. . 5. o . 4 ji'PlRE, Edltdr'nnd Publisher. HK .ls A PREKMAS WHOM THE TRUTH: MAKES FREE, AND ALL ARE SLAVES BESIDE, Terms, $2 per year in advauce OLUME 4. EBENSBURG, PA:,. THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1S70. NUMBER 16. If WMM iff iff Mr tW flVI X X - A. X A A. ft v . . AJS"- W V.C"KVtFv JtWvt fV-3es'T. i -w 44 4 Ml v I arr now prc('iiitru m win SUPERIOR INDUCEMENTS Ti CASH rXliCtiASiMi ur nnim pi VITHF.lt AT VIIOLESALK Oil RETAIL. ock consists iu part of every variety of Tin, Slieef-Iron, WEIt AND BRASS WARES, liNAMKl.I-KU ASP 1'I.AIN tihtito trTT rno c. . i tin K-rnivo. cuiuiiitia .u . ;, SHOVELS. Til INK LAMPS, OIL HOl'SLTURNlSIllNC- H ARD- WAKE OF EVERY KIND. prai'a Anli-Dnst EATING and COOKING STOVES, rXCFLSWR CVUKIAU SJljytS. ''KITMPH and PARLOR COOK ING STOVES, '. arv Cooking Stove desired I will get n Milt ed at manufacturer's prices. JStive 1'lafes ar.d Grates, &c, for re ts, on hand for the Stoves I sell ; others :l be entered when wanted. Particular attention gjveu to routing, Valleys and Conductors, ;,f which will be made out of best matc i! anJ put uj by competent workmen. amp Burners, Wick and Chimneys WIIOI.KSAI.K OK ItKTAlL. ; vu!'. rail particular attention to the Light im Parner, with Glass Cone, for giving lelijif than any other in use. Also, the Piragua Burner, for Crude Oil. JGAR KETTLES AND CAULDRONS of all size constantly on Laud. Special attention given to -bblng in Tin, Copper and Sheet-Iron. at luweiit possible rates. 1 i HOl.MAI.E MeKCHANTS LISTS I . . 1 1 Mil . . t re.u-.v, ana win De. sent on application oy man or in person Hoping to see all my oM customers and ... . t a my &iw unes mis ripung, 1 return my t siucere thatiks fer the very liberal pa iia'e 1 liave already received, nnd will Icavor to j leas-a;I who mav call, wheth- tLey luy vr Lot FRANCIS W. HAY. J.hnfo-ri. March 7. 187. UKIJaT RF.nrcTios in Pi:ifji:s ! TO CASH HIYVKS! 4T Tiii: i iti;siu i:: PftF.-F Ml Lili 1 1 Jli 'an lit, i -e uuiK-rsiiicd respectfully iiu'orms the I'-iivi El.L'iiiburg and the public gener '.i..it he has made a jrivat reduetioii in tj CASH DUVEIJS. My stock will t '-t. in nart r.f Ci,7,l l - - www.. j , v yjt L A, t KUn J.vi, (,f the must poj.ular kinds ; Tin ( STt-ry description, of my own man ti.rc; HarJicare of all kind, guch as SS.SoiCWS. Blltt Hinges. Tah'p Mintroa f-ter llinjiM, Bolts, Iron and Nails, Win- f lutty, laljle Knives and Fork?, psr- Knives ami F.jrks. Meat Cutters Partrs, 1'etJ and" Pocket Kiiivi- in rl v&:i,ty. ?ei.-H..ri. Shears, Razors and I t ax. U.iUhets, Hammers, Iioring -mw. Aicers. Chistitls, Planes, (,m f'M, Quires, fi:ts. Uasp', Anvils, Vi.es, fr!, 'wp. l'a-,tl and Cross-Cut Saws. ' ' a.. Kin.ls. Shovels. Spades. Scvtlies . S. i,l . 71 1 . . ...... ft.iKts, forks, Kltish Pells, Libts. Pegs. Wax Bristles. Clothes Grind Stones. Patent MoIass.es Measure. Lumber Sticks, Horse iir-e Snoes. Cast Steel. Rifle. Shot ; -vJvers. Pistols, Cartridges. Pnw ;u: Lead. &c. Odd Stove Plates, ;ac Fire Bricks. Well and Cistern f 'f lctn.l. H'..,.7... T.ri, m J '""j'icii una juttow h ar m ane!-v ; Carbun 0iI Oil Lamps, Uii. I.n n;i r i -v-i T . - . :a. Tar, Glassware. PaiLts, Varnibh FAMILY CRorrRicQ ".lM,C.ffee. Sugars, Molasses, Syr ; Dried Peaches, Dried Apples, - trackers, .Rice and Pearl '-'ue ,V'S' Can,1It-'s; TOBACCO and i raint Wl. u c? i. ir. n . """""i ociuu, nurse, f : "rushes, all kinds and sizes : Bed I a lrn If.-'n ii ' lesat l u'Tes. and many other . o '"west rates tor (JASli tlftn 1 '""""y "'ane, painted ana pui . 'ow rates for cash. A liberal discount " country dealer buying Tinware nL OEO. HUJSTLEY rg.Feb.28. 1867.-tf. E0RGE W. Y EAGER, fflNG AND COOK STOVES 0F EVERY DESCRIPTION, 0? HIS OWN MANUFACTURE, NERAL JOBBER in SPOUTING &11 other work In his line. a Street, near Caroline Street, ATOOXA, PA, tefc1" 5a ih cit.T having the right to Sr0U-lh ost Pcfect wPlet and satisfactory -iov ever 'ntroduced to the public. KK Immekse. . pjtICEs Low. better: BEST. The best I., rrueane. Tv.v.. - i " uinaa'8. Qo aod se. 370. SrKiiMij. isvu. I pOMSi & COFFER ME '' VITHF.lt AT TOAHOSHEET-IRONWARE 59Q'S AND I SSI'S BOLGUT, SOLD AND KXCHANGtD OX MOST LIUCIiAL TERMS. Bought ani Sold at Market Rates. COUPONS CASHED, FAGIFI6 E. R. BONDS EOIGIIT AXI SOLD. STOCKS BOUGHT AND SOLD OA" COMMISSION' oxzr. Accounts Receiv'd and Interest Allow'd OX DAILY BALANCES, SUBJECT TO CHECK AT SIGHT. DeI¥&Brq o. 40 Bon tli THIRD Street, PHILADELPHIA. WlSTAUl IISIIK CO. OF IIAKTFOKl), CONS., Sassel S. i:n::e, Trcs't. - - Travels E. Ercglass, Ssc'y. T JlIS COMPANY ranks among the first class Lil'e Insurance Companies doinfr bus iiieeB iu Msacbn.