IVfcPIKE, Editor and Publisher. "he is a freeman whom the truth makes fkke, and all are slaves beside." Terms, S2 per year. In advance. n.niK ix. EBENSI3U11G, PA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1S75. XUMP.EU 17. ,.t;:i t:n :T:i'o 3ta:3 j n o c it:!:!'' lin I i;ril lit on ;: i.unt? v S (iin';: i,i w r , r ,,.1 u:: of c- rot tr.-'-rf..rUf Cl'lltU' we .!" ,1 v I n n't r. ' uM rho icrai"- lveJ .i I ZAV a IN MTD AIR. I tt r.t rf to ,nt way . ,. i:li a 1'"' throat, that is. I a i !.!, (if the wild Indian horse I . : -;,-h; nrd-ned s-ears, than I i i -,.v ti.'- -mootli, broad pass of San .,,. fo; iii.l'Tas, nere hi n;iiiu. r r,ni-i hm'I -ar.s.-as riiled in nine . 1 . - cililir to nrotect thfl I t J!t;nri be good to ns, for the L .. ,..t i f 'h- ll'-puMic does little for I . , e (-.st. Only, if I were you ! ... t .. . ..i i ...it l. . ;.. ..w. jl-.j.-vi'i mi;ko acquaintance with in.i ;i laml." . tin- fact.- f th- "sp: I, the i. -I,v to wiinm my excellent i i .i MVl Lop. "torekeeier and i; i f :.. ( rt't'y town of San Jiu-i, had I . a!..u e well-in tended warn- Iu. :::i'.v a y:mc Kiifrlihman, who 1 r enc'-il) in So-ith America to eemMance to a lookshelff beinc: simply l . . . . 1CU8 U1 "are eione, running' along- the face of it tall, gaunt rock, while the road, being- narrow, and u1 erly unprovided with rail, or bank, or parapet, overlooked the aw ful abyss 1k1ow, at the bottom of which, faintly visible, a torrent gurgled along- ita boulders of water-worn stone. An uglier which partly obstructed the path, and, in I chasms that soam the mountain range are doing-so to, to skirt the perilous verge of apparently frail constructions of gras- the abyss. I had now lost my grasp of the overhanging wall, to which I had hith erto clung with an eager clutch, and began to fear that the rushing wind would bear me away over the edge of the rock; but,thongh I reeled under the force of the blast, I kept rope, twisted by Indian hands, the floor, a trip of mutting; the hand rail, a cord of grass; while, even with a lijht woin'!it to carry, Ihe passage is, to a novice, more ex citing- than agreeable. wiiii wiese remarnanie oruires 1 was place of passage, or one more calculated my feet, and reached the spot where the ; toItra,,1' familiar, although I had never b -ch, and to have ::i-'h! 'f the eculiarities of V I 1-eiitg by profession "j, erinteuilnt or manager il-rm m.l id S.lvr Mine, on :, or Chilian M !e of the south c A i l-s, and Iliad crossed . :, S.i'i .1 a!i to arrange for ,,r. I traii-j ort of provisions ..( .i'-.'-ki 1 l"Mil had suddenly .: . r ati'l K!ii--tilt. A banl - ! ':' l-.i hy a noted leader -. . : .uri'infl-iiir gre.it cruel- i I n iiy j '.i.i that led across i:i. la li'ile rii'if.! 'ban a week j il.oic h liundred trave! h' - i h!!. nmnlered several, and , n'.j i '.'it-n-l ri s'sfaiice or i -f j...-ir.g hoard d ,.r'T Ti.e lit ' '.na of San 'v;:h t ra'. !'? . uiiwill s ii k of p: ucco iiiig on their !'.h il-tain-d was a young !.. v'.". v.i'h her parents and ;!: :!.!-. w-re on tiieir way to oi? Avr---, wh-re t'ney re- $- ;.- a very Ve.i'itiful girl, whose l.r ia.l l.ii.-hf ,oi!'2'!"xioii looked S v-i-r the style of her t i.v.-i.-:-.! iii fop'-.Iiiy with the t :j: k eyes, and sallow v '!. kimvd pa'iish senoraa. I !.-r !ii "! i.n.-e during my k v, j.tr,.ts and the j.laza. to shake weak nerves, I had never seen, and I could well imagine that, in time of Fnow or storm, to attempt it would have been a foolhardy exploit. In fine weather and broad daylight, however, it could, no doubt be traversed in tolerable security. The travelers in front were all mounted, and pushed on, as the w idth of the path dictated, in Indian file. First of all rode, as I judged, a girl, whose plumed hat danced gaily in the yellow sunlight; then came a stripling on a mule; and after these, followed five other persons, two mounted, three on foot. Those on foot were talking loudly and gesticulating ve hemently. Their harsh laughter came faint ly back to us as we advanced. "They have given drink to their guides, the imprudent ones !" muttered Antonio, girl w as kneeling, with clasped handd and averted face. Before I could ep ak, the mule, in the agony of its alarm, set up the screaming j cry which its species utter under the in I fluence of pain or rage, and the girl turned ; her head, and, for the firs t time, saw me. ; My recognition of her was immediate. 