Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 13, 1874, Page 10

io ‘THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1874. -~ TIM FULLER. He Tells the Story cf IIis Interesting and Lvent- ful Life. ‘ 4 Renaway Boy---A Sailor on the Gcean and oa the Lakes, How He Got into the Paient- [fedicine Business. fis Incarceration in the Gld Capitol Prison. Goir[g into the ¢ Partnership Business ”---The Agree- ment. How the Flies Were Entrapped--- The Cunning Cnes Dis- comfited, The Sufferers Become His Firm Friends---Judicial o_pinions. A Fortune Founded on the Celcbraled Ambrosial Til. Preserving Iis Reputation---A Tailor Made into a Doctor. Forced into {he Confederate Service--- Crossing ke Lines. Three Years s a Spy and a Smuggler. No man bas appeared more prominesntly in the Polico Court anunals of Chicago than Timothy W. Fuller, Esg., better known as “ Tim” Faller, tho partnership man, and no one_has carried on Lis operations with such success es ho and cs- capod punishment. It has been somo time— vearly threo montbs—sinee *‘Tim™ has boen arraigned os the bar of justico for beating *‘sucker” out of Lis wealth, and his quictoess could not bs accounted for. It appears, how- ever, that he is doing 3 *‘square™ business now (at least ho claims he is), and as he hes not ad- vertised for a * partaer,” 1o one has swaliowed his bait, and been made a bankrupt by his glib- rees. Tim is gotting old, but is still nc: d it is dangerous for & man with moncy in bis pocket to approsch him. He telks s0 swectly, and is apparcatly £0 sincere 1n his explanations of the * Yankeco notion business,” that nine men in ton, though they may think themeelves sharp and above “stckerdom,” will hsnd over their grocnbacks for oue-balf interest in Tim's gtock.” When Le has the money in his pocket tie grows conidential, and coclly informs his victim that he bas bLeon swindled. Tke dupe may become indignant, aus threaten prosceu- tion; but heis told that ke will be fought with bis own money, and vot get a8 much as Lim iz willing to give him fer tho goods. Thisis gen- erally satisfactory, and the man who has paid Tim 2t 12 o'ctock walks out of Faller & Co.’s office at L21f-past 12 with 240, and thinks himeolf a very lucky individas? #® get back tbat much. g Tim has stopped drinking ; kis New York ex- perience, 2 fow years age, when he was robbed of his wateh and 00 while drunk, cured Lim, and Lo looks better to-day thau hedid threo years ago. He is abont 46 years cld, witha kindly coantenence, but is eses indicate his sharacter. Ile wears mution-chop whiskera, whick, with his hair, are getting grar. Heis tandid in conversaticen, and considering his “ partpership business™ to be legitimate, he does not seem to caro whether the public know bow he carstes it on ornot. His life his been 1 adventurons ome, and, believing it would provo interesting, s TRIBUNE reporter called on Lim the other day, and requested him to give outline of it for publicstion. Mo couseniod, tnd what be said is given in his own words. EOYHOOD'S DATS. A I was born on tho Sth day of Auguet, 1828, in Erie, Pa.. and sever had an hour's schooling in my life. Wheu 8 or 9 years old I thought I knew more ti:an all the rest of thoe folks in town, from the fact tuat I got a Jicking for cverything that was done, whether by my brothers and sisters or the otner children. I got tired of this, and left my bome, aud started off without a cent or knowing whero I was going. I was picked » man at Westficld, in Chautanqua County, N, and was run on to Silver Creek, and was put into the bauds of aman to learn the tinner's trade, Ziving with him. I stayed there a coupleof days, 2nd 8 he did not like me he gave mo & boost on to Bullalo. In Buffeio Iwas turned over to a man ncmed Barton, who was also a tinner, by my boss at Silver Creck. Durien found me a drag, and be sext me toa placo down East,—1 do not remember tho name, but I subsequeatly ‘brought up in Boston. ON THE TRISY DIEP. 1 was takon aboard a ebip at that port, and for three yearn and twenty doys never put my foot on dry land, making the voyage of the world, as it was called. I was 12 yoars of age when I gt back. It-turned out afterwards that tho man who took me was an uncle of mine. o discharged mo at Boston, and sent me to New York, where I arrived with $95 m gold in my pocket, not having spent a cent on the way. I went down to the wharf, aud eaw some officers coming ashoroina *dinkey ™ from the receiv- ing-ship Forth Carolina. 1 satuted them when they lsnded—touched my hat szilor-fashion— acd asked them if thoy did not want o boy on Loard the ship. ‘Phoy wers not inclined to pay much attention tome, but one finally aid, ** Lot's tako him ; he will make & good assistant ward- room steward.” That sottled it, and I went avoard and shipped rogularly, baving no friends or guerdian to interfere. 1 staid on board cight wecks, becoming 80 ssucy that I was competled 2o run away to czeape flogging. Iwent up to Catekill. and learned thero that 0 oflicor was hunting for me. 1 ACCIDENTALLY,2IET A WOMAN,— zud I shall never forget ber,—who took aliking tome. She told me about che officer of thy men-of-war being at the hotel, and 1 psked hor what I ehould do. Ske put mo into Ler room, and kept mo thero until she got mo & suit of citizen's togs, and gavo mo £20 in gold, and took e in her carrisge to the stezmer William Liogers, and seut mo up to Albany., I Lept my salor-clothes,—the Llue pents and broad-col- lared shirt. and when I got to Albeny I put them op, liking them better than the othiors, be- canss they wero easier. While walsing by.the canal, a fellow who worked on ono of the boats camo'up and began whirling mo aronnd. Ho was a big boy,—a Littlo Iarger than I was: and he says, “ How will yon trade clothe: Ho had pretty good clothes on, and I agreed o swap ¥ith him for §3 to boot. We went aboard his boat and ehianged, nd I had hardly got ashore Lefore somo men-of-war's men csme zlong md Fobbled him aud dragged him off, despito bis cries that he was not tho man,—that he had tradod clothes with another fellow, I ran, and worked my way through many difi- calties to Duffalo, and shipned in the schooner Amelia, of Toledd, ard on tho passago up : o, aPSE A8 WIECRED o tho beach, at » place called Freeport, aboat 15 miles from Erie. I escaped, sud wont up £ Erie, and, aftor making my afidait before tho insurance officer. shipped in the scuconer B, T Swead, loaded with coal for Buffalo, That very night—there were nino of s in her—she was wrecked on tho Canada shore, and seven of the erow wero drownod. That was trice I was ship- wrecked in two nights in succession. Two of us were picked up by o vessel and taken to Cleve. lend.” That summer. I sailed on the lakes, ‘and {hen went East 2ad shipped for o sea-voyage, I followed that until I was 20 years old, going from New Orlezns to Liverpool, aud in thé Lluck Dall Line from Liverpool to New York. DUBING THE MEXICAN WAR Iwis in tho frizate Telograph, which carried supplies. I finally Lrought up in_ Now Orleavs. Tlere vas 2 mor auic ot the titne, and nouo of the Loarding-touses would advance psy or board-sailors without cash; Lusiness in the rail- way line was exfully dutl, and I conld not think of auything clse Lo do. Oné day while walking along the strect I saw man on'a dry-goods-box SELLING PATENT-MEDICINES. Tt was Saturday ; I was dead broke, agd Lada't had auythung to eat that day. The bight before 1 badslept in o sngar-hogshead on After ho got, through salling I sai3 \Why couldu't I sell somo of that for you and make some money?” IHe was good-uatared, and af talking with him awhile, e gnid: ¥ dey thero iv. Iam going down to the French Market, and you go to 1o Baroune-Street Market.” Io gavo mo some of the medicine, and I opened out