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Voctrp.
13-Thelslir of August was the anniversary of
the birth of Waller Scott, and now, while his
hundredth blrth-day Is being celebrated,wher
ever the English language 114 spoken or under
stood, a republication of the following beau) I
ful and remarkable poem seems appropriate.
It was written by Charles Swain, of Mullein ,
ter, Englstni, arid first appeared a short Utile
fitter the death of Walter Scott. Only the
first part of the poem appears in the pub
11-fed works or the author. We copy from the
Washington of November In,
IMO. That paper bad already published part
Ist, and part 2nd WILS supplied from memory
by onr townsman, 5. Ifuahue Pohl er , ESII., who
saw That part published from an Interval of
some days after the appearance of the Unit In a
Detroit newspaper, alld at HMI I Irlle noted it.
Front the fact, that many of the verses do ma
appear in the published Volume ,a• Mr. Swain's
poems, It may he possl hie I hal b e vy were Wril •
len by aim) her.
PART I.
'TWII.4 morn, hut not. nu• ray t 1 1t :al
When !leant 3' S gla,lll.•ss
her light end Scott
"I'WILF3 morn. bill. ll:int and idiala
111,1111 I In•
And ehnd(Jue • like the e•lug, (If cloat
(Jilt e u tht• gill,.
FM . 10,1' Spirit st•i,l: , Ilii• iill , l lit II
o'vr I.t t. ~,tu cull barn, 14,111
flowers riliiage rife--
Whwie gotilus, II ke 11: n. still, ii 1111111
mighty 1.4,1 ms , or iillll , l
11.1 111,1 fort•vcr 11'0111 1111 . 13111 V, I.'l',
411111 Of 111111 kilt 1.
MlWejlt tLfar
ligyinnl I lin souring wing ni I
01 11111,111 111 . Sta ;
To drink In...rt.' 11..111
tulut of
before Ike ni lig
tutu 1,11111.
T 11, 1 .43 wily Witlling oil I Ile rally Irrl•r'%.'
1111111 lien ,
When
IL funeral I rale liy
Nlary nll tr•l'l
oilier ferule moved Ihero
Then I hose or mortal 111,1111,1,1. ml
youni‘jtiel no r,
WI. 11. It tln•It111 II 11(1 in 511 , 1 1
" CM/ l liln 111• i
WIIII4I, Main 11111g11.11,1 l :0104 I I I
Ith/I'Y .4'1114 a 111,11.1t , l orm,
whlrh ‘‘,11.4.111,111,
\‘ . 111.11 (11 . 011111,1 tit, sight wit II
1v IIIINII Int•ittit.st gitrit goitl.
\S'ivi 11. n 111 . 8.111? -N1..111001:111 II1.• tit,
..11,1r411,1" paNsotl int• by
'maul " Willi 111:1111
11111 i 11/1.1 . 4,
.1 . 11/0 .. :i1.111111.1Ws " 1).10,11'
111011111 , 1' 11,1114 .111(,•,
111,• 11:1111 11111, •.11'1
itf llll•
Tht 'lll Its 1 1 .1•1" wltit.t.lttqftty ‘yttsit't•t•
111,1", hart, lay Ittw ,
And, wII ll 111111, ulnr Ictits " ,
t:lttitt•tt and el t•it ttl ,yttt.
Alit tturt " yttict. 1.., 111, t•, 114
111111 Si filIC'S 111141141,114 %VIII',
Ile ltd 010 W 1111.11.1111.111 1 ,1 1 ,. 1.1 . 011 d, Ittli
" lell V 11111.."
Kox L, 111111 . V1•11111g Ili ilk Filhlt . ill'
111111111" MC/liked I/S.t.
\VI 111.1 . (111111"—"J lliia"
1e111.14 110.1:
"1111 y Nlatlbcrltig," 1130, T11..1 Ilicre
Mull by (hat afflict ing sight ;
" as 11111.11
Ellatigtmull's height
Hi demit awl grave, " Mmilt kill, •
ittnltlnt I hat htirlal
And " 11(.11111.rot." if, Ii I. sl tk
nnoLriscil tor " A nl.l Lang Sync; '
Shirt nntrvin•tl gallauL " Nl , l ni) rc,"
" until al,ne ;
Fter " ks NVardi , utt . ' , ." I..rt
1.1),nd lii uiar
WWI rortoraoli, o.olo• I.
Alactiri.g . or's" vlatt
O 10,1 lhoh.tlus'" hry phaled shrill and h.
"1t.., Roy's" hold
'l'h,• I,llllht " Ickshd her cross nth'
Its saint,' I'ilt
A "'Val' is !Ile: • ill. sltzlosl."
Nrxi I . lPlle In Trlelimrholy N,lih
vl,l mill near'',
tilr Ethvard,l,:tirti 4,f Ellishlw, Ihr to zi•ti,
rl " Ihvart."
his left In I.lini.t blue, 11.1 Mill. , I
'r•lit pious sculptor of tho uru ,I,l`l
Nlortallty."
r • i• - .‘ al.w. t•., -
“Igttly
nilght. nought avail;
I , II tlii his charg•r I.l:ke
rll,lll 1111 . 1,11111i1 . 1 Wl.ll,
A Ilti 111110 .. 11,11Arkickulc Nltivlcli,v rat It
19=
IL ru,r, IL yotlug . while t'osp,
6M/11111 . 111h' %ViIIIIIht `11,111.4 I
I'II , BIIII Idle,
lientim;"
\Vint ' . llLltrthledllti-4," that Nlloi,l hilistl, II
fro , l deep 1 ,, '
Attit "Egli'," With 'he 14 ,
"inike or Argyll.,"
ith lolly brow, high, dark "I
veiviwo.l,l" nil viwrod.
Whii au !hi. false "I,titil ‘vi
03'I! iltl 114 ink II I ;
Whilst, graceful as nilivi.ty l ILVII,'IIISIII rue
eitINO nod eum,
A pproni.ll,l I hi. bettilly of Jill hearts - I
"Ilrlde or 1..unt0..r."...-
Theit " Anneet. 1.3.1 e.,” the. fah y eith.e.te of III;
11,111 se lug
Tho "I(uIPhl. of A rele.emeler e " lend he., I
" II Ighleethl Ne.e.t.; "
" Ittelge.lty "L o rd Nto.let. le IC ne
" fleet lily vlow
liskill.m .. 1111111rvit ca• 1111.
" MIIII . II 0111111101111. - I
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(Omni( of
A 1141" F. 114111' II
VIIIIIIIII " 11'111110W; "
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1111111111111 "
i 111 I lio
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,14 4 11r00d lIHII 11111011110'
14111..110111.vh whoi Lilo 1,110,1 M1WI•1 p, uvi
110 111/11i1
I.l l .tili Ir ili•h 'III 111
II till 111 II 111 I , N, II 11 1 1 glitllTl'M 1,1 "
II 11 1111011.
I' ART 11.
I milW Ihr t•otirlly %, tilt 1110
Iltt. I on: -
it I Iliko 1 . 113 . 111.1.111U,11i hi' "‘‘.
!.•
.1, "1 , ..11004,"." 11.11011, - II
“ILO) . 111 1.1111 I" March,' I
TO 111.. sloW Moli.lll II 61111111 I ,•1111111
tor EctIttn,01111111.."
Awlshe, nu w I 14.••• lin 111 rlul I irc.sv
...t
Fitr glory of WI 111%1 , 1111,4 nrirr hoor
Thu h.voi In high and
and loe•ly vol.,
"111ti1y" Iho illurlrU nla, yo•I hn
'lloven Nrul.a•.•
nrin clevc,l,4l "CRI111,1111.," 1111...x11111
Imettlev[Lii," whuno 55111 . 11
early 1,111411101 1111111 e;
Tile 0W110411.110 " ht. pllgll
111111 M 111.1111.,
spirit Irllllnllbn ~.or the 1.,101,,
111111E03 Its [lost J lv Inv.
With " f,elvester," Lard of" Reid iworl 11,
mournful 1110.1 0110 01,11
The gifted, great "Elizabeth," high Eng',
matchless Queen ;
"Tressillan's" wild but, manly glance,
" Varney's" darker gaze
Mought " Amy Rolisarr fora
fair for earthly praise.
Next, "Noma" of the "Fitful Head," the
" Reinkelmar"
Hut shivered Iv her magic wand, and dlt
eye of flame;
Young "Minna Troll," the lofty-souled, it
"Cleveland's" love betrayed,
The generous old " Udaller," and " Nforda
Island Maid,"
Slow followed "Lord thenvarloch," first. o
Scotia's gallant names,
With the fair romantic Margaret, and the ern
dite "King James ; "
'The wooed and wronged " liermlone," whos
lord all hearts despise;
Sarcastic " Malagrowther," and the faitlifu
"Monoplies."
Then stoat "Sir Geoffrey of the Peak and Per
ern " swept near,
Brldgenorth," and the "Fiery (Duke
with Knight and Cavalier; "
There fairest of fantastic elves, "Fenella,"
glided on;
And "Alice," from . whose beau tectit eyes the
light of Joy was gone.
da)e/ il;aitt44et
VOLUME 72
And "Quentin's " haughty helm was there,
"La Halafre's" stout lance;
"Orleans,"—" Crevecoeur "—and brave "Dm
nols," the noblest Knight of France;
The wild" Ilayraddln," followed by the silent
" can-de-Troyes ; "
The mournful "Ladies flammellne," and "Isa
bel-de-Croyes."
