The true Democrat., 1857-02-17

AOoooNI of HE DISASTER BY MR. G. SCHE-
 DELL, ONE OF THE PAssENGERs-ApvES-
 TUREs IN THE BOAT COMMANDED BY THE
 THIRD OFFICER
 ON BOARD THE BREMEN SHIP ELIzE. ,
 Ar SEA, Friday NoV. 28th, 1856.
 As you are acquainted with the fact of the loss ot the LyonnatSe, limit myself to telling you ot the adventures of the lite boat in which found myself with my wife, under the man. agement of the third officer, from the time we left the vessel until we were received. after si days ot great sufferings on board the Bremen shp Ehze, Capt. Nordeuholt bound from Bal. tlmore to Bremen.
 The collision of the steamer Lyonnaise with the other ship occurred on the first day after our departure from New York, at half-past II o'clock n the night. During this whole niobt and the following day (November 3) the crew and passengers were necessarily occupied in ehdeavonng to save the ship by throwinq over. board her freight and by pumping out the water which had penetrated into the enoiue room
 At two o'clock in the afternoon, the passen. gers were ordered to go to the quarter deck. anu were distributed into the several boats Unfor. tuhateIy, the boats were not, as 1 had expected completely htted out and furnished with nro. visions, which caused not little confusion
 ne boat which we were ordered to step iptf Was over crowded. Suppose there were twep. ty'eI9ht passengers. While We were waitino Tor the oiflcer and his crew, we heard the Can talh ot the steamer say that there were in on, ooae too many ladies, some ot whom ought in oe carried 10 the other boats. At the same mo. tnehl the sailors putting the oars in motion our boat started, and We found ourselves near 70 the one winch was under the command ot 'he thlrd lieutenant till then simple sailor. Who gave hlS orders in a violent tone. Wher ne saw Us standing in our boat. and not car Ing to do so, he repeated his orders with ror, energy and ordered his men to bring us bv fore, into his boat.
 On my objecting that his ife-ooat was no sale, he answered, swearing it Was so. addinc. a the same tune, that if came not willinoiv would be forced to go. After inquiring from one oi the cabin boys of our boat, whether tn i, gentleman was an able mariner. and being an. swered In the affirmative, went with my wife over to the other boat. But had soon to re. Sret that step; the boat had considerable leak ana although ieboat it could be kept afloa only by continually bailing out the water Therefore attempted to go back to my former place, but was prevented by force from doino So' ana on asking for my wife to let her return to the other boat, as favor, was refused in th, coarsest manner.
 me boat then left the steamer It haC grown very dark; the sky was covered witt 0io"oS' rom time to time there was beav1 shower, and the water in our boat rose soma 'iines hiSher than our ankles During tb, i,isnt we were at one time driven very far fror | L s"e steamer at another time We came so pa., ner mat was ln fear of collision so n,n.l .h 'he more as except my wife and myself al rau iess lal iaiien into deep sleep Once :en,hued the Lieutenant of the danger we ,erl ,u' Ao answered. Tn an abusive tone, that "tha, derod tha c. o".'ness' put, nevertheless, he or oered the crew to stand by the oars
 Formerly, I had regretted tba. , .;s. +, nelther speak French nor well nnda, "'1 i uiu French language, but now was verv S,Ias .ne ,ol cur Lieutenant and his crew both in rba;r language and behavior. were revolt;noi,. i1n cent, and the Lieutenant in particular cf,nInn, ca himself very meanly toward a servant l,;rI who was with us "n' S'li
 lwice during the night ray of hope Hobtad up the onscurlty around us, but only to render e SUI uaFhef Dy sad disappointment. We were Jus' hoatinS at some distance from the ste,msr when her cannon was fired, rockets rose into ,ha all, ana the boats which lay nearer. answered "i'n .ouo shouts to these signals. To o,r question, "what was the meanino of ou ,hot9, 'ne Lieutenant answered that a shin was ;,, sight which would come torelieve ns Ior.'I ly we rose, but the Lieutenant went q, Ia,,''h ,u9 to tell us that this was but a joke of 6is Later, they cried to us from one of tha o,bar ooalS 'hat all hands on board the steamer were ofoered 10 work. But this likewise proved to De an error, for when we came to the batcb .to Captain ordered us to go again on board .he .he order referring only to those who Were oo o"o rait winch was on the point of go;r,1 ,a a pieces. SoiuS 10
 mus, the last hope of leaving the boat into when ,.c we had been forced to go, vanished
 we asaln put oil and were drifting little ater we were ordered to come nearer tba s,aa mer to receive some more people as .,yo os ,ha other boats had been driven against tbs rsr, sr0 put we were ourselves in sufficiently misara' pie condition and kept away. Again we wers oruered to take one of the founderino boa,s ii, tow. We did so for some time; then we let if url't' do not know for what reason. At dav- oreak boat came near Us, and the officer who was Tn command of her told us that he was to carry somebody to our boat who had alreadv been with us, and ought to be there. To onr question, Who was he?" the Lieutenant on. swered, :" It is Choupot." q am qlad of ;tn