3tte gannotir viii3t.x.vrp EFEEX wx.i.31.1.'82 U. G. A. S. U. U. SMITE' TIMMS—Tub Dollars per annum, payable In all cases In adynnee. . . , Tits LAYOAATEB. DAILY: INTELLIGNYOZ II . IB paid (shed every evening, Sunday excepted, at :35 ger Annum In advance. OFF.lolC—BouTuWzsTposxan 01 C WT .* * 2.QUAIIB, ~!aexx~. THE LlEsEllt AND LOS T. no following poem, from the Church of Eng , riod rinianzmc, will come like a ••eoag in the night" to many a stricken heart: •• The loved and lost!" why do wo call them Met? , Because we miss them irom our onward road. (iod's umieen angel o'er our pathway crest, Looked on us all arid loving them the moat, :•itraightivay relieved them from life's weary loud, They are not lost; they are with In the door That shur out lose 1117 d every hurtful thing With angels bright, and loved ones gone be- fore, In their itedeemer'x preeen co evermore. Audi God Lioreell their Lord, Judge, and King. dud this wu call a loss! oac lash sorrow 0! hearts ! owe of little faith! Let us loo!; ruund , some argument to borrow, Why we In pal lenee kuould await the morrow; That burn)* must succeed trite night ordeath. Aye, look upon this dreary, ()evert path, The thorns and thistles wheresoe'r we turn What trials and what tears, what wrongs anti wrath, Whi aht what strtfe the journey Th , y have er.cered !run! theee; 10! Wa mourn. ANk the poor sailor, when the wreck Is done, Who, WI II Lls treasure, strove the shore to each, While with the raging waves he battled on, WI. It not Joy, wi.ere every Joy setmed gone, To see 111 , 4 loved ones landed on tee beach? A poor wayfarer, leading by the hand A little child, had hal ed by the well To wash 1 out on' her lint the clinging sand, Awl tell the tired boy 01 that bright land ',Vbere 11118 long Jo racy pant, they longed to dwell. When In the Lord, who many marthlonq had, I)tew near and 100Ked opus the ',uttering twain, ' l'hen pliying , sp.ike, "(Ave thelittle ; In 1.1111.110.11 renewed,.andglorlona beauty glad, I'll hring Iron with me when I come again." Ind she make unswer hellishly and wrong - ..Nay, Lot the woes I feel be too must share!" Or, ruiner, r uniting lido grateful song. ripe went tier Iv y n Joking, and made strong stt uggie rillirre lie wee freed from cute. WI. will do lili e . ..k Ise. I Math Las made no breech In love and ryndatthy, Ilk hops and truth; • ••tr1 , 4.11. 1 rear earn eau reach, But there's ne ' le %rani, ...piritml u speeelt, n 'lOl greet, us still, though rota' longues be dust. It, Iris to. do the wyrlc tint they laid down— 'l'oku op the sung wiere they broktflotf the strain ; • . Fu jOtltney)lll4 MI we re, oh We henVl.lll/Y tow❑ XV tern are laid up our trulisureti and uur crown ,Ild our ti, 1,11,5 ed 011 eh wilt be found again M.16111141a • rnr Ic4. 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Ulm: all the blue; %Valle ID 1)1111 oat wIIII swlllrst puce, The I Yentas shuttle flew. Nl' ich nuddau thought 1 Iluug the book Far out 'lron Ilh• slopma lawn Met lc 111, the while her rouble(' look, Then nice, hall Ilrewcl ellt 01 the dawn 00011010 100,, 00); 00 1060— •' Sid. 1001.110 , 1 or clown— Wu.) le.trN l.n ol ler when he can 1I1:111, only e ln.und 4onls corpl down Si; before die all ilny long, ttrieht h..ppy a. it bird; thrill me wliii lour Under aorg .111.1 1111,..1 0 ,1111 a earelevi word, You thin]: pet haps U) I.tip mu uear, throe: tite, away;— 3-1011 yen P.M Ilse• I Inn. heth W nen I in uAL 1101110 f lose for aye. " Dowm:ist !Mew :ashes as you may, (She lifted tm•ul In mule aurprlsed - The only nook 1 read to-day Lies In your heal I. Itllil in your eyes A qulv. 001 the pal Led lips: 'File MIT log lay mem the near; Am] 'Mitt the rosy gager tips The idle 51111 gew no more. nehind me. lahyrlnthine ways Have closed 1111 M. magea evermore: the ag', te n • glorloussummer days, A lid 1,v...s !ruff ion w . allts before helnbrest, holiest hopes of life In sheltered havens softly ride, And I 11th happy; for coy Wife His nn Icing ttlttng by my side. gtiorellantouti. A Newspaper torrespondent at a Fair. A correspondent of the Louisville Democrat gives a bit of his experience as follows: My last letter was dated at Chicago. I don't expect to date another from that enterprising city. My malevolent star must have been in the ascendant, else I never should have wandered out to Chicago. I had no particular business there, oily to fish, and was under the impression that I could catch them in a 'bucket at the hydrants, utterly forget ting all about the great lake tunnel. My first visit to Chicago was in my lender years, in 150(1. It was the time when Chicago took such a sudden rise by means of jackscrews. •By these ma chines they raised the entire city, house by house, some two or three feet. k I know all about various confide4e games, but consider myself just as likely to be taken iu try the simplest of thOtze as the veriest greenhorn of Posey courtty. I low oft these sharpers must have "e -wailed their bad luck at my not having plenty of money. With all my experience I dropped in to a fair held for the benefit of some confounded society or other. I thought I would expend a dollar or two, and see what was going on. So'l bought my self a ticket and slid iu. I went to a table where refreshments were sold, and called fur some oysters, chicken salad and coffee. A beautiful siren with big black eyes, little white hands and a moat bewitching mouth, spread the edibles before:me. I don't know how it was, but I felt a strong affinity for that minister ing angel at once. While eating and drinking, and devouring her with mine eyes in, the meantime, we struck up a scattering conversation. At last I arose and handed her a five dollar bill, She put it in a little box, and forgot to give me any change, but instead thereof a sweet smile, unto me saying: " Are you a stranger to Chicago?" " Yes, twidam, I am from Kentucky." "Is it iM't-tt. ible t` lam a Kentuckian also." " Ali ! 1 h new it." The reply was whispered, but it pro duced a faint blush, a drooping of the beautiful eyelashes, and a gratified smile. " Would you like to walk around the room and look over our fancy articles?" quoth the siren. " It' you will show me," quoth the spooney. She took my arm, and raising herself by it to her toes, she murmured, "we are not strangers, you know." Go away, Grant, with your presidency, I would not change places with you this minute. or with Colfax, who was married this morning. Go away, jack screws. You can'traise me any higher. ' We wandered through that room, talking—sweetly talking, of things that had been of things that were, and of things that might be. Pretty soon we came to a silver tea set that was to be rallied off. Would I take a chance? Of course I would. Then a wonderful cake, with a valuable ring concealed in it, appealed to the cupidity of the -• chance-takers. I was persuaded to take a chance in the cake. And so things glided on until I concluded that if I took many more chances my chances for getting home would be rather slim. • So frefused to tempt fortuneany f urther. Anon a costly work box metoureyes but I bravely resisted all appeals, until the tittle black-eyed scoundrel took me on a new tack. Leaning heavily on my arm, and absolutely resting her cheek on my shoulder, with those wicked eyes and silvery tongue she said : " Won't you take a chance for me?" Oh, well, Hatcher, folks preach about the fall of Adam, but I never blamed him, though I don't think the old fel low had' half the excuse I had. I needn't tell you that I took that phance, and kept on taking chances for the un principled and beautiful wretch that had me in tow until I had not a dollar left. Yes, I way pennyless, and then it began to dawn on me that the young lady was:working for the success of the Fair, and that'l had made a first-class fool of.myself, 'as usual. ' % 0 There was I bankrupt in 'moue , in reputation, in self-respect. I had een robbed—yes, robbed, for where is difference between a pair of Derri • era's and a pair of black eyes in a rob bery?' You part with yout money be. cause you cau't help it. I know that society looks with lenient eyes upon these female guerrillas who haunt these charitOle, fairs, . bpt it 'spy opinion ' , when all the robbers come to take their final„trialandrecelvetheirdnalseatence, that little Chicago robber . will .take her place bYtheiiide of Jack Sheppard. , . . g.: .7.t 2 . ._•, --,. , t . i - _..., _:,.... !_ L t•i-.1, , ,• ) _._•. l:= - • .•. , . , - : , . . r. ....... T . .. .. .. ..,. . ....