1 Well did I remember that golden hair; those blue eyes, dilated as they now were, J and expressive only of grief and fear; j that fair, pm-e face ! It was the leautiful ; English girl I had reen at San Juan, and doubtless, her lale companions had leen her own family, of which she was, alas ! i the sole survivor. j "Save them ! Oh save them r she ex- claimed in Spunish. "Go to their help, sir, 1 for the love of heaven ! Mv poor father brother All ! f tiakrng Uia head. -Lucky for them that j my dear mother my it id fine weather, and a peon from the ' all " polilas, who knew the road, could Ay !--' lainteiU and it was by - a ': ..nt t!.:it I learned f f uirly whs Trevor. :' ei. -u, ami, chafing at " -Mi'Aiirjig .- run into the ' b :i-'en:i,i;.g-he Felijie Pass, m,1 a !!. and. leaving i'i h,-i,!.t to follow me at 'I f 'T' i:f ITU j riiii.i.l anil "-1 a.-Mge called L is '-s. ;tn especially toil "''' ?!. j 1 1 r i i 1 1 over some ' r-mi .1 r '!i Southern An ' J!i TiaKlv seclll-e from -'i' ti-'1, en-y and tin 1 - ei,l'ivated plain, - I i-siiie the gradual :i- ,.f P iT-niiTitain range, v.i h hamlets, fields, the si!...,f shaft and !. that indi- : i. .v. 1 t'iOIiJjucd -t ur Inese," said ; ;ng Indian from "that our real - !iire pn-menade, 1 ' hi 1 long to clear i'.il-iT-.g-p!ace tu ' '": and .lark." 'i . a!nI.hfornoQn t : 1 :-a.-on to agree v -r-ra'ej the laltora . ii .v.is s'eej,, rugged ' i'n: l-t the meet '"'"-il'le h-ights of -s" '.Mir-footed crea ' ' i:i a ini,le could ' u :y h lo i 1 nj so V:l k 'W that, which a-i:n: g the beet ' ' :iing gulfs, I;l c ia:-.irtferis!io ' T the higher an.L where a fall fter or ' -'bailed d,0p of ; "I-'ti siiarp ftones or 'Ui selves, easier a!'-,,iia:e L tiAie i , . ... 1" i o:irselves pre- .iiHli "r I -wty of travelers, whose J'l .. , lq the narrow '' "T-jfiiJj,. ,;urve9 oyep '' Kiidvh 8tr r m. , " r!- remark how slow tt""' of tte proup in ' "nWeu and 8teep the I' to the Paso d-1 t itTtT;Uiehtof the whole ui yonder in my K I'ave trie best of " there; whereas, on the --uiubl., or a gust of "you. ... . l the I,rcipice a large 11 IL1.A H i-.oracrag to crag ior the eye to de mi !" And he dropped on his knees, and began to tell the beads of his rosary with apaiona!e fervor, which would have astoni.-dicd me more had not my business brought me much in contact wi;h the strange, impressionable race to which he belonged. I knew that there must be a cause for this sudden outbreak of religious leal. "What is it V I Rsked, impatiently. Leave off, man, mumbling out the names of the saints, for one minute, and give me a plain nnswer. Whnti wrong ?" An.oiiio jerked his elbow towards' the suddenly overcast sky. Around the jeak of the giant volcano, to northward, heavy clouds had gathered; while,- elsewhere, a thin white film, like flax from the spindle of the Fates, f panned the tur.juoise blue of the soudiern heaven. "What is it ?" I asked, as I noticed that the mule, snorting, and evidently fright ened, seemed trying to squeeze itself against the rocky walL "It is coming coming !"' cried Antonio, hoarsely. "What is coming J" I exclaimed, angrily. "Tell nie, scoundrel, or " "You'll know soon enough. El Vente del Wuerte the Wind of Death Great Giegory, Rose of Lima, my patron, save us now !' replied the guide, as a lurid flash of lightning illumined the whole moun tain panorama, and, mingling with the diapason of the thunder, came a shriek, as of an imprisoned spirit let loose, and a rush of bitterly cold wind fairly hurled me against the rock, to which I clung for sup jort, while the mule, sobbing and panting, cowered down upon its knees. For some four or five minutes this ret-istless blast endured, and, when it. relaxed its fury, my first thought was to creep forward on hands and knees and to look upwards, so as to ascertain what had happened to the travelers on the rocky ledge above. To my horror, the shelf of stone was empty. No; on it there remained, pressed against the rock, one slender figure in female garb; while near her, croiii liivl Jinvn like a ter rified dog, stood the iiiul'j from which she had .dismounted. T.;5 :est were gone! fo sudden, so dreadful, was the catastro phe that had occurred, almost Itefore my eyes, that for some moments I remained as though incredulous of the full horror of the scene. The voice of my guide, as he moaned out, "May they find mercy, m hoever they were. Pray for those who are dead. Pray, too, for her who is about to d.e ! Pobra Nina !" The Indian's quick eyes were not at fault. It was a woman