THE LANCASTER INHUMED, PUBLISHED }WEBS WEDZIESDAT BY H. Q. SMITH. & CO. A. .I.'ISTErN"SIAN EMECI inERMS—Tw Ino Do a ll nce.ar er an s pnum, payable all oases adv THE LANCASTER DAILT INTELLIGENCES. IS published every evening, Sunday excepted, at $5 per annum in advance. OF FICE-SOIITIIIVEST CORNER. OF CENTRE S QUARE. tiottrv. Waiting for the Spring. As breezes stir the morning, A silence reigns In air •, Steel-blue the heavens c love rile blovelessthetiees and bare ; Yet unto and the stillness This burden seems to bring— " Patience! the earth Is waiting, Waiting for the Spring." Strong ash and sturdy chestnut, Rough oak and poplar high, Stretch out their sapless branches Against the wintry sky. Even the guilty aspen Rath ceased her quivering, As though she, too, were waiting. Waiting for the Spring. I strain mine oars to listen, If haply, where I stand, But one stray note of music May sound in all 010 land, •• Why art thou mute, 0 blackbird 0 thrush, why loot not sing? Alt! surely thee were waiting, Waiting for the Spring." 0 heart! thy days are darksmne! heart! thy nights are drear ; flat soon shall streams of mulish'. Proelalln the turning year. Soon shall the trees he leafy. Soon every bird shall sing Lot them he silent waiting, Waiting for the Spring. IFor the Intelligeneer.l GRAVE OF ELEANORE BY SALLIE F. WALKER. 'TN a hallowed spot In every heart, Whore the loved and cherished sleep, Although a mound In a lone recess, (Jr a grave far In the deep, Where the remains of my loved OM. rests Memory wanders evermore— Neither time nor t les can inalce less dear Tt) me—the grave of Eleanore. Though the lull gross waves ,burr her moon. O'er her wild dowers bloom and fade; Though the winds of Winter rave around 'lie silent spot where she Is lald, I know she's ahem-pet her soul has passed The stream to the golden shore, And I only wall. toJoln her there-- My sweet, lost Eleanore. " When the moonlight sleeps upon the bank Or smiles on the murmuring stream, I seek the spot where we parted lost, Fondly o'er the post to dream. I dare not loolc to the future now— It wits till so bright before— For the radiant star of hope Is gone, FADED OPT WI ELEA NErlO,.. faisrellancotts. The Iluron'g Pledge BY WILLIA.M A. SIGOURBEY It was 111 the close of an October day, in the year 17—, that a solitary Indian was seen standing upon the hill that now overlooks the populous city of Bridgeport, in the southern part (d.Con necticut. Ile wits a tall youth. and from Iris war-paint and dress the most care less observer of the various tribes that -then inhabited the tract of country be tween the ocean :11111 the lakes would have pronounced him a 1 1 111 , 11. At his feet lay it dead wolf uml a red deer, and against a small oak, within his reach, rested a small rifle. Upon his brow was a coronet of eagle's feathers, whiten hunting shirt of skins with leggim:s of the Sll.lllO material, or namented with the quills and dyed hair of the porcupine, completed Iris dress. The truant school boy and the return ing hunter had seen him as he stood there, with his head bent upon his hand, apparently absorbed in tile deep est reflection, and had quickened their steps to the village to make due report of such an alarming appearance. lie, however, let them pass unnoticed ; yet his dark eyes flashed with eagle bright ness us they wandered over tin strag gled houses of the village, until they at length rested upon a little mound about a stone's throw from the church, upon which a dark pine tree was discernable from the evergreen foliage. for the first time, he spoke : " It is enough," said he; " the Great Spirit is kiwi. Waukino will visit the grave of his fathers." Evening settled upon the town, and 1 the fury of asuddeu storm was spending itself against the snug cottages of the • settlers. 'l'llo worthy minister, Mr. Harlow had assembled his little family, con sisting, of his wife, a daughter of fifteen and a servant, in his dining room, and before a cheerful fire, was endeavoring to while away the evening hours by re peating lo them a tale of interest and virtue. Julia Iforb.w, for such was the 110010 of the laughing girl, who sat opposite on a stool and rested her arm upon her father'siknee, while she gazed with in tense interest upon his benign counte nance, was beautiful. 'rho worthy Minister had just finish ed a tale of deeper interest than usual, concerning the Indian depredations On the frontier, when a loud knock at the door startled the whole family. The father rose to his feet, the mother drop ped her knitting work and started half way from her chair, the servant turned his eyes wistfully to his master, and seemed to be glued to his seat, and the eat bristled up her hack as she started from the corner, and .tuna's hip-dog run barking to the threshold while his mistress caught hold of her fathers coat and anxiously waited for tiled , nonmeia. For a moment not a word was uttered; but the good Mall, recovering his com posure sooner than the rest, said, in his mild tones: "Whoever you are that wander in such a night as this, I bid you welcome." Nu sooner had the words fallen from his tongue thatolle door opened, and a tall Indian, nearly intoxicated, with a haggard face ;101l blood-shot eye, enter ed, and, with a bare good evening., seated himself in the vacant chair, and in a drunken voice called for food and drink. The minister told him to be gone, that there was a tavern at the next door, where he would be well taken vary of, and finally, when the savage refused to depart, bade the servant to aid him in putting him into the street. At that moment Julia interceded, and recalling to her father the incidents of one of the tales he had related that eve ning, which wont to show that an In dian never forgave an injury nor forgot a favor, urged him with simple elo quence to let the Indian remain till morning. 'l'lle savage, in the 1111'1111 111111 i, hav ing, by the genial warmth of the lire, reeov . (Ted the use of his almost benumbed limbs, and having also nearly recovered from his drunken tit, put on the proud mein of his race, and rising from the floor, ill native majesty, walked towards the door. The good feelings of the cler gyman at this moment, seconded by the entreaties of Julia, got the better of his fears, and bidding the Indian to re turn to his seat, commanded the re- Mains of his homely dinner to be set before him. This was dune. The Indian ate voraciously, taking a large glass of hard cider, laid himself down upon the rugs that had been spread out to him, and was soon lost in sleep, dreaming, no doubt, of his distant hills Where rested the remnant of his once powerful tribe. As night advanced the family retired, and all was silent. At the first flush of 411LW11, the storm having subsided, the minister and his family again 11iiSelll bled in the dining-room, and the Indian, who had slept oft' all traces of his night's debauch, partook of a hearty breakfast, and then rising, he advanced to the minister, grasped him warmly by the --- hand, and then each member of the family. As he approached Julia, he took from his breast an eagle's feather dipped in blood, and putting it in her Hand, said : "Sunny Eye, of the pale face, keep the gift of Wauki no, and when the red hand of the Huron is lifted against you or yours, show him this war plume, and and you shall not be harmed. I go." And uttering the Indian guttural "Ugh !" departed, and was soon lost in the paths of the wilderness. Three years rolled on, and their sav age neighbors, instigated by a thirst for revenge, united to eilect, the destruction of the whites. . - It was midnight. A November snow fell heavily upon the sleeping town, and the wild wind's wail, as it played with the snow drift and swept through the lone ly streets, seemed like the shriek of the spirit of the storm. A pause ensued, and then arose a thousand yells. The quiet town was attacked by Indians; husbands and wives, brothers and sis ters were roused from their beds to be butchered at their doors, or to be pur sued through the mighty drifts, and then murdered, while their half-clothed bodies were tossed into the flames of the burning houses; the mother's shriek and the infant's wall had no power ' over the savages ; the pleading cry and the look of anguish were only an swered by the swift descent of the tomahawk and war club, or the deep cut of the glittering scalping knife. At that moment a body of savages entered the house of the worthy clergyman, and were dragging the good old man, his wife and daughter to the door to massa- QM them with the general mass. A tall ot-Ic' . 