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TICE TAKING OP THE BELEN GATE
We are Indebted, says the Philadelphia Netcs to
our friend Dr. F. Knox Morton for a copy of liar
per's Magazine for September, 18.57, whichsontains
the noem on the takine- of the " Belen Gate," In
A k it a . , b y tte teerieen army under General Mentz
It was published in ilarperi Monthly anonymous
ly, but it is the production of the Hon. Charles
Naylor, of our city, who was a participant In many
of the most Important scenes connected with the
movements of the American troops in Mexico.
The Tacnbaya causeway, three-quarters of a mile
In length, was the direct road from Chapoltepee to
the city of Mexico. It was fringed with trees, and
on each aide were marshy grounds and deep ditches.
Along the center of the causeway ran an aqueduct,
raised on massive atone arches, conveying water
from the hill of Chapultepec. The " Gaeta Belen "
wan an immense gate, defended on one side by a
parapet and ditches, and on the other by a Zigzag
redan. It was also commanded by guns from the
Pisea, the Citadel, and a battery at the entrance of
a street. On the causeway, to the left, was posted
a battery of four guns, and beyond this, on the right,
w.ail.the fort tiled village of Romlta.: All these work,'
sirarmed with troops. General Qeitman, , who was
posted here on the 13th of September, 1817, had re
ceived discretionary orders to advance upon the
city by this route after the taking of Chapultepec,
and It was known there would be hot work. The
order war easaed for the division to move upon the
city, and down the slope of the hill, out of the
smoke and deist of Chapultepec, the troops poured
on. Their advance was tie .twly resisted. The trees
on each side wore shivered with balls, and huge
pieces of stones, broken from the angles of masonry,
were dashed down upon the advancing column*
The arches of the aqueduct afforded the only shelter
from the fiery hall. By keeping under cover of these
arches and springing from one to the other, the
assailant. aided by Drum's howitzers, succeeded In
silencing the intermediate batter , over which
poured the column headed by Smitla rifles and the
Palmetto regiment. Now all the batteries opened
fire at once, sweeping down whole ranks, while a
sharp flank tire from Romita proclaims that the
rtorm has Elated, sad is bursting forth from a new
direction. The assailing column, sorely thinned,
wavers, The crisis of the day is approaching, when
the rumbling of Drum's artillery la beard. A few
rapid discharges send the Mexicans flying trout their
guns, and the Americans stand before the Deice
Gate. With a shout and a mighty :rash the line
dashes on. The different commands are mixed to
gether fn Inextricable confusion. The foremost
ranks leap the ditch, following their general. One
final 4voliey is given; the gleam of steal shines
through the smoke; then a short, sharp hand-to-hand
straggle, and the next moment a figure rates through
the dense cloud. It is the general, waving a hand
kerchief as a signal that the i3elen Gate Is won.
The Taking of the Belen Gate—Sep
tember 13, 1847.
Br HON. CILAILLE9 NAYLOR.
It Is an aged soldier,
All seamed with ghastly scars--
A wreck cast up on the beach of peace
From the surging foam of wars.
He Is resting in the noontide
Beneath a beechen tree,
And the village school boys gather round,
Or clamber on his knee •,
For they love the good old soldier,
With his tales of long ago,
Of the battles won and the high deeds done
On the plains of Mexico.
"Thep tell me, hope, the momenta
With doubt and fear are rife,
And patriot virtues mount thrive
In the air of civil strife,
lint It matters not; w4en danger
Assails our native land,
Mark then how quickly faution ales,
And brave souls take their stand.
A freeman's hardy courage
Needs bat a foreign foe; '
And so we proved before the world
In the war with Mexico. • •
They were martyrs, those 1020 perished
For their country's trust and name, -
And glorious in the.after years
Shall be each sainted name.
They were strong to toll and sutler,
They were strong to dare end bleed ;
They were hearts sent forth from the hand of God
To meet the time of nevi"
The eldest of the children
Is a noble, fair.haired boy,
And he drinks the words with a willing gar
And a kindling smile ofjoy;
And his little eyes are widened
As at a trumpet's call ;
"Now tell us of the hottest fight
And the bravest deed of all.
"Alt !" cries the old man, grimly,
" We had enough to do;
For ne'er unstained with native gore
The starry banner flew;
But we owed the most to valor,
And the least to favoring fate,
At the taking of the Bclen Pass,
And the storming of the Gate.
" We had gone through fire and labor
For many a night and d4y,
From Palo Alto's mournful field
To the heights of Monterey;
We paused at Buena Vista,
Contreras felt our blow,
And at last we saw the distant spires
In the Vale ol Mexico. ,
"Chapultepee is taken!
Upon her ruined walls '
A huge and aninky canopy,
Like a shroud of honor, falls.
The Lee-like swarms that clustered
For life and home to strive
Are routed from their broken halls,
Or burned within their hive.
The gun• that woke the morning
Are dumb beneath our tread,
As on we march in serried files
Through a desert of the dead !
" All faintly in the distance •
Are heard the toes alarms,
And hot and grimed with blood and dust,
We are resting on our arms.
On every vtar-ivorn visage
Stern grief with triumph blends,
For each has sought among the ranks
And missed his kin or friends.
The voices that were dearest.
rie'er shall bear them more
Our butchered comrades lie behind,
And vengeance stalks before.
" Well may we halt oar column .
•
On steep so dearly won;
Much has been dared and much is gained,
But more mud yet be done.
Well may we halt our column
To catch a moment's breath,
For the road in front is leading o'er
To the very jaws of death. •
" It is a narrow causeway
Across that dark morass,
With heavy arches frowning down
Upon the heavy :XleS
And at the giant portal
The city takes her stand,
Hurting defiance back upon
The invaders of the land.
Like a grim and surly watch dog
Stares, forth each deep-mouthed gun
Proud plumes, and helms, and burnished steel
Are gleaming in the sun.
We have chased the wounded tigress
To the entrance of her lair;
And, mad to battle for her young,
She turns upon ns there.
And loudly rings the war-cry,
And wide the flags are cast,
And Mexico will make this hour
Her proudest, or her last ;
For all of savage valor,
And all of burning hate,
That have outlived the shock of war,
Are at the Bolen Gate.
"He comes, our mighty leader,
Along the waisted van;
There is no heart in all the ranks
That does not love that maul
Ile, passes mid the columns,
And it is a glorious sight
To tee him form them for the fray,
But his brow In dark as pleat.
He is thinking of the•bmve oncs
Who sleep the eternal sleep
Among the slaughtered enemy,
On yonder bloody deep:
He In thinking of thee:seem
That should have come ere now;
finch thoughts may dim the brightest eye,
And cloud the fairest brow,
But he gazes o'er the causeway,
And he beans the fortemea cry,
And the old stern look is on his lam
And the Bre is MIAs eye.
