HE LANCASTER INTELLIGENCE& PUBLTAIIED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY Inl=El33 lE= 1...,,,!5—Tw0 Dollars per annum payable In all cases In advance. THE LANCASTER DAILY INTELIMENCER Is published every evening, Sunday excepted, at 55 per annum In advance. OFFICE—SOUTUNVEST„ CORNER or CENTRE SQUARE. IJoittp. ==! (The following lines are from the pen of Gen. Stonewall Jackson ; of Confederate fame. They breathe the true spirit of poesy and tender pathos. As a beautiful ex pression of thought, they will no doubt be appreciated by our readers.] The tat too beats—the lights are one, The camp around in slumber lies ; 'rho night with solemn pare !naves on, hilltdOWS thlciu•n (Jro the sk lcs not Nlvop wenry rycu hall] 11,,wn, And sad uneasy tlrriights arise.• Whose early II le lush blest Of thee and Mtn—our baby sml— Who sluttilwri on I hy R;•uth• 1)re:1,i! (Ind nt t he lendrr, trail and love, Oh guard the tender sleeper's rest. 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"or,•,ffir, vtniiii help seeing it that hail eyes " Well, sir, I isitild tell you a story connected with that 111.11, which hits influenced my 51.11111 e If there any( hi ng I :1111 al Nvap4 open for, it is it stery, previded there is any thing in it. 'l'llere6 , re I said, "And why .hin't viii We were going 1111 t of tmwu 10 dine, WLa re 1101 . :111 , 1 1, :111.1 MICH these words were spoken were passing through what had once kern, and inn less degree is still, a prominent business street in Philadelphia. As we went he told the story, and I shill give it in his own words, suppressing Sllt'h as were in all, , Wer 1.11 1110 PX,l:llllati , ifiti Of till` liHtVlll.`r. That house t wen ty years ago was one of the Hlrongest :old sturdiest or our private banking-houses. and I was a clerk in it hall a dozen years, learning under excellent tuition principles of finance that have since stood the in good stead. It was known as the house of " Ponnypacker Son ;" and though, strictly speaking, there was no suit, the elder Pen ny packer having departed this hfe before I knew of the establishment, yet it kept the tutu title and retained the old sign. Ephraim I'ennyp: u •ker, who had been originally the " Son," was, when I first knew hint, past sixty, and looked at least wen ty years Miler. '('here WaS :t legend in the office that he never bought any clothe. forhimself,dmt went on wearing those of his late progenitor, by which he always remained twenty years behind the age in dress, as in all things elsq. Not but what the house of Pennypacker.v San knew the one grand secret of making motley, but they, it' I may use the term, made it stolidly and steadily : there Wa , no flesh about their operations, and I verily believe that if anybody had proposed to old Ephraim such a thing as Speculatimi, he would have stood a rare chance of immolation before escaping into the street. But if there was nu son, there was a daughter, and in very nice girl she was. Lydia Pennypacker was her name. At some time, without doubt, Lydia had a mother, but now within her own recol lection; and owe—that is, myself and the other clerks—had no legend in ref erence to this to guide our researches. We all knew that Lydia was a pretty girl annul a good girl, that she was just turned twenty—at the time, 1 mean, when my story really begins—and that her father treated her badly; not mere ly through neglect and niggardliness, but sometimes to the extent of brutal harshne, , ,hieludingeven the infliction of blows. In saying this I don't mean to &sell that Ephraim Pennypat.ker was in all respects a bad man ; but lie was absorbed in the aoquisition of wealth, and in his treannwnt ,)1 his daughter ME== cost or her ,upp,,t, M . wad wreaking upon her some main, nurtured against Nature hav:lto - ea-t u 111 111 10111 a use less bunion, in plat, or the - Son" to whom the liou- , 0 or l'ennypaeker had a natural claim. :\lany a time I 10100 caught the poor girl in tears, :1101 many It time have I had I , dissuade her from a resolve to run :may from home :and earn her own living in some other city. The clerks of l'enoypacker & Son all lodged ion! boarded with Ephraim, in a house not larilistant from the °nice. The discipline was strict. we could not be out alter tine in the evening.— Our meals were symbols of dyspepsia, not only in the quality of the viands, but in the silence and gravity with which they were consumed. I have often thought since' t hat nothing could have wa v ed is all from the pangs of that terrible disease, save the tact that the imantity served out to un was too 81110111 to 111:11c1 1 any serious demand upon the digestive o rgans or a babe. When I speak or the clerks, I speak only or rour, for Ephraim believed in getting the largest amount of work out of the smallest amount of clerks, and carried this belief into extreme practice. OC these clerks any story is concerned WI ill Only one—John Bar-. refl. He was my room-u n tie, and act ing cashier and paying teller in the ab sence of Ephraim, and sometimes in his presence. john was seven years my senior—though he never claimed any thing oil that score—and not of a social nature; I have known him sit a whole evening in our little room without speaking a word. His associations were very limited ; indeed, under our discipline they mold not well be other wise, as but part of Sundays, and about all hour between breakfast and work,was all the time we had to cultivate out-door courtesies, save the evening hours from seven to nine, and these were not al ways our own. And now, having to a certain extent described my personages, I will proceed to give the opening scene in the drama. It was a very hot day in midsummer, and every one in the office went about his work in a dozy condition. I know that as it approached three o'clock, I several times caught myself napping on my high stool, and should perhaps have proceeded farther than a nap but for two reaspus—firstly, that the high stool would inevitably have dropped me, ,and secondly, that Mr. Ephraim Pen • nypacker, who was out upon Change, might we expected to pop in at any moment. Toward three there entered tcttigc/tt&it VOLUME 71 a lady, rather elegantly dressed, not very young, but with a face which once seen could not easily be forgotten. It was somewhat handsome in outline, but hard and stony, with a cold blue eye that spoke little of sentiment and everything of business. She went straight to John Ilarrett's desk, which was next to mine, and presented a cheque. Her entrance, though quiet, aroused every one in the office, for ladies were not so ol ten seen in places of business then as now. ()lily John and I, however, saw her face. John took the cheque, looked it over in the usual way, gave a glance at the lady, and, after asking her how she would have it, paid it, in conformity with her request, in small bills. She took them carelessly, without counting, put them into a leather reticule, and went out, the whole transaction not consuming over two minutes. When she had gone I rose from iny desk, went over to John's and east a glanceover his shoulder. Ile was holding the cheque in his hand at the time, and after giving me an angry side stare, thrust it into his drawer. f took the reboil' quietly, as I knew I had deserved it, and returned to my seat. A few clays had passed, when, one evening, just as we were :Mout to close the oflice, we were electrified try a pas sionate outburst from old Pennypacker directed against John Barrett. For some minutes lIMIC Of us understood the mat ter, but at last, through the invectives of Ephraim and the explanations of a gentleman who had catered with him, it, came out that John had paid a forged cheque for eight thousand dol lars, bearing the 11311Ie of Abondroth 6.; Co., one of our largest depositors.— The forgery had been discovered on the monthly (guru of cheques to that house, and the spurious paper now lay on John's desk, apparently striking him speechless. When he could find tongue, it was to tell that this was the cheque presented by the lady some days before ; and as it was drawn to the order of Messrs. Abendroth Co., and en dorsed in. their usual manner, he had felt no doubt about, the propriety of paying it. The forgery had been neatly eXeCtlt ed : there could be no doubt of that. those days, even some very large houses —that, 01' Abendroth h Co., and among others—did not have cheques printed especially for their own use, but availed themselves of such :is were to be found at the stationers. I shall never forget. the rage of old Pennvpacker. 11e show ed it in every way short lising his fists upon the unfortunate culprit • he had ust method enough in It is madness not 1.0 do that. 'phisafihirupsettheeluanimitylifthe establishment for a week. John Was banished to an inferior position, and under threat of having his whole salary cut MI for a hundred nothing Tess than that Would have made good tau loss—Was kept a close prisoner at the desk, except when summoned las was also frequently my own ease) before all I inquisitorial board vonsisting of Penny packer and a corps of detectives. ho such occasions We were called upon to repeat the ilt,oriptions we had so often given of the (lonian who had pre;enied the cheque. iu t hese descriptions .1 oh n and I did not agree, but as it Was sup posed that he had enjoyed a better opportunity of seeing * her, and had more interest in her detection than I, his account seemed to carry the most weight. However, no clue was found, and in a few months John was restored to his former position, Mr well old Pcnnypacker knew that he could get no one of equal ahility at the same salary. The (urged chetille was filed away in the archives (o . the ~tabi islinwni, mid tiw sllLir ceased to tie discussed. Now conies the second event ill iny story. I have spoken of Lydia Penny packer, but I have not mentioned that I always knew that John I larrett was eery fond of 11 , 'r, :old took every oppor tunity to sillily it when her father Was out or the way. In feet, it was about the only subject upon which John was not taciturn, and upon that he would talk with me figr hours if I goVe hint a chance; Which I did not often do, for liked Lydia myself, though not in the way John did, but rather in a brotherly manner. 