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SECOND EDITION
BY TELEGRAPH.
DEATH PENALTY.
EXECUTION OF JOHN DEAL AT
READING.
A - Pti I I - Dt sc r ;pito n of the Unfortunate
A CONFESSION OF THE CHIME
1 ICE LAST DAY ON EARTH
(Special Dee patch to the Phil ta,Evetting Bulletin.]
I xeciation orlon." nOtti.
R also; May, 13.—This being, the day ap
pointed fur the banging of John Deal, alias
Zacbariah E.Snyder,for the murder of Richard
M. Harlan, a good deal of excitement has been
created in this usually quiet city. The murder
was committed in October last, near Leesport,
Berks county. The victim was a poor, decrepid
vagabond; and the murder was the result of a
drunken quarrel. Deal's guilt was fully,
- proved. He did not deny killing - Harlan, but
said be did not intend it, but was defending
ill_trisT,ll from __a threatened shot with a pisto,
when be struck the blow with the hatchet
which proved fatal. Re was an old offender,
having served two terms in the 'penitentiary
for other crimes.
"The Feeling In Reading.
The sy mp4tky in .13,entling, tbr the (loomed
Mari Wait confined, .few exceptions,-
to the clergymen,who have literally been
to him as _ministering angels. --The--gal--
lows was yesterday . placed in posihon.
Sheriff Allbright concluded to test the expe
riment of diminiSbing the bombers of the rab
ble surrounding the prison inclosure by ad
mitting them in line of • procession, without
halting, through, the jail-yard. Fie did this in
order 2.9 gratity.theirmorbid curiosity_to_ltok_.
uportHie 6102p1e structure upon which so many
beings have yielded up the ex piatory.sacrilice,
for murders !supposed_ or real, of their • own•
lives.
Aboutsix - hundred people thus passed, yes
terday afternoon, - by the lead-painted steps
and the bare cross-beam that
.glo.ornib , ,
stretched- across it, The people thus' gratified
were the ccmcrille of Reading. Well-dressed .
women were among them. Our reporter. saw
some scoresof them, of whom not a few of
them held infants in their arms. "They sought
to pause in front of it as they passed the gal
lows tree. They were pushed forward. They
were looking with lingering eyes at the Phila
delphia machine,
loaned to the authorities of
Reading for this- occasion. Sheriff
understorsi _tills
or 'tr., voriOn eau not. The warden is named
Daniel Francis. He wears a. hat very broad
of brim, and speaks a patois that constitutes a
very striking contrast to the usual vernacular
of the people of Reading. He informed us
that be entered upon the fimetion , of his war
denship early in the month of April, and that
he already felt himself" bowed down" by the
cares and responsibilities of his position as the
custodian in question. He - was. nevertheless
willing to endure the responsibility, he ad
mitted, even if 'he lulled himself in the en
deavor to live. The - • number of
Prisoners in the Reading 3.11
is fifiy-nine. To the honor of the female sex
our reporter is glad to state there is , but one
woman_ She was convicted of a larceny, of
which she still claims to have been innocent
She is gentle in manlier, dulcet in voice, and
in demeanor superlatively sweet. The mat
ron has .succeeded with the authorities of the
prison in securing her manumission from the
restraint of a cell to the comparative liberty
of the cuisine. To the excellent matron her
assistance proves an invaluable aid.
The Reading Jail is a dreary looking struc
ture. It has a frowning castellated front. Its
turrets Are akin, in. outward appearance, to
those that tower over the walls of Moya
, mensiug Prison. Its interior is laid out in the
shape of a letter T. , Front capital punishment
tbe,peaceable vicinity of Reading has been so
farexempt, that in an entire century but
three persons have been compelled, withiu its
limits, to fulfil the " Mosaic teaching, " Au
eye, for au eye, a tooth for a tooth."
Rxceedingly picturesque and pretty is.
The Location of the Jail.
It is built upon the uppermost outskirts of
the city. A. mountain, clad in the verdure of
dwarf nines and cedars, rises abruptly behind
ire ample enclosure. This rise of ground is a
virtual jungle—a jungle made up, not of cacti
and rhododendrons, but of dwarf cedars,
bristling with spiculni, with' pine trees, and
with an undergrowth of twining herbage,
t bat renders the steep hill-side a literal thicket.
The, flora of this hill-side would delight the
tions even of a professed fern-gatherer
in Belgium.
