VOL. LV.
BARTER,
AUCTIONEER,
REBERSBURG. PA.
J C. SPRINGER,
Fashionable Barber,
Next Door to JOURNAL Store,
MII.LHKIH, PA.
jgROCKERHOFF HOUSE,
(Opposite Court House.)
H. BROCKER Proprietor.
WM. MCKKKVKK, Manager.
Go H! sample rooms on first floor.
Free bus to and from all trains.
Special rates to jurors and witnesses.
Strictly First Class.
IRVIX HOUSE.
(Must Ceiuml Hotel IN the OltyJ
Corner MAIN and JAY Streets,
Lock llaven, Fa.
S. WOODS CILWKLL, Proprietor.
Good Sample Rooms for Commercial
Travelers on first floor.
jQR D. H. MINGLE,
Physician and Surgeon,
MAIN Street, MILLHKIM. Pa.
JOHN F. HARTER,
PRACTICAL DENTIST,
Office in 2d story of Tomliuson's Gro
cery Store,
On MAIN Street, MILLHKIM, Pa.
C. T. Alexander. C. M. Bower.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
BELLEFONTK, PA.
Qfflce In Garman's new building.
JOHN B. LINN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLEFONTK, PA.
Office on Allegheny Street.
OLEMENT DALE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLKFONTE, PA.
Northwest corner of Diamond.
Y° cum & HASTINGS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
BELLKFONTE, PA.
High Street, opposite First National Baa*.
C. HEINLE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLEFONTK, PA.
Practices in all the courts of Centre County.
Spec al attention to Collections. Consultations
In German or English.
■^Y ILBUR F * KEEDER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEFONTK, PA.
All bus ness promptly attended to. Collection
of claims a speciality.
J. A. Beaver. J W. Gephart.
JgEAVER & GEPHART,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BELLEFONTK, PA.
Office on Alleghany Street, North of High.
A. MORRISON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEFONTK, PA.
Office on Woodrlng's Block, Opposite Court
House.
S. KELLER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEFONTK, PA,
Consultations In English or German. Office
In Lyon's Building, Allegheny Street.
JOHN G. LOVE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
<5 BELLEFONTK, PA.
Office in the rooms formerly occupied br the
late w. p. Wilson.
ADVERTISE IN THE
Millheim Journal.
R ATES ON APPLICATION
She pillketM
PKKFKI T rRIfT.
My boat Is on tie open sen
Whloh storms ami tempest toss ;
1 Know not of the ills to meet
Before 1 get across.
I do not know how long or short
The fitful trip may le;
But patient I'll abide His time
Who built the boat for me,
"Tis fully manned in every part,
Hope Is the anchor fair;
The compass that It has is Faith,
And every oar is prayer.
Sometimes 1 see the breakers nigh,
The ix-eau uiadl.v roars.
But all 1 do is simply this—
Beud closer to the oars.
At times the waves run mountain high
And threaten me to strand;
1 fear not, for He holds them tu
The hollow of his band.
The fog at times obscures my course,
I see the way but dim;
But well I know I eauuot drift
Beyond the sight of lltui.
1 know not where the shoals may lie.
Nor where there the whirpools be.
It Is enough, dear Lord, to feel
Thai they are kuowu to Thee.
And thus content I glide along.
If either slow or fast,
Well knowing He vfill surely bring
Me safe to port at last.
THE EMKKALD KING.
"For my part, I'm tired of regular
proper picnics," said Eva Harrold as
she stood ou the upper portico of "The
Double Hill Heuse," among the White
Mountains, and talked with a circle of
her own particular friends. "Who cares
to drive away from here, with a well
packed luncheon basket, bound for a
certain place, and sure of coming
straight back from that place as soon as
the luncheon is eaten? Where is the
fun in that ? What I should like, would
be to set off, no one should know where,
and without oue crumb of provisions.
Then we should have some chance of
an adventure before our return."
"Yes ! For we should all starve to
death in these lonely woods," laughed
the girls.
"I tliink not—that is, if you will all
trust yourselves to me!" exclaimed
Herbert Hale, who lived (of late) only
to humor the countless caprices of the
handsome Baltimore heiress, and to
execute her commands. "We will let
the horses choose their own road, once
we are well away from here, and then
we will abide by what we happen to find,
wherever they may take us. I promise
that yon shall not starve. And I make
only one condition."
