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VOL. 14----NO.' 13.
TREASON CASE IN BOSTON.
[Wow the Roston Post, July 21 .]
Speech for the Defence by 111 r. SENOT,
the Defender of John Brown in Vir
ginia. A Caustic Denunciation of
Puritan Smelling Committees, Yan
kee Sneaks and Abolition Thugs.
U. S. COM.MrS:qON EEC'S COURT.—
AIT et! esd ay —b &ire E. Mervin.
U. S. vs. P. S. Gordon et al, charged
With being Secessionists, with giving
aid and etnalort to the enemies or the
United States. , This ease was further
continued. T... 11. Lathrop for the U.
S. George Sent and IL Al. Parker
fur derentiants.
di. H. Dana, jr., the District Attor
ney, appeaped an.d said in Substance
that there was no stotote, of the Uni•
ted Srates tooter which the (3-ordons
could tie held nove* for ecsprer3sion
of hostility to the GoVernruent; or
for receiving intelligenee from the
South ; that such things were not ac
tually treason, there being no overt
act proved, that the line must be
drawn somewhere, mind although the
conduct of the Gordons was pretty
close up to it, he must enter a nolle
prosequi in the case.
w. 3. 131.111.2 4 :SIDE,
Annville, Pa
11. M. Parker, Esq., replied that af
ter what had been said by the Attor
ney, it was his duty to protest against
any disposition of the case now ex
cept by a hearing and determination
by the magistrate. He said that no
one of the five Gordona had been
shown to be guilty of even improper
talk, except Harry, the youngest, and
then ander the influence of liquor.—
He also warned these self-constituted
committees that this comma nity.wo'd
not tolerate such interference as they
had been guilty of. He thought the
counsel for the defendants ought to
have an opportunity to vindicate the
character of ocese men. He had not
himself prepared to argue this ease,
having from the beginning left that
to Mr. Scoot, the junior counsel.
Mr. Dana stated that an argument
in the case after the Government had
abandoned it would be useless; But
if anything could be said in vindica
tion of the Gardens it would be fair
to allow it.
it&UCII & LIGIIT
Mr. Senot was obliged to the Dis
trict Attorney for that. He said that
after what the GordonS had suffered
i- would be of no advantage to them
to argue their case. What they want
ed their counsel to do was to vincli•
cage their character, and expose the
meanness of the prosecutors. This
he proposed to do now.. Re then auf
dres._ed.tlie Commissione,r as follows:
Charies P. Ciordcin is sixty years
old. he has four sons. They are all
natives of New England, and silver.
smiths by trade. They reside in the
suburbs, and do business here on
Washington street; in the building uf'
Deacon Palmer. They are men of
respectable standing, and as to polit
ical sentiments they voted for Dou—
glas. They are the parties prosecu
ted. •
Mr. Peter Hobart is 'a house build
er, and is deacon of Park St. Church.
Mr. Naives, a Superintendent of the
Tremont Temple, and was a member
of the Church of Mr. liallock. Mr.
Thrasher is an, acquaintance and an
associate Of theirs. Mr. Palmer is
another deacon, in whose building a
committee met to try the loyalty of
these suspected persons. Mr. Wit.
liam Washburn is an architect—for
merly of the City Council. These per
sons are all of Republican polities,
and are the real prosecutors.
Mr. Thrasher complained to Mr.
Hobart, that the Gordons were dis•
affected people, who .sympathized
With the South. Mr. Hobart, acting
upon that information, Wrote them a
loiter, which, with its answer from
the Cordons, is in the vase. The
next day, by the invitation of Deacon
Palmer, the above named persons met
by concert in hiS basement, with a
!lumber of others . , elected Deacon
Palmer chairman of the meeting, and
then called the Gordons before them.
The eldest son, being asked by Mr
Hobart the letter writer, if he would.
satisfy them of his loyalty by put
ting out a flag, replied in au outburst
of passion that he would not be co.
creed, especially by his enemies. Mr.
Washburn attempting to interfere,
was interrupted by this Gordon, to
whom. for some reason or other, Mr.
