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(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.
And hover aently, hover near
To her, whose watchful eye Is wet.—
To root her, lie doable clear,
In whose young heart hurl• freshly met
Two stn.:oils love so deep and clear—
And cheer Cre drooping spirits yet.
Noe, while she kneels before thy Throne,
Oh teseh bee, Ruler oft he skies,
That, while by Thy Iheitest alone,
Earth's [nighties! powers tall and rise,
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do hair Is lost, no sparrow dies,
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The House of Pennypacker & Son
\Varruner str,t.•ll.l his li,ad far out,
of the window of the carriage as we
passed
it small, low-built, olil-fashioned
house, that luulle I as it it [night have
seen better dap+, but at that particular
moment seemed to bo what is techni
cally termed tt tit the dogs." There
wits a deep and eager interest in his
gaze which I could not help unfitting,
tool whieli he could no( help seeing ex
cited my euriosity.
" Ito you see tlt:it itinise*:" he aslted."
"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
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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
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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."
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Insertion.
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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.