"What is that?" they cried.
"You must all be ready to start from
this door exactly at half-past eleven
o'clock to-morrow, if the morning is
fine."
All agreed to be punctual, and the
group broke up, for it was nearly time
to dress for dinner.
Miss Harrold did not take the trouble
to thank her votary* in words. But, as
she passed by him, she held out her
hand, with a queenly smile.
He bent low over it, and felt himself
amply repaid for all the thought, care
and pains which this "impromptu" ex
pedition was to cost him.
As he walked toward the further end
of the long piazza, lost in calculation, a
shrinking little figure drew aside, with
a start, out of his way. A delicate,
childlike face looked up at him.
Two weeks before that day Eva Har
rold had not arrived at the Double Hill
House, with her party of fashionable
friends.
And Herbert Hale, worn out by along
winter of toil in his law-office, hail been
only too happy to spend those first days
of his mountain holiday at Lilian
Archer's side.
His heart smote him, as he saw the
crimson flush on her face, and the trem
bling of the perfect lips that tried to
greet him calmly.
"1 hope you will not fail to make one
of our party to-moirow," he said, kindly,
as he passed her.
And Lillian, who had not seen that
kiss pressed upon the white hand of the
heiress, felt her foolish heart flutter with
one of the old throbs of joy.
"Perhaps he has found out what a
flirt Eva is," she thought, hopefully.
"And he did seem really to cure for me,
until she came."
So Lily joined the "new departure"
(as the pic-uic party called themselves)
on the next morning.
She looked very modest snd pretty in
her white lawn dress, dotted with blue
embroidered spots, and her white chip
hat, with its broad blue ribbon.
And the heiress, resplendent in rib
bons of cardinal red, insisted that Lily
should occupy one side of the front seat,
while she took the other, leaving the
centre seat for Herbert, as charioteer.
His face was a study, for a moment,
as he saw this unexpected arrangement.
But he said nothing, and they drove off
along a new and unknown road.
After two hours the horses were rested
and plentifully fed. But nothing was
offered to the ladies, until the carriage
drew up before an old-fashioned brown
farm-house, between four and five o'clock
in the afternoon.
Here a "dinner tea," beginning with
stewed chicken, and ending with 4 berry
shortcakes" piled high on immense china
platters, awaited them.
They ate like famished creatures, all
save Lily, whose aching heart was caus
ing her a martyrdom of pain.
The horses were stabled in the far
MILLILEDI, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20,1881.
mer'H barn. The picnic party, enjoying
every moment of their novel pleasure,
danced upon the green before the low,
brown house, to the farmer's violin.
Miss Harrold waltzed once with Her
bert, in token of her gratitude for a
very pleasant day, she said. Then she
sat apart, near Lily, and watched the
brilliant scene.
They started home by moonlight.
But ere long the skv darkened, and a
wild western wind began to wail along
the lonely road. The horses seemed a
little restive over this sudden change,
Herbert alighted to soothe them and to
rearrange the harness.
"Lily !" whispered Eva, "my neural
gia is coining on again, on this side of
uiv face and this wind makes it worse.
Change places with nie, will you,
dear ?"
It was done.
The clouds lowered more and more,
but the horses trotted swiftly on. And
beside Herbert, Lily was not at all
afraid.
Suddenly, in the darkness, she felt a
hand on hers. Herbert leaned toward
her, whispered "Darling!" in the old,
fond toueS, and left a small jmckage in
imr hand.
Breathless, and almost bewildered,
with the sudden change from gloom to
perfect joy, Lily sat silent, till they
drew up again near the hotel.
Every one rose at ouce. Every one
seemed to try to spring out of the
carriage at once.
In the confusion, Lily knew that she
was helped out by a stranger —not by
Herbert.
But what did that matter while that
whisper rang in her ears, and while she
held that precious package in her hand?
She left them, telling their adventures
to an inquisitive circle in the drawing
room, and followed fast on Eva Harrold's
steps, as she hurried to her room for
the night.
The door once closed upon the world,
Lily opened the package.
It contained a small velvet casket.
The casket held a tieautiful emerald
ring ; and with the ring was this letter :
"I cannot tell you here all that is in
my heart for you. May I sje;ik with
you to-morrow afternoon, in the dear
old parlor? Wear this ring, to-niorrow,
as a token, if you consent."