7gaitotet .. :s 7 :lttettivitt to. VOLUME 71 savage, apparently the chief of his tribe, was dragging the beautiful girl by her hair, her dress became disordered, and an eagle's feather dropped upon the floor. The chief released his hold, and giving a peculiar whoop, and the band released their victims. The leader raised the precious relic, and after scan ning it with an eagle's gaze, he turned to Julia, who with disheveled hair sat trembling on the floor, and said: " Daughter of the pale face, how came the war plume of Huron upon the breast of the white dove? Julia had worn the eagle's feather at night in her bosom, to guard against a night attack, she having great faith in the power of the symbol to protect her. A hope now sprung up In her breast, and she said: " Chief of the Hurons, for such you seem to be, the war-plume was the gift of Waukino, who, when the cold storm of Autumn palsied his limbs, sought the dwelling of yonder pale face and was cheered, fed, and saved. Waukino was poor and needy, and the pale face gave him life. Save then, the old man who succored him, and save also his wife and child who are dearer to him than life." " I have heard," said the Indian, speaking evidently to his followers, " I have heard of this tale, and given but little credit to it. Could the pale-face do good like the children of the Great Spirit, without hope of gain ? It must have been so, for here is the plume of the Huron—the words of Waukino were not the idle notes of a singing bird. The Huron's pledge must be redeemed, but it must be done in Council," then turn- ing, he spoke a, few words in the lan guage of - his tribe, and the major part of them retired to the outside of the build ing: Tim chief then turned to Julia who had not learned her fate from his words, and said: " Daughter of the pale-face, by the council tree of the Huron, the pledge of Wank ino must be presented am! re deemed. In three hours you must de part. Let the old man :Ind squaw be ready for the journey when the young men of the tribe have rested." Then giving the feather again to Julia lie departed. She, in her exertions for the deliver nee of her parents, hail ne gleeted to turn her toward them. She now looked. and beheld them apparent ly senseless. She sprang to their side and raised their faces front the cold floor, then iuttering a piercing cry, she east herself upon their silent forms and faint ed. They were dead! Ilow long she lay in a state of insen sibility she knew not, but when she awoke she found herself borne upon a hurdle made from the branches of the pine, by six tall Indians, while on e, whom she recognized as the chief of the I lurons, led the van. The horrid truth then burst upon her. Her much loved parents were dead, her friends and neighbors had been routed or destroyed, and their beautiful village was a smold ering mass of ashes and blood. For several days she hung between life and death. At length, as the band wound round a low, woody hill, she heard the war whoop of the Huron, wel coming the return of the party, and in a few minutes she saw the tall form of NVaukino beside her hurdle. The In dian village WaS at hand. In a few moments she was in a comfortable wig wam, attended by an Indian maiden, :trul as the evening shadows gathered darker around the village of the forest, she fell asleep. The shades of night were rapidly re treating when a wild whoop suddenly arose from the lodge of the chief. It was answered by a thousand echoes, and in a few moments the painted forms of numerous Indian warriors were seen emerging from the glens and lodges in the vicinity. In a few minutes the gentle girl was aroused from her couch of leaves by the beautiful Indian girl who had so kindly attended her the evening previous, and, dressing herself hastily, obeyed the signal, and followed her guide to the door of the lodge, wLereshe was received by a young chief and conducted to the Council 'Free oldie tribe. Beneath a tall and wide-spreading oak in it half-eircle,sat the mighty men of the tribe in solemn silence; while in the centre, at the foot of the oak, upon the skin of the panther, rested the old chief, and beside him the quick eye of the maiden discovered the form of Wan k hm. The old chief pointed to a branch of sassafras, and the maiden seated her self in silence, for she knew the customs of the red man, and awaited her fate.— For half an hour not a word was spoken. Suddenly, a savage, painted in a hid eous manner, with an unstrung bow and an empty quiver, sprang from his seat, and, advancing to the chief, left the sad mementoes of a fallen brother at his feet; then, raising a wild whoop, re turned as suddenly to his scat. A gleam of hellish ferocity swept across the coun tenance of the dusky warriors as the ex clamation " Ugh !" burst from their lips. Many a scalping knife wax bared, and the arrows rattled in their quivers ins the Indians suddenly changed their positions. The old chief now arose, and stretch ing nut his hand toward the East, said: " Children of the Red Hurons! our brother's how is unstrung, and his empty quiver rests idly at the foot of the Coun cil Tree. Where is our brother? Let he pale-face answer. '• My children ! the summer sun saw our brother go forth on the war path with a strong hand and an eagle heart; the flash of his eye was like lightning, and the twang of his bow-string was as the note of death ; the autumn sun saw our brother stiffened in death, and his scalp dripping with blood in the cabin of the pale face. "My children! our brother's blood cries for revenge! Let the pale maiden die. The C7restSpirit is above us. Have I spoken well? I have done." As lie resumed his scat the whole tribe, with the exception of Waukino, utter their "Ugh!" of assent, and partly arose to carry the sentence into effect, when Waukino, who had preserved a melancholy silence, raised his head front his breast, and striding leftly into the space between the chieftain and the tribe, stretched out his arm and said : "Chief of the Red Hurons and warri ors of the tribe! the pale maiden shall dot die! Is the I turon a dog? Shall he be false to his word ? Let the Sunny Eye bring forth the war plume." The lovely girl arose, and while a thousand wild and astonished eyes were fixed upon her, she drew forth from her bossmn the eagle's feather, tipped with blood, and advancing to the old chief tain, placed the symbol of triumph in his hand. The chief eyed it closely, and then handed it to a warrior' who, alter scanning it in the same manner, passed it to his neighbor, and thus it was passed and scanned, until it had completed the circle of the tribe. While the examination was going on, the maiden stood with her arms folded upon her breast, and her eyes bent calmly upon the ground. All were silent until the feather had been returned to the elder, who then said : " Pale face, it is the Huron's war plume." Then arose from the immense throng the gruff " ugh !" and all was again silent. The chief then turned to Waukino, and said : " When the Eagle was weary and cold and ready to die, and the dove gave him a shelter in her nest, and the war plume became her reward. Shall the eagle glut his vengeance upon the innocent bird that sheltered Mtn? Hurons! it must not be ; the maid shall not die. Have I pollen well ? I have done." A wild yell rung from the assembled warriors, and the young chieftain, with an air of pride and majesty, led the beau tiful pale face from the presence of the council, and placed , her in the charge of her former Indian attendants. Years rolled away, and the tide of white population rolled like a foam-cap ped billow over the West, causing the ' wilderness to blossom like the rose," and " making the solitary places glad." At the close of a long summer's day, as a more adventurous emigrant and his family had penetrated far beyond the frontier, and approached the banks of the Ohio river, they beheld, as the sun was satin.: ' in its gorgeous splendor be hind the Western forests, a beautiful cottage, surrounded by shrubbery and fields, under a high state of cultivation, a group of well-dressed children playing upon the lawn, and a man and woman in usual costume of settlers in the woods, were sitting upon the rude portico be fore the door, evidently witnessing with satisfaction the sports of their children. As the emigrants drew near, the hus band and wife approached the cavalcade and welcomed the new-corners to the cottage; but nothing could exceed the astonishment of the emigrants as they cast their eyes over the cleared land around them, and then rested them upon the inmates of the cottage. They were satisfied that the man was of In dian extraction, but the wife and chil dren had blue eyes and light hair of the Saxon race, and the latter a little brown ish complexion, which might have been the effects of the summer sun. For some time they were left in doubt. At last, when the morning came, and the emigrants were getting ready to depart, the kind hosts, with their children by their side, drew near to them, and tak ing them to a beautiful arbor, formed of the vine of the wild grape, supported by sapplings, on the bank of the broad Ohio, related In turn the preceding in cidents ; and when they had reached the period where we left them, the wife drew from her bosom an eagle's feather tipped with blood, and throwing herself upon her husband's neck, said: ' My countrymen, it is Waukino, and these (pointed to her children) are the pledges of his love. Stay, then, with us, and settle in this lovely spot." The emigrant looked up the stream and down the stream, and then at his I wife and children, then took up a piece of wood, and commenced a furious whittling. " Good land," said he—"pretty con siderable water privileges—wild turkeys —scrowging corn—wild horses—tall tim ber, Stranger give us your hand ?I'll squat. That night the emigrant and his fami ly commenced clearing, and, aided by their kind neighbors, they wero soon located in a comfortable manner. From this small beginning com menced one of the loveliest towns in Ohio, and in the graveyard can now be seen the graves of John Huron, and Julia, his wife, beside that of Hezekiah Goodrich, and Rebecca, his wife. On the stone of the former, beneath a rude imitation of au eagle's feather, are these . words: " TIIEHURON'S PLEDGE REDEEMED." The descendants of the pioneers are now the mighty ones of the village, and at this date Samuel Goodrich is the edi tor of the' village journal, and the de scendant of John Huron is a member of the present Congress of Washington. An Incident or the War. In the latter part of the year 1862, I was residing in Fredericksburg, Va., with my mother, an old lady suffering from a complicated form of spinal dis ease, which had confined her to her bed for a very long period. The doctors pronounced tier case hopeless, and, in deed, there were times when the slight est noise in the room, or the feeblest effort to move, brought upon her such paroxysms of pain as were heart-rend ing to witness, We lived completely alone, in a small cottage in the suburbs, not a relative or protector near us, for my fattier had long been dead, and my two gallant I brothers had both fallen in the first bat tle of Manassas. While thus unfortunately situated, the neighborhood of Fredericksburg became the scene of hostilities. Gen eral