Washburn is peculiarly odious, and
informed him that from him nothing
would he heard. From this violent
scene the son was drawn away by the
father, and the strange committee dis
solved and disappeared through Dea
con Palmer's back door. The Assis
tant District Attorney was then in
formed that the Goraons had given
aid and comfort to the enemy. This
information he says, upon his oath, he
believes. In consequence they were
arrested. Their whole life and cnn
versation for the year past has been
sifted and pried into. Their friends
and neighbors have been summoned
to testify about them. And on this
testimony, so obtained, we are to hold
them, if it offers probable cause.—
Now, does it?
And here, how simple—how easy
is the task of the mere lawyer or the
mere commissioner! -But, if I regard
such a case as this, or if you did, with
the eye of a mere lawyer, I should
despise myself, and, sir, I would be
astonished at you! What would be
the use, sir, of a liberal education
outside of our profession, as well as
a severe training within it? What
the benefit of active exertion in the
prilitieal affairs of our country, begin
ning for each of us long before we
could vote ? What the continued ex
ercise of every manly and more than
kingly prerogative, which dignifies
wen!
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RatitiraL
LEBANON, PA
our existence as citizens of this impe
rial fiepublic—if we should merely
peep through the pinholes of evidence
at a case which, in its principles, in
volves the LIBERTY of us all !
I shall take care, sir, not to do so
—and while I shall take care not to
present an unlawyer like view, or to
say anything at all inconsistent with
a legal analysis of the charge—while
I shall even use the testimony faith
fully as the stimulus of reflection and
the occasion of :argument—l shall
leave the law part where it should be
left in this.stage of the ease—to it in
a subordiiiate relation, and speak of
it briefly and in the conclusion of the
matter.
Viewing the testimony, 'then, does
it show any offense committed, ex
cept by the conspirators---:the spies—
the informers—the Cellar Inquisition
-who haVe . borne - false wiltieSS a
gainst their neighbors to destroy him?
Suppose thei.n to have aid against
their nature, and have told the truth
under oath. Then the Gordons
various ways have found fault with
the Government? That is the es
sence, the spirit and even the scope
of the testimony.
Is that treason Is it treason herd
`Phis Was the home of free speech—
and all the colors of Republicanism—
from black to billious—declared that
speech should be free. The ehiefrea
son why 1 want to carry fire and
sword into the South, is because they
refused my right of free speech—giv
en to me by that Almighty God who
was pleased to create rue a free man;
a right the creator and del:ender of
all toy other rights; a right so much
the more important than the Consti
tution, the Constitution was invented
merely to assert and secure
it is nut worth the paper it blackens
unless it does assert it and secure it:
I de,Glare beroro God, that is I un•
del-stand that right, I value it more
than Ido my lice! And. I cad this
whole assembly—yes, this whole
country, to witness if I have not be
fore now proved the sincerity of this
declaration by iny actions? And the
right which 1 vindicated at the risk
IA my life before a Southern tyrant,
I will not give up for the sake or my
business to a Yankee Sneak. Neith
er shall the Gordons!
Their case is ours. We are tried
with them. And in defending them
we defend ourselves and our country
from a gang compared with whom
Colonel Leadbetter, the murderer, is
humane, and General Floyd, the thief,
is respectable. Mr. Sumner was once
the advocate of tree speech. He
claimed to be almost one of its mar,
tyrs. And in tieNnee ail it, or in e,0 4 ,
victim of a cowardly assault, inflicted
with a ferocity and endured with a
meekness unexampled in the annals
of cudgelling ! lie now changes opin
ion, or at least his language. With
that felicity ufallusion which belongs
among the public writers of America,
to him and to Governor Andrew
alone, he advises his friends to put
their "heels" upon those who differ
with them, and who dare to speak
out. The advice is given in a public
letter addressed to the late war meet
ing at New York. Is this :prosecu-
Lion and experiment made upon pour
mechanics by a few small' conspira
tors in pursuance. of an agreement a
mong the, principle Thugs at Wash
ington, in order, if' it works well, to
sacrifice inure important victims to
the Abolition Jiale,e ? 1 do nut
know. But I know this. I know
that the gentleman of theMpublican
party do not countenance it, and that
it will fail here, because, among oth
er reasons, to reach their political op
ponents they must be hail down; both '
political and per:soma friends. If free
speech is treason, our excellent Gov.
croor would speedily be known as
the late unlamented John A Andrew;
for his speech is excessively free and
easy! We haVe merely to go hark to
his letter to Mr. _Kimball to make
hi in an advocate and champion of trea
son iii its broadest extent. - Then
what would beounie of Mr. Phillips?