"The dear old parlor !" Yes, that was
where they two had spent so many
happy hours—just at first—ls'fore Miss
Harrold came.
Wear the ring? Aye, that she would !
With a sob of thankful, pious joy, the
poor child slipped it ou her finger, said
her prayers, with Herbert's name in
them, and sank tranquilly to sleep.
The early morning stage brought a
new guest a handsome, languid South
erner, who seemed to think it a groat
exertion even to live.
Beside him sat Miss Eva Harrold,
bright, radiant, sparkling, as no one bad
ever seen her look before.
Before noon the truth came out. The
Southerner was the future husband of
Miss Harrold; and the next day the
party would leave for Baltimore, to cel
ebrate the wedding.
Lily wore the emerald ring in vain !
By nightfall, she heard them jesting
over the sudden flight of Herbert Hale.
He had left the hotel without attempting
to see her—without even waiting for an
answer to the question he had asked.
Lily lived through it, but the shock
rendered her harder, colder, more sus
picious than before.
Six years passed by. She, too, was
an heiress, but she was alone in the
world. Miss Harrold was the wife of
the Southern gentleman ; and Herbert
Hale was still a bachelor, when he and
Lily happened to meet once more, at
that same hotel, in the course of their
Summer's tour.
Tliey stood, one evening, talking
coldly and quietly of those other days,
when the moonlight fell full upon Lily's
hand, and upon the emerald ring, which
she had forgotten to lay aside that day.
Herbert turned pale as he looked at
tt.
44 You two changed places in the car
riage that night," he said, speaking be
fore lie thought.
Then Lily saw, felt, and understood
it all.
"What a fool I have been ! What
must you have thought of me?" she
cried, in an agony of self-contempt,
wrenching the ring from her hand and
throwing it passionately on the floor.
Herbert picked it up.
"It was given rightly, even if I gave
it by mistake," he said. 4 'Lily, I never
really loved her! But you—oh, my
darling, we two are alone in the world.
Let me put this ring on again until I
give you another."
In time she must Lave been per
suaded. For the "keeper" of Mrs.
Herbert Hale's wedding-ring is an
emerald to-day.
TEN years ago a blast furnace which
wouJd make 400 tons of metal per week
on 600 tons of fuel was considered a big
thing. There are blast furnaces in Pitts
burg which produce 1500 tons of metal
per week on less than 1500 tons of fuel,
the old method of heating permitted the
dame to pass ont of the furnace stack at a
temperature of SOOO deg. F. They are now
using ike regenerating stoves in Pittsburg,
and do not let the gases out until they
have utilized all the heat except 300 deg.
%
Chilling the Klectrle l.lglil.
Not long ago a Denver and Rio Grande
engineer came into Denver after several
weeks' absence on the southwestern ex
tensions. lie arrived near Littleton
about eleven o'clock at night, indulging
in fond anticipations of soon meeting
with his family, of whom he is passion
ately fond. The night was dark and
gloomy, heavy and threatening clouds
obscured the full moon, overcast the
face of the heavens with an inky pall of
blackness, and rendered tlie outlines
of the distant mountains indiscernble.
But he wus used to the soubro sur
roundings of night and loved his engine
as a man loves and |>ets a favorite horse.
He had traversed with it the continental
divide, and sjHd through the deepest
canons and past the sharpest curves
overhanging yawning chasms and gorges,
and it had always proved true to his trust,
escaping dangers as though endowed
with reasoning powers. Therefore lie
wus in a happy frame d mind, the past
leaving no remorse and tie future bright,
when suddenly lie discovered a gleaming
headlight directly in les front. With
the promptness that tuu only be ob
tained through long and patient school
ing in the face of peri) he reversed the
steam and put on the ar brakes. There
was u rough grating ami a jur for a few
moments upon the swiftly revolving
wheels, and the tr&iL came to a stop.
