l)c CEtmcs, New Bloomficlb; )a.
Two Escapes.
I JIM a Frenchman by birth, and
name is Francois Thierry. I need
my
not
weary you with my early history. Enough
that I committed a political oMensc that I
was sent to the galleys for It -that I am nn
exile for it to this day. The brand iH not
abolished In my time. If I chose, I could
show you the fiery letter on my shoulder.
lwas arrested, tried, and sentenced in
Pin is. I went out of tho court with my
condemnation ringing in my earn. Tho
rumbling wheels of the prison-van repeated
it all the way from Turin to Ricctro that
evening, and all the next day, and the next,
and the next, alone tho weary road from
Bicetre to Toulon. When I look back upon
that time I think I must havo been stupe
fied by the unexpected severity of uiy sen
tence, for I remember nothing of tho jour
ney, nor of the places whero we stopped.
Late in the afternoon of tho third day
the van stopped, the door was thrown open
and I was conducted across a stono yard,
through a stono corridor, into a huge stone
hall, dimly lighted from above. Horo 1
was interrogated by a military superinten
dent, and entered by name in a ponderous
ledger, bound and clasped with iron, liko a
book in fetters.
"Number Two Hundred and Seven,"
said the superintendent. ' Green."
They took mo into an adjoining room,
searched, stripped, and plunged mo into a
cold bath. When I came out of tho bath
I put on the livery of tho galleys -a coarse
canvas shirt, trousers of tawney serge, a
red serge blouse, and heavy shoes clamped
with iron; last of nil, a green woolen cap.
On each leg of tho trousers, and on the
breast and back of tho blouse were printed'
tho fatal letters " T. F." On the brass la
bel in front of the cap were engraved tho
figures "207. " From that moment I lost
my individuality. I was no longer Francois
Thierry. I was number Two Hundred anil
Seven. . The superintendent stood by and
looked on.
"Come, bo quick," said he, twilling his
long moustache between his thumb and
forefinger. " It grows late, and you must
lo married before supper."
"Married !" I repeated.
Tho superintendent laughed and lighted
a cigar, and his laugh was echoed by the
guards and jailors.
" Down another stone corridor, across
another yard, into another gloomy hall, the
very counter-part of tho last, but filled with
squalid figures, noisy with the clank of
fetters, aud pierced at each end with a cir
cular opening through which a cannon's
mouth showed grimly.
" Bring Number Two Hundred and Six,"
said the" superintendent, "and call tho
priest."
Number Two Hundred and Six camo
from a further corner of the hall, dragging
a heavy chain, and along with lilm a black
smith, bare-armed and leathor-aproned.
"Lie down," said tho blacksmith, with
an insulting spurn of tho foot.
I lay down. A heavy iron ring attached
to a chain of eighteen links was then fitted
to my ankle, and riveted with a single
stroke of tho hammer. A second ring next
received the disengaged ends of my com
panion's chain and mine, and was secured
in the sanio manner. Tho echo of each
blow resounded through the vaulted roof
liko a hollow laugh.
" Good," said the superintendent, draw
ing a small red book from his pocket.
' Number Two Hundred and seven, attend
to the prison code. If you nttempt to es
cape without succeeding, you will be basti
nadoed. If you succeed in getting beyond
the port, aud aro then taken, you will re
ceive three years of double chaining. As
soon as you are missed three cannon shots
will bo fired, and alarm-flags will be hoisted
on every bastion. Signals will be telegraph
ed to the maritime guards, and to the po
lice of the teu neighboring districts. A
Drico will be set upon your head. Placards
will bo posted on the gates of Toulon, and
sent to every towu throughout the empire,
It will be lawful to fire upon you, if you
cannot be captured alive.
Having read this with grim complacency.
the suierintendcnt resumed his cigar, re
placed the book in his jiocket, and walked
away.
All was over now all tho incredulous
wonder, the dreamy dullness, the smolder
ing hope of the past three days. I was a
felon, and (slavery in shivery !) chained to
a fullow-fullow. I looked up and found his
eyes upon me. He was a swarthy, heavy-
browed, sullen-jawed man of about forty
not much taller than mysolf, but of im
mensely powerful build.
' "So," said lie, " you're for life, are you ?
So am I."
" How do you kuow I am for lifo?"
asked wearily.
" By that." Aud he touched my cap
,oughly with the back of his baud. " Green
ifttr lifo. Red. for a term of years. What
ate you in for?"
"I conspired against the government."
He drugged his shoulders with contempt,
"Devil's inassl Then you're a gentle
man convict, I suppose S Pity you've not
berth to yourselves we poor forcats hate
pitch fine company."
"Aro there any political prisoners?" I
asked, after a moment's pause.
" None in this department."
Then as if detecting my unspoken thought,
" I am no innocent, he added with an oath.