iy the morn— iug beforo the gas-lamps were ont, when tho people began to come to get their grub, I com- meneed selling the medicing known ay Sunday i3 the big cleared 69 for elf, I coutinued seil medicine until the war kroke out, when I living on a plantation between Athens agd Dev tur, 22 miles from Iuntsville, * Ala. I Lad a wholesalo housa for tho od in Nashville, and Liad over 1,000 agencies all over the Southern States, and ouo of wiy best men was Dr. Clarke, who is known as the ** femalo physician extrsor- dinary to the Queon of England,”. and by his 2zue pills. Ho was a tailor in Nashville, and I fell in with him thero ono day while L was selling ratent-medicines. Ho was leaning up agatust a Dbuilding aud was the most dejected-looking per- son I over raw, 1loisabout G feet 5 iuches in ht. has red bair and whiskers, and is the bonieliest man, without exception, thatGod Al- mighty ever put on the face of tho earth, but yet zman. After I had got through solling,—1I had dono proity well aud was makiny money then,— I eaid to him ' OLD AN, COME IR AND I'AVE A DRINK.” Says ho *‘ No, sir, I never diul Come in ?" £aid I, amiling, ** what makes you look so blue Tie gaid, ** My fricnd, Iama tailor, and wes currying on thic bugiucss at Huntsvills, und iny wifo sud children ave up here in a board Liouso, and they Liavo threatened to turn us o .+ How much_do you owe ?" £aid he. I eaid, * Hors's $12 worth of medicine ; jump up on the box aud scll it, and you can bave the money.” o got up, but conldn't say a word. Then I took his yisce, and told bis stor, aud in five minutes I sold the bottles, and gave him the movey. e went up to. he bouse and paid his bill, and I started him out puying Lim 32 a day. Wo went h Gov. Harris aud Lis opponcut dunng the cotirc campaign. I passed him off as * Dr. Clarke,” and advertised him es such, and he 15 known now in Nashville as Dr. Thomas Clarke, and is worth 200,000 or $300,000 which be bhas n:ade ont of the business, though he never re: a pago of medicino in bis life.” Ileis a'Clris- tian, if thero ever way a Christian in the world, 20d 13 2n honest wau, Moro women, though ho wsg the bomeliest of men, uld chaso him up wherever e went, than would follow any other man I ever kuew. LOCKED TP, ‘We ran along untii tho War broke out. I used to visit the fuirs and different places, and talk a gdod deal. At tho time_of the raid on Tarper’a Ferry by Join Brown, I was in Colum- bus, Ga., and” a great rumpus was kicked up, and the Northern men wero arrestod and put in- to box-cars, nailed up, and sent to Savannsh, I was arrected, medicice men and Northern men being Bynonyinous_with Yanlkce, aud my teams takou from me, and I was held five days. Fi- nally I telegraphed Gor. Ilarris, of Tennossee, and be sent back a telagram which released mo. 1 then sold my patent mediciues in Columbus 8s nothing was ever aoid before. 1 must tell you ebout LUYING MY FIRST NEGLO. There was anegro who belonged in Northern Adalama, only a fow miles from my plantation. 1lo bad ran awar, and got up into Pannsylvania, but, not findiug the friends ho was looking for, bo camo back of his own accord. The excite- ment was go great that it was decided to make ‘an exampl of him. 1o was put up for eale in Athens insteud of being taken to one of the trade-marts. Ho was to bo sold on the first Monday of the month. Athcns i3 tho county seat, a1d everybody comes iato town that day to make complaivts in the court. Thousands of peoplo wero there, aud, among tho rest, John louston, whosa piantation adjoined mine, and Dr. Joun NcDonald. Each of them bad about €00 pegroes and four gons,—young men,—and they woro the fastest and nobbiest boya in the country; they had all tho money they wanted. I had plenty coming in from tho patont medi- cines, znd when_ thoy were hard up they wonld borrow of me; their words wero always good for pavment. Well, eversbody know this negro, and 1t ¥as = condition that nobody should buy him and Leep him in the State; ko was to bo sent down South to s sugar-plantation to bs worn out. Tho terms of the sale were *price no objcct.” There was 2 Yankee therewho had been aschool- teacher. Ho had been in the country about cizhtcon months, and had sold medicine for mo from tho wagon, and thought it best to side with the Southern poople. I know the negro; ho had taken care of horees forme; and he said, “Day me.” Saya I, *Jim, what do I want with you " 2nd toars ran down his cheeks when I left bim. There was o uegro_trader present named Lylo, from Memphis, and ho bid £25; says I, ** 100, and everybody looked at me. They knowI didn’t own sy negroes, and my bidding for dim struek terror into them. I did it beforoX thought. The Houston and McDonald boyas were there, zud they were the ownly friends I bad in tho crowd; they wero leaders in eversthing. When I made 'y bid, the schoolmaster says: *“§100 by a damned Yankee.” If I hadn’t made bim take that back, I uever could have lived around there. DavayIlonston whispered to me, *3lzke bim take it baclt I DREW A REVOLVER, 2nd says I to tho schoolmaster: “1 wili give ous minute to take that back.” Io waited secords, and took it back, and says I “po ith your agetion.” Lyle bid £25 mors, and I bid £200; he sdded &5, and I suid * £300.” Lyle began to think it was a put-ap job to get a Dbig price for the negro, and the résult was ho was knocked down to me for £300, when he was worth from 21,800 to £2,000. I sent him over to tho stable to ride out to my plzce, and the pro- ple got offended at it, but 1 stuck it out. Trom that time I was a Kiug up to the {ime of the War. WIHEN THE WAR COMMENCED, the Xioth Alabama waa raised in tho Town of Kibiens, and tho young men around me enlisted. Un the 13th of April, 1861, I was Lried by a vigi- lsnce ecimmittoe, and found guilty of baving in my house & Harper's pictorial with 2 wood-cut of Abrabam Lincoln, and I was given five mivutes to hang or join {he Ninth Alcbams Regiment. I joined the regiment, Company 11, of which Dave Houston was Captzain. We went to_Centreville, Va.; and for cight weeks were drilled with pties aud pitchforks, baving no guug, At tue end of tho cight weeks we got goms double-barreled sLot-guns, and we were rau in at the last end of the firet battle of Bull Run. I got o sabre-cut on my left arm, and cannot nse it at timos, and seven bullets seraped me, put none made more then a flesh wonud. [Jr. Fuller showed mo ona of these wounds on his left l; I was left on the field for dead, but was picked up by one of the members of my company, aud whan I got well and was able to curry & shot-gno I was gent out ox picket. I DESERTED ONE NIGHT nod went to Dumfries, on tho Potowac, and ewam tho river. There were sixizon of us in the party. Seversl of them wero drowned going uvar, the water wasso cold. 1 had a canteen full of whisks, which I puid $10 in gold for, and I drank st all while in thoe water. Roporter—While you wero swimming ? Alr, Fuller—Yes ; and it never affected me. I swam seross on a plank—pushed it aiead of me, My shot-gun was on the plank. We could not bhave got overif wo had not used planks. ASAS 1 made my way fo VWashington, aud was sent by Secretary Stanton to Buecll's headquarters at Lowling Green, in Kentucky. I Lad traveled for scveral years m tho Soutborn Siates eelling medicines, and noman knew the country better than I did, unless be was in the same business. I had over a thousand agents whom I wisited; my wagons were all over; and I kept a diary, which I had with me, of my trevels, I had noted the lay of the land, tho streams i crossed, efe,, eic., aud when 1 showed that to Gen. Duelt, he said that was the best thing that could havo been provided by the Government. Ho said ho wanted it to make a copy, and I lec him have it, but I never saw it again. I served tireo years and four months as 2 #py and scout for the United States Government. Cen. Buell turnea me over to Gea. Alitchel, and_Gen. Mitchel to Gen. Tnrchin, of Chicago. aad I wss with Gen. Turchin when he made tho raid into Alabama, which Gen. Mitchel got the credit for. Turehiu went in, while Mitchel staid bebind with half the force as a body-guard. 