" ' Forward !' and at the elgusd,
Beneath the general's glance.
With dauntless mien and measured tread
The lengthened lines advance.
" There counts a blaze of liffilning
From gate, and wsli, and apt%
As though the city had put on
" Freedom and Right against Slavery and Wrong."
MONTROSE, SUSQ. CO., PA., TUESDAY, JITNE 13, 1865.
A girdle all of Lire!
There cornea a buret of thunder,
AB though the teeming earth
Were laboring with voicanle throes
O'er some sulphureom
There comes a l' ats "" - ng shower
cwt.— •
anwn the vase,
'breath which the solid masonry
Is chipped like broken glass.
It was as though the demons
Had risen %mina our plan,
And brought the guns of hell to bear
Upon the march of man.
"Brit where the invading. army,
That stood so proudly tli , .re?
Iles It ALL so soon been swept away
lies It melted into air?
No! far beneath the arches,
At the signal of command,
Protected by the friendly stone,
Behold each little band,
But onward, ever onward
No time to lanse or &mid—
The glancing shot that skip within
Bespeak the storm without—
We are near upon the Menton,
We can count their tierce array ;
The bayonet now must do Its part,
Anti end the tearful fray.
"'Charge!' and we break from cover
With the panther's spring and yell'
Cannon and musket from the Gate
Peal hack the challenge men.
And now a bullet strikes me,
And I stagger to my t. nee,
.Whlle past me rush in headlong race
The champions of the tree.
I rise mad totter forward,
Although with failing breath;
For who would' follow sac 4 a chase
So far, and titbits the death
The smoke has covered nil thins
In Its darkest battle .brood,
Save where yon living line of fire
Lights nu the murky cloud;
And . there our gallant fellows
Are raging in the strife,
Before the stern and dangerous Gate,
Whose toll is human llte
They are Chafing like the billows
Upon a midnight shore,
Whit a tempiest driving on behind,
An a wall of rock before!
" I see our gallant chieftain
In the hottest ul the lire;
lime our soldiers gather
Like children round their sire .
I tee him at the poi tat,
Still ou his men,
Aud now the hot blood tram my wound
Ilts blinded me eget).
1 hear our tellnn•s livertne,
As thoul,•h to rend the ekle , ,
And hastily I wipe away
The blood-gouts from my eyes,
And I, too, stand uncovered,
And shout with joy elate,
For the Start and Stripers wavlt.g high
Above the Belch Gat.:'
STORY OF A STOVE.
Happening to call upon a friend a few days ago, I
observed a rather queer ornament hanging upon the
wall or her handsome parlor. It WILY the photo•
graph of an Did fasiol tried stole, handsoMelr framed
aud suspended above her piano. Being naturally of
an inquiring turn of mind. I utts desirous of hearing
the history of this stove, for I felt sure it had one.
Being on Intimate terms with the lady of the home,
I quentioned her on the suhject, and for reply re
reived the following story :
I was let at an early age, said my friend, an or
phan and alone in the wOl4l, isih the of
my o ,o,c:spott i er, W e resvi •d in ibi• little village ot
New-York. My grandmoths r was not rich,
but she owned the cottage in which we lived and
had enough to support ourselves in comfort. It wan
a quiet town, and as we never left it, our wants
were few. lien I grew up, with few companions
but the folks of the town. There was one who had
been from childhood env part paular blend. Ilona,-
Lee and I bad played, studied, and gone to school
together, and our friendship had bat diminished
with years. Although liontee had never raid so in
words, It was yet an understood thing between us
that at route future day 1 was to be lib, wile. Every
one considered us eursged, and uu /loud had yet
risen to mar our happiness.
The summer that I was eighteen, our little town
was enlivened by nn addition to onr number of
young faiks. Mr. Courtney, a city merchant, rent
ed a house for the serums r, arid look tip his residence
there with his family, a wife and three children.—
The eldest, Frank, was about Issi sly ; the two girls,
Belle and Annie, a few years younger. With the
freedom that residetce in a smell town begets, we
soon became acquainted, and belore long were very
intimate Before this time I had had few, it any inti
mate friends; now I struck up a violent friendship
with Belle and Annie, and hating Frank and Horace
as escorts, we explored the country for miles around,
walking, and riding, and boating together.
At first Horace had seemed as much pleased as
myself with onr new friends; hut of late I had no•
ticed a growing coldness In his manner, e-pecially
with Frank; I taxed hits with it : be did nut deny
the fact. " The truth is, Laura," he said In defense,
"before now I had you to myself; we could walk
and talk together isaletiv; now you arc always with
the girls or Frank, and I can TICS er get to speak to
you in private."
" Well, why do you wish to speak to me in pri
vate?" I asked, laughingly, " or if you do, you ran
now."
It was a wet, chilly nkht, and a' I could not Co
out, Horace had found iit hone and alone. Ile
lookea gloomy. "I
Liase lo) particular observation
to make," be replied, "but I could like sometimes
to ace you alone. I fLeauld ti i,.k you would under
stand, Laura."
I did not understand ; I had missed my quirt
talks with Horace, but carried away with the units.
nal pleasure ut society, I had not rc L eretted it much.
Beltdes I was yonnit, and although I loved Horace,
there was et a latent spark of conuctrr in my na
ture., which had been kindled tutu Ifs by Frank's
attentions. I encouraged Was more than I should
hate done.
I made no reply to Horace's remarks, and be
went on tarther: "There k one thine, Laura, I
must Eay ; 1 tLluk you and Frank are entirely too
intimate for one—'
. .
I Interrupts A him here. " Horace, you are un
reasonable. I have never had young companions
before, and now, when I enjoy it an much, you ob
ject, and want me to ',ity at home and never ace any
one but yourself. And you insinuate that I flirt
with Frank, and—" T could not proceed further;
tears of wonnded pride anti anger choked my voice.
"I did not sac so, Leers," said Horace, ranch dig
tressed at the effect of Ms words. " You did not
allow me to finish my sea:tame. I was only going
to say that 1 thought yon and Frank were too much
together for one engaged to another; but I should
not give it ao harsh a name."
" What is the difference," I sobbed: " you are
jealous, Horace, because I nave some ofber friends
beside you."
