Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1892-10-06

| Moro Castle in Havana, where he was
chained to the leg of negro four and a
half months. and made to work out under
the Cuban sun, with no clothing but a
breech cloth. "When the four and half
months were up. l was almost as black as
the negro" said Joy. "and l had had
enough Of the slave trade"
About 1928 Joy shipped as an able sea-
man In the United States frigate Guer-
rere. 81 guns, Commodore Charles B.
| Thompson aud Captain Joseph Smith
| The Guerrero was named after the British
| ship which the Constitution sunk In the
war of 1912. Joy was paid off in her in
1881, and came home to Portland to enjoy
One of the Good Time.
that then began to be famous in Portland
Joy says that 1t was In this first term of ser
vice in the navy that he learned to drink
He was first ordered to a receiving ship at
Norfolk and there went to the surgeon for
| relief from some little Illness.
DO you drink grog!" asked the sur
geop.
NO" said JOY.
"You must If you are going TO serve In
the navy"
"Bnt don't like it."
But the surgeon turned out a glass of
grog and bade him take it. Joy says he
refused point blank, whereupon the sur
geon turned him over TO one Of the OIL
GERS. who took him in hand.
Strip" commanded the officer.
JOY did SO and twelve lashss with the
cat-o'ninet tails were laid on his back.
Then" says Joy. Il thought to myself
that they could find the hemp a mighty
sight longer than could stand it to find
the back. so agreed to drink the grog
4 Of al n, Z
noon and night, was the rule Of the navy,
and | soon got to obey the rule readily.
That was not the last hogging | must
have had a hundred OF them up to lsil.
when iioggiug was abolished In the navy"
In "a Joy shipped In the frlgate ST.
Louis, and while with her saw stirring
service in the Seminole war in Florida.
The 81 Louis took station 10 Tampa Bay.
aud thence would send armed boats up the
rivers and inlets to harsss the Seminoles
bn one occasion an expedition OF twenty
i've blue jackets, of whom Joy was one,
went In small boats sixty miles up the
Withlacoochee river, AT daybrcak they
"a" smoke rising among the tops OF some
tree. on a distant hummock This was a
sign that Seminoles were eucamped there.
and the blue jackets at once prepared TO
surround the hummock and make dash
on the camp. But the Indians. though
surprised, were not Disconnected. They
received the blue jackets with hot fire,
and JOY fell shot through the knee The
Indians were captured, however, about
ninety in all. men. women and children
Joy says they We're fine fellows, armed
with the best ~ firearms
JOY recovered from his wound ard CON
tinued an able seaman in the navy until
the close Of the war. In the days Of the
gold fever he was on the Pacific station 10
the Falmouth from ~ 10 '45 he was on
the Independence. 60 guns, under Commo-
dore Charles Stewart and Captain, after
wards Admiral, Strinsham. In 45 JOY
went with the Marion. lG gun sloop, to
the coast of Africa to look after slavers
at which he must have been an expert.
In l,4S JOY came home and had what he
considers one of the
Most Memorable BIow-Outs
OF his long and jolly life. He planned for
1t long ahead II knew that Neal Dow
would break up my good time II be could
and as | had had a good many brushes
with him, Il determined" says JOY. ITO beat
him SO bought barrel Of rum In Bos-
ton, put 1t on the boat and brought 1t as
far as Portland light There | threw it
of. and some of my mates. who were
watching, picked 1t up. We carried It up
to place on Munjoy hill. knocked in the
head with an axe, hoi,ted the American
flag and told the boys TO help themselves
Aud while it lasted no such good time was
ever seen in Portland"
In 1856 Joy joined the urw United
States steam frigate Merrimsc, the one
that afterwards fell into the hands OF the
Confederates and became the antagonist
nf N he Mar ri tftsr
was one of the finest men-ofwar In the
world, and the government sent her 10
show herself in Europe. At Cowes, Isle
Of Wight Brest and Cadiz. the American
steam war vessel was visited and admired
by thousands Then they went into the
Mediterranean and II was while there in
le5s that JOY made an expedition which
he looks back upon a. one of the most i'm
portant Of his life. William II. Seward,
afterward the famous Secretary OF State,
came aboard the MerIimac IN Alexandria
and requested passage to Joppa whence
he intended TO journey TO Jerusalem JOY
was then chief boatswain mate, and was
ordered TO take 80 men aud escort Mr.
Seward on the journey. They went from
Joppa to Jerusalem, visited Calvary, the
Garden of Gethsemane. Plains of Jericho
and the Jordan. At Calvary Mr.. Seward
gave each of the blue jackets a little bag
that would hold about pint, and told
them to ill the bags with pebbles, which
he took away with him as relics.
When the war broke out in 1851 JOY was
on shore stopping with his sister at
came for him to enlist on the Minnesota
and bring other men with him. SO Joy
went 10 Hampton Roads on
The Famous Minnesota.
But when the Merrimac made her raid
he was down on the North Carolina coast
under Goudsborough, and so missed the
battle. 1t was there, while serving on the
gunboat Southfield, that he received the
wound for which he wishes an increase Of
pension.
Joy served gallantly through the war.
He was al the battle of Fort Fisher on the
| ironclad I0sco. After the war old age
compelled him to retire and he has since
| lived at the Philadelphia home and with
relatives.
| Joy has a great contempt for the seamen
| in our modern navy. He says they are
Greeks, Turks, Firms and fellows from
the uttermost parts Of the earth, with on
| ly a few of those gallant sailors such as
Maine, and especially Portland, used to
send to man the navy so years ago.
| JOY says ne remembers the uay Wneu IL
cost a man just a dollar TO smoke cigar
on the streets of Portland. | was smok-
ing on the street one day when old Captain
Preble came along"
"'Give me dollar said Prebe."
What forT said L.
For smoking on the street"
Here are two dollars, for may want
to smoke again. said |. and he took the
| money and walked off ="
The ancient mariner feels that he Is get
ting along in years, and that his timbers
are too shaky to ride the gale out much
longer. But he feels tolerably contented
as some of his relatives have promised him
that when he dies he shall be buried beside
his father and mother in the old Eastern
Cemetery.
Saying Of Our Neighbors.
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