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THREE O'CLOCK IN THE HORNING.
What do the robins whisper about
From their homes In the elms and birchen"
I've tried to study the riddle out,
hut still In my mind is many adoulit,
In spite of deep researches.
While all the world Is In silence deep,
In the twilight of early dawning,
They begin to chirp and twitter and peep
As If they were talking In their sleep,
At three o'clock In the morning.
Perhaps the little ones stir, and complain
That It's time to be up and doing;
And tile inother4ilrd sings a drowsy strain
1 . " coax them hack to their dreams again,
Though distant cocks are crowing.
it do they toll secrets that should not ho heard
11 3 mortals listonin mol prying?
Peraps We might Inure from some whlspored
word
The beNt way to bring up a little Li rd,—
it the wonderful art of flying.
It may, they speak of one autumn day.
When with u a a feathered rOUlller,
nit!, the clouds su cold and gray,
iv, the hills they took their way,
In search mi the vanished summer.
I t may lie they gosslp front nest to nest,
Ill.lllen :Ina loaf untoltletl;
For do We not often hear It confessed,
\Vie, .1 long 110111 secret at last Is finessed
tt bird Ins told It ?"
Porhaps- but the quo , ,tlon Is wrappea in dould
'rho give no• II lint ~r warning;
on, and toll IIII• If you rind out,
\ Viva 4u tho rnbiuti whlspor about
At th 0'11...11 in I he morning?
—OOl- Young Polk,
faiscrllanrolls.
The lI n In the Iron Mask
lanumerable a--; have been the theo
ries broached from time to time in re
gard to the at once renowned and ob
scure mortal known popularly as the
Man in the Iran Mask, they have id
ways oontradicted each other and them
so fromently and so flatly, that
the appearaucc of a work calculated to
set the question filially at rest may be
fairly viewed as a subject for congratu
lation. M. laritis Topin, the author of
the volume in question, after fully in
vestigating the claims of the various
persons, ill turn suspected of being tint
mysteriou: prisoner, and disposing of
those Maims, proceeded to set forth his
own theory, supported, for the toast
part, by minute and irrefragable evi
denee, or, failing such direct evidence,
by arguments mid inferences of singu
lar cogency.
Following, ihe example a" Plutarch
iu his Lire of Demetrius paiiireetes, ,
begins his her.", by relpr
ring If, his death. \Ve shall tread in
hi; loot , h•p4 :tin' relate the virettun
stant,-, tll.llVell by Topin from
I cl,lli , llll) l Prary :te
e4e.nit nl the pri,ffiers iu the 'tastily.
On the tsiternoen P>thl itteptent
her, 11;7.-;, the ;- , :tent• de St. I:l.rs, who
had lately been promoted from the tiov
norship of the Islands of ate. )iarguer
lie, sail' tho vi . .)vonc,, to that of
the i le, :11'11 Vi'il :at his new post, tat -
11 . 11.11,1 he all stoned eseort. lie had
travelled in a Idler, its which, and lay
sal a WILS
hidden lay a. I.laelt velvet mask. I)tir
dig the \vlsole.sf their ',dig journey, tit.
Nlars hail slot for a moment lost sight
4,i I vii:tigi.; it \vit., that at
weals the prisoner \Vac made to sit with
Isis haek to the light, shat he was for
hidden even Ilion to mast:, and
that at night St. Mars slept by his side
with loaded pistols within easy reach.—
l'opist adds, that at l'tilteatt,
elutteats, belion4ing to St. Mars, where
the party halted, at tradition or the mys
terious prisoner's passage has been
handed do‘vii front father to sun, anal
still exists iuttong the peasantry.
Five years altertvards, at niglittltll on
l'n e ,,l 3 y, the 20th of November, 1703, :t
small knot .f hurried across the
he dratvbride:e of the 1;a-tile to the cem
etery of Si. Paul's Church. The pris-
oner from Provence hurl fallen ill on the
preceding Suitility. Ott the Monday the
almoner of the ;3st i o had been called
in, :Old handy 11:1,1 Lillie to sluit•e
the 4cin¢ !natl. Lt the register of the
church the corpse wit; inscribed under
the name of .Ihirclihrly. At the Bastile
Ito hail been known as "the prisoner
front Pnwelice." Absolute secrecy wits
maintained on the subject in the Bas
ilic ; its officers, however, hail learnt the
part ienlars from Bunnies, and, in course
of time, repeated them to their succes
sors; thus it happened that the inmates
of the prison still knew of this mystery .
of mysteries, when, in the first half of
the eighteenth century, a number of
men tti letters were confined there in
,nceession. They, too, learnt the ap
jolting tali., and 10,4 no time in publish
ing it to Ilk; world ; conjecture was of
course rife, and numberless versions of
the story succeeded each other. One
difficulty, however, lay at the root of
them all --for it was admitted by all
hands that, the captive, so jealously
watched and hidden, lutist needs have
been a man of imptirtance ; yet no
known person weight sufficient to
warrant stud' twee:m(lons had, within
memory of Man, disappeared from the
slam. of public all'airs in Europe.
The story, ;is told by M. Topin, opens
about the year 10711. The prestige of
Louis XI 1' was :is yet unimpaired by
the revers:, which Hooded the close of
his ca r ver. Al no time, in fact, had he
cherished more ambitious schemes, and
:it none did they seem more likely to
succeed. Yielding to the fatal attrac
tion which has so often induced French
rulers to interfere in the allhitsof Italy,
no was casting about for the best mid
surest means of obtaining a solid and
permanent fmuing in that country. The
state of Italy, divided into petty States,
with a people sunk in sloth and corrup
tion, t tovernments timid and venal, and
princes weak and dessolute, invited the
interference of powerful and schem
ing iieighbors.
Charles Emmanuel, Ihike of Savoy,
had lately died, leaving as his successor
th a t very Duke of Savoy who Was des
tined MeXercise on the unities of Europe
:In influence so vast., Out disproportionate
to the size realm-, and so baneful to
the interests of Louis : , As yet, however,
(Iris Doke was a niere'cnild, left under
the guardianship of his mother, and the
tioVerillitellt Piedmont held a far in
ferior position ; for the Duchess, by na-
Imo weak :till vacililating, was render
ed all the inure s perhaps, front her
Ito:Mimi us fhr ruler of a sout h Slate at
thOVCrY thr,Sl,ll/ itiightY neighbor,
and as ail illeNtteldeliced woman envir
oiled by a = cute, unscrupulous, and often
hostile statesmen. Loins \vas already
master of the fort re, of Pignerol, and
it was argued that if he were able to
seem,. the 1,0-session of lid of Casale,
Piedmont, lying as it Juts het \Veen these
Iwo sirolmindds, would he wholly at his
; t Int, lie ,i - nuld neyuire at onee
mean , auil a unitive G,r interference in
lenaingnot imurnhably tu French
prodoillil I all ce in that country, if nut in
the end toilownriedit conquest. Casale
was the capital of the AI art iteSa te of
Vloultla . rttt,dependency of the Duchy
of Mantua. That [Wetly was governed
by l'harles I V of the house of (lonzaga,
a frivolous and needy Prince, whop:L.os
- unr . t or his tints in the gambling
houses to' Venice. was :LI ways in difficul
ties, anti likely to lie at the heel: of the
high - cst bidder. The rivals of France in
Italy were, as usual in those days, the
Spaniards and Imperialists, anti the ut
most eiretnnspe.•tion was requisite to
battle their vigilance if the scheme of
acquiring Casale were seriously enter
tained. In the d'Estrades, his
Ambassador at Venice, the King of
Frames possessed a tiding tool for the
work in hand, for that functionary was
of a restless and ambitious turn, and
bent on pushing his own fortunes in
furthering those of his master, by some
bold and successful stroke. The pur
chase of Casale seemed to d'Estrades
perfectly feasible, and he was not long
in settling on the person most likely to
meet his overtures on the subject in a
friendly spirit.
Count Matthioly, the man whom
d'Estrades selected for the purpose, haul
been Secret:try of State to the Duke of
fantua's predecessor, had wormed him
self into the confidence of his present
master, and was straining every nerve
to regain the office which he had once
held. Like d'Estrades himself, there
fore, he was bent on rendering his mas
ter some signal service, such as would be
likely to entail the attainment of his
own wishes ; and he well knew that he
could do the Duke no greater favor than
by supplying him with money, arid thus
pandering to Inc pleasures and his vices,
No two men ' therefore, seemed better
qualified under the circumstances to
bring the question to the issue desired
by the French Government than the
negotiators whom we have described.
Before, however, directly attacking
Matthioly on the subject, the wary
Frenchman sent one Giuliani, a contrih
utor to a newspaper, who, owing to his
occupation, could well move about the
country without exciting suspicion, to
watch and to sound him at Verona.—
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VOLUME 71
Giuliani was not long in ascertaining
Matthioly's aversion to the Spaniards,
from whom he had never been able to
obtain more than empty promises, and
the two soon came to an understanding;
the Duke of Mantua was as easily per
suaded, and a meeting was accordingly
agreed upon between him and d'Estra
des. It was arranged that this meeting
should take place at Venice during the
carnival, when every one, including
even the Doge, the Senators, and the
Papal 'Nuncio, went abroad masked, and
there seemed, therefore, no possibility
of suspicion attaching to the plotters.
