The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1871-08-09


| joyed, and could not bear to leave
that Gland of freedom and common
sense" He had had an invitation
from some missionaries to join
them in an expedition to Honclu-
lu and tho Friendly Islands, and
thought of accepting it. A few
months later he gave a spasmod-
icaIly vivid account Of his life at
sea, showing greet zest for all
the little adventures of the voy-
age. II never told you," he wrote,
"my adventures on the African
voyage, or about loading saltin the
West Indies, or about the myste-
rious man. or about the wounded
cook turned sailor. or the amor
Gus mate, or the mate in fits call.
ing o. his mother, or about the
cook drunk, q Frenchman crying,
the second mato bullying, or
about the captain drunk, the mate
three.quarters drunk, the second
mate green, and the ship running
on Georges Shoal, and being saved
; by the undersigned, who was not
drunk; about the talking parrot
overheard, saved, saved, saved
about the honest soldier-about
the happy island, the Arcadia Of
the Atlantic-about the French
cook-good times now for the
she'll backs, plenty to eat, and
good at that-or 4 shark, q
shark pork the hook-he is
caught, haul him aboard frantic
terror Of the parrot-he tries to
commit suicide-thc shark is kill
ed shark steaks for breakfast;
or about the undersigned sick
with cholera; he gets well be
gets his toe crushed; he knocks
off at $50 P. NJ, he turns-to again
at 6 A. N. next day-Spanish pi-
lots" and much moro in the same
strain.
After a time all letters ceased
his family naturally became anx-
ious, and his former tutor, the
Rev. ". B. Alexander, was dis
patched to America to search for
him. While thus engaged, Mr..
Alexander, in 1870, heard of the
loss Of one George II. Osborne"
second mate Of the Hera, who was
washed overheard and drowned
in mid-ocean, and who, 1t was
thought, might prove to be the
yoaLg man be was seeking. The
evidence laid before one Of the
fScotch shcriffs to show the identify
Of George Osborne and Lord
Aberdeen seems to be sufficiently
conclusive, though somc further
information in minor points has
yet, for the sake oflegaI com 2lete.
ness, to be adduced. American
photographs Of the mate tally
with English photographs Of tho
Earl, and Lady Aberdeen has ''re-
! cognized them all as without doubt
portraits of her deceased SON"
Osborne and the Earl were alike cap
ital shots. and the Earl's rife, (ideE-
tilted by the maker,) was proved
to have been sold by Osborne to i
man at Richmond in the United
States. A popularity of gait was
noticed in each, and they both dis
played a conspicuous "fondness for
the sea, mechanics, mathematics,
pictures, drawing and music"
Further thcy resemhled each other
in q liking for children. in strict
moral conduct, and regular atten-
tier to religious duties. The hand
writing Of Osborne's accounts;jour
nails. and other memoranda re-
lating to the Hera is the same as
that Of the Earl's letters, and
he captain OF the Hera pro-
duced a song in this handwriting,
called The Rainy Day." which
Lady Aberdeen had often sung to
her son, and which was Il great
tavorite of his. The chain Of evil
dence has thus been put together
link by link, and tho sheriff might
probably have given his decision
at once had it not been for natu-
raj desire to make the records OF
identity so absolutely complete
and conclusive that there should
bo no possibility Of any question
being raised on the subject here
after,or any strange claimant from
beyond the seas putting forward
| pretensions to the earldrom and es-
tatcs. When Lord Aberdeen, drop
ping Lis title, first entered nautical
society at Boston, as George Il.
OSBORNE" be had probably no
settled plan of any kind, beyond
that Of shaking himself FREQ for a
time from existing associations
and trying what he could make Of
life on his own personal merits
and bv his own excrtion. He
soon picked up a knowledge of
navigation, which be improved on
board ship. In the African voy
age he seems to have taken SER
vice as seaman, judging from a
passage in Ole Of his letters de-
scribing a trick by which he pro-
cured release from a distastetul
task-"undersigned paintingysrds
tired and bot, lets bucket fall