„ ..., .. ',.. ., ~ ,....,,, .. . " , . , ..,... ~.... ~,..,.,,,,............, ..!..: ` . , . _ .... . • ~... .. • , • VOLUME 69 The Mysterious Widow. . During the Summee of 1814 the Brit ish had not qnly laid claim to all that portion of the District of Maine lying east of the Penobscot, but Admiral Off feth and and Sir John SherbrookeAlie latter then being the Governor of - Nov , Scotia, had been sent with a heavy force to take 'possession, and occupied the town of Castine, which place commands the entrance to the Penobscot river. Shortly before the arrival of the Eng lish squadron, Commodore Sam' I Tuck er had been sent around to Penobscot Bay to protect the American coasters, and while the British sailed up Castine, he lay at Thomaston. • It was a schooner that the Commo dore commanded, but she was a heavy one, well armed and manned ; and that she carried the true Yankee "grit" upon her decks the enemy had received, from them, rather too many proofs. On the morning of the 28th of August, a 'mes senger was sent down from Belfast with the intelligence that the British frigate was coming from Castine to take him. Tucker knew that the British feared him, and also that Sir John Sherbrooke had offered a large amount for his cap- Lure. When the Commodo , e received the inteliigence, his vessel was lying at one of the low wharves where he would have to wait two hours for the tide to set him off; but he hastened to have everything prepared to get her off as soon as.possible, for he had no desire to meet the frigate. The - schooner's keel was just cleared from the mud, and one of the men had been sent upon the wharf to cast off the bowling, when a wagon drawn by one horse came rattling down to the spot. The driver, a rough looking countryman got out upon the wharf, and then assist ed a middle-aged woman from the ve hicle. The lady's first enquiry was for Commodore Tucker. He was pointed out to her, and she stepped upon the schooner's deck, and approached him. "Commodore," she asked, "when do you sail from here?" " We sail right oil; as scion as possible, madam." "oh, then, I know you will be kind to me," the lady urged, in persuasive tones. "My poor husband died yester day, and I wish to carry his corpte to Wicasset, where we belong, and where his parents will take care of it." But, my good woman, 1 shan't go to I Wicasset." "If you will only land nie at the mouth of the Sheep Scot, I will ask no more. I can easily find ajboat there to take me up." • " Where is the body ?" 0 - ed Tucker. " In the wagon," returA the lady, at the same time raising the corner of her shawl to wipe away tits gatherit , tears. "I have a sum of n'ioney with me, and you shall be paid for the trouble." " Tut, tut, woman; if I accommodate you c there won't be any pay about it." Thekind-hearted old Commodore was not the man to refuse a favor,and though he liked not the bother of taking the woman and her strange accompaniment on board, yet he could uotrefuse. When he told her he would do as she requested, she thanked him with many tears in her eyes. - Some of the men were sent upon the wharf to bring the body on board. A long buffalo robe was lifted off by the man who drove the wagon, and beneath it appeared a neat black coffin. Some words were passed by the seamen, as they were putting the coffin on board, which scent to show pretty plainly that the affair did not exactly suit them. It may have been but prejudice on their part, but then seamen should be allowed a prejudice once in a while, when we consider the many stern realities they have to encounter. "Hush, my good men," said the Commodore, as he heard their murmured remonstrances. "Sup• pose you were to die away from home— would you not wish that your last re mains might be carried to your poor parents? (Jorge, hurry now." The men said no more, and ere long the coffin was placed in the hold, and the woman was shoWn to the cabin.— In less than half an hour, the schooner was cleared from the wharf, and stand ing out from the bay. The wind was light from the eastward, but Tucker had no fear of the frigate now that he was once out of the bay. In the evening, the lady passenger came on deck, and the Commodore as sured her thathe should be able to land her early on the next morning. She expressed her gratitude and satisfac tion, and remarked that before she re tired she should like to look and see that her husband's corpse was safe.— This was of course gra&ed, and one of them lifted off the hatch, that she might go down into the hold. "I declare," muttered Daniel Carter, an old sailor, who was standing at the wheel, "she takes on dre'fully!" "Yes, poor thing!" said Tucker, as he heard her sobs and groans. " D'ye notice what'll eye she's got '2" continued Carter. " No," said Tucker, swollen with tears." "My eyes! but they shone, though, when she stood here looking at thecom pass." Tucker smiled at the man's quaint, earnestness, and without further re mark he went down to the cabin. When the woman came up from the hold, she looked about the deck of the schooner for a few moments, and then went aft. There was something in her countenance that puzzled Carter. He had been one of those who objected to the coffin's being brought on board, and hence he was not predisposed to look very favorably upon its owner. The woman's eye ran over tile schoon er's deck with a strange quickness, and Carter eyed her very sharply. Soon she went to the tairrail and looked over at the stern boat and then she came and stood by the binnacle again. " Look out, or you'll gibe the boom," uttered the passenger. Carter started, and found that the mainsail was shivering. He gave the helm a couple of spokes apart, and then cast his eyes again upon. the woman, whose features were lighted by the binnacle lamp. " Thauk'e ma'am," said Dan. " Ha, hold on—why, bless my soul, there's a big spider right on your hair. • No—not there. Here—l'll—Ugh ! " This last ejaculation Dan made as he seemed to pull something from the woman's hair, which he 'threw upon the deck with the " iqi/ti-ulliove men tioned. Shortly after, the passenger went be low, and ere long,ncker came on deck. " Commodore;" said Carter, with a remarkable degree of earnestness in his manner, "is the 'oman turned in?" " I rather think so," said Tucker, looking at the compass. " Look out, look out, Carter! Why, man alive, you're two points to the southward of your course." " Blow me, so I am," said the man, bringing the helm smartly aport. "But say, didn't ye notice anything peculiar about the old 'omen?" " Why, Dan, you seem greatly inter ested about her." "So I am, Commodore, an' so I am about the coffin, too. Wouldn't it be well for you and I to overhaul it?" " Pshaw ! you are as scared as a child in a graveyard." "No, not a bit. Just hark a bit. That 'oman ain't no 'Oman." The Commodore pronounced the name of his Satanic Majesty in the most em phatic manner. "It's the truth, Commodore—l can swear to it. I purtended there was a spider on her hair, and I rubbed my I hand agin her face. By Sam Hyde, if it wasn't as rough and bearded as an hotystone. You see, she told me as how I'd let the boom gibe if I didn't look out. I know'd'there wasn't no 'Oman there, and to I tried her. Call some , body at the wheel, and let's go and look at that coffin." The Commodore was wonder struck by what he had heard, but, what he was, he at coolly to thinking. In a few minutes hr men aft to relieve Cat went down to look . The latter bad turns to be sleetring,. Tue id took Cartels Nix "No not in though no it. "Sartin." The tip approached the main hatch, and stooped to raise it, when Dan's hand touched a small ball that seemed tohave been pinned up under the after: break of the hatch. "11 4 8 ) a ball of twine," said he. "Don't touch it, but run and get a jantern," replied Tucker. Carter sprang to obey, and when he returned a number of the men had gathered about the spot. The hatch 4 was raised, and the Commodore, carefully picked up the ball of twine, and found that it was made fast to something' low: He .descended to the hold, and theie he found that the twine ran in hetWeen the lid of the calm, He had no doubt in his mind now that thete was mischief boxed up below, and he sent Carter for something that might answer for screw driver. The man soon returned with a stout knife, and the Commodore set to work. He worked very carefully, however, at the same time keeping a bright lookout for the string. At length the screws were out, and the lid very carefully lifted from its placa. " Great. God in heaven ! " burst from ' the lips of the Commodore. "By Sam Hyde!" dropped like a thunder clap from the tongue of young Dan. " God blessyou, Dan ! "said the GOM. modore. " I knotu'd it !" uttered Dan. The two men stood for a moment, and gazed Into the coffin. There was no dead man there, but in (lace thereof, there was material for the death of a score. The coffin was filled with gunpowder and pitchwood ! Upon a light frame work in the centre were arranged four pistols, all docked, and the string enter ing the coffin from without, communi cated with the trigger of each. The first movement of the Commo dore was to call for water, and , when it was brought, he dashed three or four buckets full into the infernal contri vance, and then he breathed more freely. • - "No, rto;" lie uttered, as he leaped from hel. hold. "No, no—my men.— 'De nothing rashly. Let me go into the cabin first. You may follow me." Commodore Tucker strode into the cabin, walked up to the bunk where his passenger lay, and grasping hold of the female dress, he dragged its wearer out upon the floor. There was a sharp resistance, and the passenger drew a pistol, but it was quickly knocked away—the gown was torn off, and a man came forth from the remnants of calico and linen. The fellow was assured that his whole plot had been discovered. at ierigai he owned that it had been his plan to turn out in the course of the night and get hold of the ball of twine, which he had left in a convenient•place; he then In tended to have gone a carefully un winding the strings as he ent along ; then to have geit—iate the b at, cut the falls, and as the boat fell into he water, he would have pulled smartly , upon the twine. " Aud I think you know," with a wicked look, "wIA have followed. I shouldn't heNte.