1 could not say that Lydia liked him : on the contrary, I thought she repulsed him at every opportunity; so much so, sometimes, as to excite his deepest ire, and draw fiirth, in the soli tude of our Attn: ber, threats I did not like to hear, but feared to resent. Then I considered that John was a lineyoung man, and likely to rise in the world, being . steady and industrious, and I could think of no good reason why Lydia should not like him, unless the tact that 1 had seen her many tines in the. treet, especially on the way home from church, with a handsome young Scotch man, an engineer, named Alexander Oraham, hall something to do with it. 1 said as much to her one evening, and the blush and faint laugh which were her only reply went it good way to confirm my suspicions. As the meet ings with ltraliaut grew more frequent, Lydia's dislike to John and her disgust with home were more plainly eXpresscd. Trouble was rising, and one 'tight it Ctilininated ill a contention between father and daughter heard all through the house, and ending in the sound of blows. I stood trembling at the foot of the/stairs, and in a few moments down rushed the girl, with hair disheveled and dress torn, making straight for the street door. It was but a little after dark, and I was the only (me of the clerks left in the house. I caught her in my arms, but she tore herself fiercely away, ex elainlitig, " Let me go ! The bed blow is struck that I'll ever bear." " \Vhere are you going'.' "Anywhere! anywhere! so that I get away from this acciirsed place." I still struggled to hold her, and after a few moments she seemed to relent; suddenly bursting into tears, she caught my hand and said, "Oh no! I was Wrong to speak so, for you have always been kind to one, but I must go." 1 drew her to me, trembling all the while—not with passion, but from fear of old Ephraim coming upon tried every persuasion to make her forego her purpose. I pictured the per ils of a young girl going forth into the wa rld penniless and with no means of earning her bread. For a time she was resolute, and 110 words cutdd dissuade her, even though, as she owned, she Was going to certain ruin. tied help me' what could i do for her with my beggarly two hundred dollars a year :'— . lust enough to provide Inc with clothes and such necessaries as old Ephraim did not comprise in his stingy tariff. At last I extracted a promise from her that she would go to her ('001(1 and latt oil' her intention till morning, when we might consider the situation WI WV I,lllllly, : 4 0 I parted front her, drying her tears with my handkerchief, and kissing her as she went away. That night I loved Lydia l'ennypacker well enough to have made her my wife—an act of pure mad ness, for I was then only eighteen. The next morning she did not come to breakfast, and :ms this omission was a fearful breach of discipline, the ser• vant was sent for her. She was gone! —gone, taking with her nothing but a bonnet and cloak in addition to the clothes which she had worn the evening before, and in which, as was to lie in ferred front the appearance of her bed, she had passed the night, without other covering. In the early morning she had, fled. Had a cat or dog strayed away, I think it would have affected Ephraim Pennypaeker as much. lie asked no questions, ate, as usual, half of what was on the table, and then went to his business. From that time forth no one mentioned the name of hiS daughter to him or in his presence, and she remained as a thing that had never existed, save in the whispered conversations of the clerks or in my searches, which for months occupied all my vacant time. They were wholly fruitless, and, what was strange, seemed to awaken the especial opposition of John Barrett, who told ore, when Ile found how my time was disposed of, that I might as well desist, as I was onlyget ting myself into trouble; he even tried to abridge my off hours as much as possi ble. And so went Lydia Pennypacker off the scene. Once or twice after that I met Graham in the street. He looked hard at me, but there was no expression iu his face as though he mourned the missing girl, and so I was obliged to believe that there had been nothing between them but a a flirtation. A few weeks passed and I saw him no more, and on inquiry learned that he had received an engagement in some South American city, to which he had departed. I come now to the third incident. which for a time puzzled me extremely, but which can here be disposed of quick ly. One warm evening in the summer following the events already narrated, I was following out a rule I had adopted of walking, every evening I could get away from my desk, at least five miles rapidly, as a health preservative. On this particular evening I had crossed the Schuylkill at the Wire Bridge, and was trotting away under a bright moonlight, my back being turned to the orb, when I saw a couple coming toward me with the rays full in their laces. At a glance I took in both figures. The one was John Barrett, and the other—good Heavens ! WaS the lady of the forged cheque, changed as to the style and every point of her dress but the same in every linea ment and in the expiession of the face; for never could I mistake that cold blue eye and stony look which made her in the moonlight seem like an arrimated statue. I stared her full in the face, but to this day I cannot tell whether I stood still as they passed or went on at my regular pace. I remember looking after them and noticing that John never turn ed his head : something told me that he had not recognized me. By the time I had recovered my presence of mind they were out of sight, and as all my efforts to trace them were in vain, I drew the conclusion that my first supposition was wrong, and that I had been seen and purposely avoided. The storm of con ' .tiering emotions in which I went bonne that night was terrible. Never before had any suspicion of John en tered my mind, but here was real evidence, and the duty of revealing it seemed clear I and unavoidable. We:had never been very friendly, but the daily intercourse I of years hail produced a certain inti macy, and on my part at least a feeling of regard; and I was now in a state of agony. I walked the streets till the last allowable hour, and when I reached my room. found John already there. It wits plain from his composed, even cheerful look, that I had not been seen ; but soon a steady glance showed that he noticed something in my face that dill'ered from its usual expression. I could see the change myself as I glanced at the glass. At last the ques tion (,((rule from him : " What is the matter I saw you this evening." did you? Why didn't you speak ?" This :staggered me for a little, for there waS a pleasant smile upon his fat,. " You know the reason why." "Oh, you needn't have minded that 1 would have introducell you." (Mod Heavens! What did the man mean? I only exclaimed. Introduced uu !" "Ne,s, certainly ! She's very clever l'Km very hum,' of her, and had I met her;a few months sooner, there's no knowing what might have happened. was bringing her home from her broth er's, where she had Leon spending the Idternon." I echoed his words: A clever girl !" " Yes, very 'lever. What do you mean „ Alvan' Why, John do you not know with whom you were walking, or do you think I have forgotten her.' " ' Forgotten her!" Do I know with whom t was walking" \\That the active do you mean?" "1)o you talk to me in this way, knowing that the woman you were walking with i.e the one to whom you paid the forged cheque?" The smile went out of his face now At his lip curled in derision. I was getting frightened. There was a dead silence us sonic seconds. Al last he spoke : " ice here, Warrener ! If I had ever seen you drink, 1 should say you were drunk. As it is, I can only believe you to be laboring undersome hallucination, for 1 know you would not dare to try such a thing as this on Inc as a joke.'' I Was speechless. lie went, on : "'file young lady with whom you saw me is of unimpeachable character. I never met her until within a few months and she no more looks like the woman who brought that accursed cheque than she looks like you. Your madness and folly, possibly, would lead you to repeat this tale to others, and in so doing, though you canni•t permanently injure her or me, you could revive the sorest subject of my life, and bring an estima ble girl into notoriety and suspicion.— .. 