Pale sorrow marked young "Tyrrel'h"
grief dimmed sweet " Clara's " eye,"
And;Ronan's I t Ird " breathed many a pray
er for days and friends gone ;
•' oh, mourn not," pious "Cargill erlktl;
"should his death woe Impart,
Wlause cenotaph's the Universe, whose elegy's
t,pe Heart? "
"Iht Lary,•' famed "Cathy:lllml,"
uteri, "Gwellwytt" marehtal 011;
barn and helmet, pike :and how, dart
ghtlve, and Javelin shone;
"Sir Damian," and the fair young . llEvt•lint••
rased there,
Stout "WI unit the hopel,ss"il ,, e,"wilh
dlshevelled halr.
Along In solemn grantloto . ,wopt Ilu banner,
And (I.•ep and 'far the el at 11,11 11;0 NOM
,11 rg, d,f the grave;
In caul, the • . (liamplon of 111, , Cross," ml,l
!Lear hi ut, Itko a star,
qut,nly
the regal
Itughter el "Navarre
Salad " of proud and
4,1 Err.
rinerly mien
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Nlk4art•ill
"Edit ll
,4,t11,1 many a thought dis
rank' 011 rank, a glorikat. tram, rod , .
- I:l.l.glas or Palest ill,"
Imre t gallant. ' . l..:tirborti" lily nisvi
Dating laitlo,
loov,ly will] III• 1/1:1V1 . 'lO 4 l
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1,1 1,11..,,e1 woi —.lollll.
I 111.. To‘v.,;-
II " ..I ilI, Il hi.l ill,
1.1 ill
Hu I 1 I
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And Ihrre Ihr erats 14,1 . Otte
"C•aiimaller," Lill ;
ail lii. ‘vhoria c•lll,dry aa.t'''
11,1,11•-1111.11•41 " :11111 1111 . 111,11
"ll' Nlald h.-
11.11111 , p1.1 " Ili 1.1111'411'in: alla
rolld " :slargara ot all.l Ihr tali hill
" A 1 .110111," 11111 i ILr"luig itl 11.'.. 1111
•• 11111111 , !I:0111111:
11111,1110'MS " 111,11111 . 1 . -1111;v1, - 111111
I'llxlll x 11111• 111,• gallon( "iluillre) liy 111
glorious ugh !hi. 1.1'"111•"
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11111•;
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Ely 1114 X 1111•,
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And In 11.t111,1 tint pritlct•ly tratil
"I U. Wall ithit,ll%
\;•a . 11111 . "Aug.ln.'s" latirt.l tt rtalit, ‘,llll
little ne'l•l• shall rnit.nlin•;
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Hoc!.
Slotol Oil W4111'01,11 1111,1 1111t 4
111 r ill the
\4 focs, who 11.1,1. upon ....me 51.1111
and 1,1 Ign
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1,111111(111
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I)",l!—.lit•lli , a.glit va.lll w:141•111,vil
NA'llvre, lit lil.vlors . and moos; n, f:;ir Hoch
sonna Inrino4l ninon4ll that Il•ngthonitO4
host !--nit forth loy vlsion
ali! lnot moornnil dronin provoil true--
Ho; lu:noornd Sooll ,sas dn.!.
ll=
0,11,11 111141 Ihe vcri,, nI tr•or -bull
will be Gn•iul
i
pi•rklinble i4lovr
ftliscrllanco 115
Curious Lunatic
lii 0 gentleman, shout we Will
call Mr. A., became, under his father's
will, the lire-tenant of considerable
landed estates in the colonies and in
this country. lie also became entitled
under thatywill to a life-interest in per
sonalty to the value or xlOO,OOO and up
ward. lie made a will giving all his
properly to an auni, his sole relative;
to her also, he gas verbally, for het
lire only, a mansion belonging to him
at the west end of London. Previously*
Nlr. A. had been an ullicer in the artily,
in a regiment which was disbanded in
I 557 ; and where It was last stationis
Mr. A. made the acquaintance or a .I%lr
L., whom lie employed professionally
On the disbanding of the regiment Mr.
A. took up his abode at the elder hole
in a certain town. At llrst he hail
Hitting-roont on the ground-linor ant
twit-room ; then ho had a second be,,
room for au occasional visitor; next he
arranged to have the itssenifily room on
Ito first floor uud u 1.1011-I'olllll adjoining.
lie originally agreed to pay L'_l 12A. WI.
a week, upon condition that he gave op
the assembly room when required for
',oldie meetings or large parties ; after
wurti,in the Spring of I see, he objected to
fulfil that condition and the rent raised
to .e..toti a your, m I
ei n the spring ()I' IHnu
to Catto a year. Mr. A.'s yearly bill for
board was about Ills aunt had an
I n t,rvi t tw with low In im:ts In tlw
groutitfilloor:Hilling•rotan, lit' ittivwd
her kindly, and lie told her he had lalten
up Ills residence there In the hope of
itimedng himself' with its !etym., ete.,
but he said that from constant sullfirlng
lire was n burden to 111111, and he /16$11
1101/11/11 , 11 1110 1111p40/Inloll 1/i MO 11111011 110110 .
erty. Up to that his habits were
Ow. , of a gentleman, but he dressed
below lIIH ewitlition In Ilfe. Afterward
Ill+ureaslonnlly visited his aunt In Lon
don, and he was then ((leanly in film per
son and In his Mays. At th Is poi 101 l he hod
a few sporting tiequallitances In the
neighborhood of the town in which he
lived. Toward the close of 1538 he took it
least) for twenty-one years of a farm or
rm acres, at yourly rent of tutu. In Is:,11
ho suddenly Nl4llll. to Germany, but he
shortly returned to the hotel, and he
then gave Mr. I, already named, the
manageniettt of his stud and farin. Ili(
erased to visit Ills aunt, and no one was
admitted into Ills room nut. Mr. It. and
010 111111111)401' of the hotel. 1 - lie aunt
wrote to him oil many ()evasions after
[Sae, mid especially to the Spring of 1567,
when she 'sallied lit him her intention
to marry,ntol afterward of her marriage,
but he never took any notice or the let
ters. Site also went to the hotel about
°nee a year and nought to sec him,
11111, wile always told 1/) the l a ndlady
Or her sister that .Mr. A. saw no one
and the 111111 t 110V01' 111,41,11.01 i on seeing
him, because she did not, desire to 011 find
him. She continued her visits, how
ever, up lit April, kill. Mr. b. wits a
C011141.11.11t visitor of Mr. A. until Septem
ber, ittaS, and after that date the mana
ger of the hotel alone had access to him.
From 1860 Mr. A. had about seventy
horses In charge of L , and thirty car
riages, and none of these were ever used.
While at the hotel, Mr. A. bought two
or three houses, winch he never occu
pied nor attemped to let; he also took
leases of farms, and Mr. L. was to look
after these horses, farms and houses;
but it does not appear that ally accounts
were ever rendered by him. In 1570,
when Mr. A. was reputed to be about
thirty-seven years of age, the facts
that Mr. A. was living, in extraordi
nary seclusion, and that his habits
were . scarcely consistent with sanity,
come to the knowledge of the com
missioners in lunacy, and a medical
member of the board was dispatched to
the hotel. The manager was inquired
for, but was not forthcoming. The doc
tor and the secretary made their way
upstairs to Mr. A.'s room, on the first
floor, the landlady pointing outthe door.
In the ante-chamber they met the man
ager, 'who evinced much consternation.
The yisitors passed by him and entered
an inner and perfectly dark room. A
loud voice, that of a man surprised and
alarmed, demanded repeatedly what
was the matter—who was entering. The
visitors made a conciliatory reply, stated
the official and friendly nature of their
visit, and groped their way onward until
the chaos of lumber brought them to a
stand still. They called forlights,and two
candles were produced and lighted. The
scene which presented itself baffles de
scription. From wall to wall, and to a
considerable height from the floor, the
room was literally blocked up with a
heterogeneous mass of furniture and
rubbish, from the midst of which
emerged the head of a middle-aged and
dark-bearded man. A single tortuous
lane led through this lumber toward
him. As they picked their way, some
destruction of glass and crockery was
unavoidable; they could only get
through the furniture edgeways, and
the floor was so strewn with rubbish
that it was scarcely possible to find any
space whereon to tread. Piled up on
what appeared to be a medley of
chairs and tables, and also lying in
confusion underneath, were bottles of
all sorts and sizes, full and empty, great
quantities of newspapers, bundles of
candles, broken jugs, pans and basins, -
old clothes, plates of all kinds, large
baskets, a clock, parcels of stale biscuits,
tilt buckets, one upon another, every
thing in disorder, and nothing appar
ently for use. No lire was in the grate,
the curtains were drawn across the will
dow,and nodaylight was visible. Behind
a table covered with innumerable bags,
lay Mr. A., on a small, broken down
horse-hair sofa, in the centre of this
mass, and closely hemmed in on every
siile by it. He courteously insisted on
holding one of the candles; the other
was soon fixed in the neck of an empty
wine bottle; and, shunting face to face
with B r.A.for no chai r was available,the
visitors conversed with him for 2 hours.
