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VOLUME 1.
EBENSBURG, PA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1867.
NUMBER 31.
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. KliY THURSDAY MORNING,
lu i;ieulurg, Cambria. Co., Pa.,
'ui following rules, payable within three
inuidhi J) out date tg" subscribing :
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i v, ix mouths, - 1 00
i.y, tin co months, - - - - 60
-; whofai! to pay their subscriptions
iftcr the expiration of six months will
: irii at the rate of $2.60 per year,
; t.. e n lio fail to pay until after the ex
. i. a of twelve months will be charged at
vare c( $3.00 per year,
'..cive numbers constitute a quarter;
:v rive, mx mouths; and fifty numbers,
ir.
HATES OK AI'VEKTISIKG.
-.-pare. 12 linos, one insertion,
: .-uliM-quciit insertion,
':Uir Notices, each,
..lini.-trntor ' Notices, each,
'j'.itiTt.' Notices, each,
. iv Notices, each,
$1
2
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$ 4 00 $ 0 00
8 00 1 2 00
3 MOS.
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a.ui-s. 24 lines
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rtor column.
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Card
ceding 8 lines, with paper,
i.i: ituary Notices, over six lines, ten cents
fr inn1.
Siiccial and business Notices eight cents
er line f.r tirt insertion, and four ccuts for
i.-li subsequent insertion.
Revlutions of Societies, or communica
; s of a personal Laturc must be paid for
.t Ivt-i ti.-eiuents.
JoB I'RINTIXU.
We have made arrangements by which
in do or have done all kinds of plain
i; f.wicy Job li iiiting, such as Books,
i.n;iifts, Show Cards, Bill and Letter
l is. Handbills, Circulars, &c, in the best
lent the art and at the most moderate
Also, all kinds of Ruling. Blank
IJ.jok Binding, &c , executed to order
as the best and as cheap as the-
'St.
i'roots of tlie Superior 'tiallty
IV THE
JI K n I C A X W A T C II
MAI'K AT
M'il.TUAM, MASS.
Tie Aumicau Watch Company, of Wal
Mas., respectfully submit that their
-t'L are cheaper, more accurate, ltss
v, more duiaMe, better adapted for
i i ur-e, and more easily kept in order
; i -i aired timn any other watches iu the
'iktt. They are simpler iu structure and
.!. ''ire stronger and less likely to be injured
.'.i the majority of foreign watches, which
o mpo.-ed of fr:.m 125 to 300 pieces,
' ':i anoM EnglUh watch there aremre
in Ti'U parts. How they run under the
t trial watches can have, is xhowu by
" I 'il"U ing letter :
I'EXN. KAILKOAD COMPANY.
":-! ok t:ii; Gexehal Slterintexdent, J
Ai.Tooka, Pa., 15 Dec, 13C6.
("h'JetH'ti : The watches manufactured by
i iivc hern iu U.e or. thib railroad for ev-
cars by our enginemen, to whom we
: -mi watches as part of our equipment,
re are now mine threw hundred of them
to i n our line, aud we consider them
an d reliable time keepers. Iudeed, I
-a, satisfaction in saying your watch
' us ls trouble, and have worn and
" ir much longer without repairs tlian
waii hcH we have ever had in use on this
:- Ar yi u are aware, we formerly trust- i
'- j '.!,",' ,.f English manufacture, of ac-I
'a!i -'.igM'l good reputation: but as a class
y i ever kept time as correctly, nor have
"V li'jr.e as I'm-wl urviiv. rtH vonrn
c .... , j
1 ii.esi- statements I am sustained by my
'ttsr, Mr. Lewis, whose txperience
i.'.i.cii over a HnrieK of vpars.
Respectfully.
KDWAUD II. WILLIAMS.
General Superintendent.
l!:ii iicau Watch Co., Walthaui.
A mi Ira nnw fi vn 1:ffirrrit. trade rtf
' :.t:8, narr.ed respectively as follows :
"'mi, Tran V Co., Waltham, Mass.
thatn Watch Cunytatiy, Waltham, Mass.
V IWrlletl, WaUhani. Mass.
F.llcry. Boston, Mass.
e Watch Company, Boston, Mass.
