pt punter pteutgattr,
EITELISIE6 EVERY WEDNESDAY DT
G. SMITU Co
11. G. SMITE
A. J. STEINMAN
TERMS—Tiro Dalian per annum, payable
in all CAWS In advance.
TIIC LANCASTER DAILY INTELIJONSCER. IS
published every evening, Sunday excepted, at
$5 per Annum in advance.
OFFICIE-SOUTIINVEST CORNER or CENTRE
AQUABE.
glioteliantotto.
The Jenlone Father.
" liatonah," shouted the brakeman,
opening the car door as the train passed
before a splendid little station on the
llarlem Railroad.
I do not know as I should have par
ticularly noticed that we stopped at all,
for I had been napping for some miles ;
but just as I was casting an inquiring,
sleepy look out of the window, and set
ting myself for another siesta, my at•
tendon was attracted by the entrance
of a young lady, a way passenger, who
perceiving the car was well filled, paus
ed before me in evident embarrass
ment.
I scarcely wish the render to Infer
from this that there were no vacant
seats; on the contrary, the chair I oc,
copied was selfishly monopolized by my
shawl and valise, which had excluded
many an occupant, and so the moment
I observed the car door open I mental
ly resolved not to budge an inch ; but
one glance at the new corner changed
my mind.
She was a young lady of exceeding
beauty, dressed in the rich and tasty
style of the present fashion. Whether
it was the genteel aspect or the soft
melancholy of her dark Impressive eyes
I cannot say, b t when she ventured
almost timid) to inquire if the half
scat at my 'Ae was engaged, I gal
lantly ro and proffered it to her at
once. I Must acknowledge I felt some
what flattered by her preference, for,
though a young man, and tolerably
good looking, I had the sense to per
ceive that there were far better looking
10011 around, who like me, might have
shared their chair with the handsome
lady stranger. I fancied they envied
me too, as the fair girl sat plump down
and her dainty form nestled close by
my side.
" f fear I have disturbed you," said
my companion in a low sweet voice that
thrilled me with its soft cadence.
"Not all Miss," I rejoined with
stereotyped politeness. "1 am happy
to oblige you ?"
She bowed and smiled in reply, and a
short pause ensued, as is usual upon such
sudden acquaintanceship. in the mean
time the train has started, and we rattled
swiftly through the ileitis and woods,
now decked in the lively tint of spring.
The conductor came in and went
through his customary routine of ex
amining the tickets. I perceived hers
was marked for New York and after
some hesitation I . said :
" You go to the city
" Yes," she replied with a smile of
winning candor; " that I presume you
have already found."
" I shall keep you company then," I
observed pleasantly.
" Thank you, sir "
There was a slight dignity, I thought,
in hid• tone which repelled further fa
miliarity; so, as I art a very modest
mart, I drew back and said no.thing
further. Ou rushed the steam horse
upon its iron railway. One more sta
tion has been passed, and I was fast re
lapsing into my former apathy when
my lady friend to my surprise, leaned
toward me and whispered,
" I run very timid on the cars."
" Indeed," said I quite charmed with
her abruptness. " You surely are well
accustomed to travelling
" Perfectly," she replied with some
nonchalance; "but that is not It ex
actly. There are so many dreadful ac
cidents on the railroad."
" Dreadful indeed!" echoed I.
"And," added my companion with
naivete, " IL is unpleasant to travel un
attended. I usually have my brother
Charlie with me. lie is a splendid
escort."
"If you will allow me," said I quite
gallantly, "I will gladly occupy that
position."
"i am much obliged to you, sir," re
plied the young lady, with a grateful
glance from her dark orbs, "yet I am
half frightened to think I am accepting
the escort-of a stranger; not that I. fear
you, sir-, but, alas! I have a jealous
father."
"A jeal,s fa ter!" I repeated, some
what puzzle nd surprised.
"Alt yes " sighed the young lady.
"ft is n misfortune while having
wealth, 1 .alth and almost everything
that the heart can wish, to be under the
control of a tyrannical old step-father
,who treats nie oft' mes in the most cruel
manner, debars me from the society of
our sex, shuts me up in the gloom of
my chamber, and treats the with piti
less rigor if I do as much he to speak to
or look at a man."
"What a monster !" I ejaculated with
t face of melodramatic sympathy.
" That is the reason," she continued,
looking around her half-fearfully as she
spoke, " that is toe reason why I am so
diffident about entrusting myself to
your (!are, but' l l did iL on the one condi
tion."
" Name it," I re,j , dn,O, charmed and
delighted with the sitange confidence
the young lady was reposing in me.
" That you leave me the Instant the
cars reach New York."
I was so bewitched by the beauty
and charming insouciance of my quon
dam friend that I readily gave the re
quired pledge. Apparently quits re
lieved the young lady threw aside all
reserve, and talked and chatted with me
in the most pleasant manner possible.
It is needless to say that iu an hour's
time I had so far advauwd in her good
graces as to venture to press her hand,
and the sweet half coquettish smile that
played around the cornersof her cherry
lips did not seem to disapprove of the
liberty I had taken.
"Do you know," said she, as we sat
chatting confidently together, "that 1
liked your face the first-time I saw it.'
"It was sympathetic on both sides,
then," I wnispered, drawing her so
near that I could feel her hot breath an
my cheek.
" Yes, she murmured gently with
drawing herself from my glowing em
brace, for we hail passed through the
tunnel, and I had taken a lover's ad
vantage snatched a hasty kiss.
• " You are a naughty man—the
naughtiest man I ever saw," she said in
a low and tremulous tone. "If pa
should be on the train, what would he
say to such proceedings?"
' Never, sweet creature," I rejoined
earnestly, "your cross old father is
miles away, and so let us improve the
present opportunity."
"Are you aware," she observed half
mischieviously, " that there is another
tunnel beyond, a great deal darker too
than the one we have left?"
" I know it," said I, with a tender
glance at my fair enslaver. "We are
drawing near it very fast."
Once more I placed my arm around
the waist of the lady, and wrapped up
in the gloo.n of the tunnel, took sweet
pledges from her lips. It was very
gratifying tp my vanity. All good
looking men are vain you know. I
perceived that my lovely companion
clung more anctiollately . to me than
before; indeed I bad scarcely time to
tear myself from her arms when we
emerged once more into broad daylight.
She had let her veil drop over her face,
but 1 could detect the crimson flush
through the fine net work of lace.—
Her voice betrayed much agitation as
she whispered:
"I have gone too far with you, sir;
alas! you have ceased to respect me."
" My sweet charmer," I replied, " let
us ever be friends. Give me your name
and address."
"My name and address," she respond
ed " you must never kuow. I already
feel frightened to think how far I have
permitted myself to venture with a
stranger. Forgive and forget me."
•
"A flirt—a coquette!"
"No, no," she returned hurriedly,
pressing my hand ; " I am not a flirt,
but I dare not—as much as I think of
you—let the acquaintance proceed fur
ther. Have pity on me—have pity l"
She looked so pleadingly, so entreat
ingly, with those dark, soft eyes gleam
ink through the silken meshes of her
veil, that I could not persuade myself
to be offended with her. , At•last she
reluctantly consented to give her name,
and handing me a prettily embossed
card, I read, "Kate Darrel, No.
University Place."
The train had reached Thirty-second
St., and I could see that My fair inamo
rata grew every moment more restless
and disturbed. First her head peered
out of the window, and then she would
half rise and Cast hurried and fearful
glances behind.
,Already I was beginriing to share tlie
uncomfortable feeling of my companion
as visions of angry papa flourishing a
cane over my head rose vividly before
- 7 --7---. -
' .
..
.
.
'.. . .
.
..
. '
..
~ ... .
- ..
'
.. :.. • , .. i) e :
. .
. .:,i : , .-:
. 1 :. ,j t ' . .; I: ~ :.
le .
f•• ' ) I I, I - ,
.
. ~J ' ' . .
...
. . ,
. i
•
,
'..ft
. . .. ,
, ..
, . .
VOLUME 69
my mind's eye, when suddenly Miss
Darrel uttered an exclamation, rose
from her seat, and unceremoniously
darts
l A ,
from the car.
I w ndered at the ease and dexterity
with hich she descended, though the
car as propelled quite rapidly by horse
power, but my wonder and surprise was
destined to be considerably Increased,
when, a few minutes afterward, a thick
set, stern looking gentleman entered
from the side, his eye inquisitively
scanning the faceof each lady passenger.
"Halloo!" said he rather gruffly
pausing before me, "has a 'young lady
been occupying that seat?"
"Yes, sir," I replied somewhat dis
concerted and c&te abashed.
"Light jockey, maroon-colorid silk
and gray travelling cloak ?" pursued he
interrogatively.
"I believe that was her costume," I
replied sulkily.
By God, she's given me the slip
again," cried the gentleman, slapping
his breeches pocket with much em
phasis.
