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NUMBER 32, rfll 12 UN FOB THE uM NATIONAL FRAUD. wh.i w not elected J; the peo in imunrurHted t W.ishinjrtun un lfrT . r ..,, ,1 weenll unnn tion- ''"dunrii.-s to rnlly together in a de V.i i,eritetit effort for the correc .VVVr.Ht wrotnr mid lor tne ptimsn- r tu.s f ullty, to be enforced through the ,;,,rjlfP upon the riirht of eir-irov- "., K.-iiitiie:in party and its present ' " ' ,- r..or..nwilil tint th . m ire I'l nun I i ' ,:.-,.tiik M m'-tliniih means r"r,M,i.nt upon kmi'K Hillhority. are ifinify than """' who conceived I'dTil tliis urijitrille!ed political swln- -n,,t,i1,nt Iif'il lit nnd his advisers nt ii ii t" lorsake the ancient ways ' , i' liniii part v. and harinir invited h i I h f n MK i Ifel-el to w-rnpy ne : .r ,,,,,k.i tad t i tncci" in the CaMiiet, Iii.niirli Hie tiniest public penti "'tt.c S-'tith tiy tin -"bestowal of offices t tt t i:it IIl--s Si em m oiiifriiiiirui .(I hilionio. :o". i'n"3 t.wj-.naj ,uw '. . "r iii ii ri:i''.'J.-j ll.e work begun In i. tin- ?:iiin' Hiiie, with hypocritical V,.t rt -liirmiiia the civil Service, they -rvii 'ty (it Northern theorists, to the in ititlii ii inie 'a which this Acimiii- '.' ;V.uMilfJ limy be oveiliokeJ and ' :li;i"ni''c scheme, ns irtiinsl the r. mill Blimii i' m ia'-natcii. we call ..- to commence iu mwoM t cly a . ,;; nii-rcili-ss and pertinacious. " -tin m tli.it from lieiriiming tf the i ; .UhII never lie lnund hmgirrl or "". n il.is tt r J crii a0 we invite . , !-In-ill i-m i quarter to join in tlie frii-niN and readers -n body of -i ... -ti ! inn -tli' same nuni)cr as ,,t lute -il iy ens w ho. in Nm cm : -,,i t.-r s.in.ir I .1. Tilden for Presi ,. ,. .-ii y i tt.at we shall continue .n tlie ms!. to content fiT lion ! r- in. i-i'i.omy. and Justice in j.,., a ..i i liat ucmihII still endeavor ... vi,i- iiimv ciiisiilt our cidutniis r.f'.il. i-nmpi' and trustworthy ac--ifi-nt rnis and news froiii every ii ir-rul. while Irotn U'asliinjrton es . ...ur o ...i is ill contiiMe ioiie full. e .:, l.-.irli--. (- 1 1 ;in o.iilj l'N is.Vici-ntsn month. -. ) i .-; - in 1 1 1 ; or, with the Sunday .::.! y.-ir. ' .';; dliti n, t i'lit panf p alone, i," r. . .f paid. I'hr.KI.V 'N. eijMn pare. i 41 a fin;!, mi. I ever person wlio sends r ,,..ic .l..-i Hm-i-s I roiii any one place - : t.t-d to one copy for hiiiis-.ir with- ..- TMT St'.V. New Vrk City. YOU WANT Ar!it T'i lie I loi i !?h t, S I vi r or (ioii1. Merchandise Sold, T : (ii.ml-i to Appruise, . 1 p"tiiiir !.ty s r . To Hlifloiince ; '.. tii. Iliiu.'i-s or Acres, J-:tc!jcrs or Uakcrs, l:.,its : l. '.. i.ti-s. ! -r ---.Sl;irt fr Flounci-, ;A t ine tor Tiisease, ' r J J' in'i' Vii Ii-'-. A Mil-l.u Ci .-ilikae, -. i V: . I i -, ' i :i. H. I r i i ;is ; 1 'r lire pr'mo ii.ii k k n.iwn l our Moi , M-.-telry, .'.'i-y.-.m, idlolstiM y, I'ienies. I t i lL'f. I or It.til, Kvcursions. Knii-k Knacks, i i.vi i sioiis, 'I'lulyri-s t'li.ths ready in it do, ix-rease of Tradi ' ' .:is. eke and Wood, i i'h f iirei. Lectures, AM kin. is of Food ; 'orks on Thenloirv, ii;:e. Astrel-iir, . '' .llttl or KelifltV. 'oi td-wide I'ublici'y, r til -ir fen- ni I? i ITS Nws l)i i s Sh'rt. or Collars. A lin ijhi y Dollars, Mo.m.-s to U.-nt -t ne. Teiieiiii-n t, i-d to Im; Lent. n-ti to tie pt'llt, See,, , lint, Itoiniu, Cement, , 'l(ei,l t h advice, I ;i tte i. let price', V, idea below ' 1 IV ;f DVERTISE -!- a i REE MAN I f'At'SKS for trial at a ' 'eioiii.ni rieas to lie held at u. -o'.eti.i e., k . .counncncniff - ii vki:k. Kearncv. feigned teun: I l-.t ljr,: v. liauiner ef. a.; ' : lellis ;;i!!.ier: "p : ',, n Sprinirs t!o vs. Mc ' "' v. liiilei, : .i'I:iini hun et. 1-r.i .v.i v vs. ilii.uns ; I.lnvd it r -1 i r' : rlviin vi. tiates; v -r 111 : Km rli- r ll:Ltift- " M' K. iiiVt Alexander vs. r: -V.i-.'n.c l.auk vs. Mineinan; A.lains et al.: te( 'ullouifli ' Mert et. al.: Torlcr vs " y. Iii:i: X vs. Miocniuker; 'Of Vi-Vll!ln ,-a -V !,...,,,. .... K v,.( umkvn. l-rotlioiiot'ar'v. - :.J'' r.lM nsi-uri;. Aug. C,lb7T. 'TKA TOU'S NOTICE ' f ' ""f A,,,,S 'ARTZ, decM. .'..'''n ""',, :!,"'i rtim Ii rtnmrnlit nn- i " Mrl. lat or Vsir V;" r,,:l ' "iioty. iU'i-easo.1. have lieen . to n.ii i estuie are requested ',.. l.syiiect. cd those lntvinK ; ! i-.i 'o? ''J l'-'eiit tlio,, liruperly au- M. MAi.'iz. iOuiiAfetrmtor. f rOU SAI.K.The un.ler- ''!'',, t-1 ivate sale her A KM I ,., , i-n.hip. Kovfn miles "rl r&T. on L)m irk town ri.H.I nr.l . . 1 1 .. i .n ,.,, '''. ' lie impro.einents con- " "' Jr-t 4, V " ":. Ham. Spring ,,n', there is an nliun.lanee vsa-i,, r' " ",e lnutes. Will be,, Id ""fl'n.meiiK. Call onord- 3t. '-"'f-A.VJli l'(i .V lli, l-.boiwlMrjr . fJ. S -SrT,J ' A T O IS S N O TI C K . , . I'f Ja ...... , , ' 'f " 'ri"'''n "n the estate of said i-uln 'rr"" township. Cs c "ut;.?!L. I tuU.euii.le r ''""l.U, ''""'''I'.t.i whom le-rt-Uneit. re- ti,... '"7 are ri-nueHied to make im- !,r?ni i'l ,I"J,," oavinx claims ur dc- KUl V,"'" l,riI'erly aiithentl io.-?, . MA"1'UN NANl.KKS. enticnteu KS. ..-?t.i Adiniiiistrator. I'l.ItTAIT, M. D .Pur. ur.T, b,,"!f.iin, St. AneuHtiiit;. "'-ti l "'tS'it calls should tie maile f8-1.7,'77.-U.J r.