;i t'f these, with the exception of (he
Watcli Company, ara warranted by
"American Watch Company to be of the
rtiaf-iial , on the most approved priuci-
aii'l to possess every requisite for a rcli-
tun; keoj er. Every dealer selling these
is supplied with the Company's
U(-1 card of guarantee, which should ac
:;uiy (.ach watch sold, so that bikers
M suro that they are purchasing the
'; article. There are numerous coun-
'''- and imitations of our Watches sold
;i.'.i;t tlij country, and we would cau-'-
Ninisejs to be on their guard against
1
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;'y grades of Waltham Watches may be
-liaWl .F U ..!. t-i ii i . i
( vi it aicu ueaiers inrougnout tnc
-!- ltOBDINS & A IT L ETON,
182 Broadway, New York.
''F.KliU) PlMyr tir riotru,., r-r
y'u Greenbacks; $10,000 in Sewing
cn - .v i nil ,m
- a..,. . .
'"uiitol Boon Skirts-Albums.
' ' ttJuiu: iudi.miit;B : a
'Wl Wi,li' Locket, &C &c, to be
. cl to the subscribers and purchasers
Amusement. Every yearly sub-:ai-ts.
twenty-four tickets, drawing
,:: ;J i- 1100 each in Greenbacks. Can-
' raiif p!Vlear0 frora 410 to 315 per
tltt :? , f , Rar"P'e copies with a
... aud full directions and inatrnn.
Witts. Rent lv mill -!....:
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,
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ressed to the Home Amus.
!u a7e p11 hlreet York. Male
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(Driginal Communication:.
THE TEACHERS' ADVOCATE.
Compulsory Education.
ARTICLE NUMBER FOUR.
The Teachers1 Advocate for August lias
made another attempt at defending itself from
my strictures on its articles advocating a sys
tem of compulsory education. As it has
really abandoned the controversy by declin
ing to publish its articles in the Freeman in
place of the Advocate, which circulates only
among a few dozen school teachers, who aie
not permitted to see my articles, it might
seem ungeneious in me to reply. I certain
ly would not think of it were it not that I
find them persisting in statements iu direct
contradiction to their own articles.
As they have been compelled to acknowl
edge the relevancy of my questions, after
persisting tu two articles that they were en
tirely irrelevant, I shall not annoy them fur
ther on that point. Nor shall I tresspass on
your columns by further exposiug their ef
forts at attempting to apply the rule regard
ing exceptions. I shall merely remark that
if they are correct in thir application, then
the majority of schools in which tln-re is bad
attendance are only carrying out the princi
ple to its logical conclusion, that the excep
tion proved the rule to be a good oue They
complain of me for asking o many question,
and seem to think they are cot bound to de
feud from my attacks. They were unfortu
nate not to reflect o.i this sooner, as they
might have saved themselves from a great
deal of labor and exposure.
They give us statistics regarding the at
tendance at the Common Schools throughout
the State from 1855 to 18CG. From these
it appears the average attendance in 1855
was 68 and in 1SGG but 03 percent! Now
if I was writing f r the purpose of proving
that our Commou School system is to a great
extent a failure, and in bad repute with the
people, I could not give a more striking
proof of it than these statistics they have
published ; aud that is the only point to
which their statistics would be relevant.
They decline to give us the name of any
person in Cambria county that attempts to
deprive his chiidren of education. This,
they think, would njt be proper, and yet
they seem to think it entirely proper to libel
the people of our county and of the State,
by endeavoring to make it appear that a
large percentage of them are opposed to ed
ucatiou, and that this compulsory law is ne
cessary in wrdir to prevent parents from de
priving their children of education.
But here is a disclaimer which certainty
would astonish me had I not some specimens
. -of.JJie trarr:e kind from them iu former arti
cles, lhey positively deny that tney advo
cated the sending of children to a house of
correction. I shall let the reader judge bow
much truth is iu this by giving their own
words. It will be seen to what desperation
they are driven. In complaining of irregu
lar attendance, in their first article, they say:
4 We repeat, then, that we see no remedy by
which this evil can be arrested but a law
compelling attendance at school. Of courts
such a law would have to be framed with
much care, and should not be made too strin
gent at Jir.tt" ! 1 ! The la.it sentence, it will
be remembered, the editors complained of
me for omitting in my first article. I gave
them the benefit of it in my next. Now
they have it again. Newlin's recommenda
tion to send the delinquent children to a
house of correction for one year or less, the
editors of the Adeocate suggested might be
too severe atjirst! Hence they did not ad
vocate such severe punishment! Humiliat
ing! A County Superintendent and a prom
inent school teacher endeavoring to sneak
from the responsibility of the meaning of
language that will bear but one construction.
Wnat is the plain meaning of their language?