Dues he speak in favor of the Govern
moot ? llas he ever said_ anything
in favor 01 any Government except
that of Hayti r Did he not lately ad
vise a large and patriutie assembly
nut to give a roan or a dollar to the
government of the United States?—
And did not that patriotic society ap
plaud the suggestion ? Shall we pros
ecute Mr. Phillips therefor? Not
with my good will, not without my
active . resistance! I should violate
the first principle of Democracy,
greater to me than anything but the
word of God himself, it' i did not fight
fur Mr. Phillips' right to talk treason
to any fuel who wants to hear him !
In a letter the Governor refuses to
supply troops to the President. In
fact he supplies many and urges more
to go. Du we prosecute him for his
letter ? No! but a tempeSt of deri
sion breaks .over what lie calls his
head from all parts of the United
States and even from England, and
to that we leave hirn. When the reg
iment of the I to Cu}: Cass went off
without an escort, even of the second
battalion, was it riot actually hissed
ie State street, as was the Massaehu
setts regiment on its return from
Mexico ; butt the agreeable remark
was made that the departure of the
Irish would he of great griet to our
poor houses and jails! The Gover
nor or his friends may talk so about
Col. Cass' coun try men,the Irish, with
out committing treason. We are not
charged with saying anything halls°
bad about Mr. Andrews' countrymen,
the negroes, and yet we are prosecu
ted.
Much has been said about finding
fault with the government, as it' there
was sows pecuqal sanctity about
WEDNESDAI, SEPTEMBER 17, 1882.
Have we arrived at such a state that
no one must find fault ith any ae•
ti oo or omission of the overrun en t,
or any member of it, wi out•having
treason imputed to hi n t' Can you
not sir? Cannot I I r example,
have the misfortune to tl nk. that Mr-
Seward, our present : - ecretary of
State, is not fit, as:a: stn .-sman, to in
dex the papers of the lefty. ilas Wrightl
However little my', thoughts may
trouble him, I do not thick his want
of sense—sober sense--h s made him
the laughing stock Of Europe. 1
think he is a small ward and county
politician, who tvritespke a sopho
more, and acts like.a stdc jobber.—
Every time he speaks ab ut what will
I
happen in sixty daysHi ninety days
—he.puts me in mind o a curb' stone
broker chattering over ..he approach
ing mutnrity of a *Onus note. I
think such men have, brit advanced
to imporsautrdaeesiviAthis country
about as often.as tbe:s—Will be, and I
cannot help rejoicing to think that
Mr. Seward will proludAy be the last
o the Lilliputians : 114 1 not say
so ? Has Mr. ; Willips'talien out a
patent for the applicatiod first rate
abuse to second rate men IP\ and must
I be tried for treason ill, In\wever un
successfully, attempt to inft\*nge it?
Again, I do not worship iilr. Sum
ner, the Chairman of the Se.mtte Com
mittee on Foreign Relations:\ I can
not admire a person who is so simple
as to think it a fitter thing to pretend
to be a fanatic, that to be a dull but,
boneSt man. There is a fine old Ger
man story called the "AdVetitures of
Reyourd the Fox," in the illustration
of which, animals of differtunt coflu
tries are represented in theiattitudes
With the expressions of Men. The
illustrations are very good: \ Expose
a cep.of clear ivaterld the frpst; ob
serve it, and ever when the cold be
.gins to till its transparent subnanco
with a beautiful spinella of ice,'it you
agitate the mass it will not imantedi
awl). freeze. But give it in that con
dition, a short period of rest, and it
becomes a rock, hardly yielding to
the energies of gunpowder and fire.—
So have we found the Siatth. They
were once undecided. Time and the
stupidity of the Government has con
solidated a hesitatingly into a hostile
people. Yet Mr. Gorden is a traitor
if he calls a fool a fool.
