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Nos.278,2SOand 282 Washington St.,
JOHNSTOWN, PA.
HV virtut 'f mindrj- writs of IVik. Krmn. 1s
siieilontof the Court of Common Pleas of
Cambria county, and to me directed, there will
lKexponed to Public Sale, nt the Court House
in ElieiiKburir. on Tarsday, the 15th day of Octo
ber next, at 1 o'clock, p. M., the follow iiiK Keal
Estate, to wit:
A l.i. the rijrht, title and interest of Michael
Doyle, of. in and to a lot of ground situate in
the vlllare of Cullltzin, Cambria cnunty, front,
nir on a street and extending back to a street
adjoining- lot of C. D. Bradley on the north and
a street on the south, having thereon erected a
twojstory plank house, now In theoccupancy
of Michael Doyle. Taken In execution and to
be Mild at the suit of John E. Storm.
Au, all the right, title and interest of Jos.
Dcnzcl, of, in ami to a lot of ground situate in
Carroll township, Cambria county, fronting on
the Ebensburg and Ctorrolltown rood, adjoin iuir
land of Andrew Striitinattcr and Elizabeth
Weakland, having thereon erected a one-and-a-half
story plank bouse, now in the occupancy
of Joseph Denzel. Taken in execution and to
be sold at the suit of A Ibin Oswald.
Also, all the right, title and interest of S. F.
George and I.ibbie (ieorare, of, in and to two lots
of ground situate in Chest Spriiurs lioro'. Cam
bria county, fronting on Columbia street and
extending back to a" street, adjoining lots of
Silas A. McUoinrh and Ellen Mcliraiii, having
thereon erected a two story plank house and a
frame barn, now In the occupancy of Harrison
Miller. Taken in'exeeiition and to l sold at
tne suit of Simon Weakland.
W. II. BOXACKElt, Sheriff.
Sheriff's Offlce, Ebcnsburg, Sept. 17. 1S72.
FATHER BROWN'S MONUMENT.
THE LETTING of this Monument will take
X place at the house of .1 mitre Easi.t. in Oon
enmuirh Borough, on MONDAY, the 14th day of
OtTOBKB, last., nt 2 o'clock, f. M.
Scaled Proposals will be received up to that
time.
The Committee have determined on erecting
one similar to that ff Father M'Ctxu.niH's,
adjoining it in the cemetery at the Summit.
The plan and specifications can be seen at the
residence of Judge Easi.v, or by examination
of Father M'Cullouoh's. at the Sumaiit.
JOHN It VAN,
HOHEKT IHMOND.
PATK1CK KODG EKS,
JAM1US HI' HNS.
I). M'LAI'tSIILIN,
fiE. W. EASLV.
THOMAS M'CABE,
VM. ADAMS,
Oct. i.-it. Monument Building Committro
OIiniANS' COURT SALE OF HEAL ESTATE.
1 Y virtue of an order of the Orphans' Court
I) of Cambria county, there will be exposed
to Public Sale, on the premises in the Horoinrh
of Iorelto, on SATtttHAY, NoTcmber th, 1S72,
at 2 o'clock, p. M., the following described Ileal
Estate, of which Mart McGuikk died aeied :
TWO LOTS OF OltOl'ND. known as Lots No.
35 and :H in the plan of said Borough, bounded
and described as follows: Each Lot fronting ."SO
ft. oiSt- Mary's st't and extending back axi.f t.
loan alley, adjoining lot of Sebastian rryon
the south and St. Paul street on the north, and
having thereon erected a one-and-a-half story
FKAME HOUSE and a small STABLE.
TtHMa'or Sale. One-half on confirmation of
anle and" the balance in one year thereafter,
with interest, properly secured by judguieut
bond and mortgage.
FUANCIS O'FHIEL,
Sept.27.-3t. Atlm'r Mary Mrfiuire, ftrc'fl.
Patrick! Scitt,1
Mart Maxwell .Common Tleas of Cambria
alia I Countj.
