BY <-E. W. BOWIBAY
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A S I 31 31 E R R A3IR LE .
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The quiet August noon has come,
A slumberous silence fills the sky,
The fields are still, the woods are dumb, t
In slassy sleep the waters lie.
Am! mark yon soft, white clouds that rest
Above our vale, a moveless throng : i
The ratt|p on the mountain's breast {
Enjoy the grateful shadow long.
Oh, how unlike those merry hours *
In early June when earth laughs out, t
When the fresh winds make love to flowers, (
And woodiapds sing and waters shout.
When in the grass sweet voices talk, 1
And strains of tiny music swell I
From every moss-cup of the rock, <
From every nameless blossom's bell. (
But now a joy too deep for sound,
A peace no other season knows,
lln-lies the heavens and wraps the ground,
The blessings ol supreme repose.
Away ! 1 will not be, t tea lav,
The only slave of toil and care,
Away from desk and ilu-T ! away ! ;
I'll be as idle as the air. ;
Beneath the open sky abroad,
Among the plants and breathing things, '
The smless, peaceful works of God, i
I'll share the calm the season brings. ,
Come, thou, in whose soft eves 1 see
The gentle meaning of thy heart,
One day aninl the wood* with me, i
From men arid all their cares apart.
And where, upon the meadow's breast,
The shadow of the thicket lies,
The blue wild flowers Thou gatherest
Shall glow yet deeper in thine eyes. ,
Come, and when mid the calm profound,
1 turn those gentle eye- to seek,
They, like the lovely landscape round,
Of innocence and peace shall speak.
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Rest here, beneath the unmoving shade,
And on the silent valleys gaze,
Winding and widening, till they fade
In yon soft ling of summer haze. i
The village trees their rear *1
Still us its spire, and yonder tiock
At rest in those calm fields appear
As chiselled from the lifeless rock.
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One tranquil monnt the scene o'erlook s I
There the hushed winds their sabbath keep,
While a near hum from heps and brooks
Comes faintly like the breath of sleep.
Well may the gazer deem that when.
Worn with the struggles and the strife,
And heart-sick at the wrongs of men.
The good ibrsuke the -cents of lile ;
Like this deep quiet that, awhile,
Lingers the lovely land-cape o'er,
Shall be the peace whose holy smile
Welcomes him to a happier shore.
DESTRT-CTIVI: Finn IN MANCHESTER, PA.—
A fire broke out on Saturday afternoon, about
3 o'clock, in the paper ij.ili of Howard Jk Co.,
Manchester, which, before it was stopped, prov
ed one of the most destructive that lias ever
visited that village. The fire originated near
the roof, from sparks from the chimney, and the ,
building being composed of woo<l—tilled with
the most coinhiisible materials—it spread with
great rapiditv. In a few minutes the entire
structure was in ruins, and the adjoining pro
perty— three small frame houses and saw mill
of Messrs. I. is. A. Patterson—was also in flames,
and beyond all efforts to save them. A large
quantity of sawed and unsawed lumber, scat
tried around the two mills, was likewise de
stroyed.
The frame houses were inhabited by families
of workmen employed in the mill, named
("handles, Wylie, and Pot/., who, however,
managed to save the largest part of their furni
ture. The heaviest sufferers by the calamity
are Howard ic Co., their loss being estimated at
$16,000 or $ 18,000. On this there is an in
surance ofS3,OOP in the Delaware Mutual, and
$1,500 in some other office. Messrs. I. is. A.
Patterson w ill lose about $9,000, the total val
ue of the property consumed. We understand
that their policy of insurance expired only a
a few weeks ago, and Irorn some cause they ne
glected to get it renewed. They had another
>aw mill immediately adjacent to the one burnt,
which, however, was not injured. About fifty
men were employed in the paper mill, who, of
course, an- all throw n out of work for the pre
sent.— PiHa. Post, Oct. 2.
