Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-01-09

is entirely untrue bu. she went further in her
notions even in dress than her friends chose 10
follow her. Age, however, brought experience.
She receded from her extreme views, and con-
tented herself with contradictiDg and setting
right every One with whom she came in contact,
without regard to age, sex, or degree OF expe-
renee. Hearing that an excellent Roman Cath
olic lady was doing some excellent work among
homeless girls in the city we had just lett, she
thought-kuowing about the matter and having
nothing to do-that she could go out and show
Mrs.-the proper way of doing her work
Now began our ,quaintance with her, and nv
brothers intense dislike to her. She came N
the same ship with my sister-in-iaw, who was
coming out t. be married to my brother; and
poor Maria poured her pretty little secret into
the unsympathizing and tlnty bosom of Miss
Polk, who devoted the whole voyage to trying
| to persuade my sster-ln-iaw to break OF the
match, and 10 Join her in the Joys and independ-
ence of single life, bonded together against
the tyranny of man. What with Eimund's wife
insisting on marrying Edmund, and what with
| Mrs.-afirming that she knew her own busi-
ness best, and refusing to be assisted on any
terms, Misc Polk grew disgusted with things in
general, some OF her own opi ions included,
and "a a mood of lofty and self denying scoIn,
proposed to Dlshmore, meek but wealthy little
iron -monger, who was nattered by her notice Of
him, and accepted her proposal with pleasure
Poor Mrs. Dishmore was, must allow, a ter
ribly contradictory and bumptous woman, al
ways setting her hands to do man s work instead
OF .oman's but there was something more than
! that merely which made our Brown Passenger
/ Haiterton, take such intense dislike TO her
| The fact wa, that she offended him, and Jared
upon his senees by every word and gesture he
hated her way of going on, and she. OF far
coarser texture of nerve, utterly unable to see
/ ,hat she rrp-ied him. She took great fancy
TO him, and followed him everywhere, until he
was driven t. the forecaste, and sometimes to the
masthead.
shall never forget has face the first day at
noon, when Mrs. Dishmore took out Ter sextant
and took her observation az noon. She had
chart of her own, and always marked the ships
place on 1t, never making her reckoning the same
the shippers, and always maintaining she was
right. However, as | once marked the place
from her reckoning, and made the discovery that
the chip in the centre of the Brazls, forty
miles north of the city of Goyaz, was less anx-
ious about the captains incomPetency Than
shoul have been.
The first and almost the only piece of conf
dence ever got from Mr.. Hatterton was late one
wild night, when | met him CO ming into the
loon, with expression of face which part
ly establishment and partly evaporation. He had
never spoken fdmiary to me before, but hs
must speak TO some one, and he spoke TO me-
"Sir," he said, al am blessed il that woman amt
lunar"
The captain turned out 10 DE a mos; charm NJ
and gallant sailor, and the first officer did not be
lie MS character either. He was heaaloug, Ill
conditioned rutiian, lie never lorgave my broth
er's hoity -ioity treatment OF him IN the coffee
room Of the ship, but he afraid Of my broth
er, and tried whether OF no he could avenge him
self on me y variety OF petty insults. had 10
stop il.
The crew were great study l wish there
was room in this paper for description Of them.
Such few of them as had not been picked up at
oan Francisco had been got, drunk, Ou, ct the
crlmp house in the port from which sailed !
should say there were twenty five OF them one
or tao LaseArs two Portuguese. one
American (U. 81, and Baltic German. All
the rest called themselves citizens Of tbs United
States. and were OF the class commonly called
white washed Yankees, ard seem TO be as cordi-
ally detes;ed by the real American sailors they
by British captains | have carefully sepa-
rated the real American sailor, fine tel-
fellow ever stepped ("ruu' from a Pacific
whaler, from them, as you see. We dishked the
slsngy, turbulent, quarrelsome rowdies enough,
out his unutterabe contempt for them was too
deeplfor words. He great blonde, handsome
giant, with beard, hailing from Nantucket, as
he said. He used TO put all the rest Of the crew
out OF his way like dirt, and 1 expected 10 see a
knife in his ribs every day but he ruled them
like lord, nevertheless, and they looked up
him to as a demgod. He was one Of the
great new race, and their dog instinct told them
They were always brutally fighting among
one another, but no one, though some of taem
were as big as he ever dared 10 offer to light
him. lie familiar with one except my
brother, and Brown Passenger Hatterlon,
who seemed to appreciate him. He, although
with deep belief in the glory of the United
States, wanted to see England. And it is strange
but perfectly true, that the place of all others he
wanted 10 In England-what ?-Sirati iord-on
Avon X didn't know his Shakespeare worth
men nloning, but he very angry at me because
laughed at him about this whm of his. But
whim i, was and be graited ii.
Hatterton, my brother the good d-natured and
solitary mdshipman, the American sailor, and
my self, were one night smoking together in the
waist IN the interval of a snow-storm, when he
said this Il supposes squire" addressing him.
self to Mr.. Hatterton, ever since Noahs ark
sailed from the port of Babylon crew, eight souls,
all told, and an amount of live stock which could
only be excused under the circumstances, that
queerer lot never put to sea than this present
ships company"
We devillsh queer lot,' answered Hat
terton. 81 have seen some qdeer things myself,
and some queer crews, but anything like
this. What the duse prevents the crew, headed
by the mate, from walking aft some fine night,
cutting throats, and taking the ship north
WdEu anu running neI on snore on tne coast OF
Peru, to spend the eight thousand ounces of
gold on board, is past my comprehension.
"1hs passengers, squire the passengers =
The passengers y said our Brown Passenger,
with the deepest contempt; "the passengers"'
Gay, squire; there's passengers, and there's
passengers. AS for emigramts, you mi ght saugh-
ter a shipfui of EN- like sheep; but such fellows
as this one and this one Che pointed to my broth
er and me) have had ,hsir lives in their hands
before now. They would fight; and there are
fifty more men aboard like them, or better
THEY know it. They'll never come aft. If they
do, God help em."
They never did. and they never will. The pas
sengers distrusted the crew, and the crew knew
it, and insul,ed the passengers. There was no
and no collision between u.s. un-
til the very last. There we're six people berthed
aft who dared 60 forward, and these were,-the
first mate the worst rufhaA of the lot) the car
penter, the steward and his wife, and, strange
to say. Hatterton, the Brown Passenger, who
went forward, and sent them right and left like
unruly dogs and, stranger still, Eliza Dishmore
She, as they would say in their barbarous slang,
"slewed" them. They could not make her out