After waiting for severul minutes he
alighted and listened, jilt no sound met
his ears except the {uttering of a few
stray rain drops und the hissing of steam
as it escaped from bis own engine. He
immediately clambered in and out of
his cab several time*, and at length care
fully started his train for the purpose of
a nearer approach, and of ascertaining
the cause of the dlay. He ran at a
slow sjMHjd for sevenl minutes, passing
at least a mile and'a half, with no prac
tical diminishing of the distance between
himself and the unaccountable light. He
then opened the throttle still wider, and
the engine bounded &loi:g with a velocity
startling even to experienced engineers,
but the glow of the light ever remained
abreast, undiiwned and unchanged by
time or space. The fact was a start
ling one, and in spite of all his en
deavors the thought of evil spirit*
making themselves manifest crowded
upon his bewildered niiiul until the
sweat ran down his grim face and each
particular hair twined around like a writh
ing serjjent. Determined to solve the
problem at any cost, xnd whether angel
or devil, with life or death at its com
mand, to meet and fathom the mystery,
he pressed on. The tkrottle was opened
wide, the fireman slioreled coal into the
furnace with a recklessness that could
only arise from a full knowledge that he
did not have it to pay for. The train
roared as it swept down the plains
through the dirkness, and at length
rushed into Denver at the speed of forty
miles an hour, startling people for blocks
around, who, bouiding from there beds,
believed that seme dire calamity had
hapjiened or wm about to occur. Ar
riving at the depot, the train was stopped,
and the engineer *eut the fireman for a
policeman. Ofticur Minart was soon
found, who hasten*! to the call and de
clared himself realy to perform any
thing within his line of duty. The en
gineer slowly pulled off his coat, and
offered the officer five dollars to kick
him across three squares, Inving dis
covered that he had been chasing the
alectrie light on the Union lejot tower.
Chvr Plug It's Tlie Nastiest.
Tobacco, like the Canadian thistle, is a
weed, and, while it is indigenous to the
American States, its cultivation as a com
mercial commodity Is United almost en
tirely to the States of Yirgtiia North Car
olina. Kentucky, Connecticut, Ohio and
Illinois. The Virginia and Kentucky pro
duct is used almost exclusively in the man
ufacture of plug; the prixkiot of the other
States goes into cigars and cheap smoking
tobacco, except that quite all of the fa*cy
plugs are wrapped with North Carolina
leaf. Before the war, in Hapides Parish,
Louisiana, an immense hi.siuess was done
In growing perique tobacco, used exclu
sively for smoking, though put up in plugs
shapeil somewhat like a clainpagne bottle.
It sold at fabulous prices and by old
smokers was esteemed higher than opium
by the Mussulman. Very little perique is
grown now.
In the days preceding the war. tobacco
was cultivated almost entirely by slave
la!x)t, there was no federal or state tax
upon it, and no incentive to manufacturers
to cheat or adulterate. When slavery was
alKlisiie , when the government put a
heavy tax upon its sale, the cuuuing Amer
ican began devising ways for delraudiug
tho luxurious consumer, for as yet no
means have been devised for detrauding
the revenue department. Many apochry
phal stories are told of the way plug to
bacco is doctored and adulterated, but.
sifteu down, the truth is fully expressed
in the words of a prominent manufacturer:
•'Nothing ever goes into tobacco as dele
terious or injurious to the constitution as
tobacco itself." nevertheless, skilled
woikmen command extraordinarily high
salaries for the dexterity with which they
will take a cheap or damaged lot of to
baeco and so disguise it iu a wrapper as to
deceive even an old tar.
Ac average plug-tobacco manufacturing
establishment w< rks about 200 hands.
The tobacco is sorted into four grades,
from which are produced as many as
seventy-five or a hundred different brands,
the pencil of the artist and the skill of the
photographer being brought into requisi
tion for ornamental designs to catch the
toothless old mau as well as the precocious
hoy. While the government rtocbes
every package to bear the stencil-mark of
the manufacturer, it would oe supposed
. that uoue hut straight goods would be put
up; but it is with tobacco as with whisky
—always a fair demand for the stuff, be it
ever so vile. Licorice, oils, molasses, glu
cose, and similar sweets, are liberally used
by some mauulacturers, and while it is
certain!v a cheat, it is as well a harmless
one. For example, on August 20, Vir
ginia lug was quoted ut 4 to cents,
government lax added 16 cents, yet the
manufactured product was quoted as low
as i7 cents. Evidently the worker-up of
these lugs had the tobacco cliewer by the
lug.
But in tine-cut tobacco and cigars is
where the greatest deception is practiced.
