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ograph Gallery. [August 21, 1859
TIMM AS WELSH.
JUSTICE OF THE PEKE, Columbia, Pa.
• 01 , 1 , 1t:E. w %Vhipper's New Budding,lovt
itllttek'c Ilotel.Frotit street.
[1:7 - Prompt attenuon given to all business entrusted
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November 1b57.
H. 11. NORTH,
VTTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW
Columbia
- Collection! promptly mode.i n La ncastei and York
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Columbia,May 4,1950.
J. W. FISTIER,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
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Omett Li:team street, IiCIWCta be Franklin nonce
and Pcvn Office, Columbia, Pa
>lay 7, 1e59.
Harrison's Coumbian Ink.
is a superior article, permanently black.
Tr and not corroding the IMn, rift lee had in ant
,antity, at the Vault!). Medicine Store, and blacker
yet ts that Eitglil.l. Boot 1 . 0115/1.
Columbia. Jew.: 9.1:459
We Have Just Rece!ved
D R. CUTTER'S Improved Cliest Expanding
utpl t.itoulder lime, for 4eit , l,moo.
mud Potent skirt Supporter mad Bruce for I.allte•,
tu-t the unfelt, Ilutt a- wanted at tilt.. COMP
.1111 d .oe throe tat Faint iy Aledseitte Store. clad Fe:loaa,'
(Apra 9. 1.511
Prof. Gardner's Soap
Wthe Nell, Eimi:itid Soap ilowe who die
1' V too oto.tio ti (tom the cusp attic, II t. plea-am
.to the mid will bake gre.i4e Non , Crain %Voo.en
Good-, no lieire.ug. for you get the
Jvonb of your money ut the Family Medicine Store.
Coluinlou, June II , 1n59.
alllllll, or, Bond's Boston Crackers, for
I,q liild Arrow ROW
valid,. nut) elitittlett—new articles Its Columbia, at
the. Fatally Medium.: 6iate,
April Id,
I),ILDING'S PREPARED CLUE.—The want of
11114r:11 . 1y 1, 1011 111 wiry' Comity, Ulll.l now
11. 0.111 he P.upplied; fur tnendi fig fuinilure, china
iwiuti.oinainiqual work, ioy, ke.„ there II nothing
fuperinr, We have found it Literal in repairing ninny
aritele- which halve been useless for inontitii. You
u.:2ein it at the
na.ounA:. E1111.1*.‘.11:DICINE: STORE.
IRON AND STELL !
'l'lTSille.erilivr• have received a New and Large
etock of el! 10n.1% dud siie. of
BAR IRON AND STEEL
limy are cumitautly supplied with 'met ut this branch
of Ins business. and can famish it to customers la large
or smull quantities, at the lossest rums
J. SON.
Locust street below Sec RUMPLE ood, Colum &
bia, Pa.
IoGO.
Compound , Syrup of 'pi' and
he Golden Marl' trrugZie".: cold•, &c. Kr
axle
ATER'S Compound Concentrated Extract
San tpartlla for tbe cure of Surofula t gunge
aud all gentfoloutt :ace:loll+, a fre3b at. :re Jut:
receiveu and for le hy
It. WILLIAMS, Front at, Columbia,
Rept. 24, 1E159,
FOR SALE.
200 CROSS Friction Matches, very low for cash.
lane 23.'30. R. WILLI A NIS
Dutch Herring!
ANY one fond of u good Herr rig on supplied at
S. F EHERI.EIN'S
- Store, No. it Locust. at.
Nov. I. 1859.
ECTS
T TON'S PURE 0116 CATAWBA BRANDY
no PORE WINE:, e , peeially for AledlCllle3
uJ Sl l Cllll2ltsltlllpurpo-e+, at le
/1211.29 1.1.1 IL] MEDICINE, STORE.
NICE RAISINS for 8 cts. per pound, arc to
be had only at
ELIERLINN'S Grocery Store,
March 10,1E60. tio . 71 Locust street
GARDEN SEEDS.—Fresh Garden Seeds, war
ranted pure, of all laude, pl.' received at
ELIERLEIN'S Grocery Store,
March 10.19C0. No 71. Losu-t street.
POCKET BOOKS AND PURSES.
A LARGE lot of Fine mid Common PoeLel Books
and Purses, at from 15 emits to two dollar.. each.
He Idquarters and ;Sews Depot.
Columbia, April 14.1 VV.
A HEW more of those beautiful Prints
lett, Which will be aold cheap, at
SAYLOR iv. AieDON ALB'S
Columbia. Pa.