MELANCHOLY BEREAVEMENT C-V THREE CHIL
IUIEN.—A sad atid fatal accident occurred in
Harrison Township, this county, on last Sun
day, the 31 instant. Mr. Asa Crokett was in
the woods, near his house, engaged in felling
timber. The butt of a tree which he had
chopped down clung to the stump, and in pass
ing under the trunk for the purpose of getting
to the other side, it fell, striking him with tre
mendous force on the temple, crushing his skull
in a shocking manner. His three children were
with him at the tune, the eldest of whom is
nine or ten years obi. Instead of alarming the
neighbors, they stayed with their father fill af
ter dark, when death put an end to his suffer
ings. The accident happened about 10 o'clock
in the forenoon. The little children slept in
their cabin that night bv themselves, and when
inquired of the next morning by a person who
came to their cabin, where their lather was, re
plied that they had "no father now—he was
out in the woods d-ad." lie 1 body was point-
Ed out by the children, and an inquest held,
and a verdict rendered in accordance with the
above facts.— Ohio JS'orthxcesl, Scjit. 6.
H HO LIT THE LAMPS I
t'pon the rocky coast of Cornwall, there stood
some years ago, and may be standing yet, an
old-fashioned light-house. It was placed amid
some dangerous rocks and was found a great
blessing to manners frequenting that coast, in
directing them in daik and stormy nights.
JVlany were the shipwrecks it prevented and
many were the blessings that were breathed
iorlli to heaven by the sailors lur its guiding
and cheering light.
You would have thought that every body
would have been glad that the light-house stood
upon these rocks and rejoiced in the good it did.
Rut they did not.
There were a set of wicked men who looked
upon the light-house with angry eyes, and ol
ten wished some storm would sweep it quite
awav. They longed to see the vessels wreck
ed, that they might gather some of the spoils
that came from their destruction; and they
therefore hated the light-house that thus de
prived them of their treasures. 1 hese wicked
men were called "wreckers," and when stor
my nights came on, they might be sen looking
out for their prey, and even building large hr.-s
upon the shores to deceive the ships, and lead
them out of the wav, and get them dashed to
pieces Oil the rocks.
Still the light-house stood, watched over arid
kept bv the merciful eyes and arms of a kind,
protecting God.
It was inhabited, at the time I am writing
about, try a good man and his little girl : and it
is about this little girl my story must be told.
She bad a very pious mother, who when she
died had given her holy counsels, and left her
a large favorite Bible as her property- You
may be sure that the last words of her dear
mother were not soon forgotten ; while the Bi
ble she had left was looked upon witb no little
reverence and love.
The light-house was so placed upon the rocks,
that at low water, when the tide was out, you
could walk from it to the shore ; but at high
water no body could get to it, as no boat could
ride in safety among the rocks and breakers.
All the food the inmates needed find other things
they used, were thus brought to them, or fetch
ed bv them at low water, and the good man of
the light-house had often to go on shore for
them.
Cue day he had gone as usual, leaving the
little girl alone in the light-house, when some
of the wreckers seized iiim and determined to
prevent him going back to light his lamps, in
the hope that some ship would be wrecked.
The [>oor man was in great distress when he
was a prisoner of these wicked men, and begged
hard to be allowed to return. But in vain ;
there they kept him til! long after the tide came
in, and the dark night had gathered and it be
came impossible for him to return. At list
they let him go, and he stood upon the shore
in great distress. The night was gradually be
coming a very stormv one. Ihe wild winds
roared furiously. The rain fell in torrents.
The thunder rolled terrifically. The sea dashed
furiously around the light-house, sometimes cov
ering it entirely with its waves. What was he
to do ?
