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ItilJ HUNTING of every kind in Plain and Fan- j , ,i, ,i—. done with neatness and dispatch. Hand- j Blanks, Cards, Pamphlets, Ac., of every va- j 0.-rv aid style, printed at the shortest notice. The | I , T „uTEii OFFICE has just been re-fitted with Power jv. .ses. and every thing in the Printing line can j uviited in the most artistic manner and at the j rales. TERMS INVARIABLY CASH. VOI R MISSION. li you cannot on the ocean Sail among the swiftest fleet, Kocking on the highest billows, Laughing at the storms you meet, V'm can stand among the sailors Anchored yet within the bay, Y< m can lend a hand to help them, As they launch their boats away. It' you are too weak to journey l'p the mountain, steep and high, Ynu can stand within the valley While the multitudes goby. V.iu can chant in happy measure As they slowly pass along, Though they may forget the siuger. Tin y will not forget the song. It v m lmve not gold and silver Ever ready to command, It you cannot towards the needy Reach an ever open hand, Vnii can visit the afflicted, O'er the erring you can weep ; Yi si can be a true disciple, • Sitting at the Saviour's feet. It you cannot in the conflict Prove yourself a soldier true ; It' where fire and smoke are thickest, There's no work for you to do : When the battle-field is silent, Yi HI can go with careful tread, Von can bear away the wounded, Yi m can cover up the dead. l>o not, then, stand idly waiting l-'or some greater work to do ; Fortune is'a lazy goddess, She will never come to you. i... and toil in any vineyard, Do not fear to do or dare ; ll you want a field of labor, You can find it anywhere. .piiH'tUmuw, A STORY OF ST. MARK'S EVE: WHICH HATH A MORAL IN IT. i:v THOMAS HOOD. i st. Mark's Day is a festival which has been oh- I - vv 1 nil the 25th of April, in Catholic countries, ! :r ... time immemorial. The superstition alluded j t li the following story was formerly pretty gen ' ..illy believed, and vigils at the church-porch at midnight were common. I hope it'll choke thee !" said Master • Lies, the yeoman ; and, as he said it, be Dinged his bio- red fist 011 the old oak table. "1 do say 1 hope it'll choke thee !" l iie dame made no reply. She was chok ing with passion, and a fowl's liver, which was the cause of the dispute. Much has in ii said and sung concerning the advan tage of congenial tastes amongst married pe pie : but the quarrels of this Kentish aiple arose from too great coincidence in tin ir tastes. They were both fond of the little delicacy in question, but the dame Lad managed to secure the morsel to her self This was sufficient to cause a storm ■d' high words, which, properly understood, .signifies very low language. Their meal times seldom passed over ( without some contention of this sort. As sun- as the knives and forks clashed, so lid they ; being in fact equally greedy and disagreedy ; and when they did pick a quarrel, they picked it to the bone. It was reported that, 011 some occasions, tlu v had not even contented themselves with hard speeches, but had come to scuff ling ; lie taking to boxing and she to pinch ing. lie nigh in a far less amicable manner than is practiced by the taker of snuff. On the present difference, however, they were satisfied with " wishing each other dead with all their hearts ;" and there seemed little doubt of the sincerity of their aspir ation, on looking at their malignant faces ; tyr they made a horrible picture in this frame of mind. Now it happened that this quarrel took place on the morning of St. Mark ; a saint who was supposed on that festival to favor his votaries with a peep into the book of fate. For it vas the popular belief,in those days, that, if a person should keep watch at midnight beside the church, the apparit ions of all those who were to be taken by L ath before the anniversary would be seen • ntoring the porch. The yeoman, like his neighbors, believed most devoutly in this •superstition ; and in the very moment that ii<- breathed the unseemly aspirations afore- i-aid, it occurred to him that the eve was at ; aid, when by observing the rite of St. Mark, lie might know to a certainty wheth er tin s unchristian wish was to be one of that bear fruit. Accordingly, a little re midnight, he stole quietly out of the '• use, and set forth on his way to the church. hi tin • meantime, the dame called to mind ' " same ceremonial : and, having the like *"'ivo for curiosity with her husband, she d- < pm on her cloak and calash, and set out. though by a different path,on the same errand. iiu night of the Saint was as dark and ' '"ill as the mysteries he was supposed to " Vr; d ; the moon throwing but a short oc tsioiial ghmce, as sullen masses of cloud u re driven from her face. Thus it fell out i. a our two adventurers were quite un ' uscious of being in company,till a sudden r ciij.se of moonlight, showed them to each • r. , oily a few yards apart. Both,through ' "j'tural panic, became pale as ghosts ; 1 • I'oth made eagerly toward the church i".' ! dr Much as they had wished fortius Sl could not help quaking and "j'ping di the spot, as if turned to stones; ' in tliis position the dark again threw a "• k n curtain over them, and they disap peared from each other. '<- two came to one conclusion ; each E. O. GOODRICH, Publisher. VOLUME XXVI. conceived that St. Mark had marked the other to himself. With this comfortable knowledge, the widow and widower