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In the regiment there NV:ISI , IIe (11:lrit'S scarcely thirtYi had spent halt' his life ill a 1.111i1 . 1111. ( . ”111111allti Ile hail seen more or less of almost every European state, had distinguished himself on many :1 ' hard-fought field, had won the much- ci.veted cross of the I ATM!' of I tumor, 111111 would, doubtless, have long since been re‘varilial with a cionunksion if his colonel had nil been averse to recruit ing his iitlivers from the null: mid life. Ifilfrestio was a Muni:mine, clever, wide-awake young man, a thorough and highly-exemplary soldier. lit had never been subjected to any mill bin- punishment, and was full or en thusiasm for the emperor, the filetirt• rlr Lr . qrfuerle • 'tow (if In - l/' Ftyutec. Ile was \vell acquainted with the usages of the polite world, and his literary tie quirements \Vert' greater 01511 were, ill days, demanded tit' au infantry °nicer. In fael no our could under stand tally he NV:l:i not promoted, he himself least of all ; for, like the major part of his vountrylnell, he had no mean opinion of his own merits, yet, although of a naturally impatient and fiery na ture, he tens too good a not to wail patiently. One title summer cvviiing 1)11111,1m, with two of lits comrade,, sauntered through the tali Sparta a much fre queti that separates the city proper trout the sutmo”... and com pletely encircles the former. The pilaw, sergeant was this evening in his usual good !miner; he had, in deed, never es pericncisl any of the greater ills id lac. Ili, parents died \\•lieu lie sees hni n child ; his fortune was his monthly pay, which he so hus banded as to mats• it supply him with all it little taallfola ,, alld ' ili.XUlays lie COVuted ; lie had never loved Il.pult,sly, unl in the dim fullire he .a\ .of Or 1110 111,jii dit'VS Or Ilk rulom•I--;u did cvery young soldier or th, first mu pi re. it still trauted :lit hour of the time the tattoo SOIIIOII4I. FM' the moment, thereMre, the three friends were at lib erty to consult their inclinations. " Let us go into one or these ~rlcs," said ime of them. Agreed! I would like an ice," re plied /I.lloliler. 'Pheyselectedaorrirwilhadiminutive garden before it, which was brilliantly lighted with a great number of Chinese lanterns,and tilled with tablesaml chairs, and wasevidently well-patronized by the better classes. They had hardly found places and or dered sonic rcfresinnent.s,,,A.wheu the buzzing, incident to such assemblies, suddenly ceased, and every ear was in tent upon listening to the tone of a gui tar, that seemed to be the introduction to a song. " It seems we have stumbled into a concert," said one of Dufresne's com rades, evidently little pleased. "No matter; let us see if it is worth listening to," replied the sergeant, In the guitar tones they soon recog nized a melancholy and pathetic Italian aria, the words or which a fresh, full, well-cultivated female voice began to sing. The garden was so full that the three friends could not see the canta tri,c, although in their surprise they did their utmost to gratify their curi osity. The mild, balmy evening, the pecu liar illumination of the scene, and, above all, the pure, expressive tones of the singer, combined to touch the sen sibilities of young Dufresne,and,if he had any poetry in his nature, to lead the way into a land of sweet, but perhaps some what melancholy dreams. There was not a sound to divert the attention from the aria—the guests ceased their chat and clinking of glasses, and listened with the most profound attention. When •the singer had ended, there fol lowed such a round of applause as none but the mercurial Italians know how to delight an artist with, while the singer stepped out of a little arbor near the house,her guitar in one hand and a sheet ti tx 3,l:alttaitet $/ittetligntet VOLUME 72 of music in the other. She went from table to table, gathering the small coin that seemed to flow bountifully into her garner. More than one of the guests tried to engage her in conversation, but her replies were, although courteous,by no means calculated to encourage fami- 'Way, and she tarried nowhere longer than was necessary. " If this woman's face possesses half the fascination of her voice, she does a thriving business without a doubt," re marked one of the-sergeant's friends. " But why so silent and thoughtful, Du- fresne?" " I must confess," replied the young sergeant, " that this beautiful aria cra dled me into a dream out of which I waken most unwillingly. We have here only a raj , : ballad-singer, and yet she is au artiste. It pains me to the heart to see such talent and such culti vation as hers compelled to seek bread in a place like this." Thesinger,at this moment,approached the table at which sat the three soldiers, and the light of one of the lanterns fell full on her figure and features. The former ,was full and symmetric, and made a pleasing impression, as she was not dressed In that gaudy , style ;usually affected by woriAlts4Lf her elms. Her bearing was modest, aTmost to timidity; she seemed, indeed, unwilling to look up, although she certainly need not have been averse to showing her fare, which, it is true, was somewh4 pale, and look ed eare-worn, but was east in beauty's mould, and illuminated with a pair of those lustrous eyes that are rarely met with except in the warmer climates. The young men had pictured to them selves an entirely different being, and were evidently surprised, particularly Dufresne ' whose gloomy mien was quickly dissipated by a glance at the fair petitioner. Was it admiration for her neauty, or sympathy for her lot, that prompted him ?—he quickly returned the small coin he had destined for the ,11,1 of mush!, to his pocket, and, in its ,tend, laid a large silver piece on the paper. Surprised by the generosity of a com mon soldier, the girl raised her large brilliant eyes to his an instant, then dropped them as quickly, while a mod est blush mantled her cheek, and she bowed her thanks, passing on before Dufresne or either of his comrades could lied a word to address to her. "The devil! but Isn't she pretty!" exclaimed one of them. " Eyes like carbuncles and lips like coral ; but what a sad expression! Even Dufresne's generosity was lost on her." Having completed her round, the sin ger zeturned to the arbor, and, unno ticed by all eyes except the sergeant's, who followed her step by step, she quickly left the garden by a side en trance. Involuntarily Dufresne made a move as though he would fallow her, but, fearing that lie would be observed, lie resumed his seat. The ilex( evening, the young ser geant found himself, this Lime alone, on the I ill Sparti, but he looked neither to the right nor the left, and hastened his steps until he reaehed the mit. garden, which was as well tilled anon the pre cious evening. He entered and was soon comfortably seated near the arbor. Who will (lolibt that, the holie of seeing and hearing the pale singer again had led the young Frenchman thither? She was there, and it was, perhaps, due to her that the establish ment was so largely frequented. lfer conic was as pure and full, her execu tion as brilliant, and her manlier as modest and fascinating, as it had been the evening before. No one noticed the sergeant; if any one had he would not have failed to remark the agitation mirrored in his handsome features. At the close of the improvised con cert, the singer again went round to take up the usual collection. - When she came to the sergeant's table, as be fore, he laid a large silver coin on the sheet of music ; as before, she glanced at him hastily, and as she did so her hand trembled visibly, while her cheeks were suffused in a deep crimson. The tattoo resounded through the city, but Dufresne kept his seat until hs, saw the singer, as on the previous evening, pass out at the side, when he rose and followed her. At a rapid step she crossed the prom enade and turned toward one of the poorer suburbs. Der haste betrayed either anxiety or timidity. Although the sergeant kept within a few steps of her, he did not vulture to approach nearer and speak to her—an exhibition of timidity quite foreign to his character. The streets became inure and inure deserted and darker. The girl looked around once or twice, but, whether she recognized Dufresne or not, she quick ened her step and was evidently averse to accepting an 'escort. If the sergeant's intention wits, as it seemed, to make the girl's acquaintance his object would not, had not chance favored hint, been attained. Four or live young men came down the street, arm-in-arm, singing boister ously, and it was not unreasonable to suspect that the unprotected girl would not be able to pass them unmolested. The singer hesitated, and seemed un decided what to do. In a moment Du fresne was at her side, and respectfully. proffered his protection until the con vivial party should pass. The girl glanced toward the approach ing party of brawlers, and then at the young French soldier, whom she evi dently recognized. After a moment's hesitation, she laid her arm in his ; but she was too greatly embarrassed to ven ture any remark, nor was her cavalier scarcely more at ease. They passed the young men unmolest ed. The street was again still and de serted, but the sergeant neither took leave of the young girl, nor did she with draw her arm. " I think, mademoiselle, I have seen you in a cuje on the promenade," ob served Dufresne, finally breaking the silence. • " 1 sing there almost every