The Portland daily press., 1871-03-21
DAILY PRESS,
PORTLAND.
TUESDAY, MARCH 81, 1871.
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Almost forty years have passed since Sir
John Barrow first told the wonderful sto,
OF the Mutiny Of the Bounty-a story thai
has kept singular hold on popular favor ever
since. But in 1880 the story was not com
plete, for since that time the remarkable de-
scendants of the mutineers-a people who
from all accounts have approximated more
nearly toithe formation of a society of ideal
virtue and benevolsnce than any other in The
world-have experienced MANY vicissitudes
anu nave removed from their narrow quar-
'eiS Oh ihe little Pitcairn island, in the
great waste OF the Pacific, TO a more commo.
oious and less isolated home ON Norrou,
isiand' New facts about the mutipv and The
men engaged in it have also coma 10 ,;o,,.
giving Lady Belcher an opportunity TO nre'
SEN In her newly published volume The
-M"''neers of the Bounty, much fuller mar.
ratlve than the old one. The circumstances
are as strange and romantic as ever we,e
felgned by writer of fiction. An officer of
the Royal Navy, stuug to madness by The in.
justice and insulting language of his superior
officer, forms the sudden resolution of takino
possession of the ship, which, with the aid of
part OF the officers and crew he does, leay-
Ing his late commander with some of those
who did not take part in the revolt TO make
their way to land in the boats. The "Boun.
ty" then sails to Tahiti, where those not in
sympathy with the mutiny are left; the
rest, Dine in number, having taken native
wives and some native families on board
nnaiiy reach Pitcairn's island, where they de-
hoerately take their ship to pieces and pre-.
pare 10 make 1t their abode Tor life. 1t was
LOU when they reached their new home. and
SO remote is the island from the ordinary
paths OF vessels, and its insignificant size
causes 1t to be SO easily overlooked, that it
was almost twenty years before the colonists
saw human being from the outside world.
Then an American shipmaster found there a
company of thirty-fve persons, only ore of
whom, Alexander Smith, was of the original
crew OF the Bounty" All of his male as
sociaies, English and Tahilian, bad perished
In the course OF their wretched quarrels, and
for eight years he had been the sole survivor
and the guardian of his late companions
wives and children. Most faithfully had be
performed this trust, and it is due To the
moral and religious teaching of this mai.
that the islanders are found 10 be SO sipcu.
larly free from the selfshr ess and vice that
cofrode society in the rest of the world. In
1856 the English government removed This
singular people to Norfolk island, where at
last accounts, January, 1870, they were pros
porous and happy. (Harper G. Brothers.
For sale by Loring, Shert & HARMONY
Harper 6 Biothers merit the thanks of ev.
erybody Tor publishing in convenient pampb.
let for general circulation, a revised and cor.
rected edition of D. A. Wells's Report on
Local Iaration. We have heretofore re-
ferred at length 10 this valuable report which
contains information not TO be tound ese
where. For sale by Loring, Short & Har-
mon)
TnE GALAxY.-To the Galoay for April
General j. ID. lmboden, one OF Lees leuien-
ants in the war with the South, contributes
chapter that will be read with vivid interest
by everybody, on "Lee at Gettysburg The
horrors of the retreat are most yiyidlv set
forth by the writer, who himself bore The re.
sponsibity of conducting the wagon trains
back to Virginia. Mr.. Edward Crapsey, who |
seems TO have made the dangerous classes of |
New York special study, and with success
equal to that of Horace NrayKs IN his OBJ \
llp seryrpli1n OF London pauper life portravsa
,amiilar type OF criminal character under an
s unla,iiiiar I name and classifcatlon-tbe"Sk
LIZ, .T, ne paper Is third OF the series &C.
Titled The Neither Side of iSsuv York% and
deals with the torgers and other tfisves of
wall street. Captain Halls Arctic Expedi- |
tion" furnishes Professor L. Il. Maury with
the subject OF good essay on polar discoy
cry. Mont Cenis," by Mis-. Mary b. Dodge.
Is very. vigorous and carefully finished Lo-
em on the completion of the gieat highway
through the alps of Savoy. For the 1esi.
Mr.; Justin Mccarthy, Mr.. j. w. DeFores'i
and Mrs. Edwards add. several chapters 10
their novels respectively, and Mark Twain
lIases his valedictory bow to the pu0lic as |
tne hng's Jester, with this characteristic pro-
TEST against the cap and bells:
Ihe Mernsranda will cease permanently
VIII VIII .niS issue ot the magazine. 10 he q pi-
rate, ON a low salary, with no share i'm the
pron.s Vi ehe business, used TO be my idea of
an uncomfortable occupation, but have Other
views now. 10 be monthly humorist in a |
cheerless time is dreafer."
The funny department. is hereafter to be
conducted by Dom Piatt.
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