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Show Wrecked Const Notes. San Franciaco, 23. A Port Towns-end Towns-end dispatch says the ship Gtao reports re-ports that a few days age, in latitude 42, 15 north, longitude 129, 37 west,! she sighted a eebnoner waterlogged and dismantled. One man, a Portuguese, Portu-guese, Victoriue Roper, was found on board, lashed to the wreck, alive, but insensible. On recovering, he staled that tbe BChooner left San Francisco about a month ago, bouud for the north, on a trading voyage. When six days out, the vessel was thrown on her beam ends and partly filled, and did not right until the masts gave way. Of the eleven persons per-sons on board, five were drowned in the forecastle-, the captain awept from tbe deck and loat, and the mate and remainder of the crew lashed themselves ou the top gallant fore castle, where one by one they died, the last one expiring on the day Rnper waa rescued. Roper's mind is unsettled on account of tbe suffering he has passed through, and cannot give the name of the vessel or the captain, but from the description it is believed lo have been the schooner j-j. j. JUCA.111UO11, (j oneo master, which left San Francisco March 2dib , ou a trading voyage northward. Bndie levies an assessment for $1 The trial of Edward Bertrand, lor ; the murder of Thomas W. Killojin, master of the bark Masonic, in the 1 harbor of Manila, commerced in the United States district court to day. Insurance ou the Eureka fire aggre 1 gates $130,087, divided in small 1 amounts among nearly all the insurance in-surance companies doing business on this coast, no one company losing ovor $20,000. Portland dispatch; In the United Stales circuit, to-day, Kat Koo, Sitka ' Indian was sentenced to Le hanged VI ny 5th, for the murdei of Thomas J. Brown, Sitka. In Ihe case of W. C. G.-iawoId. 1 plaintiff in error against the United States. Jude Sawver has reversed llm dpntHinn nf thfl fisaLrit court giving a verdict against Grijwold for $35,000. The wrecked Bteamer Great Republic Re-public has broken up, and is abandoned. aban-doned. The bench ia crowded with wreckers picking up the property coming. ashore and claiming salvage. One of the passengers suicided this evening by jumping from the wharf. |