A wesiern manufacturer says that there is
uo eud to the adulteration of line-cut
goods. Machinery has been so improved
that, as he says, -'ith one pouud of to
bacco liquor, obtuiued by iioiling down
stems and refuse leaf, one pound of rag
weed, and one ]M>und of slippery elm bark
live dollars' worth of fine cut chewing to
bacco can be produced. The suggestion
of slippery elm bark was a new one, and
the inquiry was pursued further. He said
It was nicely shaved, and mixed with to
bacco; that it had u pleasant, sweet taste,
held the tobacco together, and made the
"quid" last a long time. This bark costs
about four cents a pound, ami as it sells as
high as seventy-live cents a pound, oue can
easily see the enormous profit resulting.
A gentleman who knows says that nearly
all the slipiery-elin trees iu Ohio, Indiana,
and Michigan have bceu denuded of their
bark, yet a leading wholesale druggist iu
Chicago uffirtns lhat 50.00U pounds of
slippery-elm bark would, for legitimate
druggist and medicinal trade, glut the en
tile market of the United Htates.
In cigars, cheroots, cigarettes, and smok
ing tobacco is piobably where the public
get robbed the worst. The canuing de
vices are so many that even good judges
are imposed upon. It used be a boast
among gentlemen that they could always
select a tine brand of cigars, and of course
they smoked no other. The other day an
old smoker, whose devotion to the weed
costs him tive dollirs every week, admitted
that he couldn't tell Havana filled from
Connecticut stuffed. The dishonest arti
cle, however, is the product of the big
manufactories, for the small country man
ufacturer cannot afford the machinery nor
conceal the lotions and decoction* that are
brought iulo requisition by his wealthier
competitor. It is quite safe to assuiue
lhat about the purest, —no, not purest, for
if lliciy is any one thing impure it is to
bacco, —the honestesl cigar is the hand
made cigars of the local manufacturer.
And yet, one of these relates a sad tale of
how even he was lml to lie dishonest. He
had a small store on ihe West Side, and
was joined in his lalx r by his wife, two
daughters and a son, and an occa ional
"jour." By buying close, manufacturing
square, he had built up a splendid iocal
trade. One day a tramp jour, came along,
and be gave him work, lie was the so
berest and shadiest fellow he had e/er em
ployed, and even his girls got to liking
him. He was a good workman, and easily
persuaded his employer to let him work
overtime of nights and Sundays. For a
mouth or two the little manufacturing es
tablishment doted on the new workman.
But all ut once and without any apparent
cause the trade began to fall off. First
one old customer and then another quit
purchasing, to that the manufacturer be
came financially embarrassed. He went
to oue ot bis heaviest purchasers and
him why he had taken his trade elsewnere
Tiie gentleman showed hiui why. Open
ing one of the manufacturer's boxes, he
showed him the usual handsome cigar,
but, tearing it open, it was lound to be
tilled with mashed stems and brown paper
soaked in tobacco liquor. The manufac
turer went home, watered his model iour.
and found that the work he was doing in
overtime was stealing his employer's good
cigars and palming in their place his own
worthless ones, selling the good ones ou
his own account.
This much can be said to the credit of
the tobacco dealer; His product is purely
a luxury,—in no sense entering into the
medical or mechanical arts, —and, being a
luxury, no law, not even public opinion,
can restrain him from the practice of any
little cheat to enhance his profits. Which
brings up again the admission that in all
his cheats "nothing is put mtb tobacco
more deleteriouslo the human system than
the tobacco itself."
Attend to Your Watcl).
There are very few of the many who
carry watches who ever think of the
complexity of their delicate mechanism,
and of the extraordinary and unceasing
labor they perform. There are many
who think a watch ought to run and
keep good time for years, without a
particle of oil, who would not think of
running a common piece of machinery a
day without oiling, the wheels of which
do but a fraction of the service. For
example, the main-wheel makes four
revolutions in twenty-four hours or 1,400
in a year ; the second or center-wheel
twenty-four revolutions in twenty-four
hours, or 8,760 in a year; the third
wheel, 102 revolutions in twenty-four
hours, or 70,080 in a year ; the fourth
wheel, carrying the second hand, 1,440
in twenty-four hours, or 525,600 in a
year; the tilth or scape-wheel, 12,064 in
twenty-four hours, or 5,520,000 revolu
tions in u year, while the beats, or vibra
tions, made in twenty-four hours are
422,000 or 157,680,000 in a year.
Not on My Books.
