A Terrible Record Of Disasters

Tho Pacific Mail Steamship Company is probably the most unfortunate corporation in f xistenoe. Since its organizaron in 1852 eleven of its vesselK have been lost at sea, ten of them within the last twelvo jears. The followiüg is the disastrons record : San Francisco, overloaded and foundertul at sen. in 1853 ; 200 lives loi-t. Golden Gate, burned in 1862 ; 180 livea lost. Heimann, wrecked in 1868, with 120 Japaneso soliïiers, who at the moment of sinking formed ii) line on deck and met their fate with heroic firmness and military preoision. Bieuviilo, burned some years later, and a number of lives lost. Golden City, wrecked, but lives, treasure, and baggage saved. America, uistershipof Japan, bnrned in 1872, at Yokohama; 27 Chiuamaji lost. Sacramento, wrecked in 1872, lives, treasure, and baggage saved. Ariel, wrecked in 1873. Belief, wrecked on a reef in 187 L Guatt mala, lost on Walling's Island. Japan, the eleventh and last vessel burned, 60 miles f rom Yokohama on the 18th of December, 1874. "William Platt, g(d 60, receiitly walktd iroin Tiew York city to Nöwtown, 70 miles, in one day.