BY MILLER, ORTON & Co.,

In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.

W. H. TIMSON, STEREOTYPER. R. O. JENKINS, PRINTER.

TO

MY MOTHER,

Who, more than any one else, will be interested in a story which has in it so much of my childhood and early home,

THIS WORK

is affectionately dedicated by her Daughter

MARY.

PREFACE.