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'HE 16 A FREEMAN WHOM THE TRUTH HAKES FREE, AND ALL ARE SLAVES BESIDE.'
Terms, S2 por year, in advance.
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EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1877.
NUMBER 35.
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Jeuiffs sales.
1 r nn.!rv writs of fend. E;rfn.,
, i o the Court of Common Pleas
i'J .untv '' ' "' directed, there
jSr J'l to Public Sale, at the Court
l?M'r.st"''.
Saturday, October 6, 1877,
u P. M.. the following real estato
''l,f ' to wit :
. - - - b -l t
-writ title a inirrrm ui r.rwim
.n i tn I'lee or parcel of land sltn
. .i,ir, i'amtrla county. I'a.. nd-
r- . ,f J'.lm S l.mldt. Joseph Rritner.
''"foiK cvntnlnlnx 73 acres. aloot 20
r i i,vlnii .hereon eree-ted a on, and a
irk h.'U-e and a Irame stable. In the
" Vt Er!no I'eth. Jo. a piece or
i.i.i tiius'f In t'ainhrla township, t'arn
' .t Pa a.ljoinln? lands id R. Is. Jolin-
Iiri'ki'l. and John Bodenrhatt it
,rri and r perches, anlm
'T.kcn In execution and to be sold at
". , A. Shoemaker, attorney in fact fur
r'M the rild title and Interest or Fred
,rr nd MI' liael :. Snyder, of. In
' or parcel of land situate In Harr
CtmlTi ctintr. Fa.. adjoining lands
' ,pwpl" K char 1 Olttinea. and tleorare
' , " tt,e mth. N'atltnn Hrackeu on the
iJurl strun on the north, cantalnina:
more or l'". unimproved. Taken In
M,al lo he sold at the suli of Joseph
' tt e riifht. title and Interest of John
.i'l ..f In sml ti a piece or parcel or land
, wu.nifhanna township. "atnbria cotin-
" ,' in'nir lands id" Leonard r'nrtntuirh on
V- wm Met 'om hie on the west, and (Ico.
'n-Lem-rtli and west, containing 67 acres.
, j' ut W ncres of which are cleared.
v' 'Wt' n erected a one and a half-story
! harn and l! elcsmlth Shop, now
' v in'vof .lulin f. Williams. Taken In
"DV ito liedd at the suit of H, V.. Kirk-
.,. riittd. title ami Interest o( John
,.'t. in aii'l t'a lot ot ground situate
i rinpnixh. Ciimtirla county.
. t-..r,,i IfKlinnn k. Iliintfninlnn
t-ir I xtent Ltiit Imrk 200 tcet loan alley.
' i,,:nf Mr'. Smeeder on the west ty
ir, !';'! "t l':'u' McKenna. lmvinir llire
t. rv- I." plunk house, wentlier
. 'n'r imw i"i'Uli''l Aln. three acres
! r Iv. ati'ilt one ncre ele-ired,
'., '. tu l'. Iteieh. I:iul McKennn
, ,,t. I runiiin taek M perches to old
i '. .s thereon cri-eted :i plank stable.
', '' r'iclit . title an-l Interest of John
t.- .n l litfiri' IJntrer. of. In mid to a piece
-.. il uti'l situ ite In Jarkson township
..',,.,111, fa , adjoining hinds of John
3ii':n II'" vio..f. and others cnrtiiin-
,. ,. .m"re "r less. .rsi n?resof which are
. :.ir r. tl.eTe-.ii erected a two-story lojr
I if.'iarii now in the oc-upnnc ol John
i-r I ". all the r.ifht. title and interest
ii'X r ati I i Icurne lla cr. of. in and
' st :'' itu.ite In J.icKsun township,
-j ui.tv. I'a.. ailjolninif l.-mds of John
H i. jm;n Iti-pshoof. and others, confnln-,-.
niri- ..r h-ss. havliur I hereon erecred
jn ir.rl. Taken into execution and to
t il..- -nit ol the t'otnmonwtvilth of
t.n :i I t u-ei.l Catherine 'on atie and
. r r.'Mhle. now for use of John Thomas
. i "i" r iitit."t:tle and Interest of A. t!.
try. William J.dinston. trailinaas Kinney
a...!, m :in'l to the following described
-jv. r , , w 1 1 :
; ..r parcel 1.1 land t tuafe In Chest
.i!M!.!iTi; nnty I'a.. ad ioininn laiids ot
i:--;-r:it. I Francis Sw:iu un the north, on
-. i"i!i; tmell tract. on the south hy
irimy a. Jul nst' n. and n the cst ly
- k. h'.i.i. ni 4-J ai res, m-To or less,
: ;.i-'i- nr iiirrel of land sitnatc in
i- l ( ":i ;t. f ti it I'oun'y. Ia.. Bil jninina
: f r.t -v .V .' hnston S leiiconnef I tract.
;.-:i:li.l ir I'm It'T'l, lltliolproTed.
. j r 'el of hind sdu.ite in t lies'
I'niiii.ria .i.inity I'a. adjoining lands
t' i. .la.'oO Thoma. and others.
V4 R irri". iiiore or less unimproved,
t f r irtreel of la ml sil ualc in Chest
'. I n-.i-.-ia -ismtv mljoiniiiK lands
ttik-r Michael kibbler. Adam L.eiden.
' it. lining JtO ncres, more jr less, un
.1 , i iv nr .:ir el of land s tuate in 'best
i-.'':i:iT:a county. I'a . adjoinintc lands
vijirj. John Ijtni iv and ot hers,
'.i imi a -r.-s tin reor l,-ss. unimpro e I.
I A . ..r p irccl ol lnod situate in hest
; t'ltn'-r a uiiry. Ia.. ud juininir lands
I. iciv. A'laoi I.ci.len. and others, eon
! . ; u n more or less unimproved.
'. ) -e ..r (mit'-i-I ol land situate in 'hest
; 1 Mi.t.r.a otintv. I'a. intjoiti liifr lands
' I'.'k.-r. Aiit!i..iiv'liil!. Isaac dates. nd
' itii acres, more or less unim-
' A cr ar 'el ol land situate In Chi St
'T'le'r,., ,it;ty. I'a. ai'ijoining lands
"r V'i,ner. .la tio-trf:li, ami others
') . i.-.. un .mproved.
