Sbt §mmir gtjMUgm*r, Published every 'Wednesday by n. o. smith go U. G. Smith, TERMS— I Two Dollars por annum, payable In all oases In advanco. Tub Lancaster Daily Intelligences Is published every evening, Sunday excepted, at 6 per Annum In advance. OFFlCE—Southwest cosines or Centre itare. Jfed Wlilstson’s Sweetheart. I. HEARTS AND TARTS. Have you never observed that cer tain shops seem to have been taken at a long lease by Failure, and underlet to unfortunate speculators, whostruggle for a little while to-establieh a business, and then suddenly vanish ? No. 10 Drea ry street, Bedford Square, held this un satisfactory position in the world of trade. It had been a grocery for three months, when creditors came and re moved the stores, leaving nothing be hind but a mixed smell of tallow and molasses. A watchmaker had tried to establish himself there, but his strong est magnifyiugglass, though ever glued to his eye, failed to detect a customer, and no sound was ever heard iu his shop but the tic—the tic douloureux — of his merchandise. Of course, his af fairs were soon wound up. Then a crinoline merchant made an indelicate exhibition of feminine under-garments without, however, adding to the bustle of tho establishment, li was now de voted to refreshment, but stomachic putfs tempted the passers-by as little as the dorsal had done; ginger-beer ruled flat, lemonade was a drug, buns were heavy, ami poor Annie Johustoue found the problem of keeping the wolf from the door—the wolf which noking or parliament can extirpate—more dif ficult to solve daily. She sat behind her little dingy counter writing a let ter, with but small chance of a custom er corning in to interfere with the work of composition. “ My Dear Un<-lc William, —Papa told me 1 was never to apply toynu because you had helped him once, ami had re fused to do so again, and you were dis pleased because we tried Lo keep a shop which indeed hss been a very lame at tempi, for there js no chaneu of the shop’s keeping us. 1 di.sohey him now, because I do not know whai else to do. I have not seen or hear ! of papa for live days, and almost fear that something .may have happened to him, though he often lias to hide for a hub* time, be cause of creditors ; for he lias not been much more successful in getting tosell coal or wine on commission, or as an agent for insurance companies, than I have been as a confectioner, and he has not brought me any money now for a long time. lie hinted lo me ttiat he might go übroad, hut I hardly think he would have done that' without letting me know ; and yet he was always so afraid of his many letters being stop ped, and helping people to trace him, that he may have hone it. If tlie rent is not paid by Monday, 1 shall be turn ed out of the Imu-e, and then what am Ito do? You see, dear Uncle William, I am oblirjtd to write to you, because J have no one ciso to a.-k ; and if you will not put me iu tho way of earning my living somehow, I must positively beg, and that would t-vt-n no.-re di-credi table than selling or Irj ing tone 11, pas try, wouldn’t it? It really is not my fault; 1 have tried my best, and dined on stale buns for buys and days. “ Your uHcolionute niece, " An Nit: Johnstone.” She direclt d this letter to “Win. Johnstone, JAq., Joss House Villa Southend,” and laid it on the counter before her just as a customer came in— a very young man, with very shiny boots ami iiat, brilliant gloves, and a natty umbrella, who saluted on enter ing iu a manner not customary amongst Englishmen, who generally remain covered iu a shop, however attractive the mistress of it may be. “Good morning, JMi.-s Johnstone,” said lie, in an embarrassed way ; “I have come for my luncheon. n If the youth looked embarra- -. d, the girl looked vexed. She . 'Pored over her forehea i. and Knit her brows Btraugely, lonMdi-ring how few cus tomers she hud, and how great was her need of them. Her reply, too, was as impolitic as the i pressioti of her coun tenance. being an intimation that she was afraid,she had nothing toollerhim. “O,” he,replied, “I never eat heavy luncheons, just a b i.-dn of soup aud a glass of sherry.” “I have no soup, and the sherry is out.” “Well, now T think of it, 1 am tired of soup; J had HOuiier have u sandwich and a pint bottle of Jhiss.” “I cauuot give you those either,” said she. “O, well,” lie persisted, “it’s of no consequence. . 11 ere is some pastry, and I am very fond of pastry; and that,with a bottle of ginger beer—” The girl, who hud been constraining herself with diflirulty, now broke out, “You can get a good luncheon at a dozen places close by!” she exclaimed with uncalled for vehemence; “why do you not go to one of them ?” “1 I like this best,” he stammered. “Your pastry, though not perhaps, quite wlmt you might call new, seems to agree with me better; or I mean, you know —” “You come here out of charity!” cried the girl bursting into tears. — “You think 1 am poor ami want cus tom, and so you come here aud try to eat —stull'; aud i am sure you go where you can get proper food afterwards somewhere else. 11 is not my fault if I can't have things nice !” “D, for goodness' sake!— O, don’t cry! Omy pretty,- I mean to say, I don't know what* I am saying,” cried the youth, in go at di-tiess. “Well, if you must have the truth, 1 donoi 1 come here for your st.de tarts but h<*cause I fell in love with you through the win dow one day ; and every time I have come here I have fallen more and more in love with you ; aud if you will not loye me hack, and piomi.se to marry me, I’ll—l don't know what l won’t do ; there ! ” Seeiug that his charmer did not give any signs of being further oll'emled, but only left oil crying, and looked down in confusion, the youth took couruge, dropped his gloves into his hat, and hi 9 hat on a little rouud table, and leaned his elbows on the counter over agaiust Annie, who did not draw back; aud thus the young people’s heads were not separated by any very cruel distance. “What nnusen.-e,” she murmured. “ It may hs* nmi-mise tooxpeet you will ever like me," replied the youth ; “but it is serious earnest that 1 have not beeu able to get you out of my head all th 13 month, try what 1 could; aud all my friemjd are wondering what is the mat ter with me. If I have not tliechauce of getting you for my wife, I do noteure whether 1 pas 3 my examination or not. That is sense 1 hope.” ‘•Butyou are so young-” “ I’ll bet I am older than you !', “O, but that is nothing. Aud then— you are agentlemau.” “And so are you a lady,” said the youth. ‘O, I learned all about you from your father. I saw him leaviug this house one day, and a little while afterwards I met him in a smoking room, and we happened toget into con versation. He told mellow he had lost his property in unfortunate specula tions, —on the turfand otherwise, —and how, instead of sitting down helplessly, as so many young ladies who have been brought up in luxury would do, you tried to earn a living so pluckily. Aud that made mo love you still more.” “ Did you tell my father you knew the shop, and had steu me? ” “Why,uo ; I did uotliko to do.that.” .“Why?—Ah! I know the reason ; he borrowed money of you ! ” cried Annie, coloring with vexatiou. “ Only a triile, —the veriest trifle.” " And I cannot even repay that! You see how hopeless and foolish an engage ment between us would be.’ “ No, I don’t.” “ I have nothing in the world, aud no expectations.” “No more, have I!” cried the lad, with exultation. “I have nothing in the world, and I have uo expectations. Why, wo were ordained for each other.” In the course of further parley, it transpired that the youug man’s name was Edward Whiston ; that he was ar ticled to a solicitor, and had just served his time; also, that he had gained ap plause in private theatricals, and had an idea that his real vocation was the stage,—an evident resource in case Mr. Johnstene, the father, did not turn up, and Mr. Johnstone, the uncle, refused to receive his niece, a state of aflfairs which would render an immediate mar riage prudent. Aunie did not quite see the logic of this, but owned that her distress at-seelng Mr. Edward Whiston (well, N—ned) come in for a bad lunch every other day, was caused by a pecu liar dbjection to receive charity from him, which would not have occurred to her in the case of any other human be* ing. Smith, Brown, Jones orßobinßon _____ ; 5 YOLUME 70 LANCASTER PA. WEDNESDAY MORNING DECEMBER 1~1869 " NUMBEK~4S A. J. Stein MAW might'have killed themselves with bad pie-crust, and while wonderiDgat their taste, she would have pocketed their shilliugs with rejoicing. Finally, it occurred to Ned Wblston to look at hie watch, and the position of the hands drew a whistle of dismay from his lips. “ Nearly three!” he cried ; “ and Jenkins is waiting for my return to go and get his dinner.” Aud with a hurried hand-squeeze he took his departure. Next day at 1.10 he reappeared, fol lowed by a man bearing a tray, which contained oysters, stout, and slices of cold beef. “ Since it hurts your feelings to feed me with your wares, I have brought my own luncheon,” said Ned, whenlheand Annie were alone again. “There is double what I can eat, I see ; will you not help me out with it ?’’ I had always a better opinion of Ned Whiston for divining that Annie's larder might be understocked, and pro* viding her with a meal in this diplo matic manner ; ana Annie, who was faint as well as anxious, appreciated it too. It sounds shockingly unromantic to suppose that eatingaud drinkingcan have any connection with theaflfect;ons, yet there seems an incompleteness about either the friendship or the love upon which the digestive organs have not set their seal. I do not deny that the more ethereal kiss may be the correct aiyillum amoris, but every corner of the shop was visible from the street, and as for asking her lover into the back parlor while her ; father was absent, Annie was far too correct a young lady to think of such a thing, aud, indeed, Master Ned.had not the impudence to hint at an invitation of the kind being welcome. Wo they ratified their engagement with oysters aud porter seated opposite to each other at a little round marble-topped table; and when themeal was concluded, they felt as if they had been acquainted for months. On returning so late to the oflice the day before, Ned Whiston had been sub jected to troublesome questioning as to what he had been doing with himself all the time; so he took care to leave early tr-day, announcing his intention of returning at the same hour on the morrow. But oil the following morning he was sent on to Chester with certain import ant deeds. That was on the Thursday, and he did not get back till {Saturday night; and as he lived at home, some fifteen miles out of town with observant relatives, he could not get away on the Sunday withoutexciting awkward curi osity; so that it was not till luncheon- time on Monday that he entered Dreary Street with a throbbing heart. Theshut ters were up at No. 10. Poor Ned felt for a momeut as if his heart and lungs hail struck work. Was she dead ? No, no. impossible. Her father, perhaps; he had disappeared suddenly, and might have committed suicide. The idea of disturbing a recent sorrow made him drop the bell-handle without ringing, aud look round for a likeiy place for information. There was a brush-shop immediately opposite, aud the portly dame who kept it was standing in the doorway, eying him with a certain curiosity. She had agood-natured look about her, so he crossed the road, and asked her if she knew* what was the matter. “ Lor!” exclaimed the woman ; “and r who thought you would perhaps tell me; sure you were a friend or relative, or something, 1 thought, going there most days the last mouth aud more ! ” And she seemed quite injured. “ I only went as a—a customer,” said Ned ; “ but I have got to take a sort of interest, and so, seeing the shop shut up—” “I see, I see; yon look quite pale; come in and sit dowu. Lor ! I’ve been a young girl myself, and I remember hearing how Jim was took when he lirst heard I had ing of that sort; she went away quite well, as far as I could see, only crying.” “ She has gone away, then ?” “Bless you, yes ; didn’t I say so ? A gentleman, notherfather, came inacab at twenty-live minutes past ten yesterday morning, or perhaps it might be a little uearer the half hour; I saw him because my room looks out oil the street, aud I was before the glass putting on my bonnet for church. My husband used to go to chapel, and, I believe, prefers it now, only I won’t put up with noth ing so vulgar. What gentle-folks do you see at chapel ? I say to him. Why, look at the carriage company as goes to church, compared to —” “ What aged gentleman ?” interrupt ed Ned. “Well, middle-aged; or, as he was got up youthful, perhaps we might say elderly. A iiue man, though, tall ami stoutish, with a light-brown wig, and whiskers dyed to match. Wig ami dye I know not natural, because of the crow’s-feet; no mau ever had such crow’s feet a 3 them without a bill of gray. Well, he got out, and went into the house, leaving the cab waiting; and as I felt a sort of in terest in that Miss Johnstone, poor thing, her father being such a regular bad uu, I waited too, and gave up my church for ouce ; not but what I hold that it briugs luck to —” “Exactly; I agree with you. And how long did thegentleinau atop ?” ( “Till twelve o’clock, keeping the cab waiting ; which would have been much cheaper to have paid the first oil', and taken another. Aud then he came out, followed by Mies Johnstoue, who had a box, which the cabman took and put on the roof; and a bandbox and um brella, which she took inside with her, But lirst she locked the house doorand took the key out, and a* she turned to get into the cab, I saw that she was ‘crying.” That was all the information Ned Whiston could get at the time; but when he revisited the spot later in the day, he found a weazened man with a very sour expression on hisfacecomiugoutofXo. 10, aud asked him if be knew whathad happened. “Yes,” replied theman; 1 the father’s drowned, and the daughter’s hooked it, and I am done out of my rent —that’s what has happened.” 11. Joss HOUSE VILLA, You are probably uuder the impres siou that no one has ever yet adopted the Pavilion at Brighton as an archi tectural model, and if that is the case, I must request you to dispel the false idea, for Joss House Villa, near Southend, was a reproduction iu minature of that remarkable edifice. When Mr. Win. Johnson was a young man and a nom inal barrister, it was considered that he bore'* some resemblance in face aud figure to the Prince Itegeut; and, since nature had moulded him after the fash of the first gentleman in Europe, lie considered it his duty to act comforta bly ; so he dressed hiuself hideously, attended prize-fights aad cock-pits, in trigued, played high, got frequently intoxicated, slutted bis head with a prodigious quantity of scented snuff, and imitated his royal prototype in every other way that his constitution aud purse would allow. By the time he was thirty, however, both began to give out, so he wisely determined to re tire into the country with a rich wife.— Dissolute men are very fond of falling back upon the latter plau for retrieving their broken fortunes, but women are not quite so foolish a 3 satirists make out, aud do not always fall in with these prudent little arrangements, Mr. Johnstone, however, was more for tunate; the royal resemblance which had been his bane now proved his reine-' dy, and, coupled with an insinuation that perhaps there might be a natural reasou for it proved too much for the loyal beartof a drysaltery widow, who was not, as scandal peported, quite double her second husband’s age, and whose temper was therefore naturally soured by the persistency with which people whom they met ou their wedding tour would mistake them for mother aud son. After his marriage Mr. Johnstone happily refrained from assimilating his domestic arrangements to those of his royal prototype, but the ruling passion broke out when became to build a home for himself on a small estate belonging to his wife near the mouth of the Thames, and resulted iu the model of the Pavilion alluded to; a style of architecture which suited Mrs. Johnstone also well enough, as, in ad dition to the associations, more than half the rooms in the building codld be used for nothing but the storing up of jams aud pickles, the concoction of which articles was the delight of her life. She managed to preserve herself— whether with sugar or vinegar, I de cline to state —for fifteen years after marriage, and then she turned to mould leaving her husband in a position to set up a grocery, had he been bo minded. He was not; neitherdid he relapse into the sowing of wild oats, perhaps because his morals had improved, but also be cause it was doubtful whether the soil would stand a second crop. Ho visited HondoD only occasionally, aud then his flag was pulled down. Hoisting and lowering that flag was his morningand evening amusement. On royal birth days and coronation days he fired twen ty-one small cannon, going from one to another with a red-hot poker, which was quite a sight. Otherwise he vege tated, and differed from a turnip prin cipally in being occasionally bored, and entertaining vague wishes that some eligible woman would look him up and marry him. But the years passed away; George the Fourth became the prey of worms and satirists; a generation sprang up which knew little of that model gentleman, and had the bad ta-ite to dislike that little. Mr. John stone could not now have gone about with ten yards of tablecloth round his neck, and coat buttons between his shoulder blades, without causing the very sheep to baa at him. He modified his apparel, therefore; but his heart clung to the old times, and hugged the old resemblance; so he still had his wig made up in exact imitation of the ex-dandy's hair, still adopted his favorite attitudes, still took scented snuff. With his eider aud only brother he had not, of late years, been on good terms. He owed him no grudge for having been born first; he forgave him fur selling the small lauded estate which had been in the family for a respectable number of years; but when he dis graced the name, a succession of petty tricks aud contrivances for raising a few pound*, aud especially when he tried to make a milch cow of Aim, he quarrelled with him. His enmity disso.ved, how ever, in the newsof his death by drown ing while crossing over to Jersey, and he hurried to London at once, and brought Annie to his Chinese home with despatch and secrecy. “I am glad to adopt you,«-my dear,” he said ; ‘‘but I do not waut to adopt all your credi tors.” It had been a struggle to Mr. John stone to break up the ordinary routine of his existence by establishing .his niece as mistress of wlmt had now for years been a bachelor home ; but it al most always pays to do the right thing, and he was rewardedfor bisconquestof habit and indolence by being released from the thrall of his housekeeper, a tyrannical, stupid, pilfering, tippling dame, to whom he had not dared to men tion his in ten lions with respect to Annie, whichindeedhad from the circumstan ces to thcc&se been necessarily eouceived aud executed very suddenly, and upon thi 1 niece of her master's (term of cour tesy) burst therefore like a thunderbolt from a clear sky. As Annie was very young and quiet in manner, Mrs. Gob ble hoped at first, indeed, to overawe her, but soon finding that she had met her