'Po avert all this, it' you are not too positively insane to see truth when it is set before you, I will give you a chance to meet we with the same lady, at the same place and same hour, to-morrow owning: speak to her and satisfy your self of your delusion. In the mean time, let me advise you to sleep oil the wild air your countenance wears. It won't look well in the office to-morrow. (Mod-night !" lie turned from me coldln and in a few minutes was in bed and apparently asleep. I•hat night I tossed and tumbled fear fully in my bed. The coolness and con fide nee of Barrett had staggered my con victions. I turned the matter over in my thoughts, and wondered whether it were possible that the memory of this woman dwelling always on my mind could have led me to identify her ap pearance with that of another. I re membered how two or three times with in the past year I had caught sight of faces in the street which lead, startled me for a moment by a resemblance to that of the woman whom I had seen but for two minutes, but whose features remained too deeply cngraven in my memory to allow of any mistake or un certainty tiller a full examination of those which had recalled them. The next day I went about my work as composedly as I could, and waited for evening. As Barrett left the office he said coldly, "Remember eight o'clock." I nodded, and at the hour mentioned found myself slowly travers ing the path I had trodden so quickly the night before. The moon was ob scured this evening, but it was not really dark, and my heart beat wildly as I saw the two figures approaching in re lief against the sky. There was no mis taking John Barrett, his figure and walk were too marked. As they drew near, I gathered in the other more distinctly. I saw the form, the dress, the arrange ment of hair, the blue eyes, the cold look, the light complexion, but sire the resemblance of the night before. It was enough ; improbable as it had seemed, I had deceived myself, and as Barrett introduced me and mentioned the name of Miss Brinsmade, I felt so abashed and penitent that I could have gone down on my knees on the spot and begged pardon for my blunder. Not knowing, however, whether John had said a word to her on the subject, I • feared to broach it, and notwithstand ing the ellbrts of both to remove my re straint, I very soon sneaked off and found my way home. On John's ar rival I was as profuse in apologies as he was cold in receiving then. He repeat ed the assertion that he had only taken the trouble of setting me right for the young lady's sake, not his own. There was a subsequent coolness between us for some weeks, but it wore off in time. The fourth incident I have to tell is one of more importance. It occurred about six months after Lydia's disap pearance. One morning, coming out from breakfast and passing through the hall, 1 picked up a pocket-book. I did not recognize it, and as I was going to my room, took it with me, supposing thut 1 should be able to identify it by the contents. The first thing that nict my eye was a small suns of money.— This afforded no indication, and I drew out the first paper my finger touched. ' Judge my surprise when I saw the forged cheque, which I had thought safely stored in Mr. liphraim's safe ! Of course I took the book to be his, and imagined that for some reason he had transferred the document to it. I was about to close it with the purpose of returning it to him, when some feeling which I cannot define impelled me to draw out the next paper. This, to mo dumb sur prise, was a certificate of marriage, dated almost a year back, testifying that John Barrett and Lydia Pennypacker had, upon a day stated, been joined together in the bonds of holy matri mony. A tumult of thought rushed over me at this discovery. Now I could understand the apparent uneasiness on his part at my searches for the lost girl. Now I understood his frequent absences from the house, and his - remark in ref erence to Miss Brinsmade, that " had he met her a few-months sooner there was no knowing what might have hap pened•" I revolved all this, and many smaller things bearing upon the matter in my mind. The discovery relieved me of a heavy anxiety in regard to the welfare of Lydia, while it made me think better of John to find that he had taken the homeless girl and made her his wife. I felt that he must have done so unselfishly as far as the hope of any pecuniary benefit from the marriage was concerned, since it was certain that in LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING AUGUST 31, 1870 Mr. Epbraim's will she would not stand for a dollar, not only from the old man's positive hatred toward her, but from the fact that he had over and over again ex pressed his intention of devoting every cent of his money to the founding of a certain charity, the plan of which had been long since drawn up in all its de tails. But the cheque ! What was the cheque doing in John's possession? This trou bled me, but I determined not to act so hastily as I had done once before. I closed the book, and as by returning it personally to Barrett I should only be letting him know that I was in posses sion of his secret, I concluded to lay it upon his dressing tableand awaitevents. I did so, and went quietly to my desk. John was already at his, and in less than an hour—for I was watching him as a cat does a mouse—he started, turned pale, searched all his pockets rapidly, examined the floor, and then started out. In two or three minutes he was back, and by the flush on his face and the brightness of his eye I perceived that he had found the missing object. The fifth incident in my story occurred exactly one week from the date of the last, and was announced by a fearful shriek, which rang through the house one morning just as we had finished dressing. I we thought John had been up and dressed a good hour or two before daylight, and was apparently writing at his table by candlelight. We all ran, and in an instant found tne scream to proceed from the servant—or housekeeper, as she was called—who stood in the hall and cried, "Come here!" in a sharp, shrill voice. We flew to where sile pointed, Mr. Ephaim's room and there saw the olft man lying stark and stiff in his bed. No one touched him ; the fact of his death was to appar ent fur question ; and though a doctor was immediately sent for, no one doubted that the event had occurred some hours before. There was no coro ner, the doctor gave a certificate, "dis ease of the heart," and the third day after the earth received all there was of Ephraim Pennypacker. During this time I watched and expected every hour to see Lydia make her appearance, and marked every movement of Bar rett's countenance, waiting impatiently for him to surrender his secret. But to my utter surprise she did not come.— She must, then, be fur away from the city, and I had no right to intrude my self on Barrett's or her privacy and ask questions. I felt sure that Lydia would not have carried her. resentment so far as not to be present at the old matt's funeral, if it were possible. There were no near relations, and failing Lydia's appearance the public administrator stepped in and took possession. And then came a revelation that astounded everybody. Ephraim Penny packer had died without a will, and without any thing to bequeath , h is effects being barely sufficient to meet the claims upon hint, and leaving, when everything was set tled, the old banking-house as Lydia's property. She did not put in an ap pearance for this, and so it stood closed and awaiting her claim. I t was not worth enough to worry the lawyers much, and was therefore unmolested. There was something very strange in this semi bankruptcy of Ephraim Pennypacker, as by the evidence of a most respectable firm of lawyers they had drawn his will only three years before his death, and he haul then bequeathed to found the before-mentioned charity nearly a quar ter of a million in bonds, money and se curities of various kinds. This will had I gone into his own hands, but as his pri vale cash book showed during these three years immense sums withdrawn from the bank, and the disposal not ac• counted for, it was generally conceded that the old banker had been engaged in some secret speculatium—however un like him—had silently sunk his whole capital, and in consequence of this had destroyed the will. Some of the clerks found employ! meal in the city, but John announced to me his intention of going abroad. Ile was sick of Philadelphia and wanted change, and would take any engage ment to get away. I was not surprised, therefore, when I heard, some weeks after, that he had gone to Valparaiso as bookkeeper for an American house there, but I was surprised that he did not bid me or write me good-bye. As he sailed from New York, I could get no definite information as to whether his wife went with him, but I took that point for granted. I shall take a flight now over three years, during which the only event con nected with the subject of my story was the reception from Valparaiso of a reg ularly-executed set of documents put in by Mrs. John Barrett, once Lydia Pen nypacker, claiming the old house, and giving directions that it should remain closed and untouched until her own or her husbuand's return. This occurred about six months after John's departure, about the dine required for them to ar rive at their destination ' • and it brings me to my sixth incident, which relates Collie Pen nypack er house, but not to the house of Pen n ypacker & Son. One night—and a bitter cold night it was—there was an alarm of lire. I was returning front the theatre, a kind of dissipation I now sometimes indulged in, for I was no longer under a cruel dis cipline. I did as a young man is apt to do, and took a run with: the engines. Off they went to the eastern part of the city, and brought up next door to the old