"This is tho fourth' time I have boen here.
Did you ever hear of Gasparo?"
" Gasparo, the forger?"
Ho nodded.
" Who escaped three or four months since,
and-" ....
"And Hung the sontinel over tho ram
parts, just as lie was going to give the
alarm. 1 am the man."
I had heard of him, as a man, who, early
in his career, had been sentenced to a pro
longed term of solitary imprisonment, and
who had como forth from his cell hardened
and desperate I shuddered, and, as I
shuddered, found his evil eye taking vin
dictive note of me. From that moment he
hated me. From that moment I loathed
him.
A hell rang, and a detachment of con
victs camo in from labor. They were im
mediately searched by the guard, aud chain
ed up, two and two, to a slopping wooden
platform that reached all down the center
of the hall. Our afternoon meal was then
served out, consisting of a mess of beans,
and allowanco of bread and ship-biscuit,
and a measure ot thin wine. I drank the
wine, but I could eat nothing. Gasparo
took what he pleased from my untouched
allowance, mid those who wero nearest
scrambled for the rest. The supper over,
a shrill whistle echoed down the hall, each
man took his narrow mattress from underj
the platform which made our common bed
stead, rolled himself in a picco of seamed
matting, and lay down for the night. In
ess than five minutes all was profoundly
ilcnt. Now and then I heard the black
smith going round with his hammer testing
the gratings and frying tho locks in all tho
corridors. Now and then tho sentinel past
with his musket on his shoulder. Some
times a convict moaned or shook hisTottcrs
in his sleep. Thus tho weary hours went
by. My companion slept heavily, and even
lost consciousness at last.
I vas sentenced to hard labor. At Toulon,
lie hard labor is of various kinds; such as
quarrying, mining, pumping in the docks,
iding and uulading vessels, transporting
ammunition, and so forth. Gasparo and I
wore employed, with about two hundred
other convicts, in a quarry a littlo beyond
tho poit. Day after day, week after week,
from seven in tho morning until seven at
night, the rocks echoed with our blows.
At every lilow our chains rang and rebound
ed on tho stony soil. In that liurco climate,
terrible tempests and tropical droughts suc
ceed each other throughout tho summer
about autumn. Often and often, after toil
ing for hours under n burning sky, have I
gone back to prison and to my pallet drench
ed to the skin. Thus tho last days of tho
dreary spring echoed slowly past; and then
the autumn-time came round.
My fellow-convict was a Picdmontese.
Ho had lcen a burehir, a forger, and an in
cendiary. In his last escape he had coin
mitted manslaughter. Heaven alone knows
how my sufferings wero multiplied by that
abhorred companionship how I shrank
from the touch of his hand how I sickened
if his breath came over mo as wo laid sido
by side at night. I strove to disguise my
loathinc: but in vain. Ho know it as well
as I knew it, and ho revenged himself upon
me by every means that a vindictive na
ture could devise. That ho should tyran-
nizo over mo was not wonderful; for his
physical strength was gigantic, and he was
looked on as an authorized despot through
out the port; but simplo tyranny wait the
least part of what I had to endure; 1 had
been fastidiously nurtured; ho purposely
and continually offended my sonso of deli
cacy. 1 was unnccustoraoo tououuy lauoi ,
he imposed on mo the largest share of our
daily work. When 1 needed rest he would
insist on walking. When my limbs wero
cramped, ho would lio down obstinately,
and rcfuso to stir. Ho delighted to sing
blasphemous songs, and relate hideous
stories of what ho had thought aud resolv
ed on in his solitude silo would oven twist
tho chain in such a wiso that it should gall
me at every step. I was at that time just
twenty-two years of age, and had been
sickly from boyhood. To retaliate, or do-
fend myself, would havo been uliko impos
sible. To complain to the superintendent
would only have been to provoke my tyrant
to greater cruelty.
There came a day, at length, when his
hatred seemed to abate. He allowed mo to
to rest whon our hour of repose came
round. He abstaiued from singing tho
songs I abhorred, and fell into long llts of
alistr&ction. Tho next morning, shortly af
ter we had begun work, ho drew near
enough to speak to me in a whisper.
" Francois, havo you a luiud to escape ?"
I felt the hot blood rush to my face,
clasped my hand, I could not sjieuk.
" Can you keep a secret ?"
"To the death."
"Listen then. To-morrow, Marshal Do
La Tour d'Auvergue will visit tho port. He
will Inspect tho docks, the prisons, the
quarries. There will be plenty of cannon
adlng from Uie forts and the skipping, and
if two convicts escape, a volley more or less
will attract uo attention round about Tou
Ion. Do you understand ?"
" You meau that no one will recognize
the signals?"
" Not oven the sentries at the town gate
not even tho guards in tho . next quarry.
