ME 03LLAR PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
TOWANDA:
Thursday Morning. May 29 |_ 1862, __
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II LIST OF THE KILLED. 1
Mothers who sit iu duu.b terror and tread,
Holding that terrible list. .
Feaiius U>lo,k leist you see mid the oead
The name of the boy you have kissed—
Kisscd e'en as those who in anguish aud pain,
Kisspretions ta-'es otclay,
E'en you.would bal you shuddering lam,
That dear oue in grsve rotes a ay
J pitty you, sitting with fares as white,
" Striving t> Prry the blow ;
i know bow ibat name will torture your sight,
Can fathom the depth of your woe.
"By the pang that rent my desolate heart,
By this crushing weight ct despair.
I know how you too will shudder and start,
Reading that dearly loved name there.
tkr.ov ■.■JU'H hush that passionate cry,
Thinking ol him as he lies,
With beautiful face upturned to the sky,
Death veiling the gl orioos eyes
" Fighting he fell Does a feeling of pride
Lighten your grief as you tbink
How brave WH the boy that went from your side-
How be would not taller or shrink?
The mother's love triumphs. Men call woman
weak—
Ah. well, perhaps it ia so !
I know there are 'ears e'er, now on my cheek
For the boy that's lying so low.
I know that I start at each step on the stair.
With wistful glance turn toward the door.
Thinking, perchance, that my darling is there—
Teace, heart, he can come nevermore.
But still there's a thought that softens my woe-
Above there's a glorified list ;
And one day I'll hear with rapturous glow
The name of lhe boy I have kissed.
Stltftflr (Sale.
Tlie lioldero Murder.
TYe bs'l dined, and were sitting comfortably
alout under tlie half ruined shanty, on the top
of' the mount nin
"Come, Brad'ey." said Colonel Tbrcop. the
elorv /yvc-r, " tell us some, moral, entertaining
a'id iusirn five s orv, before we reluru to
Saeht m\ 18-ad "
" I will," said tlie young lawyer, absently,
and s'ari g away to seaward, as if expecting
to find his story in the summer haze that veiled
all the further half of the Sound, and obscured
even the nearer angular outlines of Ka Ik tier's
Island, " There's a fiiteularly commanding
view ," at last he uddtd, " from this spot it.
clear weather "
" Go on with your stcry," said Throop
"That's what I was cot-idering,"said Brad
ley ; "in fact, mv observation in part led me
to it.'"' And he proceeded :
" You ail remember the ' horrid murder' here
in North Guilford -otne years ago ? No ? It
was of two singular old English people, Mr.
and Mrs Boldero ; I me inner tlie name, be
cmne I fancied he might be the senior partner
of the Srm of B ildero, Merry weather, Llosan
qaet, and Lacy, whom Charles Lamb thanks
ia ' T'le Superanuuted Man.' They lived alorie
Wilis niece. On a small, solitary farm* in tlie
weod\ just over hi re on the east side of Q tin
tt.ugli Fond.; keeping house in a si range, mel
sneiiuly way, -being known to have and use a
considerable quantity of heavy, old fashioned
English silver plate, but dressing and eating
otherwise on a scale parsimonious almost to
misery. Their silver, thcrr reserved and almost
sour demeanor, and even the 6lightlv grea'ei
expense ol the dress of their handsome niece,
as %v II as the lady-like manners of that young
person, made tlie neighbors U believe that
they hud been people of importance at home,
and, U: fpite of all their frugality here, weft
immensely rich still, having hoards hi the cellar j
or under '.he hearthstone perhaps
" Ttiere was also an indistinct rnroor of a
•on or nephew of the old mm, whom nobody
u*& seen, and indeed nobody knew where the
rumor came frotn, who as siad to be a des
perate brutal sort of fellow. '*
" lie's the murderer," said Throop
"Well, alt that was known at the time of
'h® murder was that the poor old couple hud
The house was found unirihab
one pleasant sumnet morning, hy a neigh
or, Kioeaiae on some small couiory errand
lor barter or borrowing. Not fiu< iig the old
•auy at any of her n.-oal avocations under the
stoop, or in the kitchen, lie kuockt d, then
waited in, searched all the roons, entering
<•-eir heorooiD, on the ground floor, last. Here
e f'jund tlie bid clothesturind down, and the
} "Jt sutL ieut signs o# the crime—namely,
p" clothes and bed ull saturated with
V ' OO, J ' le "hce, Miss Leiden, was known to
'•soe departed on a visit. Searching all over
• touse and premise-, he found elsewhere
so much a drop ot blood nor any traces
iit dead, and nothing whatever to notice,
l ' !ul *ll lite silver was gone,
lhw was all, a so, that the authorities
foid ascertain ■ and notwithstanding the rigid
persevering search kept up by the people
- be neighborhood for some days, these facts
® n::ed the sum totul of Information in the
matter.