Thus, strangely enough, this long and
eventful negotiation began as it ended,
in a masquerade; but little could the
unhappy Matthioly have divined in
what sort of masquing it would termi
nate!
The Duke of Mantua and d'Estrades
met on the 13th March, 1678, as if by
chance, in the open street at midnight
after a ball, and there, In disguise, safe
ly discussed the preliminaries. In the
following month.of October, Matthioly
and Giuliani, after successfully eluding
the vigilance of foreign spies, and pre
tending a pfurney to Switzerland, start
ed for Paris, where they signed a treaty,
the conditions of which were the follow
ing:-Ist. That the Duke of Mantua
should admit French troops into Casale.
2d. 'Chat he should be appointed Com
mander-in-Chief of any army which
Louis might send into Italy; and 3d,
That when the provisions of the treaty
were 'carried out, a sum or Itm,ooo crowns
should be paid to him.
011 the signature of Die treaty, Mat
thinly was received in a private audience
by Louis XI V. He WWI treated with
tlic most flattering marks of dist inction;
iu memory of his journey, the King of
fered him a valuable diamond, and a
sum of-100 double louis,and further prom
ised that,on the ratification of the treaty,
a much larger sum should be paid to
him, that his son should be appointed
page at the French Court, and that his
brother should receive a valuable living.
Never, as M. Topin observes, had any
intrigue been more skilfully devised,
nor had a fairer prospect of success.:The
powers with whose interests the scheme
clashed were still in utter ignorance of
its existence, the contracting parties
fully agreed in every point, and the ne
gotiators On both sides, to all appear
ance equally interested in its fulfilment.
Notwitlistandim , this, it is an un
loulded fact that Cwo months after Mat
th ioly's journey to Paris, all the govern
ments interested in the failure of the
project—namely, those of 'l'u rill, Madrid,
Vienna, and Venice—were fully inform
ed of every particular; and they were
so owing to the Met tuna they had at
various times received detailed state
ment: on the subject from the principal
agent in the intrigue, Count Mat t 'lndy
himself.
hard to guess. M. Topin supposes that,
although willing in the lirst instance to
sell Ills country to France, Matthioly
may perhaps afterward- have had (lualins
Of conscience, and, moved by a tardy
patriotism, 'nay have wished to undo
his ONVII work by betraying the plot
while it was yet time. This conjecture,
we OWII, seems to I,t. MI 110 Solid foun
dation. In the first place, patriotism
was nut in vogue among the _ltalian
statesmen of those days. Secondly, the
state of affairs in the Peninsula was such,
that in withdrawing his country from
the clutches of one spoiler he must have
known that he was merely placing her
at the mercy of another; for Italy's
chains were then so firmly riveted that
a change in her condition implied no
uun•c titan a change of jailers, and thus
she would pass from the tyranny and
cupidity of one foreigner to those of an
other.
Less improbable does it scent that the
urgent wants of the rapacious and needy
gamester whoth he served obliged Mat
thioly to sell his secret to any one likely
to pay for it, and in some such reason us
this we must thud the key to his strange,
reckless, and suicidal conduct. To what
extent he was his master's aim' danince,
may easily be gathered from the fore
goity, ; that he did not fully trust his
master we may perceive from the fact
that he withheld from him the original
documents touching the negotiations
and kept them concealed ; that in the
end he was sacrificed to his master's exi•
gencies as well as to Louis' resentment,
we can not well doubt, even if we do not
attach importance to the facts that
Charles and Louis were afterwards fully
reconciled, and that the sudden illness
and death of Matthioly in the Itastile
coincided somewhat ondimusly with the
Duke of Mantua's visit to Paris. Dis
trust of each other, moreover, was au
element which, among negotiators con
stituted as they must have been, was
likely to enter largely into the incen
tives which determined their conduct;
Mr it must be recollected that Louis,
who, as regards common honor and hon
esty, appears of all parties to the least
disadvantage on the occasion, had him
self not scrupled to break almost every
international engagement into which he
had entered; that his character, there
fore, for good faith can hardly have
stood high from the manner in which
he had observed the stipulations of the
IM/ZIMMI=tII=I9
The Duchess of Savoy was the first
person whom Matthioly informed of his
dealings with France. On the 31st of
December—that is, just twenty-three
days after the signature of the treaty—
she received from Matthioly all the
original documents connected with the
negotiation, of which she kept copies.
Fully alive to the fact that of all Italian
governments her own had most to fear
from !Louis' resentment, and concluding
that the other governments interested
had been equally apprifed, she hastened
to inform him of what was passing. He
was thunderstruck on receiving - these
tidings, which reached him in Febru
ary, 1679, for all the arrangements made
for the seizure of Casale were in full pro
gress. Baron d'Asfeld had started for
Venice, empowered to exchange the
ratifications of the treaty. Troops had
been secretly assembled at Briancon,
ready to march at a moment's notice.
Catinat himself, who at that time only
held the rank of brigadier, hut NV:IS al
ready known as a distinguished officer,
was hurried Mr under escort in the dis
guise of a prisoner to l'ignerol, where
he sojourned under a false . name • every
thing, in short. was ready, when the
signal for action was unexpectedly de
layed, owing to the unaccountable
treachery of Matthioly.
Meanwhile that nisch-deceiver per
ceiving the fruitlessness, as far as he
wits himself concerned, of his overtures
to the Duchess of Savoy, had lost no
time in informing the ( overninents of
Vienna, N'eniee, and Aladria of the
whole matter, and foul thus rendered
sUeOO55 On the part of France an impo,-
sibility. The king, on the other hand,
ignorant as he was of these further dis
closures, did not as yet lose all hope of
carrying his point; thinking . Mattltio
ly's conduct might be only a beginning
of treachery as it were, he did not even
apprise D'Estrades of the state of the
ease, and trusted that all might yet be
well.
D'Estrades, who had been moved
from the legation at Venice to that of
Turin, continued, in the meantime, to
meet with evasive and unsatisfactory
replies to his overtures from the Man
tuan Government; the negotiations
were delayed by them on the flimsiest
pretexts. Perplexing intelligence of
the least re-assuring nature continued
to reach d'Estrades from various parts
of Italy, till an event of no little signi
ficance occurred which confirmed his
worst suspicions. Baron d'Asfeld, on
his way to Increa to exchange ratifies
dons with Matthioly, had been arrested
by the Spanish Governor of the Milan
ese, and was kept a close prisoner.—
Louis, however, did not as yet wholly
lose heart, and Catinat received orders
to take the place of d'Asfeld. Still trav
elling under a feigned name, he and
St. Mars, the Governor of Pignerol,
likewise in disguise, made their way to
the appointed rendezvous, where Mat
thioly was to have met them, without,
however, finding him there. After va
rious misadventures, during which they
narrowly escaped capture, they were
glad to make good their retreat to Pig
nerol, without, of course, bringingback
with them the deed of cession, the ob
taining of which had been the object
of their errand.
From that moment all doubt of Mat
thioly's treachery vanished from d'Es
trades mind, and he was the first to pro
pose a plan for capturing the traitor.
Matthioly still attempted to amuse
d'Estrades with sham negotiations, but
the latter had by this time fully ascer
tained that the arrest of d'Asfeld was
due to Matthioly, and that Matthioly
still withheld the original documents
from the Duke of Mantua. D'Estrades,
however, did:not cease to negotiate with
Matthioly, using, however, the utmost
care not to let him know how fully in
formed he was of his perfidy. He ac
cordingly sent Giuliani to him, saying
that if the Duke of Mantua were still of
the same mind as regards Casale, the
King of France would be quite willing
to continue the negotiation for the sur
render of the fortress. Matthioly com
plained that he had spent all the money
at his command in bribes at the Court
of Mantua, with a view to bringing
about the result desired by the King of
France. D'Estrade.s:thereupon promised
that he should be paid certain sums by
Cativat, who had been entrusted with
them by the King, his master. So
greedy fur money was Matthioly that he
eagerly pressed d'Estrades to lose no
time in bringing about a meeting with
Catinat, and Tuesday, the 2d of May,
appointed.
So wholly lulled were his suspicions,
so dead was he to all sense of his danger,
that he seemed stricken with a mental
blindness fully as strange as his former
shrewdness, and hurried heedlessly on
to a doom which will make him a by
word for all that is abjectly and irre
coverably wretched in this life. The
Abbe d' Estrades tells, with no little
complacency, how he called for him at
six in the morning on the appointed
day, and carried him in his own carriage
towards the place of meeting ; how the
rains had so swollen the River Cluisiola
that it had broken part of the bridge
they went to cross ; how Matthioly
helped with his own hands to repair the
damage, and worked zealously on till the
bridge was passable on foot; and how
they thenleft the carriageand hurried for
ward through muddy lanes to the place
of assignation. There they found Ca
tinat awaiting them ; he managed mat
ters so well that no one appeared on the
spot but himself; he showed them into
a neighboring house where they could
confer unobserved ; .here d'Estrades
gradually led Matthioly on to confess
what he had heard him say some days
before, namely, that he had in his pos
session all the original documents con
nected with the negotiations. Matthioly
added that the Duke of Mantua had
often attempted, but in vain, to obtain
them, that he only possessed copies, and
that the originals were in the care of his
(Matthioly's) wife in a nunnery at Bo
logna. At this stage of the conference
d'Estrades judged it best to retire, and
as soon as Ile had left, Matthioly's ar
rest was effected without the least diffi
culty.