It is this : Sneak this law on the people by
being judicious iu not making it too seveie
at first, but when they lecoine submissive
make it as severe as yeu please. Then the
punishment recommended by Mr. Newlin,
of sending the children to a house of correc
tion for oue year or less, after a while would
be carried out in accordance with the recom
mendations of the editors, by making the
punishment one year or more ! And jet the
editors, with their own words staring them
in the face, deny that they were in favor of
Mr. Newlin's plan. They are not in favor
of making the punishment too severe at Jirsl!
Remarkable distinction !
But here is something equally good, if not
better. It is in reply to my quotation from
the Constitution which forbids cruel punish
ment. They say: "But it surely has no
application in the case, for tee never suggest
ed any jmnishment for a violation of the pro
posed law."(?) No, not even that sending
children to a house of correction would bo
too severe at Jirst! They advocate a com
pulsory enactment law, but suggest no pun
ishment for a violation of it ! It is to be a
magic act that is to have the desired effect
without being enforced by Jines or penalties,
or any oilier punishment, Jur its violation !
I must ask pardon of your readers for con
tinuing this discussion at such length with
these gentlemen. To do so any longer in a
serious manner, would to some extent, T
fear, be as humiliaticg to the people of our
county as it is to me.
It had been suggested to me, some time
ago, thai the allopathic system of treatment
was too severe for their constitutions. I
was urged to prescribe the homeopathic.
Did I spell that right? Our pedagogues
will inform me. I never had much faith in
Hahnemann's system, but I hive been tempt
ed to try a mixture which I think will have
the desired effect.
As our friends are still in favor of compul
sory education, although they suggest no
punishment for a violation of the law, we
would prescribe a system somewhat like that
of the Lilliputians described in Gulliver's
travels. It bears such a striking resem
blance to their system, that, with a few
changes. I have no doubt it will suit their
taste. Dean Swift describes it thus : "Their
notions relating to the duties of parents and
children differ extremely from ours. For,
since the conjunction of male and female is
founded upon the great law of nature, in or
der to propagate and continue the species,
the Lilliputians will needs have it that men
and women are joined together like other
animate by the motivis of cviieupisceiit,
and that their tenderness towards their
young proceeds from the hke natural prin
ciple : for which reason they will never al
low that a child is undr any obligation to
its fathor for begetting him, or to its mother
for bringing him forth into the world ; which,
considering the miseries of human life, was
neither a benefit in itself nor intended so bv
his parents. o
" Upon these and the like reason
ings their opinion is that parents are the
last of all others to be trusted with the edu
cation of their own children, and therefore
they have in every town public nurseries,
where all parents except cottagers and la
borers" (this can be amended :u accordance
with our democratic principles) "are obliged
to send their children to be reared and edu
cated, when they come to the age of twenty
moons, at which time they are supposed to
havo some rudiments of docility. These
schools are of several kinds, suited to differ
ent qualities and to both sexes. They have
certain professors, well skilled in preparing
children for such a condition of life as befits
the rank of the parents and their own capa
cities, as well as inclinations." He then de
scribes the male nurseries for the better class :
"They are dressed by men till four years of
age, and then are obliged to dress themselves,
although their quality be ever so great.
They aie never suffered to converse
with sarvants. ' Their parents are
suffered to see them only twice a year ; the
visit is to last but an hour; they are allow
ed to kiss the child at meeting aud paitiug,
but a professor who always ttands by uu
those tcca.iions, will uot suffer them to whis
per, or use any fondling expressions, or bring
any presents of toys, sweetmeats and the like.
The pension from each family for the educa
tion and entertainment of a child, upon fail
ure of due payment, is levied by the emper
or's tiCkcrs." He then describes the nurse
ries for children of ordinary gentlemen,
tradesmen, &c. which are managed propor
tionably after the same, manner. '"In the
female nurseries the young girls of quality
are educated much like the males, only they
are dressed by orderly servants of their own
sex, but always in the p rest nee of a pr.fes
fcor or deputy, till they come to dress them
selves, which is at five years old. And if it
be found that these nurses ever presume to
entertain the girls with frightful or f. :,h
stories, or the common follies pnutisvd by
chambermaids among us. they are puhlic'y
whipped thrice about the city, iuipi isoiied
for a y ear, and banished fr life to the moft
desolate part of the country."
This is but a brief sketch of the system.