13712/111
Just Received and For Sale.
1500 SACKS Ground Alum Salt, in largo
or *mull quainu tire, ut
APPOIAYS
Warehowo. Cana! Bush'.
Mays,llo
COLD CREAM OF GLYCERINE.---For the cure
and prevention fa chapped band.. er.c. For rule
at the UOLDEN MORTAR DRUB STORE;
Dec.. 2,11359. Front street. Columbia.
Turkish Prunes!
you r first rate article of Pruries you munt Fo to
F. ELIERLLIN'S
Nov. ID, IMO. Grocery Store, No 71 Locust st
GOLD PENS, GOLD PENS
UST received a large and Elle mtsortment of Gold
a/ Pen,. of Newton and tinawold'• manufacture, at
SA VLOR & Book Store.
Agril 14 Front vireet. above lAttemr.
FRESH GROCF,R I ES.
WE continue lo sell the be.t "ii vy" Syrup. White
and Brown Sugars.good Coffees and choice Teas.
to be Sad in Colombia at the New Corner Store. op
posite Od t Fellow s ' Hull, and at the old stand
tbe H. C. roN toms:mil I.
Segars, Tobacco, &c.
A LOT of first•rate Segars. Tobacco and Snuff will
be found at the store of the rube nber. He keeps
only a first:rate article. calf O.
S. F. EBERI.EIVS Grocery Store.
0et11,13 LOLUF.I st., Columbia, Pa.
CRANBERRIES,
N"Crop Proms, Now Cltrorhat
Oct. 20.119G0. A. At. RAMBO'S
SARD4IVES,
Wereemerebire Stowe. Refitted Coeur. /LC, just re
velvet and for sale by S. F. REWRI.EIRT.
Oet. • lee°
No. 71 I.oetr.t St.
CRANBERRIES.
• menses! a (nob lot of Cranberries and New
arrnents. at No. 71 LOCUS/ Street.
rt. Oat*, IMO. St F. EBEICIA3N
griEttious.
The Blaming of St. Rosalie
ED
In the penitential days of Louis XIV.,
when Madam do Maintenon bad succeeded
in putting the belles of his court in high
Idresses, and making the princes of the blood
walk beside her sedan to mass, the dullness
and devotion of Versailles, debarred from all
the sweets of scandal, was somewhat en
livened by a tale which began to circulate
regarding one of madame's most distinguish
ed.protegres. The young lady was in her
nineteenth year, and would have been a
court-beauty, had beauties been then ac
knowledged; but the mighty marchioness
did not permit such things, Mademoiselle
de Bethune had been placed, nobody knew
how, under her special protection. The
blood ut Sully and of Ruhan mingled in the
fair girls vein's. She was heiress tobroad lands
in Provence and Languedoc. Her birth,
her beauty, and her fortune, might too a
commanded one of the best matches on earth,
ur at least in France; but Madame de Main
tenon and her friends the Jesuits, were
determined on making her a bride of Heaven .
Ro , alie de Bethune's m .ther had early
lost her husband in a duel fought in defence
uf her ref utatiun. Subsequently, the bereav
ed widow was know as one of the gayest
at the court presided over by Madame de
Montespan; but having survived youthful
charms, and come to the days of De Main
tenon and devotion, she was converted to the
most ascetic piety, and died, bequeathing
her daughter with her whole fortune to the
Convent of St. Rosalie. h. had been foun
ded by one of the young lady's ancestors,
ages before the name of Huguenot was
known to the Bethunos. Their patron
age had been withdrawn from all convents
since the Reformation, when they as well
as the %Mans, became Calvin's men;
but the nunnery had held its ancient place
on one of the dry sandy plains of Provence,
leagues away from town or village, and
also kept up the strict discipline of the holy
St. Benedict. Though of Cal vanistio descent,
the heiress had been reconciled to the Church
in her early childhood, Madame de Bethune
being too much of a court-lady to hold a faith
frowned on by Louis le Grand. Even the
piety of her patroness had never suspected
the young heiress of the slightest leaning
to heresy. Nevertheless, a life spent in the
Convent of St Rosalie was a prospect which
no eloquence could recommend to her taste.
In vain the spiritual fathers, old and young,
of madam's chosen society, set before her
the sinfulness and vanity of the world; the
risks her youth ran in the midst of its many
temptations; and the special judgements she j
might expect for despising her mother's
dying wish and oolemn dedication of her to
thu saint whose name she had received in
baptism. One assured her that no honor
able man would marry a woman with such
terrors hanging over her; another found out
that there had been leprosy as well as heresy
in her family, and both would certainly
break out with renewed violence in the de.
generate branch which dared to refuse the
saintly veil; a third reminded her that, with
her fortune and talents she had every pros
peat of becoming an abbess, reigning over
community of obedient sisters, extending
the fame and influence of the convent, and
probably attaining to the honor of canon
ization.
