The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 27, 1886, Page 2

ee a |e eenepr emma penmon ! SIORY OF A SLAVER. —-- An Old Saiior Yells a Thrilling ‘ : | sik teint | catch a breath o” fr. s) air, for it Was other —— whic) pr to be a | BE 5 hotter’n b—I on the coast, the we | Goveroment cut ali SN x} Chased by a Revenue Cutter Towing | i = ie EAR «Téa. tooaveved t New ¥ Negroes Overinard—Three Tri er a es There | was goin’ on then. and t so was aad a Conviction—Manging a how do you like t =f « aie : i i ae Dy ing Mun—A Noble Wife. <eie a ade Gites tcc ax he 60 ot. G a 5 seoeee so I said, * and [| ror over two years fie Prem the San Frac » Ale j gave h \ uple o° times He was leenin a pile ofl, t vache ; lamber, the s fropping 9 { ari e ® saa ’ warm blessings upon him and It set me to thinkin’ °. I f breezes of the bay kissing bis ruddy | Kuowed we was there 10 take On nae Bur be face, which was fringed with silver ae > af it his s clos and won whiskers. He was an ancient tars} what might come if we - fo yet | tell anything. — There w x sos too old now for work, but not too! oyerhauted pv a United S:ates cut ew York and . ss be aged for remmmceat reverie. His! on the high seas goin’ back But skipper, i ve a keen eves were fixed upon the dane: | there was ne ue Lickin’ agers cit boots tor te : is ‘ : ‘ Leiose im, upon the | ¢ gs then, ot think: shout the | shipper hac a yo money when | lazy lav at anchor tuture. Matters coulda’t be me he went to jail, but he j and there, and wpon the distent brll | pohow, and so To quit: mopin’ certain tavers and psy his sides, He w- 4 pertect p € Of | settled down to take the chances so that in two years be was broke Contentment, and it was quite ebvi “On the fourth day Ski A TRUE WIFF. | ous that, Ike all old men who have} don cane on bo Shortly te “He bad a wite and hittle hoy } passed a life of bard work and use- j we seen a whole lot o niggers come over in Brooklyn. His wite never fulness, he was inving now in the | gown to tl shore They was ssed a day that < We past, Tt scer most a a | as black as coal ani had R en Ww > fo disturh him, burt the asant | anythis ng on ty COvEr the t 1, ys tak : r whe features which she from beneath | ness. Pretty soon a fot ot simell!t seather was right But she'd the tarpaulin, which he still insisted | boats loaded with niggers put zo, rain or shine. She was a brave | upon weary, as tf our of Vie contlesreus alongsul p- ey tthe w and temg e4 ro | for days go ssured the -| Were untoaded and r her \ < porter that the old man would n me where everviluag wes ly t skipper worked tt sos thar a deputy | resent an ehrupt intrusion upon + tn Cee lem. Well. to make 2 x shenff used to + him over to .) self communings. So he ady T tus y short, When they t ra wn house on $ lay ome + 1} and satuted } with # gemal “hap | we bad neatly 600 ieygers b say with t tore da ! py Mew year.”” hatches. They were stove hyit on Mor Wuen the | “And many to you, young man, | yway like herria’s in aw box. Pion! two'd go bh g toward vany to you. This is a fine day, | we trimmed snmp and 1wa the bist, jury diva sir, and Lallers love to creep awn | Ou course bay foxscveral isys que grecd, they used to let tim go home | hy the water whenever the sau shi ai, ue and the skipper kept as Hone. He hadto pay heavy tor Tike it does to-day and the winds | jookout all the time y Pecan tell you. | the privilege, though. Several times | come in brisk and chipper. T dou't | | dow texactiy remember what wile he was out on his own look, mind the bit o” chill that’s m "en. | rude we was in when we sighted a. the backers of the slaver urged him | either, for, oid as Pam T don't teel} sail tar aste m, but T know it scat) to quit the country, off hun the cold uch as the young Shipver Gordon aloft with his glass, plenty vo” money to yo But fans who've never been outside oO Jan hand. We must have bee up inj he woulda bis puro He | Californy.”” the cross-tree tor nearly an hour, | wasin jail when Lincein’s procia After chatiing pleasantly with the | aad durin’ ail that time be vever | mation treein’ all the niggers was! old sai‘or for a short time, the scribe | once shifted tie yiass trom the dite | made. Then his friends thought | ry noticed that he kept his gaze almost) speck on the distant sea. When he | ned get off. When his third trial constantly on a ship that was nding at anchor distant. Finally curiosity prompted the question as to why he seemed so particularly interested in the vessel, which re sulted in the recital of a story that proved to be deeply interesting. “Well, my boy,’ he began, “that there ship recal » many things that I Jove to think of now. I made three passages around tte Horn in her and crossed from New York to Liver- pool twice on her decks. But it isn’t particularly of the voyages I ‘think of when I look at her, although they had their ups and their downs, their sunshine and their shadow; but lookin’ on that ship makes me think o’ one o’ the best masters that ever walked a quarter-deck and one o” the best -ailors that ever gave a command. He was allers a stickler for dis’pline, but he never bullied a Sailor man, nor turned his back on hum whenever he had anything to say. don’t think there was any- thing in his ute he regretted save one thing.’’ “And what was that?’ inquired he reporter. SHIPPING ON A SLAVER. not far Well, it’s a long yarn, but if you want to hear it Ji tell at, It was sewoy back in "60, just afore the war One out, that I shipped aboard a rakish-ldle cratt that was billeted ‘or the Indies, The skipper’s name wan Gordon-—a dapper little fellow, full of pluck and nerve and a first- ‘ate sailor. His first mate’s name | shan't tell, because, as you will see, i took an oath to myself once that I wouldn't, But he was the man who Rfterwards commanded that there whip out there that you seen me lookin’ at, Well, we cleared trom "New York in good time on the ves- sel I was speakin’ about just now, hut instead o° goin’ to the Indies we ‘Wwaded straight for the coast o' Mirica, Though I was a young feller, Lknowed well enough what meant, but o* course, as we were al! ra for it, | couldu't say anything,wnd didn't. We dropped anchor in the quiet little bay of some town whose name L forgot. It wasn’t much o' » piace for there was nothin’ there but slot o’ thatched hate with nigyers hangin’ around ‘em, There was aie hut that was bizgger'n the rest wud I afterward learned that the Governor of the place lived in an, ‘The day alter we anchored, Skipper | Gordon went ash re and aas | three or four doy-, leaving the first & coast tor nizger-. what Gordon. the ship till she gone had napoened to <if mate tu charge ot the vessel. One it seems he stand day while I was loafin’ aft trying to "9 i did come down he calied his mates | came off, he was cunvicted and sen | . . i and burried into his cabin. Whey | tenced to be hung, | wap all in there about an bour, when ‘Liat was up te within six weeks they came out and gave orders to set | 0’ the time when every stitch o” canvas. Ail went to work, and in a short he used to have | send hands | his freedom to go Saturday time | nights the sky-sails, ome o’ His poor wife went nearly drivin’ the sentence water with studdin® tne ship was through crazy when nounced. They got up a big pe- tition for her, she went to| Washington ani got down on perl knees to Lincoln and begged him to | pardon her husband. But he wouldp’t do it. So she came back and waited ; the awtul day set for his hangin’. It came, but when they went into his cell to take him out to the gallows, they found him kickin’ on his bunk. The doctors came and they saidhe’d taken poison. They pumped him out. But the skipper never knew anything, and they hurried him out to the gallows to hang him betore he died. “Well, sir, he was game. He never squealed on anybody.but when he was gone those rich fellers, who were afraid he'd tell something, just up and lett his wife to shift for her- self. She opened a little thread ani! needle store in Brooklyn and made a bare livin’ at it. One dav, about a year ater, there came along a fine looking man, who called on her. He told her that he was the first mate of the slaver, and that he’d heard she was havin’ a hard strugele of it to get along. He told her that Skipper Gordon was allers a big friend of his’n, and he vround up by Ofterin’ to take care of her and | boy by marryin’ her. The httle woman consented and they got spliced. He was then skipper of that very ship that’s lyin’ out there, and I atterwards sailed with him on her. That's what I’ve been thinkin’ about to-day, my boy, it’s a many years ago, but I like to think about old times nowadays. Bein’ mate ot the slaver was the one thing was pro- | Sails, rovals and sky scrapers ali bellied out with the stiff breeze. Burt all the same, the vessel astern was a gainin’ and on us. THROWING THE NEGKORS OVERBOARD When the skipper seed this he whispered to his mates, and tie first we knew orders were given to bring the niggers up from below. They was brougtt up in squads and chain- ed together with heavy cables. When the first squad was fixed, Skipper Gordon ordered the crowd to toss "em overboard. It went against the better feelin’s o’ the men, I cap tell you, but st had t» be done, ’cause if we'd a retused we'd ‘ikely as not been shot down. Well, sir, squad after squad ot the poor mgzers was chucked overboard in this way, until maybe there warn't more’n a hun- dred lett below. Then we seed that the vessel astern was nearin’ us rap- idly. She was chasin’ us, and I knowed she was a reveaue cutter. Jest then the skipper bad another talk with his mates, and pretty soon the latter came aft and ordered the small boats of’n their davits and us sailors to take to them. The mates took charge o’ the two boats. After putting provisions and water in ‘em we pulled away. I heard the first mate beggin’ the skipper to go with him, but he wouldn't do it, and so when we pulled off in the open sea there wasn’t a soul aboard the slaver but Sk.pper Gordor, and the niggers below. “lt was a good many years atter that before I heard anything about the tate of Skipper Gordon and the her good ship. When we pulled away we| the skipper allers regretted. But he} could see her until night set im, but] Kot 4 wite by at, though.” | the next morma’ she was nowhere, 4 Our small boats met a clipper ship Devil's Lake, Dak. Jan. 20,- Cashicy Corsett, of Of tle eily, secretely tovk a train for | t t on the third day, bound for Liver- the detunet bank pool, and the mates told a yarn about us bein’ wrecked, and we were taken on board, the east this morning, but was ar. rested at Larimore on complaint of | At Liverpool we all parted company; but as Lf suy, a deposnor who changes him with | some vears afterward | chanced ww Sop OF a vessel Whose shipper was the first mate of the slaver He recognized me, and we had « long talk about that voyage tothe Zanzibar taking deposits after knowing that the bank ws brought huck here affairs wre ine Worse wpe than at first reporter, ' : } Was insolvent Corsett Vhe bank's FOR SALE BY AIT PRtcts A.A. MELLIER, s& : The Greatest Seiad Triumph cf ths Age! SYMPTOMS OF A TORPID LIVER. Less of appetite, Lbowels costive, the head, with a dull sexsatio Pein ender t! g of having neglected some du'y. 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