The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-04-09
NCINNATI, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 9, 1859.

Joined the crew of the clipper, q mixed crew of
Yankees, Itishmen and negroes. lilo had one
narrow escape from discovery when the Cap
tain Of the Ettore FieramoscnJ who had previ-
ously seen him dressed in an English Uniform,
came on board the David Stewart, and stood
close to him, but without recognizing him. If
he had been detected when on board the Nea-
politan frigate, he would assuredly have been
claimed as a subject of King Bomba, and car
tied of to Pine away and rot in some one oil
the notorious and horrible caverns where,
loaded with irons, and starved with the priva-
tion Of food and daylight, the unhappy victims
of that almost incredible cruelty nre doomed to
endure living death. But at last the clipper,
with her noble freight Of patient and suffering
witnesses to the cause of right and truth,
towed by the Neapolitan steamer, stood out
to sea. II would be an error to suppose that,
in what was subsequently done to change the
destination Of the vessel, Settembrini and his
comrades had no other object than to spare
themselves the fatigue and loss of time of q
voyage to and fro across the Atlantic. 1t is
true that those who might survive on the ar
rival Of the David Stewart at New York would
have been exempt from personal restraint after
their landing, and free to come to Liverpool,
or to Havre, or to Genoa, if they could obtain
the means of doing sol but we are assured that
some of them were already in so shattered and
exhausted condition, having been suddenly
removed from their loathsome cells, with con-
stitutions enfeebled by their long and painful
confinement, and exposed to sickness in an ill
found vessel upon rough and stormy sea,
that it is probable they could not have been
landed at New York alive. At any rate, the
discomforts and perils of this "middle PASSAGE"
and the uncertainty of their future fate Mt a
distance from Europe, were we'll to be spared;
| and it was for the sake Of something more than
bravado that they determined to avail them
selves Of the gallantry Of young Settembrini,
and to get to England at once. For the first
two days he did his work with the other sea-
men, and was treated as an extra hand
a stray Cuban, making his way home from
Spain; but when the clipper had got two
hundred miles to the west of Cape ST.
Vincent, and the Ettore Fieramosca had
cast her off and turned about, then Raffaele
Settembrini put on his Uniform, and walked up
to Capt. Prentiss with that written protest
signed by all the Neapolitans, which has been
published. Quietly and without any open
demonstration, they had impaired to each
other, as soon as their enemy disappeared be-
low the horizon, the plan which had been de-
termined upon. They now burst forth into
joyful acclamations, and hailed the young hero
as their deliverer, embracing him and kissing
his hands, as it is the manner of Southern meT
sometimes to do; and even the sailors, inspired
by this contagious excitement, came thronginJ
around him, cheering him altogether Justify
and one by one begging his pardon for an.
little incivilty or practical joke which Nigh
have passed between them while they only re
garded him as poor messmate thrown b
chance among them. The skipper, however
remained untnoved, and 1t was not until Set
tembriui promised ample indemnifcation tina
he could prevail to alter the Captains purpose
Yet it should be understood that of the sum
$500, which was the amount of the freigh
two-thirds had actually been paid in advanc
besides which a present of $500 had been mad
to Capt. Prentiss by the commanders of IL
+. Neapoltan ships of war.
However, on the first day, the demand Of Il
1 Neapolitans that they should be conveyed
p. the nearest English port, though expressed
= the most courteous and respectful manner, WI
Q February, they renewed their importunitie
1 and gave him formal notice of regular su
}. and action for damages, on account Of their
legal detention, to be instituted by every ind
vidual of the sixty-six Neapolitans before Il
O courts of the State of New York. This argl
ment it was which made Capt. Prentiss thin
: better of it. No violence was attempted
r threatened; however justifablc, in case of o,
=, treme necessity, such conduct might have bee
o none of the elder prisoners, and certainly n
n Signor Luigi Settembrini, would have san
= toned it. Capt. Prentiss wanted to put the
q off by promising to land them at Madeira; b
o they were resolute, and would 60 their ow
n way. At last he "caved in" and turned Il
o David Stewart about for Cork, after calling h
9 crew aft and explaining to them that the ger
It tlemen obliged him to set aside his contraC
It After fourteen days sail they reached Queen
: town, and got ashore in safety, to receive Il
! congratulations of all Ireland, England or
), Scotland, as an earnest of their happy restor
d ton to their native land.