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CHAPTER XXIV.

There are many things that I forget at the moment I
am writing a sketch about a particular person, firm, or
matter, and that properly belong to it. For instance,
when I was writing about Mr. Samuel G. Ogden and
the expedition of General Miranda In the " Leander,"
to the Spanish main, I ought to have mentioned the fate
of two of those New Yorkers who went out in it. I
knew both personally. John M. Elliott and Thomas
Gill were sentenced to ten years' labor at Omoa. They
were Imprisoned at Carthagena. I do not know how
they made their escape, or whether they served out the
ten years to which they were sentenced. Thomas Gill,
after his return, was connected with the Evening Post.
He managed the business of that concern, and he was
considered to be quite as important a personage as the
editor. That was thirty years ago, when the Evening
Post office was in William street. No. 49. Mr. Cole¬
man, the editor, was lame. At precisely 3 o'clock he
would come out and get In a carriage, and drive off to
61 Hudson street, where he lived. Mr. Gill was regard¬
ed as so Important a part of a well regulated newspaper
establishment, he being a methodical business man, that
Major Noah, when he started the Daily Evening Star,
secured the services of Mr. Gill, by giving him a half.