1- was about two years after this, while I
a> practicing in New Haven, that the State's
; t# or,,f y f° r New Haven coanty, a leading
', Vr l^ere he,,t ' or me 1° assist him in try
c> ", lJe CUjieo ' l^e State vs. Yeuson ; selecting
JmiT /'" V ecßase * ie knew I needed even the
fee etS *hich would be forthcoming, and
bri f°i* ' ,e new at ber and rayseti. His
ftbh I iW '" eßs llo ' e sa 'J nothing of the details;
term sur P nßetl a "d interested, upon ta
rn,!,.? ld °® ce > 10 bear that he supposed the
Ytri r ' ° l Mi*. Boldero was this
b , '** le fca " e J himself, and that he had
! -'tfc;dau the premise- iu N'orb Guilford
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in the act of digging up the lost silver ; having
been captured by a North Guilford constable
and—to my great surprise—by a certain Uhas.
King. Now Kicg was a classmate of mine at
co l-ge ; Fad become a lieutenant in tbe navy,
and hat, as I knew, just returned lrom a loug
vovHira in a United States steamer to the
P-toifie. having been ordered to her from the
Coast Survey on account of his skill iu hydrog
raphy and drawing.
" Ytuseit had been hound over before a coun
try justice, one of Mr. Bolderu's neartst neigh
bore, on tbe strength of tlie prcsumpliou from
the occupation in which he was seized. I in
quired of the attorney bow the two men came
to find him there.
" You knew that King was engaged to Miss
Seldcti, didn't you ?"
" No, indeed, I never heard of it."
" He 'was, however, the lawyer said, and
had been, as it would appear, lingering about
| the house, probably in hopes of seeing her; for
old Boldero was so queer that he might have
' been displeased if be had ccme in. The old
I gentleman, however, excused himself from giv
; ing any details, being lull of business ; and re
marking that he should let me manage the case,
aud that King would undoubtedly communicate
with me upon it. lie seized some papers and
hurried off, telling me that King was at the
Tontine, and Yensen at' the other public house
just above namely, the jail, which is a few
doors north of the old tavern, and a'so on
Church street, fiouting the g r een.
" Upon inquiring at tlie Tontine office I
found that King had gone to New York, am'
had left u note lor uie. This contained a cor
dial refereuee to o.r old friendship, aud in
formed me that he should be in court on the
day appointed for the trial, which would be in
ample season. An official order occasioned
his departure
"This was rather puzzling treatment, I
thought, for the managing attorney of an irn
portaut iTuaiual case. IL>w- was Ito prepare
ray testimony and to make up my brief?—
Farther consultation with the State's Attor
ney did not clear up matters ; for the old gen
' tleinan, I thought, rather put rne off, avoiding
to give me any information on the plea of ur- j
gent employment, and telling me that King
was right ; tor that so fur as he (the attorney)
understood, the argument could be made ex
tempore, and immediately upon the rendering
of tlie testimony, as well as at six months' no
tice. With this I was perforce content, and
whiied as will us I could, though little coufi
dent ui my powers of extemporization.
" The morning of tlie trial came, however,
; and I entered the court room, having been pat
in communication with the justice who bound
over the prisoner, and constable who help
ed to seize him ; having received from my sen
ior the proper lorinal papets from ilie justice's
i court, and being supplied with certain other
ijocu tents and witnesses to collateral facts ;
but, to my further surprise, King was not vis
:hie. On my sating so to the Slate's Attor
ney, he remark'd that he supposed not, the
morning New York train not having arrived
quite yet. At ten o'clock the court entered,
and the session was ojteued with the usual
absurd shout by Mr. Sheriff.