1 was over in Gen. AMor. gan's—the 1cbel—camp every day; aud rode from Shelbyviilo to our camp, 27 miles, evory night, snd waa back beforo deylight, and I far- vished the newa which caused Tarchin to go into Alatema and captare Hunterile. I foand XY FAMILY HELD AS HOSTAGES for me. I kad rosted the bogs of the Nincteenth sud Twenty-fourth Iilinois, the Thirty-seventh Indians, ‘and the First Wisconsin: and when they got in Tarchin ssid, *1 will shut my eyes for two hours,” and the boys weakb in sad cd the fown. 1o wvas court-milaied for T was his principal witneas, sud whilo on my way from Nashville to give in my tostimony I wus overbauled by tolegreph nad taken Lack to Nashville aud locked up, and kept thero until after tho trial vas over. Ile was casbicred, and the finding of ‘tho court—they called Lim Col. Turehin—was ecnt to Washingfon. An ansmor camo back that no such man as Col. John B. Turchin held # commission in tho Uzited Statos Army, but that thero was_ Brig.Gea. John B. Turchip. You sce the Depariment hadu't much foith in Daell, ad they mado Tarchin a Drigadicr to beat him. - T passed througi tso lines in tiio guise of A S)UOGLER, carrsing quiaine, opiam, and ippeesc to the Southeru pecple. They viere glad to get thosa medicincs, and consequently the right land of followship was cxteaded fo me, they knawing that I waa in tbe business before tho War, Ofticors of tho army—I donot_want to mention any names—furnished mo with (he stuff, and I got cotton in exchango for it. The coiton wes hauled to certain places, oud piled up in tho tiolds by the Rebels, and their men wero moved away, and our oflicers furnished mo with wagon trz2ing. and I hauled tho cotion to Reynolds' . It was shipped from there to K 4 tiieaco to Cincinnati by river. 2 ALRESTED AT CINCINNATI. o tho War was closing I oid moie cotton in Ciunciunati thaa auy other ono man ever held. L hed ved 3 large awount of gold on i mud . gold cheeiss for the balamce, Cotton wold a1 114 o pound, and I bnd nesrer $0.000,- 000 than 2,000,000, I was etopping at the Durnet Houge, aud ono day, whilo ua the broad stopa of tho Liotel, 3 provost guard camo warch- ing slong on the opposito side of the street. Tlioy crossed over and divided and manrched up tho stops cach side of me. Whon I was in tho centre of them they halted, and tho first thing I Enew I was captured. iy arms wero pulled be- hind o aud s pair of hand-cafls put on my wrists, a bell and chain was muapped on to each leg, and a bag put over my head. 1t was all the work of an inétant, and 1 jmmediately hioard the ery of “ Jolm Surratt ! I was taken off by tho privato guards to tho Larrmacks. Not n man spoke to mo. Lhcreisaman here in Chicago named Davis who wituessed the whole trans- action. ‘They took me to Washington, und I puw the b “ MYSTERIOUS PRISO! who was held for the murder of Abrahamj Lin- colu. I waskept locked up 117 days, ned was turned looso without n charge baving bocu pre- ferred against me., Tho object was to securo that cotton, and to beat tho men who bought it, aad the books ot Washington do not show that the Government ever got a dollar for that cot- ion. Lafayette Daker, tho Provost Marshal of the War Department, wes the head and ruling | spirit of tho wholo thing. Tteporter—Will you mot tell me more abont that transaction ? Mr. Fuller—Not now; too many big men ate implicated. 1t will all come ont 1 good timo. 1 Lave a cleim against the Government which I am gomg Lo collect somo day. Reporter—Continue your story. Mr. Fuller—I waa turned outf of jail without even 2 pass to_como homo to Ghicago. Vhon I ot hero I started i tho patent-right busineas, aud from that worked into THE PARTNERSEIP DUSINESS, and since then have followed 1t. Reporter—What do you mean by tho pertoer- ehip businucss ? Mr. Fuller—It is what I mako my bigz moncy at. ihavenot any now, i3I was busted up awhile 8go by some speculations which turned ont bad. T'he vubtic think I in 2n mfernal ras- cal, but my business is Lonorable beside that dona in the Bonrd ot de. Reporier—Have you any objections to explain- ing it tome ? Mr. Fuller—No, and I will tell you the truth. T am taking in moncy every day, am advertieing in & great many papers, and am doing an bonor- ‘ablo business now sunplymg agents with zoods. 1 havo given up tbe partner:hip business for tho preseut, because the other pays more. When T was in it, I advertised for & partnor. A man came in and sa53, * What havo yon got to sell # or **\What is tho business?” I showed him tho actnal busineas just 23 1t was, without any let or bindrance,—showed it to him honestly and fairly. lie looked at it and asked, **What do I get for my money 2™ I said, * one-nalf ; if tho stock ia worth 31,500, rou payme $750. 1 will mako an invoice of tho goods atcost prize.” I invoiced them, and if 1t footed up 1,000 he paid me £500, and we formed a partuership. Do you understand ? he buye in and buys my *other part- (?) out, and piays me for tho (oodv. Tien ive Lim au article of agieememcnt, something liice this: THE AGREEMENT, Cureaco, M., —. Memorandum of aa agreement between Falier of tho first part and — of tho becond part, Loth of the City of Chicago,and Stato of Illinois, ~ Witncss: that both the said partios agreo to go into partuership in Faid eity oA mautfacturcrs, agents, and jobbers of notions, under the firm and titlo of Fuller & Co.; business to be continued wuntil cCissolved Ly mutual corscut, unless, however, tho suid bocome dissatisfed with the firm of Lusinezu s in such case o is granted and retains the privilee of giving said Fuller thirty days’ written notice uf_Lis inteution to withdraw from tha 6aid firm. It is further agreed that, in case he shall give euch notice, and retire from the firm, satd Fuller ahall and will prchaso from Lim all his intercat in such stock 28 zaid — may have on bhand at the expiration of said nolice, at cost prico only, or find another purchaser for tio ssme on or befors the expizution of such notice; nnd at any timo after such motico is given said — agr. after giving such notico and selling such stock, to retire from tue firm, The sud Faller shall attend to all out-door business necessary for tha firm; that tho said -— shall do general oilics business, keep the books, cash nccounts, ctc. ; that either Farty ghall have zezesy o the books of the firm at any time; that uo dubts shall bo_contracted 1n tho namo of the firm by either party withont the consent of the olber yurty ; and that all profits 2nd Insses shall b equaily ghired at theend of cach week, Ssturday; that in caso of thy death of either party, the surviving partuer shall closy out the business-inserest and stock of the deceazed partuer 58 800n a3 poasible, and without nunesessary Iose, and yay the proceeds over to the proper Leira of the decuasad, Given under our hands and seals, 2 Trr. W. Foren, Mr. Fuller—Every lawyer koows that con- tract, for many kave them, as I Liayo uzod them for years, and bave them prepared beforeliand. [It will be noticed that no mention is made of “wvalue received,” which frct invalidates the contracl in Iaw, aud it is no wonder that Timothy caunot be successfuliy prozecuted.] A BUSINESS TALKa 3ir. Fuller—As f aid before, a man who has read my advertisement comes in, end asks me what the business i3, and I ask him to be seated. “Wo aro doing a wholesale jobbing . Wosell a great many goods for ko muck mooey ; it is not