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V Fro lit-Nlsops i
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rout-strops and baelC-shops, In Mimi
evil times, were TM( necessarily so called
because the Istel:-shop was immediately
back a the faint-shop, 1101* yet that
the front-shop teas immediately' in front
or the hack-shop. They may have orig
inally been so related--the one ot•upy
lug a ris»o on the same nom., in the
same building, immediately Intel:, or in
front of the other, ati,d accessible
through a eoinnion door between the
two; and, although ;it the period of
which tee ;Ire writing, they 11 , 7 , wi Sit
11:Itcti iii tunny instances, yet in many
others it was tar otherwise ; for whilst
the front-shop usually occupied tt front
room, on the first Iloor of it building
the back-sli.i, may have occupied a
room crow or back, in the second,
third, fourth or fifth story of a building,
if it Ina so many stories; and not only
this, but it may have beau in it Wirer
ent building, in a di trerent block, or in
a dilrerent street of the city and town,
and perhaps a mile or more away from
the front-shop. Indeed, however it
may have been '' in the beginning," we
apprehend that laterly, this proximi
ty of the Iwo, in must cases, was not
desirable by the occupants of either,
however convenient such proximity
might have been. The denirrus of the
back-shop would doubtless have felt the
constant presence the " Crook" as a
restraint upon their freedom, and he in
torn might have been shocked at the
untidiness or their toilet whilst at work
-for tailors work most etrectively when
most uneneumbered—if there were no
other Ohjelqiffila. Uf course, the re
nietenes or the two involved the neces
sity of a " runner" between them.
whose duty it was also to "sweep out,"
make :old keep up the tires, when tires
were necessary, and to do various other
chores iwrlaini rig to said shops. • lithe
establishment. was large, and the tits
move between the front and back shops
was great, then a special functionary
was employed for each shop, and he of
the hack-shop hall some "special du
ties" to perform, essentially ditrerent
I'rom those of his brother runner of the
front-shop—c.v . / spe•r•ifil thaics.
'Phu front-shop then, was the place
where the " crook," or proprietor pre
sided, and where he 'Opt Ilk cloths,
cassimeres, vest logs, tri &c.,for
sale; ir kept none of these on
hand, where he received the material
I rought by Ilia customers, took their
me:mires, cut out their' garments, and
sent them to the hael:-shop to be made
by the Journeymen or apprentices. (If
yourse, these e4ttibli4lini,nts were of va-
Hotly magnitudes, told in their
tippointinents, 11,1/Mllll4 ltl the Itllltlllllt,
and Ow quality of the !airiness tlone In
them. Some:hoes they consisfed of n
Nllllllll' room, in WIN ut`ected a
" etittitig-hoard" or counter, a few
shelves, a stove. a looking-glass, and a
ellair or two, ci ith it low fashion cards
th emitting the ; and, when front
and hail:-shop 'Vert. blended in one, an
additional structure called the " shop•
hoard," was necessary for the aceommoo
dation of the tvorl; men. Sonn•tillleS 11
eintplc'•alien curtain (V:lti tlra't•u 11.1.1040
the room, to screen the operatives, in the
fatal: pail, from tile ,i1Na•I'VIllic)11 ut (hunt•
to trail-alt hti.iness with him
who presided imt he front; but, almost
infinitely oftener, no distinction at all
Wll , l III:111e, 111111 erooks, jour. appren
tices, and sometimes customers, or ad
ditional loungers, were 121 , giliZAIlt Of all
that transpired in the establishment.—
Indeed, it often occurred that the shnp
bom•d occupied the front window or
wintMtvs, of th•e 1'114)111—W1 Recount of
the superior• light—whilst the cutting
board—where less light was necessary
pied the middle or back-end of
the room. Even when the tailoring es
tablishment was large, :mil it had its
distinct and separate bacl:•shop, a small
shop hoard and screen, was considered
necessary to the front-shop, for the ac
commodation of the "
Many of these conditions and relations
still exist, hot the great i ncrease of com
mercial tailorin,4 has instituted a new
order of things and in many eases front
shops have been con ver ed into "stores"
—some of them into mammoth and
magnificent Mill re—ill which nothing
is done except that which pertains to
" bargain and sale," even the cutting
board, and measuring and cutting de
partment, being removed, perhaps to a
second, third, or fourth story of the
building.
The back-shop, on the other hand,
was the place where the workmen—the
inure and apprentices—congregated, and
-- plied their nimble fingers in their craft;
and was of various dimensions, having
accommodations for as many workmen
as the front shop required, from half a
dozen to fifty or sixty, and sometimes
even a hundred or more. We say was,
because we are writing of back-shops as
they were, thirty or forty years ago, and ,
not as they are now, where they have an
existence at all. At that period, and for
long years previously, every front-shop
had its buck-shop, or its equivalent in
some form, but at the present period this
old - and time-honored institution is near•
ly abolished in many places, especially
so far as it relates to any particular front
' shop.
The back-shop had its rigid "Rules
and Regulations," which it enforced on
sli occasions, and with very little devla-
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tion or modification. True, these rules
were sometimes relaxed to suit the
impecunious circumstances of some
"strap d" newcomer, but thin was not
always deemed necessary, if any of its
inmates were found sufficiently pecu-
Mous to temporarily advance the funds
to call in the newcomers "footing."—
Thisfooting, as it was called, was an in
exorable condition, and a condition too
in which every member of the shop had
a direct interest—a stomarh interest, and
often a very craving stomach interest—
and therefore it toast be complied with,
sooner or later, or the newly-seated jour
might as well have attempted to sit com
fortably on a hot grid-iron. If a society
existed in the place the new sojourner's
first duty was •to unite himself to that
society as a member. This was also an
imperative duty, but it was a duty that
might be attended to to-night, to-mor
row night, or the first night that the so
ciety met thereafter; the footing, how
ever, must be paid now, and would ad
mit of no delay. It consisted simply of
"calling in drinks for all hands round,"
or an adjournment of the whole back
shop to the nearest hotel or restaurant
to "imbibe" at the newcomer's expense.
'Phis being accomplished, everything
went on "as merry as a marriage-bell,"
but there could be no peace, without
compliance with this rate.
It was amusing sometimes, to witness
the secnex that transpired in the back
shop when the newly seated jour was a
"green horn," just from sonic country
, town, and was making Ids butt :IS :1
journeyman in a strange shop. Alto
gether ignorant of the rules, lie would
attempt to domiciliate himself, regard
less or the footing, or "paying the pitch
er," as it was :1011101111i, cilhtl, The
old occupants would then thl'iiNV nut
many mysterious hints. in that direr.
tiro, and if the newcomer did not
take," I hest-admonitions became more
plain, and if lie ruuliuued obtuse, they
' loon ile,ied themselves more decisively,
awl often somewhat roughly—but :LI
, Ways :11111.pH:41y. When the Ile \V
tii Wake use of ilk shears,
his WilX, his or !thy other Mi
-1 plentent, Inc would find tht ni somehow
spirited away, :111110,4 beyond his reach.
If, in attempting to secure them, he
should raise up his seat, he would lied
himself, on recovering, or resuming his
perpendicular, soused tin a saturated
sponge, and never could tell hi/N1 it hap
pened, for all iu the shop would hr
gravely intent upon their own business,
and would feign the must unqualified
surprise, should he make any :illusion
to the subject.. If in pressing, his atten
tion, for it moment, was directed to prop
erly adjusting his job, on reaelling lot
the "Ind goose," he would hind the "iron
holder" gone, and would he very apt to
burn his lingers. Iltit what had become
or it hr could not imagine—fur it had
been there jest a 1111 , 111ellt
could ally body else in the shop im,yin ,
What hall heel/111e or it. although
all seemed to be anxiously looking
for IL. Perhaps after the search
had liven given tip, and another holder of
some kind had been improvised, and he
did not need the lost one, flu r, it would
be right before Iriseyes, but noose could
tell how it Cattle there. Itut wo to him
if he attempted to take a drink out of the
cominott pitcher, lielore the pitcher
pnid ; for, if by' IL IleXteilitlS till, he did
not receive an ablution, it would only
he because there was not water enough
in it to effect one, and he would seem as
tonished at his ,wt, consummate awk
wardness.
A non an i run- ri or a looney
would come sailing past him within an
inch or two of his nose,and strike against
the wall—it' it did not strike against
his head—which or murse nobody knew
who had thrown; and it' none or the,
were effectual, lie was told plainly what
they supposed was "the 'natter " Ifni
it was not often that these extreme
remedies had to be resorted to, to bring
a new jour "down." The peculiar
training of live or six years apprentice
ship generally brightened the young
tailor's perceptions to an understanding
of " the ropes"—as it was called—and
long before he made his entrance as a
Lour, in the fraternity of the craft, he
was acquainted with the the ',t o ry of the
hack-shop. The hints before alluded to,
which came in the form or anecdotes,
relating what had occurred under simi
lar circumstances at other shops, and in
other places, were generally sufficient
to inculcate the p rucf ice of the shop.