"The case was called on and the prisoner
arraigned. He looked sufficiently likely to be j
guilty. A s'out built, bullet-headed, hard j
f aturtd, sailorly person, with light hair and I
♦ yes, and evil visage, showing signs of much
dissipation, and a down iook Upon beinir put
to plead he was arraigned by tlie name ot John
Juggi r, at which he started pert- ptiblv, ami
hesitated a moment, but recovering himsel!
j plead 4 Not Guilty' 6tontly enough, an I in a
strong, coarse voice. I was prepared to show,
! had he disputed it, I y witnesses und autln-nti
: cated copies, that he had, some tiir.e before,
proved himself, to the satisfaction of the Pro
bite Court of Guilford district, to be John
Jagger, the nephew of John Beldero, the de
ceased ; that by that name he had taken out
! letters of administration with will annexed,
over Bul-iero's estate, alleging that said will
(which he prese -ted, all in due form) had been
o'aced by Boldero in the custody of himself a
mfei.dcd hew (which was, no doubt true ;) ui.d
had iu cour-e of law received possession of all
the property of Boldero, which he had sold,
and hud with the proceeds bought a small sea
>ide farm near New London, where lie had
since lived ; but had there passed himself off
as Hans Yensen, a German by birth, who had
earned his money in whaling.
'• I now introduced the constable, who
proved merely the facts of the arrest —viz :
that K ng had to ne to his bou e and advised
him thai he had good cuu.-e to suspect acer
tain man of having murdered Mr. and Mrs.
Boldero, and that he would tie about the plaCt
that night to dig np some of his booty, and
lould be taken. As a good reward was ofL-r
t-d the officer readily undertook the job ; they
lay in wait in one corner of the wood yard at
a place selected by King, and seized the pris
oner, ufter he had come, ns they were expect
ing. haj dug a de°p hole close to one of the
feu e post*, and hud taken from ; t a large
quantity of silver, which was present HI court,
us the justice had Sealed it up Upon their
seizing him he was at first frightened, then
fought furioosly, and only submitted at the
sight of a revolver which King presented to
IIIUI He had not either the i or afterward
made any statement whatever, relative to him
self or thp silver, so for as the officer knew.
" Upon opening the trunk of plate, a large
quantity of pieces, of old fashioned pattern
and heavy make were shown to the court and
jury j very black with their exposure, but hav-*
ing on each piece the name of Johu Boldero
aud a coat of arms.
"Whl- the silver was nnder inspection, I
rose, and wiih some embarrrssment of feelings
if not in appearance, requested of the court a
short stay of proceedings, on the ground that
an important witness was absent.
" What witness, Mr. Bradley ?" blandly in
quired the gray haired jndge.
" 4 Lieutenant Charles King,' I answered,
4 who usfjsted in appreheudmg the prisoner.'
4 4 4 What do you expect to prove, Brad
ley,' rejoiued tbe Judge, 4 by Mr. King, furth
er tbau tbe testimony of tbe arresting officer ?'
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWAiN'DA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. 0. GOODRICH.
"1 really could not tell, and Was somewhat
puzzled, which tact was observed by the attor
ney for the deteuse—a sharp, unscrupulous old
fellow, renowned for defending ' uorse cases'
and criminal prosecutions, for jokes and vulvar
stories to the jury, quirks and quibbles, and
any thing else except convincing logic, fair
practice, or moral power—and he at once com
menced an impassioned appeal to the Conrt
against the slightest delay ; stating that the
defense were ready and anxious to go on, and
'hat not a mo uent's delay should be granted
fur a fellow who.it could be probably shown,
was seeking the blood of an iuuoceut fellow
being for the Sake of gain.
" Incensed at this dirty aspersior. upon King,
I was, not very, wisely, about {threateuing
Counselor Yapman—such was his name—with
a little slander suit, when my senior tuterrupt
ed rne with, ' Hold ap, William ; here's your
man !'
" lie came, dusty witK his ride, aud with a
large parcel or two under his arm, having
driven straight from the cars to the court room.
