon a barque round whose yawn-
ing sides twenty or thirty men were desperately
clinging. I fear their sufferings and suspense
were thus summarily put an end to. The next
morning, Thursday, the gale having completely
broken, a large number of boats from all the
ships were employed. in bringing off the re-
mainder of the crews, and such personal pro-
perty and valuables as could be secured.
About eighty men were taken off by the Queen,
twenty were on board the Fury, and the
Simoom afforded help to the soldiers in the
French transports, who had defended them
selves against the attacks of the Cossacks the
whole night. Some field-pieces belonging to
the enemy had been brought down during the
night, but disappeared when the steamers went
to clear the beach with shot and shell.
Such has been the the of some of the splendid
transports before the Katscha, all first-class
ships, and worth upwards of £15,000 a piece.
The men-of war, whose habit of making peri-
odical and carefuil scrutiny of their cables has
here proved of such advantage, rode out the
gale with but trilling damage. Top-gallant
masts were all sent down, topmasts well stayed,
and three anchors let go. Some of them drag
ged, however, very considerably. The Rodney
was not far off the ground, and the Marengo
and Britannia were at one time in very danger-
ous proximity. Floods of water inundated
their decks, and the old Britannia was kept
pumping for eleven hours. The Turkish
admiral lost two of his masts, and three French
line-of-battle ships the rudders. The London
also has recceived some damage. The whole
shore of the Katscha is strewn with wreck, casks,
spars, bodies of men and horses, and prowling
detachments of tho Cossacks. I regret to say
that the hulks of the Rodsley and the Ganges
have been set fire to in a most mysterious
manner. This is greatly to be regretted a
althoetgh all the ships are so bilged that no hops
remains of being able to get them olff again,
still it would have been perfetrly possible to re
cover government stores to ea large amount.
Few lives, comparatively speaking, have been
lost off the Kautscha.
I wish I could give you as fhvourable an
account of the state of alfhirs at Balaklava and
Eupatoria.
In tho.former place the greater number of
men of war transports woro anchored in deep.
water outside the harbour of Balaklava, whose
steep sides and tortuous narrow mouth prevent
the ready exit of vessels of any size in case of a
sudden necessity. The cliffs are steep and
abrupt, falling down directly into deep water,
and affording not the slightest trace of beach
or footing for man - an iron bound coast indeecd
-added to which a rocky bottom and thirty
fathoms of water are not an encouraging
anchorage in a furious gale, with a lee
shore. Here eight first-class transports have
become total wrecks, alnd every soul on board
them has been lost but thirty persons. Each
of these ships had a cornpany of nearly
forty men. To those which held on great
damage has been done to the spars and upper
works. The Prince steamer, which had lately
brought out the 36th regiment, has gone down
with, it is said 300 souls on board. I cannot
quite understand where this large number
could have come from, unless, indeed, women
and children, together with the sick, had been
sent to her. This, I fear, is a supposition only
likely to be too true. Captain Bayntun, the
Admiralty agent, who came out in the Prince,
has bcen drowned.
A Russian line-of-battle ship, which drifted
from her moorings to the entrance of the harbour
of Sebastopol, has been sunk there beside the
others.
Another correspondent thus describes the
loss of the steamship Prince : -
The loss of the Prince seems to have been
partly owing to the negligence of her officers.
When she arrived at Balaklava, she let go one
of her anchors in thirty fathoms water. It ap-
pears that the cable had never been clinched,
the whole of it ran out, and anchor and cable
were lost together. She then let go the other
anchor, the cable of which was so ineffciently
fastened that she lost this also. She then
steamed out to sea until she could get another
cable from the hold, and at last let go a
smaller anchor, with which slhe rode until the
tempest broke upon her on Tuesday morning.
An eye witness saw her carried from her moor-
ings on the rock with such force that in ten
minutes there was hardly a piece a yard long
remaining. She might almost he said to go to
powder. Of a crew of' 150 only six were saved.
This splendid vessel of 2,700 tons was purchased
by government some time since, and sent out
full of most valuable stores and munitions of
war. Every thing is lost. With the excep-
tion of the troops everything remained in her
at the time she was dashed upon the rocks.
The whole of the winter clothing for the men
has gone down--40,000 suits of clothing, with
under garmens, socks, gloves, and a multitude
of other articles of the kind, vast quantities of
shot and shell, and not least in consequence,
the medical stores sent out in consequence of
the deficiencies which formerly existed. The
latter were, will not unconmon negligence,
stowed away under the shot and shell, and
could not be landed at Scutari. They are now
lost, at the time when the demand for them is
likely to be more urgent than ever, and when
the commissariat is fully occupied in ministering
to the wants of those who still remain unhurt.
The other vessels lost at Balaklava are as fol-
lows:-the Resolute, all hands lost; the Rip
van Winkle, al lost; the Wild Wave, one or
two saved; the Kenilworth, all lost; the
Progress, some saved; the Wanderer, all lost;
the Marquess, all lost; the Mary Ann, all lost;
the Poltowa all saved; the Caduceus, dismasted
and abandoned.
The following are dismasted and unfit for
service:--The Pride of thie Ocean; the Medusa;
the Melbourne screw-steamer, flag of Captain
Christie; the Sir R. Sale, the Minchee, and the
Lady Valiant.
The loss of men at Balaklava is about 340.