evening, signor. I 71M poor, and have duties to non' toward one to whom lam great ly indebted," she frankly replied. "Phis person, whoever it may he," replied the sergeant, who, perhaps, felt a slight twinge of jealousy, "should not expose you to the danger of returning alone tun' unprotected through these dark, deserted streets at so late an hour." "Oh, signore, you do him injustice. It he were not confined M his bed, he would not fail to accompany me ;is he always used to do." For a moment, the young man was silent; then he asked in a tone that, in spite of him, was slightly tremulous: "Alt, Mademoiselle! then you have a friend'.' " One, and but one, in the wide world. And every evening, when I return to our little humble home, I fear that death may have robbed me of him." I Dufresne's brow became darker still. A friend ! their little home ! He almost regretted that he had ()tiered her his protection. Andshe was so /mire, spoke so frankly of her relations! \Vas it to be wondered at in oneof her profession " And you provide for your sick friend Iby singing, mademoiselle he asked, I in absent tone. I " For the last three months, yes. If I [ had to provide for myself only, I would ! not sing in such puhlic places, and even now 1 would rather work with my minds, but lily old master will not listen to IL" " oh, this friend is your old noisier, your teacher!" said Dufresne, greatly relieved. " Accident threw us together when I I was still a small child, and he was al -1 ready an old man. I love him as a father, and he loves the as his own' daughter." " If you would ascribe it to the deep 1 interest 1 feel in all that concerns you, and not to idle curiosity, I would ask you to tell nie something more of your self—something of your past history." The girl hesitated a: moment, and then replied : "My past anti present life, signore, has no secrets, baits story is so simple, that it would, I fear, fail to interest , you." - In a few words she told her compan ion that she was the only child of some coon try-people, who lived near Florence. At the early age of ten years she was an orphan, and wandered out into the world, heedless of the future, depending upon the singing of a few simple ballads for subsistence. In her wanderings she chanced to meet with her old master, Who, although a proficient in his art, was, like herself, compelled to sing in the highways for bread. He recognized her talent, and became her protector and teacher—to him she was wholly in debted for whatever musical education she possessed. Now the old man was 111, not able, indeed, to leave his bed, and it was but natural that Camilla should, so far as was In her power, pro vide for him. Dufresne listened attentively, and her simple narrative only served to redouble his interest. Arrived at her door, she thanked him kindly for accompanying her, bade him good-night, and quickly disappeared. • sergeant Dufresne now became a daily visitor at the cafe on the Gli Sparti, from which he regularly accompanied the singer home; and, if any one had ob served the two young people, as they walked slowly toward the distant sub urb, he would haye decided that they were more to each other than ordinary friends. Thus passed two or three weeks. The young sergeant became daily more silent • and thoughtful ; and Camilla assured him that, on account of her dear old maestro, she often sang with tears in her eyes. To the many patrons of the cafe. the I last few days had added oue, whom Du fresne would rather have seen anywhere else. It was Colonel d'Hervilly, a man noted for his haughty bearing, his good looks, and his gallantries. That the colonel was attracted by the pretty singer was very evident ; indeed, he made no secret of it. He rewarded Camilla's efforts in gold, and scorned to think his generosity gave him the right to evince his admiration unrestrained, which caused the other guests to smile, the sergeant excepted. ' Usually Camilla left the garden so quietly, that no one but Dufresne, to whom she was now accustomed to make a sign, knew when she went, or what path she task. One evening, however, they were hardly on their way, when, to their astonishment, they, saw they ! were followed by the colonel. The sergeant found himself suddenly in any thing but an enviable situation, for, besides being the rival of his corn ! !minder, which was nut pleasant, the latter was cognizant of his disregarding a strict regulation of the service, fur the tattoo had already sounded. At first the colonel kept sonic distance I behind them ; but, when they reached the deserted streets of the suburb, he quickened his step, and was soon at I nt fresne's side. . . . . "Are you not Sergeant Dufresne, of my regiment?" he asked, in a haughty tone. "1 out, colonel." "And you are at this late hour in the street, instead of being in yolir quart ers "Colonel," replied the young roan, whose blood boiled with indigation,"to- morrow 1 shall he at your disposal, and shall expect the punishment my neglect of duty merits ; at the moinent,my first fluty is to see this lady safely home." "Sergeant Dufresne," cried the colonel "you will go immediately to your bar racks and report yourself, at the watch house, as a prisoner by my orders." The colonel, arfairiling to all military motions, was in the right; tint certainly his course was most ignoble, if , as we suspect, ho had any designs on the singer. "Obey !" whispered Camilla, greatly terrified, to her companion. " I will obey your orders, colonel," replied the sergeant, involuntarily lay ing his hand on the hilt of his sabre, " when 1 shah have protected my fian cee against indignities that I have rea son to fear to-night inure than ever be fore." Whatever Camilla may have thought of his using the word "firinorr," she did not contradict him, but remained silent. " Yon are an insolent rascal, a muti neer!" cried the colonel. " Return lin inediately to your quarters." And in his rage lie laid his hand rather heavily on the woolen epaulet of the sergeant. Quicker than thought the sergeant loosened his hold of the girl's arm, drew his sabre half out of its scabbard, and, stepping directly in front of the colonel, said, in a tone tremulous with rage : " Your designs are clear to nue, Colo nel d'lfervilly ; but I will not suffer you to offer any indignity to this young girl, and therefore I shall not obey your orders, until I see hersafely to her door. Do not forget that at this mo ment our relations are not those of su perior and subordinate, and that we are here alone, without witnesses." The colonel was speechless with rage: he, too, was about to draw his sword, when the tread of a patrol coming down the street was heard. Camilla, seeing the tile of soldiers approach, hurried borne with all possible speed. Dufresne replaced his sabre in his scabbard, and calmly awaited the issue. He was too proud to fly, even had night not been useless. When the patrol came up, the colonel ordered the sergeant to be taken to the guard-house, and- placed under arrest, saying that, in the morning, he would direct what disposition should be made of him. - A half-hour later, Dufresne was in close confinement. Theguard consisted of men from d'Hervilly's regiment, and, indeed, was commanded by one of Du fresne's two friends, whom we saw with him the first evening on the Pill Sparti. In the•guard he, therefore, very natu rally found warm sympathisers, and al though he only acquainted his comrades in general terms of the occurrence that led to his arrest, they all espoused his cause, and censured in strong terms the course pursued by their unpopular colo nel. They contented that he had mis used his authority and disgraced his uniform. An hour after day- real:, Du fresne's Misfortune was ki tun to the whole regiment, and there N as perhaps, not a man in it who had 1 t expressed himself in very harsh terns of his com mander. Whether the colonel was advised by the officers of the true state of things or not, lie ordered the prisoner to be put in irons and confined in a cell, and to be arraigned tbr mutiny and threatening a superior with deadly weapons. These orders had, of course, to be obeyed. On the second day after Dufresne's arrest, after the first session of the court martial, it being now very evident that the colonel was serious in his threats, the interior of the citadel, where the regiment was quartered, presented an unusual aspect. Tho soldiers on duty [ were at their posts, it is true ; but those ' offiduty, instead of going into the city, as they were at liberty to do, remained at the fort, gathered together in groups I apparently discussing sonic topic of nil . usual interest. NOW and then a " Vice Dufresne l" might have been heard from I some one of the groups, and the eye need not have been very experienced to have seen in these demonstrations the begin nings of a mutiny. As the officers found themselves unable to suppress these evi dences of discontent, they determined to lose no time in advising the colonel, who had his lodgings in the city, of I their fears. D'Hervilly was evidently greatly irri tated, but he insisted on treating the matter as a he watrile. The old major, who went to hini, although at heart in sympathy with the soldiers, insisted that measures should be immediately taken to prevent the threatened out break. "Very well !" cried the colonel, final ly, "1 \VIII ask the commandant to have my regiment consigned to their bar racks, and the guard intrusted to an other." "That would be most unwise, and a disgrace for the