-'.JECIILEIl, Attorney at I ";nrg. P. om.afc In Col- tiik loitrv-At Ri: brji, I'm thitikinp, wife, of neighbor Jotien, tht roan with stalwart arm, Who lire in peace and pleuty on a forty acre farm, AVbil men are all around u, with hands and hearts a ncore, Who own two hundred acres and eiill are wanting more. He has a pretty little farm, a pretty little house. He lias a loving wife within, as quiet a3 a mouse; His children play around the door, their father' lift to eharm, looking as neat and comely as the tMy lit tle farm. No weeds are in the corn fields, no thistles in the o:its. The horses show their keeping by their fine and k's..V coats ; The cows within th meadows, resting 'neath the beechen shitde. Learn all the gemle manners of the gentle mi. King maul. Within the fields on Saturday he leaves no -rajivd grain, To be gathered yn the morrow, for fear of coming rain ; He keeps i fie Sabbath holy itia children learn his ways And plenty fills his baru and bins after the harvett Jjys. He never has a lawsuit to take hitn to the town, For the yery reason there are no lio fences slow it ; The bar-room in the village .does not have him for a charm ; 1 cau always find my neighbor on his forty acre i'anu, Hi acres are so rery few he plows them very deep ; 'Tis his own hands that tarn the soil, 'tis his own hands that reap ; He has a pla-e or everything, and things are iii their place ; TIe iiiiisliiiie smites upon his fields, content ment in his face. May we not learn a lesson, .wife, from pru dent lleighlair Jones, And not fcr what we haven't got give tip to si i; lis and moans? The rich ain't always happy, nor free from life's alarm; But blest are those who live content, fhougli Mil a 11 may be their farms. A XAILlLOir KSCAfK. 5Iy old fiieiiil and school m ale, Philip Colcoid, when he went into the amiy fcft his diary in my possession, at tl.e same time teUinj me that, if I found anything iheieiti worth using, I might put it iu fdiaiie and give it to the woild. I have just opt tied s.iiil iliary, anu almost tne nist thing that attracted tiy atUiyljoii was tl.e record from which I make th following sketch ; S.-tne years njjo mj- physician tokl me I .mist leave the counting house and Ir.vvel foi my health. Let il not be thought from this that I was a wx-.ik, puny man. Far from it. In fact, I was too stout and strong for so much confinement, the tesult of w hich was a moibid stnte of the liver, and weakening of tlvo digest ive oikuiis, w ith accompanying dyspepsia and const tpa ion. I knew I he physician was ligbt, and I at once planned a voyage to Europe ; but my patents were sinximi to know if a horse back tide through the Southern States would not be full as good for me. The doctor said it would be bi tter. ''Then," cried old Lattilat, the -head of our firm, "you will kill two biids with one stone." I he nieanin"; of which was that I cuild visit, a thousand and one corre sjiiwidowts in the Cotton States, and sipnue up a thous and and one accounts while hu.kingjafier my lost health. 1 had U objextioKs to (his. 1 teamed it by rati si f.tr Cincinnati ; thei.ee by water to New Orleans. Then 1 took the river back to Vicksburg. wheie I boitiiht a horse, and started across the country to the eastward, intending to strike the Atlantic .ca4t at vmiah. Late one evening I ai rived at a small fiet- lenient near live Totpbiglve, .in Alabama, where J found quite a comV table inn. After KUpper I sit down in the bar -room, and kooi! wcovciJ that among the guests present were the Sheriff of the district and two of his deputies ; and by listening to the conversation J leaiued tlvAt tliey i' eie ut on iiiii-Uifct4-iuew.. L:r, when alone with 0c landlord, I was informed of the paiticulais. That section of the country had lor a long time been infested by a gang ofdcsirate villains -river-piiatesand horse thieves who had lobbed and muidcred both travelers and citizens, and who had thus far succeeded in eluding the vigilance ..f the ofiicers sent afcer them. There was something wonderful in ibis, for the most expei t detec ives had been upon the track of the marauder many times, and jet not even a clue Ir.id been pained to their hiding place. That they bad a hiding-place was very evident : and, further, it was a phice where both men and horses could be effec tually concealed. The host declared that it was very mysterious; it whs past bis coinoiel.em;iin. FW mure lb."" y-ar plantations tiv robbed; travellers have been robbed ; boats upon the l iver have been robbed, and even large sett le nient have bee" invaded, by these bold outlaws. The publican's idea was, that they had a big cave somewhere under ground: fT if their rendezvous had lieoii above ground the ofiicers woulu.haye Aiud it befoie tlii". , . . On the following morning we ate brraK fast at au early hmtr, atid :lun t!y - aer wards the Sheriff and his -dejusUej. off to the southward, towards a lienJui the river, Ueref the.ee of Uatbont had been robbed only a f-w dys beloi. JJy coutee lay to the eastward, as I bad business at Ca'You'd ' iaio il be,ter" 8a!d mv ,,os,, "if vou'd crossed the river at Uluff-rt. In that case you'd a had a direct road to 'ahaw ba : but now you' ve got to take near, v half the distance in wildcat road and mule pa.!., llowsumever, if yu i ve Bt good boss, you'll make out I eckon-.b t is, if you don't get picked up.by the pi- 'aiehHd been aware of the character of the road that lay before me, and had rathe i preferred it to the belter ut to It e Ub. ward. I had plenty of time, and I liked to see these oHt-of-the-way plantations, a..d as for hospitality, it was U alike. I t home anywhere. With one or two excep i?.n it semed to be the chief aim of the planters to make my tay with them m acreeable a possible ; and I found 'more SfSty io