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The sequel to an Old English State Tela
Wu propose to write that which has
heretofore remained unwritten—the
true history of the Earl of Cardigan's
dual with 'Captain Harvey Garnett
Phipps •Tuokett, , And its sequel as am•
braced in the career, In this country, of
Captain Timken 'and the lady who was
primarily the cause of the duel. In
this recital there will be found all the
elements of a sensational romance, but
they aro duo entirely to the facts of this
remarkable ease, and In no manner or
degree to the imagination of the writer.
March of 1854 came in, as old crones
about country firesides said, like Alton;
full of howling, blustering winds, on
which were borne, from early dawn to
dawn again, great falls of snow and
sleet, that piled themselves ankle-deep
on street and pavement. That first
day of March, 1854, was as uncomfort
able a day for pedestrians as the imagi
nation could well conceive;yet the
any following outrivalled it tltogether,
for, late in the afternoon, a slow, dogged
rain-storm set in, so that when the
lamps were lighted all out of doors was
us u great lake of unclean, chilling
slush, and those who had a few days
before considered themselves fortunate
hi securing seats at the old Chestnut
Street Theatre for this night's perform
ance, looked grimly into the puddled
streets thinking of their penetrating
damp and cold.
Yet when the curtain rose, u few
hours later, upon the flue old comedy
of "Speed the Plough,'' Miss Lizzie
Weston, turnel to Dolly Davenport
with the query, "Is all the town here?"
The question was a natural one, for,
except in the matter of great artists,
those were not the palmy days of the
old Chestnut; "a beggarly account of
empty boxes" was the rule then; but
tlik night there was meaning In the
phrase, "crowded from pit to dome;"
the house was literally crowded with
the culture, fashion, and wealth of the
quaker City. They had come there
through the inclement night, not that
they were especially Interested in the
play, but that they might do honor to
the memory of a grand old gentleman,
scholar, and soldier, Captain Harvey G.
P. TuCkett, lately dead. He had died
in abject poverty, on what were to him
alien shores; but to his name there
had clung a halo of great deeds done
under burn ing India suns on battle days;
and there was vaguely whispered about
him a legend of moral heroism—of a no
ble service dune later in the sacred name
of woman. This Thursday night had
been set apart at the theatre for the ben
ellt of his widow, whose first appear
ance on any stage was widely announced
by newspapers and dead walls. She
played Margery in "The Rough Dia
mond," and played it so remarkably
well that she astonished, not only her
friends, but even the artists of the
theatre. \Then Mr. Jefferson, who
played Cousin Joe, led her off the stage,
after the full of the curtain, he said
"Accept my congratulations, madam
no debulctidc ever played so well
before—nor ever will again," he
added impressively. Whereupon
the widoW looked Into his face
with her great frank eyes, and
smilingly thanked him. But while her
eyes rested on the artist's face, they
were asking a question of it,—this one:
"!-low much do you know, and how
much do you guess
But of all the thousands who crowd
er;,i(!ie theatre that evening,—and 'they
e mostly admirers, friends, or no
quaintances of her late husband,—few
knew that that petite, vivacious, black
eyed lady, whose bareshoulders gleamed
white as ivory, whose bright, piquant
face, merry laughter, and cheery voice
charmed to infatuation her audience,
had once been the chief promoter of,
and actor in, what came near being a
tragedy jeoparding the lives of four
gentlemen of England, and passing into
the records of the law as one of the
most remarkable cases In the English
state trials,
On Tuesday, February 16, 1841, the
present and seventh Earl of Cardigan,
James Thomas Brudenell, representing
an honorable English family, elevated
to the peerage on the 2.oth day of June,
1011, was tried by his peers at the bar of
the House of Lords for au assault, with
intent to murder, alleged to have been
committed by him in fighting a duel
with 11r. H. (J. I'. Tuckett.
The Earl had commanded the Elev
enth Regiment of Hussars when surv
lug in India, a year or two previous,
and among his captains was Harvey
Tuckett, a cadet, of an ancient and hon
orable family. Captain Tuckett was
accompanied by his wife, young Eng
lish lady of exceeding prettiness, great
charm of manner, and possessing very
brilliant accomplishments and a shrewd
wit. The families of the regiment,
exiled from the charmed society of
Belgravia, yet fitted by birth and edu
cation to be of it, grew clannish in
the atmosphere of India, and were
bound together by ties of sympathy
and taste unknown in even the more
favored circles of home. The colonel of
the regiment, an English peer, possess
ing In a remarkable degree bravery,
culture, and wealth, ' was regarded by
.the families of his subordinates as some
thing more than a welcome guest,—as
one who conferred distinguished honor
by his presence. The most beautiful
and brilliant woman of that little soci
ety in India was Mrs. Margaret Tuckett,
and upon her the Colonel bestowed his
particular favor and countenance. The
warm friendship that sprang up be
tween them was not only permitted,
but encouraged, by the chivalric old
Captain, who, impressed with the be•
liet that his young wife might have
sympathies in common with the Earl
outside of his own maturer life and
thought, looked gratefully on the Colo
nel's attentions to her, and heartily
welcomed him to his home.
So the intimacy continued, anti ri
pened, as such Intimacies do, until—
well —. It was the old story which we
have all heard and road so often. One
day the Captain found upon the floor
of his wife's chamber a little note bear
ing the name and arms of Cardigan.
He read it,—read of proposals touch
ing nearly his honor ; and the old
man's wrath was high as his carried It
to his brilliant young wife with savage
threats and questionings: Where were
the others?
There were no others, upon her
soul, there were no other ; that one was
the first and last, only withheld from
him lest his anger against so powerful
an enemy us the Earl should destroy
him.
And lie, poor chivalric dolt! superb
In his gentle faith, blind in his honest
old heart, and as easy to be fooled as the
Moor, believed her.
Then came the challenge to the Earl,
and his sneering reply, "Do you think
I would condescend to fight with one of
my own ollicers ?"
Upon that the plucky old man, whose
life had been spent In the service, who
had won preferment upon a dozen hard
fought fields, who had hoped that some
day in the future he would terminate
his honorable record in battle, gave up
the hope then and there,—gave up, too,
all his chances of promotion,—and, in
tent odly upon vindicating his honor,
threw up his commission, resignedrthe
position the emoluments of which were
necessary for his support in his declin
ing years, and sundered the associations
of half a century to remove the Earl's
excuse, and oblige him to an encounter.
'MX done, he again challenged him.
But the Earl, still finding a pretext for
his refusal, again declined to fight.
Yet who, remembering that it was
Cardigan who led that desperate charge
of the ' gallant six hundred," of whom
Tennyson has sung, into and out of
" the jaws of death " and " the mouth
of hell'" at Balaklava, will doubt his
courage? Maybe some nobler heroism
than he has ever shown on any field he
showed that -day, when he refused to
fight with the old man to whose young
wife he had written that little note
baring the name'of Cardigan.
Shortly after the. second challenge
had been. declined • the Eleventh Hus
sars were ordered to England, 'where
they arrived in duo time, and were sta.
tioned at Brighton. Immediately for-'
lowing'the regiment came Tu okbtt, p t e
suing his enemy' like' fate; and ,de
mined to find in ,England the eatleftio
tion denied Moan tithe. Thezoppor-,
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gan soon presented•itself, when in , turn
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thelisanlB4o his , Royal Highness
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VOLUME 69
ILieutenant -Colonel. In his new pod-
Con it became his object to elevate its
conduct and character so that it 'might
gracefully and without 'reproach wear
the honorable title it had won—that
of "Prince Albert's Own." While sta
tioned at Brighton, where the Earl was
busily intent upon carrying out his
ideas of discipline, ho occasioned great
dissittlefaetion among his offloers by the
severity of his measures. The spirit
of opposition became so strong, that
finally reference was made to the War
Office by his subordinate officers. The
result was that the troubles of the
regiment became matter for news
paper discusalosi, and among tho Jour-
Dale most severe on the conduct of the
Earl was the Morning Chronicle, in
which paper were published a series of
letters over the signature of "An Old
Soldier." They wore characterized by
great bitterness and personal ill-feeling
against the Earl, who upon inquiry
learning that their author was Captain
Tuckett, immediately sent him a chal
lenge by his friend Captain Douglass.
On the afternoon of the 12th of Sep
tember, 1840, the meeting with his ad
versary so long sought for by the old
soldier took place.
About five o'clock, P. ni., fr,om oppo
site directions two carriages approached
that part of Wimbledon Common lying
between Lord Spencer's Park and a
windmill owned by a Mr. Dann, who
added to his business of a miller that
of constable. Having arrived at the
spot selected, the seconds made the
usual preparations, and the principals
were stationed at a distance of twelve
yards. Both the Captain and the Earl
fired simultaneously without effect,
when some efforts were made by. the
seconds to induce a reconciliation ; but
the old soldier was in terrible earnest,
and meant mischief, He had sacrificed
position, money, and preferment, only
that he might stand as he thou did,
facing his enemy's pistol, and covering
him with his own. He bad waited, too,
a long while for this opportunity—had
dragged his old bones all the way from
India to bring it about; and while he
waited and struggled for it his heart
was wearing itself out in despair lest
the meeting should never take place.