No, sir, freedom of speech is not,
quite gone. It "still lives" in Boston.
This mean prosecution is not to affect
it. Those that I happen to know of
them are gentlemen. They did not
agree with me in polities where poli-'
tics existed, but they agree with me
now in dispising that potty prosecu
tion orlaborers aml mechanicb.9lo,olr,
of
the old Whig party, and Which was
one Of the causes of its:fall, as great
and respectable as that; party was.—
They say with perfect 'freedorn from
constraint and that it would not on
ly be lost to us, but wOUlti be used a
gainst us with treme,ndo4s power, if
it should be shown for one , moment
to be produced by fear or by force,—
lf we cannot hold our own against
one or two Secessionists, a whole
Statemithout force, what are we to
do with the armies ofStoiletvall.Jauk
son.
If leading. Republimis, however
abandon their own print Ales to take
vengeance for opinion's sake; I can
tell you that they will n'ot, leave so
great a matter in the bands of any
such persons as the prosecutors in th s
ease. They will not (otideseend to
shrink froth the Court of Judge
Lynch in order to whine over us, in
the cellars of Deacon Palmer! They
will not attempt to watch us in entry
ways, like Phineas Stone, or adver
tise us ill the Sunday Papers as were
the, Gordons. Nor if We happen to
be so situated, will they sneak tOund
to master builders or other employ
ei's and threaten them with loss of
business if we are not, dismissed, as is
the; high-toned and Magnanimdus
practice bf . sl.r. Wrn. Washburn.
The petty business' never sprung
from them. They are a great party
and, I believe, an honest one. They
are not. to he measured with the meas
ure ()far. Sumner or of Peter Hobart.
If they utter sneers in temper, they
empty their pockets in generos
ity. They care for the widow and
the orphan. And when they do that,
sir, they /never ask what party the
husband or lather belonged to. No,
sir! The bulk of the Republicans
love their country and help their
countrymen, they leave the mean bus
iness of spy and informer, of alarmist
and rupsionist, , to renegades of the
NV ash burn stamp who remain at home
to abuse their former party instead of
following its members to the fight
for our country. They leave it to
them and the remnant of those med
dlesome natures, the torment and re
proach of Massachusetts, who infest
its religious societies, and who are
the sorrow of its most Christian char
acters. The man who attends to ev
ery other man's affairs whether his
Owl] are attended to or not is almost
exclusively a illassachusetts nuisance.
fie is commonly, though not always,
attached to some unhappy church or
ganization. To Massuchm;etts, soci
ety meddling is indeed a scourge so
great that it may he doubted wheth
er it does not fully counterbalance
every comfort , arid blessin g -
concen
trated in this favored country. Pu
ritanisin which exalted the manly
English spirit by fanaticism on the
one hand, degraded it on the other
hand, by espionage. Its churches
were mutual assurance societies in
each other for the morality of their
members, its doctrines are forgot
ten.
But the evils xvb'eh the Puritans
uneonecievsly did, lives after them,
and chgrches which detest their rem-
ory and deny their teaching, are man
aged on their principles. Massachu
setts to-day is covered with societies,
in which the best, men and women
conscientiously, but reluctantly, and
the worst of men and women eager,
Iy, and with a devilish delight, form
the work aspics and informers upon
each other. To say that such a gi•
gantic system of mutual espionage
does degrade character is simply to
say that eavesdropping and tale-bear.
