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No 55, fultou Bt New York, THE TYPE SCTTEIt. Written on ficaring a friend callni "tallcntcd for a mere 'J'ypc Setter." BY J. I.. BATES. "A mere type tetlor!'' still n mnn Tho world, percltanco, may woll leverej Unknown, tin noted, ono who can Have nought to hopo and nought . to fear; Yet, whore's tho kingly sceptcred hand, Tho brow that wears a ptincly gem, That wields so well a wide command Whose "stick' may match a diadem. ' 'A more type settor 1" Let us see : Who gave the glorious stripes to air, That mark the banner of the free, And bound tho stars that glimmer thorot Who turned the bolt of heaven aside, And conquered its ethereal fire! Who bade the lightning harmless glide Along its magic wand of wire f "A mere type setter 1" Search the past, The records of each battlo-field : Who nailed our colors to the most. An died because they wold not yield! Who taught our band to strike the blow, Through toil, and danger, and distress, That sovered England's chain of woe Who, but the masters of the TbessT "A more typo setter!" Name of fear, To bid the slavo to froedom wake That tyranny should quake to hear, And old oppression's empiro shako 1 Is Frasklix a forgotten nnmo, That men no longer may revere! lias Prentice lost his s.ul of flame. Or Grkely dropped his pen, of foar. "A mere type setter!" Ilonored name, That ages yet unborn may bless, When empires crumble, nnd their fame Has sunk in worse than nothingness. Show mo tho thing whose jeers deride Tho ''mere typ'o setters httniblo school, And I'll fhow you an apo of pride, As brainless as the dandy fool! MCT.ULEIS. Hi Statement :itil Acquittal. On Monday, the Mumler mystification closed. Mumler was acquitted, his statement below: We give In iSGl, in the city of Isoston, while en satrt'd iu busiuess cs un entrruver, I was in tho habit of visiting; u youiis man who was employed in u photographic guMcry, kept by a Mrs Stewart, oimY usliington street. Uc casiotinllv, I would eierimeiit with tho in strumt'Ut and chemicuis. Clue timidity, while entirely ulono Iu the gallery, I utlenipted to get a picture of myself, mid then it was that I first discovered, wlulo developing it, that second form appeared upon tho plute. At this time I hud never heard of spirit pictures, al though I hud been snmowhut interested in tho doctrine of spiritualism. At first I labor ed under what is now the general impression, tli 'it the plate upon wliicli tho picture wus Inkeu mule! not huve been clean, and that the form which showed itself beside my own must nave liocu loir, on the irinss, aud 1 so stated to mv employers and others. .Subsequent at tcmiits, however, niado under circumstances which preclude such u possibility, have con firmed me in the belief that the power by which these forms ore produced is beyond human control, uud the experts that have beeu called bv tho people have failed to pro duce a picture muds in that manner. I wish to state tliatut tuo time 1 developed tlie shadow or form aliovo alluded to, 1 was complete novice iu the art of photography, aud had no experience whatever hi tue com position of chemicals used in the business; and that my use of them in mv experiments wus iu conformity with what I hud seen my friend do while In m Belt engaged in business. After getting tho form on tho plate, at the sugarestion of reveral friends to whom showed tho plate, I made other attempts and generally with most remarkable results. then determined to leave my own business aud devote myself to photography, aud par ticularly mv success, became the theme of every tongue, und I was overrun with people of inquiring nnuds, and obli-jod to go over and over again, for their pleasure, the rou tine of taking and developing the pictures. I or a long tun.? 1 never relused any person who came to investigate, it soon became apparent, however, that I must either stop it or cease to support myself; for, as a gener al thing, these savans, while greedy them selves for intellectual food, seemed entirely oblivious to the fact that I myself was a ma terial bady. IXaughter.l However, I can truly say, that I have never refused iuton- tiouullv, any persen. wiio desired to nave t pictute taken, from making every examina tion or inquiry he choose to make; und bad I been alloweu iu this examination to have produced evidence from abroad, could have shown by scientific men, whose names would have satisfied every one, tliut the most care ful and minute exumiuations have often been made into all the details of my business while I huve been eugaged iu taking pictures. I solemnly assert here that I huve uow but comparatively little knowledge of -photo graphy, or cdemicais, or science ot any kind, further tuau is absolutely needed to take or dinary photographic pictures. 