-Liebn noticed in the fuce—l'd have got out of the way with the boat, and you'd all have.been iu the next world in short I order. And all I can say, is, that I'm sorry I didn't do it." It was with difficulty that the Com modore prevented his men from killing the villain on the spot. He proved to be one of the enemy's officers, and he was to have a heavy reward if he suc ceeded in destoying the Commodore and his crew. The prisoner was carried on deck and lashed to the main rigging, where he was told to remain until the vessel got in port. " What a horrid death that villain meant for us," uttered Carter. "Yes, he did," said Tucker, with a shudder. "He belongs to the same gang that's been a robbin' and burnin' the poor folk's houses on the Eastern coast," said one of the men." "Yes," said the Commodore, with a nervous twitch of the muscles about his mouth. A bitter curse from the prisoner here broke upon the air, and with a clutched fist the Commodore went below. In the morning when Tucker came on deck, Seguin was in sightupen the star board bow, but when he looked for the prisoner he was gone. "Carter, where's the villain I lashed here last night ?" "I'm sure I don't know where he is, Commodore. Perhaps he's jumped overboard." The old Commodore looked sternly in Carter's eyes, and he saw a twinkle of satisfaction gleaming there. He jiesi tated a moment—then he turned away, and muttered to himself: "Well, well—l can't blame them. If the murderous villain's gone to death, he's only met a fate which he richly de served. Better far it be for him, than that my noble crew were now all in ocean's cold grave." Five Mlles Above the Earth A Thrilling Adveuture One dull day in August, just after noon, a balloon rose in the air at the foot of Cloet Hills, on the western edge of the central plain of England. It was inflated with the lightest of gases which chemical skill could produce, and it rose with amazing velocity. A mile up and it entered a stratum of cloud more than ' a thousand feet thick. Emerging from this, the sun shone brightly on the air- ship ; the sky overhead was of the clear est atul deepest blue, and below lay cloud land an immeasurable expanse of cloud whose surface looked as solid as that of the earth not wholly lost to view. Lofty mountains and deep, dark ravines, ap peared below the peaks and sides of these cloud•moiintains next the sun, glittered like snow, but casting shadows as if they were solid rock. Up rose the bal loon with tremendous velocity. Four miles above the earth a pigeon was let loose; it dropped down through the air as if it had been a stone. The air was too thin to enable it to fly. It was as if a bark laden to the deck wereto pass from the heavy waters of the sea into an inland unsaline lake; the bark would sink at once in the thinner water. Up, up, still higher! What a silence pro foand ! The heights of the sky were as still as the deepest depths of the ocean, where, as was found during the search for the lost Atlantic cable, the fine mud lines as unstirred from year to year as " only 'twas the dust which imperceptibly gathers on the furnitune of a deserted house. No sound, no life—only the bright sun shine falling through a sky which it could not warm. - Up—flve miles above erithi—higher than the Inaccessible summit of Chim borazo or Dawaugiri. Despite the sun• shine, everything freezes. The air grows too thin to support life, even for a few minutes, Two men only ate in that adventurous balloon—the doe steering the airship, the other watch ing the scientific instruments, and re cording them with a rapidity bred of long practice. Suddenly as the latter looks at his instruments, his sight grows dim ; he takes a lens to help his sight; and only marks from the'falling barom eter that they are testing rapidly. A ' flask of brandy lies within a foot of him; he tried to reach it, but his arm refused to obey his will. He tries to call ou his comrade, who has gone up into the ring above ; a whisper in that deep silence would suffice—but no sound comes from his lips—he is voiceless. The steersman comes down into the car; he sees his comrade in a swoon, and feels his own senses failing him. He saw at once that life and delth hung upon a f'Qw moments. HQ seized or tried to seize the valve, in order to open it and let out the gas. His hands are purple with intense cold—they are paralyzed, they will not respond to his will. He seized the valve with his teeth ; it opened a little—once, twice, thrice. The balloon began to decend. Then the swooned marksman returned to conciousness t and saw the steersman standing before him. He looked at his instrument: but now the• barometer was rising rapidly ; the balloon was decending. Brandy was used. They had been higher above earth than mortal man or any living thing had ever been ' before. One minute more of action— of compulsory inaction-on tne part of the steersman, whose senses were fail ing him, and the air ship, with its in tensely rarifled gas, would have been floating unattended, with two corpses, in .the wide realms of space. llEir As a young woMan was walking alone one evening, a man looked atler and followed her. The Young woman said: "Why do you follow me ? " He answered, Because I have fallen in. love with you." TheOvoman said, " Why are you in love twith me? My sister is much handsorcier ; she is Coming after me; go and make love to her." The man turned back and saw a woman with an ugly face. Being greatly MS- , pleased, he turned to the first woman and said : "Why did you tell me a falsehood ?" The woman answered, " Neither did you speak the truth ; for if you were really in love with me, why did you leave me to look up my sister ? ' ~ n ie as LANCASTER PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING DECEMBER 23 1868 A Die of CrIMo FYOM tee Fapee►levee of rt , i) elective One of the most remarkable cases that ever came within my experience was that of Lucille. Dutton. She was, in every respect, a woman ,of the world. Fascinating, brilliant, dashing, posses sing an exqulisite grace of manner and rare conversational powers, that charm ed every one who came within the sphere of -her influence. Until her crimes were known and her arrest-at-, tempted, she reigned here an acknowl edged belle. Even the most jealously envious of her own sex admitted the wondrous spell exercised by her singu lar and surpassing beauty. An actress, a vocalist, It would have been no extrav agant eulogy to have called her a prima donna. Tall beyond the average of wo men, her slender, graceful form was modeled into an exquisite symmetry thatwould have been a sculptor's ideal. Curling, silky tresses of nut brown hair, shaded a face fair and delicate as a child. Great luminous black eyes flashed from beneath the lashes with a strange and mesmeric power, that few indeed had the power to resist.— This expression, combined with her rare intellectual gifts, made her regnant over many a heart that had never be. fore f t the spell of a woman's charms. She ha me to New Orleans as a vo calist. He engagement was attended• with a success never before equalled by the most accomplished professional.— Night afternight the theatre was crowd ed with her admirers. Her appearance was ever the signal of an enthusiasm all but wild. As the weird light of the proscenium flashed on jewel and jem, and the queenly, radiant with beauty, stood before the gazing multitude, who swayed to the magiccharm and impulse of tone and. voice, I have often fancied her supernatural. Youth and age alike felt its influences. There was a thrill in the low utterance, that trembled on the air like the soft vibration of a harp whose strings the wind had struck, and rising in fullness and strength of tone until a rich, delicious harmony filled the vast building with a magical ca dence, which no ear attuned to music could resist. „Her name was on every window along th'e fashionable thorough fare. Before the charm of that strange, wondrous beauty, fashion forgot exclu -siveness, society opened its doors. Petted and caressed in every circle, ad mired and loved, her heart remained insensible to so much flattery, and the 1 omage of men and women was re 'eived as if it were her due. It was at a time when her fame was greatest, and her success in fashionable life most assured, that an event occurred which changed it all and precipitated a catastrophe which I can not even now reflect upon without a sense Of pain. A few months before her advent here, a series of the most startling tragedies had occurred in Montreal. An entire famity had been poisoned by a governess. The papers were never weary of the episode of horrors the recital furnished The in- I strument of this wickedness had fled, and with such consummate skill had her flight been contrived, that not even a trace of her was left. It appeared that her beauty and accomplishments had won the affections of a youth, whose marriage with her his parents opposed. Driven to desperation, Harlow Vincent had, in a moment of frenzy, perished by his own hand. Over the corpse of her lover the governess had sworn a dire revenge. How faithfully she had ad hered to her guilty oath, the rapid decease of his relatives full well attested. The story of the Canadian homicides had long since reached us, but had left but little impression, as a matter with which we had nothing to do, Ode night a gentleman returning from the theater entered our office. His look was disturbed, and his face wore an expression of profound agitation. Mr. I handed him a chair,t and after a moment's hesitation, he inq ired if I had heard of the tradgedy at IN nt real. I replied that I had. " Have you no suspicion of the ac or in that fearful drama?" " The governess, of course." " Yes ; but have you