Twenty-ninth. It would make matters worse instead of better." - The old major remonstrated in vain ; the colonel was as obstinate as he was haughty, and ended the interview ab ruptly by forbidding the major to offer him any further advice. When the veteran inform eifli is broth er officers of the result of his mission, they were highly incensed, and not only ceased their efforts to re-establish order, but nearly all of them went Into the city, as they were accustomed to do, leaving the colonel to help himself as best he could. In - the meantime the excitement amongthe soldiers continued •, no one, however, ventured on a breach of dis cipline. But they could hardly believe their eyes—being ignorant of what had passed between the colonel and the major—when they saw a file of men from another regiment march into the enclosure of the citadel to relieve the guard. At the same time Colonel d'Her villy, accompanied by his adjutant, ap peared on horseback, and in a haughty tone, commanded the soldiers to retire to their barracks. It was already nearly nightfall. The colonel and the file of men he brought with him were received with an omi nous silence ; but D'Hervilly had hardly finished giving his orders when a voice cried out: "Comrades, this is an indelible disgrace for,the Twenty-ninth! Shall we endure it ?" As the first flash of lightning is often followed by the whole forceof a thund er storm, so were these words, uttered LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING JANUARY 25 1871 by one of Dufresne's hot-blooded young friends, followed by a general cry of in- dignation and menace. . ' We'll not submit to It!" cried a hun dred voices. " The old Twenty-ninth will not he surrounded by recruits. Is this our reward for Arcole, Friedland, Marengo? Down with Colonel d'Her villy! Five l'empereur !" It would be impossible to describe, in detail, the scene that now presented itself. The so severely disciplined sol diers, old and young, seemed to have forgotten every law of military subordi nation ; the men off guard seized their arms,anclit was easy to be seen that they were determined not to yield their posts to the pew-corners without a struggle, but the latter seemed not the least in clined to use force. Open mutinity ex isted everywhere! The majority of the officers, who were present, were at a loss what to do, and the commands of the others were disregarded. Colonel d'Hervilly cried out and ges ticulated like a maniac, having in his rage entirely lost command of himself. Personally brave, he drew his sabre and rode into the thickest of the crowd ; but a score of hands seized his horse by the head and thrust him back, while a thousand menaces greeted his ears. It was with difficulty that his adjutant and some of the other officers succeeded in extricating him and inducing him to withdraw. With him went the new guard who fully sympathized with their comrades. Now in breathless anxiety, but with resolute mien, the soldiers of the Twen ty-niuth awaited further develop ments. They did not venture to lib erate Dufresne; indeed, they were pain fully conscious of having already gone too far. An hour later all the troops of the garrison were under arms, marching toward the citadel—the Twenty-ninth regiment excepted, which had received orders not to leave its quarters. The citadel was soon surrounded, and the cannon of the outworks turned upon the fortifications itself. A half-hour later the Twenty-ninth had been dis armed, the guard relieved, many arrests made, and the mutiny entirely suppres sed. The colonel, however, had little cause to congratulate himself on the issue, for the commandant of the post suspended his authority until he should receive instructions from the emperor, to whom lie immediately dispatched a courier. Napoleon was greatly incensed against the colonel, whom lie immediately re- lieved of his command, as well us against the regiment, which in his °pill ion, had disgraced the whole army. The Tuscan provinces were at (his time under the government of Prince Borghese, a brother-in-law of Napoleon whose residence was at Turin ; as, how ever, he was not a soldier by profession, the emperor instructed another of his I brother-in-laws, Joachim Murat, the', (rand Dukepf Berg, the most distin guished cavaii•y general of the imperial , armies, to repair immediately to Leg horn and punish the mutineers with the extreme rigor of military law. The instructions of the emperor were positive, as they always were. In his opinion the offence could be expiated only with blood. Murat was directed to have the leaders of the mutiny shot the number being left to his decision, and the emperor would have been high ly displeased hail his lieutenant not Ml lowed his instructions to the letter. The garrison of Leghorn was greatly terrified when the grand-duke, who, in obedience to the emperor's commands, travelled with all possible speed, sud denly arrived in the city. It was now very evident that Napoleon intended to show no mercy to the culprits—and who would have been so bold as to op pose his imperial will ? Immediately after his arrival, the handsome, chivalrous marshal took the affair energetically in hand, Murat was not cruel, but he was a severe dis ciplinarian, and devoted heart and soul to his imperial brother-in-law, and, when lie appeared before the assembled garrison, his brow wore a threatening aspect. He made a lengthy speech, which was far from re-assuring the un fortunate 'twenty-ninth, terminating with a demand that they should ap point a deputation to conduct their de fence. The proceedings of the court-martial were hurried forward with all possible dispatch. Hurst received the deputa• tion and listened to their charges against Colonel d'Hervilly attentively, but, from his forbidding mien, it was evi dent that he did not justify the mutiny. His sense of justice, however, would not allow him to execute the extreme rigor of the law, for he saw that the blame lay more on the side of Colonel d'Her v illy than of his men; therefore decided that only three of the mutineers, as an example to the rest, should be shot.— The melancholy choice fell on Sergeant Dufresne and his two young friends who had been loudest in expressing their indignation, and among the most prominent actors in the scene with the colonel. The marshal ordered the execution to take place the next morning in the pre sence oldie whole regiment, which, as a further punishment, was to he march ed immediately to another post. Under the circumstances, the sentence was severe, it is true; but Muiat, how ever great his desire, could not have been more lenient without incurring the displeasure of his imperial master, who in such eases, never showed any mercy. The news of the sentence pronounced by the grand-duke spread quickly through the garrison and city, and filled every one with sorrow, while the three unfortunates, who were confined in sep arate cells, were summoned to prepare to meet their doom. During his imprisonment, Dufresne was agitated by the most conflicting emotions. The silence of Camilla—but how could she have communicated with him, however much she may have de sired to do so?—wounded him deeply, and tended to lessen his passion for her. As for his sentence, he had no doubt • what it would be, after lie heard that his arrest had led to a mutiny, nor had he now any hope that it would be cow -1 muted. Who can form an idea of the sensa limn; that filled the young mart's b0S10111? To die so young, and such a death, only because in his opinion he did what his manhood and honor demanded ! On the battle-field he had often look ed death in the face, and now to die at the hands of his comrades—tile thought was terrible I And then worse still, he was the cause of two of his faith ful friends filling early and honorless graves. His fate was sad indeed! With soldier •like composure, but without the least bravado, he listened to the reading of his sentence, and com missioned the officers, who had been charged with the pain ful duty of advis ing him of the decision of the court, to say to the grand-duke that, being fully conscious of the gravity of his offence,he had not doubted what his punishment would tie, and that he thanked him his death was, at least,to be that of a sol He was still too young, vigorous, and fond of life's 'pleasures, to leave the world willingly; and then he had pic tured the future in such glowing col ors! But now he was in so mild and humble a mood that he forgave even Colonel d'Hervilly: and if he had cen sured Camilla for her seeming selfish ness and want of sympathy, he now felt that he had been unjust, begged her forgiveness and was persuaded she suf fered even more than he did himself. His love for the singer had again taken complete possession of his heart, and he would have given any thing to see her and speak to her once more before the fatal hour. That in this—his last wish —fie would, however, be gratified, he had not the least hope, for it was not probable that, should Camilla ask to see him, her prayer would be granted. His cell was in the outer casemates of the citadel, and was provided with only one window, or rather loop-hole. The casemate was surrounded by a fosse, be yond which lay the glacis of the citadel, a promenade not much frequented, it is true, but from which he could occasion ally. hear a merry peal of laughter that seemed to him like bitter mockery.