The lantern at the top of his house was all
dark. He could see >ome ships in the dbtance,
and lie trembled-lest they should be wrecked
for want of his lamps being lighted. He knew
his little* girl was ail alone and too little to do
anything to help the difficulty : so there he stood
in deep distress, while around him were the
savage wreckers, glorying in the success of their
wicked scheme, and looking for a large booty
tor the morning, when all of a sudden the light
house was lighted up, and its bright and glow
ing rays shot far across the troubled sea. The
sailors lar off were delighted as they caught its
beams : and the <g<vxi man himself v, as overcome
with surprise, whilV he exclaimed, "Who Las
lit the lamps ? "
Very distressed indeed was the little girl,
w hen she found her father did not return as
she expected. She* watched the tide come roil
ing up and covering the rocks, so cutting off all
the tvav to the shore. She tuard the wind get
up, and" trembled as she felt it rock the light
house. She noticed the dark night setting in,
and 6aw the storm beginning to rise. She lock
ed out, and then she caught a glimpse of the
ships in the distance, and knew that if the
lamps w ere not lighted they would probably be
wrecked, and in ber distress began to think
what she should do. At last a text of Scrip
tun*, one of her mother's last words, came into
her mind—"Call upon me in the day oi trou
ble and I will deliver thee." So down she knelt
and praved earnestly to God to help her in her
trouble, and rising, walked to see if she could
light the lamps'herself. Sin- saw the long stick
with which her father lit them. Down stairs
accordingly she went, and with great labor
dragged up a table and climbed on it, arid tried
again but still she could nut reach the lamps.
Down again she went to get something more to
stand on, when her eye fell on her mother's
large Bible, which she carried up with great
labor to the lantern and placed it on the table.
But now perhaps she thought it would he wrong
to stand upon the Bible she so much rever
enced, and she paused a little before she did it,
and to prav to God to help her light the lamps.
Then climbing up she stood tip-toe on the book,
and to her joy found that she could just reach
the lamps. In a minute all the lamps were
lighted, and the lantern blazed out, to the joy
of the sailors in the ships, the surprise and glad
ness of her lather, and the shame and disap
pointment of the wicked wreckers on the shore.
Such is my story. It is quite true : and as I
have told you, 1 have been thinking of other
mariners and wreckprs t+!an those on the cca>!
of Cornwall. I have been thinking of -a world
of people all in danger of' (hissing their way,
and being forever ruined by the results of folly
and sin. I have thought of wreckers in the
shape of wicked men and youths, who would
fain blight and destroy those by whom they are
surrounded. And I have thought of the Church
of God, with the light of truth, and the means
of presenting the way of peace arid safety in
her possession as a light-house to the world, in
which even a child may help to kindle th"
lamps, and save some poor voyager for eternity
from destruction and from woe.
Look around you, dear child, and see if you
cannot light some lamp of truth and love, which
shall help to save and bless your fellow-men.
LA Ml' OK LOVE.
Gale on the Texas least.
Emmecie DcKlriiclidn of U's'o
pcrly.
MATAGORDA DESTROYED.
* JItt'FUL SHIPIVRECKS, Sc., Sc.
The coast of Texas was visited by a most dis
astrous gaie, commencing on Sunday, the 18th,
arid lasting until Thursday night, the 21st MIS!.
In the Lavaca ami Matagoda Bays there was
much suffering and loss.
At Lavaca not much damage was sustained.
At IndiaiKila the schooners At!a and Fanny
M tt were both driven through the wharves,
and subsequently w-mt on Ihe twach, where
they now ite. The Mott will he a total loss:
the Atlas, probably, will begotten off.
Saiuriu and Deckro's Point did not escape,
but were even greater sufferers than on the bay
above their.. Many bous* sin both places were
entirely washed awav, some unroofed, and oth
ers taken off the blocks, there not heing a single
house tiiat escaped serious damage, and quite a
number b-ing rased to the ground.
The schooners Alida and S. Belden, which
had arrived on Sunday fiom Mobile, and were
lying at anchor < pposite Deckro's dragged into
the reef, were capsized and totally lost, with
both entire crews.
Tilt* I . S. schooner Fairy, belonging to the
Light House Department, was beached, and is
a tola! loss—crew saved.