Among the papers found on the cap
tive those emanating front the Court of
Versailles were not included; but on
being threatened with torture and death
the unhappy man confessed that they
were in Padua, stowed away in a place
known to his father alone. lie was
then made to write a nett' r by dictation
to his father in no way alluding to his
present state, but begging him to make
the papers over to Giuliani, the bearer
of the letter. The elder Matthioly,
wholly ignorant of the fact that Giuli
ani was ill French pay, unsuspectingly
handed to him the precious documents,
which d'Estrades lost no time in
tot
warding to Versailles.
Uu learningorMatthioly's arrest, Louis
seems to have behaved with character
istic presence of mind ; instantly aban
doning all thought of acquiring Casale,
he recalled the troops collected at Bri
ancon, peremptorily demanded and
easily obtained the release of d'Asfeld
by the Spanish Government, and caused
a report to be spread that Matthioly was
dead.
11 faudra," wrote Louis to d' Es
trades, "il faudra que personne ne sache
ce que eel homme est devenu.'"l'he
order was strictly obeyed. The unhappy :
man's family dispersed in silence and
sorrow. In their pedigree the date of
Matthioly's death is left blank. His wife,
the widow of a man who was destined
to survive her, retired broken-hearted
to the very convent whither seven
teen years before Matthisly had come
to wed her; Ids father dragged on a
wretched existence for some years long
er at Patina, not knowing whether to
bewail the death of a beloved son, or
still to believe his existence. _Harrow
ing as this state of doubt must have been
to them, noneof his kindred dared to set
on foot inquiries which were almost cer
tain to be fruitless and might possibly
have been dangerous. M. Topin traces
Matthioly to Pignerol, to the Islands of
Ste. Marguerite, and linally, as we have
seen, to the Bastile.
In the despatches addressed by the
French government to Matthioly's gao
lers, he...is after a time no longer men
tioned by name, and is known by the
pseudonym of "Le Sieur (le Lestang;"
and M. Topin shows that the name of
_Vitrehialg, under which h is Inner:ll was
entered in the register of St. Paul's
Church, was a mere corruption of the
name Matthioly very likely to occur in a
foreign country, and at a time when
proper names were spelled with a care
lessness unknown in these days.
Thus was Louis X IV revenited I,n the
first man who had ever thwarted him
in one of his great designs. Ms success,
indeed, in punishing the culprit was in
its way as complete as hail been the
failure to compass the object of his in
trigues. This very success, however,
has left a bolt upon his fame as indelible
as any which attaches to that of the
other actors in this detestable episode,
from which Catinat's name alone
emerges unsullied. We feel, in fact,
that in dealing with this whole matter
we have been dwelling, as it were, in a
tainted atmosphere ; for the hand of
time which lifts so many veils has sel
dom revealed a scene of fraud, chicane,
and relentless tyranny at once so nau
seous and so appalling. Let us hope
that such depravity among the foremost
of mankind is henceforth an
; let us hope that the present gen
eration have a better right than the Pha
risee of the Gospel to rejoice that they
are not like unto these inco.—rmolhill
One Half Guilty
A fellow named Dunks was lately tried
at Yuba,. Cal., fur entering a miner's
tent and stealing a bag of gold dust
valued.af SS-1. The testimony showed
that once Leen employed there
and knew exactly where the owner kept
Iris dust ; that on the night specified he
eat a slit in the tent, reached in, took
the bag, and then run oit Jim Butler,
the principal witness, testified that he
saw the hole cut,: saw the malt reach
in, and heard him run away.
" I rushed after him at mce," he con
tinued; "but when I cotched hint I
didn't find Bill's bag; but it was found
afterwards where he had th rowed it."
" How far did he get when he took the
dust'." inquired the counsel.
" Well, he was stoopin' over half way .
in I should say," replied the witness.
" May it please your honor," inter
posed the counsel, "the indietment isn't
sustained, and I shall demand an ac
quittal on direction of the court. The
prisoner is on trial for entering a dwell
ing in the night time with intent to
steal. The testimony is clear that he
made an opening through which he
protruded himself half way, and stretch
ing out his arms, committed the theft.
But the indictment charges that he ac
tually entered the tent or dwelling?
Now, your honor, can a man enter a
house when only one half of his body is
in, and the other half out?"
" I shall leave the whole matter to the
jury. They must judge of the law and
the facts as proved," replied the judge.
Thn jury brought in a verdict of
"Guilty as to one half of the body, and
not guilty as to the other half."
The judge sentenced the guilty part
to two years imprisonment, leaving it
to the prisoner's option to have the in
nocent half cut off or take it along with
him.
lllstory of the Mercer Potato
In the year 1802 Mr. John Kilkey, of
Mercer county, Pennsylvania, living'
along I, eshanock creek, planted a quan
tity of blue, red, white aud other varie
ties of potatoes, from the product of
which he selected the above named va
riety, which at first *ere called Nesh
anocks, after the creek near which
he lived. They were soon brought into
notice by the name of Mercer and
cultivated near Philadelphia from
thence spread over the whole coun
try, and for a long time, more generally
cultivated than any other variety, but
of late years has been rather on the de
cline, and other new varieties have been
introduced, but none of which has at
tained the celebrity of the Mercer, which
was almost universally planted for
nearly half a century, owing to its su
perior edible qualities and productive
ness. It may be a long time before any
one variety of this valuable esculent to
man will attain the prominence of the
noble Mercer, which although having
had its day, is still the favorite with a
large number of people.
LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING MAY 25. 1870
The Massacre on the Mahoning
[The following account of the burning of
the Mission House on the Mahoning, and
the butchery of the mission family, in 1775,
is extracted from Vol. 1 of the "Memori
als of the Moravian Church," the publica
tion of which was recently noticed in our
columns. It occurs in the editor's intro.
duction to the "Account of the United
Brethren at Bethlehem, with the Commis
sioners of the Province of Pennsylvania,
during the Indian War of 1755, '56 and '57,"
The mournful story is familiar to most of
our readers, but it will be read with fresh
interest in this picturesque narrative,
which furnishes an account of the causes
of the war and the hatred of the Indians
against the Brethren.—Bethlehem 3fora
vicen.]
When, in:1755, Pennsylvania became
the theatre of the prolonged contest in
which the English were engaged for
territorial aggrandizement in the New
World, her defenceless borders along the
entire extent of the easterly outliers of
the great Appalachian chain of moun
tains were, for the first time, scourged
with the barbarities of Indian warfare.
Braddock met with disaster on the
9th of July. This was the signal for
the uprising of the Delawares, whose
of had been alienated from the
English ever since they saw them in
league with the hatred Iroquois, for the
iniquitous purpose of dispossessing them
of their hereditary seats. Allured by
the representations of French emissa
ries, in which the prospect of recover
ing their national independence and the
homes of their forefathers was flatter
ingly held out, and emboldened by the
success of the French arms, the Dela
wares of the East met the Delawares of
the West in council on the Allegheny,
and prepared for war. But first they
rehearsed their wrongs, dwelling on
the loss of the lands on the Tulpehock
en and on the Conedogwiuet ; but chief
ly, and amid bitter denunciations, on
the fraud of 1737, perpetrated, as they
maintained, to confirm the deedless
purpose of all that tract of country which
extended from the Tohickon and the
hills of Lechauweki northward and
westward as far as the great plains of
Skehandowana, or Wyoming. Wher
ever the white man was settled within
this disputed territory, there they re
solved to strike him as best they could
with the most approved weapons and
appliances of their savage warfare.—
And that the blow might be of
dealt, each warrior-chief was charged
to scalp, kill and burn within the pre
cincts of his birthright, and all simul
taneously, from the frontiers down into
the heart of the sßthnents, until the
English should sue for peace and prom
ise redress.
In these hostile prop:krations, and in
t rengt hening their with alliances,
he summer and early months of au-
anon passed away. October came, and
no sooner had the first biting frosts
reddened the maple and hardened the
yellow corn in the husk, than French
Indians, and chiefly Delawares and
Shawanese painted black for war, in
bands of two or four abreast, moved
eastward With murderous intent. The
line of the Blue Mountain, front the
Delaware to the Susquehanna, became
the scene of the carnival which the ex
asperated savages held with torch and
tomahawk during the latter part of the
winter of 1733. The defenceless settlers
were taken as in a. snare. They were
harassed by tat unseen foe by day and
by night. Sonic were shot by down at
the plow, some were butchered at the
fireside; men, women and children
were promiscuously tomahawked or
scalped, or hurried away into distant
captivity, for torture or fur coveted ran
som, There was: literally a pillar of tire
by night and a pillar of cloud by day
going tip along the horizon, marking
the progress of the relentless invader;,
as they dealt out death, and pillage, and
conflagration, and drove before th em, in
midwinter's flight, hundreds of home
less wanderers, who scarce knew where
to turn for safety or for succor in the
swift destruction that was come upon
them.