Mart Scott. J
And now, to wit : Sept. 0, 1872, on motion of
John P. Linton, Esq., C." W. Easly apMinted
Commissioner to take testimony.
J. K. HITE, 1'rothotuttaru.
Notice is hereby given that I will attend to
the duties or said appoiutment, nt the ortioe of
John P. Linton. Esq., in the lioronjrh of Johns
triwn.on Friday, the 11th day eTOrtober ext, at
2 o'clo.k i. m., when and where all ixtroiis in
terested may attend If they see proper.
C. W. EASLY, Commissioner,
Johnstown, Sept. 18, 1871.-4t.
COLLINS, JOHNSTON & CO.,
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"I'lT'ILL receive money on deposit, discount
t and collect notes, and attend to all the
business usually done Mr Bankers.
Sept. 20.tf, GEO. C, K. ZAHM, Ca.Bhier.
EBENSHUllG,
original.
TO LITTLE MACSOIC
Dearest little Maggie,
Sprightly little elf,
There was ne'er a sweeter fairy
Thau her dainty self ;
Chanuing hazel cyea,
Lovely curling hair,
Fair complexion, roso-hud mouth
Maggie ia a huauty raro.
Witching little mischief,
Never tireil of play,
l'rattling, Hinging, romping,
Happy all the day ;
Winning love from every one
With her charming way,
Chasing gloom and sadness
From our heart always.
Sometimes acting "mamma,"
Mimicking her talk,
Telling papa of her trouhle
In teaching "doll" to walk
Then oft" to tease old Carlo,
Or coaxing poor sick puss, to see.
If she cannot make her taka
A little toast and tea.
Happy, darling Maggie,
1 pray thy heart may ever ho
Just as it is to-day.
From care and sorrow fron ;
That angels bright may guard thee
Where e'er thy feet may roam,
And bring the sate at hist
Unto a Hoaveuly home.
M ISM K MVKTL V..
Dudley, l'a., Aug. Ill, 1K72.
MA It It I ED TO A 31 U It I) Kit Kit.
At dark, Bessio Walters ran into the cot
tage, rousing her father with the news that
the wnugflei's schooner was laying ofl"
Arish Mcll, and Jim Bolton had gone to
prepare tho men to be ready at the Mews.
She wa a smart littlo schooner, drawing
wonderfully littlo water. So, the sea being
like glass, only throbbing with a ground
swell, ahfl was towed up within a few hun
dred yards of tho bhore, and then tho work
Ix-gaii in earnest.
"We'Ye only but two honrs safe to do it
in," aaid the leading man, "for when the
tide turns the breeze '11 get up and carry
off tho fog. So pubh on, lad, and show
what Dorset chaps can do."
In a couplo of hours nearly half the car
go was safe, each man working like two.
Tho tea and tobacco were stowed away in a
snug cave, long used as a hiding place ; tho
kegs of spirits sent off t neighboring cel
lars, somo of which were in vaults least
suspected. By this time the fog had cov
ered the downs, and lay there as if resting.
Suddenly through the mist and silence
came tho shriek of a sea gull, then another
and another.
Every man stopped working. Every faco
turned in tho direction of tho signal, for
such it was ; then down through the white
cloud came a liguro scrambling jumping
from rock to rock and Bessie Walters, her
face Hushed, her hair looso, breathlessly
bUkhI by the men.
"Harry's gotten back fro' Weymouth,"
she said ; "tho revenue chaps ha' gotten
word and the cutter's coniin', and tho sol
diers too, and some of oufown folks have
blown the cave "
j "Then it's all up," said the captain ; "so
. much for your d d Dorsetshire. I'll
' give five jiounds to the man who will take
ns out. I'll give ten jiounds. Twenty I'll
give. Thirty forty iifty ioiinls to the
fellow who'll run us out of this cursed hole.
By O , I bcliev you are all in the game,
and brought us hero to sell us. But I'll
beat you yet. If I can't do better, I'll bunt
; the craft, rather than let a stitch of her fall
into such d d wreckers hands. Here,
Charlie, pull off."