Horace was very much disturbed: it was our first
quarrel. He begged my maroon for hit remonstrance,
and soothed me with tenderest words. I Should
have taken warning by this incident, and not have
provoked him again; but I did not; secure of ray
power over him, I soon laughed anti tallitd with
Frank an nitwit as ever. Horace bore it for some
time in silence, bat at lard si.oke again. '
,4 %.„
The occasion was thin. We had made up\ n ,sn
cnrsiou to a picturesque spot ntar by to p s the
a fternoon there. It was quite dark when u re
turned. Frank Joined me. I tricii to escape Irnm
him, remembering Horace's words, hut he wouldi
not allow it Whether be was aware Of the relation
that Horace and I bore to each other, I cannot say;
ho certainly airtight my society. Horace was MILS
left to Belle and Annie. I hilt that b e was angry-,
but I Could not help it. At their gate we parted,
and I took Horace' a ann and we walked on for some
time without speaking. Then I broke the silence
by some trivial remark on our excursion.
He repliol absently, and we a"ain fell into silence.
Presently he spoke. " Laura. I cannot talk quietly,
if you Call. Yon must know I am both angry anti
hurt at your conduct. I have a right to he, and I
ask you if you think It is proper for you, engaged to
me, as you arc, to avoid my corm...try, and purpose
ly accept that of another, as you have done to night r
My face flamed; Horace had never spoken so be
, fore in all his life, and all my pride was up la arm!.
I would not tell hhal that Frank's attentions were
unweleeme; I would not defend myself Wont his
accusations. .We were at home; he followed use
into the parlor. I threw off my hat and cloak, and
Mood proudly before him.
" Are you done, or have you any more complaints
to prefer F' I asked coldly.
"I do not think it is necessary to say any more.
14 after what I said some time ago, you still persist
in the same course, words are of no avail "
And this Sit your deliberate,opinion of me—that 1
have trifled with you and encouraged others Y"
flow can It be othorwimr? 1 never thought it
or you, Laura, but beware ! am not to he trilled
with." Ills lips were compressed and his voice full
of suppressed anger. I cannot tell you all the seen°
that toliowed, bitter words were spoken on both
sides and harsh recrimination. I know that at last
I told florae. that he said enough ; had proved to
me by his anger and Jealousy that be was not what
I had thought of him that 1 felt sure we were not
suited to each other, I desired henceforth we should
be u strangers to each other.
He grew pale as death wilds I spoke, died on me
one long look from hl e4 77,eyea, to be eald, eloely
„." airan Z er " — h. ..7, eo. I have been dlaappolnte4 In
vie can never be ea We Were before. Fare
ell !"
I drew from my finger a small gold ring he had
given me years ago. lie threw it on the floor,
ground it ender Ms heel, and then turned and left
the house.
I locked the door alter him, mschanicallY, and
went up to my room, but not to sleep. A keen
sense of injustice stung me; I felt that Horace's
words were not true, and as i went over again that
angry scene and its bitter ending, I gave away to
Such a flood of sorrow as had never darkened my
young life before. Yet I did not then even realize the
full extent of my grief. I could not think we were
rosily parted, he would come back to me.
The next day passed lice a troubled dream, but on
the third day I received a note; how eagerly I open
ed It; It bore these words only: "Laura, you shall
have your wish, henceforth we will Indeed be strang
ers to each other. Farewell," The next day I
heard that Horace Lee had left Hallam and gone in
to n store In New-York.
How I lived through the Week that followed I
scarcely know; at its close I frll 11l of a low nervous
fever which lingorod Icing I had no spirit. to rally.
I did not care to recov..r, yeti did so. It was many
weeks. even mouths to lore regained my usual
health, long before I did, the courtneys returned to
town.
Imagine now that three years pissed. Very
different now 1.3 my siltuatiOn. About a year alter
Horace leO, my grandmother fell 11l and died. I
was then alone indeed, but I could not long Indulge
my grief. I must exert myself for some means of
support. IS:, the advice and assistance of kind
friends I removed to New-York and opened a small
school. The Courtney's, of whom I had never lost
eight, recommended me, and my school succeeded.
I was not entirely dependent upon my school, how
ever. I had rented the cottao, my dear old home,
and derived u little from that. The greater part of
our furniture remained in tan cottage, but I had
brought a few old mementoes to the city with me,
and among them grandmother's old stove. I bad
never seen Horace through all these years, and bad
heart but little, I knew he wag yet in New-York,
and had wonder. d when- I first canto to the city if I
should meet him. f soon find, however, It was
posehhlo to live in the same city and yet be as thor
oughly separated as though seas rolled between us.
It was daring my second year In the city that my
old stove recel%ed an m-rfd.•nt and obliged me to
send it away to get repaired. I desired the proprie
tor of the store to whom I sent it, to keep it for me
during the summer months I little thought what
would rome from thin seemingly trilling occurrence.
Autumn came upon us with chilling winds. I felt
the want of my old friend, and one day after school
I went down and ordered the stove home. It ar
rived the next evening. lat once built a fire and,
seating myself on a low stool beside it, gave myself
tip to relteetlon. The sight of that old stove called
up my recollections of tatrly days, and brought Hor
ace before any mind with painful litst Inctuess. My
anger had long since abated. I paw my own fault
nnd felt, had I been less proud tied more concilia
ting, I might have retained him. I bad long ago for
given bite. Where was Le trove? Did he ever think of
me, or had another my former place in his heart ?
(Men f had asked myself these questions, but they
remained tmanewered.
As I sat mining thus, the door opened, and the
servant showed ie a gentleman. I arose, but in the
dim twilight did not recognize him. I bowed hesita
tingly, but he came forward and took my hand in
his. As the firelight fell upon his features, I saw
that be was strongly agitated, and his face appeared
laminar. All this In a second. '
" Laura. Laura, don't you know me?" asked a
voice which! never could forget, which I had scarce
ly hoped ever to hear again.
" Horace!" I cried ; but a mist came over my via
lon, a dizzy feeling In my head. I sta=ered, and
would have taller Inn for Horace's supporting arm.
When I regained my full Een4l,9, r was on the sofa,
he kneeling by my side, his glint:MOM:ld mc, my
head on Ills shoulder. I did not @peak, but tears,
happy tears rained down my face. ' 4,
"eur Laura, can you forgive inn for all my cruel
conduct ? Con yon love me again as 01'60 ?"
" I have never ceased to love you Horace, though
I feared you had forgotten me. 'Had I tieen less
proud or onto!, we had never parted us we did."
He would not let me reproach myn.'ll "It was
no excuse for me; ton wept' have been more than
human had you acted otherwise; but believe me.
dearest, I have suffered only more than you in th%
tong estnuntrtnent. Long ago I would larva sough(
a reconciliation. but I had lost sight of you, and I
did not know but that you had forgotten me."
"And you did not.know me, Laura," he resumed
hreskuilly: "iinvo I Inducd eo changed ! I would
ave known you had I met you In Japan."