The wale visited Matagorda with almost unpa
ralleled fury, destroying nearly all the buildings
in the place. Four lives were lost in the town,
Mrs. Diffifey, Mr. Merriman, and a negro wo
man and child.
The steamboat Kate Ward was entirely
wrecked near the tow n, Capt. Ward, his broth
er and nine ot the crew perishing. But three
only escaped by clinging to one of the w heels
and were taken off on the *2"2 d.
Schooner Tom Paine, F. Hulsemann,
o vetted frr STrtragoVda, was TBTa'tTy lost, with the
captain and crew.
A vessel from Sabine, with lumber, lost on
the peninsula: crew saved.
Crops of cane and cotton are Mown down and
nearly ruined. In fact, it is said not a hale of
cotton is lelt in the country.
Quite a number of small crafts are reported
lost with all their crew--.
Trespallbcious, and the houses on the penin
sula opposite, were ail swept away, except Col.
Lewis' and two others not recollected. Seve
ral lives are reported to have been lost, among
which were two children ol Capt. John Huge
ly, an old and much esteemed planter, who
were kill-d by the house being blown down
upon them.
. An evevvitness to the devastation of Matagor
da. savs that he never could have conceived of
such a sight as he witnessed between 4 and f>
o'clock on Monday morning: house crashing and
breaking up, tin ir materials living through the
air, women and children screaming and running
\\ hither Ihe v knew not, seeking protection, and
when found, only to be driven forth again after
a short laps" of time to find a new one, and in
many instances in nearly a denuded state.
Corpus Christi and other places westward re
main v<' to be heard from, as also the country.
—.V. 0. Picayune, of the '2O///.
Greyhounds of Africa.
Nothing evinces more the aristocratic tastes
of the Arabs of Sahara, than their treatment ol
their greyhounds. Here, as in all other Aral
countries, tlw common dog. whatever the utili
' tv of his employments in protecting the tent:
and (locks, is still regarded a contemptible ant
troublesome servant —a disagreeable necessity
The greyhound alone, as the companion ot hi
chivalrous pastimes, is treated by the Arab will
affectionate attention and respect. While,
therefore, the faithful watch dog is driven forti
from the tent, treated as a vulgir brute, and al
lowed to seek his fod among the otfal anl
bones that have been thrown out, the grey
bound sleeps in the men's apartment, on a c;u
pet beside his master, or even on his bed. Il
ls abundantly but carefully fed with kosskoo*;
ant! in summer, cakes are made fir him of milt
and stoned dates, which are said to be highly
tonic. If a thoroughbred animal, he will not
drink out of a dirty vess<-!, nor will he taste rniik
in which any one has put his hands. He is de
fended from the cold with coverlets like tl* J
horse, the Arabs having no objection to lis
being sensitive in this respect—it is an evident?
of high blood.—They delight in decking him
with ornaments, and make lor him collars <>t
cowry shells, to which they attach talismans !o
secure him Irom the blight of the evil eye.
At the age of four days the pups are remo
ved from the mother, and fed with goat's or
camel's milk, mixed with dates and kosskoos.
At the .age of three or four months, the eii
oation of the greyhound is begun by the chil
dren starting jerboas, or small deer, and indu
cing him to give chase. lie soon becorr.e.'so
fond of this pastime, that he will bark rowd
the holes, to induce the youngsters to renew the
sport. The next gainp on which he is tried is
(hp harp, then the young gazzelle. At the and
of a year he attained his lull strength and is
advanced to he the companion of the tent, who
, Freedom of Thought and Opinion.
BEDFORD, PA. FRIDAi MORNING, OCT. 13, 1854,
ttaches him to hunt the full sized gazelle. The
Arab talks to him as a human being. "Listen
tq me, friend: thou must bring me some veni
s<in, lam tired of eating nothing but dates:'
whereupon (he dog leaps, wheels about, and in
timates as plainly as possible, that he under- i
stind his master's wish, and is abundantly wil- !