As he spoke, a rocket whizzed up in the
offing, and the cutter was within a couple
of miles coming with the predicted breeze.
"It'll bo bad like to let the craft be taken,"
said a man who had been watching the cap
tain's boat. "I've a mind to go tiff with
her fifty pound's a tarrible lot of money."
lie looked hard at Bessie, and Bessie's
cheeks grew redder as she said :
'Soc lie as you'll goe, Garge, I'll row
you off."
JSo further words were then spoken, but
the man walked down to tho boat, followed
by Bessie.
"Supposin' I git tho money?" asked
George, looking around.
Bessie bade him hold his tonguo till he
got it, anil nodded him good night as he
, scrambled up the schooner's side.
j Sullenly and desperately the smuggler
held on her way. Suddenly the trumpet
rang out :
"Haul to, or we shall fire."
"Fire away !" shouted the captain of the
schooner.
A spur of fire sprang from the cutter's
side and a. round shot crushed through tho
smuggler's jib, cutting half a dozeu ropes
in two. Still she held on. Swish came an
other shot, this time hitting tho mainmast
and sending out a shower of splinters.
They woro within two hundred yards of
each, other, the cutter coming on, evidently
with the intention of boarding. Bessie
held her breath she was tli inking of Geo.
Harvel. The crafts were close together.
Bessie started up and Hung her arms over
head with a cry of dismay, for tho revenue
men wero boarding the smuggler. The air
was filled with firing, curses and shouts.
A sudden thought flashed into the girl's
bewildered brain. She ran down to the
thore, pushed off her boat, and, jumping
in, rowed to the scene of action, never once
PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1S72,
doubting that she would see George some
how and bring him off from the ship. The
sailors were too busy to notice the boat
glide up ; so Bessie lay under the lee of the
schooner, watching, with clenched teeth,
two men. struggling for life or death, come
to the bulwarks just over the boat. She
could hear their panting breath, then a pistol-shot,
and then a body was hurled over
the side. Clutching desperately at the
slippery wood, grasping at the last moment
a loose rope, he swung down almost touch
ing the young girl.
At first she was too busy to notice his
face ; but when the bandage was tied which
she furnished, she looked at him and saw
his lips moving, though his voice was too
faint to be heard over the noise of the fight
and roar of breaking waves. Her ear al
nioht touched his lips before she caught the
words :
"Hide me, hide me, and let me die in
peace !"
For a moment Bessie stood staring at the
black rocks and thinking ; then a light
crossed her eyes, and she said to herself: j
"We may's well risk it. May be there's j
no other boat about, and he's too handsoin,e
a young chap to be hanged. Garge maun
look after himself, I allow."
Excitement lent extra strength to her
arms. Shooting through the Durcle arch
way, she ran the boat into the beach just
in tho quiet little nook behind the "Door,"
where the projecting rocks made a perfect
haven, dragging the boat up as far as she
could.
Tho man was moaning now with pain,
but as she couldu't lift him out, the only
alternative was to make him shift for him
self. "You'll hev to land, young man. I allow
it's difficult, but yo' maun do it. Ther's a
cave here yo' can lie in till tho cutter's men
and soldiers are out of the way."
For answer ho got up and scrambled,
with mauy groans, out of the boat, dropping
upon the shingle.
"You're a good lass, and if you're as
pretty as you're voice is sweet, I'll have the
best of it hiding away here."
"We'll see about that, my man. Yo're
all tarred with the same stick. The moor
a woman does for a man the moor she'll
hev to do. Tho ferst sarcy word yo' snys
to I, my fayther he cooms to mis yo'. So
yo' best keep a civil tongue."
Tho natural result of this nursing was
that Kitty lost hor heart. Pity is, w e know,
near akin to love ; and so it was.
By some means or other, the revenue
officer left to keep a look-out at Lul worth
began to get some inkling of the truth, and
one day, meeting Bessie, he questioned her
rather closely as to her friend. But she
was too sharp to tell anything, and the
name he went by (Kit lloberts) could give
no clue to his antecedents. That night,
however, the officer came across Kit him
self, and began chaffing him about Bessie.