Whoever designed the building and planned
the arrangement of its surroundings - 11 ad an
evident perception of ,the beautiful. The
popular element that our reporter 'en
eonntered bust .evening was.of the conserva
tive type. The infusion throughont 'it of the
grand old Teutonic cautiousness, against
making baste too rapidly, was very demon
stratively apparent. •
When in search of information our reporter
was cautiously referred by ono gentleman to
another. Whatever information he gained
was mainly due to the courteous attention of
such - citizens - as Cdr: IVicholeoii — o£tlie Reading
Eagle, and to the very courteous physician iu
charge of the sanitary affairs of the institution
in ,which the doomed man was held a pris
oner. As our reporter was, last night, sitting
upon the prison-house steps the accompanying
musings were not particularly pleasant, as
the lizards and other reptiles were emitting
their peculiar notes from the lowlands at the
base of the hill that towers above the jail,
The Executioner
was retiring to,onjoy a period of repose after
the labor of superintending the erection
.of
thy gallows. ;lbw this same platform every
murderer in Philadelphia, convicted and, exe
cuted for the crime, subsequently paid its final
penalty. • The use of the gibbet in question
was inaugurated by the execution of the
brothers Skupinski: It did duty in the death
ofArtbur.Spring. The n . egro Mattooks,Probst,
Winnemore, Armstrong; Eaton. and Williams'
niet - violent deaths -- by falling, - with. throttle
around their throats, from its fatal trap. The
apparatus was moved to Norristown to choke
the__murdered. Biuldock. • It was-taken - to--
D : ioestowto - strisin — J - nyfe
anti to Fort Mifflin to hang a soldier whose'
unfortunate history is already familiar to every
reader of the BULLETIN.. That Twitchell
didn't drop from it was because' of the know
ledge possessed by some :one of his friends ,
that hydrocyanic acid, in ,
a teaspoonful • doSe,
possi ssetl sufficient potency to put out of ex
istence a regiment of suicides. • In thia case
the executioner seems to have a natural. pin-.-,
mity to murderers. -Ifs brings his,. gallows
from place to place - as a rift-catcher carries his
lEMEN
ferrets from - barn to barn, and from granary
to granary. ' .
- The prisoner in the doomed
_cell was: very
kindly cared for. Sines the sentence or death
was pronounced upon hini
. lily Appearance
_
underwent no change. TO all wbo bare seen.
lim in confinement be presented for oort-.
sideration a nforareniguia. Our reporter yes
terday afternoon was introduced to him in his
cell. Ho was certainly very comfortably cared
for. His meal's were sent to him from the
:Warden's private tattle. His paid rebord isi that
of a vagabonit That be yesterday ate with a
hearty relish is not to _be _wondered at. __Rev._
- George Fryer, of the Baptist Church, was the
first clergyman- to Visit him. An amiable
divine of the Methodist denomination was
the next to come. These. gentlemen brought
- hirtiliociltit and pamphlets.. They. sought to,
_instruct-hint.--He—hafi—read—the—Scriptures
frcin beginning to end, while doing penal
se; vice in• Philadelphia prisons. That a little
learning was a dangerous thing was proved in
his every action and by, every'argument., Lay-,
men and clergymen were alike .aston- i .
ished at the retentiveness of his
memory .. and _ the . =of his
logic. Upon the very verge of. the grave,
-with-no p est i ty of - a - reneahof bissentene e;
_he argued.with those who sought to bringshirn
to penitence .concerning the doctrines : that,
touch upon the immortalityof the soul and a
future state of reward and ;punishment. He
was "next-visited by the Catholic clergy. . Into ;
the hands of these reverend fathers ho re
signed the further keeping of his soul. He
seemed--to be - utterly indifferent as to .
the
'future. The pOests yesterday afternoon ad
ministered to 'him the . sacraments of the
Church of - Rome. These gentlemen were
Fathers Filan, Schick and Borneman. Father
Pilau is a Philadelphian. The last time our
reporter met him he was an assistant priest in
'Philadelphia
_to Very Rev. Doctor l Carter at
Thirteenth arid Spring Garden:streets. From
the first be charged himself with the care of
this murderer's eternal welfare:* That he does -
not feel encourag_ed,nt_the_present-writing,in
the expeetation that he could bring the
doomed murderer from darkness into light
could be wondered at by no one who yesterday
saw, as did brif reporter, the stolid assassin in
his cell. - The - doomed man has made no further
lon
_
While in prison in Philadelphia he learned
to read. - During the - years of liis incarceration
lie was never without a copy of the Scriptures.