I beckoned to him, and nodded to the sheriff ;
the officer vociferated, ' Chatles K 1' and the
tardy witness, a well made,strong built,straight
young man, with a close, dark auburn beard
und moustache which he had cultivated since
I had seen him, took his place o*i the stand,
one side of the space before the Judge's chair,
and not very far from either that dignitary,
the jury, or the dock w here sullen prisoner sat
irr lied, for he had been obstinately and dan
gerously violent, close under the wing of the
burley sheriff
"'Now, Mr. King,' I saiJ, 'will you be
good enough to tell tiie court what you know
of the prisoner, and of the trausaeuou iu which
he is implicated V
" What he raid, in answer, was very nearly
as follows ;
4 4 4 1 returned from a long cru'se about six
weeks ago, having heard noihhg Torn home iu
a long time. Upon my return I went at onoe
to Mr. Boldero's house, and then for the first
time heard of the murder of himself aud wife,
and of Jagger's succession to the p r op_-rty and
transfer of it Tlie occupants could tell me
nothing of Miss Seldeu ; and 1 therefore made
inquiries of a Mr. Bulpiu, an old justice of the
peace, Mr. 80l ero's nearest neighbor, und
peihaps his most intimate acquaintance. Jus
tice Buipiu informed me of Miss Seidell'?
whereabouts ; and also placed in my hands a
will, of which the prosecution hat e an authen
ticuted copy, and which is of later date under
which J agger's claimed. This will revoked
all former wills, and left all the real and per
sonal property, su'j-ct to Mrs. Boldero's iif
interest, to .\l;.-s Selden. I was shortly after
ward married to her, having bee i engaged to
her for some time ; and at once brought suit
ugainst Jagger lor the value of the property
which is siill pending. I had occasion to meet
him in New Loudon on business connected with
this suit, and on that occasion it was that a
circumstance occurred winch caused me to re
eo_M><7,- the prisoner as guilty of the murder —
41 What was the circumstance? .Sharply askt d
Mr. Vupman.as King paused aud looked keen
ly at the prisoner. Jagger looKeb up sullently
and defiantly, yet with H certain expression of
curiosity, at him for a moment, and then down
aga 11, iu silence.
" ' The witness will be in yonr hands im
mediately, brother Yapman,' interrupted the
State's Attorney- 4 let him tell his own sto
ry " '
44 Yapman would have insisted, but the
Judgi silenced him, aud King resumed :
44 4 We came to no agreement about the
suit ; but my suspicions were much excited by
Jaggei 's behavior, aud I employed an officer
to watch him,who soon brought me word that
he had overheard Jagger making certain ar
rangements with a companion, and upon a
given mgbt was intending to dig up certain
silver to sell it, and to leave the country, for
lue reason that he believed he should lose the
suit against birn A certain other circum
stance, which I will mention immediately,
caused me to believe that 1 knew where this
silver would be dug, ami by lying iu wait at
the place accordingly 1 secured him with it in
his possession.
44 'I now pioceeded,' coutinurd King, 4 t o
narrate the circumstances of which I was an
eye witness, which will explain the references
which I buvee twice mad thus far to circum
stances which caused me to rtcoguize the pris
oner.'
44 As he said this, the witness, who had
hitherto been addrexsiug himself to the Judge,
turned himself so as to look directly at the
prisoner ; and his voice changed,and he spoke
with a deliberate solemnity and a tone of pity
and -orrow which showed that lie felt himself
to lie breatbiug away the life ol man. I un
consciously turned to like manner from the
prisoner, and so, I thtuk, did erery person iu
tiie court room.
4 4 4 Ou this 30th of June,' said King, 44 in
the year I4—, between tbe hours ot hall'
past tour and ave, John J auger—,
44 King stopped a moment, struex by the
ftarlui sudden look toward hnn of the prison
er ; and the pail, sickened terror of his face,
as bis jaw dropped and he stared at the wit
ues?, appalled ut this quiet fixing almost of
the of his critnc.did uot, I think,
leave either juryman or spectator a 9hadow of
doubt that the murderer was before him: aod
a smothered sound that was almost a groan
arose from all of us. The gray haired Judge,
Lis kiadiy voice trembling with emotion,
said,
44 Mr. King, the Coort is cot in doubt of
yonr nenre ol your responsibility; yet it thinks
it its duty to adtnouish you that you are now
to say what may dispose of tbe preseut aud
tbe tuture of a human son!.'
44 I atu not sure that those words should
have ' been said ; yet 60 profoundly awake
were we all to the uncouscious silent profu
sion, I might almost cull it, of the criminal,as
if it had tnade the very air of the quiet old
court-room suddenly heavy with revelations
of guilt aod death, that no sense of improprie
ty occurred to us ; and King, merely bowing
silently, but turuing again to the pnsouer.pro
ceeded ; and Jagger, at the bar, stili gawd
" REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER."
with that horrible fear upon bis face, as if
within the sphere of a fatai magnetism.