-eUs, iii.d by complying with the laws of that State, insures perfect safety to her Policy Holder?. It grants f0 per ceut loan of premium on Life Policies to its Insured, and by applying all the cash collected from its members to Insunnce, gives the largest Insu rance attainable for the amount of money in vested. Its profits are divided among the Pol icy Holders, and its Dividends have never been less than 5') per cent., thus bringing the net cost of the Insurance within the most limited means, and iittording the protection of a Policy on terms not excelled by ally Company. Trustworthy and reliable men are wanted to act as agents for this Company in Cambria aud adjoining counties, and with such the most libeial ai range ineuU will be made. To those who may be unacquainted iih the business, full instructions and aid will be most cheerful ly rendered whenever desir.ihle or available. COPE & JOHNSON, Agei;t3 for Cambria County. - Johnstown. pa. He me & N"Eton, General Agents, fi4 Fourth Aenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. - apr.l4.-ly.J AM 13 III A COUNTY, SS. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to Thomas Roberts, whose whereabouts f is unknown, i-otiert Roberts, of New ( "b $ Orleans and Jane Jones, wife of Elias Jones, heirs ami legal representatives of Owen Roberts, late of said county, Greeting. You and every of you are hereby cited to be and appear bciore the Judges ot our Orphans' Court, to be he!d at Ebensburg. in and for said county, on tte first. Monday ct June next,' then and there to accept or refuse to tnke the real estate ot the said Ower. Roberts, dee'd, at the appraised valuation put upon it by an inquest duly uwaided by the said Court and returned by the Sheriff of said county, on the lth day of March. lbl(, cr f how cause why the same should not be sold, to wit : A piece or parcel ot land si in ue in Cambria township, Cambiia county . adjoining lands ot David Powell on the east, Griililh and Thomas James on the west. David Evans and John "Williams on the north, and lands ol Rees S. Lloyd on the south, containing two hunurcd acres, more or lers, valued .md ai praised at the sum of tve dollars and eighty three and one third cents per acre, amounting to eleven hundred and tiixty six dollar aud tixtv-six and two-third cents (Sl, lGfi Ci-jj ) . And hereof fail not. Witness the Hon. Geo. Taylor, President Judge of our said Court, -at Ebensburg, this lDihday of March. A. D lfcTO. GEO. W. OA TMAN, Clerk. At'est Jonx A. Blaib, Sheiiff. Sheriff's Oflice, Ebensburg, April 21, lS70.4t. SUlIrCENA IN D I VO IICE CAMBRIA COUNTY, SS.: The Commonwealth ok Pinssylvania Ti the SllLKlFK OK SAID COUNTY. GbKLTING : iiblas, Daniel Donlev did, on tb 2d day of July. A. I. lfc'Ca, pre fer his petition to the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, praying, for the causes therein set forth, that he might be dissevered from the bonds of m Uriinony entered into with Eleanor Doniey : We do therefore command you, as we have heretofore commanded you, the said Eleanor Donley, that you be and appear in vour proper person before our Judges at Eb ensburg, at a Court of Common Pleas there to be held on the first Monday of June next, to answer the petition and libel of Daniel Donley aud show cause, if any you have, why the said Daniel Donley shall not be divorced from the bonds of matrimony . agreeably to the Act of Assembly in such case, made aud provided. Hereof tail not. ' ' Witness the Hon. George Taylor, President Judge of our said Couit at Ebensburg, the llkh day of November. A. D lb69. . J . K- H1TK. Proihonotary. Attest John A. Blair, SlnrifF Sheriff's Oflice, Ebensburg. April 14. Jfc70. 