New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-01-17

| tempt at Jenkinism, which scaYiriot fatfane ynnv
tsaoers t @ mGTs re = than az hag give cns TO-
Fian 81 1900, who happens to- procure q mnsty
copy OF the Crescent, may Be glad to obtain. Yns
eolae-the deiieions cho.olats; tie cakes, appies
and nuts have been -handed around, Tue daEnSs
DeGlns again i is now after Il, the yonng people
will not leave Till bah. past II Of i oeiocELcnn,ss
~ y y hme ne for decrepid old sinners to go home and
20 70 oea.+ %s MAEou.
Suffering and cannibaiissn or an American
st Whaler'a Eoat creyv.a .ty
/ The stsJohn Daily News has an aaeount ~ An.
snfferings of John F. Sullivan, Of Hadley FalIs
Mas ard his companions, deserteys from the
whale Sips sDanisl Webster and Anseil Gibbs, OF
New Bedford, III Cumberland Straits, on tile al 81
august last. The narrative was written by SuIli-
van. The writer says that hid had no reason for
leaving the ship only that he was not sufficiently
provided against the cold Northern climate and
was asa AFRAID raid OF dying by scurvy. The Grew Of the
Anseil Giobs complained of bad treatment They
we're John Siies, boatsteerer; John Martin, Hiram
sa,,5 .gayls, Esh Willard M Hawkins Thomas colwen Js
van and his shipmate Warren Dutton, CONSTITUTED
the deserving party. They stole boat from The
AnseA al5ps, into which they managed to placesa
ama,r anansyo g. provisions two gums and
They left the vessels in lat e5o 5g about five miller
rom Pennys harbor. On the fourth day out, they
ien n with TIE bark George Henry, Captain Cud
all on board, but they declined. he gave them
some provisions, which were augmented bv 4 dncF Y
and the hlndquarters Of white bear they man
agea g shoot before they made Resolution hlana,
where their provisions became nearly exhausted y
On the 10th Of August, at Cape Chidleigh they haf
nothing but mushrooms and berries: 10 i've lton
and here Hawkins and Davis ran away from lhe
party, and carried away everything that was usefIL
belonging to the boat After an attempt to leave
the place, which was prevented by stormy wealth !
er, they landed again, and Dntton died Of starga-
The narrativeof Sullivan says:
Z The evening he died Samuel Fisher proposed i. 4
eat him. He took his knife and cut piece of t}ea
thigh and held itoyer the fire until it was cogss
Then, next morning, each one followed his exasT,-i
PIE; Alter that the, meat was taken of the bones,
and each man tooksa share. We stopped here
three days. Wethen made astart, bat the wind
being ahead we were compelled TO put bach,
Here we stopped two more days During that tiInes
pot or kettle that we had; !; also the skuIl was
broken open, the brains taken out and cooked. Il
we then gota fair wind but as we got aroui1f ~
POM pcI1S y We s mad wind very fresh Of shore
on to an island some ways out to sea we got thes
boat under the lee of it; but the same night wess
had 2 large hole stove into her. Being unable TO
hauthe up we staid here eight days It was on
this island they tried to murder me. tss9 5 Nv
Inc third day we stopped here was out as usuak
picking berries or anything could find to eat.
Looming ~ chaneed to pick mp mushroom. y
Drought II IN with me, also an armfal Of wood for
hre. While kneeling down to cook the mtsh-$ 1.
| room,tI received a heavy blow Of a clul, from,
Joseph Fisher, and before Iconid get on my feet,
RI got three more blows. Ithen managed to get.on4
my feet when Samuel Fisher got hold Of nv right
arni then Joseph Fisher struck me three more
blows on the arm. somehow got, away from
them, and being half crazy, / did not Know what
to do. s ~ i7s.s "1''''
They made for me again Il kept, begging or
thenl, Tor fods, sake, to spare my life; bat they
would, not listen to my cries. They said they
wanted some meat and were bound to kill me, i q
had nothing Il could defend myself with but A.
small knife this held in my hand until they an
preached me- Samuel Fisher was the first to come
toward me; he had large dirk knife in his hand
his cousin was coming from another direction with
club and stone. Samuel came on and praspafS
me ny the shoulder, and had his knife raised 10
stan me-. then raised my knife and stabbed him
made a step for Joe, but he dropped his club and
went up to where the rest were. I then stooned
to see i Samuel was dead; he was still alive;
began to cry; after little while the rest told ma
10 come 1up7-they would see there was nothing
more done to me. had received four deep cats
IN tne head; one OF the fellows dressed them for
M me and washed the blood off my face.S Next day
Samuel Fisher died ;hls cousin was eirst one to
cut him up his body was used up the same as nv Z
unfortunate shipmate's ~ ''t
After awhile we managed to repair the boat and
leave the island. We ran in where we thought it,
was mainland, but it provedHo be an island; here
we lett the boat and proceeded on foot waikiki O.
about one, mile day. At last we reached the
other side of the island in about four days; them
put hach again to the boat. It took Us four :
days to get back. When we got there we found
the boat stove very bad since We left her. We
tried to get around the island with her, but she&
sunk when we got into her; we then left hnr and
went back again to the other side Of the island IA
remain there until we should die or be plckef, !
up. We ate our belts, boots and sheaths. ana,tsg
numb of bear and sealskin articles we had with,
u.s. 10 add to our misery, it corhmenced to rain.
and Kept up for three days itthen began TO snow e
In this miserable condition we were picked uu by5
a hoal2s crew ofaEsapimanx, on the 20th of Sep,
her. The missionaries did all iu.their power to-
help us along, and provided us with food and
clothing, then sent us to Main, where we met .ethe
DOCTOR Davs) who was picked up three days :
before we were. He reported that his comp anion 4
died, and told many false stories after be was
picked up. 8,s sF 49, f.1-ss&
The above thrilling narrative has the air Of
romance rather than the reality, and some Of the
circumstances appear very improbable, but as ths
Ansell Gibbs, which arrived at New Bedford on the
llth of November. last reported the desertion of
seven Of her crew with a whale boat in the Arctic
regions at the date above given, the main facts Of
the story are doubtless true. Tie misguided sea-
men suhereds fearfuily in consequence of their
folly. s[Boston Post. 10y - 81 49, ID
ALBERT PIkE.-The Charleston Courier SAYS:
Gen. Albert Pike, the able and faithful Commits
sioner of Indian Affairs and Relations, who lately
visited this city on business, has achieved great
success. Through his efforts and reports Con-
/ federate appropriation las been made for the sup-
port of Catholic schools among the Indians
schools which have fourshed for some years, but
never received any aid from the United States. =,
ESCAPE OF THREE YANKEE PRISONERS, s,-The
Charleston Mercury, of the 10th, has the follow
ing ss>;- s& ;s'
We hear of distressing affair which took place !!
on last Monday night. Two members of Company.
E were sent from Page Point in charge OF Tires
prisoners, who had been taken by our piekets on
their way to headquarters, the attention of the
guards was diverted for a moment from the pris-
sued, which resulted in the captiyes making good
their escape, after infcting severe injuries upon
privates Smith and Bradley both from Lancaster
Smith has since died, and his companion is seri-
ously but not mortally wounded. ls4 1.s.