MS=EINIIMI
He had left me a beardless boy; three yore bad
ehanesed him to a man. The fresh colors of youth
ssas faded by a city lire. Three yews' experience In
the world had written Itself In ineffaceable lines on
his mouth and brow.
. . . .
'• You have not asked yet how I found yon out;
have YOn no curiosity on that point"' he naked. I
had not thought of It ; he was there, that was enough
for the present.
lie gave me a proud, fond look as he answered:
Nevertheless I want to tell you alt about it, for it
is rather curious, and altogether the work of your
old stove."
"My move! How Tell me ail about it," I ask
ed, wonderingly.
He complied, and immediately gave the following
brief account :
4 ' More than two months ago, I happened to enter
the store of Mr F— to sec a friend of mine who Is
there. I noticed there an old stove which looked
stomeely familiar. I examined It closely. I wan
cure it was yours, or bad once been yours. There
could not he two like it; and besides that I noticed
a corner of the brunt, broken ofT. I remembered
that as a piece of my work, and your Mediation
with your grandmother in my behalf. Where did it
come from ? Itit I bad Rome clue to you, and I
grasped It eagerly, for, Laura, for the last year I
have been seeking yon, determined if I found you to
beg your pa'don for the past, even if I could ask no
more. I made many inquiries of the old stove, but
gained little natiafaction. A young lady sent it there ;
It wan left until further orders; no one could tell
me your name or residence. Week after week I
haunted that store. I confided In part to my friend.
I told him I thought that stove could give me a
clue to a long lost friend, and begged him to see
where it was Rent. I waited long. This morning I
went in as usual; I thought the time was almost
come. My friend met me 'with a smile, and led mu
to the stove, now bright and shining. A card lay on
its surface with your name and residence written on
it. I stood rooted before it. I heard not my - friend's
words—l telt only that you were found. I could
not come Until morning. I hurried here, with what
P..ellugs, you may Imagine. I did not know what
reception I might meet. I had some hope, for I
i ? t
found you were not ruarrie 1 had not dared to
hope for such a welcome as n have given me."
Well, it was all the of stove—no, not all, a
higher power was directing It all. To make a long
story abort, suffice it to say that we were married
at Christmas. We kept the old stove carefully; and
when at last It had to be banished to the garret, we
had Its photograph taken, and still retain it as ono
of the dearest mementoes 01 the past, and the instrn
ment of our re-union.
A PETROLEUM MIILIONAIRR
The following i 4 an extract from an article In the
rlyvaeuse The widow Meelintoek was a
very large owner of oil territory in Oil City. Blie
died last week.
The most of her property the widow McClintock
willed to her adopp.,l son, John Steele, or "Johnny'
Steele, as he is usually railed, a young man not
twenty-oau years of age, of good natural abilities,
but uneducated as how to apply them. Lie bad
qtal a teamster of oil over the hills and through
the gullies of Oifdoin, when this "streak of luck"
came upon him and made him much worse off, In
fact He immediately dropped the lines and paten
good clothes—all right so far—and has since led a
very dissolute life all over the country, For some
time, It Is said, he went around with hand of min
strels. Walking up Broadway one day, ho saw a
pair of line horses and carriage ; he stopped the dri
ver and Inquired how much he asked for the whole
rig. The driver said 512,000, vvhereupqn "Johnny"
hauled nut the amount and handing it to the driver
Jumped In for a ride.
Having ride enough, and 'taking a fancy to the
driver, he made him a present of his recent purchase.
At another time he Is said to have purchased the
Continential Hotel in Philadelphia, In an extrava
gant freak. lie gambled with John Morrissey and
paid SCO,OOO, it Is said, for the amassment, Mr. SS's
experience being too extensive for him. Ho has
bad numerous narrow 'escapes from losing his too
easily gotton wealth, by New York and Philadelphia
sharpers. Where he la jest now no one seems to
know. Some say be Is dead, but be will probably
turn up some day—perhaps again us a teamster.
r 0" A schoolmaster fella the following good one:
I was teaching In a owlet conntry village. The sec
ond morning of my session I found leisure to note
say surroundings, and among the scanty furniture I
espied a three.legged stool. "15 that the dance
block t" I asked a little girl of dm The dark eyes
sparkled, the curls nodded assent, and the lips rip
pled out, "I guess so, the teacher alivaya cite on
that." The stool was unoccupied that term.
ray' A flirt la no a dipper attael, to • hydrant :
every one Is at liberty to drink kern ,t, but no 0110
desires to carry It WAY.
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The following La the testimony, hitherto sup
pressed, mlative to the Rebel leaders, taken at the
asaaaathation trlarat Washington.
Sandford Conover testified as follows: lam a na
tive of New York, have resided in Canada since
October last; was conscripted Into the Confederate
army, and detailed to service In the War Department
of the Confederacy, at Richmond under James A.
Seddon, Secretary of War ; while In Canada was Inti
mately acquainted with G. N. Sanders, Jacob '
Thompson, Dr Blackburn, Tucker, Wm. C. Cleary,
Capt. Castleman, Mr. Cameron, Porterfield, Capt
Magruder, and others; I also knew Clement C. Clay,
and, Gen. Carroll of Tennessee; I knew Mr. Bureau,
also, and J. W. Booth, and visited these gentlemen
In Canada ; saw Surratt there on several occasions,
last April in Mr. Jacob Thompson's room, also In '
company with George N. Sanders, and other Rebels
in Canada ; Barrett Is about five feet nine or ten
inches high, a fair complexioned man with tight
hair; I sew him about the 6th or 7th ol April, with
Thompson, Randers and Booth; at that time its de- I
livered to Thompson In his room, In mypresence,
dispatches from Richmond to Thompson, from Ben
jamin and Jefferson Davis; the latter either a cipher
dispatch nr a letter. Benjamin was Secretary of
State of the Confederacy. Previous to this, Thump
son conversed with me upon the subject of a plot to I
assassinate President Lincoln and his Cabinet, of
which I gave notice, before the assassination, in TnE
New Your TRIMINE, the paper for which I corres
ponded. I had been invited by Mr. Thompson to I
participate in that enterprise. When Surratt detiv.
ered these dispatches from Davis, Thompson laid
his hand upon the papers and said, referring to the
assassination and to the assent of the Rebel authori
ties "This makes the thing alt right" The dia.
patches spoke of the persons to be assassinated :
Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Johnson, the Secretary of War,
the Secretary of State, Judge Chase and Gen. Grant.
Mr. Thompson staid on that occasion, or on the day
before that Interview, that the assassination two
posed would leave the Government of the United
States entirely without a head; that there was no
provision in the Constitution of the United States
y which they could elect another President. Mr.
