New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-05
MARINE AFFAIRS.
N. HAWKS.


LOSS OF THE AsERIcAN Snip JUEIATA AND THIRTEEN
LIVES.
The American ship Juniata Capt. Wilson bound from
LIVERPOOL for Baltimore aud the Joseph Fish, Capt
Young from Liverpool for New Orleans, came III
solision wren off TusSar, and tie Juniaa foundered
three minutes after the shock Capt Wilson, the ehief
mate and eleven Of the crew wele drowned. The
second mate and the remsinder Of the were saved
by the Joseph Fish, which vessel had returned TO Lv
erpool.
AWFUL MASSACRE OF THE CREW OF THE AMERICAN
WHALING SHY SUPERIOR
From The SydRsp Herald, Jan 81.
The following letter. addressed TO the editor Of The
Herald by Capt. Hugh MAR OF the schooner Ariel, has
been banded to US Oy Capt. Devlin Of the Rebecca
DOW lying at this port:
beg 10 inforrn Won that | anchored at Rubana SOL
omon islands, Nov. 10, and On the following day
the schoo Ariel Slater MASTER arrived at the same
place. having touched at Treasury Island three days
previously. Tie mate Of tie Ariel told me that he had
reas N TO believe that the American whaling ship Su-
perior OF Bedford, Woods master hid been take
4, the last named place. l thereupon Immediately got
under weigh and proceeded 10 treasury iand
Numbers AM during the whole day were coming and
going but did not offer anything for ale This gave
rse % increased suspicion ana nnans oa' 10. 700 nHc
uo the ca i'm and tod tin that kuew OF their hay-
Ing taken the ship and murdered the crew, and that 1t
was Of for him to deny the fact The man then
no hand it, which after~ard found out TO be partly
true. -
The next day the natives brought part Of the ships
calls fall cut upl and feveral articles which they
wanted TO selli among the rest was the ships log
book. That day found out that six Of her crew were
prisoners upon the Island, and at once set about try
Ing get possession OF them. For three days more
eruised of the island, having the natives backward
AND forward during that time. 1 went 10 the beach
occas,onalg and could the men, but on every oc-
easioo they strongly guarded None OF the pm.
,t.-da lgs had
to native who WAS re lated 10 one OF the bead
chiefs. put him 10 irons, and next morning took
bm ashore, and again offered the natives 10 pay them
Tor the They agreed at last TO LET me have one,
who on coming 70 my boat, gave the dreadful in
telhgence that the whole OF the OF the SUPERIOR
vita tho exception Of himself and five Others had been
murdered and the ship burned. there are two
chiefs imphcated-COpan, the head man, and America,
the next My prisoner being relative to America, |
reo ed keep hin until got the two other men that
chief had for each Of the two chiefs had, II seems two
menl ana was finally successful after great deal of
trouble The three men, however, whom Copan had
possession of could not get either by persuasion or
By threats. Al night proceeded to tine anchorage,
where the ship had been taken, and renamed there
two DAYS saw no natives but found the ship 3
fbboom the beach, together with pieces OF burned
EinDer, slaves, &C. o,
The bark Superior, r. d. Woods master Woods
owner) OF New Bedford sailed from that port on the
pzth June 1857 made Treasury Island Oh the 18th Of
September 1860 ard 70 anchor there On the same
day. On the 18th, l4th, and 18th Of that month the
from tie mems statement, ited by great num-
Der of natives armed. On Sunday the 10Th, nine OF
kbe crew went ashore. The carpenter aud Two men
went TO the settlement and murdered In one OF
the native huis Tie natives then proceeded III canoes
and overland TO the ship, and those who came by land
Ee ia with The remaining Elk close TO the beach, and
murdered them. About $50 natives got on board the
vessel and made a rush the crew, who were all on
deck except four, who were In bed. Those on deck
were Immediately t0mahswbed, only two escaping by
Jumping down the main hatchway and joining the four
below Ia the forecastle. One of the crew, whom re-
covered tbs captain and second mate murdered by
native called Billy" who has been TO Sydney, and
speaks English well. The chief Copan was the princi-
pal III this dredful massacre The six men below being
armed with hnces kept the natives from coming down
The foLecsste, until at last Billy told my informant
that ~ they came up they should not be hurt. At
tength, therefore, they did 60 and were at once
rounded and by the chief Copan ordered TO be pct 70
death. The chief America oersd to buy three Of the
men, and he persuaded Copan 10 keep the other three
70 till the ground. These three "a have already init
mated could not recover.
The three men on board my vessel ny tbsy were
well treated by the chief America, and they tell me
that the native "Billy" was at the taking of tina
schooner Pearl where am at anchor, about
gghteen months before this happened. 1t Il sad that
he went to Treasury Inland In the Superior and
sd an opportunity Of seeing that there were srms
EsptI tasre being only seven old flint guns, and none
% thsm loaded when The ship was taken. Twenty-sx
xcfo we.e butshered IN cold hloet among wsom wss
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