MA
Neither the wrath to be expected from
Heaven, nor the distinctions the church had
to bestow, could move the obdurate heiress
of the Bethunes. She respected her mother's
dying wishes, she venerated the sanctity of
the cloister, half her fortune was at St.
Rosalie's service; but she had no vocation
fur monastic life, and into the convent she
would not go. Unfortunately, Pere Duro
que, madame's ally and the kings confessor,
was first cousin to the abbess of St. Rosalie;
moreover, it was a triumph for the faith
that the last decendant of two such heretical
families should retire with all her wealth
to the solitary convent erected by her pious
ancestor; yet, to give the sacrifice alai, it
must appear to be voluntary; and his ghostly
counsellors were suficiently acquainted with
the world they despised and censured, to
know that ladies rarely hold out against
advice and persuasion so fiercely except
there be a lover in the case. The usual
machinery of espionage and inquiry was
therefore set to work. Between her confes
sor, her maid, and some inferior instruments,
it was discovered that a secret correspon
dence had existed for some time between
the heiress and the Count d'Ambois. The
count was a gentleman of ancient family
and very reduced ebtato. The king had
made biro an officer of the bedchamber; and
his mother had contrived to get him intro
duced to Mademoiselle de Bethune, with
whom the count said he had fallen in love;
the youngheiress believed him; and his moth
er connived, encouraged and assisted the ro
mance, which was carried on with great pri
vacy, for fear of the mighty marchioness.—
This being n.ado out the necessary steps were
taken. Tho count and his mother were ad
monished to break off the affair, with a prom
ise of place and pension if theyobeyed, and
refire: de cachet if they refused. In conse
quence, letters arid looks of hair were return
ed with all speed. The count found out-that
his heart had never been affected. Ho set
Forth on the same day on a tour of Italy and
Spain; and hie mother . employed her credit
to redeem out of the betide of a money-lend.
"NO ENTERTAINMENT IS SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING."
COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1861.
ing goldsmith a richly wrought crucifix, eet
with precious stones, and believed to contain
a chip of the true cross, which she forthwith
presented to the convent of St. Rosalie. The
crucifix was an heirloom in the Imbuis fain.
ily, and according to the tradition of that
noble house, had been presented to its fir , '
marquis by the famous Doge - Dandolo, flow
the spoils of Constantinople. Their tar...-
and quarterings were engraven on its re
verse; it had descended feora marquis 0'
marquis with the chateau and estate:
long after these were gone, it served tlo
family necessities with the said gold,mit,,
an d his congeners.
On this oec.isi, n, it served their fortune
also. The nuos of Sr. It 'SA lie sent baci
theiy thanks, and partly promised the
offices of their patrone:s we. Madam)
d'Ambois was taken into court favor, and
gut a pension; her son was made keeper »!
the king's wardrobe; yet the point was MO
gained. In spite of the f (et that she W.I
forbidden the court, (hot people had order
not to visit her, that her confessor placed
her under an interdict at once from the mas
and the theatre—the heiress of the Bethune,
held out, till her spiritual advisers agreed
that the Huguenot blood was in her, and
some pretext was sought fur sending her to
the Bastile. On the very day in which she
had been admonished of this design, by
guard being privately placed over tier in her
family hotel, which she had continued to oc
cupy with the old maitre:fee and servants, the
heiress was sitting in one of the great so
loons, musing over her unlucky wealth.
which left her no choice between the Bastile
and the convent. Of course, her entire
household had been long in the service of
her enemies, and acted as so many spies.—
They were all apprised of the steps about to
be taken, and rather satisfied that thing'
were coming to a climax, when the three
musketeers took their station at the foot of
the grand staircase. But even the porter
was sure ised when, in the fall of the win
ter twilight, a monk presented himself, and
demanded leave to speak with mademoiselle's
confessor. The reverend 1.)))) r had been
installed within doors in the deceased lady's
time, and knew better than to give up his
vantage-ground. The monk was introduced
to his study without delay, and the confessor
was somewhat startled when he presented n
letter from the vicar-general, commanding
that Brother Cyprian of the Society of Jesus
should be permitted to speak privately with
Mademoiselle de Bethune.