Now, with one or two amendments, I wou'd
subn it it as a substitute for the plan pro
posed by Jese Newlin and the editors of the
Adeocate. 1 think it will suit their views,
for 1 have no doubt it was these nurseries
Mr. Newlin was thinking of when lie spoke
of sending the children to a certain institute
or hcuse of correction. He was merely un
fottuuate in calling it a house of correction
instead of a nursery. The editors. TiLo ate
public benefactors, will see that the public
will be benefitted by these nurseries in more
ways than one. The professors, being bet
ter judges than the parents as to what trades,
Src, the children should be taught, and be
ing more interested in the public good, will
remedy all the evils our friends complain of.
There is but one difficulty in starting that
is, where shall we find a person qualified for
General Superintendent ? Prof. J. Newlin.
Esn., seems to have the best claim, he being
the first to urge a system, it will be perceived,
somewhat similar. Yet the editors of the
Advocate might prove to be rtrotig rivals.
They may say, "True, he suggested it first,
yet have not we, in the columns of our wide
ly circulated journal, fought for it through
good and evil report, and are still ready and
willing to fight for it to the last."
1'erhaps the editors are somewhat afraid,
however, of some petty individual who, it.
appears, was a rival candidate at the last or
soma former convention. If they will let
me know who he was I will take care of him.
However, thouid neither of them succeed iu
beating Prof. Newlin. I will insure them po
sitions in the nurseries of our county. I
would suggest that our County Superintend
ent be continued, and his assistant be made
a professor in the female nurseries. Then
we will have a new generation of young men
and maidens, as far surpassing the present
generation in every quality that is desirable
as the system of the Lilliputians surpasses
ours
And, I trust, when this great reformation
is accomplished, om people will not forget
the valuable services of J. Newlin, Esq.. and
the editors of the Advocate. Lest they should
I would now suggest that when they shall
have passed from this mundane sphere to
that "bourne from whence no traveler re
turns." a momument shall be. built to their
memories, in the corner stone of which shall
be deposited a copy of J. Newlin's able doc
ument on comjndsory education, and the ar
ticles of the editors of the Teachers' Advocate
on the same subject. I)e profundi's. 11.
A Caricature not yet Published.
The following is a caricature which vc
have not seen in Harper :
Scene First Stanton in the War Of
fice, has just received notice from the
President of leave to go. The Secretary,
with eyes aglare, nostrils distended, fists
clenched and advaneed in pugilistic at
titude, his whole person indicative of fight,
exclaims :
"I will not go, by thunder ; I'll fight
first I"
Scene Second Stanton making toward
the duor of the Var Office, his hair dis
heveled, eyes protruding, his arms extend
ed as if to break a fall, his person indicat
ing that he is in the act of tumbling down,
while endeavoring to find egress from tho
ollice, while Andy, standing in the door
of the White-House, reaches out a long
K'ir, well-booted, the foot of which fct ts
strong ngainst the Secretary's pjstciior
person, with an inscription upon the solu
of the boot of the word "Grant ;" the woe
begone Secretary exclaiming as Lu retreats:
"I yield to superior force."
If your mother's mother was iny J
mother's aunt, what relation would your
grundfather's nephew be to my eldest
bryther'g sou-ip-law.
Sales, jSMthfs, lutbofcs, ft c.
Mysterious Peisons in History.
The records of the past furnish us with
half a dozen historical characters that seem
to have had a mysterious existence after
the public have been informed of their trag
ical deaths. To such an extent has the
belief of a post-existejuce been carried that
one could saywitbrg'reat propriety, in the
language of Sir Williajn Jones :
'The block may soak their gore,
Their heads may sodden in the sun, their
limbs 1
Be strung to city gates and castle walls;
But still their spirits walk abroad."
And these spirits seem generally to be
encased in tangiblo earthly bodies, if we
may credit tho tales of travelers. This
young republic has not been slow in mak
ing a startling history, and one that has all
the romantic pages of century-old Europe.
For have we not
J. WILKES BOOTH,
who, like that phantom ship, the Flying
Dutchman, is, from time to time, reported
to have bacn seen in projirwt ' jyersona in
various parts of the world ; the latest story
being that he now is the captain of a pi
rate ves-l and the terror of the China
seas. At intervals, the press informs the
public that some reliable correspondents
have seen the notorious assassin in Kurope.