Perhaps the Earl cared no more to
stop their deadly play than did the
Captain; so it again went on. They
each received another pistol; and it
was afterwards remarked among the
club men, in terms not complimentary
to the noble Earl, that he had on both
occasions used rifled pistols, while the
Captain's were only the usual smooth.
bore. They again Sired, when Tuckett
fell, having been shot in the hip,—
and he carried with him to the day of
his death an ugly wound and limp. .Sir
James Anderson, who accompanied
the party as surgeon, went up imme
diately to the Captain ; and, although he
bled very freely, his wound was pro
nounced not necessarily fatal. At this
point Mr. Dann the miller, with fine
discrimination,—the sport, which he
did not wish to disturb, being over,—
stepped up and arrested the whole
party, and carried them before the
magistrate at Wadsworth, by whom
they were bound over to appear at the
following Sessions to be held at the
Central Criminal Court.
A prosecution was begun, and bills of
indictment were laid before the Grand
Jury against Captain Tuckett and his
second Captain Wainewrlght, and also
against the Earl and his second, Cap.
Win Douglass. The charge was assault
with intent to murder: the penalty if
guilty, death.
The limitation of Jurisdiction of the
Judges of Old Bailey prevented them
from trying the Earl, whose offence he
was entitled by his rank to have in
quired of and passed upon only by his
peers. Under these circumstances the
court determined not to try the others
until the guilt or innocence of the Earl
had been established
Parliament did not assemble until the
18th of January, 1841; and as soon
thereafter as the forms of the House of
Lords would permit the bill of indict
ment against the Earl was removed by
a writ of certiorari from the lower court,
that their Lordships might determine
upon the matter.
The fact that the trial would not as had
been the ancient custom, take place in
Westminster Hall, had become known
to the public; and also that the Painted
Chamber which had been used for Par
liamentary purposes by the peers since
the destruction of the old House by fire,
was being prepared for the imposing
spectacle. For a period of sixty-four
years no peer of England had thus claim
ed this peculiar privilege of his order,
and the importance of the ceremonial
affected alike all classes of the English
public.
The eager desire evinced among the
peeresses and others of the aristocracy
to witness the trial rendered it necessa
ry that great alterations should be made
to secure their accommodation. But,
notwithstanding the marvellous inge
nuity manifested by the architect hav
ing the alterations in charge, he was
unable to meet the requirements of the
occasion.
The faithful chronicler of the specta
cle, who is as minute in his descriptions
and as fond of rank and glitter as old
Pepys, says: " The benches, galleries,
and floor were covered with crimson
cloth, and the walls themselves with
paper in which that color was predom
inant; and the effect was to make the
gorgeous robes of the peers and the
splendid dresses of the peeresses stand
out in dazzling relief." And if the old
Captain was there,—and doubtless he
was, for his family were of the aristo
cracy too,—what scorn must have
flashed out from under his shaggy white
brows as he looked down from his Beat
in the gallery upon all this display,—
upon ' the gorgeous robes of the peers
and the splendid dresses of the peer
esses," knowing that the spectacle
served but to make an English holiday
for her Majesty's nobility, that the so
lemnity was a shallow lie, that the
enacted forms of law were but a sham
and mockery ofjustice.
Let us borrow more words of our
chronicler, and read, with a smile we
would fain repress as we think how
strangely solemn a matter the issue of
this trial would be to the grim old sol
dier who had sacrificed everything in
defence of Margaret Tuckett's honor.
It is a goodly show we cannot help
confessing, and none of our managers
could do anything half so well in the
theatres ; but comparing all this grand
preparation,—the great array of legal
giants taking part in this tourney, its
pomp and splendor,—comparing all this
with its culmination, the beginning
seems preposterously large for the end
lug, and looking down upon it we can
not help sharing in the old Captain's
scorn of the show and all the actors in
it. There never was before a play so
gorgeously mounted ; but it was wretch
edly performed, and the climax in the
last act was worst of all. But this play
of a peer being tried by their Lordships
for a felony had not been played in
England before for sixty-four years,
when it came to a different conclusion ;
and a spectacle so grand as to be worthy
the attention of all England's rank is
certainly worth reading about, even at
this late day. Old Burke says :
"At a quarter before eleven o'clock
the Lord's speaker (Lord Denman), hav
ing robed in his private room, entered
the House. A procession was formed
In the usualmanner, his Lordship being
preceded by the Purse-bearer with the
Purse,
the Sergeant with the Mace, the
Black Rod carryihg the Lord if igh
Steward's Staff, and Garter carrying
hie Sceptre.
"Garter and Black Rod having taken
their places at the bar, the Lord Speaker
proceeded to the Woolsack, when, being
seated, prayers were read by the Bishop
of Lichfield.
"The Clerk-assistant of Parliament
then proceeded to call over the peers,
beginning with the Jailor baron..
This necessary ceremony being
completed, the Clerks of the Crown in
Chancery and' in' the Queen's Bench
jointly made three reverences, and the
Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, onhis
knee, delivered the Commission to the
Lord—Speaker,. who gave it to the Clerk
of the. Crown in the Queen's'Bench to
read, and both Clerks retired, with like
reverences to the table. •
"The Bergeanteat-Arms then made
proclamation, and the Lord-dpeaker in
'totaled the peers that her Majesty's
Cdmmissidm was about to be read, and
direofed that all persons should rise and
be uncovered while the Commission was
reading.
"The, Commission appointing Lord
Denman as Lord High Steward was
then read, .and Garter and Black Rod,
hSving made their reverences, proceed•
ed ho ithe Woolsack, and took their
places on the right of the Lord 'High
Steward, and both holding the Staff',
.
presented it on their knee's to his Grace.
"His Grace rose, end, having made
reverence to the throne, took his seat
in the chair of state provided for him
on the uppermost step but one of the
throne. Proclamation was then made
for silence, when the Queen's writ of
certiorari to remove the indictment,
with the return thereof, and the record
of the indictment, wereread by the Clerk
of the Crown In the Queen's Bench.
The Lord High Steward then directed
the Sergeant-at• Arms to bring the pas.
oner to the bar.
"The Earl of Cardigan immediately
entered the House, and advanced to the
bar, accompanied by the Yeomanusher.
He made three reverences, one to his
Grace the Lord High Steward, and to
the peers on either side, who returned
his salute. The ceremony of kneeling
was dispensed with. The noble Earl,
who was dressed in plain clothes, was
conducted within the bar, where he re.
malned standing while the Lord High
Steward acquain ted him with the nature
of the charge against him."
The prisoner was arraigned in the
usual form, for firing at Harvey Garnett
Phipps Tuckett, on the 12th of Sep
tember, with intent to kill and murder
him. The second count charged him
with firing at the said Harvey Garnett
Phipps Tuckett with intent to maim
and disable him ; and the third count
varied the charge, with intent to do him
some grievous bodily'harm.
The clerk then asked, " How say you,
James Thomas, Earl of Cardigart, are
you guilty or not?"
The Earl, in a firm voice, replied, " I
am not, my Lords."
The clerk., "How will you he tried ?"
The Earl of Cardigan answered, "By
my peers."
Mr. Waddington opened the plead
ings.
The Attorney General, Sir John, after
wards Lord Campbell, addressed their
Lordships.
The Earl of Cardigan was tried un
der au act of Parliament, entitled "An
act to amend the laws relating to offences
against the person." It received the
royal assent July 17, 1837 (1 Viet. c 85).
Under this act, to shoot at a person and
inflict a wound dangerous to life, or to
aid and abet in the same, was a capital
offence.
The argument of Sir John -Campbell
was one of the most masterly effbrts of
forensic eloquence, in the manner of
" how not to do it," probably ever de
livered, even by that astute atm rank
aspiring lawyer. Against the noble
prisoner he roared " as gently as a suck
ing dove ;" but was IL L 9 eloquent withal
as "any nightingale."
His speech concluded. Sir James An
derson, Dann the miller, his wife and
son, and the constable, Busaine, who
laid the charge on which the Earl was
tried, were then produced and examined.
But, at the close of the case, it was
objected by Sir William Fellet, on be
half of the Earl of Cardigan, that there
was no evidence to show that the per
son against whom the shot was dis
charged was Mr. HarverGarnett Phipps
Tuckett. The card of Mr. Harvey
Tuckett, handed by that gentleman to
Dann th,e miller, had been put in.
" But," Aid Sir William,with charming
'naivete, " that might be quite another
person from the indiv.idual named in
the indictment."
Of course, the Attorney General was
heard on the other side, and he said
a matter of delicacy had prevented
him from 'placing Captain Tuckett
upon the stand; after a short de
liberation, the Lord High Steward an
nounced that the evidence which fixed
the identity of the person was insult
cient, and the peers thereupon declared
the noble defendant not guilty.
Thus was concluded this trial, than
which none in the annals of the law
was more remarkable for pomp and cir
cumstances, and an utter absence of dig
nity and justice.
From a remark made by the learned
Attorney-General, in his address to the
Lords, Captain Tuckett was led to be-
lievo that the prosecution against him
would be relentlessly pressed ; this in
duced him to flee the country, which
he did, hastening his departure for
America.
Having selected Philadelphia as a
place of residence, he, almost imme
diately after his arrival, began the pub
lication of " Tuckett's Monthly In
surance Journal," a small folio paper
devoted to the principles of insurance,
as its name implied. During the few
years of Its existence he conducted it
with rare ability and a curious fidelity
to the interests of the insured as well
as of the companies ; and although his
journal received its principal support
from the latter yet he never failed to
throw the weight of his influence
against them when he believed they
were either unable or unwilling to do
justice to the publio whose patronage
they solicited. The temptation to do
otherwise was often sore with him, for
In those early days, and in later ones
too, his poverty was bitter and hard.