The reverend father had seen letters from
the vicar-general before; the present was his
hand and seal, and Brother Cyprian looked
grave and trusty enough to be employed on
such a mission. He was a man about mid
dle height; no one could have guessed his
age, but there was nothing of decay about
him. His frame looked thin and wiry; his
face had a fixed expression, like that given
by death; and his eyes, which were at once
sunken ar.d fiery, had a keen searching pow
er in them which the confessor did not care
to meet. According to the rules of the so
ciety, Brother Cyprian was his superior fur
the time. The monk evidently knew it, and
would give no information touching his mode
of procedure with the refractory heiress.—
The confessor had hoped fur the glory of her
reclamation; but the vicar-generd's • com
mand must be obeyed, and Brother Cyprian
was conducted to her saloon.
The maid, who got absolution for peeping
through the keyhole, saw them together, but
could catch neither word nor mean leg, except
that her mistress looked first frightened, then
thoughtful, and at last resolved; while the
monk's face never altered; and the pious
femme declared in her confession that his
eyes seemed to look through the door into
her very heart. The conference did nut last
long, but it proved effectual. Within half
an hour after Brother Cyprian's departure,
which was accomplished so silently the mus
keteora only saw him pass, mademoiselle
announced her determination to fulfill tier
mother's dying wishes, and take the veil of
St. Rosalie. The confessor ground his teeth
over the honor and triumph ho had lost, but
at the same time made a vow of extensive
tapers to the shrine of St. Cyprian, to whose
special interference he attributed the re
markable success of the monk who bore his
name. Madame do ALtintenon and her
pious coadjutors were more sincerely de
lighted, though no inquiry could discover
who the envoy was, or whence he came. It
was oven reported that the vicar•general, in
his first surprise, had positively affirmed he
never wrote the letter, and knew nothing of
Brother Cyprian, which it was not thought
politic to persevere in, though the king him
self suggested that a miracle might have
taken place. What matter?—the spiritual
victory was gained; and the lands in Pro
vence and Languedoc secured, for the last
descendant of the Rohans and tho Bethunes
took the veil, and became a nun in the Con
vent of St. Rosalie.
The circumstances which induced her to
take the vows, and to which a strong tinge
of the miraculous was imparted in the pro
vinces, gave the event immense interest.— 1
It was not permitted to subside. The ab
bess and nuns who welcomed with open
arms this valuable accession to their com
munity, soon began to publish such tales of
the devotion and austerities of Sister Rosa
lie—the nun had chosen and been permitted
to retain her saintly name—as made their
convent famous throughout the south as the
dwelling-place of a probable addition to the
calendar. It was asserted that, for weeks
together, •tsbe never slept at all; that ber
prayers ascended night and day from their
chapel altar; that the only bed she would
consent to occupy was a flat tombstone; and
her use cf the scourge and haircluth, her
prolonged fasts, and exhortations to du like
wise, created a pious ferment of emulation•
an,lng the sisterhood. Then came tales of
.t still more marvelous character; lights
were seen in Sister Rosalie's cell which no
e wilily hand hail kindled; voices were heard
cmiiersing with her when she prayed alone
in the chapel; a plant in the convent gar
den, believed to be .lying, revived and put
iiirtt new buds at her touch; and a nun
en;,.•, bed-ridden, benefitted so much by her
prayers that she rose and walked to matins.
These miracles increased in number and
magnitude as they went abroad. The pow•
ers 1/1 Sister Rosaile brought visitors flout
village and cameau to the convent. To se
cure an interest in her prayers for family
hopes and troubles, the rich offered gifts to
the altar; the peasantry to the cellar or lar•
•ter; and hundreds who labored under such
vhable difficulties es a withered limb or an
unmanageable sure supplicated healing from
ihe touch of her holy hand. The list of mir
acles consequently extended every day,
though numbers were disap• Mated fur want
of faith. The convent bade fair to be the
richest in Provence. Its fame reached
ailleq; and as a weight of sanctity w:l4 just
then Wanted to cast into the scale against
P,rt Royal and the .Tansenists, the whole
court turned out in pilgrimages to the she is
of St. Rosalie and her chosen nun. Mad
ame de Maintenon did not take the journey,
neither did the king, fur it was winter, and
very bad weather; but they sent a great
Abundance of needlework from St. Cyr, and
14 the popular preachers came out that Lent
on Sister Rosalie and her miraculous con
versions, they gut their full share of the
g'rrry.