Dig to comply.
When the dog perceives a herd of thirlv or
filrt y gazelles, he trembles with joy, and looks
vjjst fully at his master. "Hal young Jew," j
says the Arab, "thou wilt l not say this time that
thin hast not seen them." He then unties an
oK-skin, and refreshes the body of the dog u ith
a sprinkling of water. The impatient animal |
tfrns on hi in an imploring eye, he is loosed on
tie game, and bounds awav; but yet comma is i
himself, crouches down if he is perceived; !
itakes a zigzag course; and it is not till fairly j
within reach that he darts, with all his strength, j
choosing the finest of the herd as his victim.—
When the hunter cuts up the gazelle, lie gives
the dog part of the loin; if he were offered any
ant refuse, he would riject it with disdain.
\ thorough bred hound will hunt with no one
but his master; and lie manifests due self-respect
in lis choice of a prey. If on loosing him his
matter has pointed out a fine large gazelle, and
he has succeeded only in taking a small and
middling looking one, lie seems to feel the re
priacii t! at attaches to his failure, slinks awav
ashamed instead of claiming his accustomed
shire. He always accompanies his master
vlen visiting, and shares whatever hospitalities
he receives. By his extreme cleanliness, the
kirdiiness of his manners, and the respect for
the usages of society, he show s himself worthy
of (Be attentions thus bestowed upon him.—
Wren the Arab returns after a somewhat pro
longed absence, his dog makes a single bound
fron the tent to the saddle, and welcomes him
with caresses.
The greyhound of Sahara is very superior to
tha of the coast. He i- tail and lawn-colored,
has a thin muzzle,black tongue and palate, large {
fo'efu aH, short ears, muscular neck, very short
hrir, no paunch, dry limbs, and the muscles ot
cruip wvi! marked. A pretty good one is con
sidered worth a fine camel: but those which
lake the largest gazelles will bring as much as
a horse. A family hunter, however, Is never
soli: an Arab would as soon think < f selling one
of lis sons. W hen he dies, it is a time of
mmrning in the tent; women and children
Wfep and lament as for a member of the family.
I'rom the Vinton Traveller.
Remarkable Freaks of Lightning.
-VEWBUKYPORT, Friday, Sept. S, '54-.
One ofthe most remarkable feats of lightning j
(Ver known in this vicinity, and the most singu-
Jirr ->.ve -ever read of, happened in Bytieid on
Wednesday evening last, during the thunder '
storm. The house of Mr. Henry Rogers, loca
ted upon a slight eminence, entirely tree from
fees and shrubhury, was struck by lightning j
and almost totally destroyed, without the slight
's! injury to the jnmates. As—near as we could
iidge, the lightning entered the roof, near the •
tentre, and tore therefrom on each side about
one-third [ art of the whole surface. The house j
was one story, and directlv beneath this place
was a bed oil which were sleeping three chil
dren. So near were they to the root that the
bed posts ol the bedstead came within a foot of |
the boards, which w?fe thrown to the ground, !
north and south. The charge then passed to j
the east part ofthe house, tearing off the entire
end, and throwing fragments over forty-eight
yards into a neighboring field: it then entered a
bed-room, split the head and foot-boards from a |
bed-stead occupied ! v two voung men. shatter
ed the posts, tearing the paper from the walls,
thence passing into another room, taking from
'under a feath r bed, on which was lying Mr.