He had been used, for a term of years
as long as most men's lives, to the
world's best comforts and most of its
luxuries ; and the numberless proposals
he received from doubtful companies to
bolster up their weakness by a few
words of commendation in his jouf
nal would have placed him in ease
again, had he accepted them. On the
especial subject of life insurance, or, as
he always wrote it, assurance, he was
an oracle, and no man in America so
thoroughly as he enjoyed the confidence
of these learned in thescience of statis
tics as applied to mortality. The sub
ject seemed to have nomysterles to him;
his active research and profound study
had explored them all, and discovered
them to be only so many demonstrable
mathematical facts.
There was this curious contradiction
in the old soldier's character—while
he scorned the dirty bribe offered by
the tottering companies, he never hesi
tated to eke out his scanty income by
contracting debts which he had no
present prospect of liquidating. He
may have had his little dream, like the
rest of us, of ample wealth coming to
him some day through his newest en
terprise. When it came, he probably
meant to pay all that he owed. But it
never came to him, though duns did ;
and these he received with so - courtly a
grace, with such honor to themselves
and such simple regret at his own in
ability to pay, that the roughest of them
went away feeling not altogether un
kindly toward him.
By the learning, energy, and fearless
independence with which heconducted
his paper, as well as by his great charm
of manner and personal magnetism, he
wou the admiration and respect of some
of the ablest and best people of the
Quaker City. There was something,
too, very pathetic in the story of this
bronzed old soldier, exiled in the eve
ning of his life, bravely fighting for
daily bread. His exile was shared by his
young wife, who clung to him in his
ruined fortunes with a devotion rareand
beautiful to see. However his story
may have preceded him, there was one
peculiarity about the old chevalier,—he
never referred to it in any way ; on that
subject his lips were always sealed. He
courted no sympathy or recognition in
his isolation, but his hands were brave
as his heart, and they did brave work
to win comforts for the petite lady whom
he loved so well. That wound in the
hip might have ,been ever so painful,
but he never regretted that he risked
receiving it fighting for her honor. His
work was often base and menial enough,
comprising as it did allthe drudgery of
a newspaper office; bur in those days
of temptation he wrote no line that his
truest admirer need fear to read.
As we have said, his journal was too
honorably conducted to be remunera
tive; for the general public iu those
days, when life insurance was yet young
with us cared little for scientific
dissertations upon it. The influence
of his ideas spread, *trough being
copied here and there by the daily
press; but their circulation in this way
brought him no benefit. God knows
how he managed to live through years
of 'very bitter penury,--through the
harassing importunities of hundreds of
,unsatisfied duns, through the pain and
weakness inseparable from a feeble,
diseased, and time-worn body ! But,
however he lived, there by his side,
with most loving patience and devo
tion, with unspeakable tenderness for
him, was Margaret Tuckett, to whom
in India had come that letter signed
"Cardigan." Whatever of love or faith
she gave to him he rendered back
tenfold. His lover-like devotedness
to her, his admiration for her person,
mind, and heart, were something won
derful to See in such a weather-beaten,
fortune-deserted old hulk as he then
was. 'They never went abroad one
without the Other; and as 'they slow
ly made their way about the streets,
LANCASTER, PA. WEDNESDAY MORNING MARCH 11 1868
men and women parsed, turned, and
looked after thetzt_ J —a queer, quaint
couple always. bite, tall as a grena
dier, bronzed, white-haired, wore a mus
tache white and fierce as that of one
of Napoleon's Old Guard. He bore
little resemblance to his countrymen,
and looked more like a veteran of the
First Empire risen from his grave at
Wagram, add taking a view of our new
world. The little lady by his side was
dressed in solemnest black, her face
entirely hidden by a veil of the closest
and thickest texture. People who had
never heard of the Earl of - Cardigan, or
his filmous duel and subsequent trial by
his peers, looked • wonderingly after
that strange couple as they made their
way up the street.—the man towering
above the little lady half a length, her
hand resting confidingly on Lis arm,
her face entirely hidden, her voice at•
tuned to the very °Macy& tenderness,
her low laughter rippling up to him,
and making pleasant music in his
heart. All sorts of people meeting
them wondered what their story was,
well knowing that only some awful
need of each other, or some great trage
dy had brought them so close together
lu life.
How devoted she was to this "fond,
' foolish old man," who might have been,
so far as his age went, almost twice her
father! With what a clinging touch
she hold his arm in those long winter
walks ; how tenderly she caressed those
poor old hands that did such brave work
for her; how patient and gentle she
was with him always when that old
wound, won in her battle, reopened and
bled, as it would sometimes do; into
what wonderful prettiness she wreathed
her face and arranged her too scant
wardrobe! Why, a sleuth-hound was
not more faithful, an angel more gentle,
a houri more winsome, a mother with
her child more patient.
Those were Margaret Tuckett's days
of grace; but as tney come to us all,
and oftenest leave us too, they left her,
and came no more.
This strange coupe did not visit
much, nor could they entertain many
people ; for they lived in a tawdry board
ing house on Walnut street, where the
rooms were small, and the table was
always from bad to worse. But hun
dreds of people who never exchanged
a word with him felt themselves drawn
toward the old man by a feeling of
personal friendship, through causes
which they could not explain. They
knew his name, knew in a measure the
record of his life asasoldier, and may be
dimly knew the story of his exile; and
so, as from afar off, they were his friends
His life was so chivalric, simple, and
honorable, so wrapped about, too, with
loving tenderness by the woman whose
fame he had defended, that we, who
knew him well, sorrowed deeply when
he died. It was on an early January
morning, Just as the sun was rising
over the drowsy, sombre town, that he
was culled. Overnight the snow had
fallen, and yet lay untrodden on the
streets and pavements. Death came I
to him wilhout physical pain, and
touched him gently. He was dying in
abject poverty as he took Margaret
Tuckett's hand for the last time. He
held it close to his heart, and when It
was near the end with him he gravely t
bade her kiss him. With a cry of un
utterable love she threw herself upon !
his breast, and kissed the fast-whiten
ing
lips of the conquered soldier. "I ;
never doubted you, Margaret ; I honored '
myself in the love and faith I gave you i r
always." He said this slowly, and even
as the words lingered on his lips the
solemn farewell smile was ou his face.
For a moment, an infinite peace filling
them, his eyes rested on the rising sun;
and after that, until they closed forever,
they dwelt on his young wife's face ;
and greater love or more loyal faith than
were in them no man ever saw.
After a while, some women who stood
there separated the two hands, the quick
and the dead, and carried the young
widow to her room. We who stood
about her that morning thought that
she would soon follow where the old
soldier had led. We had never seen
grief so great and bitter as hers. She
well might sorrow for her dead, for he
who lay within there bad sacrificed
much for her,—had wrecked his noble,
simple life upon his faith in her.
Such faith as his should have had,
at least, the recompense of desert. That
hot morning in India when be held the
letter signed "Cardigan" above her
head and fiercely demanded, Where
were the others ? she had answered him
in tones so true and honest as to carry
conviction with them into his faithful
old heart, There were no others. Upon
her soul, there were no others
Were there?
Years after the old Captain, who
should have died in harness, with a
General's star upon his breast, was
dead—when her memory of him had
grown dim, and stale as "twice-told
tales "—when the wolf was clamorous
at her door, while hunger sat within,
and no other help seemed near—that
dazzling little lady, whose dainty pret
tiness seemed perennial, wrote to the
noble Earl a letter of which the follow
lug is partly a copy:
"Under the pressure of great necessity,
and by the advice of friends, I am about to
publish certain letters written by your
Lordship to me in India.
"The object of this note is to desire that
I may be permitted to:dedicate the -,•olume
to your Lordship.
Your early friend,
" MAILGAREt TUCI:ETT."
It appears there were enough to
form a volume, but they were never
published. " That letter to the Earl
brought me a hundred pounds ster
ling," she naively said, in speaking of
this matter afterwards.
We doubt if Becky Sharp, keen as
was her wit, ever black-mulled Lord
Steyne.
A great concourse of people followed
the old Captain to his grave, and among
them were doctors of law, divinity, and
medicine, leaders in art, literature, and
finance; even Fashion, who hates poor
men's funerals, sent her votaries to do
honor to this old man's remains. And
the day after they did better; they sent
well-filled purses to his widow.
The days succeeding his death were
curious ones at his little dark office
in Harmony Court. From early morn
ing until night it was literally under
siege by creditors. They came as the
locusts into Egypt, with hungry maws ;
but, alas for them! their Egypt, repre
sented by that bare office, gave them
nothing to feed upon. It was all bar.
ren. The luxurious habits which life
In the army had instilled into and left
with the Captain the publication of his
journal failed to gratify. So he preyed
on the wine and cigar merchant, on the
dealer in fine groceries and fruit; and
when we went into an examination of
those bills, it was frightful to contem
plate the extent to which he had preyed
on them all.
