Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-09-14
From the Philadelphia North American.
CurI0ua EKiAtOry Of n Soldier.

At the head of file Of men on their way
from New York to Washington, through this
city, we recently encountered man who has
probably seen us mnch Of real life as any per-
son living, Louis Napoleon alone excepted.
Captain b., ten years ago. was a log cutter or
d.chopper in Cleartied pineres, working
in the employ of Ex-Governor Bigler. He
lived in a cabin entirely alone, miles away
from any settler, and where the silence OF the
forest was broken by no other sounds than
the strokes of his axe or the baying OF his dog
when upon the track ola deer, He was bitten
one day in midsummer, by monstrous rattle
snake, but never losing his presence of mind
he dug out the wound with his hunting knife,
and pounded into powder his blackened tobac-
co pipe, he moistened it with saliva and bound
it upon the wound The poison was drawn to
the surface by this application, and, excepting
rigidity OF limb which still remains, he expert.
enced no further i'll effects from the deadly
bite.
On one OF his few visits to the town of
Clarified, for supply OF tobacco and whisk
ey, he CHANGED to save from drowning the
child OF wealthy citizen, who rewarded him
by present OF three hundred dollars. The
man never returned to his cabin, but receiving
the wages due to him he set out for Phlade
phia, where he engaged a teacher, and in a
brief period taught himself to read. lie was
preaching shortly after this, but finding him
self pursuing mistaken vocation, he blossom.
ed out as a cancer doctor, Ill which capacity,
he Travelled aver the entire west and south,
returning to New York with about :hree thou.
sand dollars. He married wealthy widow in
New York, who died month alter her mar
riage, leaving him he'll to every dollar. lie
| made second venture six months atterward
| his wife eloping at the end of the honey moon,
| with native of Hamburg, returning with a
| pile to his own city. Disguised with the sex,
! he eschewed woman's society, and went to
specializing in patent rights, and with sort
OF success that in a year cleared him out OF
the last dollar.
He secured position upon the police force
of New York, and in the course OF his duty
came upon discharged convict The convict
gave him certain information, the truth of
which he could not doubt. A heavy robbery
had been committed on the continent The
convict had been engaged in it, and knew
where the punder was still secreied. The 70.
yer purchased the secret from the fellow, went
10 Europe. disclosed it to the authorities, and
was made the possessor OF a reward amounting
to about 5000 With this money he returned
to New York, and then to fhlladeiptla. al
the Girard House one night, he met Texan,
who won from him four thousand dollars at a
single sitting. The society OF the gambler
charmed him, and he went with him to Gal
weston, taking the remainder of his capital
with him. lie went upon rancho, and was
engaged in sheep grazing with Hon. Amos
Kendall as a near nelghDor.
Secession broke out at last, and our rove
was compelled to fly by night to Galveston
where he got upon vessel bound Tor Cuba
without any other possessions than the clothes
upon his person. He was twice wrecked il
returning to New York, where he arrived Q
mere bundle of skin and bones. Alter alternat,
wealth and poverty, starvation and luxurious
ness, nakedness and dandyism, he at length
turns up as an officer in military company
asking only to give his life for the cause o
liberty. He leaves in Texas fine rancho
His sheep, he supposes, have long since beer
confscaled to feed the rebel army, For hi
real estate he has no fears. Its conhscation