On the huh October the savages fell
upon the whites on John Penn's Creek,
four miles south of Shamokin, in Snyder
county. Here they killed or took cap
tive twenty-five persons; and it was
only the twenty-third of the month
when all the settlements along the Sus
quehanna between Shamokin and Hun
ter's Mill, fur a distance of fifty miles,
were hopelessly deserted. Early in No
vember the Great and the Little Cove,
west of the Conecocheague, and the
Canalaways, in Franklin county, were
attacked, the inhabitants either put to
death or taken prisoners, and the settle
inents totally destroyed. This was the
field of operations that had been assign
ed to the French Indians and to the
Delawares front the Ohio under Shin-
On the 16th of November the savages
for the first time crossed the great river
Which it had vainly been hoped would
prove a barrier to their incursions. Fall
ing upon the rich farms along the Swa
tara and the Tulpehocken, they tired
the harvesetd grain and fodder in barns
and in barracks, destroyed large num
bers of cattle and horses, and murdered
thirteen persons. It was now apparent
that a second division of the enemy was
on the war path ; and when, in the eve
ning of the 24th of the month, the Mora
vian house on the Mahouing was sur
prised and ten of its inmates were scalp
ed, or shot, or tomahawked, or burned
to death, the prelude only had been per
formed to the tragedy which the savages
were resolved to enact within the pro
ducts of them by the detested walking
purchase. Along its northern line,
which had been fraudulently sur
veyed so as to embrace a good
ly portion of the Minnisinks or
Upper Valley of the Delaware, was laid
the first scene of this resentful Indian
warfare. It was here that Teedyuscung
with his Eastern Delawares (and chief
among these the implacable Monseys),
mindful of the indignities that had been
heaped upon him and his kinsmen, of
the Forks by the imperious Canassa
tego, at the Treaty of 1742, wreaked his
long cherished resentment on the whites
who had planted in Long Valley, or
who were trespassing within the Min
nisinks west of the Delaware. And
thus, within a short month, fifty farms„
With their horses. were plundered and
burned, and upward of one hundred I
persons were killed on the frontiers of
.Northampton, on both sides of the Kit
tatinny, or " endless " All
our border country," writes a citron
icier of the day, " extending from the
Potomac to the Delaware, not less
than one hundred and fifty miles in
length and between twenty and thirty
in breadth, has been entirely deserted,
its houses reduced to ashes, and the cat
tle, horses, grain, and other possessions
Id the inhabitants either destroyed,
burned or carried (11l- by the Indians ;
While such Of the poor planters who,
with their wives, children, andservants,
escaped from the enemy, were obliged,
in this inclement season of the year, to
abandon their habitations almost naked
and to throw themselves upon the char
ity of those WllO dwell ill the interior of
the Province."
A combination of causes served to
render this time of general distress pe
culiarly trying to the Brethren. Their
ndssion among the aborigines, owing to
the enlightening influence it exerted
upon a people who had long been the
easy subjects of design and of fraud, was
unpopular with that class of the whit6s
who were interested in their degrada
tion. These were now loud in denounc
ing the Brethren, ill publishing them to
the world as an association in league
with the savages, in the interests of the
French, as deserving of being treated as
a common enemy. Thus a strong feel
ing was roused against them, and twice
did their exasperated fellow-Christians
conspire to exterminate them in
their settlements root and branch.
Meanwhile their situation in the north
ern part of the Province exposed them
to sudden attack from the hostile In
dians, by whom they plainly saw that
they had been singled out as objects of
an especial hate. And for this reason.
They had refuse to use compulsion,when
messenger after messenger had come
down from theSusquehanua with sinis
ter invitations to the unwilling Dela
wares and Mohicans of Gnadenhutten,
to come up to them and plant in Wyom
ing. And when Teedyuscung, in April
of 1754, had used his persuasive arts so
effectually with themembers of the con
gregation as to draw away seventy of
his fellow-converts (among whom was
Abraham.Shabash, the first of the patri
archs), their silent rebuke of his breach
of faith, and their reluctance to allow
their sheep to go among wolves, roused
the hatred of the chieftain and his con
sorts who were preparing for war.
" Are they not our brethren, and is it
not best that they return to their own
people? For who can love them more
than we their brethren ?" was their in-
siduous plea. Meanwhile they and the
others reasoned among themselves as
follows: "If these Moravian Indians
continue at Gnadenhutten, they may
thwart us in our plans when the time
has come for us to take up the hatchet;
they may becouaeinformers, or they may
be employed as scouts and runners; awl
even if they hold themselves neutral,
their proximity to the settlements will
embarrass our movements." Foiled in
effecting this coveted removal, the hos
tile chieftain spoke angrily of the
Brethren, and the evil report was spread
throughout the Indian country that the
pale-faced preachers at Bethlehem were
craftily holding red men in bondage.
And thus was engendered in the hearts
of the Indians who had been alienated
from the English, that bitter animosity
against their benefactors which para
lyzed the latter in their labor of love,
while it cost them a heavy loss and
precious lives.
In this way the Brethren were be
tween two fires, and in an apparently
hopeless dilemma. It needed indeed a
Divine interposition to extricate them
from the two-fold peril iu which they
were involved, and to set them in a safe
place where all men could see and con
fess to their innocence. And this inter
position came at an early day. It came,
it is true, in blood, but the Brethren re
ceived it as a dispensation of mercy, for
their faith in the righteousness of the
Lord's dealings was strong.
Locked in among high hills on the
west bank of the Lehigh, a few miles
north of where the river escapes from
the embraces of the Blue Mountain, is
a sequestered valley. It was always a
lonely spot, and still remains such, al
though now so near one of the great
thoroughfares of traffic and seats of
mighty labor, swarming with strong
workingmen, and dun and lurid with
the smoke and the fires of glowing fur
naces. The valley of the Mahoning is
I a silent little world of wild mountain
and of barren hills, shelving down into
a narrow expanse of lowland through
which the Mahoning winds its wizard
stream. In this amphitheater the Lord
was pleased to vindicate the Brethren.
He (lid this on the 24th of November,
and as follows:
There were fifteen persons in the
dwelling-house on that fatal night. It )
sari in the gloaming, and they were '
about finishing their even ing meal when
the angry barking of the dogs in the )
farm-yard apprised them of the approach
of strangers. Joachim Sensemann be
ing reminded the meeting-house it
stood not more than fifty yards higher
upon the hills) was not lucked for the
night, hastened thither to secure it.— .
This precaution saved him ; for no sooner
was he in the hall and in the act of strk
ing a light, than he heard the report of
of tire-arms. It startled him ; only mu
mentarily,however,as he recollected that
a scouting party of scotch-Irish had rid- •
den past a few hours before, and he con- ,
eluded that they were discharging their
pieces on their return home. lie finished
his errand,andon his way down the hill,
he met George Partseh, who, breathless,
informed him in broken speech of the
presence of hostile Indians below.
ShaWalleSe painted for war,"
lie said, pointing behind him, adding at I
the same time that the dwelling was
beleaguered, that the Brethren and Sis
ters were at the merey of the savages,
and that lie had escaped by leaping out
of a window at the first surprise with a
bullet whistling past his head. A brief
reeonnoisance of the position showed
them the folly of any attempt to render •
assistance, and they accordingly re
solved to cross the river without delay
and give the alarm to the inhabitants of
Gnadenhutten East.
Meanwhile the following had trans
pired at the doomed house. The bark
ing of the dogs had been indeed porten
tious ; for soon after there were voices
and then footsteps heard without. Martin
Nitschman opened the door to see whose
they were, was shot, and fell a corpse.
Two bullets at the same moment grazed
Joseph Sturgis, and as the door remain
ed open the savages poured a random
volley into the room, killing or wound
ing John Gattermeyer, Martin Presser,
and John Lesley. Of therm nothing
more is known. Hereupon the others
(there were nine) retreated precipitately
into the adjoining apartment, and from
there up the stairway into the attic,
closely pursued by the Indians. It was
in this retreat and on the stein that
Susanna Nitschman was disabled by a
ball, and, reeling backward, fell into the
hands of the enemy. Her loud and
piteous cries for help were soon hushed;
Mr if we are to credit the relations of
Isaac Nutimus, of Joachim and of
Teedynscung, she was gagged and hand
ed over to an attendant by her captor to
grace his triumph on his return to Dia
hoga. The eight who had succeeded
in reaching the attic, barricaded the
trap-door with bedsteads and with what
other furniture was at hand, the strong
arms of George Schweigert, a teamster,
rendering the barrier proof against the
attempt of the murderous assailants
to force it with their hatchets
and the butts of their guns.—
Failing to reach those for whose blood
they thirsted, the Indians now charged
their pieces and tired volley after volley,
POllle into the floor, and some from with
out into the roof, in the hopes of killing
or of bringing to terms the objects of
their fiendish ferocity. Foiled in this
also, the exasperated Shawanese applied
the torch. The cruelly hunted inert and
women above were soon sensible of the
I new danger by which they were beset,
and saw that they roust either perish by
fire or fall into the hands of demons.
There were three helpless women in
that doomed company, and they were
among the most composed. Anna Sen
sernan was last seen seated upon a bed
with folded hands and upturned eyes,and
ever and anon she said, "My Saviour, I
thought that this would be my end !"
The second was a mother with an infant
in her arms. Wrapping the child in her
apron, hugged it closely to her bosom
and sat in silence ; for the flood of feel
ing and affection for her offspring that
poured through her heart in that peril
ous tithe deprived her of the power of
utterance. This was Johanna Antlers.
The suspense was growing momentarily
more unendurable, and Gottlieb Anders
shouted fur help in the vain hope that
he would be heard, and that all that was
I dear to him in the world would even yet
be succored. But at intervals, above
his voice and above the yells of the
exultant Shawnese and the crackling
of bu rn ing timbers, were heard the agon
icing cries of the innocent child. Now
I it was that three of the eight chose the
desperate alternative of risking their
lives in attempting to escape from the
beleaguered house in preference to that
of certain death by the horrors of fire.
