Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-12-20

ceedings, and took quiet possession Of
the property which Mr.. Young had
toiled through SO many years to amass.
10 return now, to our Inflated hero
J himself.
After drifting in his boat for two
days, the weather being fortunately
calm and moderate, he was picked m
by homeward bound Italian brig. As
Mr.. Young spoke only his native Ian
guage, Of which none of his rescuers
understood single word, he could com.
municate very little respecting himself,
and was barely able to make out the
name OF the port to which they were
sailing. Just before entering the
Mediterranean, they were chased and
captured by pirate, to whom they
could offer no resistance. Their vessel
was scuttled, and themselves were car.
ried as slaves 10 the coast of Morocco.
By the Italians Young had been treated
kindly; at the hands Of the half-savage
captors, he met with nothing but hard
ship, being forced to toll almost inces-
sanity beneath burning sun.
After three years of this suffering, he
effected his escape by the aid q fellow
slave, an Englishman, with whom he
was sometimes allowed to 20 fishing,
and with whom, under cover of night
he flung himself overheard and swan
to the opposite coast of Spain, where
they found themselves with no posses
sions but the clothes on their backs.
They managed to make their way to
the nearest seaport town, whence they
intended, if possible to procure pas
sage to the United States. All went
we'll; a ship was soon found, when in a
few days was to weigh anchor for New
York, and on which their services were
at once engaged for the voyage.
Almost on the eve of their embarka.
ton, a fearful murder was committed
in the house where the fugutives we're
lodging. Circumstances pointed strong
ly toward them as the perpetrators, and
they were arrested on suspicion. Poor,
friendless, and ignorant of the language
of their prosecutors, they were unable
to make an adequate defense, and were
summary found guilty. Mr.. Young's
unfortunate companion was executed,
and he himself sentenced to the galleys
for life.
After he had undergone the lingering
horrors of this worst of punishment for
five years, the real murderer was made
known by deathbed confession, and
Mr.. Young was set at liberty. His story
had excited the active sympathy of sew
eral humane individuals, and he found
no difficulty in procuring means Of
transportation to his own country. In
a few weeks he once more trod the
streets of New York, nearly eight years
from the time of his enforced depart
ure; but he returned to find himself q
beggar. His relatives mad thrown away
his property in wild speculations, and
died, the year before, hopelessly in
solvent.
Broken in health and spirits, and pre-
maturely old, the once prosperous
merchant, after his protractt d misfor.
tune, incurred solely by yielding to a
sudden impulse Of humanity, was
driven to the occupation of selling small
wares at a stall outside Washington
market, and might have been regularly
seen thus engaged for several years,
until FRUSTRATED by lingering sickness,
which brought him to his end, under
circumstances Of lamentable privation.
Who shall say that the ways of Provi-
dence in this world are not inscrutable =?
-Wustrated WeekIq.