Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-29

asked them whether all had, been done that
 could be done. Each and every man of them
 said yes. The sea was growing worse and
 worse every minute, and it was the unani-
 nous opinion that we ought to square away for our own safety. We did so, and neither on the rest of the voyage nor while we were in Yokohama was one word whispered against the captains conduct We arrived there on the 23d of April, 1880, and sailed in ballast | for Manila on the 9th of June. Some of the men wanted to leave the ship at Yokohama, | but were not allowed to do so until they had ! appeared before the Consul General. As that official was i'll the Vice Consul sent us instructions to keep the men on board and if they attempted to escape to put them in ] irons We were obliged to put three men in irons for four days, when they returned to | work. They went before the Consul General | when he was recovered, and, as they had no complaint to make against the ship, they l were ordered back. On the night before we sailed some of the men determined to go 1 ashore. They frightened a watehman who had been sent aboard so that he went ashore ! and policeman came on instead. They told l him he had no business there and that they 1 would knife him, so that he too thought It prudent to leave. When he called for boat | from the shore two came out and into the l second boat before I could see them went I three of the sailors. These were John Boyce, John Lawson and the carpenter. The carpenter arrested and brought board next morning, and it was John Law son who shipped on the Ophelia and came to New York and told the story of dessrtion. We had rough voyage back, and after get ting within four days sail of New York we had to go back to Fayal discharge our cargo of sugar and calk the ship"
 THE CAPTAINS ACCOUNT. Captain Carney said upon hearing the above narrative read that it was correct. He added that he had not only not ordered any of Ina oaaT fn into kIo ht,k that he had ordered some of them to come out of her, as she was overloaded. John Lawson himself was going into the boat when the mate pulled him back. Captain Carney said he signalled the men to come back because he was apprehensive of their safety in the squall and he thought there was no chance of finding the lost sailor. He had been twenty three years at sea and had been mate of the ships China, of Bath Re- union, of Bath, and Eureka, of Bowdoinham; but this was his first voyage master. The following is a statement made officially in Yokohama by the captain:
 United States Consulate General, Kanagawa'
 James Carney, being duly sworn, dsposes and says :-I am master of the ship Charles Dennis, of Maine, lately arrived at this port from New York on the 18th of February, 1880, at seven a. m., the ship then being in latitude 50 5S south and longitude l21 20 east, J. F. Brand, seaman was washed over board while setting the main topgallant sail the life buoy was immediately hove over board and the ship brought to the wind a boat was at once lowered in charge of Robert Nelson, second mate, and manned by James Johnson, M. Wolff, O. A. Brown and Vincent Chiles, and rowed in the direction where the man Brand was last seen: the ship was wore around and stood for where the boat was last seen and hove to from nine 8 m. to two D. m., but no trace of boat, crew or the life l,,o 6a hxr fho aloft or those on deck. The gale increasing and large bodies of water coming aboard, filling half deck and cabins, I was compelled, for the safety of all concerned, to bear away on the course. This is duly recorded in the ships official log, and further declare that the effects of the said seamen are being taken to the United States for delivery to the com sioners of shipping.
 JAMES CARNEY,
 c. E. EDaERLY, Mate
 JAMES GILIIs
 Subscribed and sworn to before me this I'd
 day of June 1SSO.-THoMAs VAN BUREN,
 United States Consul General.
 ANOTHER WITNESS.
 James Gillis, who went as carpenter of the Charles Dennis, but who took the place of the second officer after the loss, said to the reporter: fI stood close by Brand when he went overheard. It was certainly rot more than ten minutes afterward that the ship was brought round. When the small boat was ready the rail was lined with men anxious to go to the rescue. I thought by his actions that the captain would go too. I am ready to substantiate all the chief officer has told you about the effort to rescue When nghtN came every man was asked what he thought ' ought to be done. The captain said to me, I'll stop here for weeks if anybody thinks we ought to- and when we squared away and left those men behind he wept like a child. We had prayers the next Sunday for them. You have not heard any of the captains good traits, have you? We'll was with him when he was mate of the Flu reka, and I never knew better man. When in Yokohama he gave his men more freedom than any other captain in port did. When the second mate of the Bullion was shot in Yokohama he and another captain put their hands in their own pockets to give him de- cent burial He did the same at Iloilo to bury man who had been blown from yard of the Martha Davis. As for the South street orators'' Mir. Gillis concluded con temptuously 'the men who know all about the winds in the Pacific and the 'monsoons,' I would just like to have hack at them. They think they can tell us how to sail through these Philippine islands, that have rever been half surveyed. We have got a maya lot of young fellows pulling around the world, betting seamen's races and having good time-why don't they go and survey the Philippine Islands, I should like to know ?" and then Mir. Gillis apologized for getting so far ''of the course"