Rogers and wife, a straw bed, and scattering l ,
the straw in every direction. Every pane ol j
glass in the house was broken, and some of the j
fragments throw n thirty six feet in a southerly j
direction. The lightning then separated, tak- j
ing a southerly and northerly course, throwing j
a privy upon a stone wall, passing through a;
barn in which were animals and a quantity ot
bav, then along the road, splitting from a rock
upon a stone wall a piece weighing twenty
pounds, throwing it some ten (ept into the road,
and passing into the earth. Mrs. Rogers was
tbeonlv person awake. She heard the report,;
which she savs was very loud, ami saw the de- j
struct inn going on, which she represents as be
wildering and incomprehensible. Ihe light- j
ning must have passed within a few inches oU
the heads of the voung men, as the head and!
foot boards, which were shattered, could not
have been more than that distance from their
'heads. Everything in the house was in the ;
most singular contusion. Aiticles w ere passed
from one room to another, cards from a rack j
w ere found behind a mirror which hung oppo- i
site, apiece of meat which hung in the cellar
way was found on the second floor, and a pouch •
of powder was found perfect in the road. Ihe ,
stove was shattered and broken crockery were
drove in all directions, fragments of furniture .
pierced tfie partitions, and everything myste
rious in its disposition. The clock was stop
ped at three minutes to eleven—the pendulum
was displaced and has not been found. Had a
keg of powder exploded in the cellar, it would :
not have made a more-perfect wreck. But vet. 1
strange as it was not one of the seven inmates
was injured. A scientific friend, whom we in
i duced to visit the spot with us, enjoins upon us
to present it as one ofthe most remarkable illus
trations of the protection afforded by a feather
bed from the effects of lightning, as it is his
opinion that this alone saved them from instant
death.
| Crowds of people have visited the spot, and
and are still going, and the house is looked up
on here as one worthy the attention of the cu
. rious.
A FEARtct. Fall.—A young man and young
woman were found among the rocks, imar the
Falls of Paterson, on Monday morning, where
they had lain all night, having fallen down a
precipice on the night previous. The woman
had both her legs and one arm .-broken, and the
man had his back and ribs broken, and was
otherwise injured.
Extraordinary (ase.
The Paris correspondent of the Columbus,
Journal translates the following extraordinary
and incredible story from late German papers: i
A very richold lady, the Countess de K- ,
had bv her first marriage, two twin sons, whom
she loved fondly. After having trembled a long
while lor their existence, she decided to quit
Germany, her native country, w here she p>ses
ed, independent ufa vast and magnificent cha
teau, an immense property under rent. Shetra
veledjconsulted the most eminent physicians,and '
finally fixed her residence in Italy. There, un
der the influence of a beautiful sky, the two bovs
grew up, but they preserved the excessive ner
vous impressibility which had. since their infan
cy, put their lives in peril. The two boys had
between them a remarkable resemblance; they
both engaged in the culture of aits, but especial
ly to painting. At sixteen yvais uf age, they
were already cited as masters; but at this epoch
a new crisis appeared: the same symptoms; the
same pains: the phvscians decided that to prevent
the return of these nervous crisises, the young
men should be separated, 'i hey obstinately re
fused at first, but \anquished by the supplications
of their distracted mother, they consented to the
painful separation. Jt was left to chance which
one should leave the maternal roof, and it fell
on Alfred.
Alfred Iv. started on the tour of Greece and
Egypt; the journey was to continue a year.
Alfred wrote regularly every day to his mo
ther and brother: he sent them his draw ings and
his pictures. But w hat was remarkable, the
youug man who remained in Italy lived so per
fectly the life of his brother, that he designed and
painted exactly and simultaneously what his
brother designed and painted after nature.—
Each time that a package arrived from Athens or
Alexandria, the paintings, the aquarells that
they contained had already their duplicates in
the studio of the brother—duplicates so faithful j
that the aitists themselves could find i
ence.
One dav, returning from a journey in Upper
Egypt, Allied K. died and the physicians sent
to the family a detailed account ot all the cir
cumstances which attended the death of the
vuung man. Ihe same day, at the same hour,
and under circumstances, and with symptoms
precisely identical, the brother w ho remained in
Italy died, pronouncing the same words as his
brother had pronounced.
The desolate mother, who was yet young, be
ing tut sixteen years older than hei sons, return
ed to Germany, where herhusband occupied a ,
high position under government. Two years
alter her return, she gave birth a second time to
two twin bovs, who resembled, trait lor trait, the
twin sons whom she had so unlutnnately lost.