"Given yOu the Blip," I repeated, a
sudden and awful light breaking upon
me.
"Yes, the jade is as sharp as a noble."
"Pray, sir," said I, with a slight sen
sation of suffocation, "may I be so bold
as to inquire if you are the father of
that young lady?"
"Father, the devil! No, sir, I am a
detective,"
"Then," said I with desperate calm•
nese, " who is this young lady?"
" Bless my soul, she is Nancy Dacors,
the fashionable pickpocket. By gad,
sir, has she been s laying her points
on you?"
The detective grinned, and the pas
sengers, gradually comprehendlug the
"situation," smiled provokingly. I did
not reply; the intelligence was stun•
[ling and mortifying iu the highest de
gree. So my beautiful companion was
nothing more than a member of the
"swell mob," and I, while flattering
myself upon having made a conquest,
In reality had been the victim of a cun
ning and designing deceiver; and well
had she duped me, for even while I was
snatching those dear-bought kisses she
had dexterously relieved me of my
watch and purse, and it may be readily
believed that my adventure was not
without Its moral, or that I was there
after quite as eager for a Ilmi.,RoAh
FLIRTATION.
John Wesley Painted.
Blackwood's Magazine, which repre
sents political and ecclesiastical Tory
ism, is sending out some admirably
written and even brilliant sketches of
men, women, social life and manners,
as they appeared in England during
the reign of George 11. The writer is
as familiar with his topics as Parton
with his, and his style is more finished
and not less taking,—perhaps his esti
mates are just about as fair. Here are
a few extracts from his paper chiefly
devoted to Wesley and Methodism :
It is scarcely necessary to our purpose
to trace the after details of a life which
was no life at all in the ordinary sense
of the word, but only a mere string of
preachings, journeys, narratives of in
teresting cases, and awakening meet
ings. His journals bear a good deal of
- resmblance to the note-book of a phy
siclah- wild records of agitation and
excitementsubdued, if not by the laying
on of his hands, at least by the prayers
poured forth over the writhing patient:
sometimes broken by gleams of miracle
—actual diseases healed and devils put
to flight—sermons preached in the
field and churchyard, on his father's
tomb by Epworth Church, where
he was refused admittance to the
communion—everywhere—where men
could be got together to listen—fill
up the curious, monotonous, wonderful
narrative. He rode all over the country
—in the course of his life, it is said,
"above a hundred thousand miles"—for
the most part leaving the reins on his
horse's neck and reading whilst he
rode, blocking out the too ready en
trance of thought in a way which it is
perhaps good for a man to do when he
has found his work in the world and has
no more time left in which to assail and
defend his own purpose or being. "In
seventy years I never lost one night's
sleep," he was able to say at the close
of his life. After the troublous morn
ing, with all its delusive storms and
lights, a severe much-occupied exist
ence, full of a great work, and of that
power which was the passion of his
soul, fell to his share. Outside, trouble
surrounded him by times ; more than
once he was seized upon by a mob,
whom he confronted with the cool cour
age which seldom fails in such an
emergency, and which naturally, after
a short interval, changed his pursuers
into champions and protectors. He
had the care of the Church upon his
head, out no personal cares to speak' of.
He married in middle age, for no par
ticular reason, it would appear.—
Charles Wesley had married, and
Whitelield had married, and tue Re
former seems to have thought it was in
consistentwith his dignitythat he should
appear incapable of forming the same
tie. His wife was a thorn in his flesh,
persecuting him with (of all things in
the world) her jealousy of the female
correspondents, who are the invariable
solace of such a man. He had bargained
with her that he was not to preach a
sermon or travel a mile the less for their
union; and probably Mrs. Wesley did
not see much. good of a husband who
was always abroad in the world, jogging
all over England and oven Scotland, no
companion or help to her. The foolish
woman did what she could to make his
life a burden to him for twenty years,
and then withdrew finally, for no better
reason than had dictated her former
vagaries. No doubt his placid life
was ruffled by this disturbance, but
there is no appearance 'that any
profound love existed in him
to give a sting to the irritation. He
would seem to have had no passions to
wear him out; his deepest emotions
could be brought before the brethren to
be talked over and settled. His natural
heat of temper softened down as soon
as he came to have things his own way
—a pleasant manner of subduing that
weakness. His intolerance was only
shown towards those who troubled him
with their difference of opinion. In
short he was not a man of dogmatic
genius, or commissioned to impress
new opinions on his race. His busi
ness was to convince the country It had
a soul, and to drive it with violence, if
necessary, by any means that man may
use, to save that soul alive. He was
trained for this work by the trouble he
had about his own, "making" it, as the
Irish say, in the first half of his exist
ence, and with natural heat insisting
that everybody around him should join
in the operation. His own spiritual his
tory Is the chart by which he guided the
great ship of which he was made pilot.
In the early part of his life heinsisted that
every man should be an ascetic; in the
latter, that every man should be con
verted by a conscious movement of
Heaven, illumination from the Holy
Ghost. His determination and tenacity
prevailed when a lighter purpose would
have come to nothing. To have brought
together and constituted such a com
munity as that of the Methodists, is
almost as great a work, taken in a merely
external and political point of view, as
that of founding a kingdom, and in
right royal guise he organized and leg
islated for his spiritual empire.
A Clerical Anecdote.
The Rev. Samuel Clawson a Metho
dist preacher of eccentric manners,
sometimes called the wild man, was
very popular in Western Virginia, some
twenty years ago. He was cross-eyed
and wiry made, and very dark-skinned
for a white man. At times he was sur
prisingly
_eloquent, always excitable,
and occasionally extravagant. He once
accompanied a brother minister, Rev.
Mr. R., a prominent pastor, in a visit
to a colored church. Mr. R., gave the
colored preacher the hint, and of course
Clawson was invited to preach. He did
so, and during the sermon set the im
pulsive Africans to shouting all over
the house. This, in turn, set Clawson
to extravagant words and actions, and
he leaped out of the pulpit like a deer,
and began to take the hands of the col
ot edbrethren,and .1311. X in quite happily.
He wept forjoy. Then, pressing through
the crowd, he found brother R., and,
sitting down beside him, he.threw his
aim around his neck, and with tears
streaming down his cheeks, he said:
"Brother R., I almost wish I had been
born a negro. These - folks have more
religion than we have." "Well, well,"
said brother R. "you come so near it
that you needn't cry about it l"
An old gentleman in Nashville, pitched
hie son out of the 'window the other night,
while suffering from nightmare.
Isabella 11. of Spain
BY JAMES YARTCqi
Unhappy Spain! It had been cursed
for nearly two centuries by a royalfain
ily which has united the pride and lan
guor of all Spaniards, with the obstinacy
and ignorance of theßourbons: Isabella
11., the tawdry, idle, sensual woman
just driven from the throne of Spain,
fitly ends a dynasty which has never
contributed to the throne a respectable
individual.
Her full name was . lifarie Louise Isa
bel, and she was born in 1840. Her
father was that absurd, incompetent
Ferdinand VII.; whom Napoleon de•
prived of his orown in order to place It
upon the head of Joseph Bonaparte.—
This Ferdinand, as the reader may re
member, was so infatuated by Napoleon
that he sent from his French prison,
" his sincere compliments to the Em
peror upon the installation of his well
belovea brother upon the throne of
Spain." Nay, more' the dethroned
monarch wrote to Joselph soliciting the
" honor of his friendship," and asking
to be decorated with the grand cordon
of his order. At the same, ime, he sent
him proclamations, signed by his own
hand, calling upon his late subjects to
submit to their new sovereign. At the
chatteau assigned him by Napoleon, he
celebrated the victories of that conquer
er by fireworks and illuminations, and
especially did he thus celebrate the vic
tories gained by Napoleon over the
Spanish. Having asked in vain the
hand of an Imperial Princes in mar
riage, hestooped to write to one of Na
poleon's Senators words like these:
" That which occupies me at present
is the ardent and cherished desire of my
heart to become the adopted son ochis
majesty the Emperor, our august sov
ereign."
After degrading himself and his coun
try thus, he was allowed, upon the set
tlement of European affairs, to return
to Spain, and reascend the throne.—
Then, with his usual weakness, he fell
into the hands of bad advisers who
caused him to revive the Inquisition,
and return to the system of absolute
government. There never was a worse
king. He would have ruined Spain, if
Spain had not existed in a state of ruin
for a hundred years. He was one of
those bad, weak monarchs who are as
ungrateful to their friends as they are
to their enemies. One day, loyal volun
teers came to salute him, he said to the
attendant court:ers :
"These are the same dogs, with dif
ere nt collars."
Three times this royal fool had been
married: but each of his wives in suc
cession had died, without leaving an
heir to the throne. In 1820, he married
a daughter of the Icing of Naples, who a
year after gave birth to Isabella, the
subject of this article. She came of bad
blood on both sides ; for it is difficult to
say which royal family was the more
detestable, that of Naples or of Spain.