By their desire the manager quitted the
room SO SIMII as the candles had been
;Mr. A. was envelopel in a rug, appar
ently without, any other clothing. His
face was tolerably clean, but somewhat
ale; his anus were lean, and his right
hand very dirty ; the nailsof both hands
were very long and begrimed. Ile
stated that he was in perfect health, but
he complained of rheumatism in the
knees and lingers. He admitted that
he could INA walk or even stand up in
•ollsopiellee “trevent ',,,tartietion (,this
egs, und that his sleep at night was
Nuallv broken. Ills manner wits high-
ly nervous, and his speech somewlia,
hest tat log, but he betrayed no delusions
whatever. Ili* observations and reidies
were often, Indeed, very acute, and his
conversation showed that he must
have received a good educatam. Ills
gentlemanly denicarior contrasted most
painfully .with his position. The
strongest and almost only proof of his
Insanity WaS Ills awn eXplailatinn of Ills
1.011.1111011. Ile Insisted thal that was
simply the result of faulty habits, which
hail gradually overpowered him, and
which 110 one would take the
trouble to free him. lle repeatedly (le
ctured that no opposition hail ever been
malls t , Ills departure by any one. That
lie had not washed jro years he did not
conceal ; lie said he hail abstained front
(he use of water because lie had found
that washing aggravated the rheuma
tism in his lingers. Ills food consisted
always of only two meals, tea at 5
and three cutlets, with water or tea at
I() I'. .Nl. Ile expressed his unfavorable
opinion of the hotel accommodation,
and desired to leave Immediately.
The atmosphere (If the room was
of course very iitl'ensive. Mr. A. own
ed to the possession of property, which
he 'Said was managed by a gentleman
holding a high official appointment,
whose name he declined to give, and in
whose probity he had perfect faith. lle
admitted also his ownership of a farm
managed by 'Mr. 1,. already named, who
is a veterinary surgeon, and in whose
integrity he had also perfect faith ; but
lie had never called upon either gentle
men to account to hint, and neither hail
(lime so for a long period. matter
gave him 110 anxiety, but lie said so soon
as lie left the hotel lie could and would at
tend to everything, but till then he would
attend to nothingsave his liberation. lie
Was so keenly simsitive to his position
that he more than once deAred them
not to scrutinize his wretched covering
or the articles in disorder about the
department. Ile also deprecated any
examination of his crippled legs, but
chielly because he did not wish to learn
that they were, contrary to his belief,
permanently contracted. Ile had final
ly quarrelled with Mr. 11. because, as
lie said, that gentleman would not as
sist in extricating hint front - his extraor
dinary mode of life. At the lunacy of
lice the landlady admitted hotel charges
against him of front c 100 to 1500 a year.
She said he had :( rooms communicating
but. that he oven piedonlylone,and he had
to lire occasionally ill the ante-chamber.
The apartment Mr. A. occupied was
spacious, and some engravings hung on
the walls ; but the paper was tattered,
and the ceiling NVIIS smoky and dirty ;
with the ante.room it formed the assem
bly room of the hotel. Both had the
appearance of long neglect, but only
that occupied by Mr. A. was in the con
dition described, and it NVas evident that
it had not been cleaned for years. The
accumulation of rubbish looked like the
work of years also. Mr. A. said that an
olrensive remark from a houseinahl.who
had long sinco left the hotel, originated
his refusal to 1111 N i, anything cleared
away or touched by her; but his con
stant anxiety to leave the hotel had been
the cause of subsequent neglect. tic
further stated that, by his OWII
ex
pressed desire, the door was locked day
and night by the manager. Ile alluded
to the inquisition In the \Vynilliant
case, and said that he would oppose 1111
proceedings In lunacy to the utmost of
Iris power, although he hail often
thought the question of Ills sanity would
be raised. Ills disgust with his condi
tiot,n, and Ills desire to alter It, he relied
opt\ n as proving his sanity, and he said
II a ly attempt WitS made to prove 11 lin
lust ne, he would spend Ills 11,111111 e to
prole thelain trary, the same Hale I'o
- ( . :1,10 Till.
•• lull the bedroom was worse
.
the apartment, wide!' the intim ,
.itii le gent letnan occupied. The pallet' t ,
WIN potiveyell to the asylum, and owing
ill II 14 CHIIIIIOI 1.011111 iOW he 111111 to 110 ,
I'lllT Olt to cud (rout! HO! VIII', l'lllooll In IL
l'illl r, he appoart.d onahh , tu,.11 oprlgid,
Imi howtqf down, with his load over
lilm knees, driovilip, around him II p 11.1.0
Or 1/11140 to VOIO.OIII Illm I'l-1111'1-, the ON•
11111011'0 Or allllll ii 11101`11 Hill, Ills
I.OIIIIIOIIIOICO was 111110 and haggard, hill
II IN holly generally was fairly Holt rlslital,
I lin heard was sliagg,y and Iwo feet in
length, I ilmappitrel ~,iimi.t...ii of 1111. Icicle
a butz. id ',Lay mum,' ;. liii,i,q . thin WIN
ILlll'ell Or greasy and all 11)' Vali yillilll.ollllll
his shoulders, fastened with long phis;
while around his 10111 H wan IL Still 11101'0
1111WIStiligly 111111 y lowiti , a ellolt, fas
tened in the salmi manner, Ind so nar
row and worn as to he totally Inadequate
awl useless. Ills body was otherwise
lti a state if nudity. Ills ankles, feel
and toes were lilt by beyond descrip
tion. The Unger-11101s were enormously
long. The legs bullied nearly a right.
angle with the thigh, resisting tiny ex
tension. (ll' course he WWI properly
treated 11l the Itsylutii, his sensitiveness
always evincing Itself. Willie appreiti
all ng the results of the Interference, lie
thotwlit it rough and unkind. Ile grad
ually became inure cheerful, anti at last
I liu only semblance of /I 11(.111HO/11 which
he entertained was that It was necessary
to have some one of stronger will than
his own, which he found Inadequate, to
assist Mtn In resuming his position hi so
ciety. It was hi November lust that the
case was submitted to the lunacy com
missioners as one calling fur an inquisi
tion, there being no doubt at that tune
of .Mr. A.'s mental unsoundness and un
fitness to he intrusted with the charge of
himself or of his property. However,
on Mr. A.'s unopposed application awl
evidence of his mental improvement,
proceedings were postponed until they
were at length stayed and determined
upon the ground of the patient's sanity,
and it was ordered by the lord's justices
that he should have the full manage
, meat and control of his property. The
discharge of the patientfrom the asylum
followed as a matter of course. This
, beneficial result was realized in six
months from the interference of the
; lunacy commissioners after a voluntary
and miserable seclusion of fully ten
years.—London Advertiser, July 31.
Mr. Brown, of Piscataway, N. J., is a
specimen of marvellous charity. Last
Sunday he offered a prayer to the Al
mighty, craving the forgiveness ofsome
sacrilegious miscreants who had repeat
ly despoiled the sanctuary of carpets and
other articles.
Eight deaths are reported thus far
from the explosion of the boiler of the
steamer Chatauqua, at Maysville, N. Y.
A private despatch from Maysville re
ceived at Buffalo, says that the boiler
was new last Spring, and had only GO
pounds of steam on when the explosion
occurred, and that the cause of the ex
plosion ispunknown.
LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING AUGUST 23, 1871.
The Domestic Life of Jefferson.
One of the most interesting books of
the day is entitled " The Domestic Life
of Thomas Jefferson," compiled from
family letters and reminisc races by his
great grand-daughter, Sarah N. Ran
dolph :
"Among other traits of Mr. Jeffer
son's boyhood, his love for athletic
sports holds a prominent place. His
father seems to have been entitled to
the name of a Virginia Hercules. He
was early engaged in combat with wild
beasts, and for days at a time was forced
to live on and,
flesh. So great was his
strength, that when standing between
two hogsheads of tobacco lying on
their sides, he could raise or " head"
them both up at once. Young Jeffer
son inherited the vigor and the manly
tastes of his stalwart sire. He was early
instructed in all the 'rural sports and ex
ercises of his day. While still a school
boy, he was a good swimmer, a fearless
rider, and an ardent sportsman, spend
ing a great portion of his time in wan
dering after game along the sides of the
romantic South-West Mountains. He
was not more than two years old when
his father moved to Tuckahoe, yet he
often declared that his earliest recollec
tion in life was of then being banded
up to a servant on horseback, by whom
he was carried on a pillow for a long
distance. "He also remembered that
later, when five years old, he one day
became impatient for his school to be
out, and, going out, knelt behind the
house, and there repeated the Lord's
Prayer, hoping thereby to hut ry up the
desired hour."
The general mode of life at that time
bad a decided flavor of patriarchal sim
plicity. One ofJellerson'sgrandsons ask
ed hint, on one occasion, how the wen
of his father's day spent their time. He
smiled, and, in reply, said: "My fath
er had a devoted friend, to whose house
he would go, dine, spend the night,
dine with hint again on the second day,
and return to Shadwell in the evening.
His friend, in the coarse of a day or two
returned the visit and spent the same
length of time at his house. This oc
curred once every week ; and thus, you
see, they were together four days out of
the seven."
At the age of seventeen, the future
President was sent to William and
Mary College, where he became inti
mate In several of the most distinguish
ed families of Williamsburg, In some of
which the vice of gaming was curried
to a pernicious extent. Jefferson, how •
ever, never knew one card from another,
and never allowed the game to be play
ed in his own house. The charms . of
the society Into \Odell he was thrown
never had the power to divert Ids mind
front his literary pursuits. " lie stud
ied lifteen hours a day. During the
most closely occupied days or his col
lege life it was his habit to study until
Iwo o'clock at night, and rise at dawn;
the day Ile spent in close application
the fully recreation being a run at twi
light loft certain stone which stood at a
point a mile beyond the limits of the
town. Ills habits of study were kept
up (halm: his vacations, which were
spent it Shad well ; and though he did
not cut himself offfrom the pleasures of
social intercourse with his friends and
family, yet he still devoted nearly three
fourths of his time to his books. Ile
rose In the morning as soon as the
hands of a clock placed on the mantel
piece in his chamber could be distin
guished In the gray light of early dawn.