" Old stagers," however, " came down '
at nice, as a matter of course. in a me-
Chan Mal, and free and easy way, before
they attempted to take theirseats; and
through the ceremony of discussing the
tooting, the peculiar calibre or each
titan was more or less developed ; Mr,
Om( they took, how they took it, in
what qua/tell/I, and of what qwilitg. was
generally regarded as a fair manifesta
tion of the social, moral and artistic
status of the man. At least this was so
externally, for we have reason to believe
that sumo alleett,l a "hardness,"
and a swaggering MI those occasions,
that was altogether foreign to their cu d
characters. \\'e have seen this often is
the world, under other circumstances—
men faccting manners, and acquiescing
in sentiments, and in actions sometimes,
that were revolting to their inner and
better feelings. This is often resorted
to for the sake of pat row rye., political
and otherwise. After the tooting was
discussed, it was astonishing how the
whole shop fraternized, and how cheer
ful and jolly every one became. Of
course this was manifested differently.
some were "downright funny," some
exceedingly garrulous,some moderately
so, some rather intellectually inclined,
some decidedly dramatic, and others
undulated their thoughts in the quietest
and quaintest kind of drolleries.
In the hack•mhop were many other
rules, practices and privileges, but it
would take a volume to record them.
Some of these privileges were based
upon priority of possession alone. 'l'llis
Was especially the ease In the location
or the B , (llB—the Oldest (WMll,llllt hav•
ing what he considered tile best and the
last, taldng the best that was left. It
also had Its rules of rotation In refer
ence to the umeof Ili i '• pressing" imple
ments, and it was not often that any
conflict occurred, unless some greedy
aspirant would resort to unlLir steams
to advance his own ends,:at the expense
of others. The members of the back•
shop also took their turns, in reterence
to the distribution or the work, Where
a regular society existed, ism jour could
take a second coat to make in the sa u te
week, or indeed at any time, until all
the rest had been served 'with a job ;
but if the Crook had more hands than
he could supply in work, Or hours,', he
had the privilege or discharging as
many as he wished, if they had not pre
viously '' knocked off" thenHel
Rut it was quite a common occurrence
for a larger number t."' ? be retained, ill
dull times, than was Ift•cessitry, •fti per
haps a loaf, or a third, or even ft./mirth,
of a coat a week, In order that they
might be "on hand' when " brisk
Limes" came.
No illuminating material was known
to the back-shop, at the period we al
lude to, but the "tallow candle," or its
equivalent; and the moresahl rulcs iu
reference to " topping" these, when
they burnt toodimly, sometimes threat
ened the harmony or the shop. if no ap
prentice—otherwise called a cub—was
present to perform this service. About
tour could sit conveniently around one
candle-stand, if it had four lights, and
the first man that felt the light too dim
for hint, would cry out—" top." The
others would repeat in rapid succession
the same cry, and he that was last,
would have to top the candies. If two
were a tie, being the last two that cried,
the one that first cried—" tie-top,"
threw the other into the fop. Of course,
he that had the worst eye-sight, was an
annoyance to the rest, and when too
frequently repeated by the saute per
son, it would sometimes cause a revolt
on the part of others. list generally
they would pay ilsome deference to tins
infirmity, but would have some bicker
ings about the succession of their own
cry-out, among the remainder.
The introduction, however, of illum
inating fluids, and gas, put an end to
this peculiarity of the back-shop, where
ever they were used ; and time and cir
cumstances have wrought many other
changes. Indeed the whole system of
back-shops, so far as they relate to any
particulr front-shop, is rapidly passing
away. Even five and thirty years ago
enterprising married jours would open
and' tit up back-shops, in their own
houses, and hire out the seats, at "so
much" a week, to jours of any other
shops. But this was mainly one of the
necessities which grew out of the fact,
that then already, the extinction of the
back-shop, as it previously existed, had
commenced. This has gone ou, until
now, in many places, such an institution
as the back-shop—except of this latter
kind—is almost unknown.
The back-shop, as a whole, even in Its
palmiest days, was by no means a moral
institution, although many of them
were unexceptionable in their charac
ters, and many of the occupants, of even
those that were objectionable, were gen
ilemcn, and even good Christians. But
they sometimes had a terrible ordeal to
pass through, and men who could retain
their Christian integrity intact, under
such circumstances, must have been
Christians indeed.
Metephoricalty speaking, the front
shop was a limited monarchy—limited
by the society of jours where one existed
—otter, an absolute monarchy, and some
times a despotism ; but the back-shop,
in its priinitive condition, was a repub
lic—a stern, unflinching republic—at
least so long as it was under the rule of
a society. It is true, it may sometimes
Dave run into a reckless and unlicensed
democracy; but, the supposed antago
nism between it and the front-shop,
may have been the primary cause of
this. It is certain however, that some
of its rules and enactments were arbi
trary and irrational, and therefore mar
ried men began to desert it, and to take
their work home to their own dwellings,
and to Make it there. Mtn, these were
called "piece-masters," and were re
garded will, disfavor by the back-shop;
but now, they almost universally abound,
and are deemed the most reliable sup
ports of the front-shop, and the preju
dice against thein has passed away.
Another kind of back-shop exis's, in
many places, at the present day, which
may !Imre properly be called a " man
ufactory ;'' for, it consists of a kind of a
"head-Loss," with a numberof machirus
—both human and mechanical—under
him, and in his employ. But these es
tablishments recognize none of ti,
"rules and regulations" of the back
shops of long ago. The proprietors of
these concerns, make engagements with
large dotting-houses, and have the
work brought tind taken away in large
miantities. Their employees ply ma
chines all (lay at tutiven price, which
sometimes compels them to be so atten
tive and incessant in their labors, that
one would suppose they were Merely
lifeless mot i ve- powers, witli no more
rights or privileges than the machines
they work. These [anises speculate tm
the labor of their employees, who are
chiclly poor women—tor instance, tak
ing in coats, or pants, or vents, at very
low ',rives, and, either paying their em
ployees by I he week, or by the job, at a
deduction MI the prices they themselves
receive from the proprietor, Although
these establishments' are no doubt nec
essary to meet the present commercial
demands or the trade, yet none or the
prestiges of the legitimate back-shop are
atniehed In them.
\\Then 11,jour of the olden times, en
tered a city, town or village, perhaps
the first object of his inquiry would be
fora hack-shop, where he might hope
at least, to lied ,ifille old friend Of tram p
mate, if In-• was not fortunate enough to
Mid work—where he perhaps might
hear the lust or latest news, rest his
weary limbs, and receive a " little lift"
to help hint on the way, 1 deed it
often happened that those who had
Leon advanced to the positions of crooks
orJlirr wit, in the front-shop—or even
/u•njiri, tors of the same—would pity
tentp^r:u•y visits to their Mud; .shops, to
lun•e it little social gossip with the pairs.
And when the young jour would wan
der fur away, and meel with adversities,
or, " u streak of bad luck," as he would
call it, how-earnestly he would yearn
for the hack-shop in which he received
his mechanical and social education;
and, On the liNt favorable opportunity,
" likc a bird that seek, tII its mothers
nest"—he perhaps Nvould return to it
with joy immeasurable. Those were
the institutions or Tailorianic romance
—all now is calculating flatter of fact
//wit there was a poetry in the craft, )1010
it is pro.s, hut perlim,s progressive
-1),1110p, 1,0( — 4. illnt as you like it."
The Fate of Heniaraln Gunn
Ills name was Benjamin I'. ( lunn, and
he was the agent for an I iisuratiee Com
pany. lie came round to my office four
teen times iu one morning to see if he
could not persuade me to take out a life
insurance policy iu his Company. He
Used to Waylay me on the street, at
church, in my own house, and bore
me about that policy. If I went to the
opera, (Aim] would hay the seat next
tO Ille, and sit there the whole evening,
talking about sudden death and the ad
vantages of the ten-year plan. If 1 got
into a street-car, boon would come
rushing in at the next corner, and sit
he my side and drag out a lot of mor
tality tables, and begin to explain how
I could beat his Bompany out of a for
tune. If I sat down to dinner in a res
taurant up would come Gunn, and seiz
ing the chair next to me, he would tell
a cheering anecdote about a man who
insured in his Company for :i- , .50,000 only
last week, and was buried yesterday.
HI attended the funeral of a departed
friend, and wept :is they threw the
earth upon his collie, I would hear a
whisper, and, turning round, there
would be the indomitable Benjamin I'.
I :min, bursting to say, "Poor ;. , tnith!
Knew him well. Insured for ten thou
sand in our Company. Widow left in
comfortable circumstances. Lc/ me
take your name. Shall I '."'
1-It: followed me everywhere; until at
I :t st I got so sick of liunn's persecution,
that I left town suddenly one evening,
and hid myself in a secluded country
village, hoping to get rid of him. At the
end of two weeks I returned, reaching
home at one in the morning. 1 had
hardly got into lied before there was a
ring at the door-bell. I looked out, and
there was (limn with another person!