match, her emotions became 100 much for her, aud,combiued perhaps with an injudicious amount of nourish ment, brought her gout to such a climax, that she could not even play at doing her work, and had to retire. Annie's society had one curiou3effect upou her uncle; it resuscitated all his haukeriDgs after asecoudmarriage. For if he was to have a lady at the head of his house, why, he reasoned with him self, should it not be a wife ? So a flir tation wbicli bad been budding between Mr. Johnstone and Miss Plumtree, of Southend, for the last threeyears began to throw out decided shoots. It was not so very absurd. Mr. Johnstone was a lit tie over sixty, aud Miss I‘lumptree was a little over forty, Both were comfort ably off, and had calm and sober lean ings towards matrimony. Miss Plum tree was not only forty, but fair and fat, —just such a figure as the monarch of Mr. Johustoue’s soul would have ad mirefl ; aud this fact tended greatly to feed the mature flame. Theu there was IniiM.w.ai.il intiillul.u ... V. V-~ V... 1 only met her occasionally before his niece came to live wilh him, he now saw her almost daily, a fervent friend ship having sprung up between her and Annie. They were sitting together now in a willow-pattern summer house, on the brink of a small pond, the lair of a dra gon who was supposed to spout, but who followed the example of many gentlemen who are elected into a cer tain House for a similar purpose, and didu’t. It was in thestrawberry season, and a fine dish of the fruit stood on the table between them, with which, needlework, and confidential chat, they were beguiling the morning hours not unpleasautly. “And so you have never heard of him since?” said Miss Plumptree. “Never,” replied Annie. “Just like all the men, dear; ‘Out of sight, out of mind.”’ “ Nay, I do not blame him, poor fel low. I do not see how he could have found me out, if he tried ever so, I left so suddenly, so mysteriously.” “0, well,” sighed Miss Plumptree, “ if he had been his great grandfather, he would have discovered you some how; butyoung men are not what they were; they are so selfish, so listless, everything is too much trouble to them. And you never hinted anything about it to your uncle?” “O, no, ’’said Annie; “besides, he does not take hints; you must speak out plainly if you want him to under stand your wishes.” “ Hum,” said Miss Plumptree, “Aud then,” continued Aunie, “he was so young, aud not in a position to marry for ever so long ; aud the ac quaintanceship was so short; and his friends would be sure to disapprove ; so that altogether, perhaps, it as it is.” “ And do you love him still, dear?” “ I think I do; he was kind, you see, when I had no one else, and—” "There, don’t cry, dear. Have a strawberry.” Annierecovered her equilibrium, and turned the subject. “I can’t think what has happeued to Uncle William,” she said ; “ he does take such a funny interest in how I look all of a sudden. He takes iu a paper with the fashions in it, and stands looking critically at me with his head on one side, anil his eyes screwed up, for minutes together ; aud then he walks round me gravely, as if I were a horse; indeed, I expect him to say, “Come up; tuck, luok ; come over!” every moment, or to look in my mouth. Aud jf my hair is not done, or my dress cut according to the fashion-plates, he scolds me. Aud then he takes me over to Southend whenever he hears that a packet is coming in, and walks me up and down that long pier. Aud he is always on the lookout for concerts or entertainments of any kind we can go to. Can you explaiu it-?” “I think 1 can give agues?,” said Mis 3 Plumptree ; “in fact, I expect that my influence may have something to do with it. The plain truth is, my dear, that he wants to get you married.” “No!” cried Annie, with a jump. “But he told me distinctly, when I first came here, that, though I might expect to be provided for in his will, Imustnot look for any dowry, or even much of a trousseau, in case I were to marry ; and that did not look much like great anx iety on the subject.” “ No, dear; but his views have under gone a change. The fact is, that he does your humble servant the honor to wish “0, and you will take him, won’t you ? It will be so nice to call you aunt, and have you living in the house! "cried Annie, enthusiastically. “Well, dear,” continued Miss Plump tree, “it seemed to me that the oppor tunity was a good one for advancing your interests, so I refused to give him a definite answer while you were un settled; not nut what I would sooner have you for a companion, of course, but it does not do to be selfish; aud as youruncieisinclined to bewhat we may call careful in his money matters, which is often the case with those who have been somewhat extravagant in youth, I thought a little stimulant to his gener osity would be beneficial. Hush’ here he comes. Can anything be the mat ter?” This possibility was suggested by Mr. Johnstone’s face and manner, the former being bewildered, the latter hurried and excited, as he came towards themfrom his Joss House with an open letter in his hand. Something the matter? Indeed, there was; nothing less than a threat of losing his late wife’s property, and being reduced once more to the straits which had driven him into premature matrimony thirty years before. One of those Doctors’ Commons grubbers, who live by holding out that they have dis covered something to somebody’s ad vantage,—which generally turns out to be a fraudulent mare’B nest, but every now and then—just often enough to tempt fresh flocks of gulls—proves to be a discovery of real importance,—had fished up evidence that the late Mrs. Johnstone had by rights only a life interest in her first husband’s property; and having thereupon discovered the person who, under such circumstances, would be the claimant, he had put himself into communication with him. Said claimant proved indeed to be in the legal profession, which was a dis appointment for the grubber; but as there was reallly something in the evi dence he had lit upon, his time was not entirely thrown away. This was the startling information which was conveyed to Mr. Johnstone in the hard, sharp words of a lawyer’s letter, and which he now communicated in his distress to Miss Plumptree and Annie. They cheered him with san- i guine speeches ; and when he bad | gathered his wits together, he started j for London, to seek an interview with his solicitor. That acute gentleman informed him that there seemed to be really some thing in the claim which was setup, but that it would take a deal of legisla tion to prove it, and so far as he could see, it was odds oa the man in posses sion eventually winning the day. But still, if an advantageous compromise were to be suggested, it might be as well to take it into consideration. So Mr. Johnstone took to walking for hours about the garden of Joss House Villa with his eyes bent ou his toes, and his hands clasped behind his back, lost in thought and muttering at inter vals, “Advantageous compromise.'’ He was accustomed to spread a silk pocket handkerchief over his head after dinner, and take forty winks, —at the rate of one wink to two minutes; but his slumbers niw were strangely dis turbed. He would turn aud mutter, , and liia mutterings, to the excitement of Annie’s curiosity, invariably formed some part of the words “Advantage ous compromise!” 111. THE ADVANTAGEOUS COMPROMISE. Miss Plumptree and Annie Johnstone sat in the same queer summerhouse, overlooking the dragon in the chick weed, employed in the same description of needlework, the advance of the year being shown by a basket of apricots which stood in the place of the straw berries. Mr. Johnstone sat near them in silent abstraction. At intervals, in deed, he would tilt his chair forward to bring his hand within range of the mellow fruit, of which he was devour ing a choleraic quantity ; but he seem ed to do so mehanically, as if he did not quite know what he was about; and, indeed, while his palate was engaged with the apricots, his mind was absorb ed in contemplation of his position. “ That hno r that remarkably fine wo man,” he said to himself, as his eyes rested admiringly on Miss Plumptree, “will not marry me until that girl is off my hands, which is less likely to hap pen than ever, now that it is doubtful if I can give her, or eveu leave her a penny. And yet, if these fellows really manage to take away my money, and there is uo kuowing what lawyers may not do in that way, it will be an extra reason why I should marry a womau with a nice competence to make up. I wonder how George the Fourth would have acted under similar cir cumstances? But bah! how could he possibly have been placed iu them ? Wheu a king has his property taken from him, he does not go to law; he fights, or rather other people fight, which is better still, and settle the mat ter that way.” His meditations were interrupted by a servant bearing a card, who told him that a gentleman wished to see him. “Wharo havo ynn qhnron bltn "'l , “Into the grand music nail,’' replied the girl. Too much Hurried to say a word to either of the ladies, Mr. Johnstoue has tened to the grand music hall, an apart ment uueenTeet by thirteen, where he found a young man. “ The —ah 1— the claimant, I be lieve?” said Mr. Johnstone, glancing from his visitor to the card he held in his hand. “Yes,” replied the other. “The course which I have taken, in calling upon you personally, may seem somewhat strange, especially for a lawyer; but there has been some mention of the possibility of a compromise; and to tell the simple truth, you have been in possession so loug aud the information which ena bles me to contest your rights has come from so disreputable a quarter, that I am rather ashamed of my position, and