" 4 Between tbe hours of half past four aud
five, John Jugger came from the back door of
Mr. Doldero's house, went a dozen of step
info the back yard,turned about, and shook
his right hand at the house with a peculiar
and characteristic gesture of angry passion.—-
After a moment or two he dclibeiately took
two sacks from a repository under tlie shed,
and entered the hi use with them. He short
ly came out again, hvin&g upou bis shoulder
tlie body of Mr. Boldero in one of the saeks,
aud this he carried through the yard, through
the woods between ilie house and the pond,and
placed it in Mr. Boldero's skiff, which was
made fast to a tree. Theu he returued, aud ;
in like manner disposed of the body of Mrs.
Beldero. Then be cast off the boat, t:ok one
of the oars, aud, standing up, sculled out into
the pond to a point about a third of the way
across, wlier he sank tbe bodies, and then re
turned As he stood up iD the boat to return,
he made use of the same gesture of anger or
excited passion. lie made the boat fast at
the tree, returned to tlie house, entered it,
shortly crme out with the silver in his hand
proceeded to a corner of the wood yard,dug a
deep hole close to nud under one of the posts,
and there concealed the silver, smoothing the
ground over, aud leaving it covered with rub
bi-h, as it was before. And then lie passed
round tbe house, aud went away down the
road.
" 4 Mr. Boldero had two prominent front
teeth, fellows, and with a gold filling on tlie
inside of each, corresponding with that in the
other. He had ouce fractured his collar bone,
and, having been unskillfuliy set, the portions
had <rrown together so as to leave a large pro
jeetion at the point of juncture. And he uad
lost all but half of the lowest joint of his right
middle finger."
" Hastily breaking the string from a parcel,
King took from it a humau skull, a radin
nud ulna with the bones of the hand attached,
and a collar bone, and held them up. Then
hauding tbem from the witness box to tbe
foreman of the jury, he continued *
44 4 These are the bones of Mr Beldero. 1
recovered tbem myself from Quincbaug Fond,
still iu tbe strong linin sacks, which were o!
English make, such as he always used. Tin
iest o his remains, aud those of his wife are
decctitlv buried."
" This strange and sudden display of tbe
mortal remains of his relative and victim had
an efiT et upon the coarse, materialized mind of
the murderer which, perhaps no c;rcuU)-tan
tiality of paiole te-tiuiony could have prodnc
ed. He spared upon the worn und
nones lor a moment, still with the same lior
nbie, white, terror stricken face. All at ouce
he caught for breath,and groat el aloud ; and
then, dropping his head upon the rail before
him, he cried out, 'Lord have inerey upon uie !
Aud so lie remained, bent down, trembling,
and silent, until the adjouinm ut of the
court."
44 When tbe juryman had each inspected the
relics of mortality which King had given them,
he huuded them up to the Judge, and contin
ued :
" It was the gestnre which I had twice
seen Jegger make use of on the morning of the
murder which caused me to recognize him as
the criminal. When 1 saw him at New Lot
don he flew into a passion, and at our parting
made use of the same. This, in connection
with tbe general strangeness of his manner,
caused me to have liirn waiched, aud taking'
him with the silver completed toy convic
tion."
44 I shall now describe the means by which
I became cn eye witness of the fuct* I have
mentioned : At the time ol the murder I hud
been a frequent vi>itor at the house of Mr.
Boldero, where my present wife was living
A day or two before that time I had received
orders to join the stpumer with widen I had
lately returned, and hud left Miss Stlden.who
was also on the point of leaving home for a
viit of some length to some friends to the
eastward. Being uncertain whether she was
yet gone, and being too much employed iu
Contemplating some computations aid draw
ings connected with the U. S. Coast Survey
to go the house again, 1 was that morning
watching it, to see her again, knowing her de
parture would be at a very early hour.
44 One ot the main points iu the triangula
tion of the coast of Ceuuecticut was upon the
summit of xhe steep aiid buhl mountain
called Toket.ond sometimes Baiff Head,which
rises immediately from the western edge o.