Devil's mass 1 What can bo easier than to
strike ofTeach other's fetters with tho pick
axe whon the superintendent is not looking,
and tho salutes arc firing? Will you. venture?"
"My life!"
"A bargain. Shake hands on it."
I had never touched his hands in fellow
ship before, and 1 felt as if my own were
blood-stained by the contact. I knew by
tho sullen fire in his glanco (hat ho inter
preted my faltering touch aright.
We wero roused an hour earlier than
usual tho following morning, and went
through a general inspection in the prison
yard. Before going to work, wo wero
served with a doublo allowanco of wine.
At one o'clock wo heard the first far-off sa
lutes from the ships of war in tho harbor.
The sound ran through me liko a galvanic
Bhock. Olio by ono the forts took up tho
signal. It was repeated by tho gun-boats
closer in shore. Dischargo followed dis
charge, all along tho batteries on both sides
of the port, and the air grew thick with
smoko.
" As the first shot is fired yonder," whis
pered Gasparo, pointing to tho barracks be
hind the prison, " striko at tho first link of
my chain, close to tho ankle."
A rapid suspicion flashed across inc.
"If I do, how can I be suro that you
will free me afterward? No, Gasparo; you
must deal the first blow."
" As you please," he cried, witli a laugh
and nn imprecation.
At the same instant camo a flash from
tho battlements of tho barrack closo by,
and then a thunderous reverberation, mul
tiplied again and again by tho rocks around.
As tho roar burst over our heads, I saw
him strike, and I felt tho fetters fall.
Scarcely had tho echo of the firtjt gun died
away when tho second was fired. It was
now Gaspare's turn to bo free. I struck,
but less skillfully, and had twice to repeat
tho blow before breaking the stubborn link.
Wo then went on apparently, witli our
work, standing somewhat closer together,
with the chain huddled up between us. No
ono had observed ns, and no one, ut first
sight, could havo detected what we had
done. At the third shot, a parl y of ofliecrs
and gentlemen inado their appearance at
tho bond of tho road leading up to tho
quarry. In an instant every head was turn
ed in their direction; every felon paused in
his work, every guard presented arms. At
that moment we flung away our caps and
pickaxes, scaled tho rugged bit of cliff on
which wo had been toiling, dropped into the
ravine below, and mado for the mountain
passes that lead into the valley. ' Encum
bered still with tho iron anklets to which
our chain had licen fastened, wo Could not
run very swiftly. To add to our difficul
ties the road was uneven, strewn with blocks
of fallen granite and tortuous as tho wind
ing of a snake. Suddenly, on turning a
sharp angle of a projecting cliff, we came
upon a little guard-house and a couple of
sentries. To retreat was impossible They
presented their pieces and called to us to
surrender. Gasparo turned upon me like a
wolf at bay.
" Curse you !" said ho dealing me a tre
mondous blow; "stay and bo taken ! I have
always hated you !"
I fell us if struck down by a sledge-ham
mer; and, as I fell, saw him dash one sol
dier to tho ground, dart past tho other,
heard a shut, and then all becamo dark,
and I know no more.
When I next opened my eyes 1 found
myself lying on tho floor of a small, un
furnished room, dimly lighted by a tiny
window closo against the ceiling. I t seem
ed as if weeks had gono by since I lost con
sciousness. I had scarcely strength to rise;
and, having risen, kept my feet with diffi
culty. Where my head had lain the floor
was wet with blood. Giddy and perplexed,
I loaned against the wall and tried to think.
In the first place, where was I ? F.vidunt-
ly iii no part of tho prison from which I
had escaped. There, all was solid stone
and iron grating; here was only whitewash
ed lath and plaster. I must bo in the
littlo-gnard house; probably in an upper
chamber. Where then, were the soldiers ?
Where waa Gasparo ? Had J strength to
clumber up the window, and if so, in what
direotion did the window look out ? I stole
to tho door und found it locked. I listened
breathlessly, but could hear no sound either
below or above. Creeping back again,
saw the little window was at least four feet
above my head. The smooth plaster offer
ed no projections by which I could raise
myself, and there was not even a fire-place'
in tho room from which I could have
wrenched a bar to dig out holes iu the wall
for my feet and-bauds. Stay! tbero was
my leathern belt, and on the belt the iron
hook which used to sustain my chain when
I was not at work. , I tore off the hook,
(licked away the lath and plaster in three
or four places, climbed up, opened tho
window, aud gazed out eagerly. Before
mo at a distance of not more than thirty
five or forty feet, rose the rugged cliff un
der whom shelter the guard-house was
built; at my feet lay a little kitolien-gardon,
divided from the base of the rock by a
muddy ditch which seemed to run through
the ravine; to the right and left as well as
I could judge, luy tho rocky path along
which our course had been directed. My
decision was taken at once. To stay was
certain capture; to venture, at all hazards,
would make matters no worse. Agaiu I
listened, and ugain all was quiet. I drew
mysolf through tho littlo casement, drop
ped! as gently as I could upon tho moist
earth; and crouching against the wall, ask
ed myself what I should do next. To
climb the cliff would bo to offer myself as a
target to tho first soldier who saw me.