woulld prefer settling the matter amicably to commencing a long course of litigation. “A very professional view of the case, I own, but I beg you to believe that I should have no such scruples if I were acting for a client. It is a delicate mat ter, however, to make the first ap proaches towards a compromise in writing, because, if 3-our opponent is unwilling to entertain it, he may take it as an acknowledgment of weakness, and become confirmed in the strength of his case; or lie may find a weapon in some sentence of your letter which may be turned againstyou. So I have determined to sink the lawyer. I am only a very youug one, and call upon you personally to talk the matter over quietly, and see if you are inclined to meet me half way. Of course, you will commit yourself to nothing without consulting your solicitor.” “I am no great friend to litigation myself,” said Mr. Johnstone; “aud if you can show me that your claim is really a good one, I am ready to listen to what you have to propose.” The young man then commenced translating the case from jargon into Euglish ; and when his auditor seemed to have a pretty clear idea of it in all its bearings, he told him that he had sooner the first sketch of a compromise should come from him. “ Are you married ?” cried Mr. John stone, his eyes brightening with a sud den idea. “ No.” “Then, by George!” slapping his thigh, “ why not marry my niece?” “ You do me great honor, I am sure,” stammered the young man. “So un expected! so sudden! Noideaof marry ing, unless— Besides, I have not the pleasure of knowing the lady ; in fact, was not aware you had a niece.” “O, you shall soon know her,” cried Mr. Johnstone ; “she is in the garden. Come and be introduced.” And he led the way towards the summer-house, his visitor following with a face of comic perplexity. “ Mary another; perhaps afterwards to find her—never!” he said to himself. “ Aunie,” said Mr. Johnstone, “let me introduce you to — Halloa!” No wonder he, as well as Miss Plump tree,* was astonished, for the stranger cried out; “Annie, my Annie, is itpos eible!” aud rushed forward to seize her hand, which she gave him with a little cry of “Ned !” “Why, Annie, have you met Mr. Whiston before?” l “ Yes. uncle.” “Oyes, sir,” said Ned Whiston; “and when she disappeared from Drea ry Street so mysteriously and suddenly, I was in despair. I have looked for her everywhere; I advertised in the sensa tion columnof the Times, not by name, of course, but so that she might under stand.” “ We have it sent the second day,aud the supplement does not come with it.” Well, I expect that you do’not want the whole story over again, so we may omit the rest of the conversation. Every thing was arranged satisfactory. Ned Whiston, who was doing a respectable and yearly increasing business, married Annie when the peaches came in; a nice sum was paid down on their marriage, aud the remainder of the property se cured to them on Mr. Johnstone’9 death, subject to an annuity to be paid to his widow, if he left one. A month after the young people had been settled in their new home, Mr. Johnstone and Miss Plumptree were quietly tied together; aDd the first thing the former did, after returning to Joss House Villa, was to walk into the kitchen and put the poker in the fire. “What art yon about, dear?” inquir ed his bride. “I am going to fire a wedding salute, —twenty-one guns,” replied her hus band. And he did. Safety of Mr. Livingstone. liONBON, Nov. 23,1869. —It is now abso lutely certain that the great African travel er, the Rev. David Livingstone, is safe. The Duke of Argyle yesterday received a telegram from the Governor of Bombay, containing the information that he (the Gov ernor) haa just received a letter from Mr Livingstone himself, dated Ujijl, May 18, 1869. Mr. L. was in good health,, and was everywhere well treated. The Chinese in California, Their Relation to ttie Labor Interest — Their Pursuits and t suffts. BY J. Y. FOSTER. The Chinesequarter in San Francisco lies in the heart of the city, bordering on Montgomery street, the Broadway of the Pacific metropolis. Their princi pal andmostextensive stores are located on Sacramento and Kearney streets, the leading house, that of Chy Lung& Co., I being on the former street, with a i branch on the latter. The establish | ment stands at the head of the Chinese j mercantile interest, and is owned and j managed exclusively by Chinamen, | I who import their goods directly from , ! the land of their nativity. The proprie j tors and clerks speak English with tol- J 1 erable proficiency, and are affable and ; j polite in the last degree, displaying : their goods and explaining what is : novel in their wares with the utmost cordiaiity. If you are agentleman, the proprietor usually greets you with the : compliments of the day, which are j speedily supplemented by a proffer of ; cigars or other evidence of hospitality. You are not at any time pressed to pur chase, nor are you annoyed by extrava-j gant attention of any sort- You ard simply made to feel that you are hearti ly welcome, and that if you are disposed to buy, your host will be only too hap py to secure your patronage, but that if you are otherwise inclined, you are en titled all the same to courteous treat ment. ThB large Chinese houses exert a ( commanding influence over the Chi nese population of the city, the propri etors, as men of wealth and intelligence, being looked to with a sort of reverence by the poorer classes, who, in the ab sence of protection by the laws, deeply feel the need of influential patrons and friends. It is said to the credit of the wealthier Chinaman of California that they maintain a zealous watch over the interests of their humble countrymen, and seldom fail to use their influence and means in behalf of any who may in any way stand in need of their friendly intervention. The population of the Chinese quarter is almost exclusively male, there being very few women, except of the aban doned class. One can traverse whole blocks, looking into every nook and corner, without discovering a female. Of course, there are no children, these being left with the mothers in China. Many of the houses have dozens of in mates; some have hundreds packed together in three or four rooms. One large boarding house, formerly a hotel, has 3,000 lodgers every night. Accom panied by the Chifeof Police, we were enabled to inspect the sleepingarrange ments of this dense human hive, and we learned more than weeverknew before of the art of economizing space. The sleep ing berths,which are very simpleand.al toget her primili ve,consist of ashell some four feet wide, built against the walls of the room and extending all the way I around. A second .shelf two or three inches in width, projects from the wall J at a slight elevation above thefir j ' - serving as a headboard or pillow, ‘me main shelf is divided into sections by a single board extending from the wall to thu outer edge, and having in the cen tre an orifice in which to place a lamp. Here, on this rude shelf, the Chinaman sleeps and smokes, lighting his pipe at will at the burning lamp. When we saw them they were packed away on the shelves, each section having its full quota, like herring in a box, lying so close that, apparently, not an inch of space was lost. Many who smoke opi um seem to regard these rude beds as lows that ever cushioned a royal head. Of course lodging charges in houses where such accommodations are afford ed amount to but a few pence per night and it may be this fact which com mends them, in the first instance, to the provident Chinamen. We have said, in a previous article, that nearly every house in the Chinese quarter has its shop in front. The cook ing and other household offices are per formed in the rear apartments or in the upper chambers as convenience may require. Few kitchens are needed, and a very little furniture answers the pur pose of the household, every member of which is constantly employed else where. The houses are, for the most part, anything but cleanly, showing unmistakably the absence of the deft hand of woman. Upon the streets, how ever, John Chinaman is always neat and tidy. You never see him in rags or with disordered garment. We saw one rag-picker whose neatness would have shamed the best and nicest of that profession in Newark or New York.