Ile asked if Max Adeler was at home.
I said 1 was the man. Mr. (limn then
observed that he expected my return,
and thought that he would call round
about that insurance policy. 1-le said he
had the doctor with him, and if I would
come down he would take my name and
have me examined Immediately. I was
too Indignant to reply. I shut the win
dow with a slam and went to bed again.
After breakfast in the morning I open
ed the front door, and there was (limn
sitting uu the steps with his doctor,
wailing for inc. Ile had been there all
night. As I came out, they seized me
and tried to inidre, nie there on the
pavement, in order to examine nie. I
retreated, and locked myself up in the
garret, with orders to admit nobody to
the house until I came down stairs. 13ut
imin wouldn't:be honied. lie actually
rented the house next door, and sta
tioned himself in flue garret adjoining
mine. When he got fixed lie spent his
time pounding on the partition and cry
ing, "Hallo! Adeler! Adeler, I say!
I low about that. policy? Want to take
her out now And then he would tell
inc some anecdotes about men who were
cup alt' immediately after paying the
first premium. But I paid no attention
lu him, and made no noise. 'rhea he
was silent for a while.
Suddenly, one morning, the trap-door
of my garret was wrenched off; and
upon looking up I saw Grimm with the
doctor and a crowbar, and a lot of death
rates, coming down the ladder at me. I
!led from the house to the Presbyterian
Church close by, lint' paid the sexton
twenty dollars to let me climb up to the
point of the steeple and sit astride of
the ball. I promised him twenty more
if he would exclude everybody from
that steeple for a week. Once safely on
the hall, three hundred feet from the
earth, I made myself comfortable with
the thought that 1 had Gunn at a dis
advantage, and I determined to beat
him finally
_it I hail to stay there a
01010 h. About an hour afterwards,
while I was looking at the superb view
at the west, I heard a rustling around
tot the other side of the steeple. I look
ed around, and there was Benjamin P.
Gunn creeping up the side of that spire
in a balloon, iu which was the doctor
and the tabular estimates of the losses of
his Company front the Timtine system.
As soon as Gunn reached the ball he
threw his grappling iron into the shin
gles of the steeple, and asked meat what
age my father had died, and .f any of
my aunts ever had consumption or liver
complaint.
Without waiting to reply, I slid down
the steeple to the ground, and took the
first train for the Mississippi Valley. In
two weeks I was in Mexico. I deter
mined to go to the interior, and seek
some wild spot in some elevated region,
where no Gunn would ever dare tocome,
I got on a mule and paid a guide to lead
me to the summit of Popocatapetel. We
arrived at the foot of the mountain at
noon. We toiled upward for about four
hours. Just before reaching the top I
heard the sound of voices, and upon
rounding a point of rocks, who should I
see but Benjamin P. Uunn, seated on the
very edge of the crater, explaining the
endowment plan to his guide, and stupe
fying him with the mortality table,
while the doctor had the other guide a
few yards off, examining him to see if he
LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING JUNE 21, 1871.
was healthy. Mr. Gunn arose and said
he was very glad to see me, because now
we could talk over that business about
the policy without fear of interruption.
In a paroxyism of rage, I pushed him
backwards into the crater, and he fell
about a thousand feet with a heavy thud.
As he struck the bottom I heard a voice
screaming out something about " non
forfeiture; " but there was a sudden con
vulsionof themountain,acloud ofsmoke,
and I hearth no more.
I knew it was wrong. I know I had
no right to kill Gunn in that manner;
but he forced me to do it in =elf-defence,
and I hope his awful fate will be a warn
ing to other insurance agents who remain
among us.
High Water Mark
A Thrillituz Adventure on Dedlow
Let me re-call a story which never
failed to recur to my mind in my
long gunning excursions upon Dedlow
Marsh. Although the event was briefly
recorded in the county paper, I had the
story, in all its eloquent detail, from
the lips of its principal actor. I can
not hope to catch the varying emphasis
and peculiar coloring of feminine de
lineation, firr my narrator was a wo
man ; but I'll try to give at least its
substance.
She lived mid-way of the great slough
of Bed low Marsh and a good-sized river,
which debouched four miles beyond
into an estuary formed by the Pacific
Ocean, on the long sandy peninsula
which continued the north-western
boundary of a noble bay. The house
in which she lived was a small frame
cabin raised from the marsh a few feet
by stout piles, and was three miles dis
tant front the settlements upon the
river. Her husband was a logger—a
profitable business in a country where
the principal occupation was the manu
facture of lumber.
It was the season of early Spring,
when her husband left, on the ebb of a
high tide, with a ritft of logs for the
usual transportation to the lower end
of the bay. As she stood by the door of
the little cabin when the voyagers de
parted she noticed a cold look in the
southeastern sky,
and she remembered
hearing her liusliand say to his com
panions that they must endeavor to
complete their voyage before the cool
ing of the south-westerly blow which
lie saw brewing. And that night it be
gan to storm and blow harder than she
had ever before experienced, and some
great trees fell in the forest by the river,
and the house rocked like her baby's
cradle.
But, however, the storm might roar
about her little cabin, she knew that
one she trusted had driven bolt and bar
with his own strong hand, and that had
lie feared for her he would not have left
her. This, and her domestic duties,and
the care of her sickly baby, helped to
keep her mind from dwelling WI the
weather, except, of course, to hope that
he was safely harbored with the logs at
Utopia in the dreary distance. But she
mdiced that day, when she went out to
feed the chickens and look after the
cow, that the tide was up to the little
fence olLt-iti‘ir border patch, and the roar
of the surtion the south beach, though
miles aw 4, she could hear distinctly.
And she began to think that she would
like to have some one to talk with
about matters, and she believed that if
it hail not been so far and stormy, and
the trail so impassable, she would have
taken the baby and gone over to Buck
man's, her nearest, neighbor. But then,
you see, he might have returned in the
storm, all wet, with no one to see him;
and it was a long exposure of baby,
who was croupy and ailing.
But that night, she never could tell
why, she didn't feel like sleeping, or
even lying down. The storm had some
what abated, but she still " sat and sat,''
and even tried to read. I don't know
whether it was a Bible or souse profane
magazine that this poor woman read,
but ino,et probably the latter, for the
words all ran together and made such
sad nonsense that she was forc ,, d at last
to put the book down and turn to the
dearer volume which lay before her in
the cradle, with its white. initial leaf us
yet unsoiled, and try to look forward to
its mysterious !suture. And rocking the
cradte, she thought of everything and
everybody, but still she was wide awake
us ever.
It was nearly twel , ..'e o'clock when she
at last laid down hi deer clothes. How
long she slept she could not remember,
but she awoke with a dreadful choking
in her throat, and found herself stand
ing, trembling all over, in the middle of
the room, with her baby clasped to her
breast, and she was " saying some
thing." The baby cried and sobbed,
and she walked up and down trying to
hush it, when she heard a scratching at
the door. She opened it fearfully, and
was glad to sec it was only Pete, their
(log, who crawled, dripping with water,
into the room. She would like to have
looked out, not in the faint hope or her
husband's conling,lait tosee how things
looked ; but the wind shook the door
so savagely that she could hardly hold
it. Then she sat down a little while,
and then she lay down again a little
while. Lying close by the wall of the
little cabin, she thought she heard once
or twice something scrape slowly
against the clap-boards, like the scrap
ing of branches. Then there was a lit
tle guigling sound, "like the baby made
when swallowing ; " then something
went "click-click " and "cluck-cluck,"
so that she sat up in bed. When she
did so she was attracted by something
else that seemed creeping from the back
door towards the centre of the room. It
wasn't much wider than her little
linger, but soon it swelled to the width
of her hand, and began to spread all
over the floor. 1t was water.
She run to the front door and threw
it wide open, and saw nothing but
water. She ran to the buck door, and
threw it open, and saw nothing but
water. Then she remembered hearing
her husband once say there was till
danger In the tide, for that fell regularly
and people could calculate (ol it ; and
that he would rather live on the bay
than the river, whose banks might
overflow at any time. But was It the
tide? So she ran again to the back door
and threw out a stick of wood. It
drifted away toward the bay, She
scooped up some water and put it eager
ly toward her lips. It was fresh and
sweet. It was the river, and not the
tide
It was then-0 God be praised for Ilk
goodness! she did neither faint nor fall;
it seas then—blessed be the s•aviuur, for
it was His merciful hand that touched
and strenghtened her in this awful run
tnent—that fear dropped from her like
a garment,
,and her trembling ceased.
It was then and thereafter that she never
lost her self•comutand, through all the
trials of that gloomy night.
She drew the bedstead toward the
middle of the room, and placed a table
upon it and on that she put the cradle.