1 positivel assert that in the takiug of pictures on whic these forms appear, 1 have never used any trick or device.or avail myselt ot any decep tion or fraud iu producing them; that these forms nave appeared in eacn ana every in stance when they nave been presented with out auy effort, except my will-power to pro duce them. In regard to the testimony of Mr. I: T. Baruuui, I would say that I can solemnly make oath that I never communi cated with nim verbally or lu writing, nor did I ever know that, he had written or was writiug anything in regard to spirit photo graphy; aud I further say, that if he hud any pictures taken by me, be must have received tbetn trom some oiuer person, lu regard to the testimony of Mr. Tooker, I have ouly to say that he came to my gallery apparently in the sumo way that other strangers were wont to come. Ai there was nothing particular to keep him in my remembrance, my memory in regard to him is stronger in its aplication to the form wuicn appeared upon bis picture, wnjeu i meu inougui me moev vujaiuoua had ever taken. I am now satisfied from the manner in which he came there, under nti as sumed name, more vulgarly speaking, with a o in uis mourn, ana wita t ie nurnose. hich subsequent events have shown, that he hat was promised him, l. i , the spirit nearest in sympathy with himself. In regard to my conversation with him, I enn only say that I have never, under any circumstances, guaranteed to any one that a spirit would ap pear. As to my refusal to entertain propo sitions from the self-appointed committee of photographers who nppeured iu my rooms since my arrest, nnd who desire, as I am in formed by Mr. Guny,, to make me take pic tures for them, whether I would or not. I have only to say that since my arrest I have piacen myseii eutiroly in the hands of my counsel, and have been guided by his advice; and 1 am pleased to say that one of the first cantions he gave me was to refrain, during the examination, from being led into any trap of that kind. Having been charged with a crime which, temporiarly at least, places me before the pubho in the same cate gory with gamblers and men of that like, I have been deprived of the privilege of having my utensils Beized nt the time of my arrest. Judge Dowling here interrupted tho pris oner by saying: "was applied to hove your . 1 1 i . II 1 T f 1 . luum nun ujjuruiutt seizeu; out, a reiusea to make uny such order, because I disapproved of the proceedibg under the circumstances. I recollect that when Mr. Gurney's establish ment was seized, tluriug the war, the act wac regarded as an arbitrary one. I disapproved ontitit act, then, nnd I disapproved of any ., , ,. , ,, - similar one, when npphed to your case."- lhe prisoner then proceeded. If I bad been engaged in such nefarious practices as I am charged with, the imple ments themselves would have been strongest evidence against mo. They were not touch ed; they have stood ever since in the posi tion they have always occupied in my gallery; and for the safety of others, who may here after be called to occupy my place in a court of Justice, 1 sincerely hope that such pro ceedings may cease. At the close of the argument, Judge Dow- ing said: "After a careful nnd thorough an alysis of this interesting, and 1 may say, ex traordinary case, I have come to tho conclu sion that the prisoner should be discharged. I will state that however I muy bo morally convinced there may have been trick and de ception practiced by the prisoner, yet as I sit as a magistrate to determine from the ev idence given by the witnesses, according to aw, I ar.i compelled to decide that I would not be justified in sending this complaint to the grand jury, us in my opinion tho prosecu tion nave tailed to make out their complaiut. I therefore dismiss tho complaiut aud order he discharge of the prisoner. The Heroism of Ilmsiblc Life. e huve heard of numerous instances of bruvery and heroism anioug peoplo whose business it was to be bruvo, who were paid for it, and in whom cowardico would have beeu a suicide of reputation and social posi tion; but it does uot often happen thut any body is zealous to make a hero out of a shoe black or custawuy, even wheu ho has mani fested the highest attributes of courage aud devotion. This comes of tho snobbish shoddy educa tion that prevails iu society, lfwewero of a healthy and manly breed we should extol all examples of this kind to the highest point of praise and honor, thauklul that hu manity wus cupable of such excellence iJut wo nro a lame lot, blear-eyed aud diseased with conceit and selfishness frofn top to toe. so that we can see uo good thiug that is uot stumped with the seals of respectability, aud uoru with a silver, spoon in its mouth. Aud yet examples are not wanting in the uneducated, laboring classes, so-called, which, for generous courage, fortitude, and valor, are un honor to human uaturo. There vas thut brave Newport girl, tho best sailor on the coast, as lligginsoii says, who pushed her boat tho other dav iuto a sea that threat ened to overwhelm her, at tho cry and signal oi distress and saved three