The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-03-20
The Black Warrior at Havana.

The Black Warrior at Havana
A letter dated on the first instant, has
BEEN received by Messrs. Livingston & Co.,
New York, agents of the New York and AL
ALBANIA steamship company, from Charles
Tynge & Co., agents of the steamship Black
Warrior at Havana, which gives the details
of the seizure Of that vessel by the Spanish
authorities at Havana. The Captain of the
steanHr reported to the boarding officer
when he entered, giving his manifest as usu-
al, in which il was stated that she entered
as it always had been in ballast" 1t was
not discovered that there existed any diff
Guilty, until the clerk went to the Custom
House TO get the necessary paper from the
Captain of the port in order 10 allow the
ship to pass the Moro, and it was refused,
with the explanation that there was an in
formality in the entry. The boarding officer
had attached a note to the manifest of the
Captain, saying, The ship has entered in
ballast, and brings four hundred bales of cot
ton for New York" The collector said TO
The agents for the steamer, that the Captain
should have entered his cargo in transit and
not in ballast.
The agents replied that as far as regarded
Havana, she was in ballast The Iutendante
was waited upon and he, after while, sent
a note to the Collector, the tenor of which
was, that the manifest was not true one,
that the ship was responsible according to
law, that the goods on board should be confiS-
Gated, and fine equal to double the value
of the goods imposed. This decree was in
vain protested against. The agents of the
ship were told that if they would give bond
for the payment Of the fine, and the confis-
Gated cotton taken out, the ship might CO.
This offer was Of course refused 1t was
usual to allow vessels twelve hours to cor
rect their manifests, and this privilege was
claimed, but refused. Finally the Collector
had the cotton taken out of the ship. Not
man belonging to the vessel was allowed
by her agents, to give the least assistance in
discharging her cargo. AS soon as the cargo
was broken the American flag was hauled
down by her officers and the ship was aban-
doned to the Spanish authorities. The letter
OF the agents says:
The Consul has written a statement of
the whole affair to the Government at Wash
ington, and dispatched the Corwin, a coast
survey steamer, with the dispatches and
letters intended for the Black Warrior, this
afternoon, for Charleston. We are support
ed in the course we have taken, as also is
the Captain, by the opinion and advice of
the American Consul-by that of Judge
several eminent lawyers, now here from the
States, and by the merchants generally. We
regret much these circumstances. but have
done the best in our power. and have taken
the best advice with regard to every step we
have taken in the matter. When we recol-
lect the thirty-six different times this vessel
has entered the harbor, and always in the
same way, and the steamers of the George
Law and other lines, have probably entered at
least three hundred times in the sama way
more than this, that steamers of the Law
line actually transferred full cargoas from
one steamer to another, under the eye of the
officers of the Government. and both vessels
ientered and clea red in ballast, we are sure
that our Government will protect your in
terests as they ought, and the Spanish gov
ernment be made 10 pay dearly for the work
Of yesterday and today.
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