The water on the floor was already over
her ankles, and the house once or twice
rocked so that the closet doors all flew
open. Then she heard the same rasping
and thumping against the wall, and
looking out saw that a large uprooted
tree, which had lain near the road at
the upper end of the pasture, had float
ed down to the house. Luckily, its lung
roots dragged in the soil and kept it
from moving as rapidly US the current,
for had it struck the house ill its full
career, even the strong nails awl bolts
iu the piles could not have withstood
the shock. The hound had leaped upon
its knotty surface, and crouched near
the roots shivering and whining. A ray
of hope flashed across her mind. She
drew a heavy blanket from the bed,
and wrapping it about the babe, waded
in the deepening waters to the door.—
As the tree swung again, broadside on,
making the little cabin tremble, she
leaped on to the trunk. By God's mercy
she succeeded in obtaining a footing on
its slippery surface, and twining an arm
about its roots, she held in the other her
moaning child. Then something crack
ed near the front porch, and the whole
front of the house she had just quitted
fell forward—just as cattle full on their
knees before they lie down, and at the
same moment the great redwood tree
swung around and drifted away with its
living cargo into the dark night.
:For all the excitement and danger,
for all her soothing of her crying babe,
for all the whistling of the wind, for all
the uncertainty of her situation, she
still turned to look at the deserted and
water-swept cabin. She remembered
even then, and she wondered how fool
ish she was to think of it at that time,
that she wished she had put on another
dress and the baby's best clothes; and
she kept praying that the house would
be spared an that he, when he returned,
would have something to come to, and
it wouldn't be quite so desolate, and—
I how could he ever know what had be
come of her and her baby ? And at the
thought she grew sick and faint. But
• she had something else to do besides
I worrying, for whenever the long roots
1 oher ark struck an obstacle, the whole
l [funk made half a revolution, and twice
' ipped her in the black water. The
(hound, who kept distracting her by
I running up and down the tree and
howling, at last fell off at one of these
collisions. He swam for some time be
side her, and she tried to get the po:ir
beast upon the tree, but he" acted silly"
and wild, and at last she lost sight of
him forever. Then she and her
baby were left alone. The light
which had burned for a few min
utes in the deserted cabin was quench
ed suddenly. She could not then
tell whither she was drifting. The out
line of the white dunes on the peninsula
showed dimly ahead, and she judged
the tree was moving in a line with the
river. It must be about slack water,
and she had probably reached the eddy
formed by the confluence of the tide and
the overflowing waters of the river.
Unless the title fell soon there was pres
ent danger of her drifting to its channel,
and being carried out to sea or crush
ed in the floating drift. That peril
averted, if she were carried out on
the ebb towards the bay, she might
hope to strike one of the wooded
promontories of the peninsula, and rest
till daylight. Sometimes she thought
she heard voices and shouts front the
river, and the bellowing of cattle and
bleating of sheep, Then again it was
only the ringing in her ears and throb
bing of tier heart She found at about
this time that she was so chilled and
stiffened in her cramped position that
she could scarcely move, and the baby
cried so when she put it to her breast,
that she noticed the milk refused to flow;
and she was so frightened at that, that
she put her head under her shawl, and
for the first time cried bitterly.
\Viten she raised her head again, the
boom of the surf was behind them, and
she knew that her ark had again swung
round. She dipped up the water to cool
her parching throat, and found that it
was as salt its her tears. There was a
relief, though, fur by this sign she knew
that she was drifting with the title. It
was then the wind went down, and the
great and awful silence oppressed her.
There was scarcely a ripple against the
furrowed sides of the great truck against
which she rested, anti around her was
all black gloom and quiet. She spike to
the baby just to hear herself speak, and
to know that she had not lust her voice.
She thought then—it was queer,.but she
could not help thinking it—how awful
must have been the night when the.
great Ship swung over the Asiatic peak,
and the sounds of creation were blotted
out from the world. She thought, too,
of mariners el illgin g to spurs, and of pour
women who were lashed to rafts, and
beaten to death by the cruel sea. She
tried to thank ( h id that she was thus
spared, and lifted her eyes from the
baby, who had fallen into a fretful sleep.
Suddenly, ate ay to the southward a great
light lifted Itself out of the gloom, and
flashed and flickered and flickered and
flashed again. Her heart fluttered
quickly against the baby's cold cheek.
It was the lighthouse at the entrance of
OW bay. As she was yet wondering, the
tree rolled a little, dragged a little, and
then seemed to lie quiet and still. She
put out her hand and the current gurgled
against it. The tree was aground, and by
the position or the light, and the noise of
the surf, aground upon the Dedlow
Marsh.
Had it not been for her baby, who
was ailing and croupy, had it not been
for the sudden drying up of that sensi
tive fountain, she would have felt sale
and relieved. Perhaps it was this which
tended to make all her impressions
mournful and gloomy. As the tide rap
idly fell, a:great flock of black brent
fluttered by her, screaming and crying.
Then the plover llew up anti piped
mournfully as they wheeled around the
trunk, and at last fearlessly lit upon it
like a gray cloud. Then the heron flew
over and around her, shrieking and pro
testing, and at last dropped its gaunt
legs only a few yards from her. JIM,
strangest of all, a pretty white bird,
larger than a dove—like a pelican, but
not a pelican—circled around and
around her. At last it lit upon a root
let of the tree, quite over her shoulder.
She put out her hand and stroked its
beautiful white neck, and it never ap
peared to move. It stayed there so long
that she thought she would lift up the
baby to see it, and try to attract her at
tention. But when she did so, the child
was so chilled and cold, and had such a
blue look upon the little lashes, which
it did not raise at all that she screamed
aloud, and the bird flew away, and she
fainted.
Well, that was the worst of it, and
perhaps it was not so much after all, to
any one but herself. For when she re
covered her senses, it was bright sun
light, and dead low water. There was
a confused noise of guttural voices about
her, and an old squaw singing an Indian
" hushaby," and rocking herself front
side to side, before a lire built on the
Illaneh, before which she, the recovered
wife and mother, lay weak and weary.
Her li t',4 thought was for her baby, and
she was about to speak, when a young
squaw, who must nice been a mother her
self, fathomed her thought, and brought
her the '• mowitch," pale but living,
in such a queer little willow cradle, all
bound up, just like squaw's own young
one, that she laughed and cried together,
and the young and old squaw 1411/Wing
their big white teeth, find glinting their
black eyes, and said, "Plenty' get well,
skeena mowitch wag,gee man come
plenty soon," and she could have kissed
their brown faces In her joy. And then
she found that they had been gather
ing berries on the marsh in their
queer, comical baskets, and saw the
skirt of her gown fluttering on the tree
from afar, and the old squaw couldn't
resist the temptation of procuring a
new garment, and come down and dis
covered the" waggee" woman and child.
And of course she gave the garment to
the old squaw, as you may imagine, and
when he came at last and rushed up to
„her, looking about ten years older in his
',anxiety, she felt so Faint. again that they
hail to carry her to the canoe. For, you
see, lie knew nothing about the flood
until lie met the Indians at Utopia, and
knew by the signs that the poor woman
was his wife. And at the next high
tide lie towed the tree away hack home,
although it wasn't worth the trouble,
and built another house, using the old
tree for the foundation and props, turd
called it alter her "Mary Ark ! " But
you may guess the next house was built
above high-water mark. And that's a!l.
Not much, perhaps, considering the
malevolent capacity of the Dedlow
.Marsh. But you may tramp over it at
low water, or paddle over it at high title,
or get lost upon it once or twice in the
fog, as I have, to understand properly
Mary's adventure, or to appreciate duly
the blessings of living beyond high
water mark.
A meeting which is now holding in
Chester county, Pa., deserves attention as
a significant hint of one of the roost curious
phases of American religious life.
The Society had its birth in loFt. Since
thin its aim has been to abjure all creeds
and systems of theology. L very member
is permitted to cherish unmolested his own
conception of God and Christ, and to wor
ship in what form he thinks tit; the only
bond between them being a cordial coop ;
eratinn in working for Justice, Lquality,
and Fraternity. There are no ministers or
church officers. Sunday-Schools are held
every First-day, in which the children are
instructed in their duty toward their neigh
bor. In the church, afterward, their elders
discuss all matters of practical reform, and
offer their individual religious opinions,
about which, we hope, for the consistency
of their profession, no argument is permit
ted. So far as we know, this singular little
band is the only body of Christians who
hold that a man's doctrinal or devotional
religion concerns only himself and his God;
and that the solo basis of a church is the
practical work for humanity which grows
out of his religion. They take, as might
be expected, foremost ground on the sub
jects of woman and negro equality, the In
dian wrongs, the use of liquor, tobacco, etc.,
and free education for the people. As their
very existence as a religious body grows
out of the needs and evils of the present,
they light only living Satans, and manifest
a disposition to snub and ignore not only
the Apollyons known to our forefathers,
but the Christians and Greathearts who
gave them battle, paying not much more
respect to Luther than to the hoofed and
horned imp at whom he threw the ink
bottle. They profess to be " tired of hear
ing of Abraham and Moses, and David and
Jesus, and want this perpetual incense to
their memories taken out of their nostrils."
