The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-04-02


Total. .6s days attendance.
For this the hospital received the contract price
Burial Of tour oorpses Al SIS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1o2
fetal hospital bill. .$l4A
The gist of the evil lies in the possession of
private cemetery by the hospital where the
interments are made without form or rites of
any kind. Christian and hereto, Jew and Gen.
tile, are all huddled into the same trench-not
only without shroud or coffin, but with so little
respect that it is. asserted the negroes who
perform the last duties to the remains of what
was . man, strip from the body the remnants of
clothing to sell them for segars or rum, and
not unfrequently quarrel among themselves
for the garments. Whether this be
true Or not the improperly of hav-
ing private cemeteries attached to hospi-
tails, which are licensed to charge heavily for
the interment of patients, whose ourc brings
no profit to the establishment, must strike
every one. Our sailors run risks enough In
the sickly harbor of Havana, without having
such odds a. those we are exposing added
against theh chance of recovery; and We are
not 80 abundant in able seamen that we can
afford to kill them off in order to support COM
peting hospitals in Havana. The remedy to
be applied is to have the hospital burial
grounds suppressed by the government and
the interments made either in the public
cemeteries the proper authorities receiving
the fees therefor-or in some properly at
tended cemetery for seamen, for interment in
oh {nn ito1c 1>o ell a..
make any charge. Such burial ground, with
the establishment of small fee, in so sickly
place Is Havana, would abundantly support q
clergyman for the purpose Of performing the
last sad rites to humanity, and caring for the
decent interment of its remains. We commend
the subject to the early attention of Gen. Cass,
Is the fever season is near at hand.
The PROTEST OF COMPLICATIONS
OF THE CAPTURED STEAMERS QUESTION
We learn by telegraph from New Orleans
that Commander Marin, of the recently cap
tured steamers, signing as an Admiral in the
Mexican navy, has published protest against
the capture of these steamers by Captain
Turner.
that neither the Saratoga, Indianola nor Wave
showed their flags when they approached him,
so that he could not know who they were, and,
supposing them to be towing armed boats to
| attack him, he attempted to escape; that two
shots were FIRST fred at him, which he returned;
and that when he recognized the Saratoga he
ordered the firing to cease. This statement
conflicts so materially with the official report
| of Captain Turner that it looks very much like
an afterthought, prepared specially for his
defence by some pleader in New Orleans.
| Captain Turner says he sent an officer to bring
| Captain Marin, and Gas soon as he reached my
cabin asked him how he had dared to fire
upon my vessels. He replied, unhesitatingly,
and in the presence of witness, that when he
observed my vessels steering into the harbor
he had informed his crew that he was sure they
were American vessels of war, and positively had
| forbidden them to fire, but that it was mixed
crew of various nations, having been but re-
Gently taken on board, and not being vet
properly disciplined, he found it impossible to
control them" Between the two statements
of Commander Marin, we cannot but accept the
first one, as detailed by Captain Turner, made
when the impression of events was fresh upon
him, and before he had consulted counsel as to
the best defence that could be set up for his
outrageous proceedings
We incline to believe that his views of mari
time usage and law have experienced mate
rial change between the time when he trod his
deck, flushed with the hope of wearing his
broad penDant as an admiral of the Mexican
navy, and that when he found himself an in
mate of the parish prison Of New Orleans