Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1879 — After Fifteen Years. [ARTICLE]

After Fifteen Years.

Concord (N. JL) Monitor. i - j While the Portsmouth Commandery of Knights Templar were standing in a line at Manchester Thursday, a veteran passed wearing a peculiar ~gold medal that attracted the attention of one of the Knights, who hailed him, and asked him what medal was that he wore. The veteran replied: "Its of no great value, 'but I am one of only two men who are entitled to wear it in America.” This excited the curios!-' ty of Thomas Gay, the Knight before whom be was standing, who said to him: "Who are you?” to which the veteran replied:-"l’m William Smith,: and helped blow up the rebel ram Albermale.” "Sure enough, you are Bill Smith,” said Gay, extending his hand to his only surviving comrade in the successful expedition against the Albermarle, whom he had not seen for fifteen years. Gay and Smith are two of three men to whom Congress voted a special gold medal fer services in destroying the Albemarle, and both we residents of this State. The third man who received a medal is dead. , Cardinal Manning says: 14 When a woman marries she enters into a solemn contract for life that she will give her time to her husband, her home and her children; and if she does not * do so, it destroys the whole domestic llto.”