— The Chinese dress usually consists of a smock of blue stuff, worn loosely over pantaloons of similar goods, with wood en shoes, white stockings and a felt hat with wide brim. The majority wear their cues coiled beneath their heads, but others walk the streets in all the glowing pride and pomp of enormous pig tails. Some who are slowly adapt ing themselves to our customs, wear toots or shoes, and so far as dress i 3 concerned, do notdifferfrom ourown people. The wealthier classes wear silk garments, instead of woolen, and we saw a few whose apparel was richer and costlier by far thau anything worn by the best class of Americans. The leading merchants whom we saw had dispensed with pig-tails, having their pates as closely shaved as any monk. It is one of the anomaliescharacterizing this singular people that while thus uniformly cleanly and neat on the street and in their places of business, they are directly the opposite in their houses. We have said that there are no drones in the Chinese hive. All have some thing to do. While the majority are employed in trades, there are others who find employment as gardeners, cooks, or as dealers in fruits and vege tables. Every morning you meet Chi namen by the dozen, in the principal streets, with long poles on their shoul ders. balancing at either end an enor mous basket filled with vegetables, designed for sale in localities remote from the market. These baskets some times contain two or three bushels each, but the Chinaman being an expert in balancing, carries his load, under which any person of ordinary strength would sink, with perfect ease—moving with a swinging, rollicking gait, indicative of neither weariness or exhaustion. It is said that these small in fruit and vegetables driveathrivingbusiness with people of mode-ate meaus, who are not able to purchase in other than small quantities. Another pursuit in which many Chinese find employment in that of washing and ironing. In all parts of the city they have their little laundries, or rather their little workhouses, where they faithfully and promptly execute all orders. Every day John may be found at the hotels gathering up the garments of guests soiled by travel, and carrying them away in huge bundles, to be made “ white ass Dow.” As wash ers, the Chinese cannot be excelled. No matter how indifferent the quality of the garment committed to their man ipulation, they will return it in a condi tion that cannot but extort commenda tion. Such a gloss as they put on your shirt bosoms or cuffs,or on thecollarsand what-not of your wife, you cannot find anywhere else. Their method of work ing differs very much from ours. lostead of “ wringing ” the article in wash, in order to dry it, they beat it on a table; inßtead of “ sprinkling,” preparatory to ironing, they spurt the water from their mouths. At Sacramento, and other places, where this business is extensive ly carried on, Chinamen may be seen at any hour of the day along the banks of streams, busily plying their vocation, some washii g, others thrashing the garments on tables or benches, while others still perform some other part in the important process of cleaning that which was defiled. Something has been said of the imi tative faculty and the wonderful power of adaption of the Chinese. This is very often illustrated by those employed as servants. They always do precisely as they are told. General Doubleday told us this incident by way of illustration: A lady, showing her cook how to make a pie punctured the “ upper crust;” as usual, explaining the object to the ob servant Chinaman. Nothing was said as to the number of holes, but every pie afterwards made by the cook was punc tured in precisely the same place and with just as many holes, and no more, as that made by the mistress in giving him his lesson of instruc tion. In factories, if the article set before the Chinaman as a model, hap pens to have a defect, that which he produces will be a literal copy. A lady carried to a manufacturer of chinaware a cup and saucer of peculiar pattern, ; desiring him to make her a set precisely i like it. It so happened that the cup had been chipped, two or three small pieces ; having been broken from the edge, the saucer being in a similar the lfidy in due ;time received her set every cup had a chipped edge, and every saucer had jast the number of “nicks” found in the pattern. We shall have more to say of this peo ple, and certain aspects of their life, in an other and concluding paper. —Newark Courier . j A Ylsit to the Homo of Barns. ! Fpjclal Correspondence of The Day. | Edinburgh, Nov. 9,1569. [ One of the first excursions I made from Glasgow, was down into Ayrshire ; for the purpose of visiting the poetic ; land of Burns. Contrary to my expec : tations, the weather for this trip proved : to be delightful—being one of those clear, bright days so rare in Scotland at this season of the year. J Starting from the station of the S. W. i Railway, near thejßrowniclaw, we sooq t reached the thriving town of Paisley— : famous for the manufacture of woollen j shawls and cotton thread—and farther noted as the birth-place ofTannahiil, the poet, and Professor Wilson. The ride from Paisley to Ayr is accomplish ed in about two hours, and passes through an agricultural region of much fertility and interest. The universal prevalence of the hawthorn hedge en hances the beauty of the landscape, while the distant Highlands, of which occasional glimpses are caught, stretch in dim outline far away to the West.— Indeed the whole of this country along and for.miles back from the Clyde, re sembles an immense park or garden, and constantly surprises the traveler with its wonderful beauty and richness. Huge furnaces and manufactories are also frequently passed which, at night, light up the country for miles around with their lurid flames. As the cars have reached the objec tive point of interest for the present, I mast now say a word about the little sea-port of Ayr. “ Anld Ayr, wham ne'er a town surpasses, For honest. and boanie lasses.' 1 For the honesty of the men I must takethepoet'sword. Concerningthelas eeslam qualified to testify,having seen several in the streets, who well deserved the flattering epithet. Ayr is on the Frith of Clyde. Its bay is much ad mired from its resemblance to the bay of Naples. Directly opposite is the is land of Arran, whose lofty mountains are visible on a clear day from the coast of Ireland. From Ayr can be seen the celebrated rock of Ailsa Craig, rising perpendicularly out of the sea to the height of 950 feet, forming a safe resort for innumerable sea-fowl. Pausing a moment to gaze upon the beauty of such surrouudings,andhavingnearly a whole day before me, I proceeded leisurely along the streets, lined in many instan ces with the low,peculiar, straw-thatch |ed cottages of a Scotch village. The Wallace Towerfirst arrested my atten-, lion, ou the9ite of the dungeon where i the hero was confined, having the statue of Wallace in armour in front, and the j clock and bells of the old dungeon at [ the top. A shop for the sale of beer and spirits occupies the first floor, which rather marred the impression made by the town, as it seemed out of keeping ! with the original design. Inquiring next for Tam O’Shanter's , Inn, a citizen kindly pointed it out to I me. Here I stood before the veritable j house where Burns was wont to meet : his gaycompanions- alow, whitestraw thatched house, with a painting above the doorof Tam on his grey mare, while riipcup’'add botiter Jonn'a'na tße latia lord seeing him off with boisterous glee. The name of “A. Glass, Proprietor,” is written on the doorway, which struck me as quite appropriate. Crossing the threshold, I was accosted by the presid ing divinity of the place in the person of Mrs. Glass herself, who at once di rected me to the room where Tam " Goilplanted unco right. Fist by au Ingle bleezmg llaely." Here in this room are many memen toes of the poet. Here is Tam O'Shau ter’s and Souter John’s chair in good preservation, and the landlady’s stirrup cup, which seemed a little worse for wear. Upon my expressing some mis givings as to the cup, which had appar ently undergone some modifications. — Mrs. Glass assured me that though it had been reduced in size and bound with silver, it still retained its identity. Re membering the metaphysical pen knife, and also the alleged faetthatthehuman forked-radish changes throughout once in seven years without losiug identity, I was willing to accept her explanations. From the unmistakable smell of Scotch whiskey which the ancient cup emitted, I inferred that some enthusi astic traveller had recently been test ing its merits in a practical way, and I afterwards had occular demonstration of the truth of this suspicion. But “Nae mon can tether time or tide, The hour approaches, Tam maun rlue. Accordingly, bidding Mrs. Glassgood day, and promising to call again in the morning, I prepared to take the route which Tam pursued on that eventful night, when ‘The wind blew ns ’twAd blow Its last, And rattling showers rose on the blant.” Theßurns’ neighborhood isabouttwo miles from Ayr; so, hiring a cab for half a crown, I drove over a splendid roadjthrough.scenerv almost too beauti ful for earth, to the Burns Cottage, where, dismissing the carriage aud tell ing the driver that I would walk back to Ayr, I proceeded to enjoy the beauties of the place. 'The cottage is a very hum ble house, with two rooms, one of which is fitted up for the exhibition and sale of fancy articles made of wood grown on the banks of the Doon. The kitchen is still preserved in its original state. Mrs. Alexander presides over the place and understands her business well. Two.bon nie Boots lassies, whom I saw in the cot tage, shared my attention equally with the mementoes of the poet, though this is rather an embarrassing confession. Having purchased a souvenir of the place, I was eager to see what had been thesurroundingsof this wonderful man of genius and lover of nature, who has bodied forth the feelings of so many generations of his countrymen, and whose name will live while poetry finds a response in the human soul. — About a stone’s throw further on, stands “AUoway’s Auld Hunted Kirk,” where Tam O'Shanter saw an unco sight. Its ancient walls still stand desolate and solitary, forming a strange mausoleum for Lord Alloway, who was buried within. In the belfry hangs the old bell, mute now as the worshippers who sleep their last sleep in the surrounding tombs. Here Burns’ father andmother were buried. Here lies Souter Johu and many others, unknown to fame. Burns himself was buried in Dumfries, where he died at the early age of 39. The monument to the poets memory is a noteworthy object; also, the grotto containing the statues of Souter John and Tam O’Shanter. The Auld Brig o’Doon, not the least picturesque object in the landscape, spans the stream here with its single arch. The age of this antique structure is unknown, but its claims to antiquity are very obvious. I noticed an old peasant leaning over the side of the bridge, apparently in deep meditation. He seemed old enough to have been a contemporary of Burns himself. I ven tured a question as to the