The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-07-22
A FORECASTLE YARN.
MUTINY ON THE HIGH SEAS,

MUTINY ON THE HIGH SEAS.
JACKS TRIBUTE TO DISCIPLINE-A STORY OF
THE SHIP Russell GLOvER-THE CREW IN
Observation-Disclosures THE SHIPPERS BALD
HEAD WITH sooT-How 1T ALL ENDED.
Whether this tale is genuine or evolved
from the inner consciousness of World re-
porter, it is amazingly life-like, and if not
true, all that can be said is that it ought to
be: sit were in the ship Russell Glover, sir,
when an old man o. the name Of Smith had
her, and the mates name were Lewis. L
wern't into her at the time, but a chap of the
name of Jack Adams. as L was shipmate
with afterwards, into the bark Tarolinta,
Captain Carr, he spun me the yarn, and he
were into her, and she were bound from
San Francisco to Calcutta in the year 1851
She had 10 men afore the mast, and they
was to have $500 apiece 'by the rum and no
advance. This here Jack Adams what told
me this. were hard chap, and there were
two or three more like him, and they put
the devil into the rest. If the officers had
turned to and pitched in and whaled Jack
and one or two others, which they might
easy have done, they would have had no
trouble with the rest, but 1 suppose Jack
and the other bad ones kind of felt of the
mate on the first day and found him little
soft, and so encouraged them to go on. You
see, sir, as are a sailor nan purhaps, don't
ought for 60 say anythin' agin 'em as class
but truth is the truth, no matter who speaks
it, and saiorman has got for to be gov
erned, else he'll go wrong. You see, sir.
they gifts used to il from their boyhoOd up,
and they can't git along without it, and
officers OF ships has got for TO be saddled and
brldled, or else booted and spurred.- Thew
has either got to ride, or else play the jack
ass and be ridden. Almost all mutinies
aboard of ships comes on by degrees, and is
the fault of officers bein' too easy and not
checkin' it at the first when it could be
checked, and it goes on till the men
gifts the upper hand, and there's
the devil to pay and no pitch
hot,' Nobody never heerd of no mtiny
with Bully Waterman. or Beerslev,
of McCerren, or SIGH men as these. Of
quent, but never no munity. Sailors gen.
orally begins on the first day out, that is the
bad opes-thsre amt generally more than
one or two in a ships company-and they
spiles the rest and one of them maybe
will come up onto the forecastle when they
are gittin' under weigh, with his pipe in his
mouth. Well, if the mate jist fetches him
wipe and knocks the pipe half way down
his throat, that ginerally settles the matter,
and this here man done cut up rusty any
more; but if this is passed over there will
surely be trouble aboard of that ship afore
likely feel of
THE OLD MAN
next. Probably he'll go aft on the weather
side to relieve the wheel. If the old man
fetches him one alongside of the head aud
knocks him into the lee scuppers, perlitely
inouirin' if he don't know as there's two
sides to that ship, it's likely that I'll put an
end to trouble, but il the old man takes this,
he'll have for to take more afore long. Well
sir, board of this here Russell Glover there
were this Jack Adams and two or three more
hard characters as had been to the mines,
and then knocked about along shore in San
Francisco for a year or more, and had got
worse by that experience than they had ever
been, and they begin right away with the
mate, a singn' at him and in various ways
far they could go, and as he seemed
to take it easy they tells him
7 ext day when he goes for to turn 'em to
that they was shipped by the "run," and
that they wasn't agoin' for to do anythin'
but work ship, steer ship, pump ship and
tim on chain geer, or doin' any general
work, that they wasn't agoin' for to do.
Well, here were the chance; If the mate had
a pitched in then it's likely they would have
only had to have whaled one or two and the
rest would have Civ in. But instead OF that
ne goes All anu reports w JUG OAO onu
the old man he comes out and calls all hands
Att, and he tells 'em if they don't 60 to work
be won't pay 'em their money when they
gifts across, and then some of the sea law
yers they tells him they'd take the risk of
that. they'd only do what they shipped
to do "by the run" and he'd have
'em go for'ard, and all that
day and the next they done nothin'
and of course the devil got full possession of
and some of 'em they begins to
get skeary about their $500 when the ship |
got in, and they came to the conclusion as
how they'd have their money then and
there, and So they goes aft in a body and
wages, and il he didn't give 1t to 'em not
another stroke of work would they do of
any kind, neither to steer, nor pump, nor |
shorten sail, nor nothin' and they in |
sinuates that II he don't give 1t to 'em peace.
able they'll jist take it. Well, the old man |
by this time W as jist frightened of 'em. he
had the money aboard of the ship, and some
more for expenses in Calcutta, and he was
afeared they'd take the whole, and maybe |
kill him as well, so he tells 'em that he amt
got money enough for to pay 'em the whole,
but
HE'D GIVE 'EM HALF,
and due bill for the other half; so they
finally agrees to that, and he gives 'em $3.50
apiece and due bill for $3.50, payable when
the ship gifts to Calcutta. AFTER this things
went on for week, the men havin' pretty