New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-02

when had You under my bayonet and sait
surrender; you yelled out, ut amt in me
| Cd d--n. Stick"
Bob-Wel, was fool, reckon.
Fed Soldier-And would have been
| coward to have been provoked by man il
my power; but always remembered you
look.
Bob-Oh, it warn't your id little prot
of q bayonet, but the minnie; and the shell
and the caisson took the starch ont of me
But how did you find out where vast
Fed Soldier-I knew where the prison
e-s and wounded were sent, and / wrote II
my people to look out for the reb that hai
sent there, cure him up and send him back
l wanted to finish him.
Bob-They searched for me for two days
and found me by the way Was wounded
They came 10 see the reb that had taken q
many chances to 60 to heaven.
| Fed Soldier-They treated you well9
| Bob-The old man was very grum. HI
said you asked him to see to me, or he
Y
at war with the best government-you
know what they said. But that sister Of
yours, she wanted to see me because had
seen You. l say. see. Don't you believe
she worked on that old man 80 that when ]
could stand on one crutch and two sticks,
like quadrupede, she made them haul me
out and give me your room. What in the
name of God did they set you and me to
fighting fora
Fed Soldier-You ought never to have
gone out of the Union.
Bob-And you had no business spreadin'
your id old Union over US whether We
We would or no. But it is all over now, and
no more fighting here. But I've sent that
rel Of sugar and key Of molasses. As for
Miss Susan, had but one thing to send
her, and that . poor, crippled and ruined
soldier had no right to offer.
Fed Soldier-What was thatl
Bob-Never mind; she will never know.
But what are you doings
Fed Soldier-1 am detailed clerk to the
commissioner Of claims; and you!
Boil have been .furloughed ON parole
to assist . Confederate quartermaster to
get even in the liquidation of some public
accounts, paroles and exchanges, and to
find out confscated property to confscate.
It's d-n low down business; I'm ashamed
of it and the id traitor and spy that has
undertook it.
Ethan Rutherford was alone in the Office,
examining papers. Il find these docu.
mencs all in form; but the correspondence
seems inconsistent. Here Dumoulin, tho
elder, purchases an investment in cotton for
remittances of proceeds of property sold
and money collected on the - of March,
Here is his passport and bills of lading on
the - of the same month; and then there is
q power of attorney dated the of the
same month, empowering this Knicker-
booker to sell his cotton. If he sold his
daughters and granddaughter property,
purchased and shipped the cotton, and &C.
comp anied it himself. why should he have
empowered another man to sell it for HINT
Whatever became of the old man Dumou-
linz Well, it's no business of mine; but if
some poor wretch is not cheated in this
transac ton the devil has missed his lick.
It's no business of mine; go here are all the
invoices, libel in reclamation and award
in form; and the claimant has only to
get his ward through the treasury forms.
and he is rich man. Isuppose, of course,
he will turn It over to his principal in
France. No doubt the owner will get it
all. I'm sorry for him, that principal.
What" asked Lieutenant Roberts. in
charge Of the captured prize, "shall do
with this little prisoner
Send her to the Matron's Bureau of I'm
migration and see if they can place her,
until the French consul shall make some
provision for her."
The Frecch consul says he has no assur-
ance of her nativity. and the girl herself, as
| underst and, claims to be native of the
United States"
This is contradictory service. to have to
sink ships, kill men, and matronize little
OF aans, but the government can do almost
anything"
The Matron of the Bureau did not think
that it came within the line of her duty,
but said she could find home The young
girl was br ought to the bureau, and neatly
clad and otherwise cared for at the national
cost.
A plain mechanic came to ask for an ap.
prentice to his trade; he was q. book
binder.
Very well, said the matron, having read
the references of the man, II will send to see.
if the place corresponds with the recon-
So Eloise, without compre
accompanied Miss Sarah, clerk
in the bureau, who went with the mechani.
man, and found q respectable
home for the little girl. The business was
large, and the wife of the mechanical-look-
ing man, respectable, intelligent, and
woman.
She was touched with the condition of
the forlOrn girl, and said, $50 this is little
prisoner! Poor child Why, Mr.. Folder,
che looks so delicate"
"Well, you must take care of her until she
grows stronger. She will only go into the
shop short time every day. Twill put her
with q very good girl, and swift work
woman, who will teach and take care of
her,"
Then she must 60 to school, you know"
Then she said to Eloise, "Come, my dear,
let me show you where you will stay" The
young girl understood that she was to &C.