Tho convent was still in the full blaze of
its fame--the pilgrims were talking as much
;ibout the riches of its chapel as of the mir
acles wrought there—when another blaze
startled the scattered dwellers on the barren
plain around it; for one dry, breezy night,
three hours before the ringing of the matin
bell, the .sy was flushed with a glare red
der than that of the coining day, and the
Convent of St. Rosalie was a flaming pile
before the honest peasants could understand
the cause. Substantial as it looked, the
greater part of the old fabric had been tim
ber, dry as time and that southern air could
make it. Tire fire, therefore, made such
' rapid progress, and the hamlets were so fir
from the nunnery, that when tho nearest
neighbors reached the spot, the burning
roof and part of the walls had fallen in, and
out of the whole establishment no living
creature escaped but the portress, the wood
cutter, and the convent dog. Their habita
tions being in the outskirts, they could give
no account of the fire but that the convent
was in flames when the glare and the noise
roused theta from their sleep. It was too
late to make their way into the inner pas
sages; they thought they hoard cries ming
ling with the roar of the flames; but none of
the sisterhood ever appeared, and the mini
ele-working nun must have pecished i.:O mg
the rest, for she was praying that night in
the chapel, and it was first consumed. The
wonders of the terrible calamity did not and
here. Though guarded by the proviucial
poliee, and diligently sought over, no re p
liant of the c ,stly plate or jewels with which
the altar had been enriched could be found
in the charred ruins. Gem., gold and sil
ver were known to be iocombustible; but
they had disappeared, though the ashes of
the poor nuns were partially gathered. Nu
inquiry, no investigation could throw light
on the mysterious fire. The portress and
the w..od-cutter, though examined by bish
ops and priests, had no other story to tell;
nor was any addition to their testimony ever
obtained, except that of a solitary shepherd,
who stated that on the night St Rosalie was
burned a pair of mounted travelers, with
black horses of unusual size, rind huge sad
dle-bags, had passed him on the heath and
inquired the nearest way to the sea. All
along the southern coast those travelers were
watched and searched for in vain. The
shepherd could give no account of their
faces; he said the moon was under a cloud
when they passed. The peasantry began to
find out that Sister 11)s:die's miracles had
not been genuine; a question arose among
them regarding the agency by which they
had been performed. Tho unaccountable
fire did not seem to them an event of saintly
origin. Nothing could be made of it, and
it might encourage heresy; so the authorities
temporal and spiritual, did their host to get
tho convent forgotten, nn 1 the peasants of
the plain took care to avoid, its ruins after
nightfall.
Years passed away. The Crunt d'Am
bois and his mother kept the place and pen
sions they had gained by giving up the heir
ess of the Bethunes; but though devout and
obsequious as the reigning,marchioness could
desire, they never advanced a step further in
court favor. There was no mote use for
them. The strange and terrible conclusion
of the business in which they had served
cast an ominous shadow on them: thn peo
ple in power did not care for the instruments
in such a work. and what was worse no
eligible woman would hold parley with the
count on matrimonial subjects. Little profit
had been made by what Madame d'Ambois
was in the habit of calling their great sacri
fice; however, elm was not the lady to be
forgotten: and while just keeping clear of
being troublesome enough to get banished
the court, her claims were so often turd so I
variously presented to royal notice, that '
length by way of ponstuning them off, her
son was appointed one of the attaches to the 1
special embassy sent to Berlin, where the
Elector of Brandenhurg was about to he
crowned first King of Prussia, and madame.
wens permitted to accompany him.
It is said that Berlin was never so full of
odd and unaccountable people tient the splen
did coronation of the first Frederick. Ad
venturers from all corners of Europe crowd
ed to the err pital of the new kingdom. 'fru
ditions toil; exist of the high play and fatal
duels which came off in the interludes of the
royal festivities. The latter were on a scale
so magnificent and prolonged as to tire the
eyes and exhaust the patient-a of everybody
concerned, except the new-made king, whose
love of romp pageant was insattable.—
They wound up with a masked ball ant the
palace, to which all comers were welcenn.•
• I
and where, consequently. the police would
be in attendance to - The company was
immense, and the great salons a sight to he
remembered, filled as they were with all vie
rich ies of costume. Madame d'Anthois rind
her son were there. The old Parisian dame
though verging oti sixty. did not think Ito:-
„sir p a st a mask; an I it wag with many
complaints of the niggardly allowance as
sig wed them, that they tl•911111,! , 1 the charee
:ere of a nit tied a 11.1 , 1.114 the lea-t.
they went in a hire I earrinee. in•ce I.