He admitted to-day that all his life he was a
vagabond. At live years of age he was left a
waif upon the stream of time. What he
_now
says is that from_ that time to - the presentjae
hasn't even'enjoyed.the ink dries of a domestic
dog that has a kennel in which to lie. At - tile
same time he admits the commitedon of the.
murder for which he to-day suffers capital
- punishinetitT - ilis — cotiduct - sorelYpuizles the
attendant priests. To the three gentlemen.
who acted as his ,volutiteer.. counsel, be so lied
ai to - render - Vulnerable by the assaults, of the
District-Attorney what theyhad,deumed_to.he
the impregnable points 'of their defence. He_
not only humiliated them in nubile; he.since
did so when, imelled by Christian. charity,
they subsequently visited him -on ntissions
of mercy in the cell of the condemned. He
left with one of these gentlemen five sheets of
closely-written foolscap. Their 'contents' are
merely an- illiterate rhapsody. One page is
covered with doggerel verse. No line of either
is worth publishing. Of so, little interest IS it
that the 'father confsors, who have under
taken the charge of the. m -- an'a vv
,spiritualel
farri.4 ppm rinnrunruayst b A
There is nothing useful in it but adthohition.
to young men against the use of intoxicating
drink. It is - the old, old story = a story told a
thousand times over,with a thousand changes ;
a tune played a thousand times over in a thou
sand transpositions of the moral scale. The
demeanor of
'lily Prisoner in Ms Cell
was-edemeanor in :which resignation and in
difference were singularly blended. He yes
terday-inade hearty-disiber.- .Of the bounti
ful supply of egp and .steak. that-wan--last
evening supplied to him t he called for an ad
ditional supply. Mr. Nicholson, of the Read
ing Eagle, accompanied our reporter to the
cell of the dondeinned. To this, gentleman, as
he iwalJowed his invitingly served supper, he
remarked,." Be certain to be here to-morrow,
and see thejig out!: He wore a suit of appa
rel sent te him in which to set presentably to
Mr. Photographer Sailer. His picture seems
to have pleased him. The raiment that he
wore When it was taken . he expressed a desire
to retain until he exchanged it for the apparel
of the tomb.
To his death upon the scaffold the unfortu
nate man seemed to, entertain no other senti
ment than that of perfect
Resignation.
When Titus was hung, at Carlisle, a year
ago, the man literally embraced death as
welcome relief from harrowing , self-reproaoh.
He bad killed his friend. So deeply bad the
tooth of remorse stricken into his heart ? that
but for his pinioned hands he would have
kissed the rope that choked out the life he was
so glad to lose., the hapless Deal had no de
sire either, for pardon or reprieve. The only
lingering regret expressed by him was that his
parentage 'should have been uncertain. He
yesterday admitted that the on 4 name he ever
knew was Zaeliariab E. Snyder. By this name
he enlisted in the army. Ile, under it, served
throughout the late war. As a soldier, he ad
mitted to Father Schieb, lie was refractory, at
times even turbulent. He doesn't claim to
have been influenced in his enlistment by
motives of patriotism. He seems, in the ebul
lition of the excitement of enlistment, to have
come to the surface with kindred scum. He
deserted on the eve of one of the most impor
tant battles, but was restored to duty, in some
way that he doesn't disclose, without the usual
payment of, disciplinatory penalty.' What he
rather strenuously maintains is that his parents
abandoned him, at the early age of five years,
to the cold charity of the world. In the asser
tion that but for this he would not to-day have
paid upon the scaffold the penalty of the
Mosaic law for the commission of murder, be,
to the last moment of his existence, most per
sistently. adhered. The reason for the unfor
tunate man's
Mange of Fame
was develoPed on the occasion. of his trial.
Two days after he hacked out the' brains of
Harland he assumed the name of John Deal.
What he now claims is that this change of
name was prompted by a nervous, apprehen
sion lest his family relatives might identify
him as the committer of the crime. He was
reared in Luzerne Co. Since the commission
of this murder several persons in close con
sanguinity with him have declared to, him
their relationship. His stubbornness, or' his
-ignoranceihere - makes itself conspicuous.. He
still claims that ()fills immediate relatives he
had no knowledge. Re thus lied to his counsel.
The opinion, that he lied with equal fluency to
the attendant priest is pretty generally enter
tained. This Fs conjectured \to some extent
from
His Manner.
into the eye of rip one did_ he steadily look
He had been married. Re deserted his wife
ahe was a widow,with four children, His
continuance with her was very short. His
sentences to the - penitentiary weie - in - tte:first
COFO tbr laeeny,•in 00,second case for an
offence upon a woman that in these columns
is nameless. The man was purely animal. His
eyes were of that peculiarly colorless appear
ance that omitted nb responsive spark, from
the soul, within to the look - that one !limit
upon him.