elect hied home again by the roads they came, and as their custom was to sit apart after a quarrel, they repaired to their separate chambers, each ignorant of the other's ex cursion. By and by, being called to supper,instead of sulking as aforetime, they cauie down together, each being secretly in the best humor, though mutually suspected of the worst. Amongst other things on the table there was a calf's sweebread, being one of those very dainties that had often set them together by the ears. The dame looked and longed, but she refrained from its ap propriation, thinking within herself, that she could give up sweetbreads for one year; and the farmer made a similar reflection. After pushing the dish to and fro several times, by common impulse they divided the treat ; and then, having supped, they re tired amicably to rest, whereas until then they had seldom gone to bed without fall ing out. The truth was, each looked upon the other as being already in the church yard. On the morrow, which happened to be the dame's birthday, the farmer was the first to wake, and knowing what he knew, and having, besides, but just roused him self out of a dream strictly confirmatory of of the late vigil, he did not scruple to sa lute his wife, and wish her many happy re turns of the day. The wife who knew as much as he, very readily wished him the same, having, in truth, but just rubbed out of her eyes the pattern of a widow's bonnet that had been submitted to her in her sleep. She took good care, however, at dinner, to give the fowl's liver to the doomed man, considering that when he was dead and gone she could have them, if she pleased, seven days in the week ; and the farmer,on his part, took care to help her to many tit bits. Their feeling towards each other was that of an impatient host with regard to an unwelcome guest, showing scarcely a bare civility while in expectation of his stay,but overloading him with hospitality when made certain of his departure. In this manner they went on some six months, without any addition of love be tween them, and as much selfishness as ever, yet living in a subservience to the comforts of each other, sometimes not to be found even amongst couples of sincerer af fections. There were as many causes for quarrel as ever, but every day it became less worth while to quarrel ; so letting by gones be bygones, they were indifferent to the present, and thought only of the future, considering each other, (to use a common phrase) " as good as dead." Ten months wore away, and the farmer's birth-day arrived in its turn. The dame, who had passed an uncomfortable night, having dreamed, in truth, that she did not much like herself in mourning, saluted him, as soon as the day dawned, and, with a sigh, wished him many years to come. The farmer repaid her in kind, the sigh inclu ded ; his own vision having been of the painful sort, for lie dreamed of having a headache from wearing a black hat-band, and the malady still clung to him when a wake. The whole morning was spent in silent meditation and melancholy, on both sides, and when dinner came, although the most favorite dishes were on the table, they could not eat. The farmer, resting his elbows upon the board, with his face between his hands, gazed wistfully at his wife. The dame, leaning back in her high arm chair, regarded the yeoman quite as ruefully. Their minds, traversing in the same direction, and at an equal rate, ar rived together at the same reflection, but the farmer was the first to give it utter ance : "Thee'd be missed, dame, if thee were to die!" The dame started. Although slie had nothing but death at that moment before her eyes, she was far from dreaming of her own exit. Recovering, however, from the shock, her thoughts flowed in their old channel, and she rejoined in the same spir it : " I wish, master, thee may live as long as I !" The farmer, in his own mind, wished to live rather longer, for, at the utmost, he considered that his wife's bill of mortality had but two months to run; the calculation made him sorrowful; during the last few months she had consulted his appetite, bent to his humor, and conformed her own incli nations to his, in a manner that could never be supplied. His wife, from being at first useful to him, had become agreeable, and at last dear, and as he contemplated her approach ing fate, he could not help thinking audi bly, "that he should be a lonesome man when she was gone." The dame this time, heard the survivorship foreboded without starting, but she marvelled much at what she thought the infatuation of a doomed man. So perfect was her faith in the in fallibility of St. Mark, that she had even seen the sympthoms of moral disease, as palpable as plague-spots, on the devoted woman. (Jiving his body up, therefore, for lost, a strong sense of duty persuaded her that it was imperative on her, as a Christian, to warn the unsuspecting farmer of his dissolution Accordingly, with a solemnity, adapted to the subject, a tender ness of recent growth, and a memento mori face, she broached the matter in the follow ing question: " Master, how bee'st thee ?" "As hearty as a buck, dame, and 1 wish thee the like !" A dead silence ensued; the farmer was as unprepared as ever. There is a great fancy for breaking the truth by dropping it gently; an experiment that was never an swered, any more than with iron-stone chi na. The dame felt this; and, thinking it better to throw the news at her husband