The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-17

ing was seen or heard of the missing
merchant. Advertisements appeared
in the leading journals, Offering lib.
eral reward for Information concern.
ing him ; but none was forthcoming.
The case created considerable excite
ment rs we'll in the community at large,
as among Mr.. Young's Immediate con-
snections, but all attempts to unravel
the mystery proved unavailing and
when, one morning, his office safe was
found open, and robbed OF its valuable
contents, the conclusion was generally
arrived Fat he had been foully dealt
with, and that his temperance was
not to be looked for. A distant rela-
tive of the lost man came forward, in.
stituted the necessary proceedings, and
took quiet possession OF the property
which Mr.. Young had toiled through
so many years to amaSs. .n 49,
Te return now, to our Inflated hero
himself. g.,
After drifting in his boat for two
days, the weather being fortunately
calm and moderate, he was picked up
by homeward bound Italian brig. AS
Mr.. Young spoke only his native Ian.
guage, of which none of his rescurers
understood i single word he could con-
municate very little respecting him.
self. 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 a pirate, to whom
they could offer no resistance. Their
vessel was scuttled, and themselves
were carried rs slaves to the coast of
Morocco. BY the Italians Young had
been treated kindly at the hands of
the half-savage captors, lie met with
nothing but hardships, being forced
to toll almost necessarily beneath a
burning sun.
After three years of this suffering,
he'effected his escape by the aid a of fell
low slave, an Englishman, with whom
he was sometimes allowed to go fishing,
and with whom, under cover of night
he flung himself overheard and swan
to the opposite coast for Spain, where
they found themselves with no poss.
essiOns but their clothes on their back.
They managed to make their way to
the nearest seaport town, whence they
intended, if possible to procure pas
sage to tbs United States. All went
well "a ship was soon found, which in
few days was to weigh anchor for New
York, and on which their services
were at once engaged for the voyage.
Almost on the eye of their embarka-
ton, a fearful murder was committed
in the house where the fugitives were
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 de-
tense, and were summarily found
guilty. Mr.. Young's unfortunate com.
panion was executed. and he himself
sentenced to the galleys for life.
After he had undergone the linger-
g horrors of this worst Of punish
ment for five years, the real murderer
was made known bya deathbed con-
fession, and Mr.. Young was set at lib
erty. His story had excited the active
sympathy Of several humane individ-
mails, and he found no difficulty in pro.
curing 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 departure but he re-
turned to find himself beggar. His
relatives had thrown away his proper
ty in wild speculatiOns, and died the
year before hopeless1y insolvent.
Broken in health ard spirits, and
prematurely old, the once prosperous
merchant, after his protracted misfor-
tune, incurred solely by yielding to a
sudden impulse of humanity, was
driven to the occupation of selling
small wares at stall outside Wash
ington market, and might have been
regularly seen thus engaged for sever
al years. until Frustrated by linger-
ing sickness, which brought him to
his end, under circumstances of la
mentable privation.
Who shall say that the ways of
Providence in this world are not in
scrutable!
A Domestic Episode.
N, T., &c