Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-11-02

y 10 reciprocate in kind-hence fhy de-
iicacS IN tmbarking on mission 70 fable
to end 7nuncnviabie notoriety.
Nevertheless, when the GokyAel init.
mated that there was "big money" sub.
Ject to his disbursement for this special
service--the intimation was the "last
feather" which turned the scale. I con.
sented to go out upon the express and
positive stipulation that my plans should
BOT be thwarteG by his failure or neglect
to furnish every facility auxiliary might
demand, and, with this assurance I re-
paired to my tent to mature my first adj
vance.
was totally unacquainted with the
geography of the country. l had learned
that the Big Sandy was six miles above
Fort Heiman-that ten miles from its
mouth in the interior was n little place
called Benton Falls, that still further en-
fifteen miles was the county seat of Mago-
fin county, New Madrid; that at thh
place resided the Hon. Mr.. Williams
whose son George Wars then ircarcerated
in the stockade of hoit iieiman, upon a
chassc Of being principal in the assassina-
ton of9crry Conklin. The presumption
thea was-frst, the George Williams be-
longed to the brood of guerrillas, and
that this band of outlaws must be known
to the rebel sympathisers in the neighbor-
hood of New Madrid. at once deter
mined to explore this region of county.
Illuminating then, with alternate hopes
and fears, how to proceed and what next
to No, little incident, 50 insignificant ap-
parently, gave direction to all my future
acts in this drama of ten days after the
guerrilas."
A gentleman in front of my tent had
just received letter. Breaking the seal
in my presence, and finding some words
he could not decipher, he appealed to me
for assfstafce, and tacitly allowed me to
read to him every word of its contents
1t amounted to tbis-that the writer,
huckster friend Of his residing in Paducah,
desired him TO pnrehasa large quantities
g 600 and butter. and s,. Z, ,..-.1
that great profits could be realized, &c.
My friend expressed regret that the
depleted condition ofhis finances would not
allow him to embark in the enterprise.
CAN'T TO his rescue and told him that L
had couple Of hundred idle waiting for
investment, and that it was in my line to
turn an "honest penny that | would
enter into a copartnership with him, the
details of our respective duties being,
that he of the first part=-citizen-should
grant the good will Of his extensive ac,
quaintance in the Surrounding country,
and endorse the character Of the writer
as good, reliable, honorable gentleman,
of the second part, in consideration foI
which the second part should make all
purchases, and the first part dispose OF,
and sell, and in the profits each share and
share alike. And as an earnest Of hif
sincerity before he had left my tent he
had executed doucment to "All Whom
it may Concern" commenting the bearer
as worthy, reliable and gentlemanly. In
passant, will remark these high con
tracing parties never met again.
Col. G. had no alternative but to say
in polite note to Captain Heard Of the
Gunboat Canncstsla, lying in front O
Fort Hyman. 81 have the honor to re
quest that you land the bearer &e'' ABOVE
the mouth of the Big Sandy" at nln'
o'clock that evening was enjoying the
hospitality of his private cabti' AT nine
o'clock the following morning he set M
down amid labyrinth of vegetation IL
an untrodden forest, and had he not press
ed nv hand with heartfelt "God bles
you," should not at this moment writ
that my heart was made bouyant and m.
step elastic. Parting with him, my hrs
objective point was Benton Falls-wher
lived a Mr.. Waldran who exchanged
leans, calico, salatatus and "tangle-foot'
with the rustic bipeds of his nelghbor
hood, for their butter, eggs, stocking yarn
and tobacco. | arrived there abaet III
.poing down Of the sim" MIR. W. wa
absent from Paducah, and, notwithstand
/ ing. | negotiated with bis charry spous
for the purchase of e,ghty-fye dozen o
eggs ahd all the butter, good, bad, an
indifferent, at her own figures, which the
entered into the assets of her "shebang,
satupulous delicacy Barred her doc
against entertaining stranger for on
night in the absence of her husband
Hence 1 was driven to accept the hosp
t.I;ties Of Mr.. Potter, whose dot'iieil
|. sheltered himself and six juvenile vessel
. Of pottery under log tenctheht fburtee
! feet by, sixteen. My stay with them va
3 no, less humble than Cordial Adaptiu