our iutention to swindlo anybody. We give them valuo received. We have a good business bere, sir, and it would be a great dotriment and damago to meif I should get & man in hero who would not suit. Conse- quently I should liko to know, sir, if you live in the city, and what line of bLusiness you have becn m." Ho tells me. Then say I, “ Novw, sir, & good mauy curiosity-scekers come in here, and want to koow about this business. I Liaven’t timo Lo waste. and, if this business suits you, I wish to know if yon havo the monoy to putintoit. If not, I don't want to waste any time talking to you.” Some of them eny, #I have got it,” and others, ** I can gevit.” * Very well," say I No matter what ho eays if tho oney can be had, he will suit me. I go on: “ Now, sir. [ am doing a bLusiness of 3300 a month clear profit, and it is more than I czuran, I advertisc my businoss in papors .all over the country, eud 2 great many letiers como in. Theso letters requite answers. and we Liave & largo correspondenco, aud tho result ig, we receive monecy end orders enough to make up 2 profit of $500. All the woncy pesses through your hands. I sm abeent a great deal, andif you are not honest, I will nuake you honest by £imply making a settiement every Saturday night. When yon commenco business in tha morning you begin taking in money, and 23 you take in ‘money yon must de- duct the profits from the origingl ‘cost of the goods, nnd reservo the cost price 50 as to replace the goods. When you have done so on Seturday night, what use have you fortne eurplus? None, and we divide it botween us. You talke your balf, and do whet yon like with. it, and Iwill t mine; and the result will be, wo shall divide up from €100 to 200 a weck instead of £250 2 montl.” Ile says at once, ‘If thatis the way things are to be done, I would like to go into it.” I then go to work, and show him that it is & bona fido bustnegs. He may ask, * What do T get for my money ?” I whow him the goods, ana mnvoico them as’l told you, and he pays mo 1Lalf tho eggregate of the invoice. Reporter—What do the goods consist of > lr. Fuller—Whatever we aro dealing 1 kee notions generally: aud he pass for haif tho office farniture and the letteriug on tie door, ihe statioucry, ete., ete. If tho bill comes to bo pays $400; if £1.000, he hands me ;_and I gay to lum, * I chergo you nothing at al: for the business. My pactuor, when ha sells the g0ods to vou, ho gives it toyou.” When the bill 18 made cut Le pars me the money, and the articles of agrecment are signed. Ha doos not pay me the money. but (smiling) gives it to me for my partnor. Ho is installed 1nto the alfice, but W hazdlo tho business in sach & way $300, $500 g IE NEVLR GETS INTO IT, and in & day ortwo is glad enongh to sell oat for what be can get. But the business ig here, and he bas the foll-valuy ef his money in tho stock, and can :{ake his ,4rton if Lo wants to. He, howe’ finde it » &n cheaper to sell out. On the principle tha¥ acno mon out of ten would scll a gold dollar for mninety cents, he thinks his stock is worthless, and the rosult is he will take what ho esa get for it; and Lem always wilkng to PAY A MAY ONG-HALF JUS MONEY DACK. Tn every instarice where I found the man was actually poor, aod I havo taken his money I in- variably give it back to him, taking nothing for my loat time. S teporter—Do not your victims complain to the suthorities 2 Mr. I —If they do, it is uscless; they make anything by hey may go to A SEYSTER LAWTE! and he will charge thom $25, and then ho comes to me, and saya: ** Ate you going to give this man’his mouoy ?” Isay “No,” and ha gives e s wink, and fakes mo aside, and waye is follow is a fool. I cun fix bimn 50 ¢! 2 won't troublo you. Give me ¢ or £50." So you seo if the man gocs to & lawyer ho is robbed again, Itisa irm, straight deal, I tcil you, TIE DLCEIVED O Reporter—Ara Lhe fllows you take in Gran- gers 7 3Mr. Faller—Never in any iastance. Teporter—Who are they, thon ? Mr. Taller—They are Board of.Trada men, sbarpers, schemers, and gambiers, I took in one of tho threo-cerd-mouto won in the couni a short time ago for £500. O sUTH Pi Teporter—Do you ever advertise for a clerk, and beut the applicants ? Ar. Fuller—Xo. I have mnover done that, though it Las boen charged upon me by the newspapers. I think that is moan and despica- ble, and I have no sympathy for the men who would rob = poor man of overy doilar. Those are ot the kind I want. Thero arc men who beat them ; but thers is no meaner or more con- temptible business to tako in s mau who wants & situation, and has a couplo of hundred dollars— all ho ks in toe world—to beat bim out of it, and never even pay him his salary. In my busi- ness Lcatch cight out of nius men, bat thoy aro suckers with plenty of blood, aud thoy haud over from £500 to £1,000 for a half interent in the .1 em a nian of my word, and prompt, and wmy word iy good at the beuk for £5,000. - Reportor—Do not your partners compiain whon thoy find they bave been swindled? < Ar. Fuller—Sowetimes, bat what is the use ? It tirey do not settlo on my terms, they get noth- ing. TOW LE ESCATES. L Reporter—How s it that you avoid punish- ment? Mr, Fuller—I couldu’t tell you that, but T will eay this: Clarley Ltecd had been charged with reeciving money from me in some way. ~That is alie. o never has in auy \way, shape, manner, or form, end by G—d. of all the men 1 have ever seen in ihe world, I think Charley Reed is the most Lomest and tho squarest mau that ever etood up to prosceate a mau. I boiievo Lo has the_interest of tho publicat hoart in the prose- catiou of frands, aud ho prosecates thom honor- akly, not with venzeance. Thoro are wava of getifng off thet Tcould exptain to yor, Lut I wil not. GETTING TIEX A Reporter—Do you ever leave town ? Mr. Fuller—Sometimes I tell them this: If you go to work and prosecute me crimmally, you put youreclf in such n position that you cau uever get a dotlar. 1t is money they want; and consequently I am_willing to pay them mora than they can got in any other way. I always give them back half theirmoney; but if they ucdertako to fight me, they haye got to fight 3 good dollar with a bad oue. I have got their money to fight them with, and will put moro with it, becanso I can tako in two or thres more pariners whilo the prosccution is goingon. I have hall that question—How do you get off 7— asked me 500 tiwes by other partuershipmen in the aty. Thes wanted 1o know Low it was done to esvo themselves; but there is a secret in it originl with me, and I do_not proposs to let ctLers have tho benefit of it. A man came to wse within two weeka, and said I should have €1,000 if I would **siow up” how I havo man- nged cagey in the Criminal Court for the past few years. Ilo clumed to be an_agent of tho People’s Party..nnd said it was his determination togot ¢t tho bottom of certamn corruptiony in this ‘There is no corraption in the Criminal Coort; it isin other places. Charley Leed has nover done me a favor, vor I him. Tho objeet is to get him out of office. . BROWN'S ADVENTURE. Réporter—Do you over encounter men who try 1o beat you ? Mr. Fullér—By the gods, when don't they? Reporter—Give mo un instanco. 3lr. Fuller—I do not always meet men who ara any moro honest than I am. For instanco: Thero ir a fellow named Drown, now in the tea 2ad coffeo samplo businesa in_Chicazo. He was in the mercantilo line in New York State with an- othier man, and came out West and went to Springfield. He had a few thousand dollars and opened a store, getting credit from overal firms in tbis city, among the others John V. 