house, at a pork-packer's, which was in full blaze. Pork is a good thing to burn, and burn it did, with such ellbet that I was surprised the flames did not take the Pennypacker house and one or two more with it. As it was, the gable of the old place was knocked oil; the door burst open, and the firemen took full range through the building, which (lid not by any means improve it. The next day came the insurancepeo ple, and in a few days the workmen,to repair, under the direction of the au thorities who held the property in trust. And now came a most extraordi nary revelation. I got it long before it became public from a young man whose acquaintance I made in the office of the public administrator. The workmen in pulling down the shattered parts, unearthed some suspi cious-looking packages, and in a flew minutes the whole of Mr. Ephraim's lost property—bonds, stocks, money and se ri ties—lay in the hands of the master workman, who fortunately was an hon est man. Ephraim had used as a hid ing place a wooden panel under a win dow, where stood a heavy desk, in a room to which he was wont to retreat at times from the office and lock himself up. lie had been too suddenly hur ried into eternity to reveal his hoard ing place to any one. Of course this was a serious matter, and as there was good picking for law yers and public functionaries, Mr. John Barrett and wife were communicated with at Valparaiso immediately. The return mail brought an answer express ing great joy at the finding of the prop erty, but regretting that the dangerous illness of Mrs. Barrett would prevent her immediate return to Philadelphia. As soon as her health permitted she would set out. Within a month came a second letter front Barrett, announc ing the death of his wife, a will made by her in Ins own favor, and Ins inten tion of being in Philadelphia almost as soon as this intelligence, with all legal documents to dispose of the matter. And sure enough, within two weeks I heard of his arrival. I called at Ins hotel, sent up my card, and received the answer that Mr. Barrett was too ill to see anybody. My pride started at this. Could it be the rich man cutting off his old associates ! I ,contented myself with sending up a second card with my address, in order that if he wanted to see me he might be able to . do so, and then went my way. From my friend ! in the public office I heard that John Barrett had put in all his proofs and complied with all the legal forms, after which, having taken possesion of the property, amounting in all to abaft three hundred thousand dollars. he had left the city, in what direction nobody knew. He never saw fit to call on me, and I did not meet him. Twelve years now pass over us, and I come to the seventh incidentin my story, which more nearly concerns myself than all the rest put together. You know that whatever little shares cf this world's goods I now possess I have won within the last five years; in other wards, five years ago I was poor, and of course in no position to fall in love or marry ; and yet, absurd as it is for a man of thirty three to talk of being romantically in love, I was so for the first time in my life, and the object of my passion was Katie Earnshaw, of whom I shall say nothing except that she was as good as she was pretty.— Katie was on my side, but I am sorry to say I had all the elder branches of her family arrayed against me. They believed in my little lady marrying somebody with mints of money, and the father especially had just the man picked out for her that he thought would suit. This man, Waring de Lille, claim ed to be of French extraction, born in New Orleans. He was tall, dark, bronzed by exposure to tropical sun, wore a heavy moustache dressed exquisitively, and was about forty years of age. He had been but a few months in Phila delphia when I met him, but certainly in his conversation, which was slightly tinged with a foreign idiom and accent, showed more knowledge of the city than that time warranted. He was rich (Earnshaw senior wa.s not a man to be deceived on such a point), and Katie told me, as coming from him, that De Lillo had large investments in New York, almost enough to constitute him a millionaire. What chance could I have against such a rival Of course my attentions were repudiated by pa and ma, and as warmly encouraged by Katie, until I felt that we stood on the brink of an oven rupture, and perhaps a runaway affair, providing Katie would consent to so summary a mode of set tling the matter. I could no nothing toward checking the fellow's cool per sistency but glare at him when we met, and then it was rarely I could catch his eye to make him feel that I was desper ately in earnest. It always wandered away, but wherr - I catch it there was something that made my blood crawl, as though I were looking into that of a vampy re. It was a recognized fact that De Lille was a suitor for Katie Earnshaw's hand, with the consent of all parties but herself, How long she might be able to do battle against him, backed as he was by her father and mother, was a matter of great doubt. In this state altuirs stood when one day, as I was \ valking slowly down Walnut street ruminating on the situa tion, a lady came from a building used for lawyers' offices, and approached me. She was on the shady side of thirty-five, rather handsome, but with a complex ion which indicated that much of her life had been spent in southern lands. As she came near she gazed inquiringly in my face, started slightly, colored and stood still. There was something in her look which memory recalled, but only in a vague way. " Warrener."' she said. " My name, madam." " Yuu do not remember me "I am sorry to say I do not." " I am Lydia Pennypacker." "Lydia Pennypaeker !" I alnwst shouted, seizing both her hands in mine. " Why, I thought you were dead?" "Not yet," she said laughing,"though they have tried hard to kill me. It is to prove myself alive that I have just been among these gentlemen of the Then the whole story came fresh to my mind after the lapse of twelve years, and I said, "But your husband produced evidence that you died at Valparaiso." " Not my husband, but an imposter. I never was in Valparaiso in my life." I was struck dumb. " Do you mean to say that John Bar rett was not your husband I" "I never saw John Barrett from the day before I left my father's house. My husband was Alexander Graham. We were married in this city the day I left home, and I went with him to Itio Janeiro, and from there into the back country, where he became engineer on a large sugar estate, and where we lived until his death one year ago." Good I leavens ! what a revelation! I could not speak. I could do nothing but tuck the little woman's arm under my own and march her off to my office, that I might gather my breath and know all about it. "I have conic back to Philadelphia," she said, " after fifteen years, a stranger, having during that time scarcely met au American, let alone a native of this city, and rarely caught sight of a news paper. I came back to see once more the spot I was born in, and to forgive those who drove me out into the cold world, and I find that an imposter has personated me and received my birth right. Thank Heaven ! I shall not suffer for the want of it: I am indepen dent." " But Barrett—where is Barret " "My attorneys can find no trace of him. He turned all the estate and se curities into money mid went abroad." " And the woman he called his wife —who was she " Some one that lie married in this city immediately after my departure, and who assumed my name. Thus far the detectives have reached, but who she was they cannot discover. We have the evidence of a gentleman who saw her at Valparaiso 4,11 d he describes her as a blonde f tun the opposite), with a cold blue eye and hard, inexpres sive face." It all flashed upon me in a moment. This was the woman of the forged cheque, and John Barrett's wife. As rapidly as I could I went through the story to Mrs. Graham. Why," she said, "you are *valuable evidence in working tin our case. But what is the use now '.".1.1te rogue, as well as the property, is gone." True enough, the story was all out, but too late. John Barrett had been the forger of that cheque, the woman only the presenter. The woman I saw upon the road that night was she—the one the next evening only a changeling wearing the same clothes. John Barrett had known of Ephraim Pennypacker's habit of hoarding, and doubtless knew that somewhere he had the money he had withdrawn from the bank, but after the old man's death had been tumble to find it. He knew of Lydia's flight out of the country, and where she was, and so determined on the plot he had so successfully worked. But there was another point which until this moment had never crossed my mind. Might he not have murdered the old man the more quickly to consummate his work? The thought made me shiver, but the fact was possible, nay probable. He had committed almost every crime but mur der ; why not murder too? All this Lydia and I canvassed, but, alms! too late. And now I conic to the mention of a strange psychological fact—something for which I cannot account. That eve ning, with brain so full of this revived memory that I could not even find room in it for Katie Earnshaw, I spent at her house. The parlor was brilliantly light ed ; the bell rang, there was a step in the entry that made me start, the door opened and John Barrett stepped into the room. I started to my feet, horror stricken. There he stood before