He .spent'
11114 Lnst Nitchte
in company with a watchman. The' latter
never left,him. Fla showed no inclination to
anticipate the dime of the ltalter. He evinced
FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1870.
no special nervousness when he heard the ring
.f the carpPnters' hammers in putting up en,
st atiold. • During the night before last he fell
asleep about•l2 o'clock, and awoke with' keen
appetite for breakfast at 6A. M. The nature
of his sacramental communications—to -his
_
spiritual advisers were, of course, revealed to
one.. lb Robert Morrell; of Philadelphia,
who made the mechaniCal arrang..ment4 for
the execution, he Seemed to centre his greateSt
interest. • If heat all-made--exhibition of nee -
vousnessit, was in the ,6agerness,with
be Safe the: soundness of the' fatal
rope. This rope bad been made in the factory
of Edwin R. Fitler 8c,C0., in Philadelphia Ats
integrity had previously been tested by the •
jerking weight of fifteen hundred pentad:4. A 9.
cured of this fact,and the murderer questioned
no more.
im cnn this morning rose- bright atilt beau- .
iful-upon
His Last Day Epos' Earth.
,IsTo rain had fallen in Reading on the day
previous. Dew gems gleamed upon the lilacs,
and birds were singing their matins from the
leafy coverts in the vicinity of the jail, as the
reverend clergy walked up the g. raveled ave
nue to the prison gate. Had the sky, been
murky: and the picture one of gloom, the case
might have been- different. -- -- As it was, the
hearts of the good clergymen were additionally
heavy.
When asked if he bad anything to add to
his previous statements, the prisoner replied
promptly-in the negative. With the advice to
bid adieu to all worldly matters, the clergy
men then resumed their task of preparing the,
murderer for death? The ritual of Rome, pre-'-
scribed upon such occasions, was then begun,
and for an hour the miserable man- was- en
gaged-in the - exercises enjoined by his in
structors. '
, At, an early hour this morning the con
demned man received the Viaticum from
Father Bournernann. The _miserable wretch
was almost 'in a state of collapse, his hands
cold, his lips twitching, and his face perfectly
bloodless. At ten o'clock he was visited in his
Yandt, - lianckii
and Maltzberger. He added nothing, however,
to his previous statements, beyond admitting
previous larcenies, which he has hitherto con
cealed from his counsel.
Deal wall more dead than alive, when Father
Bournemann arrived at his cell, at half-past
ten o'clock, to administer the last rites of the
Church. He received .eXtreme unction,._ and.
all the privileges of the Church, except burial
in consecrated ground.
The crowd around the jail-yard consisted
mostly of women and was very-large.
:Upon your correspondent leaving the con
demned cell,
_D eel ' s- la.st - rensark_was_that_he_
- now - " - didn't fear death or the devil. He
only feared God." ; He seemed scarcely con
scious of what he.was saying. .. _
mufdirer, - was hung at forty
minutes past one this afternoon.
.Despite his livid lips and slow beating of
heart, Deal evinced a disposition to shake off
bia_languor, in. proportion as -tlle time for his
violent death drew near.. A simple stained
pine coffin was carried Into the jail at eleven
o'clock. It passed in the corridor the priest
ho was wrrying out the Sacred Host, of
which the doomedman had just partaken. _
The preliminary arrangements -were excel
lently conducted. Sheriff Albright supervised
everything in nerson. The condemned man
had previously ;consigned his 'body to the
clergy, the supposition that brother in
I 1 , -/ Przie county would claim it proving de
.
gr
continued up to the final- moment. The con
demned asked to be despatched, at eleven
o'clock, but, for unexplained reasons, the
Sheriff declined co - replying. The jail recep
tion room in the meantime was tilled with
members of the press, present I'mui :ill parts of
the country. At 1 o'clock Sheriff Albright
entered the prisoner's cell to take him out to
die,,according to the , duty imposed upon him
by the law. '
"I am ready," , wa.s the response, and the
prisoner walked - out - with. an 'almost reeling
step, weak and staggering. • He previously
shook bands, for the last time, With the Sheriff
and his attendants. Going to the scaffold he
lookedmore like a somnambulist than a being
in the possession of his waking senses.
A number present, awed at the spectacle,
covered their faces as be passed the line of
procession led by the clergy. - The prisoner
was supported by Father Bournemanu.