at once, she told him, in as many words, that he was a dead man. It was now the yeoman's turn to be stag gered. By a parallel course of reasoning he had just wrought himself up to a simi lar disclosure,and the dame's death, warrant was just ready upon his tongue, when he met lus own despatch, signed, sealed and I delivered. Conscience instantly pointed i out the oracle from which she had derived the omen. | "Thee hast watched, dame, at the church ! porch, then?" j "Ay, master. " "And thee didst see me, spirituously?" "In the brown wrap, with the boot hose. TOW AND A, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., JUNE 15,1865. Thee were coming to the church, by Fair thorn Gap; in the while I were comi g by the Ilolly Hedge. For a minute the farmer paused, but the next he burst iuto a fit of uncontrolable laughter; peal after peal, each higher than the last. The poor woman had but one ex planation for this phenomenon. She thought it a delirium; a lightning before death; and was beginning to wring her hand, and lament, when she was checked by the merry yeoman: "Dame, thee bee'st a fool. It was I my self thee seed at the church porch. I seed thee, too; with a notice to quit upon thy face, but, thanks to God, thee bee'st a liv ing, and that is more than I cared to say of thee, this day ten-month!" The dame made no answer. Her heart was too full to speak, but, throwing her arms round her husband, she showed that she shared in his sentiment. And from that hour, by practising a careful absti nence from offence, or a temperate snffrance of its appearance, they became the most united couple in the country. But it must be said, that their comfort was not com plete till they had seen each other, in safe ty, over the perilous anniversary of St. Mark's Eve. THE TRIAL OF DAVIS. [From the Washington Chronicle. ] If Jefferson Davis shall be put on trial for treason in this District, the case, in its legal aspects, will present some striking points of similarity to the case of Aaron Burr, on his trial at Richmond. Burr was not present at Blennerhassett's Island when war was charged to have been there levied, nor even within the State of Virginia, but was absent in another State, some two hundred miles distant. The in dictment, however, charged him with levy ing war on Blennerhassett's Island, in the district of Virginia, with a great multitude ol persons to the grand jury unknown. In other words,it charged him as being person ally present at the Island when the war was there levied. On the trial, after the prosecution had in troduced all the evidence in its possession relating to the alleged levying of war at Blennerhassett's Island, the counsel of Col one! Burr moved to exclude all further tes timony tending to connect him with the transactions on the Island, as an adviser, procurer, aider, or abettor of said acts per formed by others, at that place, in his ab sence. In support of this motion Colonel Burr and his counsel made and argued the following points : Ist.'That inasmuch as Colonel Burr was not present at Blennerhassett's Islend when the war was alleged to have been there levied, be could not be implicated in the crime (if any) there committed, except by virtue of the common-law maxim, that " whatever will constitute a man an acces sory in felony will make him a principal in treason." 2d. That said common-law rule is not in force in the United States, being excluded by our constitutional definition of treason. 3d. That, even admitting said common law rule to be in force in this country,still, in order to hold a person criminally answer able for the acts of others, committed in his absence, he must be specially charged in the indictment, according to the facts. That is to say, the indictment must show that lie was absent, and must specify the accessor ial acts which implicate him in the crime of those who actually levied war, in person, by appearing in arms against the Govern ment, at the time and place charged in the indictment. Furthermore, that he would only be indictable and triable in the district where such accessorial act was committed. 4th. That if the common-law rule which converts all accessories in treason into principals in force in this country, yet the guilt of one who performs accessorial acts only is derivative, and cannot be establish ed otherwise than by legal proof that the persons whose acts he is answerable for have committed treason ; which legal proof can consist of nothing less than a record of their conviction. sth That the evidence wholly failed to prove that any overt act of levying war had been committed on Blennerhassett's Island; and hence no evidence could be received to charge Colonel Burr, by relation, with an act which had not been proved to have been committed. The counsel for the prosecution did not contend that the common-law rule above referred to was in force in the United States. But they insisted that, if pcrmited to pro ceed with the introduction of their evidence, they would be able to show that Colonel Burr had performed such acts as constitu ted a part in the transactions on the Island, relied upon as amounting to a levying of war, and so made him a principal actor therein, independently of said common-law rule, although not personally present at the Island. They relied upon the doctrine laid down by the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of Bollman and Swart wout (4th Branch), in these words. "It is not thT intention