Ruled by his new wife (for it was a
necessity of his nature to be ruled by
somebody) the king now promulgated
an edict which was the cause of lasting
calamities. For a hundred and fifty
years the Salle law had been in force in
Spain, which excludes females from the
throne. According to this law, and ac•
cording to public expectation, Dun Car
los, the king's brother, was the heir
presumptive, and the new born infant
was excluded. Ferdinand's young wife,
however, three days after the birth of
Isabella, prevailed upon him to issue a
decree which annulled the Salic law,
and reestablished the right of females
to inherit the crown.
Soon after to appease the anger of his
brother Carlos, he rescinded the decree.
A little later,overcome by the reproaches
of his wife and his wife'sTamily, he
reestablished it. Soon after this second
promulgation, the poor weak king died,
leaving to his daughter, aged two years
and eleven mouths, a disputed succes
sion, and to Spain a civil war. The
queen mother was appointed Regent of
the kingdom. To ingratiate herself
with the people, she granted a liberal
constitution. The Cortes, soon after,
formerly accepted her daughter as
Queen of Spain, and, as formally,
rejected the claim of Don Car
los. That prince, however, at the head
of a formidable party, maintained the
contest for seven years, during which
some of the fairest provinces of Spain
were devastated by fire and sword. In
August, 1830, the forces of Don' Carlos
were finally defeated by Espartero, and
the Prince himself sought refuge in
France. He subsequently retired to
Austria, where he lived for many years,
and where, I think, he is living still, a
quiet harmless old man of eighty.
During the minority of Isabella, the
history of Spain consists only of the
struggles of rival politiciane,and partial,
fruitless revolts. In Spain, as every
when else on earth, there was a liberal
party and a conservative party, both
contending for the possession of the
government. Sometimes the tories tri
umphed. Then an insurrection would
give a brief ascendency to the liberal
party. Ministries were formed, only to
be dissolved. The mother of the young
Queen became, at length, so odious, that
she was compelled to seek safety in
France, and on her return shegave her
self up completely to the conservatives,
and placed the whole of Spain under
military law. Meanwhile, the Cortes
declared the young Queen, when she
was not yet fourteen years of age, to
have attained her majority.
At sixteen, Isabella 11. was a robust,
rosy and handsome girl, distinguished
for nothing, except, perhaps, an unusual
love of pleasure and decoration. The
question of her marriage agitated
Europe. England offered Prince Leop
old of Coburg; Russia recommended a
son of that Don Carlos who had fought
seven years for her throne ; Louis Phil-
Ilpe of France was in favor of her cousin,
Francis, Duke of Cadiz, the son of her
father's brother; and other powers
favored the pretensions of a Prince of
Sicily. The crafty politics of Louis
Phillips carried the day, and she mar
ried her cousin when she was not quite
seventeen. At the same time the Due
de Montpensier, a eon of the king of
the French, married the Queen's sister.
Her reign has been a continuous
scandal. Indolent, luxurious, and vain,
she has not even had the grace to set an
example of common decency to her sub
jects. Lover has succeeded lover ; so
that, although she has had several chil
dren, two of whom are living, the Span
lards do not believe that she has pre
sented them with a legitimate heir to
the throne. Absorbed in pleasure, it
was only with the greatest reluctance
that she attended to the most necessary
business of the kingdom. She rose about
ten, and passing to her boudoir, occupied
herself with gossip, games and the toilet
until dinner time, which in Spain is
earlier than with us. After dinner it
was her custom to repair to the garden
where she frequently spent some hours
in dancing and other amusements. In
the evening, assuming an attire more
magnificent, she went to the theatre;
and on her return, proceeded to her
music room, where she occupied herself
with music until two in the morning,
when she took a supper and wentto bed.
If ministers came to the palace on pub
lic business, she almost always kept
them waiting a considerable time, and
frequently sent them away without
having seen them.
Every decent human being in Spain
looked upon the scandals of the palace
with disgust, contempt and shame;
remembering that there was once upon
the throne an Isabella of more than
spotless fame. The Spaniards, with all
their faults, have great pride of character
and country. The men, as a rule, are
honorable, the women as a rule, are
chaste. The spectacle of a fat and sen
sual woman, loaded with the hereditary
jewels of the Spanish crown, living such
a life as Catharine of Russia lived, but
without possessing *a spark of Catha
rine's talent or patriotism, became at
length intolerable.
Seldom has a revolution taken plade
with so little violence. Thespirit of re
volt appears tolhave pervaded the whole
kngdom, and to have animated every
breast. When a party of dragoons ap-•
peared to clear the public square of
Madrid, the people hung around their
horses' necks, and begged the soldiers
to take sides with their country. When
the troops hesitated the' people sur
rounded.them and kept them from ad-
Ivancint by their weight and number.
In a few minutes the • officer in com
mand waved his capln •token that the
soldiers had joined the people. The
animosity of the multitude appeared to
be directed against the persons. and
character of the odious Queen and her
I contemptible husband. The busts, and
inscriptions, bearing the name of the
Queen, or the Royai Arms, were taken
down everywhere, and trodden in the
LANCASTER PA. WEDNESDAY MORNING DECEMBER 9 1868
dust! but, with the exception of such
harmless violence as this, the behavior
of the people was excellent.
Spain then, has shaken off the incu
bus which condemned her as the by
word of Europe, the bulwark of bigotry
add reaction. It remains to be seen
whether there is wisdom and virtue
enough in the country to form and sup
port a constitutional government and
bring up laggard Spain nearer the van
of progressive nations. As to the de
throned Queen, she took care, it is said,
to accumulate enormous private wealth,
a small portion of which will suffice to
maintain her, in her exile, in a style
superior to that enjoyed by most women
of htek class.
The Prophet's Tomb.
Mohammed the Prophet of Allah, lies
burled In the city of El Medinah, and
all the world of Islam goes up to his
tomb. About this tomb there hangs a
great deal of mystery. The vulgar
story of the suspended coffin, has long
•been exploded, and the question now
seems to be, whether there is any tomb
at all? Lieut. Burton, who recently
made a pilgrimage to the holy cities, in
the disguise of an Afghan Dervish, fur
nishes the most reliable information
upon this point. We learn from his
narrative that, although thousands go
yearly to El Medinah to see the tomb
of the Prophet, yet no one ever saw it.
In one corner of the grand mosque of
that city is a chamber supposed to be
entirely walled up with stone or plank
ing, inside of which the pilgrim is told,
are the tombs of Mohammed and the
first two calips, Abubeker and Omar.
But this walled chamber is surrounded,
outside, with a curtain, somewhat like
a four•post bed. No one is permitted to
look behind the curtain, except the
eunuchs who at times replace it with a
new one, and they say that a supernatu
rallightsurrounds the tombs that would
strike with blindness any one that
would have the temerity to approach it.
This story is now universally believed
among Moslems.
Outside of the curtain, leaving a nar
row space between, is an iron filagree
railing, which serves to keep the crowd
from close contact with the tomb.
After many prayers and prostrations the
pilgrim is made to approach a small
window in the railing through which
he catches a glimpseof the curtain. The
exact place of Mohammed's tomb is dis
tinguished by a large pearl rosary, and
a peculiar ornament suspended to the
curtain, which the vulgar believe to be
a " jewel of the jewels of Paradise."
Lieut. Burton, however, says, to his
eyes it resembledithe ground stoppers
of glass, used for the humbler sort of de
canters! Through the window in the
railing the pilgrims are expected to
throw their contributions, and the treas
ures of place are kept in the narrow
passage between the railing cur
tain. The amount is said to be enor
mous, which Lieutenant Burton doubts.
No one Is permitted to enter this pas•
sage except upon the payment of an
extraordinary sum.
What there really is behind the cur
tain seems to be a matter of great doubt.
The Moslem authorities are divided in
opinion. Some say there is no wall be
hind the curtain : others that it covers
a square building of black stones in the
interior of which is the tomb, while
others say there are three deep graves,
but no traces of tombs; and lastly,
Lieut. Burton strongly suspects that the
burial place of the Prophet is entirely
unknown. Certainly the eunuch's story
of the blinding light that surrounds the
Prophet's tomb, looks like a priestly
gloss to hide defects.
Yet all the world of Islam goes up to
pray at the Prophet's tomb, and mil
lions believe that he now lies there with
blooming face and bright eyes, and that
blood would issue from his body if
wounded, for no one dares to assert that
the holy one Is suffered to undergo cor
ruption.—Porllund Transcript.
On Presidents and Religion.
A New York correspondent of the
Bostonpaper writes:
The fact that Gen. Grant passed a
Sabbath at West Point and did not at
tend church, though the Post Chaplain
officiated near' him, has been com
mented on by the press generally. It
is somewhat a singular fact that as far
as it is known no President of the United
States since the days of Washington
has been a communicant in a chiirch.