— But, as the evening advanced, these sounds became less and less frequent, and he felt himself more wretched and forsaken than before. " Would it were all over !" he sighed more than once. Dufresne had no farewell letters to write to relations ; at one moment he thought of leaving a few lines for Ca milla, but, upon reflection, he feared it might compromise her, and so he denied himself even this poor consolation.— Counting the hours that yet remained to him, he lay on his hard couch and abandoned himself to a reviow of the 1 , female figure, dressed in a plain, dark past. traveling-habit, arose before them. Without, all was dark and silent. At sight of her, one of the men cried Suddenly he heard the tones of a guitar out, in the greatest amazement, while coming from the glacis opposite his :he clasped her in his arms: loop-hole ; then a female,voice began to " What, Camilla! you here? And sing a melancholy song that be knew you have come to say farewell to nie ? " only too well—it was one Camilla often " No, my friend, I have come to ac sang. company you, if it is your wish that I He sprang quickly to his feet, and ap- should. This is a promise exacted from proached the window as nearly as his, me by the best and noblest of men, Mar chains would permit. He recognized shal Murat." the voice, and listened breathlessly. I Dufresne embraced her tenderly, and, The singer seemed at times almost sti- turing to his comrades, presented them tied with sobs. His heart leaped for joy, Ito the blushing Camilla, who was mit for now he knew that Camilla had not ant with joy, in spite of her tears.— forgotten him, and that she mourned his There was nothing to prevent her ac fate.companying her lover, as her old nviedro In a little time the sorrowful melody I had closed hiseyes in death the day after gave place to another—an air full of hope I Dufresne's arrest. What did she menu? He could not.ask, I The soldiers of the three platoons nor could she have answered,, were ignorant of the fact that the officer Again all was silent, and again he who commanded them, just before the sought his couch, more sorrowful and ! execution, by order of the marshal, had cast down than ever. How much more drawn the bullets from their muskets. he longed to live now that he knew he I The generous Murat had not only paid had not been deceived in Camilla! the passage of all four to America, but In the meantime Murat was alone in had given to each one a handsome sum his private apartment, walking slowly of money with which to begin life anew to and fro in a state of evident unrest. I in the New World.—Applcton's Journal His thoughts were busy with the three unfortunate prisoners, who were so soon to die in the pride of manhood, whom he esteemed as brave soldiers, and would willingly have pardoned, had he dare to do so. The grand-duke had given orders to admit no visitors; his servant could not I however, resist the entreaties of a beau tiful girl, who pleaded with tears and sobs to be allowed to see the marshal. Murat was no woman-hater, anti after a moment's hesitation, ordered the young lady to be admitted. — lt was Camilla. dice was paler than usual, and dressed in deep mourning, but plain a-.! her attire was, there was so much modest dignity in her bearing, that Murat thought he had sonic great lady before him. As lie was about to otter her a seat she sank at his feet and raised her large, tearful eves to hint with a look that was full of the deepest despair. Her agitation was so great that she was una ble to utter a word, but her silence was perhaps more eloquent titan would have been her speech. The generous heart of the marshal was visibly touched, and, if it were in his power to grant the petition of the fair suppliant, it was evident she would not plead in vain. He raised her from the ground and led her to a seat, with the assurance that he would most willingly serve her. It was sonic moments before Camilla recovered her self-possession sufficient ly to speak. As Murat gazed at her 1 beautiful face before him, bathed in her tears, he felt an increasing desire to:grant her petition, whatever it might be. But, when she pronounced the name of the condemned Dufresne, an ominous ex pression of sorrow clouded the marshal's brew. Ile listened to her patiently, and I when she confessed that she passionate ! ly loved the young sergeant, he seemed deeply moved ; but, when she had tin , ished, he explained to her, mildly and ; clearly, that it was not in his power to change the doom of her iinfixtunate lover. 'rule servant in tin anteroom must have heard a heart-rending.. cry from female voice in his master's apart ment. The marshal, however, did not call him in, and a half-hour passed be fore the door opened. Murat himself accompanied his visi tor to the head of the stairs, where he took leave of her with every evidence of respect and sympathy. .As he re turned he itiotione(l his servantito hint. He was very grave, and walked has tily up and down the room With the air (done \VIIe hesitates between desire and fear. Suddenly lie stopped and told his servant to give him his sabre, mantle, and a hat that bore no insignia of his rank. "1 have just passed a painful half-hour, Lafleur." said he to his servant, as he buckled on the sabre. "This young girl is the . iian , r , of one of the three men who are to be shot to-morrow, and came to ask me to spare his life. I could not grant her petition—it was 'lmpossible. The poor girl swooned, and - l - had great difficulty In bringing her to and consul- i bug her. The most 1 could do was to promise to be myself the bearer of her parting salutation to her loVer, and I will keep my word." It was nearly midnight when Dufresne was startled by the opening of his cell- ; door, but lie was equally overjoyed when he saw his two unfortunate comrades who had been relieved of their chains, enter his cell. He did not venture to I ask them if they had been pardoned— their sorrowful mien rendered the goes ' tion unnecessary. " Tliere is no hope," said one of then), while the provost relieved Dufresne also of his fetters ; "the grand-duke himself will speak with us once more, but, in order that we may not entertain vain I hopes, lie at the same time informs us that the execution will positively take place at five o'clock in the morning." In a few moments Murat entered the dark cell, and ordered those who acconi , pan ied him to retire and leave him alone with the three prisoners, who received I him as they would have done 011 Ilress itrade. For a full hour the marshal remained with the criminals. The officers of the , guard beg,ati to he alarmed about Idm, for at first they heard him talk in a loud, angry tone, and now not a word could be heard through the heavy, iron-plated ! door. Finally the marshal reappeared with the cold, grave mien of one who has just discharged a great and painful duty. He directed that the prisoners should be allowed to remain together until the hour of the execution, which should be conducted in accordance with his pre vious orders. So no mercy' The next morning, at live o'clock, the Twenty-n n tit regiment of 1 ight-i n fan try, with their knapsacks packed for a long march, but without their eagles, stood drawn up on the glacis cosset of the citadel, in such position as enabled them to look into the enclosure. Many of the soldiers hail tears in their eyes, and all wore a sorrowful mien. Between the glacis and the citadel-wall there was a newly (lug grave large enough forth ree human bodies. The sun in all his beauty was just risim4 above the distant hills, but he could not dispel the cloud that hovered over this melancholy scene. punctually at five o'clock, one of the citadel-gates opened, and a small pro cession approached the grave. It was led by a mull - led drum ; then came a small detachment from another regi ment of the garrison, with the three condemned men in the centre, the regi mental chaplain on one side and the provost on the other, The three ad vanced with a firm step, their eyes cast down, and looking very pale. In the regiment not a sound, not even a whis per, was head. The ceremony was brier, as it always is in such eases. While the troops presented arms, the condemned men listened again to the reading of their sentence, which Murat, in the name of the emperor, had con firmed. Then they kissed the crucifix, and kneeled on the pile of sand that had been thrown out of the grave. Three platoons took position a few steps in front of them—the provost hound their eyes, one after the other, with a white hand kerchief—they had looked on the sun for the last time! Now the soldiers of the platoons raised their muskets to their shoulders—the word "Fire" was beard from the officer in command—a flash, a sharp report, a light cloud of smoke, and the three un fortunates had fallen backward into the open grave. The drums beat three rolls, the new commander of the Twenty ninth wheeled his regiment to the left and marched away, leaving the scene deserted except by the three or four men who were to fill up the grave. The three unfortunate friends lived long in the memory of the once mu tinous regiment, which in the next campaign regained their eagles and the favor of the emperor. At a late hour, the evening after the execution, three men, dressed like la borers, carrying small bundles, went on board a ship in the harbor of Leghorn, that was to sail in a few hours for Amer ica. They wended their way silently through the dark streets, and seemed' greatly cast down. Before they ascend ed the ship's - plank they paused a mo ment, and seemed to take a mute but painful leave of the land they