gittn Tom tbc.r doors than 1 did hi jiuiunii: I set out from the settlement at eight o' clock, and at the distance of some live or ux miles I met a man who informed me that the water was too high for a comfott able fording of Linden Creek, and that I would find it pleasant to turn to the south ward, and go below the Big Drake; refer ring to a cane brake not far distant which covered several hundred acres of the rich bottom land. This was a route but littlo traveled ; but I minded not that so long as there was a plain path ; so I jogged along nion this new way, which 1 found to be dreary and lonesome enough. I had no fear of robbers, but still the character of (lie road w as a Isolated to excite one's cau tion, and I instinctively drew out my re volver and examined the charges, and the caps; and when I had done ibis I slipped it into the side-pocket of my sack, where J could reach it most handily, After this I wliistjed, and then sang a few veiscs of an old song, for the purpose, I suppose, of j convincing the biidjs that I was very cheer I ful and easy. By and by I reached a point where the path crossed a little stream, and here I was i j'Mtied by a horseman who hitd come out from thj timber to the eastward. A bis beast had beeu drinking, I did not notice hun untjl 1 was close upon him. lie was a middled ajred tnau ; of uu-diiiju sic, dressed in a common hunting garb, and canyit g a lille before him upon his saddle bow. If this nian was really a hunter, I thought he wis entirely different from other liunteis haj met iu that country. His fjoihe were vas ly belter ; and he lacked the free and easy off-hand way x your genuine funster, lie hailed me as though lie was surprised to see me there, and I could not. divest myself of tjie impression that he re guided me as an iiiiciK.'pcr. He looked at me sharjily, and as he dieiv up uear my side he icd : '"Do you belong iu these pails?" It- struck me then that he might be an oflicer looking after the river piiatus. 1 told hi.-'J! XJiat Z was a stranger in Ihal scc ion. traveling paitly for jny health, and paitlyon business; and I furthermore told him that I was on my way to Cahaw ba. He looked at me again, taking a careful survey of .my wjtole tiguie, and tl.eji reinaiked, as we stalled away fioni the brake : J s'pose the creek is full ?" "Yes," said I. "And so you have to come this way?" 1 said 'yes," again. "Thafs paitly the case wiUi me," he said, "(hough I aint going exactly your way for any great distance. Kallicr a loiiesoine load, isn't it?" "Jt is, ceitainly," "Not a veiy pleasant place to meet rob bers," he suggcJted, 1 admitted that lt3 was correct. "Have you heaid anything about, those chips?" "You mean the robbers?" "Yes." I now felt sure that tny companion was a detect b,e, and I told him what 1 had seen and heard at the inn wlii'ie I had last stopped, lie w as deeply interested very deeply inieiested ; and I ventured to sug gest that he might be Searching after those very i-illians. "Do you leaUy think so?" he asked. I told him I thought so from the first. Zounds!" hiinut e edj with a snuje, "I must le more careful, or I fchull expose myself too much." Then he acknowledged that he was an officer, and as we rode on I told him all I had heaid concerning' .the outjaw. In the con iso of haif an hour we loft the timber, and soon afterward we came in sijjht of the cane brake. It was a curious sitflit, that maze of cane stretching away almost, as far as the eye -could reach: and as I came nearer I wondered not that even experienced hunters S' lnelimes Just their way aiI nt-an-ed to .death iu the trackless depths of sueh a labyrinth. For the dis tance of some two miles we rode along close by the edge of the biake, and then we were forced o bear to tUe rsgtrt. on ac coy nt of the so ftt icss of fclie soil, and pre ty soon uecmu-tc1 w here a body of water lay between us and ilie canes, TJi'ia .water seemed to be a sort of bayou, fed iy m stream beyond my flight, and it certainly Lad a w&2jpy, disual look, suffgeslive of snakes and alligators. We had passed a point of wood that made. close down to the water, w.eu I fancied that, i hear,d the .sound of horses' feet behind me, and upon turning I beheld four horsemen just emerg ing from t tie wood. My companion cer tainly endoavoied to make some sign to I hem, but they did not, see hun. They kept stiaight on to the edge of , the bayou went into I he water as though it were a c intiiiuation of the road, the horses mov infT with perfect assurance, nnd finally disappeared within the depths of the caue brake. I looked at my companion, aii3L.eloiwci at me. "Thal'js ra.l&ervirions, isn't ii ?" be said. And he looker 4.to my face veiy sharply. "Cniions enough,"' i leplicd. -'What d'ye s'pose it means?" he que ried. It had naturally occurred to me that within the cane brake might be the hidden retreat of the robbeis, and that the place of passage across the bayou w as know n only to themselves ; but I did not spenk my mind o mv companion. I intimated to him that I had no idea of its meaning. "It isn't iiip.iaible," he pursued, with his eyes still fixed sharply upon me, ":hat the rase lis we've been speaking o Lwta haunt in there somewhere." jojd bici I tUouirbt it qirte likely. We rode on a tdiott distance futther, and cloe by a spur of the timl.er be told tne that he trust leave me. "I t.hould like to keep on with you," be said, "but I must take the rest of my way alone. Here is my path." He