no suspicio7 l of who the governess is ?" "Certainly not." " Would you like me to point her out to you ?" " Most certainly I would." "And would you arrest her if I did "" e con in wouA Certainly." Then, sir, your task is easy; the woman who is setting your city wild at present the fascinating Lucille Dutton, is the person." " What !" I exclaimed, "your are mad!" _ _ . " Not I; I speak advisedly—l know the woman; am a resident of Montreal, and have known her for years." The telegraph was at once put in re quisition, and in less than au hour all the information sought for was ob tained. There was no longer a doubt; the enchantress of the theater was the murderess of Montreal. We were warranted in taking her in custody at once ; but as there was no probability of escape, we delayed until morning. I confess I fella strange re luctance in executing the duty I had to perform. I admired the beautiful crea ture, despite her crimes. I thought I could understand how these could have been committed without her being wholly bad. Maddened by the death or one she loved; hating with bitter animosity those who were, in a meas ure, responsible for it, and incited to the deed by the fierce, revengful nature of her race, it seemed to me more the crime of others than her own. Still I would do my duty. Early the ensuing morning Mr. I. and myself visited her apartments at a fash ionable boarding house on Camp street. Although the hour was early, she was up, and to the servants inquiring if two gentlemen could be admitted to see her, returned an affirmative answer. The .. . _ . . bright golden sunshine of the early spring morning gleamed in at the open window, filling the room with light. It shown on the beautiful lady like a crown—red with crime she might have been—but the nutbrown hair, in the sheen of those golden rays, seemed glory crowned. Robed in white, a single jewel flashed from the belt that encir cled her waist—a bud of the early spring roses peeped from her hair. How beau tiful she looked—how innocent. My tongue faltered—my utterance indis tinct as I told my errand. "And you believe me guilty?" "By no means, lady, I but execute my duty!" 'You do right." Her voice was so low and sad—so ex quisitely sorrowful, that tears came into my eyes. A single hectic flush fevered on the smooth round cheek, as she rose and walked across the room to an escri toire that stood in the corner. The great luminous eyes were sheathed now, and the long dark lashes drooped over them. She sat down at the desk, and leaned her head upon her hand for a moment, then searched for a paper or parcel in a book in the desk. I did not observe her closely until she turned round facing me. "I am guilty," she said—the same low tone of sorrow—" yes, guilty in the eyes of the world, but not in the sight of heaven. I was insane when I did the deed. Insanity has its cunning— delirium its passionate sense of revenge. They broke my heart, destroyed, in their bloom, all the flowers of my life. I am a maniac even now, for I feel no terror in my crime. I have long looked for this hour. I am ready for it. My dead body the law may have : but with lit no sense of shame." As she spoke, she swallowed a dull, grayish looking powder, threw up her arms, and fell back in her seat—dead. A ludicrous and amusing incident re- cently occurred in connection with the Gentile opposition to Mormon huthori ty. A man coming: from the West stopped at the Hot Springs, just outside of the city, and having heard much of their medicinal properties, was about to bathe in one of them. After he had dis robed, and just ash 3 was aboutto plunge in a stranger approached, and told him that he could not bathe In that spring. The western Gentile's ire be came aroused at once, and thinking that it was another instance of Mormon , despotiusin.;-he immediately replied: "!The h-11 I can't. like to see old Brigham , r any body stop me," and in he plunged, but he got out sooner than he gdt in, for it was"a boiling spring. His huger 'against the Mormons had not `perinitted him to ask the stranger why he could not bathe there, but he was_ determined to show Brigham that he could not stop him from bathing. \ I visited St. Louie lately, and on my way West, after changing cars at Terre Haute,,.Lidiana, a mild, be nevolent Molting gentlernan of about forty-five, or maybe fifty, came in at one'of the way stations and Bat down beside me. We talked together plea santly on various subjects for an hour, perhaps, and I found him exceedingly interesting and entertaining. When he learned th t I was from Washington. he immediately began to ask questions about various public men, sod about Congressional .aftairs; and I saw very shortly that I was conversing with a man who was perfectly familiar with the ins and outs of political life at the capital, even to the ways and manners and customs of procedure of Senators and Representatives in the chambers of the National Legislature. Presently two women halted near us for a single moment, and one said to the other: "Harris, if you'll do that for me, never forget you, my boy." My new comrade's eyes lighted plea santly. The words had touched upon a happy memory, I thought. Then his face settled into tnoughtfulness—almost into gloom. He turned to me and said: " Let me tell you a story—let me give you a secret chapter of my life—a chapter that has never been referred tiy by me since its events transpired. Lis ten patiently, and promise thatyou will not interrupt me." I said fwould not, and he related the following strange adventure, speaking sometimes with melancholy, butalways with feeling and earnestness. THE STRANGER'S MARRATIVE. On the 19th of December, 1853, I started from St. Louis in the evening bound train for Chicago. There were only twenty-four passengers, all told. There were no ladies, and no children. We were in excellent spirits, and pleas-. ant acquaintances were soon formed. The journey bade fair to be a happy one, and no individual in the party, I think, had ever the vaguest presenti ment of the horrors we were soon to undergo. At 11 3 M. it began to snow hard. Shortly after leaving the small village of Weiden, we entered upon that tre mendous prairie solitude that stretches its leagues ou leagues of houseless dreari ness tar away toward the Jubilee Set tlements. The winds, unobstructed by trees or hills, or even vagrantrocks, whistled fiercely across the level desert, driving the falling snow before it like spray from the crested waves of astormy sea. The snow was deepening fast, and we knew, by the diminished speed of the train, that the engine was plough ing through it with steadily increasing difficulty. Indeed it almost came to It I dead halt sometimes in the midst of the great drifts that piled themselves like i colossal graves across the track. Con versation began to flag. Cheerfulness gave place to grave concern. Tile pos sibility of being imprisoned in thesnow, on the bleak prairie, fifty miles from any house, presented itself to every mind, and extended its depressing in fluence over every spirit. At 2 o'clock in the morning I was ' aroused out of an easy slumber, by the ceasing of all motion around me, The appalling truth flashed upon me instant ly—we were captives in a snowdrift! "All hands to the rescue." ,Every man sprang to obey. Out into the wild night, the pi tchy darkness, thel. - 7filowing snow, the driving storm, et.ertsoul leaped, with the consciousness v at a moment lost nbw might bring deStruction to ns ' all. Shovels, hands, boiirds—anythi ' everything, that could displace scii. : was brought into instant requb-itum. It was a weird picture, that swill, corn pany of frantic men fighting the bank ing snows, half in the blackest shadow and half in the angry light of the loco motive's reflector. One short hour sufficed 'to prove the uselessness of our efibrts. The storm barricaded the track with a dozen drifts while we dug one away. And worse than this, it was discovered that the last grand charge the engine had made upon the enemy had broken the fore and aftshaftofthedriving wheel I With a free track before us we should still have been helpiees. We entered the car wearied with labor and very sor rowful. We gathered about the stoves, and gravely canvassed our situation. We had no provision whatever—in this lay our chief distress. We could not freeze, for there was a good supply of wood in the tender. This was our only comfort. The discussion ended at last in accepting the disheartening decision of the conductor, viz., that it would be death for any man to attempt to travel fifty miles on foot through snow like that. We could not Bend for help, and even if we could, it could notcome. We must submit and await, as patiently as we might, succor or starvation ! I think the stoutest heart there bit a momen tary chill when these words were ut tered. Within an hour conversation subsid ed to a low mummer here and there about the car, caught fitfully between the rising and falling of the blast; the lamps grew dim, andthe majority of the castaways settled themselves among the :flickering shadows to think--to forget the present if they could—to sleep if they might. The eternal night—it seemed eternal to us wore its lagging hours away at last, and the cold gray dawn broke in the east. As the light grew stronger the passengers began to stir and give signs of life, one after another, and each in turn pushed his slouched hat up frum his forehead, stretched his stiffen ed limbs, and glanced out at the win dows upon the cheerless