John Adams was the representative of
the liberal community of his day. Jef
ferson was styled a freethinker. An
attempt was made when Jefferson was
a young man to make the Episcopal
Church the established religion of Vir
ginia. John Leland, a traveling Bap•
List minister, preached a sermon in the
presence of Jefferson on what he called
the " incestuous connection of the
Church and State." This sermon con
verted Jefferson to that doctrine. His
persistent opposition to a State religion
caused him to be stigmatized as an infi
del. Mrs. Madison was a communicant
at the Episcopal Church. Her husband
was not. Monroe was a member of an
Episcopal parish, but not a communi
cant. John Quincy Adams, though a
member of a Unitarian parish in Massa
chusetts, held a pew in the Second
Presbyterian Church in Washington, of
which he was a trustee, and there he
worshiped until his death. In a violent
snow-storm I saw him wadingto church,
one Sunday. with the snow up to his
loins, and he was one of the seven per
sons who composed the congregation
that morning. He never communed in
the church. General Jackson was a
regular attendant on Sunday morning
He worshiped in the Second Presbyter
lan Church until his quarrel with the
pastor about Mrs. Eaton. He then left
for the 4 street Church, and took his
Cabinet with him. He always came
early and entered his pew, which was
on the right side of the church as he
entered. Earnest and devout attention
he gave to the sermon. It was his cus
tom, at the close of the sermon, to rise
in his pew and make a very courteous
bow to the minister, and then walkout ,
the audience waiting in their pews till
he reached the vestibule. Van Buren's
home church at Kinderhook was Re
formed Dutch. At Washington, when
he went to church, he attended St.
John's (Episcopal) In the morning.
Mrs. Polk was a devout and earnest
Christian woman, belonging to the
Presbyterian Oa urch.
Mr. Polk accompanied his family
everytiunday morning to the Four-and
a-half•street Church. Mrs. Polk usually
attended the Second Presbyterian
Church in the afternoon, where she
held a pew. The President seldom ac
companied her at the second service.—
General Taylor was not a professor of
religion. When he attended church he
sat in the President's pew at St. John's t
President Pierce was a member of the
Congregational Society in Concord,
New Hampshire, but notof the church.
He was very regular in his attendance
at the Presbyterian church in Wash
ington on the morning of each Sab
bath. Buchanan attended the small
Presbytdian Church on F street, near
the White House. This was his rail
gi us home during his long Senatorial
life. He was no member. He came to
worship usually on foot and unattened.
His pew was on the side, about two
thirds of the way from the door. He
usually walked up•the aisle with a cat
like step, went to the extreme end of the
pew, curled himself up in the corner,
and seldom moved till the service closed.
He rarely spoke to any one, and hast
ened from the church to the White
House. Mrs. Lincoln was a communi
cant at the New York avenue Presbyte
rian church. Mr. Lincoln was not. But
he was a regular attendant at worship.
Johnson seems to have no religious
home, but rather inclined to the Lu
therans. General Grant is not a profes•
sor of religion. He is a trustee of the
National Methodist church at Washing
ton, and is a frequent attendant on the
preaching of that chuch.
Stock Fowls
Autumn is the time for selecting a stock
for keeping over, as well aq,choice breed
ing fowls of whatever variety we intend
to try n)xt season. A correspondent of
the Oluo Farmer says all old and need
less fowls should be cleared out, to give
the choicer, flock a better chance. It
will prove a failure if too many are kept;
better err on the other extreme. A small
number always pays handsomely.
Forty to sixty of a good kind in one 1. ,
will shorten the face and lengthen th
pocket of the owner, if he does his part.
Feed and fit them well in the fall, and
prepare quarters for winter laying, for
it is good pulley and much more satis
factory to have hens lay bountifully
when eggs bring the highest prices,
returning their cost many fold, than to
be a bill of expense, returning nothing
in the common method among a major
ity of farmers.
Hester Taeighn-1 Plea roe7-11—er—er
• ,
The case of Hester Vaughn, • the
young woman now lying in MoYemen
sing prison, at Philadelphia; under
sentence of death for infanticidele ex
citing much public attention. Onlast
Thursday night a large aniinfluenitial
meeting of ladies and ge lemen was
held in the Hall of the Coop r Institute,
convened under the auspices of the
Workingwomen's Association to take
such steps as may be deemed necessary
to obtain the liberation of the unhappy
young woman, Hester Vaughn, at
present under sentence of death for in
fanticide, in Moyamensing Prison,
Philadelphia.
Among the audience were large num
hers of young workingwomen, who
doubtless felt the deepest sympathy for
the young creature over whom so awful
a fate impends. The platform was prin
cipally occupied by ladies who have
been conspicuous in the Woman's-
Rights movement.
Horace Greeley was appointed to pre
side over the meeting and made a brief
speech cautioning those present against
any form of action which might seem
Improper, or calculated to complicate
the case of ft feeble and probably inno
cent woman with the general course of
legal justice.
Mrs. Susan B. Anthony read a me
morial to Governor Geary, praying that
Hester Vaughn be granted a new trial,
or in case that could not be had that
she be unconditionally pardoned.
She also rend a series of resolutions
- -
In opposition to Capital punishment,
and demanding that women be tried by
their peers—a jury of women.
After which Mrs. Kirk stepped for
ward and spoke as follows ;
MRS. KIRK'S REPORT
When, one week ago last evening,
the motion was carried by the Work
ingwomen's Association in regard to
petitioning Gov. Geary for the pardon
and release of thd unfortunate English
girl now under sentence of death for in-
fanticide, it was certainly with the ex
pectation of arousing a large amount of
public feeling in her behalf; but we
were entirely unprepared for so sponta
peons and enthusiastic a demonstration.
Was there ever such a place as New
York to do a good work in ? Is there a
spot on earth where a popular heart can
be reached as here To me there was
always something strangely electrical
in the moral atmosphere of New York
City. Let injustice and abuse be once
proven, and the electric current thrills
and vibrates until with one grand out
burst, as in the case of this friendless
girl, justice is demanded. The par
ticulars of this story, as first publicly
stated on this platform not long ago by
Miss Dickinson, touched many a heart;
and when it was decided to send a com
mittee to Philadelphia to learn from
the girl's own lips the sad par
ticulars, not only did the associa
tion of workingworuen offer their
means and time towards the fur-
therance of the grand object, but the
women of the whole country—excuse
me, with the exception of Pennsylva
nia, demanded an investigation of the
case. On Thursday morning last Mrs.
Dr. Lozier and myself, accompanied by
Mr. Seward, knocked at the prison door
of Moyamensing. The Hon. Mr.
Chandler, former Minister to Italy, and
now acting as Prison Inspector, in
formed us that no visitors were admit
ted on this day. " Sir," said we, "we
have come from New York on purpose
to see and converse with Hester Vaugh
an." And then gave him our pass
ports, which acted as a soporific upon
his lordship Thank God, for great
names ! They unlock the gates of trade
to the deserving, unearth infamy nlni
double-dealing, and waft, like a bre..ze
from Araby the blest, joy and eni_ifurt
to the poor prisoner. ' Now, I warn
you to be careful," said Mr. Chandler,
as he walked by our side, " this is
the long corridor, Hester's mind has
been very much agitated lately by the
visits of a certain woman who has
very foolishly and wickedly held out
hopes of a pardon which can never be
realized." We found afterwards that
he referred to a Dr. Smith, a very suc
cessful female practitioner in Philadel
phia, and one of the noblest women I
have ever met. For the last rive months
she has been visitis.ll, Hester, and is the
only woman in Philadelphia, during
the long period of her incarceration,
who has interested herself in the
prisoner's behalf. Dr. Smith has been
constant in season and out of season ;
has laid the " facts" which she has from
time to time gathered before the Gover
nor, and kept the poor child from sink•
log into utter despondency. Do not, I
beseech, you, my friends, forget that
there is one woman, at least, in Phila
delphia, who loves her sex, and that one
Dr. Smith. Imagine, if you please, a
girlish figure ; a sweet, intelligent face ;.
soft, brown eyes ; broad forehead ;
warm, earnest mouth, and you have a
slight idea of Hester Vaughn. Her
story is quickly told. She was born in
Glostershire, England ; well reared by
respectable parents; married a man, a
native of W ales, and came to this coun
try full of hope and enthusiasm for the
future. A few weeks, and Hester was
deserted. Some other woman had a
prior claim, it is supposed, and the
scamp has never since been heard of.
Then came the tug of war for Hester
Vaughn, as for every other woman who,
from what cause soever, finds herself
compelled to fight the battle of life
alone. Think of this young girl, a
stranger in a strange land, with neither
frjend nor relative to advise or comfort.