The jury and counsel followed. There was no
graveled walk over- which to move. The
pavement is of cobble-stones.
The prisoner ascended the'scaffold with fal
tering steps. Half an hour before leaving the
cell a meal was served to him from the war
den's table. It gave him temporary revivifi
cation.
It is due to the Catholic clergy to say that
the condemned was a convert to Catholicity
hile an inmate of the Reading Prison, and
was baptized in the cell.
The execution was - consummated at half
past one o'clock.
The condemned was supported by the
priests.
Sheriff Albright managed the execution
with remarkably good judgment.
Upon the seattold the condemned man sitn•
ply said: "My friends, 'Lam here to expiate a
crime for which lam now sincerely sorry. I
tee] that I have obtained forgiVeness,and hope
to be embraced in the encircling arms of my
Say] our.'?
The unfortunate man died with scarcely a
perceptible struggle.
COMMON PLEAS-Judge Paxson.—Louisa
E. Koecker vs. Leonard Koecker. A libel for
divorce.. .Before reported. This morning,
on the .question whether Dr; Koecker was
guilty of contempt - in - refusing to - produce , his
daughters for witnesses, in obedience to a writ
of habeas corpus ad test(ficandum, the. Judge
decided that there was no contempt; that the
writ was improvidently issued, and, under the -
statutes, could not apply to a case like this, as
the writ was designed for cases where the
citizens were in duress. In the present case
t here-was-no-proof-that-the-daughters-desi red
to come from Boston to testify, or that they
had been served with a subpoena, or were de
tained by the action of Dr. Koecker.
r. McElroy, for Mrs..Koecker, now ii.sked
leave to withdraw the issue prayed for by the
libellant.
Mr. Northrop and Mr. F. C. Brewster, for
Dr. Reecho; opposed the rrotion, on the
ground that a jury bad been called and sworn,
and the respondent wa,s entitled to hare the
ease tried.
Judge Paxson decided that it was too late to
withdraw the issue after the jury was sworn.
M r. C uyl er,.. for ,Mrs. lie miter, now proposed
to t•uffer a noursuit, with leave to move to take
it off. •
Judge Paxson granted the motion, and thus
the case is withdrawn from the public for the
present.
. .
—Parepa-Rosa announced Oberon for Cleve
land, with Hersee in the cast. Harsco was
r.ick, or wouldn't, and the Bohemian Geri, with.
Mrs. Seguin as.‘!.._Arline," was_ subbtitateu _at
ttie-lre4traioment:—Theatr
raper says.'" wag 111.10 b as would have made
Balfe turn over in his grave.' But then Balfe
isn't dead'.
e wino rniis , fling Road—a Apechneu of
the London' Queen, the newspaper and
court ehroniek; for April 28d, there aonearod
followintuninonat the Literary Notes and
Queries :—" Poona Wanted;-:.:Where can flied
Ttotelceray's- verses' Sheridold Ride?—
THE COURTS.
me F.A.itr_..A;l4l:)..
The Letters Sought to be Produced
on the Trial.
EPISTLEst (5V A . VVI.p".O7rO HER
HUS 14A 61 U.
WHAT CHANGES • SIX YP,ARS HAVE
WitOUtiHT.
A Con trpst fteiween Mrs. McFarland's Let-
ter and Her "Affidavit"
[From the flew York Vomit'. •
Yesterday Mr. McFarland paid.a visit to the
Tombs which institution has been his home
from November 26th, 1869, to May 10th, 1870,
for the purpose of removing- small library
and bidding adieu to the officials of the prison.
He expressed_ his _ackno tvledgments-- to-• Mr.
Stacom, - Mr. Mark Finlay; the keepers, and
Mrs. roster, the matron , of the - prison,for their
uniform kindness to him during his sojourn
within their jurisdiction.
Mr. McFarlanu then paid a _visit to his•
counsel and afterward retitripOi to his present
home, where be received the visits of several
personal friends who came to congratulate
him upon his acquittal.
10 a .reporter of the Times, who waited
upon him last evening, Mr. McFarland pre
sented the subjoined letters for publication,
considering that these of them Selves were a
sufficient answer to the statements made in
Mrs. McFarland's "affidavit", as printqd in
the Trioune " Extra" of May 11.
In order to show the contrast between Mrs.
McFarland, as .she was at the time these. let
ters were written, and. the_snte_lady as she_
appears in her " affidavit" of May 9, 1870, the
subjoined extract is made from her " affi
davit" of periods during which she, at the
dates mentioned, spoke most endearingly of
her husband in letters which are in her own
handwriting, and therefore Cannot - be dis
puted-: IAI •
IL „. From 111 f re. McFarland's "A fildavir." - •,"
went back - to my father's in Octeb - e - f, 1859,
and remained almost ayear, till August, 1860.