a girl and by her dress probably a lady, who wat in mortal peril within a few yards of me. "Come, Antonio ! I cried, staggering as I rase to my feet; "on, and we may yet le in time to save one life at least. Twenty dollars, man, if we save her!" I added, impatiently, my dusky fellow remainad motionless. Not a!i th cilver in Chili, cavalier, would p:otit th- wretch who should ven ture to cio-s the Paso, there, when El liorazo wear his cup of clouds, and the death wind U bluning. I'm no coward, senor; but I'll not ruk life on such a cast." "If you won't, I will auJ alone, loo!" I answer!, Lo'ly; and, without paying any attention ;o iue warnings which the In dian should! uftt i- uie, I scrambled up the steep and win. liorf road, aiid stood upon the Paso del i:ia'lo itbilf, leing careful to keep as clo.-e iu possible to the bare rock wall, and away fiotu the preci pice. Most fortnnMy, the force of the furi ous wind had slackened since the first ter rible gust had exacted its early toll of human victims, or, otherwise, I doubt if the hardiest . mountaineer could have traver 1 that place of peril. As it was,H cost aie aderjierate struggle to keep my foothold and advance towards where the girl stood, partly screened by a large stone that must, years before, have fallen from alove, and which waa overgrown with moss anil lichen. Near her was the nude, ita feet firmly planted on the toiJk, and it heaving 'lank all but flattened against the flints wall, while ita eyes, stony with terror, teemed to stare at the narrow platform on which we stood. I took in, I scarcely She wrung her hand, pointing with a piteous gesture to tha edge of the cliff. "I fear, Miss Trevor," I began, speaking in our ow n language, when the girl gave a little start and uttered an exclamation of surprise. "You know me V she said; "yet "and she paused for a moment, looking wonderingly at me, and then slowly murmured, "Ah! yes I recollect in San Juan, yonder !" And even at that terrible time a faint blush rose to her cheek, as she possibly recognized in me the strange Englishman whose eyes had, jiei haps, too openly ex pressed the admiration that he felt for beauty such as h-rs. This, however, was no time, nor was the Paso del Diablo a fitting place, for fine speeches or elaborate Apologies. "Miss Trevor," said I earnestly, "I am here to save you if I can. Every minute that we linger here adds to the chance that a fresh squall may set in, and, should it do so, it may be beyond human strength to get beyond this perilous ledge. Twenty yards otf, as you see, is an angle in the path, by turning which, as I judge, we shall le comparatively safe. I will endeavor to support you if you She interrupted me with an earnest prayer that I would leave her where she was, and go to the rescue of her parents and brother. Their need, she said, was greater than hers. I was, of course, but too well aware that these unfortunate per sons must be beyond the reach of any earthly aid, but to say so would have been gratuitously cruel, and I therefore urged on her the necessity for accepting my escort so far as the nearest hamlet or cluster of miners' huts, promising to return with ropes and men, and to undertake a search for her lost relatives, which, alone, I could not hope to carry out. She was very gen tle and confiding, ns a child might have been, and rose up from her knees, ex pressing her willingness to follow me. And just then some flakes of snow came whirling down, whitening the rocky plat form. There were, as I have said, some twenty yards to traverse lefore reaching a comer, by rounding which, as I conjectured, we should have quitted the ledge of rock and gained the wider road beyond. But twen ty yards, in some eases, may give cause for more anxiety than leagues of ordinary way- , faring. I had need of all my strength to support Miss Trevor's uncertain steps as j she advanced, and, when we drew near to the angle in the path, I perceived, with no slight trepidation, that she was trembling like an aspen leaf, as her eyes were turned towards the tremendous gulf below. "Hold me lnick ! Pray hold me T' she exclaimed, almost wildly. "It draws me to it it will " I understood her, luckily. I am one of those men who can remain cool and steady on the dizzy verge of a precipice. That is a mere question of constitutional tempera ment, for I have known the bravest, who have faced death on the battle-field without flinching, utterly unnerved by the terrible