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Show THE SHIP -JIAGELLIST I l'rl lo be Lot wllb Crew and Etrrjrltilnc. New YortK, Oct. 14. The ship Magellan, one of the finest of the American clipper fleet,has been lost, and as none of the ship's company, numbering twenty-two men, has been accounted for, it Is reared all hands Trent down in one or the late easterly gales. On the 10th or May the Magellan left Boston for Valparaiso, Valpa-raiso, laden with case olL She was owned by S. P. Hemluway and T. Qulncy Brown, S9 Slllk Street, Boston, Bos-ton, and commanded by Captain Wm. Marshall, one or the most experienced ex-perienced American shipmasters. The latter part or May the bark Game Ifinstotr left here for alpa-raiso, alpa-raiso, and late last month the llins-owmet llins-owmet nnd spoke to the German bark J'ara from here bound to Brazilian Bra-zilian ports. After signalling for close speaking the iira reported that when VJO milss south tar tills citr she passed through more than one hundred uubroken .cases of oil marked "H, & B-," Magellan. "THE NEXT DAY," reported the master or the -Para, "we passed through considerable wreckage, and bound to a spar, with submerged head and shoulders, was tho corpse or a man. The body seemed considerably decomposed, and bore evidence of having been n the water some days." |