'Watching his chance, at a moment
when the sentinel, who was guarding
the dormer-window below had left his
post, young Sturgis boldly leapt out, ran
for his life, and WOll it Susan Partsch
followed Minot - id reached the meeting
house unobserved. Behind this she se
creted herself, leaving her covert on the
approach of the Indians later in the
evening and retreating doss'll the' valley
toward the river. George Fabricus was
evidently with hesitation, as the fire
had already passed over !din. He had
reached the ground, had sprung to his
feet, and was safe as he thought from
his relentless persecutors, when they
discovered him. In an instant he was
pierced simultaneously by two balls and
fell. Rushing upon him, the infuriated
savages buried their tomahawks in his
body and scalped him down to the eyes.
Next day his mangled corpse wins found
in a pool of blood on the spot where he
had been butchered, and by its side,
guarding the lifeless remains of its mas
ter, ms - as couched his faithful dog. Five
of the inmates of the house of the Motio
ning, therefore, met death in the fire.
Having finished their bloody work,
the Indians (so we are told by Susan
Partsch, wino watched their movements
from her hiding place) proceeded to pil
lage and burn the other houses of the
settlement. First the barn and stable,
and next the kitchen, the bake-house,
the Single Brethren's house, the store,
the mill, and finally the meeting-house,
until the whole valley was light as day
with the glare of the conflagration, ath
wart which could be seen, in bold relief,
the dusky figures of the fiendish Shaw
anese as they hastened to and fro in the
closing scene of the tragedy they had
that night so perfectly enacted. And
when this was done, they collected
around the spring -house, where, having
divided their plunder, they feasted with
blood-stained - hands. Then loading up
their spoils on stolen horses, they filed
off leisurely in the warriors path that
led to Wyoming.
Intelligence of this terrible blow was
brought to Bethlehem by David Zeis
berger at three o'clock in the morning
of the next day, and was broken to the
Brethren and • Sisters, who had been
summoned to meet in the chapel at five
o'clock (an hour earlier than the custo- : the present into nothingness. Paul,
mary lino for daily devotions), by , himself transformed almost into the
Bishop Spangenberg. Only a few were image of his Lord, schooled as be had
informed of - what had happened, and / schooled his noble heart to bear the bur
although there were vague rumors / dens of the weak, could not thus have
among the rest of some great calamity, thouglihe could act. There isat last
these failed to lessen the painfulsuspeuse almost an eestacy in his martyr life
whichharassedthemastheysatinsilence —in the near prospect of a martyr's
awaiting the entrance of their respected grave—that tells us his thorn in the
father, the organ gave forth mournful i flesh was blunted down ; then though
notes as the worthy man came in. and he could allow for other's weakness,
took his accustomed seat. Surveying he could scarcely feel ; but Jesus, look
his Brethren and Sisters to the right ing up to Heaven, in the presence of the
and to the left with a countenance / world's sorrows, sighed ; Jesus, on the
which bore evidence of some recent eon- death of his friend Lazarus, groaned in
test which had taken place in his in- the spirit and was troubled ; at the
most soul, he spoke most feelingly and i grave, Jesus wept. It is the same voice
said: " My dear Brethren and Sisters, , which bids us fear not them that kill
it may appear to some as if the Saviou r the body, which also bids us to cement
had dealt severely with us ;" and then / ber that the very hairs of our head are
having recited the tragic occurrence of all numbered. The same being with
the previous evening, he rallied and whom a thousand years are as one day,
proceeded to say, "But, no! He has / with Him also one day is a thousand
been pleased for a wise purpose to lead ' years, with a world of hopes and fears,
some of our number as victims to the the bitterness of trial and temptation
slaughter. We are short-sighted, and I and grief compressed into its narrow
perhaps too much stricken to be able to circle. lie who was and is to come, is in
intercept this mysterious providence.— I the passing hour, bearing, helping us,
But are we not triumphantly \lndica- if we will, by His merciful compassion,
ted in the eyes of our neighbors who /to bear the burden so heavy, so hope
clamor for our lives and for the destrue- ! less, so selfish, so to speak, in its weight
tion of dear Bethlehem, publishing to , of misery, as to shut out by its very bulk
the world that we are in league with . all else from our finite vision. And now,
the French, because, when all men brethren, let us combine this incident
around us hastened to arms in utter ' of the character of our Lord, with the in
consternation, we alone were undis- eident of His power, that we may com
mayed, and waited for the Lord ?" pleb: the lesson. This is no mere human
teacher, whose views of benignant kiml-
A. SERMON. liness or of severity we are at liberty to
/ admit or dispute. We know that Thou
pir,,Lembes,tl,T,gbty.fßaems.e.syi.Esklrpoppev WaLroa. l':Ui lto these miracles Clint Thou ; odil(easnt
Rector. except (bid be with them. Except (
. . .
"And they were beyond measure °Mimi:Med i Ibe with him! With hint in a peculiar
saying, Ile bath Mine all things well: Ile ,e
'." „.,,,
for I need not remind you that
maketh both the deaf to hear, !mil the Omni, I ',
to speak."—Si. Mark, vii. r. 1 our Saviour's teaching was not so touch
b
This is the recorded effect of one of by word, as by example, by character,
the works of mercy of our blessed Sa t h 2 ,1 spirit. God was with Moses by a
- lii g,lity hand and nil outstretched arm •,
viour ; one out of a great number men( i,PII Was with the prophets by sign and
tinned by St. Matthew, as wrought at !
this period, selected by St. Mark to la. 1 symbol and judgment; I was in
i
related with the minute and graphic de-
Christ reconciling the world. Could
tail, which was his manlier. ~T ii, ,, , there be a ruer reconciliationr than by
bring unto Him one"
whose iidiniii '_
ty is particularly described; 1 sympathy, in il the
he ‘, was I world unto himself '..The eleetrie spark
1 of sympathy which had gone out truth
deaf and had an impediment in his
speech," an d th e y beseech our Lord to 1 !Dm, had excited the wondering crowd
to beseech Ilim in (inlet confidence that
work the cure by what we may presume
to have been the accustomed token, the lie would put IHs hand upon the deaf
. man, and for the gracious compliance
imposition of His hands. Our Saviour,
however, does not comply literally with with their request there was ample
, ground for expectation. The presence of
their request: He tool: bins little aside
front the multitude, " and put His lin- I "3' furor"l of human misery would, they
gers into his ears, anti He spit, au , ' I knew,elicit his compassionate attention
Looking up to Heaven Ile sighed. But
touched Ids tongue, and looking up to I
Heaven He sighed, and smith unto him I more t han !Milian sympathy Was needed
t'or the cure. In the word of power,
E phphatha, that is, Be opened, and
spoken not in another's name, but by
straightway his ears were opened, :old
the briel imperative fiat of Omnipotence
the string of his tongue was loosed, and
- Epliphatha—Be ()pencil, even tic he
he spake plain ; and Ile charged them
that they should tell no man ;
but iiii , . one,. had said—au exertion no mightier
more He charged them, so touch the
or (tic will—Let there be light, impresses
more a great deal they published it ; the doctrine :old example of the Lord
I with a higher, with a Divin 0 seal. I last
and were beyond measure astonished,
, thou been SO lung time with Me, anti
saying, He Lath done all things well ;
bast thou not known Me? ' -' Ile that
He maketh both the deaf to hear, and
I bath seen Me, both seen the Father!
the dumb to speak."
if this was the record of anything i nel"ved, ilea exaggeration, as it seems
, it the cold critic, of the astonished mul
less than the supernatural, of anything,
titude, had spoken truth ! Ile doethall
however uncommon anti extraordinary,
yet still within the supposable range of
things well ! For the Doer, the Creator,
I
the Redeemer, the Restorer is here!
human power, the simple naturalness I
and verisimilitude of the narrative File miracle attests the God; the miracle
t
would curly conviction upon its lace. of mercy attests hat God is Love!
