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Luke White. of Plymouth.
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IL SEA EITORP
There is a tradition that the captains of
Elizabeth's war ships, lying in Plymouth
Sound, were playing at t owls at Mount
Fdgcombe, when Luke White, n young, ath
letic seaman, came running in breathless
haste, to announce that the magnificent
Spanish Armada had been descried some
ten leagues distant, steering steadily up
Channel, with a favoring breeze. The na
val captains, it is added, first recording the
exact state of the game, and agreeing to
play it out at the first opportunity after set
tling with the Spaniards, hurried on board
their respective ships—Drake and Hawkins
being of the number.
I have nothing in this paper to say of the
ruinous discomfiture of the Invincible Span
ish Fleet, except to remark that Luke White
was the skipper of a store-ship (victualer)
attached to the English squadrons; and that
the insolent attempt of the Spanish mon
arch, to subjugate the realm of England,
awakened in White (as in most Englishmen,
your genuine English sea-dog especially,)
that fierce hatred of the Spaniard which for
very many years afterwards left deep traces
of its fury in the home and colonial ports of
Spain, and iu her crippled, plundered com
merce; frequently prompting, moreover, to
deeds of vengeful violence, which only that
well. earned burning hate could have sug
gested or excused.
The craft commanded by Luke White was
the sole property of his father, Ephraim
White, a rough old seaman, hard, gnarled,
cross-grained as the timbers of his vessel, a
stout brig of two hundred tons burtben,
which he had named The Ftfth Whelp. An
odd designation enough, but certainly much
less objectionable than such names as "The
Saviour of the World," "Mothcr of God,"
"The Holy Trinity," &c., then, and till a
very recent period, if not now, common in
the Spanish
.. and Portuguese navies. The
Tenth Whelp, some half a century after
wards, was a distinguished ship of the first
naval squadron commanded by Robert
Blake, General, and Admiral at sea. -
The Fifth Whelp sustained no damage
whilst in attendance upon the English fight
ing ships; and the struggle with Spain am
to sea supremacy being virtually over, an
opening was made for private war against
Spanish - commerce; to the swift and sus
tained development of which, religious pre
judice, in conjunction with commercial cu
pidity, lent very zealous aid. Ephraim
White was just the man to be strongly in
fluenced by fanaticism and greed, piety and
profitableness; and he at once decided upon
converting The Fifth Whelp into a well
manned, well armed privateer—Buccaneer
—Pirate, which you will, there was not in
such eases much in a name—to be com
manded by his son Luke. The fitting out
of the brig was pushed rapidly forward, so
that in the February following the destruc
tion of the Armada, The Fifth Whelp was
' lying in Plymouth Sound, ready for Sea;
1 the red cross upon a white ground (the
"Jack" came in with James Stuart) flying
at the mizzen, the blucpeter at the fore.—
Her anchor was hove short, and only waited
to be brought home for the captain, whose
delay on shore seemed to terribly annoy old
Ephraim White. The cankerous veteran's
impatience was not mouthed by the depar
ture, some six hours previously, with a rat
tling breeze, of The Constant Maid, a smart,
well-armed schooner, bound upon the same
errand as The Fifth Whelp, and commanded
by Ephraim's half-brother, Ezra White—
which Ezra White, Ephraim, for some rea.
sons to be hereafter disclosed, hated with
unmitigable bate.
At last the youthful Skipper was seen
hurrying to the boat waiting to bring him
off, jumped in, and was pulled swiftly to
wards the brig.
"You have been loitering precious hours
away," snarled Ephraim White, the instant
he and his son were alone together in the
cabin, "with that minx, Judith White."
"I hare been with Judith," replied the
young man with a heightened color.
"You still clearly understand, that if you
marry that girl, you will never bt a penny
the better fur my property; and that the
moment you do so, I deprive you of the corn
mond of this vessel."
"To be sure, I clearly understand that;
and more to the same tune. If I should
marry Judith, I am not to be entitled to
more than my wages as skipper, whatever
prizes I may in the meanwhile have taken
from the Spaniard. It is all plain sailing
enough. Well, you kndw that I scorn to
tell a lie."
"I do."
'Aron will believe me, then, when I pro
mise you that I will never marry Judith.—
My mind is fully made up not to do so.—
Circumstances have occurred," added Luke,
with a sort of sheepish smile, with a blush,
half impudence, half shame—"circumstances
have occurred within the last three or four
days which completely free me from any
wish—any temptation to do so."
