Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1837-10-27
Read the following Card from the Charleston Pstrot

AT a meeting of the undersigned, passengers,
ved from the wreck of the Home held at Sheltons
Hotel, at the request Of Wn Patton, the agent we
agree
That we believe the boat unseaworthy, and
that the Captain became incompetent from intorica.ion
That we bear united testimony to the good conduct
Of the engineers, and mate particularly and uen ge-
nerally.
John sal,er, Andrew A. Lovegreen Cyril c. Cady,
Darius Clock b. b. Hussey, Charles Drayton, Dr. n en-
ry vandernee, James johnson, Jr, john Bishop Alfred
Hill, VIM s. Reed.
10Th October.
The Captain became incom etent fyem Tt'@itcf.'s
statement signed by eleven of the survivors the list
headed by Captain John Salter. Hear further One o..
the passengers whose is upon tins list Cyril G.
Cady. Of Lancaster says in the Concord New Hamp-
shire) Statesman
All welIti Sunday nooH when the sea was
heavy and the wind blew hard but we were told there
was no danger. The wind continued, and Monday was
sorry day all wore long faces heard sharks but
in regard TO situation At about five O'Clock our
ears increased the boat began to leak and our
Captain lag drunk ~ his office {!
Drunk Good God From Sunday the storm
lad commenced. The vessel has been stated before,
was of order the captain wac approaching the
dangerous part Of all the coastthe dreaded Cape
Eaneras, at whose mplacable shrine vessels are
yearly inundated, than atany other, and the Captain
Tag drunk in his office y
take place The man who in drunken fit kills
other, solitary individual is instantly brought TO
tra, is HE drunkenness any excuse in the eye of
the aw for the misery and desoaton that he has
casioned; it that he had previous malice
the law takes its the punishment Of the convict
ed person cnsues; the interested may occasionally alter
the course Of justice stande upon record cys
shams-but such is the law Yet here is one man.-to
whom may be attributed the deaths ninety fre fellow
large, if his inoxicationand the deaths
which, have right suppose ensued from it
crime. The soldier who sleeps upon his post shot.
The commander who in the hour Of danger gets druok
upon his post passes through the neshes Of justice
trammelled. 1t is with us---wth no other people
upon earth.
How iong--how long shall this cruel lenency be suf
fered How many calamities ensue, before
indignant, outraged and bleeding community shall
rise, and with voice. cry-Justce +! Justice !--jus
tice !!
Tory OPPREssIoS.---Mr. L. Mackenzie, Of Toronto
U. c., has been convicted of libel upon the Weland
Canal Company. He is, it appears an independent
writer and has thus given offence those aristocratic
eproud beings, who tremble before the light of
truthwho quail at investigation of their conduct,
and who seek crush those who for the public good
to expose them.
We have such pretty chickens here men who seek
for high offices-who would be thrust into them but
who incompetent fill them---who seek to admins
ter justice with stained handswhs meek the admins
raon ofustice, by being themselves the
Our path shas beeH and ever will be- to expose such
beingsto off the mask that hides their counten-
ance, and TO shew it it is. In this have been per-
secuted smilarlybut what Of that He is unfit for
the Office he holds, who in the faithful discharge Of his
duty, is deferred by consequences.
The Tory Jury in Niagara have convicted Mr.. Mac.
Kenzic in 40s damages in the face of Of the mos,
full, clear, and able deences upon record. wouldbe
srstocratic body have here inflicted fine equally out
rageous common and common justice; but the
triumph defeat and the shame Of the transaction shall
stick in their throas despite OF all their attempts gup
ii down, to the latestday Of their lives.
II man named McKinn has been found guilty
in Columbus, Ohio, of numbering his brothers wife,
at midnight.
II A disgraceful outrage has been perperated in
Baltimore citizens house broken in.o-his furni-
ture destroyed The outrage was continued for three
nights. In the last, train of gunpowder was laid
from the door to bed in which boy was sleeping,
and fired, evidently with the intention of numbering
the sleeper No arrests have taken place Is justice
asleep at Balumoref
HY Seven burias in Mobile on the 18th IL ia