The Daily Madisonian

MUTINY AND MURDER.

From the New Orleans Courier of Dec. 2.

Extract from the log of the brig Creole, which vessel arrived here this morning:

Left Richmond October 27, with 135 slaves, and 5 other passengers, besides manufactured tobacco. On the 7th of November, at 8 p. m. the brig was hove to supposing she would make the island of Abaco next day. After the passengers, and such of the crew as were not on duty, had turned in—that is to say, about half past nine o'clock p. m.—the slaves on board rose and murdered Mr. Hewell, one of the passengers and one of their owners. This they did by stabbing him with a bowie knife; the slaves also wounded the captain and one of the hands dangerously, and the chief mate and another of the crew severely. Little defence was or could have been made, as neither passengers or crew were prepared for such an attack, and there was but one musket on board; while the slaves had pistols, knives, and bludgeons, made by cutting up handspikes.

It is thought the whole plot was contrived before they left Richmond. After obtaining command of the vessel, the slaves broke open trunks, and ransacked everywhere. They, however, spared the lives of the surviving passengers, mates, and others, on condition they should be taken to an English island.

The Creole arrived at Nassau, N. P. on the 9th November. The Consul of the United States had the Captain and two of the men immediately taken on shore, and their wounds dressed. The Governor of Nassau was requested to place a guard on board, to prevent the slaves going on shore. The request was complied with; and an investigation was held by the Magistrates of Nassau, when nineteen of the slaves were identified, as having been active in the mutiny and murder, and were put under temporary confinement, the Governor refusing to send them to the United States. The other 114 slaves were set at liberty by the authorities at Nassau.

The Captain of the Creole will, probably, recover of his wounds.

We have been favored with the copy of the following extracts of a letter from the American Consul at Nassau to Mr. Hale, editor of the New York Journal of Commerce:

Nassau, November 14, 1841.

By her Majesty's subjects, and the authorities of the colony, the slaves of the Creole were considered and treated as passengers, they being allowed to go on shore in boats tendered to them from shore. The American Consul remonstrated against this, inasmuch as the slaves were American property, and had no more right to be removed from the vessel than the cargo of tobacco.

The Captain of the C. is convalescent and doing well; so are the other wounded.

On the liberation of the negroes, a vessel was put up for Jamaica, to take emigrants, passage free, and a number of the revolters took passage.