One time he has been seen playing rouge
et noir at Baden-liadcii ; another at the
opera in Vienna. Ono positively swears
that he saw him driving in tho !ois de
Boulogne, at Paris. And another is
equally confident that he beheld him visit
ing St. Peter's at Home. One fact is cer
tain, in regard to the disposal of the corpse
of Booth, that it's renting phuv is known
to but ll-w, and thu public at largo are in
doubt as to whether it now moulders iu a
secluded slid unknuwn gruve, or whether
the dark waters of tin: Potomac received
Lis mnnghvl remains. liooth, indeed,
inav he snid to be tho (inly really mvste-
id
ill our anna's
although, perhaps, for, the few years we
have been an independent republic, no
nation ever mads its history so fast. One
of the local traditions of New York, th'U
has caused much wonderment, is the
case of
JOHN o. yi:t,
brother of Saimle: T. , inventor of the
Colt revolver. He murdered in loll? a
man named Adam?, to whom he owed an
amount of money, and who had dogged
Colt considerably, Adams called at the
ollieo of Colt, on the corner of IJroadway
and Chambers streets, when a scuffle en
sued, and Colt seizing a hatchet lying near,
dispatched his creditor. He then went
out, closed the door, and while walking
in tho park resolved to return, cut the
body up and send it to New Orleans; but
in the meantime Adams was missed, and
having been last seen going into Colt's
office, that gentleman was suspected, and
it was ascertained from a car-man that a
box had left the office. This box was
found at the bottom of the vesse'. Colt
was tried and convicted, but his counsel
(who confessed to it on his dying bed,) in
troduced a knife into the prison with which
Colt committed suicide on the morning of
his execution. Several mysterious cir
cumstances were attached to this murder
and suicide, for the evening before the
execution a man in disguise called upon
the Sheriff and offered biro. 1,000 to af
ford facilities for the escape of the crimi
nal, which proposition was not entertained,
and in an hour or two before Colt was to
have been hanged the bell-tower of the
Tombs took fire and a great deal of con
fusion ensued. Although an inquest was
held on the body, it was almost universal
ly believed that Colt had escaped. Even
now reports come from various parts of
the world that he has been seen alive, and
about fifteen years ago many sensational
articles appeared, purporting that he had
escaped and was still living.
"the man without a country."
Whether or not the person who liears
this pseudonym was the subject of a clev
erly concocted fable or not, it is at least a
singular case. The person who is said to
have borne this title was a Philip Nolan,
a notice of whose death appeared last year
in a New Y'ork journal. It ran thus:
"Died on board United States corvette.
Levant, on the 11th of May, Philip No
lan." The story is as follows : When
Aaron 15urr made his first dashing expe
dition down to New Orleans, in 1805, he
met a lieutenant named Philip Nolan, be
longing to the Legion of the West. The
young officer became fascinated with the
brilliant statesman, who enlisted him in
his treasonable schemes. The authorities
suspected Nolan as being an accomplice
of liur's,4and on the court martial the im
petuous youth cried out, in a fit of frenzy,
"D n the United States ! I wish 1 may
never hear of the United Slates again."
These words shocked the revolutionary
officers that formed the courtmartial, and
Nolan was condemned to bo sent on board
a vessel, where ho was -never again to
hear the words Unite 1 State, and the
instructions received were as follows :
Washington (with th date, which
must have been late in 1807.)
Sin : You will receive from Lieutenant
Neale the person of Philip Nolau, late a lieu
tenant in the United Sutes Army.
This person ou his trial by court-martial
expressed with an oath the wish that he
might "usver hear v( th-a United States
The Court seutenced him to have his wiah
fulfilled.
For the present, the execution of the order
is intrusted by the President to this depart
ment. You will take the prisoner on board your
ship, and keep him there with such precau
tions as shall prevent his escape.
You will provide him with such quarters.
rations aud clothing as would be proper for
an onicer oi nis late rank, as if he were a
passenger ou your vessel on the business of
his government. " -
The gentlemen on board will make any
arrangements agreeable to themselves re
garding his society. He is to be exposed to
no indignity of any kind, nor is ho ever un
necessarily to be reminded that he ia a pris
oner. But under no circumstances is he ever to
hear of his country, or to see any informa
tion regarding it ; aud you will specially
caution all the officers under your commaud
to take care, that in the various indulgences
which may be granted by them, this rule in
which his punishment is involved shall not
be broken.
It is the intention of the government that
he shall never again see the country which
he has disowned. Before the end of your
cruise you will receive orders which will
give effect to this iutention.
liespectfully yours, W. SouTHAitD.
For the Secretary of the Navy.
Nolan seems to have been passed from
vessel to vessel, and to have remained a
prisoner for over sixty years, and was
mad the subject of innumerable tradi
tions and palpable myths. He was strict
ly guarded, and the name of the United
States never mentioned to him. It is
generally supposed, however, that this
myth was originated during the recent
war by some highly imaginative individu
al who desired to institute comparison
and similies between Nol?ui and the rebel
leaders. Of course, Nolau repented of
his folly, and died deeply regretting the
incautious words that condemned him to
a life oi imprisonment, which was proba
bly more painful, as it prevented him from
interfering in the politics of the country.