prospect. It was cheerless indeed! Not a living thing visible anywhere—not a human habitation—nothing but a vast white desert; uplifted sheets of snow drifting hither and thither before the wind—a world of eddying flakes shutting out the firmament above. All day we moped about the cars, say ing little, thinking much. Another lingering, dreary night—and hunger. Another dawning another day of silence, sadness, wasting hunger, hope -1 ss watching for succor that could not come. A night of restless slumber, filled with dreams of feasting—wakings distressed with the gnawlngs of hunger. The fourth day came and went—and the fifth I Five days of dreadful im prisonment ! A savage hunger looked out at every eye. There was in it a sign of awful importthe foreshadowing of a something that was vaguely shaping itself in every heart—a something which no tongue cared yet to frame into words. The sixth day passed—the seventh dawned upon as gaunt, and haggard, , and hopeless a company of men as ev er stood in the shadow of death. It must out now ! That thing which had been growing up in every heart was ready to leap fiom every lip at last! Nature had been taxed to the utmost— she must yield. Richard H. Gaston, of Minnesota, tall, cadaverous, and pale rose up. All prepared—every emotion, every semblance of excite.nent was smothered—only a calm, thoughtful seriousness appeared In the eyes that were lately so wild. " Gentlemen, it cannot be delayed longer! The time is at hand! We must determine which of us shall die to furnish food for the rest!" Mr. John J. Williams, of Illinois, roseand said : " Gentlemen," nominate the Rev. James Sawyer, of Tennessee." Mr. William B. Adams, of Indiana, said : "I nominate Mr. Daniel Slote, of New York." Mr. Chas. J. Langdon—" I nominate ,I Mr. Samuel A. Bowen, of St. Louis." Mr. Slote—"Gentlemen, I desire to decline in favor of Mr. John A. Van Nastrand, Jr., of New Jersey." Mr. Gaston—lf there be no objection, the gentleman's desire will be ac ceded to. Mr. Van Nastrand objecting, the re signation of Mr.Slote was rejected. The resignations of Messrs. Sawyer and Bowen were.also offered, and refused on the same grounds. Mr. A. D. Bascon, of Ohio—l move , that the nominations now close, and that the house proceed to an election by . ballot. Mr. Sawyer—Gentlemen, I protest earnestly against these proceedings. Whey are, in every way, irregular and lin ecoming. - I mule. beg to move that the be dropped at once, and that we e t a chairman of the meeting and p er offleera to assist him,-ami then e can go on With the buidness before s -understandingly. Mr. Belknap,-of Ohio—Gentlemen, I object. This is-no time to stand upon , forms and ceremonious, observances. For more than seven days we have been without food. EVery moment we lose In idle discussiOn increases our dittress. , . A not Bath Cannibalism In; the Care. EV" - 'IITARk TWAIN I am Satisfied with the nominations that have been made—every gentleman present Is, I believe—and 1, for one, do not see why we should not proceed at once to elect one or more of them. I wish to offer a resolution— Mr. Gaston—lt would be objected to, and have to lie over one day under the rules, thus bringing. about the very de lay you wish to avoid, The gentleman from New Jerse— y Van Nastrand—Gentlemen , I am a stranger amongyou ; I have not sought the distinction that has been conferred Upon me, and I feel a delicacy. Mr. Morgan, of Alabama—l move the previous question. The motion was carried, and further debate shut off of course. The . motion to elect officers was passed, and under it Mr. Gaston chosen Chairman, Mr. Blake, secretary, Messrs. Holcomb, Dyer and Baldwin a Committee on Nominations, and Mr. M. Howland, surveyor, to assist the Committee in making selections. A recess of half an hour was then taken; and some little caucusing fol lowed. At the sound of the gavel the meeting reassembled, and the Commit tee reported in favor of Messrs. George Ferguson - of Kentucky, Lucien Her mann, of Louisiana, and -W. Messick, of Colorado, as candidates. The report was accented. Mr. Rogers, of Missouri—Mr. Presi dent, the report being properly before the House now, I move to amend it by substituting for the name of Mr. Her mann that, of M. Lucius Harris, of St. Louis, who is well and honorably known to us all. Ido not wish to be undertsood as casting the least:reflection upon the high character and standing of the gentleman from Louisiana—far from it; Irespect and esteem him as much as any gentleman here present possibly can; but none of us can be blind to the fact that he has lost more flesh during the week we have had here than any among you; none of us can be blind to the fact that the Committee has been derelict in its duty, either through negligence or a graver fault, in thus offering for our suffrages a gen detnam.who, however pure his motives might be, has really less nutriment iu The Chair—The gentleman from Mis souri will take hie seat. The Chair can not allow the integrity of the Commit tee to be questioned save by the regular course, under the rules. What action will the House take upon the gentle man's motion? Mr. Halliday, of Virginia—l move to further amend the report by substitut ing Mr. Harvey Davis, of Oregon, for Mr. Messick. It may be urged by gen tlemen that the hardships gild priva tions of a frontier life have made Mr. Davis tough ; but, gentlemen, Is this a time to cavil at toughness? Is this a time to be fastidious concerning trifles? Is this a time to dispute about matters of paltry significance? No, gentlemen; bulk is what we desire—substance, weight, bulk—these are the requisites now—not talent, not genius, not educa tion. I insist upon my motion. Mr. Morgan (excitedly)—Mr. Chair man, I do most strenuously object to the amendment. The gentleman from Ore gon is old, and furthermore is bulky only in bone—not in fie-h. I ask the gentleman from Virginia if it he soup we want instead of solid sustenance? if he would delude us with shadows? if he would mock our sufferings with an Oregonian spectre? I ask him if be can look upon the anxious faces around him, if he can gaze into our sad eyes, if he can listen to the beating of our ex pectant hearts, and still thrust this famine-stricken fraud upon us? I ask I him if he can think of our desolate state, I tif our past sorrows, of our dark future, and still unpityingly foist upon us this wreck, this ruin, this tottering swindle, this gnarled and blighted and sapless vagabond from Oregon's inhospitable shores! Never! [Applause ] The amendment was put to vote, after I a fiery debate, and lost. Mr. Harris was substituted on the first amendment. The balloting then began. Five ballots were held without a choice. On the sixth Mr. Harris was elected, all voting for him but himself. It was then mov ed that his election should be ratified by acclamation, which was lost, in con sequence of his again voting against himself. . Mr. Itadway moved that the House now take up the remaining candidates, and go into election for breakfast. This was carried. On the first ballot there was a tie, half the members favoring one candidate on account of his youth, knit the other half his superior size. The President gave the casting vote for the latter. This de cission created considerable dissatisfac tion among the (rinds of Mr. Ferguson, the defeated candidate, and there was some talk of demanding a new ballot; but in the midst of it a motion to adjourn was carried, and the meeting broke up at once. The preparation for supper diverted the attention of the Ferguson faction from the subject of their grievances fo a long time, and then, when they,- have taken it up again, the happy an nouncement that Mr. Harris was ready drove all thought of it to the winds. We improvised tables by propping up the backs of our seats, and sat down with hearts full of gratitude to the fi nest supper that had blessed our vision for seven torturing days. How changed we were from what we bad been a few short hours before! Hopeless, sad-eyed misery, hunger, feverish anxiety, des peration then—thankfulness, serenity, joy too deep for utterance now. That I know was the cheeriest hour of my eventful life. The winds howled, and blew the snows wildly about our prison hOuse, but they were powerless to dis tress us any more. I liked Harris. He might have been better done, perhaps, but I am free to say that no man ever agreed with me better than Harris, or afforded me so large a degree of satis faction. Messick was very well, though rather high•fiavored ; but for genuine nutritiousness, and delicacy of fibre, give me Harris. Messick had his good points—l will not attempt to deny it, nor do I wish to do it—but lie was no more fitted for breakfast than a mum my would be sir—not a bit. Lean? why bless me!—and tough! Ah, lie was very tough ! You could not imazine •it—you could never imagine anything like it. "Do }Tim mean to tell me that—" Do not interrupt me, please. After breakfast we elected a man by the name of Walker, from Detroit, for supper. He was very good. I wrote his wife so afterward. He was worthy of all praise. I shall always remember Walk er. He was a litti,e rare, but very good. And then; in the morning, we had Mor gan of Atatiamitrfor breakfast. He Wag one of the finest men I ever sat down to—handsome, educated, refined, spoke several languages fluently; he was a perfect gentleman, and singularly juicy. For supper we had the Oregon patri arch, and he was a fraud,' there is no question about it—old scraggy ; tough— nobody can picture the reality. I final ly said, " Gentlemen,. you can do as you please, but I will wait for another election." And Gri f Illinois, l m..e. said, "Gentlemen, I 11l ait also.