A grim smile glinted over the old man's
swarthy features. tie understood; and, in
the exultation of the moment, extended his
hand to clasp his son's; but checked him
selfjust in time,.brought up, as it were, by
a sudden qualm at finding himself about to
Openly approve the violation of a great
"NO ENTERTAINMENT iS SO CILEA.P AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING."
COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 19, 1861.
mural law—"lndependent," of the purest
pattern too, as he was, zealous unto slaying
in the good cause. Screwing his cast iron
phiz as successfully as ho could into an ex
pression of grave rebuke, effectually contra•
dicted by the glittering twinkle of his sharp
gray eyes, he said:
"I understand, Luke; I understand. It
is a sin, no doubt—n grievous sin. But yet
God's judgment, we cannot doubt that,
upon that wretched wench. The judgment
of him who visits the sins of parents upon
their children, even to the third and fourth
generation. The child of such a mother
could not but come to shame. lam easy
now," added the old fellow, "as to the mar
riage, Luke—quite easy."
"Why not, then, give me a slip of writing,
entitling me to a fair share of any prizes I
may capture. It will make me more zeal
ous, insure greater success."
"No, no, Luke--no slip of writing,"
chuckled the crafty veteran, shaking hands
with his son, and turning to leave the cabin.
"My word only. You must trust to that.—
It is true I have no fears of the marriage
now; still the tears acid lamentations of a
comely wench have sometimes worked mir
acles. As to spoiling the idolatrous Span
iard," added Ephraim White, "a son of
mine can require no spurring to that godly
work. Farewell, lad. Noah, the girl's
brother has sailed, 1 suppose, in The Con
stant Maid. Of course lie has. The villain
Ezra gave that name to his schooner pur
posely to taunt me," he added, with mut
tered vindictiveness, and a savage snap of
his teeth. "Well, we shall see who laughs
last."
Directly Ephraim White had gone over
the side into the boat in waiting to take him
ashore, the anchor of The Fifth Whelp was
brought home, her bluff bow fell off, and
away she sped under a six knot breeze, on
her mission of plunder and patriotism.
Before following the cruise of the priva
teer brig, it will be necessary to jot down a
few principal items in the domestic histories
of the half•brothcrs White.
Ephraim and Ezra were sons of the same
father, but of different mothers. Ephraim,
considerably the eldest, was remarkable,
from his sturdy boyhood, fur his stern, in
domitable will, his iron perseverance; and
when he grew to manhood, his clear saga
city in business and thorough seamanship.
Possessed of such qualifications, his rise in
the world was a thing of course; and at the
same time I am writing of, he was known
to be a man of large substance—apart from
The Fifth Whelp—which large substance he
had judiciously invested in land. He had
but one child, Luke—solo offspring of a
hastilycontracted marriage with an amiable
woman, for whom he had felt no real affec
tion; and to whom, as well as to himself, it
must have been a great relief when her eyes
closed upon this harsh world, comparatively
few as wero her days whey the final sum
mons came.
Ezra was tho very opposite of his brother,
both physically and morally. Handsome,
delicately, not to say weakly framed, mild
in disposition, desultory in his habits, he
was but ill fitted to make a figure, or for
tune, in a profession to which his father,
himself a seaman, injudiciously condemned
him. In all undertakings he was Ezra the
unlucky. Nothing succeeded with him;
and so proverbial, locally, was his reputa
tion fur "ill luck," that, people could hardly
credit the fact that his father had willed
him the whole of his property, cutting off
Epritim, as it is said, with a shilling. That
astonishment was greatly increased, when,
some nine or ten months after his father's
decease, Ezra espoused the comely, well
portioned Judith Morris—a girl with a spirit
of a lion, who had been for several years
contracted to Ephraim, by whom she was
loved with all the ardent, gloomy fervor of
his ardent, gloomy soul.
It would hate been difficult to assign a
m fur Judith Morris's change of choice
—girlish caprice, perhaps; the handsome
person and more genial temper of Ezra.—
His wealth it could not be; fur Ephraim bad
oven then won for himself quite as consid
erable a fortune as that bequeathed to Ezra.