' 1. 1 i .ir.'el of In ud situa to in 'hest
I ' 'iri.i 'iiintv. I'a.. adjoin nir lands
"lYilmi-r. M.-irtiti lieltriih. and others.
: ' i ,i, r s more or lees, unimproved.
or patcel of land situate In
" i ! i :ittitiv:a euutit y. I'.i adjo ninjr
'iii' K l;!.iii-ki tract, f iriney h. Johnston
itit;u.iiR :m ai.-ri s. more or leas un-
p'H'f ,T jurrel of lan I sltaate In
" ' )i Cainliria coanty . I'a.. ail.jolninic
F:nn .l. t. stoltt. an I others, con
V "'" ai..re r less, unimproved.
- A (hit.. ,.r irrel ,f Unit itune In
. -1 -1 p. t'litnlTia cisantv. I'a., adjoining
. Mi ...i. Heimett Sawyer, and others.
- '4 i -re., mure or lcss.'un i m pro ved.
" ! I'" or parcel of land situate In
t'atiihna county. I'a.. a'tininjr
I-hi -i. l-jirhart. Jacoti j'homas. and oth
i'i r " iteire or leu, unimproved.
"t iare nf land sitaite partly
r- 'I ' h t mii Carroll townships. !am
'" Va , k a iwn at tha lare hend tract
' ' A H. Mellon. William I. McKenzle,
' 'itam.n 4e aTcs unimproved
Ieei nr parcel of land situate In
, V.'"'!'-Catn'rta count v. I'a. adjoining
.," . M'Kenlc. JaVoh Stiger. and
- iBiu- aer.-s. more or lees, unltn
i-x-i-uriun and to be s-dil at the suit ol
'"nilf.
tur m.k. Otii-.thinl f the piir has
p- )ul,j (,,. j,r0M;rI y )S kniickei!
1! " reiiiainiiig two-thirds upon cott
''lot IheiJtrJ.
. JOHN KVAN. Shiriff
'f. l.t.enshuig. 8.-pt. IT, 1877.-31 3t.
IMST ATI OX XOTI CK.
,w A'imnilstrati.,11 on the estate, of said
i; "M armll ton nship. Cambria coun
"fn'ed to the undersigned ly
"r ni mi. 1 -.., ..ti ...... 1-.1.1.1..1
"llli v nmj. .11 IICIFMIlin IllilOllti-
r'" re.iucsiwl to make linuiedlatt
, 'tthoe having claims awaini-t the
- -nJj'P""1 t,,,:" properly authen.lcated
, iAUKT I'll AI.KN, AdmluUtratriX.
Auaj.51, n;;.-ei.
JJMs'n: ato ii's xoti ce.
;"'or.j,,iis Stkimiknh. lrc-M.
"' lit '""!;'i',r"t'"n un t,'' ejitate orsahl
1 luvfi ' ' ,rr"" 'ownshlp. Cambria coun
'i,,,rn r,,n,,''l to the undersluned. re
ni 7' ,"wri"lilp- to whom all persons
' e'tate are requested to make lm
''t'tit. an.) t,os 1)lvlnrf claims or dc
' i..J,'Hnt u"",n properly autheul icatcd
. M SASIIKKS.
AUmlulairator.
Etl'T()R's' NOTICE.
'"f,N K- "'"'KliTS, .lec'.t.
Vil, ?'"'"!""1 t,lC estate or John
iC '"1 r-tienrburg borough, Cambria
o ' l",v'na' been granted tothcun-
!.. . " '"fet'y given to tlmse Itidebt-
... '! Ill m:ik iin.. ...I... 1. ....I
Tir il ----- mi.i.ii.ii.c i
''H'.Vrii """'nst the same
"j uH..iit.1,,cl rT M.tti
-4 U. ia.7.- ai-8t.
til present
ttlemeut.
titculor.
s,,,,.' (nv Came to the pieuj-
''itulT'"1'' riur. in f Miet .tow -unlilp,
" 6r,.' latter part r luly. a light
" No , '-' old. nrith a mall bollon
""....'. v"ile. The owner ir re-
"t . '"rr.ard
i.,i . . eiir arn. i.rove i.rotertv. tiav
''liM-. . '"r:'y. if he dou't Willi to
1 A si ti.e law directs.
T.p s IHlI.ir J1IL.I.I.K.
JXIKU TA IT, M. I)., Tiiv
"'diiN, fit. iMIKIihtlt i',
olil cells ohuiild iiimiIc
i k. i;. u.j
V..5 1
DLiUKBERKICK AMD KIK8ES.
BlackbcrHe I ripe blacklwrries !
Will you come and e ?
Over all the woods and lanea
Thoy are running free.
Blackberries! ripe blackl.errieB !
Will you come and eat?
Nature bids you to the feast.
Spreads the wild, free treat.
Boh White and Bob-a-Linktim,
With their ladies fair,
Robin Red and Cardinal,
Are already tuere.
Jenny Wren and every bird
One would wiah to see,
Famed for beauty, love, or song.
Join the coiupr.y.
Sing and eat, and eat and sing.
While the children about;
And fond lovers 'tnong the vines
Wander in and out
Wa-.idor tdowly, stooping low,
I-eat the fruit they tnisa :
Ah ! I wonder which is aweelettt.
Berries, or a kiss'
"Which is sweetest, morry robin ?
Tell me which is licst."
And he warbled, "Blackberries ! -
Berries for my nest."
Which is sweetest, happy lovers,
Happy as j-on sij;h ?"
Laughing low, they answered me,
"You had better try."
"Children, w ho in purple juice
Uye your fl tiger-tips.
Purple are youi garments dyed.
Purple are your lips.
Through the woods and lanes and fields
F.iic 1 1 a welcome guest.
Cm not answer w hat f ask ?"
"Blatkla-rries are best !"
s
" IU.ir( berries, of course, are liest ;
Who would kieM-H want'.'"
S.iitt a lllll,.y, langiiit'g lad,
llrown and contidctit,
"Blarklwrries, of course, are lst ;
What ilo yon say, Jr;ce?"