Welles was also named, but Mr. Thompson said It
was not worth while to kill him ; he was of no conse
quence. My first Interview with Thompson on this
subject of assassination was in the early tart of Feb
nary, in Thompson's room in St. Lawrence Hall,
MontreaL lie then spoke of a raid on Ogdensburg,
New York, it was abandoned, but that was betunse
the United States Government received information
of it, be said he would have to drop it for a time,
bat added, " We'll catch them asleep Vet," and to
me he said, "There is a better opporteulty to Im
mortalise yourself, and save your country,' mean
ing the Confederacy. I told them I wee ready to do
anything to save the country, and asked them what
seas to be done; he said, " Some of our boys are go
ing to play a grand joke on Abe and Andy," which
he raid was to kill them; his words were "remove
them from office," and he said the killing of a
tyrant was not murder; that he bad COML1118:5101:18
for this work from the Rebel authorities, and con.
f er red one on Booth, or would confer one; that
everybody engaged in this enterprise would he corn
, ruissioned, and if they escaped to Canada they could
not be successfully claimed under the Extradition
Treaty. I know that Thompson and others held
these commmissimus In blank ; they comissioned Ben
nett Young. the St Album raider ; It was a Wank
commission tilled and conferred by Mr. Clay; as It
NUPE from Richmond, it was only signed "James A.
Seddon Secretary of War;" Mr. Thompson called
me to
Seddon,
these blans so that I might testily
to the genuineness of Seddon's signature In the case
of Bennett Young, before Judge Smith. The signa
ture was genuine. lu a subsequent conversation,
after the first referred to in February, Thompson
told me Booth had been commissioned, and every
man who would engage in It would be. I had a
conversation with Wan. C. Cleary, on the day be
' fore, or the day of the aseassluation, at St. 1.40-
.nmee WelL We were ape:llol2g of the rejoicing in the
st a tes ov e r the surrender of Lee and the capture of
Richmond. Cleary said they would bare the laugh
on the other side of the mouth In a day or two. I
,
think this was the day before the assassination. Ile
I knew I was In the secret of the conspiracy. It was
to that be referred. The assassination was spoken
of among us as commonly as the weather.
Before that, Sanders asked me if I knew Booth
very welt, and expressed some apprehension that
Booth would make a fizzle of it —that he was des
perate and reckless, and he was afraid that the whole
thing would be a failnre. I communicated to Tua
TRIBUNE the Intended raid on St. Albans and the
proposed assassination of the President; but they
refused to publish the letter. I did this in March last,
as to the President's assassination; also In February,
I think—certainly before the 4th of March. Surratt
delivered the dispatches in Thompson's room four
or five days before the assassination The whole
conversation showed that Surratt was one of the
conspirators to take the Presidents life. That was
the substance of the conversation. It was also un
derstood that there was plenty of money when there
was anything to be done. The conversation Indi
cated that Surratt had a very few days before left
Richmond—that he was "just from Richmond."
While I Was In Canada I was a correspondent for
TUE TRIBUNE, and received no compensation ex
cept from TEE TRIBUNE. I have not received ono
cent from our own Government, nor the promise.
They never supposed i was a correspondent for
any paper; I only said I wee seeking items; they
supposed 1 was a Rebel and I was la their eonfl
deuce ; the proposed Ogdensburg raid was printed
in Toe TRIBUNE; I did not communicate this mat
ter directly to the Government, for the reason that 1
supposed the communication in Tim Turfman would
be seen by the Government officials, and I did not
choose to have the information go to the Govern
ment directly from me; I requested Mr. Gay, of
THE TRIBUNE to give the Inforcartion to the Gov
ernment, and I believe he did so. I saw Surratt In
Canada three or four days In April last. I had con
versation with him personally about Richmond. I
was introduced to him by Sanders. I was expected
to participate with these Rebels in the raid on Og.
densburg ; I never received any pay from them for
any services. I heard the capture of the President
talked of in February. When Mr. Thompson Unit
suggested the assassination to me, I asked him if it
would meet with the approbaton of the Govern.
mot at Richmond; he said he thought it would,
but he would know In a few days. This was early
In February.
Thompson did not say in April, when these dia.
patches were delivered, that this was the Brat ap
proval they had received of this plot from Rich
mond, but 'l know of no others; I only Inferred that
that was the first approval; Thompson Bald, in his
conversation with me, that killing a tyrant in such
a case was no murder, and asked me If I had read
letter called " Killing, no Murder," addressed by
'fins to Oliver Cromwell; this was In February;
Mr. Hamlin was also named In February as one of
the victims of this scheme; in April, the persons
before named were mentioned, but Mr. Hamlin
was omitted, and Vice-President Johnson put in
his place; I ran the blockade from Richmond; these
commissions were all blank but the signature;
they were to beetyen ma cover, so that In case of
faction, the parties employed could Mahn that they
were Rebel soldiers, and would, therefore, claim to
be treated as prisoners of war; tt was understood
that they would be protected as such; Thompsem
bald If the men who were engaged In this enterprise
were detected and executed, the Confederate Gov
ernment would retaliate; that It was no morder,
only killing.; I think Booth was specially commis
sioned for this purpose; I saw Booth in Canada in
the latter part of October, with Sanders, at Mr.
Thomson's, at the St. Lawrence Hall, where he was
strutting about, dissipating and playing ;
I have beard these men talk of the burning of New
York, and other enterprises which they have under
consideration now
There was a proposition before the agents of these
rebels in Canada to destroy the Croton Dana, by
which the city of New York is supplied with water.
It was supposed It would not only damage mantt•
lecturers, but distress the people generally. Mr.
Thompson remarked that there was plenty of force,
and that the city would be destroyed by a general
conflagration, aez if they had thought of It sooner,
they might have saved a great many necks. This
was said a few weeks ago. Thompson, Castleman
and General Carroll were present. They bad arms
concealed, and a large number of men concealed, in
Chicago—some eight hundred—for the purpose ot
releasing the rebel prisoners there. The Dr. Black
burn, charged' at Nassau with Importing yellow fe
ver into this country, Is the eame person referred to
by me as intimate with Thompson, In Canada,
saw In company with, him, G. N. Sanders,
Louis Sanders; Castleman, Wm. C. Cleary, Porter
field, Captain Magruder, and a number of other
Rebels of less note; Blackburn was recognized there
as an agent of the Confederate States, and so repre
sented Mansell; in January fast Dr. Blackburn cm ,
pinyed a person named Cameron to accompany him,
for the purpose of introducing yellow fever Into the
Northern cities, to wit: the cities New York, Phila
delphia and %Abington ; he went from Montreal to
Bermuda, about a year ago last fall, for the purpose
of getting the clothing infected with the yellow
lever; I saw him alter his return,ln Canada, and
heard Jacob Thompson and Wm. C Cleary say that
they favored hla scheme and wore much Interested
In It; thie was last Janulty.