The estate owed, chiefly fur wines and
The
.9,000 00
The assets were:
Item. 1 pine table, value $1 00
2 do. chairs I 25
4 bottles Ink 50
:` 1 bundle Ins. JourLals 100
:: Subscription list, title, etc., of
Insurance Journal, available
value pip
Total 53 75
It must be clear to anyone that $9,000
cannot be paid with $3.75. We respect
fully submitted the matter to that hun
gry swarm of creditors ; and they saw,
without any exhaustive demonstration
on our part, that they were destined
never to be paid. They made wry faces,
and grumbled somewhat, but not one of
them uttered a rough word against the
dead old Captain. Notwithstanding his
ugly habit of buying costly wines with
out cash, they had honored the old fel
low in his lifetime, and they would not
abuse him when dead.
And now came the time when Mar
garet Tuckett, with her few hundreds
in hand, must look abroad to discover
what hope or chance of bread and meat
the world had to offer her. Gently as
we could, we, her friends, suggested this
necessity to her, but begged she would
choose her own ample convenience, and
not be hurried in her choice. Her cap'.
tal was her few hundreds,her beauty,
youth, and wit. "The first," she said,
"will not last long; I will try what
may be done with the others. I choose
the stage."
Her mourning garments were a week
old when she so decided—and when
she laid them off forever. Then there
came a change over this woman's
life, the like of which, for suddeness
and completeness, no man has ever
seen. As if those black robes, which
she had worn unceasingly since, that
India letter was discovered, were
chains that bound her body, soul, and
mind, she threw them off, and appeared
the woman God had made her. It was
a different woman from the one we had
known, walking timidly throughlife by
the side of the old chevalier. Another
one, , eleetrlo with energy, seltrellant,
.dazzllng in her wit, quick in resources,
radiant in undiscovered chsirme
woman fur all men to love, but one
whom no man could love wisely. It
may be that she had not forgotten the
old soldier; that. she bad that within
which, passing show, caused her to lay
aside her suit of solemn black. But
she no longer than this little week con
tinued to wear the grave's uniform ;
"Hob as heel:surge could buy" of gay—
colored gowns was now her attire. And
they were modest withal, and became
her; for among the little lady's many
accomplishments was a thorough un•
derstanding of the art of dress.
So with her little capital of money,
her rare prettiness, her dainty, epright,
ly manners, her dazzling shoulders, pl.
quaut wantonness, charming voice and
laughter, the petite lady betook herself
to the theatre. We have told how for
one night the learned, wealthy, and
fashionable citizens of the town crowded
the house to participate In her (1 amt.—
But no manager offered her an engage.
men t on desirable terms, despite of her
success, and already her hundreds were
gone for silks and laces. But the bene
fit had been a real one to her puree to
the extent of ten or twelve hundred
dollars.
When managers refused her terms,
she astonished her husband's friends
by her Napoleonic energy. "If mana
gers will not engage me, I will turn
manager and engagebthers," she said.
Time has wrought wondrous changes
in people, but, none such as it made In
this creature. We who knew her in
the days of the old Captain knew none
so reticent or shy as she; none about
whom was so closely wrapped the man
tle of retiring, modest womanhood:
none so timid of herself, so weak or
dependent.
When she announced her determina
tion to lease a theatre, we mildly pro
tested, and ventured to inquire if she
had measured in her mind the extent of
the trouble she proposed to undertake
as a manager.
" Quite well," she replied ; " I once
managed a theatre in England—at least,
a strolling company."
"Then,
" we asked, " that was not
your firstappearance on any stage, the
other night, as you instructed us to
make the newspapers and dead walls
announce?"
" 0-no; I had played ihAens of times
before in England."
Then the truth was that Margaret
had been a strolling player, picking up
odd shillings in the barns and inns of
England ; had gone tramping about
from town to town, starving and feast
ing by turns, until at last she had strol
led
to London, and found a place vacant
for her youth and wit and beauty, in
one of the minor theatres on the Surrey
side of the town.
And this was the woman who had
sent two gentlemen of England to Wim- 1
bledon Common to crack away at each
other with pistols, and had brought one
of them to the bar of the House of Lords
to be tried for his noble .life, while the
other and the two accomplices waited
In the court below for the issue of the
trial, which would decide whether they
should live or die.
, There was one question that long
I hung upon our lips, but never found
utterance,—" Who were your friends
and companions in that vagrant, strol
ling life; and did the old Captain,
whose descent was clean and honorable,
! whose friends were among the noble
j and learned of England, know of your
early career, and if so, how did he come
to marry you, Margaret Tuckett ?" We
let the opportunity of asking this ques
tion go by and she never again alluded
to her old life of starving and strolling.
It may seem incredible that thisyoung
woman, unaided and alone, who only a
few months before seemed the most
helpless and dependent of her sex,
should go down to Baltimore, secure a
lease of the largest theatre in the town,
and be able to gather about her alto
gether the finest company of artists ever
assembled on that stage. But she did
it. And that was the smallest part of
her labors. In seven weeks from the
time she first entered the city, having
from five hundred to a thousand dol
lars in her purse, she owed to certain
eitizens'of that too-confiding place over
thirteen thousand dollars. When she
leased the Front street Theatre, it was
a dirty old shell, devoid of scenery, ward
robe, and properties. In seven weeks
there was no more elegant the
atre in America; it was resplen
dent with gilt, bronze, paint, vel
vet carpets, delicate-tinted paper, and
plush-covered seats. Painters, carpen
ters, chandlier-makers, paper-hangers,
upholsterers, costumers, dealers in car
pets, in paints, in curtains of silk and
lace, in woollens and cottons, in canvas
and lumber, all hurried to her aid, and
gave her their best of skill or merchan
dise; and with such slaves to answer
her summons and do her bidding the
old shell became fair and stately as the
palace of Aladdin, and on its opening
night, September 1, 1855, no window in
in it all was left unfinished. It was
wonderful, for it was all wrought by the
shrewd wit, the dazzling shoulders, and
pretty face of one young woman, who I
spoke in the tones of an angel, and
charmed like a devil.
We do not intend to write the history
of her management of the old Front
Street Theatre. It would be simply a
chapter of disaster and fraud. The
little lady came to grief in one short
season. Her treasurer deposited the
receipts In bank until they amounted
to several thousands of dollars, then
withdrew them, and absconded. Her
actors were unpaid week after•week ;
her gas and printers' bills were left
unsettled; good wives began to make
ugly speeches about her; people grew
shy of the theatre; until at length she
was reduced to all sorts of expedients to
keep her company together. Creditors
grew deaf to the flute-like voice, that
had charmed never wisely, blind to the
gleaming shoulders and the pretty ca•
Joling manners ; the actor refused to act,
the gas-man to light the lamps, and the
printer to supply the bills. It was a
long and desperate tight, and was so
full of nerve and pluck, that, despite
all the wrong and fraud that were un
derneath, we cannot help wishing she
had corns better out of it. Poor Becky
Sharp was wont to think that with a
few thousand pounds sterling she could
have been good; butever so many thou
sands would not have helped Margaret
Tuckett, and that is the pity of it all.—
The fond old Captain helped her sail
along clean waters for a while ; but
when he was gone, she drifted away
into the dark seas because she loved
them best.
But to the last there were some whom
she was able to attract and keep de.
voted to her. We remember that on
one occasion the "leading lady" of the
company, whose salary was unpaid,
sent word to the theatre in the morning
that she would not play that evening
unless all arrearages were paid. The
treasury was empty, money could not
be had; It was resolved to change the
play, though the bills were already
posted. At that moment the husband
of the refractory actress was announced,
with the message that he came for his
wife's salary. Margaret Tuckett had
him in, flattered and cajoled him, until
he took out his pocket-book, and loaned
the enchantress sufficient money to pay
his wife's salary, making one condition
only, and that was—silence.
In another of her extremities, it was
suggested that she should have a com
plimentary benefit tendered her by her
creditors, when she could invite them
all to be present.
" The idea is a good one," she said ;
" but there is one objection to it."
" What objection ?" was asked.
" The house would . not hold half of
them," replied this frank littlewoniati.
But shortly afterwards there came'an
evening when certainly a good number
of them were present and they came
in no amiable mood either. The play
was "The Golden Farmer," in which
Mr. J. Sleeper Clarke was cast for the
part of Jemmy Twitcher. But Mr.
Clarke had fared no better in the mat
ter of prompt payment of salary than
many others, and there were whispers
about the town that day that the great
comedian would render the evening's
performance unusually attractive by,
making some personal explanations
before the curtain. Throughout the;
day there had been hundreds of his
friends and admirers applying at the
box office for places, and when the
doors opened they appeared there in
great force, very bulgy and overload-,
ed as to pockets and handkerchiefs;.
all which meant to the initiated
that, if Mr. Clarke did not play
that night, there should be no
Golden Farmer nor Jemmy Twitcher.
Margaret Tuakett was one of the hint.'
ated, and she meant that the audience'
should see both the Farmei and Jem my.
At the usual hour Mr. Clarke made his
appearance at the wing, dressed for the
part, but those who stood nearest to
him said he meant mischief. Tho call
boy summoned Jemmy 'Twitcher ; but
Jemmy Informed the manager that he
could not go on the stage until his sal
ary was paid. The manager request
ed him to look over to the opposite
Wing. He looked, and there lie saw
Margaret Tuokett, dressed as he was
dressed, coolly walking on to the stage
ready to play Jemmy Twitcher. You
see, the little lady had not strolled and
played and starved for nothing. As for
Mr. Clarke, he was simply an immense
failure, and only awaiting his final over
throw. And this came to him &moment
later; ho started to go upon the stage
to make' those personal explanations,
when an officer seized him by the
collar, crooked and pressed his finger
under his ear "in a very painful mar■
ner," as Mr. Clarke asserts, when he
tells this story qu himself, which he
sometimes does with striking effect.
