Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-04-26
Immigrant Ships-Their Arrival in New Orleans.

be rife with the excitement prevailing relative t,
the bad treatment immigrants receive at the hand
OF some of those ''sea serpents," " the English ma
Wy officers on board immigrant vessels. TIVE
British ships lately arrived from Liverpool loaded
with poor deplorabe creatures seeking for new
homes. Some of them were in most horrible
condition, and many had met with Watery grave
In consequence of the crowded condition and wan
of ventilation on board together also from the wan
of wholesome food they died They are princi
pally supplied by band of Gland sharks a
Liverpool, who agents for ships, and we'll paic
by the owners and masters to rob and cheat tn,
poor unfortunate stranges as they arrive at tn,
Docks; holding out inducements to embark in th
ship and that ship to secure comfortable voyage
Stating to them at the same time ''this ship vii
positively sail to- omorrow, and as the stranger has
not more money than will pay his passage and buy
few scanty provisions for the voyage, he is in
duced to take, as he supposes, the first ship. He
then pays has passage secures his provisions, anC
goes on board, anxiousy y waiting for the morrow
but alas that morrow does not arrive until, per-
haps, two weeks have elapsed, and so when the
vessel starts, he has but about half enough provis
ions left for the voyage. Then he is compelled tc
call upon others for assistance, until eventually
necessity drives them to subscribe their few remain
ing pence with which to purchase food from the
cruel hard-hearted skipper, and then the poor un-
tortunates land in strange country, diseased
wretched and without cent.-Free Trader.
We copy the following from the True Delta OF
Saturday:
| Voice from the Ship Blanche Shameless:
| Nobody would be surprised to find in the Bulle-
tin of yesterday, after the custom house announce
ment that 1.-THE British Consul, William Mure,
Esq. is seconding the efforts of the collector in
bringing to proper punishment the volators of our
acts of Congress- nobody, say would be sur
prised to find after that important notice and nso-
lent communication purporting to be written by
one Thomas Duckitt who signs himself captain of
the English pestiendal hulk Blanche-but who
smacks strongly of brass button official. The
brass button man knows hawk from herenshaw
as well as the next man. and is up to the trick of
publishing advertisements to effect one object
while apparently pursuing generous and proper
course in another direction We give credit to the
brass button he is wise in his generation, we
do not detract from his merits, but he must not
complain if we overlook his Importance while we
glance at the duty of American officials
Three or four days ago we sought for informa-
ton in relation to the Blanche, and her reported
violation of the laws of the Republic and humani-
ty and when Mr.. Hincks, the gentlemanly and ex-
celent Deputy Collector, handed US her passen-
ger list for examination, and we asked him wheth-
er it authenticated by the oath of the captain
he replied that the captain reported at the
point of death from ship fever; and that the British
Consul had sent the papers to the Collectors of
flee. That list had 497 names returned upon it,
and when we called upon Mr.. n Sinnot, collector
of the passenger tax, for the charity hospital to
compare the Custom house return with his list,
that attentive officer exhibited the Liverpool bro
ker's list, the Captains private directory, by
which 1t appeared the real number of unfortunates
on board this internal hulk exceeded 500 souls
1t is needless to enquire how this man Ducktt
who lay at the point of death when his oath was
required to the ships papers, has miraculously
been resurrected as to be able to give the people
lesson American law and British humanity and
to vindicate my (his) country and its govern
ment' from the unscrupulous attacks Of the True
Delta Well done Duckitt!
Duckitt is thorough paced, stolid Englishman;
all the presumption, selt-sutciency, and vulgarity
of the class which he nstinctveiy belongs, stand
out in this communication, that the ''brass button
man has Illuminated over his signature, to silence
the press, impose forbearance the public, and
choke off the authorities. The last may, perhaps,
be accomplished, the two first may not be quite so
easy.
Hear how Duckitt talks of death, and how cool
" and brutaly, just his master, and the ''brass
button mans master, the miscreant Palmerston,
or any other aristocratic fool of England, would
talk Of the slaughter of the wretched Irish poor,
whom a cruel but inevitable necessity has thrown
into their hellish embrace:
E'Of this number lost 25 by death-certainly
not an excessive mortality under the lamentabe
crcumstances-and it ought to be remarked that
not one of the English passengers died though un-
der the same circumstances, and having the same
diet as the rest, who were from Ireland Nor did
lose one of my crew. / forbear to assign rea-
son for this exception from disease to which the
others fell prey, leaving better Judges to deter
mine the effect debility and previous habits might
have produced" "
Great God what idea must such fellows as
Ducktt have, or the well dressed tools of his
government, who get up this insolent cold blooded
publication, of the feelings, intelligence justice
of this community or the integrity of the admin
istration of the laws of this Republic! Only 25
deaths says this Englishman, certainly not an ex
cessive mortality" That is consotory, only twen-
ty-fve died, and not of them of English
birth Surely Duckitt is not blameable after that.
We recommend Duckitt to Mr.. Ferret, the collec
tor, and to Mr.. Hunton, the District Attorney; he
cannot fail to receive kind treatment at their hands,
for does he not tell them that not an English pas
senger died I?
When but few years ago the famine regard in
poor Ireland; when the hearts of her prosecuted
children were truly desolate; when her wall and
her lamentaton moved the Turk to commissera-
ton and the poor Hebrew of the Continent OF
Europe to give with generous hand from his own
scant stores; when the nations of Europe looked
on every breeze, and the heart of own America
was sad with anguish at the recital of her wrongs
and her sufferings, and gave from her abundant
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