About the same limo it was proposed to destroy
the Croton Dam, Dr. Blackburn proposed to poison
the reservoirs, and made calculation of the amount
of poisonous matter It would require to Impregnate
the water, so as to make an ordinary draught poison
ous and deadly. fie bad the opacity of the reser
voirs, sad the amount of water genersUl kept in
them. Strychnine, mim[c, prosaic acid, and a num
ber of other things I do not remember, were named.
Mr Thompso n feared it would be impossible to
collect so re a quantity of poisonous matter
withous s uspicion, and leading to detect
Thompson approved of the enterprise, and discussed
tu m efy, hti. Cleary did the tame; tt was also
spoken of by Montrose A. Millen, of Mississippi,
and by a person who had been a medical purveyor
in the Rebel army; John Cameron, who lived In
Montreal, told me he was offered large compensa
tion; I think Mr. Thompson was the moneyed agent
for all the other agents; I think they all drew on
him for all the money they required ; I know some
of them did ; when Thompson slid It would be dill]
cult to collect so much poison without detection,
Pollen and others thought it could be managed In
Europe ; Pathan is a physician ; 1 think I leave heard
Harris also mentioned In connection with the pesti
lence Importation; 1 think he lived in Toronto;
there were other parties in Montreal that Blackburn
employed, or endeavored to employ, but I do not
remember their names.
I saw Dr. Stewart Robinson, a doctor of divinity,
residing in Toronto; he edited a paper in Kentuc
ky; I have seen hint with Thompson and Black
burn, and he was present Alien some of these
schemes were discussed; be approved them ; he
said anything that could be done under heaven
would justify them under the circumstances; he
appeared upon very intimate terms with Blackburn
and Thompson; three or four days after the assas
sination of the President, '1 saw John 11. !immix In
Canada, with Porterfield, a southern rebel, now de
clared a British subject by the Canadian Parliament;
I learned immediately afterward that Surma was
suspected, was pursued, and had decamped ; I bad
a knowledge that Jett Davis was at th e h ea d of th e
so-called Confederate Staten; was called Its Presi
dent, and had control of Its, civil administration.
Gen. Carroll was present when Berndt brought the
dispatches from Richmond, and when they were
read by Thompson, I belicye there were one or two
others; Gen. Carroll of Tennessee then said be was
more anxious that Mr. Johnson should be killed
th a n any one else; he said : If the damned prit It
louse was not killed by somebody" he would kill
him himselt; he referred to Vice-President Johnson;
. •
his expression was a word of contempt for a tailor
it means a tailor's louse; Booth was known In Can
ada by the nickname of "fict;" I have heard
Thompson so name him, certainly Cleary ; Kennedy
who fired the city, New-York,and was exeeutod,was
spoken of as having performed that decd by an
thority of the rebel Government, under the direc
tion of Thompson; this was communicated to me
by Thompson himself, or iu conversation in his
presence; Thompson said Kennedy deserved to b
hanged, and he wan devilish glad he was hanged,
for he was a stupid fellow, and had managed things
badly.
James B. Merritt testified—l am a physician, and
have been In Canada about a year: In October and
November last was In Toronto ; met George Young
them, a rebel from Kentucky; also, Col. Steele,
from Kentucky; Young said to me, "We have
something of much more importance than any
raids ;" he told me it was determined "Old Abe r '
should never be Inaugurated; that they had plenty
of friends in Washington and called Mr. Lincoln n
"damned old tyrant ;" I aferward saw George N.
Sanders and CoL Steele together; Col. Steele said.
" The damned old tyrant , never will serve another
term, If be is elected ; ' Sanders said, at the same
time, " Ile would keep himself mighty close if be
did serve another term ;" in Montreal, in February
last, I beard Sanders name a number of persons
ready and willing to remove the President, Vice-
President, the Cabinet, and some of the leading
Generals of the United States; and ho added that
there was any marmot of money to accomplish this
purpose, meaning the assassination of these per
; be then read a letter, which he had'received
from the President of our Confederacy, meaning
Jefferson Davis, and which letter justified him In
making any arrangements he could to accomplish
such object ; there was a wetting at that then mf
these rebels, end a letter was read to them, the 61:>-
stance of which was, that if the southerners in the
Canadaa and the States were willing to N., governed
by such s t 1 rant as Lincoln, he 0,400 did nut wish
to recognize them us Mends, and that he approved
of the proposition to Assassinate him; Col. Steely
I read the letter, also Capt. Scott, George Young, and
11111, all rebels; this electing was about the middle
of last February; at the meeting Sanders named
some of the persons who were to accomplish the
assassination, and among them he named J. W.
Booth, whom I had seen In Montreal in October;
he also named George Harper, Charles Car:liven.,
Kendall, and Rarrisou ; Harrold went by the name
of Harrison; I heard Surratt's name also mention
ed, and Harrold ; there was a person named whom
they called "Plug Tobacco " I saw Harrold in 'to.
ronto; Sanders said Booth was heart and soul in
the matt-r; be was cousin to Bean, who was hang
ed In New-York; he added that It they could dis
pose of Lincoln it would be an easy matter to fret
rid of Mr. Johnson in some of his drunken revelreas;
that if they could dispose of the President, Vice
President, and Cabinet, and that if Mr. Seward
could be disposed of it would satisfy the people
North, and that a peace could be obtained ; that
they had endeavored to bring about a war with
England, but Mr. Seward, through his energy and
sagacity, had thwarted their effbrts, and for that
reason they wished to get rid of him.
On the sth or 6th of April last, I met HarpPr, who
said they were aoing to the States "to kick up the
damnedest row, such as had never been beard of ;"
he added that if .1 did not hear of the death of Old
Abe, the Vice-President, and of Gen. Dll., in less
than ten days, 1 might put him down ass damned
fool; that was on the nth of April; he mentioned
the name of Booth as ouo of their [nen& there
said they had plenty of friends in Washington, and
that tifteen or twenty Were going. He had started
to go to Washington as early ae the Bth, together
with others; I communicated this fact on the 10th
of April to a justice of peace, named Davidson, who,
after the assassination, communi ca ted it to the
Government; Harper returned to, Canada after the
assassination; I had a conversation with C. C. Chi)
In Toronto, In February la-t; he spoke of the latter
of Davis, which Sanders had exibited; he seemed to
un?cratand the character of the letter pertectly, and
said ho thought the end would justify the means;
Surnitt was pointed out to me In Toronto, last Feb
ruary, I think; I saw Booth there two or three
times, and ESL at table with him once, at the St.