'arwell & Co. 1o opened up heavy in a high-toned etore, but trade wasn't good chouzh to suit him, and he closed up with several thoasand doliars sbead. Ho camo to Chicago iu pursuit of businoss, and noticed one of my advertise- ments, and came in to seo about it. Ho told mo ho was shrewd and sharp,—that ho had lus cye-teeth cut, and no mau counld doceivo bim, o spent geveral days in iuvestigaing tho busi- ncss, and eent another fellow Leroto find out things, but 1 droppad on him, axd talked him ont of the office. Brown investigated the business thoroughly, and docided to iuvest 2800, I then gat down With Lim, and told bim s wasa frand, and_that hs lad Leen swindled. Io couldu't Liardly believe it at first,—* 0o man could beut lum.” He had snid. **I have decided to take tho business—to go into it, and I don't allow no man in tho world to beat me. AMake out your pa- pers, and the money is ready.” Tho papers were mzde out and he siyned them and laid dewn the money. Iputit info my pocket witaoub counting it, and told lum that'tho business was of such a charucter that it was sometimes neces- sary to practico a littlo rascality in connection with it 1 order to make it Bucceed,—that per- haps the business might uot euit bhim. But ho #2id Lo understood that—that ho was in for ras- cality if there was any monoy init. SaysI: * All right, you are just the man I want.” Ithen told him, afier he had'got thoroughly worked up, and thought ho hed » good thing, that he was a d— fool. 1o says * WWhy?" * Decause,”says 1, you bave mvested S500 in tho business. You say you don’t put_money intoa thing uutil you loow it is straight. I know this is a fraud. 1 bavo the money, aud you bavo tho busincss, and I can afford to give you the wholo of it.” Yon ought to have scen him wilt. It was very langhsble. Well, after I had convinced him that such was tho fact, he put his haud into his pockot and pulled out' a H1C0 bill, and sayw, ¢ Mnko it 2900, and stay with mea week and holp me got my monoy back.” That was to tako another partner iu bis place, ‘Wo had hardly finished talking before another man came in. and when ho was shown around he concluded to inveat $1,000. Brown was happs, and wanted me to whack up. *Oh, no,” says I, “‘Ieold you my partuer's haif of the business, but 1 sold tLis man my half, and you and he own the wholoof it now.” 8o that day I made $£1,900. Brown talked awhile, and I concluded to continuo with Lim until ho got squarc. In cleven weeks he banked 31,900 as Lis share, after paying all expenecs, which were 820 a day, a8 we lived liko Privces. e throw dirt on me, and I made him pay J. V. Farwell & Co. what he owed them, and 1 got 3400 from tho attorneya, fi Reporter—How many mea do you cateh in the conzse of a week ? 3r. Fuiler—1 am not in the business now, as T told you, but I took in one tho other day for 8G00. “That, Lowever, was & maro accident. . Ho came fo'and wanted to invest, and I took his money. You know him, and would be surprised it T told You who be was. Ho bogged mo not to let it get out, nad I will not expose him. I havo stopped ®the’ business, baviug dropped all my money. I lost $12,000in eome specalations. I tell you, young man, money go: in that way don't stick; it all vanishos, sure. So [ havo abandoned tho busincss, and gone into SOMLTIING STRAIGIT. Reporter—What line are you in now ? .. Mr. Fuller—You musi not publish it, becanse it wonld hurt mo; not with my friends,—men who know me, and laugh at the storiestold about my “ besting ¥ people,—out with others who do not know ¢, aud who might believe what is 8aid ju the newspapers. 1 am advertising tnis new businesa in newspapers having o circulation of €00,000. ~ It is square, straight, and honest ; I would tell ouif 1t was ** crooked.” Since tho 33 of Augusti—3no month—we have made $2.500 proiit. Whero iy more iu it wan in the other, and what 1 the nse of going inton *‘crooked Lusiness as long 0s I can make more money le~ gitimately ? 1 don’s want any partuers nosv. eporter—If this business fails what will you o victims to do ¢ £ Mr. Faller—Go back {0 the partnership busi- nees. I want to tell you of v X ANOTHER INCIDENT. A fellow named Curtis, who was the agent of tho American Life Iusarance Company before tho fire, and had sa odice in the Youug Men's Carisian Association building, camo in to answer an sdvertisement. Ife waa another of those fools. Ho had been o Sergeant of Polico in New York for fonrieen years. After looking around, and goiting an insight into the busi- ness threo or four days, tryingto post himself, o sayB, *1 have decided to go in,” and ho paid me £700. Drown was o partner of mine then. Curtis said, 1 thungbt this bnsincsa might be = little crooked, and I took extra pains to inves- tigate it, but I am sstiefiod; here is your money.” ' Says I, “All right.” Ho took his pa- pers and pat them icto his pocket. Says 1, *¢ Tuko n seat.” Ho did so. 8ays I, ** Yon have beer a Sergeant of Police in New York for four- teen years?" “Yes." You sro posted iu all theso ‘crooked’ things #” ¢ Yen." A man couldn't get - tha load of you then?” No. s doty ooy men to do it “iVell, © sir, you are caught once) *“How?" emd "he, estonished. I have caught you.” How 2" * You paid me 3700 for what " ¢ I have the goods.” *‘Yes; take them. If you can sell them, como and let mo know.” *“What! can’t I nell those goods?” Says I, * 1 don’t kmow ; it is my business to take in just such men as 'you are, and I nover had ono stay-with mo two daysyet.” Adfter talking a few nunutes bo gave one of thoso sickly sort of laughs, and got up and pulled bLis agrooment ont of his pocket and throw it on tLe dovk, and eays, “ Mr. Fuller, don't gay a word sbont this. If you cannot givo me anything out of 1t, don't let anybody know [ was iu here and got beat.” He then went out. Some of his cards wera lying on tho table, and Lo hadu’t been gons more than five minutos when another man camo in and says, ¢ How do you do, sir?” * Sit down,” said I, Seid be, ** I 3 an edvertisement intho paper that yon want- ed o partuer.” ** Yes," said I. Ho took a seat, aud picked up a paper and began reading. I coutinuod talking to him, and ho kept reading, and finally I said, **y friend, I guess yon don't waut to go into this business, sinco reading the paper aopears to interest you moro than what I am saying.” “ Kevor miud that,” ssid ho; “go on; I know what vou are eaying. Where is your reforence?" Ho was like o good many pooplo I Liavomer. Thoy always say that to got out of tho office, and I thought ho was one of them. However, I gavo him a reference. I picked up one of Curtis’ cards and handed it to bim. Ho took the card and wentover to Curtis’ office, and, a8 Curtis aftorwards told mo, TII3 CONVERSATION OCCUREED : Stranger—Is Alr. Curtis in? r. Cartis—That is my name. Stranger—Is thig your card ? Mr. Curtis—Yes. Stranger—Do yon know Fuller & Co. 2 Mr. Curtis—Yes, ' Stranger—Ever bavo a deal with them * Mr. Curtis—Yes. Stranger—What kind of men aro they ? Mr. Curtis—They are the sharpest deslers in ! tho City of Chicago,—the best business men you cver sai. Stranger—Thank you, sir; good day. The man came right back, and sat down and eaid, “Iwill take au intores: in tho businoss.’” Ho 'handed over £700, and bud just got Lis agroement, when Cartis csme into the rocm langhmg, and, not noticing the man at all, said, **That was the best of jokes,—you sendung that man over to my oftice to ask ma if I knew you. I told him—" Just iben bLe turned around, and canght a sight of tho sucker. You noversaw such o looking man in your lifs. Tho man ot up and kaid, “Whst kind of au arrangement isthis?” Curtis couldn’t say & word. I com- mencad Janghing, and so did Brown. The man sad; “Do you 1aean to say that this s a swin- dle, and that you zro all init?” Said I, “ My fricnd, take 3 cher and keep cool. Some peoplo call it s gwindle. You bought the goods, and have got a bill of sale. If you dont want to stay in the buriness yon meed