The pilot. [volume] (Baltimore [Md.]) 1840-1840, 1840-04-23

The old gentleman was very much eIaled at
what he regarded as signal victory. He ne
yer knew the motive that led to his release, viz:
Difference to the infrmity of his character
his monomania. This victory, like many
other victories obtained at most cost, was most
worthless. He retained his bonds, tits true,
but a receiver had been appointed-the bonds
paid TO that receiver, and declared void; SO that
the empty papers in his possession amounted
to nothing That receiver paid the verdicts,
and retains still, we believe, a balance in his
hands, which the EX-Sherif would never
claim. He said it was all most Internal and
horrible conspiracy, and that be would uproot
it all, and recover the whole that he had been
"robbed" of. At different times he correspon-
ded with various distinguished men, among
whom were William J. Duane, Henry A.
Wise, John @. Adams, Mr.. Vail, formerly A
mercan Minister at London, Lord GoSiOrd,
Governor General of Canada, and others
What he could have done or proved will never
be known aud never wouldhave been, had
the age of Methusaeth been, added to the
three score and ten, which the old manachiev-
ed.
He stopped too much by way, to chase
up minor and accidental Instances Of ''hor.
rible corruption" TO reach any reach any
great purpose. His LIST hobby was the de
lection Of The Whereabouts of a letter which
missed its way somewhere between the old
gentlemau's lodgings at Newark, N. j., and
the post Office in Albany. He actually, we
believe, made trip from Newark TO Albany
to see what had become oil ii; dealing ana
themas all The way, on the whole "bloGay
country" and the post masters in particular.
The five years which he spent in jail were
curously passed. Upon one or two occasions
we visited him there. Books of heraldry and
the peerage; papers and memorandas, and old
newspapers ticketed, and filed away for their
memorabilia, and partizan paragraphs illustra
ting the corruption of the office-holders,
(Swartwout and Price were rare mouthluls for
him alterwardD Indian moccasns and buffalo
| skins; a hunting horn, spiders and skllets, and
other articles too numerous to mention, an in
congruous collection, in singular place, a
dorned his apartment He always had some
clerkly poor debtor retained in his apartment
as an amanuenss, and ready like Moses in the
School for Scandal, to "swear to tha" when
his principal made an assertion Stretched on
his bed, the old gentleman would dictate 10 his
secretary, with as much porp and circum
stance as Queen Victoria can command the
pen of the Baroness LehZen.
On one of these visits the old gentleman was
unusually animated and loquacious-albeit he
had always furious gallop of the tongue
He pulled out from its recesses an old box,
and drew forth
Item. A billet of wood, bifeted with card,
which the old gentleman read with additions
and annotations. This card set forth that the,
club was one of twin Of loaded sticks, given
TO Elk Sheriff Parkins with malicious intent to
blow him 10 perdition. One of these sticks
blew kettle of soup which the old gentleman
was cooking to the ceiling but fortunately did
no other damage.
Item. A bloody shirt, setting forth on what
occasion in an imminent deadly encounter with
the. conspirators to take his lille, it, was en-
sanguined.
lem. Another, same as preceding, with
different date.
There were severai-half dozen we should
think, shirts and fragments of shirts, preserved
as above described. All this violence the old
Elk Sheriff attributed to bloody conspirators on
the outside of the jail, determined TO take his
life by means of villains within. II is unneceS-
sary to say that these trays were partly the re-
suit of his own unhappy temper, and partly the
fault of his impudent fellow prisoners, who
would trespass on the apartment which he
deemed his castle, and who would not pay..to the
chancery prisoner the respect due TO the She
riff Of London He was, even at his advanced
age, capital ''miller,'' and could thrash any
two common men, and give half dozen their
hands full. On one occasion the rascals took a
different way to annoy him. They fastened
him in his room. and thrust burning birthstone
and other foul smells upon him, till he was
forced 10 open his windows TO get gasp Of
breath. He took his hunting horn, and blow |
ing series of furious blasts, rallied crowd |
round tie Brdewell, and told his story with no
ack of decorations
After the order came for his release, he still
made the prison lodging for some time. He
was an honest, but ong-headed and strong
headed old man, with prominent faults, and vir-
tues as prominent. He knew no such doctrine
as expediency, and no such feeling as fear i
He had an iron frame, and his leading trait
was an indomitable perseverance, TO the last.-
He PROFESSIONALLY sinned, but was much more
Iinned against than sinning; and il an impair
ial history OF his life in this country could be
written, certain men, tolerably high in stand !
ng, would occupy no enviable place in it. 1t t
$ impossible to do justice to wronged tiger, I
marting and scratching under his injuries '
'erhaps this was the reason poor Parkins Jared Z
0 i'll. All men had not the patience nor the
isDOSition IN understand his character. He !