The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-21
SHOCKING CRUELTY.

Ship.
From me Sco@man
Last gApiil, FIVE Greeuocl1 lads, poor aud
young-foolish, fancifal lads, suchas we find
strolliDg and loadug about every seapost ogn
made up cheir minds they would like to
see foreign parts. They did not know where
they waned to go, but they wished something
OF the nature Of ga pleasant sail:'' andas the
ArraD, on the eve OF starting for Quebec,
seemed good ship, aud took their boyish
faucies, they agreed that the "pleasure
sail" should be 60 Newfoundland. SO they
smugPied themselves enugly ou board, not thluk.
ing Of food, and quite as little OF clothes and
kept out OF sight until land was far behind; and
only whom the tug had lorgcast loose the out
ward pound ArTau and 9hen the Cnanuel was
about 10 be quilted for the Atlantic, was IL
discovered that she had on board that plague Of
kippers-stoWaWays' Fahcy the lnalgnation
OF Captain West aud his mate, Kerr. They
might poIdonably have used strong language,
and wisbed tue five lads anywhere but where
they re. But the captain being as every BODY
says, very kind man, and the mate being no
DOUBT also very kind man, did not toss the
boys overheard; and perhaps they we're other
wise sufficiently punished, for the swell or the
Allan iC made them for three or four days sea-
sick, aud one pooi youpgster of eleven-"a nice
wee bit Of a fellow, - 'but not strOngn according
TO his mothers description-was spit
ting blood. This KIND captain aud
mate did not starye the boys They got
food, though II was sCanty and far from
good. one OF the halt-naked lads even got can
vas 20 make a pair OF trousers-though the
canvas was afterwards taken back. Stowaways
are ant TO be uncleanly; aud Bryson, one OF toe
patch, compelled to lie on the Goals, or on the
equally dirty oakum, and not allowed q change
OF clothes, was guilty OF the objectionable sin OF
being dirty. Accordingly the kind mate de-
eided 10 clean him, and ordering Brysou to cast
off Jacket, wastcoat, and shirt, and everything
but his semmet, the mate lashed him with the
lead line because he who had to live in filth
and rags happened to be dirty. The kind cap
tain must have his turn, and when Bryson ran
away tcreamng nom the torture he is
.Ordered 10 lac down on the deck; and there, in
complete nakedness, and In arctic atmosphere
for the ICe.hCes are lot an hours sail
from the ship over tue PROSTATE lad Big Bob
Hunter throws, by the orders of the "good
kin0r coptan, buckets OF ireeZing water, and
the lad Ia tLen scrubbed" with "kyar"
broom, the good kind" captain assisting 70
complete the operation, Bryson, still max ed aud
wet, is ordered to remain an hour at the fore
castle head. Hungry stOwdways are apt to
steal; and Bry son, desperate aud hungry, hap
pencd to make free with certain currants in the
captains cabn. OF course this is unpardon-
able; go by the orders OF the good kind" cap
tain, Bry' on is stripped naked and, with his
hands tied behind his back, is hogged until
his skin Is Ike ",ariau-fed and white" TO
use an oulookers expression. Early in May
The Arrau became embedded in the ic5-feds
which at that season tkrt the coast Of New
foundland, and materially the company of the
stowsways does not become more agreeable.
How far the vessel WAS from shore at the time
We speak of Is not quite certain. The captain
alleges that the distance was about four miles,
and II that be the correct account it seems that
the climate or atm ospheTe is OF such an eXtra-
ordinary cualHcter that objects so near rs four
miles or even nearer vanish amazingly out Of
sight; for the land, II stngushable at all, was
not clearly so, uotwlthstandln that the sun was
shining, and that there was nothing to intercept
the view. But the sailors estimates of the
distances are different, snd do not require us to
suppose cXtraord mary atmospheric effects One
eaIor says the land as "a far way off, an.
other says 1t was from seven to eight miles
distaut; . third says from ten 10 hiteen a fourth
twelve 10 fourteen; while dith, who had been
h1
supposed 10 be qualified 90 measure distances
On ice. says, "As near as I can Judge, should
say the land was about twenty miles from the
ship" and be corrObota,es this estimate by
remaiking that not even With glass could he
see houses, though there really we're houses on
n the shore; but whatever the distance, there can
z be but one opinion as 10 the dangerous and
a treacherous state OF the Ice, and this was per-
fectly well known TO every one on board. Round
the ship the ice was broSen; holes were album
HdAnt; one of the crew had found a walk OF q
quarter Ot an hour 'pIesty hard;" and between
the ship and the land visible from the Arran,
and barring all passage, except by long cir.
cult, lay wide lane OF water, From where
stood aloit,r said one Of the witnesses, ~ could
see line Of water about three miles long, and a
strong current was now.ng.n In this position lay
the Arran carly Ia May, when one night the two
Oldest of the two tstowaWays agreed to venture
TO make their way to land, thinking that it was
as well to perish on the ice a. to die OF starya-
morning Riley and BrysGn were ready TO start,
and Indeed they we're told they must start. But
the younger aud more tmid were reluctant.
Paul, a child of eleven, en'Tcats with tears in
his eyes TO be ailo red 60 remain. No; be must
go too. The good kIndn captain and mate will
have II 20. McEweD, young and sickly, and
McGinn +, a halt clad Stripping OF twelve, are
also ordered 10 depart, and, weeping, and
4 perhaps With terrible pIesentiment az heart
of Their fate, they QUIT the inhospitable ship.
7 Between and O'Clock IN the May morning
the lit le band began their terrible Journey
and in what condtlong The boys do not
appear 10 have had any particular meal the
day before, snd on the morning Of starting
they we're RECALLED with sOuD ma0e of tish heads
aud perhaps with little corec; aud altogether
the breakfast was such that BrysOn says he was
very hungry after Il. d. not suppose from the
fact tha the boys eot htye TODD, and that only
six biscuits were tossed 10 tbem, there was
scarcity of provisions on board, for the Arrau
was prOVisohed for three or inur months, and
part of her cargo was meal. au1 the boys go
no more than SIX higcli's stmply because good
klndn captain did not choose 20 give tdem more
d And the boys dress. Neither Paul nor Mctiinue'
had shoes or stockings, aud the lagter's clothes
were ragged and torn. Thus they started on
d that May morning, with terrible misgyurs on
their own part aud tee VaTJ 81 toe ere aud the
heart sickens, or the blood boils with indigna'i1u
and eyerv feeling within ones breast calls aloud
for punishment. when We thiuk OF what tina
little band suffered before the long May da,
e'osed on them, tniuuel Ia numOers, Wc4ri
with their painful toll, half dead with frost
I and bleeding. TbOse who had Shoes ira
4 ytlled predy easily iof a time, but the tW,
M shoeless lads, agei eleven and twelye-Whu
IN they suffered Happily for one of them, per
haps, his suaerngs were soon ended: for, afteI
falling into the wafer twice, ne fell "a tue thr,
time, aud the ice just closing after him,
McEwan did rise IL The EurytVoT