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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
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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.