For several weeks she lived out as ser
vant in a family at Jenkintown ; was
then recommended as dairy maid to
another family, and here misfortune
betel her. Overcome, not in a moment
of weakness and passion, but by supe
rior strength—brute force—Hester
Vaughn fell a victim to lust and the
gallows. That man also went his way.
Three months after this terrible occur
rence Hester removed to Philadelphia
and hired a room there. She support
ed herself by little odd jobs of work
from different families, always giving
the most perfect satisfaction. During
one of the fiercest storms of last winter
she was without food or fire or comfor
table apparel. She had been ill and par
tially unconscious for three days before
her confinement, and a child was born
to Hester Vaughn. Hours passed be
fore she could drag herself to the door
and cry out for assistance, and when
she did it was to be dragged to prison
where she now lies with the near pros
pect of a halter. Is it not terrible that
this victim of a man's craven lust
should be thus foully dealt with while
her seducer walks the earth free and
unmolested? In this conviction let me
say that no amount of coaxing or en
treaty will induce Hester Vaughn to
name the man who thus cruelly Wrcing
ed her. Since that time he has married.
"If he were alone," said Hester," I
would ring his name through the whole
country, but nothing will induce me to
send terror and disgrace into the heart
of an innocent trusting woman." Glo
rious Hester Vaughn! True as steel to
her own sex,r-"Dr. Lozier has informed
you how shiecame to be accused of in
fanticide. :This comes under the head
of medical testimony, and as I am en
tirely at sea on that subject I can only
give as my belief from all that I saw
and heard at Philadelphia, that Hester
Vaughn is no more guilty of infanticide
than I am, and I am right sure that I
never killed a baby in my life. There
is a quiet womanly dignity about Hes
ter Vaughn which immediately enlisted
our sympathies. As we entered the cell
she stood a little one side, as if shrink
ing from curiosity seekers, but notwith
standing the advice of Mr. Chandler we
managed in two minutes' time to make
Hester feel that we were her friends,
ready to assist her to life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness if it 'could
possibly be accomplished. The cell
gave evidence of the most exquisite
neatness and good taste, There was no
evasion or circumlocution in her replies
to our varied questionings. Truth
beamed from every feature of her ex
pressive face. She pointed to several
hymns which gave hera great deal of
comfort. Never shall I forget the
expression of her beautiful eyes, heavy
with their weight of unshed tears, as
she repeated.
'While the billows o'er me roll and the tem
pest still le high,
Jesus, lover of my soul, let me to thy bosom
fly."
and then, as if brought to new hope by
the glorious sentiments, said—and here
is another which I learned at home , at
Sabbath School:
..God moves In a mysterious way HI: wonders
to perform.
He plants his footsteps In the , sea and rides
upon the storm.
We were with her nearly two hours,
and were every moment more im
pressed by her innocence and truthal
ness. When we bade her good-by she
said : "Lailles;l know you will do all
.for me,tbat lies in your power, but my
trust Must-be in God." It is said by
Philadelphians that Hester Vaughn
-was not. properly defended. Let me
tell you about it, She had managed to
save, by the strictest economy, $3O ; a
grasping, avaricious lawyer, of Phila
delphia, offered his services, and took
from the poor child her last penny.
During the long five months before her
trial, this man never came to her cell,
and the only conversation she ever bad
with him was in open court. His name,
my friends, Is Goforth, and..l propose
that all such wretches go forth
and return no more. (Applause.)
I had a very pleasant interview with
Judge Ludlow, the man vybo pronounced
the sentence of death upon poor Hester.
"I do not think her a bad woman
naturally," said the Judge; "she has
exc'ellent face, but there was no other
course
,open for me but the broad course
of condemnation ; she was, in the opin
ion of the jury, guilty of the murder of
her child, Miss Kirk," he continued,
quite earnestly, "you have no idea how
rapidly the crime of "infanticide" is
increasing. Some woman must be made
an example of. It is for the establish
ment of a principle, ma'ma." Estab
lishment of a principle indeed." I, sug
gested to the Judge that he inaugu
rated the good work by hanging
few men, but strange to relate he,
has not been able to see in that light.
The very day that poor Hester was sen-,
tensed to be hung by her neck until she
was dead, Orford Alexander, a colored'
man, was also sentenced for the murder
of his wife. Hester, imprisoned for a
man's diabolical lust, is so heinously
guilty that she may not walk out on to
the corridor near by the side of her
cell, while Orford Alexander can work
in the prison-yard, have the benefit of
out-door air, and exercise, and more
than this, 20,000 of the most respectable
citizens of Pennsylvania have petition
ed Governor Geary for the man's par
don; and not one woman in Philadel
phia, with the exception of Doctor
Smith, has said a good word for Hester
Vaughn.
Mrs. Doctor Lozier said: "I freely
corroborate all that has been said by
Mrs. Kirke; as a physician I was cor
dially invited to accompany her to
Philadelphia, and had authority not
only to question this poor woman in
regard to her own condition, but also
in regard to all that occurred. I judged
for myself, from her ()sin honest and
ingenious answers to the questions; but
I also consulted with Mrs. Doctor Smith,
who has been a practising physician
for fifteen years, a woman of large in
fluence and aneighbor of the judge who
condemned Hester Vaughn. Doctor
Smith had not heard of the case till she
read of the sentence the next morning,
and she concluded to call on Judge
; Ludlow and ask him the particulars.—
; He gave her a permit to visit Hester
Vaughn at her pleasure. She has done
so, once or twice a week, fur five
months. She told me she had ques
tioned and cross-questioned the girl ;
had taken her by surprise; and had
come to the conclusion that she was
innocent of the crime of infanticide.—
It appears that the plea of puerperal
flow and puerperal blindness was never
used on her behalf. Her lawyer, after
visiting her once, never came near her
again. He paid her a visit and took
her money, and promised to defend
her; but he never saw her again until
she was brought into court. He never
inquired into any bf the particulars
of her former history, or of her
present condition. When Mrs. Dr.
Smith went to see him, he said. "Oh,
yes; it is now too late; she has been
condemned, and is to be bung." For
over five months not one benevolent
person has condescended to visit her in
her sickness—for she has been very
sick. '' Well," said Mrs. Smith, " you
took her last thirty dollars, and prom
ised to defend her; and have you called
on her?" He replied, "Is that so? Was
that all the money she had ?" Well,
then he remembered that he had not
called on her; consequently when her
case came up he was unprepared to give
her any defence. Dr. Smith, by the
kindrisss of Judge Ludlow, has been
permitted to visit her, and to report to
him and to Governor Geary In regard
to the poor girl's condition, and she has
sent to Governor Geary ten letters,
praying for hie immediate pardon on
the ground of her innocence, as she
thinks her entirely innocent. For three
months she thinks that she was irre
sponsible for her acts—the victim of
puerperal mania, When she is spoken
to about her condition at the time, she
innocently says: "It was so dark,"—
she seems hardly conscious to have
recognized a ray of light—and she adds :
" I never saw my child," I have had a
large experience in obstetrical practice;
my record shows over two thdusand
cases ; and I have had several cases of
puerperal blindness—in one case lasting
over four days and nights; for four days
and nights the patient.did not see. And
I believe what this poor girl says "I did
not see." I asked her how the skull
could have been injured, for it seems
the skull was indented, and she said,
" I must have lain on it: when I waked
up, the child lay under me." She might
have swooned or fainted in her agony.
I have no doubt that she suffered from
puerperal mania for at least three
months. Her sight is still very weak.
But there is another point. The child
was never examined. No one can prove
that .1 t ever lived. The lungs should
have been examined. If the child had
lived the lungs would float; but if the
air has never permeated those vessels,
the lungs would sink. So I repeat it
was never proved that the child was
alive. Now, it was a premature birth ;
it was an eight months' child, and the
children of that period very seldom live.
The foramen- between the auricles of
the heart remain so open that the natu•
ural circulation is very difficult to es
tablish' and such children very seldom
live. It has been said in some of our
papers . to-day that the marks on the
head Yilkwe that the child was destroyed.
Ido not see that it is proved. That
poor woman, in her agony, alone, with
out fire, without light, may have in
We child, but not wilfully. I
said to her: "Hester, you love chil
dren?" She replied: "No one ever'
loved children more than I do—no
one. I dearly love them. I wish
I had mypoor little babe. It would be
some comfort to me. She is here among
strangers; but her friends write to her
and beg her to come home. Her poor
father does not know of her sad fate,
and she is fearful that he may know of
it. It appears that the namb of the
man she married was Harris, and her
father gave his consent to the marriage.
It was not a runaway match. It was
not as a disobedient, wilful child that
the came to this country. I could see
y the tone of her father's letter, and
by the kisses sent to her from her
yminger sister, that it was a very af
fectionate letter. She longs to go home.