And i he littlr las replied,
"That 'a tf course, the case !"
But alatve them sang a bird
In ; niiK-king tntigiiMf
"Wait a little lunger, dears,
Vou are rather young.
Birds who know a thing or two
Well may tell ymi this
Blackberries are very good,
But U-itcr far 's a kiss!"
' AX in IS II 1IKUOIMC.
AN EPISODE CF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
There is not, perhaps, iu all Ireland, a
wilder or more romantic spot than the Gi
ant's Causeway, i the northern part of
the inland, and (here is not, we well be
lieve, in that fail- and lovely laud more
grand ai d majestic, or more sublime and
varied sccnety than is to be met witlt in
the County Antrim. Defying the ravages
of time, and the incessant waifaie of wind
and wave, solid and enduring his the motin
tain that cast their sh;ids ujion if, the
Cauc way f.1 and.s. grand in its colossal di
mensions, and Mi'jlime in its magnificence
a wonder nd a ihtry to the world.
The seagull fret ils wing againtt its b
saltic toweis, the eagle scieama in un
tramiT.eil. tl freedom over ils tluaisand pit
lars, and the waves, wlieti lalirl into foam
and fny, beat uion il, striking the behold
er with awe, and aakeuing wilhin tlio
soul an intense and abiding feeling of the
rr.iulit and majesty of the Creator. Nor is
i. alone Ibis Miigulur stiuciuie, natural or
an is ic, whichever it may be, that fascin
ates the eye of the tiavcHer and kindles
his heart with glowing aspirations and
pleasurable emotions. AhkiikI mi every
side, save wheie the ocean rolls, the moun
ttins soar in giaiideui- and pride, and
Alps hkiii Alps aiiso" Ut M'ttiinel Hie
coast. The Inild heainllands and pronion
tories that loom far above the sea, the hills,
clothed fimi bae to miinmil in a man le of
heath, the witching loveliness of t he ace
fill lakes, fringed with a flowery carjiel or
beauty, and sparkling like gems on the
Oiwomor the valleys, stand uuiivall.id by
any for grandeur and beatify, save only by
the Iakcsof KiUany. The Umstrd Cum
pagna. the Lake of Como, the Alpine HilK
and ihe Ciislellated Khine have been famed
in song and story, and jKie'.a and tnvellers
have vied itl each other in rendering
homage to their beauty ; but Uere are
scenes in L'lsier which can compaie with
any of them, and if these make Ihe heart
swell with prale, the sons of the Xoith
need not blush for their country.
There lake Mini plain smile fair and free
Mid rocks, their gnardiHti chivalry;
Sing oh! let man leaiii liberty
Kroin crashing wind ar.d hushing soa.
But it is H"l 'I'O "me" "f Ho Xortli"
that wc intend to write. Their praise has
been hymned by a thousand tongues, aud
their deeds rxtolktl to the uttei most ends
of the eaith. In tUe old lands the names
of O'Neill and O'Doimell are household
words round cveiy patiiotic Irish health,
aud in the new, the name of Montgomery
is only eclipsed by that or Washington him
self Ours is ati humble task, and treats
of one who moved in an humble sphere of
hfe : but, were justicfl done, her memory
would shine a liriuhl a,,d Kl''iou8 .U,e
historic page as the immortal Joan of Arc,
or the Maid of Satagossa, for the patriot
ism and foi til tide of both were blended in
the heart of Jane Campbell, the subject of
this brief sketch.
Captain Matihew Cannon was a searar
ing man. and held command of a merchant
ve-sel phiii betweeti Belfast and I hi a
delphis. Having won a competence, he
nuitted the sea and settled down on a small
farm in his n.tive county, Antrim, deter
mined to spend the remainder of hU days
among thecec? familiar to Lis youth
His cotUge stood within hearing of the
roar of the wean as it heat aiound the Gi
ant's Causeway ; aud here, on the lust day
of January, 1743, his daughter Jane u
born. Here her early years wee spent,
and it was, .haps, hei familiarity with
n Uu.e i.. ti.e ihl and sublime scenery of
this romantic regiou thai uouiished the
lpi.it of independence, and the strength, of
S cter so st.ikingly disylaycd by her u
after lifo amid fai-distaut scenes. The
r"rn.ai.eucy of the impressions icceived in
chUdboodihow by her frcuuent lec.ir
rc.Vci toward the close or a protracted
jwnite ati,cia i,;,,r8',tu her
father her fcb-aA and her jou hful com
fauious, aud the customs and uiau.ie.s of
l' Unfot'tunately for CaptaJn Cannon he
lived at a timo hcn the penal c e
.uthlcssly enforced in his native .
he despotic hand of lwer cushea U
cailh the billies and energies of his
"J .. , yme. MU uf a h.nfl, J"' V"
J,. and despising tyianny meve. v shape,
his heart melted with ..!" ' 11 "
.uiftiHti. of tLe iuu, ho eie
scarcely permitted to live under the sav
age laws of exacting landlords. Being un
willing to endure what be could not ame
liorate, he determined to bid farewell for
ever to his suffering country, and emigrate
to the North American colonies. Dispos
ing of his household effects, he, with his
wife and children, embarked for the New
World. Jane was just entering in her
teeud when her father settled down in his
new home at Newcastle, in the present
State of Delawaie. Here they remained
for ten years engaged iu agricultural pur
suits. He then, Trith his family, penetra
ted the wilderness to the central part of
the State of New York, and fixed his home
in the extreme frontier settlement, within
the limits of the preseut county of Oswego,
and about seven miles from the village of
Cherry Valley.
Foremost among the settlers in this re
gion was an Irish family named Campbell,
and from the same part of Ireland as the
Cannons. An intimacy sprang up between
the two neighbors, and the result was that
Jane Cannon was married to Samuel Camp
hell, then a young man twenty. five jears
of age, and distinguished for his energy of
character and bold spirit of enterprise.
The settled down in their new home to en
joy in peace the blessings which were de
nied them iu their own land, and for years
prosperity smiled uku their efforts and re
warded their untiring energy and industry.