Boasting a little loudly of his knowledge
about domestic matters, there was a row.
The officer threatened Kit retaliated.
Then some of the older men stepped in and
separated them before blows had actually
been struck. Henry Walters, however,
had come in time to hear his daughter's
name bandied about, and, it being Christ
mas eve, the old man was not perfectly
sober. So he gave the officer a bit of his
mind ; and, warming with the subject, end
ed by threatening to pitch him over tho
cluT if he ever said a word against Bessie
again. Then. Kit, who had boon fitamliny
uv S0' the old man away, and for a few
hours the Latter was at rest.
Next morning Bessie started for East
Lulworth to attend high mass. Returning,
sho went down the long, steep path leading
to the ruined chapel of Binden. Suddenly
she stopped. Surely that was Kit walking
along tho cliffs yes, going slowly, as if
watching or waiting ! Then lie stood still,
crouching down. There, within a hundred
yards, wrapped in a night cloak and hood
to keep off the keen east wind, stood the
revenue officer, watching with his glass a
passing vessel. Behind him, creeping like
a panther down the steep cliff, was Kit
lloberts !
A thousand sparks seemed to be flashing
before Bessie's eyes. Her lips opened, sho
tried to scream, but her voice was gone ;
she endeavored to start forward, but her
knees gave way, and falling, 6he lay still ;
yet, impelled by the horrible attraction of
murder, she watched her lover he who in
a few weeks was to be her husband delib-
erately steal upon the officer, and with a
sudden spring and blow, with his hands
outstretched, strike him over the cliff. Sli
hoard the murdered man's death-yell, but
no more. A cold baud seemed laid upon
her heart, and all her senses left her.
When she recovered consciousness Kit
was sitting by her. His face was white
and a terrible expression of fear and anger
glared out of his blood-shot eyes.
"How did you come here?" he asked,
making no attempt to raise Bessie up or
excuse himself.
As Bessie told him his face grew wilder.
Springing up, he dragged her up too, al- j
most crushing her wrists as he did so. j
"There's only one of two things that j
will silence you, and by heaven you shall ;
accept tho alternative either follow him !
or go with me to the clergyman at Dorches- j
ter, and I'll be safe from them and you." j
Three days after, Bessie was a bride. I
The girl hardly knew how those days had
pasted. She had been kept a prisoner in
a small room at the top of a house in somo
back street in Dorchester.
Meantime the body of the coast guard
had been found. Harry Walters' threat
was corroborated by a dozen voices, and
the old man was hurried off to jail. The
viltage was in a ferment of wonder and ex
citement, for simultaneous with the mur
der was Bessie Walters' elopement with Kit.-
The first news that met Bessie and her
husband was that of her father's arrest.
Who can describe the girl's horror and
misery, the perplexity which beset and
crushed her on the one hand, to see her
father hung for a crime of which her hus
band was guilty ; and on the other to de
nounce the true murderer, and save her
father by the sacrifice Of her husband.
There was one thread of hope, the evi
dence against Henry Walters was merely
circumstantial ; those who had heard him
swear vengeance against the officer were
now ready to swear he was drunk ; and
that a more forgiving, peaceable man never
lived.
Onco Bessie saw her father.
"Don't yo' fret, my darling. Yo' know
I be innoceutas an unborn babby," he said.
A great and exceeding bitter cry burst
from Bessie's lips.
"Doant say that, oh ! fayther, yo'rkillin'
I I must tell yo' I maun tell, or my
heart will break. Kit did it fayther "
The old man sprang to his feet ; he had
been kneeling beside the seat she was on.
"He did it faj-ther ; I seed him !" and
seizing the arm that, with hand clenched,
hung by her, sho told him the story of her
husband's crime and her misery.
Wheu she was done he stood still, his
hands clenched, his head drooping.
