Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1841-06-19
(Coadcnsed from the Picaynnc.)
ARRIVAL OF.THE ACADIA

The Acadia arrived at Boston on the ID
inst. She left Liverpool on the l9th May,
bringing fifteen days later news than pre-
viously received.
The STEAMSHIP PREsIDENr.-lhc
hopes to which people have chung for the
safety of the passengers and crew OF thus
devoted vessel, vanish away one by one
with every more recent arrival. The fol-
lowing is the only news relative to her
which the papers by the Acadia contain:
"Copo of Corh, May II.
"The Columbia Packet, Capt. Garrett,
from Monte Video, which place she left
on the 9th January, fer Antwerp, has
come in here, and Capt. Garrett reports
that 10 days since ia inst J, in lon. Is,
he saw at some distance a large steamer,
bound for the eastward, and which appear
ed to him to be disabled, as she was going
very slowly and could hardly keep way
with his vessel"
And again. The schr. Corsair, Capt.
Morisey, has arrived at Halifax, reports
that six days before sailing, a boat belong
ing to Fortune Bay arrived there from st.
rierre, the shipper of which reported that
a vessel from France arrived at that Is
land, which had picked up the captain and
sixteen scamcn of an American steamer,
and had reported that ifty-six ether per-
sons, who had been in the steamer, were
lost; the said vessel had foundered in con
sequence of running foul of an iceberg.
(Doubtful.)
Horrid affair at sea.-The ship William
Brown, Capt. George Harris, Of and for
Philadelphia, left Liverpool on the 18th
March, having on board a crew of seven
teen, and sixty-five passengers, all, or prin-
~cipallv, from the county Tyrone, Ireland
On the 10th April in lat. 43 30 NJ, and
10 80 w. lon., she struck in iceberg which
stove her in. She struck a second one
the boats were disengaged-the Captain,
mate, q lady and FIVE sailors embarked on
board the jolly boat; the second mate,
eight of the crew, and thirty-three of the
passengers got into the long boat. At
midnight the William Brown sunk, carry
ing with her thirty-three passengers. In
the morning the captain and those with
aim in the jolly boat, made the best of
their wav for New Foundland; the second
mate, taking those with HIM in the long
boat, directed his course south. After
some time, as the ID mate reports, the
b at became literally surrounded with large
| and small masses OF ice. The mate har.
ing come to the conclusion that the boat
could not hold out unless relieved of some
of her freight, consulted with the sailors,
and they conformity resolved to throw a
certain number OF the passengers over
board Then did the work of lnhumanity
| commenced! Then was a scene enacted
from which the mind r~eyolts, and at which
nature shoulders and in Justification of
which it is even doubtful if the plea of
self. preservation can be urged.
They threw sixteen passengers over
board! There were two brothers and a
sister of one family the brothers were
thrown over, and the sister jumped in at
ter them. Some chung to the sides Of the
boat, praying for mercy, but their hands
were cut of, and they were pushed into
the deep. Fifteen ladies and two men re-
NAMED il the boat.
One hour after the massacre the ship
Crescent fell in with tho survivors of this
horrid deed, and took on board the mate.