King's Bridge, as you may know, was fired some months ago by the rebels, and the flatboat used for ferrying has been abandoned on account of the ice.

He brought a lot of families on a big boat called a flatboat.

In the flatboat would be his cattle or his stores.

He orders anything I wish; and when it comes to him, he sends it on to me by the first flatboat cordelled up the river.

In the same period a smaller gang with John Washburn as its leading spirit and with Natchez as informal headquarters, was busy at burglary, highway and flatboat robbery, pocket picking and slave stealing.

I. LIFE IN INDIANA.REMOVAL TO ILLINOIS.LINCOLN STARTS OUT IN LIFE FOR HIMSELF AT TWENTY-ONE.THE BUILDING OF THE FLATBOAT AND THE TRIP TO NEW ORLEANS.LINCOLN HIRES OUT AS A GROCERY CLERK IN NEW SALEM.HIS FIRST VOTE.

It was here he met Lincoln, and made the "pins" for the flatboat.

" [Illustration: LINCOLN, OFFUTT, AND GREEN ON THE FLATBOAT

The celebrated flatboat built by Lincoln and by him piloted to New Orleans, was a much larger and better craft than the one here portrayed.

" Sangamon town, where Mr. Lincoln built the flatboat, has, since his day, completely disappeared from the earth; but then it was one of the flourishing settlements on the river of that name.

The flatboat was done in about a month, and Lincoln and his friends prepared to leave Sangamon.

At last they began to pull for the wreck of an old flatboat, the first ever built on the Sangamon, which had sunk and gone to pieces, leaving one of the stanchions sticking above the water.

The flatboat built and loaded, the party started for New Orleans about the middle of April.

He stood on the bank of the Sangamon River on the 19th of April, 1831, and watched Lincoln bore a hole in the bottom of the flatboat, which had lodged on the mill-dam, so that the water might run out.

Such an expression from a flatboat-man would have been absurd.

His first sight of the town had been in April, 1831, when the flatboat he had built and its little crew were detained in getting their boat over the Rutledge and Cameron mill-dam, on which it lodged.

When Lincoln walked into New Salem, three months later, he was not altogether a stranger, for the people remembered him as the ingenious flatboat-man who, a little while before, had freed his boat from water (and thus enabled it to get over the dam) by resorting to the miraculous expedient of boring a hole in the bottom.

Then every afternoon he walked over the Ridge to the little river in the valley, carrying a book in his pocket, and his fishing-rod as a sort of excuse, and poling an old flatboat down-stream to a shady spot under the trees, propped his rod in place, where by a miracle he occasionally caught a perch or bass, sat looking idly into the water, the brim of an old felt hat turned down about his eyes.

By wagon and flatboat.

By wagon and flatboat.

A farmer of bold heart and money-making temper might, after selling his crop, build a flatboat, load it with flour, bacon, salt, beef, and tobacco, and start for New Orleans.

About this time the Grandissimes and De Grapions, through certain efforts of Honoré's father (since dead) were making some feeble pretences of mutual good feeling, and one of those Kentuckian dealers in corn and tobacco whose flatboat fleets were always drifting down the Mississippi, becoming one day M. De Grapion's transient guest, accidentally mentioned a wish of Agricola Fusilier.

He is on the flatboat; I saw his hat over the levee.

Just abreast of them lay a flatboat, emptied of its cargo and moored to the levee.

Abraham left his father as soon as his farm was fenced and cleared and hired himself to a man named Denton Offutt, in Sangamon County, whom he assisted to build a flatboat; accompanied him to New Orleans on a trading voyage and returned with him to New Salem, Menard County, where Offutt opened a store for the sale of general merchandise.