Cheyenne Transporter. (Darlington, Indian Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 8, Ed. 1, Friday, December 10, 1880 Page: 2 of 8
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THE DYING VOLUPTUARY.
1 must obey I must not stay
Tha scene of life is ending;
The lot is cast Death rails at last;
My final hour's impending:
Farewell estate and hopes elate
All like a song is ending.
Thou glorious sun my day is done
J3ut thou thy journey keeping'
Go on thy way groat king of day
I must in death be sleeping.
Night's pall is spread the light is lied
My bark in poit is sweeping
Thou moon serene Willi silver sheen
Ye planets golden seeming
And little eyes that star the skies
For my descendants beaming;
The fates' decree of death to me
Is told by cornels streaming.
Three hundred times three thousand times
Farewell thou world defiling;
Unsteady thou and slippery now
Farewell with all thy smiling:
With falsehoods sweet and artful cheat
No longer me beguiling.
Ye castles bright with gems benight
Farewell on high erected
With marble wails or ivory halls
In Fancy's skies reflected;
1 sec my bed among the dead
13y Death's dark steeds directed.
Ye "beauties rare whose charms so fair
My captive sense delighted;
'Delirious dream of love supremo
That all my mind excited;
Now solemn shade o'er all it m'ade
On sight and sense benighted !
Ye dances vain and snorts profane
In wanton chorus singing;
J3e still I pray your orgies stay
God's summons now is ringing
His crier Death with startling breath
My mortal sentence bringing.
Delights of life witli luxury rife
The table's social pleasure; '
The dainty meats the honeyed sweets
And wine-cup's crowned treasure:
I loathe ye all while death doth call
To pledge his brimming measure.
'Haste ve away fade and decay
Ye rich pert nines and dresses:
Be cold and stale ye pleasures frail.
Provoking love's caresses ;
Foul worms shall dress in loathesomeness
The grave my body presses.
Oil honor's height! oh glory's light;
1 leave all honors fleeting
As hence 1 go my fate to know
Eternity now meeting;
Title and fame and noble name
How worthless and how cheating !
Yo chosen few my comrades true
Dear friends my pleasure sharing;
Insulting death stops every breath
Nor wit nor wisdom sparing;
And hero to-day I leave our play
My last farewell declaring.-
.'Body farewell thy fatol tell
This final summons hearing;
Thou too hast known and called thine own
My griefs and joys endearing:
Uody and mind in life combined
One goal are always ncaring.
THE GIRL MUTINEER
Toward tho close of an October day
in 1777 a vessel sailing in a southwest-
erly direction crossed the fifty-soventh
degree of west longitude. Iler keel
plowed the waves of Ihe north Atlantic
mid her destination seemed to bo the
Azores she was sailing before a strong
wind and tho arrangement of her sails
Indicated iliglit. If flight from whom V
i Tho naked oyo could perceive no pui--sner
on tho bosom of tho ocean; but
the sea-glasses leveled by a number of
British oflicers who graced tho clean
decks revealed a dark speck on tho rim
of tho horizon.
This distant object occasioned no lit-
tlo anxiety among the oflicers. A
silence which had reigned among thorn
"for many moments was suddenly broken
by a man whoso bearing might have
proclaimed him an English admiral.
"Ho still follows" were tho words
that fell from his lips "but with tho
help of Neptune we'll outsail him in
tho night."
Though tho ofllcer spoke with much
assurance there lurked in his tone a
Intent fear which his companions de-
tected and thoy exchanged significant
glances.
.Over iho faco of tho deep night was
sotting and tho vessel kept straight be-
fore tho wind to tho joy of tho com-
mander who had lately spoken. Tho
shadows gradually veiled tho far-away
f pursuers from sight and whon tho ofli-
cers separated expressions of triumph
wore on their lips.
Tho British vessel was tho Meteor a
fast sailor whoso armament consisted
of seventy-eight guns. She was a well
built double-decker and had seen much
servico in the war which had .raged
nhndst three years between Great
Britain and her American colonies.
Her speed and her formidable arma-
ment had made her a terror to Ameri-
can vessels in European waters. Her
commander a sea-born Englishman
named Gilderoy was an oflicer of un-
doubted courage and cunning to which
he added a vindictiveness that rendered
him obnoxious to many of his own
crew.
The Meteor was flying 'from a now
and very formidable foe flying with a
hold filled with booty. On tho day pre-
ceding the one that had just closed upon
her flight she had captured an Ameri-
can cruiser after a spirited contest.
The prize had proved one of value and
Capt. Gilderoy did not wish- to risk an
engagement with tho vessel following
in his wake
Capt. Conyngham the pursuer was a
second Paul Jones. He was one of the
most daring spirits of our then infant
navy and his name had become a ter-
ror along the coast of England. He
pursued and captured a number of
English ships which he either burnt or
sent into friendly ports; and when lie
descried the Meteor fresh from her vic-
tory he hesitated not a moment to
crowd all sail and give chase.
There were men on the decks of tho
Revenge as Conyngham's vessel was
appropriately named who watched the
flying Englishman. Much speculation
concerning the result of tho chase ran
through the several groups and Conyng-
ham smiled when he turned to reply to
tho words of a youthful lieutenant who
stood beside him sea-glass in hand.
"Wo can outsail her Gilbert" the
American captain said with emphasis;
"this wind favors both of us alike and
in the calm that will prevail she must
lay by till day."
Tho young oflicer turned from his
captain and again his eyes were strained
to make out the form of the ship rapid-
ly disappearing among the prevailing
shadows.
Conyngham did not return to his
glass but he watched the faco of his
youthful companion.
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I am confident that Miss Temple is
on board tho Englishman" he said at
last.
"Of coarse she is!" exclaimed the
lieutenant with a flush. "I knew she
was on board the Mischief when it fell
into the Meteor's hands and I am sat-
isfied she in a prisoner."
"The fairest prize old Gilderoy has
captured in many a long day!" remarked
Conyngham with a laugh at tho lieu-
tenant's smile and the flash that lighted
up the depths of his anxious eyes.
The conversation was interrupted by
an unexpected veering of tho wind that
paled the cheeks of the numerous watch-
ers on tho deck and the oflicers sepa-
rated. Now having learned something of
tho Meteor's pursuer let us return to
tho English vessel.
Tho calm prophesied by the Ameri-
can captain fell upon the ocean shortly
after tho descent of darkness. Tt wor-
ried Gilderoy and ho held frequent
consultations with his oflicers now on
deck now in his stateroom lie held
consultations in tho latter place over a
bottle of choice wine and under liquor's
influence ho soundly cursed the daring
Yankee privateer.
Uccalmed on tho water and beneath
tho stars tho Meteor lay like a huge
slumbering leviathan. Her lights were
hidden and tho spectral figures that
trod her decks conversed in whispers.
In a small apartment not far remote
from tho council cabin stood a beauti-
ful young girl. There was a look of
sorrow in her dark eyes and her face
was quito pale. She appeared to be
listening for her head was bent to-
ward Gilderoy's room from which direc-
tion came a faint and confused murmur
of voices.
"I know we aro becalmed" sho said
to horself in an audible tone "and 1
know too that tho oflicers aro worried
about it. The nion? L know that
many of them halo Gilderoy. Didn't t
hear tho helmsman say last night that
the sailors would refuse to fight for tho
man who rules them with a rod of iron
and when he had spoken thus didn't
he remark to a fellow tar that the pris-
oners did not know their strength?
Yes that he did. The men think of
mutiny and the man at (he wheel is
now ready to Vise against the captain of
this ship. Thoy want a leader they
gnaw in silu jo the chain of tyranny
with which their captain has bound
them. 1 will spring the mine! 1 will
lead the Meteor's mutineers and the
Revenge may have our prize.
Adaline Temple spoko with'fierco de-
termination and clenched her hands.
The observer would have laughed fo
think that she had decided to head a
body of mutineers that she n fragile
girl of nineteen had resolved to rob the
English navy of ono of its best vessels
or to perish in the attempt.
She left the room with a resolve well
formed and steadfast in her determi-
nation. Like a spectre she glided down
the darkened corridors of the vessel
and at last climbing upward with care
reached the deck.
Captain Gilderoy and his lieutenants
were below discussing Iho situation
over several bottles of wine. Adaline
saw the stars overhead and turning
her faco to the various points of the
compass without greeting a breeze that
would have pleased the British captain.
The man at the wheel having noth-
ing to do seemed to have fallen asleep
for he started when Adaline's hand fell
upon his shoulder and his hand made
a rapid movement toward his belt
when he saw her figure.
"I want to talk with you" she said
in a low tone making no display of the
knife whose hilt she clutched a knife
like the helmsman's. "I want to say a
few words and are you going to listen ?
T heard you use mutinous language
last night and I could have you hung
at the yard arm just by speaking tp the
tyrant Gilderoy."
Tie was her man!
"You are harboring schemes of mu-
tiny at this very moment" she contin-
ued after a. brief pause "and you aro
not alone in the diabolical work. I
can tell the captain before an hour
if"
Adaline paused a moment and heard
the beating of the sailor's heifrt. lie
stared into .her face like a man suddenly
frightened by a ghost and she finished
her sentence with lips almost touching
his ear.
"If you do not obey me!"
Then the helmsman's lips parted.
"Foi tho love of heaven do not throw
us poor devils at the feet of Gilderoy"
stammered the sailor. "He would hang
every one of us before morning. Do
you want us to mutiny to-night! Our
time has not yet come. There is but
nineteen of us now "
"But the prisoners sixty-two strong
men and brave."