ing are not mean Occupations. Un
der its influence nothing is known of
a man's character or disposition.—
Habitual watchfulness upon the one
side arouses habitual hypocrisy upon
the other, and it is ohly when the
petty saint of Boston expands into
the gigantic villain of New Orleans
or San Francisco, that you can tell
how vast a benefit you derive from
his emigration. The wickedness look
ed little here because we saw but
tle of it. The enormous pressure of
universal listening and peeping had
driven it deep into the innermost fi
bres of our society. So pressed it
produces smelling committees, it e
lects Hiss legislatures. It brings such
men as Deacon Palmer to associate,
out of fear, with such men as Wash
burn, whom they receive in their cel
lars and dismiss through their back
doors. Nobody will deny the fact or
its application here, who is not pre
pared to deny the existence of the
Rev. Mr. Kuilock, or his church mem
ber Mr. Hayes, who peeped after him
and blaek•mailed him, and then ex
posed him. It is Mr. Hayes' turn to
day, it may be Mr. liallock's turn to
do that dirty work for Mr. Hayes to.
morrow. It is Mr. Washburn's turn
now, it may be the Gordons' turn by
and by. But - be the turn whose it
may, the system of a barbarous age
and people applied to the control of
civilized mankind awakens the here.
est resentment. Men have put up
with the savagest. task masters.—
They have endured the bloodiest ty.
rants, without resistance for many
years.
They have submitted to the Kings
of Prussia—and even to the Turks.—
But a Government of meddling phil
anthropists they cannot bear. It re•
seMbles the Guve.rnmant of vermin
more than any human despotism.—
Individually vile and odious, but quite
insignifieant; when collected they are
all pervading, all devouring, appall
ing—loathsome to every sense, and
intolerable to the strongest body and
firmest mind. This is the Govern
ment of the Robespieres—the Larats
—the Washburnsthe Hoburts—the
Hayesesis the oppression which
makes Alm_ wise man in.acl! It made
to GOrdons mad When it fitSt, appli
ed to them, and what they uttered
under its influences was temper—not
treason. Yet was there sense as weiri
as temper, if they preferred Jeff. Da.
vis' to an Abolition Government. As
I understand an Abolition Govern
ment a mail might endure the Gov
ernment of Mr. Phillips, for he is a
gentleman—or of Mr. Garrison, for
whatever may have been thought of
his sanity, his honesty was Dever
questioned. But the Abolition Gov
ernment which they understand was
the Inquisitorial—the cellar—the sink
and cesspool committee whieh stood be
!Ore them ordering them to put out
flag ! and I think there is no man
of spirit with that, in his mind, who
would not prefer the wolfishness of a
Davis to the perdiculousness of a
Washburn
The Gordons have done no wrong.
They do not hate their native coun
try, though they cannot like its im•
becile Government—a Government
which has everything given to it by
a generous people, and which does
nothing but waste time, make speech
es and feed contractors, cannot be
liked or trusted until it alters its
course. These sentiments I under
stand them to express. .1 agree with
them in that; so do hundreds and
thousands more. They have a right
—moral as well as legal—to express
such sentiments. They might to ex•
press them ; and woe to the Wash•
burn who shall meddle with them, or
with any one else in this way here
after I
OPINION OF COMMISSIONEIi
The complaint in this case charges
the defendants with "giving aid and
comfort to the United States" an in
formal mode of describing the of
fence of "adhering to the enemies of
the United States, giving them aid
and comfort." In other words, the
accusation against the defendants is
treason—for ander the Constitution
and laws of the United States trey
Son consists in "levying war against
the United States, or in adhering to
its enemies, giving them aid and corn
tort." And the punishment of this
offense is death.
To consti . tote this offense, some overt
act, either . in levying war or giving
aid and comfort to the enemy, must
be proved. It is well settled that no
words, or intentions even, however
hostile or disloyal they may be, are
sufficient, if they have not ripened
into acts.
The laws of the United States have
thus far tailed to make ()pillions, sym
pathies or intentions, or the expres
sion of these, however disloyal, base
or hostile to the existing Govern
rnent, an offense cognizable by the
Courts. Such conduct is left for its
punishment to the just and indignant
judgment or mankind. Et_
Our sole duty here is to administer
the law as we find it.
