Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1859-11-22

South Carolina z!
81 see um many times, ebber since he
bin young man.
reckon you wouldn't know him
now"
Il mou, know him, bu, den | MOUTH
Do you know why your master didn't
want you to go to the Village or TO the
Doctors
Il reckon Gaze he was afeard the
Doctor would help dis po nigger gi, away
from desc paris
That was it,"
" But how he kin help me?
May be. Sam, if you'll answer my
question Iii answer yours"
:" Wa question 2"
Wha, did your master leave YOU
here for ?''
Well, you see, Ginral, eff Massa
want You 10 know he would tell you he
self"
:" suppose he would have told me if
be had thought of it,"
81 knows better dan DAT. He taut
about II, but | reckon he ,aut YOU wasn't
10 be trusted"
+" Darn it all. if | thought he did have
that opinion of me | wouldn't have had a
thing TO do with him"
''Ef was you wouldn', hab nu,,in
to do fur him no how"
g Yes, you black cunning rascal. YOU
want 10 have chance to get away from
here
War would go eff l so way from
yer9'
Canada, suppose"
How | guine git dar :"
Ha. that's telling"
Here followed another pause. The
old General was evidently al his wits end
how TO pump the matter out of Sam. At
length he said:
Time for me 10 &c, Sam; I'll bring
yoa some more bread tomorrow. Is tha,
boiled ham pretty near gone g
- Bout half is dar vet"
The Doctor thinking it best to allow
the general to pass out without his being
IN his way, put out his dark ened lantern
entirely and retired TO the back of the
passage. When he was gone he return
ed to the aperture and listened Sam
was muttering, "glad be gone. | mus
90 look arter dat chile now" After lis
tening some time and hearing nothing
more, he lighted his lantern with a match
anI began to search for the passage from
which the general had emerged. But af-
ter searching length of time IN vain, he
returned TO the small aperture aud again
listened.
Canada said Sam. :" Canada! D.
Ginral feared Mass William Bruce help
me git to Canada" Then he paused
:. moment, and seemed 10 be removing
something evidently of some weight. for
he gave grunt as ne set 1t down, as ii
placing stone upon the rocky floor Of
= who dat man was dat show Massa all
dis contrbance yer. | spec may be he
mus be one dem day call counterftter"
He then seemed to get lantern from an
other direction, for as he moved the light
streamed through the small aperture and
made bright line upon the opposite side
s .k, Tho ~, tha,, looIy
ing in could distinctly see that there was
a narrow hssure opposite the hole INTO
which be now pushed his entire head, ,bu:
not getting il far enough he withdrew II,
and running his whip handle through he
discovered that he was separated from
another vacant space about two feet wide
by a wall of rock not more than foo.
thick. He determined then TO make an
other search for the place where the Gen
eral had come out, for be had certainly
seen him pass oul Of the mouth of the
cave. He now proceeded all the way to
the entrance of the cave, examining the
wall carefully on that side of the passage.
but no discovery whatever could he make.
He looked on the outside hoping to fad
some other entrance into the cave. AS
he sat himself TO rest Oh the top Of the
bluff behind and above the entrance he
had jus left, Sam emerged from that
same entrance and ran rapidly down the
bluff into the openings with an empty
going to the creek for water. The Doc
tor re-entered, and opening his lantern,
threw the full glare of light upon the
walls before him. About three rods from
the entrance, at a very low place, near
which he supposed the old General had