The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-05-08

will sweep across the place
Where have trod the sandy shore
m 3 ,lne, ,ar aHu unmeNthe oGe@ 10 "e name D bore;
To leave no track, no trace.
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ANA holds the water in his hands,
know the lasting record. stands.
n, III ,ei.Dea ,l araai asI'nsr nsr my hss mrenrh,
or all this thinking soul has thought,
And from these feetins % moments caught
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~ BRANDY.
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"We came more than once very near
fighting. - said the Canadian Colonel, Is we
watched the FIRST ssregular train, crossing
the Niagara suspension bridge.
"About the Caroline affair do you means''
"No. That was not the most critical
time. though Sir Francis Head the most
wrong headed fellow in Her Majesty's SER
vice. did his best to put things into mud
dle.o
s.Was II when We caught that poor fool
M,Leod. and came near hanging him 20
Ono. 1t was before that. Both Govern
,nents had time to get cool and saw that 1t
was foIly to 90 to war about him.
s.StHi if he had been found guilty OF the
murder of Duffy, we must have hung HIM
and as your government had assumed the
responsibilities of the affair, how could you
avoid making it q case Of war?'
ga little diplomacy settled all that. We
agreed to find witnesses who would swear
| to an abb, and you agreed to believe them.
| Upon my honor, think you undertook the
more difficult task"
"How and when was it that we came so
near coming to blows and what prevented
the catastrophe?" rE rfI 49, a.
"It was prevented by bottle of bad
brandy. The affair is a portion of the un-
written history of the times, and is worth
! telling.o
"Ilow was it, Colonel:''
"It was not long after the burning Of the
| Caroline. and there was excitement enough
on both sides Of the line. We had couple
of thousand men, and tho Patriots were
en.,mnnd on Navy island. We had no yery
aofn;,e ;nfor,n,t;on os to their Numbers.
Somo said there were five hundred others
.nesSod them three times as many. Rut-
Pow or many. thcv had plentv of artillery
anJ snail arms a: once came near fndino
ont 70 NV cost when 7 annroached the island
in command Of A reconnoiterine force.-
Tbcy nonro5 owov at us and il is wonder
th,t we we're no. blown ont of the water
W. had fitted ont an armed hotilla. con-
s;st;ng of two schooners and a connle Of
scows for tho nurnose Of COVERING landing
rnnn ,bn leland Rnt as we conld not at
,ho TINA command q sufficient number of
boots nnr SQUADRON Law inactive in the river
a f.,v ,n;les ahoxn Your Goycrnment had
in ,Le mnon t;mc scnt General Scott to the
front;srs M T 70 trv and keen the neacc. A
lttle follow is the General! lie has saved
ro, ,nI ,s mora than ono war Don't Won
,b;nt vonr Gover1mcnt il ACTING rather
shahb;Iv n,;hLl;nc ohou, ., few dollars zorro
~ Lass >,
81, Jo.s ,ooL Tko Il Colonel Rut d..
mend unon If all viii he right at last. The
roun,ry krnws foo woll what + owes n tho
oI5 ynt.ro, to srfrcr anv ;niust;ca to ba dana
to HIM ,,
"WclI,v continued the Colonel, .---e Law
in the river commanding the access to Navy
Island, and General Scott had erected a
battery on the shore commanding us, and
within point blank range. About this time
the little steamer Barcelona dropped down
from Buffalo to Fort Schlosser, carrying,
as every one supposed, recruits and supplies
to our ncishbors on Navy Island. However,
We ascc.tained from our spies that her pa
p,rs were all rcgular-a peaceful. trader
plvinc between two American ports-and
we could not interfere. We afterwards
learned that she had commenced running
between Schlosscr and Navy Island on 'pic-
nic' excursions and such like peaceful err
rands. We had no means of hindering that,
and said nothing.
GONE day intelligence reached our head
quarters at Chippewa, that the Barcelona
was about to ascend the river to Buffalo for
further supplies. To do this she must come
within reach of our fotilla, and our COM
mander, Captain Graham, received orders
from Colonel M'Nabb and Captain Drew to
arrest her. But on the very day she was to
ascend, Colonel Hughes of the Oath arrived
at Chippewa and as he outranked M'Nabb,
he took the command. His first step was
to forbid Captain Drew to interfere with
any vessel ascending the river under Amer
lean colors, Much against his will the Cap
tain was forced to send an order to this
effect to the commander of the Aotilla.o
"At dinner Colonel Hughes changed his
mind, and sent to Graham an order to sStop
the Barcelona, peaceablv. if possible; but
at all events to stop her,"
"The mess must have had very good
port,n SUGGESTED we,
every likely thev did: and it came near
nost;n, rs de;r ., re;o;nea tho CoIoneI. ssI
am an old soldier now, and NAV safely own
that | did not at all relish our position. 1t
was easy enough, to be sure, for us to stop
the Barcelona. We could have blown her
ont of the water in two minutes: but. I'M.
luckily Scott's battery could do as the same
kind turn in about three -fourths of the time.
We soon had evidence that he was unite
determined to do so if necessary. For
hardly had we received the orders to ston
the Barcelona. before a boat anproacbcd the
Aotilla from the American shore. with a
MESSAGE from General Scott to the effect
that. if we interfered with the steamer. he
should consider it eouivalent to a declara-
tion of wnr. and wonId sink our sonodro.
instau,er. We wcre verv we'll aware that a
couple Of rounds from his batterv would bo
quite sufficient for the purpose.