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MBT (JN IJAVE PEACE.
BY FANNY DOWNING.
Htrong with tlie stroDgth < f sublime despair,
Out of the depths of tbo Southern soul,
Burgos a Avlliiiy panslonuto prayor.
buco tho mighty rush of tho ocean's roll,
Uv our Oatuto beloved and lost,
l)y our nation’s volooless woe,
liy Iho cup of triumph tost
From our lips uy one florco blow;
- IJy the splrlt-orusnlug weight
Of me sUttlts against us hurlod,
lly our heArtb-stones dosnlaiu,
by our Hag forever lurled,
LKT IH IIAVK i'KAfS?
lly the quiet unoomplalut ,
whloh a ItiouHßhu wrougH ban met,
by tho vigorous restraint,
Upon llory passions sei;
by tho steadfast houho of right,
And tho law-abldlug hold
Whloii our munliood'M couhclouh might
Koopu In willing chains cuntrolh-d;
by tho knightly lultli malutaluod
For tho plighted word Wo gave,
by our honor all unstained,
Ah our simple duo wo crave,
liter rs iiavu I’kmk:
l y iho prowess lu tho Holds
Which our lalr-fought bullies show;
lly tho noblouoss that yields
Morey to a noblo foe;
by tho horror of onr doom.
lly our high hopes quonohod and tluuU,
by our prosuut thick with gloom,
by (ho fiituio din k with ilroad;
by iho heaven whoro warfares couso.
by a man's common brotherhood,
For Iho Huvlour Krluoo of Police,
For tho sane of Holland good,
IiKT I'M UAVi I’KAU* !
—'lhtt Land H*e Love.
piswUnumus.
A Mulit Willi it Slutiluc.
Tho nmuiue was u giant. JIo hud
broken hie,heavy chuliiH as Burapsou
broke the wlthuH—hud torn open the
door of hip celt—torn the keepers liter
ally In pieces—burst the outer door —
killed tho watchman with a heavy Iron
bar that he wrenched from the door—
and escaped with his formidable weapon
Into the city.
The town was aghast with the news;
ami we students at the hospital aud dis
secting room, who were connected with
tho asylum, hud to nerve ourselves to
help capture Iho escaped wild beast.
1 had gone tr> the dissecting room
alone, and was about to commence use
lug tho knife on a subject. There was
u storm raging, and with a low soli the
wind swelled through the long aisle of
forest trees and dashed with the gather
ed force of an ocean wave against the
deadhoUHC. Simultaneously, u hand
struck the light door and the yell of a
maniac rang through and through my
brain.
Above tho dour, through a small ven
tilator, tho face of'the miulmun ami the
murderer peeredat mo.
Hu, ha! 1 have cayght you at lasi
here—ami here alone. 1 have been
waiting lor you. You took me once—
didn't you? lta, ha! Let me in.”
Tho coolness of Imlnent peril brought
my powers to action. I held Ills eye
an instant; but it was evident that he
was too wild; that Ids blood was up,
and ltroved with eager ferocity through
the room and over the frail wals. With
the light bound of a leopard I gained
the door, and shot the double bolt. A
gleahi or rage darted from Ids eye, but
he laughed :
ha! You think that you will
keep me out.”
He leaped to the ground. In an In
stant the light was out.
“Walt,” 1 cried. “1 have a weapon
in my hand keen us u razor. It is
poisoned by the body I have been work
ing on. Burst the door and J will
plunge It into your heart. You may
kill me, but f will kill yon also, us cer
tain us there is a Clod.”
Tlieswarthglantshookthe door until
■its lduges creaked.ami groaned beneath
Ids hand. Then laughing again low to
himself lie'muttered :
“ Fool! I will outwit you yet.”
Aud he stole oil'in the darknesi. I
hoard him, for an instant, -pressing
agulnst the wall of the building, aud it
swayed and bent lmvurds with his
weight. Thou silence. The din of my
pulses made thuuderjn my ears, as 1
•tried to hour Ids stealing tread, ami sob
bing wind rose anew with wierd, shriek,
and nnuio my efforts fruitless.
A thousand times I heard his low,
devilish, murderous laugh. A thous
and times I felt ids bruwney strength
agaThst the door, and saw Ids wild face
look down on me through the gloom;
but still he did not come.
I tried to think lie had abuudoiied
the design and slunk off discounted ;
but L kuew it was not bo— l knew lie
wua crouching in some corner ou the
watch, to spring upon mo when I
passed.
Could 1 stand there all night? No,
certainly not. An hour mure and Har
ry Leigh (my young wile’s brother)
would*como and see me—come uncon
scious of the dauger, until a bloodhound
at his throat would choke the brave
young life down there forever.
I listened in the intervals of the now
fitful storm to hear if he was breathing
near me. I put my soul in the sense of
hearing, but no human shadow of
sound greeted it.
When the storm swelled again I drew
Ihe bolt aud looked into the night; a
black pall huug over the earth and sky.
I had as good a chance to pass him iu
the obscurity us he to catch me. With
my knife in my leelh and the massive
thigh hone of a negro to fell him with,
if I must, 1 drew oil' my shoes and step
ped out into the darkness. A sudden
whirl of the tempest almost took me
oil'my feet, and a brick, dislodged from
one of the chimueys, grazed my head in
its passage, ami broke iu half ou the
pavment.
With bated breath, and step like the
tread of the panther scenting his prey,
I parted the thick darkness and turned
my face toward the hospital. He might
Ijo either here—at any step along the
pussage—or hid itV-lhe angle of the wall
at the door through which I must enter.
This seemed most probable; hut there
was. another door, known only to the
doctors.
I thought I would elude him. With
infinite caution 1 began toscalethe high
wall, dreading horribly lest some sud
den break iu the sky might reveal me
to the wild eyes lliat watched for me—
hut no.
Safely passing the summit I throw
my leg over the descent, and—felt my
foot seized. It was hut live dinging
tendril of a wild vine, skirting the wall.
Grasping my knife in my right hand, I
crept along the bushes lor llfty yards,
then struck across the lawn for the aide
entrance. The darkness perplexed me,
but I thought 1 was steering straight.
Suddenly my foot struck bricks. What
was this? I tried to recollect. There
was no pavement round that part of the
hospital.
I pushed on uncertainly and feeliDg
a weight in the air, put out my hands
to grope for some clew to my where
about. I was in an alley—flanked with
stone walls above my head, I gave a
sudden turn, lu an instant I knew I
was in the subteraueau passage of the
asylum. I turned to retract my steps—
the opaque density of some heavy body
crouched between me and the outer air.
I heard its stifled breathing—its stealthy
tread approaching me. My God! he
had followed me from the very door of
the dead house here! A struggle for
life with a mad mau in these narrow,
gloomy vaults—to lie in the pool of
one’s own heart’s blood in this undis
covered tomb—and my young wife
'Constance!—’twas maddening.
For an instant my brain was on Ere.
Then I thought there might be an exit
—other devious windings in which I
could elude my dreadly pursuer. Going
deftly backward, I turned the angle in
the wall, and then plunged at the ut
most speed of a young, active man along
he blaok passage. Instantly I knew I
was pursued. Meeting auother crossed
path I Btruck into it in an opposite di
rection. The mapiac instantly followed
me. 'What a t&cq through those caver
nous depthß of the madhoiise! What!
tragic pitfalls might lurk at every step?
what black and stagnant pools lie wait
ing to engulph me!—what deeper depth
of icy blackness into which to fall—and
fall forever!
The passage grew narrower. We
were perhaps, under tjie very center of
the building, and farthest from the
outer air. I had tried to breathe noise
lessly ; the effort exhausted me, I knew
nothing of the labylnths; could only
guesß at our position by the distance
from the entrance. I hud counted the
turnings we had made. I thought I
could retrace them. My strength was
falllhg. I was fleetest, but he was most
enduring.
. Presently ha would run me down. It
was a terrible venture, but the necessity
was imminent*' I would try it. Gath
ering all my force I darted like an arrow
on into the darkness. The suddenness
®le I'anfrtstci' jintdliciciu'ct:
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of my increased speed baffled him.. I
succeeded in putting fifty yards between
us, gained and turned .the next angle,
then drawing myself against the wall,
with every nerve and muscle strained
into preter-natural tension, with the
mighty heave of my ahest crushed into
silence by an iron effort of despairing
will, waited for him to pasß me. I heard
him come rushlngon with new strength
through the blaoknesß, reach the angle,
turn ltstrlklnghlsmasslvo body against
tbo jutting stones. I heard him spring
like an animal on along tho track.
I felt hie hot breath like steam—
the foam of his set Jaws flung
aoross roy face—and he stopped. I
felt that he was feeling for me I—that he
was oroucblng on the stones. I saw the
red lire of his eyeball glare up to me
through the darkness. I felt the touoh
of Ills Icy ilesh on my hand. Like light
ning he raised himself, and throwing
Ills vast weight against me, pinioned
mo to the stones. All the mad rage of
a man at bay surged upward to my
brain. I clasped my knlfo convulsively,
and seised him by the throat, resolved
to die hard. It was hairy—lt wasßhaggy.
The hands against my chest had a thick
coat of fur. I clasped him to my breast.