I had the opportunity of conferring with
some of the most influential ladles of
Philadelphia, and it appeared that the
story was all new to them. They are
not lacking in sympathy. Some very
dear friends of mine, in the very highest
position, melted into tears when I told
them of the matter; and one young lady,
who was deeply interested, said, " Oh,
pa will soon be home to dinner ; but I
can't wait; he won't be home time
enough ; let us jump into the cars." So
I went down with her, and there I had
an opportunity of conversing with Jay
Cook and Mr. Sherwood upon the
merits of the case. They -said it must
be investigated; they took down the
data. The gentleman said, I will send
it all to the Governor." In conclusion
Mrs. Lozier read some comments of the
Revolution upon the case.
A Great Curiosity.
George B. Warren, of Troy N. York
has a pair of deer's heads, the antlers
interlocked in such a manner as to
defy the power of any man to separate
them. Mr.' Warren is indebted for
them to a merchant of St. Paul, who
while hunting, came upon two bucks
with their horns locked togetherin the
manner in which they now appear.
One of the animals was dead, and the
other was unable to disengage Itself from
its cumbersome burthen. It must in
evitably have remained in that position
until it met a lingering death by starva
tion, had not the hunter put an end 'to
its sufferings by dispatching it on the
spot. The only explanation of this
strange conjunction of the animals is
found in the supposition that they were
engaged in a fierce combat, and rushing
upon each other with great force the
prongs of the horns bent under the force
of the collission just sufficent to allow
the antlers to slip into one another, and
springing back held the bucks together—
eye to eye, face to face—and defying all
efforts to separate them.
A TRIP to TILE SOUTH.
EDITORIAL tORIIIMPONDRAten
• JAILES RIVER CANAL,
Nov. Zd, 186.3.
I left Lancaster on the night of the 18th
inst., to kiln the party of some forty gen
tlemen and several ladies which, under the
guidance of Col. Daniel Deckert, of the
Hagerstown Mail, had leftnagerstown that
morning on a tour through Virginia and
the Carolinas,.for thelpurpose of viewing
the country and purchasing some of the
many estates which are offered for sale in
these States,. should they find any which
would pleasq them. I was compelled to lay
over In Washington until Thursday eve
ning. The Capitol deserves celebrity only
because of its Public Buildings and per-
haps I may add the excellence of its
steamed oyi4ters. r dropped into Harvey's
for the purpose of trying this dish, and
soon becathe alarnied at the number of
bivalves which the colored boy flung on
my plate and the rapidity with which he
extricated them from their steamed shells ;
I began,to apprehend that he was following
the custom which prevails in Lancaster of
opening for you "Oysters on the Shell"
until you say " Enough," and as soob as I
could I suggested to him that a peck would
be as many as I would want: He then quit
and I paid him u " quarter." Steamed oya-
era are good ; try them.
I left Washington In the evening and had
a very comfortable ride on a steamboat for
some 10 miles down the Potomac to Acqula
creek, and then took the care, which are
arranged with unproved reclining chairs on
which one can sleep with great comfort;
would that our Northern Railways would
introduce them, and save us from our hor
rible so•called sleeping cars, I reached
Richmond at 4 o'clock in the morning and
found my party at the Exchange Hotel, ono
of the very best Hotels at which it has ever
been my good fortune to atop.
Richmond is a beautiful city, situated
they say upon seven hills; I did not count
them. Its citizens have shown great energy
and pluck in rebuilding in u very handsome
way, the large portion of the business quar
ter of the town which was destroyed by tire
at its occupation by our forces. Its most
striking feature to me was the great size and
elegance of Its private residences ; they did
not have the gaudy and gingerbread decor
ation of many houses at the North, but came
up to my idea of what the home of wealth
should be. The State Capital stands upon
the summit of one of the hills in the centre
of the town, and is an ancient building not
of maraud beauty and in very dilapidated
condition. The Confederate Senate and
House of Representatives sat in it during
the war, the Senate occupying a small room
, n the second floor now used ai a Court
room, and the Representatives, the chamber
of the Virginia House of Deputies on the
first tleor ; both very plain rooms in no way
ornamented, and the furniture, desks and
chairs in them, of the most modest, cheap
and unpretending style which can possibly
be imagined. We had a magnificent view
of the City and surrounding country from
the top of the building. Richmond though
itself built upon hills stands in the centre
of a level or gently undulating count'
surrounded at the distance of several miles
by an amphitheatre of hills; outside of
these our forces wero kept. The James
River flows by the city in a devious course
and is hid from sight by " Mt. I:wry's
Bluff." A mile or so from the city we see
a villago of no mean magnitude which we
are told has been built by the United Stales
and Is maintained by It for the use of the
Freedmen. Thus our money goes.
We visited Libby Prison, which is now
a warehouse. It is a large, common look
ing brick building, the first atnry white
washed on the out aide ; it is tour•stories in
height, each story conyisting of but one
large room ; a partition wall of brick runs
up to the roof through the centre of the
building and meperates the structure Into
two ware houses or prisons. A more un
comfortable and desolate place in which to
be confined for any length of time, can
scarcely be imagined. There is a wiel for
hoisting freight in each division of the
building, running up to the fourth story ;
one of them has been used since the war as
a drop for hanging criminals. The last one
hung, a darkey, fell down a story or two
when the trap was sprung, because of the
breaking of the rope, but was Immediately
ready to be rehung, as be only complained
Of his neck "feeling a little still:"
We saw the small Episcopal Church on
the summit, of one of the hills, in which
Patrick Henry made his "Give me Liberty
or give me Death" ,speech ; likewise the
spot on which Pocahontas saved the life of
Captain Smith. A one-story stone house
in the city, was pointed out to us as the old_
est building in it, which had been used as a
hotel in the early times, and had ofteen been
honored with the custom of Washington,
Madison, Monroe and othets.
The residence of Jefferson:Davis during
his Presidency, is a largo three-story double
brick house, with five windows in front and
a spacious and pleasant yard in the rear;
it Is now occupied by the United States and
a sentry constantly stands guard at the
front.
• We left Richmond with regret on 'Friday
evening, at 5 o'clock, on one of the packets
plying upon the James river and Kanawha
canal, which we purposed following to
Lynchburg, a distance of 145 miles. It may
be Imagined that our party added to the
regular custom of the boat, crowded the
packet greatly, and in consequence, no
births were put up, but we proceeded to
make ourselves as comfortable and agreea
ble as possible until three o'clock in the
morning, when we would leave the packet
and stop at the plantation of Judge Breathed
of Maryland, one of our party—the estate
was purchased by him and two others, In
September last for $32,000. It 'consists of
1500 acres, and was considered a remarka
bly cheap purchase. Not a little excitement
was created about midnight, by the discov•
ery that we hadpiakpockets on board. They
wereobserved mo.vingabout among thedos
ing passengers fumbling about their breasts
for their pocket books. Unfortunately they
were accused before the had'commltted the
"overt act" and taken any money; and
after a trial held before an improvised
Court consisting of the captain, the passen
gers and a U. S. Marshall, who happened
to be on board, it was finally determined
that they should not be ducked in the river
in accordance with the first suggestion, but
that - they should Ile allowed to remain on
board under surveillance.
I have neglected to mention that the party
on leaving Richmond was accompanied by
Gen. John D. Imbodep, of Confederate
cavalry fame, but now conducting a Real
Estate Agency, under whose guidance we
mainly placed ourselves. The General is a
first-class gentlemp, and has endeared
himself to the whole party by his kind
ness, urbanity and unwearied exertions for
its comfort, he Is a noble man, whose peer
we may seldom hope to meet in our travels.
At the time designated we arrived at "8011.
log Hall," the plantation of Judge Breathed,
and were comfortably quartered for the
balance of the night. This place was long
the family seat of the Bollings, who are de
scended from Pocahontas, and was cele
brated in former times for its extensive hos
pitality. The house is a large frame struc
ture, finished in a very plain manner, and
now In very bad repair ; but the plantation
is a very fine one, having over 300 acres of
bottom land, 400 acres of agricultural up
land and 800 acres of woodland. The James
River, from Richmond to Lynchburg, is
bordered by a low flat alluvial soil of from
a half mile to a mile and a half in width,
which it sometimes overflows. Froze this
flat, the land rises abruptly perhaps to }he
height of 60 feet or more. This bottom land
Is the best and most fertile, and its fertility
is maintained by the occasional overflow of
the river, which gradually subsiding
leaves a residnm cf rich fertilizing
material. All these data are, however,
ditched, so that the water may be readily
drawn off. The back or bluff country is
broken and rolling but yet fertile. The
system of farming pursued in this conntry
would however strike a Lancaster county
farmer with dismay.; .you do not see any
fences, rarely even a line fence between ad-
NUMBER 49
Joining plantations; and notwithstand
ing of timber, which seems
to he only for fire wood in the big, old
fashioned, glorious fire places. Then you
do not see any fields In grass, for none is
raised. These bottoms 'which would make
tho most splendid timothy land in the
world, are devoted only to wheat, corn
and tobacco, the three products of this
region ; hay in Richmond is bought from
the farmers of the North to a very largo ex
tent. You do not see any cattle upon these
farms notwithstanding that they aro admi
rably adapted to stock raising. You see no
barns In this whole country. They have
small stables for their:horses, sheds fur
their tobacco, innumerable shanties for
their negroes scattered higgledy piggiedy,
here, there and everywhere. This Bolling
Hall place hue some 40 or 50 buildings on
It, scattered in every direction, very low of
which our farmers would consent to have
on their lands. It Is by no means however
a model place In respect to buildings, which
we expect to tied much liner as we go
farther up the river. The dwelling at Bol
ling Hall as well as on most of these river
plantations is situated on top of the bind
and overlooks the wide valley of the river.
