New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-22

MARINE AFFAIRS.

THE sAyAL Court OF iseriRr.
Dir psf. be. from Wal ingson Say ma uae r.esi-
dent on Saturday sent 10 the Senate, - Executive
Sex .ioa, TIE rouI atiess Of the naval occen IT.
stored 10 service 10 sccoriance with the verdics Oh
tie Naval Coaiss Of Inquiry. Among them sss the
following:
Cap,ssa,-s;sret. md Richie
.ss,a . Mt, 4. ss: .na "a. Ssh.s
Lieu. B's is ssrred tom the faIi' usa 70 ne an es'e
P'I hs nominations were referred 70 Select Commit
The following named officers have been restored 30
the active list CT the Navy BY the action Of the NavA
Courts, and their nominations sent to the Seoass:
Coptai.,-Jc,.ph Smith from leave pay:
Con mandtr,-Jo.eph E. yGvis esye james 6lyna cave
Robert Atchie lave c. RiDssod leave; isAAe ssses
Wlism OGDEN dropped, John CLhoaO leave; and Murray
Mason, fuiloath u,n, f,,ou,b. NJ. p. Marry. leave;
Jane. 8 Palmer, leave, Robert Handy, farlocsAi berry
w.- burroughs Lewis s.,.or nri9asn S,anosS
aarr.y f1iou.hi Thors H Stevens droPged Wa Nor
r,n rough Abner Read dropped and George A. sse'ea
d,spnsa NV, w to ;. l.:ys
The following named officers on the reserved list
have beer transferred from fuIloush to leave pay;
captsin,Jesse Wilkinson, Thomas n Newell, ~ l. Lsii'
John o,asm and mt tnT ssnr, Brace and cAa H.
Jackson ~ =, ,,,,u,.,. s., a R,.
III tx, fa,.on Henry A. Steele WIN. Chandler. James
n 6tI.. John rEker Z. c. Bowers A s. Baldwin wm.
5 Whiting and NJ c Marin
Naster-R Clarendon Jones'
Passed Midshipmds-SAmuei Pearee-
The following. named officers dropped have been
transferred TO the reserved list:
Lieutenan.-w. A C. Farrssut leave; 4 w. Meade TAR
loush, and Thomas Brownen THROUGH.
Easter--Julius s. BobreI, leave.
Pansd. Xid,ap~as-N T. wes, leave.
c;c nf3,c hay been before
courts Three more are yet to come. The hndin2s IN
the cases of Cspts. Levy Lecompte and Chauncy ana
Command Johnston, have not been notihed 70 the
Department.
the action of the CouIs have been nominated and sent
10 the Senate is 70 be inferred that there has been
no change In the position Of those other ofhcers VINO
appeared before the Courts, whose names are - lo'
~ Voorhees,. frlOush, s. Paine, uIlOash, G. BS.nss
s.ys w ann .'s aTos:h Lons
VIM Green urIOush; T. @ Benhsm, leave gsliss leave
;.s..i 5is a:aHn :'y; p %
Bs.sh ariou 81 A II Kliy arlossh aS:on tarloass
SfH GE E. ' Hs.ca n faioass { Han.s
Doyle farlouss, r. B. Rel faoash Henry Rolapdp far
S siD fuicSsi VIM B. fitzgerald faioush r. NJ neA.na
faIloush
IN Rhode. {. Pennins.on. W. H. Nol.ud D. =. Du.ny
Peter wsser. and inc. ?. Hall
The steamship Star of the West, Captain Gray,
sailed yesterday for Aspinwa, with 400 passengers
and the L. s. Mails for California
CRUELTY ON AN AMERICAN SHIP.
The Glasgow DAILY MAJ! says:
We have 10 record . case OF very aggravated
crueltv on the ship Ophela which took place on the
river on the 4th Of December. The ship Ophels OF
Boston United States Capt Barker was lying 81 an
Choir at the Tail of the Bank, having come down Tue
river from Glasgow preparatory to pefang oa. on osr
VOYAGE 10 New. Orleans. The master o. the sMP was
in Glasgow on that day concluding his arrangements
for starting and the ship was In charge OF Charles
| Henry Sawyer and Bepjsmin Lewis-ootn men Oh -
| years of age, and Americans-the hrst ana secone
mates Of the vessel About 10 o'clock on the morning
| of Friday some of the seamen went on board anc
| among others young man named Loveu, oeloGelhs
| 10 Newry in Ireland. ScAsosIy he'd he got on decs,
wntp sw;s the second mate sUcs MIN WITH bis Est
most savage blow on the face, which feed him to the
ground and the blood flowed from bis eyes, lie got up
and went into the forcsse where was snotner OF the
&c amen named Oar el Fraser, young man belonging
| To Rothessy, In Butte The two mates entered the
forecaste and qusrrced with Fraser, whom they Or
dered on deck He said he was just going whenever
be had got bic knife. Both the mates then set upon
bin and beat him violently, dragging nin OUT Of tae
forecsste and along the deck as far a. tne ooooy
hstch when Lewis the second mate, struck him ire
mer dous blow on the forehead with his hst on which
ne had dangerous weapon called knuckiedus
N.
Est which blow cut open Frssers forehead, and fsed
him to the ground. While lying on the deck the Two
mates kicked him violently. The poor fellow hoding
himself subjected TO such cowardly and cruel usage
sprsDg upon his legs got upon ths sa,p 'a' o rS
to escape from his brutal sssailants 10 struck oui
for her Msiestys ship Wellington, which lay at
anchor shout half mile of, near Greenock; Inc
stesu-tug Sir William Wallace had been nearing tne
Ophes at the time, and seeing. the man plunge
into the river went In the direction in which ne was
swimming and succeeded in picking him up IN very
exhausted state from the treatment he hsd received
end the effects Of swimming with his CLONES on, .ne
blood still streaming from bis wound Fraser insisted
on being put on board II. N. B. Wellington, but ne
tug went alongside the Ophes, where the two mates
of the ship went into the tag and hauled Fraser
on board their vessel Before the tug lsR the
ship, the mate told Fraser TO 20 forward Oh ms
VET clothes and get his wound dressed and 60 to bed
and there would be no more about IT, and Fraser did
so. He was scarcely, however, half "a hour In hs
berth when Sawyer the mate came 10 MS a9of' ano
quietly told him be wanted 20 see nm IN ne us
mate 81 ststsroom to examine his wounds. fraser
got No and followed the mate an TO his ststeroom.
some Of the oxew also followed Fraser as far a.
the cabin door, but there the latter we're stepped
sho by Lewis the second mate VINO came 70 zoe 200,
holding out loaded six. barreed Colts revolver and
sad ihst Fraser to be put in irons and that II any
man of them attempted 70 assist Frseer In opPos
ing this, be slewis) would shoot MN. ftsseI'
overhesrrg from this threat that he was TO Do hand
cuf.ed, suddenly made rush oat from me csois,
and while passing the second mate the pistol
was cred, az il appeared, at another Of the crew,
named Edward Freemsu, who had said something
dis,pprovpg Of the course the mates were proposing
to adopt in putting Fraser in irons, but iertunassly
Lewis be sprspg into the main rigging and was about
to Jump second time into the sea, when the arst mate
called out TO Lewis, the second mate, Shoot that
man. and Lewis lsvsled the psto TO obey the bloody
Injunction by 6rirg another Of the barrels OF the re-
voIvsr when one Of the crew suddenly pulled dowa
biz arm and fiusrsted his daboical intention. A
numbey Of the crew then made common cause with