It was Lion—my dog Lion!
* # * * * * *
“Great Heaven, "Winter Keene!
What kept you the whole night In that
cursed dead house ? It Is near by ; the
door has been open th)B two hours, and
Derba and King have been asleep. I
was getting on my boots to look for
you.”
“ Why In tho name of common sense
dhl you let this dog out after me? Will
you tell me that? ”
“ Why, he howled likega maniac, aud
clawed the door till If I had been suspi
cious, I should have thought you in some
danger, and could uot keep him In.”
“ Danger! Well, wo can't talk now.
Rouse yourself, I have hadan Interview
with your maniac, and he Is prowliDg
around the grounds after me now. Call
up tho men. I must go after Phillips
immediately.”
“My God! you don’t suy so?”
“Yes, don’t wastea moment.”
In five minutes the whole force of the
hospital was out in the grounds. We
took him In the angle of the great door,
crouched behind tbejutting wall, wait
ing for me! He drew his lips back over
ills teeth, in the dumb ferocity of a mad
brute, as lie saw me, and his eyes
settled Into adull, lurid gaze, impossible
to describe, as he hissed out:
“Ha! this is twice— twice you tri
umph, wait till the third time.”
Around the blazinggrate of the temp
est-tossed night, we shook hands over
the glad reunion, and after tho story
was over, and the horror first, and the
story after (at tho close of my adven
ture,) and Derby and Klnghaaleft, and
Harry Leigh and I stood at tho window
watching tho young winter day rise
over tho hills, there was something very
like tears in his bright blue eyes as he
pointed to the granite walls of the mad
house, and said :
“ Constance would have gone tliore,
Winter, had you died, and mine would
have been a heavy life after,”
A Story ofthe Lobby.
| Krum tho Wu-ihltigLcm Correspnud’fcuce of Col,
lion. I’liili, lu Uiu Cincinnati Commercial,
llaillual.l *
There are two sorts of proce.-s through
which fraudulent legislation Is perfect
ed. One Is called the “ring” which
means a combination of rogues forsome
one purpose ; and the other Is called the
“ lobby,” and designates agents living
here, and employed by rings aud Indi
viduals to push their evil schemes
through Congress.
I was turning this over in my mind
tho other day, while I sat on a sofa in
tho House of Representatives and lis
tened to tho winds that blew to aud fro
about me, when 1 happened to cast my
eyes luto the ladles’ gallery above, and
out of the gloom saw a memory come,
in the shape of a fair face.
I was so disturbed uml haunted by my
memory, that I left my seat and saun
tered Into the gallery and seated myself
near my fair friend, and without rudely
starting 1 found my memory gradually
gathering up the disjointed fragments
of the past, until the fair face was fram
ed in and located. It was a very sweet
face, not so young as it once was ; but
with a prevailing expression of child
like Innocence. Add to this a manner
of great refinement sot off and adorned
in tho extreme of tho fashion, but sub
dued to the be9t taste, and the most
artistic harmonizing of colors, and we
have our old acquaintance before us.
Although I looked my fair friend in the
face, I saw that either she had forgotten
me, or was uot disposed to renew the
acquaintance. Bhe was talking In a
quiet, easy manner, to a well known
member of Congiess, and I considerate
ly withdrew, as If J had been looking in
tho face of an utter stranger, instead of
one well known to me in timeagone by.
An hour after I happened to be upon
the Senate Chamber, where the multi
tude of marble steps seemed to run out
and How down, when my fair friend
came out, accompanied by her Congres
sional escort, late of the gallery, and al
most brushing me with herdress as she
passed, the two descended. I saw a neat
private carriage, drawn by a handsome
pair of bays, and driven by a coachman
In livery, roll up. My friend of the law
making power helped the lady in with
a bow, the door swung to with a bang,
and the fair lady drove away, while the
.Solon came up the steps, humming a
tune to himself and snapping his law
making lingers, as If especially pleased
with himself. Having a speaking ac
quaintance, I begged pardon for my
curiosity, and asked Holon the name of
hiß friend.
“Mrs. , of New York," was the
quiet respouse.
The whole of the surroundings were
so entirely different, and apparently so
life-long and respectablafrom those that
I believed formerly hedged in the lady,
that I was in doubt. But, no, the longer
I thought upon the matter the more I
felt satislied of the identity. And the
remembrance was singular; While de*
tained iu Washington, during the war,
awaiting orders, I was invited by a
brother officer to a wine supper. The
people giving the entertainment was
strangers, but, taking my friend’s word
for it that I would be welcome, I went
with him. The house was a plain, un
pretending allair, but offered a display
of upholstery rather uunommuxi about
Washington, and I learned that the
house and furniture belonged to a
“Hoeeeh" family, that had hastily
left the city before the battle of Bull
Hun, putting their property in the
hands of friends. The friends assem
bled on this occasion were questionable.
The parlors were in a blaze of light, and
under the glass globes about the glass
jets were some very pretty women, and
a number of young men in and out of
uniform. The bare necks and* arms of
the women indicated a party ; but my
friend told me that this sort of thing
went on every night. We had a
rich repast, garnished with choice wines
and the lively flow of talk the last
named generally brings out. I was
particularly struck with two of the
guests—one a slender youth, with dark,
large eyes, and broad, thoughtful fore
head, whom I took for an Italian or
Frenchman; the other a beautiful wo
man, of twenty, in fact, but much
younger in appearance. I found this
young lady exceedingly charming, as
she was not only loving in person, but
lively In mind.
We broke up at a late hour of the night
or rather an early hour in the morning,
and being ordered away a few nights
after the wine supper, and the merry
people there assembled soon passed
from my mind in the hurried, evenful
life of the camp. They were destined
to return. Could the future have been
anticipated, death wouldhave satatour
board that night, and phantom visions
of dreadful events dimmed the glitter
ing lights, and settled in horrible-gloom
on the countenances of the assembled
guests.
To one Death would have said: “I
will olaltn you at Chancellorville.’ ’
To another: 4 ‘I will come to your [re
lief in the hospital at Cumberland."
To another: “We will meetat night,
and I will save you from the gallows.”
Of that little assembly in thatsupper
room, two' only survive, land another.
It was shortly after the assassination
that a friend sent me the photograph of
Wilkes Booth, and I recognized in it
the young man I had mistaken that
night for a foreigner.
When we were in command at Balti
more, and after Col. Fisk got into his
difficulty with Baker, so that I had, for
a time, immediate control of the Provost
MarahaVs office, Ireceived a card, at the
White House, from q lady waiting to
see me in the public parlor. On repair
ing to that reception room T founcT my
fair friend of the wine sapper in Wash
ington. So far as her beauty went she
remained the same, but her wardrobe
evidenced straitened circumstances, If
not poverty. She gave me a long ac
count of her troubles, and wound up by
offering to go to Richmond, in the em
ploy of the Government and return with
all the information she could gather up,
for the use of the War Department in
Washington. I at once engaged her,
but did not send so suspicious an agent
into the enemy’s country, until after I
had given her a fair trial in Baltimore;
She proved the most adroit, self-possess
ed, cunning detective I over saw or read
of. Bhe afterward made two successful
trips to Richmond, returning with val
uable Information ; although Mr. Stan
ton had no question but that she carried
to the confederates os much as she
brought away.
I loft the army, and saw and heard no
more of my pretty little detective until
tho day I saw her in tho ladles’ gallery
so elegantly gotten up aud surrounded.
That Is, If it were really the same.
All doubt on this subject was removed
the next day by a note|l received invit
ing me to an interview at the fair wo
man’s lodgings. I found her/ramedln
by elegant upholstery, and yet more
foscinatlngin thejdelicate morning robe
that so adorns a beautiful woman By the
concealed effort to adorn. A tall, square
built, iron-gray mau, of an intensely
respectable look, was introduced as her
husband, and so long os he was present
no allusion whatever was made to the
past, other than the few words of Intro
duction as au old and valued friend.
Boon as he left, however, she turned and
said:
“How kind of you not to reoognize
me yesterday. My poor heart was in
ray mouth when I saw you approach.
But you have such a tact—you have
such a kind heart. I was relieved lu a
minute when I saw that you stared as
if only attracted by my charms.”
“Why, wouldn’t your husband put
up with the part you are, I suppose,
concealing from him?”
“My husband”—and she gave a sil
very little laugh—“my husband, that
fellow! Why. he isn’t my husband.
We only make believe. But if the
Hon. you saw me with yesterday
were to suspect for a moment I would
be ruined.
“Come, now, this is interesting; tell
me about it. What little game are you
up to ? Believe me, I won’t betray you.”
“That’s clever, you never have, aud
I don't add to the risk by telling you.—
Well, I am nolonger adetectlve—aspy!
I am a lobby lt is my business
to pursuade honorable members to vote
for our bill.”
“ What is your bill ?”
“The one 1 am employed to worry
through.”
“ Well, does It require a .sham hus
band a handsome carriage, dnd all this
sortof thing to set up a lobby agent?”
