New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-12-14

: Martinique, she passed q schooner and the Fist
Lieutenant suggested to the Captain that they should
speak her, in hopes that she coud give them somo
information of the prvateer. The Captain, how.
ever, put him of, saying "Tut tut! No, Sirl
Head her away for St. Thomas" He then went be-
low and turned in. The Captain told bis officers thas
he was an old schooma,e of the Captain Of the Sum.
ter, and it would be unpleasant to attack him. The
officers and crew of the Iroquois express the greatest
indignation at the treachery Of their Captain and
some Of tie officers anxious to leave the vessel
which had been SO wilIfuly disgraced.
There is not the slightest excuse for the Iroquoiss
Captain having RETAINED from an attack upon tho
SUMTER for his crew numbered l60 men, and the
Sumters only 100. The Iroquois has guns, and the
Sumter only 5, of lighter metal. There is no subor-
dination on the priyateer, each man doing pretty
much as he chooses The Iroquoiss crew declare
that they could have taken her without firing gun,
and that they could have cleared her decks with cut
ass,,s alone, in fifteen minutes after boarding her.
To show the criminal treachery of the captain Ct
the Irsquos, it is only necessary TO cay that whiio
she was standing off and on at the mouth of Mar
Unique ilarbor, the captain dispatched schooner 70
St. Thomas for load Of coal and provisions ostens-
bly, that she might stay and blockade the Sumter.
This schooner reached St. Thomas on Saturday after
noon, took in her coal and provisions and that nigh,
at 10 o'clock was towed to sea by United States
steam man-of-war that had just arrived from the
East Indies on her way home. The war steamer,
the name of which has not reached us, ordered
by the United States Consul at St. Thomasto tow
the schooner to Martinique, and assist the lroquois
- bef
must have reached Martinique on Monday night, ~
hours after the privateer left On that night at
probably the same time, the irOqn0is came int 81.
Thomas harJor, having abandoned her post ard al
lowed the Sumter to escape.
The closing Of the ports of the world against tho
prizes Of the pirates, has altered their plans thss
they now rob their prizes of charts, chronome,ers,
and other Instruments ready money, provisions, end
such other portable property they need, and tAen
burn the captured vessels to the waters edge.
Her officers boosted that they had taken and de-
stroyed 80 American vessels since she first went into
commission. The Captain Of the Sumter Gays ba
would treat our captains and well, 70 long 20
cur Government dealt mildly with rebel privateers-
men, but that if we hang their men, he would hang
every American seaman who fell into his hands.
The Sumers boilers are said " be out of repair, and
she is not able to make more than nine knots per
hour. Her officers had been buying al their Winter
clothing they could find in Martinique, az they ara
going 70 take the privateer 10 England to repair.
The public sentiment in St. Thomas is all in favor
of the Union. The Governor is reported as having
said that if the Sumter came in there, he would
blow her out Of water In Martinique, on the con-
trary the Rebels find many friends. TIE negroes
=. t.a (on
and the authorities fearing that they would cut the
Sumter hawser, placed guard of ten soldiers over
it night and day to prevent their accomplishing their
purpose. For these interesting particulars we arc
indebted J. b. Lawrence, mate Of the I. w. Row
land, and to the Captains wife. They gay that it is
matter OF common report that the HoquOis allowed
the priyateer JEFF Davis to escape, as she was the
Sumter. Her officers say she had better be homo
put Of commission than cruising after pryatees for
he Captain will not take them when they come in
as power.