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and refining my pockets; land, in state
bordering on frenzy, | rushed IN board a
steamboat hound up the Mississippi.
That boat was the ill-fated Olouoco!
Enduring al the horrors Of the scene
Of death consequent upon the fearful ex-
plosion on board that "ll-slarred perfdi-
Gus bark" escaped from her a; Vicks-
burgh, landed, and went to the principal
hotel. That very night, the great fire"
broke out, consuming the " hole square on
which the hotel stood. escaped, with
the loss Of all my baggage. Owing to ex-
posurc, fright, and fatigue, was attacked
the next day with a bilious fever, which
kept me prisoner for six weeks!-
"Just my luck!"
The fever finally "evacuatcd;" and sali-
vaied. scorched, and won to a skelpJoo-
more dead than slrve--I started for Red
River, in the vain hope that on the ex-
rrmp verge Of civilization, my internal
"luck' might desert me, Twas vain at
tempt After that dumping of.place" Of
all creation, Shreveport, was left behind
us, (leng more than six hundred miles up
that wild stream, the Red River aud just
as ! hegan to indulge in the foudest anti.
cipations. the bopt struck a susz in "the
great raft" and sunk in twenty minutes.
There being no other steam boat at that
time up The river, We were obliged to take
small boats ana 60 down, drifting with the
current by day, and sleeping on shore
with the snakes, aligators, and musqui-
toes) ly night, Arrived after Il we,k OF
this tedious voyaging, at Natchiochrs,
and there got on board a small steamLoat,
IN continued our downward course
The river being at food, the boat ran in,o
the WOODS and knocked down her ch m.
neys. They fell overheard and sunk!
We lay by for day, and built Woode,
chinHcysi out of some manks which were
found piled on the shore. Thought them
rather combustbloi but the captain bad u
sell similar ones frequently with perIec
success. So we started; ian mruily tora-
bout ten miles. Why not twenty or fltyl
was on board. The contounded chin
neys took fire and were consumed, the boat
herself having narrow escape!
"Just my luck!"
BY some means or other, hardly know
what, reached Cincinnati, Ohio, Met
there an old friendi one of my few real
iiiends. AFTER all my troubles and tor.
ment," thought |, "lhis is one happiness
beyond the reach of iates"-but he was
) going to New Oreans the same day!--This
however, | made the best Of He had ta-
/ ken passage in u beautiful, new 'boat.
! This was her first trips and, willing TO
f give the citizens a treat, the captain invi-
ted the friends Of the passengers to re.
main on hoard, and he would run Two or
!; three miles up the river, and Iaud them as
ho again passed the pier on his way down.
We remained on hoard, ! remained.
Thr boat ran two or three miles up tie
stream, TUNED, and when nearly ut the
whartUgain fearful eXploson was hcard
the shattered fragments or the Moselo
were scattered upon the stream and shores
OF the Oho
My woes were not II end thus. Hap
pening to toish to he killed, such an event
was an impossihlity wasrcscued from
the water perfectly uniniured.
"Juslmy lnck!'
Some time elapsed. went TO Candn.--
Joined the "pa,rois" Now, thought J.,
linked with men as desperate as myself ]
may at least bring my SORROWS 10 speedy
termination. Everything worked In nn-
son with my hopes. | was taken prs H.
er in arms! was trird at London, Up
per Canada, and sentenced to be hanged!
The day arrived; stood upon :he sranod;
the fatal moose was placed around my
npcki already l seemed 10 have advanced
one strip into the Other world. Just as
was expecting the irrevoraIlp signal for
the eXecutioner to launch mo forth. q re-
prpvp arrived from Sir George Arthur!
/ This was followed ty FIRE pardon! Ny
happiness in prospect Of the close o! my
career was considered proof positive oi IN
sanity. Some persons curious in monoma-
MIA had obtained my released
was sent ou. Of the province, fcourse,
took the Stage for Detroit, in Michigan. -
The stage propriptors were in the habit Of
shortening their route some seventy miles,