Burnside, with an immense force, appeared upon the northern bank of the Rappahannock, and endeavored to 1 ellbct a crossing of the river. Some time before, the main part of the population of the town had desert ed it; but my poor mother, more weak and ill than usual, could not be remov j ed to any place of safety. I Imagine our position, reader, if you can ! Two feeble women, with a small keg of stale biscuits to support us, left j without the remotest prospect of help, 1 in a city already under the muzzles of nearly a hundred and fifty Federal can non ! A dull lethargy, like that of despair, overpowered me. I could only listen, stupefied, to the moanings of the invalid, and to the frequent crashing rolls of musketry lower down the river. With the Hight of hope, evey vestige of apprehension and fear seemed to have left me. I was absolutely certain we should both perish, for, to abandon my I helpless parent, was a thought which i never once entered my mind. Suddenly, on the morning of the llth I of December, just as I was trying, after I a sleepless night, to prepare sonic food for breakfast, the dreaded bombard ' ment broke forth in all its fury. "Ali, it has came at last, and we shall I sool be out of all our misery, " said I, 1 stepping quietly to the window, and looking out upon the terrible scene. No words could convey a picture of what I then saw—the air filled with flame, and hissing with deadly missiles; the crash of buildings crushed by round shot, and torn open by bursting shells; houses momently catching fire, in every direction ; and what was more horrible than all the rest, the frantic shrieks of women and children who, too late, were seeking safety in flight. As I stood by the window—Heaven knows how long, for I was dreadfully fascinated by the spectacle—l witnessed what, even now, as I recall it, makes me shudder, A butcher's cart, drawn by an im mense grey horse, with a man driving it, and a little boy holding fearfully to the skirts of the man's coat, had just come rattling into view. I had barely caught sight of these figures, when a shell burst directly under the animal's feet—or possibly two of these missiles —for the horse, the vehicle, and the hu -1 man beings in it, were literally torn to I pieces ! 1 could see the mangled limbs • of the poor boy quivering On the side walk ! At once, and utterly, I lost all my resolution. In fact, I must have fainted, since the next thing of which I was con scious, was my mother's voice, pitifully begging me to answer her, and say whether I had been wounded. I staggered up from the seat on which I had fallen, and attempted to re-assure her ; but, as may be supposed, unsuccess fully. For a whole hour after this we remained motionless in our chamber, while the firing appeared to increase in violence. The windows rattled like skeleton bones, and the very founda tions of the house trembled and shock at every discharge. I was fast becoming calm again—de sparingly calm—when I heardsomebody walking upstairs,and then swell-known voice shouting our names. It was old Robin, our negro servant, whom I had sent, the day before, into the country, to seek for provisions. My father's slave and my grandfather's Robin, now sev enty years of age, but more atheletic than many a young man, had clung with pathetic devotion to the poor rem nants of "the family," as he called us. My heart leaped up when I saw his !wriest black face, and the notion that we might be saved, after all, brought back all my strength of will and con rage. staved! but how? People in times of desperate danger, think quickly, and are apt to resort to singular expedients. Glancing about the room, my eyes fell upon a large, but exceedingly light straw chair, which I had procured for my mother's convenience when she was strong enough to sit up. Ali a lucky conception ! We would wrap the inva lid carefully in a double set of blankets, strap her gently to a chair, and if she could endure thepain of removal, Robin would take her on his back (she was scarcely as heavy as a child,) and leave the city for the first place of safety that offered. Hurriedly I proposed this plan to my mother, who to my inexpressible relief, accepted it eagerly. Her pale face flushed a little, and she actually looked better at that moment, than I had seen her look for years. Tenderly, as if she had been a baby, Robin placed her in the chair, securing her frail person by passing several cords and a broad strap across her chest and knees, and lastly, taking the burden, with no apparent effort upon his back, he went down stairs, bidding me follow him. But oh ! that walk of three miles, first through the burning streets of Freder icksburg, with the roofs crashing above our heads, jets of fire darting between doors and windows, the hiss of bulls, and the peculiar singing of the great shells as they passed in curves of flame through the thickening smoke ; and then, these greater dangers avoided, our plodding along the country roads, choked up by overthrown carriages, and scattered goods of every description,with horses escaped from their owners, gal loping madly among the debris of many a ruined homestead—can I ever forget it all—ever erase from memory the fright ful pictures of that time? At last, we reached a farm house, the people of which were our friends. My mother, with exclamations of amaze ment from the whole family was taken at once to bed, but, strange to say, she did not seem at all fatigued ! This delicate woman, who had not left her chamber, scarcely her couch, for years, had braved the horrors of a bombardment in the open streets—rid den on a negro's back for three or four mules, and yet had not succumbed! , ( ' LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 16, 1870 And, what is morefrom that night my mother's health improved, until now live years after, I have the satisfaction i of seeing her seated comfortably near me, and engaged upon some delicate sewing-work, in the very chair which formed so important a part of the rescue of December. 1862 ! Her comparative recovery has puzzled the faculty, excepting one physician of acknowledged genius, who declares it was the most natural thing in the world. " Did you ever read Little Dorrit," Miss Martha? he asked me yesterday. I replied that I had. " Well, then, re call that scene which represents Arthur Clennam's mother under the influence ' of a great mental shock, throwing off the paralysis of twenty years, and rushing through the town to find little Dorrit, and entreat her mercy ! " Ignorant critics laughed at Dickens I I for introducing what they called a tour de force, but Dickens, as usual, knew what he was about. Such shocks, es- , peclally in nervous diseases, act often with the subtile force of galvanism, and the cases are numerous where what you would have sworn must kill the patient outright, results In a temporary, and even in some cases (look at your moth er,l a permanent cure." What meanwhile, of old Robin? He still lives with "the family," and in his hale old age delights to repeat to his cronies the minutest particulars of the event of which he was the unquestiona ble hero. Every week he gets more garrulous concerning it, so that, in due time, the flight from Fredericksburg promises, under his creative fancy, to develop into quite an "Iliad" of adventures ! Mark Twain's Salutatory, On becoming one of the proprietors of the Buffalo Express, Mark Twain pub lished the following salutatory : Being a stranger, it would be immod est and unbecoming in me to suddenly and violently assume the associate edi torship of the Buffalo Express without a single explanatory word of comfort or encouragement to the unoffending pa trons of the paper, who are about to be exposed to constant attacks of my wis dom and learning. But this explanatory word shall boas brief as possible. I only wish to assure parties having a friendly interest in the prosperity of the journal that I am not going to hurt the paper deliberately and intentionally at any time. lam not going to introduce any startling reforms, or in any way attempt to make trouble. I am simply going to do my plain un pretending duty, when I cannot get out of it; I shall work diligently, honestly and faithfully at all times and upon all occasions, when privation and want shall compel me to do it; in writing I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience ; I shall withering ly rebuke all forms of crime aud mis conduct, except when committed by the party inhabiting my own vest; I shalt not make use of slang or vulgarity upon any occasion or under any circum stances, and never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. In deed, upon second thought, I will not even use it then, for it is unchristian, inelegant and degrading,—though to speak truly I do not see how house rent and taxes are going to be discussed worth a cent without it. I shall not often meddle with politics, because we have a political editor who is already ex cellent, and only needs to serve a term in the penitentiary in order to be per feet. 1 shall not write any poetry un less I conceive a spite against the sub , scribers. Such is my platform. I do not see ! any ee•thly use in it; custom Is law, and custom must be obeyed, no matter how much violence it may do to any , one's feelings. And this custom which I am slavishly following now is surely I one of the least necessary that ever came into vogue. In private life a man does not go and trumpet his crime before he commits it, but your new editor in such an important personage that he feels j called upon to write a 'salutatory' at once and he puts into it all that he knows, I and all that he don't know, and some things he thinks he knows, but isn't certain of. And he parades his list of wonders which lie is going to perform ; of reforms which he is going to intro duce, and ;public evils which he is going to exterminate, and public bless ings which he is going to create, and public nuisances