Thereupon Jemmy Twitcher made his
first appearance in any street, "and,"
adds this charming actor, " in that very
absurd character I found my way
home."
But Margaret Tuckett's victory was
not yet won ; for her audience, finding
her and not Mr. Clarke upon the stage,
grew mad as a bull when a rod rag is
waved before its eyes, and from every
quarter of the house there were hurled
upon the stage unwholesome eggs, cab
bages, and unsavory vegetables. The
hubbub, the roar, and the riot of the Old
Park frolic was mild and harmless in
comparison ; but amid all thatshocking
din and rain of animal and vegetable
decay the little stroller stood her ground,
and, nothing daunted, went on with
her part. After awhile there came a
lull in the riot, when the audience
beard the Golden Farmer ask Jemmy
the question, "Jemmy, can you be
honest?"
"I don't know. I never tried," came
her answer, resonant and ringing l —an
answer which sheso pointed and aimed,
in her superb daring, that it seemed to
be made for and flung at every creditor
and dupe before her.
The spirited challenge was at once
taken up by those who were hit; and
when the laughter bad died away, some
one proposed cheers for Jemmy Twitch
er, which were heartily given. When
the noise had subsided, she walked qui
' etly to the foot lights, removed the cap
which covered the pretty head, bowed
low to the mocking acknowledgment,
and then continued her part, to have
all her humor appreciated and herjokes
keenly applauded.
At last, when lenders came no more
to lend, when her actors could live no
longer upon promises, when the band
refused to play, and when those alone
who were ou the "free list" came to see
the show, the reign of the little woman
was brought to an inglorious close. It
was a 6aturday night in March, MM.
It ended with a flash of her old wit, a
fling at the stockholders, who were dos- '
hag the house for unpaid rent. The play
she selected for this night was "The'
Rent Day." A more beggarly account
of empty boxes was never seen there.
More people were on the stage than in
front.
On the following Thursday we dined
with her In her room over the stage, for
she had no other home now than the
theatre. She had lost nothing of her
wit, charm, or vivacity in that hard
tight; but her energy was all gone. It
went out of her that night when the
curtain fell upon her for the last time.
A table from the banqueting-halls of
the stage was laid with a decent cloth,
and upon it there was little more than
would supply the feast of the Barme
cide. In the centre there was one soli
tary covered dish. We raised the lid
and asked, " What have we here?"
"That-0, that is my last silk dress.
I dined off my opera-glass yesterday."
Years afterwards, and in the town
where she had sent misery, poverty,
and desolation into at least one happy
home, she gathered the fruits she had
sown. They were bitter and plenteous,
for she had sowed with a free hand since
the old chevalier had died. Margaret
Tuckett sank into low depths of want
and sorrow. The days of lovers, friends.
and luxuries were over with her now.
Her old prettiness was atll shining dim
ly in every line of her face, in every
wave of her hand, in every graceful
curve of her body; but the plucky spirit,
which once impelled her to brave an in
furiated mob, was gone, and in a noi
some room of a filthy tenement-house,
in a poor street, she lived by her skill,
or Inspiration, as a spiritual medium.
But the end was not here. More years
went by, and Margaret Tuokett had,
found her way into the auriferous wil
derness of Colorado. It was a long
flight she took there with her friend,
suggesting memories, we should sup
pose, of that earlier flight with the old
Captain. If it did but recall that, with
all its profundity of meaning, we may
know that the grand old soldier's out
raged faith was amply avenged.
There, in Colorado, she died.
Was Margaret Tuckettguilty out there
in India? Were Mrs. Rawdon Crawley
and my Lord Steyne guilty? We do
not know. The chronicler of that ye.
racious history has left us in ignorance;
and as he gave to Becky, let us give to
Margaret, the benefit of the doubt.
The Artist's Struggle and Victory
In the first number of the Town and
Country, the new theatrical magazine at
New York, Olive Logan tells the inter
esting story of Clara Louise Kellogg's
early history on the stage :
" You remember, don't you, Anony
mous, for It Is but a few years ago after
all, when two ladies—a mother and
a daughter—called on my sister,at the St.
Nicholas Hotel, to consult her upon a
project they had in their heads? The pro
ject was for the younger lady to go upon
the stage. Mysister spoke in a disinter
ested manner to this younggirl—told her
of all the haps and mlehapsof stage life—
spoke also of the unnecessary and un
just obloquy which is attached to the
name of every actress, and then bade
her go back and ponder seriously. She
A ir
went back, with her other, and both
pondered seriously. ey_pondered on
the fact that the yours girl must do
something for self-sustenance. They
pondered on the limited field of employ
ment which is open to women. They
pondered on the emoluments and
the delights of being a seamstress,
or a shop-girl or a worker on a
sewing machine. They pondered on
the scope afforded the daughter's
genius by these employments; and pon
dering, they decided. The young girl
went upon the stage. She made a fail
ure. A dire, desperate, seemingly hope
less failure. But she remembered that
many a genius had failed at first, only
to triumph at last. There was a plucky
spirit in the girls heart, and she did not
turn to the sewing machine as a last
resort. Retiring again to private life,
she began to labor as no galley-slave
ever labored at the work to which she
was sentenced. Her days and nights
were given to the worship of the god
dess she loved ; and on her reappearance
on the stage she was tolerably if not
brilliantly successful. Her great virtue
was that she did not consider herself
perfect; but day after day, and night
after night, she ket up that unceasing
toil which has now made her, sir, one
of the most celebrated women of the
age, and the only pure blood prima
donna assoluta of whom America can
boast. Now, Anonymous, is It not evi
dent that Clara Louise Kellogg would
have done a wrong to herself and to her
country if she had refrained from going
on the stage?
New, Nock Elections.—
RIIINEBECIE. Y., March3.—R. L. Gar.
retson, Democrat, was to-day elected super
visor by 105 majority, a Democratic gain of
304.
•
NEW Yong, March 8.::,-harter elections
took place to-day in various parts of this
State. In most of the towns - heard from,
the returns show Democratic gains,
AUBURN, N. Y., March 3.—James E. ;
Tyler, a Radical, was elected Mayor to-day
by 417 majority. The Radical 'fifty: and
ward tiak eta were elected.
Horrible Wife Murder
A most shocking murder was committed
at a late hour on Saturday night, in the ten:
ement house in the rear of No. 59l Gieen
wich street, New York.. It appears thee
John Pendar came home from work, , and
began quarreling with his wife Margaret
about some money, and because 'she did
net give it up, he beat and kicked the unfor
tunate woman over the, head mid, face,
breaking eight ribs and her none, besides
inflicting several severe cats and bruises on
different parts of the body, death ensuing.
soon after.
THE DEBIOO4rO EMS CONTENTION.
Milnelima bud Rarniony
1 TUE PAN T/0111111.
TILE CANDIbATEs,
The Democratic State Convention mot in
tho hall of tho Rouse of Representatives
on Woinosday morning last, at 11 o'clock.
The following gentlemen comprlso tho
members:
SENATORIAL.
Ist. Philadolphia—Alexander Diamond.
2d. " —John Campbell.,
Yd. ", —Tltuothy A. Blown,
4th. " —Thomas McCullough.
sth. Chester, Delaware and Montgomery
—A. B. Longaker, John Hodgson,
6th. Bucks—B, M. Purnell.
7th. Lehigh and Northampton—Nelson
Welsor.
Nth. Berks—Daniel L. Wenrioh.
oth. Sobuylkill—T. J. McCommant.
10th. Carbon, Mourne, Pike and Wayne
—F. sf. Crane.
11 tb . Bradford, Susquehanna and Wyom
ing—George Stevens.
12th. Ll:mune-8. G. Turner.
13th. Potter, Tinge, McKean and Clinton
—R. R. Bill:lgnite,
14th. Lycoming, Union and Snyder—Jno.
A. Gamble.
15th. Northumberland, Montour, Colum
bla and Sullivan—George W. Armstrong.
10th. 'Dauphin and Lebanon—D. W. Sei
ler.
17th. Lancaster—William Patton, H. G.
Smith.
18th. York and Cumberland—Dr. J. D.
Bowman.
10th. Adams and Franklin—J. P. Mc-
Devitt.
20th. Somerset, Bedford and Fulton—O.
E. Shannon.
21st. Blair, Huntingdon, Citre, Mifflin,
Juniata and Perry—T. M. tiny, W. J.
Jackman.
22d. Cambria, Indiana and Jefferson—
James Potts.
2.3 d. Clearfield, Cameron, Clarion, For
rest and Elk—Wm. Bigler.
24th. Westmoreland, Fayette and Greene
—C. E. Boyle.
25th. Allegheny—B. H. Kerr, John A.
Strain.
20th. Washington and Beaver—F.. P.
Kuhn.
27th. Lawrence, Butler and Armstrong—
D. S. Morris.
28th. Mercer, Vcnango and Warren—
Wm. Hopkins.
29th. Crawford and Brie—Benj. Whitman.
REPRESENTATIVE.
Philadelphia—
lat.—Joseph Caldwell
2nd—Dr. Geo. W. Nebinger, P. Loiter
Smith, (contested).
lid—Aid. George Moore.