— When you elect a an o has some thing to recommen him.. I shall be glad to join you again." It soon be came evident that there was a general dissatisfaction with Davis, of Oregon, and so, to preserve the good will that had prevailed so pleasantly since we had Harris, an election was called, and the result of it was that Baker, of Georgia, was choosen. He was splendid ! Well, well. After that we had Doolittle, and Hawkins, and McElroy [there was some complaintabout McElroy, because he was uncommonly short and thin, j and a young brawny and active Indian boy, and an organ grinder, and a gen tleman by the name of Buck minster— a poor stick of a vagabond, that wasn't any good for company and no account for breakfast. We were glad we got him elected before relief came. " And so the blessed relief did come 1 at last." " Yes, it came one bright summer morning, just after election, John Mur phy was the choice, and there never was a better, I am willing to testify ; but John Murphy came home with us in the train to succor us, and lived to marry the widow Harris— . "Relict of —" "Relict of our first choice. He mar ried her, and is respected and prosper ous yet. Ab, it was like a novel, sir— was like a romance. This is my stop:. ping place, sir; I must bidyou good bye. Any time you can make \ it con- Venient to tarry a - day or two with me, a l I shall be glad to have you. I e you, sir ; I have conceived an affec on for you. I could like you as well Hiked Harris himself, air' 'Good day, sir, and a pleirant journey." He was guile. I never felt B.) stunned, so distressed, sb bewildered in my life. But my soul' was glad ho was gone. With all hia gentleness of manner and his soft voice, I shuddered whenever be turned hia hungry eye upon me; and when I heard that I had achieved hie perilous affbetion, and that I stood al most with the late Harris in his esteem, my heart fairly stood still! I was bewildered beyond description. I did not doubt his word; I could not question a single item in a statement so stainned with the earnestness of truth as his; but its dreadful detail overpow ered me, and threw my thoughts into hopeless confusion. I saw the conductor looking at me. I said, " Who is that man ?" "He was a member of Congress once, and a good one. But he got caught in a snowdrift in the cars, and like to have been starved to death. He got so frost bitten and frozen up generally, and used up for want of something to eat, that he was sick and out of his head two or three months afterward. He is all right now, only he is a monomonlac, and when he gets on that old sub ject he never stops till he has eaten up that whole car load of people he talks about. He would have finished the crowd by this time, only he had to get out here. He has got their uumes as pat as A, B, C. When he gets them all eaten up but himself he always says: ' Then the hour for the usual election for breakfast having arrived, and there being no opposition, I was duly elected, after which, there being no objections offSred, I resigned. Thus lam here.'' I felt inexpressibly relieved to know that I had only been listening to the harmless vagaries of a madman, instead of the genuine experiences of a blood. thirsty cannibal. A Week Among the Spiritual Mediums uf ..I's en York. A reporter Ott the New York Ikrald has been spending a week among tile spiritual mediums, and he gives the following account of his experience: Of alt the varied species of arrant humbugs the spiritualistic species—for the growing prevalence of this class of charlatanism entitles it to the name of a specialspecies—is decidedly the worst, the most unpardonable of all modern frauds; the meanest and vilest of all huianen, or rather inhuman, trickery. it trails with the strongest, weakest point of our common humanity, or, it would be better and more truthfully ex pressed, with our commonest humanity, those of weaker intellects and more imaginative and susceptible mental or ganisms—for no one, we claim, of terse vigor of intellect, of strong native energy of will and every-day, practical, com mon sense views of life and its duties can be humbugged by the most skilled exhibitions or these spiritualistic jug glers, orhoodWiSked by the pompous pe rinds of its sacriligious seers or baser sa tellites. No one has any idea of the uuni• ber or these spiritualistic thinableriggers —we can call them by no milder name— abounding in our city, these people of pretended potency as mediums, these exorcisers of the spirits of the dead, these pseudo revelators of our past his tory, with equal capacity to unfold our exact present surroundings and present at the same time a faithful panorama of our future life. There are hundreds of them now, and the number promises soon to become legion. They live and flourish like the green bay tree—live and flourisir•on the credulity of others, live on the fat of the land and flourish —the men on the best broadcloth and beavers and most spotless of linen, and the women in silks and satins and most expensive of paniers and loudest of showy plaids and pinchbeck jewelry. rhe guiding principle of these people is to live without work, and they hit on, to them, the happiest and easiest way of doing it. What is Spiritualism and how much of it can be believed are agitating many. What idea more fascinating than \this, that our friends, whom we have wept over and buried out of sight, are not only really living, but actually so near that conversation is possible? What a cheering thought for those of us who have watched our brightest treasures fade and die—have known what it is to part with all on earth most precious. It is an unquestioned fact that Spiritual ism numbers among its stanchest ad herents the speculative, imaginative and bereaved. The desire to believe thoroughly the truth of any theory has an immense though sometimes au no conscious influence with all seekers after tests. One of our reporters has been spending a week In visiting some of the leading spiritual mediums of the city, and gives the following sample specimens of the persons visited and results of his visits: My first essay in the work of investi• gating spiritualistic penomena began on Sunday evening in ft - rending a pub lic meeting of Spiritualists, where, It s advertised, a first-class inspirational ia rri. ker was to edify the audience. e was a pretty numerous attend ee, made up of the usual number of long-haired, hatchet-faced men, and brainless looking women. The speaker was introduced, and it required no clair voyant quality to understand that we were to be treated to a first•class hum bug. She was neither very old nor very young—evidently not a spring chicken 1 —and decked out with an indiscribable amount of laces and gegaws. After a few spasmodic jerks and twitches our lady commenced her subject, " The oc cupation of spirits" had been previous ly announced, and the congregation were informed that an individual of considerable earthly celebrity would in form them on this important topic. Now we were to be told what spirits occupied and amused themselves with; and hav ing always heartily sympathized with the old sailor who, when congratulated by a minister on the near approach 01 angel life, seriously objected to " pick ing a harp by moonlight on a damp cloud." I listened intently to a long, super-sublimated discourse, which had not the slightest analogy to the subject under cousiderat on. There was the usual spherical bombast; hut, shades of Lindley Murray! what grammar. At the close of the exercises I approached the speaker. " lou spoke of the spirit who con trolled you," I remarked,:"as being that of a very celebrated man in his life on this earth. May I enquire his name?" "Certainly," she replied, with a grand flourish of arms, "Daniel Webster." Is it to be supposed that any sane, educated person after hearing this coal(' be made to believe that woman any thing save a detestable fraud? That ungrammatical, unrhetorieal twaddle au emanation from the prince of orators and logicians ! Ridiculous ! But there were those present who, from the sera phic expression on theirelongated faces, actually credited the statement. This woman received twenty dollars for two of these inspirational lectures dictated by the spirit of Daniel Webster. The spirit of Ed ward Everett was announced to dictate her next discourse. It is to be hoped that this cultivated writer and exquisitely chaste orator spoke better sense through the medium of better English. On Monday morning I visited a place pretty well up town. I was ushered into a reception room, where early as it was (ten A. M.), eleven persons had already preceded me. A copy of Andrew Jackson Davis' Ha , monial Philosophy" and a book of poems by Lizzie Dater' adorned the centre table. Having to wait for these eleven to be attended to first did not present a very encouraging'prospect ; so by dint of a little strategy I obtained an Interview with Madame, who promised me a "sitting" in an hour and a half. Meantime I called on another female medium in the neighborhood, whom I I had the good luck to find alone. After a searching glance at my face and dress she commenced to wink and blink Those who have witnessed trance " mejums " enter their peculiar condi tion know how strangely harrowing are the initiatory stages to an observer. However, after about two minutes of fearful facial contortion Madame com menced. Her tone was strangely whin ing and unnatural. 