ot her fellow crea tures from a deuth thut seems inevitable! Was not that a deed worthy of being set lortu in story, llluiniuated iu history among tho worlds heroisms? And there are scores of such contiuuully happening, of which no reccord is made, which are perlormed as du ties, and things natural aud befitting. IJut perhupi the hnest of these modern in stances occurred two weeks ugo on board an V l: .1. . . . , Xiugiisn steamer. A utile ragged Doy, aU niue years, was discovered on the 4th day ot the outward voyage from Liverpool to New York, and carried before the first mate. whoso duty it was to deal with such cases. When questioned as to the object of his be ing stowed away and who brought him on ooaru, me ooy, wno had a beautiiui, sunny luce, and eyes that looked like the very mir rors of truth, replied that his step futhcr did it, because he could not nnord to keep htm, uor pay his passage out to Halifax, where he bad uu auut who was well oil, and to whose house he was going. The mate did not be lieve the story, in spite of the winning face and truthful accents of the boy. He hud seen too much of stow-awavs to be easily de ceived by them, he said; and it was bis firm conviction that the boy bud beeu brought on board and provided with food by the sailors. The little fellow was very roughly handled inconsequence. Day by day he was ques tioned, uu: always with tho same result, lie did not kuow a sailor ou board, aud his fath er alone bad secreted him and gave him the food which he ate. At length the mate wearied by the boy's fiersistence iu the samectory, aud perhaps a ittlo anxious to inculpate the sailors, seized him by the collar aud dragging him to the fore-dock, told him that unless be confessed the truth in less tbau ten minutes from thut timo, bo would hang him from the yard-arm He then made nim sit down under It on the deck. All around hi in were the passengers, and sailors of the mid-day watch, aud in front of him stood the inexorable mate with his cronometer in his bund, and the other o di cers of the ship by his side. It was the finest sight, said our informant, thxt we ever beheld, to see the pale, proud, sorrowful face of that noble boy his head erect, hi beautiful eyes bright through the tears that suffused them. When eight minutes had fled the mate told him be had but tw miuutes more to live, and advised him to speak the truth and save his life; but be replied, with utmost simplicity and sincerity, asking the mate if be might pray.' The mate said nothing, but nodded his bead and turned as pale as a ghost, and trembling like a reed shaken by the wind. Aud there, all eyes turned on him, this brave and noble little fellow, this poor waif whom society owned not, aud whose own step-fath er could not care for him there he knelt with clasped hands and eyes turned toward heaven, while he repented audibly, the Lord's Prayer, aud prayed the dour Lord Jesus to take him to heaven. Our informant adds that there then occur red a scen9 as of Pentecost. Sobs broke from" strong, hard hearts, as the mato sprang forward to the hnv nnd elnsnnd him In his bosom, and kissed him, and told him how bo sincerely believed his story, and how glad ho was tuat ho had been bravo enongh to face death and be willing to sacrifice his life for the truth of his own word. N. Y. Sun Sad Accident, The Russian papers record a tUstressing accident which recently took place near Dor- pat. Wolves had appeared iu unusual num bers. A hunter determined to kill some of them, hoping to frighten away the band. A horse died during tho day. lie purchasea the body and placed in on the edge of the woods, to draw tho wolves. The night was dark. Armed with several rifles, he took his stand uuder the covert soon after night fall, lie had not long been at his post when ho saw something black moving rapidly on the horse's carcass. Sure it was a wolf, he aimed and fired. Instantly he heard a de spairing shriek, evidently from a human be '"Kf " uj,u liiiTc mill boo uicuiccb uui uoiucco. He went up and found a poor woman mor- tally wounded and iu death's ngony. She fi,f l;, di, , fi, mni,ar ru, i,;i,u. ing; which gave him the greatest uneasiness. told him she was the mother of three children dying ol hunger; she bad observed the car cass during the dny but was ashamed to be seen taking a portion of it, so she had waited till nightfall to cut a piece of it for her starv ing children. She bad a kitchen knife, and lying by her was a stew-pan which she had brought to receive tho meat. Her story was investigated and found to' be trne in every particular. Tho investigation led moreover to the discovery of the existence of great dis tress among tho peaseuts of the neighbor hood. Tho neighboring authorities at once took measures for the support of tho three orphans. One of them was given to the hunter, the involuntary cause of their moth ers death. He undertook to bring it up and lauuch it well in life. The village undertook