The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-10-06
From the Syracuse Nv. ~ Star.
Inst Rnv T0nnd

On Sunday morning gentleman from Albany
by the name of James Burt arrived here in pur-
suit of boy who will be eight years old in Deem
Der next, that left home the 8th of October 1876
Mr. Burts attention called to the subject by
reading article in the Journal of boy that
found in a dry goods box asleep under the liberty
pole, near the Salina street bridge, by justice
House, soon after the Fair. He taken to the
orphan lum, where the father found him on Sun
day morning, and selected him out of more than
eighty children. The story which the boy told and
which is undoubtedly true, is, that he has been lv-
ing with Mr. Golden, at Oswego, who has had no
children, for two or more years past. That some
two weeks previous to the Fair he left Oswego,
with person whom they called Burt living within
some two three miles Of this city but in what d-
rection the boy is unable to tell He stayed there
some days, and told he might come to the Fair,
which he did alone but could not find his way back.
He was left without money; drove watched sheep
on the Fair ground, for some one, who gave him
| some pennies, with which he purchased some cakes
and peaches. In this way he obtained barely food
enough to sustain life Worn out with fatigue, and
exhausted for the want Of food, at the close Of the
Fair he laid down in the dry goods box, under the
liberty POLE and found for the night Previous
nights he had slept in barns and on boats After
being found by justice House he taken to the
orphan ASYLUM, that noble and phianthropic inst-
tuition, which is well deserving the patronage of
our citizens, where he well cared for.
The father, who heard the boys story, and after
conversing with a gentleman from Oswego, re-
solved to go TO Oswego on Sunday evening, which he
did. We him for moment on his return yes
terday morning He says that Golden owned he
had the boy for three years, and found him in
New York. The father, with the found boy, left
here yesterday morning in the cars for home,
where mother awaits the arrival of the lost
The Joy which his presence will give her, after
much anguish, doubt, and uncertainty, can be i'm
| agined by mother but not described by father.
The boy had recollection of his father had al
| ways been told that his father Englishman,
| and that both his father and mother were dead
| He says he has been well taken of and has
been sent to school portion of the time
The whole subject is still shrouded in mystery,
| and il is difficult to conjecture the object which
those had who took him from home. He was miss
| ing from home the sth of October, 1876, on
which day Howe & Co.'S Circus came into Albany;
and the father has always supposed, until now, that
he stolen by the circus company, 10 be trained
10 their business; and firm was this belief, that
he has hired man who has been with the compa-
ny, IN which Dan Rice engaged, for six months;
but no clue during this time obtained of the
boy. The father informed US that he had spent up
wards of 800 in travelling, in search of his
has, during the last three years, seen several adj
vertsements and paragraphs In the newspapers,
speaking of strange boys, which he has followed
| up, To no purpose, until this time.
| We have just received a neatly executed sketch
of Buttermilk Channel, in the harbor of New York,
made by the photographed party OF the coast
vey under the command Of Lieut.. ID. ID. Porter, OF
| the United States Navy.
The channel is distinctly traced, and can be
SEEM has been judiciously buoyed under the di-
| rection of Lieut. Maxwell Woodruff, of the Navy,
with spar buoys painted and consecutively num-
| bered. The various soundings throughout the
channel are indicated the chart, and are reduced
TO mean low water spring tides. They range from
thirty two to fortytwo feet deep in and about the
channel which renders il perfectly safe for the pas
sage OF our largest G ass vessels. The buoys arc
moored in nineteen feet low water. The benefits
conferred by the surveys Of this channel 10 mer.
camille marine OF the highest importance, and
we pleased 70 announce that Lieut.. Woodruff
has sent ~ the collector of the port two hundred
copies for grstuitous distribution TO masters and
owners of vessels interested in its navigation.
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