East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1861-11-26
EAST SAGINAW MICHIGAN NOVEMBER &c, 1861

utu 10 dThW LOT money 100, anu nhu mo-
thing to show for what had spent, hut
the fact Of my having travelled over an
immensity of land and water. i declare
l could have cried with vexation, as /
turned from the corn dealers door. Nor
was my sorrow, assure you, all selfish.
OF course knew my reputation was at
stake, and my promotion to an Inspector
ship too; but that was not all; we detect
ives have real pride and pleasure in be
ing, in a sense, the protectors and helpers
of the honest part of the community, and
l hate rogue to get OIL scot-free-it
does So encourage other rogues.
AT New Orleans, found letter from
the superintendent, bidding me keep a
good heart, and never slacken my EN-
deavors; for the joint-stock spend any
thing to effect the arrest Of their treach-
erous servant. 1t was not merely out of
revenge, nor yet for the nineteen thou
sand pounds, though that is a vast sum of
money; but there were papers among
those he had gone off with that had been
merely deposited with the bank, title
deeds of estates, vouchers, and what not,
and no cost was too great to get them
back. The superintendent would send
another officer to help me, if chose. l
didn't choose. Afterlall the battling and
winding, thought, l will run my fox to
earth, if / grow gray in searching for
him. If he is in America I'll find him.
Indeed, / tried very hard to do so. l
spent months in the search, and to recount
all my wanderings would be tedious
Here got clue, and followed it for n
time, aud then it broke short off. At
another place would get fancied ink
ling of my mans whereabouts, and find
out somebody who was evidently in hid
ing, and get within arms length of the
person, and find him suspicious-eyed,
sinking stranger. Bless you! Jennings
was not the only rogue hiding himself in
the South. And now New Orleans, which
had been deserted ever since summer
brought the yellow fever, began to be full
to overflowing.
went there, now that the healthy cold
wind-the norther, they call it,-bad
taken to blowing, and that people were
crowding in for their winters gsiety. l
had notion that Jennings might be
there; there were SO many as bad as he,
and worse; and knew that New Orleans
attracted all the scsmps Of the country;
but though / believe went into every
beer and billiard-room, and cafe and
gambling house in that profligate city,
never a glimpse Of Jennings could get.
He had been wild fellow in England, on
the sly, of course; for he was finished
hypocrite, and his masters had thought
such a pious, modest, industrious young
man didn't live as their model cashier
This was why looked for him in the
haunts of gay folks. But did not see
him, could not hear Of him, and began to
despair. / was at Vicksburg, on the
Mississippi, by mere accident. L had
been up to St. Louis in consequence of
false information, and, on my return from
that idle errand, the boat had run aground
two miles above Vicksburg. Nobody was
the worse except for the delay, and we all
had to sleep at that place as best we
might. Knowing the tastes Of Jennings,
l always went to flash first chop hotels, as
the hkeliest wherein to hear of him; but
on this day / found the chief establish
ment crowded, and went to a decayed
second-rate hotel, kept by a snnffy ole
French creole. IL was evening, aud tho
the Americans called it cool, l found il
warm enough to make it pleasant to sit
by an open window in the big dining Sc
loon, where could enjoy my brandy-cob
bier and cigar in peace.
Most luckily, there was a big screen o.
stamped and gilded Spanish which cut my
slice Of the room off from the rest, snG
shut me up as completely as if i had beer
in the box of Que of our own old tavern'
in the city of London. had got but
halfway through my glass of delicious
iced beverags-and why they are not s'
common at home do not know--when il
came two young men and sat down at {
distant table, and ca led for refreshments
which black waiter brought them.
took q peep at them through crack IL
the screen. had never seen them be
fore. BY what they said, ! guessed then
to be aSerseers of plantations somewher
up the country or one might have beer
an overseer, and the other book keeper
Believing themselves to be alone, the.
began to talk very freely. They talke'
of New Orleans, and gambling, and du
els, and conquests over the fair sex, AM
the like profitable discourse, and then O
negroes, crops, and cotton, till nearl
J dropped asleep.
J And yet l listened. You see / mad
! it my duty to listen, for, who knows
: queer things do Uome out sometimes. A
) last one young man began to rally tn
( otner about his being "smitten" with
certain Miss Linwood, the daughter of
3 planter, which che other laughingly d.
: MED. "Kate Linwood is pretty enough
5 said he; "but if little Kitty cares for al
T one, it's for Harvey Vaughan"
I "Whati that naval fellow--secon'
J, lieutenant of the. Vesputius frigate, Ain
r he?" yawned the other.
o EYES," said the overseer. "A goe
l. looking chap enough, aud no nonsen'
!, about him; but he'll find himself OF
G when he returns from his cruise. O
IT Linwood swears his daughter shall tai
d that new overseer Of his, for better
e for worse, though the girl hates Il
It skunk; and quite right, too"
f. Il ho