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MIAMI BEACH, Fla., June 12.—Miss Svea Bohman, 27 years old, of New York, believed to have been drowned off shore here late yesterday in attempting to save an unidentified man from drowning, returned here shortly after noon today, after being rescued in the Gulf Stream.
Miss Bohman, while in the surf, responded to the cries of a man in distress almost a mile from shore near the Government Jetties.
On Saturday intelligence of the loss by fire of the ship Georgia, of Newcastle, an Indiaman, Captain Mitchell, bound to London, was received by the underwriters at Lloyd’s, attended with a deplorable sacrifice of human life. This ship was between 800 and 900 tons burden, and was valued at 7000£, being splendidly fitted up for the accommodation of passengers. She had a rich cargo on board, consisting of jewellery, merchandise, and other valuable property, which perished with the vessel; a loss in total of nearly 20,000£.
The unfortunate event occurred on the morning of the 1st of last month, while on her passage to England from Calcutta, which place she left in the early part of February. From the accounts brought over by the ship Thomas Sparks, from China, which arrived off Dartmouth on Friday morning, it appears, that early on the morning mentioned, the “watch” on deck, when the vessel was in latitude 30 south and longitude 36 cast, off Madagascar, discovered a strong smell of burning about the ship; he aroused the commander, Captain Mitchell, and the rest of the ship’s crew, and a strict search was determined upon.
NEW YORK, May 16.
The blockade runner Cherokee was captured off Charleston by the Canandaigua, who followed her, and after a sharp chase, boarded and took possession of her. She is an Anglo-rebel propeller, built in the Clyde, is very swift, and had a cargo of 450 bales of cotton and a large quantity of tobacco, worth in all $175,000.