At this time, in October,lBs9, when I re
turned home, if I bad ha courage to have
told my mother anclfather,orniy.troubled life,
I should prOhatily never have returned to this_
man: I3nt I' e`atild hot speak. It was so hard
a thing to- tell. -
How a "Cruelly Ford Wife" Addressee_
' - - 3ler iidd6eiurt
A-WREST-F. 11- AI ay- 27,-1860: My-Dear Hus—
band :—lt is Sunday evening. - - I have Just
lighted the lamp. Am sitting by my table in
my fanilliar,rocking-chair.'ln my - hand is my
new gold pen-holder, and this paper rests on •
the-last number of the 21e/antic, which serves
as a writing-desk.. Little Percy sleeps quietly
in my bed, hiS head carefully disposed so that
he shall not nestle it _under the blankets; and
bis little hands - felded on his breaSt., Ho goes
to bed before dark now, and sleeps all the
evening, hardly awaking when I (some to bed:
He . is such. - Ta 7 littler - ctantorr - to sleep-witti.. , l
-
love him so much. You don't know how much.
I have drawn- quite a picture ou the last
page,, of- ''Percy _ __but._ .1 .
and dirt. It isso, because I am preparing to
go away. ' To-morrow-we-gb-to---Mr;--Yeaton's;-
to stay until the grand house-cleaning and'
painting, with which Now England people
celebrate the advent of spring, is ended. I
rather bate to leave home with Percy while
be is so young; still, I am very glad I have so
pleasant a place to stop. My cape came Satur
day afternoon at 2 o'clock. I wad delighted
with it, and the heading was a Surprise. I did
not think of that_ being in the box.. Shave.
told you so many times thatl knew you were
the best husband in the.world that I shall not
reiterate. Put me docin your debtor for at
leastrilty kisses, for so handsome a garment.
It -will last me years and years. I could en
gage no one to make my cape; so I sat doWn
and made it sufficiently to wear to-day, and
shall finish it myself, arid I thluk I did it as well
as a. dressmaker could. To-day, in the after
noon, I went to church. I wore my blue
flounced silk, my cape with the splendid
broad lace, my new 'bonnet, which I trimmed
with black lace and straw trimming on the
outside, and inside with straw-col red flowers
and strings, and kid gloves the ex ct color of
my bonnet-strings:. Was I not I\ery hand
somely dressed? When I was all dressed and
surveyed myself in the glass I .had only one
want overawed; and that was a husband to
go to church with me. Bow proud I should
have felt if I could have taken your arm and
walked along. As it was I went off alone. I
felt dissatisfied in spite of everything. The,
feeling conscious that Iwas the most elegantly
dressed lady out did not even elate me.
I wondered as I sat in church if people
didn't think was what they call a
" grass widow," and then I thought they.
Would think, they. must think, I must have a
good husband or he wouldn't give me such
pretty things to wear. Don't you wish you
could have seen we? I have got a.nice large
box to pack our furs and all winter garments
in. I shall put them in it to-morrow, and nail
it up, with plenty of camphor around the
things, so your overcoat cannot get eaten by
moths, and\, the things will- all be ready to
move. I' expect the Republican campaign
will be a great advantage to you if you can
engage in it without loss of time. If you are
remunerated for your services it will make
you • known in New York, and I hope will
open to you some steady, profitable business.
iliave no doubt you can mahe one of the best.
political speeches that could be made. I am
very confident in your ability, and am critical,
you know, severely so. Only one week has
elapsed since you left. It seems a, much
longer time. lam resolved not to complain
at your absence this time, for I hope this fall
will. see us finally established, and I know
you know as well as I do that these_are_our._
hest years we are passing apart while baby is
young, and 'that if we wish to enjoy life in a
house together, it must not be long deferred.
I will try and get time to write a daily journal
this week and send it at the end of the week.
T will give you a record of the little events that
till my life. Will that do? Did you see MA,
Philbrick in Boston? How 'was your inter
view with him? Do write it in your next.
Write me as diverting letters as possible.
lam your very affectionate wife, A88Y...
From Mrs. IlloFarhat:Ws AlLMdavit
Mr.McFarland was unspeakably cruel to-me
this fall and winter of 1862 and 1863, while we:
boarded at N 0.68 Varick street.' We occupied
the only sleeping apartment on the parlor
floor, and he could . give full scope to his furies
without fear of being overheard. * * *
Be would lock himself into the roomwlth
me and give way to such terrible furies that
only, the extremest pride and self-control
prevented me from making my misery, known..