kind of fish some boys were angling for in thestream below. “Troot,” he replied, in the broadest of Scottish accent, “and bonny troot they are.” Wishing to know the exact locality of the catastrophe by which Tam’s mare lost her caudal ap pendage, with such alarming results, he pointed ont the spot, and at the same time quoted some lines from the poem, which struck me as very appropos as far as I could understand the broad dia lect. Indeed, the peasantry of Scotland, unlike that of mosf other countries, are generally intelligent. Many of them have some knowledge of Latin, which they acquire in the Parish schools, and have considerable literary taste, you are rarely disappointed in appealing to them for information as to objects of local interest. In the Burns’ neighbor hood, the people are imbued with his spirit and quote his poems with much effect. To feel the full force of this chef d’oeuvre, which Bums himself thought his masterpiece in the poetical line, let the tonristhear it from thelips of the Sexton of Alloway Kirk. The scenery of the Doon, breathing as it does of the very spirt of poetry, must exerted a pbwerful influence on the genius of Burns. Here, amidst the varied images of natural beauty, his im agination found its proper field and ailment; and if poetry to truth, media ■ ted to the acceptance of the soul by the sens© of beauty, we can easily under stand how the forms of external nature as seen fn earth, sky and ocean, become gifted by the poet-s fancy with “a local habitation and a name.” Around this enchanting spot I would gladly linger for days or even months. From the cumber of guests at the King’s Arms Hotel, I should suppose that mauy have been making It their summer resort. But as my poet says— “ Heasurea are like popples spread. Yon seize the llower, ltsbloom lsshed.” The sun is sinking in the West; the shadows are thickening around the “Banks and braes o’bonny Boone;” the chanting of the little birds is becom ing fainter and less frequeut; the peas ants are returning from their labor in the fields; I begin to think of the “lang Boots miles” that lie between me and the railway; so, with many a farewell look at the anld brig, the banks of Boon, the kirk and the cottage, and, casting many a lingering glance behind, I be gan to retrace my steps to Ayr, stopping ever and anon to catch glimpses of the : distant sea, the mountains of Arran, ; and the Rock of Ailsa Craig. Entering the town once more as the [ shades of evening are falling upon it, I ■ find the streets thronged from pave ment to pavement with a promiscuous crowd of meu, womeu and children.— The evening being warm, they had turned out en mas3e to enjoy it. Ming ling with the motley assembly, X spent an nour or two walking the streets and watching the people. At 5.50 I took the train for Glasgow, and reached that city about half-past eleven, having spent a day that will always appear in the retrospect as one of the happiest of my life. J. A. M. - Suez Outdone. A Brtdgo Across (be Straits of Dover. Appleton’s Journal for December ltb, prints an interesting article on the In ternational Bridge between France and England, illustrating it with two beau tiful 'wood engravings. The writer thinks that undoubtedly the plan of a suspension bridge across the Straits of Dover is the most novel, curious, and venturesome proposition seriously en tertained at the moment. We quote; The continuous passage of this arm of the sea has long been discussed, and device after device has been suggested, but after mature reflection all have been laid aside as impracticable. At last, however, a scheme has been ri pened which seems to offer so many guarantees of feasibility that the Brit ish and French governments unite in giving it serious attention. Among the objections to former projects were the enormous relative cost and the inade quacy of the mechanism. With regard to tunnelling, any one who recalls what he has read concern ing the fearful labors and expenses of the Thames tunnel, will readily un derstand why that idea was quickly abandoned in connection with a deep sea bed more than twenty miles in width. The French engineer, Boutet, has fi nally hit upon a system that promises to conquer all difficulties. He has de voted years to the labor of experiment and examination, and has succeeded in getting together a joint-stock company consisting of some of the first engineers and manufacturers in the North of France. This company have caused a model one hundred feet in length, with all appliances and paraphernalia, to be con structed, and with this they explain their project and execute their experi mental trials. Boutet has really two projects to pro bridge u'ltTi a sifigid tiptzn. Tue A-Cuno has in view a bridge of ten spans, each of the latter nearly two milesin length. The latter system is the one preferred, chiefly because it is the more economi cal of the two schemes. The proposi tion is to have the bridge rest upon the Shakspeare Cliff on the English, and upon Cape Blauc-Nez, on the French side. These two promontories, which are of offer sufficient resis tance to sustain the whole weight of the structure. The exact distance between these two main abutments is twenty-nine thousand seven hundred metres, equal to three hundred and fifteen feet less thau eighteen and a half miles, to which must be added four hundred and ninety-two feet more for the escarp ment- on both sides. Each span will consist of five vertical frames or tressels all five firmly fasten ed together so as practically to form but one, presenting the appearance of a net work of X’s. Upon this tressel work will be laid the flooring of the bridge, upon which will be placed the various tracks, road beds, foot paths, etc , the safety of passengers being secured by parapets. Near the escarpment, the platform or tressel of the bridge will be sixty-five feet in vertical dimensions, and sus pended fifty-two feet above the surface of the sea. The construction will be such that at every point lightness and solidity will be combined in the most judicious manner, and the weight equal ly distributed. The strength of the bridge will allow twelve full trains, laden to their utmost capacity, to cross the axis of the spans iu safety at the same time, were they to meet, and had tracks enough to pass. The breadth of the bridge multiplied by its weight gives a resistance thirty six times greater than the force of the strongest gale beating on such a surface. Bo far as the plan has been disclosed to the public, the new idea consists in constructing the pillars of iron, and heavy timber tress-work iu dock yards or other suitable places on shore, so that, by the aid of buoys fas tened below them, andremovnble when they have been secured at*ihe proper point, they can be towed to their places, aud there lowered to the bed of the sea. These places are to be previously ascer tained and marked by floating buoys all attached to one cable, which is to ex tend, like a builder’s line ou laud, across the straits. The base of the pillar, which will consist of open work, in order to offer the less resistance to tide and current, will be extremely firm and strong, aud at the same time have the elasticity of a spriDg, from the peculiarity of itscou struction. The part most exposed to the beating of the waves will be boxed in solidly, and protected by an armor of interwoven galvanized iron-work. — The upper part, ou which the burden of the superstructure will immediately rest, will be open, in order to oppose the smallest possible aggregate of ser vice to the wiuds, and will afford easy access for alteration or repair, and, at the same time, will obstruct the view of mariners, as solid pillars would neces sarily do. The method of securing the pillars on the bottom is not disclosed, but engineers will readily understand that anchors and braces supply all ueeessary-meaDS for that purpose. The towing and sinking of the pil lars present the main dilliculty, aud will have to be done in the fairest wither. 1 The pillars will be wedge shaped, "facing tide and current on the east and west, in the part chiefly exposed to the surface action. The pillars once set and secured, the remaining work will be comparatively easy, although a heavy force will have to be employed on it night and day, and the scaffolding, suspension, and timber work be made to move with the utmost celerity, so as to escape bad weather while incomplete. The methods of interweaving, linking, and bracing, form part of the French inventor’s pat ent, and are his dependence for the re sisting power and stability of thestruc tore. The cost of the International Bridge hasnotbeen publicly stated, but various estimateshavebeen made, from twenty five million to fifty million dollars, which such traffic as would instantly pour through between England and Francs would probably repay-in a few years. The exprese trains would croe3 in less than an hour, allowing for the utmost cautioD, and the common road circulation would be immense. Even the pedestrian passage would pay a heavy percentage. This new system completely revolu tionizes the whole science of bridge buildiDg, and no river, however wide or stormy, can henceforth bar the way of commerce desiring to cross it. Eu rope and Asia may be united by a single span across the narrow part of the Bos phorus, or at the Dardanelles, and the union of the Italian mainland with the Island of Sicily is equally feasible across the straits of Messina. Thus, too, may Denmark be reunited to Sweden, by a bridge over the sound at Eisinore, and conjoin her scattered islands from point to point, and at a future day the trip be made by a belt railroad that shall tra verse the Dorth of Europe, Asia, and America, via Behring’s Straits. COtJSTI MCRDEB. Oplolou of the Attorney Genemi- Jadge Grnbam's rccblou RastaiaeU —••Death Wnrrnnt of the Vou deinuea blgaed— The Day ol Execution Fixed. The caae of Dr. Paul Schoeppo has at last culminated, Governor Geary haying signed his death warrant and design ted tbe22d of December as the day for his execution.