which lie is going to abate. He spreads this out with oppressive solemnity over a column and a half of large print, and feels the coon try is saved. His satisfaction over it is , something enormous. He then settles down to Lis miracles, and inflicts pro found platitudes and impenetrable wis (Join upon a helpless public as long as they can stand it, and then they send hint off as consul to some savage island in the Pacific, in the vague hope that the cannibals will like him well enough to eat him. And with an inhumanity which is but a fitting climax to Iris ca reer of prosecution, instead of packing his trunk at once, he lingers to inflict upon his benefactors a " valedictory." If there is anything more uncalled for than a " salutatory," it is one of those tearful, long-winded " valedictories"— wherein a man who has been annoying the public forten years cannot take leave of them without sitting down to cry a column and a half. Still, it is the cus tom to write valedictories, and custom must he respected. In my secret heart, I admire my predecessor for declining to print a valedictory, though in public I say and shall continue to say sternly, it is custom, and he ought to have print ed one. People never read them any more than they do " salutatories," but nevertheless he ought to have honored the old fossil—he ought to have printed a valedictory. I said as much to him, and he replied : " I have resigned my place—l have departed this life—l am journalistically dead at present, ain't I? " Yes." "Well, wouldn't you consider it dis graceful in a corpse to sit up and com ment on the funeral ?" I record it here, and preserve it from oblivion, as the briefest and the best "valedictory" that has yet come under my notice. MARK Tw.tts. in Argument In Defence of the Mule Ist. The capital invested in mules does not need renewal so soon, as they will last almost twice as long as a horse, and do equal work. 2d. If well broken laud they are no trouble to break, if the person handling them treats them as all brutes should be treated when being taught anything— with caution, firmness, and gentleness.) They combine all that is needed in a farm team more than horses. They are truer, more gentle in harness, better animals to plough single or double, es pecially among corn, scarcely ever sick orailing in any way ; when in condition, as they should be„ and cared for as horses are, just , -as handsome to a heavy wagon as a horse, and not far behind them to a carriage. They are not so easily stolen as horses are, en dure the heat of summer better, will not let a hired man work them to death or founder them. And then, on the score ' of economy, let us consult the figures, ' taking a No.l span of horses and taking a No. 1 span of mules in comparison. Such horses a farmer would teed six months of the year—say from Aprill to November I—tifteeu ears of corn three times a day to each horse, and from No-. vember till April thesame number twice a day. That would be (counting one hun dred and twenty ears to the bushel) one hundred and twelve and a half bushels. The mules, if sheltered and groomed as carefully as the horses will do the same work, in as good condition, ou eight ears at a feed three times a day during the summer, and twice a day through the winter—making fifty-three and one third bushels for each mule per year. A difference of sixty bushels of corn, putting it in round numbers, in favor of each meal, and one hundred and twenty bushels for the span in one year. At fifty cents per bushel, this mak• sixty dollars; and in twenty years,"hlte time the mules are sure to last, althf ugh the horses may be played out), twelve hundred dollars. This is no inconsiderable item, and a calculation which every man who has experience knows to be correct. The mules will eat the most fodder, butthat is one thing that every farmer can secure plenty of, with little cost. I might enumerate more in their favor, but as I am already too long, I 'will close.—David H. Strong, in Kansas Farmer. The Scranton Republican of the 3rd instant, reports the killing of a boy, aged about eleven years, named Walter Brady, on the Lehigh and Susquehan na Railroad, at Wilkesbarre, by a train of care running over him. 1 - rT• -"/". Delivered In St. Paul's Ilethodlst Epis copal Church. on Sunday morning, lilarch 6th, 1570, by Rev. E. T. Kenney, Pastor. After this I beheld, and 10, a great multitude which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the Throne and before the Lamh, clothed with white robes, and palms in their handa• and cried with a loud voice, saying, salvation to our God which sitteth upon the Throne and unto the Lamb.—Rev. vi 1., 9 and 10. _ The vision here described by SL John, is a prophetic representation of the final issue of the Gospel plan devised by our Lord Jesus Christ for the redemption of fallen and miserable humanity. Here futurity is unveiled, and we are permit ted a view of the Christian church—the whole host of believers as redeemed, purified, glorified. Such blessed results herein foretold, as being secured through the gospel, claim for it our admiration and unreserved acceptance. Being as sured of the fulfilment of the prophecy therein contained, a contemplation of this vision will serve to encourage faith and hope, and stimulate to patience, diligence, and active efforts for the good of souls. This is the effect we desire to secure, as we proceed to set forth to you the nature, progress and blessedness of the gospel which this vision so forcibly illustrates. In this picture of the final issues of the gospel, we discover:, Ist, Its sur passing benevolence. The text teaches that in this respect, it is both impartial and extensive. It says the redeemed are of "all nations and kindreds, and people and tongues." It makes its of fers and proposes to bestow its favors upon all men everywhere, without re gard to any differences which exist among them. It makes no discrimina tion ou account of race, nationality, po sition, wealth, or physical, intellectual, or moral qualities. In this respect, at least, all men are born free and equal. Among that countless host may be dis cerned those who came from the wilds' of America, the burning deserts of Afri ea, the frosty regions of Lapland, from " India's coral strand," from China and Japan, from the isles of the sea. All ranks and conditions of men are there represented. "God so loved the world that Hegave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life." That is the charter of its privileges. This im partial and extensive benevolence is based upon: Ist, a common origin, " Our Father who art in Heaven ;" 2d, a common nature, " God bath made of one blood all nations to dwell upon the face of the earth ;" 3d, a common need, " all have sinned and come short of the glory of God ;" 4th, a common capacity forgrowth and improvement, all are capable of being transformed into the likeness of Christ. The enforcement of these great truths gave great offence to the Jews, for which they bitterly hat ed and persecuted both Christ and His disciples. The Apostles themselves j were slow to learn it. Not until Peter I WAS instructed by a vision from heaven I did he apprehend clearly " that God is 1 no respecter of persons, but that in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of ' Him." The epistles of St. Paul, who is recognized as the great Apostle to the Gentiles, are notable for the eloquence and logic employed to impress this truth upon the mind. This spirit of the gospel has been a leaven among the nations of the world—moulding consti tutions and laws. It has been gradually elevating the masses—stamping a high er nature upon manhood. It has been embodied in our own declaration of in dependence, and is doubtless the foun dation of those blessings of liberty and equality, granted to all classes of men in our own glorious country. We discover, secondly, the universal spread and in fluence of the gospel. This is a logical result of the former truth. The gospel contemplates and provides for this re sult. Prophecy says it is a light to lig,liten the Gentiles. " The isles shall wait for Thy law." " The knowledge I of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters the great deep." " In Thee shall all the tuitions of the earth be blessed." "'Their line is gone out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world." The mission imposed upon the church is in harmony with these assur ances. "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature." In the providence of God the affairs of the world are so guided as to contribute to the furtherance of this great design. Christ Jesus has been appointed head over all things to the church—King of Kings. He has a well devised plan. All things pertaining to the affairs of the world are taken into account. The whole is opened to his inspection as a mass. He surveys the situation as a general surveys the field upon the eve of battle. The discovery of America by Colum bus ; the explorations of Franklin and Kane towards the North Pole; of Br. Livingstone into the heart of Africa; and of other noted travellers and adven turers, serve but to pave the way for the advancing steps of Gospel truth. The commercial relations of Christian lands with the distant nations of the Globe serve to bring millions into contact with the glad tidings of salvation. Thus have the gates of China and Japan been thrown open to the missionary. The mighty steamers that traverse the deep, serve .s conveyances for the missionary and the Bible. The railroad becomes a highway for the more easy and rapid advance of the heralds of the Gross. The discovery of the art of printing is the means of supplying Bibles to the multitude at a cost so low that all may procure one. The extension of the bless ings of education by means of common schools makes the Bible an open book to all who will read. The construction of the Pacific Railroad is a gigantic event in the present history