me, as plainly as on the day we had last met, nothing changed but by the years that had been added and the browner tint of the skin. John Barrett, and yet Waring de Lille! Before this moment I had not seen one trace of the first about him ; now I could see nothing of the last. I stood there transfixed, even after all others were seated, wondering whether I retained my senses, or whether they had left me under the excitement of the day. For an hour I remained gazing at the man and wondering ; and then, commending myself for the presence of mind that had withheld me from de nouncing him on the spot, I withdrew. That night I could not sleep until I had seen Lydia, and early the next morn ing we met at her lawyer's. It did not take long to find two able detectives to make up a party of five, including Mrs. Graham and her attorney, to call upon Mr. Waring de Lille at his hotel. As we followed. the waiter into his room I wondered, now that I saw him again by daylight, how I could ever have thought he was anybody but John Barrett, though Lydia declared to me afterward that her heart fell as she entered his room, for she saw not the first point of resemblance. It was short work. I came upon him promptly and boldly, accused him of theft, forgery and murder, asserted that the proof was all prepared, produced Lydia, and extorted the confession that his wife was still alive. In less than two hours I was on my way to New I York to receive an assignment of prop erty sufficient to cover Mrs. Graham's entire demand, with interest to date. I don't think that left Mr. John Bar ' ret much with which to join his charm ing wife. Lydia insisted upon showing her grat itude by becoming a special partner in my business, which was the first cause of my making money. And that's the way I came to marry Katie Earnsimw. J. W. WATSON. Lippincolt's Magazine. Six young cattle, belonging to David L. Wenrich, Esq., were run over and killed on Sunday night, near Robesonia, by an engine on the Lebanon Valley Railroad. The Chinese Massacre Twenty Europeans Killed and Barliar ously Mutilated. Sisters of Mercy Outraged--The French Consul and Secretary of Legation 31u r dered—French Cathedral. Consulate and hospital Sacked and Burned— Russian anti English Subjects Slatm-h -tered--Amerleamt and Englishmen Mis sing—American Missionaries Driven Ont. Corresuondence of the New York Tribune TIEN-TSIN, China, June' 3.—Two days ago a crowd of Chinese, led on and en couraged by official mandarins :Ind priests, made an attack on the foreign ers in the native city, killing thirteen women and seven men, beside about sixty native ChriPitians and sixty-four children. For more than a year the lindhist priests, and many of the mandarins, have been busy exciting revolt, anal forming forces with Which to drive the "foreign devils" as they kindly call us) from China. In January last a tierce attack was made on the French tint English missions at llangkow, on the Yangtze River, and a number of the former were outrageonsly treated, their houses burned, and one clergyman kill ed. The French Minister at once or dered the Admiral to his aid, and with several gunboats, steamed up the rivi r, where he demanded of the " Foutai" (Governor) reparation and punishment of all persons engaged in the disgrace ful and inhuman violence. The " Fon tai" tried to procrastinate, and attempt ed Chinese " diplomacy," but the Frenchman was in no mood to be tri fled With, and was peremptory. demands were complied with, church., and missions were rebuilt, actual in demnification made, and several of the known participants in the affair behead ed. For a time everything remained quiet; but educated Chinamen said openly that in a little time they would kill every foreigner in China. In order to accomplish this end, it is now known that from Nanking to Tien-'Psis, a con certed plan of action was agreed upon, under the plea that foreigners were in China for the purpose of " kidnapping young boys and girls," killing them, digging out their eyes, mutilating their persons, stewing portions of their bodies in a huge cauldron, and packing in tin cans; after which, they shipped them to Europe and America for medical pur poses, the preparation being a sure pa nacea for battling diseases. This was the story these leaders set afloat in or der to excite the superstitious fears of the farmers, coolies and boatmen, and make their hearts brave for an attack on foreigners. Of course such infamous reports were known by the officials to be base lies, but, with a common inter est and animus, they repeated the tales, and on the same day—Jane 6—the sev eral "Founds" of all the Northern Pro vinces caused to be be posted official no tices taking cognizance of the rumors and giving official color and sanction thereto. In every village, hamlet, fish ing station, and city, did these notices appear on walls and iemples, and the following, from The. North China Se it, at Shanghai, was circulated all over the Troy i n ce MEM •. PROCI.AUATION IsSllotl by W1111:4, (11111 Ilsien of Tantu, in the Prefecture of Chinkcann. Dated inn June, 1,1,0. 1171 real, It has been discovered by ice that a number of vicious characters aro go ing about in all directions, kidnapping children and young women, by stupefying them, either through the medium of taste in something they give them to eat, or of vapor conveyed in tobacco they give them to smoke, thereby rendering them more easy subjects tbr abduction, the result of which is that they are cruelly murdered for the sake of procuring, in the case of males, their eye-balls, livers, and testes, and in that of females, their breasts and privy parts, which are cut out to be made up, it is presumed, into some strange drug; And as this is a matter for deep commis eration, the llsicn has taken secret and vigilant measures for their apprehen sion, and it is his duty to issue this press ing notice, calling upon all classes not to allow their wives and children to rut the risk of being kidnapped by going mu at will; and any one who Can procure the conviction of one of these kidnappers shrill, without fail, receive a reward of z 3,100. Let all obey with trembling. A necessary notice. The consequence of this official notice was to cause great alarm among the lower classes, and to intensify their bit ter hatred of Europeans. Old women related the horrible tales; mothers clasped their infants closer to their breasts; little children ran screaming rum the approach of white men ; and each day the reports were magnified, and the torpid blood of the Orientals aroused to fiercer heat. The French were inure especially abhorred on ac count of their prompt resentment of the first attack. Besides, several hundreds of French priests, professing the Catho lic faith, are scattered throughout China, speaking the language fluently, dressing in native costume, and contenting themselves with the humblest fare. By their zeal they have made many con verts to Christianity. At Nanking, Shanghai, liangkow, and Tien-Tsin, have been established, by the charity of' the Freneh i nation, large mission schools and hospitals for the nurture, education, and civilization of orphan children. Thousands of these children have been reclaimed from the lowest haunts of the Chinese, and, under the tutelage of the pious " Sisters of Mercy," by whom the missions are managed, instructed in the tenets of Christianity, taught to read and write, and fitted to teach their benight ed countrymen the "true faith" and an advanced civilization. The missions are in charge of a Lady Superior and assistants, and at Tien-Tsin hail been established eight years, and had done an amount of good second to none in China. On the fatal ['.lst of June the blow fell here, and in many other places was attempted, but, fortunately, averted. Your correspondent was on his return from a visit to Pekin, where he had been the guest of the Hon. Mr. Low, our Minister to China, and where he was informed that trouble would occur (lays before it did. It was, however, es teemed an idle tote. 'Tien-'Tin is situ ated on the Peiho River, and is at the head of navigation, the depot for Pekin —which is 100 miles northeast and 170 miles from the sea. The mouth of the river is protected by tWI, huge forts, rendered almost impregnable by their natural position. They are furnished with a large number of improved guns, among which are 20 Dahlgreens of the largest caliber. It was at this point the English and French were so severely beaten in 18.58 by Chinese forces. On Sunday, June 10, the mutterings of trouble, heard for weeks previously, assumed hostile shape by the assem bling of. a large crowd of natives under the walls of the native city, about two miles north of the foreign settlement, and in the immediate vicinity of the French settlement, i. e., the Consulate, Cathedral, Mission, and Hospital. [ln all China it is observable that the French almost in variably form settlements apart from other nationalities, and as near the native cities as is possible.] All that day the crowd indulged in tierce screams and howls, beating of tom-toms and gongs, and assaults of servants of Euro pean, and such native Christians as ap peared on the streets, such unfortunates being thrashed with long bamboo rods, applied by the leading "braves," who were applauded and encouraged by sev eral hundreds of Chunghow's soldiers, evidently in earnest co-operation with the gathering assailants. Pr Frazer, an English surgeon, only escaped per sonal violence through the fleetness