.“Certainly without a husband I
would not be respectable; without a
carriage, and all this evidence of wealth,
I would not be attractive. Itpays,how
ever. I could retire now on a hundred
thousand. But I am horribly ambi
tious. I want a million—only think of
of it, I must have a million. I havesold
myself for money, and I want a good
price.”
“ And do none of the honorable Rep
resentatives know who you are?”
“Why, you goose! I thought you
knew better than that. Why, the ring
always reaches Into the House and
Senate, and some of our directors are
the most pious and respectable men la
Congress. There is one—the most be
nevolent, pious, philanthropic Individ
ual hi the world. He Is so intensely
pious that he neverspeaks to me —never-
theless he pays me heavily. Here is
another, a most respectable gentleman,
who bows.to me most profoundly, in
the gallery and on the avenue, and pre
sents mo to his family with a lofty air,
who would look at me with intense
astonishment If I were to thank him
for my clothes, carriages and servants.
Yet ho contributes.”
“ Why, this is so damnable I can
scarcely credit it.”
“ Yes, it’s very wicked, and I'd rather
you wouldn’t believe it. But after the
schoolingyou gave me in deceiving, you
ought not to wonder.”
“ You mean that for a hit—forgetting
that that service was in behalf of your
beloved country, and this”—
“ Is in behalf of my beloved self.”
“ But do you mean to say that men in
high position connive at this wicked-
“ Look about you ; see the enormous
fortunes realized by officials, and you
will find that mine is not the only car
riage rolling about Washington thatisa
fraud, and I am but among the host of
the wicked. You are too much a man
of the world. Colonel, to be astonished
at finding a good deal of sanctimonious
respectability covering rascality. It is
the cheapest cloak to get, and the easiest
to wear.”
“And how do you influence these
Solons? ”
. “Some times one way, Home time
another; but always in being very quiet
and exclusive. The game we play for,
is cautious and cunning. The men
bought cheaply are the men not worth
buying. My business is among the
higher sort, that will not stoop to com
mon carrion, and carry with them great
moral character that not only covers
themselves, but all the little rogues who
vote with them,”
“ And you often fail?”
“ Sometimes; not often. You remem
ber the temptation of St. Anthony.
“ Of all the dsvllfl under tho skies
Dovllb wicked, or devils wise,
Devils short, or devils tall,
A pretty woman with sparkling eyes
Is the greatest devil of them all.”
“My mission is to capture the leaders.
The lesser lights are left to coarser
means. Some surrender to delicious
little suppers—others to persuasion—
others again to love. There is General
, proud, sensitive, and suspicious
—he comes to me with all his griefs, and
I listen. You’d be astonished to know
how little the tongue and much the ear
has to do with this business. Then there
is Mr. , who began life with a
homely, unrefined wife and is now
ashamed of her. Poor man, he is really
Iu love with me.”
“ And will all the money you make
pay you for the degradation you Buffer
in return ? You are a woman of
intelleot—an intellect that approaches
genius; you can command admiration,
respect—even wealth, by devoting your
gifts to an honorable pursuit.”
Her face flushed for a second, and
then starting to her feet and pacing the
floor in some excitement, she exclaim
ed-:
“ I learned my power when it was too
late. But your are the last man to up
braid me. Do you know when I dis
covered my powers as an actress ? I
will tell you. Under your tuition while
in Baltimore I came to you starving,
and you sent me into private families
to worm out their secrets and betray
their intentions."
“ There you go again. That was in
the service of your countermand the
people possessed of those secrete were
our enemies.”
“What is the difference, so far as my
character went? But Ido not regret—
I have nothing to regret. I have no
friends, no relatives, no country. I
never knew a man who did not either
insult me or cheat me. I never knew
a woman who had not a stony heart
and olaws like a cat. I hate them all.
I despise them all. They would hunt
me down, and so I hunt them down,
when I can,"
“But you have made money enough,
why not leave the horrible business, ana
from this out—try and possess your soul
in peace. You are young yet—you can
have many years of happiness before
you."
“You want me to desist," she said,
interrupting me. “I have two good
reasons for going on. It is not avarice,
although, having sold myself to the
devil, I am right in getting the best
price for my poor soul. But let me
show you my two reasons for going
on."
She walked into an arched reoess,
and pulliDg aside a heavy curtain,
showed me, playing on the floor, two
beautiful children.
“ There," she continued, dropping the
curtain again, ** these are my two rea
sons I cannot give my children a good
name, but I will give them that whioh
is more precious than a good name in
this mean, wicked world of ours—l will
give them wealth, and I will try to
teach them to be anything on earth but
what their unfortunate motherwas; so,
now, if you betray me, you betray
them.”
“ I left the detective business when I
quit Baltimore. I try moral suaaoD
now.”
And so I took my leave, and I glye
f 7.'
LANCASTER PA. WEDNESDAY MORNING MARCH 10 1869
thisafimperfect sketch as a specimen of
the v .'wuy laws are made, through the
lobby, In our beloved capital, d. p.
The Flight and Capture of Jefferson Davis.
MY EDWARD A. POLLARD,
While Grant and Lee thundered be*
fore Petersburg, Jeffersou Davis lied
from Richmond, without a word of
public.explanation, with none of that
benediction or encouragement which a
great leader is expected to impart to his
people In such a catastrophe—esoaplng
with the lguomlny of an obscure, mean
fugitive, if notposftlvely in theoharacter
of a deserter. Some explanation has
been offered of his singular uegleot on
this occasion of those whom, in his day
of power, he was accustomed, after the
affection of a fond and ] uernal ruler to i
call “hla people,” Inti that
the Government at Richmond had no
expectation of Lee’s disaster, and was
thus palufully hurried in Us evacuation
of the capital.
The statement Is uutrue, and tho ex
cuse is unavailing. The writer well
kuows, what has not heretofore been
Imparted to public curiosity, that Jef
ferson Davis had, many weeks before
Lee’s catastorphe, made most careful
aud exacting preparations for his es
cape. The matter had been fully con
sulted with his Cabinet, In profound
secresy ; and it had been agreed that, to
secure the escape of the President and
his principal ofilcers, the Shenandoah
should be ordered to cruise off the coast
of Florida, to take the distinguished
fugitives ou board, who had selected the
coußt for their exit from Confederacy,
aud their extrication from its falling
fortunes. These orders had beensenlto
the Confederate cruiser many days be
fore Lee’s Hues were brokenult wus cal
culated that tho President’s party might
make an easy aud deliberate escape In
theway agreed upon, as tho communi
cations with the Florida coast were
then scarcely doubtful, aud once ou the
Shenandoah, a fast sailer, the most val
uable remnant of the Confederate navy,
they might soon obtain an asylum ou a
foreign shore. Other preparations were
made for the flight; allthepapersofthe
Government were revised, aud marked
for destruction, abandonment, or pre
servation, according to their contents;
aud even Mr. Davis’ baggage was putin
order fortransportatlon. Of course, the
public lsnew nothing of those prepara
tions aud It did not oven suspect them.
Mr. Daniel, of the Richmond Examiner, •
had repeatedly said, with bitterness,
that whatever the event of the war,
whatever its misfortune, Mr. Davis
would be certain to provide for his per
sonal safety, above that of all others;
and indeed this journal had suggested
that, for this mean reason, tho Presi
dent had invariably blanched at any
retaliation upon the enemy involving
tho penalty of death. But many people
resented this thought of the Examiner;
they persisted in believing that Presi
dent Davis would stand with the army
when the Confederate flag waslowered,
aud accept a common lot with them
and tho people; and they called to
mind his heroic words, spoken to the
troops in Virginia in 1801, at the begin
ning of the war: “When the last line
ofhayouets is leveled I will bo with you.”
By the way, it is remarkable that eo
little has been obtained, by the capture
or discovery of documents, of this secret
history of the Confederacy. True, there
have been collected at Washington some
documentary relics, under the title of
“ Rebel Archives •” aud the pretentious
construction of a Bureau to take care of
them, aud certain foolish provisions
against the access to them of public
curiosity, have given the idea of some
value aud mystery attached to them.
But they are historically worthless,
scarcely anything more Lhau the offi
cial platitudes, dry and barren amplifi
cations of which have been told
a hundred times in tho newspapers.
There was captured in Richmond only
the refuse of the Confederate archives.
It is a curious and romantlo fact not
generally known that the bulk of the
valuables papers of the Confederate Gov
ernment, including the correspondence
of Jefferson Davia exists to-day in con
cealment: that many days before the
fall of Richmond there was a careful
selection of important papers, especial
ly those in the office of the President,
and letters which involved confidences
In theNorthandEurope, and that these
were secretly convey ea out of Richmond
aud deposited in a place where they re
main concealeci-to this time, and will
probably not be : unearthed in this gen
eration, Where is this repository of the
secrets of tho Confederate Government
the writer is not prepared to say. In
deed, he has never been able “to obtain
other than very general information of
the present place of these papers, and
even as to ihe limits of the locality he
was bound by obligations of private
confidence, which it is impossible to
violate. Yet the world may know, and
It Is at least some historical satisfation,
that the most valuable papers of the
Southern Confederacy, including the
correspondence of Jefferson Davis, re
ported to have been held with impor
tant parties in the North and Europe,
and which might yet involve the per
sonal Bafety of some of them, and pos
sibly found prosecutions, did not perish
in the catastrophe of Richmond; that
they are yet preserved in a manner and
place to defy discovery, and secure
against loss or mutilation—dedicated,
perhaps, to tiie curiosity of a distant
generation.*
After having safely bestowed hie Im
portant papers, and by this measure
consulted to some degree his personal
safety it might be supposed that Mr.