They, however, offer their own perpetual
incense to the memory of Theodore Parker,
he having preached in their meeting-house
several times.
The Lawless Lawns
Description of a Bann of Illorooders.
LUMBERTON, Robeson Co., N. C.
June 5, Ix7l.
For a period now ranging from ten to
fifteen years, this county has been In
rested by a gang of desperadoes whose
avocations embrace nearly every spe
cies
of crime known. Murder, twine,
burglary and arson, are common among
their lawless acts, and' so wide-spread
was the terror created in the communi
ty here at the close of the late war that
the Executive of:the State found it in
cum bent upon him to declare each and
every one of them outlaws, setting a
price on their heads for their capture, I
dead or alive. On the occasion of many
of the bloody deeds committed by this
gang during the last three years, Ass"-
elated Press despatches were sent North
from Wilmington, briefly detailing
the
facts, which the Radical organ at New ;
York, invariably tortured into Ku-Klux !
outrages,. when these very acts were of
the class which the Ku-Klux in their
lawless way undertook to punish.—
Hence it is that I visited this section to
investigate the nature of the crimes
committed, to ascertain the history or
the outlaws and to lay before the public
through the columns of the //craN, a I
strict and impartial account of affairs
as they exist here. As far as I have
been able to ascertain—and I have con
stilted the most orthodox Republicans
here—there never has been seen in this'!
county a disguised man or other indi
vidual whose appearance or manner
would indicate that lie was a Ku-Klux.
Nor have I in an extensive tour, elll
bracing a great many of the Southern
counties of this State, during which I
conversed freely with all classes, been
able to find any positive evidence of
either of the organizations known as
the White Brotherhood, the Constitu
tional lluion Guards, or the Invisible
Empire, which are said to constitute I
the Ku-Klux-Klan, as it existed in Al
alliance county previous to the impeach
ment trial of Gov. Holden. All of the out
rages-whipping and seourgings--recent
ly committed at midnight are the results
of personal fuels, private animosities,
and often are admit' istered to punish par
ties living In a state of gross immorality
and depravity, which is only Lou, fre
quent in various portions of the State.
This has been peculiarly the case in A la
mance, Caswell, Chatham, Harnett, and
even Cleveland and Rutherford, the
countiesso recently emblazoned through
the Radical press as the theatre of Ku-
Klux outrages. In this county all the
lawless acts that have been perpetrated
are the work of the outlaws, and these
men are an intermixture of the white,
the Indian and the negro. They com
bine the intelligence of the white mail,
the savage ferocity of the red man and
the brutal instincts of the negro, awl
their lawless devils bear the impress of
all the wors%characteristics of the three.
The country is peculiarly adapted to
their operations, which are committed
at all hours, day or night, as opportuni
ty alliirds. A Vll, l l swamp, eight by fif
teen miles in extent, which Is impene
trable to all but the outlaws, shelters
them from pursuit and enables them to
lire upon their pursuers, unseen, from
the thickets and undergrowth with
which they have become so familiar in
a desperate experience of fifteen years.
This swamp is partly traversed by
the Wilmington, Charlotte awl Ruth
erford Railroad, which passes through
portions of it over trestle works
It is covered by water of a green
ish color, fait of which the trees
stand erect; the whole country is ma
larious, and the frogs keep up, during
the present season, a chorus that is al
most deafening to the visitor from a
higher and more healthy country. In
the western portion of the county, bor
dering on the swamp, the ancestors of
the present band of outlaws and rob
bers, under various names lived in a
section now known by the classic name
of Scullietown township. Here, fur
generations dating from colonial times,
the family of Lowrys have resided, first
as respectable and wealthy farmers, but
afterwards as bush wackers, robbers and
murderers, exercising their peaceful and
lawless avocations alternately, as the
times warranted. They were originally
Portuguese, and, prior to the Revolution
were respected and esteemed us honest
and industrious citizens by their neigh
bors; but when the War for Independ
ence broke out the Lowrys, of whom
there were several brothers, abandoned
the peaceful pursuits of industry, and,
being shrewd and intelligent, became
formidable as daring, desperate and law
less men. While professing to be tories
in the Revolutionary struggle they depre
dated alike upon both parties, without
making, any invidious distinction on ac
count of politics. Ily a systematic
course of plunder and robbery during
the entire war the Lowrys became rich,
and at its close, owing to their despe
rate characters, they were never inter
fered with, fun were left to enjoy their
ill-gotten wealth. But this, like all
property accumulated by dishonest
means, gradually dwindled away, Llllll
the Lowrys, lining men of dissolute and
extravagant habits, again became poor,
and were once more obliged to resort
to the bush and to plunder to sustain
their reckless and expensive mode of
living, if not to obtain a subsistence.—
n the way they again became a terror
to their honest and peaceable neigribors,
few of WllOlll WOlllll undertake to en
gage in any personal rcnerintrc with any
one of them on account of their bolster-
ous,quarrelsome and violent characters.
Until their riches were entirely squan
dered they had remained comparatively
quiet, and their wealth wits so great
that even with their habits it lasted
them mitti about the third generation,
when it became exhausted in the con
stant litigation In which they were In
volved with their neighbors. It was
after this, and when they had re
sorted to plunder, and were outlawed
denizens of the swamps, that tney
intermixed with Indians and negroes,
and thus from generation to gener
ation they lived In the swamps or
about Scullletown until not one of du
rum possessed a drop of unadulterated
white blood. Allan Lowry, tin- father
of the present band of Low rys, was 11
genuine combination of all three races
—tile Indian, perhaps, predominating
The names of ids sons in the order of
their ages are Bill, Tom, Purdie, Sui
t-Ur, Stephen and Henry Berry. The
latter is the leader of the gang now in
spiring such a terror in this, and, In
deed, the surrounding coun ties. About
the cormnencement of the late war, fol
lowing in the footsteps of their outlawed
ancestors, these Lowrys, with a number
of mulatto cousins bearing the same
name, and a family of half-breeds by the
name of Oxendines, again began an in- I
discriminate system of pillage and plun
der on the citizens of the county. During
this crusade they captured and killed a
quantity of stock, the property of one
James Barnes. At this time the Con-
federate authorities were ingirgent need
of all the force they could (fault' to work
on the fortifications at Wilmington and
other points, for coast and river defence,
and it was at once conceded by all
the citizens that to effect the capture of '
the Lowrys and despatch them to (fen
eral Whiting, then in command at Wil
mington, would be a most happy rid
dance to the entire community. But
this was no easy task. Barnes, however,
undertook to Wake the capture, seconded
in his efforts by a man named Bryant
I lards, who had a fetid with the Lowrys
about a half-breed woman related to their
family. Both these men made several
but always unsuccessful attempts to ar
rest the Lowrys, and were only rewarded
by capturing two mulattoes who bore
the name of Lowry. These, it is said,
were killed by Harris, whose personal
feelings toward the whole breed were
exceedingly bitter and revengeful. 'Phis
outrage upon the name even of Lowry,
could not be allowed to pass unpunished.
Revenge among them must be sweet, for
they have never permitted an assault or
indignity against one of them to pass
without inflicting the direst vengeance.
It was not long, therefore, until Allan
Lowry and his sons had killed both
Barnes and Harris, which inspired fresh
terroramong the citizens. Some timesub
sequent to this, and about the latter part
of 1863, or beginningof 1864, theLowrys
and their gang were joined by a number
of escaped Federal prisoners from Flor
ence, S. C., who were making their way
through the unfrequented and impene
trable swamps to the nearest Federal
post. This was a valuable accession to
the Lowry gang for the purpose of of
fence and defence. The prisoners hav
ing but little hope of reaching a friendly
post, and fearing recapture in their way
through an enemy's country, were only
too glad to join this band of outlaws and
they .eagerly accepted a proposition
made by Allan Lowry. This was, in
effect, to drill and instruct the gang
In the use of fire , rms, until they
became experts, for which services the
...Idlers were to share alike with them
their quarters, their hospitalities and
their dangers. With the recent addi
' tions to the gang their numbers were in
' creased to some twenty-live or thirty,
comprising the Lowrys, the Oxendines,
Boss Strong and the prisoners, all armed
and well supplied with ammunition—a
most formidable and desperate body.
Organized as they were, familiar with
the country and always secure in the re
cesses of the swamps, the approaches to
which were carefully guarded, this gang
made frequent marauding incursions on
the citizens of the neighborhood, killing
their stock, depredating on their prop
erty and often imperilling their lives.
