Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-01-20
From the Mobile Register 7th

Muttny of o. Negro Crew mt Sea Ass.,
Upon the Captain and mate-The ca
Psntsr knocked SsnseIess-The seeon,
Mate thrown OverbORrd-DIsappe
or Four Mutineers
The ship Lizzie Fennel, from Havana
to James ID. and John Wylie & Co.. ar.
rived in the bay yesterday, with one of tho
crew in irons, in consequence of q mutinv
in which the Captain and chief officers
were badly injured, and the second mate
thrown overheard.
Capt A. w. Deering, of the Fountain.
who towed the ship in, brings up the fol.
lowing report
REPORT OF THE SHIP LIZZIE FENNEL, FROM
HAVANA, TOWARDS MOBILE, L. s.
January LIST, 1871, was towed to sea by
the steam tug Union. At 10 a. M left tho
harbor at Havana, discharged the steamer.
and made all possible sail /; everything
peaceaols. At ten p. m., M. Carr. chief
officer. called two men aft to heaye the loo
and while IN the act of doing so the two
caught him and tried to heave him over.
board. He sung out, and 1.-THE Captain,
went on the poop to see what was the mat
ter, when one of these men let 90 the mot
and ran at me, and knocked me down with
a slungshot. then got down in the cabin
to get revolver, when they again attacked
the mate, but this time five of them. He
getting inside the cabin door, one of them
struck him with an iron bolt, causing a
fearful cut on the top of his head. Hes
down in the cabin and got pistol and
fired one or two shots. They all ran in
the fOrecastle and shut themselves in. We
then found the carpenter on deck iusensi-
bic, and his head cut in fearful manner.
and Francis Main, the second mate, mis-
sing. We kept watch until daylight and
got the men out of the forecastle one bv
e.,
and one of the crew, now on board, saw
them beave the second mate overheard
The four missing men jumped overheard
also, taking with them their chests. Their
names are James Brown, Aaron Cromartie,
James Austen and Ockar (Oscar?) Small
These men were the ringleaders, and one
other, who is now in irons; his name is
James Brown he is one of the five who
tried to heave the mate overheard; but
believe them all guilty, with the exception
OF one Reuben Richardson. Their inten-
ton was, am told, to rob the ship, set
her on fire and make their escape in the
boats. The men now working, their names
Joseph Multrie, John Sowerby, Abraham
Jones, Jos. Segar, VIM. Frederick, Joseph
Friend and Reuben Richardson. Position
of the ship at the time of the occurrence.
lat. "a deg. 80 minutes N, long. 83 deg. y
minutes w. Arrived in Mobile bay II 40
a. M, January 9th.
DENNIS MAHoNEY, Master.
These are all the particulars we have at
present succeeded in obtaining concerning
this affair, in which the manner of the dis
appearance of the four men will strike the
reader as q rather mysterious circumstance.
The Lizzie Fennel is new ship, and be
longs to Sc. Johns, n. B. The sailors
were all negroes.
Two Thousand Deaths q Week I'm Paris.
"Spiridon writes from Paris to the
Boston Gazette:
The mortality has risen to 1000 per
week, of which smallpox is responsible
for nearly five hundred. Young people
and old people die in numbers, like fores.
leaves in October. Dysentery, typhus fe-
yer, diarrhea and bronchitis are extremely
fatal. Nine hundred people had, in Paris
alone, gone crazy by the first of Novem-
Der, in consequence of the harrassing hour
in which we live. Since then the numbers
have continued to increase until the mad
houses have begun to overflow into the
prisons. It is said to be still worse in the
provinces, where the peasants see the sa-
wings of lifetime destroyed in an hour.
Strange to say, the blows fall heavier on
the young than the old. The former are
ON lifes threshold. They have put the
savings of their earlier years into rented
farm; the family has contributed to set
him up this one has lent money that
one has lent COW, sheep, hog and horse /;
another has contributed furniture others
have contributed agricultural implements.
In instances innumerabe cattle have been
driven to the invaders shambles, and all
the rest of the property is reduced to ashes
or to splinters, good only for irewood. la
debt, the sources of further supplies dried
up, without a cent, these young men find
themselves doomed to toll till lifs's me
ridian before they again find themselves
where they were three months sipce
mn na,a n.1Iran1 CarrInre