New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-24

we SrIved al Frebsli, sad shortly after. vag
oos feighted with the immigrants came IN. aad
at O'Clock, the time OF the starting of the
team, sirfy-eisht persons, mostly mea, cane in.
Thee were generally the better class cfthe immigrants
and Notwithstanding the hardshps and privaons they
endured since Saturday morning last, were looking
quite hardy. Some Of them were very bitter in their
denuncistors Of the captain of the pscket-ship New
York and charged him with dealing out to them but
about onefourth ofthe rstions required by Law They
upheld the sailors for their brutal treatment Of the
captain, and would have been gratifed had be been
murdered. There was on board one cabin Passenger,
and the remainder were s;eerage passengers, .. IRISH
except - Germans, including three females.
At the hotel where the passengers weI stopping to
warm, sne OF them named Cornelius Conner, CON-
mepced to give statement, but before he had pro-
ceeded far Sheriff Conover, accompanied by Captain
Brown, entered the hotel and arrested three of the
sailors, who are charged with mutiny on board the
Newfork and assault with intent to Kill the captain.
They were lodged in the jail to await an examination.
The Irish Passengers sympathized with the sailors and
as soon az the arrest was made Conner declined to
give any further Statements and neither could any of
his feowpassengers be induced to give any facts in
regard to the matter fearing that the inform ,ton would
be used against the salors The following, as far as
given is
o'cossER's STATEMENT.
We sailed from Liverpool on Thursday the 18th Of
November, and no scciden' occurred until Friday last.
The day was fine and the evening was moonlight with
a fair breeze. We all turned in at the usual hour
had been in bed short time when one of the psssen-
gers came and told me that lighthouse was 10 view
got up and went on deck, and the light-h ,use
which first took for ships light, but as it remsioed
stationary concluded it was light house. I then
went 10 bed but feeling restless did not 60 TO Sleep
After short time he felt the vessel strike and eaped
M Just at this time the officers entered and arrested
the three sailors when OConner and the Others re
fused to have anything further to say upon the subject
There various stories about the origin of the dis
turbsnce but the most reliable that after the captain
went on shore and could not return that night the sail
ors conceived the ideal plunderng the vessel and had
actually broken open varous boxes and chests slowed
away between decks, robbed some of the passengers
of money clothing, &C., and were Just proceeding to
ransack the cabin when the captain came on board,
and was perhaps fatally injured in defending the
property Of the ship.
Last evening when the immigrants were coming W
to the city on the John Potter, Meeus. McAister
Mcknight and Conover, conductor on the Camden snt
Amboy road, raised among the passengers the SUN o
s34 with which to furnish the sufferers supper snt
lodgings for the night and the balance to be distributed
among them.
Among the passengers was an English woman nance
C.thsrine Bull She has brother in this city, bu
docs not know his address He will hear OF her at tn
Manchester Hotel, No. l66 Washington street.
I'D to o'clock yesterday afternoon no steamer haa
gone to the assistance of the wrecked ship, and from
the appearance of the weather none would leave