4t. VALUABLE FAltM for SALE. A fine FARM in Cambria township. Cambria county. Pa., within four miles of Eb ensburg and adjacent to the Turnpike road leading from Blairsville to Huntingdon, is of fered for aale on accommodating terms. The Farm contains 100 ACRES. aDout t3 or 70 acres of which are cleared, the remainder be ing well timbered. The Farm is in a good state of cultivation aud under good fence, and has thereon erected a comfortable two and a half story HOUSE, a large Frame Bank Barn and all necessary outbuildings. There is a never-failing epriDg of pure water and one of the best aud roost thrifty Orchards of choice grafted fruit in the county on the premises. For further particulars call and see the farm or address P. H. BERG, - March 24. -3m. Box 91, Ebensburg, Pa. 4 GOOD CHANCE FOR INVEST- UJL MENT. The subscribers offer at pri vate sal their STEAM SAW MILL, situated within a mile ol Cresson, Cambria county. It is complete in every pasticular and is in perfect . , mi . 1 running order, l ne engine is as gouu s new and is 40 horse power, with a double flue boil er. There is a good LATH MILL attached to the Saw Mill. Also will be sold, MULES, TRUCKS. SLEDS, WAGONS, &c. This is an excellent opportunity for any person v, ishing to engage iu tne manufacture ot Lumber, as the property will be sold at a great bargain. Address LEMON & BAYLE5T, March 10, 1870..tf. HoMdayeburg, Fa. E()e Jotfs grgnrlmcnf. MAY. BY GEORGE W. SEARS. The red-winged merle from the bending spray, With graceful pinions poising, Pours out a liquid roundelay In jubilant rejoicing ; The cock grouse drums on sounding log, The fox forsakes the cover, The woodcock pipes from fen and bog, 1 From upland leas the plover. The speckled trout darts up the 9tream Beneath the rustic bridges. While flocks of pigeons glance and gleam O'er beech and maple ridges ; - -The golden robin trills his note Among the netted shadows, The bob-o'-link , with mellow throat, Makes musical the meadows. The peeping frogs with silver bells, In i bylbmieal ovation, Ring out a chime of tteble swells I u joyous gratulation ; The low of kiue is mingling with The song ofl.uk and sparrow, And fallow fields are growing blithe Beneath the plough and harrow. The moon all nijjht, serene and white. On lake and stream is glowing. While rippling fountains seen her light, 1 hrough woodlaud valleys flowing ; And all night long a low sweet song . Sweeps o'er the nd.-ty hollow, Fim marsh ond fen, from hill and glen, From brook and field andiallow. It iR the time of pleasant things. When Love makes tip his issues, And hearts well up, like hidden springs, From lusted cells and tissues A time to hear at break of day A silver-chorused matin A liquid fretwork in crochet On atmospheric satiu A time to feast the soul, the eyes. To watch each bird that passes. And half surmise that birds are wise, And men are onlv asfes , And then to turn and raise the load With weary shoulders bending, And take the old, well-beaten road That leads unto the ending. Sales, Sffctlcjjrs, lutboks, tfc. THE STONE VAULTr I have been with Morris & Giinby five- and-thirty years come the first of next month. I was forty when I came here, and so I have a habit of being; exact about dates am now within a few weeks of seventy five ; but as for being aid, bless you, I am younger than the youngest cloik, Tom Codgrf, who, what with late suppers and haid drinking, has a hand that shakes like those old ledger leaves blowing in the wind by fhe open window yonder. Cold water, early hours, and temper ance in all things, keep a man hale his life through. If you don't believe lhat. look at m ; I'm an example, sir. Yes, I've seen changes here. The firm was "Morrin, Griuby & Bloom," when I came, though young Bloom died three months after, and youriji Grinby was taken into partnetsiiip. We had a fire, here, too, and the ollices have been rebuilt on a dif ferent plan Ab, yes! changes enough, sad and pleasant, but the strangest and saddest of all was what happened to poor Ben Wade. Ah, dear roe. It did seem hard, very hard, looking at it with human eyes, and forgetting as we are apt to, that God does everything for the best. l'eihaps you don't know how this bouse is built. It's an old place, although the front and offices are new, and these great balustrades were only put up last yeai . Down below you can judge how very old it is. Such a cellar, sir such massive walls, and all paved with stone ; and be low the cellar, a small stone vault, which Codgers, who laughs at serious things, says the old firm built to be buried iu. My own opinion