of tlie Court to say that no individual can be guilty of this crime who has not appeared in arms against his country. On the contrary, if war be actually levied, that is, if a both/ <>f men be actually assembled far the purpose of effect - hit) by force a treasonable object, all those who perform any part, however minute or hoirecer remote from the. scene of action, ami who are actually leagued in the general conspiracy, are to be considered as traitors." They draw a distinction between such acts, performed by an absentee,as are pure ly accessoral in their character, as, for in stance, merely advising and inciting others to levy war), and such auxiliary acts as constitute a part in the war levied by them. I hey admitted that lie who merely advises, incites, and instigates others to levy war against the Government, without himself performing any overt act immediately anci llary to the war levied by them, cannot be guilty of treason under our Constitution, although he would be guilty in England by virtue of the common-law rule above men tioned. But they insisted that, if permit ted to proceed with the evidence,they would be able to show that Colonel Burr had done much more than merely to advise and in stigate the alleged treasonable assemblage on Blennerhassett's Island ; that he had not only procured that assemblage, but had act ually provided and furnished all the means to be used by the insurgents in levying and carrying on war against the United States. In other words, tliey insisted that they would be able to prove that Colonel Burr had performed such overt acts immediately aneiliary to the war levied on the Island, REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER. as constituted a par/ therein, within the meaning of the Supreme Court in the case of Bollman and Swartwout, and so rendered him a principal in the crime of treason there consummated. They further contended that, if a princi pal in the crime of treason consummated at the Island, he must be considered as having been constructively present, and, therefore, was properly charged in the indictment as if actually present. These were the principal points discuss ed, at great length and with consummate ability, in Burr's case. That some of the same points may be raised on the trial of Davis in this District is manifest. How far the ruling of the Court upon them will tend to sustain or to defeat such a prose cution will be seen lrum what follows : That which, of itself, would have proved fatal to the prosecution in Burr's ease was the want of sufficient evidence to prove that any tear teas levied on Blennerhassett's Island. After Chief Justice Marshall had defined what, in the opinion of the Court, was necessary to constitute a levying of war, Mr. Hay, the United States Attorney, frankly admitted that " the evidence of the transactions on Blennerhassett's Island did not come up to the constitutional crime of levying war," as defined by the Court.— This was, of course, fatal to the prosecu tion, even if all the other points raised and discussed in the case had been decided in its favor. No such difficulty can arise, however, on the trial of Davis in this Dis trict, inasmuch as a bloody battle was ac tually fought within the bounds of the Dis trict, in July, 18fi4. Chief Justice Marshall, in Burr's case, carefully abstained from committing him self conclusively on the question whether the common-law rule that whatever will render a man an accessory in felony will make him a principal in treason, was in force as a part of the law of treason of this country; bbt at the same time he very clearly indicated his opinion that it was not. lie adhered, however, to the position taken in the case of Bollman and Swart wout, that when war is actually levied, for a treasonable purpose, any one who, being leagued in the general conspiracy, performs any overt act constituting a part therein, " however minute or however remote form the scene of action," is guilty as a princi pal traitor. And lie gave this illustration of what character of auxiliary acts would, in his opinion, constitute " a part " in a war levied at a " remote " place : "There is no difficulty in affirming that there must be a war, or the crime of levying it cannot ex ist : but there would often be considerable difficul ty in affrming that a particular act did or did not involve the person committing it in the guilt and in the fact of levying war. If, for example, an ar my should be actually raised for the avowed pur pose of carrying on open war against the United States and subverting their Government, the pi lint must be weighed very deliberately, before a judge would venture to decide that an overt act of levy ing war had not been committed by a commissary of purchases, who never saw the army, but who, knowing its object, and leaguing himself with the rebels, supplied that army with provisions : or, by a recruiting officer holding a commission in the rebel service, who, though never in camp, execu ted the particular duty assigned to him." If such acts as are here mentioned, per formed at a place " remote " from the scene of actual war, will implicate the person performing them "in the guilt and in the fact of levying war," it may be safely as sumed that Sufficient evidence can be ob tained to implicate Davis as a principal ac tor in the war prosecuted in this District in July, 1864. Chief Justice Marshall held, however, in Burr's case, that even if an