of his horse. The French Consul, M. Fun tinier, used his best endeavors to pre vent trouble, and made a direct appeal to Chunghow to prevent any violence, by detailing a portion of his army (which numbered several thousand) for the pro tection of his countrymen. Chunghow said that he would certainly protect him, and sent two "glass-buttoned Man darins" is rank of about the same as a policeman], who were jeered at by the people and driven away. On the succeeding day, Monday, June 20, the tumult continued ; the crowd be ing largely augmented, and numbering several thousand ; a French padre was caught, and received 200 blows of the bastinado. The hooting and howling surpassed that of the previous day. The " braves' t demanded of the Sisters that the children be turned into the street at once, and that they forthwith leave the settlement. They threw missiles at the Mission ; used the most disgraceful lan guage, and heaped all possible insulton the devoted ladies. They also insulted every foreigner who was abroad on the river or in the city, and in the afternoon grew so violent that M. Foutainer again sought His Excellency Chunghow, and demanded of him protection. " Glass button Mandarins" were again sent, but the soldiers, armed with breech-load ing rifles; were stationed to protect the ships of native merchants from violence when the mob should be come excited too greatly. The Sisters, with barred doors, withstood the de mands of the crowd, releasing all the children who desired to leave; but of the IS-I, only IS consented to leave their kind friends and teachers, and so the Sisters resolved to protect the little ones, and the French Consul nobly sustained his countrywomen in their just resolve. Late in the evening the crowd dispersed, after having informed the Consul that on the morrow they certainly would kill every foreigner in the city. That night two of the Sisters attempt ed to reach the European settlement, tad found every street barricaded by "braves," and they were driven back, barely escaping outrage and death. Es cape was impossible, for the foreigners were doomed. About noon of the diet the crowd had reassembled and advanced to the Con sulate in two sections, one down the bank of the Grand Canal, the other up the river. At the Consulate were the following-named persons at lunch : The Consul, M. Henri ion ; M. Si mon, his Secretary ; M. Coutres, Chan cellor our narrator), and Mons. and Madame Thoma.ssin, the former hold ing the high official station of Secretary of Legation de France at Peking, and interpreter. 'Demands were again made for the Consul to proceed to the Mission and compel the Sisters to turn out the children ; the howls were almost deaf ening, and in a few minutes stones be gan to shower on the building, some breaking the windows and falling on the dining table, breaxing dishes and scattering food about the room. Upon this the Consul and his Secretary arose frolic the table, put on their side-arms and regulation hats, and, going to the wall which surrounded the Consulate, attempted to reason with the excited crowd. They were met with vol ley after volley or sticks and stones, and finding remonstrance Valli, the gentleman went out by the rear gate, and pursued by the howling, mob, sought the Yarnell and demanded an in stant interview of the Governor. It was granted. \` hat occurred at that inter view we have no means of knowing,, except from Chinese information. A Chinaman named 'ring says that Chunghow treated the Consul most con temptuously, and even spat upon him When he reproached Chunghow with lack of faith and connivance with the priests of I lud ; that the Consul assur ed Chunghow that he was then abbetting a crime that would not only arrouse his country, but the world to vengeance, and implored Chu nghow to instantly orde- his soldiers and protect the foreign ers. Upon this the servants were order ed to expel him, and did so violently. n the scuttle, a revolver which the Sec retary had in his hand was discharged into the floor, but no one was hurt inside the Yarnell. 'rile doomed men then sought the street and attempted to reach the Consulate ; (Mr. Coutres had Mean time escaped and concealed himself in the top of a joss-house ( temple), where he witnessed what transpir ed,) but as they turned the cor ner, a leading brave attacked the Con sul, and in an instant hundreds more had joined the assailant, and in less time than it takes to record it, they had cut, hacked, and literally torn their bodies almost past recognition. Blood once having been shed, and two high officials slain, these braves knew no fear; with mitddened howls they again sought the Consulate. At the gate they found a priest whom they instantly M. Thomassien was then caught as he was barring the gate, and cut down. Madame Thomassien then came to the wall, and the crowd rushed at her; she drew two self-cocking revolvers and killed, it is said, four or five Chinamen before she wits overpowered. Her strug gles were of no avail, though, and she was immediately murdered. Every house-servant at the Consulate, a native priest, and two Canton men, were k illed, and then the place was set on lire. In an hour, the Consulate, cathedral, and out-buildings were a mass of ruins. The 1 bodies of the priest, Mons. and Madam Thomassien were thrown into the river, whence they were recovered the next =NI Aleantime, after M. Fontanier had Limn slain, a crowd numbering several thousand had crossed the bridge of boats and surrounded the mission. The doors were instantly wrenched from the gate, and the crowd filled the inclosure with horrid shouts. A native christian priest who attempted to guard the door, was seized and torn limb from limb. Nine of the sisters were then collected in a large school room ; they were then beat en with sticks of bamboo, their clothes torn from their bodies; they were placed on their heads and cut with knives in the most savage manner, and outraged almost beyonebelief ; yet alive they were ranged side by side along the room, their cheeks gashed, lips and nose cut, eyes scooped from their heads their breasts cut off, and abdomen rip ped open ; with large clevers their limbs were cut and broken, and in ten minuts naught !remained but their disfigured bodies. Every cruelty which it was possible for the most savage barbarian to conceive of was perpetratetrupon these weak, defenseless, Christian ladies. \V hen there was no more to do, fire was applied to the massive buildings, and in a little time they were burned. Sixty or seventy children wholiad sought re fuge from the mob in the cellar, were burned to cruel death. Afterwards six boxes, containing the charred and man gled bones of the Sisters, were forward ed by Chunghow to the English Consul. one of the sisters named Lou inn an English girl, well known in Shanghai as a devoted and faithful friend of the Chinese, and for years a patient toiler in An gl hina hospitals and schools) escaped from the Mission when it was attacked, clad in Chinese garments. She obtained refuge in the house of a rice merchant, where she remained four hours; but upon attempting to escape to tile settlement, site was betrayed by her European shoes and set upon by a crowd which in a few minutes number ed hundreds. She was most shockingly abused, and suffered indignity at the hands of the savages which make the heartsick. All, and more than her coin pan iolls had suffered, was she compelled to undergo before death released her. Her body floated down the river on Wednesday a bruised and sickening witness of her cruel death. While the Consulate was in flames three Russians were en route to the for eign settlement—Mr. and Mrs. Protopo poff, and Mr. liascoff, the former married the day previous—and passed near the building. They were set upon, and al though 'they protested that they were not missionaries, and only traveling for pleasure, they were dragged to the earth slaughtered in a most cruel manner. The body of Madam P. was terribly mutilated. Mons. and Madam Chah maison lived just inside the walls of Tien-'Tin, and were engaged in trade, keeping all manner of European wares, etc. The mob sought them out, and instantly slew them, and gutted the store of everything valuable. Chung how's troops looked on and saw this act committed, as I learn from M. Coutres. The bodies of the Russians, and the last named, were thrown in the river, and afterward rescued while floating past the settlement. Mr. Stamman, a German, and Mons. Coutres alone escaped slaughter, of all the foreigners who were in Tien-Tsin on the morning of the 2,lst. After the build ings had been burned the crowd started across the city for the Protestant quar ters. They found only the habitations of the Missionaries who had heard of the attack on the other side and escaped.