were about to quit. The captain must have expected them, for, after glancing at a paper one of them handed him, without asking any ques tions, he led them to the cabin. As they entered the dimly-lighted apartment, a Concerning' Lobsters Next to the egg, there is no shell tish more edible than the Lobster. It is an aquatic, and lives down at the bottom of the sea. Ho is the guardian angel of October, and has his picture in the Al manac over that month. Why he is the patron saint of that portion of the year is a conundrum the answer to which has not yet been handed in. Lobsters are built more for durability than speed and are put together in short sectimis or hinges, like a coat of mail. Their skin is hard and resembles vulcanized rubber, and in color is a dark, dull, blue, blackish, green. They are provided with much legs on either side, and have a pai r of arms finished out with a decidedly big hand, which resembles a pair of mittens, it having only a thumb, all the balance being band. When a Lobster shakes hands with you, you always know when it takes hold, and are exceedingly pleased when it gets done. They have small features and layjm claim to good looks. When they iocomote, they re semble a smell boy shuttling off in his father's boots. They are backward, very. They even go ahead backwards. They occasionally have a row, like other people, and in the melee sometimes lose a member, but have a happy faculty of growing out another. Their process is patented both in thiseountry and Europe which accounts for its not coming into more general use with the human lob ster, so to speak. A Lobster never conies on shore unless be is carried there by force. I never knew one to do so unless he got into hot water. They are afflicted with but one disorder, and that is boils. There is more real excitement in har pooning a whale, or having the mea sles, than there is in catching Lobsters. The fisherman provides himself with a small hen-coup, and hangs therein, us enticers, several dead fish. lie then rows his boat to the lobster ground, which is water) and sinks his coop to the bottom and anchors it to a small buoy, I one from S to 10 years old will do,) and then goes home. When he feels like it again, say in the course of a week or two, he goes back and pulls up his poultry house, and if lie has had good success, he will find his game inside the coup. As an article of food, the real goodness of a lobster is in the pith. Very few persons relish the skin, and physicians say 'Lis hard to digest. We therefore take the lobster and boil it till it is red-dy eat. Nothing is better for the colic than boiled lobster. 'Twill bring on a case when cucumbers have failed. Fora sudden case,we advise them crumbled in milk. Eaten at the right time and in proper quantities, lobsters stand second to no fruit we know of. They are great on eggs, and carry round vast quantities with them, festooned all over their body. Merely to satisfy our curiosity we took the trou ble to count the eggs toted around by a single lobster, and we found there were 5,761,395 by actual count, and that lob ster was not much on eggs either. We have omitted saying several beau tiful things that might lie written about this sea bird, in order to give sonic other writer a chance. We don't wish to mo nopolize this subject. In closing, let us say, that lobsters In the original pack age are good, and are held at from cents to 20 cents each. Jun. Jerome is general agent for this part of the State. Notes from Florida. A gen tleThan writing from Smyrna, Florida, under date of Dee says : Cane is growing yet perceptibly, al though we are Cutting in order to guard against any possibility of the buds being injured for seed. Irish potatoes, cab bages, beets, tomatoes, etc., grow best In winter, and it is so short that most vegetation shows no change, even lian arias blossoming in December and Jan uary, quite as a matter of course. Yellow jassamine also blooms in January, and tills the air with its delicious perfume. We get a shower of rain about twice a month through November, December, and January, and they are like Summer showers. One works in them quite emu ! fortably. Spring rains commence late I in January, tint previous to this it often happens that the cane roots sutler from drought if unprotected. Contrast with this your six months winter, with in numerable catalogue of discomforts, and you can get a faint glimpse of our cause for congratulation that we escape them. While I think of it, I will ask how the eropof tigs.in your town matured? Front our experience with them late in the season I presume the fruit must have been tasteless. We find it needs our hot test season to give it sweetness, richness and flavor. - - Bananas are much richer that ripen in July and August, but yet are most delicious fruit when ripened in Deem ben No late as this, however, it is gen erally necessary to cut the cluster, and hang it in the kitchen to ripen. I cut a cluster of 44 a week ago, quite green to appearance, yet fully grown, and now t hey arc ripe aed us yellow as an orange. The cluster weighed GU P's., the fruit be ing 6 inches long and 2!, Inches in dia meter. They usually have sU, and weigh nearly 150 tbs., and if I meet with no unexpected obstacles in my proposed plan of treating them, I count upon pro ducing a hundred at least. Some varie ties grow larger, others smaller. Some are white, some red. I expect to have 20 in bearing next Summer, and 200 trees growing. I have now three va rieties, and intend to send to the Ba hamas this winter for as many more as can be found there. The pima or tree is propagated by offshoots, and IS so very prolific and so little care, that it is a source of chronic wonder to me that every man does not have acres of them. It is no more surprising, how ever, than that very few persons here have either figs or oranges, or raise cane. The extent of agricultural eltort with a large majority of our population ends with a few feeble attempts to get a scant supply of winter vegetables and a still scantier crop of corn, potatoes awl pumpkins. We are having au accession to our population this winter Of 100 families from Ohio. They propose to show the natives how to produce cane and tropi cal fruits, and there is a fair prospect that we shall soon be exporting sugar quite largely. All the present crop of cane is sold for seed. The Dangers or the Alps A correspondent from Switzerland writes of recent fatal disasters in the vi cinity of Mont Blanc: "A gentleman, with his bride and lady friend, made the ascension to the Grands Nfulets, which is slx thousand five hundred feet above the Valley of Chamounix. The day was so fine that when there, urged by the ladies, whom, wills a guide, he left behind him, he started to make the ascension of Mont Blanc. Shortly after he left them, be coming cold, all three went out for a walk, tied together as they always are, for greater security in the mountain ex cursions. Walking upon the ice and snow crust the guides offered his arm to the wife, who had hardly accepted it, when, owing either to the softening of the crust by the heat, or cracking from the weight or the formation of a crevasse, both the guide and wife dis appeared, the friends only escaping their.fate by the breaking of the rcpe. Disappearing thus instantly in a place which did not seem dangerous, they have never been seen nor found, though eight of the guides, at the risk of their lives, went down into the cre vasse, sixty f l eet—in fact, made attempts until the government forbade any more —as the the lives of others were perilled for those that had been lost. The lady who was left screamed, and remaine - . on the spot till the gentleman returned to rind that he had lost wife and bride in the enjoyment of full health only half an hour previously. Such are the dangers of ascending :Mount Blanc, where no amount of foresight or exper ience can foretell the accidents which may happen at any time with loss of life to some or all of those engaged. "Other accident-4 have happened—in deed every year or more persons lose their lives upon the mountain. Captain Ark wrigh t and four guides were lost in 186(3. A bridge in going across the Tete Noire—one ot the direct routes to Mar tiny—slipped from her horse unknown to the guide who was leading him, nud falling down a steep precipice was never found. An American who sat next to me at the table gave me au account of crossing the (di:lcier des Boissons, where the glacier having changed so much site the guides had been there necessi tated leaving hint constantly to go ahead and discover the way that might be the safest. While he was glnle some live or ten minutes at a time if anything had happened to the guide the gentlemen must have been lost, for he had neither tools for making or assisting his way, nor experience." The Election of Franklin Blair A correspondent of the New York Herald gives the following sketch of the scenes attendant Upon the vote for U. S. Senator, in the Missouri Legisla ture: ,IsirFmtsus CITY, JAIL 17, Is7L—When the witching hour of twelve had arrived, and Speaker Wilson announced that the order WILS the election of foiled States Senator, all the oratorical gas evaporated and members squared themselves for the work. Three candidates only were pro posed. Bittenger, of Buchanan, nomina ted the-united Republican eandidate, John 13. Henderson, with a loud flourish of trum pets. The praises of Henderson fell hat as did the eulogy by Pope, which followed af ter. Pope justified lienderson's