fascination which a yawning depth below the gazer's feet can exert upon him. The dread desire to plunge, and end life and fear at once, I could well appreciate; and I saw that Miss Trevor would never get round the sharp angle of the rock, where the path narrowed to a width of some eigh teen inches at most. By a sudden impulse, I caught up the girl in my arms, and by a mighty effort succeeded in rounding that dangerous point, and in reaching, as I had expected, the broader road beyond. The snow was falling fast, while still the thunder rolled, and the ice-cold wind swept how ling past. Already the road was white with fallen flakes. Far across the deep valley, on an opposite table-land, I descried the walls of a convent nestling amidst tr es, and with farm buildings and Indian cottages around it. Could we but reach it we should be safe, but the only way to gain it speedily was evidently by crossing one of those suspension bridges of native construction, which spanned the ravine from side to side. And this, in rough weather such as we were experiencing, presented . no trifling risk. These bridges which moved the wonder and admiration of the Spanish fore seen one which spanned so wide and j profound a gulf as that which now yawned j beneath us, as I led Miss Trevor across the I seemingly fragile construction, which rock- ed in the wind as a hammock on board a ehip might do. We had traversed some i two thirds of the distance, when a fresh and more violent gust came howling through the pass, and it was all that I could do to prevent Miss Trevor from be ing dashed from the quivering bridge, on I the floor of which v.e were both comjielled ; to crouch, while the pliant matting that ! eupported us swayed to and fro like a j swing in a play-ground, and the snow and j hail flew around us. The snapping of a i rope, the giving way of a few strands of : the plaited grass that bore ns up, meant , death, instant and inevitable. And even should the tough grass-cords endure the j strsin upon tl.ein, we were in no slight ; danger of K ting our hold from sheer ex j haustion, and of being jerked from the . bridge as a stone is propelled from a sling, i Once I made a resolute effort to lead the : w ay to firm ground, but the violence of the vibration, as we neared the steeply-sloping extremity of the bridge, all but tore me from my hold of the tough fibres, and we I were thankful to regain ihe middle of the j narrow web, with which we swayed, back- wards and forwards, as we may see a ! Epider swinging on a single thread, j The intense cold which, as often happens j in .he Andes, seemed the more intolerable on account of the heat of the morning j "O lienumbed the delicate frame of my fair companion that I constantly feared that before the storm should j cease she would have sank into that I fatal lethargy that knows no waking. By ' chafing her cold hands, and, in spite of I her remonstrances, wrapp'ng her in th loose coat I wore, which was fortunately a I woolen one, I saved her, at anyrate for the time, from frost-bite or stupor, although the snow and frozen hailstones whitened our garments, as we crouched waiting, rather than hoping, for deliverance. Hours elapsed, and the wind abated, but I began to despair. No traveler might llllllOlC SAILOR. A WHALIXO VOYAGE ABAXPONF.D TO SAVE THE VICTIMS OF A PBIVATEER. Washington-, December 9. In the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims to-day in the case of Wm. Thillips vs. the United States, the opinion of tho Court was delivered by Judge Jewell as follows : This is a claim made by the owncis of the bark Richmond for compensation for the use of the said vessel and damage for con sequent loss of the "catch" of the kame. A HER O- CRIMIXA L. A French correspondent writes: The old saying that truth is stranger than fiction has rarely received a more striking illustra tion than in a case which has just leen brought before on.e of the French tribunals. Thirteen years ago a soldier named Jean Lastier was sentenced to five years penal service and ten yeais' surveillance by the police for having insulted one of his su perior oflicei s and stolen a few shirts. He was sent to Africa to undergo his sentence, It appears that the bark Richmond was in j and his conduct was so exemplary that he the month of June, lSG.l, in the Northern j Pacific Ocean, near liehring Straits, pur j suing the whaling business. The Con j federate cruiser Shenandoah had captured I a large