A work of wonder could hardly be de- I My brethren ! shall we not bring,
scribed with more apparent truthful-
Itave we not the faith even of this mu I
ness ; the circumstantiality I
of detail, 1 titude to bring our sorrows, whatever
be, into His presence, that He may
the absence of any disposition to exag- ; t h ey
, put Ills hand upon thenC."f here is
Berate— c oot a deaf mute restored—but
I virtue in Ills touch, for His human
deafness with an impediment of speech,
so that he could not speak pla i n. . I sympathy is one with His divine, and
the word e
flit , I
an easY in its power they will vanish or become
memory of the e " phphatha " hauntingye-witness and incur_ i
burden, a portion of the Cross
I we are honored to bear with Hint, the
purating itself into his Greek account ;
ii ._ token and assurance of Ills love. In
the astonislnnent of the multitude,
repressible by the injunction of silenee -- sympathy, the less includes and is the
warrant of the greater. In His sigh in
the more He charged them so much the I
I the company of that deaf man, we hear
more a great deal they published it ; and
cc- the throbbing of a heart responsive to
1
the natural exaggeration of their
every feeling of our own. lie who un
port—lle ]Lath dune all things well--
these allUrd marks of truth which in . sealed those dull ears and loosed that
i stammering tongue, think ye, He careth
any event below the supernatural would
not for pais! Think you, Ec willingly
at ()nee stamp the witness with the very I
: afflicts or grieves the ehildren of men :' highest authority. As relating to a
' hink youff, bayou r grief, or the sharper
miracle, they reduce us to this alterna-
T
tive, to accept it as it stands as a fact, agony that wounds you through a dearer
upon the testimony of a calm, observ_ farm, is in //is eyes but the inexora
inevitable march of law—the "par
ant, veracious eye-witness, or to credit a I Id'
w i th a
~ tial , evil " not to be reckoned or J ewish peastmt, John Mark,
" universal good?" l count
masteryle-
over our nature in its workings ' 1
ed in the
loved in Christ, in ivine gos
which Shakespeare himself neverequal- I
learn ti the refutation
led! St. Mark upon this horn of the di- , l'el "r t. - daY
lemma has written a fictitious descrip- I °t- this heathen heartlessness—" and
tion,which ill everynoteofverisimilitudc looking up to heaven, He sighed, and
puts at fault a searching criticism not with unto him—Ephphatlia—that is, be
invented until nearly eig,h teen centuries i 'Trued !" Lord ! increase our faith in
''
after his titne. It is thus thatthephysi- i I bee ! Open the blind eyes of our souls
cal miracles of the Gospel, resting upon that we may see the light of Thy coun
the testituony of others, are put in the tenance! Unstop the deaf ears that we
scale against a moral miracle whose may hear thy loving words! Then the
vastness We ourselves may judge ; thei mountains that overwhelm us shall lie
one or the other We must choose. i removed, and the wilderness shall be
But to pass from the incident of power plucked up, and the rough places he
inade smooth to our feet! Lord increase
to the incident of character. They bring j
unto Him one that was deaf and had an our faith in Thee ! Make Thy face to
impediment in his s I shine upon us, for in Thy light shall we
beseech Him to put p His hand upon eech ; and they
I see light! Help Thou our unbelief!
him. What an indication of the char- ' It is Written "He put His fingers into
his ears and Ito spit and touched his
actcr of our Lord have we here, beloved,
in this simple statement! The qu i et I tongue." fly the avenues that yet were
confidence in His .sympathy, which had open, Ile would enter in. Even so
I Lord, help onward our faith in 'Thee!
got abroad, in what in an orditiary man
we would call ; his goodness or kind
! If we cannot vet grasp the full meaning
heartedness, which will not allow the I of Thy gospel, if we Cannot reeeiVe yet
opportunity of His occasional Presence ; the complete measure of Thy spirit—
to escape, without bringing to His no
, yet by natural conscience, by the dumb
instincts of the heart, draw nigh! con
flee whatever there may be in the neigh
.: veil the humanity we share witli Thee
borhood of lounan suffering, although in
may be—as in the present case—certain- I into sacraments of grace. If we cannot
Iv not the sorest ill that flesh is heir to; I yet adore and confess in Thee the glory
and then the sure response, the mint is- I of the One and only God, yet in Thy
human nature which we have
sion that such an appeal to I lis ' looked
gentle nature was not in vain ; ! upon and known and reverenced, draw
I nigh and come, we beseech Thee, that
that lie was, indeed, touched with
the feeling of our lightest infirmities— i Thou wouldst put Thine hand upon us
looking up to heaven, "He sighed !" If : and we shall live !
our Saviour was merely man, if we were I
listening to the conduct of a merely ,
human teacher, with what an aspect. of '
benignity would such an incident invest
his character! The good man, abase
tender heart turns aside in almost.
womanly sympathy at the cry of distress!
We are not accustomed to associate
much, this gentler disposition with the
manlier or man-like, firm, heroic pur
pose. In the pursuit of some great end,
the masculine temper overlooks the
miseries it may involve; it estiunites
the result to be worth the sacrifice, and
the sacrifice is paid without a groan tn.
tear; in the greater good which it pro
poses, it hardly sympathizes with
the partial evil ; the itnguish of the
hospital does not interfere with - the
( ieneral's strategy; high moral enter
prise disregards the painful, bleeding
steps along the rough and narrow road;
our Lord iihnsell spoke of the cross, of
the sword, of rending the holiest af
fections, that the stern integrity of the
soul should be retained ; lie could t%thit
ly tell his beloved disciples anti friends
that the time would come when, in the
path in which he bade 10V111 go, whoso
ever killeth you will think that he
death God service. Let ii , , then, breth
ren, recollect; let us hold firmly in the
memory both these aspects of His charac
ter, as His masculine resolve, so also, the
woman's tenderness which could pause
iit the regeneration of a world to lied a
case of 'deafness. An incident like
this cs - ill bring the man and tine teacher
Before us in his full completeness; the
lofty, noble aint which could nerve the
soul, but also the kindly, ready sympa
thy which melted the heart; this is no
stoic philosopher, who ill the name of
virtue, will trample upon, or pass light
ly by, any form of human miseryi; this
is no rapt mystic, who in the embrace
of ideal excellence, heeds not the hum
ble claims of flesh and blood. lie had
taught of faith in the unseen; of faith
superior to death; of a cross to be borne
through life ; of a life to he lost fur my
sakeaud the gospel ; except ye do this, ye
cannot be my disciples; and yet when a
case of deafness and of imperfection of
speech, a case which in comparison with
the multiform shades of the world's woe
sinks almost to the level of an annoy
ance, rather than a misery, is brought
to His notice, He does not smile, or
scorn or repel—but at once, as if this
was enough to engage His utmost elThrt,
He sets himself to its relief; He takes
the sufferer to himself aside ; lie ap
peals with gesture and act to the senses
that he still possessed; He puts His
fingers into his ear; He spit and touch
ed his tongue, helping as it would seem
by touch and sight which yet were his,
his faith onward to a cure; and He
speaks the word of power, a word not
less omnipotent than when He spake
creation into being, that so compara
tively light an affliction, as deafness and
el
teacher
l lo d - e e d p e,
deeper
o s t
fo S a lot
the
e er l y hr
eettal
religion,
eo
It p n ! l
bet,
to
s i
ntohgn
the an impediment in.speech might be cured.
mind,f romT hi
the,
h' s
t eb i
our dear Lord and Saviour very near,
when we find that He thus feels and
sees as we do the burdens of the flesh ;
that He bare, as is once said, our sick
nesses; that the prospect of eternity
does not hide, from His sight, the thorns
we feel so sharp. We might have fan
cied that He could not have thus felt,—
that the immense future would dwarf
Ilonie Conversation
The temptation to talk of persons
rather than of things lies very often in
your way my sister. The petty details
of your life, breakfast, dinner and tea,
poultry to-day, and roast beef to-mor
row, Jennie's whooping cough, and
Fred's incase's, Bridget's incompetence,
or the heedlessness of Mary Ann, and
the never ending demands of fashion,
have, almost before you know it, a mu
rowing effect upon your mind. The.-
retically you despise gossips--practical
ly you add your mite very often to the
common fund. You are not ill-natured.
The sweet charity that "thinketh no
evil," has its home in your heart's core,
yet sometimes alas! it falls asleep, and
anger, wrath and bitterness come
stealthily creeping up to the outposts.
There are many great things which
we cannot do, however earnestly we
may try. There are some little things
which, with faith in God, and sincere
resolution, we can accomplish, and one
of these is to reform our conversation.
Every woman should cultivate a nice
sense of honor. In a hundred different
ways this oust fitting adjunct of the
true lady is often tried. For instance,
one is a guest in a family where, per-
Imps, the domestic machinery does not
run smoothly. There is a sorrow in the
house unsuspected by the outer world.
Sometimes it is a dissipated son whose
conduct is a shame and a grief to his
parents; sometimes it is a discontented
and petulant daughter.; sometimes a re
lative whose eccentricities and peculi
arities are a cloud on the home. Or,
worst, of all, husband and wife may
not be in accord, and then there may
be often hitter words spoken, and
harsh recriminations. In any of
these cases the guest Is in honor
bound to be blind and deaf, so:far as
people without are concerned. If a gen
tle word within can do good, it may
well be said, but to go forth and reveal
the shadow of an unhappy secret to any
one, even your nearest friend, is art act
of indelicacy and meanness almost un
paralled. Once in the sacred precincts
of any home, admitted to its privacy,
sharing its life, all that you cau.see and
hear should become a sacred trust. It
is really contemptible to gossip of such
things as it would be to steal the silver,
or borrow the books and forget to re
turn them.
The foundation for this thoughtless
sin is sometimes laid in early life. Chil
dren coming home from a visit, are in
terrogated by mother or sister concern
ing every little in and out of Mrs. M.'s,
or Miss k.'s house. Don't do it again,
dear friend. Just say to the darling
child, as he or she skips in, flushed and
happy, " Well, have you had a pleasant
visit? I'm glad to hear it." Never mind
whether they had gingerbread or pound
cake, or what dress little Susie M. wore.
If you find a little piquant bit of slan
der floating about in society, do not roll
it as a sweet morsel under your tongue,
but if it is in your power, stop it. Drift
ing on the tide of social talk are often
stray scraps of malice or envy. If they
come to you, keep them. Let no un
kind report be suffered to grow by whis
per or words of yours. How lovely is
the very presence of a pure, truthful
woman, before whom evil tongues are
silenced.