of our country, and occasions an increased and more rapid flow of the tide of emigration to this land from England, Ireland, Ger many, China and Japan—the result of which will not only be to contribute largely to the development and pros perity of the country, but to bring these masses under the immediate influence of a pure and powerful gospel—the effect of which who can calculate, when we reflect how many of these emigrants will devote the wealth they amass to the spread of the :truth, or returning to their Fatherland speak to their country men in their own'tongue, wherever they were born, the wonderful works of God. Free institutions are infinitely valuable, as they' offer no obstacle to the spread of the Gospel. Such a view of events will remind us of the words of Isaiah—lsaiah 40: 3,4, 5. The text discloses to us, thirdly ; the marvellous success of the Gospel. Be hold the results—countless myriads of souls saved through its agency. Its founder was a Jewish peasluit, without position or wealth in the world ; without the friendship of the great or learned. His chosen disciples, ignorant men, in mewl circumstances, some of them fishermen; Himself covered with reproach and infamy by His own nation; condemned as a malefactor; put to the infamous death of the cross ; offering, a religion to the world which contradicted its chosen pleasures, inter ests and prejudices; its peculiar teach ings awakening the most violent hatred and opposition from all classes of men. Yet it triumphs in face of every foe.— Heathen idols are thrown down ; error and superstition of every kind flee be fore it. In a few centuries after its birth it becomes the acknowledged religion of the Roman Empire. It prevails over the face of the earth, until uncounted millions are gathered to the Paradise of God. In this result we behold an inter pretation arid fulfilment of prophecy. The Lord said to Abraham: "I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth then shall thy seed also be numbered." He said : ."Look now tow ard heaven and tell the stars, if those be able to number them ; so shall thy seed be." These prophesies evidently refer to the myriads converted by the Gos pel—the seed according to the faith of Abraham. Paul says : 'Ho is the Father of all who walk in the steps of that faith which he had." "And if ye be Christ's then are ye Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise." Here, then, in this vision, we behold the seed which should be as the dust of the earth—as the stars of heaven—this multitude of re deemed ones which no man could num ber ! What a triumphant success! This grand consummation of the Gospel pro claims its divine origin and power! The Lion of the - tribe of Judah bath pre vailed ! The text declares, fourthly, the'glo rious nature of the salvation secured. lot. Perfect purity. They were clothed in white robes. Christ loved the Church and gave himself for it that he might present it to himself a glorious Church, not havinglspot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that It should be holy and without blemish. Behold this purpose accomplished! White robes indicating spotless purity. They once were stained and degraded by sin. How changed! How shall we account for such a trans formation? They washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. By faith in the sacrificial death of Christ, this great change is wrought. The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin. "The dying thief rejoiced to see, g That fountain in his day; And there may I, though vile as he, Wash all my sins away." How strikingly is exemplified, in the highest heavens, the fact that there is no salvation outside of the atonement of Christ. " They stood before the throne, and before the Lamb." 2d. Perfect victory. " They came out of great tribulation.'" The glory is not to be secured without a struggle. It is victory after a hard fought battle with suffering and opposition. Toil, trial and suffering still await on earth the pilgrim throng. In the world ye shall have tribulation. They came out en dued with patience and triumphed over all by faith. Some were tortured, others had trial of cruel mock ings and scourg ings ; yea, moreover, of bonds and im prisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword; they wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented ; they wandered in deserts, and in moun tains, and in dens and caves of the earth. But they conquered, "Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained prom ises, stopped the mouths of lions, quench ed the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight and turned to flight the armies of the aliens." i Nay, in all these things they were more than conquerors through Him that loved them. 3d: Perfect happiness, delivered from all the evils to which they were sub jected upon earth, and made partakers of the highest enjoyments heaven can afford. " They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat; for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them into living fountains of water, and God shall wipe all tears from their eyes." 4th. Exaltation and Glory—" They stood before the Throne and before the Lamb. Such is the result of the great scheme of human redemption provided in the gospel. Such a blessed issue fills the hosts of the redeemed with great joy and praise. They are represented in the text as surrounding the throne to offer their songs of praise ; they assembled to cele brate the triumphs of the gospel in their salvation. They cried with a loud voice "Salvation unto God which sitteth upon the throne and unto the Lamb." They recognize the source and method of their victory. From God through our Lord Jesus Christ, "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." "1 ask thorn whence their victory COW They with united breath Ascribe their conquest to the Lamb Their tritunph to His death." The glorious iasue of the Saviour's grace fills the - heavenly host of angels with admiration and praise. They lift up their ten thousand voices and swell the anthem, saying: "Amen, amen, blessing and.glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiv ing, and honor, and power, and might be unto our God for ever and ever, amen." God proposes to secure the fulfillment of this prophetic vision through the instrumentality of the Church and Min istry he has established in the world.— Are we inspired by so high and holy nn ambition as such a view should awaken? Are we doing all we are able to con tribute to this glorious result ? Do we measure up to all our obligations in this regard? " They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever." With what unbounded delight will such heroes of the cross gaze upon the multi tudes saved through their toils and suf ferings! To behold one soul among that vast number whose salvation has been secured through our instrumentality will add increase of pay in heaven, through all eternity. Two Curious Needles The King of Prussia recently visited a needle manufactory in his kingdom in order to see what machinery, combined with the human hand, could produce. He was shown a number of superfine needles, thousands of which together did not weigh half an ounce, and mar velled how such minute objects could be pierced with an eye. But he was to see that in this respect even some thing still finer and more perfect could be created. The borer—that is, the workman whose business it is to bore the eyes in these needles—asked for a hair from the monarch's head. It was readily given, and with a smile. The man placed it at once under the boring machine, made a hole in it with the greatest care, furnished with a thread, and then handed the singular needle to the astonished King. The second curious needle is in poses sion of Queen Victoria. It was made at the celebrated needle manufactory at I Reddish and represents the column of Trajan in miniature. The well known Roman column is adorned with numer ous scenes in sculpture, which immor talize Trajan's heroic actions in war. On this diminutive needle scenes in the life of Queen Victoria are represented in relief, but so finely cut and so small that it requires a magnifying glass to see them. The Victoria needle can, moreover, be opened. It contains a number of needles of smallersize, which are equally adorned with scenes in re lief. Selections for Newspapers Most people think the selection of suitable matter for a newspaper the easiest part of the business. How great an error. To look over and over fifty exchange papers daily, from which to select enough for one, especially when the question is not what shall, but what shall not be selected, is no very easy task. If every person whoreads a news paper could have edited it, we should have less complaints. Not unfrequent ly it is the case that an editor looks over his exchange papers for something In teresting and finds absolutely nothing. Every paper is drier than a contribution box, and yet something must be had— his paper must be out with something in it, and he does the best he can.— To an editor who has the least care in what he selects, the writing he has to do is the easiest part of his labor. Every subscriber thinks the paper is printed for his own benefit, and if there is nothing that suits him it must be—it is good for nothing. As many subscribers as an editor has, so many tastes he has to consult. One wants something very smart and very sound. One likes anec dotes, fun and frolic, and his next door neighbor wonders that a man of sense will put such stuff in his paper. Some thing spicy comes out, and the editor is a blackguard. Next comes something argumentative, and the editor is a dull fool. And so, between them all, the poor fellow gets the worst of it. They never reflect that what does not please them, will please the next man; but they insist that if the paperdoes not suit them, it is good for nothing, and stop taking it immediately. Freak of an Insane Man In Ohlo--Desper ate Shooting Affray. RIPLEY, Ohio, March 7.