One day this past summer a little knot
of men, among whom were two Micliig&n
ders, got into a dispute in Deadwood re
garding some of the ancients. A part of
the crowd held that Cato was a great poet,
while others asserted that he was an ora
tor, and it was finally agreed to 1 ave it to
a grocer around the corner, who was sup
posed to be well posted on most ali matters.
The crowd therefore proceeded to his store
in a body, and the spokesman brusquely
queried:
"Say, Jim, can you settle a dispute?"
"Yes, sir," was the proniot reply.
"Well, then, what was Cato's best
hold ?"
"Cato—Cato —hold on a minute 4 " re
plied Jim, as he started for his desk. He
opened his ledger, ran down the index to
"C." glanced over the names and then re
turned and said:
"Don't find him here on my books, and
I reckon he was some scrub who jumped
in here awhile, got down to roots and then
took the cross-cut for Gunnison. Did he go
| through any of you ?
Isenedit Arnold.
Benedict Arnold, after his retirement
from New York and the butcheries he
committed on his countrymen as a British
major-general, reappeared on the Ameri
can Uontinent as a citizen and merchant of
St. John, New Brunswick. We have ob
tained some information on the subject
quite new to the people of the United
States. A highly respectable gentleman
by the name of Lawrence, a furniture
dealer in St. John, Canada, obtained from
the executor of Mr Chipman. the Colonial
Solicitor General, who was a friend of Ar
nold, and his couusel in his numerous law
suits at St. Jobu, several autograph letters
and other documents throwing considerable
light on the career of that vindictive ad
venturer. Mr. Lawrence is a gentleman of
a flue, intelligent, American countenance,
with milk-white hair. lie converses with
difficulty on account of his bad hearing,
hut he cheerfully gave me such information
as he supposed would he pleasing to me.
and also produced autograph letters of
Arnold and of his wife, the celebrated Miss
Shippeu, of PbilaJolphia. It appears from
these that Arnold left New York City
pending the treaty of peace with Great
britaiu, when he was apprehensive that he
might be in personal danger on account of
the rigorous refusal of the Americans to
consider any terms of concession lor the
Tories iu arms. He therefore sailed in one
of three vessels, all of winch departed from
New kork about the same time, in the year
1782. Among the officers in ibis company
were Lord Cornwallis, Colonel Tarlcton,
Colonel Siiucoe, of the Loyalist Rangers,
Major Ross—perhaps the same officer who
was subsequently killed at the attack on
the city of Baltimore—and several others.
The vessel he was on was called the Ro
bust ; another vessel of the trio was called
the liondon. When they were within a
short distance of the British coast, making
for B'almouth or Southampton, a French
privateer captured one of these vessels,and
on the privateer were some Americans.
A Mr. Geyer, a Massachusetts Tory, was
oue of the pr isoners. He says in a letter:
"1 was soon recognized by an American
pnvateerain&n, who upbraided me with
having deserted my couutry." Geyer took
this Amencau aside and bribed hiui to say
nothiug about his status. They then gave
1,200 guineas ransom for the vessel, and
were allowed to take her into an English
harbor. Arnold's vessel escaped.
The next letter in Mr. Lawrence's pos
session is dated Halifax, and says that
General Arnold has jus', arrived (1786) In
that port in a brig of his own, and is
going to settle at fc>t, John. "What an ac
quisition!" says the writer, using the ex
clamation point as if he doubted whether
such a citizen as Arnold would be of any
good to St. John Arnold soon arrived at
St. John with his vessel, and landed his
effects, and built himself a storehouse at
what is called Lower Cove Slip, on the
poiut of St. John between the mouth of
the river of that name and Courtney Bay,
or the Backwater. It is immediately op
posite the Island in the harbor called Part
ridge Island, which Whittier in his poem
lias mistakenly called "Isle of the Pheas
ants." llere Arnold took a partner named
Munson Hoyt, a Connecticut citizen, or
refugee, lie built vessels and sailed them
from St. John to the West Indies. He
aiso maintained a lumberyard at Carleton,
near the falls ol St. John. Sometime after
ward IfT built a house on the northwest i
corner of King and Germain streets, two
short blocks above the market slip, which
was standing until 1866, when it was
destroyed by a fire. It was a wooden
house, a story and a half hiffi, with a hip
gable. Here he resided with his wife and
children, some of whom may have oeen
born in St. John.