Talk as little as possible about dress
NUMBER 21
Make yourself and your children as
beautiful as you can, and let becoming
and tasteful dress help you to do it, but
when once your "things" are on, think
no more about them. Nothing more ef
fectually dwarfs the mind than constant
thought and conversation about collies
and frills, feathers and flounces, trim
mings and tucks. Prophets and apos
tles were moved to reproaeh our sex for
their devotion to tinkling ornaments
and plaited hair in olden days, and if
they were here now, I think they would
lift their voices up again. Get out of
ill+ rut, dear reader, and find out how
much easier and better walking there is
on the soft wayside path above it.
The world is full of strife and struggle
and sin. It is full of joy and triumph
and hope. The field grows ever broader
for women as for men. Now responsi
bilities are crowding in upon us all ; can
we be too pure iu thought, word or deed?
Can we let conversation remain frivo
lous and trifling?
Details of the execution of Gen.
by the Spanish authorities at Havana,
are at hand, and seldom have we read of
anything more painfully interesting. We
quote from the Havana I'm. (May 7110
ilershl :
It were difficult to tell of the thrill of sat
isfaction which went through the city last
evening, when it Was anuuum•ed that the
steamer Triunfo had arrived, with (den.
Domingo Goicouria on board, a prisoner.
Ono felt, MS the word passed front month to
mouth, that something delightful had os
curred—and there had. •rite
which went to press before ,the arrival if
the steamer, ip announcing the cap
ture of the old man, commences with
" Viva Espana"' rico 1....y0ng ” I " , ' y.
toil VOCtI.I It SeCalleti incapable of re
straining its delight, and continues, " Do
mingo Goreouria, the farcical, so-called,
(loner:II of ruined expeditious; the old fili
buster who has figured in all the conspira
t•ies in Cuba against the integrity of the na
tional territory; the assistant at one time
of Narciso Lopez, again 0i Bawl, Pinto,
nod heitly of l'espedes, is in the ptiWiflt iti
our troops, has been apprehended by etc'
war marine in the key dluayabo, w Mr, n
was hiding from one ”r our guni...tt,,
and after having passed through the
street"- of Puerto Principe, guarded by
Spanish troops and manifesting the ripest
ance of a coward!, such as characterizes all
the supporters of cr,po,lo , t, will 001110 to
((avant, tin be judged Icy a council of war,
the result of which is not doulaftil. - -
seems in truth that Stalle such tiklatsi
Don was toads of the old man, and that
ho wt. marched through the streets of
Puerto Principe for the delectation of the
troops :11141 Spanish residents, before being
sent here to Havana to be killed for the
delight of this populace. Scarce had the
Triunfo entered the harbor ore the Dotrio
do la .Ifarina published an extra announc
ing that lie had arrived; that he had been
taken on a launch to the Castillo do la Pun
ta, thence C 011,11101,1 to the ❑atioual prisuu
when I . olloWeil a' council if war composed
of riptnnins ; that 110 had been senteninnl to
die by the garrote, hail been placed in the
capilla, and would be executed at .seven or
eight in the morning, near thdd t';ts[illn dot
Principe, one company of carli Intuition and
the vddlunteer cavalry lidding present. .1. LI
this without a period.
According to the accounts d loicouria, with
others, had crossed over front
it) tile key of lluayalm, situated west of
Nueva!as and nearly opposite d luainaja,
intending- to embark for N,,L11, doubtless
in the stone boat with which they left the
1,11.1111 d. Soon after shoving off they were
discovered by the gunboat, curt -In sont her
boats in pursuit. The fugitives returfonl
to the shore of the key, leaped out and fled.
As they evidently had no boat on the other
side to use in case of retreat, the capture
became simply a question of time. li.di
couria, who, on account of his age, was the
least able to endure the fatigues of his shu
t:lon, became the first violins As reported,
the pursuit of the others continues, and
while some of them may manage to get
back to the main land, the ultimaLocapture
of the 11111_11,ity is thought probable.
A gentleman who Cattle a passenger on
the Trion fit. and who had been an acquaint
ance "I lloicouri, spoke with hint on the
passage. His bearing was serence and
noble. Ile stated] that he had long since
given up all he possessed to his country,
1111(1 W 11,11050 willing to surrender his
and that he hoped to die like a patriot mold
a gentleman.
Later, and as I about closing this por
tion of my dispatch, the execution is over,
and the volunteers and people are return
ing. An eye witness states that an im
mense (crowd had gathered to witness the
scene, and throughout the utmost order
was maintained. The f:(2.1101-al marched
out front the Principe with perfect coolness,
gazing around upon the people and the
scene as though an indifferent. speetator.—
Ile ascended the piatfOrlll uud 111111111eSted a
disposition to address the c'row'd, which
was denied him. A crucifix was then pre
sented, which he refused, motioning it
away. He was then glared in pddsition,
turn of the screw was given, and the old
revolutionist and 1.011apirt1(011, Wilt) all his
life long had worked for the separation of
his (country from Spain, was carried ,at
lifeless to lilt the grave of a felon.
EMTPX3
How Minister,. of the Goopel are Treated
MM=M==
'rho Knoxville Penns and Ilenald learns
from Rev. 11. W. Hays the follewing par
ticulars Ma mob and preacher mobbing ill
Blount county on the lll.rning of the sth
inst.
Sunday morning, at 10:30, a mob ttl about
forty ruffians, black and white, aSSeIII bll,l
at Logan's Chapel, six miles east of Mary
ville, in Blount county, armed with knives,
I istols, and bludgeons, tor the purpose of
mobbing Rev. It. W. Bars, a preacher of
the Methodist Episcopal Church Smith,
having charge of Sevierville and Littlii
River Circuit of the Holston Conference.
The ruffians barricaded the doors mind
windows of the church with the douches,
and awaited Mr. Bays' arrival. Soon the
preacher arrived inn front of the church in
a buggy', iu which were Alexander is
Sr., his daughter, and Mrs. Bay- , , his
wife. The crowd seized the horses, and
William Goddard, the leader of the ruffians,
brandishinl•, a huge bludgeon, swore that
they would kill Mr. Bays if he alighted
l'rorn the buggy. The crowd brandishing
their knives, and yelled and whooped,
making a horrible racket, and frightuiling
the ladms into screaming,.
Mr. Bays attempted to reason with the
mob, but it WIL9 useless. They answered
him with curses and threats. Finding
that the danger was imminent and that de
lay might oust him his life, Mr. Bays re
quested Mr. Kennedy to drive and they
left the scene amid the hooting; and curses
of the mob.
Smythe—Ms 1.31,W Sermon In New York
.11ininterlor Spleit'n 1'11;4-lat.
'rho Now York San to-day says
Rev. Charles 11. Smythe preached his
farewell sermon to the vongregation of the
East Eleventh Street Presbyterian Church
on Sunday. At the hour appointed the re
tiring pastor appeared. A venerable, ma
tron, adjusting her eye-glasses, and taking
a critical view of the "object of interest,''
said :—" Well, he don't look like a bad
Mall, MIN' Way."
The Rev. Mr. Smythe calmly ascended
the desk, took a momentary survey of the
congregation, and then bowed his head in
silent prayer. It is a somewhat note
worthy fact that thin portion of scriptilres
read treated of casting tut eyd "spirit."
In the prayer whieh followed, the speaker
prayed for the outpouring of the '• Spirit ;"
and the hynm sung included an invocation
to the higher power to supply the "spirit
ual" wants of the people. To cap the
climax, the hymn referred to "the cup
overflowing."
The preacher selected as a test the seventh
verse, twentieth chapter of Acts:—" Paul
preached unto them, ready to depart on the
morrow." Mr. Smythe said he would not
allude to the events which had led to his
dismissal by the Presbytery, as the public
had already been made familiar with them
through the columns of the ran. llow
great a matter a little fire kindleth!" An
unthinking act had been heralded far and
wide by the newspapers, and a little indis
cretion had become the theme of comment
for all tongues.
The speller's discourse concluded with
a scathing rebuke of those mein hers of the
church who had voted in favor of a dismis
sal. The preacher remarked that the time
would come when they would be sorry for
their action, and when they would lie ready
to "forgive and forget."
What a Western Woman Thhats of
Woman's nights.
There is a woman out in Joliet with a few
emphatic ideas on the topics which agitate
the bosoms of a portion of her sex, and she
talks in this way: "I just don't believe in
these new women notions. I have raised six
boys—four of them vote now, and the others
will soon be old enough. Then I will have
six votes. Now these good-for-nothing
women who have fooled their time away . ,
and never raised a single boy, come around
and want every woman to vote for herself.
I don't believe iu such nonsense. I have
raised my six boys, and I am going to have
every one vote for me. Those women who
go lecturing around the country instead of
raising boys, have no business to vote any
way. And when they say that they aro
just as good as I am, and have a right to
vote themselves, if they have no boys to do
so for them, it is not true. If they are as
smart as I am, why did they not raise some
boys to vote fur them? I tell you, Ido
not intend to be cheated out of my six
votes by any such good-for-nothing folks.
I guess that the world would come to a
pretty pass, in a mighty short time, if the
women all took to goin around lecturing
on wimmin's rights, instead of raising
boys.
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A Father
Tho Italtimore'Gazeffe, of the 17th inst.,
states that several days since a rUlliOr
reached police henibivarter: in that eity
that a man named William Altvater had
been guilty of committing a horrible out
rage ou his own daughter, a girl of sixteen
years. Though such a thing would appear
Improbable, a short search discovered that
the daughter lived with her paternal gra.nd
parents on North Edell ' street, and when
she was approached liv the officers, after
nuteh hesitation, she declared the olfence
against her father, and made affidavit of the
racks. It appears that when she was inito
small her mother died, and her father's
mother took tier and reared her as her own.