—Yesterday morning Campbell Howard, living 11 miles from Ripley, on his way to church, was met on the road by Victor Pape, who had a rifle in lais hand. After passing Pape turned and shot at him three or four times, oue load taking effect in the elbow of his right arm. On the receipt of the news here a constable and one or two others started with the intention of capturing Pape. They found him entrenched in a log house, under a bed, with a heavy rifle, two revolvers and a big dog. On raising the cover he commenced shooting. and the party were forced to retire. To dislodge him they began to fire through the door. He appeared at a window and tired several shots, one taking effect in the arm of F. Courtney, and the other in the hand of Benton Howard. His mother appearing on the scene, went in and succeed ed in prevailing on him to give himself up. It was found he was wounded in two places, one under the left lower rib and the other In the right side, near the spine. Both wounds are very severe. Evidently the man is deranged. Sharpers are just now going about the State buying poultry, butter, eggs, etc., at any price asked and paying for the same in counterfeit. The farmers should be on the lookout for such rascals. 7 ,- T - z - i ~IT q The number of deaths in Philndel phis during the year 1669 was 14,529. Many retail dealers in various parts of the State have resumed specie pay ments. Seventy-two individuals will ask the next Carbon County Court for the priv ilege of selling liquor. Gov. Clayton, a Delaware Countlan, now Governor of Texas, recently paid a flying visit to his parents in Bethel, Delaware County. Mr. Jacob Wiles, of Funkstown Franklin county, shot recently, about half a mile west of that place, a bald eagle, measuring seven feet across the wings. • A boy named Smith, living with his uncle, Henry Comp, in Tuscarora town ship, Perry• county, was recently fatally injured by the accidental discharge of n pistol. The Baptist churches in the consoli dated City of Philadelphia uow number forty-two. About one-half of them have been refreshed, more or less, of late, with revival influences, and report ad ditions by baptism. The typhoid fever is prevailing ex tensivefy at the Chester County Alms House. There are over twenty cases among the paupers. No deaths have occurred. The sick are removed to the hospital. A child of Warren Grater, of Perki omen bridge, Montgomery County, aged about 1 year, upset a pot of boiling cof fee upon itselfa few days ago, and was badly scalded on the cheek, arm and side. Nathaniel Potts Esq., raised this season, on his farm at Warwick Fur nace, Chester County, 2,740 bushels of oats, on 47 acres of ground, making 58 bushels to the acre. The oats WAS of the common variety. John Tucker has resigned the office of Vice President of the Reading Rail road Company. In token of apprecia tion of the great services he had rendered the corporation, the Directors have voted him $lO,OOO a year for two years. The papers were executed in Phila delphia, on the 4th inst., transferring to Pullman Palace Car Company all the ears, equipments, patents and contracts belonging to the Central and Southern Transportation Companies. Mr. C. E. Chichester, formerly of Pottsville, and recently of Kansas City, Missouri, has gone to Charleston, South Carolina, to assume the business man agement of the XIX Century, a journal just established. Henry Adams, of Pittston, challenges Thomas Rowan, of Wilkesbarre, to com pete with him in a foot race, in the month of March, on either the Wyo ming Driving Park or the Scranton Course, for any sum from $2OO to $OOO. An effort is being made to build a Railroad from Ivy Mills, on the Balti more Central, to Glenn Riddle. The object is to shorten the route of the Baltimore Central Railroad, by making connection with the West Chester Railroad near Lenni instead of at the ' Junction. The following persons have been ap pointed by the Governor and commis sioned by the State Department notaries public for a term of three years each : Robert W. Levan, Lehigh county; J. M. Caldwell, Blair county; John H. Hogan, Philadelphia; Wm. Chandler, Kennett Square, Chester county. Mr. Henry S. Miler, of 'Newberry township, York county, has discovered an ore mine, on his farm. The vein of ore Ly four feet thick, and is underlaid by a bed of rotten stone five feet iu thickness. This stone is used for pol ishing, in place of emory. This stone, when imported from England sells for lice cents per pound. The Reading Eagle says : " We learn from a card published in the Evening Dispatch, of Saturday, and signed by Charles H. Schaeffer, Esq., that he will settle up the business of the office as soon as possible, when the establish ment will be sold. C. F. Evans, Esq., and`Mr. A. S. Jones will continue the publication of the paper until the sale is made." The Ebensburg Alleghenian in itslast issue informs the people that a citizen of Cambria County recently sold his wife to a pedler for two cents. The hus band receipted a bill of sale, received the two cents, and the pedler carried away the wife. The pedler is said to have a family living in the eastern part of this State. The editor vouches for the truth of the story. Thomas P. White, of Hickorytown, Montgomery County, met with a sad and sudden death a few days since. He was hauling ice, and was sitting on the shaft driving a mule; the animal pom menced running, and in his efforts to stop it, White was thrown off and his neck broke. The wheel of the cart also . . passed over the small of his back. The unfortunate man leaves a wife and five children. " Judge Pearson, of the Lebanon Dis trict, has ordered that when the Sheriff publishes a list of jurors, he shall insert with it that in case a juror fails to at tend agreeably to notice, a rule will be granted on him to show cause why a fine should not be imposed for such non attendance; and if no sufficient cause be shown on the return of the rule, a fine will invariably be imposed on such delinquent juror. The Doylestown Agricultural Society has just purchased a bull and heifer of the Holstein breed of cattle. They were bought of the importer, Mr. W. W. Chenery, Boston, and the price paid for them was $1,300. They have all the good qualities of the Durham and other choice cattle, besides some which they have not. They are not equalled for milk. They are not quite two years old and weigh over 2,!..AX) lbs. A few days ago, whilst Dr. J. Ash, of Spring Hill, Delaware Co., was driving a large Alderney bull of which he is the owner, into the stable, the brute attack ed him in the most ferocious manner, hurling him to the earth, and in the at tempt to gore, fell with his full weight upon him. Being rescued, it was found that several ribs were broken, and it was feared by his physicians, two of whom were in attendance, that he had receiv ed other internal injuries of a serious character. The new grain depot, on the west bank of the Schuylkill, Philadelphia, erected by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, is at length completed, at a cost of $400,000. The new depot is 55.5 feet long, 125 feet wide, and 82 feet in height. There are laid down six tracks sufficient to accommodate 000 cars at one time. There are six rows of platform bins, each holding 450 bushels, or one car load. Running across the building, and underneath the bins, are ways for wagons. A wagon can load 100 bushels in three minutes. Wheat and oats are already in the bins, and.are being daily received and discharged. Besides all these facilities for transferring grain, there Is room Within the building for tiering 25,000 barrels of Hour. A few days since, a young German, who has been in Fulton county forsome time past selling medicines, stopped at the home of Obed Mellott, in Belfast township and offered his medicines for sale. During his stay he took an egg out of his valise and after breaking it poured some kind of a drug into the shell, which he set on fire. He then got Mr. Mellott. his wife and a little boy to inhale the smoke of the burning drug, which rendered them insensible. While in this state the young scoundrel commit ted a rape on the body of Mrs. Mellott. Noticing that Mr. M. was beginning to become sensible, he administered an other dose to him. The young man was subsequentlybrought toMcConnellsburg by Constable Smith assisted by John J. Moreton and Ephraim Lake, and com mitted to jail to await his trial. The bill giving to the corporators of the Philadelphia and Camden Bridge Company, the right to bridge the Del aware at Market St. wharf, has passed the Pennsylvania and New Jersey State Legislature, has been sanctioned by both branches of Congress, and only awaits the signature of President Grant to perfect it. The corporators estimate tho cost of building the bridge at two and a half millions of dollars. It is to be of Iron, and contain two thaws, one on this side of the river, the other on the Camden side. The rate proposed for foot passengers will not be more than two cents, while the charge for vehicles will be much less than the present ferry rates. The track of the Market Street Railway Company, should the bridge be located at that Street, will be in all probability contin ued across the bridge and connect on the other side with the proposed Camden Horso-ear Railway Company. NUMBER 11 E=!= Particulars of the Double Execution at lluntingdon. HUNTINGDON, March 9.