Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1840-02-21
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10 Tie uuIllUlS UcilcfeI
LAFIrrE, THE PIRATE.----lt is generally /
known that Lafit,e, for considerable time, oc-
cupied Galveston Island, and finally abandoned
it upon the compulson of the U. States We
have seen several persons who were here du-
ring his stay, and who knew him.
He andhis party had built quitea village, upon
the site of the present city, as early as 1872.
His own house was two stories high, and a
very good one The others were only one
story, and OF palmer construction They pro-
cured their building materials from New Or
leans, with which place they kept up regular
intercourse. In fact, Lafte boasted that he
had made half the merchants of that city rich.
He uniformly alleged that his depredations were
committed upon vessels sailing under Spanish
colors, and he is known TO have hung one OF
his men for having robbed an American citizen.
He was Frenchman by birth, but had lived
some time in the Unitad States. He would
stand and talk upon any serious matter, with
one eye shut, for hours, and at such time had
rather harsh look. But he was tall and fine
ly formed; his manners were highly polished,
and in his pleasant moods, one who did not
know him, would have suspected him for beng
anything but pirate.
He lost four vdSsels and many men in a
srorm in 1913. Three of the vessels were lost
at sea, and one went ashore on Virginia point,
on the opposite side of the bay.
He stated that be had spent one winter in
fashionable society at Washington City, and
that he had expended sixty thousand dollars
during the time.
When he left the Island he went to embark
in the Columbian service, having received the
! tan o1ar & IL
thentic account has ever been given of his
death, and some of those who know him believe
that he is alive. Nearly all published in rela-
tion to him in the Lives of the Pirates, as well
as in the novel bearing his name, with
the exception of what relates TO his conduct at
the battle of New Orleans, and his operations
in Louisiana, is said to be fabulous by those
who knew him.--GalreSton Gds.
A CoRrsE GOING TO A BALL.-You recollect
the first day of January, 1910. 1t was bitter
cold day. twas cold as far south as the city
OF New York, and up here in the country,
where | am writing, 1t was terribly severe.
0u could not ride far against the wind without
being exposed to freezing have heard of two
cases of death by cold on that day in this re-
gion, and of another case in which the sufferer
was saved by great exertion, when on the point
of perishing. The night of that day was to be
Observed as is usual here, by New Years
ball. Invitations had been extended for many
miles around, and a great gathering of the
young. and gay, and ihoughtless, was expect
Cd. Extensive preparations had been made for
an aTenlnu nf merriment and plaa- and merry
hearts beat quickly in anticipation of the plea
sure of the scene. None was happier in the
thought of coming Joy than Miss -, who took
her seat in the sleigh, by the side Of her part
ner for the evening, and set out for ride OF
some twenty miles, TO join the dance. She was
young and gay, and her charms of youth and
beauty never were loveIier than when dressed
for that New Years ball OF course too thinly
clad for the season, and especially for that dread
tul day, she had not gone far before she COM
planned Of being cold but their anxiety to reach
the end of their ride in time to be present at the
opening of the dance, induced them to hurry
onward without stopping by the way. Not long
after this complaining, she said that she felt
| perfectly comfortable, was now quite warm, and
that there was no necessity of delay OH her ac-
count. They reached, at length, the house
where the company were gathering the young
man leaped from the sleigh, and extended his
hand to assist her out, but she did not offer hers;
he spoke 10 her, but she answered not; she
was dead stone dead frozen stiff; corpse
on the way to bali.COr. n. Y.-Observer.
| A CHILD IN THE WooDs. Some sensation
has been caused in the neighborhood Of Sher-
brooke, Lower Canada, by the discovery of a
white child, supposed to be four or five months
old, IN The possession of a small party of the
St. Francis Indians. The peor little creature
was in wretched state of suffering---emacia-
ted almost to a mere skeleton lashed to a
board, pappoose fashion, with piece of raw
venison in its mouth, which the squaw who had
il IN charge had given it to satisfy its ravening
hunger, being herself incapable of supplying 9
the proper food designed by nature for infants
of that tender age
The poor child was purchased from the In
dlans by kind hearted Captain Adams, who
paid them for it five dollars and barrel of flour
lie also provided for it suitable nurse and
comfortable clothing
1t is estimated that the parents are known,
or at least suspected. The child was not sto.
len from them, but transferred by themselves to
the Indians: with what purpose the Canada
| papers do not say---W Y. Cam Adr