Lawrence, with Sanders, Scott, and Steele; they
were conversing with Booth, and drinking wine
with him ut Sanders's expense; I saw Harrold in
Canada, in February.
Richard Montgomery, tosijitled-1 know Jacob
Thompson, and Clement C. Clay, whom I have met
in Canada a number of times bince the Summer of
1f.64 up to this time ; also, Geo. N. Sanders, J. P.
Holcombe, Beverly Tucker, W. C. Cleary, Harring
ton, Hicks, and others, under fictitious names;
Thompson had several names ; nue was Carson ;
Clay was Holt, and Lacy, and Tracy; Jacob Thomp
son said he had friends of the confederacy all
through the Northern States, willing to go any
lengths, and that he could, at any time, have the
tyrant Lincoln, or any of his advisers, put out of
the way ; that his friends would not consider it a
crime, and that it would be done for the cause of
the Confederacy ; in January, 1865, Thompson said,
In Montreal, that a proposition had been made to
him to rid the world of the tyrants, Lincoln, Stan
ton, Grant, and others; that he knew the men who
made it were bold, daring men, able to execute any
thing they would undertake; that he was in favor
of the proposition, but deferred his answer until he
had consulted his Government at Richmond that
he was then only waiting their approval. He
thought it would be a blessing to the penple, both
North and death, to have them (the tyrants) killed.
In the dummer of 1841 I relexted what Mr. Thomp
son first told me to C. C. Clay, who said that lie
was really devoted to our cause, and ready to go
any lengths, to do anything under the sun to have
it. I have seen Payne, the prisoner,' a number 01 "
times In Canada, about the P ails, in the summer of
1861, and also at the Queen's hotel, at Toronto,
Canada West, where I conversed with him. I had
an Interview o ith Mr. Thompson ; several others
had sought en interview while I was cioetted, and
had been refused. On leaving Thompson's room,
I saw Payne in the passage-way, near the door, with
Clement C. Clay talking to him; Mr. Clay etopped
me, and finished his conversation with this man le
an undertone. When be lett me, he said, " Watt
for me; I will return." He soon came back and
bade me good-bye, and asked where be could see
me after a while. I told him,_ and appointed a
meeting. I spoke to this man Payne in Clay's ate
sense, and asked him who he was. Ile !mid, "Oh,
I'm a Canadian"—which was to say, I don't wish
you to ask ma anything more. I mentioned him to
Clay when I met hint after a time. Clay asked,
" What did he say?" I told him, and Clay answer
ed, " Thnt's so; he is a Cmcution," and laughed.
He added, "We trust him." "Canadian" is an ex
pression for their It-lends, and his conduct woe an
indication that their intercourse was of a very con
fidential nature.
I bayo be in Ca.. dm mince the allSSEMinittOn ; a
few days after, I met Beverly Tucker In Montreal.
Ha solo, "Mr. Lincoln deserved his death lone
ego," that " it was a pity he did not die long ago,
and that " It was too bad the bole had not been al
lowed to go When they wanted to." Be referred to
to the mcn who were to assaseloate hint.
I htu l a conversation with C. Cleary, and
told him what Mr, Thompson said in Ja"uary. Hs
said that Booth was one of the punka to whom
Thompson had referred: he said also that It was too
bad, that the whole work bad not been done, refer
ring to the assassination. Cleary, who was a con
fidant of Mr. Thompson, told me so. Thompson
said Cleary was a very close-mouthed mu. Cleary
alto said sail "they had better look out, we have
not doze yet" Be muted that they would noir-
152.00 per annum, in advance.
NUMBER 24.
er be compird ; would never give up. Be also
Bald that Booth had visited Thompson in the Win
ter and in the Summer. These parties know they
were suspected of the assauluatton a few days awl%
and were destroying a great many b 0 per t ..2 .1 ,11 1 7;
tom rim'.
I acted as a Govefzinent detective in Canada, and
assumed the name of James Thompson, though I
never registered It, but always tome other name.
My whole object was to serve the Government. I
sew the cipher (found among Booth's effects) in Mr.
Clay's house, at St. Catherine's, In the summer of
I carried dispatchtvs from Canada to Goniona
rale, and received a reply, which I carried back.
I came through Washington each time, and deliver
ed the dispatches to the United States Govern
ment; received the dispatch at Gordonsville from a
man in the Relict State Department; I tarried this
paper to Thompson. Ail these persona, named
Thompson, Clay ('leery, Are, represented them
selves in the service of the Confederate Government.
Received this dispatch in October last Clay claim
ed to represent the War Department; they approved
the burning of Northern cities, and they represented
themselves as having full powers from the Rebel
Government to act, without referring their project
to Richmond; Thompson and Clay both said so;
the attempt to burn New York city I know they
wets both engaged la, and went to Washington
three Say, before It happened to communicate it ,•
they approved, also, the St. Albans raid; In regard
to raiding, Mr. Clay had the funds; he said he had
always plenty of money to pay for anything that
was worth paving for; f know they deposited In
different banks; Clay said not to tell Sander what
they evtrnstcd to me: be said be was a very good
loan to do their dirty work ; that he associated with
men that they could not associate with; that be wkn
very useful In that way; I inferred from Beverly
Tucker's words that they bad delayed the assassin
ation, walling the approval from Richmond.
DOG FIGHT ER FROGTOWN
There Is an excellent moral to the following story
which !staid with great skliL It shows us how •
whole village Is sometimes torn to pieces by • Aght
between two puppies.
The most remarkable fight on record Came off at
Frigtown, on the frontier of Maine, some yesrs ago.
I t engrossed the entire community in one indiscrim
'ante melee—interminab!e lawsuits or suits at law—
,il;tracti,,n of the town and its downfall or ruin.
A fanciful genies, named Joe Tucker, a man about
)0 wu„ a lounger n itbont visible lamas of support—
a do-nothing, lording, cigar-smoking, good-natured
fellow, owned a dog; a sleek, intelligent, and rather
pretty beast, always at Joe's heels, and known as
well as his master, and liked far more by the Frog
townem. On one day Joe and his dog was passing
ilo o l o res g r ocery store, when a piebald, ugly-look-
Inc: dog, standing alongside a wood wagon hounded
on to Joe Tucker's dog—knocked him heels over
head, and so frightened Bob Carter's wife who was
p. ,log towards her husband's blacksmith shop with
Ili. , dinner, that ate stumbled backwards, and her
ti run bonnet flopped off. and seared the horse at
tached to the wagon. Ile started, hit Latherem's
~ ,ther pole, upset the load of wood, all of leach
;Ailing down Gumbo's refreshment cellar, struck
one of Gumbo's children on the head, kttic d it for a
-hurt time stone dead, and so alarmed Mrs. Gumbo,
that site dropped a stew pan of bolting hot oyster))
flto the lap of her customer, who sat waiting for
the savory concoction by a table in the corner, in
-bad of the dish Mrs Gumbo rushed for the child;
the customer for the door Mrs. Gumbo eercamed,
the customer yelled !