Suddenly he turned, and lifting her up
in his arms, held her to his heart as he had
done when, as a motherless child, sho had
come to him for comfort iu her childish tri
als, j
"Bessio, my darling, ye'vedone right in
telling mo. I can die happy when I know
why I die. No, my dear, you're not to
fret ; it is you I'm thiuking for, not Kit. J
God'll havo to think for him. It'syo' dar.
ling you'll find it hard to hold your tongue, j
but you must, dear. I'm your fayther, and j
God has givon me a right to command my j
child. My command to yo' is go back to
Kit and help the Lord to make him a bet- i
ter man. I hadn't many years to live,
Bessie. It's not much whether I go this
year of five years later; and I allow I won't j
be hardly judged in the other world for ;
what I'm doing now." j
Kit was sitting at the table writing when j
she got out of bed. She went over to him 1
and put her arms around him. He looked
up in her face.
God knows what he saw there ; perhaps
the shadow of her doom in his. Whatever
it was, it in ado him lay his head upon tho
table and sob in the very bitterness of a
man's despairing passion.
Bessie did not try to comfort him, Sh
had her work to do. Kit sobbed on ; then,
turning he came over to his wife and laid
his hand on her shoulder. j
"You are right, Bessie ; only you are not
to do it. I'll do it myself."
Bessie ran after him he was gone.
Rushing back to her room, she began dress
ing ; life and death depended upon it
aye, indeed, life and death ; for even as
she hurried down stairs, a crowd came to
the door a crowd with white, frightened
faces liearing in their midst a body !
Kit had shot hiiimelf. The pa per ho had
been writing when Bessie gave him her last
kiss was a full confession of the crime.
Henry Walters was released, but never
showed his face in Lulworth. When Bessie
was able to move they emigrated, and no
tidings of them, weal or woe, has ever
reached their old home.
A Singular Coincidence. We are
fond of cats. Unlike most persons, it
pleases us, while lying in bed at night, to
hear three or four cats out in the back yard
spitting and yowling and waltzing around
to their own mysterious music. So we al
ways keep a cat on hand, in order to con
tribute our share to the entertainments.
It is a singular fact, however, that one
hundred and sixty-three successive cats
which we have purchased have disapjear
ed, one after the other. We Would buy a
cat and have it around for a few days ; and !
would place it in tho yard, on a given ,
night before retiring. In the morning 1
that animal would always have disappear-
cd and none of them ever came back ! We .
regarded it as a somewhat singular coinci- j
dence that the man who lived back of us j
always had fireworks on the very night j
that our cats disappeared. Reflect i
' this circumstance, we purchased
uigupoii ;
;u.iadl vjui uiid
. . . . .. . . a
i ,i,j
sheli and determined to watch hor. We
placed her out in the yard a few nights
ago and observed her from tho kitchen
door. The tortoise shell frisked around
for a while and ground out a few melodi-
nn Boronehna Then sho iiimncd n-vm
ons screeches. i nen sne jumped upon
the fence for the purpose of making ac
quaintances. While there we perceived the- man in
the rear yard wipe that cat suddenly off
of the fence into a bag. Then that scoun
drel tied a string to tho tail of the tortoise
shell and affixed the other end of the cord
to a skyrocket. He then lit a match, anil
in about a minute that animal was swish
ing around among the stars without a hair
on her body. We observed where tho
rocket fell. It was within a lot enclosed
by a high fence. We went out and climb
ed that fence early next morning, and
there lay one hundred and sixty-four rock
et sticks, each with a singed cat tied to it
with a string! Now we know why wo
missed our ets ! and if w b not souse
down on that ftrewoiks man with the soci
ety for the pi evention of cruelty to animals,
it will, he because that organization is
hopelessly demoralized. Max Adlcr.
OBMilN'AL.
THE DYIU WIFK TO HKB lltSBlSD.
II V O. J. AKKKS.
I hear tho church 111 toll the hour the hour
for holy prayer ;
Ah, how nay suffering heart doth long to join
the suppliant there?
