The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-04

ingdale Lunatic Asylum, Of which institution
he is now an inmate and is likely to remain
so, unless the matter is agitated.
One day after Captain Meade's incarcera-
tion in the terrible den of lunatios, Miss Meade
was joined in the bonds of wedlock to the
Vineland proprietor. 1t was the old story of
the 'funeral baked meats, etc., over again.
Captain Meade has now been five weeks in
the lunatic asylum, and a number of his
friends assert loudly that he is not at all in
sane, and that the charge has been trumped
up against him by interested parties. The
case was first brought bsfore Judge Suther-
land, who sent it to referee but the case
has dragged slowly under his direction, aud
Captain Meade's friends are afraid that the
cempanionship OF bowling lunatics may rem
der him unfit for liberty when he is at last set
at liberty by the slow process of law.
While the case is pending the decision Of
the referee, no other nudge would feel justified,
perhaps, in interfering in the matter. William
@. De Witt, of Brooklyn, has been before
judges Sutherland and Lott in regard to the
matter. Judge Sutherland is said to be salts
fed with the progress now being made in the
case. Judge Lott does not feel inclined to in
terfere, from spirit of judicial courtesy. II
is believed, however, by the time the matter is
settled that Captain Meade, with his known
irritable temper and agony of mind, will have
proved to be lunatio from the influence of
his surroundings. Out of respect to the feel
ings of the family, we fOrbear to give the name
of the Vineland speoulator who married Miss
Meade.
Captain Meade was one of the few remaining
American naval officers of the old school, now
almost extinct in the service. He believed
fervently in "hearts of oak" "seventy-four
gun frigates, " "cat-o'nine tails" "shiver me
timbers," "d-n me eyes" aud all that sort
OF thing. He was firm in the faith that a
Yankee man-of-wsr was the terror OF the
world, and that one Yankee brig could whip
seven ninety-gun British frigates off haud.
To him Commodore Perry's victory on Lake
Erie, the fights of the Constitution and Guer-
riere, the Wasp and the Hornet, the Chesa-
peake and the Shannon, were the greatest of
all naval victories.
1t was said that the sight of one of the old
style tobacco papers, containing smoking to-
bacco and which found purchasers at three
cents piece, with their gorgeous pictures OF
the dying Lawrence vomiting blue fire from
his mouth, on board of a crazy looking vessel
of war, and giving vent to his dying wish,
"Don't give up the Ship" was wont to throw
Commodore Meade into frantic spasms of pa
triotic enthusiasm.
He was fond of chanting the nautical song
which has the refrain:-
"a Yankee ship and q Yankee crew,
Inglish captain would not do.
Tally Heigh. no me Dandy Oh"
He was good officer to his men, though
tyraDnioal at times, and would drink with
them and accOst them freely, and answer their
salutatiOns when he met them on the street.
But on the quarterback he was punctilious
as Spanish HdalgO and exacted respect to
the slightest or most trivial detail He was
passionately fond of buckram, etiquette, and
precise formality and would never yield an
iota when in full dress uniform. Various
stories are told of him, one of which may bear
repetition. When in command of the North
Carolina, Captain Meade issued instructions
that no boat should be permitted to con-
vey passengers to the receiving ship
from the shore excepting the regular scow.
Mrs. Meade dared to defy the captain in the
husband, and was conveyed on board of the
vessel by an irregular craft. These boats we're
always ready, for trifipg consideration, to
carry sailors who wished to desert on shore,
and Captain Meade, with Spartan justice, did
not wish to make an exception in favor of bis
wife, when the rules for which he demanded a
most scrupulous observance were violated. II
is said that Mrs. Meade was placed in irons for
daring to disobey his orders, as the captain
did not desire to make fish of one and flesh of
another.
At another time he was said to have
threatened to disinherit a male relative for
changing his religious belief. A hot, irritable,
at times furious sort of man, but at all events
man somewhat rough hewn, and not amena-
ble to every day silken and pretenticus polite
ness of the crowd, his ideal of the service was
of the antique type, and best found its re-
preventative in the old song Of which Captain
Meade was very fond:-
"The Foe thought he'd struck; but he cried out,
A-V.aa.st,
The colors OF Columbia he naird to the Mast,
And he died like true Yankee S-a iLo.r."
FURS.