Davis would be prepared to leave Rich
mond with some appearauce of self
possession And dignity. But after all
the provisions for his flight, the signal
for it was so sudden and dramatic —
announced to him in the shape of Lee’s
dread telegram, while he sat in .St.
Paul’s Church, with the sunshine of a
calm and beautiful duy pulsing through
the windows—as to have some effect he
surprised at least, breaking down his
equananimity, and reducing him to
that condition of iluster und tremulous
ness with which tiie weak man receives
the news of misfortune, no matter how
long he has vaguely expected it, and
practised against tho moment of its an
nouncement.
He nervously prepared at his bouse
his private baggage, assisted by Mrs.
Davis, and he never ventured in the
streets until, under cover of the night,
he got unobserved on the train that was
to convey him from Richmond. He
did not forget the gold iu the
Treasury; that, amounting to less
than forty thousand dollars, It
had been proposed some days before, in
Congress, to distribute as largesses to the
discontented soldiers; but Mr. Davis
had Insisted upon reserving it for exi
gencies, and it was now secured In his
B The writer sincerely regrets that he can
not more amply satisfy curiosity as to these
concealed papers of the Southern Confeder
acy. He can only assure the readers of
three facts; that they still exist; that there
are living persons who know of their con
cealment, and that tney contain important
evidences of the secret history of Mr. Davis’
Governmen t. He has repeatedly sought ac
cess to them out of historical curiosity, but
he has been invariably met with tab ex
planation that, while this indulgence might
be allowed him, forsnch legitimate purpose,
it would be unsafe, for private reasons, and
the information it published might be de
verted to serious consequences to persons of
importance yet living, and within the juris
diction of the government. It has been im
possible to surmount this objection and
there is no doubt that many of these papers
do really involve discoveries of some curi
ous negotiations in the war, the parties to
which might astoand the public. During
the war it was well known, in some circles
of confidence in Richmond, that Mr. Davis
entertained a large secret correspondence in
the North; that he bad sources of comfort,
information and advice there ; and indeed
itwould have been strange, considering
the volume of disaffection in the North—a
remarkable peculiarity of the late war—if
it had not found some expression in Secret
negotiations, or some sort of surreptitious
communication with the Confederate au
thorities. Oftheextentjof such correspond
ence the popular imagination has probably
fallen Bhort. As an instance of the volume
of “ disloyalty ” and venality in the North,
the writer may mention the case of a single
secret document which he was once per
mitted to see in Riohmond, wherein certain
parties offered to assist the Confedercy, by
supplying Its Western armies for a whole
year from the granaries and magazines of
the North. Such important letters and
other secret papers were kept in what was
called Presidential Arohieves.” These,
we repeat, still exist, were preserved from
the wreck and fireof Richmond, and at this
moment are under the seal.of a personal
confidence with Mr. Davis; while the Fed
eral authorities, congratulating themselves
that they seized archives of the Southern
Confederacy, had only captured waste pa
per.
\ i .~r V
baggage. He did forget his sword; That,
a costly present from some or his ad*
mirerß In England, had been sent to the
Richmond Armory for some repairs; it
was abandoned to the fire there. The
last seen of this rello of the Southern
Confederacy was a twisted and gnarled
stem of steel, on private exhibition In a
lager beer saloon In Richmond, garnish
ed with a certificate that it was what
remained of Jeff Davis’ sword, and that
the curiosity might be purchased for
two hundred dollars. Whether tho
retailer of lager hoe yet disposed of his
treasure we uo not know'.
Mr. Davis was accompanied at the
• first stage of his flight by his family,
’ some of his personal staff, and throe
members of his Cabinet: Uen. Breck
enrldge, Secretary of War: Mr. Benja
min, Secretary of State, and Mr. Reagan,
Postmaster General. The party Journ
eyed without accident or adventure to
Danville,Blttingmostlyln moody silence
us the train shrieked through the night
that a few miles further was belug torn
by explosions through whose fitful
ohasms of light Lee’s army marched os
Into impenetrable darkners. Arrived
at Danville, Mr. Davis issued a
proclamation; out of place there,
inaccessible to tho army, and which
would have been much more fitly made
before be hud abandoned the post of dun
ger in Richmond. But the exaltation
of spirits lie obtained after having pass
ed the boundary of danger, and got ou
the side of supposed personal safety, did
not long survive. In a few dayß after
ward came the ne.ws of Lee's surrender;
and the President and his party again
sadly turned their faces to the South;
Gen. lireckenridge being dispatched to
Gen. Johnston’s lines only to bring
back to the party on their route the sor
rowful nows of his surrender, and to In
crease the dismay of their flight.
Mr. Davis was the first to rally from
this dismay. When he and his com
panions haddeft Richmond It was in the
belief that Lee would avoid surrender
but a few days longer, and with the in
tention, as we have already said, of
making their way to the Florida coast
and embarking there for a foreign land.
In the meditations of his journey, how
ever, through North Carolina, the fugi
tive President appears tohaveconcelved
the alternative of venturing to the
southwest, within the reach of the forces
of Taylor and Forrest, in the hope of
reviving the fortunes of the Con federacy
within a limited-territory. He suggested
tho alternative to Gen. Breckinridge, as
they travelled together, after the news
of Johnson's surrender, they received
only an evasive reply; the latter not
sharing Ms hopes, but unwilling to
mortify them by a candid declaration of
opinion. Mr. Davis was remarkable for
a sanguine temperament, but it was
that which we observe in weak charac
ters, “ hoping agalnßt hope,” fiokle,
fiaring, extravagant, rather tliau that
practical energy which renews Itself on
disaster aud conquers fortuue. The vis
ion he had conjured up of a limited
confederacy around the mouths of the
Mississippi might have looked plausible
on paper, but it was fatally defective in
omitlng the moral condition of the
South. The unhappy President had
not yet perceived that he had lost the
faculty of inspiration, that the South
ern people were in despair, and that, i
wherever he might go, he would find '
their countenances averted, their hopes 1
abandoned, and tbelr thoughts already
committed to submission. But he was i
to realize very shortly how morally and <
practically helpless he was. His first :
discovery of it was at Abbeville, South
Carolina, where occurred ono of the ■
most pathetic scenes in history, over
which the tenderness and charity of
some of the actors have been disposed ‘
to draw the curtain, committing its so.- .
rows to secresy. ;
Mr. Davis readied Abbevelle on the ;
first of May. So fur he had been accom
panied by the fragments of fivebrigades, 1
amounting in number to less than one
thousand men, and reorganized into two
battalions, at the front and in the rear
of the long train which signalled his 1
flight and foolishly obstructed Ills effort
at escape. There were already painful
evidences of the demoralization of the
escort, and the story told almost at every
mile, by stragglers from Johnson’s com
mand was not calculated to inspire them.
At Abbeville Mr. Davis resolved on a 1
council of war. It was composed of the
five brigade commanders, and General
Braxton Bragg (for the year past the 1
“ military adviser ”/of the President) ;
was admitted to this last scene of the
deliberations of the Lost Cause,
Iu the council Mr. Davis spoke with
more thau Ills accustomed facility and
earnestness, inspired by hope, but with
out volubility or extravagance. He
made a statement of surpassing plausi
bility. It yet had resources to continue
the war ; it was for those who yet re
mained with arms in their bands to
give an example to re-animate others
such an act of devotion, besides being
the most sublime thing in history,
might yet save the country, and erect
again its declining resolution. “It is
but necessary," he said “ that the brave
men yet with me should renew their
determination to continue the war; they
will be a nucleus for rapid re-enforce
ments, and will raise the signal of re
animation for the whole country." No
one of the council auswered him at
length ; the replies of the commanders
were almost sunk to whsspers; the
scene was becoming painful; and it was
at last agreed that each in his turn
should announce his decision. Each
answered slowly, reluctantly, in the
negative; the only words added were
that though they considered the war
hopeless, they would not disband their
men until they had guarded their Presi
dent to a place of safety.
“No,” exclaimed Mr. Davis passion
ately. “I will listen to no proposition
for my safety. I appeal to you for the
cause of the country." Again he urged
the commanders to accept his views.
“We were silent," says Gen. Basil
Duke, one of the council, "for we could
uot agree with him, and we respected
him too much to reply."
Mr. Davis yet stood erect, raised his
bead, as if iu pain, and suddenly ex
claimed, 11 all nope has gone /" added
haughtily, “I see that the friends of the
South are prepared to consent to her
degradation;’’ and then sweeping the
company with a proud despairing
glance, lie attempted to pass from the
room.
But the blow was too much for his
feeble organization. Hisface was white
with anger and disappointment,and the
mist of unshed tears were in his eyes—
tears which pride struggled to keep
back. The sentiment that all was lost
went through his heart like the slow
and measured thrust of a sword ; as the
wound sunk into it, it left him speech
less; loose and tottering, he would
have fallen to the floor, had not Gen.