unnoticed, with the miney throne Nob •ty
knew them, and they ;thew nob ,h ad T,trt
genttlem en and lashes of the emba.ey were
all present; but the count and his mother
had come from court tiller a cloud, and they
did not consider it nee :try to acknowledge
their existence anywhere. much less at a
masked ball. The count was an agreeable
man, nod Iris toothier could talk vies erly: but
that night the damp of their fortunes fell on
them. In spire of masks and the best in
tentions, they failed to interest anybody in
the gay crowd, were pronuncing it a very
dull evening. end talking of going home a
little after midnight. when a voile! Sultana
whose magnificent Eastern costume end
matchless eyes. flashing through two slits in
her teil, had been the admiration of the
whole assembly, 1 . 111110 up to the corner where
they stood, entered at once into conversa
tion after the manner of masks. and. ne might
be expected, addressed her-elf especially to
the count. It was a latly'e voice, and a fine
toned one. A small awl beautiful hand. ev
idently displayed for the purpase. gavel
further assurance of a true &liana. Per
haps her son had made an impression On
some German princes.; at all events he
could take care oft imeelf; and Madame
d'Ambnis discreetly retired into a quiet Hint
with an old miner, who, she had reason to
think, was a [kneel-inn nobleman. very tired
of the masquerade. and waiting for 111$ car
riage; but she kept her eye and ear also, on
the pair; heard the sultana offer to confess
to the monk, and Inn. him foliate her throngh
the suite of Rebls, till she lost sight of them
nt a small side-door, covered with rich dm
perv. and leading to a private cabinet, where
Fred rick hail given nudience to his favorite
npholsterers, and debate] questions of dress
and deeeration for thew,. crowning
Madame watched and waited long, but they
did net reappear. The miner loft her, and'
went his way. She got into other chats., and
did some small flirtation with the help of her
court-training and some talent for the work.
in spite of years and adverse fortune. But;
hours passel, the company began to grow
thinner, and still there was no return of her
son. She explored the rooms in search of t
him and the sultana; no trace of either could
she find. There might be modes of ogress.,
from that cabinet with which else was not
acquainted. Oat of the side door they had
not come. There might be snares laid for 1
the count, though he was poor and prudent.
It was six in the morning, and madame
would wait no longer. She made her way
boldly to the cabinet; the rich drapery coy- 1
ered the doorway; it was but it step from
the great saloon, yet nobody had thought
of turning in there. A single lamp lighted
the small but elegant apartment; it was
hung with green damask, and festooned
with flowers, and there was her son, alone,
reclining on a sofa, with his monk's frock
drawn closely around him. He seemed
asleep; but as madame stepped up to wake
him, her feet splashed in something on the
floor; it was blood! The mother's shrieks
brought company, servants, and police into
the private cabinet, and the count was found
reclining in tin easy attitude, but stiff and
cold, with n dagger driven deep into his left
side. Its hilt was a crucifix richly wrought
in gold, set with precious stones, and bear
ing on its reverse tho arms and quartering',
of D'Ambois. It was the very gift with
which madame had propitiated tho powers
of the court and the nuns of St. Rosalie,—
The unfortunate woman knew it at first
sight, and the circumstance was believed to
have upset her brain, for she lost her rea
son from that hour, and would never talk of
anything but the burned convent and Sister
Rosalie. No research or inquiry after the
veiled sultana was spared, but trace or tid
ings of her were never gained by the police
in Prussia or elsewhere. One curious fact,
however, came to light, which only involred
the affair in deeper mystery—it was discov
ered that sundry jewelers and goldsmiths in
the large German towns had purchased front
passing travelers, supposed to be foreign
noblemen, valuable plate and other costly
articles known to have been presented to
the convent in Provence. which, though no
body cu.uld tell how, must have escaped the
burning of St. Rosalie.
81,50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE; 82 00 IF NOT IN ADVANCE
The CH -, final Witness
A LAWYERS STORY.
In the spring of 1.6.18 I was calle•1 to
Jackson, Alabama. to attend omit. Levitt;
been engaged to defend a young man wht
had been accused of rubbing the mat]. ;
arrived early in the moral, g, and immedi
ately hal a long conference with my client.
Tue stolen mail bag bad been recovered, a•
well as the letters from which the moat?
had been rifled. These letters were given
inc for examination, and I returned them to
the prosecuting attorney. Having got
through my private prehmistaries at, .
n ton, and RS the e.n.e votald not 'come • f
bet . ..re the next day, I went court
the afternoon to see what was going 0n...-
The first case that came up was ono of theft.
arid ine prtwa•er w.l.- it ywin% all I not 01.111•
than seventeen years of age• named Eliza
beth Madworth. She was very pretty, ant ,
bore wnieh we st
d,,ta i“ a au'!" Sue it been %A 0. 1
Mg profusely, but as she found man,
eyes upon het, she bee tme too ft ightened t.
eep m
Die e.iiip .zi tt her set forth that
she 4..billitrs from .