I hear the liell and yet tuethinlts its clear,
full tones are strange ;
But, no' f it is mine ear that fails and under
goes thf change :
I'm drifting from the. shore away, all sights
j and sounds grow dim
Away from what fhe good Lord made I'm
1 passing nnto Him.
Oh, life ! Oh, time ! Oh, aching heart and
, soul
Look upward from your dismal deep," where
I battling billows roll,
: And turn thy weary sight to God to you
' bright, sun-lit homo,
j Where earth's poor, weary children rest, !o-
yond the. billow's foam.
And, husband, dearest, ere I go from thy
kind love away,
I ask of thee to look above He wilt thy
sorrow stay.
Thou long hast sought to bring to uie each
earthlj- wish and need ;
And, oh, my God ! how sinks ny heart to
think that his should bleed.
When summer smiles anil summer flowers,
long pone, were bright and fair.
We clasjied our hearts and bands and vowed
earth's weal and woe to share.
And winters came, but passed a way liefore
the April rain.
And, like the summer flowers, I go, but ne'er
shall com again.
Come nearer, oh, dear husband! for I am al
most gone.
I wish to speak but little more ere yo;i shall
be alone
Kre I shall sleep the long, long sleep, and
thou shalt weeping bo
For her, who through a changeful life, ne'er
changed her love for thee.
The clouds will pass away, dearest, the sun
light come anew,
And others' smiles will light tire path with
glittering gems for you.
It is a blessing given to us in life's fleet pass
ing hour
That future promise; points to rest in her en
chanting bower.
So, too, for thee will promise come, with re
gal smile and form.
And then again thy heart will glow with
passion deep and warm.
And where my head hath lain oftimes iu
days gono by,
When thon didst whisper loving words, with
love-light in thine eye.
There, there will rest another, and thy noblo
heart will swell
With pride and deep emotion, which thy
glistening eye will tell.
And may she prove to you, dearest, a true
and loving wife
As t rue as I have tried to be throughout our
wedded life.
But now the crape is falling, I bco, beyond,
the sky.
I hear tho angels whisper let me kiss then
ere I ilie !
Farewell ! when grow the sweet, bright,
blithesome flowers of yore,
My dearest, you will miss Jeanette forever,
ever more :
At.toona. Pa., Reptemper, 1S72.
The Trials of Thomas Burdue.
I have just read, in the Mountain Cit?
Times of the 31st ulto., a selected sketch
entitled " Circumstantial Evidence. A
Hair-Breadth Escape from the Gallows iu
San Francisco," tho writer of which claims
for it exceptional truth fulness and accuracy.
It is indeed, like Artemus Ward's stories,
"founded onto fax," but those facts arc aw
fully distorted in the narration. Thomas
Burdue's remarkable resemblance to Jhn
Stewart caused him to be twice tried and
condemned, but both trials were had before
lawfully constituted courts. Here is the
true story, as it is well known to many old
Califoruians ; and it is far more wonderful
than tho very imperfect version above men
tioned.
The murderous assault upon Jansen. and
the robbery of his store
i, in San Francisco,
took place in the winter of 1850-'51 the
exact date I have forgotten. From Jan
sen's description of the robbers, the police
were satisfied that one of them was a no
torious desperado named Jim Stewart.
After a time they succeeded in arresting a
man whom they supposed to le Stewart,
but who asserted that his name was Thom
as Burdue, and that ho had arrived in Cal
ifornia after tlie date of tho robbery. He
was, however, tried, together with "his al
leged accomplice ; was identified as Stew
art ; and both the prisoners were found guil
ty and sentenced to long terms in the Cal
ifornia State Prison.
In the fall of 1350, the sheriff of Sacra
mento county had been murdered, while
traveling on horseback from Marvsville to
Sacramento, and robbed of about f'i.OotJ
which he had in his custod7. Circum-
stances clearly indicated Jim Stewart as
the ierpctrator of the crime. According
j ly, after tho trial and sentence of the sup
j posed Stewart in San Francisco, he was
1 delivered to the authorities of Sacramento
' county, by whom he was conveyed to Ma
rysville and committed to jail to await his
trial for murder.