In reference to the two younger
Gordons it is but just, to state that sa
far as I perceive no testimony what
ever has been introduced affecting:
them ; and the testimony, so far as it
relates to Mr. Gordon, Sr., is Inninly
WHOLE NO. 601.
to the effect that he received letters
from a customer in Baltimore giving
him rebel accounts of the movements
of the armies sooner than they were
published in the papers here.
In re erenee to the remaining de
fendants, George and Henry Gordon,
although the testimony is much more
full as to their expressions of sympa
thy with the rebellion, yet 1 fully
concur with the views stated so fairly
by the learned District Attorney, that
it is entirely insufficient to prove an
overt act of treason.
My only duty, therefore is to order
that this complaint be dismissed, and
the defendants be discharged.
The crowd in the courtroom burst
into applause which nobody checked,
and many people, went up and shook
bands with the Glordons.
"STONEWALL" JACKSON.
[From the Faymmell Nexti4
. ,
There you see selfcommand, perse
verance, indomitable will, that seems
neither to know nor think of any
earthly obstacle. and all this without
the least admixture of vanity, assum
acy, pride, fool-hardiness, or anything
of the kind. There seems a disposi•
Lion to assert its pretensions, but from
the quiet sense of conviction of his
relative position, which sets the vex
ed question of self importance at rest;
a peculiarity, would remark, of great
ininds. It is only the little and the
frivolous who are forever obtruding
their petty vanities before the world.
His lace, also, expresses courage in
the highest degree, and his phreno
logical developments indicate a vast
amount of energy and activity.
ills forehead is broad and promi•
neat, the occipital and sincipital re
gions tre both large and well-balatic
ed ; eyes expressing a singular union
of mildness, energy and concentra
tion ; - cheek and nose both long and
well formed. His dress is a common
grey suit of faded cassimere, coat,
pants and hat-rthe coat slightly
braided on the sleeve, just enough to
be perceptible, the collar displavin i z
the; mark of a Major-General. Of his
gait, it is sufficient, to say that he just
goes along, not a particle of the strut,
the military swagger, turkey•gobbler
parade, so common among officers of
small rank .and smaller minds.
It would be a profitable study for
some of our military swells to devote
one hour each day to the contempla
tion of the magnificent plainness of
"Stonewall." To military fiunc, which
they can never hope to attain, he
unites the simplicity of a child, the
straight-forwardness of a Western
farmer. On last Sunday he wasdress
ed as ab9s - e, and bestrode as common
a Horse as one could find'in a `
summer
day. There may be those who would
be less struck with his appearance, as
thus accoutred, than if bedizened with
lace, and holding the reins of a mag
nificent barb, caparisoned and har
nessed for glorious war.
But to one who bad seen him as I
had at Cold Hat borand Malvern Hill
in the rain of shell and the blaze of
the death lights of the battle-field,
when nothing less than a mountain
would serve as a breast work against
the 36. inch shells which howled and
shrieked through the sickly air, Gen
eral Jackson in tatters would be the
same hero as General Jackson in gild•
eel uniform. In my siinple view be is
a nonpareil—he is without a peer.—
Ie has enough energy to supply a
whole manufacturing aistrict—enou gh
military genius to stock two or three
military schools of the size of West
P•Aut.
STRENGTH OE THE REBEL ARISIY.-
001. A. 11. Adler, a Hungarian lately
in the rebel service, but who on cer
taro suspicions respecting his loyalty
was arrested and subsequently escap
ed, has made a statement, which per
haps is entitled to some degree of
credit.
During his confinement ho employ.
ed a man whom be had long known
and served to watch Gen. Winder,
the military commandantof the city,
and to bring him exact intelligence
This information, aided by his own
intimate knowledge of the rebel or
ganization, plans, &c., enabled him to
make out the following figures:—
REBEL FORCES MARCFUNG NORTHWARD
Under Gen. Jue Johneen, 60,000 men
"Stonewall" Jaeluton, 45,000 men
Longrtrettes Corps. 18,000 men
Gen. E. It. Hill, 16,000 men
Gen. A. P. 1111!, 12,000 men
Gen. Rosa, of Alabama, 0,000 men
Gen. Craig, of south Carolina, 12,000 tuen
Gen- Huger's Division, - 12,000 men
Independent corps- from Georgia, S.