'I am your grandnaother"she whined out. . " Well, what has grandmother to Bay to me?" I inquired, with a view to test the genuineness of the spirit. "Oh, how you suffer physically !" continued my good-natured progenitor. "I am with you often and k,nOw all abdut your diffleulties," and then She went on to turn My stomach, liver, hefirt and lungs inside out, until, to my utter surprise, I found 'myself not-the possessor of one healthy organ—had a tuberculous difficulty of the left lung, a NUMBER 51 slight bronchial affection, digestive ap paratus considerably impaired, enlarge ment of the liver, spinal weakness and a host of other ailments. "Which of my grandmothers isthisT' I inquired. "Your paternal grandparent," was the reply. "She must have become a graduated D slute her residence iu the spirit world," I observed uch is the_ ease. Poor humanity stood so mucein need of medical advitA. and treatment that she has tuade Ai specially," quickly respoudede me drum. . - Now this woman had been totally de ceived by my personal appearance. It is my misfortune to possess a certain delicacy of physique and very little color ; but as my digestion almost equals that of an ostrich and my lungs can bear „ir four miles of quick walking on ' cold, orating day I declined, therefor, i pur chasing numberless liquids of Ma tee concoction, which, us an especi or, she would eell at the low price o out dollar per bottle. Notwithstanding my grand maternal progenitor's earnest en treaty and expostulation I remained firm on this point, and, after paying the usual fee, departed. Leaving my grandmother's spiri to to find its own way back to the spirit 4 laud the best way it could, I returned h. my first calling place. By the time I arrived at this latter locality the excite ment and the walk had transformed me into a different looking person. This woman, now that we were about to en ter on business, gave me a quizzical ex amination, but proceeded to tier business in a very different manner from the last one, with less of the jerk and e mme of the lackadaisical.NsiN, \ "Did you come to consult ine , ,a+bout any domestic inhartnouy V!.._ was the first question. " You advertise, Madame," 1 answer ed, "to tell past, present and Mull,. events. I 8111111 be perfectly satisfied if you will confine yourself to facts eifil cerning the first two points for the )resent." " I see a little girl standing by your side," she remarked, slightly nonplus sed. " I cannot tell whether she is in the form or not. Have you a living child of about eight years of age '' . _ I have not, Madame." Here is a tine looking, lady, with beautiful face and goleu hair, who seems to besery fond of you. She is not in the spirltland. She is living, but her spirit follows you." " It is very strange," I answered ; " acknowledge my inability to recognize the invisible beauty, but assure you of my incapacity to admire visible ugli ness." "AL, how you long for sum: , congenial nature," she continued; " hut you must not allow yourself to waste time in ff nit - less repiuings. I see you don't follow any pursuit, and, moreover, are utterly incapable of doing anything requiring thought or application on aceiaint of this desire to be understood and Imlay elated. "Madame," I answered, rather hasti ly, " I (10 follow a pursuit I ant coin pelled to think and write daily several consecutive hours out of the twenty four with the cry of " copy " inces" eantly ringing in my ears. The desire for a sympathetic friend does out trouble me. You are a good way on the track." "Some persons are very averse to bearing the truth," said the scarecrow following me to the door. At the next place I was treated to another physiological discourse, and here found myself threatened with in ilammatory rheumatism, a trouble which medium No. 1 had not foreseen. " You have children?" was the lirst statement made interrogatively. " Indeed ?" said I. " What are their ages?" and I put the question in a way as if telling her that she was mistaken. She immediately switched off onto an other track. " You are very fond of children, and they of you," sLe continued ; "I see several near where you are sitting." This woman was a "writing me dium." I was edified by two pages of foolsc"p closely written, with the name of " Mary" attached. There were sev eral sentences stolen entirely from Swedenborg's "Arcane Celestite," and ended with a two verse quotation froof Shelley, without the customary credit marks. That was all. She extended tier hand for the fee, and I took my leave. The next in order was a masculine humbug, and when men come down to this style of fraud—the men gradually proceed on a much larger scale, such as defrauding government, robbing banks -Ll and t ke—they certainly carry off the p 1 Vm. A lady and gentleman of color ere waiting their turn when I entered. The room way very close and warm. When the medium made his appearance my olfactories must have been slightly elevated. Giving me ti quick, earnest glance, he inquired whose turn it was next, and very urbanely re quested the colored parties to wait a few moments longer. Upon their signi fying their willingness to do this lie beckoned me to follow him. This spiri tual clairvoyant, after describing my tastes, disposition and general health, informed me that my brain was a little too active, but that necessity was the cause, and proceeded with quite a •ini nute description of my bust uess, habits, &c, As he went on his face became more and more familiar; and when 1 had reached the acme of astonishment and satisfaction in regard to the correct ness of his spiritualistic powers I had succeeded in ' placing ' him. He knew me, but did not think I knew him. The imposition was Plain. "Are you satisfied," he asked. "Perfectly," I answered, "on one con dition." "Name it." "I want to hear your revelations to your next lady visitor and see if you can hit her case as correctly an mine." "Add two dollars to your fee and it is done," he quietly answered. I paid the twodollars. He put me into au adjoining room, leaving the dour very slightly ajar. He was not long getting through with the colored lady and gentleman. If it were not for the space it would occupy it would be worth while showing up the consummate de ceit he practised on these unsuspicious descendants of Ham. A gentleman fol lowed them. He got through with him with equal brevity and with a ~un• wing look 01 glee on his face—for I could not resist the opportunity to watch him from my place of concealment. He be gan counting over his morning's re ceipts, when a lady was announced. She had the appearance of a genuine lady. i easy, graceful manners, a fine figure, quite young and pretty and tastefully dressed ; though what could bring her there puzzled me qt first. It was soon evident that she came with serious and Implicit faith In his powers as a spirit cal clairvoyant. He was excessively polite, and his tones were modulated to a surpassing silvery sweetness. It is u n necessary to follow him' through his long rigmarole of glittering generalities in the way of diagoosticating upon her physical condition and guessing at her habits, vocation and surroundings. When he J - . Fad got through he advanced to where she sat and extended his hand to her. " What la that for ?" she asked, point ing to the delicate outstretched lingers. ' You are acquainted, my dear woman," he replied, with the law of affinities? Your intelligence and loving nature must long ago have made you familiar with the doctrine of counter parts; and what glorious ideas are thus embodied ! Now I feel as If in some strange, precious manner yip, were a part of myself." "God forbid!" spoke up the lady In dignantly. "To belong to a knave would be bad enough ; but to be, how ever small, a part of a fool would be in finitely worse. Good morning." The lady left. I came from my place of concealment In the adjoining room. " Oh! I had forgotten you being there," he remarked, with a look of sur prise. "I guessed as much, or you would not have dared to insult that lady." "What do you mean?" " I mean what I say; you are au un principled scoundrel." "Your a fool, and I've got your mo ney," he hurled at me, as I left his presence. All the above on one day. A large poitlon of the succeeding three days I devoted to this search after truth, but with about the same success asdescri bed . I was thrown in contact with several sharp, quick witted women and men, who, had I thrown out a single clue in regard to my manner of living or occu pation, would have hashed me up a very nice dish. But that was pot on my bill RATE OF ADVERTII9INO . . BUSINESS EDVSIITIBEXENTS, 112 a year per scare of ten Linea; VI per year ter each ad• dltional square. REAL ESTATE ADVILSTISI2 I O, Weenie's Übe IoT the first, and Scents for each Subsequent in sertion. nn.TR .nd 4 EAL A OVERTISING 7 cents a tine for the firs , cents for each blab equent Insw tlon. SPECIAL NOTION InSerteil in Local Column 15 cents per line. SPECIAL Narrates preoedlng marrissel, , and deaths, 10 cents per line for • first insortion and 6 cents for every subsequent Inas:Mb:A LEGAL AND mill. a rforicze. , Executors' Administrators' Assignees' 9,50 Auditors' notices ~ . ... .. ..... 2.00 Other "Notices , ' ten lines, or leas, .