Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-10-10

anu then unuer the cuStouy VI IiiO Mao-
e
| In one instance, the notification of
the commander by the surgeon that the
health of the prisoners was being COM
promised, brought, not release from
confinement, but the privilege of .exer-
cising on deck for two hours, at mid
night. This brig was less than three
feet high, and of course it was quite
impossible for man to stand upright
in it. This commanding officer, the
life and centre of a charming family
circle, the affable and courteous broth
cr officer, was tried in the United States
District Court for putting tackle to
the ankles oftwo mutinous men, their
wrists being tied to eye-bolts in. the
deck, and causing the rest of the crew
to pull away, until, as he narrated the
facts, in triumph, not in shame, Il
could hear their joints snap across the
deck II i
In the Fall of 1862. a medical officer
on board u ship lying at the Portsmouth
Yard was called at ten o'clock at night
by the Master-at-.Arms, who informed
him that man in the brig wanted TO
see him, and when the door opened he
found four lnen standing. sitting, and
lying i'll a space of four feet wide, two
and one-hah. deep, and six and one-half
high. they all belonged to the bellig-
erent and offensive negro race. One
was sitting ut the back of the cell witt,
his handcuffed hands To his face, heart
broken at tho disgrace that had hctall.
en- him, after years faithful service.
The man who had asked the help OF the
doctor, had since fallen asleep on the
floor, and OH attempting 10 awake him,
| il proved to be mercitul insensibility III
asphyxia, that had so nearly rescued
/ him from the routine of naval discipline
The sweat box OH one Of the naomi
tors, at least, was dcsignedly placed
near the boilers, so that artificial heat
could, at pleasure. be added 10 the tor
lures IT confinement.
/ win the humane reader believe that
there was, iii the early years al tlie war
a punishment beside which the brig
was mercltul and kind. Let him int-
agne his hands placed behind his bach
the wrists securely bound together, and
then the other end of this cord iasieu-
Cd To "a bolt in the deck overhead. with
50 little slack that the ends If tisr
toes Just touch tic berth deck; litc
shoulders are thrown forward and
when the least roll 81 the ship takes
the poor wretch loses his hold upon
the deck and swings Ia and fro. tic
weight IT the bo.ly striving h d,sloca,c
the arms from tllc shoulder blades
And these were not the scum and 10.
fuse II our great cities, uur the habit
uallv degraded European sailors; nci,
Their was IL away back IN tho times ii
the Duke OF Alba and the lpqulsitluu,
that these atruClous crucltlcs wtrr
practiccd; but Worcester county farm
ers' SONS. who did not hear an order Ia
come on deck, were thus tortured III
1869.
One night. in the Fall Of that year.
man was ordered Ia bc "triccd up" ( or
that was the name Of this hclish crime
Tor an hour. and when hc told the OH
Ger that he hsd M right 10 punish ui'n
in that way. tic order was changed TO
punishment during tine pleasure If tbs
the officer; and in tina case the man
was forgotten, the officer went 10 bod.
and his victim hung from ak o'clock Ia
ten. 4 sudden night call in this awful
Autumn. took the surgeon TO his dispcn.
sary ON the berth deck. and as tie ship
was rolling heavily be- stcadri him.
self against the side Of the ship. and
waited, until sudden roll brought
swinging body against him, and then
he heard groan There were three
young men, for some small oflcuso,
wearing away the darkness in that
place humping against each other, with
their faces 50 distorted by agony iba,
none Of them were recognized, even on
close inspection.
| Only think of the men who caused
such barbarities to be inflicted on free
men, white as well as black, holding
up their hands and rolling up the whites
of their eyes in pretended holy horror
/ of the "crucltv of shareholders tn thcir