** The crime for which be has been condemned to die is the murder of Miss Maria M. Stein necke. Dr. Schoeppe was a practicing physician in Carlisle and bad acquired a good reputa tion among the people with whom be was associated when the death ol Miss Stein necko occurred. This lady was the posses sor of considerable wealth, had reached an advanced aged aud numbered among her acquaintagces Dr. Schoeppe, who was also her physician. On the 27th day of January,.* 1869, she repaired to a bank in Carlisle and drew some of the money there deposited in her name. On the same day she complained of being unwell, when Dr. Schoeppe administered to her a fluid, which she asserted bofore her death was represeutod to be h remedy intended to produce sleep. Oa tho us:h Miss Steiunecke died, nbout thirty-three boars after partaking of tho "medicine” recommended and given her by Dr. Paul Schoeppe. A lew days elapsed and her re mains were interred in a cemetery in Bal timore. In the meantime strong suspicions were aroused that her death was suporiu duced by unnatural causes and that her attendant physician was not unacquainted with them. Several reasons existed for these suspicions, among which were the presentation of a check at a bank on the day following her death, by Schoeppe, pur porting to have been drawn by Miss Stein necke in his favor, but which smacked very strongly of forgery, the fact that the de ceased stated that he had given lier "some thing to make her sleep,” and his claim of sole devise of her pruperty. There wore other minor circumstances to confirm the suspicions of foul play, which it is unne cessary to enumerate. On the supposition that MUs Sleinnecke was tho viettm of poison her body was ex humed on the 10th of February (thirteen days after her death), with a view of sub jecting it to a post mortem examination.— Eminent physicians made n thorough in vestigation and arrived at the conclusion (hat death resulted from some narcotic poison. On the 24th of May tho trial of Doctor Schoeppe commenced and terminated ou the 3rd of June, in his conviction. During the trial numerous opinions of medical au thorities ou both sides were presuntod. The defendant was ably represented by counsel who did all in their power to establish bis innocence. After the prosecution had con cluded their urgument, Judgj Graham de livered a very impartial charge to the jury, reviewing the entire testimony ami ex plaining and answeriug the law points submitted by tho counsel for tna defence. The jury then, at 1 o’clock, p. m., went to their room and returned to court at five o’clock, with u verdict that they find the defendant, Dr. Paul Schoeppe, guilty of murder in the first degree, iu manner and form as ho stands indicted. On the sth of June a motion was made for a new trial, which was overruled by Judge Graham and Dr. Schoeppe sentenced to death. From that time tho friends of the prisoner were unremitting in their ef forts to procure a pardon. They availed themselves of every pretext which they thought would contribute to that result. — The Governor received many communica tions in which Dr. Schoeppo’s innocence was protested, and requesting his interpo sition in saviug him trom his impending fate. A few weeks ago Mr. Dinner, of Philadelphia, and Mr. Miller, of Carlisle, counsel for the condemned, reviewed the case before Governor Geary, in the pres ence of Attorney General Brewster, and claimed that the evidence against the client was inautlicient. Judge Brewster carefully l tUair. statement nf mwJ opinion, which concludes as follows: The disugi eement of experts is unfor tunately developed by every case involving scientific investigation. We must invoku their aid. Maunders, J., in one of the earli est cases said: “I grant that if matters arise in our law which concern other sciences or faculties we commonly apply for the aid oi that science or faculty which it concerns.” (Buckley vs. Rice Thomas, 1 Piowden, 124.) This was over 300 years ago, but it was no new doctrine at that date, for experts were known to the Roman law, (Ordrou anx’s Jurisprudence of Medicine, 120.) Notwithstanding the antiquity of this usuge, 1 doubt whether the case was ever known in which Iheie was an entire agree ment of experts, and the “confusions of science ” are doubtless as old as the rule which admitted the evidence of persons skilled in art. It is certainly an elementa ry rule, thut in searching for poison every test should be applied, and that the opinion of an expert, however celebruted, is utterly worthless, unless he can support it by re liable duta. Dr. Aiken undertakes to ex plain the omissions of the nitrnte of silvor test. He says its use “can only produce a cyanide, which must afterwards be verified by the sulphur and iron tests.” But I do not propose to discuss Die points upon which these learned Professors differ. IfThey who have devoted their lives to the stutfy of these questions cannot agree as to the rcsQlts, it would bo hopeless for others to undertake a settlement of their contro yersy. The answer given by the law to all of these disputations is simply this—the whole question was thoroughly discussed and fairly submitted to the tribunal selected for its solution—tbe jury of the vicinage. They have settled it, and with them rests the responsibility. Had their verdict been against the evidence, tbe court would never have entered judgment thereon. Had the judge committed nny error in ad mis sious or rejections of evidence, or in hts instructions to the jury, •. writ of error would doubtless have been allowed. The refusal of the allocator by tbe Supreme Court is a decision by our highest tribanal that there is no error to bo found in the record, and their j udgment is binding upon tbe Executive as to all matters of law with in their jurisdiction. The verdict of the jury and thejudgment thereon of the court below is equally conclusive us to ull the questions of fact. In my view thispro{>o sition disposes of the whole case, and, uu less tbe grant or the power to pardon invests tbe Chief Magistrate with the functionsof u High Court of Error and Appeals, I do not Bee how any of the points ho ably and elab orately presented by the defendant's coun sel can here avail. A case of oppression may be imagined ir. ■which It would bo the duty of the Execu tive to interfere, but - no one can read the charge of the learned judge who presided ulthistriul without being impressed with its fairness and impartiality. l-’.ir theso reasons T reaped fully recom mend that you decline to review the ques tions passed upuu by the court and jury. With great respect jour obedient servant, F. Cakroli, Brkwhtkr, Attorney General. Adam T itu- 1 , another murderer, is to ex piate hia crime on the gallows, at Carlisle, the same day. Ilentb or n Venerable Lady. The Hagerstown (Md.) Herald records the death of Mrs. Hosanna Stake, at ttie residence of her son, A. IC. Stake. E-q , aged 102 years ami 3 months. T\m Herald says : Her descendants living at the time of her death mini tier over one hundred per sons, and embrace the fourth generation from hor. .She was the mother of ton chil dren, lour of whom survive her, to wit: Messrs. K. G. W. Stake, A. K. Stake and Mrs. Seibert, wifo of Joseph S--ibort, of tiiis county, and Mrs. Syosler, of lowa, the mother of A. K. Syester, ILq ,of this place. Thu eldest of her living children 74 yearsol of age, and her youngest 01. Her oldest child, Mrs. Andrew Kershnor, died in this counly iu 1800, aged GS years. Twenty-eight grandchildren survive her, of whom the eldest is ol years of uge, residing in Ohio. Most of her descendants reside in the Western States, and she frequently visited them up to berSJih year, nmkiug the jour neys without any escort. She had attained her 99th year before any perceptible dimi nution of meulal or bodily j*oweis were observable.” Sa<l Kcsult of a Jouc. At Barrington, N. H., on the evening of flio Bth inst, Frank Currier,ofStratfor I,thirteen years of age, bid himself in some bushes near the road for tho purpose of frightening Bradley Waterhouse, n boy two or three year older, pon of D. Waterhouse, of Bar rington, a near neighbor to Currier. The Waterhouse boy was walking along the road and herd a growling and rustling of the leaves. Not suspecting any trick was bolDg played upon him, lie naturally supposed the noise was caused by 6ome fierce wiid animal, perhaps a panther, whieh has lately been seeu in Stratford. Running to a house near by be procured a gun, and returning t> the spot again heard the growling and pawing. He tired in the direction whence the sounds came, when the screams of the wounded boy told him that he had shot a human being instead of an animal. Tfctf' Carrier boy was taken heme, when it/was found that one eye was completely destroy ed, and his face, tongue ana ueck perfora ted by shot, so that bis life Is in a very.crit ical condition. The dwelling houseof Andrew McCarter, iu Upper Oxford township, Chester county, was destroyed by tire on the 22d inst. The fire is supposed to have been caused by a defect iu the flue. Some of the furniture and goods were saved. Insaredin the Penn Mutual Company for $650, an amount which approximates the loss. Bit’.; hr ADtHttliflStt Business Advketibxxxstb, sl2'a year per suare of ten lines; $Q p«r year for eaohatfe* tUonal . ■-■ ■ - RiuxEstat* Aj>vnnsz2ve, I0oeatj;« llhtfbr the ant, and 5 oenta for each snbaequenfc-in- BoxUon. Ipttrat. AnvsnriHiifo 7 cents a lino for tho first, and 4 coats for each subseauent Inser tion, ■EciAL NotickB Inserted in Local Colnmn 15 centa per lino. - - * Special Notices preceding marriages and deaths, 10 cents per line for first Insertion! and 5 cents for every snbceqnent Legal and othebNotice&— Executors 1 notices Administrators’ notices, 3L60 Assignees’ notlcea,—, r -- 2J& Auditors’ notices, ....... 