— They stripped the churches of every thing, and then, as it was getting dark, left for a grand carouse and au attack on the foreigners below on the morrow. EMS= Mons. Coutres has kindly furnished your correspondent with the correct names of deceased: Henri Fontanier, Consul of France; Mr. Simon, Secre tars to the Consul ; M. Thomassein and wife: Pere Cherrier, a Catholic priest; Mr. Protopopoff, a Russian officer, and wife; Mr. Rascal, Sisters—Louiza, Louisa (French), Mary, Victoria, The resa, Josephina, Vincenta, Orelia, Eu gen-it-and Catherina ; Mons. and Madam Chalmaison—in all twenty. The Rev. Mr. Stanley and family, of Cincinnati, Ohio, occupied one of the Missions, but as he chanced to be absent at the time Mrs. Stanley and Miss Thompson found refuge on board the steamship Manchu, and thus doubtless escaped a terrible fate. As soon as the slaughter commenced, news of it was carried by the friendly Chinese to the main settlement, and in stantly means of defense were taken. NUMBER 35 There was lying at the levee the Amer ican steamship A ppin, besides two barks and three schooners. Inasmuch as the ! deck of the Manchu commanded the entire levee and the main street leading to the city, it was deemed best to cen tralize means of defense, and so eleven mounted guns were procured ; guns, rifles, and pistolssecu red ; the ladies and children hurried on board ; the citizens resolved into a patrol guard, and as night closed in they awaited an attack. All that dreary night, Chinese who had been for years employed as servants in foreign bungs kept arriving from the city, and brought news of the coming attack. They begged the foreigners to leave, fur iith,y aid not t 'icy declared they would all be killed and mutilated, as had been those above 4,11 the river.— Mr. (lay, English Consul, Capt. Steele of the Manchu, Mr. Hannon, Commis shiner of Customs, the Re% . Mr. Lees, the North German Consul, mid several others were most active, and by their vigilance, doubtless prevented an attack; for, as spies from the city came down, they were received :Ls friends, shown the guns and piles or ammunition ; told What IL tremendous slaughter they should make when attacked, and then allowed to depart bearing the tale of the difficulties the Chinese would encounter in attempting to kill those in the Man chu. There is no room for doubt, kit that their cowardice saved the lives of torcign,r, in Tien-Tsin. (In the 20th of Jun,, the ,totun,itip in,gon twit loft for Shanghai, earrying requests from English and French Consuls to send some gunboat hither immediately America is without gunboats or other protection, except at the British port of I long Kong, where Admiral Rowan has rendesvouzed for three years pasc, and it was hoped the assisinnee would arrive as early :is the THE NEXT lids. On the morning of the 2241, your cor respondent, with two others, arrived at 2. A. at the bridge of boats, uncon scious of the terrible tragedy of the day before. The place was descried, and our boatmen, alter a delay of an hour, got their boat through, and just at day light we battled alongside the levee. Ilad we been two hours later, or six hours earlier, we should doubtless have been cruelly murdered. Vie found quar ters on the ✓ Manchu, enrolled at mice as a patrol, and then found time to return thanks forum fortunate escape. During the day, the bodies of three Russians-- Minis. Thomassien and wife, Mons. Chalmaison and wife, and Sister Louiza —floated down on the ebb tide, arid were rescued. It was a terrible sight. Stern men wept as they saw the mutilated bodies, and women shrunk aghast, with terror. Many bodies of Chinese came down on the title, and at flood returned and swept up to the bridge of boats. The bodies of Europeans were put in collins as fast as recovered. An inquest was unnecessary. A coroner's verdict' could only be, "Unheard of barbarism." 'llw day wore slowly on. The Chi nese had deserted the settlement, which was silent, except when the tread or the patrol was heard. Flags hung at half mast, and bells tolled a solemn 4lirge. It was a dreary day. Escape was nn pos:,dble had attack been made, and we could only have died fighting,. The in herent, cowardice of the Chinese altme saved us. Toward evening Chungluiw sent a message to the Consffis that it would " not be advisable for any for eigners to attempt to visit the city, and that he should try to protect them from further attack." Rumors that all the foreigners at Pekin were slaughtered excited fearful apprehension. I lappily all these reports were untrue. Chung how issued a proclamation stating that if "Chinese and foreigners had any fm ther lights," etc. What a light it must have been for ten thousand men to mur der thirteen women and seven men, live of whom were unarmed ! A tau VA I,IWG I . a IV /.\TS. And so passed the days until Sunday, when just as the sun was sinking the English gunboat Oppossuin steamed around the bend of the river, came on, scattering junks on either side, nobly stood on with guns run out :li n t slotted for instant service, at last were alongside, and received with as loud and heartfelt cheers as ever was craft greeted with.— Then we indeed felt sate, for here was strength and protection. lu an hour after the arrival of the Oppossunt Chang how sent a dispatch that he should that night post ".inti soldiers on each side or the river, so that the foreig,ners should have no fear." The villainous old US ! Ile sent his soldiers for fear that the righteous indignation of white men would lied vent by leveling the walls of Tien-Tsin ! The next morning another gunboat., the Avon, with several first-class guns and 170 English marines, arrived and almost insured safety, :and so the Man chu was relieved of her warlike dress, and on the :2Sth inst. departed for Shanghai, carrying despatches and a large n um her of Chi nese taissen gers anx ious to be away from that, city. Before we left news had been reeeieved from Pekin of the safety of foreigners, but a terrible state of excitement among the people was announced. 'flue Freneh Minister was not permitted to leave, and communieation with him forbidden.— A proclamation had been issued by the Emperor looking to Clunighow for his head. El'forts !Ire making in Ite;ulih g to con solidate the "Board of Trade" and the "Itusiness Exchange" tinder one set of of officers. The Blue Mountains, in Bethel town ship, perks uounty, have been on fire for several days past, the smoke from which settles on the lowlands, and even comes down as far as Reading. We have not learned the extent of the dam age done by the flames. On Monday last, the York County Steel Works commenced the business of rolling out rails, which attracted con siderable attention, and quite a crowd of lookers on. These tine works are now in successful operation and visited by crowds of people, citizens as well as strangers. Two weeks since a jovial party in North Cordorus, York county, held a pie-nie. A long dancing lloor was erect ed, and fun, frolic and liquor predomin ated. In the evening two men, named Saurbaugh and Sweitzer, engaged in an altercation at a tavern in 't,veretow o. when the latter had the end of his nose bitten oin The Philadelphia and Reading Rail road Company, yesterday, opened a new telegraph office at Birdsboro', at which time and place connection was made with the new Wilmington telegraph line. Under the able superintendence of Mr. Sellers, our Telegraph communi cations are becoming more perfect and convenient. On Thursday last a young man named Duffield, residing near Upton, Franklin county, was killed in a sudden and hor rible manner. He seems to have been riding a horse along the road, and was thrown and had his skull so b adly frac tured that Inc brains protruded from the wound. He lived only a short time after he was discovered. Tuesday afternoon the body of a mai infant was found in the river, :thou three or four feet from the sliore, be tween Pine and South streets, Harris burg. It was wrapped in a New York J!crabland was considerably mutilated. The coroner's jury returned a verdict that it was unnaturally born in the act of abortion by an unknown person. The coroner oilers a reward of $2, - ; for the ar rest and conviction of the person or per sons guilty of the crime. The Greencastle ralfry E,/ c o says "Dr. John l'eddicord, of Waynesboro', showed us the other day, a lock of hair taken from the head of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln. Dr. I'eddicord was in the naval service and stood guard over Booth's dead body while it lay on board of the monitor in the Potomac river, and while alone with the corpse, at a dead hour of night he succeeded in getting this relic of the great assassin, which probably is the only one in existence." From VVimhington WASHINGTON, August 23.—The - United States Treasury Department has ordered the payment of the September interest, commencing on Monday next, without re bate. Dispatches received in this city state that all the prizes contested for in the Victoria regatta at Hong Kong were won by the boats entered by United States vessels. The ladies' purse, ,which was the crack prize, was won by Admiral Rowan's barge, with a crew trained and commanded by Lieutenant Commander R. D. Evans. A New Haven editor wrote anlelabo rate article about his " Alma Mater" but was astonished to find it appear in the paper as " Alum Water." RATE OF ADVERTISING BUSINESS ADVERTISEMENTS, Sl2 n your ;e r squre of ten Iltim; SS per sear for each Donal square. REAL F.STATH ADVERTNINO, 1 0 cents nllO. 110 the first, and 5 cents for curl, suffsrrineu , Insertion. GENERAL '‘ERTISING, 7 rents line for III) first, and la nts f.r each stllcaspn . nt In e t lon. Si.r.ct NoTrur- m !wn! CO:I 15 ceuta per line. SPECIAL. NOT ICESpriced) in; untrr I ag‘ . .d denthe, 10 COEN per lino (or tlrht Insort. and 5 eenta (or ovary .114,011.111 LEGAL AND OTlintt No Executors' notices.. .............. . Administrators' notice Assignees' notices Auditors' notices Other " Notices," tell lines, or lees three times A Wild Cat Ender n nolchmon'm Fled Terrible Scene in Wemit Hickory. P From the Tit .VlllO 1 Il•rald. \Vest Hickory, besides being noted Mr 1.