Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1859 — Horrible Cruelty in the British Army. [ARTICLE]

Horrible Cruelty in the British Army.

The London Times gives the following report of a case of flogging in the British army for desertion: The first man, named Green, bore his punishment, as stated by an eye-witness, “like a true soldier;” but the second, named Davis, a young recruit, protested his innocence of the crime of desertion, bellowed ami screamed for mercy, and supplicated Colonel Eulbott and the medical officers, and others' who were present, to have compassion on him, or he should die. His back was covered with a mass of large red, inflated boils, which bled profusely at every stroke, and reddened the ground under his feet, upon which the cat was ordered to be withheld for a few moments, when, finding that his punishment was not at an end, he gave vent to exclamations for mercy, and partly succeeded in delivering himself by force from the straps which bound him to the halyards. The punishment was again ordered to be continued, when at every succeeding stroke his cries and exclamations were most lamentable, insomuch that the officers and men swooned away at the sickening spectacle, and had to be carried into the open air. One officer and upward of twenty non-com-missioned officers and men lung in the service fainted and others stopped their ears and closed their eyes, lest they, too, should become unnerved, and be subject to the reproach and ridicule of their comrades.

(K? practical proof that Kansas is a Slave State, is offered in the following advertisement, taken from a Lecompton paper: One Thousand Dollars Reward.—(Kvill pay the above reward to any person who will return to me, or lodge safely in jail, giving; me notice thereof, a NEGRO WOMAN. AND FIVE CHILDREN ! The woman is black, heavy set, weighing about IGO pounds, and has a black spot between the eyebrows. The children are as follows: Lewis, a boy about 9 years old, a mulatto; Limns and Cyrus, both black and younger; EJle» and! Ann—one of them, Ellen, about two year® old, and the other about five months old—both molattoes. E. D. Roberts, M. D. Ijecompton, Sept. 2.