But a dark day was dawning upon that
happy settlement, storm-clouds were gath
ering over it and casting their iilomened
shadows between it and the sun ; the sanc
tity jf the hearth was destined to be viola
ted, and the pence which they had so long
enjoyed changed into bloody and relent less
warfare. The Revolution was about to
burst umiu them.
It came, but found them prepared.
Captain Matthew Caution and Samuel
Ca.iipbell, the father and husband of Jane,
weie the first to declare for the Colonies.
There was scant love in the hentts of these
two Irishmen for the red cross llagof King
George. The wrongs inllictcd on their na
tive laud by him and his predecessois were
still rankling iu their breasts, and with all
the ardor and energy of their i.aturce they
engaged iu the cause of liberty and inde
ieudet)ce. As soon as the news of the
battle of Lexington arrived. bolh com
menci d to enrol the militia ; both weie on
the Committte of Safety, and pledged
themselves to the achievement of Na'ional
Independence. Samuel Campbell was ear
ly chosen to the command of the militia iu
that legion ; aud at the general request,
converted his own Louse into a gariison,
where for two yea is, and until a fort was
erected iu the settlement, the inhabitants
of that exposed funnier were gathered for
protection. In all his patiiotic efforts, he
not only had the sympathy of his wife, but
found her a zealous and etlicietit co opera
tor. Her reelings were ardently enlisted in
behalf of her adopted country, and she was
ready to give her own exertions to the
cause, as well as to urge forward those who
had risen against the oppressor.
In ihe mouth of August, 1777, Colonel
Campbell, with his regiment, weie engaged
iu the disastrous battle of Oiiskauy, the
bloodiest, in proportion to the number en
gaged, of any of the battles of the Kevolu
ti'Mi. His brother was killed by his side,
and he himself narrowly escaped. In the
July following oecnried the massacre of
Wyoming, and in Xovemlier, 177, a pait
of the same fi ico, composed pi iucipally of
I ud ana and Toiies, invaded and utieily
destroyed the settlement at Cherry Valley.
The dieadful tragedy here Jenaded 1 says
Dunliip "next to the destruction of Wyom
ing. standsout ill history conspicuous for
aliocily." Ihe horrors of the massacie.
and the flight, indeed likened the scene to
that
Whose Imp' ism was the weight of blood that
Hows
From kindred hearts."
Some extraordinary instances of individ
ual suffering are iccorded. One jotiug
gill, Jane Wells, was barbarously murder
ed by an Indian t.car a pile of wood, behind
which she had eudeavoied to set ecu her
seir. The wife of Colonel Clyde nYd with
her children into the woods, where she lay
concealed under a large log dm ing a cold
rainy day and night, hearing the yells of
the savages as they triumphed in their
woikof death, and seeing them pass so
hear that one of them trailed his gun ukhi
the log that covered her. Colonel Camp
bell w ho was in her house, attempted al
most single handed to oppose the advance
of the enemy, and notwithstanding that
resistance was madness, the brave old
Irishman refused to yield till he was
wounded and ovei powered. Imagination
alone can depict the terror and anguish of
the mother trembling Tor her children in
the midst of. this scene of strife aud carn
age, the shrieksof slaughtered victims.and
the yells of their savage foes. They were
diagged away aspitsoneis by Ihe triumph
ant Indians, and the house was soon in
flames. The husband and father who
had has encd homeward on the alarm of a
cannon fired at the fort, arrived only to
witness the destruction of his property,
and was unable to learn what became of
bis wife and childreu.
Leaving behiud them a scene or desola
tion, the enemy departed that night with
their prisoners, of whom there w ere betw een
thirty and forty. That uight of wretched
ness was passed iu a valley a few miles
from the fort. A large tire was kindled,
around which they were collected, with no
shelter, not even, in most cases, an outer
garment t protect them from the storm.
Tbeie might be seen the old and lulirm,
and the middle aged of both sexes, and
shivering childhood, houseless but for a
mother's arms, couches but for a mother a
breast " Around shem on every side
gleamed the watch fires of the savages,
who were eugaged in examining and dis
tributing their plunder- Along up the
valley they caught occasional glimpses or
the ruins of their dwellings as some sudden
cuatof wind or falling limber awoke into
new life the decaying flame. U hat were
the thoughts of the poor Irish captives
when they awoke uext moruiug to a seuse
their painful and boless situations, we
can haidly venture to describe. In an ag
ony of feeling they knelt upon the ground,
antl in silence, with uplifted hands im
plored that mercy of their God which they
dared not expect from man. No word
faltered from their tongues, their races
were as maible in ialnes, their eyes
weie turned to heaven, but there was that
that flashed horn them that showed that
their spirits were still uiicoiiouercd, aud as
. .... a t .... S j-. A allli
Chiistains they were no ; ,
Jane Campbell clasped her sleeping mf-ut j
See Wi. men of the Revolution, aud Annals
ol 1 1 jou Iwuutj',
tighter to her breast, and whispered a few
words of hope to her aged mother by her
side, resigned herself to her fate. But she
was not destined then to die. The position
which her husband held in the "rebel"
ranks, and the eminent services which he
had rendered the cause of independence,
caused him to be peculiarly obnoxious to
the enemy. The Indians well knew that
Jane had constantly aided her father and
husband iu their efforts against the English
government, and had been of great service
to the friends ir liberty in Cherry Valley.
Both were marked for vengeance, and hence
Jane and her children were considered im
portant captives. While the other women
aud children weie released in a nay or two
after being lausomed by their friends, no
such mercy was extended to the.Campbells.