not.” I told him tho old story, nud he said, © Gentlemen, give mo $100, and I 'will nover say a word about it, but gotout of here.” I gave bim the €100 and he turned over Lis agreoment to me. Curtis then wanted $100, and [ let him have i, and both of thom went away . together and over to Cartis’ ofiice. They were together for somo weeks af- terwards, and becams fast fricnds. A GRAND JUROD. Ona man who wus ou the Grand Jury read my advertisemont in the Grand Jurs room, and at dinnor time ho came over to_examine the busi- uess, and 1 lained it to Lim. When the jury adjourned in the afterncon ho came over and bought an interest. Ho is in the agricultural implement business now. The next morning ho came to tako bold of the basiness. Somebodyhad “beck capped” me, nnd the_first thing ho said was that e bad been awindled; and he ehowed me a piece in a Dawspaper £iving mo & **turning over.” Ile came up to me audsaid: **Ar. Fuller, 1 paid you @300 cash_for the business yestorday. Iam on the Grand Jury, and I conld have you indicted.” Said I: *No_you couldn't.” Said ho: ** Never mind that. Ism not goiug to nsk vou to give anything back, but don't say any- thing about it. 1f you are over tempted to say anvihing about it, send down to the store and I will give you $100." Ho bas been a good friend of mino_ever since,-and whenever we meet he stops and shakes hands and asks how business is. Sometinics bo says : * I sco you switch them o occasionally.” + Then there were iwo other men—both WELL-ENOWSN MERCHANTS in Chicago; they wauted to come in, and got ter- ribly jealous of each other, each 1iagiving that tho other would get 2head of him. I took them both in at the same time, keeping them in sepa- rate rooms, and they found out they dida’t have the soft thing they anticipated. 1 got 696 apicco from them in the morning, and in the af- ternoon they gob out of tho oflice for $75 bo- tween them. [Mz. Fuller laughod continually while relating theso opisodes of his busiress life.] He continued: There never was any amnse- meut equal to it. The best of business-men come in here, and aro caught by that €300 & month. It is a fact that more than fifty men, now on the Loord of Trade have been in part- nership with me for a day or two. I could gise you their nawmes, but they never mado me nuy trouble, and it wouldu't do to let out on them. THE GRANGER. Reporter—Ia it because Gracgers would keop Fou in hot water that yon aveid them ? Mr, Fullor—Yes ; $100 15 more to them than $1,000 to 2 man on'Change. I1don’t want any- thing to do with Grangers : not thas I am afraid they cosld beat me ; that they cen't do ; but they raako trouble for a man, aud it takes money to fight them. If 1 ever go into the business again, and take in a man, if you will como to mo I will givo you el tho facts right straight out. You reporters only got ono s1do of tho story, and miss the amusing part of it. Reporter—You do not scem to regard the busi- nezs 23 o swinale, and yet yon toll the victims that thoy have been swindled. NARY BWINDLE. Mr. Faller—Tt is not a swindle in any way. Is it 2 sawindle if I buy a borse for 25, and whilo leading him along I meot yon and say, * Do you want to buy a horse?" * Yes : what do you ask forbim ?” ~ *Two_ hundred and fifty dollars ;" and I extol the avimal, but do not warrant inm, and you say, *‘I will take him for’ §250.” Is there windlein that ? Tieporier—I am not on tho witness stand. Mr. T'uller—Of courso thero is not. 8o in this huetuess. I say to the man: I will sell 5o many lgoads for fo much money; they are worth what I sk, and they cost mo, bhonestly, what I ask for them.” Reporter—If tkat bo true, the man could get more for them than one-balf their valua, which you ssscrt you aro always willing to rotura to bir. Mr. Faller—I will sho yon where the gezello comes in. The goods cost the moue; 1t they invoice £500, I make him a bill of 300, and be pays 8200; but tho fact is ho gets discoaraged from the general reputation of the firm of TFuller & Co., ond don’t want to stzy in the busi- ness, and Boho is always willicg to sell ont. Who would buy tho gocds g0 readilyas 12 He could tako thom out on tho streat and tre to ecll them; but who could do that bettor than 17 Lvery manis not o ealesman; consequently he gets me to sell them, and I buy them back, and pay him half wnat Lo pzid for them. You sce, I am generous. THOSE GOODS. Reporter—I1 you sell thom three or four times, 2nd give back balf you get, the goods have been paid for, and_you still havo them on hand; tho profits of suchl = business muet be very largo. Mr. Fuller—Right there in that corner are $1.500 worth of goods. [Thero were several bozxes with tho lids nailed on in the place indi- cated.] Thaveeold them over and over again, and finally abandoned them and lef: them in the hands of other parties, but they have come back tome tosell, aed I am to pay only €300 for thom when they are sold. Roporter—Is there no law which inflicts a penalty for “eating™ peoplo in tho way you do? Mr. Faller—Thero is no law governing the matter. It is_proposterous to say thers is. Lawyers somctimes get hold of ono of tha men and come to mo and szy, ‘I am this man’s at- torney,” and threaten me with o lawsuit. Dat 1 tell them if ho was the first man I had beaten they might seare something out of me, bat I don't scare worth a cent. Once in a while I give the lawsers $25 or £30, and they upset the “‘gucker's” cage. I have receipts for the money in my possession now. Reporter—llow many times bave yo1 been arrestod 7 5 THE ARBESTS, Afr. Fuller—Batween 75 and 100. Reporier—And bLave you never been pun- ished ? Afr. Fuller—No. I do all my own work in the upper comts. Al I need of s lawyer is to look after the tochnical points. Tho Jadges, both in the Superior Court and the Circuis Court, have held that I oonld not be punisbod. Judgs Tiee id: * I do not think therc is any violation of Iaw. Iwould not liko to be engaged in the busi- ness, but the way tho law stands it is legiti Reporter—ITave ou ever been enzaged in any other business which peoplo not acquainted with AN OUTRAGEOTS SWINDLE. It bas been so stated in the nowspapers, but it is not frme. A fellow camo into my offico when it was in tho Oriental Build- ing—and I had a flne offico then ; the furnituro cost £1,000—=and said,” **I have 3700,000 to loan on roat'estato at 6 per cont.” Ho assured us it was a bona fide business, and we allowed bhim to uee our firm name—Emory Wells & Co. advertisements in tho p: ont it was a gwindle, an and I have mot seen him siuce. Some of the papers aro publishing tho advertisements yet, and lettors come now, but they aronevoranawered. got farmers to give trast- dceds on their property, and when they were re- ceived tho money was not sent. Newepapers out West_etato to ihis day that strangers tarn up cnco in o while with theso trust-deeds, and claim the property. I was ot in thet ewindlo, and don't want” the credit for it. It was a swindle, as it robbed the poor farmers, This onded Mr. Fuller's narrative. asked to give tho histors of tho attempt of Rain- forth and himself to ewindle several life insur- ance companics, but said he had detiled it to the assistant editor of the Index, sa insurance paper published in Cincinpati, and, since it wasa long story, ho did not fecl inclined to go over it THE CHESAPEAKE. Mr. Faller—No. ner, but we soon found ho jumped the towsn, Tho plan_was to Catholic St. Mary’s---Visit to the Old Shrine. Remains and Reminiscencess=«Lit= erature and Criticism Thereabout. "From Our Own Correspondent. Porxt LookocT, 3d., August, 1674 ‘When a mizn has looked through an iron fence at a bit of Plymouth Rock, canght a chill on Jamestown Island, flonndersd in the eand at Swodish Lewes, rcad Watson's Annals ander Penn’s treaty-tree, looked