the care of auother. The authorities order ed the head of the village to take charge of the third, "because ho should have ascer tained the distress of the victim and her fam- ilv; and have prevented her, by his charity, Irom being driveu to the cruel extremity which crused her death. Break-Keck Performers. While our law-makers tactily encourage break-neck performers, the ruge tor the ex hibitions given by thote poor fools increases. An exchange says: A wonderful horse, which rides through flumes Trom the stage to the flies, with a young woman on its back, is to be a forth coming attraction at oue nl the .Loudon theatres." Ibis new feature will of course create a sensation in London, and of course be duly exported to America. In the newspaper (the New 1 ork hxi'KESs) in which we hud the above announcement, ihe anuexed is pub lished: circus performer in Illinois broke his back while practicing the other day, and the strange scene ensued ol a clergyman perioral ing the last ollices of religion by the side ol a dying man in tights nud spangles, stretch ed on the saw-dust of the ring." Here wo have another accident to a break neck performer: What they cull a "profes sional velocipedest" in han traucisco adver tised to ride a velocipede over a tight-rope stretched ucross a lake. On the first attempt velocipede and rider rolled off into the water. The man was not drowned, but swain ashore. again mounted the velocipede nnd rope, and accomplished the feat amidst the cheers of the people. While the newspapers daily publish accounts of like accidents, the au thorities by their silence give encouragement to foolish meu aud women, not only to risk their own lives, but to put in peril those of mere children hired for the purpose. Of course, tho rago increases, and will increase until stopped by the law. No fatal accident nor any number of fatal accidents will end it. Almost daily such accidents are reported, and still the authorities are silent, A Very Old Man Died. At his residence iu Sandusky, Cattaragus County, April 5th, Daniel Frederick Beukmnn, aged 109 years and six months. Some particulars of his life may be of interest. He was born in Albany County, N. Y., and served in the Revolutionary war as minute man aud team ster under Cupt. V unarnum. Ho was or Dutch descent and on account (no doubt) of a defect in spelling his name, bo did not obtain a pension, until voted on by Congress a short time since, of $500, yearly, m Boim-annuul installments. - . - . ... . At the age ol about tweuty-two years he was married to a Miss busan lirewer, being two years senior. They lived together eighty-one years. She died September, lbbi, aged IU.) years, eight mouths and eight days. After a residence of a few years in Albauy County, they moved to Herkimer County, near the Mohawk river, where they lived lorty-two years, mence to caiarraugus uouuty, wuere tuey oom aieu. air. ueun- 1 .1 L.L 3-1 l II mau wus very patriotic, was the first man to fire a salute ou the Fourth of July some times starting out at 1 o'clock A. M., and continuing firing t guu (a piece he used in the urmy) until ul.ylight never having tail ed his yearly salute uutil three or four years past. Uis habits were always reguiur. There was nve general lans at uis tunerai. His oldest son died iu Michigan at the age of eighty years the next younger at San dusky, aged seventy-nine yeurs. Suspicions Irishman. A raw Irishman, just over, went iuto a restaurant, and was asked by the waiter what he would nave. 'Why, somethin to ate, av coorse,' was the reply. A plate of hash was placed before him. . 'Fot's that?' demanded he. 'That's wittles,' was the answer. He eyed the compound suspiciously for some time, aud fiuully exclaimed: 'lie labors, the man that chewed that can ijifltateitl' AGItlCUIrUIML. The committee appointed by the Pennsyl vania Agricultural Society to select a placo for holding the next State Fair, have fixed Harrisburg, the committee having adopted the Ohio plan of holding two successive ex hibitions in one locality. The next fair will commence on tho Inst Tuesdny of September next,' and continue four days. They have also adopted the Missouri plan of free entries, and every entry, whether article, animnl, or invention, must be registered nt the odice of tho society. This rule will be general, ex cept in cases of horses entered for speed, where an entry foe will be charged. The railroads offer the usual facilities aud reduc tions. Three dogs went mad at Yardlcyville, Pa.. on Saturday evening, and were killed. Oue of them, belonging to Chnrles Shoemaker, was attacked with convulsion in the bar room, and showed evident nymptoms of hy drophobia. He was seized by the neck by Lewis Shoemaker, and dragged out before any one was injured, and then shot. An other dog at Shoemaker's, 'one nt Devlin's, and one at Capt. Lovett's, were killed, having given indications of the disease. It is said that all these dogs were bitten by the one