bade nie g.od-bye ; hoped we should meet again; gave me some directions touching my route; and then turned toward tlie timber. Dear reader, did you ww. cither while standing in the street, or in some crowded assembly, grow ,n,erv.os ivd ivieasy tinder the impiasww Uiat someone was g'ive.V!" you? and have you not under ." circumstances, looked around and found a pair of bright electric eyes fixed upon you ? Something so felt I as J rode away from that stranger. " At icul) the feeling became opprc-styo and I stopped and turned. In auo. her in stant I should have been a tjeaxl man'! The seeming hunter had dismounted, and l as keen black eye was glancing along . aver the barrel of his lifle directly at, my heart. Quick as thought I slipped from my sad--ii- ..nH on tlie same second a bullet came 1 IiU.iug oycj my shoulder close to my car. j I think the tenth pait of a second lost to j me at that time would have beeu fatal.- The villiuu supimsed, of course, that be had shoe me, and leaving his boise behind he hurried toward me. Under such cir cumstances I could have no hesitation. 1 waited until he had arrived within a few paces, and then I leveled my pistol and shot him through tlie heart. Ic kept on toward me, and I fired a second time ; but the first shot had been sufficient. "You're a fjno traveling companion, aieu'l ye !" saixl J, as I bent over hun. He started to his knees, and raised his hand toward the cane-brake, and, tried to cry out, either for help, or else to warn his companions there hidden, Jjgt his voice had failed him, and he bank back dead without having spoken a woid. With as little delay as possible I dragged the body up into the timber, and having remounted my own horse and taken the rein of the dead man's horse over my arm, I started back. I did not follow tlie road over which I hjci come, but kept to the southwaid, toward Brickett's Foul, wheie the sheriff had talked of going. By the middle of the afternoon I was on the track of ti e officers, though I did not find thctn until evening. I told them what I had dis covered, and early on the follow ing niorn '"Cj with fifty or sixty well ai ined citizens, w sut off toward the Big Brake. I re membered the place where the horsemen had taken to the water, -it id upon entering here, and following carefully along, we found a hard road, wlier.e going peculiar movement of the flood h.id thrown up a ridge of gravel. Having gained the cane-b;-eak our way was clear enough, for ue found an open path, cut thro.uch the canes, and at ihe distance of a quarter of a mile, where th. ground was liiel, and dry, we caiiie upon the Kidjcis camp. Twelvaof the ticspeiadoes are there, and weie easi ly captuied ; and the amount of property which fell into the hands of t he ocVicers was huge. Some of the villains were away and probably made good their escape. The chief of the gang, a Tesan ranger, oT the name of Bastrop, was Lhe individual wh,o had overtaken me o:i the road, and whom 1 had shot. Had he been content to let me depart iu peace i doubt if I should have been the jcatise of trouble to hi.i;;. As I have already said, it had occurred to taa that the haunt of the robbers was in the cane-brake ; but. as I had no particular de s'ne to be mixed up in such a mesH,I might have kept on my jvay allowing ijv joper ofiicers to attend to the finding of the out laws. The cowardly atteuipt upo;iuy life, however, detei mined nuj olherwj.se-; and the last act of John liast lop's career, in stead of saving his gang fioni arrest, as he had intended, pioved Ihe signal of the de sliuction 'jf both him and them. in: was -vor nnuxii. A few days sit ce a man, dressed in good clothes, an eye glass and a gold moutUed cane, and possessing altogether a rat Iter clerical appeaiance, hailed a passing street car. There was 4-wi hiiiiif unusual or pnr ticitlaily noticeable i:i this except the air of lofty dignity w ith which he commanded a halt, and the despeiate efcoii, which he had made to maintain his center of gravity as he patad U the car, and to conceal tlie fact thai he was slightly inebriated. Ai rivir.z at the door, he soleauny raised his right foot to enter, but not raising it quite high enough, he fell headlong on the jjoor of the car. liaising himself up with diiii culty, Icas, a seveiely reproving look at the old ueiilleman who sat near the uoor anil said : "Sir, w hat d'ye lift ijn this car for just as I was going to get in ?' "My dear sir, 1 xiidn't lift -the car," le plicd Ihe old gentleman, meekly. Casting as steady a gaze upon the old gentleman as he could, under tile ciicuni stancSj he eiJied ; 'Well, (cihaa you didn't. I won't 'tempi, t'i argue with a man in your condi tion. My amiable friend it's my calm and deliberate puilivi. that you have been looking upon the wiie v Iu;.n j' is red. Very sorry to see it it. a man of your ag.e. What F ou s'pose your mother would say if she should sec you iutossicaled ? My friend. I've wept many W-i'ter tears oy-jr such cases as yours. Yes" continued -he, ina falie:ing jcoiee, anil pulling out his handkerchief, "and I'm d d if I ain't weeping now ; this you'll i-RHjdiJy obsei ye." Whereuu.Jii he wiped bis .tj'.co w.Uii -a giand flourish, blew his nose, and naviga ted to the other end of tjje car. When he reached Lis dcsl iual ion he pull ed the bell sii'4-&ud started for the door. hen he got about haif way, and just as begot in fi en; t of a lady, he tiipjved aiid fell lull length upon the floor, liaising I'jinsili perpendicular, he turned to the lady, and, iu a tone of mingled seveiity and, w hiskey said : "Madam you've certainly got the big gest feet I ever saw iu my life." "Si i " "Oi,, don't 'pologtze, madaine, I beg you don't "pologize. You "le not to blame for it. But if you could just pare 'em jduwju a little, 'twould be a gieat accomodation to the tiaveling public.'" 