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the "at,-ai an ows,' STOOKTON'S GREAT -OURAGR DURLs ow TRI PtMOUs OFFWIVU DUsRtRIBUI IN A %.Oti ROOII. Nt$ttung Adramlwure of TOn( of he Most Veebrt.et Ftghtese is the Old Amerteas Navy, An old sailor's log, brought to light by the Princeton Alumni Weekly, records some startling adventuros of Capt Stockton, afterwards the fam. ons CXinodore Stockton, of the Uni ted States navy. The courage and recklus daring of this member of the historic New Jersey family are remembered at Princeton, yet the events set forth in the log eclipse any thing that has ever before been gen orally known of his doings. The log was kept by an otler named Squibb, on board t he United States storeship Erie, off Oibraltar, in 1849. The story of the t ommo. dore's adventures on this occasion has been told in his family and the version of it in Squibb's diary corre sponds minutely with theirs. Charles S. Squibb, of Brooklyn, a son of the author of the log, has sent the e oerpt to the Stockton family. lie says that he is sure it is authentic, be oause his father was very eare.ful in such matters. Here is the story as told by the elder Squibb's log: "This tlibraltar in the place where the English officers were taught to be more civil and more sparing in their un,e of opprobrious epithots to ward our othcers and countrtmen after the last war. This 'esson tht learned, too, upon their own im pregnable ground "Onr M\eriterraneau ships at that time frt-lneutly came in here to buy supplies, and, as the tttioers were oiumonly insulted in the stret'ts, duels were by no tulitans nucommon and generally terminated in favor of onr side. To sneh mn extent was this carried that the governor tirst prohibited fighting within the gairri s.m and prohibited his officers from going outside, and next prohibited American otlieers from coming ashore, except under peculiar cirenu stances. "About this time un English otti cer grossly insulted the consul, who was a peaceable old man of family and did not resent the afrent. This very ship Erie came in soon after, under the command of the tire-eating Stockton, of Princetou. He, hearing of this insult to an old consui, sought out this offieer and grossly insulted him in return, with a view to elicit ing a challenge. Finding his etTorts unavailing, he challenged the offieer, who p'romised to make arrangements for the duel, notwithstanding the "A few days after Stockton re ceived a note telling bim that if he would land at the Ragged Staff Stai s, and take certain roads up the mountain to a certain precipitons ledge. a' an appointed time, he would find his adversary ready. The latter pledged his honor that Stuek ton would be allowed to return to his ship unmolested if he eaped being shot. "Stockten went, of course. and on reaching the spot found his adver satry ready. But just as they were abou'tt to take their plac'e a guard was seen comnig up by the way Stockton had taken. He, bhwever, iinSIte'd onU having a nAght, swnee they had come for that ptorfme, before the guard arr!ved. They took their penCa* and itd, th.e Eng'ishman falhn& not k.lled, but waimed for lit' Stakinz started tben to go do.wL tht- iI .! i6 direction opposite t.- th~at by whieb the guard was com ing, but aon fo'und h'imself opposed by anotber guard in front. He there fore returned to the ledge in front and met the officer of the first guzard just as he was mounting upon the ledge. H{e asked to be allowed to pass, but was told that he was a prisoner, He then stated that the honor of the regiment was pledged for his return to his boat, ari wvas insolently told that there was no de. pendence to be placed on his word. Stockton immediately clinched with tbe officer and sprang with him ovet the precipice, falling a distance of 80 or 40 feet. WVhen he regained his senses he fonnd the Englishman dead In his arms. He made the best of his bleeding and brnised toward his boat. "When he had come into the pub. lie road again he saw an o0014er or horseback and begged him, if he had any pity or honor, to lend himi hit q'.borse. The officer replied tJhat he uld Aet 41 y ,eYAe s orMOon god: s'hi.s;"as enough fo* Stookto. a+ seiu* him by the le4 capaisd him off his horse, got, into the saddle and .ode to the Rag god Staff st&ire, Here he found himself impeded