Chapter II: Preface

No apology will be required from the author for presenting to the public some episodes in the useful career of a self-made man; and while the spirit of patriotism continues to animate the sturdy sons of America, the story of one of them who has exemplified this national trait in a conspicuous measure, will be deemed not unworthy of record. The lessons it teaches, more especially to the young, are those of uncompromising _duty_ in every relation of life--self-denial, perseverance and "pluck;" while the successive stages of a course which led ultimately to a brilliant success, may be studied with some advantage by those just entering upon the business of life. As a soldier, Willard Glazier was "without fear and without reproach." As an author, it is sufficient to say, he is appreciated by his _contemporaries_--than which, on a literary man, no higher encomium can be passed. The sale of nearly half a million copies of one of his productions is no slight testimony to its value.

Biography, to be interesting, must be a transcript of an eventful, as well as a remarkable career; and to be instructive, its subject should be exemplary in his aims, and in his mode of attaining them. The hero of this story comes fully up to the standard thus indicated. His career has been a romance. Born of parents of small means but of excellent character and repute; and bred and nurtured in the midst of some of the wildest and grandest scenery in the rugged county of St. Lawrence, close by the "Thousand Isles," where New York best proves her right to be called the Empire State through the stamp of royalty on her hills and streams--under the shadow of such surroundings as these, my subject attained maturity, with no opportunities for culture except those he made for himself. Yet he became possessed of an education eminently useful, essentially practical and calculated to establish just such habits of self-reliance and decision as afterwards proved chiefly instrumental in his success. Glazier had a fixed ambition to rise. He felt that the task would be difficult of accomplishment--that he must be not only the architect, but the builder of his own fortunes; and, as the statue grows beneath the sculptor's hand to perfect contour from the unshapely block of marble, so prosperity came to Captain Glazier only after he had cut and chiseled away at the hard surface of inexorable circumstance, and moulded therefrom the statue of his destiny.

J. A. O.
Philadelphia, _June 14th_, 1880.

* * * * *

TO
THE MEMORY OF

ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT,

WHOSE SWORD,

AND TO THAT OF

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW,

WHOSE PEN,

Have so Nobly Illustrated the Valor and Genius of their Country:

THE AUTHOR,

In a Spirit of Profound Admiration for

THE RENOWNED SOLDIER,

And of Measureless Gratitude to

THE IMMORTAL WRITER,

Dedicates This Book.

* * * * *

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

ORIGIN OF THE GLAZIER FAMILY.

Lineage of Willard Glazier.--A good stock.--Oliver Glazier at the
Battle of Bunker Hill.--The home of honest industry.--The Coronet of
Pembroke.--The "Homestead Farm."--Mehitable Bolton.--Her New England
home.--Her marriage to Ward Glazier.--The wild "North Woods."--The
mother of the soldier-author 21

CHAPTER II.

BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD OF WILLARD GLAZIER.

The infant stranger.--A mother's prayers.--"Be just before you are
generous."--Careful training.--Willard Glazier's first battle.--A
narrow escape.--Facing the foe.--The "happy days of childhood."--
"The boy is father to the man" 27

CHAPTER III.

EARLY LIFE AND HABITS.

Scotch-Irish Presbyterianism of twenty-five years ago.--The "little
deacon."--First days at school.--Choosing a wife.--A youthful
gallant.--A close scholar but a wild lad.--A mother's influence.--
Ward Glazier a Grahamite.--Young Willard's practical jokes.--
Anecdote of Crystal Spring.--"That is something like water" 34

CHAPTER IV.

WILLARD GLAZIER AT SCHOOL.

School-days continued.--Boys will be boys.--Cornelius Carter, the
teacher.--Young Willard's rebellion against injustice.--
Gum-chewing.--Laughable race through the snow.--The tumble into a
snow-bank, and what came of it.--The runaway caught.--Explanation
and reconciliation.--The new master, James Nichols.--"Spare the rod
and spoil the child."--The age of chivalry not gone.--Magnanimity
of a school-boy.--Friendship between Willard and Henry
Abbott.--Good-bye to the "little deacon" 42

CHAPTER V.

ECCENTRICITIES OF HENRY GLAZIER.

Henry Glazier.--A singular character.--"Kaw-shaw-gan-ce" and
"Quaw-taw-pee-ab."--Tom Lolar and Henry Glazier.--Attractive
show-bills.--Billy Muldoon and his trombone.--Behind the
scenes.--"Sound your G!"--The mysterious musician.--What happened to
Billy.--"May the divil fly away wid ye!" 50

CHAPTER VI.

VISIONS OF THE FUTURE.

The big uncle and the little nephew.--Exchange of ideas between the
eccentric Henry Glazier and young Willard.--Inseparable
companions.---Willard's early reading.--Favorite authors.--
Hero-worship of the first Napoleon and Charles XII. of Sweden.--
The genius of good and of evil.--Allen Wight.--A born teacher.--
Reverses of fortune.--The shadow on the home.--Willard's resolve
to seek his fortune and what came of it.--The sleep under the
trees.--The prodigal's return.--"All's well that ends well" 58

CHAPTER VII.

WILLARD GLAZIER AT HOME.

Out of boyhood.--Days of adolescence.--True family pride.--Schemes
for the future.--Willard as a temperance advocate.--Watering his
grandfather's whiskey.--The pump behind the hill.--The sleigh-ride
by night.--The "shakedown" at Edward's.--Intoxicated by tobacco
fumes.--The return ride.--Landed in a snow-bank.--Good-bye horses
and sleigh!--Plodding through the snow 68

CHAPTER VIII.

ADVENTURES--EQUINE AND BOVINE.

Ward Glazier moves to the Davis Place.--"Far in the lane a lonely
house he found."--Who was Davis?--Description of the place.--A wild
spot for a home.--Willard at work.--Adventure with an ox-team.--The
road, the bridge and the stream.--"As an ox thirsteth for the
water."--Dashed from a precipice!--Willard as a horse-tamer.--
"Chestnut Bess," the blooded mare.--The start for home.--"Bess" on
the rampage.--A lightning dash.--The stooping arch.--Bruised and
unconscious 75

CHAPTER IX.

THE YOUNG TRAPPER OF THE OSWEGATCHIE.

A plan of life.--Determination to procure an education.--A
substitute at the plow.--His father acquiesces in his determination
to become a trapper.--Life in the wild woods along the
Oswegatchie.--The six "dead falls."--First success.--A fallacious
calculation.--The goal attained.--Seventy-five dollars in hard
cash!--Four terms of academic life.--The youthful rivals.--Lessons
in elocution.--A fight with hair-brushes and chairs!--"The walking
ghost of a kitchen fire."--Renewed friendship.--Teaching to obtain
means for an education 87

CHAPTER X.

THE SOLDIER SCHOOL-MASTER.

From boy to man.--The Lyceum debate.--Willard speaks for the
slave.--Entrance to the State Normal School.--Reverses.--Fighting
the world again.--Assistance from fair hands.--Willard meets Allen
Barringer.--John Brown, and what Willard thought of him.--Principles
above bribe.--Examination.--A sleepless night.--Haunted by the
"ghost of possible defeat."--"Here is your certificate."--The school
at Schodack Centre.--At the "Normal" again.--The Edwards
School.--Thirty pupils at two dollars each.--The "soldier
school-master."--Teachers at East Schodack.--The runaway
ride.--Good-by mittens, robes and whip!--Close of school at East
Schodack 102

CHAPTER XI.

INTRODUCTION TO MILITARY LIFE.

The mutterings of war.--Enlistment.--At Camp Howe.--First experience
as a soldier.--"One step to the front!"--Beyond Washington.--On
guard.--Promotion.--Recruiting service.--The deserted home on
Arlington Heights.--"How shall I behave in the coming battle?"--The
brave Bayard.--On the march.--The stratagem at Falmouth Heights.--A
brilliant charge.--After the battle 118

CHAPTER XII.

FIRST BATTLE OF BRANDY STATION.

The sentinel's lonely round.--General Pope in command of the
army.--Is gunboat service effective?--First cavalry battle of Brandy
Station.--Under a rain of bullets.--Flipper's orchard.--"Bring on
the brigade, boys!"--Capture of Confederate prisoners.--Story of a
revolver.--Cedar Mountain.--Burial of the dead rebel.--Retreat from
the Rapidan.--The riderless horse.--Death of Captain Walters 128

CHAPTER XIII.

MANASSAS AND FREDERICKSBURG.

Manassas.--The flying troops.--The unknown hero.--Desperate
attempt to stop the retreat.--Recruiting the decimated
ranks.--Fredericksburg.--Bravery of Meagher's brigade.--The
impregnable heights.--The cost of battles.--Death of
Bayard.--Outline of his life 135

CHAPTER XIV.

UNWRITTEN HISTORY.

"What boots a weapon in a withered hand?"--A thunderbolt
wasted.--War upon hen-roosts.--A bit of unpublished history.--A
fierce fight with Hampton's cavalry.--In one red burial blent.--From
camp to home.--Troubles never come singly.--The combat.--The
capture.--A superfluity of Confederate politeness.--Lights and
shadows 144

CHAPTER XV.

THE CAPTURE.

A situation to try the stoutest hearts.--Hail Columbia!--Every man a
hero.--Kilpatrick's ingenuity.--A pen-picture from "Soldiers of the
Saddle."--Glazier thanked by his general.--Cessation of
hostilities.--A black day.--Fitzhugh Lee proposes to crush
Kilpatrick.--Kil's audacity.--Capture of Lieutenant Glazier.--Petty
tyranny.--"Here, Yank, hand me that thar hat, and overcoat, and
boots" 155

CHAPTER XVI.

LIBBY PRISON.

"All ye who enter here abandon hope."--Auld lang syne.--Major
Turner.--Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.--Stoicism.--Glazier
enters the prison-hospital--A charnel-house.--Rebel surgeons.--
Prison correspondence.--Specimen of a regulation letter.--The
tailor's joke.--A Roland for an Oliver.--News of death.--Schemes
for escape.--The freemasonry of misfortune.--Plot and
counter-plot.--The pursuit of pleasure under difficulties 166

CHAPTER XVII.

PRISON LIFE.

Mournful news.--How a brave man dies.--New Year's day.--Jolly under
unfavorable circumstances.--Major Turner pays his respects.--
Punishment for singing "villainous Yankee songs."--Confederate
General John Morgan.--Plans for escape.--Digging their way to
freedom.--"Poet No. 1, All's well."--Yankee ingenuity.--The tunnel
ready.--Muscle the trump card.--No respect to rank.--_Sauve qui
peut!_--A strategic movement.--"Guards! guards!"--Absentees from
muster.--Disappointed hopes.--Savage treatment of prisoners.--Was
the prison mined? 179

CHAPTER XVIII.

DANVILLE.--MACON.--SAVANNAH.

Belle Boyd, the Confederate spy.--National characteristics.--Colonel
Mosby.--Richmond to Danville.--Sleeping spoon-fashion.--Glazier's
"corrective point" suffers.--Saltatory entrance to a railroad
car.--Colonel Joselyn.--Sympathy of North Carolinians.--Ingenious
efforts to escape.--Augusta.--Macon.--Turner again!--"Carelessness"
with firearms.--Tunneling.--Religious revival.--Order from
Confederate War Department.--Murder!--Fourth of July.--Macon to
Savannah.--Camp Davidson.--More tunneling 194

CHAPTER XIX.

UNDER FIRE AT CHARLESTON.

Under siege.--Charleston Jail.--The Stars and Stripes.--Federal
compliments.--Under the guns.--Roper Hospital.--Yellow
Jack.--Sisters of Charity.--Rebel Christianity.--A Byronic
stanza.--Charleston to Columbia.--"Camp Sorghum."--Nemesis.--Another
dash for liberty.--Murder of Lieutenants Young and Parker.--Studying
topography.--A vaticination.--Back to reality 206

CHAPTER XX.

THE ESCAPE FROM COLUMBIA.

Mysterious voices.--"I reckon dey's Yankees."---"Who comes
there?"--The Lady of the Manor.--A weird spectacle.--The struggle
through the swamp.--A reflection on Southern swamps in
general.--"Tired nature's sweet restorer" 221

CHAPTER XXI.

LOYALTY OF THE NEGROES.

Startled by hounds.--An unpleasant predicament.--A Christian
gentlewoman.--Appeal to Mrs. Colonel Taylor.--"She did all she
could."--A meal fit for the gods.--Aunt Katy.--"Lor' bress ye,
marsters!"--Uncle Zeb's prayer.--Hoe-cake and pinders.--Woodcraft
_versus_ astronomy.--Canine foes.--Characteristics of the slave.--
Meeting escaped prisoners.--Danger.--Retreat and concealment 228

CHAPTER XXII.

PROGRESS OF THE FUGITIVES.

Parting company.--Thirst and no water.--Hoping for the end.--The boy
and the chicken.--Conversation of ladies overheard.--The fugitives
pursued.--The sleeping village.--Captain Bryant.--The _alba
sus_.--Justifiable murder, and a delicious meal.--Darkies and their
prayers.--Man proposes; God disposes.--An adventure.--A _ruse de
guerre_.--Across the Savannah 238

CHAPTER XXIII.

THE PERILS OF AN ESCAPE.

Alligators.--A detachment of Southern chivalry.--A scare.--Repairs
neatly executed.--Misery and despair.--Virtue its own
reward.--Hunger and desperation.--Audacity.--A Confederate
officer.--"A good Union man."--"Two sights and a jambye."--A narrow
escape 249

CHAPTER XXIV.

RECAPTURED BY A CONFEDERATE OUTPOST.

Fugitive slaves.--A rebel planter.--The big Ebenezer.--A sound of
oars.--A _ruse de guerre_.--Burial of a dead soldier.--A free
ride.--Groping in the dark.--"Who goes there!"--Recaptured.--_Nil
desperandum_.--James Brooks.--Contraband of war.--Confederate
murders.--In the saddle again.--A dash for freedom.--Again
captured.--Tried as a spy 261

CHAPTER XXV.

FINAL ESCAPE FROM CAPTIVITY.

In jail.--White trash.--Yankees.--Off to Waynesboro.--No
rations.--Calling the roll.--Sylvania.--Plan for escape.--Lieutenant
John W. Wright.--A desperate project.--Escaped!--Giving chase.--The
pursuers baffled.--Old Richard.--"Pooty hard case, massa."--Rebel
deserters.--The sound of cannon.--Personating a rebel officer.--Mrs.
Keyton.--Renewed hope.--A Confederate outpost.--Bloodhounds.--Uncle
Philip.--March Dasher.--Suspicion disarmed.--"Now I'ze ready,
gemmen."--Stars and stripes.--Glorious freedom.--Home 274

CHAPTER XXVI

GLAZIER RE-ENTERS THE SERVICE.

Glazier's determination to re-enter the army.--Letter to Colonel
Harhaus.--Testimonial from Colonel Clarence Buel.--Letter from Hon.
Martin I. Townsend to governor of New York.--Letter from General
Davies.--Letter from General Kilpatrick.--Application for new
commission successful.--Home.--The mother fails to recognize her
son.--Supposed to be dead.--Recognized by his sister
Marjorie.--Filial and fraternal love.--Reports himself to his
commanding officer for duty.--Close of the war and of Glazier's
military career.--Seeks a new object in life.--An idea occurs to
him.--Becomes an author, and finds a publisher 295

CHAPTER XXVII.

CAREER AS AN AUTHOR.

Glazier in search of a publisher for "Capture, Prison-Pen and
Escape."--Spends his last dollar.--Lieutenant Richardson a friend
in need.--Joel Munsell, of Albany, consents to publish.--The author
solicits subscriptions for his work before publication.--
Succeeds.--Captain Hampton.--R. H. Ferguson.--Captain F. C.
Lord.--Publication and sale of first edition.--Great success.--Pays
his publisher in full.--Still greater successes.--Finally attains
an enormous sale.--Style of the work.--Extracts.--Opinions of the
press 304

CHAPTER XXVIII.

"THREE YEARS IN THE FEDERAL CAVALRY."

Another work by Captain Glazier.--"Three Years in the Federal
Cavalry."--Daring deeds of the Light Dragoons.--Extracts from the
work.--Night attack on Falmouth Heights.--Kilpatrick's
stratagem.--Flight of the enemy.--Capture of Falmouth.--Burial of
Lieutenant Decker.--Incidents at "Brandy Station."--"Harris Light"
and "Tenth New York."--"Men of Maine, you must save the
day!"--Position won.--Some press reviews of the work 313

CHAPTER XXIX.

"BATTLES FOR THE UNION."