Quinebagg Fond. I had been encamped there
some litne, and—as I had often doiie be
fore — I was looksng across the pond with a
telescope at Mr Beklero's house. It was by
means of this instrument that I observed all
the movements of Jagger. At the line 1
took him to be Mr. Boldero hiuiscif, for his
(Loire is much the same, although he wore a
red shirt, which I had never seen Mr. Boldero
do. For this reason mysnspci D' were not
then excited ; nnd though I thought his pro
ceedings a little uncommon, my inind wu.-
mucft preoccapied wiih my work, tlie cruise
upon which I was ordered, and the lady whom
I was wishing to see—and I knew him to be
a singular oian. I therefore suppose>d that
he was merely adjusting the fence ;n the
corner ; and as I knew that Mr. Boldero
was in the habit of carrying corn in his skiff
to the mill at the outlet of the pond, I at first
supposed that to be his errand, and aflewurd
took it for granted that he hud chosen to dis
pose of some waste material or other by sink
uig it in the poud."
44 Such was the testimony of King ; and
here the prosecution rested. Mr. Yapman
cross-examined him with no effect and ufter
a mere brief summary of the proof on my part,
aud a singularly feeble answer from him, the
case went to the jury, who, after fifteen min
utes' deliberation, brought in their verdict, as
every oue expected, of 44 Guilty of murder iu
tbe first degree.' "
44 I ought to give you a collateral item or
two, to fill out some details. The old justice,
Bulpin, bad retained Boldero's will, without
even meotioniug its existence, daring all Jag
ger's proceedings under the previous one, in
accordance with a strict constructing of the
uid gentleman's instructions to biui at placing
it in his cliarge."
44 Tbe neighbors, in their search for the
liodte" of .Mr and Mrs Boldero, would have
found them had they dragged tbe pond. But
this dots not have occurred to them,
as there is an ancient and received tradition
in tbe vicinity that a certain large crta of it,
lying opposite the mountain, is nnfathomatde
—an account, by the way, which is almost in
variable current, and religiously believed, near
any rustic lakelet. They say the same of the
Clack Fond, iu Middlcfield ; of the little lake
on the summit of Tulcott Mountain, west of
Hartford.
44 It appeared afterward that quite an ela
borate scheme of defence had been concocted
by Jagger or his counsel, which, however,was
rendered useless by tin? unexpected and over- j
whelming directness of King's testimony, and
by the effect ot it and of the boues so sudden
ly exhibited upon the prisoner. This defense j
was to have consisted mainly in the testimony j
of a fellow who was to have sworn to having '
been iuformedofthc place where the silver was j
buried, while at sea, by a sailor, who died and 1
who was to have teen made out the niur- 1
derer."
Thus ended the lawyer's story. 44 Now,"
sa : d he, risit g, " come this way." and see how
plainly we can see the farm.' We followed
Itiin to a point at the eastern brow of the
.'ifountaiu, where it fails, in one steep slope,
dowu to the water's edge of thed<-cp pocd.aud
looked where lie pointed. The farm lay ap
parently within a stone's throw—a lonely,
square clearing; a faint smoke ri-ing from one
chimney ; and all around it the thick woods,
dm k green with the latter summer, spread si
leutly out for miles. Not another house wus
in sight all along that side of the long, sileat
>heet of of deep, black water.
44 The place is very lonely," he added "On
any ordinary computation of chances it was
perfectly sale to go aud murder two oid peo
pic there early iu the morning. Jagger had
come iu from sea. aud only waited about un
til he found that the old couple were aloDe.—
He knew nothing of the Coast Survey opera
tions there. lie justified, mathematically
speaking, in believing himself quite uuseeu.—
Tnis side of the pond is still more lonely than
that. No human being coo Id have reconed
upon the presence ot a detective hiddt-u at
this distance, and upon this lofty,solitary spot
and ariucJ with such an effectual auxiliary."
JOHN MORGAN THE REBEL SCOUT.— The
Nashville corre-pondent of the New Y>-rk
Timrs lias the following in regard to a noted
rebel cbitttaiu. The name of this mysterious
marauder is on the lips of every one, for his
d iring coolness ai.d disregard of fear has be
come a by-word even among our own army
This Col John Morgan, for so he styles liirn
self, is said to be a native ot Lexington, Ky ,
whose I'alber was a respectable manufacturer
of jeans. From his yo ith, this Morgan has
wou the admiration of ull who knew him for
his dare devil recklessness, which even now
does not seem to have diminished in tbe least.