unquestionable act of war had been committed on Blenner hassett's Island, and if Burr bad performed, in Kentucky, or in any other place " remote from the scene of action," overt acts con stituting a part in that war, still the evi dence of his auxiliary acts would not have been admissible under the indictment, be cause it charged him with being personally present at the Island. He did not assent to the doctrine contended for by the prose cution, that Burr couhl be considered con structively present, when, in fact, he was some two hundred miles distant from the place where the war was alleged to have been levied. He therefore held that in order to let in any evidence of Burr's auxiliary acts, per formed at a great distance from the scene of hostile demonstrations, the indictment should have been special, showing that he was not actually present, and specifying the auxiliary acts which implicated him in the crime of those who actually appeared in arms against the Government. To ob viate' this difficulty, encountered by the prosecution in Burr's case, it would only be necessary to frame the indictment in accordance with the views expressed by the court. Chief Justice Marshal held, in Burr's case, upon the authority of English text books and adjudications, that where an ac cessory in treason becomes a principal solely in virture of the common law rule that" in treason are all principals," his guilt can only be legally established by a record of the conviction of some one or more of the immediate actors who were present at the place where the crime was consum mated. But if Davis can be implicated as a principal in the crime of treason consum mated in this District in July last, indepen dently of raid common-law rule, it is clear that the objection that 110 one of the imme diate actors had been previously convicted would not be tenable in his case. And it has already been shown that il implicated at all, it is not. in virtue of said common law rule. We think it has been sufficiently shown by the foregoing that the points ruled a gainst the prosecution in Burr's case need not embarrass the prosecution in the case of Davis, should he be put upon his trial for treason in this District. Ihe proof of an actual levying of war in the District is ample. It will certainly not be very diffi cult to prove that Davis performed, at Rich mond, acts immediately anciliary to said war prosecuted in the District; such acts as, within the meaning of the Supreme Court, in the case of Bollman and Swart wout, constituted a part in said war. The indictment can be so framed as to obviate the objection which existed, in Burr's case, to the admission of evidence of auxiliary acts, performed at a distance. In fact, we understand that the indictment now pend ing has been drawn with reference to ob viating that objection. There is, as we conceive, but one really debatable question which can arise on the trial of Davis for treason in tnis District, provided the prosecution shall be skillfully conducted. That question is the one which we noticed in our issue of last Saturday morning, viz : whether he who performs such acts auciliary to a war levied at an other and remote place, as will constitute a part in the fact of levying war, is liable to prosecution in the district where the war is actually levied, or only in the district where he performs such ancillary acts ? In support of the position that he is liable to prosecution in the place where the war is actually levied, though not present, we printed, on Saturday, some forcible argu ments in the form of extracts from the " notes " of our fellow citizen, J. J. Coombs, Esq., appended to his recently published work, "The Trial of Aaron Burr," Ac We commend this work to the attention of all who desire clearly to understand the ques tions likely to arise on the trial of Mr. Da vis. Wc acknowledge ourselves indebted to it, mainly, for the substance of this ar ticle. JEFF. DAVIS'S IRONING, AND WHY IT WAS DONE. Why and how Jeff Davis was manacled, or whether he was manacled at all, has been enveloped in some uncertainty. It is true that irons were placed on bis feet, but tliey were subsequently removed—when they had answered their purpose. Not only was he imperious and haughty, as usual, but he became absolutely obstre perous, insulting the guard, abusing the officers and their Government, throwing his food at his attendants, and tearing a seces sion passion to tatters generally —some- times threatening others, some times melo dramatically courting a bayonet puncture of his own breast. As a necessity (and possibly as a pun ishment and warning) orders were given to place manacles on his feet. The Captain in charge, attended by a blacksmith and manacles, approached, say ing, " Mr. Davis, I have a very unpleasant duty to perform." ' My God !" exclaimed Jeff, "you don't intend to put those things on me." Such were the orders ; the Cap tain could only obey. Jeff remonstrated. They should never be put on. The Cap tain must go to Gen. Halleck and have the order countermanded. The Captain re plied, " But, Mr. Davis, the order came from Gen. Halleck." Davis insisted that the order must be countermanded. The Captain said: "You are a military man, Mr. Davis, and know that my only course is—to obey orders." Jeff then went off in a more towering pas sion than before, and declared that he never would be ironed alive. After becoming a little cool, and mechanically placing one foot on a