Ho brought Verne what he professed was prus
k4c acid, and threatened to take it and force
- me:to takeit — Re - woilld - snatc h sciiisors
re. y wort-baske, a
tnti, tearing Obis: t
breast, he would brandish them about, swear
mg he would "let out his heart's blood" ,ber
fore me." He toitine (then a shrinking girl)
that he.. .kept., loaded. pistols, with-whielt7ho
-I Co l 4:knrkiff(fOlVelitliboet
At • * * , * *
'---Irrom the time be got his plinie intim Enroll
mcnt Unice. in 1863, until the Fall of 18(4, Mr.
McFarland tent ine,bottle three thous, and
Moved met() eight difikent boarding-houses.
for ono moment, I wits veaeeful in the_poS
'
P...I4Q4 :: Vf.RE ..'i,c,t).4!.:'.''
session of a shelter, his habits or dissatisfied _
temper drove hire to change.
* * gs• .* * * 4
in the Spring of 1863 Mr. McFarland got ap- :
pointed tou position in, the office of one of MUT -
Provost-Marshals under the Enrollment act. ,:I
vqtnt to Sec Mr. Greeley in company with his.
sister, Mriceleaveland, and a1..0 to see several'
other person., to get influence for Mr. Mc Far
falai!: In doing so I acted under Mr. Itforiir
land's orders, and against My own feelings,
which always revolted at the idea of seek
ing e office for him, though he. never scru
pled to use my cubes. As soon as he gob this'
office I ceased reading in publics
and my preparations for the stage, and irethe
Spring after he was appointed, went home to ,
my father's'and remained a short tithe.: _Therv.:
McFarland summoned me to New - York with
- Percyrwbo - wasill - at - thellme - andlardy abler
to travel. I objected 'to leaving home, where ,
he;sent peremptorily,, saying " he would burin
my father's house over my head" if rdid not ,
come. I arrived in New York in August, an&
wfls there a few Weeks when the physician.
said that Percy would Me if:he.were
back to - the country, and I again retro : Enid
my father and staved till. Aovernher._ -No---
vember, 1803;1 came back teNew York., We ook room,for a few weeksion Va.rick street,
but soon removed early in January, to No.-16. 4
Larnartine place. West ty-nintli-street.
Mrs. McFarland tn Her band; Jelly(
IS, 1563.
M ANCITESTER, July 6,1863.—My Dear Hrts-- , '
band : I went down to the city last night,
about five o'clock, and came home this atter-.
noon. I called first at Sarah• Gould's. She
was veryglad to see me, and we had a nice'
long talk together. She is living in the city, a
good ways up town, and has a pleasant little
parlor and bed-room of her own. Charley is it
nice little boy and very fine-looking.--Sarah
looks much as usual -handsomer, if anything, .
than she has been. -After tea at Sarah's, she
and I and our Sarah, who came down with
me, went over to Ruth's. We found thorn at ,
Dr. Custer's, and saw the
chiding Edward, with Ruth and her mother.
1 hey were all glad to see me. Ruth is looking
very thin, and thinks she' shall go to Chicago
this month. She has a long vacation from her f.
school. It commences now and lasts eight
weeks. After meeting Ruth, she and Ed, anti •
Lena Custer joined us, and* we went to seers.,
display of fireworks, which we're Very geed. 1,
I came hach and stayedwith 'Ruth all night,' '
and this mot ning it rained so that Will could
not come down for us till quite late this after;
noon; the pleasure of my' visit dowp there was
a good deal Impaired by the miserable state of
my health. I haven't been ,well ati.instant
since I left New York.-Thatattack-ofincliges=r7,--
tion was, very bad until Friday, when, as
began to get better of that, my catarrhal,affec-'
tion . carne on - drettlifiilly.`andgave me an in
fiammatlon of the throatollll6llls now - extend-- , --
ing down to the bronchia,arld makes rue-quite
sick. I got some medicine of Dr. Custer; brit',
I suppose it will have _to take_its.L.course. , T, _
the meantime I feel very uncomfortable.