M. N -eby. an 1 111.! CII•t! ,CIII on I
faun 1 that thi. Mrs. N.t+ehy, a wealth 3
wi AL! t •t% .a. wee the girl's
.lee I si.• into).
reace in the trible.t terna..i. lii eireuni
AtaIICCS %Vert: I,,ri against her. A hundred
.toitais I. hu k notes had been stolen Iron•
her inistresi' r ohm, an I the w..is the unit
one that h.t.l access there.
At this juncture, when the mistress VI /16
up•ni the #4.1114i. :1 v uiig man can e
and caught me by the arm. Ile was a Ett
I.•ukutg man, told tpg tear, ~COul in lie
eyes.
"They tell me sou are a good lawyer,"
he whispered.
"I am a I.lwyer," I answered.
"Then do s.tve her! You certainly c
do it, for she is innocent.'
"Is she your sister?"
"No, sir," he added, "but, bu—"
!acre he hesitated.
•'llas she no counsel?" I asked.
"Nme that's good for anything—nobody
that'll do anything for her. 0, save her,
and I'll give you all I've got. I can't give
you much, but I can raise something."
I reflected a moment. I cast my eyes to
wards the prison. , r, and she was at that mo
ment looking at me. She caught my eye.
and the volume of bumble entreaty I read
in her glance resolved me in a .Thunent.
artote and went to the girl, and asked if elms
wished me to defend her. She said yes. I
then informed the cuurt that I was ready to
enter into the ease and was admitted at
once. The loud murmur of satisfaction that
ran quickly through the room told me whore
the ~ympathies of the people were. I asked
for a moment's cessation that I might speak
with my client. I wont and sat down by
her side, and asked her to state candidly
the whole case. She told me she had lived
with Mrs. Naseby nearly two years, and
had never any trouble before. About two
weeks ago, she said, her mistress lost a hun-
dred dollars.
"She it f •om her drawer," the girl
said to me, "and asked me about it. I said
I knew nothing about it. That evening I
know Nancy Luther told Mrs. Naseby that
she saw me take the money from the drawer
—that she watched me through the key.
hole. Then they went to my trunk and
found twenty-five dollars of the missing
money there. But, sir, I never •u It, and
somebody must have put it there."
I then asked her if she suspected any one.
"I don't know," she •aI.I. "who could
have done it but Nancy. She has never
liked me because she thought I was better
treated than she She is the cook. I was
the chambermaid."
She pointed N nay Lather out to me.—
She way a stout. buld•ftccd girl, somewhere
about five and twenty years old, with n low
forehead, small grey eye-i. a pug nose and
thick lips. I caught her glanco at once, as
it rested on the fair young prisoner, and the
moment I detected the look of hatred which
I read there I was convinced that she was
the rogue.
"Nancy Luther did you say that girl's
name was?" I asked, for a new light had
broken in upon use.
"Yes, sir."
"Then rest easy; I'll try bard to save yon.'s
I left the court, room and went, t.. the pros-
ecuting attorney and asked him for the let
ters I bad handed him—the ones that had
been stolen from the mail bag. Ile gave
them to me, and having !elected one, I re
turned the rest and told him I would see be
had the one I kept before night. I then re
turned to the court room, and the ease went
Dirs. Naseby resumed her testimony.—
She said she entrusted the room to the pris
oner's care, and that no one else had access
there save herself. Then she described
about missing the money, and closed by
telling how she found twenty-fire dollars of
it in the prisoner's trunk. She could swear
it was the identical money she bad last, in
two tens and one five dallar bank notes.
"Mrs. Naseby," said I, "when you first
missed the money, had you any reason to
believe 'hat the prisoner had taken it?"
"No. sir," she answered.
"lied you ever before detected her in and
dishonesty?"
'No, sir."
[WHOLE N UMBER 1,6R0.
"Should yuu bare thought of ecarchuig
her trunk land not Nancy Luther utivieel
and informed your'
"No, air."
Mrs. N.iheby left the stand and Nan, y
Luther took her place. She came up with
a bold look, and upon me she cast a defiant
gla• cl . , a• if to toy, ..crap we it 30u
She gave her evidence lie followk.:
She said that on the night the money was
taken, she saw the prisoner going up stairs,
and horn the sly manner in which she went
up she suspected all was not right. So she
followed tier up. ••Elizabeth went to Mrs.
