down his foot he can not be with those he loves best � he wants quiet at home in order to mature his plans and perfect his operations if he the are set going and what man can stand the april showers of feminine sorrow he gives way at last and throws down the money demanded hoping that some great news by the next some turn of luck in his business will make it up to him perhaps it does and he on perhaps it don t and this last feather has broken the elephant s back the end however near or distant is morally certain treated always as a mine to be opened at will he finally grows desperate and rushes into reckless speculation or crime and is overwhelmed with ruin selfish villain say the ignorant crowd how could he run such a career how we pity his family � no doubt of it but if you knew more perhaps you would pity him in the navy in the navy the division of the human species on shore the individuals into men and women on into officers and men though the latter term very expresses the light in which are regarded by officers the crew are practically hands sometimes legs also at others backs but as to any clear conception that they are truly men it is neither expressed nor implied in our theory or practice of naval discipline in the contemplation of that discipline the crew are beasts dogs anything but men a seaman into the navy by the notion of serving his country and helping to maintain and extend the glory of the stars and he has the faults of his class and condition � is reckless easily provoked to quarrel and has an appetite for and other yet he means to behave himself and to do his duty and for a time no complaint is made but as a part of his an allowance of liquor is daily dealt out to him � not enough to make him drunk but quite enough to maintain and increase the appetite for if he has already acquired it and to create it if he has hitherto escaped or overcome it not to drink it would be to subject himself to ridicule and dislike among his so he lakes it down by and by the ship reaches port and he with others has a few hours liberty to go on shore with for liquor thus formed or increased on the jolly mess themselves in hot haste to the shop first and then to other of and when their leave has expired some are too confused and clearly to know or seriously to care where they are or what they are doing hints toward if all hurry on board at the last moment some of them are pretty certain to be which is of course a offence these are to be hauled up as soon as the ship s convenience will permit their backs stripped and lashed with a heavy cutting whip known as the cat o nine tails plied with all the strength of an sub officer one dozen lashes is the usual allowance for such an offence as and each lash makes at least a black and blue the s back of the width of your finger � often takes off the skin and causes the blood to fly freely leaving the back as raw as a more serious are punished with more lashes � striking an officer with death but is the great reliance for di on board our republican navy and many officers resort to it on the most trifling looking at an officer is one of the more serious while there are cases reported by the themselves where men have been thus for not cooking an officer s dinner to his liking for water on the deck not a away neatly c c six thousand lashes such as i have described have been dealt out during one to the crew of a single vessel � that is so many were reported to the navy department by the commander while it is notorious that nothing like all are reported and officers have boasted that they never would report all nor any more than they chose that men have been by the dozen for no better reason than such as the of their superior supplied is notorious the appetite for cruel spectacles grows by what it on and an officer accustomed to order and the of half a men just before morning prayers might as well be expected to do without his as without the added of flesh and blood if there are no real his gloomy fancy � l t v v or in the navy imagine some for the sake of the they so what must be the effect of this on the whether personally or spared they have no hope of promotion � no chance of ever rising to the quarter deck � no prospect of an honorable in history nor of laying their bones beneath a marble monument if they are lucky enough to spend their last days in a hospital and be buried at all they do well every year sees a new of � mere boys and not favorable specimens at that � sent aboard the ship not to learn and serve but to govern and direct these sons and of or local of some sort are often provided with in the navy because their past of idleness and have them for usefulness on shore and rendered them a burden if not a terror to their respective families of course there are many of a different order but there are many of this stamp as well they step on except in knowing not even the of their novel profession but thoroughly that they are and thus gentlemen while sailors are the dust beneath their feet let an old salt who fought with 