After sunset he crossed the Itivanna in
a little canoe, which was kept exclu
sively for his own use, and walked up
to the summit of hie loved Monticello,
where he was having the apex of the
mountain leveled down, preparatory to
building."
At the time of his leaving college, he
must have been one of the most accom
plished young min in Virginia. Ile was
an excellent mathematician, and well
grounded in Greek, Latin, French,
Spanish, add Italian, though lie could
scarcely have been, as his biographer
states, a " finished scholar" in either of
those languages. John Adams, in his
diary, thus speaks of him: •• Duane
says that Jefferson is the greatest rub
ber-off of dust that he has met with ;
that he has learned French, Italian,
and Spanish, and wants to learn Ger
man."
His school and college education was
considered by hint as only the vestibule
to that pala:T learning which is reach
ed by no "royal road." lie once told a
grandson that from the titne when, as a
boy, he had turned oil wearied from
play and first found pleasure in books,
he had never sat down in idleness. And
when we consider the vast fund or learn-
ing and wide range of information nu,},
sensed by hint, and which lin his ad
vanced years won for hint the appella
tion of a "walking encyclopedia," we
can well understand how this must have
been the case. His thirst for knowledge
was insatiable, and he seined eagerly all
means of obtaiiting it. It was his habit
in his Intercourse with all classes of men
—the mechanic as well as the 111:111 of
silence—to turn the conversation upon
that subject with which the man was
be'Sbaetitittilited, whether it was the con
struction of a wheel or the anatomy of
au extinct species of animals ; and after
having drawn from him all the informa
tion which lie possessed, on returning
home or retiring to his private apart
ments, It was all set doWn by him In
writing—thusarrangilig It methodical ly
and fixing It In his mind.
An anecdote which hum been often
told of him, will give the reader an idea
of the varied extent or his knowledge.
Ott ono occasion, while traveling, he
stopped at a country hin. A stranger,
who did not know who lie was, entered
into conversation with this plainly
dressed anti unassuming traveler. Ile
Introduced one subject after another in
to the conversation, and found him per
fectly acquainted with each. I•'illed
with wonder, lie seized the first oppor
tunity to Inquire or tilt, 'Room' who
his guest was, saying that, when lie
spoke of the law, lie thought he was a
lawyer; then turning Om uonversation
on medicine, felt sure he was it physi
cian ; but, having touched on theology,
he la•canie convinced that he was n
clergyman, "Oh," replied the land
lord, "illy I thought you forms' ill.'
1 , 11 . 1111g1 . 1' ties then 110.1011.
1011011 1111101t1' 11111 i tr 11 1 . 1 ,11. 1.
111111 10111111 MI) 110111)10 111111 simple In Ills
manners, sells Jol'oll4oll,
\llel' II IS marriage in 177'2, his life at
Monticello was a continuation of his
literary activity at, college (101111 , 11M1
Wllll IIOV,IIIOII to the rapping
plll'AllltS ( . 01111try Id e
a. "Much thou
and expense were devoted by hint to
ornamenting and improving his house
and grounds A great lover of nature,
he found nis fftvorite recreations lit out
of•door enjoyments, mid it wits his habit
to the day of ids death, no matter what
his oectipation, our what office lie held,
to spend the hours la•tween one and
three in the afternoon on horsehavic.—
Noted for his bold and graceful horse
manship, he kept as ritlitig-horses only
those of the best blood of the old \'lt
glnin In the days of his youth
he was very exacting or his groom, in
having his horses always beautifully
Ice t. • and it Is said that it was his
habit, ' when his riding-horse was
brought up for him to mount, to
brush his white cambric handker
chief across the animal's shoulders and
send it buck to the stable if any dust
was left on the handkerchief. II is gar
dell-b001( shows the Interest which he
took in all gardening and farming ope
rations. This book, in which he began
to make entries as early as the year 1760,
and which he continued to keep all
through life, except when front home,
has everything jotted down in it, from
the date of the earliest peach-blossom
to the day when his wheat was ready for
the sickle. His personal, household, and
farm accounts were kept with the pre
cision of the most rigid accountant, and
hewas arare instanceof a man ofenlarged
views and wide range of thought, being
fond of details. Theprice of his horses,
the fee paid to a ferryman, his little gifts
to servants, his charities—whether great
or small—from the penny dropped Into
the church-box to the handsome dona
tion given for the erection of a church—
all found a place in his account-book."
An interesting account of Mr. Jeffer
son's life in Paris, when he had succeed
ed Dr. Franklin as United States Min
ister, is given in the following para
graphs:
Nothing could have been more con
genial or delightful to him than the
society in which Jefferson moved in
Paris. At the head of an elegant estab
' lishment, as an American and the
friend of Lafayette, his house was the
favorite resort of all the accomplished
• and gallant young French officers who
had enthusiastically taken up arms in
I defense of the great cause of liberty In
i the New World ; while,as a philosopher
• and the author of the "Notes on Vir
ginia," his society was sought for and
enjoyed by the most distinguished sav
ants and men of science, who thronged
from all parts of Europe to the great
French capital. Nor were the ease and
grace of his address, the charms of his
eloquent conversation, and the varied
extent of his learning, lost upon the
witty and handsome women who were
found at the court of the amiable young
Louis, the Sixteenth, and of his queen,
the lovely Marie Antoinette—so sadly
pre-eminent for beauty and misfortune.
His social intercourse with them, and
the pleasant friendships formed for
many, we discover in his gracefully
written letters to them.
Mr. and Mrs. John Adams were in
Paris with Jefferscm, and Mrs. Adam
pays a graceful triDute to his talents and
worth in her letters home, and in one of
hew speaks of him as being one of the
choice ones of the earth." His inter-
- _
course with his two colleagues, Dr.
Franklin and Mr. Adams, was of the
most delightful character, and by both
he was sincerely loved and esteemed.
The friendship then formed between
Mr. Adams and himself withstood, in
after years, all the storms and bitterness
of political life, at a time when, perhaps,
party feeling and prejudice ran higher
than ever before.
\Vheu Franklin returned home, load
ed with all the honors and love that the
admiration of thb French people could
lavish on him, Jefferson was appointed
to take his place as Minister from the
United States at the Court of St. Ger-
mains. "You replace 1)r. Franklin,"
said Count tie Vergennes, the French
Premier, to h succeed him ; no
one could replace hint," was Jefferson's
ready reply. Perhaps no greater proof
of Jefferson's popularity iu Paris could
be given than the fact that he so soon
became a favorite in that learned and
polished society in which the great
Franklin had been the lion of the day.
We must make room for the dentin-
ion of Mr. Jefferson's domestic lifeand
cubits after his retirement from public
ife, written by his grandson, Col. Jef-
ferson Randolph.
Ms manners were of that polished
school of the old Colonial Government,
so remarkable in its day—under no cir
cumstances violating any of those minor
conventional observances which consti
tute the well-bred gentleman, courteous
and considerate to all persons. On rid
ing out with him when a lad, we met a
negro who bowed to us ; he returned his
bow; I did not. Turning to me, he
asked :
" Do you permit a negro to be more of
a gentleman than yourself'"
/Mr. Jefferson's hair, when young, was
of a reddish east; sandy as he advanced
in years; his eye, hazel. Dying in his
s4th yew•, he had not lost a tooth, nor
had one defective; his skin thin, peel
ing from hie face on exposure to the
sun, and giving it a lettered appearance;
the superficial veins so weak, as upon
the slightest blow to cause extensive
suffusions of blood—in early life, upon
standing to write fur any length of time
bursting beneath the skin; it, however,
gave hiw no inconvenience. His COUll
tenance was wild and benignant, and
attractive to strangers.
While ('resident, returning on horse
back from Charlottesvillewith company
whom lie had invited to dinner, and
who were, all but. ono or two, riding
ahead of him, on reaching a stream over
which there was no bridge, a man asked
him to take him up behind him and
carry him over. 'l'lle gentleman in the
rear coining up just as Mr. Jefferson had
put him (town and ridden on, asked the
man limo it happened that lie had per
mitted the others to pass without asking
them He replied :
"From their looks, I did not like to
ask them ; the old gentleman looked as
if he would (I() it, and I asked him." He
was very much surprised to hear that he
had ridden behind the President of the
United States.
Mr. Jefferson's stature was command
ing—six feet two and a half inches in
height,well-formeffindicatingstrength,
activity and robust health ; his carriage
erect ; step firm and elastic, which he
preserved to his last ; his temper natur
ally strong, under perfect control; his
courage cool and impassive. No one
ever knew him exhibit trepidation.—
His moral courage of the !Ugliest order
—his will limn and inflexible—it NV ELS
remarked of him that he never aban
doned a plan, a principle, or a friend.
A bold and fearless rider, you saw at a
glance, from his easy and confident seat
that he was master of his horse, which
was usually the line blood-horse of Vir
ginia. The only impatience of temper
he ever exhibited was with his horse,
which he subdued to his will by a fear
less application of the whip on
the slightest manifestation of res
tiveness. He retained to the lust his
fondness for riding on horseback; he
rode within three weeks of his death,
when, from disease, debility and age,
he mounted with difficulty. the rode
with contidence, and never permitted a
servant to accompany him; he was
fond of solitary rides and musing, and
said that the presence of a servant an
noyed 111111.
lie held In little esteem the education
which made . men Ignorant and helpless
as to the common necessl (A'S or life ; and
ho exemplified it by an Incident which
occurred to ayoung gentleman returned
from Europe, where he had been edu
cated. On riding out with his compan
ions, the strap of his girth broke at the
hole for the buckle; and they, perceiv
ing it all accident easily remedied, rode
on and left him. A plain man coming
111,, and seeing that his horse had made
a circular path In the road in his Impa
tience to get on, asked If he could aid
I,lm.