1 The lady was speechless x-hh iv-digiix-tion, the passengers wore convulsed, and the gentleman stalked majestically to the door, stepped to the ground, and immedi ately sat down. 4.8 the car moved away, he arose, ejtajiiined his clot.hes, .looked up and down the street, wavtv.4 ids hand iu ay uncertain manner, and walked away. Ak Editok's ArrEAb. As the report that we are veiy wealthy has gone abroad among our s.ubTi ibM, and lias made them awful slfiv about paying up, thinking, doubtless, we don 'j, .want Ihe money, we hasten to say the report of our wealth is fals,e iu every particular. If ocean steam ers wer.e sel'ing at a cent 3. Aiozeu wej couldn't make the first payment on a canoe. 1 he lightning of poverty has struck ns square, and bad it not been for 911 Wiuful of hay our e.vU tpaiwgd to sleaj from a blind mule, or Jarge and interesting fami ly would JLo i.t!i7t mouthful to eat at this moment. Is uo his a sad cture, and can you delinuuetit. subscribers look upon it without feeling the greenbacks ins- 1 tie w ith, tudignatioii iu your pockex.-oaoks r We do Mvt like to duu, A;ut. we must if you fail to take Hie hhkl.gfienan.'Xtai (!.) Penwcrat. A young ina in town woke up tlvo other night and saw a ghost iu bin room. Seiz ing his six shooter, be approached it and found ii was lis collar which was standing on the floor. He calls it a case of collar iu phantom. DIFFIKKM i:. "I'm afther ax in', Biddy dear-rr' And here he paused awhile To fringe his words the merest mite With something of a sudle A smile that found its image n a faei of beauteons mould, Whose liquid eyes were peepipg From a broidery of gold, "I've come to ax ye, Biddy dear, If " then he stopped aaiu, A if his heart hail bubbled o'er And overflowed ins brajn ; Jlis lips were twitching nervously O'er what he Lil to tell. And timed their quavers with the .eyes That gently rose and fjb'.J. "I've cown " and then he took her hands And held them i:i his own, "To ax " and then he watched the buds That on her cheek had blown ; "Me nurty dear " and then he I heard The t lirolil.i ng of l,-r heart, That told ho hive had entered iu And claimed its every part. "Och! don't lie tazin' tno," she said, With just the faintest sigh, "I've siuse. enough to see you've come, But what's the reason why?" "To ax " and onee'agrnn the lougv.u ForlMire its sweets to teJJ, "To ax if Mrs. Mulli.'iu Has auy pigs ty tmli?' lloie Dittos Ijost His Scalp. AX C' D I.NPIA.N FIOHTEf;'SISCKJt-?iO:.Cf a. IIATTLE. Delos G. San be rt son, who lives in Mon roe county, New Yoik, is an old Indian tighter, and one of few persons who have b.eu scnlped, an.d live to fidl l;oiy it. fejt. On Urn top of hi head is a t, red, bare spot, the bi.e of a man's baud, showing w Here his scalp was cut and torn off. Al though seviwi years 1 uive passed, the spot is still tender eu.J looks raw. "That bald spot -'II lu-yer let me forget the last battle 1 was iu with the J Indians, I reckon," be says in relating the circutn 8 ances connected with his scalping. "I was with Custer in "9, iu the Infantry. We'd liiUJti eypect in' to come on to some o' old Black Kiltie's gang o' red devils fin some days. We knowed they was camped somewhere in the Big Horn Valley. Early otic morning-CT-it was Just a gettiti' liglu we get sight of 'em iu the valley, from quite a hiph pitch o' ground. The cav'hy we had w i:ii us ws more' 11 a mile in the rear. Some of our t.rpops ua sent 'round t come down and attack the Injins from t'other side. We wa'nt more'n eighty rods from the cused snakes. aicJ by full day light was ready to piudi into 'em. "The fit-in' commenced on both sides of 'em, and, com in' from both ways, it kind o' mixed 'em up for a intuit or two. But when oil Black Kittle came teariir dow n the front fr;m soie pla.ee iu tho rock, a yellin' and givin' oriieis, they soon rallied and commenced gitling in tieir fa'or-ite positions. Damn thai old devil ! I kin see him now, his face painted with red and yejler strca.k.s, lengthways and crossways, a -loiii Miiug o' feahers hanging down his greasy bare Lack, and him a tearin' up and down on his Injin jny, whovpju' and yellin' anil givin' his ordeis. "I don't Hunk them cusses was a bit more'n tvo uiiniis a huutiir' ilaces behind rocks an' trees to fiie liom, and then you couldn't see more'n three inches of an injiu anywhere. They was camped in the spot will) .,e,:r women and papooses. We put a ball w hereier we could see a head or any piece of an injin, Tlieie was plenty o' squaws and young devils. aiuJ we didn't inaLja ny choice 'twixt them ai;l the men. We shot a squaw or a papoose jest as soon as we would; any other red thief. Damn eni, if they wasn't any sonars they wouldn't be auy papooses, and1 the papoo ses make J;onS thieves and scalfiers in the course of time. So a good Injin fighter 'il always go in for cleauiu' out 'he whole gang, an don t know age nor sex. on d kiii a she rati lesnaje ,an' a young rattle snake as quick as you would an old he fel low with twelve rattles, wouldn't you? Well rattlesnake is angels :loiig side o' In jin. "Aftoririu' ibis