The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-01-09

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hopes for the future then break of thrs, follics
and live for the good and true and be assured there
Is
No room for mirth or triting here,
For worldly hope or worldly fear
II life ~ soon is gone
II now the Judge is a the door.
Aud all mankind must stand before
Til incSGrdble thron"."
FTac Escape Of Ghas. Anderson.
The escape Of Mr. Anderson from the
rebels in Texas and his safe arrival in New
York, have already been stated. Byiuvita.
ton of several prominent citizens he made
q statement of his experiences at Cooper
Institute of Saturday evening week ON which
occasion that largo room was closely packed
by an intelligent and Interested audience
He introduced his remarks with pricf re-
ference to ovomts in Taxes during the past
year, showing the steady growth of tho re.
bcllion lie WAS arrested in September and
put in close confinement. After various
efforts to obtain legal trail, he set about
planning for his escape. How well lie sue
cecdcd, he told in his remarks, at Cooper
Institute, us follows;
Mypurposc was to give my family ter
days to reach Brownsville or Matamors; tc
allow them ten days stay there, and thcr
to make my escape, which would give then
n margin OF ten days moro before it could
he known in Brownsville, thus giving them
thirty days toEot ont Of tie country. Athc
end Of about ten days, thinking it time for
me to be arranging for my departure,
chlnccd to see Il young gentleman of Brook
Iyn, VIM. Bayard, son of VIM. A. Bayard
who came into the camp on visit to the
family OF Major Mccklng, in whose custody
was. Remembering from chance CON
vcrsaiou had with him two years previous
that we were of the same political senti-
mcnts in regard TO the Union, at once re-
solved to conspire with him for my escape.
After he had spoken with his cousin Major
Mcckling) asked him if he played back
CANNON. He replied that he did not
Knowing that must in Some way seize the
occasion, authoritatvcly ordered him to
sit down that might teach him the game
He took his scat, and | began n long and
dull lecture upon the principles of the game.
and, as Shakespeare SAYS. talked an infinite
deal OF nothing about the throws of the
dice, &c., for Tie purpose of wcarving out
the attention of the guard, who was the
wife of the Major. For example, when |
threw trays ace, would say, Trays. trays
acc-a miserable throw for me-" and asked,
in the monotonous tone of the play, if he
did MT wish to go to New York. lie at
first looked surprised and alarm me; but in Il
little while, catching the trick, and with
better skill rs AN actor than myself he add
cd some remark of his own, "Ics, indeed"
Whercupon during the play we concocted
a plau OF escape.
To make my imprisonment the more
secure, i'll addition to my Ecing confined to
the chain of scntincls, the sentnels were
each required to call out every half hour of
the night, and add that "all is WELL" This
really gave me the advantage of knowing
at each half hour whether the sentincls
were near my tent. Besides these sentincls
and the lieutenant who slept in the small
room OF my tent opposite my own, four
special guards were put in u tent opposite
the space between my own room and the
houtcnant's. had always put my boots
outside my tent at nights TO make guard
believe | was secure in the tent. | had
gwen ont that had no other pair of boots
than these, and asked the Major to buy me a
pair in town, J had, however pair of
shoes which ! kept secrcted, | MAS also
III the habit OF iacing up the front of my
tents and a8 this could not be done from the
outside, an additional reason was given for
q e guards 10 think their prisoner was safe.
lnls being promised, ON very dark rainy
nlEhtwhen one of those tremendous Texan
gales called "Nnrthcr' was blowing. male
nI excuse 10 leave tine tent of the Major.
saying that ! must so smoke my hyoscia-
mus, for my asthma, and went to my tent
put my boots outside MS usual, laced up
my tent placed my chair in position SO
that 1t would look as though my knees
were sticking up raised up the bottom of
my tent crawlcd out, and doliberatly walk
ed through the chain of seutmels into the
dark bottom of the Sallado.
After various difficulties and hindrauccs
from losing my way, | reached the rculcz-
cous, where horse had been provided,
lud started on my journey TO Mexico.
took the Leredo road whore the Indians
had killed four or five mou two days before.
rom which argued they would nv from
The vicinity aad that | should not be trouh-
ad by them When | crossed the river
of Texas | shouted "God and
liberty with more than Mexican zeal and.
per contra, mdulged in some imprccat ons
concerning jeff Davis and the Southern
Contcdcracy which think it is we'll not
to repeat. mninc days lcame to Monterey.
where Governor Nidaurri kindly offered me-
a seat IN his carriage, At Nittoria was
awakened by one of the passengers Mt 3
b clock in the morning, with tho remark
that a friend WAS prosont And thore was
my kind friend and ally, this noble youth
from Brooklyn, who had ridden all the way
after me on horseback, with only S25 at tho
start, and ~ L cents in his pocket when he
reached me.
it appears that after Mr.. Andreson's
escape, his captOrs adopted the theory that
he had smoked his hyosciamus to such am
extent that il had made him insane. and that
he had committed suicide and his remains
were diligently searched for in streams and
by places thercabout
The above is but u sketch Of tho address
1t Mr.. Anderson, and necessarily fails to do
.ull Justice TO the graphic manaer in which
he described his capture as we'll as to the
presentatian of his views.
Judge Pierrepont at the conclusion ofthe
address moved vote of thanks. which wac
'arried with great demonstrations OF hearth I
lCss,
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