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Show SUFFERED AT SEA, Men Sucked Each Other's Blood to Sustain Life AND ATE SHOE LEATHER. Troubles at New Orleans are not Yet Over -Merchants Interviewed Declared They Had not Sought the Trouble But Were Going to Stay With It. JEloiiE, March 15. The Giornale to -day, referring to the Killing of Italians at "Walsenbur, Colorado, says that the Italians were certainly in the wrong if they killed IlixoD, tbe ealoon keeper. "But," the Gionale adds, -'that doea not justify the summary lynching of six prisoners. It is to be hoped that the United States will act firmly and rapidly, punishing the guilty and give satisfaction to Italy." SUFFERING AT SEA. Portland, Or., March 15. The following fol-lowing dispatch wa3 received tonight from Marchfield, Or, : Dmel Clark and Tnomas Moore, supposed to be the only survivors of a crew of thirty-one persons from the British ship Yoeman, arrived here last night on the schooner Letds. . The Yoeman went down on the morning of Februaiy 23 in latitude 34 north, longitude Ao west. She was bound from Antwerp toKedondo. Clark related the details of the loss of the ship and crew and his escape as follows: "It was my watch on deck, The weather was perfectly calm, but I feared a heavy squall and began to shorten the sail. I had ordered sail taken in, but scarcely had the sailors started to execute my command when a sudden squall struck us and tne water became rough. A heavy swell like a tidal wave struck us, capsizing the Bhip. I was forward all the time and aa the sea swept tne deck I was carried with it overboard. A lull followed fol-lowed and the ship righted. I got on the ship again to find no one on deck. Trie cook was lying in the galley with his head split open and hardly alive. I went down into the cabin and found Captain Ferguson and the second ma'e were drowned. 1 went aloft to try and spread some canvass, but J.be ship waa continually sinking. 1 then decided to abandon her, and cut looser lifeboat life-boat from the davits, got the cook into it, and just got clear of the snip far enough to keep from being swamped by the suction as 6he went down. "We were fourteen days in the boat before the schooner Leeds sighted us and picked us up, during wnich time we suiiered more than language can express. We had to fare all the time on sixteen eea biscuits without a drop of fresh water. We ate two biscuits apiece each day until they were ex-haused ex-haused and would drink salt water and throw it up again. This made our tongues swell up and our mouths and throats get as raw as a beef steak. wnen uie uiacuna wue tiuausiou we became too faint to pull an oar or guide the boat, so we drilced to and fro ULtil picked up. We could not Bpeak our names and our eyes were swollen shut. We were so huogiy that we ate the uppers ot our shoes and also sucked the blood out of each other." Here Mr. Clark exhibited his leg, which Bhowed great red blotches, certifying cer-tifying the trthfulness of his story, Continuing he said: "I have been around the Horn nine times, but this was tne roughest trip I ever experienced. We lost lour men overboard in a gale off the Horn, and Taul Hessing fell from the top-sail-yard and was killed. We were fourteen four-teen days making seven miles and drifted to the southward. It was nothing but bad luck from start to finish. Had not the Leeds been blown 500 miles out of her course it would have been all day with us." THE NEW OBLEAN8 TROUBLE. New Obleans, March, 15. In the last twenty-four hours there has been no change in the labor situation in this city. All day long work has progressed on the wharves; but before, it was the negro, or, at best, blacK-and-tan gangs who loaded the ships on whicn tlie tiring took place on Tuesday, and they were under the protection of bodies of state troops, fully armed, and prepared to suppress any of the riotous element. In snort, the military program was precisely similar to that of Thursday. At sundown the troops were withdrawn, with-drawn, but were ordered to resume duty tomorrow morning. During the day Governor Foster had conferences with committees representing the white screwmen and the merchants, but in neither meeting wa3 any result reached. The merchants adhered firmly to the position set forth in the address adopted by them on Tuesday. They said they had not sought this trouble, but now that they were in it, they were determined to see it through ana would not yield an inch. She governor says he wiil remain here until the trouble i3 settled and ia sanguine of being able to effect a settlement set-tlement veiy th jrtly. |