Dwelling houses were plundered, stores
: were gutted and citizens known to
have any money or valuables on their
persons were halted on highways and
robbed. So outrageous had the gang be
come that, just before the close of the
war, the citizens of the county organ
ized and resolved to hunt down and
break up this band of outlaws. A large
body, composed ofeivilians and ex-Con
fed crate sold iers, led by brave and trusty
officers, engaged in this raid, which was
successful in bringing t he outlaws to bay,
and a fight ensued. This took place on
the border of the swamp and lasted over
au hour, during which the citizens sig
nalized themselves by killing old Allan
and his son, Bill Lowry, in which they
considered they haul achieved a victory
(if no little importance. All the remain
der of the Lowry gang escaped into
the swamps, or at least were 111/1, pur
sued ; and there they—temained, ing
raids on the people whenever their im
mediate necessities demanded, until the
close of the war. IVitli the establish
ment of peace the gang was abandoned
by the Federal soldiers, who at once set
out:a body for Wilmington, from
%vhi eh city they obtained transporta
tion to their respective homes in the
North. The gang then consisted of
Henry Ilerry Lowry, its leader: Ste
phen Lowry, Tom Lowry, Henderson
Oxendine, Cal vin Oxendine, Boss
Strong and George A pplewhite, a coal
black negro, who joined them about
that time and married a sister of the
Lowrys. Since then the gang has be
come more desperate than ever, until
now the whole community here are
utterly demoralized and terror-stricken.
Several members of the gang have been
arrested from time to time, when caught
wandering sonic distance from the
swamps, but they have always succeed
ed in breaking jail, both here and at
Wilmingtomand etr.c.iping,execpt ill one
instance—l lenderson Oxendine, who
was executed here in March last, as
already reported in the .11,rrthl. Cult in
Oxendine is now in jail at Wilmington,
charged with the murder of ex-Sheriff
King, of this county. Every conceiva
ble effort has been !nude to capture
them, even to bringing a company of
Federal soldiers here ; but these, under
their peculiar instructions, could do
nothing for the relief of the suffering
people. The troops cannot act except
under the Ku-Klux law, and this does
not meet the case of these half-bred out
laws. Until the Today comitatus of the
county was exhausted troops could not
be used, and of this fact the officer in
command had to be officially notified
by the Sheriff before he could move.—
With such ridiculous instructions this
company of soldiers were sent here near
ly tell months ago, remaining here un
til a few days since, when they were or
dered to Cleveland county fur political
uses, in the alleged Ku-Klux cases in
that county. On one occasion the out
laws shot and killed a citizen named
Taylor within two hundreds yards of
the camp where these very Cu ted States
soldiers titre quartered. The soldiers
were at once ordered under arms; then
with prompt but military precision they
fell in, answered roll cull, and, after sun
dry evolutions, were started at double
quick in the direction of the firing by
the outlaws. 01 course it is needless to
say that pursuit by soldiers was only a
liner. The outlaws escaped. Since the
war they have committed eight murders
in this county, besides wounding a large
number of citizens and maltreating
and otherwise injuring a great many,
including a number of the most re-
spectable ladies, and avetaging at least
one robbery per week. They have in
augurated the most perfect reign of ter-
rer among the people I have ever wit
tressed. Any 1111111 who makes himself
active in attempting their capture is
daunted. lie is invariably murdered
and his property destroyed. In conse
quence of this demoralization and terror
the county is becoming depopulated and
property is worthless. People now here
would willingly sell what property
they own, if event half its value could
be obtained, and emigrate to safer
and more thrifty parts of the coun
try, where life and property have some
protection, but in many instances they
could not make a present ()I' their farms
and residences. All the men who have
been killed by the gang are Democrat-,
except one, Mr. lonian, and, what is
strange, all the members of the gang
belong to the Union League. This is
evidence that nothing political has ever
entered into the outrages committed in
this county by the Lowry gang, and is
a refutation of the slanders published
to that effect by the Radical press of the
North.—N. Y. //cm/d.
Jenny Lind
II Ch riollon A osiler,ou'r Recoltee
(lons of Hi,.
,from "The Story of My
Jenny Lind made tier first appear
ance in Copenhagen us " Alice" in
" Robert le Diable." It way like a new
revelation in the realms of art; the
youthfully fresh voice forced itself into
every heart; here reigned truth and
nature; everything was full of mean
ing and intelligence. Jenny Lind was
the lirst singer to whom the Danish
students gave a serenade ; torches blazed
around the hospitable villa where the
serenade was given ; she expressed her
thanks by again singing some Swedish
songs, and I then saw her hasten Into
the darkest corner and weep for emo
tion.
" Yeti, yes," said she, " 1 will exert
myself; I will endeavor; I will be bet
ter qualified than I ❑nt, when I again
come to Copenhagen."
On the stage she was the great artiste
who rose above all those around her;
at home, in her own chamber, a sensi
tive young girl, with all the humanity
and piety or a child.
„ There will not in a whole century,"
said Mendelsohn, speaking to me of
Jenny Lind, " be born another being
so gifted as she ;^ and his words ex
pressed toy full conviction. One feel
as she makes her appearance on the
stage that she is a pure vessel, from
which a holy draught will be presented
to us.
There is not anything which can les
sen the impression which Jenny Lind's
greatness on the stage makes, except
her own personal character at home.—
An intelligent and child-like disposi
tion exercises here its astonishing pow
ers; she is happy—belonging, us it were
no longer to the world—a peaceful . ,
quiet home is the object of her thoughts;
and yet at a loves art with her whole
soul, and feels her vocation in it. A no
ble, pious disposition like hers cannot
be spoiled by honing°. On one occa
sion only did I hear her express tier
joy in tier talent and her self-conscious
ness. It was during her last residence
in Copenhagen Almost every evening
she appeared either at the opera or at
concerts; every hour was in requisition.
She heard of a society, the object of
which was to assist unfortunate chil
dren, arid to take them out of the hands
of their parents, by whom they were
mis-used, and compelled either to beg
or steal, and to place them in other and
better circumstances. Benevolent peo
ple subscribed annually a small sum
each for their support; nevertheless the
means for this excellent purpose were
yet small.
" But have I not still a disengaged
evening?" said she " let me give a
night's performance for the benefit of
those poor children ; but we will have
double prices."
Such a performance was given, and
returned large proceeds. When she
was informed of this, and that by this
means a number of poor children
would be benetitted for several years,
her countenance beamed, and the tears
filled her eyes.
"Is it not beautiful," said she, "that
I can sing so?"
I value her with the feelings of a
brother, and I regard myself happy that
I know and understand such a spirit.—
God gave to her that peace, that quiet
happiness which she wishes for herself.
Through Jenny Lind I first became
sensible of the holiness there is In art;
through her I learned that one must
not forget one's-self in the service of the
NUMBER 25
Supreme. No books, no men, have had
a better or more ennobling influence
upon me as the poet than Jenny Lind,
and I, therefore, have spoken of her so
long and so warmly here.
Aalul Coolie Slip Disaster.
A San Francisco special gives the par-
Oculars of the burning of the ship lion
Juan, which left Macau, on May 4, with a
cargo of Coolies for Peru. The Don Juan
loaded at Macao, taking six hundred and
fifty Coolies on boardfor Peru, and on the
Oth was burned to the water's edge, not
inure than fifty miles from flung Kong.
The Coolies, who have arrived in Hong
, Kong. all aver that their treatment was
humane and they had nothing whatever
to complain of either as to the allowance
of food or the quality or quantity, and the
whole affair was simply accidental. The
other view in the question, namely,
! that the vessel was set on tire by
designing men among the Chinese, is
not impossible. tine of the Well distinctly
avers that he heard an explosion of gun
powder aft, and also smelt a strong smell
of it. ()tilers again say they did not hour
any report ; that they were nearly WNW
powered bythe sickening smell of the ship's
material burning aft. It is to lie regretted
that the European who had the humanity
to open the hatches del ilia succeed in sav
ing his own life, as he was overtaken by
the Coolies, who 1101(10 a rush at the boat
waiting for him, and a general scramble
occurred to get to it, the Europeans
using arms to prevent the Coolies getting
into it. In this scramble several Chi
lime were drowned. The boat, however,
ultimately succeeded in getting clear of the
ship, but hail not gone far when it upset iii
sight of but not within reach of the Coolies.
The Coolies then seem to have hail a little
leisure to look around, when they ob
served the oilier three boats at a distance.
During this time all the materials of the
ship were rapidly burning, and a large
number perished in the hold, !Wine of
whole, nW tilinbt, were suffocated, but the
cries from others were piteous. Many,
however,jumped into thewater and escaped
by drowning, the n irehorrible death by
tire. While the luckless men were on deck
anti on the bowsprit in this plisilloll one of
the masts fortunately gave way, and the
men at once made a rush and scramble to
reach it; they eking on with desperation,
calling as hill(' as they could to save their
lives. 'llly} , had not been long in am water
before a fishing junk Cittlie lip and they
were taken MY, two or three at a time, in
small stun pan.
The mast war held oil the W reek by wire
rigging, WWI would otherwise have drifted
away to sea, The Coolies state that there
were no less than fifty Europeans on the
vesmel, suit remains bi be seen what lievaine
of them. Some, no doubt, were lost in the
boat that was swamped. From Macao, it is
reported that thirty-live if the crew have
arrived there, and aro LlllllllllllilllS ill stating
that the Coolies mutinied and set lire t,, Un
ship aft, In hopes of forcing all to abandon
her, ;mil so take the vessel. It seems they
thought the lire could be extinguished af
ter ward.
