Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1871-04-27
de ana NY Pal
y IALE of TIE CUEAN Rebellion.
II. BlI,l JoNEs.


Nv associates through life have
been many ami various. have hob.
nobhcd with "nobleman, gentlemen Of
properly. heirs to entailed estates, off
Gers on full pay, aud other responsible
parties - and 4 have frai.rnis..i viii.
aud touts. Nap:. oh hi'fdbses' fdbrsse 6Gsasion ahSi
being hclated in heavy snow-s,orin
ai tne Bald faced Stag al Fincnlry, /
won the heart of an incbrIatei
hearse-dlriyer returning from Finchlcy
Cemetery. that with blind confidence.
born of our hosts good run, he thrust
whip and reIus into iny astonl,hed
hands, and climbing into the recvpta-
Gle but recently vacated by his fare,
prayed me TO pilot his solnbre chariot
home, Which. first stlpulatlng for
temporary exchange Of hats and
cloaks. | did. 10 the admiration of all
Camden town-;he mutes attendant
"n the sad curtcgc following, apprO-
priately speechlc,sly drunk, ln = four
wheeler. But of all the strange com
pauions into whose society have ever
been thrown by "a Prr,crse fat. or
whose companiouship have sought
from what my friends are pleased 10
dcnomlnate "a taste for low life (no
idea could be more erroneous | only
thirst for knowledge the person whom
J am going 10 tell you about was, par
ercelleRce. the strangest and the most
inscrutable. am going 10 tell You a
tale without hero. 1t. leading gen
tleman' (lf such term be appllcable) }
is alluded TO in my title under THE
first person singular, nominative case
me" Mr.. Squeers is my authority
for this grammar and the identity
of mysel-moi qW couS pdrte-Is
merged in the endearing epithet of"my
pal" This is rather perpleXing; but
as the whole title forms an expression
which constantly fell from the revered
| lips of me- when, IN the intervals OF
/ professional discipline, he had occa-
/ lion TO alluie TO the unworthy MARIA
tor. have chosen 10 preserve it IN is
entirety, in memory Of the most ex.
traordinary man | ever met.
HIS name was Jonas Baxter, and he
was the most intrepid, desperate, and
skillful burglar that ever laughed al
Scotland Yard, or goaded the New
York police to anger by his sublime
indifference u the terrors of the
| Tombs
At the time of which | write (ver,
recently,) he had long been an absen
tee from England, having quilted hi:
country for his countrv's goed,' an,
arrived in New York cid Australia
after holding a temporary position un
der Her Maiesty's government il
that colony. When my story opens
Mr.. Baxter appears before the publi
as tillibuster, having with view Il
ins'ilar depredations) volunteered t,
aid the oppressed in redeeming TIN
/, 'ever-faithful isle from the stigma Q
slavery and the writer, tired of doin
nothing, had also taken service unde
the Lone Star flag. and was appoin,
ed second in command of the exped
tion which had the honor of number
ing that truepatrot, Mr.. Baxter in it
ranks
l was ignorant, however. of the grea
ness thrust upon me by his enrol
ment in my command until the da
after we had left New York, when
had reason very heartily to be THANK
fIl for his enlistment
The rank and file Of the expeditio
+ were, as may be supposed, ''highl
mixed-up' lot-Cubans, Swedes, GeI
mans, Irish, Danes, Irish-American:
Yankees, a rery few English, and n
Scotch.
OF these the most unruly and tho
oughly brutal were the Irish-Amer
) cans, the sweepings of New York, Ii
very scum of the Bowery. One I
these fellows was standing, half drum
under the break Of the poop, indulgin
! in string of such meaningless an
awfully blasphemous oaths as can onl
be heard in the ''down-town" spiri