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Show EARLY LIFE OF PAUL JONES. j He Came to America to Inlierit an Estate In VircSUu. j There is no record of his having at- tended auy school except thot of the parish of Kirkbeau, but ho developed a truly Scotch passion for reading and writing. Ho went to sea when 12 years old and mado two voyages during his minority in a slaver, but hating the traffic he loft it and tho ship too. At 20 he was in command of a finobrigautine. About this time occurred what ho calls, in a letter to Robert Morris, "a great misfortune," adding, "lam under no concern whatever that this or any other circumstance of my past life will sink mo in your opinion. " Tho trouble was a threatened criminal prosecution for having had a carpenter flogged, which was the usual mode of punishment in those days. Tho matter was investigated, investigat-ed, and Paul Jones was fully acquitted. It is worthy of remark that tho mag istrate who inquired into that niattui aotes that Paul Jones expressed great sorrow for having had the man flogged, although tho charge of cruelty was fully disprovod. He returned to Scotland once after this, and although affectionately roceived by his own family his friends and neighbors seem to have treated him coldly. Tho smart from this injustice turned tho rndifference he folt for his native land into hatred, and ever after ho considered himself quite freo from any responsibility for having been born find having spent the first 12 years of his life in so inhospitablo a country. In his twenty-seventh year a great and fortuuato change occurred to him. His brother William, who had emigrated emigrat-ed to Virginia and died there, loft him an estate. Thoro is no doubt that Paul Jones was often afterward in want of ready monoy, but it must be remembered remem-bered that overybodv was in want of ready money in tho eighteenth century. Cor tain it is, from his papers preserved at Washington, that ho might bo considered consid-ered at tho beginning of tho war a man of independent fortune. Tho two years of his life in Virginia are obscure, as might bo expected from a man living tho life of a provincial country gentleman, which tho records concerning him prrvo. At tho outbreak of war with the mother country Paul Jones hastened to Philadelphia, and through Mr. Joseph Hewes, a inembef of congress from North Carolina, got his commission as senior first lieutenant in the infant navy of tho colonios. It was then ho mado the acquaintance of I Robert Morris, to whom ho folt a pas sionate gratitude and aiiectiou, and whom he named as sole executor in his will, Mr. Howps being then dead. Hiss Molly Elliot Seawell in Centurv. Mr. Vaui Did Danes With Etc. Tho f.tory often told that tho late Hon. Richard Vatix had danced with Cjueen Victoria has been defied quite frequently since iis death, but as z matter of fact he did dance with the queen. Ho was not her partner, it is true, but danced in what was known aa the queen's cotillon at the ball given in her honor in 1837, when he was sco retary of tho United States legation. Mr. Vaux was selected by tha queen her-eolf her-eolf as one of tho gevon persons to join with hor in tho dance, a very great honor. In tho course of the evolutions in the cotillon he danced with tuo queen. This statement was made br Mr. Vans to a well known Pounsylva oiau who served with him in the Fifty first congress. Philadelphia Record. |