The Indians after a long consultation ap
proached Jane, aud told her that she aud
her children must accompany them to the
land of the Seuecas. Her mother, the aged
and infirm wife of Captain Cannon, felt
conscious that she would never be able to
perform the journey. Jane endeavored to
tranquilize tier mind and sustaiu her spirit
though she herself fek little hope. On the
second day of their journey, her mother be
came fatigued, and while Jane wasendeav
oiing to aid her faltering steps and encour
aging her to exert her utmost strength, au
Indian approached and struck her down
with his tatnahawk. Her murdered parent
fell by her side, and the same Indian with
his bloody weapon threatened the life of
loor Jane if she for one moment stopped or
relaxed her sjieed. Without being allowed
to close her dying mother's eyes, or receive
her last sigh, she was hurried onward by
her savage foes. She carried in her arms
an infant eighteen months old, aud for the
sake of her helpless lit'.'e ones, diagged on
her weary s eps iu spite of her failing
strength until the evening shadows covered
the forest aud the savages rested for the
night. The journey was a long, arduous,
and melancholy one. The captives were
taketa down the valley of the Susquehanna
:o its junction with the Tioga, and thence
into the western part of New York, to the
Indian Castle, the capital of the Seneca
nation, near the site of the present town of
Geneva. Heie it terminated. "The whole
region," says the author of The Women of
the American- Iiecolution, "was ithen au
unbroken wiiderness, with here and there
an Indian settlement, and the journey was
performed by Mrs. Campbell on foot, with
her babe in her arms. Her other children
were separated from her ou the way, being
given to Indians of different tribes, and on
her arrival at the village her infant also
the last link that visibly bound her to home
aud family and civilization was taken from
her. This, to the mother's heart, was the
sevetest tiial, and she often spoke or it iu
afiei yeais as the niosiccntel of all suffer
ings. The helpless babe clung to her when
torn away by savage hands, aud she could
hear its pieiciug ci ies till they weie lost iu
the distance."
A lietce and dreaiy winter followed, and
in I hi) long gloomy nights when sleep
brooded over Ihe childieu of the forest,
and the chilly bi.iot of the North swept
through the leafless trees, the lonely cap
live sat iu her wigwam communing with
her own thoughts, thinking of her lost
husband aud childieu, of her father and
her friends, knowing not whet bar they
were dead alive, yet always ti listing in
Ihe meiciesnf her Saviour, aud hoping for
the best. At limes, as she afterwards ob
served when restored to home aud family,
her mind levelled back to the days and
scenes of her childhood, aud she iu fancy
would conjure up bcfoio her the green
lields and meadows wherein infancy she
played, the thatched achoolhouso which
she at ended, and the brown mountains
which bounded the Irish home. The Gi
ant's Causeway, with all its weiid and
mys eiious pillais. was present in her im
agination, and she could fancy the break
ing of the angiy surf against its rocky
sides. Thus dreaming of home and fiietids
the tedious winter passed away.
Jane was placed in an Indian family,
com a tsed of females with the exception of
one aged man With the tact which al
ways distinguished her, she made herself
useful and agreeable to the Indian maidens
and soon secured their confidence. One
day an Indian visited her, and observing
the cau she wore, saiil he had one like it
and would give it to her. He invited her
to his cabin, and pulled from behind a
beam a cap of a smoky color and handed
it to her, saying that he had takeu it fiom
a women iu Cheriy Valley. It had a cut
in the crown made by a tomahawk, and
was spotted with blood. She recognized
it as having belonged to the tiufoi tunate
Jane Wells. She sbiank with horror from
the murderer of her friend.
Iu the meantime Colonel Campbell was
making every exeition in his power to re
cover his wife and childieu from the Seu
ecas. Ho sent messengers to all the tribes
to ascertain their fate, aud negotiate meas
uies for the release of those who might
still be alive. He projiosed an exchange
of Mrs. Campbell and her childieu for ihe
w ife and sons of Coljnel John Butler, the
noted paitisau leader, which was agreed
tipou by Governor Cliutou and General
Schuyler. Early in the spring Colonel
Campbell dispatched an ludiau messenger
to Colonel Duller at Niagara. With some
difficulty, the exchange was agreed upon,
for Mis. Campbell had so endeared herself
o the savages that they were loath to pari
with her. At length, iu June, 1771), au
ludiau came to her cabin, and told hei
that she was free. She was sent to Fort
Niagara, wheie many i3isous took refuge,
preparations being made for au expected
attack by Generel Sullivan. Among them
came Katrine Montour, o- Queen lies er,
as she was called by the savages, a fuiy
who had figured in the honors of Wyom
ing. This bloodthirsty female had mur
dered w ith her own hand moie than a do
zen paliiot prisoners, captured iu the bat
tle. One of her sons haviug taken pnso
ntr Captain Cannon iu the tight of Cherry
Valley, and brought him to the ludiau
country, it may be conceived what were
the feeliugs of his daughter Jane, ou hear
ing her reproach the savage, for not having
killed him at once, to avoid the incum
brance of au old and feeble man.
For one year Mrs. Campbell remained at
the fort iu company with her chilureu, all
except one, who was still a captive among
the ludiaus. Through the instrumentality
of Butler they had beeu resloied to her.
In the summer of 1780, she received the
first letter fiom her husband, sent by a
friendly Oneida Indian. In Jut.esue was
seul to MouUeal, Canada, wheie she ic
coveied hei luixsiug child, a boy seven yeais
oid, whom she had not see u since the day
uflei Vhv inassacic of Chci iy Vatlt-v. ll-
bad been with a branch of the Mohawk
tribe, aud had forgotten his mother tongue,
though he re mere be red his mother, whom
in the joy of seeing ber he addressed in the
Indian language. In the fall she and her
children reached Albany, escorted into that
city by a detachment of troops under the
command of Colonel Ethau Allen. Here
Colonel Campbell awaited their arrival,
and the trials of a two years captivity were
almost forgotten in the joy of restoration.
They remained there until peace was pns
claimed, and the British driven out of the
country, when they returned to Cheriy
Valley, and literally began the world anew.
Their land had gone to waste, and was
covered with underbrush ; all beside was
destroyed, aud with no shelter save a small
log-cabin, hastily put up, they felt for a
time that their lot had been a hard one.
But the consciousness of having performed
the duty of patriots sustained them under
misfortune. By the close or the Tollowiug
summer, a more comfortable loghouse was
erected on the ruins of their former resi
dence, and the farm began to assume the
aspect or cultivation. It was in this house
that General Washington was received and
entertained on his visit to Cherry Valley,
accompanied by General George Cliutou
and o'herdistinguished officers. It was on
this occasion that Mrs. Campbell presented
her sons to Washington, and told him she
would train them up to the service or their
country, should that couutry ever need
their service.
Once set i led on the old homestead, Mrs.