To have been disinherited in the younger
brother's favor was sufficient cause to kindle
hatred of that brother in such a nature as
Ephraim's; and to be jilted, cast off by a wo
man he ardently loved, for the same Ezra's
sake, increased, one can easily believe, that
hate a thousand fold; not the mere straw on
fire, of spasmodic, inconstant passion, but
the red hot steel, the burning ire of virile,
quenchless rage. The woman lie had so
loved shared that hate, as did her children,
Noah and Judith. During the first trans
ports of his rage and mortification, Eph
raim espoused the amiable and unhappy
young woman before spoken of: with what
result, has been stated.
The undived succession to his father's pro
perty, and his marriage with Judith Morris,
wore but - temporary breaks, as it were—bril
liant, but passing patches of blue, in Ezra's
clouded fortunes. lle was still, as in earlier
years, Ezra the unlucky. Spite of his wife's
courage,energy, and prudence, his substance
gradually melted away: and when The Con
stant Maid sailed south, she was the last
plank which intervened between him and
the black gulf of pin ching, hopeless poverty.
The state of things did not, of course, add
to the happiness of his married life. There
are, it is said—at least I have read so in
novels—a race of angel women, who make
perennial sunshine in the shadiest, blackest
places; are u blithe and content with a
scanty dinner of cold potatoes, or dry bread,
as with the dantiest fare, and would as
lieve wear washed out cotton gotns, as-be
clothed in purple and fine linen. Now, Mrs.
Ezra White did not belong to that' bright
band, though, as the world goes, an attached
wife and devoted mother. Mrs. Ezra White
was decidedly fond of money—who, indeed
is not!—though, of course, not all to an
equally intense degree. Fier eon Noah, her
daughter Judith, loved money; so did their
cousin Lute. It was an ineradicable pas
sion with each of the Whites; common to
them all as scriptural baptismal names.—
How that love of gold, combined with high
er instincts, shaped their destinies, will be
best illustrated by the sequel of the story.
Living in the same neighborhood, and of
ten seeing each other, it was the naturalist
thing in the world that Luke should fall in
love with Judith, and that Judith's mother
should encourage the wooing of the pros
pectively rich cousin. Old Ephraim had
discovered the intimacy, angrily forbidden
its continuance, and finally announced his
inflexible resolve to disinherit his son, should
he dare to marry the daughter of a woman
by whom he had himself been outraged and
betrayed. The ill-concealed delight mani
fested by the vindictive old man in the brig's
cabin will now be understood. Nothing, he
knew, so completely disenchants the most
ardent of lovers as the catastrophehinted
at with sufficient clearness by Luke on that
occasion.
And now to sea in The Fifth Whelp's
track, coming up with her when she reaches
the latitude of the West India Islands.—
One of the chief disadvantages encountered
by the sea rovers in those early filibuster
ing days was the want of a near settlement
where they might dispose of their prizes:—
Cromwell was then in his swaddling clothes
or, if he had outgrown them, had cer
tainly not wrested Jamaica from Spain.
In Virginia, though nominally appropriated
and named by the Virgin Queen, there were
not half a dozen settlers; the Pilgrim Fa
thers did not leave England till twenty years
afterwards. Fillibusters, of all nations,
were consequently obliged to send their
prizes to Europe for sale, Hence it was
that they watched anxiously for the treasure
ships of Spain; and after knocking about
for two or three months to very little pur
pose, Lake White was fortunate enough to
ascertain where one might almost certainly
be met with. Ile had chased and boarded
the San Jar, a Spanish merchant bark.—
The prize in itself was of no great value,
but, guided by certain passages in the Span
ish skipper's private papers, White easily
bullied, threatened, wheedled that nervous
gentleman into imparting very valuable in
formation. El Re, a minor treasure ship,
had been caught whilst on her way to Eu
rope, escorted by a frigate, in a violent storm
by which both vessels had been so damaged
that they had been compelled to run for the
port—the, at that period, but poorly defend
ed port of Havana. There they had been
for some time in 'course of reparation—the
frigate further up Me harbor than the trea
sure ship. Other particulars were given,
needless to detail, and White at once deter
mined upon his plan action. If it succeed
ed, the Spanish captain, who was to accom
pany bim,would have the SanJago and cargo
returned to him: if it failed through the
treachery or negligence of the said captain,
his brains would be blown out sans ceremo.
nie. This important preliminary settled, the
crew of the Spanish bat k were transferred
to The Fifth 'Whelp, confined in irons for
security's rake, and left in charge of just
such a number English seamen as sufficed
for the management of the brig. The San
Jago herself, with White, nine tenths of his
crew, and the Spanish captain, was then
steered direct for Cuba.