way for a spell, we got .orders ,to charge down the It'll l ight into the Injin camp. We tore down, everyone of us a yellin' as bad as any o thedevile we was figh'in'. Their ten s was all a st.andiu', an, there was plenty o' Injins 'round 'em an' in 'em. We scooted along Ihe alleys 011 the double-quick, peggiu' away an' usin' the bay'i:et. I'coty wimi it got to be a general free tight. Ole Black Kittle held his ted thieyes riJit to the spot' au' our charge on 'em oijy roiuht us light 'motig 'em. Soldiers, Injius, squaws, and papooses all was mixed up iu the fitfhtj an' the yellin was been! fur two miles by the cav'lry that as comiti' on b. -hind us. It was in the winter, you know, air the snow was 'bout two foot deep. It want long 'fore they was a good mar.v dead soldiers and dcaJ wumcn and d'ad ( young vnji iiKi a year old up, layni about i;i snow, promiscus like, and mebby you've heerd o' red snow. Well, this snow is red, but not the kind o' red that you've heeid of. "Well, tne au' another soldier named Wagner was fightin' in one edge o' the thickest part of -the village, iivga narrow aj ley. All of a s'iddin whang ! went a gun from behind a tent, an' Wagner had killed his last injin. The red devil who fired the &Lut sprang right o.ut in front o' me with his tomahawk raised. I'd a sent my bay' net .ilean through his greasy carcass in an other second, but an infernal squaw ketciied 1110 round the neck, and flopped me as utiick as iigliUiiu' on my back in the snow! 5iy gun fell mt o' my bands, an' there were uioie'u twenty squaws and papooses jump in' and yelhu' around me in less" 11 no lime. made u spiing to get up, but a she devil graldjcd me iu the hair and yanked me back .quicker. The Ii jin U'-M Jiad shot Wagner, who iid .dead not more'n a foo fio.m me, keichej &p ;ny gun, and clubbin' it, .vjli.acked me overiJi,e bend. If he hadn't beeu a damn fool he cud Just as well stuck the bayonet through oie. if jmu tLiui-: a clip over the bend with the bun eiJ 0 heavy army musket, in the hands of an In jiu as big as two o' you, an' who loves you so that he wouldn't like auy belter fun t hau ch.wvir your beaj t out J say, if you think il wou't make jou feel sick, tuebbeyou bet ter La-e it Hied on jou once. It didn't make 1X8 senseless, but I felt all over like a may' foot does when it's asleep. Eveu if theajnn tH(uaw hadn't nte eiomi by the hair, v:le a lot of greasy papooses was a pouudju' au kickeu' :ue iu the face, all of 'etu yellin' like a crazy asylum, I couldn't . 00 moie 'a got up than I could a slep' w ill an Injin ! An' yon kin sl-.oot me if I wouldn't cut my ears off an' eat 'em raw rather' 11 do that ! "I know'd just as well as I knowed any thing that my hair wero goin' to be raised ju less'n two seconds unless some o the boys seen my fix and made the devil a present o that Injin. I heard some o' the boys give a shout, an' knew by the scatier iu' 'among the sqaaws and young oil. s that some o 'em were a comin.' J hi e: d a shot and a yell, an' the squaw that bad yanked me down f. l! and with half her b ly on me. The big Injin was game, any how. He kicked the dead squaw off o' jjie, and then set one o' his feet on tny client. The nuib fee, in' had almost ieft tup, and I could see the fringe 011 the leggins of the Injin. I knowed what be were after, an if ever a man cussed and swore to his.sc'f, that man was me, because none o' the boys seemed to get there, nor to shoot. Two o the soldiers war a comin' for ma all tlie time, b'.;t the business was done so quick ihat they didn't have time to shoot again' afier killin' the squaw, 'till the thing weie over ; but it seemed niore'u a week to me. "The Injin bent down quick and grab bed me in ihe scalplock. Lord ! how he jerked. I shut my eyes. Then it felt as if some oiie had ripied a gash with a dull pair o scissors all 'round the top o' my head, au' then poured a ladle full o' hot. lead in it. A flash o' the a wfullest, sharp est pain ll;et jiu he imagined tan all through me, cleau to the end o niy ties. Then it seemed as if a horse w as hitched to uiy liair 911' he was stiutii with a whip, give a sud den spring, an' tore the top o' my head off fiom side to side. I cud feel my knees draw up, and my hands g,j shut and grab iu the snow, and I set my nails rlean into Jh.tf lesh. The sensation was jest as if from the top o' my head tlieie .had run colds down thronch my body, which were fastened in my flesh all along, and thai these had all tore loose from my toes up. .and followed the top .0 my head when it W'tis jerked cdF. I knowed I were scax-d, and th.it were all I knowed for three days. "Aboi:t the time I lost, my hair the cav alry come up, and tjie In'ins was licked, and they wa'nt many of 'em got. away. The boys wl o seen the Injin scalp me said they killed him ; but if they did, they didn't git. my scalp back. It monghta got lost in tjus snow, though. They sent me to Laramie, nnJ fiiyr or fjve weeks I had a loptie the softest head that everjset on any man's shouUieiC. They let me come East to get sound, and I've tence been bon'ably d ischarged, the Gov'tncn.t Say in that a man that had been scalped ouce by the Injins j mid done all that cud nat'ially expected J of him from ti is country. I'm a itchin', 1 thoygl;, to git .t "niong them dUy Tecs Purses, and if the boys hail anybody else a j handliu' of 'em bul that Gen. llowaid. who 1 don't know no more 'bout' fightin' Injins than the Prince of VYalei, I'd be out there too. as quick ss I could get thetc. They's ciu; thim? certain, the deviis can't git any more sca!pout o' tne if they ever have a chance." 