We first heard of him when onr brigade (the
Eighth) was, a portion of them, encamped at
Filot Knob, in Mo, in September last.
Our pickets were shot by some mysterious
ager.cv, and report stated in camp, that a tall,
heavy"man wi'b flowing lieatd. mounted on an
immense black staiiion, fleet as the wind, was
several times detected in the act of retreating
Shot after shot was fired after him, but he
seemed to bear a charmed life. We lost sight
of him until just before we left Cairo, when he
appeared one uigbt suddenly and shot two of
our pickets. Again he appeared at Bacon
Creek. Ky . and burnt the railroad bridge un
der McCpo k's nose, shot on of li s pickets, and
rode off before t e nrmy had recovered froei
its surprise. You remember Ins bold attack
u. on our lines on Saturday, the Blii of March,
in Mitchell's division, and again o:i Sunday
morning, at caylight, upon McCook's camp, ou
the Franklin pike.
The very same Sunday, this Morgan, dis
guised as a countryman, and dressed in bultir
nut colored clothes, obtained a pas from Gen.
Mitchell, who did not know him, and had the
audacity to dint at the City Hotel in company
with our own officers, making good his escape
with perfect nonchaler.ee. lie came very near
capturing Gen. Nelson cnc day last week. The
plot, was discovered in time to be frustrated,
but not to catch tlie rogue. He has since cup
tared the railroad train running between Lou
isyille aud Nashville at Gallatin, taking thirty
bridge builders prisoners, bit releasing thena,
as he seeks higher game. He has boasted he
will catch one of our Generals as an off-et to
Buckner's especial favorite. lie has offered a
reward.of SI,OOO to any citizen or officer who
will catch him and his steed, and, sTango to
say, disguised, bos made these bets openly be
fore our officers, who at tbe t;me did not Kn w
him. Such is Col. Morgan, the famous rebc-l
-coat, who, though he deserves hanging, yet
w ins admiring opinions Item euemies as well
as friends fur his daring.
HUMAX IJFE —Men seldom think of the
great event of death until the shadows fall
across their own path, hiding forever from ;
their eyes the traces of loved or.es whose liv
ing smiles wore the sunlight ot their existence.
Death is the great antagonist of life, and the
cold thought of tbe tomb is the skeleton of
all feasts We do not want to go through
the dark valley, although its passage may
iead to paradise, and with Chrles Lamb, we
do pot want to lay down in tbe mnddy grave,
even with kings and priDce3 for onr bed fel
lows. But the fiat of nature is inexoraMe.
There is no appeal from the great law which
dooms us to dust. We flourish and lade as
the leaves c* the forest j and flowers that
bloom and wither in a day have no* a frailer
hope upon li 4 'e than the mightest monarch
than ever stvnk the earth with his footsteps.
Generations of men appear and vanlfch as the
grass, and the countless multitudes wfiieb fills
the world to-day, will to morrow doappeur as
tbe footsteps on the shore
VOL. XXII.- —KO. 02.
" THE Bin. POSTER'S DRF.AM "—OUC of the
shrewdest and most watrs^ish comical engrar*
! ings coneettable, has just heen published by
Ross & Tousey.of New York, nnder the above
title A bill poster with tailored garments,
has fallen asleep by a gas lamp post at a
street corner, with meershnnm p jrf> io hand,
and paste piil and " posters', standing by.—
Before him rise 9 a shed, covered with bills of
all styles, in white, red, yellow and bine pa
lter, posted over and under each other in all
shapes, and it is upon the quaint readings
which their combination makes, that the wit
depends. They are, for instance, " Peoples
Candidate for Mayor,—The Hippopotamus;"
" Miss Cnshman wiil take—Brandreth's pills
through by daylight;" " Henry Ward
! Bencher's— Grand Tight R.ope Performance
at the Melon eon;" For Sing Sing direct—
Fernando Wood;" " Restorative for the
Hair—use Spaulding's Glue;" " The Ameri
! cau Temperance Society will—try Billing era
Londou Coruial Gin;" " Edward Everett
' —will open in a few day a new—oyster saloon
j at the—coal yard;" " Republican nomination
i for Mayor—Miss Lucy Stone—or any other
! man " Fashion Course, Great Match be
tween Ethan Allen and—the Fa't woman
TIMOTHY TCCOMB OX DEACON-S. —Dr. Hol
land, of the SprinsrSeld Republican, is dowu'
upon the sour kind ot deacons ; be likes a
whole soulcd man, and thinks the lugubrious
| sort of reiigiouists are a serious injury to the
reputation of genuine Christianity. Tie says,
i " I have seen a deacon in the pride of his deep
humility. He combed hi- hair straight, and
looked studiously after the main chance ; and
while he looked, he employed hioutlf in setting
a good example, ilia dre : s wa3 ligidly plain,
and his wife was not indulged in the vanities
of millinery and mantau-making. He never
joked. He did not know what a joke was,
any further than to know that it was a sin.—
He carried a Sunday face through the wrek.