number of whalers, and among j them the bark Generae Pike. The others j had been burned and the General Pike ! spared, and the ollicers and crews of the other vessels, to the number of 252, placed j on board of her for conveyance to the J nearest put which they might be able to j reach. The last of thehe captures was on the twenty eighth ciay of June. On the i first day of July the captain of the Kich I ntond felt himself compelled to take on board of his ow u vessel a jmi liou of the j ofliceis and men from the General Pike, j under circumstances fully detailed by him j in a t-tatement annexed to the petition, i which is as follows. lie also added tho ! statement of the master : i STATEMENT OF THE MASTEIt OF THE KICU M'JNU. We left Honolulu in the bark Richmond, bound on a whaling cruise to the Arctic Ocean. While in the prosecution of such, on our arrival in the vicinity of Lehiiug Straits, we came up with a whale ship ou lire ; uot knowing the cause of it I began saving such ai tides as 1 could from the wreck, as she had drifted into the ice, and her mast falling over the side. I found I could save many articles valuable to the use of my own baik, and as the wind was against ine I was not losing much time by so doing. While doing this a ship came to me with all sail set, steering to the south ward, hailing me as he passed by and tell ing me there was a pirate close at band, al j i ne fc.i.-ne lime an vising me to nee as lie was doing, fur probably all that remained would be ik-stmyed. But on due consideration I determined not to leave, for I would as quickly lose the ship as to go without oil. 1 came to the conclusion I would await a southerly storm or foggy spell usual at such times of the year and take advantage of the opportunity and get through the Straits in spite of the Shenandoah, as it proved to bo. My experience in those waters would come that way for days, while I could not j enable me to do this. While waiting for anticipate that Miss Trevor could endui-e the keen frost of the coming night in that exposed situation. Yet, how was it possible forme, in her exhausted state, to What w as that sound ? A loud halloo from human and, as it seemed, friendly voices, and instantly I a favorable opportunity to do this we raised a sail in the north coming towards us. A few houis after the winrt died away, and a boat was lowered from her and came in pursuit of us. Coming alongside I was surprised to see so many faces of ship masters. They had been taken by the Sht.-iiaiidiah and put on boaid the General l'ike. 1 hey stated they were crowded and replied to the had. Then there came, ! sullcring from want of room, &c. They all ' --- n-hieh atill afford the onlv know how. all these detail, it became h ' " creeping towards us over the plaited floor, a lithe figure, followed by another, while , the voices of those on the bank were raised ! in a cheer of encouragement. "Safe and sound, Caballero ! St. Nicho i las and the Virgin te praised for that ! ! Ay, and the senorita, too !" said the well '. known voice of Antonio, my guide for he It was who headed the party. "Why, then, I'll say all my days, Inglese, that you bear , a charmed life. Few who cross the Taso " But I did not hear the rest of the In I d inn's ppeerh, for now, for the first time, I, ' too, grew faint and giddy, and realized the terrible strain on mind and body which the i excitement of peril had enabled me to maintain, and, though I sided in lifting Miss Trevor's almost insensible form from the snow, I can rem -mlw nothing move until I found myself lying on the bed in a euest-chamber of the convent, while a bearded monk, in brown robe and rope girdle, was warming something in a pipkin over a lira zero of glowing charcoal. "Drink this, Englishman !" said the good-natured Capuchin, as he poured the hot wine into a large silver cup, embla zoned with the armorial bearing, of some Spanish viceroy of long ago; "drink this, and then get to sleep again, if you can. Nothing like it when once you are warm and sheltered. Yes, yes," he added, with a smile, as he anticipated my question, "the young lady, too, is well, anil asleep, too, I dare say. Heretics or not, you and she are welcome here, cavalier !" I have little more to relate. Of the remains of the unfortunate persons who fell over the rock of El Paso, no trace was ever found, although, at Miss Trevor's urgent entreaty a long and painful search was instituted among the glens below. But