stool, the Captain told the black smith to proceed. Leaning forward to take to his arms the heels of his Rebel ma jesty, Jeff', seized him, and with a vigorous push tumbled him backward on the floor, while the black smith, justly indignant, hurled his hammer at "the President," but missed him. Davis then attempted to seize a gun, and asked to be bayoneted. The guard presented bay onets, and the Captain feared he might rush upon them, and so ordered the guard to fall back. The captain called in four stout men and ordered them to lay Jeff, on his bunk, which they did, the prisoner resisting with almost preternatural strength, and writhing in their grasp while the blacksmith ham mered on the rivet with a will. When placed in his chair again Jeff looked in ut ter despair upon his manacled limbs and burst into tears. This medicine had the desired effect, and the groat Rebel became comparatively do cile, far less defiant, but more depressed ; and the irons have since been removed. It was feared that lie would starve him self to death, refusing persistently to eat soldiers' rations (which C. 0. Clay munches without a murmur), and his physician pre scribed a more agreeable diet, which " the President" ate with great avidity—and still enjoys this extra fare. WORTH KNOWING AND REMEMBERING How to act when the clothes take lire is an important piece of information. The Scientifii■ American says, three persons out of four would rush ritght up to the burning individual, and begin to paw with their hands without any definite aim. It is use less to tell the victim to do this or that, or call for water. In fact, it is generally best to say not a word, but seize a blanket from a bed, or a cloak, or any woolen fabric—if none is at hand, take any woolen material —hold the corners as far apart as you can, stretch them out higher than your head, and, running boldly to the person, make a motion of clasping in the arms, most about the shoulders. This instantly smothers the fire and saves the face. The next instant throw the unfortunate person 011 the floor. This is an additional safety to the face and breath, and any remnant of the flame can be put out leisurely. The next instant im merse the burnt part in cold water, and all pain will cease with the rapidity of light ning. Next, get some common flour, re move the water, and cover the burnt parts with an inch thickness of flour if possible ; put the patient to bed, and do all that is possible to soothe until the physician ar rives. Let the flour remain until it falls off itself, when a beautiful new skin will be found. Unless the burns are deep, 110 oth er application is needed. The dry flour for burns is the most admirable remedy ever proposed, and the information ought to be imparted to all. The principle of its ac tion is that like the water, it causes instant and perfect relief from pain, by totally ex cluding the air from the injured parts.— Spanish whiting and cold water, ofamushy consistency, are preferred by some. Dredge on the flour until no more will stick, and cover with cotton batting. IN a description of Jefferson Davis' cap ture, and the scenes afterwards, we find the following: "After a hurried breakfast, the part} was put in inarching- order. The* prisoners, in ambulances, preceded by the band of the 4th Michigan cavalry, playing first 'Yankee Doodle,' which had evidently a depressing influence on the feeling of Mr. Davis; but when in a few minutes the band struck into the somewhat familiar air of 'John Brown's Soul's Marching On, 1 it was too much for endurance, and lie actually fell prostrate in the ambulance, and was kept concealed from view by his friends for a considerable time." pei- Annum, in Advance. THE CONSPIRATORS. A PR*ONUL DESCRIPTION OF TH AHXUHMI(IS ON TRIA 1 AT WASHINGTON. The most graphic personal description ■ yet given of the conspirators on trial at! Washington, appears in the New York Mrthodist, written by Rev. P>. II \adal,onc I of the editors of that paper. He says of MRS. SVRRATT. We begin with Mrs. Surratt, who pre sents herself in the light of a mother, if not ) to the bloody plot itself, at least to the : " beasts of Ephesus " now on trial. Her house in Washington was the meeting 1 place of the horrid crew, and her own son a partner with her and the rest of them in 1 the conspiracy. She, it will be remem bered, on the day of the murder, drove out, to Surrattsville with what she graphically described as " the shooting irons," for which Booth and Harrold called in their flight | down the western peninsula of Maryland. : She played the tigress in nourishing the pur pose of the assassins until it was fully ready for the deed ; and when she was ar rested in the small hours of the uiglit, in her own house, asked permission to kneel and say her prayers before being marched away by the officers. She actually did kneel, and no doubt repeated her " Hail Mary." But will the reader pause and take j a view of this woman ? She sits there, in the corner, the first in the row of criminals, a position of honor to which both her age and her intelligence entitle her. The rea der at first finds a veil, a thin one, between him and the object of bis scrutiny. Wait a moment; this witness is called upon to, identify her, and her face must be uncov- , ered. She is modest and reluctant, but justice is stern, and her shyness must give i way. There, now, you see the face per- j fectly ; and, between us, it is a fine one. , Indeed, if