vote against the impeaehinent of Andrew John son, declaring that it he Mid been a Sena tor lie would have done but as the gentleman is rather a woak person, I should judge without much free at home, his action in the Senate might not have surprised his constituents. Blair was nom inated by Thomas, of Jefferson, in a vigor eua speech. lire Democracy, he said, thought liberty was as dear as the Colon, and when Blair had sheathed his sword, after helping to save the Union, lie entered the civil contest in behalf of liberty to wipe out hush laws against the people of Mis souri and the South as were not excelled by the bloody code of Draco. On the Stir of:NOV(IMb, the shads les were stricken from the hands of seventy-live thousand citizens of Missouri, and Blair was instrumental in that event; and he was in favor of withdrawing the troops from the South and allowing the people to govern themselves, as they would do, peacefully and loyally, it the tyranny of the Federal government Was A youthful member from St. Louis—Mr. l'olcord —with flowing lucks like Theodore Tilton, it we add a ruddy tinge—declared that although Blair wits not the choice of his party he would second his nomination and vote for him. Ile pitched into Hen derson for a speech which he made at the beginning of the War against the right of the government to coerce t h e rebel States, stating that Blair was then marching on Camp Jackson to drive the rebels out of Missouri. Ile fought under Blair, and did not desert him eiir fear of bullets. lie would not UMW desert Milli for liar of een sure From his party. ( the gulden haired little hero was cht.•rcd con gratulated thr his pinek. Blair was pep pered heavily with his famous lirmulhead letter of Isus, ion his friends replied ouly by citing his record in the debate yester day on Mr. Pope's reconstruction resolu tions. Blair endorsed the sentiments of that letter in these words, used ill nil dy to Pope's vituperation : Now, sir, my letter, which has been re ferred to,contended that the military should be made to undo their usurpations at the South. I say so still, and you have only to withdraw them from the South and their work will be undone. (Applause., That carrion crew of carpet-baggers, who are gorged upon the plunder and drunk with with the blood of the vanquished people of the South, will disperse themselves ua an instant if not sustained by the havoc ets of the Federal government. There is no farm in that letter that 1 take kick. I stand by it. I believe in the construction given to the Constitution of the United States by the Supreme Ouirt—that this reconstruction was unconstitutional. My hope in going to Congress, if I should attain that high posi tion, is that I may aid in withdrawing the troops from 1110 Se Southern States whirls are held there to saddle upon the backs of the people a parcel of carpet-baggers and scalawags, followed by an Ignorant mass of negroes; and to prove to the people of the South, who have shown a disposition to abide in good faith by the arbitrament of arms and renew their allegiance to the goy ernment, that they will be allowed to resume self-goverment themselves, as We have done in Missouri ; and while I may not ex pect to carry with me the gentleman from St. Louis, 1 believe that We can easily and certainly count upon the co-operation of the large body of liberal 11101 Willi assisted US ill relieving ourselves from similar tyrannies in the State of Missouri. The allusions to the letter Iry the Itepub 'jean speakers to-day made uo iTlllll . l,Siiill, but there was an effort to kill tune and stave off the business of the day. Thu Speaker announced that the time for voting had come, and a perfect stillness fell upon the Assembly. The ladies in the lobby grew nervous, until the flowers in their pretty hats shook and nodded as it a pass ing breeze had troubled thorn. The hand of negroes Who were grouped under the line picture of Ilenry Clay showed more worry than ever, and leaned Mrward to catch the first good word Ihr Massa Blair, the friend of liberty and the early emancipator of his own slaves. Meantime, when the roll was being called, Frank 13Iair was standing in a modest corner, near the window, at the left of the Speaker's dusk, looking on, some times with lidded arms, cost' twirling his mustache, and again passing his hand anx iously through his close clipped hair. A pleasant smile of conscious victory passed over his face, for he knew that his triends were many and his foes were weak. The vote stood thus:—Blair, rifi; Henderson, 43; Benjamin (a nobody), -1; absent, 7. Speaker Wilson, a young man of intelli gent face, line forehead and Xanthis com plexion, announced the result hurriedly, as though he could not get the words out too soon :—Francis 13Iair, having received a majority of all the votes r%ast, is hereby do dared the choice of this 11011 SO for I . nited States Senator." A seeoud pause, and there arose a shout that made the cornices of the Chamber quiver and the lamps dance in their sockets, while the page boys on the Democratic side of the House danced the can-can, if not as gracefully as Fink's cory phees, with much more honesty of purpose. 13feanwhile, the Senate, Whose onion was already known below, had performed its duty gravely. The vote was: Henderson, 17; Blair, ; scattering, 2, Ilenderson was therefore the CIS/kit-10f alts SNOP, and Was SO linnoUnced by Lieutenant Governor Gravely. The report of general Pillsbury, the superintendent of the Albany Penitentiary, of the working and conduct or that penal institution for the year just 'lneed, is a most interesting and Impeml document. It will be borne in nine! that the Albany Penitentiary is peculiar in this—that it re ceives convicts front other states, the Dis trict of Columbia, and the United :states, by contract. Otherwise the whole number of prisoners received during the year, 1,01r3, added to the 378 left over trout previous years, would suggest a feartul amount of crime for our state capital. general Pills bury liar a cheerful vonlidence that the prison workshop is a school of reform. lie thinks there should be nu shorter term of imprisonment than one year, and no long er term than live years fur the first oth-mee and says that any gang of criminals Com mitted to his keeping fur a longer perksd than one year ea r n be. made not only to [ support themselves hut to make money for the state. And the best proof of the soundness of the Superintelidenrs views in this respect is afforded in the handsome excess of the earnings over tho expendi tures for 187 U of 81:4,133. Prisons and pen itentiaries in most eases are burdens upon the public, and this exception to the gener al rule is encourageing.—N. V. Post. The Negro Congretoonart ream Georgia By the admission of four members Iron, Georgia, four new names have been added to the roll of members of the House, viz: Messrs. Young, Bethune and Price, Dem ocrats, and Jefferson P. Long, literally Black Republican, since he approaches nearer to the genuine article from Africa than his colored companion, Rainey, of South Carolina, or Revels, in the Senate. Mr. Young iierved a term in the House be fore We outrage was perpetrated excluding the representation from Georgia, alter the State had passed through the ordeal of re construction. Mr. Price represents the old district of Howell Cobb. The colored accession to the Republicans seemed quite embarrassed by his new hon ors, for when called npon to take the oath he insisted upon raising hisleft hand—per haps as a delicate intimation of his left handed election—and could with difficulty be brought to substitute the right. After being qualified, he was assigned a seat next to Mr. Bowen, of South Carolina, with a malicious purpose, as was intimated, to scandalize the gentleman from Ethiopia. The National Bank of Phoenixville is about to increase its capital stock. This is rendered necessary by its increasing business. f - f ; NUMBER 4 The Ithighnsnton Murdet• Edward R. }Witold' was convicted on Tuesday at Binghamton, N. Y., of murder 'in the first degree. His case is singular in this, that ho possesses an education and a literary capacity very remarkable among " the crimned classes:" and yet seems to have lived not only a life of crime, but ono of habitual and desperate criminality. Some of the Incidents connectett with Rulletfs crime and its detection are strik ing. The Now York ens gives the follow ing. account of Rtinett's examination: " lie gave his name ns Smith, and on his examination repeated the story of his un fiirtunate ejection from the ears at Union. Judge Italesun, however, after a sharp a•rn tiny of the prisoner, stood up before Min, and in a ealle, solemn manntm, pointing, with outstretched hand to his altered Ind still familiar face, mid: "Von are Edward 11. Re You murdered your 15 ife and only child at Ithaca over twenty years Ig, Von escaped the gallows Men, bitt I sen tenced you to fourteen years in prison btr the abduction of your fatally °" During the fearful accusation the lace of the pris oner ass:tuned astolid and stern expression. Nothing abashed, however, he changed his tat k, and said be left the cars at Union be eausc he feared some ono at Binghamton might recognize hint, and he had good rea son, as the Judge hs stated, for not wish in to be known.' Ile was discharged for Want of evidence against him, but was arrested again, when a singular shoe loft by the murderer was identified as his. A. king train of circum stantial evidence was finally disiswered, and