SANTI,IIIO DE CI:11A, .1 tine '.!.—The pa
triots have, within a few- days, had a real
stroke of luck. The place of action was Sa
bana A bajo, at the junction of the roads el
Guantanamo and Las l'agnas. A force el
;lull Spaniards commanded by Lieu tenant-
Colonel Miguel Perez, was completely
routed, and saved themselves by a shame
ful night. The affair happened on the
26th of May and seventeen men fell
at the li rst lire of the patriots. Among
the killed were the leader and one
lieutenant. After being
,Thrown into
confusion by the unexpected attack of
the Cubans, they attempted once to rally ;
but, on being again attacked in think, they
threw away their arms and !led in utter
disorder, not stopping until they reached
the town of ItUantallaino. Miguel Perez
is the greatest loss which the Spaniards
could have experienced in the death of any
one man in this department. Ile was a
pure Indian, and one of the lbw left in the
Ile was born in the village of
Caney, close to this city.
In the interior of this section of the isl
and are the haunts of the runaway negroes
from all parts of Cuba. Between this place
and Baracos, and also toward the North,
are numerous of the haunts of these self
freed slaves, who are known by the name
of ChltUrrllnias. They congregate to the
number of from fifty to two and three hun
dred in each ()Niles° places,w Inch are called
pa/envies. These places are generally on
almost inaccessible hills, far removed from
any habitation of white men, and in them
these ciaturroues have their patches (.1
corn, plantation, &c. At times ;they have
been in the habit of making raids on well
stocked farms and running oil with what
Wattle they wanted. l/ccasionally, when
these raids were too frequent and threaten
ed to result in utter ruin, the planters of
the neighborhood would band together,and
with good guides attack and destroy one or
more of these palrnq 10'8. The runaway
negroes then seldom recovered, because
they would always know of the threat
ened danger beforehand, and would escape
through the woods to the next one.
Miguel Perez was the guide par excel
(roe, of the planters on all these excursions.
Ile was conversant with every mountain,
every stream, every path, every defile of
the country, and when he consented to
serve the Spaniards, the acquisition of his
services was beyond price. Ii is kiss cannot
he replaced, and yet, just to show how lit
tle the Spaniards care even for th. so who
serve them best, his body was left lilt the
spot where he !MI. Thirty corpses were
found by the Cubans on the scene of action.
OM AIRES.
Itztvoges or the Yellow Feler
A private letter, dated it' the city ol
Buenos Ayres on the 3d of May, gives the
lid lowing account of tLit, ravages of tilt•
plague in that eity :
The fever is still raging awfully, the
mortality reaching 1311 per day, with very
little decrease sine, I last communicated
with yon. The niovernitient Ims prolonged
the holidays until Spring, hoping to allay
the terrible spread of the disease. With
the approach of the cold weather, we ex
peeted that the plague would gradually
disappear, but, finding that there is littleor
11,, diminution in the 111/ el her of deaths, tee
await with great fear the c o ming of Spring,
and tnen, trod only knows what will be
come of us. Large n h zithers of people will
probably return at the close of the holidays,
and then we also expect an Increase in the
mortality. The lever hospitals are literally
crammed with the ill-fated victims of the
terrible epidemic. •I'he Sisters of Charity,
who are Indefatigable inn the performance
of their ollives to the 'del( mid dying, day
alter day surrender Melee of their corps to
line fell libeelSO, Mei :ninny of them, though
not stllieted with It, actually fall through
weakness, and have to be carried to their
sinveilLs alter many hours of fatigtlo. The
urger of the ChrlStlell Brothers have Mile
relief from their ollices or burying the dead
and striving to impart some consolation to
those dying in temporary hcsptuls. :%1 any
of these Brothers have also tallen victims
to the lever while fulfilling their noble dm
ties. The clergymen of every denomina
tion have proved themselves heroic, and
lull of Christian charity in administering
to the plague stricken, and in seeking re
lief for the numberless widows and orphans
who, fearful of their imminent late, not
knowing when they may he proetrated by
the epidemic, still linger in misery within
the unhappy city.
Dead-cars rattled over the pavement at
all hours of the night, awakening Lo terror
those who resided along their route. Sev
eral rude csMins at a tune were thrust into
the dead cars and rolled away in haste to
a huge grave formed outside the Puerta
Nlobile. tine of the most heart-rending on
scenes tents that presented by many wives :
mothers and husbands, who begged ad
mittance hie/ the hospitals to learn the fate
of their loved ones. As no permission to
enter could be given to them, and the hos
pital otlicials were too much occupied with
their duties Lo the patients to attend to any
outside matter, those people had to depart
to their wretched homes, hearing with
them their agonizing doubts as to the safety
,4 their relatives. In tine, it is a city of
death and tears, deserted by all that could
possibly hasten from its fever-tainted
streets and alleys, and sorrowful inn the
loneliness which overhangs its parks, gar
dens, churches, and all that was lair, cheer
ful, and life-like, a few weeks ago.
I=l
Women to Govern the Slate Hereafter
Mrs. Woodhull has at last hit upon a
practical way of converting the influence
of women into a formidable political pow.
er. Connecticut is a very close state, po
litically, and it is there that the experiment
is to be tried. The following is Mrs. Woo'd
hull's new departure:"
"There is one of those exceptional con•
ditions of political affairs at this moment In
your Slate to which the workings of our
institutions aro always liable, and which
on this occasion gives us our opportunity
to make our influence felt on the politics of
the country, despite the injustice of those
with whom the administration of the laws
is now lodged. Tho two great parties are
so evenly balanced in Connecticut that to
change a single vote in each town of the
State, and all in the same way, will at the
next State election be enough to decide the
issue. What I have, therefare, to suggest
and what I propose to aid you by any
means in my power to execute, is this ;
Wait till the nominating conventions of the
two parties—the Democratic and the Re•
publican—shall have made their announce
ments of their candidates. Call your own
convention. Canvass the proclivities of
the candidates nominated by both parties,
and select the ticket to be favored by you
from among those candidates, and then see
to it that every one of those candidates—
those, of course, the moat favorable to the
concession of our right—be elected. Ten
der and urge the acceptance of your own
votes at the polls ; but if they are rejected,
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More Iforrorft of • apiored Porlm.-- •
Narrow E•eope iron. Death.
Pitt Is, May la, C0rr....1),,T1.11,
It trill be interesting tome day to learn
Lute many in ieee it people, guilty ot mi
less crime than curiosity, have met their
death in this strangely horrible storming of
Paris, either by shells nr bullets, or, worse•,
still, executed ignounniously spies,allild
the hootings nt Ilia i'lll,vd,hy a otimitinistsor
Versaillesists. lon have probably already
heard the story of a well known English
nobleman typo, first made prisoner by the
( . 01111111111klS, state 1111111li in their 1:eep1i...4
by the Versaillesist. :tild actually put lip
against it wall to he shot by the sold set s,
‘v lien a superior °nicer accidentally passing
by saved him. Duty before yesterday us hen
the Belleville prisoners w ere marelied
through the streets an English tulles some •
how got mixed up in the procession, and
was forced t t keep in it by the escot t, who,
out of taUll prisoners, could not, of eunit
lie expected to recognize one innocent inan.
However, so far, his mischance involviqi
nothing mare sermuv than it long wall: 1111-
der it hot still in the midst at a gang nt
ruffians, at whom the re , ..ple tePed and
hooted.
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uuer- triad 1,1 t t.lpo, 1111t1 Lt/ 111.11.0 1111 1,-
111111110 the leader 111 Ihe r;lCa!rc tk,,,L, the
Iltrquis do (;allifet, a 1111111111111 i,
In err ell LllO niercy, had Own and
(hero sl ,1111,L, 11111 i 1111 1 1 1 :111..111 , 11 titter euS
all but um• (1. Ihrul,
at lirst ,lightest atteirt,on.
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that It rrathly 111111 it
The Cemetery of Pero la Cliaose pre-volis
deploraille ,glot ; the ',ding 'daces of
the dead are wail defiled; the 1111.1111 -
Eilents have het, greatly innii,sl i v lho
tiring coin!, h.,. 1,1,11 1.1,10.11. 111111 1110
reinams 110 st•allt.1•011 1.N11.111 11111 Krallll.l.
You may 1111,1•411110 1110 11,01 not by num
bers but by Wit cud. They le. on a don Ho
tier on the grass, powdered 11vrr Illth
coaling of 111110. 1 . 111.110 art, many wonit to
among them, and liters Ileo tiredly of
hich makes cam sick I. 1111,11.
A prisoner at La Itotmette, NI. Evrard.