by two soldiers with tfied bayoneta, with ordera to arrest every one who attempted to pass. Talking and explaining to them he got close upon them and pushed their bayonets aside and sprang over the parapet. Hor again he lost sun. sibility and was only aroused by the victorious cheering of his boat's crew, who had picked hiu up, pulled into the bay and stopped to cheer. "The result of this expedition was that Stookton immediately challenged the whole regiment for their dishonor and bad faith to him. Some timo after that he received notice that if he would come upon neutral ground just before sunset on a particular day he might get his satisfaction. Now, both the English and Spanish guards had orders to arrest any otllots seen together upon the plain. Stockton, knowing this, picked out a boat's crew of his best men, armed t hem with pistols and o utlasses and started for the rendezvous. Leaving the crew at the boat, he crept on his hruds and knees until he came within sight of the meeting plsce. "T'rhere he saw the English otli oers disarmed and in charge of a guard of seven or eight Spanish sol dieers, all sitting down, with their arms stacked close by, evidently waiting for the result of some mes sage which they had sent to the liock. Stockton returned to tIhte crew, explained what he was going to do, and told them to desist as l.-g as possible from the ust- of their arms, particularly pistols. They all crept softly up, took the guard by surprise and, before they could use their arms etTeetually, had them all tied upon the ground. 'Now,' says Stockton to the oficers, 'we can have onr tight undisturbed' " Squibb's diary then tells how sev eral of the English etli,-ors went aside to determine by lot which of them should meet the captaiu, while Stockton, seated on a rock. conversed with one of their number; how the lot fell the man with whom he was taiking, and how Stockton sa d "I don't want to tight this man; he -s the only one among yu l know, and, although 1 have only known him for twtnty innute, yet I believe him te be a gentleman. I would rather tight any- tw>, or three of the rest of vou than this one man." The En. glishmen, amazed at the uniinehing nerve of the Yankee, consulted to gether again, and then regnested that the affair be called otT. prom ising that the "'single eoward" among them, who had failed to keep his word to Stockton, rb->uld be im. mediately sent to England, eashiered. Later an American midshipman was insulted by t.ae English and the cap tain sent a challenge to the (Gover nor of the place, "which," says the log, "produced an apology and put an end to the catuse of disturbance by inducing the English to wend their manners." Commodore Stockton was the otli eer who commanded the fleet sont along the Pacitie coast during the war with Mexico and, in co operation with Fremont, did more than any-1 body else to accomplish the cession of California to the United States. He commanded the United States steamer Princeton, on whieb, (during its trial trip up the Potomae during President Tyler's tert., one of its guns exploded, killing the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Navy and Mr. Gardiner, whose daughter President Tyler afterward married After his retirement from active ser niec Commodore Stockton was prom. inent both in national and State politics. It took the jury in the Molineaux case but fifteen minu'es to render a verdict of "not guilty'." T1he verd1ic't in reality meant "not enough proof to convict." Three insane negroes were burned to death in the insane ward at the Charleston hospital last week. The tire originated in this ward and it was impossible to save these inmates. Ben Henderson, the negro barber who was recenitly shot and killed by, a policeman in Chester, left $1,505 in cash in his safe, which was found when the safe was opened. In his will he left this and his home to his two girls and the shop to his two boys, 10 and 14 yeare old, nho with the assistance of an older barber, are now running the shop. A New Trad Wte 6 14k 4twing. s Mandt aNd Be"4t1e Mraha. 