11 EM H!K.M!I,KCiX;XE JilTEiMU FyCK. Aniong tlie passengers lost on the steamer St. Clair, on Lake Superior, vas a man named Stewart, of Duluth. He bad a small English spaniel, w hich ;i ashore. Tiu; doc was well known at Duhilh a:id along the northern Pacific lailroad, and was remarkable for iijs intelligence and scarify. His owner was employed by id it: Noithein Pacilic roail to measure tiui ber rfclii-eiivi ly coi.tiacos The dog would take the end of the tape-line and go to the end of the log. sixty or seventy feet long and hold it at the end until his mas ter would hold i' at the other, and do this all day 'cnguti il the timber was measuied. 11 is master would send to the post office, simpiy saying to him "gimp get letters ;" the dog would go to the postoii.ee :'.;id go around to one of ihecleiks, 1-iok a1, him, wag his tail, and was so well known tlie cle-k would give him letters, which lie "Aould carry back to I. is master, aj;d in the same way would cany lettcis which his master had written to Ihe office to be mailed. His scent was very acute. Coming home fiom the woods one day, Stewait w as met on the road by a company of young eofde, w ho had been at a picnic, about a half mile away. One of tho young ladies had left I or p.nasol on the ground. Stewart calLv his dog, and poin cd to the path said, 'go Itud and bring here.' The dog was gone about 13 or 20 minutes, and returned with the parasol. A pile of lum ber, put in Stewait's charge, nas being stolen. Si"w:iit called his dog. took him to the pile and said, watch ii and see who lakes it." Two or three days afterwaid Ihe dog came to im.i iu the morning, and by signs familiar to his masier, told hitn to follow -hiui. Ste.wait took a policeman with him, and told the dog to goon, and he led them ab.uil a quarter of a mile to a shall y, occupied by a Scde n the bank of a lake. They looked under the sliamf and saw a l.atge J.i'e .f boards. Tlie fcwe.oe was arru et, taVeu oeloro lue .pis tice, and. Slew ri told ihe justice what the dog had done. The justice al oucj con victed the Swede of the larceny. A great many other doings of the dog aie known to the people if Duli'tli and il is to be hoped that he will fail into good hands. Wjrj'iTl.iNO SctO'ii,. Boston has a whit, ling school iu which boys from twelve to sixteen years of age are adiuivUi-l Mid iusli.ucted in th pracical fealuios of fjie wujqd .cdiJ.cili adc,'lioni 7 to 9 o'clock on Tuesday ami Fiiday evening of each wcej. Each boy is provi.icd with a 4 feet length at a bciwh feet wide, w Lb vice, tools and gas lignt. Tlie iiii ion is free and thetc ai,a nioie aj-jilic.iiits than can be ac commodated. The j.iaco of any boy who is absent for t.vo successive evenings is rilled by nnmhei. A record of a bo's piogiess is kept and las idupon the wall before hitn, so that he alway s knows what progress he is making in tluj estimation of his i 11st 1 net 01 s, who are trailed mechanics employed for tlie puriose. The object of the school is to lake advantage of the nal yra. tajent any student might jM.ssess. The idea seems to be a gissj one and is even if it accomplishes nothing more than teach the boy habits of industry and keeping theiu of the streets at iiigiit- TuJ? toleiihono may be well enois j"j as a nius'cai disseminator, but w bat the count ry needs u the invention of some suit of musi cal conductors wliich may bo applitd to hand organs and tiii-ifiui-piauo in such a tuauner as to conduct the "laiiMc" leiiso lessly olt; auifduu p it in soi.,ie outof-tlio-y,ay plaot, wbeite H wlli uy )ttui vtLCu sive. lot. J:, A. Alston's Vortune. AX AOItFF.ATU.K STOWY OF A l'liOni KCT BT A CANAItV, ANU ITS lLI.FlLMt.NT. The Atlanta (Ga.) Cunltvtior. tells tho following interesting story, showing how Col. 11. A. Alston, a former journalist of that city, was made b-ppy tbtough the propheovof a canary and a news paragraph iu the Baltimore un which was brought to bis attention : Several month? ago Gen. Gordon and Col. It. A. Alston were walking down Pennsyl vania avenue, in Washington City. They noticed a crowil standing 011 The sidewalk, and npoji investigation discovered a porta ble stand u i,un i hiIi a grave and specula tive group of canary birds were engage! iu telling the fortunes of Jhe bystanders. The viotiun operandi wag t'ujple. A stranger would give 01, e of the I'ir.ls a nickle. The iijr.l would then Imp oft" to a basket near by ai.,1 piclc ;:p a little envelope in bis bill an. I carry it to tlie exie:tii;t i.-i.siomer. In this envelope he would tinit a small piece of pa per, 011 which was printed the history of Ids future life at least 4 canary bird's-eye view o! it. Moved by one of those unaccountable Im pulses that operate with the great as well ss the lowly, Gen. Gordon announced bis pur pose of trying bis luck with the birds. H handed the wisest looking canary he coitl.l see a careful! y-selecte.l nirUei and awaited the result. The bird returned with sn en velope, wliich the Senator opened. It an nounced that the Senator "talked too tun.-h, had five children, and would live In lie Ni years of ne.'' fbe Senator remarket! that the first part of the fortnne was not true, llrit the second was, and he imped the third wniild lie. J,poti this eiicouritgiiig resume Col. Alston tieteruiineii to have, bis fortuun 1 ii-d ; so be chased a nickel into the corner of his brecehes-Micket, and, capturing one, handed it To a lileJy.