Jim Stewart had formerly resided at Fos-
tcr's Bar, a mining camp on the Yuba Rir-
er, about eight miles from Marysville. Ho
was well known in that region ; and after :
the prisoner had been placed in jail, still :
strongly protesting that was he Thomas
Burdne, and not Jim Stewart, and that he
was innocent not only of the crime of which
he had been convicted, but of that with
w hich lie was charged, he was visited by '
- ... l vii4 iiii ..ii ill r r. 1 1 1 1 i t
, , r ,
i "l nuuui ueneveu uiev recornizeil him.
i Tt f o e"teiiauictl ome doubts of his
1 "ut. But one man was positive that !
. the P"1" 7! not Mewart. This man
, la?, . , tulger, a Justico of tho Peace ,
rtfc "' lc iKir lH-10 whom Stewart had ;
: appeared on many occasions, and who !
knew inm well. After a long interview
with the prisoner, Stidger was thoroughly
convinced that he was not Stewart, and
stated his conviction and his reason there
for freely and publicly.
By this time the Vigilance Committee
had been organized in San Francisco with
branches in many interior towns, including
the prejudice against him, joined to the ,
fear of tho committee, which t arried mat-1
ten. with a high hand, in many cases stir-
passing in lawlessness tne outrages it was
ostensibly organized to repress. Stidger
was "interviewed" by lending "vigilantes,"
And on declaring his absolute certainty
-Biiii sv me, ana tne organization emiuaceu , ..... ;r-.. , , , " -L V
the leading business and professional men f "! nV lfltW h-k better with ten
in every place where it gained a foothold. ; ,1""nyes "t tout puffing ami WplaitM
, Nearly every lawyer in Marysville was a 1,1 10 equator, wh.. h should bo gath-
"Vigilante," and poor Bmxhie, whose trial oreI ' benisUU hcd gudgeons up and do u
for his life was to take place immediately. tI,c eumvwith K-'t stich between, she
wa nnahio t.i.f..;,. . sel. no s! ion-' was c;in make it u p in that way, instead of ttnt-
TsUIMUEIi 37.
f that tho prisoner and Stewart were ditior
: ent men, was warned that if the prisoner
j was acqnitted on his evidence,- both should
, dangle from the same gallows ! He was
" not to be 4bhi fled," however, and replied
that he would testify to tho truth, what
ever might hapieii.
The Vigilance Committee did not at
tempt to take tho trial of the prisoner into
its own hands, but used its power and in
fluence in aid of the prosecution,- and stood
ready to mete our nummary punishment,
should the court fail to convict tho alleged
culprit. The trial was pretty much one
sided. The counsel assigned to the pris
oner did his duty manfully, all things con
sidered ; but the witnesses were evidently
afraid of the Committee, and such of them
as had any doubts of the prisoner's identity
hardly dared express them. (Stewart's
connection with tho crime was established
by incontrovertible evidence, and the case
hinged upon the question of identity). At
length Stidger was called to the stand, and
testified promptly and positively that he
knew Jim Stewart well, having seen him
nearly every day during a long period, and
that the prisoner at the bar was not Stew
art. On his cross-examination a colLvpiy
something like the following occurred be
tween Stidger and one of the attorneys for
, tho prosecution :
O: You admit that there is a strong re
semblance between the prisoner at the bar
and Jim Stewart?
A. Yes; a resemblance so close that I
was at first deceived by it.
il. How, then, did you satisfy yourself
that tho prisoner is not Stewart V
A. By the strong iiuts of difference be
tween tho two men.
Q. What are those points of diflerenco ?
A. We'd, Stewart is a little taller about
an inch, I think, than the prisoner, and
his hair and eyes arc a little darker.- Tins
middle finger on tho prisoner's left hand is
crooked, "apparently from rheumatism.