As she grew up she became of prepossess
tug appearance, but her lather did not
give her any particular attention, Navin,
married again, and had ether children, who
seemed to absorb his Wholo alleCtiOn. to
the spring of ISIS he mot his daughter see
end times, and betittn to show an apparent
affection lie her, which to the poor girl was
as gratifying as it WAS unlocked for. She
Wily then sixteen years of age, and had
already been ellnlirmed a member of the
Lutheran Chureh. nun a Sunday in March
of that year lie called at the ellUrell where
she attended Sunday school, and induced
her to leave the school to take a walk with
Glad of the affection of her father,
she availed herself of Ins invitation and no
einlitiallied blunt. They walked unit tinier
ave.', until they reached Baltimore Cem
etery, around w hich Illey Went Wail,
reaching a secluded spot, he seized her and
perpetrated all outrage upon her.
Ifavingmecomplidmil Ms hellish pnrposc,
he threateaps murder her if she ever ex
posed Mg out ,if very liar she kept
within liftown heart the horrible act of her
Gather. SubsNmently another opportitnitv
Wily afforded IMO, and he repeated the out
rage. In the early part cif ISO she gait,
birth to a child, :mil the grandmother, who
suspeetol its paternity, also kept the secret,
and the child Was placed it, St.
Infant Asylum, whore it died shortly after.
After the second outrage she avoided her
father altogether, and did not Intent hint
East night. All the above Illeta baiting .
been gathered, Deteetive Pontier was tit -
wiled to arrest the father, ttMelt he did last
night. and Justice I lintertY appeared at the
Middle Distriet Police Station to Clalliillo
the charge. The tether and daughter
were placed where they CI old not see rush
other until everything iviis ready fire theeX
aillination. At half past nineo'elock A Leo
hlnott, Ism, State's Attiamcy, announced
his readiness to priieeeil, and the piling
woman Was to a chair near the
magistrate's, ni•ar to which William Alt
vater, the father was already sitting. As
soon as she ',tit hies she Was aviZial
With the linoa violent emotion, and
in a iiiinitto Was attacked with a
violent lit. Before she i•ouid ho pro
perly Carol 6.r ley present, the
father was also seized with in lit, and fell
front his chair. The proper restoratives
were applied, but he taw in a state of Oil
one ten minutes. After
that he beinnie violent. but he was prompt
ly thrown to the door again, and everything
taken from him with it link he might do
violetwe to himself. The feeling all
present towards him Was tilleof
while general sympathy was expressed tor
the stricken daughter. pm her sworn
testimony the father Wan iaillitilitted to fail
to await the aetion of tint' n ;rand .luny,
By roll's ti roc ,.
A correspondent of t h e Lo u don L III,'s
calls ritlOnlion til 1110 worse 1111111 110 1 4114'1. 111
which the burial-place of Lord Ilyren is
subjected.
"II 1111111 1.1 . the poets admirers," lei
asks, "know • where he is buried at ?At
I Itieknall Torkard are,: might answer, kit
could one in a litinilred of all the thousands
that have road his works, allot itio peculi
arities, envied him his beauty, condemn
ed his sites, 1011111'0a his genius, or
blackened:his ate wary tellyou wherelluek
nall 'For kard is, what it is, or front perse
tat give you any idea of its
unvisited, out-of-the-world dreariness and
desolation
'Some miles Inen Nottingham, en
the Alanstiold line of railway, lies the lids
erablii collection el cottages and small
shops dignified by that mune. .Ippreach-
Mg it l'rein NotLinglutin you pass o n e Or
two other small places as grimy and un
poetical-look int; as itself ;then conies awitle
sandy tract of unreel:timed tacit, covered
here and there With Stlllll.oll bushes and
blackened furor, which is all that. remains,
what was ions, Sherwood Forest, and still
hears that name and at length the train stops
where the lark woods Laren.' Newstead
are just visible in the distanee. The vinage
is not more than a stone's throw from the
station, and consists mainly of 1 1110 long,
dirty, irregular lane, at the top "1 . which is
the chur c h. This edifier. is 11111111111, weath
er-worn building, supposed to date from
this eleventh century, and stands in a
churchyard that reminds you of nothing
lint Arabia l'etraia without the sun. In a
vault beneath the chased , Lord Byron, his
ancestors, and hisilaughter, Lady Lovelace,
are buried. Buried, indeed! Shift out not
only from the living world, but its very
remembrance. Moro lonely, more forsak
en by his fellewmion ill his death, than in
the darkest moments of his self-embittered
"Anything mire at variance with the
thoughts that crowd up,Pll, t h e 111111,1 white
1:1,111d1111.11,1,11111 t h e resting place of genius
titan every surrounding of this forlorn
grave it is impossible to tin:igloo. The
miserable, poverty-stricken village—the
time-worn church, to which none Masotti.,
three nr r of the llyrons seemed ever to
have been brought Mr burial save the very
oor- the lyre new, with its green baize
lining faded and torn, now fallen into the
hands of "wand decent sort of folks in the
village,' and above the plain white tablet,
without ornament of outline.' inscription,
erected in u u •nncry ,if the author of `Childe
I lanthl 'by Mrs Leigh. She, after all, it
seems, of all his admirers so loud-voiced
in their praise, was and is the only IMO who,
MIL of her scanty 111,111,,, 1111,1 more than
words to offer as a tribute to his deathless
tame. Like his own . Nlantred," the Spir
its' hi-has raised abandon hint,' and he
rests :is he Ilvod , alone•.
AStrnnge Mnit n Propen
sity for Seeing His lellow•lieingst
Asleep.
The LetlisVille I ruv .1 , 11,1,1a1 relates
this singular story:
•
A luau who gas e his !lame as Charles
Wallin., and who turns out to he Charles
I.iving,stone, OM'a n resprotable merchant
in this city, tray arrested while trying to
tutor the house of :dr. Schaelhir, on Port
land avenue, before daylight yesterday
morning. This man has a strange mania
for which a name Is vet to beinvenlisl. lle
will break into a house :it night just for the
luxury of standing by the bedside of a
person and looking at him or her, as the
cave may be, as they lay asleep. Ile has
been known to do this on several oceasionii,
and, after standing there and gazing for
hours, leave without disturbing anything,
and eloso the doors carefully after but.
About six months ago he got hininellinto
serious trouble in thin way, being arrested
as a burglar and held to answer. Ile en
tered the room of a young lady alter she
had retired and gone to sleep. Taking his
favorite position beside the lied, lie stood
gazing at the beautiful sleeper till, perhaps
ronscious Of the presence near her, Rho
awoke and was frightened terribly. liy the
faint light of the 1114,1111 11,1 it shone through
the lattice she saw thin stringer standing
still and motionless at her bedside. film
,creamed meLktinted, :0.1 the inmates of
the house, ;Irons,' 6c thenoise, came rush
ing in just in time to the intruder.
The affair caused a good deal of excite
h nt:lnd no litt:n gomsip at the thno, but
subsequent facto have proved that the 111511
was harmless, and went there just to satisfy
this singular longing of his. Ile has been
caught in several such places since then,
but at no time has he ever disturbed any
thing or anybody. Ile sous presented to
the court as a suspected felon, ft charge
hardly j usti lieu I by the feels in the case, and
held in Klal to be of good behavior for twelve
mouths. His case is a strange one indeed.
Living Fuel lu Cincinnati. Three Thous
and huge Ron%teal Alive.
The stock-pens of fiat's's distillery, in
Cincinnati, containing 4,200 hogs, wore
burned on Wednesday morning. Three
thousand hogs were roasted to death. The
scene is said to have been as grand as it
was horrible. Great columns of flame, fed
by the living fuel,shot upwards thousands of
feet, and rolled off in dense masses of black
smoke. The outcry of the frightened am.
imals, as they crowded ono above the other
into the corners of the pens remotest front
the fire, until ifs rapil approach first
scorched and then consumed them, awed
the spectators, who stood looking helplessly
ou. Every effort was made to save at least
a portion of the hogs, the greater proportion
being hopelessly cut off. But a little over
a thousand of the animals were gotten out
in all, and the rest of the 1,200 were literal
ly broiled alive. The odor of the burned
or roast pork pervaded the city for many
blocks in all directions after the fire died
out for want of fuel. The loss on live stock
alone is estimated at ;300,000. The loss on
the buildings is estimated nt from $23,000
to $33,000.
Damaging Teminnony
. Agalnat General
17=521
In the Howard investigation, Rev. Bur
ton Smith, Principal of the Normal School
at Raleigh, N. C., testified that his institu
tion was promised ten thousand dollars
out of the Bureau funds, but he was sur
prised to receive a check for fifteen hun
dred dollars only, and for the balance a
deed from Gen. Howard for a city lot,
owned by him in Wi.hington, worth
eighty-four hundred dollars, and on a
square graded at an expenditure of $33,000
Bureau money.
• . .
E. liiiiittles . ey, Adjutant General of the
Bureau, testified that ho was also Professor
in the University and drew two salaries.—
Charles Howard previous to the examina
tion of a witness on the sand contract, re
quested him to be as easy as possible on
the General."