is, it was intended to conceal valuables, for it has a great plated door and three locks, each fastened with a ditlerent key lhat is if they were ever fastened at all. The vault was disused long before my time. Well, sir, I hadn't been here six months, when one day, or rather one evening, for it was nearly six merchants kept later hours in those days I had occasion to go down into the cellar before going home, to give direc tions to the porter about some bales to be sent up iu the early morning next day. Mike and I were up at the noith end of the cellar, where the bales were, and I was giving him my orders, when at my elbow, as it seemed, I heard an odd sound a kind of a wheezing cough, smothered in a moment. I looked around ; there was nobody there not a soul ; and I thought, how our ears deceive us, to be sure, and went on talking. But, I give you my word, I hadn't spoken three words, when there was that sound again. It quile startled me. Mike,' said I, 'did you cough !' No, sir,' said Mike, 'I thought your honor did.' 'It must be imagination, or eome sound from the office overhead,' I said; but just then ough ough. We both heard it. 'It's no good, yer honor,' said Mike. There's some one hiding in the cellar,' said I. So, with Mike's lantern, we went over the great stone-paved place, looking be hind boxes and bales, and under the steps and up the coal slide. But not a soul did we find, until, passing the door of the vault, I heard it this timft very faint and strange, and called out to Mike. 'Whoever it is, is hidden in the vault.' And with that we both turned stair ward and bolted into Mr. Grinby's office together. The old gentleman, Grinby, senior he don't come to the office once a year now, for he's past ninety old Mr. Grinby was just locking his desk and buttoning his overcoat. He stared at us through his glasses and ejaculated : 'Bless me, Humphries, is the house on fire?' 'No, sir,' said I, 'but there is some one hidden in the stone vault.' . 'Bah !' said Mr. Grinby, 'I thought you had myre sense, Mr. Humphries. No one could exist ten minutes in the stone vault. It is the next thing to airtight.' It'a my belief, sir, that whoever it is, may be choking to death, sir.' I said ; but there is some one there. Mike heard a cough as well as I.' Very well,' said Mr. Grinby; 'call the nearest constable, Mike, and Mr. Mor ris, are you in your office, sir ? Perhaps you'll come down with us and assist in the capture of a burglar, Mr. Humphries has discovered in the air-tight stone vault in the cellar.' He was very . satirical ; so was Mr. Moiris. But we all went down together, the constable with us, and stopped before the stone vault. The door was shut so tight lhat it took all Mike's strength to force it open. And Mr.-Grinby, looking straight before him,"shouted : ; 'Ha ha ! nobody, as I told you.' But the next minute he saw what the rest uf us had already seen a bundle of rags in one corner of the vault, down on the floor, and amidst the rags was a white face and a thin hand, and a bare, bruised and bleeding foot, and we dragged out into such air as there was in the cellar a miserable wretch of a little boy, who seemed quite dead. Up in the office, however, we brought him to life, and got the story from him. lie lived, it seems, among thieves, and they had planned to rob us that night, and he, poor little midge, had slipped in somehow and hidden iu the cellar, to open t lie door for them, never thinking, any one would come there lhat night. But when Mike and I went down he took to the vault, and there would have smothered but for my hearing him. I don't care to tell you how we kept him and filled ihe hou.se with constables, who, when the bundars came, nouned out , t upon them, and took them into custody. You can guess all that. It's the boy I have to tell you about poor Ben' Wade. It came out during tLo investigation con sequent upon Ihe arrest, that Ihe poor child was kept among the thieves by force and that they used him cruelly. Once a ruffian of the gang had broken his leg in a drunken fury, and he limped yet from ihe injury. He was such a pale, worn, miserable thing, that every one felt mer ciful to him, and it was decided to pardon him and send him to the poor house. But lhat very morning Grinby, junior a young man came into the office where his father sat and put his hand upon his arm. 