The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-09-30

The American frigsts Brsndyvine
Commodore Jooes. md rte British frig
sts Thstis. Captain Bingham. lay in thu
harbsr of vslparHiso. Every Sunday
. portion Of the crews Of these two
frigssss went on shore; the dancing
halls we're filed and the fddls
squesked.
Although merriment vas carried te
the greatest hight. and much agusdi.
eots 70 very bad vhisksy} was drank,
yet il vas very ssldoo that ssy row
OF quarreiing took place. Ii see@ed tc
be tacit.y understood that when the
sailors met on shore on Sunday for the
purposs of recreation and smussmsns.
nothing but good fellowship should
prevail; and ~ the sailor spent thsis
money freely among the natives. the
latter always seemed disposed to greet
the former in . frieodly manner.
There we're two conicsl hills to which
the sailors had given the names of
Aaiutop and Foretop. On the summit
of these hills. on the very spsx. were
the principal places Of resort for the
sssmsn. whore they drank. danced Or
took temporary board.
The house ON Msintnp was quite 4
large establishment. aud wss kept by
'Black Sam,' . colored man. who had
been . servant 10 DR. Vslsntiss Mott. Of
New York. aud whs could tell many
anecdotes Of that celebrated surgeon.
Lower down there we're two public
houses. and Martin Wolf kept 4 saloon
near the bottom OF Foretop.
These houses were Waited only BY
foreigners, save that occasionally .
yeung Spanish girl dropped in to take
Q drink aud converse With such seamen
90 chaDoed 10 be present.
Such was the state Of things in Val
paraiso, in that part OF town most fire.
quented by sesmen. when new saloon
vas opsusd about . hundred yards
below tho establishment Of Black Sem.
The man who opened this new saloon
was little fellow sboot sS years Of age.
dressed in navy blue. and making no
either to education or social
standing. Indeed. his prstensions were
90 modest, aud he had 20 little to say
about his sntecedents. that story was
soon circulated about his being an es
capped convict from Botany Bay. As
he never took any pains to suppress
the report. it was soon regarded ss an
admitted fact, and he went BY the
name Of Botany Bay SAM
At hrst this nav landlord drew little
custom. but the discovery Vas soon
made that he kept good liquor. and
that his table vas much better Supplied
than those Of the ether landlords.
Two noted dwellers on Msintop left
their boarding houses and took up their
abode with Botany Bay Ssm. One Of
them, known BY the sobriquet Of
Bolivar. who had lost . leg when
Engaged under Cochrans in cutting ont
} spanish frigate from the harbor Of
Callao. and the other an Englishman.
who had also been wounded in the
Patriot service, we're in receipt of .
regular pension from government. II
they lefs the country they would lose
their pension; therefore they remained
In Valparaiso.
But IL Botany Bay Sam was In .
condition. such was not the
cass With one::clsss who. il vs. observed,
came T. grief pretty generally. This
class vas the runavays OF dsserters
from the various vessels Ii the harbor.
especially tAsss vho deserted from the
British frigats, Attsntion Vas drawn
TO this subject by the cries which
reached the ears Of ths seamsn who
lived near the beech. which cries pro-
ceeded from the captured deserters who
were receiving their punishmsnt with
the catoninetails ct thsgAugway of the
Thetis. fsf&
The subject was much talked Of by
the sailors consregsted in the saloon of
Botany Bay 6sn; especially ~ the
latter IVES known TO be . great patron
and protector Of dessrtsrs. 1t soon
came TO be noticed, however. that Boil
ivar. who boarded With Sam took little
part in these can versstions, and il vas
even limited that he locked - If he
knew more about the matter than he
chsse to tell. But Sam himself Wa
loud in his condemnation Of the captain
and officers Of the British ffieats. end
often asserted that whoever betrayed
deserters for blood money ought to be
huog up by the heels and skinned
alive.
Strangely, therefore. it sounded when
Il began 10 be whispered about that
one John Edwards, who had lafs the
Thetis, and bad taken refuge upder
the wings Of Botany Bay Sam. had
been captured on the same night snd
been taken on board the frigate in
irons.
The question was asked. how could
the officers Of the Thetis have ~ soon
discovered the whereabouts Of the run
away, Bolivar WAS called upon and
requested 70 tell al he knsw Of The
circumstances attending the desertiou
aud capture Of Edwards. He vas NO,
q al communicative: he seemed very
unwilling 10 talk Of the a2air Thia
vas dssmed . bod omen. 6uspieicr
dsrkesed and very savage glsssss were
cast st Botany Bay Sem. But psshsp,
no conclusion could have been.arrived
q IL Martin Wolf bad not advised
the seamsn TO ply Bolivar with liquor
This vas done. and the eellent seaman
oonfrssd. when drunk. that Sam had
sold Edwar1s to the capsaia Of the fris
ate.
The c0nfcssion of RAivaY meant Z
Great dsal more than vas at arst sup
pcsed: end little reflection convinced
the snraged seanen that Sam. having
bsen eusfsstsd with knovledgs Of sl
the hiding places where deseFtsr'
sssrssed thsmselsss, he'd betraysd. MOI
eely Edwasds. bat ah the athef runs
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