in vin through Prov- idenco for o man like Roger Williams, rogarded with a small degroe of the eyo of faith the Northmen's windmill at Newport, and hungered Lito Marius in the ruinsof French Lovisburg, it is neceasarv for the repose of his sole that he cat an oyster at old St. Mary's, * Boss,” gaid the yaller man who stoered the canoe,—he called bimself saller, and ought to know the color,—*I'd like to " 'WRASTLE YE IOR THAT WATCHL" Tho yealler man had seen this watch as he turned from St. Mary's River into 8t. Inigoe’s Creek, and bis remark was unfortunate,—partic- ularly when, on landing at the head of a decp inlet by a pieco of woods, he exhibited a desire to foliow me into the woods. Said I to myaelf : “Perhaps I ehall slcop amongst the early Catholics, and tho yaller man will go away with my time-piece.” It seomed tome that the old churchh kad got a great way into those woods, and, when I swang open the gate, and stood amongst tho graveztones and crosses, the yaller man Jeaned on tho gato and watched mo as the pony watched OI¢ Mortality. I cus a big cudgel, looked bold as a sheepshord, and canvassed that graveyard; but every now and then tho yallor man obtruded himself into my mind, and ho was a flesh-and-blood ghost in that solitary nook of a solitary part of the world. very docile, well-meantng darkey; but ho had no bueiness to want to wrastlo me for that watch. Hore, beforo me, Wwas tho only vestige of the faith in which one of the Thirteen Colonics was establiched, Maren 27, 1634, within 2 miles from An English Catholic courtier of James I. and of Chzries I., himself a Yorkshiro- men, and neighbor to the Washingtons, Went- worths, and Fairfaxes, had his colonial grant ‘“foated” from Newfoundland to the Chesa- peake, and crept in between the Virginizns and the Swedes and Dutch. “city™ of St. Mars's was the Provincial Capital To-day there is nothing Ioft of its mixty houscs, its fort, windmills, Governor's Louse or State-Hoase, except some Lricks of tho latter, baiedin 1674, which are now. part of a Protestant Episcopal Charch. Tho patron-saint of tho Catholic settiement was St. Ignatius, or St.Inigoe; and this Catholic church, now fifty years old, bears his name, and isin the vicinity of a village posicrior to St. Mary’s, called also St. Tnigoe's. BT. INIGOES CHTLCH is a small brick edifice, with a beli-cupola sur- mounted by a ball and cross, and & priest’s ad- Thero are but threo eide- windows, and in front only » door, dominated by » slab and inscription, and 3 geble-windoyw. und amongst greve-mounds, ones, and slabs of wood and sandstone, tho little chapel looks loneiy enough. Family-names around old 5t. Inigoe’s Catho- aro thus recorded at random Col William Coad, James Feuwick (* a worthy man, candid, Louest, and geunuine, and truly attached to the liberties of his couniry, Hiy forefathers were amongst tho oldest setticrs of this ancient country. born, therefore, 1730), Brady, Davis, Langley, Dunkinson, Clarke, koull, MeKay, Roach, Bean, the' Liev. James Carberry, Society of Jesus, boru 1775, died 1849, Over the main door is the inscription, in & brown stone slab: Doubtless he wass Tor sixty years the =nd seat of the coarts. dition in the rear. In tho oak trees, recumbent vau! 506, agod 56,"— AL Have chosen this place to myself for & house of sacrificc and have sauctificd it thiat my nsme may be there forever aud my ¢yes and heart remain there per- Other names on St. Inigoe's gravestones are : Joseph Jenking, Walter Leigh ; the Rev. James Waiton, Socioty of Josus (died 1803, aged &3 ; Dorn in England ; served Maryland in the mis- £10n thirty-six years) ; Capt. Bonjamin Williams, died 1824, aged 63 ;" Smith (daughter of Josoph and Aun_Milburn) ; Jeremiah Taylor, Robert “Tarlton, Eleanor Coud, Richard Fenwick, George Crane, Peter Gongh (vers old slab). Little above a mile from this church, ot the igoe's Creek and St. Mary's River, is Priests’ House, on Pricats’ Point,—the parsonage for the Jesuits,—a red building, with picturesque_sheds, colonnades, fish-resls, etc., Here Lave been kept & canno. plate, and_various tritles admonitory of the LBarons of Baltimore, ‘Tho Catholic settlement chosa EAULIFCL SITE for a miuiature city,—'‘s spot so charmiang," White, who saw its origiual, “that Europe itsolf csn scarcely show & pitustion to surpass it.” Junction of St. eaid Father mouth of the latter at Point Lookont, and flows northiward, parallel with the Chesapeake, and from 4 to 6 miles from the bay, whose creeks rise closo to those of the river; and tho penin- sula is thus indented with coves of an arborescent sbape, sometimos deep, and always filled with fish, crabs, and oysters. Mary's is 3 miles wide at the mouth, and dimin: ishes to less tbana mile at St. Mars's City, G ‘miles up, with 24 feet of water nearly all that distance. 1t has low bluff shores, rising higher as wo go up tho tido; and, after passing St. Inigoe’s Creek on the right, the bluffs are bold aud 'tbe platezu above tbem of a loam-soil, abundant in clover and nndulating according to tho gul and affording a view of Bt. George's Island, across the river at tho mouth. The Potomac 18 quite n_great bay here, 9 miles wide. Inthe poninsula of the old Capital live zbove 1,900 per- and cedar-covered, As we sailed off toward the city landing, both sails of the canoo blown full, and thoe yaller man lazily steering with s scull, we saw tho Episcopal Beminary of St. Mary's raising its red roof over the mulberry, locust, and alisnthus trees around the charch. Here my companion, Cliffeimmons, who is & Greeiz poet ou the balf-shell, read me tho following deecription he had been wTiting in our favorite book of the Punlms of David: 5. Like Soutaampton water This is the river. 1t opens broadly in the woody lands, As If to break a continent ssunder, ‘And, sudden cooaing, there the city stands : Stary's, stretching ford its yellow Lands Of beack, beneth the biuff whers it commanda In vision only; for the fieids are greea ‘Above tho pligrima. _Plecsant i tie placo ; %o ruina mar jis immemortal face, (Hers tho yaller man, in blank i slips his scall, and the poot gom R Fished aboard with a boat-hook, he Touzg Tae water loves it, snd embraces stiy Rl s comnely form with two strong armas of Whereon, of 0ld, the Calverts' pinnag 1o Tiie boce, dear bird! the olive in ita ™" That to e Ark rotarned from every gujs Acd found & havan ‘nesth this sRoEins (Hore tho yaller man hands the noet s tor, which o Licks out of tho chell, ang roT the inilictions) Ty Lo ! all compased, the 8ot horlz : Xfloat npon the bluiencss of the ente? And rometimes in the mirage does the. Seem to continue the devendent grosy And draw in the canoe, that noiselcss ruy, Among the stars reposted round the b ®® Far out the lrger rails go down the wond For nothing worldly sces St. Mary's now: The ancient windmilly all their 8303 harg The forts are levelod past all sign of lors s ‘The standard of tho Lorda of Baltimore, ' And they, the Lords, have pssed to theiy Aud nothing mournd them on the ripply Except thy hidden bell, St. Toigoes 1™ % Thore, I the Wood, tha Jesuit chapel stan Amonist tho gravestones, in sectubod et But, Sabbath-days, the censer’s healing by, Tho Crucifiod with His extonded hands, And music of the manses, draw the foif Back to tho altar, 3s {n diys of old, (At this point tho yaller man has “pie 1 i roposo,” and snones. The s chimneyamind Tho poct conticues his lamontation ;) & Upon o cape, the Priests’ House north To neo St. Mary's Seminsry gaara | T The dead, that lio within the parish-yard, In English fuith: the parish-church, thi Ly, Tie present o the perishied; for ita walls Are of the clzy that, in the State Honse, huig Tud grim lawgivers i the days of eld, And ruled tha Provinca {rom ita vanished