4th—Luke Keegan, E. K. Helmbold, (con
tested).
sth—L. C. Cassiday, R. E. Randall, (con
tested).
oth—Charles L. Wolf.
71.1:I.—Albert Lawrence.
&b—James Brooks.
fith---Cieerge A. Quigley,
10th—James Dehan.
11th—T. A. McDevitt.
12th—John Hazlett.
13th—M. C. Brady.
14th—Anthony McG rum.
nth—John K. Chadwick.
10th—John Hergeshimer.
17th—John E. Vallee.
lath—James Thornton.
Adams—Daniel Geiselman.
Allegheny—John C. Barr Jat nes H. Hop
k ins, BenJ. P. Kane, J. B. Awe (tzar, W. D.
Moore, John Mackin.
Armstrong—John W. Rehre.r.
Berke—Daniel K. Weidner,
Rhoads, Daniel Buskirk.
Bucks—Redding B. Slack, Charles Val
letta
Bradford and Sulllvau—G(lo. D. Jackson,
Herrick.
Blair—A. J. Crisman.
Cambria—Copt. H, D. Woodruff.
Carbon and Monroe—W. B. Leonard.
Centre—John IL Orvis.
Clarion and Jefferson— W. L. Corbott.
Clearfield, Forrest anal Elk—Harman
Critz.
Clinton, Cameron and McKean.—Hou.
A. H. Boynton.
Chester—Dr. W. W. Downing, John D.
Laverty, Dr. Jahn A. Morrison.
Crawford—John G. Burlingham, Dr. J.
W. Grier.
Columbia and Montour—Charles Conner.
Cumberland—Hon. David Whiny.
• Dauphin—Jno. McCreary, Jno, B. Crouse.
Delaware—Dr. J. L. Forwood.
Erie—Captain D. H. Hutchinson, W. W.
Lyle.
Fayette—Jos. T. McCormiak.
Greene—A. A. Purman.
Huntingdon, Mifflin and Juniata—Geo.
Jackson, Joseph Wareham.
Indiana and Westmoreland—Joseph M.
Thompson, Balls McCauley, J. W. Wilson.
Lancaster—Geo. Nauman, G. W. Worm
ley, A. M. Frantz, Col. A. S. Feather.
Lebanon—Mr. M. Breslin.
Lehigh—J. F. Kline, C. F. Shultz.
Lycoming, Union and Snyder—R. M.
Allen, IL C. Eyor.
Luzerne—Jos. E. Vanleer, Daniel Hard
lug, W. H. Pier.
Mercer, Lawrence and Butler—Jacob
Ziegler, S. Marshall, Col. E. W. Stephens,
James Sheakley.
Montgomery—Daniel Quillman, E. Sat
terthweite.
Northampton—Wm. Mutchier, George ,
W. Walton.
Northumberland—W. T. Forsyth.
Perry and Franklin—J. B. Hackett, W.
S. Stenger.
Schuylkill—P. F. Collins, James Mc-
Laughlin, J. P. Bechtol.
Somerset, Fulton and Bedford—George
W. Smith, Hiram Findlay,
Susquehanna and Wyoming—Walter
Barber.
Tloga and Potter—Colonel N. E. Elliott,
Miles White.
Venango and Warren--John Phipps, E.
B. Eldred.
Wasnington cud Bearer—Wm. Hopkins,
D. M, Doneboo, Adam :J. Ecking.
Wayne and Pike—C. I'. Eldred.
York—Adam Ebaugh, Perry L. Wickes.
The list of delegates having been called,
Mr. Wallace proceeded to address the Con
vention, as follows:
ADDRESS OF HON. W. A. WALLACE.
Gentlemen of the Convention: The politi
cal events of the past year are full of rea
sons for pride in your strength and cc
nil
dence In your future.
Success has crowned your efforts and 'the
great principles of civil liberty and count!.
tutlonal government have asserted weir
power over the minds of the people.
These great doctrines gave birth to our
organization, and when we are defeated In
their support, like the fabled Anteeuti when
burled to his mother earth, we gather there
from renewed vigor and arise stronger and
more determined than before.
The war and its attendant train of horrors
are remembered in madness. Reason re
sumes its throne, and designing men can no
longer attain their selfish ends by appeals to
passion. Christian charity now fills the
place that rancor had usurped and hate and
bitterness are slowly passing away.
The Radical party have shown their In
capacity to govern the Republic, and the
mass of their own adherents recognize the
fact.
Famine and crime, military rule, insecuri
ty of life and properly, the negro dominant,
the white race oppressed, are the proof,' of
this in one section, while grinding taxation,
uncertainty in ousinesa and financial dis
tress pervade the other.
It has given us "a broken and dissevered
Union ;" corruption and extravagance in
the use of the public money, contusion in
monetary sillurs, and mismanagement of
the immense revenues it has wrung from
the people.
It can unite upon no policy, but the per
petuation of its own power. In the mad
spirit of faction, it seeks to strip the Execu
tive of his prerogative, and to ignore the sa
cred functions of the Judiciary.
It tramples upon the organic law reverses
our traditions, and brands as criminal every
attempt to stay its wild career.
Our form of government is the external
evidence of our capacity for self-govern
ment, for governments are what the people
make them.
If we can govern ourselves, we can sus
tain the government we love, and can safely
trust to the force of ideas, to the march of
mind, to public opinion to crush with the
ballot those who, through the forms of law,
attack the vital spirit of our institutions. -
The people have ordained u free system of
laws and a complex yet simple organism ;
the people, the States and the Union. The
preservation of the rights of each of these is
essential to the existence of the whole.
To maintain these they have created the
three great co-ordinate branches of the gov
ernment; the Executive, the Legislative
and the Judicial. Public good and private
rights demand the preservation of the in
tegrity of each.
Sovereignty is in the people; the govern
ment is their: creature, woven to protect
their liberties; its division into independent
branches was of the very esence of the sys
tem ; the destruction of either, is a stride to-
ward tyranny. The orgatile law defines the
powers of each, and to that law each most
be conformed.
. The Constitution is the Supreme law. It
is the only evidence of powers granted by
.the States and the people, It must be
etrlctly,purstied and implicitly obeyed..To
sustain these truths more than three hun
dred thousand men, in conscious strength
and quiet dignity, await your call, and this,
day speak through you for obedience to law
tor the Government of the Constitution and
for the Federal Union of the States. , •
Od motion of Ewa. S. E. Ancona, of Berke,
theßon.:Williamll. Randall of Schuylkill
conxtty,waa ohoeun temporary Chairman of
MeVonventlon. i. ;
Mr, Randall "uponialtlng.the cloth; wee
greetedeerkh tremendous applauae. Wien).
orcler,weetpelored , he probeeded tt:p. deliver
the followlag addremu - . • .
AroDIMMI. , OP ROL .WIL 24 RANALL.' .
Gentian", of as antpagion : . is ma,
NUMBER 10
less Ibr me to Bay that / thank you ford e
honor you have conferred in calling use to
temporarily preside over the deliberations
of this convention. Impressed with Its due
importance, I shall use my best endeavors
to discharge my duties . faithfully end fear
healy I have no ambitious motives to
gratify, but look singly to the success of the
llemocratle party to toe coming struggle.
We aro on the eve of opening the Presiden
tial campaign, and if we desire success in
our deliberations they must be conducted
with wisdom end Judgment. We must
bury all past differences and animosities,
and 'mita In one solid phalanx to defeat our
ancient enemy who is arrayed before us,
and whose only name really fs " opposition
to the Democratic party." The success of
that party imperatively demanded—not on
account of the advancement of individuals
—but that not only the welfare or, but the
very essence of the Swaim/lent itself may
be saved. Examine with the fora moment
the action of thitnparly wo are compelled to
overthrow, and find every material intesest
of We State and nation on the verge of ruin
—look into the national councils that should
be the representatives of the people, and
find the Executive branch of the Govern
ment enslaved—the Judiciary of the nation
curtailed of its prerogatives, and the legis
lature, which under our form of govern
ment was but a co-ordinate brunch, as
suming the entire power and control of the
national trinity, in a way too, that has been
deemed by all the great legal minds of tho
country inimical to the unity of the nation,
if not violative of the organic laiv.
To do this, we go to the people and show
them the barren results of the war in which
our sons and brothers lost their lives to
paintaln the honor of the flag and the
unity of the States—and they will demand
in thunder tones chat disunion shall not be
declared an accomplished fact by Radical
secessionism of the North, in times of peace,
when it could not be accomplished by war,
in another section of the Union. They will
demand further, that the civil shall not be
come subordinate to the military power,
and that the Executive of the nation shall
not be ignominiously eleetedfrom his office
for the sole purpose of maintaining an un
scrupulous and corrupt party in power,
Let us then In our selections to-day place
men upon our ticket whose public and pri
vete characters are spotless, and when they
aro thus placed there—lot us advance to the
ballot-box to ensure their success, anima
ted by the same spirit that made the old
hero of the Hermitage declare "The Fed
eral Union by the Eternal, it must and
shall be preserved." Again thanking you
for the honor conferred, I am prepared to
proceed with the business of the Conven
tion.
Mr. Davie moved that the contested scats
from Philadelphia be referred to a commit
tee to consist or the delegates from Phila
delphia.