Brecksnridge ended the scene by lead
ing him faltering from the room. In a
dead arifi oppressive silence the deserted
leader, the fallen chief, secured a decent
retreat for agonies which tears only
could relieve.
It was the last council of the Confed
racy. The hateful selfishness which
originates ifc»the attempt of each indi
vidual to extricate himself from a com
mon misfortune soon broke out; no
longer restrained by the presence of the
President. The soldiers were dis
charged ; but they clamored that they
had no money to take them home.
What of the Treasury gold that re
mained was divided among them. So
fearful were they of marauders that
many buried their coin in the woods,
and in unfrequented places. With the
disbandment of the troops Mr. Benja
min suggested a separation of the cabi
net officers from the President, making
an excuse that so large a party would
advertise their flight, and increase the
chances of capture. Mr. Daviß was left
to make his way to Georgia, Postmas
ter General Reagan continuing to jour
ney with him, and Breckenridge only
to a point where he thought it conve
nient to leave for Florida. There were
also in the party two or three of his staff
officers, and a few straggling soldiers,
who still kept up some show of an
escort. Mrs. Davis had already pre
ceded her husband to Georgia, ana he
now traveled slowly, and almbst deso
lately, on horseback, having arranged
that she should await him in the city
of Washington.
The cruelest neglect or insult of ljis
the Bmall town 6 of
home of Alexander H. Stephens. Mri
Davis, now an object of sympathy,
worn, deserted, remained two or three* 1
days In Griswoldville; he might there,
at least, have expected that one who
had,: been so near him In office as the
Vice President of the Confederacy,
would have visited him, to tender 86me
hospitality, or to offer him honorable
condolence. Mr. Stephens never came 1
L. /. i. k * y i
near him,- nevSr sent him a token or
message, to htfshame be it mentioned ;
for surely & mean nature is never more
despicable than in its treatment of
misfortune, and Its cowardly refuge, on
such occasions, In old resentments or in
selfish calculation?.
From Grlswoldvllle the now hunted
President was soon driven again ou his
Journey by news of the occupation of
Augusta. He had also received news of
the asaaaination of President Lincoln,
and that eveut, he declared, confirmed
his resolution to leave the country. He
luferred from the newspapers that he
was accused as an accomplice In the
crime,and he remarked to one of his staff
officers that he “would prefer death
to the dishonor of leaving the country
euoh imputation.” But with such u
sentiment it will occur to the reader
that it would be nohle and decorous for
Mr. Davia to havo surrendered himself
at the nearest Federal post, and to have
demanded atrial. It would have placed
him in a grand aud winning attitude,
one becoming a great mac, one honora
ble to himself aud the South, and re
deeming him more than unything else
iu the eyes of the world. But unfortu
nately he accepted the base alternative
of continuing his flight, and that too in
a mean disguise.
On leaving Grlswoldvllle it was deter
mined that Air.. Davis and his family,
whom he expected soon to overtake
should thereafter travel os an emigrant
party. Mr, Reagan was still In bis com
pany. General Breckinridge had left
outside the town of Washington, taking
with him forty-five Kentucky soldiers
a stragling remnant of Morgan’s old
brigade. Ten mounted men offered to
escort Mrs. Davis, ■ and although they
had acoepted their paroles, Justly con
sidered that they might protect.a dis*
tressediady from marauders. All tokens
of the President’s importance in dress
and air, werelaidaside; covered wagons,
a pack mule and cooking utensils were
provided at Washington; and it was
designed that Mr. Davis, his wife and
his wife’s sister should pass as a simple
coun try famllyemigrating from Georgia,
and having fallen in with stragging sol
diers for their 'protection. Mr. Davis’
dignity was laid aside without much
difficulty.
Carlyle says : “ A klDg in the midst
of his body guard, with all his trumpets,
war-horses aud gilt standard bearers,
will look great, though he be little; but
only some Roman Carus can give audi
ence to satrap ambassadors while seated
on the ground, s with a wooden cap, and
supping on boiled peas, like a common
Boldier.” Air. Davis, in the dress of a
country farmer, had none of these traces
of imperialism which cling to those
“bom to the purple.” His features, just
and handsome without being reraarak
able, were those which might be j-ruc
tlsed to particular expressions, but
scarcely those which could assert super
iority without an effort aud at a glance.
Heiucurred but little chance of detection
in the dress hehadassumed ofau honest,
well.to do emigrant.
But the last device of the distinguish
ed fugitive, the only one in wLich he
had shown any ingenuity, and had con
fessed his real anxiety for escape, was
in vain, and ho was captured three days’
journey from Washington. He had
scarcely expected to fall in with any
enemy north of the Chattahooche river.
The boundary of “the department of
the Southwest,” and there he had de
signed to part with his wife, and to
commit her to her journey to the She
nandoah. He was overtaken by a small
body of Federal cavalry, originally sent
out to post a skirmish line through that
part of Georgia, reaching to Augusta,
but now diverted to his pursuit.
The wicked and absurd story that Mr.
Davis was captured disguised in female
attire, is scarcely now credited. Ho was
aroused in the early grey of the morn
ing by a faithful negro servant, [the
same who has since attended his broken
fortunes,] who had been awakened by
the sound of firing in the woods. The
President had not laid off his clothes,
and, in a moment he had issued from
the tent where he had been sleeping.
The woods were filled with mounted
troops, ill-defined in the mist of the
breaking morning, and, noticing that
they were deploying, as if to surround
the camp, he quickly imagined their
character and design, ana returned
within tho teat, either to alarm Airs.
DavJs or there to submit decently to
capture. She besought him to escape,
and urging him to an opening in the
tent, threw over his shoulders a shawl
which he had been accustomed to wear.
His horse, a fleet and spirited one, was
tied to a tree at some distance. He was
within a few steps of the animal that
might have borne him out of dauger,
when a Federal soldier halted him, and
demanded to know If he was armed.
In relating the encounterafterwards,
in his prison at Fortress Monroe. Air.
Davis reported himself saying, “ If I
were armed you would not be living to
ask the question.” If he did say so, it
was a sorry bravado—and, as none of
his captors appear to have recollected
such words of defiance, we are permit
ted to hope that Mr. Davis’ memory is
at fault, and that he submitted in his
fate really with more. While he was
parleying with the soldier, Colonel
Prichard, commanding the body of
cavalry, rode up, and, addressing him
byname, demanded his surrender. He
submitted, walked back to.the tent, and,
in the presence of his wife, asked Colo
nel Prichard that she might continue
her journey. The reply of the Colonel
was that his orders were to arrest all
the party. Air. Davis rejoined, with
sarcasm: “Then, sir, what has been
said is true,your Government docs make
war upon woman!” These were the
only words of displeasure or of bitter
ness in the dialogue of the capture. The
unhappy prisoner, after these words,
was coldly silent. Asking no questions
of his fate, not intruded upon by any
curiosity of his captors, conversing onJy
with the faithful ana devoted wife from
whom he was not yet divided, and
whose whispers of affectionate solici
tude by his side were ell to lighten the
journey, he rode moodily in the caval
cade back to Alacon, where first he was
to learn the extent of his misery, and
to commence the dread career of the
penalties he had accumulated by four
long and bitter years of war.— Pack’
ard’s Monthly.
Let the Women Alone.
A Senator in Congress made an acute
remark the other day. He said that if
women had the ballot, the beat women
would not use it—in other words, that
it would be with women as with men,
and that those whose influence on pub
lic affairs would be most desirable, if
women were to vote at all, would not
appear at the polls. The failure of all
these women suffrage conventions,
proves the truth of this shrewd obser
vation. The great mass of the women
in this country do not want to vote.
Such is their apathy upon the subject—
or. more strictly speaking, their antip
athy to it and to those who are agitating
it—that they resist the strong tempta
tions to attend the meetings, and stay
at home. It ds enough for us to state
this well-known fact, without philoso
phizing on it. It is a fact beyond ques
tion that a great majority of American
women do not respond to the appeals
made to them to ‘‘strike off their fet
ters," “assume their place as man’s
equal at the ballot box,” and so forth * *
Tne women suffrage question is wholly
in woman’s bands. Excepting a few
men, practical jokers they always Beem
to us, who go into these conventions to
catechize and stir up the women thereby
glye life and point to the newspaper
reportß, we find none of the “male
tyrants” warring against it. They are
waiting composedly to see what the
women will do, and they see the women
barring the traveling dozen or two—do
ing nothing.”—i. Journal of Com
merce.
Ylcc and Immorality.
Mr. T , who was for many years
curator of ths Academy of Fine Arts in
Philadelphia, represented that city in
the Legislature or Pennsylvania,during
several sessions, about forty-five years
ago. On one occasion a country mem
ber presented a petition for a lottery.
Mr. T. moved that the petition
sbpuld be referred to the Committee on
Vice and Immorality. The member
who presented the petition got up in
great wrath and exclaimed: “Mr.
