The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-01-11

Come Home, but Find that Desertion
Is Harder than Enlistment.
New York. January iQ.-The diary of
blue jacket Charles Muelich, accompa-
MED by its owner, who was sent home
from the United States cruiser Newark
because be was ill with epilepsy, ar
rived yesterday from Rio on the steam
ship Herschel.
The blue jackets diary is. the most in
teresting, not to say unique, bit of liter
ature about the Brazilian troubles that
has reached this port since Mello and
Peixoto began shooting around each
other last September. 1t gives new
version of the occurrences preceding Ad-
miral Stanton'sr salute to Mello, for
which Stanton was recalled, afterward
being put in command Of the North At
lantic station. 1t may bel said, before in
Producing the blue jackets diary, that
an act of INSTRUMENTATION such as the
diary says Capt. Terry of the Newark
committed, might have resulted in his
immediate suspension. /. may also be
remarked that naval captains are not in
the habit of talking to their admirals in
the way the diary says. But the blue
jacket says it is all true. The diary in
part, is as follows:
October 23-Shortly after noon Ad-
| niral Stanton met Capt. Terry on the
quarterback. The admiral said to the
captain that he wanted him and Flag
Lieutenant Smith to be ready at 2 o'clock
to accompany him on a visit to Admiral
oil N. A I,,I1p Nar,t
Terry said he would be damrel if he
would. Then they parted.
At O'Clock the admiral sent for his
orderly and asked him if his boat was
ready. The orderly said that it was just
being manned. The admiral came out of
his cabin and was met by. Capt. Terry
They had a few words, and then Admiral
Stanton ordered the captain to put on
his full dress uniform and be ready to
accompany him at 8 o'clock. The captain
said he would be damned if he would.
Then said Admiral Stanton, I
shall take steps to force you. The two
officers then separated, the admiral going
to his cabin, and telling his orderly to let
him know when it. was s.50 O'Clock.
Capt. Terry continued to pace the quarter
deck Tor a few minutes and then turned
and went into his cabin.
!" A bout 2. so Admiral Stanton and Flag
Lieut.. Smith came out on the quarter
deck. Capt. Terry was there. Some
words passed between them.
Capt Terry said that Admiral Mello
was a damned scoundrel Admiral
Stanton said that he was no such thing,
that he was an educated gentleman.
After a few more minutes talk the
officers walked to the gangway and got
into the boat alongside.
"The visit to the Aquida ban lasted
about half an hour When the boat left
] r r,1i1 1aI hot I,r,f f1,+
vessel. y
Other entries in the diary tell how, on
December 9, a steamship of the Brazilian
navigation company'S fleet, flying the
flag Of the Argentine Republic, with sup
plies for the insurgents and recruits for
them dressed as women, was suspected
just as it was passing the forts and was
halted by cannon shot and captured.
Charles Sullivan, a marine from the
Charleston. was also a passenger on the
Herschel. He says shot from one of the
forts hit the Charleston and dented one
of her plates. A Brazilian officer came
aboard and apologized for the marksman-
ship OF his gunners.
Quartermaster Thomas Allen of the
Charleston died of yellow fever in the
hospital of Rio on December IA. While
the Herschel was at Pernam buco the
marine and the blue jacket learned that
about sixty Americans who had enlisted
| on the Nictheroy at this port were
| anxious to come home on the Herschel.
The captain of the Herschel did not
| want to become involved in trouble with
the Brazilian government by taking the
| men, and even if he had desired to take
them the government would not have al
lowed them to go.
Just before the departure of the Her.
| schel from Rio, the News, the most i'm
portant English paper published in
| Brazil, was suspended by order of
| Peixoto for its reflection on the govern
lnent's way of doing things. The last
| issue of the News dated December 5,
publishes these paragraphs in regard to
| its esteemed contemporaries:
"Our Italian colleague LaVoce del
| Popolo. announced it's compulsory sus-
pension on November 30.
| "Our new French colleague, L'Echo
du Bresil. was suspended by order of the
| police on November 28. The reason is
| not clear, as the paper has made no at
| tack on the government
| "The newspapers this morning an
nounce the suspension of the Gazeia de