'New York Sun.). "There'goes one of 6/hae oonde sers," said the publisher, pointing to a tall slender young fellow wearing glasses and with a number of books nder his Arm. "Ris besiueee is uon densing novels, and when a man ho omea an expert at it hi doegn't have to look for work. "This has been a very busy world for some time. There are thousands of people who want to keep up with the novels of th day, but. haven't. the time to read them as they are originally written, So there arlhun treds of readers and elocotionista who go about reading condensed novels t.o literary oireles, olub , oburoli societies and private families. "'hie demand for readers for pri vato families is growing astonish. ingly. The readers go to this house or t hat" one night a week, or possibly twice a week. The head of the house invites in a few friends, or maybe be and his family have the reading all to themselves. "They don't want a continuous performance; they must have at least one story an evening. If the stories they want are too long for one even ing they must. be out down to fit the tilm. "That follow who just walked into the ferry boat tackled l'ho Crisis" a little while ago. The order was to out the book down to two hours. "He found it took eight hours to ead it as it was written. It took him over a month, working :regularly a part of every day or evening to cut it down. Then the people who hired him made up their minds that it ut be shorter, so he had to go to work to hack it down to one hour and a quarter. What do you think of that ? "He did it, although it. was a fearful job. it took him longer to cut otf that last 40 minutes than it did to get rid of the first six hours. It requires more brains some titis to cut a book down than it does to write it in the first place. Nothing of importance must be left out A1I the strong features, the pret ty scenes, the amusing dit'ogues and 5 on. must be left in. "It is really surprising, howevar, how little that is importint is cut out. 1If you had read the original 'Crisis' and then heard the condens ed story yon would have to cudgel your brain a little to make out exact Ily what is missing. "There's a knack about it, t bere is to anything else. The con denser must tirst read the story care fully to get its general effect. Then he very, often reads it to study the atehamamau "At tirst reading he has seen pas. sages that way be dropped and no one be much the wiser. On second reading he takes out even more, and pretty soon he has the thing out down perhaps half. "Very likely he will now take a copy of the book and cut all the pages loose. The pagos' he has marked out he throws away, and the fragments of pages he pastes together to make the re quisite number of lines for a page. "He is now getting things down to a working basis, and here it is that his real genius comnea out. He plays strange tricks with that story as he goes on, and he often surprises him. self at. the things he dares take out. Every nowv and then he reads the condensation to seme member of his family, or to some friend who had vead the book, and c.n whose judg. ment he can place some relianne. "They tell me it is really most en grossing work, while it is very fati guing at the same time. That fellow wvho went into the ferry boat just now is an enthusiast. He makes far more money than many of the chaps who write ti-e original stories. Honestly, I don't know but what he deserves it."' OiIh'DULE IN UVFRo'? APlUR J1U1 2. 1900. Daily--Except sunday. 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IN IS''rJV. ntnd vicinity tat l8she wtI suoyru an rits o u - euiiJ,s.o. las open e dal a. no E x--logn lsnigbsieswna Thane fo,rdahe Su-ihprgspiti peiitntiCo __e',_hilre 's_ nd_ens__Sa__ Department.9 OlCTs thderpEtOhnge of - e eTHranuEfo- dt M r-R... i 'im deptoit. Inerest payabeJary 1 haos opnedan1;x- oita nkn business wl and.ulyisnofeah yar chase orl eane ofchage M.l tto. CORftlSLE,O Prslte ditesl cHdre,fst fdoor, 'r.l.s DNANpasie. teen cal at the Exndange. mM. A. CARISON, Arest.O 1L15' stween Ands aernov v u rMxed, - aav b.'e Mtzsd. . sA4 i ;... , * l 1 1 ~ ,....... I M ,.1U45... 11.......43 t!I , ,o N N I ui.....4 4'1 ,,,,,, 21 ...,Iu Oe ..... . 48 All ttw e ar r lti t ia '14'"1' q utI iha' liir Va taldot 0 o tr t (ci wil N (atn and 8andl. ti l e. t as Ad it li guttrintendept,. )barlestou ani1 storu Carolna Rwvo. ugust and A he ,Ulo Short ne. noeAuila. Siete9t buty 0, 11103,. Leave Auue .,.. ....,,...,.0 10 a m 25661p A rrive (toen*O& ........244 p in ..... t. 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