To venture along tho ravine would be, per
haps, to encounter Gasparo and his captors
faco to face. Besides, it was getting dusk;
and, under cover of tho night, If I could
ouly conceal myself till then, I might yet
escape. But where was that concealment
to be found? Heaven lie thanked for the
thought ! ,Thoro was tho ditch 1 Con
cluded next week.
Bound to Stick.
Many years ago Roliert Treat Paine
father of tho (poet.) was one of the Judges
of the Massachusetts Supreme Court. He
was very old and tho bar desired him to
retire from tho bench; so they appointed
Harrison Gray Otis, who was very polite
and accomplished, to go and see the Judge
and talk to him upon the subject. He sug
gested to tho Judgo that it must be very in
convenient for him to lcavo homo so often
and so long.
"Oh 1 he was alwyas ready to sacrifice his
personal preference for the good of his
country."
"But," suggested Otis, "you are not in
good health you are infirm are you not
afraid this excessive duty will kill you?"
" Yes," said he but, a man could not die
in a belter causo than administering jus
tice."
" Do you see as well as you used to?"
" ics," ho replied, " 1 can seo with my
glasses very well."
" Can you hear ns well -as you used to
do?" (for it was notorious that ho could
not hear unless yelled through a trumpet.)
llo said, " Yes, I hear perfectly; but
they don't speak as loud ns they did before
the revolution."
A Real Romance.
A St. Louis fair one hearing that her
lover was going to a ball with another girl,
mado a bargain with the hackman by
which she drove tho hack in his stead, aud
in place of taking the pair to their desti
nation, sho took them several miles out of
the city. Then inducing them on some
pretence to got out sho whipped up tho
horses and drovo back, leaving the unfor
tunates tho lady in a low-necked muslin
ball dress exposed to a rain in the midst
of a lonely wood. After wandering in tho
mud for a number of hours a perform
ance lor which ' noitlicr tno cavalier s
thin boots nor his companion's kid slippers
wero particularly well fitted they found
shelter in a farm-house, whore, finding a
priest and the mutality of their misadven
tures inspiring love, they wero united in
tho holy bonds.
IW An old negro named Pcto was very
much troubled about his sins. Perceiving
him ono day with a very down cast look,
his master asked him the cause.
"O, massa 1 I'm sich a great sinner 1"
"But, Pete," said tho master, "you are
foolish to tuke it so much to heart. You
never seo mo troubled about my sins."
"I know de reason, massa," said Pcto;
" when you go out duck-shooting and kill
one duck and wound another don't you
run after tho woundod duck ?"
"Yes, Pete;" and the master wondered
what was coming next.
" Well, massa, dat is do way wid you
and me; do debbil has got you sure; but as
he am not sure of mo he chases dis chil nil
do time."
Fi' lite Time.
Ki.mika, N. Y., April 23, 1872.
Mr. Editor Having boen a reader of
the "Times," ami thinking a few items
from this vicinity might bo interesting to
its readeis, I will endeavor to give a par
tial, and perhaps imperfect description of
this place.
Kliniru, the county seat of Chemung
county, is on tho right bank of tho Che
mung river, 8 miles from tho Hue lietwcon
Pennsylvania and New York, and about
274 miles by railroad, from Now York city.
It is a real pretty, and quite level city, and
contains about 17,000 inhabitants.
The Northern Central, Erie and Lehigh
Valley Itailroads pass through tho place,
and almost any hour you can hear the shrill
scream of tho "iron horse," as it thunders
along witli its ponderous load of coal or
merchandise. There Is also a street Rail
way from Kliiiira to Horseheads, a town
about 0 miles above this place.
bxcept in the business part ot tbu city.
Water, Lake and Baldwin streets tho
houses are, generally, built back from tho
street, with pretty yards in front, filled
with flowers, fountains, evergreens, shade
and ornamental trees. A groat many of
the houses are two-story franio structures,
with four-sided roofs sometimes flat or
else cottage style, very steep. Along
Water, Lake and Baldwin streets, there
are somo large, three, four, -and five story
brick buildings. The pavements are cither
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pal, Presbyterian, Methodist and Roman
Catholic, no German Reformed, and I think
no Lutheran. Also, the Park church,
where the Rev. Reseller otllciatos. He
sometimes preaches in tho Opera House,
where his average congregation is about
1400.
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