shot by Isanc II. Hillborn a short timo ago. Bucks County Intelligencer. The pea-nut is cultivated in the counties of Sussex, Islo of Wight, Surry, Southamp ton, and Prince Georgia, which, although very poor, and paying a better revenue to fanners than any counties in the State. The probale number of bushels raised last year n i n .w. ' i .1 a wus huiiib o-iu.iwu, yieiuing an income 01 nearly $1,000,000. The Virginia pea-nut is bought in N orthern markets in preference to any other, nnd tho commaud continues much greater than the supply. The planting commences nbout the 1st of May. Virginia paper. Tho Cedar Rapids Times claims the cham pionship for a young girl, "sweet sixteen," of Linn county, Iowa, as follows: for six weeks loflt wiuter, she attended forty-eight head of sheep, eight head of horses, fifteen bend of cattle, and two calves, besides milk ing three cows, driving the cows one quarter ot a mile every day to water, cleaning the horse stable, doing the house work, nnd tuk ing care of her sick parents. The Dixie Farmer says that wheat clubs have been organized in different parts of the South. Each member pays so much into the treasury, nnd all the money thus paid in is to be given to the mau who harvests the best acre of wheat this year. The members all pledge themselves to complete fori he pre mium. AVe nre glad to see our Southern friends holding out all the inducements thev possibly can for improvement in the agricul ture of their section. The wheat clubs will doubtless do a good work. Tho Grass Vulley (Cnl.) National insists that fruit raising is profitable, and In proof of tho assertion remarks, "there is an exten sive borne demand for fruits of all kinds: many engaged in the business have already become wealthy, as Lusk, of Alameda couuty, and Briggs, of Marysville, and others are ropidly growing rich. Thousands of men in the vicinity of Oakland, Fruit Vale. Sati Lorenzo, San Jose, and other good localities aro amassing fortunes solely from the raising and selling ot lruit. The sending of seeds, scions. &o.. bv mail. has become very common. Such nritcles can be sent safely for a long distance, properly packed. Ihe contents of each package should be plainly marked on tho wrapper to entitle it to seed postage rates, which is two cents for each four ounces and fraction of an ounce. Four pounds is the limit of weight iu ono package. The Utica IIerai.p snvs: "Averntriiifr the results of Beveral careful experiments in ceding corn to hogs, shows that two bushels of corn in the ear, or ono bushel of shelled corn, mado nine and seven-twentieths pounds of pork, while the same amount grouud into meal and mixed with water made cleveu aud one-eight pounds of pork." The Power of a Word. A mother on the creen hills of Vermont. was holding by the right hand a son sixteen years old, mad with the lovo of the sea. As she stood by the garden gate one morning 6bo said: "Kdward, they tell me. for I never saw the ocean, thut the great temptution of a seaman's life is driuk. Promise mo, before you quit your mother's huud, thut you will uever urniK. "And," said he (for he told mo the story. "I gave her the promise, and went the globe over, Calcutta, and Mediterranean, Sail Francisco, the Cape of Good Hope, the North and South Poles. I saw them all in forty years, and I never saw u glass filled with sparkling liquor, that my mother's form by the gate did uot rise np before me, uud to-day 1 urn innocent of the taste of liquor." Was uot that Bweat evidence of the pow er of a single word? Yet that was not half. 'b or," said he, "yesterday there came iuto my counting room, a man of forty years.. aud asked me: 'Do you know me?" 'No' 'Well," said he, "I was once brought into you prese.uce, on ship-board, druuk: you were a passenger; the captain kicked mo aside, you took me to vour berth, and tent me there till 1 slept off my iutoxication; you then asked me if 1 had a mother 1 said r nad never kuoWu a word from her lins. Yon l.l.ii - " ' " I told me ot your promise at. the garden gate and to day I am master of oue of the finest packets iu New Yotk; and I came to ask you How far that little candle th rows ita beams. That mother's word ou the preen hill of Vermont! O, God be thanked for mighty power of a siugle wordl A youngish man, who had seen better days, asked a gentleman for a "trifle," which would be most "welcome to assist him on his return to his native place. He was told that the Stranger's Frieud Society would help him to a passage to Ireland. "Och, Bir," he exclaimed, "I'm not an Irishman at all, at all! It's quite a mistake your honor's making." The gentleman persisted in his persuasion that he was an Irishman, and ap pealed to his brogue. "Ha!" the man.rn. joiued, "I was in a larcre mercantile enn. sarn iu London for manv "vears. wln.ru ti,o did a dale of business with Irelan; and as I was corresponds dark. I brogue that way .J' .
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