—As the time ap proached for the execution of the murder em, Bodenberg and Bohner, the excitement increased, and the town was filled with strangers from all. sections. Most of the prominent newspapers of New York and Pennsylvania were represeuted,and crowds of people were hanging aroufid the jail. Large platforms, high enough to obtain a full view of the prison yard, were erected by enterprising citizens to enable parties to get a view of the execution. Two dollars were charged for standing room on those platforms. A stable in the rear, and over looking the yard, was taken possession ofil and the sides bored full of auger holes to see through. An Aldo - man of the town en deavored to stop the erection of platforms, but the men went on with the work. Bodenberg, endeavored to get a confosi sion from his fellow-prisoner, and wrote the following final appeal to his coinpan ion, which was handed to Bohner, with the re quest that he should reply. "Charley (Bohner), the time is now get ting very short for us to live; then we will have to appear before the judgment seat of God. We will then receive our reward for the deeds done in the body, be they good or evil. You have often sworn and prom ised to me that you would bring about my release. I therefore now once more pray you, in tho name of God, to tell the truth; if you can not or. will not save toy life, at least save your own poor soul front everlasting damnation ; there is still some time. " You have no right to say that a man dies like a beast, or that when a man dies all is over. I know only too well that somethingstill remains in your heart which tolls you, unmistakably enough, that which you say to be directly contrary to the truth. Your perverted mind does not permit it. Your senses are too frightened to allow you power to tell the truth; neither can you humble yourself before the throne of our Lord Jesus Christ. I can assure you that you will soon regret it. "So far as I am concerned, you can do whatever you choose, but pray tall me, what pleasure can it be to you that I be hanged with you ? I have fortunately not depended much upon you, for I think I know you. You have no feeling for your fellow man. It is true, I believe very confidently, that the court would not condemn me to . die since I went with you for the sole purpose of steal ing the money. Nor have I taken the life of any man, in full consciousness of which I can die. •' If you reflect upon this affair, how ter ribly you battered the woman's head with tho shovel, you will perceive who will ac cuse you when we shall meet before the bar of God. I cannot consider it just that you should be believed more than myself, since I told the truth from the first. All this ap pears not to have been considered before the court. " I could do nothing for myself; I had neither money nor friends; 1 could only tell the truth; I know the laws; in Germany the law is such that whosoever does not take the life of any man connot be con demned to death. This I also take for jus tice. [Here follows along dissertation on the Injustice of sentencing a man to death who has not committed murder with his own hands.] "Every - one cries ' Away with Ulm I' No one takes mercy on me excepting-iiur God. . It is true I did what I should not have done, in that I shared the money, be cause I know nothing of the murder. Yet this cannot condemn me to death. Men may think of me what they please; I know that I took the life of nu man, and Al mighty God is my witness. I now return my sincere thanks to each one who showed me a kindness during my time of impris onment, and to every one farewell. 'ALBERT HoDENBEINii." HUNTINGDON, March O.—A t an early hour this morning the streets of this usually quiet town were thronged with citizens and strangers from a distance, wending their way to the precincts of the prison to wit ness the execution. Over two hu .dred cards had been issued by Sheriff Neeley, and the limited space occupied by the Jail and yard was soon crowded to excess. TILE PRISONERS LAST NIGHT. During yesterday and the greater part of last night some ono of the ministers of the different churches of the town conversed and prayed with the condemned men., and endeavored to bring them to a more perfect knowledge of their situation. Bodenberg slept but little, and at different times dur ing the night was heard to groan and pray in German. Bohner observed his usual stoical demeanor to all who came near him, but he, too, frequently gave evidence of the unsettled condition of his mind. It was re ported that he had expressed a desire to be executed before 12 o'clock, so that he might have his dinner in h—. The prisoners were vigilantly guarded during the night, and Bohner frequently inquired for a pen that he might write some thing. As no quills were at hand, and it was feared that he might commit suicide, he was provided with lead pencils only. Sheri ff Neeley and his deputy, Mr. Fouse, were astir early this morning perfecting the final arrangements, and they did their whole duty to all concerned. The different ' prisoners, particularly Butler, made them selves very useful about the prison. Tills MORNING, as early as 10 o'clock, the different plat forms, houses, trees, and hills, from which a view of the execution could be had, were crowded with people of both sexes, all anxious for the revolting spectacle to take place. The venders of cigars, cakes, etc., were out in full force, and the day appears to be a general holiday. There was consid erable noise and bustle among the crowd of sight-seers, some of whom have come a distance of twenty miles. The Rev. Mr. Stoeckel, who has been the spiritual adviser of the prisoners during their confinement, was on hand at an early moment, and exerted the men to be firm. and to place reliance in the Lord. Boden berg appeared deeply distressed at times, and inquired several times for the lady at Altoona to whom he was engaged to be married,but up to this moment she has not put in an appearance. A DISORDERLY Moll. About 11 o'clock the crowd became im mense, and climbed up the prison walls. The sheriff ordered them down frequently but they not obeying, he at length put a pistol in his pocket, and ascending the scaffold steps, addressed them again, tell ing them they must get down ; if they did not he would shoot. About this time a number of women were admitted to the prison, and examined the gallows. None except the ministers, Rev. James C. Clark, of Methodist Church, Rev. R. E. Wilson. same denomination, Rev. S. D. Stoeckel, German Reformed, and Rev. M. E. Ear hart, Lutheran, were admitted. Last evening the girl from Altoona to whom Bohner was engaged to be married visited the prison, and on her appearing at the cell-grating, Bohner hobbled to the door, and for the first time since his incar ceration has manifested feelings of human.. ty. Be fondled with her and spoke iu endearing terms. She treated him affection ately and desired him to acknowledge if it were so that Bodenberg did not participate in the murder. Bohner replied : "Ile was with me, and wilt have to hang with me." Oh her leaving, Bohner handed her a port inonnaie, containing some money unit un important papers. She returned by the evening train. Tne prisoners were up very early this morning. Bohner slept a portion of the night, but Bodenderg slept none. Bohner was shaved, and, at his request, way given a cigar. He then picked up a book, and sat on the bed smoking and reading, until he was taken from his cell. Except at the few intervals when addressed by the cler gvmen, ho manifested the same stolid in difference as before, which is a species of bravado never before seen by the oldest correspondent hero. Roden berg's manner was entirely different. Ile stood at the grating weeping, until the arrival of the clergyman, with whom he performed the lastsiuldevotional exercises. Several ladies were admitted early in the morning, and, together with the deputy sheri ff , viewed the scaffold. They remained within the Jail during the day, but whethig they wit nessed the last scene is not knftn. Bohner wrote a jumbled statement, from which the following extracts are made : Beloved in the Lord—lt is a matter of ' labor to collect my thoughts and say unto you farewell. I pray all whom I have of fended not to treasure any anger against me, but to pardon me, since I am about to recall and do recall all before I depart from this life, with the consciousness that I am at peace with God. I therefore take this cup of bitterness with comfort. I place myself immediately before the judgment-seat of God, as I approach the shores of eternity, since I constantly pray and commune with Him silently. 'I his causes me comfort and happiness hero and hereafter. I speak in this manner to God and not to man. I feel myself offended in this when men attempt to teach me. Whether lam guilty or not guilty I am not able to Judge, therefore I leave it to the hands of God. He is the righteous Judge. Ms powerful word I will soon hear and submit my self to his righteous punishment. Beloved friends, that I may so call you causes me a peculiar pleasure, I cannot by word of mouth tell you ;you may therefore receive it from my pen, for the pain which I suffer prevents me from telling you, for I take nothing out of this word, but the empty prayers whereon I make known my tears and. complaints. Think of me here as I think of you in yonder happy world. I have no fears for the grave ; I rather long for it, because I shall there find rest from pains and troubles. I came to Altoonaand made the acquaintance of Bodenberg, and soon after visited Peightal's house. After wards Bodenberg said Peightal bad money and we ought to get it. I then bad a big knife made. I acknowledged to having been concerned in shooting the old mani but the old woman attacked me with a above/. I pushed the old woman away, BVIIICESSI ADTHSTIIIIIME47B, $l2 a year per • twee( tenlinverS9 per year for each addl. tional.Kosze. h A.D . YEltiferfrcf. 