there were nothing the matter, and we were called on at this distance of | ten feet, to give an opinion, we should pro- ' nounce her, for a woman of her age, hand- ; some. She is tall and large, without being fat, weighing perhaps a hundred and eighty pounds. Her hair, seen in the shade of her bonnet, reveals no gray, and is a beautiful dark brown, well polished with the brush. Her face, as befits such a form, is broad, but not coarse—just the reverse. It is j fair, the cheeks slightly tinged by the in- j terest of the circumstances ; and her eye is bright, clear, calm, resolute, but not un kind. Her expression, for the several hours she was under our eye, was that of deeply sombre gentleness, which still bore a look of having been partly produced by the will, and for the occasion. Immersed as she is in crime, she does not forget a woman's art. She does her best to make a favorable impression, by dress and aspect, upon her judges. She was the very person to mould the material which fell into her hands. She no doubt ruled them like a queen. But the j court, fortunately, is made of quite another metal. HEROI.D. Next to this mother of conspirators sits Herold, a poor, doltish-looking youth, just past his majority. He is small, with a peaked mouth, a nose slightly hooked, a sprinkle of moustache, a wandering, twink ling eye, a narrow forehead, with protrud ing brows, and a general expression of mingled fun and stillness. He strikes you as a fellow such as Booth would have had about him to laugh at his jokes, to do his chores, and to be his man Friday generally. L'AYXE. After Ilerohl comes Payne, next to Mrs. J Surratt the great character of the party. He is tall, straight, stout —the perfection of physical form. It would be hard to guess whether keen activity or muscular energy predominates in him ; both seem to belong to him in equal proportion. His large head is thickly covered with black hair : his forehead is almost entirely wanting ; his lace has no beard ; his neck is as immense as a bull's, and yet smooth and fair ; his lips thin and firm ; his nose small ; but his eye—the characteristic feature —reminds yon of the man who said " Our name is le gion," only you can see that the said legion lias not entered. It is an eye of deliber ately rolling fire—a pair of perdition-light ed torches ; when they move they- flash and glare, rather than look. This is but a mere reading of the man's crime, already known, in his look ; it is a reasonably so ber description of the reality. As you look at his great form, sitting candy erect and seemingly reckless, you think of a modern boxer or ola Roman gladiator. When you meet his eye you think of Lucifer ; but when, in the light of that eye, you regard : the whole face, you are reminded of Satan in the swine—a possessed brute. Nothing moves him ; without looking defiant, he is unperturbed and perfectly at home. llis nerves appear to have gone into muscle. ATZERODT. Next comes Atzerodt, short in person, al most without neck, dirty, cadaverous, dull, curly or tangle-haired, cowardly-looking, and evidently a poor miserable Jack—a dupe. O'I.AVOHLIX. The fifth man is O'Laughlin, a Baltimo rean, as we learn. He is the best looking of the gang. He is small in person, with delicate features, a head of flakey, coal black hair, and a fine moustache of the same color. llis forehead is broad and sti iking, his fine black eye rests softly and humbly under delicately penciled brown, and his whole appearance impresses the beholder with the strangeness of his con nection with the great crime. He must be young in crime, and the deformity of his soul has not pictured itself on his face. SPAXUI.ER. Spangler, who appears to have been a sort of stable drudge for Booth and his hor ses, is the sixth in order. Like most of the others, his face lacks a forehead. Lavator amused himself with tracing the resem blance between human and brute faces. — We have seen cows and oxen with counte nances very much like that of poor Span gler. He looks like the picture of distress. DR. MTDP. Dr. Mudd is a native of Charles county, hut looks like a Scotchman. His hair is yellow, his beard and moustache pale red, his complexion white, almost as whitest paper, his eyebrows Albino, his eyes signi fying nothing, and his expression blank va cancy. ARNOLD. The last in the series is a poor youth by the name of Arnold, who has made a con fession, not yet given to the public. He is rather a good looking boy, with no special facial marks. Such is the company nsw on trial for conspiracy to murder the President and other officers of our Government. Among them all, Mrs. Surratt alone gives proof of anything like mind. The rest were miser able tools of cunning and diabolical rebel leaders. NEW ENGLAND VILLAGES FORTY YEAES AGO. Thirty or forty years ago there lay scat tered about our Southern New England a great many quiet, inland towns, numbering from a thousand to two or three thousand inhabitants, which boasted a little old fash ioned "society" of their own—which had their important men who were heirs to some snug country property, and their gambrel roofed houses, odorous with traditions of the colonial period or of the Revolution.