hary A clover-smell 1 {n the schoolhousa ling; ‘Tho fruity orchards drinl the summar.héetys A few old houses from the window-pana Flash on the tido the sunset, and thero bests Tie throb of cars from Lasking oyster-fects, And munled clangor of the oysiar-tongs, Planged down in deep bivalvirlous retrests, And play of seine, drawn homo with negro, “*A very good doscription, sab.” sey the ) ler man, awaking, * 'tickler tho 0y3iar3, ey 'Seems to mo Iresd datin a hymn-booksom:, whar. Dis is o landin’.” d A steamer from Baltimore runs up St. Ay River threo times 2 wéek, touching at st i Incoe's and Bacon's whatl, aud a new laodi was just being built for it,—wharf and wad house. Paseing up 2 sandy lane wo cama T . THE SEMINARY,— > red brick, with an architectarsl portico of six ¢ nmns, with & balcony-story halt-way up. Bomy lassics through tho’ window mado ogling o tures at the unwonted sight of strangers. A Tawn bofore the Seminary rolled off to the Frs estant Church, uninclosed except by graves; yellowish buick structure, unprotentions, wiy two doora‘in tho gable. & plam toy, p spirs, two ktories of windows, end’ gt box-pews. ~The blufl-view wes wy exquisite, of tho salt tide, the oystur-rates pE tho old houses 2t the coves, and the distant tomac, liko 3 sea, down which lounged coli schootiers and brigs. Horo o city is azain mon to Dbo counectcd by rail with Wasniogon and to be a coal-port. This road is graded, and has been given State assiatance, Behind the Semivary, a froit-garden s orchard runs off to & calm biuo cove, resching back bebind this point of blutf, whero fish vessols lie, and rock and perch are caugnt. § farm and orchazd covers the sifo of St. Mgy 6 City. Seven miles to the north is the Patgzemt River, up which steamers go a3 far 13 HTy fS Bridge. and baul off the excellent tobaseo of tho valley. At the Patuxent was a fort, and thy ouso of Mattapany, the widowed propristoraf which wedded one of tho Barons of Baltimore, Wao recognize in the neighborhood the Catholiy E; nemo of this lady, Sewell; of Donnett, the ¥ Puritan leader ; and of Coode, who headedihs E? first revolt against tho Proprictors. & B St. Mary's, dicd, in 1647, thirtcan 2! broughe his brother's colony over, LoownlGsk I lovked over the tombstones to find TEE PROTESTANT FAMILIES in this old region, and beheld tho now infrequest nzme of my mothar's raca: Milburn, or M bourne. When tho Protestants, ander Cools, rovolutionized tho Maryland Province in 133, they wero in alliauce and communication wity Leuslor and 3ilburn, tho Protestant revolutios. izerg of New York. Milburn was beheaded after ward. 3 Query: Did Milbura's family, after hia taking off, repair to the Puritamzed Colory of Mar, land ? The following wera names of the Milburn faz ily interred around tle Protestant Episcop Chnreb of old St. Mery’s : ; Caroline, Catberine H., Joha A.II, Thoms 1L, Stephen, Mortimer, William E., Eliza. S san A., Sue C., Robers N.. Origsn, John (died & tho sge of 63, in 1841). and Adalioe, wifo of Alessnder Muburn. Tho imscription oo thi tombstoue of Mortimer Milburn is 3 img wea chort. vert, tho Governor. E 43 test Le Ho lad me to Eternity. Other fimilies named on the_tombetoness 3 St. Mary’s Church aro: Smoot, Beall, Bennett. Collison, Bo:anon, Archibald Binuey (diod 1% born 1763), Moore (very old alab, scarceds cipherable), Lilburne (the namo of Crommelld Colonel-Agitator), Biscol, Bottio Martin, Dath § Smith, Susannad’ Temploman, Zacherish Zuk g ery (quaint), Thompson, Gurrett Borko, Acksy, Crookshanks, Bean, Abcll, Crane, Theodoref, Davis, Sapner, Loker, Jamea . Dent, Holzey, |8 Jones, Wallace, Ford, Smith, J. Kemp Jooes, B and Boan. It scems cloar that religions divizions operath with little stress in this old country, and inten ¥ warriages between Catholics and Protestants s1 not uncommon. There is o Catholic schools tho turn into St. Inigoo's Creck:, on a high poiy kept by » Mra. lordio. Dehind 8t Mary's @ tho bay, the principal creck it called St. Jerome ‘betweon the two capes _celled Poiot Lookin Point No Point. This is the seat of JOHN P. RENNEDYS 5 not uninteresting novel, calied “*Rob of thi P Bowl.” Kennedy was an nuthor of the dilated school of Irving, I'aniding, and men foreres midway between good food, good eociety, bos- ors, and litersture. Ho was a Northernized Ms rvlander, kopt out of Slavery by lis Whig poli tics and Ius Northern friends,—men like Everesh § Winthrop, and Tuckerman. As an snthor, b was happiest 1n patriotic sketching—not intro- apective, but superficial—of mannors, sppe! weak waggery, and such things as made the f- brary reputation of thirty years ago, a¢ a timoef which wo may say, to its honor, the lettersel the country encouraged ita public manhood, 124 did not labor, like Hercules, to detract fromit. Kennedy's story 18 an sttompt to embint rathor than to create; to associale spois it topography rather than to probo lnto the depihs of fealing ; to revinify St. Mary’s 1o the pelities descendsnis of its foundors, and gild the pox governing hamlot with the pleasautries snd ¢~ collencies of Court and barrack sceiets., T2 wenkness of such work by a citizen of the § soliciting ita sullrages is manifest. Ho zim? to confim the traditions of Maryland, He taresquely, and indorse 5 vaguo senfument w8 tho Lords Baitimore wers the pinks of cLivalsy overrun by a vulgar dowocracy. Vo wonldb? the novlist of Maryland must look icdiffercutly upon its kentiment and ita scom. The prov cial period of all our State has been msde much of. Whatover differenco exits betwees the provincial proprictor of the seventeead ceutury and the land-sharis of the ninotecath IS IN FAVOR OF THE SIIARE.. \1?" Juy Cooko was an apostle besido Georga Calvar™ Wiiliam Penn mey survive two or thres Msas lays, but he cannot survive himself. EvenJobn Smith has boen probed by Edward D. Neill Minnesota, and tho discrepaucics betweon b3 two books noted. u 9 " Kennedy’s novel is of the._hifalutin st There is & Secrotary of the Proprietor in lov with the dsughter of the intellectual head-msiltk Secretary’s father is Bob of tho Lowl, -l,exh; cripple, who_ewinge Limself o a_plalter Bt trenchor,;and i3 in leagne with handsome pi Pirate comes home, and trics to dance o2 Ereen with heroino. Ducl ensues, snd Secrels] outfences him. Becretary and others walch 3 beunted bouse whero Eob of the Dor: e Pirates catch Secrctary, and detall bis fathef drown bim alive. Fatlier discovers him by dallion, and lets him swim. He swim off 0870 car, but too late to savo pirato from abacondlf with Elizabeth. Great chase for pirsie &5 Elizboth! Kob of tho Bowl takes pirste-7esty out of the way. Pirates beaten in bnuaxa ] arrested. Chicf pirato stabs Rob of the B35 and gets toges by tho help of tho domesil enemues of Lord Baltimoro. Rob dies and ¥ the story of Chorlie Ross. Marrisge. Weddiss® march! Ha! ha! A P This little story, too medioval for its date, ¥ A SEMI-CIIVALRIC DAXD . ., to bind these poor, -abandonod Localitied ¥ gether. The man who did it rendered ey for a sensitive people. Had Mr. Pos !:ll_‘ or power and Mr. Kounedy's bump of localith =0 bie was & ative Marylander. —thero would boS, Pos call on Mr. George w. Childs to put oP monument in & city swift to monumentalizo. waa probably the most perfect literary ned] tion of our Western Anglo-Saxonism. Ken e waa never better than suamatour. Bat Pos no_pride of locality, aud swung loose, Liks B godlixe Bobemisn ho was, whilo® Kennedf To the Senate of the United Biates, sod, 0 roduoed Feonimore Cooper, drove L ' through the literaturs of the lund ho Sleasure them nll, thou magnanimous Procrtley A3 youug ns in Its widow'n eo0 Tho edits the Marylend prasé] Slog 8 shy ebespeds ink. s e BV B -5 o B e R R g s e g an _m P TS R P e e T e = S a7 e ISP PO . FEMEU = caan e O apgw])