so wild and broken was the ground, and so intersected by snowdrifts, torrents, and thorny thickets, that from the first the Indian miners and herdsmen despaired of success, and, as I have said, the bodies were never recovered. So soon as my beauti ful charge had regained strength enough to enable her to travel, I accompanied her to the city of Santiago, where her father's sister resided, and there, beneath her aunt's roof, I left her to mourn for the dear ones whom she was never more to liehold. But our parting wa not for long. I be came a frequent visitor to Santiago, and was a frequent guest in the house of Ellen Trevor's aunt. There after a while I told her my love, and thence I led my bride to the altar, if I may use so high-flown an ex pression concerning the Consular Office, with its whitewashed walls placarded with announcements of wreck and salvage, and other matters intei-esting to mariners, where we were married. know how.au these detail, aa iv oecm . . . .. - fanciful re- l.icumUat on m to crnp rt At mule, 52?. 5L I 11 men are genially .harp. joined in begging nie for the sake of hu inanity to relieve them. I went on board ef the Genaral Pike to see for myself, and found they had not misrepresented the matter. 1 next returned to my own vessel, consulted with my ollicers and came to the conclusion we ought to relieve them. I then told the ship -masters and prisoners that if they still insiste'd on my taking a portion of them and would give mo the same in writing with their signatures, which was agrecel to and signed by all the ship-masters, I dare not do otherwise. Under such conditions 1 had to submit. They put on board of me fifty-two men, and with those I sailed for Honolulu, there by losing my season. i Signed) W. P. Weeks, Master. STATEMENT OF MASTEHS. At Sf.A, July 1, 1S('.. We, the tmder sigi.e.l, ii .solemnly swear that, our'ships were liuriteil by ihe piiaie .Shenandoah, and we are placed, with our crews, on board of the bark General Pike, 252 men, all told, and being afraid of sickness on account of the crowded stale of the sh'f, we requested Cap tain Wc ks, of the bark Richmond, to take some of our men, which he kindly consented to do out of humanity's sake. O. G. Mohiusoti, Captain hark Gypsey. fiiisou Winslow. Captaii: hark Isabella. Wm. II. Phillips, bark Catharine. V. S. Iledlield, brig Susan Abagail. James M. Clark, bark Nitnrod. P. H. Gooley, bark Win. C. Nye. Win. Benjamin, ship General Williams. Hebron M. Crowoll, I. ark General Pike. The conduct of the master ef the Rich mond, as shown in this slateiuent, in le-fu-iing to llee fioni the Shenandoah, saying ho would "as quick lose his ship as to go without oil," supporting his declaration by his action in remaining, and in finally yield ding to the considerations of humanity, what he would not yield to fear, is worthy of the highest praise. His desire of mak ing a cargo of oil was greater than his fear of capture by the Shenandoah. What fear could not constrain hini to do, feelings of humanity did. After a careful examination of the necessity he voluntarily abandoned bis own adventure to save the lives of the officers and men put in peril upon the overcrow did General Pke. Nothing more bonoiable or praiseworthy has been shown in all our hearings. Can the Court make compensation for the loss thereby incurred? We aie compelled to say that under no view of the act of Congress cieatiug this Court can we find authoiity so to do. The claims admissible before us must be such asdireclly result from damage caused by the so called insurgent cruisers. In two cases heretofore considered by us where vi s-els were captured by the Alabama, and the crews of other vesse ls put on board for transpoi tation to a port of discharge, we have awaided compensation for such com pulsory service, but both these vessels had been actually caprmed. Here there was no capture. Tlnjiet ilion mu-t be dismissed. What relation is profanity to crime? Fitbt cussiu'. wss employed as book-keeper to the prison. At the expiration of his sentence he was ordered by the police to reside iu a small town in the south, but as eveiybody knew ho was a returned convict it was with the utmost difficulty that he could obtain any kind of employment. The commissioner of police, know ing how well he had behaved while in prison, interested himself on his behalf, and induced a tradesman of the town to employ him as a messenger, lie fulfilled his duties so zealously