and N. Carolina, Alabama, 60,000 men
Infantry, 243,000 men
Cavalry, including Gen. Stuart's
command of 4,200 men, 20,000 men
EMI
Of artillery, the force is not espe
cially mentioned, but 150 pieces were
sent with •Stonewall" Jackson alone
and the entire parks are not less in
total than 400. The cavalry is ac
companied by 18 and 24. pounders,
and the most, of entire amount of ar
tillery consists Of field-pieces, very
many of them rifled and of the most
modern pattern.
Gen. Ewell's Corps alone amounts
to 28,000 men apart from Jackson's,
but- it is thrown in as a part of Jack.
son':3 force, although Col: Adler gives
it its fell value. He states that 57
fine pieces of ordnance were left be
hind by Gen. McClellan on the Chick.
abominy, and all of there have been
made available. The army, then, im•
mediately in front of and on the flanks
of Gen. Pope, extending from the line
of Gordonsville toward Leesburg, is
fUlly 200,000 men. Col. Adler encl.
sed expressions of much surprise
when he made the same Nth te e t to
the highest military authorities at
Washington; but he insists upon its
t 'Jaunt gib fitrtiser,
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if the postage is not paid in advance, rates are deratied.
truth, and says that any less calcula
ion will entail most serious disaster:
The rebels are making a determined
push on Maryland, and theif plans
thus far have met with even more
success than they anticipated.
An Amusing Historiette Developed 86-
fore the Paris Police
in the presence of a wine merchant
and his wife, two distinguished mem;
hers of the canaille, Sariol and Tar.
ban by name, entered into articles of
co partnership for the purchase of a
small keg of brandy, With the ttnder-
Btandin g that it was to be peddled oat
by the glass, at the fair of St. Denis;
the annual fete of a village in the en ,
virons of the capital, the terms of the
association being that the profits of
the venture Should be equally divided
between the itinerant merchants.—
Every thing was drawn up in due form
and among the carious articles of.the
'agreement was one fixing the pried
of a 'smaller' at four sous.
On the evening of the t ery first
day that the partners Comthenced op:
erations, both Sariol and Turban were
picked up by the police, in a most woz
int plight, their garments in rags,
their eyes in deep mourningand their
scalps partially denuded of the eapil•
lary embellishment. Their financial
situation may be summed up ih twd
words—am empty keg and a copper
coin of the value of tWO
Appearing on the following morn. - -
ing before the Police tribunal, charg-;
ed with assault and buttery and re-:
sistance to the public authorities, the
following thoroughly Frenehy teeter
were elicited —The: tit() speculators
had duly started for th's faif ground's
at St. Denis, taking with theta the
keg of brandy. Upon arriving at the'
suburb of La Chapelle, Sariol said to'
Turban, 'Turban, my boy, 1 think
take a stiffener;' to which Turbot
replied, 'Well, I think that's cool, an
yhow I You know, 1 s'pose, that that
'ere brandy isn't yours alone; it be- -
longs to us both 'That's so I' re.
turned•Sariol, 'and PH tell you how
we'll manage it; the price of a small
er is four sous, so I'll just give yotf
two sous, and that'll make us square' l
'All right,' said Turban, mollified ;
'that's lair enough.' So Sariol gavei
his partner a two sous piece and took
his 'stiflenct.'
The pair had gone !MC a abort die
thnce further when Turban suddenly'
remarked, '1 think I'll take a rewiyer
now, myself.' 'Of course you mead
to pay me two sous ?' said Sariol. 'To
be sure I do,' answered the other.--
Whereupon ho drank a glass of bran
dy, and handed back the esapper.