Speaker, do you and* the members of
this House know how the member from
the city gets his living? He shows
naked images to the ladles and gentle
men for a quarter-dollar a head. He’s
a pretty fellow to talk to us about vice
and iminorallty 1”
From 1804 to 1827 North Carolia furnished
all the gold produced in the United States,
The aggregate of all her gold yield up-to
iB6O is about 89,300,000. F
A WONDERFUL MYSTKHY.
<;ho*tN Sitting fbr Their Portraits.
Departed I'rlendi Photographed,
Readers of The *Stm may perhaps have
noticed In yesterday morning’s paper a
telegraphic item from Poughkeepsie
staling that the spiritualists of that city
—the former home of Andrew J. Davis
—had been greatly exolted over some
remarkable specimens of what Is called
spiritual photographing; that Is, the
photographing of likenesses of depart
ed spirits, not exactly from life, but
from their presont . spiritual embodi
ments. It being added that those pho
tographs were taKeu at an establishment
ou Broadway, iu this city, The Sun,
ever ou the alert fur new ami iuterest
iug intelligence, lost no time in sending
a reporter to find out whether there was
anything In the matter worth publish
ing. He came back with such a, remark
able story that we have decided to print
it iu full, though we wish to have it
distinctly understood that we do It sim
ply os a matter of news, and without
endorsing the theories of the spiritual
ists.
HISTORY OF THE WONDER.
About eight years ago a young lady,
who wns what the spiritualists call a
“medium,” kept a shop for the sale of
Jewelry iu Boston, Ono important part
of her business was the weaving of Lair
into bracelets, lockets, and similar arti
cles, as mementos of friends, both llv
iug aud deceased. Usually there was
attuohed to these objects some provision
for a photographic likeness of tho per
son to be remembered, aud at the solici
tation of her customers she undertook
the taking of these likenesses, in the
size aud form required, aud learned
enough of the art to do it tolerably well.
One day, however, the chemicals failed,
to w f ork as usual, the pictures coming
out blurred and confused, aud inexpli
cable figures like stars and comets
showing themselves, instead of the
image of the sitter. In studying into
the cause of the difficulty, the lady
made the acquaintance of Air. \V. H.
Alumler, then a silver engraver iu
a leading silver manufacturing es
tablishment in Boston, who had
some chemical knowledge, though he
was inexperienced in photographing.
Air. Alumler, being entirely ulono one
day in thephotogruplnng room, engaged
in experimenting, thought he would try
taking a picture, and, having got a chair
into the right focus, attempted to photo
graph it. To his surprise, on developing
the plate, he found the chair represented
as filled by a human being dimly out
lined, whom ho recognized as a deceased
cousin. How to account for this phe
nomenon lie knew not; but on showing
the picture to the young lady for whom
he was prosecuting his Inquiries, she,
being, as we said, a medium, instantly
pronounced it the portrait of a spirit who
had taken this method of communicat
ing with mortals on earth. Following
up the discovery, Air. Alumler experi
mented further, and from that time to
this has been engaged in taking these
ghostly pictures, with remarkable suc
cess. For the present he has established
himself at the gallery of Air. AV. W.
Hilyer, 030 Broudway, where our re
porter, iu compauy with an eminent
photographer of this city, whom we
shall call Brown, and a gentleman who
was formerly aleading banker and stock
broker in Wall street, visited him yes
terday morning.
WHAT THE PICTURES ARE LIKE.
Mr. Mumler has preserved a hundred
or so of the more remarkable photo
graphs takeu, and our reporter saw and
examiued them. They all present like
nesses of living persons, which look
exactly as ordinary photographs do,
being, indeed, taken In the regular way.
But behind, or at one side of the living
sitter appears sometimes only a head,
sometimes a head and shoulders, and
sometimes the full length of another
persou, rather indistinct and shadowy,
but still in many cases clearly enough
deflued for a likeness to be recognized.
There arc, our reporter was told, cases
in which the spirit likeness have been
taken without any living sitter ; others
taken by the help of a photograph of a
living person, which has been sent for
the purpose; and others in the night
time.
REMAKKAIiLK EXPERIENCES.
One of the most remarkable of these
strange pieces of work isa picture taken
fur the ex-banker above mentioned.
Several years ago he lest a wife to whom
lie was tenderly attached, and who, as
he believes, has never ceased to be pres
ent in her spiritual form with him. A
day or two ago he sat to Air. Mumler,
aud on the plate there came along with
bis an image of a lady, which lie and
his friends all declare to be a correct
likeness of his deseased wife. The face
is perfectly distinct, one arm is thrown
round her husband's neck, so that her
hand, holding a branch of what seems
to be lilacs, comes in front of his breast.
Another picture being taken, the same
figure appeared in a differnt attitude,
pointing with one hand upward. On a
third trial, however, this .figure disap
peared, and the head of an unknown
child came instead.
Another picture shown our reporter
is that of a well-known, real estate
broker down town, near whom appears
a lovely child’s face, fit for one of
Raphael's cherubs. Mr. Alumler could
not tell, however, of whom it was a
likeness.
One particularly touching picture was
taken fora mother who, not long ago,
lost a darling boy. As she sat before
the camera she mentally said, “ Willie,
I wish you would come and place your
self us you used to when you said your
prayers to me,” and in response to her
silent wish there appears a child resting
his head upon her bosom, which she
uvers 1b a perfect likeness of her boy.
At a spiritual seance that evening, a
message was received, purporting to be
from the child just mentioned, to the
effect that if his father would sit to Mr.
Mumler, a better picture of him still
would be obtained. His father accord
ingly came and sat und In the picture
obtained there appears within the
father’s arm a charming boy of appar
ently ten years of age, which is said by
both father and mother to be their child
beyond a doubt.
An elderly man, having sat for his
likeness, found it accompanied by that
of a lady to whom he had been eugaged
twenty years ago, and of whose relation
with him his own family had not been
aware. Sitting a secoDtl time, he got
the likeness of a sou who was killed
several years ago in Arkansas.
A distinguished miniature artist of
this city, having tried the experiment,
was rewarded with a portrait of his
aged mother.
A lady's portrait was also shown, ac
companied by that of a clergyman to
whom she was once engaged, but who
has since died, and whom she had not
seen for twenty years. Many other
equally wonderful things were exhibit
ed, but the general facts in all are the
same. Of some pictures, of which Mr.
Mumler had not retained copies, ho
gives the following account:
“ The first is a portrait of Mr. Mum
ler himself, with one hand on a chair,
the other holding the black cloth cover
ing just taken from thecamera. In the
chair sits a half defined female form,
apparently about twelve or fourteen
years old. This was at once recognized
us a deceased female relative.
“Thesecond picture has a lady spirit
sitting on a chair, with a white, unde
fined mass of something behind her,
like two or three pillowß. The features
are quite sunken, with aßerious expres
sion. This is said to hp a likeness of
the spirit sister of Mr. J. J. Ewer, as
she looked when wasted by consump
tion. The father of the deceased fully
recognized the likeness, as do the rest
of the family.
“ The next is an elderly lady, leaning
on a chair, In which sits a faintly de
fined form of a young man playing upon
a guitar. This figure is shown more
fully than the last, one leg being visible
to below the knee, the other not bejftg
visibleatall—looksasif moved, leaving
only a blur, This was at once recog
nized as a deceased brother who made
guitars, and was fond of ploying upon
them.
“ Another is a female figure leaning
upon a chair, the hands placed together,
and eyes elevated as in prayer. The
spirit appears of a larger size, the face
and bust only visible.
“ Another is a gentleman sitting with
the edge of a white marble table near
him. The spirit is behind him, and a
little smaller—a female figure, with the
hair dressed quite plain and Quakerish.
asmaU white collar about the neck, tied
with a dark ribbon, a close fitting dresß,
visible only to the waist.
“A gentleman from fllinols sat for
NUMBER 10
bis portrait,and ralsedtbd right hand ns
If holding something. Ho was told thnt
was a very uncouth attitude, hut he
said, ‘No matter: take it so/ When the
plate was developed, behold there ant
upon the raised arm a child, leaning Its
head upon the sitter’s shoulder. This
child is not very dearly deilned ; it np
pears a Uttle larger .than lu nature, as if
nearer the camera than the arm It sits
upon. The dress is transparent, with
the hand aud arm of the sitter seeu
through It.”
OUK IiEI’OKTKII HKES WILAT CAN' JJE
DONE FOK HIM.
Hla curiosity being excited by all
these marvels, our reporter thought he
would like to see what spirit would ait
along with him. But iirst he requested
his photographic friend, whom wo have
called Brown; to go through the pro
cess himself, ami watch the various
steps of it. Mr. Brown accordingly
.went uj> stairs to tho skylight room
with Mr. Mumler, ami prepared the
sensitive plate himself from tho nak?d
glass. Sitting down before tho camera,
no waited the usual time, and then with
his own hands “developed” the nega
tive. At the side of his face there came
that of a middle-aged man, with a dark
beard, whom ho did not recognize.
Then came our reporter's turn. He,
too, saw tho clean glass rubbed ami
polished, tho collodion poured on, the
plate put luto the nitrate of sliver bath,
aud taken out ami put into tho groove.
But on sitting, there came out in the
negative the same face that hud appear
ed In Mr. Brown's picture. To deter
mine who this “ mutual friend” could
be, the party concluded to wnlt and get
sun proofk from both the negatives.
a’new SITTER.
While waitiug for these proofs, an
elderly gentleman went’u]), and suc
ceeded In getting tho portraits of two
spirits, neither of which, however, lie
could recognize from the negative, aud
had to wait for the proofs.
an accident—the kxi’uhiMi:N'i r;m:i>
In drying the negative taken for our
reporter over the lamp, the glues was
shivered to pieces, and lie was icqucsted
to sit once more. This time, too, lie
watched the process from beginning to
end. While In the chair, however, he
thought he would try the effect of calling
to hla mind the appearance of his father,
as he looked just before he died, some
eleven years ago. This time t lie negutlvo
gave a face in prollle rather dim, but in
general outline, ho must confess, very
like his father as he thought of him.
HOW IS THE THING DONE'.*
Of course, everybody will ask this
question, and answer it according to his
own notions. Sceptics will insist that
there is some trick, and that the ghost
pictures are obtained by using lay fig
ures or old photograph negatives, or by
some other expedient of that kind.
The difficulty in the way of this ex
planation is that tho photographer whom
wo have called Brown, and who, if wc
gave his real name, would be instantly
recognized as excelleutauthorityon the
subject, says that there is no process
known to the trade by which tho thing
could be done by any unfair meaus
without its being instantly fuuud out.
A prepared plate must be used wlthlu
five minutes after it comes out of the
nitrate of silver bath, so that It is im
possible.that an image could be clearly
Impressed on it, and yet leave it so that
the living sitter could be taken as clear
ly as he is. Besides, lie wont through
tho process of preparing the plate him
self, as we have already mentioned, and
yet another face than his own caine,
without his seeing any person near him.
Another photographer of the name of
Guay, whom our reporter met at Mr.
Mumier’s room, stated that he had
spent three weeks in watching Mr.
Mumler and going through the process
again and again with his own hands,
and had not succeeded in detecting any
imposture.
MR. MUMLER’S THEORY
Mr. Mumler says that he really be
lieves the pictures are produced by de
parted spirits who are attached to the
sitters by affection or relationship or
affinity. By some inscrutable meaus
they have the power of aflecLlug the
chemicals used in the process, and im
pressing on tho sensitive 111 m their
image.
airosTs visim.H to the naked kyi-:
Mrs. Mumler, who is the lady by
whom Mr. Mumler was led into the
business, having since married him,
asserts that in many instances she has
seen behind the living Hitter the identi
cal spirits whose likenesses have after
wards appeared in the photograph. She
says, when the living person sits down,
there comes near him, at first, what
looks like a cloud ; then it condense*
into something likea human form ; and
finally it comes out clear and brighter
than the sunlight, to her, in a distinctly
defined image. While tho portraits are
being taken, she and her husband both
place their hands upon the camera to
assist the spirits by their personal ani
mal magnetism.
EFFECT OF THE WEATHER ON Till:
PROCESS.
When the weather is damp, the ob
taining of these spirit photographs is
very difficult and sometimes impossi
ble. When, however, Mr. and Mrs.
Mumler can get the assistance of another
strong medium, as, for example, Miss
Fox, even the dampness will not inter
fere with it; and the portraits of the
banker’s wife, already described, were
got on just such a day with Miss Fox’s
help, (dear bright days, on the con
trary, are favorable, but even on the.ne
Mr. Mumler can take only a f4w pic
tures, in consequence of his vital forces
becoming exhausted by the ellbrt re
quired.
WIIAT or It REPORTER THINKS A HOt'T IT
he declines to say, If there Is any trick
used, he does not know what it is. Hu
gives us the facts, and wo give them to
ourreadersto think aboutas they pleuse.
Tho whole thing is a marvel any way,
and deserves to be investigated bv sci
entific men.’From the description givun
us, Mr. and Mrs. Mumler are perfectly
frank, iugeuuous persons, with no ap
pearance of lmposture about thorn. They
court the most rigorous investigation,
and willexteud every facility for inquiry
to persons coming properly accredited.
—N, Y. Sum.
A DlHttUlllty King.
There is authority for sluiing Unit inves
tigHtlons are iu progress which, if success
ful, will astonish tho country. Under ad
vices privately received from C.Vn. Buch
anan, Meade, and Oillcm, several very
expert detectives of the War Department
are at work to expose tho existent of a
huge political disability ring, ramifying
within and out of Congress, of which the
purpose is to secure tho passage through
Congress of acts relieving any ox-rebel of
ineligibility, always provided that a sum,
said to bo twenty-live dollars, is puid cash
down for each name. In this nefarious
business it is alleged that adventurers,
both male aud female, who In tlio days
of Baker and Stanton dabbled in par
dons on a cash basis, are engaged. The
concern, it is said, resembles u sort ot
national bureau with head officers here ami
with branch establishments in Aflame,
Charleston, New Orleans and Richmond.
The men etnployod in it are said to be quite
prominent carpet buggers and purple wo
men, with a gloss of gentility and the man
ners of thorough‘lobbyists about them.—•
These latter are the must efficient, and are
alleged to receive the moiety of the money.
Their tactics aro stated to be to use plain
words, to get the carpet-bag Congressmen
on a string, and then either let tuem into
tho secret or come the delicate over them,
and (coquette them into proposing names
for political relief. In this connection it
can be stated that the Judiciury Commit
tees almost invariably relieve such men
as tho carpet-baggers represent to bo un
questionably sound on tho Radical gouao.
For weeks past, too, tlio hotels have been
disagreeably characterized by women from
the North, who are beyond doubt smart,
handsome, und sharp,* but about whom
hangs a something which causes them to
find their associates not among tho recog
nizetfeladles, but wholly among men of a
certain class, whoso wives are not hero, to
say tho least. By some strange nlfinity the
first persons theso women make up to are
the carpet-bag Congressmen, and the latter
beau them out, drive them out, dine and
wine them, and appear to realizo in their
company the aspirations they huvo all win
ter vainly indulged to get received into ac
knowledged society. It is possible that the
detectives may be brought up at first, us the
resources of the ring are great, and It can
afford anything rather tlmu discovery. So
far no Congressmen have been implicated,
except as tho dupes and unconscious tools
of outside operators ; but the investigation
is very immuture yet, and much is consid
ered to be yet found ont.— N. Y. World.
The will of James T. Brady, tlio grna
New York lawyer, has been proved. H V
sister Annie receives $5,000, fiis brother
Johp a portrait of Washington, by Peale,
and various articles of jewelry arelelt to
other members of the family. Mr. Brady
lived very nearly up to his income, and did
not loavo much propnrty.
BATE OF ADVERTISING.
Bubinxss Advektibxhkhts, Sl2 a year per
Snare of tea lines; $S per year for each ad-
Hlonal square.
Heal Estate Advertising, lOoent* a line lor
the drat, and 5 cents for each subsequent In
sertion.
Orn krai. Advertising 7 cents a lino for the
tlrs?, ami i eonts for each subsequent Inser
tion.
Special Noriass Inserted In Local Column
15 cents per line.
Special Notices preceding marriages and
deaths, 10 cents per line for first Insertion
and 6 cents for every subsequent Insertions
Legal and othr a notices—
Executors' 2.50
Administrators' notices 2.50
Assignees' notices .. 2.50"
Auditors' notloes, .. 2.00
Other “Notices,''ten linos, or loss, Z
three times .. 1.50
New* Itfiim,
Longfellow und his family uro still In
Rome.
The pardons of Spangler und Arnold Imvo
been Issued.
Tho West Virginia Legislature passed the
Suffrage Amendment yesterday.
Tho Wisuouslu Senate has Indeiluitoly
postponed tho House hill to submit feumlo
suffrugo to the people of tho Stale.
Tho municipal election at Hock Island,
111., on Tuesday, was curried by the Demo
crats.
Goorgo Brands Train’s real cslate at
Omaha has risen flftoon hundred per eenl.
since purebnso.
The Treasury warrant* issued during
I’obruury to meet the Government expen
ses, amnunlod to §1
Virginia loads tho Stales in Speakers as
In Presidents—her sons have held the
Speakership fourteen years.
Oil April 1, lii.TJ, the General Omul at
Boston awarded twenty shillings damages
in a breach of promise ease.
Christ Olmreli, lloslon, pnssesM-s a com
munion service which was the gilt of K ing
Ueorgo 11, in 173:’..
Daniel Pratt, tin* gnat American Tm\el*
ler, has been elected iv delegate to represent
die Yale students at l Do In augural Hall.
“Old Pluto" Is Ilrownlow’s pet tmmo In
Motuphls. Nor Is It Inappropriate, as Pluto
was one of the m/cmal drihV.s.
Dr. J. G. Holland, (" Timothy Titcomb”)
at last u'ceounis, was In Naples. Pml'essor
Perkins, the astronomer, is ulso there.
A wager of $I(),0')0 is now-pending on Hen
Wndo’s Cabinet chances, between two po
litical gnossers of Ohio and New York.
The wicked old K lng*nf Holland has been
obltgeil to sell the best paintings Iron) his
private gallery to satisfy the craving of
Madame Blanche for diamonds.
