The native American., 1838-10-27

i underneath rich alluvian full OF vegetable ana
organic remains, such as reeds, small shells,
&C."
PIRACY AND MURDER.
George N. Diehl, the writer of the subjoined
letter, detailing an atrocious piracy and murder,
is no other than the CAPTAIN Diehl who formerly
was in command of the steamboat Independence.
ganza:
| Communicated tor the United States Gasste
| LIVERPOOL, Sept. 6, 1898.
Dear Brother: We arrived here on the 30th
ult. from Greenock. / wrote you on the lst
instant, by the Scotland, enclosing detailed ac-
count Of the loss of the Braganza; at foot give
you an abbreviated statement. propose leaving
here for home on the 9th instant by the Algon-
qdfh, and hope to be with you by the middle Of
| October.
We proceeded on our voyage to Genoa, with
out any remarkable circumstance until the 9th
August when at 2 o'clock A. NJ, being in lat
between 81 and 3s north, and lon. between l3
and ID west an alarm of mutiny by the crew
was given by the first mate; the captain and SEE
cond mate ranupon deck butwer soon overpower-
ed and the former thrown overboard; the second
mate retreated to the cabin, completely disabled by
blows from handspike; the captain was drown
ed; the first mate was literaray cut to pieces, but
succeeded in gaining the cabin. The only eff
cient weapon on board was cutlass which the
captain had. The ladies and myself were in the
cabin, expecting every moment they would come
down and murder US, having no means whatever
Of defence; but to our surprise, Immediately on
their getting possession Of the deck they closed
the cabin companion way and sky light, by nail
ing and placing heavy chains over them. After
daylight they threatened to close the cabin dead
! lights if we did not give up every thing Of value
in the cabin, which we were forced to comply
with, knowing that we should smother If they
put their threat in execution.
On Tuesday the 7th, early in the morning, we
discovered smoke proceeding from the hold, and
expected they had set fire to the vessel; upon our
asking the cause of the smoke, they said they
were satisfied there was more property in the
4 cabin, and unless we gave it up, they would
smoke us to DEATH had great difficulty in con-
vincing them that we had given them all, but
Eventually succeeded, and they withdrew the
| fre-for some time the smoke was SO dense, that
we were nearly suffocated. Nothing material
occurred on the 9th, 9th, 10th, though we were
in momentary expectation that they would come
below and murder us, from the constant uproar
and confusion they kept up day aud night imme-
manded parey with me over taffere, and pro-
posed that we should leave the brig in the jolly
boat and endeavor to gain vessel they stated was
in sight from the mast head, to which objected,
as in the first place did not believe they saw a
vessel, and secondly, / knew that the jolly boat
would not swim with us ten minutes. ..
After few moments conversation together,
they requested Mrs. d. and myself to come on
deck, to which we consented thinking that mat
ters could not we'll be worse; on reaching the
deck they all stood at the companion way with
: their knives in hand, but did not attempt to i'm
r jure us-though they previously observed that it
: was necessary to destroy us to save themselves.
fl After we had been on deck about an hour, they
proposed that should leave the brig in the long
boat (which they previously fitted out for them
seves,) to which we consented, and about three
o'clock the second mate, Mrs. Turley, Mrs. D.,
t myself and the cook, (who had been confined in
the forecastle,) left the brig in what they cnosi-
. dered themselves lat. Al north, long. II west.
e $50 miles from land. Previous to leaving the
' brig we urged that they would allow US to take
: the first mate along with us, although he was in
t wretched condition from his wounds, which they
refused, stating that they would take care of him
] themselves.
!, On leaving the brig we steered for the Portu-
guese coast all that day and night; at daylight we
{ discovered two vessels, chased one OF them until
i 10 o'clock, but could not reach her and gave it
Iup-at that time saw another steering towards us,
pulled for her, and at p. M. she discovered and
bore up for us, and at half past 8 were received
on board the brig Hebdon, Capt. VIM. B. Fowler,
of Scarboro, England, bound from Sicily TO
Greenock, where we arrived on the 25th ult
The American consul at Greenock offered us no
assistance protection whatever, and had it not
been for the unbounded kindness of Capt Fow-
er, it is difficult to say to what extremies we
would have been forced, having no clothes, ex-
cept what we stood in, and not a cent of money.
GEORGE N. DIEHL.
u The Braganza was not long after this horrid
mutiny, wrecked on the French coast. The mu-
tineers were taken and put into prison, where
J. of the number hanged himself few days after
Statistics Of Crime IN England.--The pro-
portion of persons in England, committed to
prison. is in ffty-six. 1t is stated as re-
; narkable fact, that six of the principal mining
counties occupied the most favorable position in
the statistics of crime, which was accounted for
al, ,x,I l,~.az Al.