'Father,' says he, 'I want to ask yon a favor. I want my own way in one thing.' Well', said ihe old gentleman, 'let me hear you.' 'I want to take young Ben Wade into the house as an errand boy,' said young Grinby. 'Hey V said the old gentleman, 'what, a young house-breaker au errand boy. Bless tuy soul !' 'Father,' said young Grinby, 'the boy is naturally a good boy. I like him, I want to save him. I'erhaps, if I had not so good a father to guide me and care for me, I might have been worse thau he. I don't ask you to trust him, sir. I only ask leave to trust him myself. I am sure be is deserving of confidence.' Old Grinby took out his snuff box, and looked at Mr. Morris. 'I've noticed the lad's eye ; it is a good one,' said Mr. Morris. 'It's a risk, said Mr. Giinby, 'but we'll consider.' ; And I suppose the result was what young Grinby wanted, for little Ben Wade came to us the next Monday. Now that he was clean and whole, he didn't look so bad, and good food and no abuse made a difference in him iu a week. . In a month or so people stopped pre dicting tha't young Giinby would repent some day, and in a year I don't think there was one in the office who didn't love that boy so grateful and trustworthy, aud so ready to do everything for every one. Young Mr. Grinby had hiui taught, aud well taught too. The lightning cal culator might beat him, but I doubt it; and I never knew that lad to forget to dot his i's or cross his t's in all my acquaint ance with him, after he had learned to write at all. At twenty he wa3 one of the best clerks in our establishment, besides being as fine a looking young fellow as one would wish to see. On the whole 1 did not wonder that Miss Lucy Evans took a fancy to him a sister, sir, of one of the young fellows at our place, and a girl who looked like a queen, and as good as she was handsome. I used to meet them walking on the battery, where lovers u&ed to walk in those days. IIo was so foud and proud ol her, and 6he had such a tender way of looking at him, that they mado my old heart young again, as I often told Mr?. Humphries, to whom I always confide everything. And how he reverenced her ; why. a ribbon, or a faded flower, that she had worn, were cherished by hiui as a miser cherishes bis gold. At last he told me in confidence for her name was sacred and not to be spoken before every one lhat they were to be married. ' - - ; And when I look back, sir,' said he, 'and remember "ihe miserable days of my wretched childhood, and think how friend- less and forlorn I was, and how there was j nothing before me bnt the prison and ,the gallowe, and think now I have everything j to make man's life blessed the nower to win a respectable livelihood by reputa ble labor, the respect of men and the love of such a girl, as Lucy I can never be too grateful to the kind friend who saved me from a life I dare not contemplate.: God bless Mr. Grinby !' said he, lifting his hat reverently, as he might in church, - ' and there was a prayer vi his dark cje3 as he looked upward. ", , -j Those were the last words I ever heard him speak, except 'Good . irijjht.' Ah, j dear me, it should have been good-bye. ; Ten minutes after I went one way and he j the other. I took my way home, and he, as it seemed afterward, walked just two blocks and then came back here. At twelve o'clock that night I awoke Mrs. Humphries. 'My dear,' said I, 'I must have had nightmare or something." " 'Goodness,' aid she, 'it seems so. Y"our hands are like ice. What give it to you, love ! The lobster I'll be bound.' 'I'erhaps,' said I. 'I., admit I ate a hearty supper. And nothing could make me fancy young Wade at my bedside, white as a ghost, with both hands on my breast. 'Ah, but the nightmare is always black, not while,' said my wife. And then she went to a little cupboard and brought pie a glass of wine. After lhat I went to sleep again. I did not rise early, and was quite be hind my usual time. But when I reached our place I found it in great commotion. Cleik3 running hither and thither, the heads of the firm standing about in the most unbusinesslike manner, and three constables on the premises. 'What is the matter, sir!". I said, ad dressing Mr. Grinby. . 'Matter enough, said he. We've been very heavily robbed." 'I fgncied lhat couldn't happen here,' said I. 'I really believe it would be im possible for burglars to break into Morris, Grinby & Son, sir.' 'Ah,' said he, they did not break in. The door has been quietly, opened from the inside.' And I believe ,' began Mr. Morris. 'Sir, cried young Mr. Grinby, out of breath, 'I beg as a gentleman, as a man of principle, you will not give utterance to your unfounded suspicions totally un founded and unworthy of you.' Prove them so, sir,' said Mr. Morris, coolly, 'and I'll apologize.' I looked an inquiry. 'Don't ask explanations, I beg, Mr. Humphries,' said Mr. Grinby. 'Some thing has been said, which the speaker will regret. Ah, there comes my mes senger.' A nd in run one of our b"ys. Well, Tom, said Mr. Grinby. 'Mr. Wrade ain't been home all night, sir, said Tom. I told you so,' said Mr. Morris. And I tell you even yet I will not hear my dear friend's yes, my very dear friend's character aspersed, said young Grinby. 'Humphries, I know you love Ben Wade as I do. Fancy imagining him connected with this robbery. As well suspect my father, or myself, or you.' lie is missing,' said Mr. Morris, shutting the door upon us three. 'He was seen to return late in thu evening. He was one of a band of house-breakers formed at six years old. He was nine. I believe he has been won back to his old ways 'j You will not express your belief to others," said Mr. Giinby. 'Not as yet, most certainly,' said Mr. lorris. Well, sir, that was a bitter day to me a bitter day. We could learn nothing of young Wade after eight o'clock on the previous night. Then several had seen him. He had taken tea at a little coffee house, as he sometimes did when he did not intend to return home until quite late, and said to some one there, 'I must go back to the office. I have forgotten some thing.' Half an hour afterwards, Mike, the porter, had passed him in the street, and young Wade had said : What'B the time, Mike ? The porter told htm. 'I shall be too late,' he said. 'I have an engagement, and must go back to our place lor a parcel I have forgotten.' An apple woman on the corner had seen him enter. He often bought fruit from her for lunch, and she knew him well by sight. There the news ended, until Mike, going in to light the fires, found ihr place a scene of confusion desks and safes rifled, papers strewn about, and every mark qI systematic burglary. Later in the day Lucy Evans came down. Her brother had sent her word of what had occurred. She believed some terrible accident had happened to Ben, and begged the firm to spare no efforts to discover him.- She was almost distracted, and who can wonder T They had been going together, it seemed, to see some play the night before, and sha had boen suffi- cieotly alarmed by Lis failing to keep the appointment to be in a measure prepared for the worse. " She knew he intended to bring her a book. He had spken of it. That must have been the parcel he went back for. Of course she never doubted him, and no one dared to hint nt what had been whispered in her absence. For weeks, sir, the authorities were at work. Immensa rewards were offered for the burglars, and fur the recovery, alive or dead, of young Bcnjamiu Wade, but without the least eflect. We were notified of every body washed ashore, and of every unknown man found dead for months, and at last there were few who did not laugh at poor Beu's friends for their credulity. It seemed plain to them and may Heaven not jude them as they judged their brother Ben Wade via euiltV oor Lucy never loosed up. it was ,11 . . easy enough to see that her heart was broken, and in a year she died ju3t a week too soon to hear what I shull tell you. One morning I was very busy af my desk in the office w hen a gentleman came and asked for either Mr. Morris or Mr. Grinby. Old Mr. Grinby was at home with the. gout, but Mr. Morris and the young gentleman were in. I saw the gen tleman was a clergyman and fancied he had called to solicit a subscription for some mission to the heathen, or Sunday school, or new church; But his first words made me start. They weie these : 'Y'ou remember, of course, a burglary that was committed here a year ago, or more. ' I could not keep my seat then, but went forward, trembling like a leaf, Y'oung Mr. Grinby had turned quite faint, and was leaning against Ihe wall for support. 'You are agitated,' said the clergyman ; 'I fear you- will be still more affected by what you must soon hear. A person now in custody, condemned to execution, has a confession to make to you'in regard to that affair -a very horrible one, 1 fear.' He look- a card from his pocket and wrote a few lines.: 'If you will call at the prison any time to day, you will not be too late. It is Friday, and he is to. suffer execution at dawn. Present this, if you please, and I implore you, ask no questions now.' Before they could say much he was gone. Afraid, I think, to be the first lo tell the story, our gentlemen called a cab and took me with them at my request. They seemed to expect us at the Drison, and we were admitted. But in the Cai ro vv corridor Morris stopped us. 'Gentlemen,' he said, you must nerve yourselvas. Have you reflected that you may see Benjamin Wade when yonder door is opened V Y'oung .Grinby put his hand upon his heart, and seemed turning faint again. It was tho first time the thought entered my mind, and it was a blow. It stagger ed me. The next minute fhe turnkey flung the door open, and we were in the cell. On the floor lay a man a broad shouldered fellow, in rough garments who seemed to have cast himself down in grief or ter ror. It was not Ben Wade. At first I thought I .had never seen tho face he lifted as he rose. In a moment it came to me. It was the leader of the gang who had been arrested for that old attempt at rob bery, when we had found little Bon in the stone vault. 'Y'ou've come, have you T'said he, sit ting down on Ihe stone scat, 'and I sec you know me. They've caught me again, and it's murder this time, and I've got to swing. If it wHsn't for that, no person 'ud have got this out of me. But I've promised, and I always keep my word, I do. Y'ou remember a young man call ed Ben Wade Y 'What of him V we cried in a breath. 'Not much he didn't rob your place, that's all. We done it Dick Burch, and Slippery Tom and me. Tell you how it was. You know that boy lnlorm ed on us, and I was locked up for hard labor for more years than most men live. I didn't stay, though I cut off and came home. And the first thing I did was to vow vengeance on that boy. AVhy, there he was, a gay young buck, in fine tos, with the handling of money, and thought of, and trusted, just for having done for us. Proud, too wouldn't speak to us in the street. Threatened to give infor mation if he ever saw one of us prowling about. I heard it all. I swore I'd fix him ; and it seemed to come to me. 'One night 1 was agoiti' to Slapper's shades to have a drink. Burch was with me ; and in a quiet sort of street we came up lo Ben, in a mighty hurr'. 'I'd have knocked him on the head, but Burch stopped me. 'See what he's up to,' says he. we followed. He went down to place, and went in. Ho left the aiar. and we made the best of it. And your door He was coming out, with a book or something in his hand, and we met him. He was plucky, I tell you. One of us wouldn't have got off so easy ; but we were two to one. We gagged and tied him, and made a clean sweep of the place that night.' And Ben my God, did Ben think we would not believe him Y cried Mr. Grinby. He had but to come to us to tell the truth. Where is he ? Do you krow ? Speak 1 Too robber was turning the hue ashca. Ilia words came slowly eye glanced over his shoulder aud he back ed up against the wull. We locked him up in the sfbne vault, he said, 'and took the key with ub. "If you look you'll find him there.' And Mr. ' Grinby fainted' outright in my arms. - Well, sir, the robber' words were true. The stone vault was opened that day, .nnd there no matter. It was easier to know the ring he wore, and the keys and purse in his pocket, than poor Ben Wade. The liis thing Mrs. Humphries said was : . 'Thank Heaven, Lucy cannot know it. And the next she sobbed- 'Oh, but the certainty would have been better for her, after all. And then to know his name was clear. ' ' ' 1 ; " And so that is the Btory of the stone vault ; and strange, as it is, it -is quite true. Y'ou may see his grave close beside Lucy's any day. And Mrs, Humphries she's a romantic woman, sir says she thinks the violets aud roses grow there of their own accord, under the white monu ment. A Very SthaxgeTaleoftheSea.- A Boston paper of March 2otb says: About a year ago last month the schoouer Andrew Johnson, McLellan, master, of Salem, started for George's Banks on a fishing cruise, and has not been heard from since. About that time the schooner Haskell came in collision with a vessel in the night time on the Banks, and sunk her leaving a large piece of the rail of the unknown vessel on her bows. This piece corresponded, with the Johnson, and is supposed to be the last n lie of her. The Haskell started last month for the Banks, and ihe first night on the fishing grounds had bad weather. Four of the uien were on deck, when suddenly there appeared to them four of the missing men of the crew of the Johnson, who ordered them home. They were fiightened and called ihe Captain and the rest of the crew, told them' what they had seen, and prvailed upon them to give up the voyage and re turn home, which they did, leaving the schooner on her arrival. The owners then shipped a rssw captain and crew, as not one of the former crew would go in her, and she again left for the Banks, where she arrived in good time, and they again tried .. their luck. Bad weather again met the schooner, and when all hands were on deck eleven men appeared on deck and took their Hues from them, ordering them to return at once, which they did the next morning. Arriving off the harbor at Gloucester, they anchored the schooner and took the small boats to land, giving as a reason that they were afraid to take the vessel to Gloucester as they were ordered fo Salem. The owners sent a tug aud lowed tho Haskell to tin ir wharf, and now she is reported as returning a third time. This is a strange and curious tale, but it is vouched for by reliable parties as true. It has created a great deal of excitement n the ports cf Salem and Gloucester. . Thk Wi:ong Man PoU'i.ticki. At a famous and fashionable watering place, a gentleman one night was suddenly seized in bed with an excruciating pnin in the stomach, which neither brandy, No. 6, nor any other remedy could remove. His wife, after trying a number of thing in vain, and haing exhausted all her stock of remedies, left her husband's bed side for the purpose of getting u warm ap plication. Guided on her return by a light which she saw shining in a chamber, and which she supposed wrs the one ju6t left, she softly entered, and was not a lit tle surprised to find her patient apparent ly in a deep slumber. However, thiuking he might be still suffering, she gently rais ed the bed-clothes, &c , and laid the scald ing poultice upon a stomach but not the stomach of her husband, which no stajner touched the body of the person than he, greatly alarmed, and writhing under the torture of the burning application, shout ed : "Hallo ! liallo 1 what in the name of heaven and earth are you about ?' then, with one spring from his bed, he made for the door, and rushing down stairs, declared, in a frenzy of excitement, that some one had poured a shovel of hot coals upon him. The woman, overcome with excitement and alarm, gave frantic screams which brought husband hurriedly in from the next room to her rescue. The husband was so much excited, and also so much amused with the singular mistake and the ridiculous position of hia better half, lhat he forgot all his pains ; but early next morning he, his wife and trunks, left for parts unknown. The poulticed gentleman still retains the hand kerchief a beautiful linen fabric, with the lady's name on it, which he considers of rare value. We heard a good tale on a certain 6iow railroad the other day. On this road the train was frequently delayed by cattle, upon the track. This had happened sev eral times, but finally the locomotive came upon clear sailing and for ten or fifteen miles the train rattled along at a lively jog. AU of a sudden, however, the en gine began a lively blowing, showing that trouble had come again. At this, one individual, who had been watching the trees fly past the windows, and had just persuaded himself into the belief that he was riding into glory at the rate of a league at a breath, jumped up with R"rpiiro and the ejaculation : 'Wcll I'll b banged, if A 1 -j t outl Jit lltt tl 1'i 1 1 K . . hA , ra t .A cattle again !'
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