James Hrrtoks, of New York, is tho eldest,
and C. (’. lioviren, of South Carolina, issahl
to be the handsomest and youngest Con
gressman.
Onl. Van Horn, an ex-uUlernmn, has been
held to answer in Chicago for shooting at
his two daughters. < »nu of: horn wua slight
ly wounded.
It is not true that the late Kev. Henry A.
Wise, Jr., was the last surviving son oi' the
Kx Governor. Two are still living in
Richmond— one a physician and tho other
a lawyer.
Tin* semi-centennial anniversary of ndd
will be observed at Topeka, Kan
sas, t he -lilh of April ; address by H. ,1. 1«\
Hanna, ol Nulina, a Past (fraud Muster of
Illinois.
Kov. Miss Tupper now ministers to tin*
rniversfllists' .Society in Monasha. Wiscon
sin. Hast week the admiring youths of lhe
congregation presented her with a splendid
gold watch.
I nder the new franking law, members of
Congress must affix their signatures in their
own handwriting, in all eu«es. Letter* to
Senators and members are no lunger free of
postago.
1 lie Now \ ork bricklayers, hold waiters,
house painters, journeyman tailorH, and gas
and steam titters mat all preparing for
"strikes" during tho spring or summer
mouths.
’1 ho authorities of Cornell I’nlverslty at
Ithaca, N. Y., have dancing at tho college
receptions, and five of the clergymen oftlint
plncu have sunt to Ihu faculty a letter of
remonstrance.
Johu Hancock gave a large* party In Con
cert Hall, Hose on, just al'tor tho close of tlx*
Revolution, tho Invitatlous to which were
printed on the backs of playing cards, there
being no blunk curds in tho country.
Three million dollars have been sub
scribed to tho stock of the company that iH
in bridge tho Mississippi at Ht. Louis, and
this sum being largo enough, tho subserlp -
tioti booksarudosed.
The Now Jersey Legislature has passed
tho hill, sotno time ago introduced, to legal
ize tho anto-nuptial ugreomeut madn be
tween Charles K. Laudis aud Commodore
Meade's daughter.
All tho tobacco factories in Leesburg and
Koxbnro, N. ('.. have been closed by tho
government officers, and it is reported that
thesainois trup of all tint factories In tho
whole Greensboro' district.
Sebastopol still presents a dreary picture
of ruined grandeur. P.uoflos* houses, bro
ken plllurs, und pierced walls line street
atterstrect. Tho ruins of tin* superb docks
and Government establishments are parti--
idarly impressive.
Out of tho 110,000 shopmen lu Carls not
mnro than a hundred earn fl,ooo a year,
though they work from twelve losevuntuen
hours a day. Thuy uro now moving for an
amelioration of tlioir condition.
Tho Now York committee tn prn«ont a
house and subscription of gUiu.oiiu m
oral Sherman, performed that duty at (lon
era! drum's headquarters in Washington.
Thu commit too consisted of A. T. Stewart
Hamilton Fish, Win. 11, Asplnwull und
Win, Scott.
Mario Lo (.’ours, a young French girl, at
Pittsburg, henrl-broken at tho announce
ment other paramour and seducer, made
during a quarrel, that he would leave her
iorover, ended bor unhappy existence with
a largo dose of sulphate morphia on Friday
lait.
There is a very curious monument in
Mugnolia Cemetery, Charleston, eroded by
tho late Jlenry Wise, an Englishman, over
the grave of his wifo. It is a triumphal
arch, representing the gate of Heaven, or
namented with soashelU and stained glass.
A kneeling female figure rests under tho
arch, with a model ship and a c,shlu>i con
taining a boquet of shells, a wedding hand
kerchief, ring and necktie, a small English
Mug, und other curious relics. The whole
is covered with a canvas canopy.
srpl golltfS,
IT'NTATK OF F It/, AII FT II HFlin, LATH
j of Pen u i wn., UeeooHtil.—Loti*' r* of Ad m I n -
lhtrutloii on said cnUiio having buou grunted
to the uiKlnrHlgned, all parsons In debt on l hero
in lire requested to makolmmedlute payment,
pud those having claims or dumands against
thu sumo will present them fur settlement to
thu undendgued, ru-idlng lu said township.
KMANL'KIi KEKNKK,
Administrator.
inar.MJiwtJ
ESTA IKOKhWIU KKM.F.n. I.ATE OF
West Donegal iwp., deceased.—Letters tea.
tuinoniary on said 0-lnte having (icon grunted
to the undersigned, all persons Indebted i here
to are requested to make Immediate payment,
nnd those having domnnds against the rf«mo
will present them lorseitlem. nt to the under
signed, residing lu the liormigh’of Kll/.theth-
JflWTi, HAMIJKDKHY,
mar;i-(Jtw'!( Executor.
} /STATE OF JOHN P. PYI.E, I.ATK OF A
.J Lancaster city, deceased.—Lelli rs testa-
mentary on said estate having been granted to
toe undersigned, all persons Indebted thereto,
are Mjuehlea to makti Immediate) settlement,
and mono having claims nr demands against
the same, will present them wit mmi doiuy for
settlement to too undersigned residing in said
city. LoUIHA myßum
foHHJtwU Executrix.
Notice— in thkcouut of con mo*
Pleas of Lancaster county.—ln the matter
of the application of “The Dorman Koforined
/.lon's Church of KlUuheth twp., Lancaster
county," for a charter of Incorporation, pro-
Bonled Jauuury lSih, WiJ, by Wtu. It Wilsou,
Attorney for Petitioner; and the Court direct
ed the same to be Hied, and notice to he given,
that If no sulJlclent, reason le shawn lit the
contrary the said chnrlor wtlt be granted at
tho next terra of said Court.
feh“Mtfwr»J . W. L. PEAK. Prolh'y.
ANSIOVEKM' NOTICE.—ASSKJN El) EN
tate of Henry Krelder, of Eden townlnp,
Lancaster <ounty.— Henry Krelder, of Edou
twp., having hy deed of voluntary us-dgnmout,
dated February :ird, IWIH, assigned and irons
leired all Jits estate uud erects to tho Creditors
of the undersigned, for the benefit of the suld
Henry Krelder, they tbereforn give noilce to
all pers’dis Indebted to said assigoordo mako
payment without delay, and those having
ululins to present them to
MARTIN K. KRKiDER,
Residing In Lancaster city.
DAMEL D. HEB*,
Residing In Eden twp.,
Assignees.
fob 21 6lwH)
AKMONEE’N NOTH E.—ANMIONKII V.H
-t ate of Josopti Snmllcy and wile, of Ful
ton twp., muirustor county. Josepli SirioUey
uud wue. of Fulton twp., having hy deed of
voluntary assignment, dated the 'Jin of Febru
ary iscti assigned aud transferred all their «*«•
La o ami cltects to the undersigned, fr»r the
hem-tit of tho creditors of the said Joseph
Hmedley; ho therefore gives notice to all pet -
sous Indebted to suld assignor, to rnaku puy
moot to the under signed without delay,'and
f imsa havlug claims to present them.
febl7-Giw7 HAHVEt HWIFT, Assignee,
Residing in Fulton twp., Lnnrusier co.
INSTATE OF <:um*n\\ UK A.MIT,
Hi late of Kapho township, deceased. The un -
derK KiieU Auditor, 'appointed to dl*trlbui e
the balance remaining In the hands ol Chris
tian Brandt, Eaecntor ofsald Christian Brandt,
deceased. to a-i d, arnoUK those legally entitled
to the same, will sit for that purpose mi Kil
day, March Jilin,at 2 n'clook P, M., In tJIO Id
•iruiy Hooin of the Court House, In the Cliy ol
Lancaster, Where all persons lnleri"dciWjn
hw id distribution may attend. •
AMUB If. MYI.IN,
Auditor.
foM7-Jt\v7
NOTICK
In the District Court or tho)
I'nlU'U HLateu for the East-fin Bankruptcy
eru District of I’euu'a, )
At Tjincaster, MARCH Ist, A D., ISOD.
TO WHOmVtMAY C'UNCKHN: Tuennder
signed hereby gives notice o( his appointment
a* Assignee of Henry il Kauirmau, of West
llernplleUl twp.. in the Conuty or Lancaster
and Citato of Pennsylvania, within said Dis
trict, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt, upon
his own petition, by the District Court of said
District.
D, G. ESHLEMAN, Assignee,
_ _ No. 30 North Duke sf retd,
m3-Jtw*9 Lancaster, Pa,
ACCItUNTH OF TRUST ENTATEM. «»<!.
Tho accounts of the following named es*
iat.*-R will he presented for confirmation on
MONDAY, MARCH 15, I 860:
Michael Miller’s Estate, John Miller Com.
mitteo.
Leah Weohter's Estate.;Bamuel Eberly Com
mittee. '
BeDj. G. Herr’s Estate, Theo. W. Herr Com
mittee. ’
Cyrus G; Mohn’s Estate. R. G. MohD et. al
Assignee. ’
Jaoob K. Landis’ Estate, John Miller, et. al.
Committee. ' ’
.... W. L. BEAR, Prothonotary.
Prothonotary’H Otllco, Keh. 10, 1860. 07-417