Arrived within about two miles of the
port of Havana, the San Jago lay-to, await
ing the visit of the guard-boat of the port,
a double-banked gAlley, propelled by thirty
sweeps.
Not the slightest suspicion wasen tertaisied,
the San Jugo, which was well-known in
Havana, having signaled that she had been
chased by an English buccaneer. The gal
ley came close alongside the bark, awl as it
was managed, between it and the port. The
galley came close alongside the bark, and
as it was managed, 'between it and the port
The commanding officer, nt the Spanish
Aipper's invitation, went on board the bark
was seized as his foot touched the deck; and
at the same moment, some thirty of White's
crew dropped down upon the galley. The
surprise was so complete resistance was out
the question —impossible; and tha Spaniards
—almost fancying, one would suppose, that
they were dreaming—were quietly handed
up the side, and stowed securely away in
the vessel's hold.
The most audacious part of this celebra
ted enterprise was yet to be carried out, and
in broad daylight. In the night, indeed it
could not have been attempted with any
chance of success, a stout chain being inva
riably drawn at evening gun-fire across the
part of the harbor where El Ito was anch
ored.
The galley aped book, steered by White
himself, attired in the uniform of the Span
ish officer, which he had taken the liberty of
borrowing for the occasion. The day was
burning hot; it was the hour of the Cuban
siesta, and a light breeze was blowing out of
the harbor.
.The return of the guard-galley attracting
no notice, at least no suspicious notice, she
was run swiftly alongside El Re, upon whose
deck perhaps a dozen sailors wore listlessly
sauntering. The English seamen, led by
White, clambered up the side, easily over
powered the astonished Spaniards, causing
very little bustle or confusion; the cable was
cut, the square sails let fall, and El Re glid
ing quietly off, was far beyond musket shot
before the slightest alarnr was rai ed on
shore or on board the frigate. Even then
no one seemed to comprehend 'what it all
meant, though there was a fierce hubbub,
and wild hurrying to and fro. When it was
too late, the tiny ordnance of the solitary
fort opened fire, but the balls falling short
of El Re, the gunners soon ceased to waste
their powder.
Instantly El Re was alongside the San
Jago, the shifting of the treasure chests in
to the bark began—a labor of love carried
on with such hearty good will, that by
the time the Spanish frigate had weighed
in pursuit, frill• thirty thousand pounds in
value had been transferred to the San Jago.
The reason that El Re was nut kept posses
sion of was, that only her square sails had
been bent, since they had been sent down
during the repairs of the vessel, and the fri
gate would consequently have had no diffi
culty in overhauling her.
It was full time to be off. With a rat
tling cheer, sail was made upon the San
Jago; and it was soon evident that success
ful pursuit by the frigate, which was not,
fortunately, nearly ready for sea, was out of
the question; and alter firing a few harm
less shots, she returned to port, towing El
Re after her. A neater thing than this ex
ploit of Luke White has seldom been done,
even by the British navy.
The Fifth Whelp brought up, all well, in
Plymouth Sound, between six and seven
months after she had sailed from that an
chorage. The treasure was safely landed,
and the lucky captain overwhelmed with
felicitations; Ephraim White was, of course,
highly delighted, and as the appetite for
gain ever grows by what it feeds upon, he
gave orders to immediately refit the brig fur
a second cruise.
The Rouse of irth thns:—The Ilouse of
.Mourning was not far off. The Constant
Maid had returned from a profitless cruise,
in almost a sinking state. Always unlucky
Ezra! This last blow completely prostrated
the unfortunate seamen, and he had been
same weeks confined to his bed—his death•
bed, it was feared. More terrible still, poor
betrayed Judith's fall from virtue could no
longer be concealed; gossips' tongues nag
ged freely of it; and it was reported that
piteous but altogether vain appeals had
been made to both Ephraim White and his
son, in behalf of the unhappy girl. The
demon of gold dominated the soul of Luke
as uncontrollably as his father's. lie was
profoundly indifferent, deaf as a stone to
his victim's cries for justice, mercy! He ap
peared to think of nothing but extorting
from the father an irrevocable settlement
upon himself of a half-share in The Fifth
Whelp, an equal division of the profits of
the last voyage, and half the proceeds of the
next venture. Ephraim White hesitated;
would, and would not; a lingering feat
haunted him, that if rendered independent.
