Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1849-10-06

| men oy telilnS tnem they were not among
savages, and there was no cause for fear /
release was long deferred. He also OBJ
tanned a promise from the Japanese, tha
If Mccoy behaved quietly he should be re.
stored to his shipmates; which was done
four days alter
After months detention, another es.
cape was planned by burning through the
floor of their room, and digging under the
board fence, but only Mccoy, Boyd and
Bull got out, when the guard heard the
noise and stopped the rest. These three
made for the thickets behind the town, and
directed their course south westerly to the
sea shore, which they reached about two
O'Clock; but the barking of dog turned
them from their course, SO that daylight sur
prised them before they could reach some
boats they saw in a distant cove. Hiding
themselves in the bushes during the day,
they started the next evening for the sea.
side, but hunger forced them TO ask peas
ant Tor food he kindly invited them to
come into his hut and eat, and straightway
went for the police, who arrested and pin
Toned the fugitives while at the table, and
returned them TO the temple after an alb
sence of twenty-four hours. Here their
arms were tied up behind their backs so
tight and high, that when the cords were
removed after four hours suffering, the
poor fellows could not let their hands down
without assistance. As further. punish.
ment for their reslessness, they were then
fettered on large stocks, Mccoy being the
heaviest (about 300 lbs.,) and laid on the
outer yard during the night; in the morn
ing, wet with dew and stiff from their con-
Straint, they and all their companions were
carried to the town house.-While pro-
ceeding thither, they imprecated the ven-
geance of their country upon their tormen-
tors, who tauntngly replied, eff any Off
GERS from your country come here, we will
serve them as we did the American Com
modore last year, who was knocked down
at Yedo by soldier if the Americans
took no notice of that, why should they
look after you, who are only poor sailors
You are here now and cannot help your
selves. 1ftheir ships come here, the priests
will blow them to pieces"
AT the examination, the governor remark.
ed he was more convinced than ever that
they were spies by these repeated attempts
to escape, and in order to secure them
from mjurin" themselves, and save him
self from anxiety 10y their trying 10 get out,
he sent them all 10 prison, conli,iug them in
two small cages, which were enclosed in a
larger one Mccoy, Boyd aud Martin were
kept in one is by feet, and the rest in an
other IS by - feet square, the two being
about six feet apart; both Of them offensive,
full of vermin, and open TO the weather, and
to be entered only by crawling in. The only
furniture in them Were lousy mats and a
small washsand. The next night, (Dec. 17th)
Navy, one of the Hawaiians, hung himself
in his cage, evidently by design and not from
a alteration of mind. His corpse was put into
a square box, and buried in the Dutch bury.
ing ground; and when his companions asked
permission to accompany the dead body 10
its burial, their request was scoflingy refused
though in the official report handed to Cap
tain Glynn, it was asserted that the men
themselves buried him. In view of the in
creased suffering brought upon them all, the
spirited attempts of Mccoy and his shipmaies
to break loose were blameable, especially,
too after one experiment had convinced them
of the hopelessness Of ultimate escape from
the country, The fate of an American sailor
belonging to a shipwrecked company two
years before, who had been Gu, down when
resisting the police, and died of his wounds
from cruel neglect, should also have served
as warning, and was perhaps told them with
that object; though here at ease and liberty,
we are not going TO Judge the conduct of these
imprisoned men, in their natural desires and
attempts 10 be free very strictly.
1t was now becoming cold, and the snow
and rain beat through the cages no bedding,
not even their own clothes were given the
wre,ched men they begged hard for cover.
ing of some sort for Ezra Goldihwaiy who was
taken i'll about Christmas! This man had
been quite well hitherto; he become deliri-
GUS on the third day, with such symptoms of
sweled and cracked, parched tongue, pain
in the stomach, and frohing at the mouth,
that his companions in misery were sure he
had been poisoned. His only protection was
thin shirt and trowsers, but though the
snow beat updn him as lie lay on quilt in
his foul cage, his cruel keepers refused
to return him his own blanket, only
three days when he had been sick three
weeks before he died. A physician carhe
every day, whose prescriptions rather in
creased his malady. This poor man had
struggled a Bible into his cage, which he re-
quested Martin 10 return TO his relations in
Salem, Mass, He died January Gath, the
japanese new year, and was buried the next
day, his keepers ridiculing The others for
asking permission TO attend the funeral, Just
as they did when Navy was buried. Not
long after his death, Waters was attacked in
the same manner, but recovered as soon as
his companions tefused to give him the doc
tors prescriptions. His guards told him one
day that his coffin was made, the grave dug,
and the day appointed when they were to
hnrv him