San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-01-09

SOFA AS the Albanian heard she had been
taken the day before, he jumped to his feet,
gave us a cup Of spirits for our good news,
and sent his negroes to get sail on the Ber-
mudan. On our side, We protited by the
dram to become more confidential, and at
last offered ourselves as passengers He
looked askamce at our tarry clothes and
pistols, and replied civilly enough that he
had scarce accommodation for himself; nor
could either our prayers or our offers of
money, in which we advanced pretty far,
avail to snake him.
Il see you think i'll of u.s." says BallantTae,
but will show you how well we think of
you by telling you the truth. We are
Jacobite fugitiveS, and there is price upon
our heads"
At this the Albanian was plainly moved
little. He asked us many questions as to the
Scotch war, which Ballantrae very patiently
answered. And then, with wink, in a vul-
gar manner, Il guess you and your Prince
Charlie got more than you cared about"
said he
"Bedad, and that we did, said l. And
my dear man, wish you would set a new ex-
ample and give us just that much"
This | said in the Irish way, about which
there is allowed to be something very en-
gaging. It's remarkable thing, and a tes-
timony to the love with which our nation is
regarded, that this address scarce ever fails in
handsome fellow. cannot tell how often !
have seen private soldier escape the horse,
or beggar wheedle out a good aims by
touch OF the brogue. And indeed, as soon as
the Albanian had laughed at me, was pretty
much at rest. Even then, however, he made
many conditions and for one thing took
away our arms before he suffered US aboard,
which was the signal to cast off, so that in a
moment after We were gliding down the bay
with good breeze and blessing the name Of
God for our deliverance Almost in the
mouth Of the estuary, we passed the cruiser,
and little after, the poor Sarah with her
prize crew, and these were both sights to
make US tremble. The Bermudan seemed a
very safe place to be in, and our bold stroke
to have been fortunately played, when we
were thus reminded of the case of our com
panions For all that, we had only exchanged
traps, jumped out of the frying pan into the
fire, run from the yardarm to the block, and
escaped the open hostility of the man-of-war
to lie at the mercy Of the doubtful faith of
our Albanian merchant
From many circumstances, it CHANGED we
were safer than we could have dared to hope,
The town OF Albany was at that time much
concerned in contraband trade across the
desert with the Indians and the French This,
as it was highly illegal relaxed their loyalty,
and as it brought them in relation with the
pohtest people on the earth, divided even their
sympathies In short, they were like all the
smugglers in the world, spies and agents
ready made for either party. Our Albanian,
besides, was very honest man indeed, and
very greedy; and to crown our luck he con-
ceived great delight in our society. Before
we had reached the town of New York we
had come to a full agreement; that he should
carry us as far as Albany upon his ship and
thence put us on a way to pass the boundaries
and join the French. For all this we were to
pay at a high rate, but beggars cannot be
choosers nor outlaws bargainers.
We sailed then up the Hudson river, which,
protest, is a very fine stream, and put up at
the Kings Arms, in Albany. The town was
full of the militia Of the province, breathing
slaughter against the French. Governor
Clinton was there himself, very busy man,
and, by what | could learn, very near dis
tracted by the factiousneSS Of his assembly.
The Indians on both sides were on the war
path; we saw parties of them bringing in
prisoners and, what was much worse, scalps,
both male and female, for which they were
paid at a fixed rate, and, assure you, the
sight was not encouraging. Altogether we
coulI scarce have come at a period more
unsuitable for our designs; our position in the |
chief inn was dreadtully CONSPICUOUS; our