The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-22

shoulder by an artilleryman. Levison,
however, escaped into the bushes. His
wife remained behind, and Ramsy or
dered her to be fiogged because she
would not, or could not, tell hin where
Paul Boyle was. After the flogging, as
she did not tell, Ramsay said he would
hang her. BY his direction rope was
placed round her neck, and there it con-
tinued whole day, during which time,
as the witness said, she looked like a
beast ready for slaughter" The troops
let her 60 on the Thursday, when Mr..
Ramsay went away.
William Christie, man residing on
his own property at Font Hill, testified:
"When the soldiers came my father
went to the woods. They tied my moth
er's hands on the post, slipped her stark
naked andHogged her. They gave thirty
lashes. l was on hill not far off. 1
counted them myself, and when came
| in she told me-" $500.
| THEFT AND ARSON BY SOLDIERS.
A widow named Jane Wilson, living
at Long Bay, seven miles to the east of
Manchioneal, said that the troops came
to her house. Along with them was
Mr.. Codrington. to whom she appealed
for mercy, saying that she was poor,
destitute, innocent woman. MIR. Cod
rington replied: ut is martial law, and
you can have no mercy" and soldier
said: "If you bawl, I'll shoot you"
They sent her for firesticks and then
burnt down the house. The reason the
soldiers burnt her house was because
they said a black person could not have
so many clothes; but she said that none
were stolen-they belonged to her, her
children and her late husband, who was
clerk to a church, and a schoolmaster.
There was mans riding saddle in her
house, but that was her property, too,
and had not been stolen. There were
both black and white soldiers among
those who burned the house.
sTONING.
According to man named Robert
son, tailor of Morant Bay, some of the
| persons who were flogged there were
stoned on the parade by the soldiers and
| sailors after being let loose. The soldiers
and sailors formed line, and the men
were forced to run along it; he had seen
some knocked down by stones. Some
| officers We're there, and must have seen
this practice more than once. Mr.. Ram.
on for one or two weeks and was then
stopped.
wANTON CRUELTY BY AN OFFICER
George and Mary Bryan told story
which attributed to British officer an
act of the most wantOn and shocking
cruelty. Mary Bryan was married to a
negro of the same name, Ned Bryan,
and they lived, along with her brother
George and her brother-in-law James
Bryan, at Long Bay, not far from Man
chiOneal, occupying three 'small set
Elements" of their own. On the 4th of
October, George and Ned went to Kings,
| ton, where they remained over the 11th,
the day of the outbreak, and did not re-
| turn to Long Bay till the 18th. On the
| morning of the 10th detachment of
black soldiers came along the road. A
Dr. Morris seemed to be in command
They took Ned and James Bryan, who
were sitting down in the road. Ned
said: "What have l done? I have just
come from Kingston" The Doctor had
a pistol in his hand, and said: mo
| cheek! If you are just from Kingston
| come along with me, and will inquire
about it.o They went little way along
the road, and then DR.. Morris ordered
the two brothers to be tied to tree face
to face, aud three of the black soldiers
shot them. Mary stood by with child
in her arms aud witnessed the execu-
ton. "I bawled out' (cried) she said,
land one of the black soldiers said to
me, ut is that child who has saved you
this morning -"
THE CATS AGAIN
In the evidence of magistrate at
Bath, Mr.. kirkland, we find the follow
Ing confirmation Of the testimony con-
corning the use of the cats:
MANY were logged, about fifteen a
day; only one man was fiogged severely,
and he got forty lashes. The people were
punished in my uncle's yard in Bath.
There was some wire used in the cats,
but only for the men, not for the women.
No military officer saw the cats. The
only magistrate was my uncle and N.Y.
| self. He gave directions for the making
| Of the cats, but he left it to Bruce. saw
the cats. / saw four fully. All those
| used for the men contained wire. The
only order Bruce got was to make them
according to the army pattern. There
were about four knots in each thong.
Only two men ] saw were punished
much; whether from tenderness Of skin
or not can't say but they bled more
than others. l only saw one man get
one hundred lashes. He was afterwards
hanged.
"Only one man was logged before he
was sent to MOrant Bay, but that was by
mistake, There We're about one hun
dred and fifty sent down to Morant Bay
under Maroon guard. Those logged at
Bath were let CO."
1t was sought, on behalf of Eyre, to
palliate the atrOcity of wOman-whipping
by the plea that the women Were not
logged with wire; but the evidence
given above shows that this was false
hood. The London Daily Ne,os, COM
menting with just severity upon the
cruelties proved to have been committed,
remarks at will be no longer possible
for us, after this official testimony, to
comfort ourselves with the belief that it
was impossible that men could be logged
first and hung afterwards, or that women
could have been flogged by Englishmen.
But If it he possible, the shame is made
more burning by the claim that seems
put in for tenderness and deicacy be.
cause women were not logged with
wire. To these inhuman monsters it
would appear that only the physical
pain was thing to be counted, and that
the atrocity Of stripping women naked
that they might be flogged by men
seemed nothing, If only they were not
badly cut" s.a
IMAGINATION AND REALITY.
Years 90 Hawthorne-fOr fI1ture rsa