The middle limger on Stewart's n'AJhand
is crooked, having been nearly cut off with
a knife in a hand-to-hand fight. Again,
Stewart is a nervous, excitable man, with
restless eyes. If he were in that b jx ho
would be constantly changing his position,
and his eyes would-be incessantly wander
ing about the coart-rooiu, never resting
for moro than a second or two upon ono
jierson or object ; whereas the prisoner sits
quietly iu one place, and regards every
thing he looks at with a calm,- steady, lin
gering gaze. The features of the two men
aie very much alike in their outlines, but
totally different in their expression.
If Stidger' s testimony had any weight
with the Court and jury, they wero afraid
to manifest it ; for the judge charged against
the prisoner and the jury, after a short ab
sence from tho court-room, brought iu a
verdict of "guilty of murder in the first de
gree.". It was fortunate for the prisoner
that they did so. Had they acquitted
him. he would have been seized and sum
marily hanged by th Vigilance Commit
tee. As it was, he was allowed a short re
spite two or three weeks to prepare for
death: To render his escape im jossille,
the Vigilance Committee, professing to
distrust the Sheriff and his aids, kept a
strong guard around the jail day and night.
Three or four days before tho time ap
pointed for tho execution, news reached
Marysville that Jim Stewart had been enp
tured, and in- the hands of a vigilance
Committee in San Francisco. The matter
was considered of sufficient importance to
inquire into, and a committee of the Ma
rysville organization was detailed to pi.
ceed in all haste to the Bay and ascertain
the truth. Stidgers was invited to accom
pany them and did so. (His testimony
had its good effect after all, and that at an
opportune time.) A look at him was suf
ficiently convincing. Notwithstanding his
remarkable resemblance to the condemned
t man in Marysville, who called himself
Thomas Burdue, the points of diners nee
noted by Stidger were now plainly appa-
rent. Stewart was at olice recognized by
; every man of tho party. Furthermore, ho
had confessed both of the crime of which
! Burdue had been convicted. There w.is
j now barely time to save tho latter's life,
i It could only Iks tlono by executive interfcr
' ence. In breathless haste the party wait
! ed tioti the Governor, got his signatui
and seal to two distinct pardons, and, with
great exertions,- reached Marysville with
the documents just as fhe miuions of tho
law were about to lead Burdue forth to ex
ecution. And thus, after languishing for many
months in prison being twice condemned
ami finally pardoned forcrimeshe had nev
er committed, Thomas Burdue was turned
out. friendless and ieimiless, upon tlio
world. Whither he went or what became
t of him no one in that part of the count ly
kuows. He was never again seen or heard
of there. John Oi.kkke.
PlEDMOST; W. Va.. Sept. ltf, 1S7'.
L'umtpundencc o Cumberland 1'iinet.
Eytutaoaxcf. vs. Mauri age. TIioso
who like, with Mr. Buckle, te collate social
phenomena and draw general deductions
?' " f JU St lloW -Aat!lCr exei,c,'t
Til 9 rAl'ia I 1 fir Tim TrAiocc loin a v - ' I .
material for the process. As an examplo
we him the Ixmdon journals discussing
with earnestness the prodigious and in
creasing c.wt of Leef, bread, and female at
tire ; ami looking at tho law reports in tho
same papers, we find a most unusual num
ber of breaches of proniise iu which th
man is the defendant. The significance
of this is probably beyond dispute. Amorg
a hundred men who have engaged them
selves, a certain crcentage of cautions
natures will be found who, n the contem
plated step Incoming imminent, are moro
and more disturbed by the thought of its
iHjcuniary difficulties and resjonsibilities.
These swains retreat; and a certain pro
portion probably a small one f the out
raged damsels seek !su h solace as the law
will accord thern.
A Ci.kvki.axi woman not long ago mod
estly requested her husband to go to the
dressmaker and tell her that she (the wifel
had chan-ed her, mind and would have the
ing the bobbinnet insert ion and piecing out
tho iMjint applique as I suggested yester
day:" The jOor mail is now iu a lunatic
asvluin.
Hartshorn and water, applied with a
sjx.mge, removes grease from coal C"llai'S:
I i