The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-04

| shoulder blade, and The loud voice OF the
reckoner said, three The shoulder blade
was as sensitive as any other part OF the
body aud when he came again on the left
shoulder and the voice cried four | felt my
! flesh culver In every nerve from the scalp
Of my head to my toenails."
So he goes on to describe the whole num-
Der laid on, which was 100 instead OF 300 as
ordered. Fresh men were called in TO re-
| lieve the farrier. and oss was a stalwart
! young trumpeter, who had been praeticng
with the lash for some days on a stable post
| They Travelled over the same raw places
time and again. When Somerville was
unbound he was taken to a hospital, and
there he remained for many days SO stiff
| that he could not move The description of
This terrible experience is found in this
Autobiography of a Workingman."
Life in the British navy in the good old
days was diversified by fogging and fight
| ing, hanging and preaching. Then every
man on the ship flog2ed his subordinate.
The boatswain's mate who received a ropes
ending from the boatswain passed 1t on to
an able seaman, who did as much for an
| ordinary seaman, who beat a powder
monkey, who licked a younger powder
monkey.
NAVAL OFFICER TIED TO THE GRATING.
Young gentlemen of good family not in~
| frequently received marks of displeasure
from their superiors which they carried on
their backs for the rest of their lives. Ad-
miral CORVALLIS, brother of the marquis of
unenviasle American fame, once ordered
an officer Of his ship to be dashed to the
| grating and logged for no apparent reason.
| The reason was that having a severe wound
| in the head he was liable TO lose his mind
when he took glass of wine too much. In
! an insane condition he took an unaccounta4
BILE dislike to the officer and caused him to
| be logged. The next day he expressed his
| ainpnFA raQTaf and Offarad his "a m hia
victim with the request that he would
| trash him. The other, however refused to
take mean advantage of his superior, and
was rapidly promoted.
FLoGGING ROUND THE FLEET.
| Terrible punishment was a Jogging round
the fleet. The victim received an equal
| part of the whole number awarded along
| side OF each ship composing it. Ifhe was
| sentenced to 800 lashes in a feet composed
of ten Sails he would receive thirty strokes
alongside Of each ship When such cere-
mony was to be performed a launch was
| lifted up with "a platform and shears 1t
was occapied by the prisoner. the provost
marshal, the boatswain and his mates.
with their implements, and armed
| marines at the bows and stern. When
| he had received the allotted number of
lashes alongside his own ship, he was al
| lowed to sit down with a blanket over his
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various ships then towed the launch to the
next member of the fleet, where the same
| dose was repeated. After the wretch had
received one batch OF stripes alongside one
ship the blood was allowed to CONCEAL and
the wounds partially to close. When the
torture was renewed at the next sAip they
we're torn open again. The sailors coasti-
| tuition, it appears, enabled him to stand
more than the soldieG
Many tales of 6ogging in the navy have
an apparent element OF humor. For in
| stance, Capt. CQrbett, who commanded her
| majesty's frigate LAfricains, was In the
habit of ordering the last man down from
reeting the topsalls to be aogged This Of
1cer was also notorious for sggliautry. off
the Island Of Mauritius he fell in with two
French frigates, which he attached Early
in the action he was severely wounded, and
when he found out that the capture of his
ship was inevitable, he tore off his band
ages and bled to death.
A practice in the British navy was 10
make a man sit on the crosstrees in cold or
stormy weather till he was frozen stiff or
shaken off into the sea- A naval officer, in
his "reminiscences, tells of case of this
kind. The man on the lookout in the bow
| spirit OF a ship OFF the coast of Norway was
almost blinded by storm OF sleet and hail
driving in his face. He was unable to see
as well as the officer on deck, whose eyes
we're protected and aided by glass As
punishment for not sighting the land be-
fore the officer he was ordered to SIT for
four hours on the crosstrees. He had to be
lowered by specially constructed tackle and
died from exposure. This cresStree practice
Ir at present not unfamiliar to the merchant
service. .-i9
Keel hauling was not a common thing
| even in the old times. It consisted in drop
ping man by a line over one side of the
| ship and hauling him up on the other after
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uncertainty attached to it than to walking
the plank, proceeding enforced by plates
on undesired prisoners, s1-57a ..t5-s
| A brutal outrage was perpetrated by a
| Capt. st. Leo, commanding British man
| of-war, on number of eminent citizens of
| Boston many years before the revolution.
| The captain was apprehended for walking
in Boston on the Lords day, taken before
| justice of the peace, and under the cody
| laws of Massachusetts sentenced to pay a
| fine, whice he refused TO do, and
| instead sat in the stocks for soma time
| There the citizens gave aim much advice as
| to his future conduct on Sunday. He ex.
pressed eontrition, made friends with the
| inhabitants and several days later invited
number Of leading ones to dinner on his ship
In the harbor. After the festivity he had
| them tied to the grating and we'll logged.
| Perhaps 1t was an aggravattng circumstance
that the punishment was inflicted not on
| the Dack out on the neSnlesG part or The
person. While the ceremony was in prog
ress he blasphemously talked 10 them of
| Sabbath Observance. Then he put them
ashore and sailed away. via-a.-s ssic
Flogging was abolished In the United
States navy in 1850. Commander McCalla,
of the Enterprise, who was lately court
martislel in Brooklyn, used the fiat of bis
sword on sailors who incurred his dis
pleasure There are still living American
| naval officers who are inhumare enough to
regret the abolition of hogging.
The French were the first to abolish the
use of the lash in the army.
In the Prusslap army, before tie aboli-
tion of corporal punishment, men were ex-
empt from it as long as they remained in the
! first class For misconduct they were
! liable to be degraded to the second class,
after which they might be punished SUM
| marily by their officers. Flogging was done
with small canes by non-commissioned Off
! GERS in the guard room.
Flogging and running the gauntlet were
common punishments in the armies of Aus
tria and Russia in the early part of this
| century. The second was one of the most
terrible forms OF military torture, and was
very liable to. cause death. It was one,
however, which Col SJrestor would have
| found difficult to carry out, as it requires
! the hearty cooperation Of a large part OF
the regiment.