that the tradesman promoted him to the post of cashier, and in course of time the returned convict married his daughter and entered into partnership. Thiee months after his marriage the war broke out, and Lastier, anxious to rehabilitate himself completely, voluntered his sei vices, and joined a regi ment of the line. He was taken prisoner at Gravelotte, but managing to escape lie rejoined his corps iu time to take part in the battle around Oilcans. Fiom thence he passed into the army of the east under liourbaki, and received no less than eight wountls. At the end of the campaign he had become a sub lieutenant, and had re ceived the military medals, which had been given him on the battle field. Ho was almost a hero in his regiment, and when he returned to his father-in-law's house nearly nil the town turned out to meet Ii i in. Soon afterward his father-in- law died, and Lastier, with his wife and two clrildren, determined to re-side iu Paris. His term of surveillance had not expired, but the local police had ceased to treat the sub-lieutenant as returned convict, and placed no obstacle in Lis way. He had lived quietly in Paris for neaily a year, when a few weeks ago he was accompany ing a friend to the Oilcans railway station. The latter had a dog with Lim, and this dog was attacked in the street by another. The respective proprietors while attempt ing to separate them came to high words, and at last to blows. Jean Lastier, who naturally took his friend's part, was, with the other two arrested by the jxtlice, and was of course compelled to show his "pa pers," etc. His antecedents being known, the Paris police finding that he had left the place of residence assigned to him be fore the expiration of the fen years, hail no choice but to proceed against him and be ing brought before the correctional tribuual of the Seine, ho has just been condemned to two months imprisonment for breach of regulations. This is unfortunately the law, but it is not justice, and your readers will, I am sure, be glad to learn hat an Englishman who happened to be acquaint ed with the facts of the case has brought tho matter before Marshal MacMahon, and has reason to hope that the poor fellow w ill receive the free paielou to which he is so fully emilk-d. Gave Up Believing Altogether. "When I was a young man," said ihe Judge, mopping the beei ofl" his trouseis w ith a handkerchief which he had boiio ed from Billy Wood, "I knew a blacksmith in our village who was one of the hardest tickets in the place. A revival prexclier canie along and Tom was converted. It made a great changain him, and he was held up by church people as a signal exim. pie of the saving jxnver of grace. After Tom had been traveling on the road to heaven for about three week his turn came to be examined on his fitness for church membership. Tom was an awful heathen, and although he could sinif mid I pray with the loudest he couldn't read, and i knew no more about the Bible than a wild Afiican. The Session (1 think that's what they call it) met one Satmday night and Tom went in, with bis face washed and his cap in his band, looking a little embarrassed, but as happy as new con verts always are. He told htm the story of Jonah and the whale, and asked him if he believed that. "Believe that a man was in a whale's belly an come out alive ?" cried Tom. "Do the Bible say that, parson ?"' "Certainly, ceitainly, brother." "Oh, ves, yes; of course I Ixdieve it," says Tom. "Do you Indieve that the three Hebrew children, Shadiach, Meshaeh and Abed, nego, were cast into a furnace heated seven times hotter than usual, and that "ley walked in the flames piaising Liorn, and not even their gaiments singed ?' Tom's eyes bulged out of his head as he looked at the parson a,,d gasped : "Do the Bible say that, parsou?" "Yes, of course, my brother." "That them fellers you spoke of walked around iti fire seven times hotter'u I kin boat my forge ?" "Yes, my brother ; do you believe it?" lorn rose up and got out into the 1 lien lie spuMered : (limn tili kLuv iiriit., - . . (Afc.) Chronicle. Love's Yocng Dkeam. Says the Brook lyn Argun: They sat upon an inverted wash-tub (directly under a window) drean' ing wild dreams of love. With her great starry eyes upturned to his, she softly whispered, "Will you always, always love me, Warren ?" murmured back? "Till the sun grows cold, And the Mars are old, And" Then he sprang to his feet in a wild panic, and made frenzied efToits to