Arkansas intelligencer., 1858-05-07
Atrocious Cruelty.

Several days since We published the ac-
count OF fugitive slave, who was creating
some excitement in Liverpool with the story
vi his cruel treatment while in slavery in this
country. The following extract from an Eng
iIsh paper Will demonstrate the fact that our
transA tlantic friends need not look abroad
for brutality, 50 long as such scenes as that
detailed below are allowed IN their midst
The details are as follows: On the morning of
the 9th ult., private of the Northumberland
Fusileers was sentenced to receive 45O lashes.
An eyewitness describes the scene:
The poor victim to military tyranny, q
man who had seen better circumstances, and
is, we hear, connected with distinguished
family in the north Of Ireland, when ordered
to strip, sternly and steadily refused On
this, sixteen OF the strongest and most muscu-
lar men, stood forward, and hurled him. face
downward, on the stone pavement Of the rack
ct court. lie mantully resisted this indigni-
ty, and with voice trembling with emotion
requested them to take his life, but spare him
this di>honor. y few moments, however and
Ae stripped and tied u the triangles.-
And now began scene which requires an
ADLER pen than mine to describe. Forth step
ped one Of the largest drummers, armed with
a cat the length Of the handle Of which be-
ing elghtlnches, tae ninc-tails the same length
not, as your correspondent states, armed with
lead, but with pentagonalpieces OF ( lse-hard-
ened steel, eghty-one in number. At the
frs. blow oil the cat, piercing and .eal tn
ly shrek rung from the strong man in his
agony! His lacerated flesh gaped under tie
blow, and Jumps Of ilesu at each fresh blow,
were detached from his bleeding back, and
hung high about the walls Of the Racket court.
aud on the clothes OF those standing by.
The stern colonel, compelled to be an un-
willing witness, turned aud leaning to the
arm OF the equally affected major, covered his
face with his handkerchief, while deep sighs
agtated his manly bosom, and plainly show
ed the struggle that was going on within
The surgeon, a most humane man. Was obi
ged to be supported by his hospital sergeant,
who from time to time, administered to him
restoratives, as wei! as to the suffering soldier.
Man after man fell from the ranks, carried
away talnting; tears bedewed the faces Of near
ly all the officers, and at length the poor suf
ferer was released from his torture, to linger
in hospital, where he now lies, the whole of
his spine being laid bare, and rangrene has
ensued, leaving the tortured .ld lacerated
wretch in such state, that every christian
can only hope that death, as 1t must do, will
release him from his suiferings.n
The Northern Express adds;
AT the forty fifth stroke of the instrument
that is, after receiving four hundred and
five gashes-the unhappy wretch, whom for
tune saved from the hands of an English In
dian, to fall into the hands of Nena Sahib,
positively burst his bonds in the eontortons
OF agony, and fell in bloody heap to the
ground. lie was again tied up, and the 9TH
er iorty-tive wounds were inflicted. Not a
single drop of christian blood could the Shy
locks of the Fusileers be persuaded to abate.
Their victim received the full tale, and was
carried to the hospta' delirious, in state
which rendered it doubtful whether, in the
event Of his physical recovery, he would not
be an inmate Of a mad house for life."