Luke might possibly relent in favor of his
lost cousin. Judith, be persuaded or cajoled
into making her his wife. A foolish fear;
as he himself was soon convinced.
Noah White, Judith's brother, a hot tem
pered, impulsive young, man, who had re
turned to Plymouth but the day previously
from a coasting voyage, burst, as evening
was falling, into the old man's presence, in
a state of frantic excitement. He had
wrenched from his sobbing sister's hands a
note she had not long received from her
treacherous cousin, Luke, which revealed to
Noah not only his sister's shame, but her
insolent seducer's callous, heartless brutal
ity. The distracted brother had come to
urge his uncle Ephraim, by every motive
that should touch the heart of man, of a re
ligious man especially, to intercede with his
son in behalf of Judith. The shame and
disgrace would kill his mother, ho was sure
it would.
Ephraim White interrupted him with a
bitter laugh: "Kill your mother, will it?
Who else—•your father?"
"Yes, my father—your brother--whose
life already hangs upon a thrend--Judithi
—me! Mercy! mercy!" shrieked the young
man, falling upon his kness, whilst hot
tears streamed down his cheeks. "Mercy.
as you hope for mercy. Save us, your own
relatives, " from intolerable shame—from
utter, renoediless ruin!"
The implausible old man spurned Noah
with his foot, and brutally bade him be-
gone.
Noah sprang up, and rushed nut of the
room with a fierce oath that either Luke
should do Judith justice, or he would have
his heart's blood.
The letter which Noah had forced from
his sister had fallen upon the floor. Eph
raim White seized and read it with grim,
savage triumph. It was a cold, decisive
answer to no doubt a humble, heart-broken,
last appeal from Judith—informing her
that it was quite useless to pester him with
letters; he could not, would not marry her;
it was preposterous, after what had occur
, red, to suppose he would. fle would sup
port the child, should it be born alive, and
Judith bad better name the weekly or
monthly sum that would be required, which,
if not too extravagant, would not be ob
jected to, &c.
A quarter of an hoer afterwards Luke
made his appearance, with a cloudy, die
contented brow.
$1,50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE; $2,00 IF NOT IN ADVANCE
"Luke," said his father, "I have no longer
any objection to sign the papers you have
had prepared, I will do so immediately—
upon one condition."
"What condition?"'
"That you sail to-night. The brigs pa
pers are all right, and everything else in
perfect readiness."
"Why, in heaven's name, must I sail to
night?"
"Because your life is threatened. I shall
sty no more. Will you sail to night? Yes,
or no?"
"Yes, if you will sign and seal the la
pers."
"Bring them and the necessary witnesses
here. I will do so without delay."
The important documents were dully exe
cuted; father and son took lea‘e of each
other; Luke, with a bounding step, hasten-
Pd to the quay, and was immediately pulled
off to the brig.
Souse suspicion that Luke might give him
the slip mast have suggested itself to Noah's
mind, and having ascertained that his piti
less cousin had gone hurriedly on hoard the
brig, after leaving his father's house,
Judith's brother, armed with loaded pistols,
followed in less than an hour afterwards.
"He had important business with Captain
White," he told the officer of the watch,
"and must see him immdeiately."
"You will find him below in the cabin, ,
was the reply.
Noah sprang down the companion-steps
into the cabin, where calmly sat Luke, en
gaged in looking over a number of papers.
The brother's abrupt, passionate abord
was met with cold, smiling indifference;
and to Noah's peremptory demand, if he
, would marry Judith, he as peremptorily re
plied that he should do no such thing—cer
tainly not.
"Then one of us will not leave this cabin
alive," was the rageful retort. "Take your
elide() of these pistols— ha! —a coward too!
By the (lud above to, if yon will not fight, I
will blow your brains out, should I be
hanged for it."
A light Land touched Noah's shoulder—
a light laugh rang in his eat! "What, mad
brother mine, blow my husband's brains
out! Vie fie!"