2.00 Other M Notices,''ten lines, or less, 3 three times,-..... .. i^q New* Itenit. Lieutenant General Sheridan is very 111. at Chicago. Ills illness is u fever resulting from cold. Quartermaster General Meigs has been very ill of erysipelas at St. Louis, bat Is improving. A heavy northerly gale has been prevail ing on the California ccast, and many wrecks are roported. Au old farmer, fifty-seven years old, beat Weston in a walking match at Du buquo, lowa, the other day. Conrad Meier, under seutenco for murder, escaped from jail, at Toledo, Qhio, on Toes duy night, aud $5OO is ofiered for his arrest. The subscriptions to llto proposed Inter national Exhibition at Washington, to bo held in 1871, already amount to $1,200,00Q, including §OOOO from President Grant. Gen. Fremont has issued a semi-monthly journal in Pans, called the Trmut Conti ncnlal, in the interests of the Memphis and El Paso Railroad. Miss Moore, music teacher of Albany N. Y. sued John Grtrnrod for breach of prom ise, claiming $lO,OOO. The jury gave her 55,000. Tho old-fashioned arms used by tho sol diers of Prussia in 180(3 have all been ro* modelled, and tho Government has now 1,010,000 needle guns at ifs disposal. Three Santee Indians in Nebraska havo bean ordaiuod ministers in tho Episcopal Church, by Bishop Clarkson. They are to be missionaries among the Indians. A yonng man named Barnot was public ly excommunicated from (he Wuluut Street Presbyterian Church, in St. Louis, on Sunday, for stealing from the collections. Two men foil into a vat of boiling water in a pork house, at Louisville, yesterday tuorniujt. Oueoflhem died last evening, and the other is not expected to llye. Four persons havo neon nrrested in Brook lyn N. Y., on thochargo of forging a will to prevent u young lady named Borne from inheriting $lOO,OOO worth of property from her father. In Donna Anna county, New Mexico, on the Mill, u baud of ludians carried oIT 200 sheep. They were pursued by volunteers, who killed three of the Indians and recov ered most of the sheep. Tho manngors ofthe Pacific Railroad aro preparing fuel and provision cars to run with every train during the wlntor, so that in euso a train gets snowed in the passen gers will not freeze or starve to death. The suiall-pox is raging in Blackstone, Mass , and has assumed uu opidemic form. It is contemplated to turn the Town Hall into a small-pox hospital, as tho “pest house” is overcrowded. ~lt is stated that when tho late George Pea body was fifty years of ugo ho was worlh but $lO,OOO, and that in the twenty yenrs following he accumulated his Immonae for tune. A sailor at tho Brooklyn Navy Yard ex plained to a curious laudstnan tho other day how prize money is divided. “It la sifted through a ladder,” he said, "What falls through goes to.tho officers; what sticks, tho sailors get.” At Machine, Mo., tho upheaval of vast quantities of wator, mud aud Htones to tho distances of many feet, with a furious rush ing noiso, has occurred a number of times during tho summer, and onco as lato as a month ago. Tho celebrated "Gurney Horse," said to bo titty cue years old, died ul Alexandria, Licking county, Ohio, a short time sluce. Ho was exhibited at the State Fair at New ark iu ltjAii—seventeen yearn ago—aud was then quite graj\ Ttie President lias issuod a proclamation abolishing the discriminating duties on merchandise imported in French vossols — the discriminating duties ou vossols of tho United States having been abolisbod by tho French Government. Charles H. Page, who lost an arm In the war, aud has since gained a livelihood by peddling pop corn on the Norwich ami YYorchester Railroad, has boon elocted to the Massachusetts Legislature by six mo joriiy Two trai.ua nnLlid‘*d.»mit'7o milos east of icrlo, on Tuesday evening, and nino persona were injured. Doth locomotives worn smashed, and the baggage oar was "tele scoped” into the smoking car. Two colored gentlemen playing billiards in Detroit quarreled. One bit the othur a tremendous blow over the beaii witli the buitemlol'acane, which made the splinters ily, whereupon ino assailed darkey paused to remark : “ Now, Sam, stop and Jess roa son dis yero thing a little.” Isabella, lately of Spain, has purchased the estate of Neustadt. in Bohemia, for half a mllion of florins. The fabulous fortune which this woman was allowed to take away from Spain shows that tho Spanish people do not yet know tho first olemeuta of revolutionary justice In Fremont county, lowa, a few days siuce, a vigilanco committee hanged a no torious character named Sam Murdoch, on tho charge of having murdored Ilonry Johnson. Since the lynching Johnson has turned up alive, and tho vigilants uro threatened with a trial. A human pig in Oswego offered to back himself to eat GO common sized buckwheat cakes in ten minutes. Ho ate3o in tho first five minutes, and 52 in tho entire time pre scribed. Before tho wager was mndo this pig had enten half a pound of beefsteak, ten baked potatoes, aDd a can of oysters. He would do to play Justice Greedy, The Duchess of Atholo has presented Queen Victoria with a marvelously fine spinning wheel of ivory, with representa tions of liulmornl, DuDkold Cathedral. Falmouth Castle and other sites endeared to Her Majesty, in remembrance of tho visit paid by tho Quoon thLs year to tho Duchess. There is a naughty, naughty girl in Quin cy, 111., who, having fallen iu lovo with a married man, lays such siego to him, both in public and private, that sho has become the " town talk." Tho smitten damsel de- clares that sheiias plenty of money, Jewel ry—iti fact everything, and goes in good society, but can’t live without that married man. Tho three counties of New York which produce tho most potatoes Join each other, namely, Kensollaer, Saratoga and Wash ington—uud the unnuul product is about 4, OijO.OOO bushels, which uro raised on about 37,593 acres of land, Tho greatest product of any single couuty is that of Washington about 1,500 UOO bushels. Kensollaer stands next 1,278,805, and Surutogu next, 857,475. A meeting of morchanta and bankers in Now York orgnnizjd an association to se cure the erection of a monument to George Peabody iu Central Purk. The citizous of Peabody, Mass , have appointed a commit tee to co-operate in the arrangements for the funorul of tho illustrious philanthro pist. Kuv. Wm. Barbour, of the Bangor rheological Seminary, ’is to preach the funeral sermoD. Tho manage portion ofa young bride in tho olden limes was u feather bed, six chairs, a plain cherry table and bureau, six cups and sauceis, half a dozen silver teu spi ions, and a lot of sand for sanding floors. Now, they expect a sot of silver plate, car ved hair set: sofa, ottomans, divuns, tete-n -tetes. rosewood piano, murblotop tables for parlors, painted furniture for chambers, Brussels carpets, and other such modern fixings for show. A Chinaman recently passed through Cleveland with n through ticket from New Y'ork to Hong Kong, Chtnu, for which ho p»id $225. lie traveled us an emigrant. This is probably the longest journey hither to made on a single ticket. He goes by rail to San Francisco, and thence by steamer to Hong Kong, and will make tho trip in about forty days, which Is quick tlmo lor for that distance—ten thousand miles. In 1811 J. Hops Brown mailed a letter from Louisville, Ky., weighing one ounce upon which the unpaid postage was one dollar, to Mr. Wm. Hnowden, editor of the Ladies Companion, New York. Mr. Snow den relused to take it out of tho Post Offico and it was sen l to Washington among the deed letters. It wts accidentally plcked’up the other day among some of the literary rubbish of the Department, und at once for wurded to the writer. On Sunday, a party of masked men went to the house of u planter, named Joner, near Tfptouville, Tennessee, to disarm the negroes working for him. They wero fired upon by tho planter and his men, and (led, leaving one of their number killed and two mortally wounded. Jones and six of his negroes wore arrested. While the Sher iff was taking tho negroes to Troy, Tenn,, he wns stopped by a number of men, who shot five of the negroes. The excitement la the locality is greut, and more blooahod is expected.! A daring, attempt at robbery was de feated the other day by tho courage of u aervaat girl at a private residence ou Lex ington avenue, Now York. There was nobody in tho house at the limo except tho cook —u circumstance of which the would be robber was no doubt aware—when a decent looking man presented himself at the basement dcor, and snid that he had been sent by the lady of the house to hang some pictures. The servant suspected him, and refused to let him in, whereupon ho attempted to push past her, and as he did so put bis hand la bis pocket—as sbo sup npsed to draw out a bottlo of chloroform. '-Before ho had time, however, to accomplish his purpose she dealt him such a blow with the fist, square between tho eye?, that .he was knocked all iu a heap into a corner of the area, where two persons who happened to pass that way just in time to witness tho performance, picked him up. General Butler Gives Ball to Answer the Charge of Theft. New York, Nov. 23.— General Butler, to-day, gave bail In $15,000 upon the charge of Miss Florence, of misappropriating the Twigg’s swords and certain plate.. Richard Schell and O. K. Samson became his sure ties-
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