Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-09-05


Tolbert, sealing itup, handed it to Mr.. Roboliet
requesting him to put it in place Of safety, ant
deliver it to no person save himself The Magis
trate then drew up the following article Of agree
ment: '''We, the undersigned, being equal partici
pants in the question at ISSUE do hereby bind our
selves to deposit two thousand pounds sterling
s2, ,OOO) each in the hands Of the President Of th'
Bank of Bombay, in the City Of Bombay, British
India, this, the 2lst day of March, 1867, the a
foresaid sum total of four thousand pounds to b'
held by said President Of said Bank till the expi
ration Of ninety days, to be subject at such timet
the order Of either of the two parties whose sig
natures are hereto affixed" (SigneG W. Mar
I tin Tolbert, Chas Newton, Hunt. Done before
me at my Office, in the city of Bombay, this, thu
2lst day of March, in the year Of our Lord ont
thousand eight hundred and sixty seven. tSigned
Samuel Roboliet, Notary Public. Two duplicates
of the above agreement were drawn of, signed
and one delivered to each of the Captains, the
original being held by the Magistrate. The cost
having been paid, ETC., we proceeded to arefresh
meut saloon, and after partaking of sumptuoul
repast at the expense Of Captain Tolbert, our par
ty dispersed to arrange the preliminaries Of the
'bet, making disappointment the Royal Exchange
lat 8, p m. - %@.t IS ~
Capt. Parker. Col Ferguson and myself, were
on the ground promptly at the appointed hour,
and found Tolbert already there. Hunt arrived a,
bout fifteen minutes later, and thence we all pro
ceeded to the Bank of Bombay, where the two
Captains deposited Bank of England notes to the
amount Of two thousand pounds each, and receiv.
ed Bank certificates therefor, payable at ninety
days sight, with the understanding, expressed in
writing, that the whole amount should be paid tc
either party, on the presentation Of both receipts
A few days after this the papers announced that
the ship "Bird of the ocean, Tolbert, MASTER
had sailed for Colombo Ceylon.s Meeting Capt.
Parker the same evening, I enquired if Captain
Hunt had gone. eyes," he replied, she went as
passenger in the "Bird of the Ocean, and left bis
first mate in charge of the. Loyal till his return.
He told me he would be back in about six weeks,
and appeared quite jubiant over bis big bet; said
he felt confident of winning, as he believed Tol-
bert was only "blower, and was determined to
''bluf him; that he still felt sure Booth was not
alive, and when he found out where the 'shoax'
was, he would expose it. Itold Parker was fear
full Hunt would lose his money; that it did not
seem reasonable that Tolbert would recklessy bet
so large sum on an uncertainty, and that ne must
remember that he won in Calcutta, .l.sa'.s.
Nothing was heard Of the ship for seven weeks,
when it was announced by telegraph that the
ssBird of the Ocean, had arrived at Madras. On
the following day Captain Parker received tele'
gram irr these words: II have lostl The mar
Booth is actually olive i should have been al
Bombay ere this, but we have encountered heavy
weather. Shall be there soon.-Charles Newtor
Hunt" ss.a.
Neither of the parties can reach here for some
time to come When they do arrive, there will bt
considerable excitement, in their immediate circles
of acquaintance at least Thus it seems, ha!
Captain W. Martin Tolbert won another large sun
of money upon this most mysterious Of oil itht
mysteries of the nineteenth century, leaving M
doubt in the mind of any thinking person that j
Wilkes Booth is alive I have given you the full
details of this strange affair, 80 far rs know, ane
will write you again as soon as Captain Hunt re
turns, if gain any further particulars as to how
he lost the wager.
still remain your sincere friend,
WILLIAM A. FRAZER, F. r. s.
INTERVIEW WITH JEFFERSON DAVIS,
A correspondent of the Missouri Democrat, the
leading Radical paper in St Louis, writes from
Montreal, under date ofAugust 8, as follows:
Through the poiteness Of Gen. Carroll, Ten.
nesseean, who figured largely during the war in
the Confederate service, and whom had known
in 1858, in Memphis, on arrangement was made
Yesterday morning, resulting in my having an in
teryiew with Jefferson Davis. .s.g.
Taking a carriage at St. Lawrence Hall, few
minutes drive found me in front of an unpreten,
tious building, 249 Mountain-street the residence
of Mrs. Howell, mother-in-law of Mr.. Davis, al
whose house he is temporarily staying.
Accompanied by Gen. Carroll, I was shortly
ushered into the presence of Mr.. Davis, whom
found reclining on lounge in his study, engaged
in familiar conversation with Col. Picket, late Of
the Confederate service
Mr.. Davis is man of apparently about sixty
years, and fit were not for the furrows on his
brow, and innumerable wrinkles islandng his face,
I would take him to be a person not over forty
five summers The veins of his hands are burst
ing full of blood, and I should judge he wouldn't
press heavier on Yankee pair of scales than lSC
pounds avoirdupois or English sterling. He was
dressed in a very neat but plain manner, without
any attempt at show or tbe attracting of unusual
attention His hair is semigrey, cut rather short,
and withal his appearance is that OF wel-to-do
English merchant, rather than the who ooli-
trolled great armies during the war, whose word
was omnipotent in the South, but who to-day is
stranger in strange land. ~ .... .
WHAT WAS SAID. ,..
Visiting the ex-President of the ex-Confederacy
under the circumstances which I did, 'twould be
objectionable in me to make public use Of much
that he said in three hours conversation.
I told him that my visit was not one made out OF
idle curiosity; that had not come simply to see
the President of the Confederate States of Amer
lea ;" that had been opposed to him and his peo-
pie during the war, but that, in common with the
majority of the Radicals of the North, in whose
hands the very destiny-life itseE-of leading and
prominent Southern men was held and placed, l
desired to hear his views on reconstruction.
When broached that matter to him he cut me
rather short, though in very gentlemanly way,
BE laughed immoderatey when asked him as
to the opinion of the Southern people with refer
ence to the Reconstruction Acts passed by Con-
aress He answered me, however, in seven words,
and 7 would to God that Andrew johnson could
have heard the reply as dispassionately Mr.. Da-
80; nth q wave of the hand which although in