After plodding on andtber. Sari-;:
of broke in with, 'By jingo,l gain fox'
goods at half price ! As a smaller
costs me two sous instead of four,
take an - other I' To which Turban a
greed at once, and again received the
two-sous piece. Five minutes after- -
ward lie told Sa.riol that his logic was,
quite correct—two sons for a glass of
grog was an unprecedentedly low price—
took a drink, and once more returned the'
copper coin. And so it went on, at fre- -
quent intervals, until the pair at length
reached St. Denis, congratulating them
selves upon , their happy discovery of
brandy of half price. It is superfluous to
remark that when they arrived, they trefe
not particularly attentive to business,•and
were struck with the single idea that the
more they drank the more money they
made. Governed by this notion, they
rapidly circulated the two sous piece, um=
til the keg was at last found to be empty;
whereupon Turban suddenly ekcfaimed—
'Hallo, how's this We bought six francs'
worth of brandy, it's all out, and there's
only two sous In the till r 'What d'ye
mean by only two sous ?' That's all
there is, my boy." Then, by thunder;
you've robbed the cash box r This was
the signal for a bout at fistictrlTS, followed
by the interference of the police, when
the two partners turned their united fore.:
es against the officers, were overcome by'
superior numbers, captured, lodged in the
nearest station hoilse; examined - the next
morning, and sent to durance vile for
eight days. No moral is necessary.--.
C''or. _Y. I. Express.
WALTER'S MILL
rtHE subscriber respettfully informs the public that
Ilie has et tirely rebuilt the Mill on the little SWI4;
tare. formerly known as "Straw's" and later as “Wen
gort's," about one,fourth of a mile from Jonestown,
I ebanon county, Pa.; that he has it now in complete
running order. and Is prepared to furnish entitoinevil
regularly with a very superior ort!cle of
111E.4 4010 ilifj"_llElL
as cheap et it can be obtained from tiny other source*
Ile keeps also on band and for sale at the lowest catitt
prices CHOP, Illt AN, SIIORTS, dec. Ile Is also pre;
pared to do ail kinds of Cie.±o7SE'Re %Vona, for Farmers
and others, at the very shortest possible notice and in
vites all to give him a tria:. The machinery of the
Mill is entirely new and of the latest and most im-
proved kind. Ey strict attention to businea and fair
dealing lie hopes to merit a share of public patronage:
WHEAT, RYE, CORN, OATS, &e.,
bought, for which the highest Lebanon Market prices
will be paid. FRANKLIN WALTRK;
May 7, 1862.
263,000 meu
~.
Wood, Coal, Posts, wails, &c
rionK undersigned hare putrhatted the Coat dad WOO&
1 Yard or Daniel Light, (Merchant,) i 1 Walnut street,
North Lebanon borough, near the Union Canal, where
they will constantly keep on hand, a WO
...- -niply of A LL KINDS OF COAL, which they
. will sell
M e.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. _
by the Boatload or by the Ton. APO CORD . #00 . 6.
Hickory. Oak; kc. Also Chestnut Itoets and Bane—
which will be sold in large or small quantities, at the
most REASONABLE PRICES. Cantor Wend will be
punctually delivered by the nudersigned. to any plans
in town or vicinity. The public are invites to esll,ant
satisfactory and punctual' attendance will be given.
GRAIN ! GRAIN I ! GRAIN I. I
WANTED:
Any quantity of Grain—Wheat, Rye, Oate, Corn, Clo:
ver and Timothy Sied. Will bopurehased by the under•
signed; at the highest market prices, for CASH, or lot
exclitege foi Coal, Wood, Au.
JONATHAN GRVAANAN,,-
CtiItISTLEN ArvILY.
April 24, 1962:
Estate of Eliiaheth Ressleti
Deceased.
"\TOTICE le hereby given that Lotterliof Adthirihrtii•
i N two . do bonus non, on the Estate of ELEELBETIf
lmsster. deed. late of the borough and ernnaty of Lei;
anon, Po., have been granted to the under gned the
mum. , phiee. All pe'rgena inuebted hi said estate ammo ,
rine.ted to make immediate payment. and those haying ,
claims OV demands against the same will Fenn thsat
duly alithoutitiited fur aottlemunt, to
GEORGE ELY;
Admixdotridor de baguet ma:
Inbanou, Illopbertibor 3, 2863: