Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-12-07
4mous CONVICT SHIP
. Chamber of Horror''' Which Va Hundred Years Ago.

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 .e, of Horrors'' Which Wa
 ' p.,,. Hundred Years Ago.
 < the curiosities in England at
 ous ,t is the old convict ship Success.
 ss, s has recently been converted into
 s. so,,m or into what a foreign jour
 ,,s stvle "a chamber of horrors z
 '' was built no years ago, and her
 years were spent in cruising be.
 .r the East Indies and England. In
 so w inc British admiralty bought and
 st,oned her in the waters of westers
 's.ralia. Capt. Stirling was then in
 -mand. and from his Scottish birth
 "a she town of Perth in Australia
 sss its same. From 1847 to 1851 the
 ece.s piled between London and
 ' Adelaide. On her last trip ahs
 < m board several hundred imml-
 .rts who intended to seek their for
 sss in the newly discovered gold |,ds During the voyage the captain.
 other officers, and the entire crew
 ,ame seized with the same gold fever kd the result was that when land was
 sched they, too, left the ship and .nt off to seek their fortunes. The Dccess was next used to transport
 ,minals of the deepest dye to Var Esmen's Land, as Tasmania was then {lled and she also served as a floating
 son for especially dangerous crim-
 als The vessel then became popu- M know mas "The Hell of the ,ean." title which was evidently l |pll deserved. Old records show that bme awful scenes took place on her. he prisoners' cells were in two tiers hder the deck, and were so small that mates could hardly move in them. =oreoyer, they were SD fashioned that
 lev could be made light or dark, and e most insubordinate prisoners were ways placed in the latter. These brlous cells, many of the old instru- pnts of torture and a number of wax lures representing famous criminals
 E now being exhibited on the Suc- kss and are attracting a crowd of |ghtseers. The old ship is at present Leith Harl,or, in Seotlaiid.s New |ork Herald.
 MoLAND.s BORROWED ARMIES )as Secured All Over Europe to Hire Soldiers.
 This is the first war Great Britain hs fought against white enemies with Ut buying foreigners to fight for us, bys London paper Until less than years ago. when We had a war on Rnd, we sent off to Germany, and D over Europe. u sage neI V5 fight pr us. The men engaged were most old soldiers, and were hired to fight ntl the war was flushed. In 1756 an pyasion of Englzrd was feared, SC |QOO Hessians were hired to come and fiend these shores against the ex Fcted attack. These hirelings were Pld at the British rate of pay, and for Pery man of them killed their king las paid so much per head. Even eainst the American colonists He's |an troops were employed. No won- er our fellow-Englishmen were en. Pged at this shameless action. The (ndgrave of Hesse was paid s2,355,- " Tn Der cent stock for the He's |ans lost in the war of independence |nls was the amount of $150 per man. ne Irish rebellioe of 179S was put PwL chiefly by Hessian hirelings. Tn Pe long struggle with Napoleon we [eely hired foreigners, but the bulk the work was done by British sol |ers. Wellington found that he could Pt rely op his mercenary gangs too lucn. In 1894 the Kings German 1e- |on" of 10000 men was formed. Two ears later the force was increased by PVV men. Besides Germans from all E petty states. there were also en- Pled French royalists expelled by Ma plfon' Corsicans, Greeks, Italians. pfKs, Portuguese, Belgians, Hungari- Ps and Swiss. At Waterloo, Yelling. |as army of 67,000 was made up of aly z2,O0O British, and the rest were uecn' Brunswickers, Hanoverians and assaumen. When peace came in 1874 'sre were no less than 29.000 hired relsners forming corps in the British uy The Crimean war was the last Iue ~ Britain had to go a-hiring sol els' Thirty thousand men had been ~ to the Crimea and more were anted. So the government went to <. ',l'ament with bill authorizing the ulstment of 10000 Germans, 5000 s s.ss and 5000 Italians. at British 'es Of pay.
 $ aootnall Forbidden by Scottish I.a,ss ,ane curle IS may dig from the stat, ' DOCK some strange relics of the auole ages. Sir Thomas Thornton, F town clerk of Dundee, speaking le other dav af Tho footl III o1,,l, ha