MUTINY ON BOARD AN AMERICAN VESSEL.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1080, 13 January 1872, Page 2

MUTINY ON BOARD AN AMERICAN VESSEL.

The Shanghao Daily News has the following : — "A rather serious fracas occurred on board the American ship Gulden State lately. The vessel had cleared, and at high water the crew were ordered to weigh anchor, while a portion of them were also engaged shipping a lot of tea from a cargo boat alongside. A 8 the anchor came up the ciew of the Serica gave their mates on the U olden State a parting cheer, and these at ouce ceased work to respond. The second mate, who was in charge, told the men to continue steadily at work, fearing that if they did not the tide would be lost and it would be difficult to drop down the river. The men, however, refused to go on at once, and insisted on 'having their cheer out.' Tho mate urged them again, when one of the crew picked up a handspike and struck him with it on the side cf the head, Hlightly fracturing the sknlL Another was going to follow up the brutal attack with a carpenter's mallet, but the carpenter managed to wrest it away. The second mate was obliged to go to his cabin and have his head dressed, and the first mate took charge. The excitement of the men had apparently ceased, the work in hand was gone through, and the ship went down stream to below the shipping. About dusk the second mate again came on duty while the crew were washing down decks. Seeing one of the men passing but one bucket along, while there were several lying unused on the deck, he told him to take two. The man refused to do so, and the officer then took him by the shoulder and turned him towards tho empty buokiita, rapeatina hin order, when the man suddenly drew a sheath knife, and stabbed him in the pit of the stomach. The mate called to the chief officer and informed him that he had been stabbed, and that his assailant had taken flight over, the bows of the ship. The chief officer, finding the man hanging on to the chain*, called to him to come up or he would shoot him. The man, however, jumped into the river instead, but took a line which was thrown out to him, and was hauled on board, and put in irons. Several of the men who had taken part in tho original diatnrbance, or who did not wish to go with the ship, jumped into the water after nightfall and swam to the harbor master's ' balk and to the Benecia, whence they were retnrned at daylight, one also being picked up while swimming about by tho water police. The mate is in hospital, and his case is considered serious, though he will likely recover. The men implicated have been taken into custody, and the Golden State proceeds on her voyage without them.