Campbell's trials and sufferings were at an
end, and she was eminently blessed in all
things temporal, being permitted iu old
age to see abound her a large and prosper
ous ratnily. Her oldest son was the lion
William Campbell, Surveyor-General or
the State of New Yoik. Her second son
James S. Campbell, was for many years a
magistiate, and one of the judges of the
Court of Common Pleas, in Otsego, while
the youngest son Hubert Campbell, of
Cooperstown, an able and eminent lawyer,
enjoyed in a high degree the confidence of
the people or that county. Colonel Camp
bell, after an active life, died iu 1824, at
the age of eighty-six. His wife lived, in
the enjoyment of almost uninterrupted
health, to the age of ninety-three, aud
died in 1839 the last survivor of the He
volHtionary women in the regiou of the
headwaters of the Susqliehanna.
Header, this is but a brier episode in the
history or an Irish heroine, one or the
pioneer mothers or the West. It is culled
from American! history, and is true iu
every particular. There are many such.
In the local histories of the thirteen States
scores of Irish names apear previous to
the war of Independence ; names which,
in after days, shed honor upon two lands,
the land of their birth and the laud of their
adoption Ireland and America. Willi;: m
CnUiits, in the Phila. Catholic JUeord fur
November.
A Mki.ox-choi.y Struggle. In New
York, the fruiteiers have light handles by
w hich watermelons are carried. There arc
some advantages in living in a city. Now
here in Danbiiry a watermelon handle is
unknown, and the customer is obliged to
exercise all his wits in escorting the deli
cious ft ii it borne. The dealer puts a sheet
ol paper about it, and passes it to the buy
er, who puts it under his arm and starts.
It is a nice place, under the arm, for a
melon, and the owner is inclined to wonder
why such fuss is made in catrying it.
There are two peculiarities about a melon
(me is its tendency to swell, and the other
ils tendency to slip. A watermelon which
can easily be held under thi arm at the
start, so increases iu dimensions that in the
length (f a square it succeeds iu straining
every cord iu the arm to a painful tension.
The paity carrying it has, of course, the
other hand full of parcels. He now brings
the melon to the front, and hugs it to his
breast, very much as if it was a smuggling
baby. This is done to rest his arm, and
the melou being hugged tightly to the
chin, the purpose would undoubtedly be
accompanied, were it not for that oilier
tendency slipping. The melon shows an
inclination to slip from his arm and to slip
nit of the paper. The farther he proceeds,
the more uneasy it becomes. It turns ovei .
It slips under his arm and threatens to slide
down his back to the pavement. It pokes
him iu the chin, and punches him in the
stomach. Not a single moment does it re
main in position. It calls into active ser
vice every truscle in his anatomy. It brines
the perspiiatiou out on face and body. It
fills his breast with bitter thoughts. The
whole way is a battle. Eveiy inch of the
distance is a hard, discouraging fight. He
leaches home aching in every limb, and
with a sick feeling iu his heart that even
the happy, ex(ectant looks of the family
cannot wholly remove. Then the wife cuts
open the melon and murmurs :
." as I expected. green as a encumber."
We talk about the last feather on the
Crtin :l's back. We ought to bo ashamed of
ouiselres. Danbury Setct.
As EccENTittc Fjo Tkke. A cones
pondeut of the Snnta Baibara (Cal.) 7Ve
says : "Much has been writ'en about the
curious freaks of nature this season in
Southern California, particulaily with fruit
trees, but I think a fig tree iu my garden
caps the climax for eccentricity. This tree
is one of the white Smyrna variety. The
first, crop ripened in June. The fruit was
white-skinned aud very large and most ex
cellent, a specimen of which 1 sent you.
Now comes the funny part of the story.
This same tree puts forth a very full second
cmp, and the figs are ripe now, and have
been for two weeks past, and are lipeniug
every day, but the fruit is blue. Who can
account for this caper? There are two
different aud distinct vaiieiiesof fruit ou
the same free in successive crops the same
season. The first crop were all while ; the
second crop are all blue."
A Costi,y Ho Bic. When Dionysius cap
tured Croton, the largest city i.f Greece.
B. C. 3S7, he plundered the temple of Juno
of its splendid treasures, among which was
a robe, skillfully wrought and sumptuously
decorated, the votive offering of a rich man
named Aikimenca. l):.Miysius sold this
robe to the Carthaginians for the prtniioious
price of 120 talents, or about '3G,000. This
may seem an incredible sum ; but therolie
was probably dedicated to the recently. in
troduced. Hellenic deiiies, whom the
Carthaginians were particularly anxious to
propitia e, iu the hope of averting or alle
viating the frightful pes ileuce wherewith
they had been so often smitten; and the
honor done to the uew gods would be
mainly estimated according to the magni
tude of tLt sul'i itiivi oui.
A. NIGHT Ot TKllllOIt.
It is a horrible story that I am about to
narrate so horrible that it has haunted
me ever since I heard it.
Constantly at uight, before I fall asleep,
I imagiue each hue iu that ghastly face
but this won't do. If I must tell the stoiy
I had best commence at the begiuninc.
I spent last summer at the seaside it
was not in the least a fashionable watering
place, but so quiet that the things that
would have been of little or no interest else
where, there became wildly exciting
still holding iu her Ftrong white hands the
ends of the scailet rope. Ou the floor, half
under the bed, lay the dead body of a man.
He must have h id a murdeieiK face liv
ing ; but, dead, who can desciibe it? The
eyes weie stalling from the bead, aud
seemed to wa ch tine's every movement.
1 can not desciibe the scene as it was de
scribed to me, nor would I if I could.
When they pitied Jennie she bui-st into
tears, and this alone, the doctor said, saved
her reason and her life.
I have often read of Jiair turning white
iu a single uicht from tenor. I wonder if
Among the new arrivals, one day, there Ibis be so. I think not ; for if it were Jen
nie a patty that luterested me to an' ex- J nte Linsec s fait
Olict Man in the IVurhl.
came
traordidary degiee a lady with hcrdaugh- I w hite as newly, fallcu snow
ter a maid.