NAl'OI.EON II.
The mass of mankind, embracing many
of the well-read, have never hvard of Na
poleou II., aud the reason why the pres
ent Emperor assumes the title of Napoleon
TIL, is to them a poifeet enigma. Napo
leon Francis Joseph Charles Donapai'te,
or Napoleon II., w as the son of Napoleon
L, the fruit of a nmrriae between that
sovereign, and iLtria Louisa of Austria,
and was from his birth staled the King of
iiome. When hi3 father, the first Empe
ror, wag compelled to hb'icate iu 1814,
the King of llome went with his mother
to Vienna, and was there educated by his
grandfather, the Emperor of Austria.
His title was that of the Duke of lieich
stadt, aud he was most carefully instruct
ed, especially in the military art. Hut
he appears to have inherited but little of
the ability of his father; his constitution
was weak, and early symptoms of con
sumption unfitted him for the laborious
duties of a military carter. On Napo
leon's return f:om Elba, in 1815, an At
tempt was made to remove the young Duke
to Paris, but frustrated by the Austrian
authorities. He was made a Lieutenant
Colonel in 1831, and commanded a. bat
talion of Hungarian infantry in the garri
son of Vienna ; but bis death, when be
was but 21 years old, cut him off before
he had reached an age in which he might
have displayed any abilities lie possessed.
During his lifetime lie never assumed the
title of Napoleon II., inasmuch as the ab
dication of his fathir was never admitted
by the allies ; nor was it ever claimed by
the French government, liut in 1852,
when the resumption of empire by Louis
Napoleon rendered some title necessary,
he was considered Napoleon II., and the
new Emperor took that of Napoleon III.
The latter title, however, having been
recognized by the several governments of
Europe, the recognition of the former is
implied.
LOUIS XVII.,
who was supposed to have been poisoned
by some person in the Temple at Paris
during the French devolution, and by
otheis to have escaped, was the son of the
unfortunate Louis XVI. and Marie An
toinette. It was only recently that a re
port was circulating in the papers that a
gentleman of advanced age had died in
March, in St. Petersburg, who was be
lieved to have been Louis XVII. He
was the third child of Louis and Maria
Antoinette. His first title was Duke of
Normandy, and he became dauphin by
the death of his elder brother, Louis Jo
seph, Juno 4, 1789. He was carefully
educated under tho supervision of his
father, and at tho outbreak of the revolu
tion was a beautiful, lively, and intelligent
child, but remarkably impatient and un
manageable. He was imprisoned in the
Temple with the rest of the royal family
August 13, 1792. After the execution
of bis father, January 21, 1793, he was
proclaimed King by his uncle, the Count
of Provence, who was then n refugee in
Germany, and was recognized as King by
most of the Courts of Europe, by the
Vendean chiefs, and by the insurgents in
the south of France. These demonstra
tions, together with several unsuccessful
attempts by the royalists to rescue him
from prison, irritated and alarmed the
revolutionary government, and on July
3, at 10 o'clock at night, the boy was
forcibly taken from his mother's arms,
and, frantic with terror, was carried
screaming to another part of the prison.
Here he was consigned to the care of a
tbocwaker named Antoiue Simon, a vio
lent Jacobin of rough manners and brutal
temper, whe treated him with systematic
cruelly, apparently with the design of get
ting rid of him without committing palpa
ble murder. The young prince was shut
up in a cell and left there alone day and
night, without employment or amusement,
or any opportunity for exercise or to breathe
fresh air. A vessel of water, j-eldom re
plenished, was given him for driuk, and
some coaise food was occasionally thrown
in at the half opened door. lie was al
lowed no means of washing himself, bis
bed was not made for six months, and
for more than a year his clothes, his shirt,
and bin shoes were not changed. . By pro
longed inactivity his limbs became rigid,
and his mind, through terror, grief and
monotony, became imbecile aud deranged.