- big wells, dry boles and rattlesnakes, Ita. ,t now and charming feature of attraction t:, the vast number of wildcats, or catanumin , that are to bo found in the ueighlr trim, forest-s, and which make night hideous their mellifluous notes, when on a foramt-. Since the untimely demise of the wi at Fagunillts, by reason or an encoutnt with a but!-dog, no " varmint," have bet seen, and it was hoped that the at:tires:l,: animals would let the petwelul settlers havt• a rest. Ma such felicity was 11.4 - .IPI , t conies the story. Near the headwaters of \Vest II icl,,,rs t'reek lives an humble and tipriirlit eulturist, by the !tame of Adam 1.0 td Tom/. tVila, alter engaging in the perilous ecru,. , Linn of an oil operato r on the creek, ref,. zo eil and opened a keno bank, and aids c• ,tccutitulations or ~overal emir •.; front business, out of the hack stintl..,' a polite Ulcer entered tlio front , , In, chasing a fell' acres of soil began to Innis a, having previously studied 1.y.1. Thompson's svork entitled What I about Farming," his first year's svork not it success. Ills pumpkins Leon de voured by potato butts, gra,,shailiwrs ried oir his cattle, the weevil gut into lii sheep, and the crop failed under t l. combined attack or the hoof-rot and tour rain. To enovii all, he IN'aS hillee'ltattack , I With the hog cholera. Tbk NVaS the situation uu Sattlialay last, when from a dreamt,. slerp hu o.ls iiwakeived by an tutearthl2," Itiorl, a crash id glass, and the striking 0f a "heavy ~ 0 010 thing," upon his breast. At first lie thomdu it must be a horrible nightmare, caused too rich viands, but when he Tonsidert.d the fit•t thai,thero Were 110 1101' , 0s within tell 111111 1 A of his cabin, and the only Silpi 3 O 110 hall partaken of Was a 000;00 of burl.• wheat tulles, such reasoning ,tour'' ern,- 0011 S., All NVII, quiet, and litully, think in,: it must have been an (id Creek bedbug on a raid, he dismissed the subject, as preparing to settle into a,, all night's sleep, when a set-Molting us heard beneath the bed. hastily rising,, he Jerked on his un mentionables, and, dropping on all four , , began to claw beneath the boil alter the midnight intruder. lie found it, and in otio•fourth of a No, York minute all the clothes 0101 . 0 titre Llama 111 m wool' net haVO made a lab for a china doll, lie finally finnil hltusel I' in the corner partly scalped, with his 10%, - or limits looking :Ls though ho bail hi through a wool-carding machine; at this juncture, will, a spit 1111 a growl, a cantainount disappear. - 1 through the open witaloNV. Stiv.ll the simple tale of Adnin (11.1inian. ILt soar desires to emigrate to Homo sp .1 where the insects are not so trotildesoilic. Ills farm is a good one, but ho , ays he net stand the eats. Thn•e Thou.land Confederlte4 al I hu• Dr Teringlei. The .Nliingilon Virginian. contains the• illowing communication, which is tall ilculateil to excite profound interest: S.turvit.i.F., Va., .Itigtist Itie. .Ib,nfidon .1 [Tian to-day who gaN - o his 11111110 110 Eli AVM' !. Parker, and represented I 11111 he NV:LA it lieu tenant in Captain .1. W. Kelly's I,lllpany. K,C,donel Groer's reginlent,Fortieth North 'strolina cavalry, in the l'onloclerato army that he \vas eaptu red at the battle of Chick amauga on the 12th of lino, 1 , 0:1; was sent to Camp Chase, and from there to I n'y Tot • tugas, where he has remained until the lit . ..i day of .1 line last. . - to believe every word of it—and so won b voil if you could see the man—and it may 110 of some interest to some of your readers. Ile says there are still about :tOOU men oil the island, who have no means to pay their paksage :mil no way to make money enough to do so. AmongF, those still there who , . names he remembers are : James Grady, Thomas W. Stinson, IVilliam Stinson, awl George Taylor, of l A'ashington county Thomas Carter and Jesse Carter, of Hussrl l: John Illaek and William Mack, cif Scott James Il igginbothatn, Thomas W. .lesse T. May, and NVilliam A. May, Tazewell county. Parker says the prison ers wore all released :it the close of the win , but they had no means .t• eon ununir;iliou with their friends, and they are still there in lutist wretched eondition, their only uwuus of support hieing derived from labor :it the levees at fifty cents per month mid Inc begging. lle worked over five years at tiny per month, and saved $36.50, with which lie paid his fare to New ()Helms, from which place he has walked since the 7th or .111 lII`, and begged his way. Ile is in In natal pit i ablo condition, being entirely blind in mei eye and very nearly co in the other, came by exposure, and very lame and tip from long walks. Ile is on his way to his home in Ilopkins county, North Caro lina, having walked up the 'Mississippi to the mouth at' the Ohio, up the Ohio and through Kentucky, several hundred miles out of his way, owing, he says, to his ignor ance or the country and the ignorance of those who gave him directions. Ile nays the poor fellows on the island am o praying for relief from their friends, but 110 digs not know how that relief can be afforded, as )10 seems to be entirely ignorant of the 11101111 S or eomotimieittioit with the island, and only knows that vessels ga there for coffee. and that it may 110 the means of comma icating the whereabouts of sortie of tim , l oar wretches to their friends. A :Ilan Shoots II I.llllollDuring Seri,' lee In St. Pout's Church, Itrontlas ay. The congrogation who were piously al tending to their devotions in St. Paul's church, opposite the finfrrtht office, last evening, were suddenly startled by the re port of a pistol inn their very midst.. It came from the gallery, and a rush was nt once made for the doors by those who, not knowing what else to do inn the first confu sion of the moment, considered a little on 1.- door exercise more conducive to their per sonal safety than a prayerful attitude in the church, where somebody had evident ly got inn with firearms. Several men, who did not lose their presence of 111111,1. made their way to tine gallery, where a crowd had already gathered, when it was ascertained that a lierman named Edward Marquery, who resides at sfi Rose street, had shot himself in One abdomen. The man was conveyed to the Ash fr I [011,40, where Dr. Swann examined the wound mado by the pistol, and gave it as his opinion that it had emanated no hall, al though there might have been, he thought, some entail shot in it Lytton it was tired. -- M;frquery was then taken to the Third pre cinct station house and at Limes seemed not to know exactly what he was doing or saying. Ile was, however, not insane. Ile stated that he wits fifty years of ago,a fragile by calling and that life had become a bur den to him, hence his willingness to take his chances in eternity. lie had gone to the church, not with tire intention of shooting himself, but joining in the services and endeavoring to resign himself to his hard life here on earth, for he had, he said, lost all his family by death and was 1110110 in the world, without a friend or a cent of money. Ile had borne up against the weight of his troubles until his spirit was Last sinking beneath the load, and last night he thought to find consolation and strength by attending divine servicoand offering up a prayer to God to sustain him in his mis ery and give him courage to drink his hitter cup to the dregs without faltering. The spirit was strong but the flesh was weak, and in a moment of despair he placed the pistol against his body and tired. If it should turn out after all that the pistol contained no ball Marquery's story will not do him much credit. The pistol was one of that small kind usually WWd by boys to tire blank cartridge on the Fourth of July.—N., Y. Herald. Wholesale Escapes firoin n Delawart un Wednesday morning the insecuzily of our jail at Dover was again made Instil fest by the escape of eight prisoners, viz. : Henry Johnson, colored, convicted of bur glary at last court and sentenced to nine years imprisonment ; Nebuchadnezzar 'Partis, colored, convicted of burglary ; Henry Campbell, colored, convicted for stealing; Daniel Cabbage, colored; Wil- IMm Collins, colored; Jacob Davis, color ed; Charles Roberts, small colored boy; and James Thorne, colored, for assault, awaiting trial. They effected their escape by sliding down tho chute leading from the water-closet to the cesspool, a loath some avenue to liberty, but the only ono available, it seems. Johnson took his leg irons with him, and ono of the other pris oners a pair of handcuffs. None or the prisoners have been recaptured, and it is believed they all escaped into Maryland. This jail has long been noted for its rotten ness and insecurity, and several times pris oners have escaped without any great trouble.— Wilmington Commercial, Mon day. Salting Down Cucumbers for Pickles Leave half all inch of stern on cucum bers—wash them in cold water—imme diately packed with salt in alternate layers, salt next to the wood ; one bushel of salt to five of cucumbers. Fill the barrel full, putting salt on top—cut a wide board so as just to fit inside the barrel—bore half a dozen half-inch holes through—place it on the pickles with a stone on, which should weigh at least twenty-five pounds, so as to keep the pickles always in brine. Take off all scum which rises. Keep the barrel in the shade, and In four weeks take of£ the stone and fill to the top, as they wil settle some. , Put more salt on, head them up, and they are ready for market. Glider Makers Journal.
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