The daughter, Miss Liuseo. Jennie Lin
see was one or those persons whom you
feel sure has a history. Tall, fair hair,
with dark eyes aud a sensitive mouth. She
was extremely handsome ; but. her face was
one of the saddest I ever saw in my life. I
thought her face sad before I knew her,
but afterward, in the pauses of "conversa
tion. I have seen that expression deei'ii.
air hair would to-day be as
A merchant of this ci'y who leceutly re
turned from a tour of South Ameiica, has
given a reporter of he (ilfe- lh tnocrnt tn
account of a rrmaikahle old man he saw
iu thCitv of Tulca, ( l.i'.i. whose uamr is
Felix H'-jas. and who has undoubtedly
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.... I. .!... .f r...., v.oni I. ..i ti.im. Ik-.l
- a - - I liiil ir III 1 .4 1 ami
misery.
Once in particular I remember noticing
this ; we were speaking of hands, and I ad
mired hei s, saying that they looked so
strong and yet were so delicately shajn-d.
I wondered at the time w hnt there could
have been in this simple remark to distress
and a'.iuoy her. But since I've beard her
stoey, I understood not only ".his, but many
other things that seemed very blraugo to
me.
Three years ago Miss Linsee was visiting
a friend a young girl or about her owu
age at ber home ou the Hudson.
It was a large, rambling, country, house,
with an unusual number or sleeping rooms,
and Jennie, on her arrival, was the only
guest, so that ou each side or her the rooms
were uuocctrnied.
The evening she arrived her friend in
sisted on her going to bed early, saying
that she must be very weary ; but Jennie
insisted that she was not tired, aud abso
lutely refused to go to bed.
At last a regular romp ensued, aud Jen
nie's friend locked ber guest in ber room,
shouted good-night through the key-hole,
atid ran laughing down the long hall.
Jennie smiled as she listened to the foot
steps growing fainter and yet fainter, and
then tinning to the loi.g oval mirror, pro
ceeded to take down her hair. This mil ror
leached from the Uoor to the ceiling, and
hung direct ly opposite he bed, aud was
partially draped with muslin.
As Jennie brushed her hair and indiffer
ently looked at herself, she fancied that she
saw a movement amid the shadows about
the bed. She looked again ; the bedstead
was low and broad, the shadows deep ;
but Jennie felt sure that she was not mis
taken, but that a man lay extended at full
length on the floor.
For a moment she was breathless with
terror: her first impulse then, womanlike,
was to scream ; but Jennie Linsee w as no
Coward, and after a minute or so of strong
self-control, was iatur amused at such au
adveuture.
"I will leave the room." she said to her
self, as if she had fi gotten something,
"and I will turn the key on the outside
gixwl heavens !" and she stood appalled at j
the thought. Thedoorwasaheady locked ! j
What should she do? She dared not call I
for help. A thought stiuck her
out in 1,40. aud at an eailv age t nteicd
the army, holding the oMlion ot Seige int
Major in a Spanish line K giti.cnt. When
("alios the Third issued the hiMoiic man
date expelling the Jesuits.Hojas took in
charge two me mho is of the Older and cur
lied them from Linares to Santiago. He
served forty-eight years in the Chilian ar
mies, and is thoroughly cnvcisaiit with
the minutest details of Chilian history fr
the last century and a half. I'p to one
year"ago Hjas was icmaikably vigorous
for one of his venerable age, though for leu
years he has been c.uiioil about in a. poii.t
bl chair, iuchaigeof two seivau s. Fur
a year he has been failing l j. idly, and now
seldom leaves his house. Ids physicians
prescribing almost absolute quiet as the
only means of prolonging life. Occasion
ally he may be seen in his chair iu front of
his residence, aud passers-by pay htm the
greatest respect. He smokes a pt.e, and
has used tobacco steadily for I'-rOyeaia.
His eyes are quite weak now, but he has
never used sectaclcs, and is genet ally able
to read large print, lie is not a large item
lieing scarcely five feet in height, and nev
er weighed over l.")0. He is reniaikabiy
well pniortioiied, his head being unusual
ly large and finely shaped. Singular to
relate, Hojas has lived to this tijw H
in defiance of manv vicissitudes and hahiia
that ate universally U licvid to abbreviate
a man's term or life. From the age of
twenty till he was seventy he was an habit
ual drinker, aud for a long purl" r tl at
time such a confirmed tippler that liis'liea! It
was seriously affected, and it was bclievol
that he could not surive long. Foi forty,
six years he has not tastel intoxicating
drinks, except as a medicine. Iu 1tC0 l.j
r.iught a bloodless duel with a bro'hci sol
dier, and ten years later, iu a similar en
counter with another auliieonist, he was so
desperately wounded that it was two yeais
btfo;e he fully recovcied. A' one time he
suffered a double fiacluieof his liyht j.
by a caisson wagon lunu ng ovei it. Ha
was also wounded twice while tighilng in
battle. He has had the yellow feet, and
has been repeatedly piosiia -d bvtheother
malarial feveis lLat pic vail il all puii of
South A:nei ica.
It seems so icmaikahlc that one should
be prescived to such an cxMaoid inarv awn
I after passing through so many adveutuics
"Alice !" she cried, "come back a reo- i
meut. ! foigot to tell you something."
Her voice trembled. Again and again
she called. All was silent. She lis. cued
for an answer. Was it imagination, or did
she hear a faiut muttered oath from under
the bed?
At last she decided to go to her bed
quietly, leaving her watch, poilmonnaie
and jewelry where the man could easily
get them, and she would pretend to fall
asleep.
First, she inclined the mirror, so that
lying iu the bd she could see iu it the le
flection of everything that went over the
room. Then going to the liie-place she
calmly lighted each caudle iu the branches,
saying aloud, with a laugh :
"I hope. 1 shall not set the house on fire,
but I never could resist caudles, and 1 lueau
to have an illumination for once."
Then, with an ill concealed shudder, and
slowly, as if going to her owu execution,
Jennie went to bed.