He was suspected by the citizens from
the beginning, partly on account of his
services in the rebel American cause and
partly because he was a traitor to that
cause for no other consideration than re
venge and money. A cloud was upon bis
character all the time he was in St. John.
He was of a litigious spirit, and figured in
the courts contiuually. His store took fire
some tiuie after he had been in business
and burned to the ground,and he recovered
considerable insurance upon it. A year or
more afterward his old partner, Hoyt, pub
licly accused him of having set fire to the
store. Arnold at once instituted a suit for
slander, laying damages at £io,ooo. An
abstract of the testimony aud the charges
in tnis case is in possession of Mr. Law
rence, which I saw. Among the charges
in the indictment is one that Hoyt said
'•his character was as black asitcould be."
Filiug his rejoinder to this in court Mr.
Hoyt said: "It would be impossible for
any man to a blacker character than
Benedict Arnold." Arnold alleges in his
afiidavit that he is a faithful citizen of the
Crown and of good general character and
commercial standing, and that he has been
damaged to the amount claimed. The jury
returned a verdict of #3 to $4.
In course of time Arnold went to the
West Indies as u ship-chandler and purve) •
or for tile British lleet. He writes a letter
from Martinique detailing his hazards. His
wife, who signs her name Margaret Arnold,
(Arnold called her '"Peggy," also writes a
letter whicu 1 read, referring to the re
markable escapes of the General in the West
Indies aud ppeakiug of his courageous ex
ertions as the only reason why he was
saved. Her letter begins something to the
following effect. '"i cannot admit that I
would ever like to live in St. John again,
but I have the best wishes for some of the
people there, among them my dear friends
the Chipmans. Dear old England is in a
bad way on account of the outrageous
treatment she has received by her allies."
She tnen writes politics for a few sentences,
intimating that the Ministry has been se
verely handled by its opponents, the
Wiiigs. Her letter shows that she was a
woman of education and considerable ad
dress, and bears out the common opinion
in America thai she had some influence Jin
taking Arnold away from the Americans
and tneir cause.
There is auotl er letter in Mr. Lawrence's
possession from Benedict Arnold, defend
ing himself from the jealousy of his peers
in the British army for having received
£2,000, or SIO,OOO, by order of the King
in perßon,as a full eighth of aeitain property
and prizes captured while acting against
his former countrymen in Virginia. He
names several of tnese officers high m rank
as having shown a very misreable spirit.
He says that he nevei put in the least peti
tion on his behalf, but that the Ministry
and the King stepped forwaid and ordered
him to have an eighth. It thus appears
that Arnold was tolerably prosperous
while in the British cause. He not only
received $30,000 for betraying liis poet in
the Highlands, but got at least SIO,OOO
prize money, and possibly more, in other
captures. Mr. Lawrence says he was the
recipient of a regular pension. It is also
known that he had about 11,000 acres of
land given him sodlewhere in Canada.
With this money he went into business.
After his retirement from St. John and
the West Indies he settled in London,
where he died obscurely about 1801. His
wife survived him a few years. His son,
who was a babe at the time of his treason
in the Highlands and was named Thomas
Robertson Arnold, lived to be a lieutenant,
genera) in the British army, signalizing
himself in Egypt. He came to St. John
many years afterward, and while enteriug
the house his father built burst into tears.
This sou died about ten years before the
opening of the American War of Secession
in Brompton, London. Mr. Lawrence said
tome: "It the British government had
pussessed otllcers of the enterprise and
thoroughness of General Arnold, the
American colonies would not have effectt d
their separation. The regular officers seut
out to subdue the American Colonies were
too considerate aud politic for that bind of
work." Anollror gentlemen of St. John
who was sitting by said: "What the British
wanted to put down America was a man
of the ability of Lord Ciive, who conquered
India. He was an unscrupulous man m
his methods, but tremendous for results."
The site of Arnold's house is now occupied
by a brick store, built since the fire of 1877.
The site of his store at Lower Cove 8lp Is
still empty, and is said never to have had
a house upon it since the store burned
down. in the history of St. John there
figure several other persons of the name of
Arnold, perhaps his sons. As is well
known. General Arnold was descended
from one of the Colonial Governors of
Khode Island.
How the Oar i* Cruwu<l.