Mr. :Ziegler opposed the motion. After
the permanent organization was effected,
the Convention could then proceed to ex
amine the claimant gentlemen to Beata upon
the floor.
Mr. Davis' motion was then agreed to.
Mr. George D. Jackson offered the follow
ing, which was agreed to.
Resolved, That the rules of the House of
Representatives of Pennsylvania be adopt
ed so far as practicable for the government
of this Coventiou.
Mr, Smith, of Lancaster, offered the fol
lowing:
Resolved, That a committee of shirty
three—the members thereof to he named
by the delegations from the different Sena
torial districts—be appointed to report per
manent officers of this Convention.
The resolution was agreed to.
The Convention then proceeded to select
the committee as follows:
COMMITTEE ON PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
Philadelphia, let. District, Alexander
Diamond; 2d. John Campbell; 3d. Timothy
A. Sloan; 4th. Jno. K. Chadwick; sth,
Chester, Delaware and Montgomery, E.
Satterthwalt, W. D. Downing; 11th. Bunks,
Chas. Willetta ; 7th. Lehigh and Northam p•
ton, G. W. Stein ; Bth. Berke, H. B. Rhoads;
flth. Schuylkill, 'l'..J. M'Camant ; 10th.
Carbon, Monroe. Pike and Wayne, Dr. B.
Leonard ; 11th. Bradford, Susquehanna and
Wyoming, —; 12th. Luzerne, -
-; 13. Potter, Tiogri, M ' Kean aod
ton, R. R. Bricgens ; 14th. Lycoming,
Union and Snyder,
John A. Gamble; 15th.
Northumberland, Montour, Columbia and
Sullivan, George W. Armstrong ; 10th. Dau
phin and Lebanon, D. W. Seiler; 17th.
Lancaster, Col. A. S. Feather, George W.
Wormley; 18th. York and Cumberland,
Adam Ebaugh; nth. Adams and Frank
lin, J. P. M'Devitt : 20th. Somerset, Bed
ford and Fulton, 0. E. Shannon ; 21st
Blair, Huntingdon, Centre, Mifflin, Juni
ata and Perry, J. B. Hackett, A. J. Chris
man ; 22d. Cambria, Indiana and Jefferson,
James Potts; 23d. Clearfield, Cameron,
Clarion, Forrest and Elk, T. J. M'Cul.
lough , 24th. Westmoreland, Fayette and
Greene, J. T. M'Cormick ; 25, Allegheny,
J. C. Burr, Jno. A. Strain ; 20th. Washing
ton end Beaver, A. G. Ecker ; 27th. Law
rence, Butler and Armstrong, E. W. Ste
vens; 28th, Mercer, Venango and Warren,
J. S. M'Calmont ; I.ooh. Crawford and
Erie,
Henry B
Mr. Nautnnn offered thu following rem,
lotion:
Resolved, That a committee of thirty
three, the members thereof to be named by
the delegations from the different Sena
torial Metrics, be appointed, to whom all
contested seats outside of Philadelphia shall
be reforred.
This resolution met with considerable op
position, and a motion made by Mr. Barr,
of Allegheny, that the committee bo com
posed of seven, to be appointed by the
Chair, was agreed to.
The Chair appointed the followinir as the
committee:
John C. Barr, of Allegheny; Win. Pat
ton, of Lancaster: J. D. Bowman, of Cum
berland; S. E. Ancona, or Barks; Captain
H. D. Woodruff, or Cambria; Wm. Mulch
ler, of Northampton, and A. A. Furman,
of Greene.
On motion the Convention adjourned un
til 4 o'clock, P. M.
A FT MS!4 I ON
The Convention re•assem bled a .1 o'clock,
P. M.
The committee ou the contested election
case between R, E. Randall and L. C. CM.
sidy, submitted the following report:
HARRISBURG, March 4, 181.113.
At a meeting or the delegates appointed
by the convention from the City of Phila
delphia to settle the contested neat In the
Fifth Legislative District, between Mr.
Lewis C. Cassidy and Mr. Robert E. Ran
dall, the committee report in favor of the
admission of Lewis C. Cassidy, Esq., as
the duly elected delegate from said dis
trict. GEORGE MOORE,
Chairman.
ALEXANDER J. 1;1ANIOND, Nee'V.
'rue same committee submitted the fol
lowing :
HARRIMBURCi, Mnrch 4. IMS.
A.t a meeting of the delegatom appointed
by the Convention, from the city of Phila•
Mild lila, to settle the contested cent in the
Secoi td Legislative District between Robert
S. Di titer and a person residing out of the
said d latrict, the committee report in favor
of Rol iert H. Lister, Esq., as the duly elec
ted deli 'gate from said district.
(Sigrn i maw; Al none:.
Chairman.
ALIIXA NDTI . II .1" DIAMOND, SOO),
Mr. Po. d.s, from the Committeion Perma
nent Org,.. , .rnzation, made the following re
port:
Pros Worn —Col. William llopkium
Vice Pre, Idents—James Brooks, George
A. Quigley. Joseph Caldwell, Dr. .1. L.
Forewood, L %Mel K. Widner, C. F. Eidred,
It. B. Bridge us, Wm. F. Foraeyth, Andrew
M. Frantz, I /avid Wherry, J. B. Heckel,
George .Iscio , un, Wm. L. Corbet, 1304 P.
Kane, D. M. „Donohoe). James SheakleY,
Thomas A • M' Devitt, Bryce M. Purcell, Dr,
C. F. shalt; I wan Bechtel, AndrewGoisel
man, Henry C.. klver, Col. John M'Creary,
G. W. Wormle3 Am]. Hiram Finley, Jacob
Quilman, Joseph .M. Thompson, B. M'Cau
lay, John Mach In, Samuel Marshall.
Secretarles—lfrsult M. Hutchinson, John
Huplett, Jacob Ziegler, A. J. Crisman,
Wm. Breslin, 8. Stenger, W. J. Jack
man, Wm. Mut chtw.
Sergeant•at-A tins—Sam Carson,
Doorkeeper-1 Polyazd E, Degen.
Assistant Doorkeepers--M ichsel Sulli
van, Wm. t3llh igham, Michael Develin,
Matthew Thomp lon, John Gallagher,Frank
McCord, Thos. A . Pander.
Mr. Hopkins, tpon taking the chair, was
loudly applandeo t.
He said : The h onor which had just boon
conferred upon hi in, was so entirely unex
pected that he hot red the Convention would
excuse him, whe n ho said he had no set
speech to make. Ho could not, however,
let-the occasion pa t , 4 without expressing his
utter eondetnnatio to .of the recent acts and
measures of the R adlcal Bump Congresa at
Washington, whir h. without authority of
the law, without 1 irecedent since the foun
dation of the Gov. umwent, bed proceeded
to impeach the Pt rueldent—had tramelled
the Supreme COW I.—aud bad even taken
upon itself the sup, reme powers of the Le
gislative, Judicial a aid Executive branches
of the Government. But, I will not detain
the Convention, he ming no remarks pre.
pared. I will vim ply return to you my
profound thanks for •the honor conferred.
The follbwiug ree *lotion, offered by Mr.'
Ziegler, was agreed to:
Resolved, That a committee of thirty
three, selected by the delegates from such
districts, be appoint. id to frame resolutions,
and that all remind. me relative to the plat.
form be referred to t hat committee without
debate.
Mr. Barr, from the b committee on contest
ed Beata, made the fc report:
"That Benjamin Whitman, Senatorial,
Captain D. W. Hu lchinson and W. W.
Lyle, Representativ e delegates, are duly
entitled to seats from'; Erie county."
The report was agr leed to.
The following co.: r e:mitts° was thou Se-.
looted by the deregat , its
ooldatrr , rEE
lat district, linke lE. tegan; 2d, John Camp
bet ; 3dr , L. C., Cilatit s I.Y i , a K
n, J. , Chad.
wok; sth, B . B. Lank Faker, John' Icodgsuo;
ethilt. Ellaok t7tb, Ni (eon Weiser - Stb,B.
3. AnbOnak Otti o I% P. 43011ing rlOth ' i Di. ig:
g,
The following names were proposed for
electors at large:
By Mr. Kerr—Win. V. NrCruth.
By Mr. Hopkins—Goo. Cass,
Theme being the only names mentioned,
they WOre upon motion, unanimously
agreed upon to head tho ticket during the
coming campaign.
The following WO 11) nominated Jimmie E.
Mester, Asa Pucker, Samuel J. Randall,
George W. Woodward, Wm. !Sigler, John
Latta, James P. Barr, John H. Weamant.
On motion the Convention adjourned un
til 7 o'clock P. M.
EVENING SESSION.
The Convention reamin bled at 7 u'olook
P. M.
On :notion, the Convention proceeded to
select Reprementetive Eleetorm, end Con
gresmionat Delegates to the National Con
vention, with the following result:
DELF.GATEN TO TOE NATIONAL CONVF:N
Ist District, William NV.Mullen. L. C. Cas
sidy; 2d, W. M. Reilly, W. C. Patterson;
3d, John F. Fraunce, H. J. Linderman;
4th, Jeremiah M'Klbben , 6th, Charles M.
Hurley, H. P. Rosa; 6th, B. M. Boyer. John
D. Stiles; 7th, John H. Brinton, Jackson
Lyons; Bth, theater Clymer, Jeremiah
Hegeman; 9th, William Patton, A. J.Stein -
man ; 10th, P. W. Hughes, D. S. Hatornontl;
Ilth, D. W. Hamlin, Henry S. Mott; 12th,
J. B, Stark, R. P. Little; 13th, Michael
Mevlert, David Lowenberg; 14th, David M.
