, 1863-11-26


US home, nike III to cur own country. take
us to our own house, take us to our own
plckaItnnlea ind our own Womcn.' He SAYS
he has an old iather and mother, who viii dc.
# they do not see him. Aud this one says ho
~ bis people al sIck, ana padded doTn to
md help them. and that these d5ri}s caught
him In the bay just in sight Of home, and that
he has never seen anybody from home aiuce
then; And this oIe says" cheked out Nolan,
THAT he had not heard a word from his home
in eix montbe, while he has been locked up
in IN iufe:nal 'barracoon."
:. Vaughan always said he grew g7ay himself
willie Nolan struggled through t6is 1nterprc-
tntlon. !, Who did not underbtAnd anything
Of tic pasaion Involved In 1t, saw that the very
s1enthts WeEe melting with fetyent heat. aud
Tue negroee themselves stopped bowling, as
theJ SAW Nolan's agony, and VauEhanss al.
most equal agony Of sympathy, A. quick as
be could get words, he said: =
"Tell them yes, yes, yes: tel them they
Nil]. u sail the schooner through the Great
White Desert, they ehau 70 homai"
And after come fashion Nolan tatd 80. Aud
then they a11 fell to kissing him again, and
san:ed to rub. his nose Witl theirs. But he
could not stand Il long; aod getting Vaughan
down into our boat. As ro lay back In tbs
10 me, "YopngHter, let that show you what
1t il 70 be without q tamf1y, without home,
and without d country: Aud Il you are ever
tempted to Fay word Or to do 4 thing that
-{nur home, and -FOUR country, pray G>d Il
H. mercy to take gou that instant home to
Hlk Own heaven. Sick by your family, boy
fdrRet you have self, whlla you tlp every.
thing for them. Thiuk Of your home, boy;
write and send, and talk about it. Lot It Be
TtA$F r. p AaH nj fF T7rEAf %tx~
you haye to travel from it; and rush back to
it when you are free, rs that poor black
slave fs doing now. As for your country,
boy" and the wosda rastled in his throat,
.end for that dag," and he pointed to tho
ship, "neTee dream a dream bat Of serving
her ~ she bids you, though the service c.r1y
you through thousand bells. No matter
what happens to you, no matter who hatter.
you or who Abusce sou, neyer look at another
flag. never let night pass but You pray God
behind AZ these men you have to do WITH,
behind officers, nnd> government. and people
eyeu, there Is the country he1self. your coun-
tE3, and that you belong to her as sou he1org
to 5our own mother. etand By her, boy, as
aey,ls 'hsre had got hold 5t Of hss % to dsy@ s'e'
1wsA frightened to death BY his calm, hard
passion; hut i blundercd out, that would,
BY all that was holy, AID that had neyeI,
taouga Of r doing any Thing eise lsa He h.Ea'y
whisper, ksy,-" Oh, Il anybody had said SO
to ms when was Of your sgel"
] think It WAS this halEcontidence Of bis,
Which never abused, for never told this
btcr3 till now, which Afterwazd made us great
friends. He wss' 'vtry kind 70 MT OF On he
| eat up. OF even pot up, at night to walk the
deck With ne, when it was iny watch. He
| erplai1ed to me- \ great deal of my u1athe~
mAtics, and owe to him my taste for ma.tr:-
mstics. lie lent me books, aud helped me
| about my reading. Ae nerer alluded SO
directly 70 Lis stery again; hns from one and
| What am telling. When We parted fro n
him ia St. Thomas harbor, at the end of our
c1Iiae, vas more tor1y than I c,n tell.
was ye3y glad to meet him again in 1880; antt
later IN llts, whom I thought had Soma tofu.
earth TO bare hin discharged. But 1t Was
like setting gfost out Of prison. Tney
! pretended there Was no such man, and never
WaAsuch man. They viii say so A. the Dc.
psssment now! Pe,h.ps theF do not know.
It will not be the Hrst thing IN the sesiice Of
which the Department appears to knoT
s Therse i. a story that Nolan met Barr once
on one Of our ressels, when party oftAme,.
fc~ns came On board In the Mediterranean
BRIT this l belleYe TO be lie; Or ra>har, it i.
myth; be7. trprato, Involving t:emendou:
blowing up with which he Buns Bn1r,-a.king
h1cu toW be liked to ha "wfthout 4 countgY.s'
but 1t Is clear, from Butr's lie, that nothing
Of the sort could haze happened; and I men
ton this only as an illustration Of the stofIet
Which set a'goipg where there Is the Least
ny s,eEJ At bottom. 8. :.
10 poor Philip Nolan had bis wish fulfilled
I know but one fate lnore 9readfut: It Il tat
fate reserved for those men Nho Ehall hav:
ono dAy to exile themselves from their cOun
and ehall have 1t the eame time. to see tn.
prosperity and honor to which she rises whe1
che has rid herself Of thsm and their iniqoi
tiss The wish Of poor Nolan, ~ We alllearn
cd to call him, not because his punishment
mas too great. but because his repentance
Bragg md Beauregard who broke asoldisr'i
oath two years ago, aud Of every Marry znt
Barron who broke sailors. 7 do not kno1
how often they have repented. do kno1
that they haye done all that In them Lay th4
they might have. no countr5,-that III th
honors, associations, memories and hope
rhich belong to "countty might be broker
, up into little ehreds aud distributed to th
winds. know, too, that thar punishment
as 1heJ vc&etate through wha: Is lett Of III
70 them In N1etched BouioEnes md Ltiseste
sQga1es, vhase they ars destined to uPorat 4
each o,her TIL they de, VIII have al. u
ssony Of Nolan's. With the added pa1g tls
every one who sees them will see thea
to dcsptsa and to-. eIecf4te them. The
, wi1l have their wish, like him. 80
n For him. poor fellow, he repented Of hi
fol,y, and theb, like man, submittedlto tn
| fate he had asked for He never Intentional
. added to the difficulty or 'delfcacy ;ot tn
change Of those who had him In hold Accl
: | dents would happen but they never happen
i cd from his fault. Lieut.. T1uxton tdld mt
, that. when Te1a6 WIS. Anndxed, thera Wis
!. careful discussion among the officers, Nhethe
they should get hold of Nolan's handsome ne
. Of maps, tnd cut: Texas Ont Of is--fEou th
5 m.p Of the world and tha map of Me1tcs
The TInffaA GfnfaN hn1 heA,, rut. wfHn fh
! atlas Tas bought far him.' Batis Eas rotet
rightly enough, that to do this would ;be vi
!, traIly TO reveal to hiua what had hsp2eaed. {
Z s. Harry Cole said, TO make hiG1 think o.
cf Nolan's that great batch happened At q
] own table, when, Tor &bort time, I WAS |
: comraud of the George Washiugton curTttt
4 on &the South American ststtou: We Wei
d lsipE In The l. P1ata, and some ofkha officer
!; = ho had baeu on shore, and had iuttljnint
d their misaaTenturea In riding the half-wi
: horses Of Busnos AyEes. Nolan was st tabl
a and WIS In m unusually bright and tllkati'
: mood Soma story Of tumble rcmfodt
him Of an adventure Of big own, xhen he "
d catching Wild horses In Texas With his br
: ther S'ephen, a. time when he must hA'
/. bten quite = boy. :Ho told the story With
q good zeal Of spisit-bo much 10 TINT the I
a l.nce which often follows good stoET hu,
8 over the table foran instant, to be broken
' consciously, *tPray,; what !, has became
q Te1as. After the Mextcans got their tnd
pendence, thought that prosiace Of Tex
= would como forward rety fAss~ II IL real
y. one Of the finest regious ou e4rsh; tt Is t
81 Itsly ofthis continent. But have NOS Sc
+ OF heard word Of Te1as Tor near tWen
b 5ears.H :...~'..s ~tr =.
There were two Texan om:azs at the tabl
N Tie reascn he had nsver heard OF Tsxa, y
III that Te1ns and her affairs had bscn p4infal
=. cnt out Of hi4 newspaPers SINCE Aosaa bsg
1. h,s settlements; 20 that, 1hlla ha read
I Honduras aud Taznaulipas, .and,1 TIL qul
= late}Y. Of California, this virgin peogiuce,
ID :vhicr lis brother hid Travelled 50 hE, and
a btliaye. had died, had ceased to be to ht
&. :WattIr and Williams, the two TexAa nj
ss locked ezimly at esch other, and tiled not:
.i lSnQh.. Edward Morris had -hi4 ht.enu
ho .ttfa9ted BY tbs Third link In the ohain Of
~ CAPTAIN = Chandelier =. WAtrous wss ssiz
a Nth 4 ccnrn1ston Of sneozing.. Nolan hi
~ self saw that something WIS TO pay, he i
i'll not know what. And !, e mastor Of.
nv fe,st, hxd to sAy,-.~ .
t3a NTexss h ont OF the map, Mr. Nolan. a.
10 / veu seen Captain Backs cutions account
~ Slr Thor ~ Roe's Welcome!" -:
,er Ii. Ct that cruise never saw Nolan agl
rsa wrote 10 him 1t least tH1ce: . ys,at, fol
!" 80, -. "a 49,, .=.t': i