The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-16

in case any man-of-war should appear.
None appeared, and at dark they ran in
to a sheltered cove and prepared to land
their cargo. Suddenly there was an
English cheer, and the bluejackets OF
British mar-of-war were upon
them. joys negro was freed with
all the rest, and the young speculator
was hurried off to the Moro Castle in
Havana, where he was chained to the leg
of a negro four and half months, and
made to work out under the Cuban sun,
with no clothing but a breech cloth.
s'When the four and half months were
up, was almost as black as the negro"
said Jov. ssand had had enough of the
slave trade
About 1928 Joy shipped as an able sea-
man in the United States frigate Guer-
riere, 81 guns, Commodore Charles B.
Thompson and Captain Joseph Smith.
The Guerrero was named af ter the Brit
ish 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 Times
that then began to be famous in Port
land. JOY says it was in this first term
of service in the navy that he learned to
drink He was first ordered to receiv-
ing ship at Norfolk and there went to the
surgeon for relief from some little ill
ness.
'sDo you drink grog?" asked the sur
geon.
mo" said Joy.
"You must if you are going to serve in
the navy"
'sBut don't like it,
But the surgeon turned out a glass of
grog and babe him take it. Joy says he
refused point blank, whereupon the sur
geon turned him over to one of the Off
GERS, who took him in hand.
"Strip," commanded the officer.
Joy did so and twelve lashes with the
GATOR ine-tails were laid on his back.
"Then," says Joy, 81 thought to my
self that they could find the hemp
mighty sight longer than could stand it
to find the back, so / agreed to drink the
grog. A third of half pint of grog,
morning, noon and night, was the rule of
the navy, and soon got to obey the rule
readily. That was not the last fogging.
I must have had hundred of them up
to 1S41, when fogging was. abolished in
the navy"
In '34 Joy shipped in the frigate st.
Louis, and while with her saw stirring
service in the Seminole war in Florida.
The st. Louis took station in Tampa
Bay, and thence would send armed boats
up the rivers and inlets to harass the
Seminoles. On one occasion an expedi-
ton of eighty-fve blue jackets, of whom
|. Joy was one, went in small boats sixty
miles up the Withlaeoochee river. At
daybreak they saw smoke rising among
the tops of some trees ona distant ham
mock. This was sign that Seminoles
were encamped there, and the blue jack
cts at once prepared to surround the
hammock 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 say S
they were fine fellows, armed with the
best of firearms.
Joy recovered from his wound and
continued an able seaman in the navy
until the close of the civil war. In the
days of the gold fever he was on the Pa
cific station in the Falmouth from '42 to
As; he was on the Independence, 60 guns
under Commodore Charles Stewart and
Captain, afterwards Admiral Stringham.
In IS Joy went with the Marion, Is gun
sloop, to the coast of Africa to look af-
ter slavers, at which he must have been
an expert.
In 1S4S Joy came home and had what
he considers one of the
Most Memorable Blow-Outs
of his long and jolly life. He planned
for it long ahead. II knew that Neal
Dow would break up my good time if he
could, and as had had a good many
brushes with him, I determined'' says
Joy, ITO beat him. So bought a barrel
of rum in Boston, put it on the boat and
brought it as far as Portland light.
There l threw it off, and some of my
mates, who were watching, picked it up.
We carried it up to a place on Munjoy
hill, knocked in the head with an axe.
hoisted the American flag and told the
boys to help themselves. And while it
lasted no such good time was ever seen
in Portland"
In 1856 Joy joined the new United
States steam frigate Merrimac, the one
that afterwards fell into the hands of the
| Confederates and became the antagonist
| of the Monitor. In 1856 the Merrimac
was one of the finest men-of-war in the
world, and the government sent her to
show herself off in Europe. At Cowes,
! Isle of Wight, Breast and Cadiz, the