" Oh! oh ! oh-oh-oh, my poor child" cried Mee.
GUM be
" Eh, e-hoe-e-c," streamed the poor childt
"Oh, murder-r-r 1 Oh, my everlasting sir, I'm
..)called to all etomlty!"
" Murder, murder!" roared the poor customer.
Tha aurae, a pact of the wagon, and F. 1130 wood
A - .A.v. on their mud career. The owner of the strange
ont of the More just In time to see Joe
locker stir. a rock to demi:Mall the savage dog, and
not waiting to see JO, let drive, gave him such a
1 , I, on the back that po..r. Joe tell fort , ' feet up tho
.erect, and striking a long ladder upon which Jim
Ederby was perched, taint-pot in hand, some thirty
1 . . .et from terra firma, brought ladder, Jim and paint
pot sprawling to the earth, crippling poor Jim for
and sprinkling blue paint over the broadcloths,
,itinets, and calicoes of Abraham Miller, a formal
And even tempered Quaker, who ran out of the
door just as the two dogs had got fairly at It, hip
rad thigh, nip and Leitch. A glance at things seem
,d to convince Abraham of the true state of the
ent , e•, and in an unusually elevated voice, Ahrahmm
called out to Jo" Tacker, who had righted up:
" Jo , epli Tucker, thy dog's slighting!"
" Let "cm fight it out,' yelled the pugnacious
t MIXT of the strange dog. " Let them fight It out;
I'll bet a log of wood my dog can beat any dog in
town, and I can beat the owner."
We have said Abraham Miller was a quiet man;
Quakers are proverbially so. But the gauntlet
thrown down by the stranger iron the country
.tirred the gall of Abraham, and he rushed into the
store ; and from the back yard, having slipped his
...char, Abraham brought forth a brindle cur, strong,
low, and powerful.
" Friend," said the- excited quaker, "thy dog
shall be well beaten, I promise thee! Hyke, seize
upon him !"
" Turk, here boy :"
And the dogs went at it.
Bob Carter the smith, coming up In time to hear
the stronger's defiance to the town, and bent on a
tight with somebody for the insult and damage to
his wife, clamped the collar of the stranger, and by
% series of tea-pound-ten upon the face, hack, and
:ides of his bully antagonist. with his natural sledge
hammers, Bob stirred up the strength and ire of the
bully stranger to the top of his compass, and they
mad.- the sparks fly dreadfully.
Joe Tucker's dog,reinforeed by Abraham Miner's,
took a fresh start, and between the two the strange
.1.,g was being cruelly pat to his trumps. Deacon
Pugh, one of the most pions and substantial men in
Frogtown, came up, and indeed the whole town was
waerubling and I.Pacon Pugh, armed with a heavy
,calking stick and shocked at the spectacle before
him,ruarched np to the dogs,nclalmlng as he did so:
" Fie, Fie, for shame ! disgraceful I— you mean
eitie,ms of Frogtown, will fon stand by and—"
" Don't thee, don't theeatrike my dog, Deacon
Pugh!" cried Abraham Miller, advancing to the
Deacon, who was about to cut right anti left among
the dogs with his cane.
" Your dogs I" shouted the Deacon, with evident
fervor.
" Not my dogs, Deacon Pugh," Bald the Quaker.
" What did you say so tor, then!" shouted the
Deacon,
" I never said my dogs, Deacon Pugh."
" You did !" responded the Deacon, with excite.
Men t.
" Deacon Pugh, thee speaks groundlessly," said
the Quaker.
"You tell a falsehood, Abraham Miler!"
"Thee utters p mendacious assertion," reiterated
Abraham.
" You—yon—you tell a Ile :" bawled the Deacon.
"Thee has provoken my evil passion, Deacon
Pauli," shouted the stalwart Quaker, "and I will
chemise thee,"
And Into the Deacon's wool went the Quaker.
The Deacon, nothing loth, entered Into the fight,
and we leave than to "nip and tuck" to look to the
etrunger and Bob Carter , who fought and fit, and fit
and !ought, until Squire Catehetn and the constable
came up, anti :n the attempt to preserve the
and arrest the offenders, the Squire was thrust=
the window of a neightteming watchmaker, doing a
heap of damage, while lawyer Hooker, in attemnt
ing to aid the constable, was lilt in a mistakeby the
furious blacksmith in the Fluid ribs, and went reel
ing down Gumbo's cellar with !rightful veleelM.-7
The Wends and fellow-chnrclunen 01 Deacon Pn,,o
took tides against the Quaker antagonist, and then
the chop boyn of Abraham, seelngiheir employet
than beset, came to the rescue, whiletWo Irishmen ;
full of loosed frolic, believing It to be a "free fl,ght,'
tried their hands and sticks upon the combatants in
diccrlmlnately, so Indiscriminately, that In leas than
half an none the happy village of Frogtown was
shaken from Its propriety by ono grand, sublimely
rldlcnlous, and moat tPrritle battle.
Heads and windows were smashed ; children and
women screamed; dogs barked; and 50 fedora,
mad, and excited became the whole community,
that a quiet looker-on, If there had been any, would
have sworn the evil ones were all In Veogtown.
A heavy thunder storm finally put an cud to the
row, the dove were all mare or leas killed , a child
'severely wounded, a man scalded, wagon broke, the
horedmn hi nth of to d,,ith, hie 05,05.5 badly beaded
by,Bob Carter, whom wifu and wive, of many others
wcice danwerously seareht the painter was crippitd,
dry•geodi relnod. a Quaker and Dtmcon, two
llstimen Joo Tucker, town constable, lawyer 'Hook
er, Squire Calehem, and somotllty others, bhIIMCfIII-
ly whipped. Lawsuits ensued, fends followed, and
the entire peace and good repute of Frogtown anal
hllated—all by-a remarkable dog-tight.
Mao hrrnowt's Ties.—la our Bero
w'r, the British held possession of a stronghold
which our forces could not gain unless with
edge of how matters were conducted Imelda.. An
thony Wayne, "Mad Anthony," as he was called,
undertook this delicate and dangerous service. He
spoke Dutch like a native, and getting Into a 'cart,
he loaded it with cabbagra and started for the fort.
Bo complete was his disguise, that no suspicion mat
entertained. He brought just what the garrir.m
needed, he took time to peddle them ail out, and
was suffered to depart. The next day the fort was
taken, when the officer recognized Rape at the
head, and very coolly asked : Bir, bow go you tall
cabbages to day ?"
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