Sarah Gould Lai:invited, JIMA to go-upetci
their farm next. Wednesday morning and stay'
the rest of the week. We shall take the obil-p;i
dren - and see how. they 'get along together",
There is - a family in the hoase, but 'Sarah has
reserved her parlor' and . the little bed-room .
out of it, and a chambertapstairs, so that there
's - a - me - e — ocla - ce - for us: We sbulT etirrry proVf-
si ons, and have plenty of fruit, milk and eggs.
up there. It will be quite, nice; will it not? •
Sarah .says , as. we shall live_meatly, in .the..;
oods it.ill be oldie liVn_aananincr no ,r fn.
Mountains with some friends on a pedestrian
tour-He gees -on- -sketching- advantages.
have seen - some -- exquisite - bits--of--pictures-by -
him, but neither of his great works are on ex
hibition, I feel anxious to hear from you, to
know where you went for a boarding-place,
and if you are comfortably settled. Write me
a detailed account of all your operations after. •
my departure.
We - have bad an extra to-day, with most •
delightful news, that .Longstreet and Hill were • ;
captured, and a great many prisonrs taken,
I hope it is not too good- , to be true. Mac, be
-
sure and do not forget to take back MN.
leaveland's " Carlyle" beforeshe.goes, aaepe
particularly requested it. I asked Percy waat
I should tell papa, and he says, of Tell him I'm
a good boy." He cried for. you Saturday'
morning when he waked up, and said lie
wanted his papa.
I suppose you will do all you can toward •
giving tether a place in New York, without
any additional urging, but I hope you will , de
so if it is at all possible. I wish . that-I: hail
never written that letter, and .it really mAkes
me feel dreadfully to come and see,
straightened in circumstances they are here.
They have no vegetables yet, and they buy no
meat, so that my only hope- is in writing as
much as possible. Percy will live on cracked,
wheat. Mother got a little last week.
Manchester looks more woe-begone and,
forlorn than ever, and I bate the sight of it
worse every time I see it. As for. Ball. Hill,
it is hideous—positively repulsive in its aspect
after seeing New Jersey's fertile fields.
I shall expect to hear from you to-morrowl-
Direct always in care of William Sage, that it -
will go in father's box.
Be very careful what you .eat, try and spend-
your time in that student-liko manner-which
you resolved upon.. Your affectionate wife,
Atter Men'
Have you seen my scissors anywhere about •
the room. Please look.
How Her Brother Regarded Daniel at ,
'lbis Time..
MANCIIEBTER, N. H., July 0,1863.-31 y Dear
Brother: I sit down this evening tp express a
fervent wish that you will come home to .
spend, a part at least, of the summer - vacation
with me. We will thengea finhing,,berrying,
and have a good time genera Thy. .
You remember the stroll we tookzin the F.'
meadow last summer, andlew we laiqton the •
knoll, and that you tried.to explain thascienee.
Of geology to me. ' I coukFnot uaderstand you -
very well then, but now., having studed - that
part of physical geography, called . geologyrl
shall be better able to converse with.you.
I am happy to say thati.ll have most finished
algebra. .
Little Percy is, in.my- opinion, smatter.
- than - when - he left - here, and loves Ins - Uncle.
Will full better. He now tells me. to tell you..
that he tired crackers Fourth of July.
It has been raining hard to-day, but before
this it had not rainethsince the of June.
I have not much more, ray object in writing+
being to hope you will soon Genie home and
enjoy the summer weather here.
As it is late in the evenin.,, ,, 1 will now. end.
my note, and bid, yon go4xi-by, hoping, Were
long that you wilt be at home with its.
Yours affectiouately, W.F. Sails.
Extract front a Letter of Hay if. 1804.
This - letter related to dcmestic affairs with.
which the public have no concern, and. 1110
extracts are made for the purpose of showing
the affection which Mrs. McFarland at that
time eutt, , rtained for herhusbande
111ANC13103THIG, May 7, 1864.—ify Dear /Ns.
b an d * I shall write altnost every
day, but von must not be worded if -you-don't . ,
eiwaye hear, and I can't write veryumoh.
* If you have any time, wife, write for
next Fall's campaign. Write often. •
Your affectionate wife ADDY.'
the-17-ah-^atographier -
Society in London, the Sehecta' aFi iR
was called,—but shouldit not have been Schoda •
.Canna ?-15,. as a curious mixture of Latin an(t
renk, and the taransformatione that - some
-ttio-twanm_artieleant fOctil exppri ned_wtre
Ivoniterinl indeed. , :.Wlto would for a moment
s.ippose that "Arnbcopti " Pullen ~
Litotre,idlagroteieensesi' and AnatioubePlaOr,
,were. the bumble dii4hes so
lityown, .Itimb-cutlets,'spz/n&hlake,4t,„
anti, (Weise and green peas :'•