brought against him such as loft no doubt on any impartial mind of his guilt. The Yen gives a remarkable account of his earlier eriflleS: "In December, Is-13, he married a daugh ter of a Ste. Schutt, a relined and intelli gent gentleman of Dryden, and soon after his marriage he wen[ t,l ithaca, Holton having engaged us clerk iii a drug store. While here, charges of infidelity were heap ed upon the young wilt by her husband, his rage taking the shape of fiendish vio lence. Once he tried to make her take poison, and she was only pre vented by the arrival of witnesses. On this °evasion he renewed his insults and insinuations upon his wite'e character, when she drooped on her knees and cried, "Oh, Edward, Edward, I am as innocent as an unborn child of this cruel charge! Tho brute strnek her in the;face while yet on her knees, and said "Get up, la--d al—n you, you know better than to NAM° at me in that manner when I am mad." In spite these cruelties she clung to hint, refus ing to go to her lather's house, and endeav oring In every way to hide from her na tural proMetors the character of her hus band. "A few• months afterward Runoff took Lis wife and infant (laughter to live in a rented farm(honse, four miles from Lon ring. One morning in June, 1815, Runoff called at the house of a neighbor and bor rowed a horse and wagon to take, as Ito al leged, a box of books and other artieles to nu untie ()ibis wile, who liver( some eight or ten miles distant. Tho neighbors went to Rulloft s house and assisted him In load ing the box. The latter said his wife had gone on a visit, and bad taken her child with her, :mil that lie would bo Lurk the next (lay. . . " Ile kept his word, and after disposing of the horse went to his house, but soon came out and started in the direction of Ithaca with a bundle in his hand. The mother and child have nevor returned from that alleged visit, and to this day no one has ever seen them. How he murdered them and how he disposed r f their bodies, will undoubtedly ever remain a subject for conjecture. ltullotl toll his counsel on the trial for abduction which Mllowed that he strangled Ins wile, ant then took tip a board in the house floor, :n opening u i artery, left Ler bleed to death, the blood flowing through the upeniug in the Ilou r. INvin4 smothered the child, them, TOMe months old, he put the bodies into the Lax, which the neighhors innocently helped him it, 10,0 into the wagon. Ile then drove to Ithaca uud to the lake shore, whore he put the box into a skill, and„ when tar enough from the shore, sunk it in the wat er." • He was tried for the offenee of abducting his wife and child and sentenced to the Auburn Prison for ten years. After serv ing out his time he NVILS tried at Ithat'a in August., 1;450, for the murder of his child; was convictol and sentenced to death, but was released by the Court ttf Appeals on the ground that a cnuvictiuu for murder could not be sustained where no murder had been actually proved ; and that the body of the deeee,eti, in thi. lase, nut having been pro duced, a doubt rethaincd the filet of the crime. In the Ithaca jail i 4 still remem bered is a delinquent htaniellt ut criminal law :Hill :1 teacher of languages. Ile has xvritten an elaborate manuscript MI lan guage, has been 'Mind in his room in New York ; and he is said to regard this as a work of inuurunu value, although enough has already become public concern ing it to show that it is 'jimmied upon inac curate knowledge and long refuted theories. Ilut it remains true that he is a man of sixty live years of age, who has spent much of his life in earnest study, has made respec htble in literature and science, arid that he is a felon under a just sentence of death; a ease nu paral fele in America since the crime and execution of Professor Webster, of Cambridge, Mass., twenty years ago. • In August of last year the store or hal bert Bros., Binghamton, was entered by three burglars. The two clerks sleeping itt the store were awakened, and bravely enough set 'lrani the burglars. Alter a des perate struggle, in which ono of the villians was badly beaten, another of thorn shot 1110 of the clerks dead, and the invaders then ran away. Two were drowned in attempt ing to cross the river. The third seemed to have escaped. Behind, in the store, ono of the burglars left a pair of shoes, ono of which was fitted to a deformed foot.— Meanwhile, the coroner was at work, and an old man, calling himself Williams ' was found prowling about, and arrested.— His examination was stupidly managed, and he was discharged. Sharp eyes were on him, however, and one who believed he recognzied RulolT in the old man, took the shoes Mend in the store and pursued. Coming up , with the fugitive, the pursuer accosted him as " ltu lull," arrested him, took him to Binghamton, fitted the queer shoe to the deformed lett, foot of the man of many aliases, and commenced supply ing the links in the chain of evidence which on Wednesday, was found so eomplete and strong, that a j try declared Edward H. Ruled' guilty of murder in the first degree. This must rank as a cutoc cciebrc. Some of the evidences as to identify touches tho marvelous. For a Sample—the detectives found a slip, cut from a newspaper, in the drawer of this accused at his lodgings in New York. When arrested he had a valise. In that valise was a newspaper, out of whieh a slip hail been cut. The slip found in New York was pro d uced, and found to lit the place exactly. Other incident touch ing the evidence are scarcely less marvel ous.—.N. Connecticut Dentocentle State Con Well 11A WM/ an, Jan. 17.—The Democratic State Cun veil tion met to-day. The present State officers were norm tutted by acclama• mittion. Governor, James E. English; Lieutenant-Governor, Julius Ifotchkies ; Secretary or State, Thomas NI. Waller; Trea.4urer, Charles M. fond; Comptroller, Seth FL Logan. 'file annual Convention of the Conneeti• cut Suite Tionperanco kwon, which com menced this morning, :Appointed a toll, trait • ice to request the adoption by the Demu cratlc Convention cut a resolution in favor of a State Constabulary force to enforce the laws against the liquor traffic, gambling, houses of ithfaine, etc. The resolutions of the Democratie Con vention condemn the Federal Administra tion unworthy the conlidenceof the pCO - believe in territorial expansion, but oppose such when occasioned or sought by fraud, viol ene, or intimidation, particular ly in the rase of San Domingo; OM lonic the removal idt dlsabilitiea of all citizens and tree schools, and condemn the granting of public lands n, railroads and speculators. Helen led Itadicnl Conzre.men lire Doing. The \Vaehi ngton eorrespetelent of the New Yuri:: Ttabune says: A large, majority of the Republican mem bers of the House, whose constituents did not think proper to re-elect them to the next Congress, are already thumbing the blue book, consulting their friends, and boring the President and Cabinet officers, to secure appointments as soon as their Congressional term ends. The ambition if some of these gentlemen is to serve the country abroad as Ministers and Consuls ; others aspire to J udicial honors, Which Ire con nts for the numerous bills now pending to create additional J udicial Districts. Ail.. sessorships, Collector:Mips, and District Attorneyships Like the fancy of others. A few have an ambition to increase the pop ulation of the Territories, and would like to be Governors or Secretaries, and half a dozen hanker after the offices of Clerk, Sergeant-at-arms, and Doorkeeper of the House, and are willing to serve where they now rule, rather than go bank to private life. Condition of South Carolina Governor Scott, of South Carolina has sent a message to the Legislature,',of that State, in reference to the disturbances existing in certain localities. Ile says ho can scarcely venture to pronounce any counties riotons or refractory upon the re ported cases of individual outrage, and even if in any portion of the State violence should become, so general as to overpower the civil authorities, he has no sufficient militia force to preserve order, and if he had, no means of maintaining them in the field. He thinks, howetrer, that the civil law of the State is sufficient to preserve or der, and says be will:enforce it. He con cludes by making suggestions fora better organization of the machinery for the ad ministration of criminal Justice. RATEEOF ADVRTIRING BUSINESS ADVERTISEMENTS, $l2 a year licr squre of ten lines; SS per year for each with tional square. • • , • . B•XAI;IIsTA.. IT: — May strihAmo,ls:cfenta tne fur the first, and 5 cents for each subsequent In insertion. GENERAL ADVEKTimINO, I cents nue (or the first, and 4 rents for each butstequent SPIatAL NOTICES Inserted :in Local 15 cents per line. SPECIAL Novier_s preceding raariiages nud deaths, 10 cents per line for Urst and 5 cents for every subseipiei t Insertion. LEGAL AND °TYLER NOTICES— Executors' not Iced Administrators' notice Assignees' notices Auditors' notices Other "Notices," ten Lines, or less, three times _ I 50 Serious• Accident on the Pommy's - mil • Rollrond—The Pacific Expresx Precip Unfelt down on Embankment. The Pittsburg Oommerrial says: Yesterday morning, between seven amd eight o'eloek, an accident occurred to the Pacific Express train, Pennsylvania Rail road, coming west. The train, consisting of a baggage air, two passenger coaches, and four Pullman sleepers, drawn by en gine No. 345, engineer Mr. Taylor, had reached a point about It m