16 crate a line for the flrat,.aiact 5 oarle for, each ?itibseqUent In- Insertion., • . Or Emu, ADVERTIst:cG, 7 rents a line for rirst, and 4 cents tor leach enbtioquen • lion. Bractvz.NancEs Inserted In ',mailumni /6 Oenti per ling. . SPSCILL Nur=En precnling marriages and deaths, 10 cents per lino fur first Insertion. and 5 °ants for every subsequent Insertion. LECAL AITD grITKR NOTICES— Executors' notioos_ Administrators' notice Assignees' notices Atzlitors' notifies Other "Notices." tell lines, or less, add she fell on the door. I then hit her with the shovel. I deny that lam an in fidel, and blame the whole affair on Boden berg. I acknowledge that we only got two hundred and fifty dollars In all ; It was In gold and silver. After the murder I de sired to go away. Bodenberg insisted we should stay and fire the house. We did so, and then we quarrelled and were going to shoot each other, but after a time put away our pistols and started away. I hope God will have mercy on my Soul. At 12 o'clock Deputy Sheriff Force and his assistants proceeded to the cell of the prisoners and bound them. In the mean time Sheriff Neely ascended the scaffold and asked that order be maintained by the assembled throng. The prisoners made no resistance, but submitted quietly, and were marched down from their cells at 121 o'clock. First came Rohner with Sheriff Neely, followed by ministers ; next came Bodenberg with the other ministers. The prisoners walked out boldly. They were dressed in COLIIIIIIM citizen's dress. , - Following were the members of the press and the doctors. The prisoners ascended the scaffold with firm tread. Alter taking position beneath the halters, prayer NV 11.5 offered by the Rem. Mr. Sykes. During this prayer ono of the platforms filled with people wont down with a crash and created much confusion, but the pris oners were unmoved. After the prayer, Bodenberg read the statement publiabed in the Telegraph yes terday. Bohner turned to him when It was finished and deniod its truth. After a few exchanges of words between the men, Rev. James C. Clarke delivered a most eloquent prayer in English, to which the prisoners listened attentively. At the conclusion of the prayer, ropes were put around the men's necks, and the ministers and officers bid them good-by. ltudenberg, in a clear, loud voice, then committed his soul to God, and the black caps were drawn over their heads. There was a sensation in the crowd, and marinr the spectators turned away. Rohner then commenced to say some thing in German, during which the Sheriff gave the signal, the drop was pulled down, and the men hung at exactly twenty min utes of one. 'rhoy wore so secured and tied, hand and foot, that no motion was perceptible In either. It is supposed their necks wore broken instantly, It is not yet known whether any persons were injured by the falling of the platform surrounding the prison walls. 13oth of the men wore almost friendless, and for a time it was unsettled what dispo sition should be made of their remains.— Bodenberg, it is understood, had requested of his sweetheart that she should take pos session of his remains. They will be hand ed over to her, should she present herself. Bohnor's remains will be given to tho phy sicians, and devoted to the development of medical science. It may be safely estimated that nearly ton thousand people were in town to-day. The hotels end restaurants reaped a rich harvest. It was not until after the bodies had boon taken down that all tho great mn course of people loft the neighborhood of the prison. This execution was perhaps the most pub lic exhibition that has been made In this State for many years. It may be necessary to hang people for committing the oritno of murdering a fellow being, but it certainly does not follow that the execution should be mule acommon ' • show ^ whereat greedy speculators make the misfortunes of their fellow-men a source of profit. To have some idea of this execution, imagine a half acre of ground, surrounded with a high wall, whh hastily constructed scaffolding extending along each side, at a height suffi cient to give a view of all that goes on with in, and you will have the scone at Hunt ingdon to-day. 'rhe law directs that only a certain num ber of people shall be admitted, but what does such a law amount to If those who desire to aro permitted to erect platforms about the prison from w hickt they can see all that is going on inside? It Is revolting, it is shameful, and yet In a town like this who can you blame ? The Great 'Ranalan Contaptracy The Russian correspondent of the Nord Est writes as follows of the socialistic con spiracy in Russia, the members of which are called Nihilists. The conspiracy has several times been mentioned in the cable despatches. The writer says: The affair of the revolutionary proclama tion which, it was at first believed, was the work of young enthusiasts, has assumed alarming proportions. A serious conspira cy has been discovered, having men of all ages and classes as Its members. The alarm is very great among the conspirators, who are called Nihilists, and the government is equally disturbed. There aro, it is said, only two members of the government who oppose a reaction against the late reforms. Those aro Prince Gortschakoff and Count Pahlen. The pollee, who have always shown great skill in discovering political intrigues, aro at present less fortunate, or aro under the influence of the fear which dominates every one. The chief of police at Elizabothgrtul escaped being assassinated for the over-zeal he had shown in discover ing the conspiracy. Already 700 persons have been arrested, among whom are high public offiallAtilli,rofessional men, many students an olitical leaders. In a new revolutionary document which has-appear ed since the assassination of Ivanotf, his assassins are exculpated on the ground that he belonged to the phalanx of " popular justice,' and the conspirators declare that they consider their lives of no account provided they ran realize the happiness of the people. In assassinating Ivanoff they I simply got rid of an agent who did not ' fulfil the required conditions, and they further declare that more will be put aside in the same way the Moment it is found that they aro not faithfill to tho cause. This document gives the organization which the Nihilists propose to establish, it they succeed. There is, they say, to be no more family government nor religion ; the State is to be supremo and will establish labor communities, to which every one must belong or he excluded from all rights. Every one will be bound to engage in manual labor ; but permission may be ob tained to pursue professions advantageous to the people. There aro to bo provincial syndicates formed of delegates from the communities, who will attend to the dis tribution of the products oflabor, according to the needs of the different localities. The Negro at Home. (From the Liverpool Post, Feb. M. A gentleman who has Just arrived here by the screw steamer Mac Gregor Laird, irum the West Coast of Africa, has furnish ed us with the particulars of a series of al most unparalleled atrocities, which have lately been perpetrated there, and which seem to be but too common and of every Illy occurrence In that benighted country. lie says : In New Calabar river, about the begin ring of last month, it was observed from the shipping that something unusual was going on in a small hamlet called Young Town. The tiring of cannon and the din of war song, with its hent.tunl h musical (1) accompaniments, were anything but pleas ing to European ears. On inquiry it was found that a native chief, named Yellow, had the day previously succeeded In capturing two women belonging to the Ecreeka tribe, between whom and the Cal abar men a savage feud has existed for years. In honor of this martial achieve ment " grand play" was being held. It turned out that the younger of the two cap tives—a girl about fourteen years of ago— had that morning been killed, cooked, and was then in the course of being chopped or eaten by this monster Yellow and his sav age cunfrcre.r. The other 'captive was in irons and was to form the subject of a future feast. Strange as it may seem, while these occurrences were taking place ono of her Majesty's gun-boata was lying not far dis tant from the town, with the "saucy ensign" dying at the peak. This unmistakably shows the little influence wo have over the bloodthirsty and cannibalistic predilections of the African. At Whydah, the seaport capital of Dahomov's kingdom, whore the steamer remained for several hours, our informant learned that a European who was engaged In trade there had just been sub jected to a most cruel punishment. Daho mey, through his bloodthirsty satellites (add their name is legion), had "spotted" this young gentleman, who was perfectly unaware of having given offence to merit auy punish ment whatever. Dahomey, however, re fused to enlighten him on the subject., and had him taken to A bomey, where he caused the poor fellow to be stripped to his singlet and trowsers above his knees. Ile was then tied to a stake and exposed to the fierce burni❑g rays of a mid day tropical sun for several hours. He has bad to submit to the indignity, and can hope for no redress, as her Britannic Majesty's fleet on that coast is said to bo for the solo and exclusive pur pose of putting down a practice which hap pily, however, has no existence, viz., the slave trade. • • . The Fantees are greatly enraged by the actions of a certain Ashanteo chief named Achampong during his march from pa lonia to Ecreeka. During the marchhe killed twelve of the Fantee tribe and had them butchered in the customary Ashantee manner, which is too horrible even to de scribe. The Dutch have left Commendra in con sequence of the want of water, but not be fore they burnt the village. During the fight between the Dutch and the villagers the former lost three marines and had about twenty wounded. The roads be tween Commendra and the coast, a distance of seven miles, have been closed about two years. A Negro 31 . C The North Carolina Senators have a des patch from Governor Holden, of that State, relative to the election to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resiation of Deweeee. The indications axe , that a Colored man named Harris will be nomles A.A., and there is little doubt of his election.
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