•' (Ili, sir," roptled the young man,
"if rim could (oily assist me to get it up
to rho next holo. l '
" Suppose you lot It out a 111)10 or two
on the other side," multi the man.
I Hs habits wore rogulttr and systematic,
Ile was a miser of his time, roue always
at thitvit, wrote find read until broultfant,
brealtlasled tiarly, 1111(1 11111011 front three
to four ' ; rollred fit tilmo, and to
hod from ton to olovon. Ile said, In his
last Ilinoms, that the nun hod not caught
111111 ill lot fur lifty yours.
Ile always mail' , Ills own tiro. Ile
liollllk 101111.1' but 1)110)' It day, a 'Thigh.
who., whoa ht. tr.)111
1111)1 much vogetOlil,
food, proroTilig cooltory, he
011n01 It 1101111) the moats more Lemitir.
Ito never 111'10111 anion!, spirits, or strong
winos, Snob wan Ids aversion to ardent
spirits, that when, In his last tlhleoo
Iris physitilan dosirtid 111111 to use ',randy
as art astringent, he (sada not 111(11100
111111 to talho it strong enough.
hponlaneour Conibtisllon
Front experiments lately tried by WO!
a our 111.14 Ski fall.
weans well established that certain arti
cles, KIWI' UN Obi wearing apparel, well
dried wood, ele,, are capable of genera
ting sulltelent heat 0)1111111CP 011111 l USLIMI
WILIMUt Ihcapplleatlon of lire. A piece
of old cotton saturated with linseed-oil,
and packed In a chest with old papers
and rags, he found, alter eight dap, so
shrivelled up that the rags looked as If
they hail been held near a lire. Again,
some old rags, to which no ()II had been
applied, were wrapped up with two or
three matches and placed In u till box,
which was hung ln a loft exposed to the
rays of an afternoon sun during very hot
wev.ther. After three or four days of
this test the box In which the rags had
been deposited was found to contain
only some well.blackened cinders. In
short, the various tests proved very , sat
isfactorily, we think, that not a few of
the numerous fires "supposed to he the
work of an incendiary" are caused by,
perhaps, a rag which has been used with
benzine, by the frugal housewife to clean
a coat, or by the heat which is known
to be generated from articles of silk, cot
ton, etc., shut up in a close room.
tses of Wood In Shoemaking
Wooden shoes are imported and sold
in New York City to many worthy
Dutchmen, who use them in wet
weather when travelling around in the
muck and mire of the cow-yard or stable
grounds, and that he the only purpose
for which they can be recommended.—
The American Artisan suggests the pos
sibility of wood being largely substituted
for leather in boots and shoe's for coun
try use. Wooden soles are not easily
fastened to leather uppers ; pegs, screws
and nails all fail in durability when
driven through wooden soles. The wood
also chips and splits, so that, although
many attempts have been made, no
success has resulted in making wooden
soles popular.
A wire-quilted tap sole has recently
become extensively used for heavy
country boots in the West, and is said
to be the most durable contrivance
posSible, as it unites the elasticity of
leather with the toughness of iron.
In some of the brogan factories of New
$/lttelligelt?et
England may be seen stacks of thin,
narrow soles, made of poplar and bass
wood, used for filline half-welled shoes.
At one time tirch bark was used for
the same purpose, and these are the
nearest approaches made, as yet, to suc
cess in substituting wood for leather in
shoemaking in America.
A Blind Man's Duel.
Major Buford, called, by way of emi
nence, "the Major," was the most
noted duelist of the day. A dead shot,
a perfect master of fence, and in his
enmities utterly relentless, his name
had become a terror to all who knew
him.
In the midst of a knot of admiring
friends, one day, the Major was dis
cussing his last "affair," and compla
cently explaining how it came that he
mortally wounded his adversary, in
stead of killing him ou the spot, when
one of two gentlemen standing within
hearing, suddenly advanced and struck
him in the face. The spectators stood
aghast. What could have tempted the
stranger to rush thus madly on his fate?
He was an old man. Already, to ap
pearance, had three-score and ten years
passed over his head. He must, indeed,
have been ,weary of life, whose brier'
remnant he was ready to east away so
recklessly.
The Major was astonished. The very
audacity of the act struck him w lib
amazement.
this provocation provocation sufficient, or
must I repeat it inquired his assail
ant.
The Major's first impulse was to re
turn blow for blow. But fierce and vio
lent as were his passions, he schooled
himself to complete mastery over them,
and a moment's reflection told him
how bootless, under the circumstances,
would be a public brawl. The indigni
ty he had received would admit of but
one reparation, and that he determined
to lose no time in seeking.
" The insult is sufficient," he answer
ed, with forced calmness. "Oblige tue
by naming a friend."
And the two strangers took their
leave together.
At sunrise, on the following morning
the principals and their seconds made
their appearance on the ground select
ed. No one else was present—not even
a surgeon. The Major, In his own past
experience, never had needed one; and
his opponent, It was plain, was careless
of the consequence.
There was no necessity for delay
The preliminaries had been settled.
The parties were to light with pistols,
at ten paces, the combat to continue un
til one or both had fallen.
One condition had been Insisted on
by the stranger, which called an indig
nant blush to the Major's cheek, as it
seemed to Imply an Imputation upon
his honor, though he submitted to It
with the best grace he could. It wan,
that before placing the combatants the
bodies of both should be inspected, to
see that no secret protective device was
employed by either.
The ground was measured, and the
men placed, There was a marked con
trast between the two in more respects
than that of years. The old man, erect
and motionless as a statue, his whiten
ed locks flouting In the breeze, never,
once looked at his antagonist, though
his side was turned. Ills face was stern
and determined, but nothing malignant
in it. The Major, on the other hand,
glared fiercely at his foe, seemed even
to grudge him the few moments of life
yet eked out to him.
"Were he my father, I would kill
him!" he answered, audibly, to some
whispered expostulation of his second,
who was evidently touched by the old
man's venerable appearance.
The pistols were put
,in the hands of
the principals, and the giving of the
word explained.
" Gentlemen, are you ready ?"
" Ready," both answered.
Still the old man moved not, nor did
he direct a single glance at his adver
sary. Ais eyes were fixed in front.
His attitude was one of rapt attention
He seemed like one listening intently.
" "
Without changing the direction of his
gaze or other movement than that of his
arm, which rose with the precision of a
nicely adjusted machine, the old mau
brought his pistol to the level of his en
emy's breast. For an instant he held it
there. Still the same appearance of eager
listening.
The Major was in no hurry. He could
aflord to take his time with a man who
held his pistol at random, without look
ing whitherward. He was determined
to make sure work. if his ball missed
Lis adversary's heart, even a fraction of
an inch, he would never make any pre
tension to skill again.
The sharp report of the stranger's pis
tol was followed by a convulsive jerk of
the Major's arm, causing the discharge
of his weapon far wide of its mark,whil
he, staggering a few paccs:backward, fel
heavily to the ground.
"Conduct me to him,
man to his friend
The latter took his principal's arm,
and led him to the prostrate form of the
Major, whose second kneeling by his
side, had torn open his garments, expos
ing to view the total wound in his breast,
made by the stranger's bullet.
"Is your friend seriously hurt ?" in
quired the latter coolly.
"You can see for yourself, sir," the
second answered.
"There you're in error," replied the
other ; ant fatally blind."
The wounded man, who had by this
'line revived a little, and his second,
looked at the stranger lu astonimiontmt.
There was no visible defect hi his organs
of vision; but there was a fixity of 1.1,
that "bending of eyes on vacancy --"
which so unmistakably evinces the ab
settee of sight.
"Who are you ? and what is yot
motive in seeliing LION encounter ?" the
I‘laJor faintly murmured.
" b Irul, are you In a condition to re
new It? " Inquired the titranger.
"Thera IN no need—l am dying."
"When I have told you who I atm"
you Will HlNirct.
rmitilrt , ror what I linvi.,i(mo.
Nu woody!. you Inivo 0W140114'11 ./111110M
:01'1011, " ho 01/11i111111.11. "6.1 . 11 , I.l4r,ia
ly (.1milgo(1, no (limb',"
(lying :mit' Kturti.,l, loot tuoitouti
" Itol 1 lotvo not forgottoo you, Milt-
it'd Buford, nor the injuries you have
done me. A eherlshed daughter, the
pride of my eyes, and the j,,y of her
mother's heart, you VIII feud from her
home ' deceived by a sham marriage,
and then abandoned her to die of a
broken heart. My ton tutu only re
maining child, In a rash attempt to
avenge hie mister's wrongs, fell a victim
to your accursed skill. You even rob- •
bed hint of the ordinary i•iinneeg of com
bat, unequal as they would have been,
by encasing your eoVitrdly body in con
pealed armor. The loss of both of our
children unsettled my wife's reason,
and she died In a inad house. Could I
have found you then, I would have
given you no elianee for your life,
but valiant as you have always pro
to be, and coward as you are, you
evaded me. Yet I knew we shouldsome
day meet; and I registered u vow that
when we did I would oll'er you a sacri
fice to your own Infernal art. To this
end I studied to bemine an adept at it,
and succeeded. And when at length
blindness cast its shadow upon me, and
seemed to render hopeless the fulfillment
of my vow, instead of abandoning It, I
betook myself to a new species of prac
tice. I sought to make hearing take the
place of sight. Again I succeeded. I
learned to take aim with car instead of
rye. When I heard you answer" ready,"
to-day, I knew the exact direction in
which to point my pistol, as well as HI
had seen:you. Besides, I could hear you
breathing where you stood. You lost
your chance In delaying your fire: You
wished to make sure work and over
reached yourself."
