Year: 1861

The MIDDLE PAssAGR.-Much has been written
descriptive of the horrors Of the slayerade, and he
surings of the save during the middle passage-that
is between the shipment and delivery OF the live
cargs Little is said however, of the sufierings Of
EN- grants on their way from ports In the Old World to
ports in the New World Silence OH this bead does nos
arise from want Of cases deserving severe censure
Money root of all evil il too potent, and that
which Officials and portion of the press too lear,
should ondemn, is passed over In silence, and thus
vice and injustice perpetuated because self interest
whispers that it is better not TO interfere.


Last week in company with another gentleman, we
visited a poor widow who, with five children, had
taken passage in the Cull0den from Liverpool to One
bee. When saw her, she was AZ the Grand Trunk
depot waiting the departure OF the Brockyie and Ut
tawa train, her destination being Pembroke, near
which her own parents reside. From this woman We
learned that the Culoden carried between 800 and 40
passengers among which were number OF poor girls
sent out by of the Irish Unions several OF who


ii they follow vituous hereafter must do so from
an innate horror OF vice. the temptations TO which they
were subject shipboard being Of a very trying de-
scrpton participated in, too, by some Of the Officers
of the ship. God help lone females during the middle
passage when the ship Is oficered by men who care
nothing for the purity and virtue of their passengers


As on instance Of the treatment received by herself,
the POOR woman stated that after being some tioe a
sea- her eldest boy about nine or ten years OF age.
while on deck one day. fell through an open hatodway
(which the engrant agent had ordered to be secured
in LIVERPOOL into the hold and lifted up for dead;
that he remained in Unconscious state for number
of days; that he was removed from her own charge,
and She the MOTHER WAS mo- allowed to see him; tnai
the doctor never thoroughly examined the boy, and
that Mt the end Of fourteen dsys, the first time the
mouth was exarned IL was found that the tongne
had been nearly chewed through the mouth filled
with blood, and the boy scarcely able TO swallow
iea-spoonful of water and ON arrival at Quebec the
boy was given her in such weak state IN 10 be IN
able to walk and consequently unit 10 commence
long Journey of two three hundred miles, she her
self having a child at the breast and three others to
look after, with but little means to make her way TO
her d, sna,ion, even though supplied with a line TO
Mr. Clemow at Ottawa 10 have her and her children
forwarded TO Pembroke.


The bow. when we saw him here, could not walk
half dozen steps without assistance, and the accident
having occurred through the negigence of the captain
In not having the hatchwsy secured, ought TO Rave
called forth some sympathy The poor mother should
have been furnished with TO have the boy card
for aud attended to on bis journey TO Pembroke Bus
no. the poor little, sick boy hurried forward among
crowds Of others, and the widowed motEsr left to
battle her way in strange country, where no friend
was near 10 advise and help her in her trouble.


Another case OF cruelty was mentioned. passsn-
ger. whose wife unwell laid down in her berth.
Her husband laid himself down in the berth Of friend
near her. One OF the msies came down and ordered
the man out Of the berth although he had the sanction
of his friend for occupying it, The passenger told the
mate this and questioned bis night 10 order him ous
under such circumstances: Inc olhcer went on deck
and brought couple of colored down, dragged
the passenger out Of the berth, carried him deck,
placed him in irons aud kept him thus confined till The
following day. His wife, through fright occasoned
by this treatment, was preinatnrely jelvert !. tha
child being either dead at birth died soon aff.r.


The Government ought 10 issue strict orders ~ their
emigrant agents inquire from the passengers Of every
ship arriving whether justice has been done 20 them,
and II not 10 bring the guilty TO punishment. hsps-
cially should care he Ken 20 punish those who seeh
the ruin Of poor unfiended females during the nor


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