"They aro Americans!"
"Nevertheless they will not hesitate
to rescue gallant English sailors from
the tyranny of the captain of this ship.
To-night if you say so I will drive
this knife to your heart and have your
comrades hung to the yard before day."
The helmsman saw the knife whose
blade flashed very near hib breast and
the next moment he stoxl on the deck.
"We'll do it!" he said. "But Chester
is wounded hurt yesterday by a ball
from your ship. Chester was to have
led us."
"I will take his place said 'Adaline.
"Xow let us strike!"
Capt. Gilderoy unsuspicious of the
mutinous spirit on his ship had placed
watches who had belonged to the Ches-
ter party. Adaline soon discovered
this and at length seven determined
sailors armed with knives and pistols
prepared for tho fray.
She stationed two of tho strongest at
tho door of tho council room whilo as
many more guarded tho hatches. Then
the prisoners wero called forth one by
one until sixty-two strong-limbed
Yankee soldiers stood on deck ready to
do their duty
There was a tumult among tho cap-
ain's party when tho mutiny was dis-
tain
covered and tho ollicers wero apprised
of tho stato of affairs by tho discharge
of several pistols in tho hold.
"Mutiny!" cried Gilderoy springing
from-the table ; and tho next moment
having opened the door he found him
self flung to the floor'by one of the mu-
tineers who guarded the portal.
Another British officer was knocked
down when several prisoners made
their appearance and the inmates of
the cabin were secured. It was one
of the most startling mutinies in the
British navy; but the most thrilling
part was yet to come.
"Xow. three cheers for the English
sailors!" cried a stalwart mutinee who
had ably seconded the patriot girl.
Three cheers were given with a will
they swept far into the night and
startled the tenants of another vessel's
deck.
"Xo mori such cheers!" suddenly
cried Ada Temple in a tone of com-
mand "The Meteor is to bear the flag
of the American congress at her mizzen
peak. The British mutineers will lay
down their arms. Yankee sailors will
prepare to shoot those who refuse to
obey.
A moment's silence was followed by
curses and the nineteen mutineers look-
ed into the faces 'of the men whom
they had armed with English pistols and
cutlasses. Obedience alone would save
their lives and in a few moments the
British mutineers were prisoners like
their more faithful comrades and the
good ship Meteor was in Yankee hands!
Before dawn rockets revealed the
Meteor's position to her pursuer and
the astonished Cogyngham soon stood
on the bloodless deck ! Then the young
American lieutenant encountered the
heroine of the hour the girl on whose
finger he had placed a shining ring.
"I knew that you were near in the
Revenge" she said to him "and L
thought I would present you with the
Meteor "Why Gilbert if I had not led
the mutineers T might have run away
from you as I did yesterday. Gilbert
Farley assumed command of tho valua-
ble prize and in many of his cruises he
was accompanied by the gallant girl
whoso fame was sung on the decks of
every vessel in our little navy.
After the war well the reader can
guess what "happened after the war."
A Good Exhibit.
The number and value of stamps
stamped envelopes and postal cards is-
sued by the third assistant postmaster
general upon requisitions received from
local postmasters throughout the coun-
try during the month of October aro
the largest ever known heretofore in
the postoflice department. The figures
are as follows : Stamps: number 119-
048218; value 3255490. Stamped
envelopes: 26731900; value 647404.
Postal cards: 40964000; value 409-
800. Total number 186744218; value
4312694.
The report of tho auditor of tho treas-
ury for the postoflice department for
the fiscal year ended June 30th 1880
shows the actual cost of the postal ser-
vice to the general treasury (luring this
period to have been only 2786341. This
deficit is 245114 less than the deficit
of the proceeding year which was un
commonly small the deficit for the fiscal
year 1878 having been upward of 4-
600000. The total revenue of tho post-
oflice department for the last fiscal year
was 33315479; total expenditures
36101820. Tho principal items of
expenditure are as follows: Compensa-
tion of postmasters 7718784; clerks
in postoflices 3569466; letter carriers
and incidental expenses 2363718;
railroad transportation 8509591; star
servico by liorses and ordinary vehicles
6962502; railway mail service em-
ployes 3450114. Auditor McGrew's
report also shows the number of do-
mestic money orders issued during the
fiscal year was 7240537 amounting to
100352819. The principal foreign
money order business was as follows:
With Great Britain 116778 orders wen!
issued amounting to 1669943 and
18912 paid amounting to 338090;
Canada 25895 orders were issued
amounting to 511617 and 23213 paid
amounting to 422730; Germany 03-
855 orders wero issued for 1014462
and 22655 orders paid amounting to
637157 ; total net revenue to tho gov-
ernment from the money order busi-
ness of the year 269205.
Ono day is worth three to him who does
everything in order.
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