More than once the Major looked ap
pealingly at the speaker's face, but in
those remorseless, sightless eyes, there
was no sympathy. And as the labored
breathing grew fainter, the old man re
sumed his listening attitude. At last
all was still.
" He is dead! " he said; and its wonted
expression of sober melancholy settled
on the old man's face, as, taking his
companion's arm, he turned and walk
ed leisurely away.
New York bricklayers want an in
crease of wages from $4 to $1.50 per day.
On Monday, a drover named Thomp
son, was found murdered, a few miles
from Springfield, Mo. He had brought
a drove of cattle to Baxter Springs, and
started back for Texas, with an employe
named Webster. All his money and
valuables, supposed to amount to over
$2OOO were gone. Webster is suspected
of the murder.
(Frx,m Peterson's Magazine for duly.)
Deacon Sllmpse3's Mournful Forchod
TiYJOSWI ALLENS WIFE
-•
Thomas Jefferson went to the school
house to meetin' last night, and lie
broke out to the breakfast-table.
" Betsey Bobbet spoke in meetin' last
night, father." Headdressed the words
to his father, for he knows I won't up
hold no kind of light talking about se
rious things.
"She said she knew•she was religeus,
because she felt she loved the brether
en." Then they both laughed in an
idiotic insulter. But I said, in a tone of
cool dignity, as I passed hint his 3d cup
of coffee, "She meant it in a scriptural
sense, uo doubt."
" I guess you'd think she meant it in
n earthly sense, if you bad seen her hung
on to old Slimpsey last night; she'll
marry that old man yet, if he don't look
out."'
" Oh, shaw !" says I, coolly, "she's
pay in' attention to the editor of the G'ino.
"She'll never get him," says he.
" She means to be 00 the safe side,
and get one or the other of 'em ; how
steady she has been to meetin' score
Deacon SI impsey moved into the place."
"Yon shall not make light of her re-
ligeen, Thomas Jelrerson," says I in a
severe voice.
" I won't, mother, I should'ot feel
right, too, fur it is light enough now, it
don't all consist iu in tneetin',
I don't believe in folk'ses usin' up all
their religeeu Sunday nights, and then
goin' without any •ill the rest of the
week, it looks as shiftless in 'ern as a
three-year old hat on a female."
Says I, in a tone of deep rebuke, "In
stead of tendin' other folk'ses motes,
Thomas Jellers!on, you had better take
care of your own beams, you'l have
plenty work enough to last you one
" And if you are through with your
breakfast," says his father, " you had
better go and give the cows something
to eat."
" Can't they come here, father."' says
leanin' kinder lazy over the table.
Itys I, " That Is pretty talk to your
tither, Thomas J. How do you suppose
conr days will be long in the land, if
•ou don't honor your father and
'•I do honor you mother, I !lever see
such long Wet tedious days, us they have
been ever settee I have been home from
school, mot I toy It to honoritt' you and
Says I, "I won'l hew• another light
word this wornln"l'llowas Jefferson—
Ile read earnemtness in
tone; and he rose with alackrity and
went to the barn, and his father soon
drew on his boots,and followed him, and
with a pensive brow I turned out my
dish-water. I hadn't got my dishes more
than half-done, when with no warnin'
of no kind, the door burst open, and In
tottered _Deacon Slinisey, pale its a piece
of white cotton shirt. I wildly wrung
(nit my dish-cloth, and offered 111111 a
chair, sayin', In a agitated tone, "What
is the mutter, I leaeon Slimpsey ?"
" Am 1 pursued ?" says he, in a voice
of low frenzy, as he sank Into a wooden
bottomed chair. I cast one or two eagle
glances out of the window, both ways,
and replied in a voice of choked-down
emotion :
haint nobody in sight. Has
your life been athlete,' by burglers and
ineendiarys? Speak, Deacon Slimpsey,
s wak !"
. . .
He struggled nobly for calmness, but
In vain. And then he put his hand
wildly to his brow and murmured, In
low accents,
" Betsey .flobbet !"
I scene NV 11.4 overcome by as many as
seven different emotions of different
anguishes, and I gave him pretty near
a minute to recover himself; and then
says J, as I sadly resumed my dish
cloth. " What of her, Deacon Nlimp
. •
She'l be the (ieatn on me," says he ;
and that hain't the worst on it. My
soul is jeoparded on account of her.—
Oh! says he, groanin' in an anguish,
" ('an you believe it, Miss Allen, that I,
a deacon in a autherdox church, could be
tempted to swear ? Itehold that wretch !
I confess it, us I came through your gate
just now, I said to myself, 'By Jupiter, I
can't stand it so much longer ; and only
last night I wished I was a ghost; for I
thought if I was a apperition, I could
have escaped from her view. Oh!"
says he, groan in' agin, "I have got so
low as td wish I was a ghost! " He
paused, and ill tt deep and brooding si
lence I finished my dishes, and hung up
my dish-pan. She was melting out o
Deacon Dowley'sas I came by, just now
to talk to tne. She don't give ate no peace
—last night she would walk tight to my
side, all the way home. and she looked
hungry at the gate as I went through,
and fastened it on the inside." Agin he
paused overcome by his emotiens, and
I looked pityinly on hint. He was a
small bonded man of abouteeventy SUM
niers and Winters; age,who had plough
ed the wrinkles into his face, hail turned
the furrows deep. The cruel lingers of
time, or some other female had plucked
nearly every hair from his head, and the
ruthless hand of fate had also seen lit to
deprive him of his eye-winkers, not one
solitary winker bein' left fora shade tree
as It were) to protect the pale pupils be
low, and they beln' a light watery blue,
and Cite lids bcin' Inflamed, they look
ed sad indeed. Owing to afflictive prov
idences, he was dressed up more than
men generally be, for his neck beln' bad
ly swelled,he wore a string of yellow am
ber betnis,and in behalf of h Is sore eyes he
wore ear-rings. But truly outside splen
der and glitter wont satisfy the mind,
or bring happiness; I looked upon his
mournful face, and my heart melted In
side of me ' almost as soft as it could, al
most as soft as butter In the month of
August, and I said to him In a moothin'
urotenouragln' tone,
" Mehl y she'l marry the Editor of the
( Ito the he pay In' attention to him."
" Nit she wont," says he In a solemn
and tone that I rought tears
to my eyes, its I set peens' my onion?'
for dinner. "No she wont, I shall be
the' one, I feel It, I wits always the vie-
Om, 1 wasalwayedown•trodden , When
I was a baby, my mother hail two twins
both of eat a little older than me, and
most tore 11111 to t/10001 before I got
Into trowel's, Nebby It would have brans
better for um, If they had" said Ile 111 a
UHI and 1110 t/ en I tOllO - 1111d then
hellehl . IL deep sigh 'lie resumed.—
" When I Willa to school And we played
leap-frog, there was a frog to be
shushed down under all the rest, I was
the frog; It has always been so, If ever
there was a victim wanted, I wits
the vlethn, and Betsy itobbet will get
round Ine yet, you see If she don't, WO
men are awful pereeverin' in such
things."
" Cheer up, Deacon Sllmpsey, you
paint obleetred to marry her--It Is a free
country, folks halnt opleeged to marry
unless they are at mind to, It don't take
a brass band to make that legal." I
quoted these wools In a light and joyous
torte hoplit' to rouse him from hie dem
pondency—but In vain, for he only re
peated In a gloomy tone,
" get round ineyet, MINS/Ole:1,1
feel it," and as the shade deepened on Ills
eyebrow, he said, " Have you seen her
verses In the last week's "
' said the old
No," says I " I liana."
In a silent and hopeless way he too
he paper out of his pocket, and hande
I to me, and I read as follows:
A SoNu.
Composed ri9tlor the strong-minded
females, who Madly and indecently in
sist on rights, but for the retiring and
delicate-minded of the sect, who modest
ly murmer " we wont have no rights—
we scorn 'eM:" will some modest and
bashful sister set It s , to music, that we
may timidly, but loudly, warble it, and
oblige hers till death in this glorious
cause, BEms:v BOBIIFT.
Not for strong-mlnded scirnmen
Ito I now tune my liar;
Oh not for them would I kin
die up the sacred tire;
Oh modest bashful female
For you I tune my lay;
Although strong-minded wlnuniug sneer,
Well conquer in the fray.
Chorus.—Press onward, do not fear sisters
Press onward do not fear
Remember womens spear sisters,
Remember womens spear.
Twould cause some fun If poor Miss Wade.
Should say of her boy Harry,
" I shall not give him auy trade,
But bring him ub to marry;
Twould cause some tun of course dear maid.
IfMrs, Virade'ses Harry,
Should lose his end and aim In life,
And find no chance to marry.
Chore.—Press onward, do not fear sisters, et
Yes wedlock Is our only hope,
All o'er thin mighty natlon ,
Men are brought up to other trades,
Hat this Is our vocation.
Oh not for sense or love ask we,
We ask not to be courted ;
Onr watch-word Is to married be,
That we may be supported.
Chorus—Press onward do not fear sisters, etc
Say not you'r strong, and love to work,
NUMBER 34
Are healthier than your brother,
Wlio for a black smith is designed,
Such feelings you must smother ;
Your restless hands fold up, or gripe
Your senate unto a span,
And spend your strength In looking out
To hall the coming Man.
Chorus—Press onward do not fear sisters, etc
Oh do not be discouraged, when
You Mid your hopes brought down
Anti find stub and unwilling men.