Iles east of South Fork, which is about 9 miles east of Cone maugh, when a rail broke and the train, or a portion of it, at least, was thrown l'roin the track. The engine and baggage ear passed over the break safely, but the to,, first passenger roaches left the track and went over the embankment, one Polio, upeu its side, with one end iII the colie• maugh river, and the other turning emu • pletely over, and bringing up at tht , root 01 . all Citibank 01010 fifteen feet deep perhaps. The oars were dragged some distance before they went over the embankment, and, as we learn from piptsongers,ono of the goaches took lire front the stove, but as HOOll as the car ilroppel into the water it was extin guished.. The sleeping cars were also thrown front the track, but did not go over the lam k, and being of the Pullmim pattern and very strong, were not injured in the least scarcely. No ono ill the sleepers was injured. The coaches which went over the bank were pretty well filled, vet strange to relate 110 person was killed. The ears wore but partially wrecked and tine person was severely injured. Ile had his hand taken off in some alatlllerlea, repOrtell,elall 50011 as pOSSible, Dr. Low alas, of Johns- WWII, resident phySilliall or the company, arrived and amputated the arm above the elbow. The patient will no doubt recover. Two passengers, Mr. Schell and .lames A [Tie, place of residemsk not known, were slightly injured, and two others, whose names it is not VtalsitlN ed worth while to give, lu consequence of the slightness of their bruises. I icorge NVoods, conductor of one of the Pullman ears, was also slight ly injured. Thu train was running on schedule time, at the ordinary rate of speed, having passed Cresson and other points east of Sumer hill all right. The track both ways were obstructed for ow bile, but conductor Brink er having telegraphed promptly to the Su perintendent of the Western Division, Robert. Pitcairn, Esq., a force of workmen were speedily dispatched to the scene of the accident and the obstructions removed. Dietrieh•s It:darks, Young Dietrich, the news agent, whose name is mentioned above, was in the ear that turned bottom upward. It appears he had just stepped Inside the door when the accident happened. Mr. !Sikkim came up to him just as two gocitlemeu reached Ills arm had been caught under the truck and crushed off on the rail, and the hand was held by a small Mew of the skin. All sit the injured passengers wore placed in the sleeping ears, and everything possible done for their relief'. As soon iss lir. Lowman arrived, Dietrich's arm was amputated above the elbow, as states! al sore. The Doctor also found that Isis shoulder was dislocated, and that one Of his foot wins somewhat crushed. All of his injuries wore properly dressed. Those of the other passengers, who needed assist ance, were then attended te, but wo are happy to state that none of them required much surgical aid. 11. Newhouse, of Manchester, Md., and Mr. Moore sat in the smoking car ( the one which turned completely over I conversing, when the accident occurred. Mr. Moore says that the ear Jumped along the ties at a fearful rate ler NOTIII , Little, Wll.ll It finally went over the embankment. - - All the passengers made frantic churls 1,/ I.llltoll I,t the seats, or se•ure some anchor, lout they tio sooner got hold or tom' than they were shook oft again by the turning and jarring ~r the de•o•oodiog var. It wits frightful situation to he in, Mot the agony WIN partially relies ed wicun the ear crime to it standstill at the writer's edge. The dread or tire then seiz.ed hold of the passen gers, and in It few !moments iL was discov ered that the ear had act nadv caught in ono end from the stove. :%Ir. 'Mr yore's friend !Mr. Newhotisto, an elderly gentleman, WaS very much coul • nsed, and had to be literally dragged out. None of the paSSell gCl, hod any serious difficulty in escaping, 11.1 the 'WhIIIOWS ell the side sex t the ground were easily knocked through, and there Was room enough to crawl out Lelute. Tho tiro Was 01,1111 extinguished, trill lout II not been, no passengers Wnnld hate 1.1,11 1.11-11,1. \I r. iilid,len 5.13, there Wit. 4 rail, three Petit lung, broken out ot the track. Ile thinks it remained in position until the trucks of the firstpassenger car struck when the axle broke and the displaced por tion of rail was broken into three pieces. These pieces were scarcely bent a particle, and seemed to hare !Awn cut oil" as with a knife. Both these passengers express the high est commendation of the conduct of the officers of the train. They did all that Melt Could possibly do. A Mol.cription. Mr. Glidden and Mr. tore raised a dona tion among the passengers for young Deli: rich, amounting to sll4 which they handed to Mr. Reilly, taking the following receipt: Received, January 13, 1871, from Nixon Moore, J. 11. French and F. 11. Glidden, On behalf of the pamengern of the Pacific Express west, this day, one hundred and fourteen dollark for mist, of Wm. Deltrieli, newsboy, injured In an accident to-day. JonN , Supt. Transp'n. l'enu'it. Railroad. reimsyhenla to be Rept In the FOlll. There seems to he not a !Miami xiety In Ad ministration circles concerning the Repo- Hemmen of certain States. Omito recently there have been strenUOUN efforts on the part of the President, In conjunction with the Federal ollice-holders of Maryland, to the end of the reconstruction of that State, which remains in the hands of the Democracy, de spite:the efforts of the Administration, and now Pennsylvania mules In fortho Execu tive solicitude, and the President has sought consolation and assistance from the Nation al Connell of the Union League. On Sat urday last he had the representatives of that body at the White Douse, to consult with him concerning the best method hi be employed for reuniting the various Repub lican ructions, and disappointed and -dis satisfied Republican elements in that State. The delegation consisted of Governor tieary and Hon. J. G. Negley, of Pennsylvania; W. A. Newell, of New Jersey ,• Colonel J. F. Asper, of Missouri ; General Clarke and Mr. Newsom be, of Texas ; J. H. Rainey, of South Carolina; J. J. therm, of Alabama and A. E. Redstone, of California. There was ono other party present, a man named William A. Cook, formerly of ilarrisburg, Pa., but lately the prime minister to Say les J. Howell. Pennsylvania matters were discussed In no very cheerful tone, and measures suggested for carrying the State In 1872. Judge Block on Mtnnton Judge Black will have In the February finth,rj/ another elaborate letter to Senator Wilson on the lute Edwin M. Stanton. The subjoin.] extract front a letter of Judge Slack to the editor of the I/ataxy explains bis intentions: "'rho publication of Judge Chases' letter to ore and some other recent occurrences have changed my first determi nation, which was to let Wilson's revela tions go for what they would fetch. I think DOW that the evidence of WIIROLI,SULDDer, I toward, Seward, !lawn's, and the rent, con turning the events of Isnie-C,I, require a re view in the light it 3DIIIO tarts which they do not intention. I Will do the public' this service as soon as my engagements permit. It shall he Rs ,inlet 111 Its GOD° as possible under the circumstances, but a distinct do nna of snow statements, and airs admission of others which I think sufficiently proved, coupled with fair remarks on the construc tion which the ascertained facts ought to receive. Nobody shall have just raw. to complain of my temper, but they Illfly complain 11.4 D1L1,41 as they please if they will only remember that I am on the defer. sive. - The February noun her of the fin./ oxy will also contain a paper by Thurlow Weed describing an interview with Pres ident Lincoln with reference to the forma ! don of the latter's first Cabinet. A Scene In North Carollnn—Negroem In , the Jury Box. A correslSonderit writes from North Car olina: In Fayettville I saw an evidence of the new condition of affairs in the jury box of the court house. Six white men and six black men sat apart to hear mid give the judgment of righteous impartial ity in cases of contention. The foreman or the jury told me how the thing was man aged. fie said these men wore, every one, of the very common sort of darkeys. The proceedings of the court were an inexplica ble muddle to them, and by the time a trial was over they had no opinion whatever 011 any case, save as the echoes of the last speech of the last lawyer might linger in their minds. When retired in deliberation the white men, comparing notes, would agree upon a verdict. Then turning to the col ored jurymen they would say :—" Well boys, what do you think of this?" stating the conclusion. Invariably the answer would be: " flat's all right. Wo think Jes Jes as you say." • ' There is too much to burlesque the idea of citizenship in the present:position of the negro to allow one to see him, in his new relations, with unmixed pleasure. Some thing better could have been devised for him and certainly for the country, than the immediate elevation of all this colored mass to the station of full-fledged citizens. Kindness to the negro wduld have kept him out of the Jury box—would for the present, at least, have kept him back from offices for which he has had no training end no thrum. This is political heresy, of course, but the facts are in support of the heresy. Philadelphia paid to the State last year $187,785.42 for tavern licenses.
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