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opcit!nacn*criThe Braganza Pirates.—The ‘.rial of the Braganzu pirates was held last week in New York. The result was that Cornelius Wilhelms and Joseph Van Brugger were convicted of piracy and murder, in the case of the brig Braganza, hound from Philadelphia to Naples. As this trial has excited a very general interest in the eastern cities, we presume the following summary of the evidence, for which we arc indebted to the Philadelphia Ledger, will prove acceptable to our readers.The brig Braganza sailed from the port of Philadelphia, on the 7lh of July, 1S3S.The captain was Arnel F. Turley, 1st mate Tbos. Vnnderslice, 2d mate Robert Moir; three or four able seamen, and two boys as ordinary seamen. Wilhelms and Van Brugger were seamen—the first was called Bill; the second known as Joe; a man named Adams, on hoard was cailcd Ilarry There was also a colored man on board, named Thomas Brown, who was cook.—Mr. and Mrs. Diehl and the captain’s wife were on hoard os passengers. Mr. Diehl was the owner of the brig. On Saturday night, the 5th of August, the 2d mate, from whose testimony we take the particulars of this dark transaction, left the deck in charge of Van Brugger, whose watch it was. About 2 o’clock he was awakened hv the cry of murder. He ran upon the deck, preceded by the captain, lie found Mr. Vandorsliee, 1st mate, lying on the deck wounded, with his head hanging down the companion way. The four sailors were on deck. Joe, armed with a handspike, engaged with the captain; Wilhdm, with a sheath knife, also engaged in the attack; the other two, Harry and Adams, had no weapons. The second mate, seeing Joe engaged with the captain, struck at him with a belaying pin,and hit Ilarry on the temple. lie and Harry fell to the deck in the scuffle, when Van Bi-.ggcr or Joe struck him cm the shoulder with a handspike, while Adams wounded him in the head and hands with a knife.The Captain went below for n cutlass, and said ho would fix them. While he was there, Wilhelms unshipped the gangway amidships, and kicked it overboard, leaving an open place in the bulwarks of the vessel, so that a person could be thrown overboard. Wilhelms and Adams then seized the second mate, and threw him overboard. He held on to Hans, with whom he had been scufiiing, and took him overboard with him. They both caught and clung to the after guy. A rope was letdown to Hans, of which they both got hold, when Van Brugger or Joe struck him with a handspike, fracturing one of the small hones. Their attention having beeniain-u un-d;)bed I me;turned to the captain, who came on decknestweep, ncd!re cu-lieese, juleps, od exilic—nightat youL'llOUgl)tg fromlien?— ired tolied \vc. tting iq aot.et a rail— they -lrolick, Vo wanty won’tlocked ?’ 11i column column vas ready a n’t knowvi whip thewith a cutlass, the mate got on deck, and crawled into the companion way of the cabin. Wh n he got into the cabin, he found Mr. Vanderslicc at the foot of it.— The captain was on deck, held down by two, bogging for mercy, and praying them to spare his life for the sake of his poor wife, saying that he would forgive them all thev had ever done. Thev fastened the cabin door to prevent any one coming to his assistance. lie heard the captain thrown into tiro water, and from the cabin window saw him try to swim, exclaiming, “Oh my God, 1 am dying!” It was night, and he did not see him sink. The vessel, at this time, was oil'the Wrs'crn Islands, bound to Genoa. They changed its course for the Brittish Cannel. Those in the cabin requested to be allowed to come on deck, which they said they would think about. The first three days they were in the cabin, they were treated badly, the next three not so had. They demanded the jewelry and other valuables in the cab in, and when those in it refused to give them rp, they forced them to do it, by suffocating them with smoke. Mr. Diehl and his wife were the first they allowed to go on deck. The others came up afterward. The pirates suffered Mr. and Mrs. Diehl, Mrs. Turley, Mr. Moir and the cook to get into the long boat. When they left the vessel, Mr. Vandorsliee was alone lying on the floor, languishing under his wounds. The party in the long boat were taken up the next day bv the brig Edwin hound to Grconnock, and arrived in New York on the 26th of October.•After the long boat had left the vessel, the mutineenrs threw the first mate overboard, although he was still alive. JohnAbduction of a youx We have already spoken ot has caused a great sensatic are now enabled to lay befsome further particulars.est and most eminent per: of Johli the sixth, last ki some years ago died, an child, Dona Maria Louisa i yo, sole heiress to his imr £2,000,000. Aguardiai in the person of M. Este judge at Lisbon. At tlu-ol Palmclla was ministe mate with the family oftl and contrived to get a ma between his son, the ma aged 10 years, and the Pcyao, just entering her family were ignorant of They knew that a uuic but it was with the grca learnt that the marriage ted in defiance ofcanno and the civil laws. Th* css had the young count Paris, but on this m nown the guardian app teal tribunal at Lisbon, w the marriage was not va separation. The judgi Paris, and at once supp and occlcsiaticni tribun; it was notified to the di of Pamella, the latter qi wish nor the young coi no indication of her rc then made a frcsndcm-lies, stating that a com tween the relations of t the Pamc'ila family, by 1 that no obstacle shoulc way of her intercourse of her family, and that once a week to pass t in addition expressly ’ countess should be ni before having attained years. The family r« violation ofthoso sac minor had been carric ess do. Pa me 11 a, and l! tribunal would design establishment in Pari as a measure of preca request the prcsiden issued the following « request JL*c. We ord ofSicur Estcves, ore Sampayo, acting for 1 minor, Donna Maria Snmpayo, shall be pi ofthc Augustine ladi visionary and protccti shall bo otherwise quence, wc authorise or his proxy, to rcqi any judgc-de-paix of canton, when they r nor, accompanied or dc Pamella, to effect able measures the t minor to the above n sist the authorities this ordinance, to sc idcnce ofthc duke a and of the marquis :c. Provided wit family of the young diligence but too l the authorities all its prompt cxccutic graph enjoined the prevent the duchcs quitting the kingdcthe duchess had tal-land by Bologne, mont when the urn nounccd the ordc stcamhoa’, of whit to its greatest powc she could not have nals were made to the fog or the di their being scon/s and was soon lost ’ of Parnells, and tl son, have not quit“Father had'nt too.'' —A valuablAdams, one of the mutineers, hung himself in prison, at Emdcn, on the second day after lie was arrested.cr, about the ?itnc was beginning to encc in that coi hired man.“Jonathan, 11 to you when 1 li trying to do my
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