They received at their baptism the names of
their deceased brothers. All the circumstances
which had presided at the developement of (he
first children, were reproduced precisely with
the second: the same nervous paroxysms; the
same mysterious sympathies. Again the moth
er was advised to travel. , This time she went
into Spain; the boys exhibited the same taste for
the aits, particularly for painting. At the age of:
sixteen, and clay for day with the first brothers
they fell .-irk. Then separation was ordered,
but this time the mother resisted energetically:
she was vanquished, how ever, by the persistence
of their malady and the continued persuasion of
the phvscians, who declared that they would die
if they remained together, on account of their
extraodinarv resemblance, ol their nervous or
ganization, which absorbed mutually the princi
ples of their existence. The mother consented
that one of them should make a voyage into the
south of Spain.
Chance again designated the one who bore
the name of Alfred. The same phenomenon ot
intuition was reproduced, l ite one designed
at Madrid or Barcelona what the other painted
at Cadiz, and with thesame wonderlul resem
blance of touch. The day that Alfred was
ready to start home to rejoin his mother and
brother, he fell sick and died at the same hour
that his brother died at Cadiz in the arms of his
mother, and both pronounced at thesame time,
the words which their deceased brothers pro
nounced eighteen years ago.
EsparUro, the Spanish General-in-Chief.
His strongly marked eyebrows, the steady re
gard of his eye, his slightly closed lips, and the
width of his chin, announce that no oscillations
are to he looked fur in him when once his will
has been declared. Espartero commands re
spect by other physical and moral qualities,
i Of middle height, sixty years of age at least, ! 1
! but not looking more than fifty, he bears on his
, loftv forehead, in his black eye, and on his lips
turning readily to a smile, a great appearance
! of kindness, frankness, and courage carried to ,
i recklessness. Bv the services which he has
rendered, he is the first of all the living Span
ish commanders. He is a good comrade for his
soldiers, and when he saw the troops suffering!
from want of supplies, Espartero often engaged
! his private fortune towards the contractors, It
is in that way that, being a rich man when he ;
assumed command, he was infinitely [merer'
I when he laid it down. His fortune comes from
! his wife, the daughter of a rich banker: and
she never hesitated to give her signature, when
it was called for, to serve the army. Of an
honest hut obscure family, he has had always
the good sense not to deny his origin. One day
• during his regency, there was a erarwi soiree at
Buena Vista, and an uncle and two female cou-
I sins of the Regent were announced. The un
cle was a small contractor for roads in Mancha,
' and his daughters dressmakers. The Duke at j
once went to meet his relatives, received them j
I most kindly, and left every one struck with that
! democratic pride which showed itself so grace-i
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fully in the palace of kings. There is nothing
in all this, certainly, which amounts to absolute
proof that Espartero will be equal to the mis
sion assigned to him. And yet a man's ante
cedent conduct is one of the elements that set ve
best to enable the world to form a judgment of
his future conduct.— Paris Siecle.
A Thrilling Disclosure.
Five gentlemen arrived in San Antonio, Sept.
4th, v/ho just returning from Calilornia, having
come by the overland route from Mazatlan, on
the Pacific—their names and places of residence
are as follows :
Richard M. Head, Bibb countv, Georgia: J.
W. Cole, Holly Spring, Misa.: James Scoolfield,
Ham'dton county, Tenn.; David Spring, Fort
Smith, Arkansas.
From these persons we learned the following
painful disclosures: In the city of Durango,
Mexico, they learned in a private manner that
there were some Americans in the city prison,
and they afterwards got permission to visit them.
They found them in a large stone dungeon, of
so fiithva description that it was almost impos
sible for visiters to remain in the entrance way
but a few minutes. The Americans in confine
ment were three in number, and their names
and former places of residence were as follows:
William Shirley, Broom count}", New \ork:
William Rodgers, Stark county, Ohio: John
Gaines, Dayton, Montgomery county, Ohio.