• three times • 1..50 of fare. I had now called on fourteen, and can truthfully aver that each 0,1. failed to convince me of his or her rig 1 , . to the title of spiritual cluireopm• medium. Subsequent calls, occupy 1 , the rest of the week, upon sixteen were utteuded with like result. Spe,... ing from the standpoint of my week'- experience, I can say this much of ad vertised mediums—three—tb rds of them are humbugs. MMIE= 11== The Providence papers gtve the 1000li lit 1,1 how wealthy Mr. Peabodie, of Hutt city, was induced to leave ail his prop city to a spirimalislic w , nuuu &WWI : It -reins that about a year sada-milt ago Mrs. Petty, named its heir to the property, re coved it call rind day from the wealthy bachelor, who was desirous to obtain treat• meat for a painful and lingering disease. lie had bees treated by scores of regular tiractitioners,but allgheir efforts had proved futile in restoring to the invalid hie wonted health. :so bearing of the success of the mediumistic distress, be cuter to try her shill in the wonderful art of healing. She could cure him. Visits were frequent. mid various kinds of treatment were adopted, and the patient seemed, to got better nod better. lit course the experience of better health matte the opulent individual gener ous. ills fees were profuse. Morey was of oo account. HO gave it almost con-tantly frown one day came u cheek fur fdU,OOO. 'I hen it was presented at the batik hir pay ment, it was thought to tie a mistake, and in clerk wits sent out to hunt tip the drawer, and aseertitin its correctness. Il was paid however; and the greetibiniks went to car pentet and laborers, who war° 01111,111a4 bets and elegant houses fur the lair and successful lout real. lie becsine at List ti la...leye in things unseen but potent. they had spiritual sittings together. The whereto these happy and interesting hours were parsed wins christened "the room oi .le-us," because heavenly visitors .•iite down and abode in it, and uttered, through the earthly medium, winds or ,11- Vole and godlike import. The treatment and the familiar acquaintance continued from month Li month, and another cheek was given by the invalid, this woe amount • ing All lit once the improving iii•iiith IPf patient seemed to MI. Th, takes to, time lb° 1111111 telt the earth s:ippoig .away hour by hour. When a will wit, Willie, 11l which, ill e,bi•iideriitiuti .d the l'eSpeet th..t the dying man telt for the wuuluu, alai for her cause. all this large estate, estimated at SI3OUUU, was given Ott. reserved to her and her heirs, ht fee Skilnple. The hr ir- nt law, when they heard 01 the til,pom.ll 01 their ILlll,llllall ' el prOp6rLy, 11:1111rally enough astounded, and measures werit r at once triken to contest the probate or the last will aunt testament of the uncle, on the ground of insanity, undue influence and unlit Ante of mind t 9 make such it doc ument ilooflaturs 6trtunn Xlittcro "urirciur .1100FLANIIS UERMAN TONIC The 4A, Tat Reinitiles for all Diseases of the LI V r•TONII 11, 9R DI WiTIV CCIMLIZCI (iEitmAN isil"rxns Is vulliruN,li ot lhepuroilueux ( , r, they um (11,1111 . 111.013 1,1'11104i, 1..arar . 1., ol Ile 14,A, wed km Itn, I I nut. lug in prepar.- 11111 - olghlyeutie,ltrated, ;old eutlrely Jrrr ‘lll,:it Our, IJ] arty ki euf kiOOl , l,Al\:D'S GEIOIAN 'CON IC, Is n all Ilit• mgr. Zile Bitters, With 111. purest. rittitili3 of A•••• 1 • f - itz hum, "tie el • A pl••••,1•111 itrel itgrrelible run...diem • v., Altered L.• the lethlie. / hose pre: I I .11, it eillellte free [Dill, AL , . iettle eilittisittre, will tlite HOOFLAND'n UERAIAN 1-111"11±18.:- I'llt,O. WllO lIIIVo uu OWL:I:LIM) 10 W.- t . Ollll , li.tlll. of t lit Teri+. Its stilled, will tine 1-1001 , 1,AND'S GERMAN 'PUNIC. They are both equal.). good, and contain 1t,,. +Mut: medicinal virt nem, the clinic, bet weett the two It, lug a mere matter of node, the 'rim, hi Int; the most palatable. troll! s v , Hely of inims, soot ii lg.-Hilo.. Nervou s DeWitt, IC., In vet ,1 twee Its I hC , s)nt, lMill,g as closet) tv It does With the ki Atoomeh, then Ls the result of which le Unit thi patient imlrers from neveral or more of the fo. owing diseases Constipatlon Flatulence, Inward Pllat, Pt" ness of blood to the Heal, Acidity of hit Stomach, Nausea, Heartburn, Disgust for riid, Fulness of Weigh in the stomach, Sour Eruct.. lons, sinking or Flat luring at the Pit of the Stomach Swimming of the timid, II urrled or I,lNa:tilt Breath ;Mg Fluttering at. the Heart, Choking or Suffocating Sellaatlonn w hell Ina Lying Ponture, Dim ness of Vision, Dots or Webs be fore the Sight, Dull ('ale In the (lead, Deficiency of Perspiration, Yellowness of the Skin and Eyea, Paln in the node, Hack, Chest, Limbs, etc., Sudden Flushes of limit, Burning In the Flesh, Constant Imaginings of Evil, and Weal. Depresnion ut spirits. The sufferer from theme diseases should ex ercise the greatest caution In the selection 01 11 remedy fur hie case, purch.mlng outs that w Inch he la assures cl Crum his Inventleit tio-s and Inquiries %/ jitiallegilUei true uteri:, compounded, is tree from injurious ingreillefily, and han established forltself ie nuittou for the cure of Utast, diseases. 11l Lids connection we would submit those WCil kuow•u remedien— HOOFLAND'S GERNIAN BITTERS HooFLA.Nus GERMAN TONIC PREPAICED BY Dr. C. M. JACKSON. PHILADALPHIA, P 4 Twenty-two yearn since they were first trodU d Into Ulla country 11 M (la lug which LIM, they have undoubtedly pm - fo med more cures, and berielltted humanity to a greater extent, than any urdlrn known to the public. Then remedies will effectually cure Llv. C. on ph, 111,-italdice, Lt Dyspepsia,. Chro Or NerVOOSI Inalrrl/03a Dalattae of the K Cry ti, imd IThaattieb arisiva train a Disor dered Liver, Shirmich or Intestines. DEB ILI 'I'Y, Resulting (rum any 4 ante whatet •• r Ye() "i RATIOS Induced by S were labor, Hard• ships, Exposure, Fevers, &c. There in uo medicine extant equal LO reined lei. ILI such e.OB. A Lone an; vigor I. imparted to the Whole nyst,M, the appetiti In ntrehnilleued, food IN enJoye.d, the ntoniael, digenis promptly, the blood la pinllfled, the complexion becomes sound and healthy, toe yellow Untie Is eradicated from the eye., Whom Is g I to me eticeir.s, cud the w..ie and UU , vow, Invalid becomes a 'strong akl,l healt• y helm; ADVANCED IN LIFE, And leading the hand of limo weighing hr ly upon Inern, W LI, ull ILe attenuant.. Lllx, set (Ind in tin. ‘l,,e ‘d Lliln HITTEnS, or 1111.111, It eltier that will multi new life luLo rertol 111 nl/I ~,urn We energy .111 of ruore )nultdul dapi, bnild Up Lneo ,liruulten uutun, nod give Ileuthi and bap, awe; Lu their reuuti 0 1 ng yeu( A. BEMIS It Ix a well-entataintled fact that fallyl.o.• ball al the ciliate portion of our pUpLIIII.II ,, I e Ll o f:e ' L n en,i reel well. - rhey ale langtoo, of all cueno, extremely LIerVI,UX,IO.I hur.• f 11.11PettLe. To tiffli elffht, of pernouot tf,tf BITTEIt.4, or It In enpetlftlly r.c. tau mes.letl. WEAK AN D DEIeICAIE ire made Wrung, by Luiv 01 t:,i._ ceuu,lll. X 'rho curt every ea.. wittlmit MindlME= In the loooin n 1 the propriel. f Innnl,P/1• . • ml OW oi the pull lea.). of but 113* / I/. n Will lie Miner etocu .11 out, ..• vtaudlng that they mbNi be believed. TENT' moN A HON tIP.O A. WOOUW Attil Chief Jua[tce of the up. rote Cu., of Pa., . Philadetphl% %ham, In, 151 lint! • Hoollautl'eUerumu Wt.., re' Is a ills- A tour.. • the dig , , , rga n,,, an d of great LA. tomeCIL lu lel/1114 y un.l WlLlil 51 nervous umlos In Sue system. Your?, truly, Ulm. W. WI.PODWALi.b.', 110 N. JAMES fIiUMPSON .•- - - - Judge u/ the trupreme °Jur( of Penrualvani•t hitmle(phtu, ipri. IPNY .1 consider 'Hootiaud's Liertua 111 s valuable medicine In case of attack,' of m Dyspepsia. I cue certily this from my experience of it. Yours, wan respect, JA.m.es nounsoN." FROM Itay. JOSEPH H. KENNARD, D. I' Pastor of the 'tenth Baptist °larch, Philade/phiti Dr Jackson—Dear I have been mem...lit iy requeided to connect my name with recoil, tneudations of different kinds of medicines, but regarding the practice as oti. of my appro priate isphere, I have In all cases declined; but with a clear proof In I s T various Instances and particularly In my own family, of the useiuluesa. of Dr. Hooilaud'a German slit ters, I depart for once from my usual COUrne, to express my full conviction that, for amend debittly of the system, antiespecially for Liver Chnipmed, if fl safe and valuable lons:era/Ivm. In some cases It may fall; but usually, I doubt not, it will be very beneficial to those who stif fer from tile above causes, Yours, very reapecifhlly, J. H. K ENWARD , Eighth, below Goatee St. FROM Itsv. E. D. FENUALL. A &Natant Hauer CArtationatronicfe, Phaade/phfa I have derived d6culed benefit from the USe of HooWand's German Bitters, and feel It nay prl v liege to recommend themes a most valua me tonic, to all woo are eintre m rin D ig . fr Fram om general .ieblllty or from diseases arising fromderange ment of the liver. Yount truly, CAUTION Hoohand'a German Remedies are counter felted. See that the rA signattire of C. M. JACKSON is on the JO wrapper of each hot. tie. All others are counterfeit. Principal Office and Manufactory at the Ger man Medicine Store, No. 63t ARCH. Street. Philadelphia Pa..• GIIA.BLES M. EVANS, Proprietor, Formerly . G. M. JaCarsoirrk Co. PRICES Hootland,B German Blt,tere, per bottle, 51.00 half dozen__ keg Hootland'e German Tonle,put up in quart bot Mee, 51.80 per bottle, ore half dozen for 117.00. Lto not orget to examine well the ertlale you buy, oraer to get the genuine. ; For sale bV • .4411 and Dealetm In Pied!• alum eVeltY w =2l 941001110 W
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