The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1855-10-11

and lay low little while, ill he went
into Havana and reconnotered round
and then he should know exactly whit
to do. So we waited patiently week Or
t two langer; and then hailed a Ptnob-
scot sloop, Cap, Gilman, an old acquain
tancc, who had been into Havana with
= load oflumber and was homewarI bound
. with a little cargo Of molasses and sugar.
= Says |, "Gilman, did you see anything
t Of Commodore McCauley?"
See him? Yes, see him every
t Day"
e oval, what's he about all this time?"
, Has he took the Moro, and the city. and
the war-vessels, without giving me a
3 chancc?"
mo | don't think he has took any
; thing" said Gilman, "but the Captain
Gineral has took him."
Ny dander was right up, | tell ye
Says l.
You don't mean to say he has took
our Commodore and shut him up in the
Moro? If he has I'll go right in with
the Two Pollies and blow the old thunder
Jug into the ocean
"Oh, no. said Gilman, with a little
puckery laff creeping round his eyes and
mouth, hes only took the Commodore
into his great Gne carriage, and | see
them most every day riding about IT,
gether, cheek by jowl, and having a jolly
time Of it,"
"Thunder!" says |. "Then some
body's been pullin' at the wrong end o.
the rope, and l won't lay low any
longer"
So we up stake and sot sail on our own
hook. keeping an eye well to the wind.
ward. felt cross and told the hands to
crack on all sail. meant to be out Of
sight and hearing when the Commodore's
feet come out again, for | didn know
but he might take it into his head to en-
: force the neutrality laws and had no
idea of bein' ketched in that trap. fe't
eure there was screw loose somewhere
in the Cabinet, and l thought if could
only be in Washington half an hour, |
could End out where twas. But as
things was, there was no other way for
me but to take the responsibility, and, 1t
| couldn't take Cuba, jes' hold on 10 the
4 slack till something turned up.
Wal, it wasn't a great while before
y something did turn up that carried our
hopes right up to the tip top rung of the
a ladder After scuddin' about W
S weeks, to keep out Of sight CT Commodore
: Nc Cauley, for had serious suspicious
}, of him, I come back again along The
a Northern side of Cuba, to see if could
9 pick up any more news As good luck
n would have it, Kennebec brig soon
come along, homeward bound l ha led
), her, and as soon as the Captain come OF
J. deck, ! see al once it was Captain Drum
t; mond, frst-rate pryin teller, and
r knew in moment if he had been in Cubs
, a week, he would know every thing that
1t was going on upon the island 30
e asked him to back his main topsail, anC
10 Id come aboard. We went into the cab
III in, and he brought on bottle OF old ia
in maky. We are bih Maine-law folks a
id home, but out here we sometimes take
$, drop to keep of the yaller fever.
+. "Now, Capt. DrummOnd," says l
10 show does things stand in Cuba? hea
,r Commodore McCauley has turned traito
,e to the cause. Islberty going to be crush
q ed out there or not? Or is there an.
or chance yet for them poor fellers that hav
S been tryin so long and so hard to &c
d their freedom?"
.e "Any chance, my dear Major say
N he, "why the chance never was better
re never half so good before. The who'll
is thing is cut and dried, and almost read.
f. to blaze out with brightness that wi
p enable US 10 spear fish at midnight alonI
ne the whole coast from the Kennebec to th
ID Mississippi"
" "Good Give US your hand, old boy,
N says |. "Now prove that and Il b
10 be your humble servant forever!'
Sc "Well, it's true as preachin," says he
ID "Our Government has got first-rate
IS. rent on the island, overhauling the whol
I'd business, to see that every thing is in tn
lie right train, SO there shan't be no msal
ID and no chance to miss fire agin. Il
h. keeps dark, and goes round among tf
,y leading patriots, and consults about I'll
Mt whole campaign. After he Shove
n, his dockyments, proving that he was a
1t, agent from our Government, they did,
,l, keep any thing back, but told him IL
nd ,ybole business. how the patriots were