It was Judith, his sister, whose presence
the half•opened door had concealed!
"Your husband!"
"Bless you, yes! Why, we were Intirried
several days before Luke's last voyage.—
but then, you know, we could not live upon
air; nor, I dJubt, for a life-time upon love."
".And you plotted that I should, unknow
ingly, dissipate his futher . 's lingering
doubts?"
"Yes; clever, wasn't it? At least it has
turned out right, which is the best proof I
have been told, of cleverness. As for
trusting you, or fattier, with our secret, we
might, you well know, have just as well
proclaimed it by beat of drum in the wi ar
ket-place."
A Coat brought Mrs. Ezra White on
board the brig early the next morning.—
tier countenance wore grave, solemn ex
pression.
"Your father," she said, addressing Luke,
"has been suddenly called away. lle drank
more copiously of strong cordials last night
than be has even of late: another tit was
the consequence, from which be never ral
lied. I was present when ho died, upon
the stroke of four this morning, lie knew
me, and by mutual pressure of our hands ,
we exchanged forgiveness. May the Lord
have mercy on his soul!"
"Amen!"
"Amen:"
Ephraim White having died intestate, the
whole of his wealth devolved to his son, who
sold the brig, and settled permanently down
as a landed proprietor.
Artemns Ward Visits Lincoln
I hey no polities. Nary a one. I'm not
in the bisniss. If I was, I spoke I should
holler versiffrusly in the streets at nite cud
go home to Betsy Jane smellin of coal ile
and gin in the ntornin. I should go to the
Poles nrly. I should stay there all day. I
should see to it that my cabers was thar.—
I should git carriges to take the kripples,
the infirm and the indignant Char. I should
be on gird agin frauds and rich. I should
be on the look out for the infamus lice of the
enemy, got up jes bed elecshon for perlitical
effeek. When nil was over and my candy
date was elected, .1 ehCuld move hexing &
arth—so to speak—until got orifice, which
if I didn't git a orifice should turn round &
abooze the Administration with all my mite
and maine. Bat I'm not in the hisniss.—
I'm in a far more respectful bieniss nor
%let pollertics is. I wouldn't give two
cents to be a Congresser. The trust insult
I ever received was when sertin citizens of
Baldinsville axed me to run fur the Leg,isla
ter. Sez I, "My friends, dostest think I'd
stoop to that there?" They turned as white
as a sheet. I spoke in my orfullest tones,
d they knowed I wasn't to he trifled with.
They clunked out of site to °net.
There 4 having no politics, I made bold to
visit Old Abe at his humstid in Springfield.
I found the old feller in his parler, sur
rounded by a perfeek swarm of orifice seek._
ers. Knowing he bad been capting of a
flat boat on the roarin Mississippi, I thought
I'd address him in sailor lingo, so sez I "Old
Abe, ahoy! Let out yer main-cull, reef
hum the forecastle & throw yer jib-poop
overboard! Shiver my timbers, my party!"
[N". B. This is ginuine mariner langwidge.
I know, becawz I've seen sailor plays octal
[WHOLE NUMBER 1,587.
out by them New York theater fellers.) Old
Abe loo's up quite cross & eez, "Send in
yer petition by & by. I cant possibly look
at it now. Indeed, I can't. It's onpossible.
CBI
"Mr. 'Ankh+, who do you spect I air?"
sod I.
"A oriEce seeker, to be sure!" sed be.
"Wall, sir," sed I, "you's never more
mistaken in your life. You ha'n't got a or
igss I'd take under no circumstances. I'm
A.. Ward. Wax figgers is my perfeshun.
Pm the father of twins, and they look lil e
we—back of them. I cunt to pay a friendly
visit to the President eleck of the United
States. If so be you wants to see me say
so—if not, say 8.3, S.: I'm orf like a jug
handle."
"Mr. Wrird, qit down. I'm glnd to &ea
you. sir
"Repose in Alas.hatti's7zurnl" sed one
of the orifice seekers, his idee Lein to git orf
a goak at my expellee_ .
sec I, "ef all yeti fellers repose
in that there Buzzum thare'll be ntity poor
nussin fur sum of you!" wheretipon Old Abe
buttoned his weskit clear up, and blushtliko
a maiding of sweet 10. Jest at this pint of
the conversation another swarm• of orifice
seekers arrove & cum pilin into the parlor.