Crawford, Wm. H. Miller, 16th, John A.
Magee, John Gibson; 10th, George W.
Brewer, John It. Donahue; 17th, James
Burns, Owen Clark; IBth, George A. Auchin
baugh, WlLlium Brindle; 19th, Byron D.
Hamlin, W. L. Scott; 20th, William L.
Corbett, Gaylord Church ; 2lst, John L.
Dawson, B. Sansoin ; 22d, John A.
Strain, J. B. Guthrie; 230, It. H. Kerr,
John 'l'. liard ; 1.411, A. A.. Yunnan, I). S.
Morris.
Ist district, C. E. Komberly; 2d, Charles
M. Lelsinring; 3d, Charles Buckwalter; 4th
George R, Harrill; sth, H. R. Cogxhull ; oth,
Roubon Stahler; 7th, R. E. Monaghan;
Bth, David L. Woorick ; oth, B. J. MeGrann ;
10th, W. Shirk; 11th A. U. Broadhead,
Ir.; 12th, John Blanding ; 13th, J. C. Am
-merman ; 14th, W. I'. Withington ; 15th,
W. R. Gorgas ; 16th, Wm. P. Seholl ; 171 h,
Cyrus L. Porshings; 18th, A. C. Noyos ;
10th, W. A. Galbraith; 20th, John R. Pack
ard; 21st, Samos C. Clark; 228, James H.
Hopkins; 23d, Edward S. Golden; 24th,
Samuel B. Wilson.
Mr, G. 0. Deis° of Clinton county Mid
General McCandless of Philadelphia, being
called upon to address the Convention pro
ceeded to do co hi a manner which elicited
the heartiest applause from the fame body
assembled.
lion. Gaylord Church, Chairman of the
Committee on Resolutions made the fol
lowing report, which were read by Lewis
C. Casslduy, of Philadelphia.
Reaolved, That the happiness of the peo
ple and the preservation and continuance
of our power as a Republic, depends upon
the perpetuity of the Union and tbo preser
vation of the constitution ; and the prompt
restoration of each and allot' theStatemto the
enjoyment of their rights and functions in
the Union is essential to our progress, to
our prosperity, and to the protection of our
liberties; and radical legialatiot Is the sole
barrier thereto.
2. That the Constitution of the United
States is the supreme law, IL Is binding
upon the people and upon every depart
ment of the Government, and It Is the high
est duty of those in and out of "Monti place
to yield implicit obedience to all Its previa •
lons until it Is changed In the manner pro
vided therein; that the recent attempts of
the Legislative branch of the Government
to usurp the power of the Executive and to
destroy the independence of the Judiciary,
are deliberate attacks upon the plainest
provision of the Constitution, In utter viola
Lion of Its spirit, and tend to the overthrow
of the Government itself.
3. That the Radicals In Congress have
wrung from the people enormous sums of
money which they have squandered In
reckless extravagance, their system of tax
ation Is ill-devised, incongruous and Ine
quitable, and they have mismanaged the
large revenues thus obtained; that rigid
economy In every branch of the public ser
vice; a decrease In the number of the °M
etals, reduction in the army and navy, and
a reform in the mode of the collection of
the revenue aro imperatively demanded,
and only by these means cane reduction In
the amount of taxation now Imposed upon
the industrial and manufacturing interests
be attained and the payment of our Indebt
edness be assured.
4. That the Republican party is responsi
ble to the country for the delay In the resto
ration of the Southern States to theirJuat
relations in the Union, and for the govern
ment or their people by military rule ; that
the purpose of these measures IN to perpetu
ate Radical power through the votes of
illiterate negroes, and that these are the
great primary causes of the present pros
trate condition of productive industry in
all its departments.
G. That in enacting the Tenure of Office
Law, the Legislative and Executive branch
es of the government, each for Itself, had
the right to judge of Its constitutionality,
and that in so exercising the right, the Ex
ecutive was but obeying that portion of his
oath of Mike winch requires him to pre
serve, protect and defend the Constitution
of the United Atates," and that it is tbo
right of every branch of the government,
and of every aitizon to have, questions In
volving the constitutionality of any law
speedily adjudged by the Supreme Court
of the Il7nited Suites, and of all the people
to have said decisions enforced.
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IL That the pending Impeachment of the
President of the United Staten in u groan
and reckless abune of partizan power, with
out.) untitiablo clause, and Intended for the
attainment of party purposes, at the gnarl
tlee or the most vital Interests of the coun
try.
7. That a return to a specie paying 13101114
at the earliest pruoticable moment Is PHMIIII
- to the Interests of the people and the
prosperity of the nation.
S. That the national debt should he paid
as rapidly as Is consistent with the terms of
thglaws upon which Its several Icons are
baulbd.
U. That the live•twenty bonds and the
legal tender notes are component parts of
the same financial system, and until the
Government i able to redeem the legal ten
ders in coin, the holders of those bonds
should be required to receive legal tenders
In payment.
le. That every species of property should
bear its falr proportion of taxation, and
that the exemption of Government bonds
therefrom Is unjust and inequitable,
11. That we recognize with 01110110I1H of
the deepest gratitude the efforts of the gal
lant volunteer soldiery, who co freely took
up arms to def.mnd the !lag and prevent the
destruction of the Union; and that we de
nounce as nu insult to them the efforts of
the Radicals to prevent a restoration of the
Union until negro aupremany is establish
ed in certain States, and negro equality
made the rule iu all.
12. That the naturalization of foreign
born citizens places them upon the 9111130
footing as those born in the country, and it
is the duty of the Government to see that
ail citizens, naturalized or native, are pro
tected in their rights of life, liberty and
property abroad, us well as at home, and
that in the view of the Democracy, the flag
of the country ought and must be made to
protect nil our citizens.
Mr. Turner, of Luzerne, offered the fol
lowing resolution, which was agreed to:
Resolved, That the delegates :rem Penn
sylvania to the National Convention, be
and they are hereby instructed to vote as a
unit for President and Vice President, as
well as upon the Platform.
On motion the Convention ;proceeded to
ballot for Auditor General:
A. D. Markley 42
W. W. H. Davis
No choice having been made the Conven
tion proceeded to a second ballot, as follows
A. D. Markley..
C. E. Boyle
W. W. H. Davis
D. H. Neiman..
J. F. Knipe 2
Mr. Smith withdrew the name 'of Gen
eral Davis. The names of Gen. Knipe, Mr.
Neiman and M r. Kerr were alsO withdrawn..
No choice having been effected, the Con
vention prooeeded to a third ballot.
Boyle"
88
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-Mr.:Seals /awing remixed a majority of
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Ci t RESOLUTIONS
LATE or ADVIIIITIVING.
Bimrzie ADVERTINTICIIIIT% 1/2 • year pe
witto:ln a are of to
qu n li
re nes: le per year for each ed
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15 Nati per Uric
BriorAL Norma preeeding marriages end
dorsi Osota•Per Lae tot first Ineertkei.
and 6 cents for every subsequent Insertion.
LEGAL AND Orb rIOTIeSe—
Executors` ,otlees 2.60
AAnsinistsaters'
Alligtmes. notices
Auditors' tioUees 2.00
Other ''Notioes, , ten /Ines, or hos.
three ................. Lte
Wenn llth,-12th, W. 11, Pier; 13th, N.
E. Elliott; 14th, Jno. A. (fumble; 18th.
Charles Colmar; 10th, D. W. Heller; 17th,
H. G. Smith, George Neuman ; 18th, P.
Wlokee: 10111, W. S. Stenger; lath, George
A. Smith; 21et J. H. Orem, T. M. Uttley ;
224, Joseph M. Thompson; .9d, Herman
}Clete; 24th, John L. Dew.ou ; With, R. H.
(Corr, W. D. Mooro ; 2tlth, E. P. Kuhn; 27th,
J. W, .Rohrer t 2011), H. H. Foster; 20th,
Gaylord Church.
On motion the convention lorocooded to
nominate onntlidetes ror Auditor General,
Thu rollowluu tinitilliatlon.4 wore made.
AUDITOR ON:4IMAI
Mr. Korr nomintitad tnrvd, 7,nlglm, ht r.
Smith nominated W. W. it. Davis, Mr.
Thompson nominated C. E. lloylo, Mr.
Longalcor nominated A. D. Murlcley, Mr.
'rumor nominated Dnnlel Harding, Mr.
M'Croory nominntod Josoph F. Knipe, Mr.
Wells nonainatod D. 11. Neiman, Mr.Shati
non nominated .1, It• Sweltzer, Mr. Conner
nominated W. IT. Ent.
'Pho mimosa Mr.Siveltzerand Mr. Hard.
log were withdrawn.
The following [lumina:lons wore math. for
Hu rvoyor (loners'.
Mr. Potts notniontod John P. Linton, Mr.
Korr nominated P. F. Collins, Mr. Uttloy
nominited J. M. Cooper, Mr. Bowmen nom.
Mated A. Lam berton, Mr. Orvis nominated
Carskaddon, Mr. Stophens nominated
John Craig.
IMEI=
E. Boyle
Zeigler
F. Knipe...
H. Neiman