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REMINISENCES OF EARLY
BORDER TIMES.
BY HAMILTON RAIFORD.
IV
While the Dutchman waft tittering
in a tone of no friendly feeling his
rather amusing soliloquy, Bowles
was advancing, and quickening his
pace a little os' he drew nearer to
the cabin. When he was within a
few paces of the door, Bill rose up,
and'Bowles accosted him, in a cheer
ful tone, with :
“Well, Bill, my old comrade, how
lias thS wofld fared ydu, since we
parted last ?—and what do you do
in these “hot and piping times f”
“Much as vas,” replied Bill, but in
no very welcome tone or maimer, as
he handed a rieketty stool to his
guest, with the additional remark—
“sets down takes scat.”
Bowles observed his churlishness,
but it'did not suit hi*purpose to no
tice it in a manner to draw Bill’s at
tention to it—but merely observed.
“You do not look so well, Bill,
does anything ail you ?”
“Vy I sliust has put too much
cat-fish in mine pelly.”
“Good,” cried Bowles laughing at
the symplicity of the Dutchman’s
remarksj and. endeavoring by an}’
means tlrnt might come to hand, to
propitiate the better feelings of
“mine host,” —added—By the pow
ers ! I should have liked to have put
some in mine ! for I have not broken
mv fast since some hours before day,
this morning. I have been on tick
lish ground—along the borders of
the Philistines ”
‘Veil, now, I gif you some—de
stew, and do krout, and de times as
takes to fix the tings, sliust you dry
some old Jamaica.”
And turning to a rough sort of
box in the corner left of the chim
ney. and about four feet from the
floor, in which was placed some
boards that answered for shelves,
the whole covered in front by a
piece of sail cloth, Bill handed out
a large square bottle nearly full of
Rum, and a good sized tin cup, and
placed them on a small table; its
primitiveness also being in good
keeping with all the rest of the
things, cabin and all. “Ah, Bill,
you keep up old Times—so, so, I
like it—that’s right. Do not neg
lect your good breeding and bring
ing up-”
Bowles filled the tin cup nearly to
the brim with the rum, and with a
nod to Bill and a twinkling of some
meaning in his eyes, he put the ves
sel to his lips and quaffed it oft' at a
single draft.
Hospitality was the first funda
mental article in the decalogue of a
frontier’s man. It may be a custom
taken in some degree from the Indi
ans—for when they are not on the
war path, or hunting or fishing, they
are eternally visiting ; and no mut
ter who the visitor may be, he is of
fered the best the host can give, and
in all the liberality possible ; and if
the visitor refuses or declines to eat,
it is considered as not friendly. No
matter how often visitors drop in the
same fermality is gone through with.
In times of treaty making is this
custom particularly noticeable;
when every body warrior, brave,
gquaw and pappoose, all enjoy a
holly-day. Some years ago my.
Jriend, thq late Gov. Pierce Butler,
who commanded a regiment from:
South Carolina, and was killed at, I;
.think, the battle of Churcbusco, wasi
appointed by Government a Com
missioner, with others to make aj
treaty with some western tribes of
Indians, when the consumption of
Beef by the Indians daily, was set
down at ten pounds a day, per head,.
Some members of the Senate:
thought the charge extravagautly
high —when men who were well ac
quainted with Indian habits, and
this one in particular gave it as their
opinion that the charge was, if any
thing,. below the true figure ; when
men, women and children and dogs,
had to be ted, and that according to
Indian waste.
As Bowles seated himself after
drinking his cup of good Jamaica;
Dutch Bill sdfr upon the table a com
mon sized tin pap, nearly full of ex 4
cellent cat-fish stew; two or three
flat cakes of excellent white eorrt
meal bread. He was his own cook
and a very good one too, as Bowleq
well knew, navmg on many occa
sions before partaken of a meal of
his cooking. Bill also placed on the
table some died venison ham, and a
bowl pf sow Tcroitt of Bill’s own pre
paring, and no doubt superior to any
we buy from the stores.
• “Now, Captain Bowles, you set
to and- help youself, and fill you
some more rum and water to wash.it
down. Me dakes some rum for
minself.”
And Captain Bowles did “set to”
in good earnest; -“Why, Bill you
live like a lord. This dinner, if I
may-call-it wo, is fit for an emperor,
if he was as hungry ns I am.” He
showed unmistakable signs of along
fast, and a sound appetite; and In
most assuredly did full justice to
Bill’s cooking and hospitality.—
“You will not eat?” enquired
Bowles. “Me no eat more, for
mine pelly.
The sun had sunk below the tops
of the tall cypress in the neighbor
ing swamp—
“ The shades of ove came slowly down,
Tho trees were wrapped in deeper brown.”
The birds, with the peculiar
chirping, the sound of which secins
to vary as they seek their limbs on
the trees for their nights repose m
the-growing *tillness.uf the forest-
At length Bowles, having finished
his highly enjoyed repast, rose from
the stool on which lie had been
seated Und drawing from the breast
pocket of his coat, a very elegant
pipe, of curious workmanship, pro
ceeded to fill it from an oblong yel
low paper package, labelled “Se
memes de tohac ; denoting an article
of pure Spanish tobacco; while Bill
replaced all the things hack in his
little cupboard, or vvliat answered
for one.
Bowles walked to the fire place
Where smouldered the remains of the
fire that cooked the savory stew
which so. deliciously regaled him af
ter his long fiist—the strengthening
pot of broth that Jacob’s cunning
mother assisted him in preparing,
for his aged father was not more
palitable to the philosophical old
Patriarch nor better flitted him for
the labors before him, than did
Dutch Bill’s cat-fish stew restore the
wearied powers of the unwelcome
free-booter.
•‘Bill, my old comrade,” said he,
as he rose, after lighting his pipe—
“have you any recollection of this
pretty little piece of admirable fan
cy work ?” holding out his pipe be
tween his thumb and fingers so that
Bill could see it plainly.
A slight stark, and a troubled
gesture on the part of the Dutch
man seemed to indicate some un
pleasant remembrance of the article
in the possession of his guest. A
burst of passion followed, as he
stamped his foot upon the floor and
exclaimed :
“De teffel and tarnn! vy you
pring dat ? —vat you come for here ?
me trouble you no more never—vat
for you trouble me ? dunder and
blitzen!”
Bowles did not. expect to see such
a burst of passion from one who,
during a long association had always
shown rather a complying disposi
tion. Nevertheless, h# evinced no
surprise, but with an ungracious
smile and a malicious twinkle in his
deep hazel eye, said calmly, but
with more sarcasm than sympathy.
“Take it easy, my good fellow—
take it easy. You see I have been
a careful and saving man. I imag
ined that a relic of our jolly old days
upon the “deep blue sea,” when
with a tight little craft under our
feet and a flag of our own choosing
over our heads, we sailed free and
far as the unchartered winds that
filled our white and bellying sails.”
“Na! Na!” replied his still un
pacified host, ‘1 want nothing to
hear of de times—me comes here
for pepce—to live veil—right—good
—vat. yon call? Vy de teffel den
you comes mit your tamn pipe ?”
He appeared anxious and also de
tenu! n* and, to know the nature of his
guest’s errand as soon as possible.—
For a yortain vague, unpleasant and
undefined feefing impressed him with
almost a surety, that it was not an
agreeable one While on the other
hand Bowles began to doubt, when
he saw his host’s anger, his changed
demeanor, his independent and non
complying manner, whether he
would be able to bring him to his
purpose Considering the relative
positions of each when they mingled
together years ago, the free-booter
was considerably astonished ; yet he
still persevered in a sort of concilli
latory tone:
“Patience, patience, my old com
*rade; Ido not wish to anger you,
but an the contrary to conciliate you.
I thought it would be a pleasure for
you to see your old commander, and
talk over the rich galleon we over
hauled 1 in the yellow waters of the
Caspian. You surely harvenot for
gotten the TrinadadaV ’
“Dunder and blitzen ! me forgot
everything—nae kpows nothing—
Vy yon tells me f—l’comes here for
peace; no troubk-ine.”
The harsh, cWlish, and angry
manner of Bill determined Bowles
at length to. putaue a different course.
He therefore addressed sternly ;
“Harkee, my fine fellow ! I am
not in the habit of having people
speak to me in the manner you have,
without provocation. I know you,
Dutch Bill, and you know me. I’ll
have you to speak to me respectfully,
or you may repent if.”
“Veil, I repents; me repents ev
erything; Vy you comes to trouble
me ?” The poor fellow meaning that
he repented of his former course of
life, and not of what he said to
Bowles.
‘I will tell you frankly; there is
a man in my path.’
‘Veil, put him out of your path.’
‘Ah, now, Bill, you are coming to
it; you talk right; I want your
help. Now you understand ?’
The Dutchmans face again
clouded, even more deeply and
sternly than before, as he seemed to
comprehend what was expected of
him; and lie replied with unequivo
cal firmness, and iu a manner not to
be mistaken :
‘Captain Bowles, me been von
tog for you once; me free; loose
now ; me stay loose ; Vy me comes
here ?’
‘I know not; but I suppose to
please yourself.’
‘Yah, yah ; to please minself;
Now let me be.’
‘Btit if, I give you some employ
ment by which you can make a good
pile of money ?’
‘I has moneys plenty; I wants
Hothiug to do; Tiothing you git me.'
‘But, Bill I can't believe ; I wont
believe, you will not help an old
comrade when lie’s in need of help
Who Lacked a friend with a steadier
hand or a better will ? Whose knife
was ever readier than Dutch Bill's?’
A cold shiver seemed to run over
the stalwart frame of the old man,
and his hands clenched until they
crimsoned as though the blood would
burst from them. He turned and
walked two or th ee steps, then re
turned and confronted his visitor;
his face was pale, and his gray eyes
glared with a cold unnatural light,
in which one might interpret dan
ger ; as he thus spoke ;
‘Tells me, Captain Bowles, in
Got s name ! vat pizziness pring you
here mit me, and den be gone.’
‘You know Lucy Spell?’
‘Yah !’
‘You know John Raiford ?’
“Yah.’
‘Well, I want the bouncing, the
beautiful, the saintly Lucy for my
wife ; but John Raiford is between
us.
‘Lucv has you ?’
‘Yes, I thi ik so, if that big-fisted
chuckle-head was out of the way.’
‘I don't dinks dat ’
“I do. Her mother favors my
suit. And now to the point, as you
want to be rid of me. There are
fifteen Spanish doubloons;’ drawing
from his pocket a small bag made ot
deer skiu containing the gold; ‘I
give you all of them to rid me of
John Raiford ’
‘You no has a wife?’
‘What of that ? a man in these
times, and through this country may
have as many as he wants, and
who’s to gaiustiy it ?’
‘De gal will no has you if the od
der was dead.’
‘l’ll risk that, do you put the fel
low out; that’s all I ask.’
‘But, Captain Bowles, me has
nothing agin dis man.’
‘What did yon have against the
old Spanish Don, when you severed
his spinal column, and pitched him
into the Ocean, for shark’s food,
while his daughter fell fainting and
screaming into my arms ? another
shiver shook the strong frame of the
Dutchman.
‘I wanted moneys den, much;
him hat it, plenty.’
‘Here is money too. Do me the
job, and I’ll add ten more, when I
see him no more.’
‘Vat you has done mit the Span
ish gal!’
‘Oh, she is provided for; and well
provided for.’ The Dutchman cast
a quick, sharp, enquiring glance at
Bowles, as though he suspicioned the
manner of his providing for the un
fortunate Spanish girl.
‘Oh, don’t be uneasy,’ added the
free-booter, laughing; C I did not
provide for the fair Innez, as you
did for the father. She is doubtless
now in the arms of her Madre, amid
the delightful lemon and orange
groves of her own native Cuba.—
Would you wish to ftook upon her
like again V
‘Na !*
‘I have a very accurate likeness
of her, painted by mygelf; but
sometime after I had abandoned the
profession of portrait painting, and
also that of a Commedian. Ah, me,
my old friend, those were the most
peaceful, pleasant ao4 harmless oc-
cupations of my life. I have often
asked myself why one cannot pur- .
sue an occupation, an even tenor in
life that produces the most happi
ness. For after all, life is only val
uable as we can make it productive
of the greatest good. But there is,
in me an adverse devil that will hot
let me rest; and lam impelled from
one extravagance to another, until 1
shall end it all in one grand failure
and general ruin ignominy. The
presentiment daily grows upon me.
“Vat you do now ?—Vere you
come from here?”
“Pensaeola I’m among the
Cieeks, —will soon have a General’s J
commission, —then I will make iu- 1
discrmi..ate war ou Spain, and
every tiling Spanish 'hat lives.
When 1 obtain the beautiful Lucy j
—the only girl my heart ever loved
—the only one that can make me
carve out a path to honor and to I
ulory—l am then ready. If 1 miss
stays there, I am shipwrecked—
ruined.”
“You no will get her, Capt.
Bowles,’’was Bill’s prophetic and
laconic reply.
“You shall see—l'll show you
my hand—the old woman is my
friend—the family, 1 learn warns to
go to Lousiaua. Wnoso well aide
lo see them through as my.-eli ;
either by land or water? St Murk’s
is mine and it is on[y ihe three or
four day’s sail from there to the
mouth of the Mississippi, with a
good wind.”
“Gapt. Bowles,” said Bill, in a
-ententious lone, which indicated
clearly, lie was tired of the inter
view and wished to have it end and
guest depar!: —“You Imf wife many
—plenty. Yon have squaw, you
has Spaniard—now you want dis
gal. Lucy. I will noi help you to
harm hei, nor will I ham. Joi.n
ltaif>rd—me does nothing like dal
now. Keep your monish—and go
your ways—l have plenty—lconics
hereto live in peace. Now you say
noting and 1 say noting.”
“But that don’t su t my plans,
my good puritan —I want your in ip,
and your l, eip l must have. And J
icll you plainly that, if you refuse
l will put officers of the law on
you.”
Bowles thought thus to intimida'e
one who had heretofore been almost
emirelv subservient to him. He
knew Bill as a good sailor, a wiling
hand, quiet, apparently well dispos
ed ; and on sevetal occasions had
shown himself to be resolute; and
might be a very dangerous man if
fully roused—eenaiuly he was no
coward. Bowles was not, at any
rale, preparer, tor what followed, or
at least did not expect it. The
very devil seemed lo be roused in
Bill at the impudent threat of his
visitor; and some of his wild reck
h ss, uniumcd nature brok forth, as
lie vehemently turned ou the free
Pooler.
“And I tells you plainly, if you
loes dat, l’l! pul a rfle ball through
your double-rli, and black villianous
neart! Now you h ave me here
quick!—for you rouse de teffel in
me; and tamn hell! but my knife
is kick to come out! dunder and
Bli zen, go!” And he fairly shout
ed as he closed the last words—and
stamped wrmhfully upon the floor,
while his whole frame shocked
with unsuppressed rage!
Bowles had been through too
many hair breadth dangers and es
capes to fear; besides he was nat
urally braye. But bravery he
knew no more than honesiy of
heart, could keep off rifle halls, or a
lunatic’s knife out of your body—
nor tame the feckless charge of a
mad man and despeiate bull. He
had roused a whirl-wind which
might taar up root and brunch, all
of what he considered his well laid
plans. Without evincingany anger,
I hereof, or even surprise, but keep
ing a calm exterior, which at the
same time he could not help but feel:
“That to his heart,
“The life blood thrilled with, sudden start—”
Looking the infuriated man
steadily and firmly in the eys—
though those eyes glared hke a
wounded tiger’s at bay, he said to
himi
“Bill, we have both done enough
to hang, draw, and quarter us a
hundred times—that is if our old
Hidalgos were to get hold of us..
We tiorrowly escaped and you
know it. You know, also, that it
was througn my management that
we escaped after the Spanish Cor
vette chased us to shore among the
Keys., We wandered for days,
subsisting as we could—loaded
down, too, with the wealths we had
toiled after for yearsi—detertnined
that we wonld part with life as soon
as with that dear-bought gold.
Was there a harsh word between
ua then, Bill? Did I not bear my
share of the labor, assuming no
[authority vvhich was not measure
bly thrust upon me? And now I
ask you tor help to carry out a
measure of great importance to me,
ihe last, perhaps. I shall ever ask of
> you in the light of a favor. I urn'
nearly all powerful wiihthe Creeks, j
will soon be General of them all.
There you cin c ane anil be safe, j
tar in re so lltan you arc here.” j
Bowles paused to see uhui < fl’-ct !
his words produced upon his old com- j
paiiion, who stood apparently
j stolid and 'indifferently; not even
1 changing his position, or moving a
i must le of his face. At lei gih he
| helil out iiis hand to Bowles, with
iout looking at him and said in a
Cold (logged tone.
“Gif me de moneys, then go, and
no c. me bosk, no see me rffiy more.
You he’s von born t. flel to trouble
me.”
“You are to put John Ilaifbrd
where he can trouble tne no more?”
•‘Suppose, someone else come do
it. Dere pe plenty of horse,
thieves.”
• “I cure not who the devil does it,
so it is done.”
“Gif me de monies den go,”
“Yon will be prompt .k”
‘ Gif me de monies, go!”
t indmg that 1).. con and eei no sat
isfaction out of Bill, and tearing to
loii.-e his ang r again and more
deeply, banded hint the purse of
doubloons, and prepared to depart
•himse f. though it was then gening
considerably on to mi might. How
ever, thai rnade.no <iiff-nen- e. For
a man m Bowles, condition wass ifer
travelling under ihe cover of dark
i»e-s, then by the broad light of the
sun. Besides it was more probable
1 hat he had a small poly of Greeks
With hi o in waiting at the river in
lig l t canoes. And further Bowles
was a man wlvm Dutch Bill did
not waul any off lie seniors to s*e
going to or coming fom his cabin.
Drawi ig the leather strap that
held his brace oi pi-tols, more tight
y aboui b s wnist, ihe firmer ob
-erveil: TII S'e you again,” as he
stepped out into the darkness, and
took hi- way along the puh down
the liver.
“You visits me more, eh?” solili
qtn-es Bill who stood for some
minutes w here the free-booter hft
him. “You comes more, eh? I
shall see, dunder and blitzen. I
varus 'o see him no more, never, py
lauiii!” How Bel disposed of the
proffered blood-money will be seen
hereafu-r.
Bv what has been exposed, it is
probable He reader will form no
very Ingh estimate of the mor
als of ihese two w irthies. Wii >t
ever might have he- and the
character or ocupation ol Dutch
Bid previously, it appears very evi
dent that lie desired to reform, and
live a peaceful, quiet, and honest
lile lor the future. Bowles appears
to have been his evil genius. The
latter was, without doubt a man of
tallents, too diversified however, to
make him a great man, in our usual
acceptance of the word. No man can
be great upon everything Ha’l he
have concentrated the remarkable
powers of his mind on any one
of the various professions or callings
to which he laid claims, he would
have been a leading man in that
profession. But unfortunately for
himself, and that portion of man
kind among whom lie was thrown,
his di-stmy wm u> prove a misfor
tune, a curse, wiih scarcely a re
deeming trait. His was a cafeer
“Lined with one virtue and a thousand
crimes."
It may he of some interest to the
reader to understand something os
their former lives, that is, immedi
ately previous to the interview be
tween them which i have endeavor
ed to descnb. Bowies was ever a
fi.m f'ienu to the British interests,
and a compromising enemy to the
Spaniards. He was captured by
the latter, at one time* and sent to
Madrid, at first, in ihe hope of win
ning him over to the Spanish inter
ests, but failing iu that he was sent
to the Island of Manilla, from
v/henee be soon escaped jrand cap
turing a scooner, commenced a law
less life on the Mexican Gulf. It was
there that he is supposed to have
captuled the Spanish trading ship,
among many less valuableprizes,on
board of which, unfortunately, was
the rich old Spaniard and his beau
tiful daughter. The former was
murdered, and his money fell to the
share of Dutch Bill, while Bowles
appropriated to himself the fair and
miserable girl. Shortly after a
Spanish war ship cnased the schoon
er so narrowly that it was forced to
run among the Florida Keys .where.
:it was lost. The crew, with their
| treasure, succeeded iq escaping
safely to lbe mala, land. Innumer-
No. 23.
able hardships beset them on their
jonrney to St. Augustine. From
thence they took the Military Road
to where Jacksonvil e now stands,
on the St. John’s River. Thisßoad
was cut out. by the Government, for
j the purpose of transporting troops
■ and supplies to the Spanish posts
aloiio the Gcoigia Irotnior. The
■ poi ui.occupied !i\ Jacksonville was
■ then called ill cow ford, wioacrouiit
jof its being the only eiijgil.le place
i on t’be River, f>r :nanv miles, to ,1 rive
cattle across, the hanks on . either
site being very sandy and shelving*
the cattle onee driven in, trom the
South side, had but a short distance
to swim, and then f.ird Out on this
side. Leaving the S . John’s, they
tools a Road direct from there to St.
M ,r >’s River. This road was also
( tit lor Military purposes, and by
express command of the King of
Spain and it still retains name the of
“ /«• kings High Way ; and is almost
a bee line I rom Jacksonville to the St.
Mary s River, near old fort Piclsnev.
I- mding a party ol Creeks and Sem
moles m the m ighbarh-iod that were
going to Pensacola, the shipwrecked
party, or most ol them with Bowles,
j lined in die expedition to that place.
Dutch Bill lefi his m ites, with the
intention of going to Savannah; we
hearol him no more till he turns up
on the Ogechee River, one hundred
mites above that city.
In thus detailing incidents I have
loti the main character quiet for a
little space; but she will come for
ward in the next Nmnberto fill the
s'tagrt m one of the most interesting,
and I may also add, the most dan
gerous passages of her life. An
oiher visit from tiie enevitable Indi
an boy, another warning, the fight
will) the panther, Another Indian
fight and tiie resulis.
UCOfCHSIOtWII Criclfsi
J - G - c ' dn - j. H. PothilJ.
CAIN & POLIIILL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
LOUISVILL, GA.
May 5, 1871. j , y
R- W. Cars welt W F. Denny. '
Carswell & Denny,
■ITTOIt.I-Mi IVS ~r JL.tW
LOUISVILLE, GEORGIA,
P raclioe iu Hit the Counties in the
Middle Circuit. Also Burke in Augug
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Nov. 3. S>7 ly
w. H. WATKINS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
HouishfUe, ©a.
Will praclioe in the middle Circuit. Special
attention giv-n to the Collection of CLAIMS.
wAfl. R. T. ALLKN, WM. A. TOMPKIWg
&mm & iifsis,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
WRIGHTSVILLE, GA.
All business entrusted to their care nil
meet with prompt attention.
Particular atiention given to the collection
ofelaims,
July 3, 1871. # 13 t s
MEDICAL
DR. J. R. SMtTH, late of Sandersvillo Ga.,
offers his Professional services to the citi
zens *.i Louisville, and Jefferson county. ' Ail
experience of nearly forty years in the pr«tea
sion. should entitle him to Public Confidence.
Special attention pa and to Obstetrics and dis aso*
of women and children. Office at res’Jeuoe,
Louisville.
LouiSvil'e JnneSl), 1871. 8 ts.
iF a mm&Mv 2s
pitv&tci.t.r «r.v*xr svmfUßOjr,
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orrhoidal Turn rs with.it pain; m»kes a spe
ciality of diseases peculiar <o females viedi
ciues Rent ( o any point on Railro ui by Express.
Ail correspondence confidential •>
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WILL b© in Louisville the fir it week of each
mouth. Ail work warranted
Oot 6th 1871. 23 ts
DENTISi itV
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