New-York daily tribune., 1842-12-05

since, Capt. Foss having put in or account of a
mutiny among his crew, when on voyage from
NewOrleans to Europe.
On the same night the schooner James Clark,
Capt. Beck of and from St. ohm, N. B. via Port
land, for Boston, went ashore on Rye Beach,
New Hampshire, and six passenger perished.
Their names are Mr.. Dennis Mahoney; Mrs. Ma
ry Heberson, widow, and Hannah Heberson, her
child; William, six months old, child of Mrs.
Margaret Stewart; Miss Margaret Whirley, twelve
years old; Thomas Barry, boy. The vessel is a
total loss, with her cargo of potatoes, old iron,
and laths Capt. Beck was confined to his bed at
Portsmouth, three of the crew have arrived in os-
ton, free passage having been given them on the
Eastern Railroad
The Cincinnati Barbarity.
The horrible cruelty said to have been perpe-
trated in Cincinnati upon old lady by her child
ren-of which we published something some days
since-has been made the subject of investigation
by Committee of Methodist cergymen; and to
the disgrace of humanity regret to say that
it is found to be true. We find the following
summary of the facts proved in the Cincinnati
Times. 1t is scarcely possible to conceive of any
thing more barbarous or unnatural. 1t is alleged
IN defence, but not proved, that the old lady was
insane; bat even if this be true, it rather aggra-
Yates than palliates the horrible crime:
To be as brief as possible, and to give in a con-
iensed form, the facts adduced to sustain the al
legations against the accused, and which were not
successfully contradicted or satisfactorily disprov-
ed by witnesses for the defence-it appears that
about the 18th of July last, 1t became known to
certain persons residing in the same neig ghborhood
in this city, that woman named Stibbs, who
ainety,foe gears old, was lying in the house Of
her son-n-aw, j. E. Crosby, in so utterly nisera-
Die condition, that the scene almost defes des
cription. According to the evidence adduced, this
wretched woman, whose tottering limbs bent be-
meath the burden of nearly an hundred years, was
confined by lock and key in dismal room, from
which she was seldom allowed to escape, amid
The most oathsome and disgus,ful objects that the
mild of man can conceive. 1t appears that she
was brought and left either in the alley by, or the
piazza to, the house, during heavy fall Of rain;
and when at different times afterwards she was
visited in the room aforementioned, by neighbor-
ing men and women, her situation is described by
the witnesses as being horrible to the last degree
To tho language of the witnesses themselves
back on black, ragged metrass,. with no bed
clothes for covering but ragged quilt-her head
resting on dirty, black pillow-her feeble body
partially clad in tattered garments-her matted
har completely filled with disgusting vermin.
When Mrs Coppin went to see this wretched
creature she found the doors of the house locked
and no one bade her enter when she knocked. She
heard heart-rending groans, and was determined
10 effect entrance into the room where Mrs.
Stibbs lay suffering; which she finally accomplished
by going in through an entry-way." When the
unhappy invalid saw her, she stretched her trem-
bling arms toward heaven and blessed Ged for
sending her deliverer! She seized and held her
hand with deathlike grasp, and implored her as
,istance-begged that she might be sent to the
Poor House-told her suferings, and prayed that
They might be aeviated. A small girl entered the
room, and Mrs Coppn inquired of her who took
care of the invalid the little girl answered that
e nobody took care of her." An Irish servant girl
also came in, and expressed great delight that Mrs.
CopPin had come to relieve Mrs. stibbs; who, she
said, was abused most dreadfaly-but she
afraid to make it known abroad.
On subsequent occasion, when this witness
visited the place the poor famshing old lady asked
her son for an apple and was told in reply that
she did not want any. She also desired to 60 TO
the FIRE; but they replied that she did not
want TO go to the hre--that she would only tumble
about if she attempted to do SO.
The weother was then cold and uncomfortable;
still the old lady was clothed in rags. Her dress
was gone from her knees downward, and the
sleeves from below her elbows. When her SON.
in-law, Rev. Robert Richardson, was told that
less better care was taken Of his mother in-law,
she would die, he is represented to have said,
:. Let her die them she is DID, and has lived long
enough"
The son-in-law, the son, and several of the
daughters, were repeatedly desired to contribute
to the relief of their furnishing mother, they re-
fused and neg elected TO do so; one answering that
he had done enough for her already: another that
she could not visit her, on account of sore foot
nor would she permit her shildren to her assist
ance; another, that "some people were always
meddling with the business Of others-,hat they
were fool: and would get no thanks" &C. At
one time when the mother asked for food, the chill
dren denied it to her; whereupon she exclaimed
several times, in agony of spirit, '.They disown
me, they disown me-
But though the distress of the mother was un-
needed and unallevated by her sons and daughters,
the sympathes OF plying strangers at length COM
PEELED the latter to provide for Mrs Stibbs more
decent and comfortable subsistence. She was
finally clothed and fed, and well cared for. The
hair was shaved from her head, and the vermin
destroyed with mercurial ointment.
Mrs. Stibbs is now dead, and her troubles and
suferings, whatever ahey were, are all forgotten.
She lived in griei-she died in despair-may she
rest in peace.
The foregoing is but very imperfect sketch of
the particulars which have transpired in relation
TO this subject but as the report of the Committee
will be published SO soon as prepared, we must be
brief for the present.
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