"Battles for the Union."--Extracts.--Bull Run.--Brandy
Station.--Manassas.--Gettysburg.--Pittsburg Landing.--Surrender of
General Lee.--Opinions of the press.--Philadelphia "North
American."--Pittsburg "Commercial."--Chicago "Inter-Ocean."--
Scranton "Republican."--Wilkes-Barre "Record of the
Times."--Reading "Eagle."--Albany "Evening Journal" 322

CHAPTER XXX.

"HEROES OF THREE WARS."

Literary zeal.--"Heroes of Three Wars."--Extract from preface.--Sale
of the work.--Extracts: Washington.--Winfield Scott.--Zachary
Taylor.--Grant.--Sheridan.--Kilpatrick.--Press reviews, a few out
of many: Boston "Transcript."--Chicago "Inter-Ocean."--Baltimore
"Sun."--Philadelphia "Times."--Cincinnati "Enquirer."--Worcester
"Spy."--Pittsburg "Gazette" 341

CHAPTER XXXI.

OCEAN TO OCEAN ON HORSEBACK.

From Boston to San Francisco.--An unparalleled ride.--Object of the
journey.--Novel lecture tour.--Captain Frank M. Clark.--"Echoes from
the Revolution."--Lecture at Tremont Temple.--Captain Theodore L.
Kelly.--A success.--Proceeds of lecture.--Edward F.
Rollins.--Extracts from first lecture.--Press notices 364

CHAPTER XXXII.

BOSTON TO CHICAGO.

In the saddle.--Bunker Hill.--Arrives in Albany.--Reminiscences.--
The Soldiers' Home.--Contributions for erecting Soldiers'
Home.--Reception at Rochester.--Buffalo.--Dunkirk.--Swanville.--
Cleveland.--Massacre of General Custer.--Monroe.--Lectures for
Custer Monument.--Father of General Custer.--Detroit.--
Kalamazoo.--An adventure.--Gives "Paul Revere" a rest.--Decatur.--
Niles.--Michigan City.--Chicago 376

CHAPTER XXXIII.

CHICAGO TO OMAHA.

Returns to Michigan City.--Joliet.--Thomas Babcock.--Herbert
Glazier.--Ottawa.--La Salle.--Colonel Stevens.--Press Notice.--Taken
for a highwayman.--Milan.--Davenport.--Press Notice.--Iowa
City.--Des Moines.--Press Notice.--Attacked by prairie
wolves.--Council Bluffs.--Omaha 401

CHAPTER XXXIV.

CAPTAIN GLAZIER CAPTURED BY INDIANS.

Captain Glazier as a horseman.--Cheyenne.--Two herders.--Captured
by Indians.--Torture and death of a herder.--Escape.--Ogden.--
Letter to Major Hessler.--Kelton.--Terrace.--Wells.--Halleck.--
Elko.--Palisade.--Argenta.--Battle Mountain.--Golconda.--Humboldt.--
"The majesty of the law."--Lovelock's.--White Plains.--Desert.--
Wadsworth.--Truckee.--Summit.--Sacramento.--Brighton.--
Stockton.--SAN FRANCISCO 410

CHAPTER XXXV.

RETURN FROM CALIFORNIA.

Returns to the East by the "Iron Horse."--Boston _Transcript_ on the
journey on horseback.--Resumes literary work.--"Peculiarities of
American Cities."--Preface to book.--A domestic incident.--A worthy
son.--Claims of parents.--Purchases the Old Homestead, and presents
it to his father and mother.--Letter to his parents.--The end 431

CHAPTER XXXVI.

THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.

An interval of literary work.--Conception of another expedition.--
Reflections upon the Old Explorers.--Indian rumors.--Determined to
find the true source of the Great River.--Starting on the eventful
journey.--Joined by his brother George and Barrett Channing
Paine.--Collecting materials for the expedition.--Brainerd the
first point of departure.--Through the Chippewa country.--Seventy
miles of government road.--Curiosity its own reward.--Arrival at
Leech Lake 437

CHAPTER XXXVII

HOME OF THE CHIPPEWAS.

An aboriginal red man.--A primitive hotel.--A native of the
forest.--Leech Lake.--Major Ruffe's arrival.--White Cloud.--Paul
Beaulieu and his theory about the source of the
Mississippi.--Che-no-wa-ge-sic.--Studying Indian manners and
customs.--Dining with Indian royalty.--Chippewa hospitality.--How
the wife of an Indian Chief entertains.--Souvenir of Flat
Mouth.--Return of Che-no-wa-ge-sic.--A council held.--An Indian
speech.--"No White Man has yet seen the head of the Father of
Waters."--Voyage of exploration.--Launching the canoes 444

CHAPTER XXXVIII

EXPLORATION AND DISCOVERY.