Heed not their gloomy frown :
Heed not their wild d 1,41,111er
We will not give no quarter
In battle all la fair
'ell win, for we had otter.
Chorus—Prem onward do not fear sisters,
Press onward do not fear,
Remember woolens spear sisters
Remembea woolens spear
" Wall" says I in a encouragin' tone
as I handed him the paper agin—" that
haint much different Iron the piece she
had in the liim/e1 a spell ago, that was
about womens spear."
" It is that spear that is goin' to de
stroy me," says he mournfully.
"Don't give up so Deacon Slimpsey,
I hate to see you lookin' so gloomy and
de ',rested."
" It isthe awful determination these
lines breathe forth that appauls me,"
says he " I have seen it in another,
Betsey Rabbet reminds me dreadfully
of another. And I dont want to marry
agin, Miss Allen, I dent want to," says
he lookin' me pitifully in the face, " I
didnt want to marry the first time, I
wanted to be a barb elder, 1 think they
have the easiest time of it, by half.—
Now there is a friend of mine that never
was married, he is jest my age, or that
is, he is only half an hour younger, and
that l u tist enough ditrerence to make
any account of, is it Miss Allen says
he in a pensive and etiquirin' tone.
" No," says I in a rescuable accent,
"No, Deacon Slimpsey, it Inaint."
"Wall that man has always been a
bachelder, and you ought to see what a
head of hair he has got, sound at the
roots now, not a lock missing. I want
ed to be one, and meant to be, but jest
as I got Inv plans all laid, she, my late
wife, come and kept house for me, and
married toe, I lived with her l'or twenty
5 years, and when she left me," he mur
mured with a contented look, "I was
reconciled to It, I was reconciled before
It took place. I dont want to say any
thing against nobody t , lat haint here,
but I lost some hair by my late wife,"
says he putting his hand to his bald
head In an abstracted way. " I lost a
good deal of hair by her, and I Italia
much left as you can see," says he In /I
melancholy tone " I dont want to get
married ugh), I did want to save a lock
or two, for lily children to keep as a
relic of me." And again he paused
overcome by his feelln's. I knew not
what to say to comfort him, and I pour
ed onto him a few conifortin' adjectives
sick as,
" Mebliy you are borrow' n' trouble with
out a cause, Deacon : With life there is
hope Deacon Slimpsey : It is always
the dztrkest before daylight." Hut In
vain. He only sighed mournfully.
"iShe'l get round me yet Miss Allen
—mark my words, and when the !line
comenyou will think or what I told you.'
His face was most black with gloomy
apprehensions, as he repeated agulm—
"You see If she don't get round me,"
and a tear began to flow ; I turned away
with Instinctive delicacy, and set my
pan of onions In the mink, but when I
glanced at hi in agin it with still flowing,
and I said to liltn In a tone of two-thirds
pity and one comfort. "Chirk up, Dea
con Slimpsey, be a man."
"That he the trouble" Hays he "If I
wasn't a man she would give me some
peace" and he wept into his red silk
handkerchief (with a yellow border) bit
ter!
The 4tate Committee of the Democratic
party of Texas have issued an address to
the people, Nvhich may be called a platform,
since it is lu the shape of preamble and
resolutions. They assert their devotion to
Constitutional liovernment and the Demo
cratic party, favor a judicious and liheral
system of internal improvements, and ac•
cept the abolition of Slavery as a result o
the war, and a "ti soil fact." The tenth
resolution has appended a Vigorous lin
peachtnent of the Republican State i:overn
moot, which is the gist of the whole docu
Resolved, That the Radical State Govern
ment of Tex Ito has forfeited all claims to the
respect of mankind by its unconstitutional
and oppressive enactments, and to the end
that the citizens of this State and of the
United States may fully comprehend the
grievances that we are suffering from the
wrongs and usurpations of said Radical
Government, we charge them as follows :
1. In violation of the Federal and State
Constitutions, the Legislature of this State
luu3 conferred on the Governor, in obedi
ence to his own dictation, the power to sus
pond the writ of habeas corpms, declare the
civil laws suspended, close the courts, re
fuse citizens the right of trial by jury, and
subject them to trial by a court-martial
composed of men who know nothing of the
rules of law and evidence—and Chain times
of profound peace.
2. They have, in violation of the Consti
tution, likewise at the Governor's dieta•
Lion, given hint the power, by Lid of a
police litres, appoiuefl by himself and offi
cered by men of his own appointment, to
subject our citizens to seizure of their per
sons and propruqy and subject their houses
to unreasonable search, without warrant
and with no probable cause, supported
either by oath or affirmation.
IL That said police have, so ithout warrant,
or oath, or affirmation, charged an offense,
and even whim no offense had been com
mitted, arrested and imprisoned our citi
zens; anti have extorted from those, as the
terms or release, a large sum of money, re
fusing thorn the lament of counsel or trial,
and without being confronted by their ac
cusers or the so Ilnerisos , against them, lola
under a threat of trial by court-inartial If
they rot the revlred nom.
4. The ',Nielhaunt Inct by enactment,
violation of a plain emodltutional provlt
lon, authorized the I lovernor to remove It'
, iirm elected by the pooplp, and app()l
•,
.
ion or 1110 own 0110100 in tho ulllll , o, which
,iiwur Ito ham
5. 'rho I,nglminturo limo nuthorizrul
ilovornor to appoint thlrty•ilvo
UlMlrlrt-
AtLurnoyo, when Um Comminution of inn
Milan proviclom that thoy Mhull 1/1) 011,1!LPtl,
tad lei Into oxnrvimorl title pownr, nod vaiimos
hoot, MO Illoknl ly Iliti)0111Uld, to Ito
till tho inoirvolo 1/e $12,000 1111111111Ily
l'ri;11411 ry, i!141 . 11,11 , v1olittl t
ECM
and pliuuloring Llm potlplo,
Thu 10441.1aLtiril lipt4 virtually nhnll.
. .
uvury nh I( tint Moron ,, . lhn~purlly
n Lulnt•hux, ulud LhruwM illlllrultlaM
lo way or it fell vole by compelling the
noplo to vote at but inn pruulyutlll outolt
minty, on liekont that are not numbered
or retort, IJuntllluutlull, lheroby routlerleg
doquellem er olltehtl frateln Impotosible,
ty Jailing to adopt it dill'ertent nuulu a vot
ing, its authorized by tho Cotoolitutioe.
7. Tito Itadival pal ty or the State has ob
tained povvor bytrauel and intledelettion.'rho
I.egialaturo souks to perpetuate) thin imwor
by malting the eleclivo hanchimo elopenel
net on the caprices a Itegbqrarm ill billet
to appointment or removal at the 'apnea
if Li. t lovornor. . _
S. That, the Senate and llouse of Repro
senlatives, utter disregard of haws
regulating contested elections, and without
complaint ill the manner and time present
ed by law On er pack statemoulsor affida
vits, deprived members of their seats and
their constituency of representation In the
Legislature with the Intention of securing
to the Radical party a majority in that body.
it. That having been elected for a term of
two years, they have continued their exis
tence as a Legislature Ibr thrim years by an
enactment, of their own body.
In. In order to subsidize and corrupt the
press, they have established newspapers in
cacti judicial district to advocate the Inter
' tints ul' the Radical party ; and although
many of them had at the time of their es
tablishment no circulation, in order to give
them motley and support they have com
pelled all public ur private sales ordered
by ally court, and sales under executions
in any county of the respective districts,to
be published In the paper of the district,
at a great expense to the widows and or
phans of deceased persons and of creditors
of their estates; although not a single copy
of the said paper might be taken in the
county where the sale is to be made.
11. It has just attempted to remove the
Radical Senator who has denounced their
corruption, by electing in his stead a mili
tary officer who is note citizen of the State
of Texas.
12. In view of these high crimes and po
litical misdemeanors of the Radical party,
committed against the great interests of
the people of Texas:
Resolved, That we invite all good men,
whatever may have been their past politi
cal preferences, to unite with the j)emo
cratic party in removing from place and
power those who now control the State
Uovernment, in order to release the peo
ple from oppressive revenue and unequal
taxation, to insure an honest administra
tion of the laws, and an honest and eco
nomical expenditureof the public moneys,
and to throw the tegis of justice and pro
tection over the person and property of
every individual whatsoever iu the State
of Texas.
Advices from Yokohama, Japan, to
July 22d, received by way of San Fran
cisco report a terrible typhoon at Kaba
onJuly 4, which caused a loss of 400
lives, and destroyed $500,000 worth of
property. Several vessels were wrecked,
including the "Pride of the Thames."
The captain, two mates and steward of
the:latter vessel perished.
Secretary Bontwell Arraigned
The cross-roads financier has come
grief. His high charged balloon has bean
pricked. The gas has escaped, and the in
mate's moral neck has been broken, or
dangerously bent, In plain words, Secre
tary Boutwell has been arraigned upon
charges direct and explicit, which cannot
be overlooked by that functionary or his
friends. We have foreboro to touch this
subject, hoping that some satisfactory ex
planation of the matter would be given.
