Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-11-01

AhN NNhNAHN
wrote to the Offices Of the Admiralty
Court several times, but no decisive an-
Iwer in the case was received. The firm
IF Mckenzie & KnOwlton had previously
suffered from the seizure by the Domin-
on authorities Of their vessels, one Of
which the A. ID. WOnson, valued at sl0-
QUO, being seized toward the close of
1870, on the same trifing prete1t, aud
kept several months, until decision was
rendered by the Court, from which the
firm appealed, aud, to release the vessel.
gave bonds in $4,000 to prosecute the
appeal. The next time their property
was seized vas in the case of the Horton,
and this case appearing to take about the
same course as the previous one. it was
determined to try practical illustration
of Buffers theory in the case. The plan
was conceived in that nursery of Ameri-
can sea-men. and the master-mind to exe-
cute it was found in the person of gen.
tleman whose name, for obvious reasons,
is withheld from publication. This per-
son alluded to suddenly took trip to
Guysborough, where the vessel lay, and
soon appeared among the "gashers," as
an agent for newly discovered Vermont
gold mine, having specimens of the pre-
cious quartz to exhibit, and soliciting
buyers in. his stock. Times were dull in
the Dominion about that period, aud when
our agent expatiated in glowing terms up.
on the new stock company, the liberal
inducements to the buyers. the chances to
accumulate a rapid competence, ETC., be
naturally drew around him a medley Of
the genus homo of Guysborough and be-
ing a goo judge of human nature, was
soon enabled to pick from the number mer
to whom he could breach the ostensiblt
object in view, which was to sssist him il
cutting the vessel out of the British
clutches. Having gained sufficient num-
Der of the natives. his force was soor
augmented by detail from another fish
ing vessel which was cruising about tha
vicinity, and which has since arrived with
her cargo at this port. This part of the
plan being matured, it was necessary t.
get the assistance ofsomc person acquaint
ed with the harbOr, and an old pilot wa,
found ready to lend his aid but, unfor
tunately for him, the day before the on,
set for the consummation of the plan, hc
had his leg broken, and 1t was feared tha
the attempt would fail but the old pilo
was 10th to part with so good chance tC
make 500, and he called his son jim
into requisition, saying "Yere, Capt.
Jim will do the job as we'll as the ole
'un." So Jim was engaged to perform
the old mans part of the programme. Al
the arrangements for executing the bolC
plot were thus far perfected, and the tim
set for the undertaking was ii o'clocl
on Sunday night on the 9th inst. A
length the night arrived, and under cove
of an almost Egyptian darkness the men en-
gagged by the gold mine agent, with ihos
volunteers from the American ishin
schooner, assembled on the wharf, and il
few minutes afterward were in the Gov
ernment building where were the sails
running, rigging, charts, compasses, and a
belonging to the Horton. The guards ha
gone home, one of them being heard t
say, "Oh faint no use hanging roun
yere them ycre Yanks would no NOR
think of coming round for this smack to
night than they would Of going withou
their Sunday morning baked beans.' Blu
after getting the sails on board it wa
discovered that they were not the rigt
ones, but those belonging to the Nickel
son, another schooner which is held fo
the same cause as the Horton was. A
though the mistake occasioned considers
BILE delay, it was recti6ed, and by ii l.
o'clock mainsail, foresail, and jib wer
bent, and effort made to get underweigl
Again the fates seemed against tn
expedition, for it was now ascertaine
that the tide had ebbed and the Horto
was stuck in the mud. The little part
we're not disheartened at even this failure
and with true Yankee grit the ancht
{ was tenderly transferred from the bow
the long-boat and shortly afterward burie
+ in the deep water, when, with lor
pull, and strong pull, the Horton glide
, into deep water, and the efforts of Il
brave fellows we're so far crowned vii
success. Sail was now made, and by da.
light the berth at Guysborough, whi'
, the little vessel had so long occupied, vi
vacant. while the late occupant was fyiI
, out of the harbor. Mr.. Mckenzie stat
that imme liately the Horton shaped b
/. course for the northerly edge Of the Gu
then across Georges Banks through y