For hours it seemed to her, but we can
not tell how long it was, Jennie lay, trjing
to breathe safely, jet regtilatly, straining
her ears to catch the faintest sound, her
eyes to see the slightest movement under
the bed
j and accidents hy field and llood. Hi.i
UlilH 14
j the sou of a Spanish nobleman who tied 1 is
couiuiy lor a kiiiiicsI otlensr, and settled
j in Chili under an asMiimd name. The sou
living almost a half a cenuiiy before he
I fioll.fl mil tl.jt .. .... i :. .
x "-iuc iiiMi'ij oi iiis laiiiei,
and upon the discovery he made a trip to
Spain, and succeeded iu obtaining fiom he
Government the title and sessi,,ii f
valuable juopcity which had been confis
cated. This is the only voyage H) ts has
ever made away fiom his native eouutiy.
The venerable old man has ample means
and is surrounded by a ntimeiou line f
dependants, consisting of cluloien giatid
childieii gieat grand childieu ; g i eat -gi rHt
and great great-great ciAud-thiidieii.--.-'.
. Ulobc Democrat.
A Woxm-KKr
w h
PltKXDMKXOV. A e.
saw the nartml 1oki....; r ..
, Omaha bridge by a cVcl..ne .lescitie it
: a dci.se black cloud coming down mi earn
ca.iying foia,d a w am column Ma,,di..
head in Uh .Ii..i
oi me liver witli ii
f .. r -i . -
.f lire run along the i.o.. and ch,,,,,,,
or the budtfc ; but the t.,,.,) the win,
Ilig watci column stnkes il t, ,,oI is jlt
ot .. oo.mmo riectlic g 1.1 1 e. the bridire
t last, in the mi tor, she saw the d.nk , vanishes, shoots up in a gM i height K..
, ... J- I . 1 . ll.A ..I...-. .....1 .i .... ,mwfj
body move. She could distinguish a hand
Wilh . Slay? Was that gleam a knife?
"I am to be murdered, then," she
thought, and with the calmness of despaii
she watched.
The knife had a teriible fascination for
her; now it Hashed iu the blue light, as the I
man slowly emerged fiom the bed, crawl ;
ing flat ou his face.
Was there nothing she could do? Must
she simply wait until the man ruse- to kill
her?
"If I only had a rope," she thought, "I
could make a slip-noose aud throw il ovei
his head !"
So thinking, she mechanically glanceJ
about the room. Her eyes caught sight ol
a picture hanging ou the wail ty a stout
red cord. Quick as thought the picture
was unhung, the cord in her trembling
bauds. She could her the slow, cautious
movements. Should she be too late? At
last the noose was made. No need now to
watch the mirror.
The man's head and shoulders were all
out fiom under the bed. At that moment
ho laised himself and glanced in the luirroi
and saw Jennie sitting up. He saw hei
but one niomeSit. He hall-iurucd, with his
legs and part or his body st ill under t he low
.... lieu is uaslud with incon
ceivable velocity back into the liver. Lartre
stones a.e torn out of the . i,.-rap,.ig, and
shoot li!idicnliiv sixty ftet to the
.por Ihe rauroad g,,ule. 1 his description
la regarded by .amy as fanc.ful ; but
1 ,.f. lice of j,,. L,.uiH j, is
ami adds : "I ws cha.ged w,th labor!
o.j: iiuoei an illusion -alien, in lh.
I a -.veiled thai the steei.U ..f
f I I
t un mi.. ,.. i j
V """i"lia.
"' aicniuci declared that it
must have been s... ad ,v.uld not have
j "-se, was the co,, eel ness or mv
sf.ltelieiit ?w1. ..;...! -I'i . ... . "'T
I : . c... , in-Minuted sooii,.
I of IS.-,.-;
liaptist Church fiist shot
; ton was based u h n the fact thni thesfeeide
, when const. ueted. was let d.,w by br.cei
twelve feet long ., fwp aud
- ""- - i-niieo up and out
nut disiiubmg a M,ie iu t,mt.r
is
with.
The
we.gli.ug M-veial t.... ,. wm d
the North Si . L.,s .,,.. J
nowcllthat had Wu in the s. cket of M-e
hart. Houses alu a v sgo id.
wn w hen caught
in t he vorlex of a toinad-.. I,ul ,,IUM. c .
. the centre ,,, va.iabl., hrst g(. yybvt
.: the Last S . Louis I , cllllMi
"""itUtil III it II I I il Ui. . 5 ; .
ICJt- CWlIlt tlSl VS1.0VrJ D. ... - - - V'lll KM! Jf (t 4- t
Im o. But in that moment the noose fell ! iid,and diopj.ed il dw n. , ,K.t 8j,te Ul. tll
j ; li: .1... ' H Ui In I l-ctil i..-. i . 1 '
over bun, and Jennie was puiuug ai me
scat let roie with all her strength.
The Lcxt morning, when the srivau:
w ent to call Mi.-s Linsee, she knocked again
aud again. Obtaining no reply, the woman
went to her young mistress, telling lies
that her guest must be ill. Alice was no
iu the least distillled, but with ajigl.tsong
on her hps danced down the coindor.
"Jennie," she cried, knocking at I.e.
friend's disr, "may I couie iu?"
N' reply came, but in ils stead a low,
gurgling 1 u:gh Jennie had such a pietty
laugh.
Frightened, she knew not why, A rut
opened the door and went iu.
The wax candles binned low in thesikei
sconces, shedding their yellow light ou the
, 1tU wLc.t Jcuiiit. '., i.tualiiu idivlica".. ,
wise o iianuioi u, ,i , ,i, j
., . i v.. mi, i Lie asset.
t on th:,t it was earned, and declare,! that
if was blown ...to the ,.,!. l,otwilh,tub I.
ing not a 1. ace of ;.,,
in the smooth and level sand over which it
must have ,oll. d if such had been , he facL
low dtd it hap, . 1 1.. ,,1J44 le , j
lircchMMi thai w, ai.ested over Langhy
p.ud. South ( an. bin,. w, ,,ie , ,,,, (
...sled fo aljoi, t.'.. . ,,.. j,, wllic,
it hf:ed to ti e ch.ds ..v,., 14 mi,, t,.,, r
water, and the .1-,,. immenselv e.,l:e,d
" -..T, ".otctl oil Willi
pi)liu- a di op
it without,
A X old wen. cook says ; ,
Cltulliood in ,vei !,!.. t., M,iMl.
nutdi ouwi ulher kl.iti ol uickoj '