Nasehy's room and Mint the door after her.
1 stooped d •wn and looked through the key
hole, and saw her take out the money and
~ut it to tter 1 . 1101 ntie stooped
!own .111.1 pielted ttp the 11111111. awl at. 1 elli4
I at she wa4 e ,, ,Foz.nit 1 harried away."
Then alio went on, told how ahe had in
formed her mistress of this, and how AO
,u•0p,..al to :-edtrett 111.1)411r:4 frnlik.
I called M. Naseby ai the stand
/I. ' •/.4 nal./la/ 1..2 tom.% naVe y. un.elf aLd
he pri. h nl :11 . /.1 , 14 f., ymir raorn."
"N,mc coup Nancy Llther Lava
the room if she wislie.l?"
"Certainly, sir; I meant that no OrIC elso
;my tight thero."
I :aw that N lsrhy, tllnngh fla t ;any
t har' woman. vrlv. snntatrhat tomv6; by
p z, hpt 11.4 ..ory
"Could your cook hire knrrtro, by any
means in your kuurrledw, Where your
money was?"
'•:,•, , 1:: I r ,he hapi often rt , one n my
r iota while I was there, and I have oft( n
:tiven her mnney to buy pr•n•isiona of iii
men whn happened to come along; with
their wagons."
"0.4t1 un,rc rpie4iion.
"11 .; a y'•tt known of Orr, prisoner'.- hating
iled any money ...ince this will stirlen':"
—No. sir."
I nuvr called Nancy Luther back. and she
began to tremble a little, though her look
r... bold and defiant at 4 over.
"Miss Luther," I said, "why did you not
inf“rm your mi.treqs ut unue of what you
had seen, with )ut waiting fur her to ask
about the lust money?"
-Because I could not at once make up
/iiy iiiilid to expose the pour girl," the an
...wered promptly.
“You ony you looked through the keyhole
.ind Raw her take the roJney?”
"Yea, ai r." •
"Where did she place the lamp when
did an?"
"On the bureau."
"In your testimony you said she stooped
down when she picked it up. What du you
moan by that?"
The girl hesitated, and finally she said
she did not mean anything, only ih.tt she
picked up the lamp.
"Very well," rail I, "how lung have you
been with Nlr4. Nagoboo
•
"Not quite a year, sir."
"How much - doei 4iP pay you a week?"
"A dollar and three quarters."
"Have you taken up any of your pay since
you have been there?"
"Yes, sir."
"flow much?"
"I don't know, sir."
"Why dor.'t you know?"
"How should I? I hare taken it at differ.
cot times, just se I wanted it, and kept no
account."
'• Tow if you had wished to harm the pris
oner could you hare raised twenty-fire dol
lars to put in her trunk?"
"No, sir, oho replied with virtnons indigna
tion.
"Then you have not laid up any money
since you have been there?" '
"No, sir, only what Mr— Nitemby may own
.
me."
'•Then you did not have any twenty-fire
dollars when you came there"
"No, air, and what's ot.•re ; the money
found in the girl's trunk was the money Mrs.
Naseby lost. You might have. kh"wn that
if you'd remembered what you asked her."
This was said very sarcastically, and was
intended as a crusher upon the idea that she
should have put the money in the prisoner's
trunk. II .werer, I was nut overcome en
tirely.
"Will you tell me if you belong to this
State?"
do, sir."
"In what town?"
She hesitated, end for an instant the bold
look forsook her. But she finally answered,
"I belong to Somers. Montgomery.oounty."
I neat turned to Mrs. Naseby. • „
"Du you ever take a receipt from your
girls when you pay them?"
"Always." -
"Can you send and get one of tbectlfor me?"
"She has told you the truth, sir about the
payments." said Mrs. Newby.
"0, I don't doubt it," I replied, "but par
ticular proof is the thing for the court room.
So, if yon can, I wish you would - procure
the receipt."
She said she would willingly go if the
court said so. The court did . no, an she
went. Her dwelling was not fer*Off, and
she soon returned and handed me four re
ceipts, which I took and examined. They
were signed in a strange staggering band
by the witness.
"Now, Naney Luther," I said turnin g to
the witness. and speaking in a ciniielc. start.
tons, at the stunetinutiodkinglierliteritly
o me eye. ••piease tell the aotiristitud
And tell roe. where you got Ida letienftidise
dollars, rot sent in you intetzlostinthisiee
in Ilotnetir