Something that ho had said, in reply to
questions, having been perverted to the
injury of his mother, he resolved hence
forth to be silent, and for a long period
neither threats, nor blows, nor coaxings
could induce him to speak. When not
sleeping he sat quietly in his chair, with
out uttering a sound or shedding a tear,
or shrinking from the rats, with which his
dungeon swarmed. Louis, after the reign
of terror, was placed under the care of
more merciful keejcrs, but he was still
kept in solitary confinement, and not al
lowed to Bee his sister, who was imprison
ed in an adjoining apartment. At length,
in May, 1795, a physician was allowed to
see him, who pronounced him dying of
scrofula. He died at 2 p. m., in the arms
of Lesne, one of his keepers, and the next
day, June 9, his body was identified and
certified to by four members of the Com
mittee of Public Safety, and by more than
twenty of the officials of the Temple. His
remains were buried in the cemetry of St.
Margurite, and every trace of the grave
carefully obliterated. Several pretenders,
claiming to be Louis XVII have appeared;
among them, in France, Hervagart, a tai
lor's son, who died iu 1812, in prison, and
Hruneau, a shoemaker, who was sent to
prison in 1802; and in the United States,
the Kev. Eleazer Williams, half-breed In
dian, who died iu 1859.
MAS IN THE IRON' MASK.
Within the walls of the Hastile during
the reign of Louis XIV., was enacted the
inexplicable mystery, which has continued
a mystery to this day, of the Man iu the
Iron Mask. When first heard of he was
coufiued in the Marguerite Islands, iu the
Mediterranean, w Lance ho was removed
by De Saint Mars, who was his private
governor, and answerable, it is supposed,
for his safety with his own life, to the
Hastile, where he died, on November 19,
1703, and was buried on the 20th, in the
cemetery of St. Paul, under tho name of
Macbiati. No man, except the governor,
so far as is known, ever saw his face, or
heard his voice ; two persons, to whom he
had conveyed written words, in one case
marked upon a linen shirt, in the other
engraved on a silver plate, did, without
apparent cause, immediately afterwards.
During his conveyance from the Marguer
ite Isles, Do Saint Mars dined at tha sam
table and slept in the same chamber with
him, with pistols ever at hand ready to
destroy him, in case of an attempt ou his
part to reveal himself. In the ISastiie he
was waited on, at table and at bis toilet,
by the governor, who took charge and de
stroyed all the linen he once used, lie
was never seen but with a mask of black
velvet, fastened behind his head with steel
springs ; and when he went to hear mass,
the iuvalids, who were in charge of him
with muskets and lighted matches, were
instructed to fire ou him instantly in case
ot his spwaking or
aking or showing bis lace. A
hundred conjectures have been risked as
to who this mysterious person was, who
was treated with such respect, yet with
such jealous rigor whoso life was held
sacred against taking off, yet made one
scene of incessant misery. The absence
of any person of sufficient note from the
stage of history to account for such pre
cautions baffles all inquiry. The general
idea seems to bo that ha was an elder
brother of Louis XIV., the fruit of an
adulterous intrigue bclween Anne of Aus
tria and the Duke of Buckingham, or
some other unknown lover, who being
born in wedlock, could not have been dis
possessed of his claim to the throne had
his existence been admitted.
THE CHILDREN IN THE TOWER.
The amour of Edward the Fourth sug
gested to his brother, the Duke of Gloster,
afterward the notorious Uichard III., a
means of attaining the throne. He even
did not hesitate to malign his own mother,
affirming that the resemblance of Edward
IV. and of the Duke of Clarence to noto
rious gallants, was a sufficient proof of
their spurious birth, and that the Duke of
Gloster alone, of all Ins sons, appeared by
his features and countenance to be the
true offspring of the Duke of York.
ShakFpcare and history have made tho
murder of the babes in the Tower a famil
iar story, as well as that of the numerous
pretenders, among whom were Lambert,
Simuel and Perkin arbeck, so it is un
necessary to give a recapitulation here.
The account of Sir Thomas More, which
was collected from the confession of the
murderers in the next reign, is as follows :
That Uichard had in vain tampered with
the governor of the tower, Bracken bury,
to put them to death, but found a ready
instrument for the execution of his pur
pose in Tyrrcl, his muster of horse ; that
1 yrrel was despatched with a commission
to receive the kr'E vr t!v; tower for cue
night, and that during that night h
watched without while one of bis
grooms, accompanied by a notorious as
sassin, entered the sleeping room of the tl
princes, stritled them both with feather
beds and pillows, and buried their todin
at the foot of the staircase. The testi
mony of More is almost contemporaneous
with the event itself, and ia confirmed by
the honors which were certainly conferred
upon the alleged murderers. In the rMi?'
of Charles II.,wl;eu alterations were tua'e
'in the tower, there was found at the foot
of Uu old stairway (at preHt shown to
visitors) a heap of decayed -bones, which
proved to be those of two boys. The indi
cations were deemed sufficient that tb y
belonged to the unfortunate Edward V.
and his brother, and they were removed by
royal command to Westminister Abbey ,
where an inscription, beginning, "Osm de
sideraturum dm it multium quaesita." was
placed upon the monument. So well-concealed
a matter as the death of the roy.i
princes leaves room for paradoxes and hi
toric doubts ; but it is certain that, though
the name of Edward V. stands on the list
of English sovereigns, he hail hardly toi
shadow of a reign ; that under the dark
protectorship of his uncle he went 8eedily
from the palace to the prison, within whow
precincts he found secret death and burial.
