Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-01-15

hgheSI grade Inc Ddhhs are uOlnS no DusllS9o
as yet.
Foreign exchange continues p~aralyzed. The
leading bankers ask I'D 70 Il3, and we hear OF
a few transactions at the lower figure but most
of the drawers and importers appear 10 be wait
ing for further developments. American coin is
offered at one and a half premium, and 1t is
bought by the bullion brokers at one but very
little business is being done in it. It viii be
easy TO bring the gold to light again when 1t is
needed, now that the banks have got out Of the
false position they occupied.
Suffering aud CannibaIisn of nn Aneri-
can WhaIer's Boat Crew.
The st. John DAILY Nelos has an account of
the sutferings of John f. Sullivan, Of Hadley
Falls, Massachusetts,, and his companions, de
serters from the whaleships Daniel Webster and
Ansel Gibbs, Of New Bedford, in Cumberland
| Straits, on the 4th of August last. The nara
tive was written by Sullivan. The writer says
that he had no reason for leaving the ship only
that he was not sufficiently provided against the
cold northern climate, and was afraid of dying
by scurvy. The crew Of the Ansel Gibbs COM
planned Of bad treatment. They were John
Giles, boatsteerer; John Martin, Hiram j.. Da-
Wis, Willard Hawkins, Thomas COlwell, Joseph
Fisher, and Samuel Fisher, who, with Sullivan,
and his shipmate Warren DuttOn, constituted
the deserving party. They stole a boat from the
Ansel Gibbs, into which they managed to place
a very mail quantity of provisions, two guns,
and a little ammunition, and stood across the
straits. They left the vessels in lat. 65O SO,
about five miles from Penny's haTbor. On the
fourth day ont, they fell in with the bark George
Henry. Captain C~uddingtOn, Of New London,
who offered TO take them all on board, but they
declined. He gave them some provisions, which
were augmented by a duck and the headquarters
Of q wife bear they managed 10 shoot before they
made Resolution Island, where their provisions
became nearly exhausted. On the Doth of
August, at Cape Chidleigh, they had nothing
but mushrooms and berries to live upon; and
here Hawkins and Davis ran away from the
party, and carried away everything that was
useful belonging to the boat. After an attempt
to leave the place, which was prevented by
stormy weather, they landed again, and DuttOn
died of starvation.
The narrative of Sullivan says:
The evening he died Samuel Fisher proposed
to eat him He took his knife and cut a piece
off the thigh, and held it over the fire until it
was cooked. Then, next morning, each one fol-
lowed his example. After that the meat was
taken off the bones, and each man took q share.
We stopped here three days. We then made a
start, but the wind being ahead we were COM
PEELED to put back. Here we stopped two more
days. During that time the bones were broken
up small and boiled in a pot or kettle that we
had also the skull was broken open, the brains
taken out and cooked. We then got tair wind,
but as we got around a point we had a wind
very fresh of shore we could hardly manage
the boat at last we drove on to an island some
ways out to sea; we got the boat under the lee
of it but the same night we had a large hole
stove into her. Being unable to haul her up we
staid here eight days. Il was on this island they
tried to murder me.
The third day we stopped here | was out as
usual picking berries or anything I could find to
eat. Coming in l CHANGED to pick mp a mush-
room. / brought it in with me, also an armful
of wood to keep. While kneeling down to cook
the mushroom, l received a heavy blow of a
club from Joseph Fisher, and before I could get
on my feet, | got three more blows. / then man
aged to get on my feet when Samuel Fisher got
hold ofmy rightarm then Joseph Fisher struck
me three more blows on the arm. / somehow
got away from them, and being half crazy, 1 did
not know what to do.
They made for nc again; 1 kept begging Of
them, for Gods sake, to spare my Ifs; but they
would not listen TO my cries. They said they
wanted some meat and were bound to kill me.
! had nothing I could defend myself with but
a small knife this l held in my hand uSil they
approached me. Sam vi Fisher was th6frst to
come toward me h .ad a large dirk knife in
his hand; his cousin was coming from another
direction with a club and a stone. Samuel came
on and grasped me by the shoulder, and had his
knife raised to stab me. / then raised my knife
and stabbed him ia the throat he Immediately
fell, and ] then made q step for Joe, but he
dropped his club aud went up to where the rest
were. then stopped t osee if Samuel was dead
he was still alive / began to cry after a little
while tie rest told me to come Up-they would
see there was nothing more done to me. | had
received four deep cuts in the head one of the
fellows dressed them for me and washed the
blood off my face. Next day Samuel Fisher
died; his cousin was the first one cut him up
bis body was used up the same as my unfor-
tunate ~shipmate's.
After awhile we managed to repair the boat
and leave the island. We ran in where we
thought it was mainland, but it proved to be an
island here we left the boat and proceeded on
foot, walking about one mile a day. At last we
reached the other side Of the island in about four
days then put back 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 70 get around the island with her,
but she sunk when we got into her we then
left her and went back again to the other side of
the island, TO remain there until we should die or
be picked up. We ate our belts, boots and
sheaths, and a number of bear and sealskin ar
ticles we had with US. To add to our misery, it
commenced to rain, aud kept up for three days
il then began to snow. In this miserable condi-
ton we were picked up by a boats crew of
Esquimnux, on the Goth Of September, and CON
veyed to Okoke on the Sd of October. The mis-
sionaries did all in their power to help us along,
and provided us with food and clothing, then
sent Us to Main where we met " the doctor (Da-
Wis, who was picked up three days before we
were He reported that his companion died, and
told many false stories after he was picked up.
The above thrilling narrative has the air OF To- |
nance rather than the reality, and some of the |
circumstances appear very improbable, but as the
Ansel Gibbs, which arrived at New bedford on
the 18th Of November last, reported the desertion
of seven OF her crew with a whale boat in the
Arctic regions at tie date above given, the main
facts Of the story are doubtless true. The mis-
guided seamen suffered f~earfully in consequence
of their fOlly.-RoStOa Post