We are still ignorant of the losses at Eu-
patoria, the Katcha, and Chersan. The Henri
Quatre, eighty-four, and the Plutan steam
frigate are said to have gone to pieces some
where on the west coast of the Crimea, and a
Turkish man-of-war to be lost. The Turkish
flag-ship is certainly dismasted.
The Retribution, Captain Drummond, was
obliged to throw overhoard her upper deck
guns. The Duke of Cambridge was on board,
and still remains there. The Vulcan rode out
the storm with three anchors. The Sampson
steams frigate lost her masts. The Britannia,
120, fouled a French, line-of-battle ship, but
both vessels escaped, fortunately, with few
injuries. The Prince had her masts cut away
and her steam up, but the rigging of the
mizenmast fouled the screw, and it could not
work. The vessel then ran on shore with a
terrible shock.
The Resolute was laden with powder and
shells for the seige. By the loss of this vessel
and the Prince, the British army is deprived of
the means of continuing the seige for the
present, even if such an idea were entertained.
A third correspondent says:
Five p.m.- The Firebrand has just fired on
the coast. It seems the wretches were pre-
vented from doing harm by their impotence,
not their will, for they have just brought down
field-pieces and fired on the wrecks, and the
Firebrand is trying to keep them off. We were
rather premature in supposing the Russians had
become civilised all of a sudden.
Thursday, 16th.-To-day broke very fine,
with still a stormy breeze from the S.W.; the
Firebrand still busy keeping off the Russians,
who continue hovering about the shore; and
some capital shots she makes, dropping shot
and shell right into groups of eight or ten, and
scattering them most effectually; the boats are
all busy getting men off the wrecks, and we
hope that very few lives are lost here. About
half-past eight a.m. the captain of the Lord
Raglan, a most intelligent sailor-like man, came
on board ; he has great hopes of saving his ship,
which is nearly unhurt, and says that the
Russians were most anxious to persuade him
yesterday to go on shore, but he declined, very
fortunately, as every poor fellow they caught,
half drowned and unarmed as he was, they
handcuffed and sent off. He says that directly
he lighted his lamp they opened a fire at his
skylights but, fortunately, without doing any
damage; he says, too, that his men, of whom
he has thirty, behaved most splendidly and he
has brought them all off. On leaving us he re-
turned to his ship, and, if any man can save
her. he will do it. One French barque is full
of soldiers, and at them the enemy kept up a
continual fire; the poor wretches could not
leave their position, owing to everything being
washed away, so that they had to cling to the
bulwarks for safety, this affording an excellent
mark for tie Russians, who took advantage of
it; and yet the savages call themselves Christ-
ians ! We are very glad to see to-day that all
who survived are taken off. Several women
were among the transports; what lives are lost
we cannot yet learn, but we have seen some
four or five women going off to our ships. At
noon No. I was set on fire, we presume by her
crew, who had left her after saving all they could,
there not being the slightest chance of getting
her off, and she is now, seven p.m., burning
most brilliantly, and shedding a lurid light all
round her. A splendid, though fearful sight is
a ship on fire. She belongs to the same owner
as the Lord Raglan, and seems to have as ener-
getic a commander; certainly the next best
thing to saving her, which was impossible, was
to burn her.
Our American newspapers come to as in
wrappers of brown and yellow, so tough as
never, by any accident, to arrivo with the
smallest rent in the edge, and bearing the ink
as well as any paper whatever. This is made
from the refuse of the Indian corn plant. Our
letters come to us in envelopes of pale yellow,
grey, or green-perfectly serviceable, and rather
pretty than not. They fire made of any one
of half a dozue substances which have every
good quality, but that they will not bleach.
liaourseold 'ords.
A Junoc INsDITED.--The Ho. W. T. Bar
bour, District Judge in the Tenth District, has
been indicted by the Grand Jury of Yuba
county for "an assault with a deadly weapon
with intent to commit great bodily injury upon
the person of C. P. Stidger.." The Judge it is
said, has applied for a change of venue, on the
ground that the prejudices in Yuba county are
so great against him that he cannot obtain an
impartiul trial.-Californiu Paper,
AMernCA. - IfarosancTU. It ILWAY Ace
DENT.-A frightful accident had taken place,
resulting in the death of 57 persons, and In the
wounding of 41 others, nearly all severely. It
occurred through the neglect of awatehman on
the Great 'Western Railroad, near Chatham, on
the Baptist Creek flats, a passenger train
running into a ballast train during a fog. Mr.
Thomnas F. Menghcr, who was in the train,
escaped uninjured. Ono locomlotive was com
pletely thrown orer to tile right, the express car
thrown over, crushing tile first anulld second class
cars into splinters, demolishing the next, and
making a wreck of the third car, and driving
in the end of the fourth. The passengers in
the last cars escaped with slight bruises.
Almost the entire load of the second class cars
were killed or wounded; some cut completely
into pieces, others with mangled heads and
bodies, and without limbs. The screams and
groans of the mangled were awful in the ex.
treme. Every effort was made by the conduc
tor and passengers to relieve tile sufferers, but
all were not extricated for moretlhanfour hours
after the collision. Heaps of the dead and
wounded were found in tile ruins, piled
together in all shapes. One poor fellow was
cut into two by the express car, his limbs hang
ing out fifteen feet from the side. One of the
strangest features of the accident is, that all tihe
ballast cars were demolished and piled upon
each other, with the tender of the engine stove
in. Theaconductor of the ballast train was in
the rear car with Ihis signal light, and a negro
boy at his side ; tile conductor saved himself
by jumping,-the negro was killed.
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