Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-01-14

= GLASGOW PRIYATEER'S-MAN.
Not long ago there lived on the Cor
pals side of the river an old man, who
occupied an apartment IN sunk fiat,
the grated window of which was below
the level of the street. He followed
the occupation of a rigger when he first
attracted my attention, but his whole
bearing gave ample evidence that the
greater part of his life had been spent
at sea. He was not by any means a
big man. but he had massive head
and very large face, while his hose
Cor his cutwater, as he himself would
called it, was Of prodiglous dimensions.
Altogether, his countenance. wrinkled
and grizzled by age sand exposure to
all kinds of weather though it was,
was sufficiently out Of the way
to attract even the cursory OBJ
servers attention, ald seen as it
was by me every day as he passed me
on his way to work, it gradually came
to impress me with the idea that it's
owner was no common seaman, and to
awaken a desire in me to know some
thing of the mans former life. But
for while it appeared as if my desire
was doomed to disappointment, for
Sam (that was his nance fought shy of
all my advances, and found it a hard
matter to get him to repose such con-
fdelce III me as would induce him to
spin one of his yarns, the material for
which / felt convinced was lying in
abundance behind the rugged face.
One night, however, [ came across him
when he was IN that condition which
can be described as two sheets In the
wind, and the third one shaking, and
from word he used in conversation, I
at once knew that ne had been at some
time of his life s among the niggers. "
$50 you have been in the slave
trade 2" [ remarked, interrogatively.
"Well, yes; I believe I have" he
responded, speaking with an American
accent, for he was born Yankee.
'sYou would get good pay in a ship
of that kind, ventured.
He named large sum as the wages
he received, besides which he asserted
he got two prime slaves per voyage.
"That would pay [ said, eff you
had lease of it"
''Pretty fair" he responded "but
look'ee here, governor: I've done a
sight better nor that in my time, that
/ have. I've made seventeen hundred
dollars in forty minutes. There for
you, master; what do you think Of
that, now?'
Of course I expressed my astonish-
ment, and to my great delight I man
aged to get him persuaded to tell me
oil q bo11t If
= was shipped On board privateer
at the time" he began, 'and we was
a-laying in Buenos Ayres, getting in
stores, and getting up our standing
rigging Dull work it was for us, for
you see SO long as we lay there we had
our days work to do all the same as
if we we're at sea, and there wasn't no
chance to make anything in the way O.
prize money. Well, all of sudden we
gets orders to clear up decks, send up
the yards, bend on any old sails we
could lay our hands on, without wait
ing for the new canvas as was ordered,
ard make all ready to go to sea at once.
We seed as there was some jolly game
afoot, though we knew we shouldn't
hear what it was till we put to sea: and
the same night we got the orders we
7as ready to clear out O port. You
your pile, s1r, there was some work
that day. The fellows in the rig
lidn't take so long to turn their
knock off work every time they
&c where it dropped, as they
OCULAR for fortnight. They
e was something to work
turned to with will