Notwithstanding these corroboration
there are many among the English nobili
ty who still believe the prince escaped,
and one house in Yorkshire claims to b
the direct descendants of Edward V.
THE LAST OF THU STCAItTS.
Henry Benedict Maria Clement Stuart,
Cardinal of York, the Ust male represent
ative of the Stuart family, was born iu
Pome in 1725, died in Venice in 1807-
He was the younger brother of the Pre
tender, Charks Edward, (the Prince Char
ley of Scottish song) whom be was pre- '
paring to aid with a body of French troop
assembled at Dunkirk, when the over-
throw of the Jacobites at Cullodan ruined
the Staurt cause in Britain. He subse
quently took orders in the Ilomau Calho- 1
lie Church and in 1847 was appointed
by Benedict XIV, a Cardinal. Oq tb )
death of his, brother, in 1788, he assumed ;
the title of King of England as Henry IX., -
gratia Dei, non volutata hentiitvm, as the :
medal which he caused to be struck ot
the occasion declared. He waa jube-
queiitly obliged to take refuge fiom French TT"
inUQCl.n tn ! .....1 4 . . ! a. I 1 - 1 V
w All i Ksiivv-y AIIU vim jug luc . jUS
years ot his life be was dependent on v
British Court for means of subsislerj' or
He was the last male of the Stuart fata";'60"
and with his death the line became e 1
tinct. Its chiet branches m the
(emalL-'?"'
line are the houses of Savoy and Orleans
and the Duke of Modeoa, all descended
from Henrietta Maria, daughter of Charles
I., of which king the present Duke of Mo
dena is the lineal representative, lein
thus, but for the act of settlement, heir t
the crown of Englaud. There are two
families of the name of Stuart on this con
tinent that claim falsely to be the descend
ants of the Stuarts, and if they be the
descendants they cannot be the legitimate
lineal representatives, because the last
male of the line died a priest, and was
never married ; and the females, on mar
riage changed their names. One of tbes
females resides in Jackson, Mo., and thu
other in Lenvxville, Canada. .V. y
World.
A Hoggish Dutchman. A German
tavern keeper in Cincinnati, who enter
tains porkmen and caters to the taste both
of his countrymen and patrons, had roast
ed pig for dinner on Sunday. The ani
mal (a small one) was served up whole,
and as it was placed on the table taut
forth an appetisting and savory smell tier
pervaded the dining room and mude eve.rv
occupant wish for a slice, but to the as
tonishment of every guest a burly, hirsute,!
Teutonic pork dealer from the country -a .
down opposite the dish, and incontinontlv
appropriated the entire roast. The Ian i -lurd
happened to be ab.-e&t, and good
breeding preveutod any of the ptosis from
entering a protest, so Harw made sm h
havoc of the dish, and wiped bis lips vi::;
such evident relish, that one of tho wai
ters with a keener sense of the fun,
proached him, and inquired if he would
have anything else. Hans beaming f ac--brightened
in a moment aud he asked ir,
rTb' "Got any more ov de in lee tie bor'
A Model Correspondukt. A pub
lisher of a papor in Iowa mde arran-ie-nients
with a man in a neighboring town
to furnish him with news items from that
locality. The result of the arrangement
is as follows, and was rather startling to
the editor : "Tliere iz not much noosa
around here yit, but there ia a UttuL A
man had his bed cut in a lite last nite
the doctur soz if he don't git well before,
mornin, that he will bev to die sartin, h
leves 1 small wii and fxmiiv a v.
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man iz nif'r an.? T j . I
wu a. gwm uo a gov me Koiery , ,
but Jam people say his wife wizened h;m Mi
llie doctur kant teU yit, but when be dies
they are goin to hold a poU mot ting over
him. Another man's horse Uide lat uite,
He could eat moar than euuy 5 kattul
round, and since he due oats bev
gon
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the noose here now.
Don't forgit to send
a paypur.
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