He did not mingle in the happy social parties
of his neighborhood. He was a deacon He
starved his social nature because he was a dea
con. He refrained from ail participation in a
free and generous life because he was a dcacou.
He made his children h .te Sunday because ho
was a deacon. He so brought them up that
they learned to consider them-elves unfortu
nate in being the children of axieacoD. They
were pitied by other children because they
were the children of a d acou. His wife was
pitied by other women btccu=e she was the
wife cf a deacon. Nobody loved liirn. If he
came into a circle where men were laughing or
telling stories, they always stopped until be
went out. Nobody ever grasped his band cor
dially. or slapped bioi on tuesbouider, or spoke
of him as a good fellow, lie seemed as dry
and hard end tough as a piece of jtrked beef.
There was 110 softness of character —tiojuci-
ness—no loveliness in him.
" Now it is of no use for me to undertake
to realize to myself that God admires such a
character ua this/'
NOT G F.N'ERALT.Y FVN'OWN. —Martin Tan
Buren is the only man who held the offices of
President, Vice President, Minister to Eng
land, Governor cf his own State, and member
of both Houses of Congress,
Thomas II Bsntcn is the only man who has
held a seat in the United Stales Senate for 30
consecutive years.
The only instance of father and son in the
United States Senate at the same time, is that
of Hon Henry Dodge, Senator from Wiscon
sin, end bis son, Augustus C. Dodge, Senator
from lowa.
Gen James Shields is tbeoulyraan whoever
represented two States in the United States
Senate. At one time be was Senator from
Illinois, and subsequently Senator from Min
nesota.
John Quincy Adams held position under
the Government duriug every Administration
from that of Washington, to that of Polk—
during which he died He bad been Minister
to England, member of hoth Houses of Con
gress, Secretary of State, and President of the
United States. He died while a member of
the Honse of Representatives.
The only instance where three brothers oc
cupied seats in the lower House at the same
time, was vvhtn Eiihu I>. Washburne repre
sented the F:r-t District in Illinois, Israel
Washburne, Jr., the Third District in Maine,
and Cadwalladet Washburne the Third Dis
trict cf Wisconsin.
LOVE FOR THF DEAD. —The love which
survives the tomb," says Irving, " is oue cf
the noblest attributes of the scul. If it has
its woes, it has likewi-.c its delights ; and
when the overwhelming burst of grief is
calmed into the gentle tear of recollection }
when the sudden anguish and the convulsed
agony over the present rains of all that we
u.oat loved, is softened away into pen&.ve med
itation on all that it w3 in tha days oi .ta
loveliness—who wonld root ont sncli a sorrow
from the heert ? Tboogh it may sometimes
throw a passing cloud over the bright boar
of gloom ; yet who would exchange it even
for the c ong of pleasure, or the burst or revel
ry ? No ; there is a voice from the tomb
sweeter tli an song ; there is a remerabrar.efl
of the dead to which we turn even from lbs
charms of the living."
PCHK WATER. —Watdt, which has 'oera EX*
posed for a long time to the action of the at
mosphere, is unfit for culinary purposes or to
bo drank. It should be remem'n.Ted that cold
water, even if kept well iced, is rendered only
the more capable of absorbing a!! surrounding
gases. Thus a pitcher of iced water in a warm
room will soon become -o fuut as to lie unGc
for use ; it will receive its own bulk readily of
carbonic acid, and many tunes its bu k of am
monic'al gases. Wa'er should, therefore, be
frequently renewed ; end that which - *has re
mained IU the house all night, should ucv.er b©
tisid lor culinary purposes iu the morning.
C. S. A.— Hoggs wants to know whether
this don't mean ""Cussed Soon Annihilated."