The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1847-01-28
Cruelty OF a Ship Captain.


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The Boston Transcript translates the fol-
lowing from the Courier Etats Unis Of Wed.
ncsday last:
"a days since we spoke of the shin Pom
- - when arrived a New York from LIVER
pool, after passage of G5 DAYS We announce
ed that her provision had failed; that sick
ness had prevailed on board and that twenty
persons had died at sea. New details have
come to Us respecting this funeral voyage !;
and they weigh hard upon the conduct of The
captain and his second mate. After the first
| days of the voyage, the captain was found to
be in furious temper, and the emirrants.the
Germans, above ali, were the objects of his
brutality. The weather was friohtful; the
sea swept the deck at every instant, and thew
attributed the anger Of the captain to the bad
times he was experiencing. But how excuse
a rage vdhom motives andthe excuses which
we are about to relate The following details
were told us by an eye witness, NJ Derville,
the only cabin passenger on board the ship,
and to whose valuable Intervention great
number of the passengers are indebted for
their lives.
The voyage continued; the sea, far from
calming, was more and more disturbed the
captain was always the same. INJECTING blows
with a rope, oudgel and fist. NJ. DeryiIle
made many remonstrances against such con-
duct, but in vain. He only drew the captain's
ire upon himself, and was Obliged to be upon
his guard, and above all, to let him see that
he carried arms with him. The captain would
not permit the men to draw water from the
sea to wash the movables. the cookino uten-
sis, or the dirty mess-tub of the stecraee. A
pail Of water from the sea was paid for with
five or six blows with rope. In short, the
terror was so great in the steeraqe. that the
unfortunate individuals who BELONGED there
numbering 284, dared not appear upon deck,
The forced filth Of these men. who each day
received blows for anyattempt at cleanliness.
together with the infectious 0tl0r. enrendered
maladies. The scuryy prevailed forty were
attacked. and MANY persons died with it
The captain, having no command over HIM
self inflicted blows without distinction upon
every one whom he encountered. Amonr the
atrocities for which he is renroached, we re-
cite the following: =
An unfortunate man was PLAYING upon the
flute on deck: the captain wIestcd Il from him
and broke it to pieces against lis body; an
other. alone ON board. without relations or
friends. is strucly bv him in the most hutaI
manner, and saves himself in the steeraae.-
In the evening,a sufferer half dead. and p9rch-
ed with a burning thirst,draos himself toward
the tank which contains the water to drink,
but unfortunately for himihc captain PASSING
at this moment, upbraids him with kicks. and
the poor devil reaains his miserable bed, ND
Oh which he dies two hours after.
The captain Immediately gives orders to a
sailor to envcop the dead body in bag, and
the next morning they threw it into the sea,
without allowing an opportunity to verify the
causes of the death. The steward was struck |
by the second mate in the most cruel man
ner. M.Dcrville hoped here for the intcrpo-
sition Of the captain. and called him to behold |