The canal ruu.s along the northern bank of
the James, on which side plinctrially is
also the bottom laud of the river. Tho l canal
as a rule starts at the northern bluff and
seperates the bottom land from the remain
der of the farm on the north side, with
which It is connected by bridges. More
anon.
Noßv ELL LI ousE,
LI" NCH "win, Nov. 25th, Dias.
Having secured an open canal boat with
s small cabin at one end, we left Bolling
Hall about noon of Saturday, the '2lst inst.,
and got to Columbia late In the night. As
the boat was propelled by a one mule pow•
er, it was fashionable en:route to beat the
packet from lock to lock in pedestrian ex
ercise, and it took no great feat to do it.—
Mine were great enough and I accomplish
ed the task with great ease. This James
River Canal is very well and substantially
built. The fall in the river at times is very
great and requires double locks and locks
at frequent intervals to overcome it; at
other parts of the river wo rut> for a long
stretch with out meeting a lock, and on
several occasions in our passage to Lynch.
burg we passed out into the river, dispens
ing with it canal altogether. The canal
cannot pay now as the freight
boats W—. 0.1
we met were exceedingly few and very far
between. They would not average. more
than three or four a day. During the war
however the canal was very important to
the Confederacy, and the premature:eva.m
ation of Richmond was mainly clue to the
breaking of it by Sheridan in his fatuous
raid down its banks ; as Lee was thus de
prived of his main reliance for a supply o r
provisions he had not intended to evacuate
Richmond until the condition of the roads
would enable his army to 111,,V0 with filen
ity, and the lack of food supply only com
pelled him to move when he did.
Columbia is a dilapidated little village
and when our party moved up to its one
small Inn, the prospect for one nights lodg
ing looked gloomy In the extreme. Our
landlady, looking out from the attic win
dow, for a long time denied UN admission,
apparently alarmed at our numbers ; and
it was only the magic name and persuasive
eloquence of Gen. Imboden that finally
gained us admission; but John, a preco
cious youth of fourteen and man of all
work about the establishment, did tiredly
open unto us the doors, and wo thirty had
a rousing lire made and by patient indus
try persuaded " mine hostess " to get us
down a substantial supper. A half dozen
of our party foraging on their own account,
waked up one of the merchants of the vil
lage and were entertained very hospitably
till morning. Others occupied the eight or
ten bunks upon the boat, and the rest of
us, after a few had been tucked into the
two beds of the Hotel, prepared to pass the
night on chairs around the lire. But mean
while we had groat fun with " John."—
John pronounced us all to beYankees and
declared that he derived hie knowledge
physiogom teeny. He specially included
Gett. Inaboden among the rest of us as a
Yankee. When asked whether he hail
ever heard of the General before, ho
declared that ho had notl / but the General
soon had no cause to feel Inortified as when
questioned. John declared that he hail
never henrd of Seymour and Blair. He was
informed that those gentlemen had lately
gone up the river, but he declared that if
they had ascended the James, they had not
stopped at Columbia. Salt River he had
never heard of. The landlady was better
posted, and treated Imboden and us, on his
account, with distinguished consideration.
In the morning by apecial request, she gave
us for breakfast the natural dish of Virginia
in all its forms. We had corn meal served
up to us, us ash cake, hoe coke, pone, pan
cakes, and other varieties too numerous to
mention. Ash cake is corn meal mixedL
with water and salt, and baked on hickory
leaves in the ashes of a wood fire, and is
an excellent bread. Wood by the way, is
all they burn in this county. We have
open fire places everywhere. Our corn meal
In Pennsylvania, ground as It Is, will not
make that bread. They use hers differently
cut stones from those which they use for
grinding wheat. The former are cut much
sharper so as to share the corn grain,
After • breakfast wo left Columbia for
Scottsville In our chartered boat. The
James still runs its course along through
rich wide flats, which again are bordered
with continuous bluffs that excludes from
our view, as we pass up the canal, all
of the back country, and are sparsely
studded with the large residences of the
planters, We know pretty well the
nature of this back :country, as we occa
sionally land and mount the bluffs to sur
vey it. 11 is a broken, strr-•ngly rolling
country, heavily wooded. 'rho land is by
nu means so rich as the bottoms of the river,
but yet Is said to bo good. These James
River farms fire worth now from s.igl to
per acre, taking the uplands with the bot
toms. The plantations above Col umbia are
looking in better order and the buildings
•
liner. We all stood out on the deck and
admired the plantation formerly belonging
to the late General Cooke, (who committed
suicide a few years ago) but which now Is
in the hands of his son, Dr. Cooke. The
house is a large square brick building but
one story and an attic in height, yet is au
imposing looking mansion. The outbuild
ings ore tine ; the stable would do well for
a church, and is surmounted by a clock and
a hell. There are some fences on the place,
for a wonder; hitherto we have seen none,
except at very long intervals, perhaps a
line fen2e. The General was a fanatic on
the temperance question, and exchanged
with his son this place for one owned by the
latter lower down the James, on condition
that his son would not grow tobacco. On
the upper end of this place he had previous
ly erected on the bank of the canal, a beau
tiful modelled mat iron pitcher 4 feet in
height,Out of the mouth of width constantly
flows a stream of water. Some 30 yards in
the rear of it . he hits built over the spring
whence the water Is derived, an elegant
temple of marble, being a recess four feet
In depth with a wall in the rear, and the
roof supported in front on four handsome
marble pillars. A stairway In the rear leads
to the top. In the middle of the recess or
temple Is the spring, and above it on the
wall is a tablet with this Inscription :
Drink., weary Pilgrim If athirst thou bo.
Know that the !dream fa guahlng for thee
Urink. to Christ's name, life's painful way who
trod
Man gives the cup; the living water, God.
On the wall is cut, " Dedicated to the
Sons of Temperance, Sept. 19, 1849."
We reached Scottsville early in. the eve
n* and though we were unexpected, 3ve
were all soon quartered among the hospita
ble citizens of the village and the planters
of the adjacent country. General Imboden,
myself and two others fell into the kind
bands of Captain Schultz and walked out to
his residence on the bluff, a mile from the
town, whore we were soon made comforta
ble. In the morning we found that we had
a !magnificent View of tbe surrounding
country and away off for many miles over
rugged mountains to the great chain of the
Blue Ridge capped with snow. The , Cap
tain bad discovered an alum deposit on dm
lower face of the bluff on which stood his
RATE OF ADVEILTIAIXO.
BOBINiBIS ADVIRTIBIUMIIII,II.2 a Tar per
quire of ten lines; Se ,per. year ,fer each ad
ditional ecituuro. , , ,• „ , •
REAL Enure Awl=linito,lo nuts.* liner
the drat, and 5 cents Tor each subsequent n
serticm. •
GENERAL ADVERTISING I cent/ a line for the
and 4 cents for each anbseqaent Inser
tion. .
SPECIAL NOTICES inserted in Loin' *damn
15 cents per tine.