Sum wanted post orifices, sum wanted eol
lectorsbips, sum wanted furrin missions, and
all wanted mantilla I thought Old Abe
would gu crazy. Ho hadn't more
_than,had
time to shake hands with 'om, before anoth
er tremenjis crowd • cum . porein onto his
premises. His honso and dooryard was
now perfeckli overflowed with orifice seek
ers, all clameruss for a` imineb. interew
with Old 'Aloe: — triC;tinico c r ! Ohio, who
I I had about seven inches of corn whisk . * into
him, mistook me fur Old Abe and adlrest
me as ••The Pradty-rie Flower of the West!"
Thinks I you want a off's putty bad.—
Another man with a gold-headed cane and
a red nose told Old Abe he was a "seckind
'Washington & the pride of the boundliss
West!"
Sez I, "Square, you wouldn't take &small
NO OM it yould git it, would you?"
Sez he, "a patrit is abuv them things,
IME
"There's a putty big crop of patrits this
season, aint there, Squurel'•' sez 4, when
another crowd of off:a-seekers poured in.—
The house, door-yard, barn & woodshed was
now all full, and when another rod corn I
told 'em not to go away fur want of room,
as the hog-pen was still empty. One patrit
from a small town in Mishygan went 'up on
top the house, got into the chimney, and
slid down into the parlor where Old .Abe was
endeverin to keep the hungry pack of offs
seekers from chawin him up alive without
benefit of clergy. The minit he reached the
fire-place he jnmpt up, brushti the soot •out
of his eyes, and yelled: "Dolt make eny
pintment at the Spunkvillo postoffice till
you've read my papers. All the respectful
men in our town is signers to that there
dockyment!"
"Good Cod!" cried old Abe, •'they cum
upon me from the skize—down the chim
neys, and from the bowels of the yearth!"
Ile hadn't more'n got them words out of
his delikit mouth before two fat olfiss-seek
ers from Wisconsin, in endeverin to crawl
• atween his legs for the purpuss of applyin
for the toll gateship nt Milvrawki, upsot the
President clock, & I,owould hey gone spraw.
lid into the fire-place ifl hadn't caught him
in these arms. But I hadn't more)n stood
him up strate, before another man cum
crashin down the chimney, his head strikin
me vilently agin the inards and prostratin
my voluptoous form onto the floor. "Mr.
shoutid the infatooated being, "my
papers is signed by every clergyman in our
town, and likewise the skoolmaster!"
Scz I, "you egrejis ass," gittln up S
brushin the dust from my eyes, "I'll sign
your papers with this bunch of bones, • if
you don't be a little more keerful how you
make my bread baskit a depot in the futur.
Ilow do you like that air perfumery?" sez I.
shucing my list under his nose. "Them's
the kind of papers I'll gir soul Them's the
papers you Ntllnt!"
"But I workt hard for the ticket; I toiled
night and day! The pattit should be re
warded!"
"Virtoo," sod I , boldin' the infatoonted
man by the coatcollar,"virtoo, sir, is its own
rewa-d. Look at me!" Ile did look at me
and qualed 1,e4 my gnse. "The net it," I
continued, lookin' round upon the *hungry
crowd, "there is scarcely a offrw for every
ile lamp carried round dnrin' this camps ne.
I wish there was. r wish there was Birth,
missions to be filled on 'earls Islands Where
eppydemics rage incessantly, and if I was
in Old Abe's place I'd send every mother's
son of you•to them. What airyou here for?"
I crmtinnered, warmin' up considerable,
"can't you giv Abe a minit's peace? D o n' t
you sec he's worrid most to death! Go Lome
you miserable men, go Inane and td the site!
Go to peddlin' tinware—go to choppin' wood
—go to Win' sope—itutlsassengers—black
boots—git a clerkship on some respectable
manure cart—go round as original Swiss
Bell Ringers—becum 'origeoul and only'
Campbell Minstrels—go to leeturin at 50
dollars a mite--imbark in the peanut bizni's
—write for the Ledger—saw of your legs
and go round givin concerts, with Medlin ap
peals to a charitable public, printed on your
handbills—anything for a honest livin', but
don't come round here dririn Old Abe
crazy by your outrages cuttings up: Go
home. Stand not upon the order of your
goin', but go to one;! If in five minits from