The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-03
THE QUAKER CITY,"
She IL Sold TO the Haytien RcbcIs-RPfusaI of
the American Crew to Fight Under the Hay
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the American Crew TO Fight Under the Hay
Writes a correspondent from Kingston, Ja-
maica, w. l., on the 20th ultimo:-
In my last letter | alluded to the steamer
Quaker City, alias Columbia, Us one of the YES
sells arriving here from New York under the
British flag, and afterwards proceeding TO IIayti
to be employed in the service of the Haytien
rebels. The Quaker City, it will be remembered,
was, some two months ago, seized in New York
by the United States authorities, on information
laid by the Spanish Consul in that city to the
effect that she was about conveying an armed eX-
pedition to Cuba in aid of the insurGent Gu
bans. 1t having been subsequently ascertained
that there was no foundation for the libel, the
vessel was released; but few days after this she
was again seized ut the instance of the Hayten
Minister TO the United States, who demanded her
detention on the ground that she had been pur-
chased for the revolutionary Government in
Hayti, and that her real destination was the port
of st. Mark in that island. The parties inte-
rested in her departure, however, managed mat
tiers so cleYerly that the vessel was bonded,
leaving Immediately afterwards for this port,
with a full cargo of flour and provisions In
due time she arrived here, and, after discharging
part OF her cargo, got Il British re-
gister, and then left for ST. Mare. Every
body here knew what this meant, and
there was no little ju6ilatiOn among
the Haytien eXiles resident i'm this city at the
departure of the steamer for Hayti. When she
reached st. Marc. she was of course, agreeably
Gcif-Styled President of the North, to be forth
with equipped as "A war vessel for the rebels
Her crew, which was a large one, consisted
principally of Americans; but these, upon find
Ing that the steamer had been transferred to Sa-
get, refused, almost to n man, to serve under the
Haytien rebel flag. The men were, conse-
quentiy, paid off and given II passage to this
place in the steamer Clara Helena. About
tWehty OF than have left for New York on the
brigantine NJ. A. knight and the rest of the
crew, numbering over thirty, have been sent on
TO AsplnWall, whence they will proceed in one
0i the Pacific Company's mail steamers
dlrect to yCur city 1t is further said
tnat each OF these has received $l3 to pay for
MS passage from Aspnwall to New York; but
whether this sum will be sufficient to take them
nome, ana by what means they are to support
themselves in Aspinwall, between the period of
their arrival there and the departure of the
steamer Tor New York, are matters relative to
which we must wait for information The fact
| is these men have been shamefully treated. and
| II is to be hoped that, on their arrival nj New
| York, they will seek redress. Meantime norties
| here wait anXlOusly to see what the american
| Government will do with the original owners of
| the Quaker City, who have forfeited the bonds
under which the vessel was allowed 10 leave
| New York for the West ladies.
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Oxford, Mass. boasts of 1O2 persons over
] seventy years Of age in its 5000 inhabitants.