The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-10-16
a nEMnEIsorrcn oF rnR Va.

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rejoice to cay it was on this very spot made
my first appearance fresh from Canada None
OF you know how l eyer got mere. But acvol as w
TO keen any longer. didn't know but we might
have another war; that some OF us miRht be
arrested, and that might be again subjected to
that ordeal / didn't want the enemy 70 know
my tricks because passed through fifty spies,
paid So per day out OF your money, Tor watch
ing me, ! remember one at Windsor, stalwart
fellow about six feet four inches high, aud pro-
portonaly broad in the shoulders-enormous
in his srength-a fellow who ought to be Get to
maui rails all his life Ia voice. Like old Lin
coln''), was paid S5 per day by the Go 7ernmeut
that is, by Abraham Lincoln; he was the Gov
ernment in those days--paid 1t out of your
pockets Tor watching me, and all he could report
was that at such an hour breakfasted, dned,
and supped, and perhaps went to bed. Tnere
were fifty with him of the same sort. don't
think can tell you exactly how got here; but
| can tell you one hing, | came mighty near
being arrested. IA voice, "aow near, Val, ?,)
An officer laid his hand on my shoulder, aud
said was his prisoner, Said he, 81 6elieye.
must arrest you" Said ], "What rw Said
he, "I believe you arc q smugglcr." It was
down on Detroit river, where l had been wait
ing and watching over the border, Sir said
], you. are mistaken" Presence Of mind was
everything then, you know.
Arrested as smuggler, ] would have been
discovered as G. l.. Vallandigham, and / might
have been sent 10 Fort Warren at last, but pre-
sence Of mind saved me. He looked me straight
in the eye. Said l, "sir you are mistaken;
here is my pocket-book and papers" OF course,
l had divested myself OF everything out of the
way. l offered him everything for inspection.
He looked at them, and then looked at me
steadily in the eye, and looked him the same
way. Said he, "iou look like an honest man"
Sir said |, very promptly, 81 am an honest
man." He looked me again steadily in the eve.
Said he, "Sr, beg yoar pardon; did not mean
any offense." Granted, sir" said l. / then
told him was uncertain abo ut the road, and
wished he would show Inc the road. He did Ii.
l bowed very politely and went on, and turned
up at Hamilton, right on this spot,
ANOTHER STORY.
While upon the Island of Bermuda. one of
the most Interesting group in the world-his-
! torc, because Shakespeare made it, in part, the
| subject of one of his splendid plays-in travel
! ling from one portion OF the island 10 the other,
! / passed by a stone enclosure, perhaps hun
| dred feet in diameter. The islands are coral in
their formation. There was pool of water,
! full of fish, INSIDE the enclosure. [ paid an
! English shilling for admission inside, where |
| saw perhaps hundred fish, thoroughly tanned,
| each one having name, and each one answer
ing to the name by which he was called. One
OF them, / recolect, was called Dick. ] spoke
TO him as | would TO a dog, and he came and
lifted up his head and allowed me 10 rub his
back, just as you would a cat. Now, as told
you, If anybody else had told me that wouldn't
have believed ii. But 1t is nevertheless true,
There is just such pool there, aud there are
6sh there so intelligent that they recognize their
names. think they ought to be entitled to
vote. Almost as much as Sambo, at least
would wager you that these fish would not
forget their names. Yet the negroes did in
Richmond. That big fish knew his name, and
Sambo didn't, / will wager you another thing,
that these fish. had they been allowed to vote,
would not have marched up to post Office box
ana voted there, as they did at Memphis, the
other day.