Sergeant-Nlajor or the Jetith Italulbon ..1
Nat'l/111i' It curds, gives the hollosving par
: ^uu Wednesday, Nlay :11, at 7::tio
in the evening, the Director tor the prison,
11110 1.1111111111.11111, a namesake Mlle,
ul the Commune, and tvhu 111111,..1.11 111111
Silent six )1.11, all the 11.114110, 11•11.11111.11 ut
the 114,1 ..1 t., the gallery ts herc
the priie•ipal witnesses tverets mimed. All
1.11111. f %vent around 10 elllll 1.1.11, MIIIIIIIIOII
lug first Ili.. A r.doldshop, and then in sec •
cession NI. Ilenican, the A bla, A !lard,
Fathers Duane 1 ravauld (lair, and the A him
Deguerry, ('ii r, of Ha, M.1.11.b.1110. As the
prisoners ,1,1 , 'OllllllO.llOll 1111. y tvere
marched down the 1,1111 running rotind
the pr 1,1011: 011 1.11.•11 hilly of w loch, us tar as
11011111 s seer, 11rnolge1I Iho N 1111.01.11
received the captives wu 11 in
sults unti epithets which I cannot trans
scribe. Nly unite Innate 4,1111111111i/11Y wrl..
liken 'lll,, 1110 court yard hiring Ihe
Ii riuury, whore they hound a tiring party
otwoutingtliono. Nlonsotigneur Darhoy step.
pal lorwartl, and addiessing his v. sons
uttered It Il•W Nvords (trunnin. Twooltlieso
men approached the A reit hisleopoind it, lace
of their companions, hoick 11,1,011 loin)
bn
srnchiug horgivomess. The other Feder
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turning towards 111,, pi Isom," gat'' 5,111
to must Vloll.lll 11N1.10,...1..11',, Tllll 1.010 -
MllllllOll I,lt. nsbalnrd of
111114, 1111 d, ordering silence, uttered a right-
MI oath, telling hps 111•11 that they were
there 140 •11001 those 111,1110, 1111.1 .11111. 11.
1 / 1 /11Y 1110111. 1 . 110 Feder:kis were silenced,
and upon the ortleis of their 1.11.1/t1q1811: -.1 ,
loaded their 5V1..11.1.11.1. Faille! . Allard was
placed against the null :11141 Waal Iho hist
shut down. Then NI. I),trlotoy, in his
FPI]. Tin> lViltdt, SIX prisuncry Stir,, thus
shut, ail 1.., Ha. 111111,...a. Clllllllll,, alai
courage. NI. Deguerry alone ~11/1104 11 a
momentary %cilia mossy, tvitich was Wllll.ll
- rather to his alit, Of 111,1111 111.111 la
rear. After this tragical o•xamtion, eat -
riot! out without any Mrinal witnesses and
In the presence only tit .1 number .or ban
dits, the bode., of the untortunate victiilis
were placed in a ,'art belonging to it rail •
way company, tc 11i1-11 Ictd 111.011
al for the purpose, 111141 scar,, lakell 10 Port,
la l:11.111.11., Illf.y sell p1.11•1..1 111 lila
last trench iii the 4,1111111111 , , " SI .111
lit' alit,,, Wlllll,lll. 1,1,1 any lall,lllla
them with earth: .
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CS,/Ip°: 1,11 tsaturtlay, hire, a member
or the Commune and Delegate or
Safety, camel, the 11(1 , 4,1, alai summoning
:ill those wan were uudrr sent- led) or penal
servitude told them they W 1. 1 .0 till Ir,e.
Antis x,lll uniforms were then given 111
1.110111, 1111.1 immediately commenced at 5,1010
of slaughter tor the suspected prisoners,
among whom %vitro fill 1.!4•1101111 . 111444, wan V. 1.110
all killed. rove other gendarmes in the in
firmary est.:m.l. A hout7o'cloch the newly
armed guards bring either drunk or ,t',',,,
its' with their bloody Nvorli, 1.111, of the
warders or the prison, Langevin, opened
the cell doors and invited the prisoners to
ot.ake a rush to save their tiers. Acting
upon this advice, NI. Evrard and many
others got through the gates, and dispersing
immediately, solecced,sl to elleeting their
Frallei , lllo Sarvoy reiva.ts In thy
ri,tutot.s a 14,11 , ...0011.1141 110 11:14 inn With
•':ut illustrious physician %vim Lied loft
Paris for a flex hours, and NV:s
return,•' and who expressed the (minim ,
that ene of the chief the terrible
scenes Wide!, Iteeoilliillnied the li nnl /1111, •
IH - e.imic,ll of the e,lllllllllleit. oul lrrealc was it
eollLlgi.oll4 The
sends of the Parisians, lie said, were grad
ually unhinged by the prisations et the
'rho revolt of the Mlle el \leech
gave the last Mom: to brains which Were
already shaken and at length the greater
part ot the population went ntv ing
The ref..., is of the u,iddlu m are riot of
siinihtr examples. " • '
Women, are under such eireumMillll
- fiercer and more reckless than
men. ' Phis iv 1 / 1 '1•ILIISII their nervous system
1 , 1 more developed, their !trains am weaker,
and their sensiltilittes more wilt,, 111311
Lllo`lo Of the stronger sox ; and they are
eon st'rluenllV lar Ilangr.roivi and do
much more harm • • None or them
knew exactly whet they were lighting for;
they Were pussessed by one full.llll Vilfll/11-i
forms of the religious mania -that which
impelled the Jansenists Io P/f1.111,1
401V1.4, With a strange delight In 11/011 r. 111,,,
avutest k mil, ^ • • ' 1'11,111f:1i who throw
1110111141.11,4% i)II thin 1t1131111.1, of the soldiers
111 11 01.1•11 tell
11111111teM utter utterly prostrate and hogging
for mercy, They Were no more cowards
In Lilo 13,1, Moue Ih.an they Seer, 11111,04 in
the first -they were simply lAIIOIIIIOII.
I=!
A bout '2 Tu,clay worning,Mr.
.1. Shinn, re,iding at Om nonthw, L r•
ner of Broad t.treet4, l'hiladel •
111111, wan iltVlll,lll.ll Ly 111111 1/1 hi, Hl:l"Vitllii,
IVIII, Maid 1.111,11 1,1,0 bllrgial (110
1101140. .\lr. Shinn went down htair4 ail.l
unto a light in tho hack kitchen. A o.ni•
municitting door wan ell] Mill a purl
tick wan in MO top. ill, beard 1111.11 WI tLa
other lido try t, pry it open. Mr. Hhinn
at onto went, out tint front /lour and 11,111,11
LW , / gentleinvil nu the corner, whom he
asked Di amMlmt him. 110 111.0 nummonod
IWO C 141,111 1 .11 to!, were pa,ong, and all of
them going inn, Lino t0i1,,., a uidu Will,. Wail
1111 , 1 I.llliy went lilt into We yard.
iiiiing bark they hmiltl the light mtill ur the
kitchen, and a . 11,11111y lying tin the floor,
but Maw 1111 i/1111
:qr. Storm thou lit a phial• 41r Impor, and
went. to an 4111(1.1140, so 111 4 111 a nut) wan
0)111111. 111 4 44,1. 4 .1 (41 4 11 Into thin ;
101 l >I r. SWIM nu nio•c•tmg thin.; wa4 un a..-
comid we wont bark 1., chip ouLll olve, and
i•rimpheil behind the iloor found a
Ina!), NIIOIII 110 ilk, 41•1 . 7.,1 and tusk In th,
kitchen. fine of the CaIMICII now went hi
siearch of the pOlicu, nod AS 00011 aS hu had
„one attellifit , 4l tol,vape; (1110
made fur the dour, hit II ligh Bradley, the
other cabman, seized and held him. The
other picked tip a Ilatdron and threw it at
Dr. E. 1.. Iteakirt, residing at Twentieth
and Spruce streets, who was one of the
gentlemen who carte in. 'File missile
struck him on the head, inflicting severe
wounds, and parried away apiece of the
scalp. Mr. Shinn. however, seized 'he fel
low from behind until tier, onirers arrived,
who took him to the station house. They
are named Samuel NlcUlintock and henry
Desmoulin. In the afternoon Alderman
Kerr committed them for trial.
The Waterbury (Conn.,) American says
that in thu historical sketches of the town
of %Watertown, Conn., can be found thu bil
lowing records:
"Died, January 14, ISI3, BeLsey, second
wife of James Merriam."
" Died, November 17. ISI3, Abigail, third
wife of James Merriam."
Our informant adds: •' The precise date
when No. 1 was Installed is not definitely
known, but the writer, who was young at
the time, recollects it was said that Mr.
Merriam lived with the three wives within
twelve months."
This reminds us of the cemetery in New
London county, whore is a lot containing
live graves, ono in the centre, the others
near by at the four points of the compass.
The inscription on the latter read, respec
tively, after the name of the deceased,
"My I. Wife," "My 11. Wife," "My 111.
Wire." My 1111. Wife," while the central
stone bears the brief but eloquent espres•
slon, " Our Husband."
The City Council of Chicago, by a
large majority, has repealed the ordi
nance prohibiting the sale of liquor on
Sunday. The Mayor had proposed to
enforce it so as to prevent the sale of
lager beer.