Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-11-09
Horrible IDhumsnity.

Shrewsberry, seaman on board the whale ship
Martha on recent voyage, recovered 500 OF
Joseph y. Whcldon, the captain for cruel treat
mcnt The plaintiff was confined 56 days in
irons in the forcholj, and was repeatedly fog
gcd,
According to the N. Y. True Sun, Captain
Wholdon is perfect brute. "Whcn about to
Hog this sick seaman, the captain took of his
coat, rolled up his sleeves, tied his suspendcrs
around his waist, and told his helpless but un
dismaycd victim that he intended to give him
something by which be should remember him
to the day of his death. This threat he accom-
plished to the letter--the young man exhibited
the frighttul scars to the jury; j and when the
dauntless but hitherto respectful sailor told him,
al have record OF your treatment, Capt. Whel.
don, in black and white," the brute replied, "rl
put it down, Cd d-n you, in black and red
III give you the Victoria stripes, you ID
English ---; and after giving him six
or seven lashes, every one of which cut to
the quick, and sent the blood spouting all over
him, he would taunt him with show do you like
that, ell Odd you" This beautiful ex-
cmphtcaton of human nature ennobed and
dgniied with absolute power on board wha-
Ter, was continued according to the testimony
Of some Of the witnesses, for an hour and halt
and according to all of them, until the sick man
hung, moaning with agony, as if dying and f.
nally tainted away in the rigging. But it was
not to this man alone that the fen1 directed his
Lob. l,,, ,I,l,
ted in a similar manner throughout the voyage;
period of three or four years. AT Mudagas-
car, Edward Greble was flogged severely with
rope, on the bare back. He was seized up
10 the main rigging on the star-board side OF
the ship. lie was beaten with piece of the
top-galant brace, three.quarters Of an inch
thick. He was beaten until he was sensclcss ::
he hung by his wrists, his back was much laccr-
ated and in a wretched condition he naS bdck
and blue from The Uaistto the croun Of his hedd.
A muatto boy on board asked the captain for
something to eat saying he was hungry--the
captain kicked him about the deck, beat him
severely and sent him up to the top-gallant
cross trees--keepine him there during a So
we're rain storm from II at noon until ) o'clock
in the afternoon. lie was then called by Cap.
tain Wheldon, who ordered gun to be handed
ah from the waist, ordered him to strip off all
his clothing, lashed him with his belly on the
gun, hands and feet tied close to the gun, and
ordered all the foremast hands to strike him
three blows each, with an oak stave, and for
bid him ever after going into the forecas,le
The same boy was severely used the nigh
previous to the ships arrival off Sandy Hook.
What q wretch must this captain be.
CHEAP RAILWAY TRAvELLISG.-An article
in the WESTMINSTER Review" on railway ad
ministration attracts some notice in the city, OF
account Of the mode in which it advocates III,
principle that passengers may be carried at in
tnltely less sums than they now pay, aud tina
very low fares will prove in the end the bcs
source OF profit to the proprietors From ih
evidence given by Mr.. Hudson before the rail
ways committee, the writer draws the state
men., that on the North and York Midland rail
ways Goals are carried at the rate Of three tar
things per ton per mile, and that that price is
TetluileIatiNc one' I-Stitnatiil9 tDdt Id Phssel
gers would 60 to ton, he finds that regula
ton load of passengers on the London and BIZ
mingham railway--that is, three tons and
half, or 4G passengers, who standing up woul
only occupy wagon OF common size-migl
he conveyed, at Mr.. liudsons remuncraty
price, for Gl lbs 3D., or SD. per passeagu
Why, then, he asks, should passengers, who ca
load and unload themselves, and, moreover, al
not liable to be lost or stolen, be charged high
than good! This is, of course, going 10 vi
lent extreme but it is useful line of arg
ment, as showing that the fares are capable
being very considerable reduced, leaving a pr
fit, which would very much increase, from t
additional numbers conveycd.-LOndOn TIM
ELK SucKLrD LY WoMAN.-We cut the f
lowing strange story from the Cincinnati Co
mercial Bulletin. 1t may be true, but-pos
bly, it may not That paper says "a gen'lema
an old citizen of this city informed us a day
two ago, that about twenty-five years since,
was travelling in the then Territory of Nilsson
south of the Missouri river, when he halted a
cabin occupied by hardy pioneer and his vs.
with growing family of children among VIII
was an adopted four legged chitd, viz an i
The woman informed our traveller "that
said animal was caught while young, from
mother. and of course was deprived Of milk
supply which, sks taught 1t 10 drG" her
breast, and that it had Continued to thrive un
had