-l.M.k ing lird, ami re quested him To move ahead w ill, the pano rama. The hirtl looked at Ihe Colonel care fully, as it' he felt that the case iu hand re quired I. is very tinest judgment, ami then moved off in a profoundly couti-inpiati ve aud n Hective mood. He soon retpriied with an envelope, w hich lie .ib;lie;-;Jd to the Colonel. The tirst clause of the fortune was this : "You invite Too many people To your house; many of those jou invite are not your friends." That much was true. The "hos pitality of Col. Alston is as wide ud spon taneous ay that of the biblical geutieuiaa who, when ! had a wedding iu his house, frit so good about it that he sent out the po lice to lieat up his guests from the bushes and thicket. lint the above, whs a small part of the pro phecy. Tlie printed slip went on to re:-it that the Colonel would in a i-hort limn re ceive a large sum of money." Jte thought at first that. Ihis was tidings dire but grateful about his big fee which was then iu tho prospective. But the paper v,mt on to say that he would receive this f.irt.ir.e as an iu lie; itance, ami that it would 4ai the basis ou which he would build a ib-liiiite prosperity, lie folded the scrap of paper, put ii iu his pockr-r, aji.l went to Wihi-.d's. where ho met Judge Lochraiif. I J - was showing th paper lo this genial gent It -u.au, with the big Irish heart, vji'-n l.e wns intern. j t,-d by ihe exclamation: "Vir I, v, n.y ii.-ar sir, jour tor tune is alrea.lv left- yon. J saw thin very day in the Baltimore fs'm, tl.a' John K. Als ton, of Hr.10i.lyn, had died, leaving a lortuuo of about ?H00. 0(1(1 10 lie divided aiming his heirs ami relatives in the South." Colonel Alston then hurried out to find the Iialti 11, ore a-oii. JJe fa.:I.j4 however, and the matter dropped (u,i ," his mind. A day or two afterward Attorney Seueral Iteveus asked him if he was any kin To.!. E. Alston, of itrooklyu, remavtijig that that genilemau had left a .fonuiui t.. U-tli id.-.l au.ong his relatives. 'i,liniel Alst,u repHetl -arcles!v, and coining to Georgia. .-., ti afier, forgot all anoiit (be. clear-eyed cauaiies ami their ru- phefV. A few days ng,i, however, he receiviil a printed copy of tin- will of .h.l.i, K. Alston, addressed to him as ihih of the le-irs yf th iHte. The w ill twiieai l,e,l various speci ftVtl suiniiuts lo special h.-irv, ami then re ite.l that T hi? ba'.anct , iii mh,i ing in S-l'.iJ,-OOli, shoiiiti lie tli.-ti ii,..!. ,1 lo the heirs iu Georgia ai'd South Garoiimt llm uiii tha agency of Mr. All.er Glover, t'ol. Alstoa yesterday recei v-.t a letter, vh:ch n rxam- i lliett. 1st, in hr. l lover, a mem ut-i ug that be j would ii G.fo.-gtit u-f,,ie long to have a personal iutervhik-with Col. A Nit, n concern ing the ilistriiiuiji.il, a, 1, 1 a'so amioiincing , that he was tu inking the tm:ii-r to a che as rapi.iiv as poss,n.e. .Mr. Jvi-r iioyce, of Au gus'a, has I Im card upon which the fortune was printed, hu:. Colomd Alston has written to htm fur i, that i,- u.-.ty he readv to meet tin- Mile or inquiry :!,:ai i h.s article will turn loose upon him. The alio vo strj-5s true in everv l.artien. j l.-ir. It is a remarkable story iu itself, but w nen i.ikcii in c hi 'iect 1011 with the numer ous miracles ot In, k That have l.eeii worked in twha'.f of Cy.U-iiel Alsteii, Incomes much mme rem:irl.-al lc. Wepie.iM-l ihat be w ill i clear S-'it.'-JO by the lit tier inherit auce. Fot t'.TKK?.- M.ixii ; .)ij Daily Like. "IWoial Courage" was printed in large let teisas he caption of the L. doming items, and placed iu a conspicuous place on tha thior of a i-t n.tatic meioliant in New Yoik, I n eoimliiin jitVu-iur, and furnish ed by him for public. il i. ,11 ; Have the cour-ge to dis.:..irg a debt while yon have Ihe um.fy iu your p.n ket. H ive the coinage f-jll mau whyyott relne 10 credii hiui. Have the courage to 1,11 a mau w by you wid not lend h,m your tiiouev. Slave the t-our.i;.'e to prcj: r con. fort aLd proprietj- lo faJ.iiii in i.ll il.n.i;-. Have tl.e courage lo wear your old clothes until you can pay for new- ones. Have ihe courage to ow n iht you ure oor and thus disarm poverty of iis sling. Have the courage todo v. iiiuMii that which, von tin not need, hov-i-icr lunch your eves may covet it. Have lhe courage to insure the property in your imtsussion, and Ihi-icby pay your debts iu full. .lave lhe courage in preparing uu filter t iii,tiK-i,i for yoyr I'tiei.ds not I o exceed vour means. Have the courage to speak loa friend iu a seedy coat, eji-u thotigh .'-a are iu compauy iih a rich one, uud richlyattiretl. Have ih: cnurage to speak jour mind when it is tit-cessaiy t.i do so, and lo hold your tongue y. hen il is prudent jou shouiil tlo so. Have the courage to show your resect fir honesty, iu whatever guise ii appears, md co!i!e:t for dishonesty and tlup.icuy, bv wVWMieviT exhihited. iiave the iMiirage lo t ut the most agree atilc a iiaintaiicu jmi have w h.-n ymi are coitvim-eil that he ia.-kii principle. A frieud slioiilil U-;ir uilli a fik-ud's iutirtii.iHes, but not with his vices. TmI-'Y hid a deaf mute's picnic up at Mat blche.jd last week. Those, wlioil m't be lieve Ij.rte is such a thing as uiijxkeu pio r,m;! should have seen ihe exiot-siou of I t,uo tf the voiceless young man .!" the I arty ! if bad ut dov. a ou a 'Jtd he&i- thy buoibie Its. ' "" I i -i. .j
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