Launching the canoes.--Flat Mouth and White Cloud again.--An
inspiring scene.--Farewell to Leech Lake.--Up the Kabekanka
River.--Dinner at Lake Benedict.--Difficult navigation.--A peaceful
haven.--Supper and contentment.--Lake Garfield.--Preparations for
first portage.--Utter exhaustion.--Encampment for the night.--The
cavalry column.--Lake George and Lake Paine.--The Naiwa River.--Six
miles from Itasca.--Camping on the Mississippi watershed.--A
startling discovery.--Rations giving out.--Ammunition gone.--Arrival
at Lake Itasca 454

CHAPTER XXXIX.

DISCOVERY OF THE SOURCE OF THE MISSISSIPPI.

Short rations.--Empty haversacks and depleted
cartridge-boxes.--Statement of Chenowagesic.--Captain Glazier's
diary.--Vivid description.--Coasting Itasca.--Chenowagesic
puzzled.--The barrier overcome.--Victory! the Infant
Mississippi.--Enthusiastic desire to see the source.--The goal
reached.--A beautiful lake.--The fountain-head.--An American the
first white man to stand by its side.--Schoolcraft.--How he came to
miss the lake.--Appropriate ceremonies.--Captain Glazier's
speech.--Naming the lake.--Chenowagesic.--Military honors.--"Three
cheers for the explorer" 465

CHAPTER XL.

DOWN THE GREAT RIVER.

Voyage from Source to Sea.--Three thousand miles in an open
canoe.--"Pioneers of the Mississippi."--A thrilling lecture.--The
long voyage begun.--Mosquitoes.--Hunger and exhaustion.--The Captain
kills an otter.--Lakes Bemidji and Winnibegoshish.--An Indian
missionary.--Wind-bound.--Chenowagesic bids farewell to the
Captain.--Pokegama Falls.--Grand Rapids.--Meeting the first
steamboat.--Aitkin.--Great enthusiasm.--The new canoes.--Leaving
Aitkin.--Arrival at Little Falls.--Escorted in triumph to the
town.--"Captain Glazier! A speech! A speech!"--Lake Pepin.--An
appalling storm.--St. Louis.--Southern hospitality.--New
Orleans.--Arrival at the Gulf of Mexico.--End of voyage 476

CHAPTER XLI.

RECEPTION BY THE NEW ORLEANS ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.

Captain Glazier returns to New Orleans.--A general ovation.--
Flattering opinions of the press.--Introduction to the Mayor.--
Freedom of the City tendered.--Special meeting of the New Orleans
Academy of Sciences.--Presentation of the "Alice" to the Academy.--
Captain Glazier's address.--The President's Response.--Resolutions
of thanks and appreciation passed.--Visit to the Arsenal of the
Washington Artillery.--Welcome by the Old Guard of the Louisiana
Tigers.--Pleasant memories of the "Crescent City" 490

CHAPTER XLII.

BEFORE THE MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

Return to St. Louis.--Lecture at Mercantile Library
Hall.--Brilliant audience.--The Missouri Historical Society
present.--Eloquent introduction by Judge Todd.--"Pioneers of the
Mississippi."--Presentation of the "Itasca" to the Historical
Society.--Remarks of Captain Silas Bent on accepting the
canoe.--Congratulations of the audience.--Closing scene 496

CHAPTER XLIII.

GREETINGS OF THE VOYAGE.

An interesting souvenir.--Greeting at Lake Glazier.--Petition to
Geographical Societies.--Voice from Aitkin, Gate City of the Upper
Mississippi.--Tributes from Brainerd.--Mississippi Pyramid.--An old
friend at La Crosse.--Greetings at St. Louis.--Senator Lamar.--Royal
welcome at Bayou Tunica.--Sentiment of Port Eads.--Congratulations
of the officers of the "Margaret."--Greetings from New
Orleans.--"Fame's triple wreath."--Closing remarks 502

"SWORD AND PEN" COMMENDATIONS. 517