- The good, prime dames, in starched caps and spectacles, who presided over such houses, were proud of their tiny parlors, of their India china, of their beds of thyme and sage in the garden, of their big family Bible with brazen clasps, and most times, of their minister. NUMBER a One Orthodox Congregational Society extended its benignant patronage over all the people of such a town; or, it a stray Episcopalian or Seven-Day Baptist were here and there living under the wing ol tin parish, they were regarded with a serene and stately gravity, as necessary excep tione to the law of Divine Providence, like scattered instances of red hair or of how legs in otherwise well favored families. There were no wires stretching over the country to shock the nerves ol the good gossip with the thought that their neigh bors knew more than they. There were no heathenism of the cities, no tenpins, no traveling circus, 110 progressive young men of heretical tendencies. Snch towns wen quiet as a sheepfold. Sauntering down their broad central street with somewhat dreary uniformity of aspect, one might, of a summer's day hear the rumble of the town mill in some adjoining valley, busy with the town grist; in autumn, the flip-flap ol' the flails came pulsing 011 the ear from half a score of wide-open barns that yawned with plenty; and in winter the clang of axes on the near hills smote sharply upon the frosty stillness, and would be straight way followed by the booming crash of some great tree.— Donald O. Mitelie/. SEEING rr IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT.— GVI. Hatch, one of the rebel commissioners, is now in Libby prison. Just after his im prisonment he sent for Gen. Mulford, our commissioner of exchange, and asked: "Do you think this is proper treatment for me?" "What is tlie matter?" inquired Mul for.d "Don't you see," replied Hatch, with pro fane emphasis, "there is not a pane of glass in these windows?" "0, is that all?" answered Mulford "why Hatch, I have been telling you for the last two years there was not any glass in those windows " A PARTICULAR IRISHMAN. —One of the city colporteurs of Cincinnati some time ago, when engaged I*ll distributing tracts among the poor benighted ones about the town, met with an amusing incident. Coming 1 > an isolated building of humble pretensions, he opened the door without the ceremony of knocking, saying : " Will you except a tract of the Holy Land ?" meaning the four pages of the let ter-press he hud in his hand. The man <>f the house instantly replied : " Yes, bejabers ; a whole section, if you give a good title ; but I'd like to know it there be much fever'n ague there to bother a poor devil ?" The colporteur retreated. PIETV (JL'AIXTI.Y EXPRESSED.— At U film 1:11 at St. Augustine, Fla., a short time since, a colored preacher was enlarging on tin gratitude that the freedmen owed to God for the marvelous deliverence that lie had wrought in their behalf. His climax was somewhat in this wise : "My bretlieren, Gen. Sherman lias done much for us by bringing so many of our people out of Bondage ; Gen. Saxtoii has been our benefactor by defending u> from being imposed on and giving us lands : brother Lynch has deserved our thanks by his care for our spiritual welfare ; but re member, my brothern, that the Lord has done more for us than ant/ other man A MELANCHOLY TKITH. —When a rakisli youth goes astray, friends gather around j him in order to restore him to the path of i virtue. Gentleness and kindness are lav i ished upon him to win him back again to innocence and peace. No one would su.-- i pect tnat he had ever sinned. But when a poor, confiding girl is betrayed, she re j ceives the brand of society, and is hence forth driven front the ways of virtue. The betrayer is honored, respected, esteemed; ' but there is no peace for her this side of 1 the grave. Society has but few loving, helping hands for her, no smile of peace, |no voice of forgiveness. These are earth Iv mortalities unknown to heaven. There is a deep vrung in them, and fearful are the consequences. A NEW KEADIXU. —At a Brooklyn mass meeting recently, a speaker told this story: In Sunday school, the other day, while a recitation of verses of Scripture was in progress, a litfte lad suddenly exclaimed:— j"I know a verse!" He was desired to re ; cite it, and did so, thus ; "If any one at tempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot!" "And that," said Dr. Willetts. who told ' the story, "is the doctrine according to i General Dix." SCHOOLMASTER. —BiII Tompkins, what's a i widow?" Bill—"A widder is a married woman what ain't got no husband, koz he's dead " Master —"Very well. What is a widow j or?" Bill--"A widdcror is a man what ntrs arter widders." THE savage maiden paints her body; the bright eyed beauty of civilization paints her cheek. The one wears a ring in her nose; the other rings her ears. The one girdles herself with the gaudiest zone sin can command; the other arrays herself in stuffs of the costeilst quality and richest dyes. They are the same by nature; they have been changed by circumstances. '; Ax Irishman in describing America, said: "I am told that ye might roll England thru it an' it wouldn't make a dint in the ground; —there's fresh water oceans inside that ye i might droitnonld Ireland: an as for Scotland, ye might stick it in a corner, an' ye'd nivcr at all I>e able to find it out, except it might be by the smell of bud whisky." "PAPA," said a youngster, "what is punc ! tnation?" "It is the art of putting stops, my child "Then I wish you would go down into ! the cellar and punctuate the cider barrel, j as the cider is running all over the floor.
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