These men have been in this filthy dungeon
four years and three months, and during two
years of this time thev were chained down to
the floor, in total darkness, where they could
not see any person hut the one who ted them
their starving allowance. At the end ot tuo
years the huge chains around their ankles and
wrists had worn the flesh off to the bone, and
such was their horrid condition, that their
chains were removed to save their lives and
keep them in misery the longer. Ihp flesh is
j art I v healed over these wounds, leaving the
most heart-sickening scars, which, were all seen
by the five persons whose names are mentioned
above.
They state that they were imprisoned on the
charge of murdering and robbing a man for his
money: and they state also, that from some facts
which they are in possession of, the person who
committed the murder escaped. They have
written letters to the American Minister in
Mexico several times, and they have reason to
believe that he has never received them.
Our informants learned from many respecta
ble Spaniards in Durango, that it was impossi
ble to get evidence to convict them: and the
great mass of the peoplp believe them innocent.
The youngest of the prisoners, John Gaines, of
Davton, Ohio, is only 17 years old. The inter
view which our informants had with them
was a heart-thrilling scene, and, on taking their
leave, they begged them in the most feeling
manner to relate their circumstances to the A
merican people, and if possible, to send them
relief.
The above statement is of the most reliable
character— these persons witnessed it with their
own eves, and they are persons of undoubted
veracity, and some of them havp long bpen
known to seme of our citizens.—. V. 1. Express.
RECOVERED FROM Tut: WELL. —The two men
still remaining in Hanna's well, near the paper
mill, as we went to press on yesterday evening
were dug out in a short time after. \Y . Ship
ley Spence was found one loot below the elder
Robinson, taken out alive yesterday morning.
He was dpnd when found, had probably been
killed bv falling with his side upon one of the
platforms, as his ribs were broken and his body
bore other evidences of injuries. Young Rob
inson was found at the bottom of the well in
an erect position the gravel packed close about
him, which bad likely smothered him to death
in a few moments after the casualty, which
was a shocking one.— Steubenrille Herald.
On Thursday, the 7th inst., Mr; Peter Livick.
living about three miles from Staunton, died of
dysentery. In the afternoon of the same day, one
of his children died, and lather and child were
both buried in the same grave the next day. A
few weeks previous, two other children died of
the same disease, and one since his death. In the
course of one month the father and four children
have died.
As U.\NATT HAL SON. —An old man. named
Warner, a German, who resided near Green
ville, died last week, and it was rumorrd that
he came to his death by foul means, but the
facts are that the old man died on Thursday,
when he w as taken by his son and placed in an
outbuilding, a short distance from the residence,
where lie remained until Sunday morning, Avhen
he was taken hv his son, placed in a trough, a
hole dug about eighteen inches deep, a few feet
from the house, and the body covered up. The
old man's son, on being interrogated as to why
he did not bury his father sooner, replied that
lie felt like being sick himself, as he had symp
toms of the ague—and he had a clearing on
hand—and his fences were on fire—and the
pigs were in the corn, and he had not time to
attend to it until Sunday morning.— Dayton
[Ohio) Gazette. 1\ th vlt.
ELOPEMENT OK ADDICTION. —A daughter of
Mr. Charles Sanders, keeper of the Rail Road
House in Dean street, Albany, left home on
Sunday, saying she was going to church, since
which time nothing has been heard of her by
her parents. She is about 14 years of age. A
Frenchman boarding at the house left about the
same time, and is supposed to have enticed the
giri away.
A DOCTOR. KILLED NV MIS OWN MEDICINE.
—Dr. George Buchanan, of Hillsdale, Ohio,
killed himself the other day by an over-dose of
morphine, while suffering from an attack of
cholera morbus. It would s-em that he was a
little inclined to give large doses of that medi
cine, as he had a short time before been arrested
for malpractice, in pausing the death of a child
by it.