Although some ceremony of inauguration
accompanied the succession of the early
Grand Princes of Moscow, Tver, Kief,etc.,
and tue first two Czars of All tne Hussiaa,
ivan i\' (Vassilivitch), surnamed the Ter
rible, who came to the throne when he was
sixteen jears old, in 1847, seems to have
been the first Czar who was crowned ac
cording to our modem notion of that cere
mony. Hut his coronation was performed
with little of the pomp and paraphernal
used in these days. The ceremonial now
ordinarily followed wis firs* observed a*
the accession of Feodore lYinoviich, t e
last of the dynasty of Rurik, in 1584, &n<t
he was the first Czar who recdved at the
hands of the Pontiff the consecrated oil.
On leaving the old Palaoe of the Kremlin
for the Cathedral of the Assumption, the
Czar is preceded by a cortege conveying
his regaiia. The-e are received by the
clergy- with a cloud of mcense and a mur
mured bicssiug at the church door, and
thvn deposited inside in the place appointed
for them. They compose the various
crowns of the ancient and modern king
doms and princedoms included at the time
in the li ussian Km pi re; the imperial
standard of yellow satin embroidered with
the arms and devices of the same provinces:
the sceptre, globe, and the imperial purple,
and the cross worn on the breast, in which
is set a piece of the true cross. Nor should
the his.oric cape be forgotten, called by
the Russians barrry , signifying tbe weight
of empire and the responsibility which the
new sovereign is taking upon his shoulders.
It is richly jewelled, and ornamented with
euameis portraying different scenes out of
the Old and New Testament. The story
goes that it once belonged to Constantino
Mononiacbus and was sent to the Grand
Prince Vladmir II by the Emperor Alexis
Commenus in the year 1110 A. D. Aftir
the Czar has made the profession of the
Orthodox fai'.h he is helped by the Metro
politan of Kief and the Archbishop of
Moscow into tbe Imperial mantle. The
crown is then brought and placed on his
head, the officiating prelate intoning some
thing like the following formula; "Most
piou-, puissant, great lord, Emperor of all
Russia! This visible audi material orna
ment is the outward sign of the mysterious
act by which the King of Glory crowns
thee at this moment —ihee the chief of all
the people of Russia—confirming thee by
meaus of his holy benedictton in thy abso
lute and supreme authority over thy sub
jects." Next he places the sceptre in his
right hand aud the globe in bis left,saying:
"O thou crowned ot God! Thou whom He
has favored by Ilia gifts and adorned by
llis gi-aces most powerful aud great lord,
Euiperor of all Russia, receive tbe sceptre
and the globe! They are the symbols of
the supreme power which the Most High
lias given thee over thy people to govern
them and assure their well-being," Various
prayers commonly intervene between the
act oi coronation and that of consecration,
which is performed by the Metropolitan of
Novgorod touching tbe forehead, eyelids,
nostrils, lips and ears of the Czar, as well
as (he palms of his hands, with the conse
crated oil, saying the while, "Tuis is thu
gift of the Holy Spirit." I'lie Metropolitan
of Kief thereupon wipes all traces of the
oil troui the Imperial bauds and counten
ance—a wholesome innovation of compar
atively modern times ; for, as lately as last
century, the Czar was supposed to abstain
troui washing for seven days after the cer
emony those parts which the consecrated
oil has touched. No sooner his the Czar
been crowned than he hastens to perform
the lame office for his consort. First he
touches with his own crown the forehead
of the kneeling Czarin i, to show that she
must take her part in the responsibilities of
power; then, assisted by ber ladies, he
fixes the proper diadem of the Empress
cousort on her brow. vVhen a Czarina is
crowned independently of her husband,
she enjoyß a more magnificent cerimoniaL
Marina, the Polish wife of the False
Demitri, was crowned at Moscow with ex
traordinary magnificence on tbe 18th of
May; 18Jtf. This wayward lady, who was
a Roman Caholic, refused, it is recorded,
to make the Orthodox confession, and
claimed the right to go to church dressed
after the latest French fashion—a robe
with a long waist and a ruff two feet in
diameter, and the smallest slippers that
could be bought in Pans on her feet —all
which was a grave scandal to the simple
Muscovites, who had been accustomed to
see their Czarina wearing the national
garb, which had no waist at all, and hob
nailed boots such is Russian peasants wear
now on their coronation day
A REPORTER of a California free-fight
gays—" Colonel Bagges was shot once in
the left side once in the right shoulder,and
once in the drinkmg-saloon adjacent. 1 '
NO. 42.