The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-06-25
Mrs. P.tten and the ship Neptuns's Car.

Mrs. Patten and the snip Neptune's Car.
The clipper snip NepsuEe's Car. whsh hss been rem
dcred somewhat famous from the fact OF her bavng been
into San Francisco by Mrs. Mary Patten, the wife OF
the captain, new lies st the foot Of Gouyernear street,
Fast river. The circumstances attending her voyage 10
CaliforD and The heroic conduct @: the captains wife,
have had wide spread circulation through the newspa
pers, and CONFLICTING accoups aud statements have
found heir way before the public The simple facts were
that Captain Pan on the voysge, was taken SICK with
fevc7, and became deriors sas be unable TO give
any orders attend airy duties sppcraining to the
shp and ,het ais officers da understand navigation
rs leisure hours, prevoust hts being overasen by Gin
case employed ia teaching his young wife the ucl
ence OF ng7igation wnen her husband longer
able Attend his tuty, she left his bedside at intervals
and took the station he had rendered vs;ant deck
The oceers and desired and insisted tina
the ship should rrGke the nearest port; but her
peremptory ordcra were thxs ere snooia pc KEEP
made up Gnd'ker course marked cut The duties
Mrs. Patten were Mus divided between the and at
her h1sbead required and tho navigation Of the
vesse When they reached rhe OF the harbOr
Saa Francisco ane vSfred OF the danger the ship
would encounter in passing IN and was advised 70 lay oil
urt they could secure pilot THIS she also refused TO
do but presuning acquired knowledge, she took
she has r.pce been hieSv complmented by the under
writer's and great has been bestowed upon her by
the pubic but not half has been done that should
be, by the insurance companies to show their apprecia
ton Of her determined spirit Had she allowed the ship
70 be akec into foreign port under the color Of Distress
have amounted 70 no inconsdsrsbe snm fhe Neptune
Car aCne ship Of about sixteen hundred tons brthen
Hon. Edward Everett his address the character OF
Washuston, thus speaks Of Ms pstten-
Witness that heroic aye. that angelic vesta Florence
Nshsnsale who, beneath the eyes Of admring Europe
and admripg ASIA walked with unconcern, for
roresaan twelvemonh, tho pesentia wards Of hos
ptA witness not less heroic country woman, Mary
Passen, whose hardly known TO the publsc-the
wife of merchau, thipmastcr- who, far off the lonely
Pacific with eye to witness and voice to cheer her
when her husband taken down by Illness tended
mn in his cabin, as none but devoted wife can tend
say.cken husband, took his place the quarter deck
tts sextsnt, laid down the ships the chart
cheered and the Responding arrested the
chef matewko for creeping into the nearest port
S1d who poor young VILE a. she was hardly twenty years
and already overshadowe ed with the sacred primal
OF her yet with strong will and Stout heart
steered her husbands vessel through storm and through
| calm, from Cape Horn TO San Francisco
The Boston Courier Of the 23d inst contains quite in
teresting statement CO adon of Mrs Pstten Hearing
casually the ether day, that she In distress,
despatched note TO her physician and received the fol-
| lowing reply
In regard to Mrs Pa,ten you may state that she has
been sick for several weeks with typhoid fever and that
covered his general health but remains entirely blind and
deaf Any further amendment In him, though mpos
able, is, think, not to be expected.
Irs. Waiter ChanDing, John Ware and Geo. Bartlett
Cur in the opinion expressed by DIR. Clark.
Such the services OF this heroic woman and such
s now her p,able condition she does mot ak thai an
appea shculd be made TO the public in ner behalf she
tauxs God that she as che is Her Consolation thai her
hu, band though blind and deaf is able 70 converse
requites in degree the indifference OF others Sc
| she saws n substance in q letter 10 Mrs j. 8 Tap
pan OF who had sent her some tribe, and adds
husband takes great delight in our little bow whs
Uuou ta snpcv we sbal 90 10 tho ladies' of Roson
| behalf of this = oman But 0rst a statomeut more
| Nrs PaNeu. soon acer her returr "a New York re
ceved from The on the ship Nepune's On,
and CARO- a voluntary Testimonial OF eI Goo a anal
token OF their high Of her private worth cour
arc" &c and later az Boston, she received from an IN
known lasy In New Jersey "a small token of womsns
! sympathy - and similar letter from Nrs Tappsn
Mrs PAtten received frern London enclosing
hNadre9 doAyp from blind xepssomAn The Courts
adds
Thus would seem that from hrs 20 last Mrs. PAatcu
whose heroism and ntrepdity have excited poor bnt
man IN London, has only received nen the under writer
SllO0 she Is now IN ner mothers house, on SautaNor
street 10 this city Dr Henry a. Clark, who 10 her ply
sicaR has given uuthfu account OF her heah and the
heash or her hueband We are nforned that In addition
10 ne misfortune OF sickness, she IS poor that che In
need We appeal therefore, TO the women OF Bostonto
us4eo1e an eD'No io' "a" suu "o tueiI sis
side .he renowned and REGARDED florence Nshangale.
She our townswoman and let not stand reproach 10
history AGAINST the sex that such woman In such city
| suffered the need Oh money. -.
| We understand that MI George b. Upton and other
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