It is not pleasant, as Americans, to hold
up one of the Representatives of the coun
try to the gaze of the world, tainted and
mildewed with sots of a reprehensible
character. For that reason our comments
have waited upon a more mature judg
ment than that which rests upon hasty
rumor or political bias. But such facts
aro presented as command the attention of
all honest journalists at this time. One of
the counts in the indictment against Secre
terry Boutwell, relates to the contract fur
the manufacture of paper for stamps. it
appears that revenue stamps aro paid for
from appropriations made by Congress to
the Internal Revenue Bureau. The Bu
reau is charged with their printing. The
work is done by the Bureau of Engraving ,
and Printing of the Treasury, but the
charges have frequently been so high thfit
the Commissioner has refused to pay them
When Pleasonton came in, he determined
to give the paper contract to the Ipwest
bidder. This did not please Mr. Boutwell,
who denied the right of the Commissioner
to matte a contract. Then General Plea
sonton found that there was swindling go
ing on in the printing department. The
following are the prices charged by the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and
the hid of the Continental Bank Note Com
parry of New York, for the sante work
l'rlee now Itld 01 Conti
charged by nentitl think
Bureau, of Nwo Coin
angraving Pang
and Print
ing.
Whiskey t.tanips,
tics paid per
thousand S'-) lu
Whiskyy stamps,
oilier tax paid.. 10 tie
TeIIUCCO 50(111 1)5,
111 books 10 vu
Tobin,o stamps,
in sheets 2 75 I 75
For beer stamps the price now charged
is $1.75 per thousand, while t h e National
Bank Note Company offered to do Mom ter
SI.OO, or cents per thousand les,s. For
printing a sickly tint on what aro known
ItS the "strip " to bares and cigar stamps,
Mr.Routwoll charges 14 cents per thousand,
While responsible printers In New York
of
fered to do the same work in better style,
tar td cents per thousand. 'fad this offer
been accepted, a saving of $l,OOO pertomtit
would l e tve been made in this Otto item
alone. It also appears that responsible par
tics offered to do all the whisky and tobacco
stamp printing by the year, at a saving of
;$70,000 per annum. As furniished,the quality
of paper was poor and the price exorbitant.
The price was about one-third greater
than the cost of plain white batik-note
paper, although the fibre paper could be
made for less than the other. A II rut asked
to be allowed to compete fur the contract,
but it was given to a Mr. Wilcox or Phila
delphia. As the oct of July, kits, d'reets
the Commi,isioner of Internal Revenue to
provide stamps, Guttural Pleasonton
thought that It W 0.4 Ilk business to procure
paper. Wilcox was a bidder, but the von
tract was awarded ton M r, I Indson of OM.
necticut, who offered to furnish either white
or fibre paper at prices much loss than those
untried by Wilcox. It now appears that a
relative of Mr. Boutwoll, named Bemis, Is
the stamp agent at Mr. Wilcox's mills, at a
large salary. Illoasonton's contract was !e
-voked, and Wilcox is still supplying the
Bureau with paper, Those aro serious
charges. They meet bo mot, not by moil,
denials, but by such facts as will satisfy
holiest men of all parties. But the
does not end hero. 'William P. Wood, laic
Chief of the Secret Service of the Treasury
Department, lets recently published a curb,
In which he attacks Mr. Boutwell vigorous
ly, and threatens other revelations. Alining
other charges, he wakes the follow lug
First. That there aro a million of dollars
of government bonds which have been, and
aro now, In daily progress of exchange anil
redemption, while t h e true owners aro re
relying the interest duo on maid bonds. The
Identical bonds drawn have been received
or exchanged by the government under
Secretary Bold well, as also his predecessor,
through the connlvance of unscrupulous
hankers and ignorant and corrupt officials
of the government, by erasures and ficti
tious numbering of genuine bonds, the re
sult of which will be that the creditors of
the government will either have to suffer
the lose of these bonds or be relieved 1 . 11,111
loss by some special act of Congress, in
which case the government will he the los
er of- thousands and thousands of dollars
on the article of registered bonds alone,
Second. It will be shown that the paper
transactions of tho Treasury Department
are of such a character they will not Nair a
fair examination without exhibiting the
Secretary's ignorance of tho subject, or his
connivance at the glaring frauds and favor
itism which has been in practice under his
administration of the Department. It will
also be proven that the honorable Secretary
disposed of the valuable paper-making
tun
chincry of the government at one-fourth
its original cost, and at less than one-half
of the sour cultured for the machinery' by
parties not hie favorites.
Mr. Itoutwoll occupies a most rosponsi
blo position. lie is entrusted with import
ant duties, and most answer to the people
for the manner in which they aro discharg
His administration or the Treasury
lepartment has been attacked, not by hints
!id inuendoes, but by open charges, sup
,ortred by facts and figures. A defence, to
Jo successful, must run in the same ruts.
Shall we have It? In connection with this
case, will the people look at the Grant ad
ministration? Tho President knee,leep in
the San Domingo Job; the Secretary of Um
Treasury speculating in stamps and paper;
the Politinaster-floneral Implicated In con
tract jobs, this is a Had picture. But the
people must face it, and prepare for a rein
edy. In the meantime, the defense of Sec
retary Boutwoll will be looked for with nun x
iely.—The Age.
The Right of Polygamy In he 'Tented In a
l'nhted atatea l'ourt.
Mrs. Harriet Haw kiwi, of Salt Lake has
brought an action ter divorce againm her
husband, Thomas Ilavvkins. Slut alleges
that she was married to hint In England,
in 10.10, anti that they have lived In Utah
Territory for about eighteen years, and
have nix children. Sho also charges that
about nix years ago her husband took
another wile, anti about throe yearn ago lie
took a third wife, and has two children by
each of them ; and Ito has deserted her anti
her children ; has abusod her, oven threat
ened her lico, anti a NW 111011001 ago drug
ged her out of her bonne and beat her
cruelly because she would not roomy('
front It no that ho might Noll it. This cant,
Is pointing undecided In the Third I natriet
Court. The defendant lives at Lehi.
Mrs. II aw buns has made another move
in the garlic. She has made tut ulliJnvu
charging her humbruni with adultery, and
Chief J undue McKean ham lathes' a war
rant and enticed bin arrest under tit,
lowing statute or the Territory of
which may be found on pogo anchor)
:—" Every person who cmum Its rho
crime of adultery 1.111111 Ito puulahedhv
I inprittotimont not exceeding twonty years,
and not Mee than throw yours, or by line
not exceeding 81,000 anti not loan than
8:100, or by both lino anti linprlanittnont, ILL
the dimerotlon of the Court. And When
the crime Is committed botwoon
any ono of when in marritel, both art,
guilty of adultery, and shall bo purilahod
!swordlugl y. No protestation for teltillory
can lot eouttnoneed bill on the eomplaint
of the hunbancl or wife."
The preliminary oxituiltiation will Mita
plat, In the (quirt-room In Salt Nike lit tol l
A. 01, to-day, hit. Ilawklusham boon soot
W Camp houghts lur mate looping,
• Ane •
Ileaperalo Vlght Iletwoeon Dlalrlet Al•
torney null II Carpel for.
A paraonal oncountor took place at Cul
poppor Court Ilotimo, Vs., on Hattlrtlity
hint, between NI r. It. ItowitC4Totultlon•
wtatilleit attorttoy, and a :qr. Carlalal,
earponlor. A corrompondont or 11111
mond Thairsoch tioacriboa tho affair thins I
"Tito hang Ina Mr. Lowls utl lliu
stroot, and mammal hint, or metallinghln
private charactor In court. Lowlm tried to
explain to him that Ito had tally (lotto his
duty for dm Commonwoallh. Carnoal then
ntrunk him with a hatchet oil the hip.
Then a regular light annum!. 'rimy were
Heparatod, and M r. Lowin wont to his Wilco
and returned with a friend to whero Car
neat vitas at work, and challenged him for
a lint light. Carnal came out with a hatch
et In his hand, and rufuned to rot it down,
and neonatal Lewin la second l imn or mean
dalizing 111111 in court. ltewla thou (Allod
him a liar, and Carneal roturnod It. Lewis
then throw a statue at Mtn. and Carnoal
throw bin hatchet lit Lewis. Lowlm thalgod,
and, gathering tho !lacing, mado for
Cartioal rail aorno Malawi°, but bowls got.
ting In proper distance, threw Um hatchet
at bat n, but miatted Inl,a aim. 'non a strug
gle onntied for the hatchet, which Garnett'
managed to got hold of, Indicting a Novuro
wound in the buck of Lowla, also a severe
wound in the forehoad, which knocked
him senseless. They were thou parted,
which ended the light. Mr. Lewis was
carried to a Ilona° near by, and proper
medical assistance procured. Ills wounds,
though severe, It Is thought will not prove
fatal.
Railroads In N w York
13y the annual report of the New York
State Engineer, Just published, we learn
that in the year 1831, them were but 17
miles of railway opened in that State
Five years later, in 1830, 78 miles were
opened in that year, and in tho four Inter
mediate years 80 miles; making, up to and
including 1830, 158 miles, in the year 1840,
ton years later, but 8 miles were opened,
and in 1840, none. 'rho total of miles open
ed up to and including 1840, was 727.
In the year 1830, ten years later,
33} miles wore opened, and there
were then In New York, in operation, In
all 2327 miles. In the year 1806 only 361
miles were opened, and in the next preced
ing ten years 4541 miles, making the total
number of miles of railroad open In that
State to that time, =Bll. tho year 1870,
the last furnished, there wore opened 3701
miles, and in that and the three preceding
years 1004 miles, making the total of miles
of railway In New York up to the first of
the present year, 3985, with a total of capi
tal stock of $335,370,210, of which, however,
only $234,225,159 were paid In. The total of
funded and floating debt aggregates $ll2,
307,831, and the cost of construction $240,1
228,896.
The War Department has informed
the Governor of Montana that. it is
deemed inexpedient to send troops to
protect the settlers of the Gallatin Val
ley, in that territory, both on account of
the smallness of the force available, and
because the Indians seldom repeat their
raids upon the same ground.
IMEMIMMI
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