Show tuc Af ISSING STEAMER STE AMErt tiie the following is is an extract from a letter just revived by a cl clergyman eryman in mis this country from a friend of hi his in in new ne w york who sailed from frona liverpool in in the atlantic on the gib of february 14 days lays after I 1 lie he pacific had started from the same pori port new york feb 20 18 16 eighteen weary disagreeable stormy days brought us en on sunday borni moraine to new york the captain who bed crossed tle tie atlantic 2 times declared he had never nev er had sucha such i bad trip as this the ship had scarcely got cut of the mersey when wl en the headwind ead began increasing inc to a gale pale against which we w had bad to fig fight h t until we reached this shore when two days out the fag 1 became so thick that we could not nal bee see the length leof the vessel anilie third day diky floating flatting ice ice began to make its appearance increasing to lucri such an extent that hat we could feel gur cur v uray rray ay for two days and end n highs gs we v e kept crawling along the captain hoping 0 1 o get out oat of it every rno ino moment ment fog fog fogl fogl nothing but fog 10 and ice ice on the ehni day at 7 in in th the morning we siw saw a spec spee spectacle acie acle which wh ch none on board will ever ev er farget it etwas was in in fact the ginger finder of providence and ard some soma moe aoe deserving than I 1 and others must have been on board eders elders george D gant grant abl aul adl adi william 11 kimball were aboa d the son oa of prest II 11 C kimball aj a J brollier booher of 0 pest pelf J J 1 grait the n hole tol toi cf fog for ro elke aike nike mike a aa aal abl we e looked locked upon uvon uon an ocean scene beautiful fear feat fearful tuli fuli and grand the aa 23 far av the eye could coun reach was clear the sun un shone bri brightly atly on a continuous chain of icebergs above feet high intern v with ith fieldi of ice ice chan chain after afler chain burst upon the sight and the sight ig ht was awfully impressive in a less time than it haa baa taken to write this the cartain descended and all became obscurity amin again the captain took the hint and turned birned his slip snip towards england for the remainder of the day and lle ile the lie south at night not amm n bis lis course to america until the h follow ing morning after IS 18 days passage we sir armed aimed rived at new york when we learnt that the file pac fi another steamer belonging to this hi which saile falle palled tailed d 14 days da s before us u had not asTir cd and I 1 fear sha stio 13 is lost with vath all zil 11 on board air gnp abia behaved nob dobli nothing broke or strained drained it is v how bow man inan combines wood ana and iron iron to the power of the waves |