•
Besantn Nonass preceding marriage)
deaths, 10 cents per line for nrst.
and 5 cents for every subsequent Inseruoni
LEGAL Ann cerium /Parini:s • '
Executors' ...otices... --.---- :dm' •
Administrators' '
Assignees' 2 . 60
Auditors' notices
Other ' 4 Notices;' ten, lines , -C - or
three times.-- ........ .......... 1.50
residence, and at the peril of our necksand
the Imminent risk of getting a cold plunge
bath from a perpendicular height of a hun
dred feet into the canal flowing beneath us,
We 'descended to examine It. Before I
reached the Alunt Springs however, my
courage gave way and f concluded to await
developments where 1 Mid a Wish to hold on
to and a half Inch of ground to stand upon,
especially as I was not partleularly totem -
ested in alum. The Captain and the Gen
eral persevered aud shortly returned, with
a supply of Winn and some speedwells of
quartz, apparently veined with gold. This
was too much for my composure, and after
securing mallets, we all started down the
precipice again on a gold hunt. Having
filled our pockets with the quartz, we re
turned to the Winne and securing a pestle
and mortar proceeded to mine() the rock to
powder and wash the product in a frying
pan. We found plenty of sulphate or iron,
but our process was too rough to enable nit
to detect the gold which we felt confident
was Were. After this failure we went
downio town aud found that the party had
concluded to lay over in Scottsville until
the hollowing day, meanwhile surveying
the country. Scottsville before the railroads
were built was a very thriving place, being
the depot of a largo extent of country, but
the Iron horse has killed it. In the after
noon I borrowed a gun and went shooting,
but having no dog, I got but one shot cud
missed that. We mot, however, Col. china,
a gallant Confederate soldier, whose Invi
tation we accepted to [wend the night at his
honey. We had a most delightful time
and drunk quite us much as we ought
of most exquisite apple toddy. The
hospitality of these Southern gentlemen
is truly wonderful. They talk nothing of
politics and SPOIL to care nothing for It;
their solo thought anti every energy Is con
fined In the tillage of their lands, brought
down from affluence to poverty, many of
them still rich in land, bat without a cent
to improve and cultivate it, they ntrugglo
on with a pluck energy and equanimity.
which should exeite the wonder of the
world. All their property except their-land
ed estate, has been swept away. A South
ern planter's wealth used to be counted. by
the number of his slaves, not by that Whin
acres, and all his surplus means wee in
vested in slave property. When he wanted
tin raise money Ire had au ever ready re
source in the selling of a slave. By the
abolition of slavery $2110,000.000 of capital,
the accumlated wealth of years, have been
annihilated in V irginia nloue. Capital turd
white labor are wanted in-re; and these
Southern gentlemen are On X LOLLS LO
Weir surplus land and cultivate the remain
der with the caoital thus raised. This ac
counts for the fact that half of the Valley of
the James is for sale. Farming pays here
Col. Gantt who does not want to sell tells
me that he farms 3: 1 ,0 aerosol' his farm of Mel
at res; his crops last year were worth $5300;
his expenses were $lOOO for fertilizers and
and $5OO for labor ; estimated value of
farm $15,000. The negro hero Is paid $lO
a month, has house rent free, and rations
of ii les pork and (if I recollect aright) 3
pecks of corn meal per week. I will return
to this subject egain.
on Tuesday 1110111 lute see left SeOWIVILILI
in IL special boat fir Mount Warren, the
residence of John S. Coles, 1.11 q., where we
intended taking the regular packet when It
should come Wong in the afternoon. We
. nr w numerous fin e p:antations on the way,
tied were much more favorably st rucic with
the muntry the higher we got up the river.
The buildings became much handnower,
and fencing more general. Will geese
were very plenty on the river all the way
up; I tried to shoot them on ono or two
occasions, but found them very Wild. At
the Mount Warren Landing, \lr. Coles met
um with carriages and drove tin to his reel
donee and over his plantation, which is an
exceedingly lino one, end not for sale, for
a wonder. The house to frame, as aro 111-
mos/ all original houses, and very (.0111MO
dIMILL. It stands in IL magnificent grove of
iuumm~un ales, 1111,0 IS a split where one
could live with pleasure and die with great
reluctance. Alter discusning the tiniest of
rye whiskey and an elegant dinner, we
wok the packet itt 2 I'. M., and speeded to
wards Lynchburg at diff rate of nye tulles
per hour, drawn by three horses, which
were changed frequently. We passed many
ningniticent plawations—thone of the Ca
bell's, among others, which extend In u
nearly unbroken line for to miles along
both sides of the river—and after a beauti
ful moonlit night ride, and in short occu.
parley of a table as a bed, we landed al
in Lynchburg at 7 A. 111. un Wednesday
rilorning, and at mien repaired to that mag.
nditfently inept hotel, the Norvell House, or
hilt & Brother.
- -
araware, litorto, Btr.
MMMINI
— The Pennlylvnula Dining Room Stove, Iron
Cylholer—the bent :novo 01 the kind lu thin
market at • ItUSSIL'a
Hardware Store..
North queen ntreet.
GKEAT VARIETY OF PARLORNTOVEN
,Cook lug hitovoi: Raugeti and Dining Ilmni
Stovew. lor Hale at
=l2
CALL AT RUNNEUN AND NEE THE
best aiosortmeut of , tovom Lanciolter.
fiREA'T EAST RN COOLifflill
sT V E admitt..l by nII who tole them to
bn the best cook IJ Move they e'er uscd . hor
sale aL RUHMEL'S.
U S ! rn E. 3I A
very ornantenial, requires Lo La) fired but an
during the Macon, lug a regular beat all
tile time, requ:rtng little fuel (or amount of
heat, produced, and warranted to give entire
satisfaction. For sale at
RUSSEL'S
Hard wart, hture
TINE GEN EINE RA 1;r111.011E riRE
PLAI: M. ST( )VE for 0010 nL
mep2l.l-Iwcl.olnw RUSS El,'M.
litrutos,
T IIIE WillTE POL , A N IC. liErtn'tt IKEA D,
M. lIAREKISUI.II'H WINDOW,
IN CENTRE s4,UARE,
has attracted the attention el thonnarola of
people.
lie would also inthrm the pnblle that he Inc
a la. ge and liner let of Buffalo Itobex than ally
ether house In Lancaster. Alto,
Lined Minh!" Rohe.,
Leopard Skin Hennes—Hl inlT't.d Head.
HIIIII,IIII !lay Wolf Rohe,
A est rallla ()punish on Hobe,
Fon Hkln Robeti.'
liter ,Okla ittibes.
Coon hkln Itehem.
(mulct Hob. a.
Different Slylex or Lap ill ketn.
A largo lot old Ifferen LH ryleif of fierce Cover,.
Also, (told ;Lad Silver Moniited liarnefia.
Wagon Harnef , of every description,
liaddler and Bridles.
Trunks. Carpet flags and Vallaea.
A full and large assorimeni of L.4,110. , ' and
Genta"fraveling Satehela,and all a tiler artlelf , “
belonging to tae randntse sold it the lowent
prima. X If
Centre Square,
I.l4nemrer, Pa.
I=l
QUEEN OF ENO.AND SOAP.
QTT6E:q (rF ENGLAND ro.A.P.
QUEEN UN ENGLAND HOA I
For d•deg a 11.1111 V W.1.1411.11:4 In the best an d
cheapest manner. (Him an teed equal to any In
the world! Ham all the strength of old rueln
soap with the rull•I an•l lathering qualltlea
genuine Croatle. Try this splendid Hoop. bold
by 1110 ALDEN CHEMICAL WORKS, 48 Norltt
Front treat, Philadelphia. aeplArodetaladyw
RooFING r4LAT.E—PItICES REDUCED
The undernigned ban constantly on hand a
full unpply of Rooting tilate for ;tale at.. Red need
Prices. Also, an extra LIGHT ROOFING
SLATE, Intended for ;dating ot,iihingle mold
Employing the very bent slatern all work Is
warranted lobe executed In the bent manner.
Bnildern and others will dud It to their oter
est to examine the ;tampion at ble Ag t rlcultnral
and Bead Warerooms, No. dl Emit king street
Lancaster, Pa., 2 down west of the Hone
We have oleo the Aebento'e Roofing for flat
roof, or where elate and atundlea cannot he
timed. It to tar superior to Plootic or Gravel
Roofing.
deol2 Lightly 010. U. RPRECREP.
MiNMBEgiN
BEDSTEAD AND MATTRESS
FOR IN VA LIDS.
The Bedstead Is constructed of wrought lion,
and Is made In three segments, on is al.() the
Mattress, hinged and comlilued In snob a
manner as to be readily adjusted to suit for
reclining nI any desired angle, or for sitting
upright, providing either chair, lounge, or bed.
IL imt only enables the patient to repose or
rest In a comfortable position, but la equally
convenient for tbo surgeon and attendant In
all surgical, obstetrical and chronic cases.
. _ . .
The manner In will. lr the Mattress Wormed,
and the ves+el drawn under or removed, Is ao
neatly contrived that the Moat, helpless patient
can be relieved of the 'necessities of nature
without moving, or Inconvenience,
IL la mounted on castors and requires but
the aid of one person to move it now place to
place, or change Its formation to BUIL the re.
qultements or neceseltles of the patient.
Title Invention has received the hearty en
doraement of all medical men who have ex
amined It, Including Dre. Atte°, tir. r and Gar.
pester, ?t this city.
It le ado recommended by the stawardip of
tile hospitals of Lancaster and Berke comities,
For farther Information respe6ting HOB val
uable Invention, send for a descriptlVe Oren
lor, or call on the patentee and matioNotemer.
ANTHONY iss.r.,
• No. 22 North Prinoe street
nov 18 BmW 481 Lancaster, ra.