get his face through a coating of something that seemed to have fallen from the clouds. Cleaning his eyes he shot one quick glance of hatred up to the window, made a bolt for the back gate, and disappeared from the startled girl's side. Old gentleman up stairs, turning to his wife, remaiks, "There, Malinda, I bet 500 I've knocked that blamed bowl of hot starch out of the winder, and upsot the whole on't." Tho desolate maiden has no lover now, but goes around with an unquiet ylare in hci down cast eyes. the w e re ais:e. Ttrn P.. . v - .. IL V A 1 . ' (111. :nn ... . I , 1 - . "-..uc .llimiil, oio vou strike your husband with ajM.ker?" asked Ihe court eif a without any bustle . "And what did he do ?" she squeaked. "The ,ke, question takes the preference, Mrs. Arnold. DI you play poker on his In ad?" .- i ... to Ml III l Know what I imv. tn , - i" r.i.nm iioni iiirnl ' Answer my question, Mrs. A. ..old." 'If you knew that man as I do, iud-e ' I unui-Mx a .liars in C:sh I Wilt-n u- ootmen, live years ago. and ..... eu.ougu wau every dollar of it ine poKer the i.ohei ?" The State seal of Indiana, which repre sents "a full-grown buffalo bull deliberate ly rushing up to a granger who is n. chopping down a tree at sunrise," is not by any means the most remarkable of the devices employed for that purpose. Geor gia offers something more astonishing in a picture of an absurd summer-bouse sup ported by three pillars and guard edV a Continental soldier with weak legs ; and Kentucky actually presents a figure of General Washington iu the act of holding up an iutoxicaied friend, in order to keep him from falling against a book casein the background. After this California's device of Minerva sitting on a stone, while a cin namon bear nibbles her left leg, seems ar tistic and nice. A mas at Franklin has invented an "ad jostabU d.im." We won!'! l:e a few dozen assorted tiz.-s. They would come handy when fitting stove-pipe joints together, he has "W.1l r .1:1 hit him," she replied, finding heise'lf cor neredat last, "but wh:lt did he di-a.,swer me that!" "I can't do it. " iv..n -. he kicked a cat that has been in on, family for three years !" -I. Mr. Arnold he.e asked the cou.t, lookingover the audience. Mr. Arnold, wiili his head I,.....,.! .... . . been waiting toswear airainsi Lis .r ' i... suddenly overtaken with rc.o.se i. ' ed nut doors as the ...,., ..n . .... -' l I.I.IKI. ".lIlS. Arnold, you may go home'satd his h.,..o. and if yon feel it yotudi.tv i.i.t.iu.. husband will, a poker n..asi..i,allv, fsup I.Se I can't help xir-Detroit Fne Pn. The attorney it, a Denver cow MM eluded his argument as follow -l..,. Please your heiior, ,!., js a ,,.,.. question. lts decision : will live in judicial histo.v ..., .n.,.:... and I , . . - - -"' ..,.. IJrtve passed lol Ulis preIlt. f eaithly glo.y ad sublu,,;,, v vanity ; whet. the tower of Piasshall be fot.j,..,, . wm.., VVatcilooand Borodino shall g,ow dim ,,. the distant cvcles of recede cri,.,-ii, when the names of Eugene, Maribotou.,'.' '1"d "I'oleon are no lonuer .emenetcd when the pyramids of I',a..,..hs shA have crumbled into dust; when the j.j., iH.potan.us shall cease t.. inhabit its t.atiie Xde; when our own l ock-. iM.erf ieit itory shail no more grow 300 p-.nnd squhes-l events,, your iui:;:, ,. ,ilis ,, .,. will still survive in the ;,jq,ie v.-lut.-es ,,f legal hue as firsh, g,MI i,,,.,,,.,,.,,. as a Big Thompson grasshopper... ;, t ,,)., rado M)tato-but.." No Chaxce Au Atl.ii.tH vomh. .ui n P in the latest, stv le, Jcft a West End ca and tripped across ton h-,ise w here a bnh H.y was sitting on the front steps whit Uii:g with a new Hailow knife. Ihe boy looked up aud said : "I say, young man, ycr th be coming around heie don't !". "Why, Charlie, what's the mitte, " "Cause there's a feller w!at wea.s diamond t.reas-pin and rides it. his horse and buggy a coniin' hce to see sis now, and a fellow; like you. what has te, I'deVouud iiiahOb-t.nl street k, hain't got no show, 'cej.t to fake a fr. n't ,:,t tho back fence and watch 'em fixeu things for the weddin' !" The young man turned away hkiiu like a sweet potato vine after a biack frost" A L ADV who was teaching her little four year old the elements f arithn,e'ii was niiiurcu iii running to l et and pounding the following f . mamma, if you ,ad th ee.;.., i each bu'terfly had a b. any t ,atit lei lii.-ie, ici p.,- in many butterflies would yon have?"
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