The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1870-04-28
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expense and the draft fct the bal
y \, While this trading $Asgoing on,
Twas busy accommodating the city
and suburbs. My first ttitn was
alone out TO the Cemetery, and
amongst the palmettos.3 T had
heard much ofthe maj gn!tnde Of the
Cemetery, It's catacon1bs and vallrsi
built onEa swamp. It's monuments
were fine, but the stone, ,bake-oten
looking vaults, built in a thick
wall, looked rather gloomy. The
long rows of two ranges OF vaults,
one above the other. The water is
so near the surface that a grave can
not be sank more. than two and a
half orsthrec feet, and then I'LL
with cEa ~ 50 that a coffin has to
Gil with water before II vim sink
40 the bottom; then held down
while filing in the mud. The
grounds were lovely. Great care
lis taken in keeping the graves
strewed with fresh flowers. The
vicinity Of tho Cemetery seemed to
be the battle ground for rowdies;
for while l was there, four persons
Came out from the city, two fthcm
stripped as for a fight; but after
some parley, they dressed and re
turned to the city. no
There was ship canal cut from
Lake Ponchartrain to a point op-
Iposite the Cemetery. ! wandered
up the bank of the canal to some
light trading schooners lying there.
recollected to have heard my
wife and her eldest sister often cay
they had an only brother, who,
when quite young, left their home
in Funkstown, Maryland, with the
army of Gen. Wilkinson, to 20 to
Louisiana, and after leaving the
army, had turned sailor in the
trade on Lake Ponchartrain, but
had not yet returned, nor written to
them for over twenty years. In
speaking of their brother, they
said he had a double thumb on the
left hand. ! went aboard the YES
sci and met fine looking young
Frenchman, in sailor garb. |, after
addressing him, enquircd if he had
lived on the borders of the Lake,
a I'D ifhe knew a man by the name
of John Macdill. He shrugged his
shoulders and pointed to an old
man, a sailor, as if he, had not un-
derstood me. l stepped along aft
to the sailor, who was lunching of
a piece of bread and meat; his
knife in his right hand, and the
bread in the left, and behold! the
double thumb, holding the rlcati
while he cut with the knife, | ap,
preached and, said, your name is
Macdill, sirI presume He look
ed up fiereclyTand saids"Yes." 4
was some confused, the whole af
fair was so extraordinary. I then
then told him of sisters in Ohio
He gruflly said, 81 have no friends
in Ohio, | am from lIsgerstown
Maryland" l finally told him SC
much that he enquired where l stop
ped,a next day he called upon me
u and agreedto return to Ohio will
me; but he must return with the shiI
4 as the owner was not sailor enough
to take his vessel home to the nortl
side of the Lake. | then told hin
of my French boy, who would g
j with us, and expected him by th'
| tenth or eleventh; and by the tim
appointed they were both 'ready TO
thejourney. i7luI5- i..s.
On the first Sunday in the city,
attended the Catholic church il
/ their splendid Cathedral. Abou
t noon / was at the execution of
] splendid looking black man, b.
hanging. His ofense was striking
thu ovcrseer. After dinner we at
!; tended q longo dance in the publ
square, a religious ceremony o
Africa; the common sports o
: idlcrs, was carried on as on a holi
+ day. w Iseyrr .t.
e My business was settled, and
!, steamboat of the largest size wa
2 ready to start. l had engaged dec
passage for six, and had laid i
n bread, cheese, ham, coffee and ST
. gar, fruit and wine. We had cool
t ing apparatus from the boats. NJ
Y brother-in-law was first-rate CO.
: fee maker. f uat
:. A deck passage means "you mus
= board yourself;p and my larg
J, company admonished me to econc
i mize the expense. We had blank
' cts with us, and the boats had frs
d rate births, in clusters, six, thre
b high, and facing inwards, so thc
J. there was safety in SO large a crow
d to be thus hemmed in. The pal
a sengers on the deck were all traC
t ers, and their hands; and the onl
J. indignity connected with the pa
sage was that the deck passenger
b had to assist the boats crew
), wooding the boat. This duty ws
4 soon turned into a frolic. Trader
r and hands turned out, and the e,
# ercise afforded them health an
v amusement. D.
S We arrived at Louisville, spent
! day there, and then went to Cil
!, cinnati by boat. Then we stage
e 1t by Hillsborough to Chillicoth
o and to Lancaster-in less tbs
O. twelve days, from New Orleans, q
d well and hearty. rs..L
Il paid of all our debts. Ny Ne
,e York exchange was worth one p
II cent. advance at Lancaster; ar
d thus / answer the simple questic
" how business men cot money
le carry on these operations. N
IS fast, certainly, but by energy az
N industry. taae q boas y
u f..f ...f tu tttnfia lIrst t-tftt lE no 3
re An Immense Salt Mine.