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FEVER,
A cup of water, Nora,
What ? do you call this cool I
It is like they used to give us
In summer days at schoo
Well, well, good soul no matter--
It is all the same to me ;
liaise the window just a little—
I can hardly breathe, you see,
It is the waltz of Weber
That the musicians play,
For fairest feet to dance by
Over the way.
You need not light the candle.
But draw the stand to me, so
That I can easily reach it—
No, the tire is not too low,
Ah ! I cannot eat ! to-morrow
If the doctor thinks it best ;
Must you leave me now I Good night, then—
Oh that my brain could rest !
still the waltz of \Veber
That the musicians play,
For merriest hearts to dance by
Over the way.
How strange are-the shadows, flitting
Around the dusky wall,
But the tire in my heart grows strunger,
And ghostlier than them all.
Is that the town clock striking 1
I think that it is to-night
My fever will reach its crisis—
There are long hours yet till light.
Delicate cooling ices
Are plenty this night in May,
For little red lips to toy with
Over the way.
I wonder if she loves me
In her pride, and I so poor
Yet I pour my life for her—
Was that a step at the doorl
itsis only the night wind rising
With the waning moon. Alt, me!
I wish 1 could see it glimmer
Through the dear old locust tree
Drooped are the shadowy eyelids,
And low are the words they say,
As the whispering waltzers pass them
Over the way.
Mother, at home, come, bless me !
Can you sleep when your boy's in pain
Longs so for the touch of your lingers
To cool his feverish brain
Sing me to rest with the murmur
Of your hymn, with its linly tune ;
In my broken dreams I heard it
Through the long, long afternoon.
Again the waltz of Weber
Sets heart and feet at play,
Whirling and thrilling and throbbing
Over the way.
I cannot bear much longer—
I've great, great work to do ;
Wealth I must win for the dear ones—
Fame ! How I wish I knew !
Perhaps, perhaps she would love ma,
If she could but see the star
That will one day shine above mo !
Ah, me ! 'tis so very far !
The soft, white cheek is flushing—
Is it often so hot in May
Talk they only party gossip
Over the way.
Quiet and gray was the gleaming
That brightened upon the wall t
For the merciful day was breaking,
And the bi rda began to call ;
But a face was changed in the shadows
Of the early, lonesome dawn;
And a pules had ceased its throbbing,
And the fever all was gone.
But hushed was the waits of Weber
And weary, that dawn in May,
The hearts and feet that danced so
Over the way.
grEttrt atstittattg.
A Touching Appeal for the Union by a Great
and Good Friend.
WASHINGTON, Sept, 8
The Russian minister, Mr. Do
Stoeckl, had an audience of the Pres
ident on Saturday, and read to him
the following despatch :
[TRANSLATION,]
ST. PETERSBURG, July 10.
Mr. De Stoeckl, &c., &c.,: "
SIR: From the beginning of the
conflict which divides the United
States of America, you have been de
sired to make known to the Federal
Government the deep interest with
which our august master was observ
ing the development of a crisis which
puts in question the prosperity and
even the existence of the Union.—
The Emperor profoundly regrets to
see that the hope of a peaceful solu
tion is not realized, and that Ameri
can citizens already in arms are ready
to let loose upon the country the most
formidable of the scourges of political
society—a civil war. For the more
than eighty years that it has existed
the American Union owes its inde
pendence, its towering rise and its
progress, to the concord of its mem
bers, consecrated, under the auspices
of its illustrious founder, by institu
tions which have been able to recon
cile the Union with liberty. This
Union has been faithful. It has ex
hibited to the world the spectacle of
a prosperity without example in the
annals of history. It would be deplo
rable that, after so conclusive an ex
cience, the United States should be
ried into a breach of .th 6" *IOW
eparipact which, up to9lLaallif
**de their power. fitro
WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1861.
versity of their constitutions and of
their interests, and perhaps even be
cause of. this diversity, Providence
seems to urge them to draw closer
the traditional cord which is the basis
of the very condition of their political
existence. In any event, the sacri
fice, which they might impose upon
themselves to maintain it are beyond
comparison with those which dissolu
tion would bring after it. Until they
perfect themselves, isolated they are
paralized.
The struggle which unhappily has
just arisen can neither be indefinitely
prolonged, nor lead to the total des
truction of one of the parties. Soon
er or later it will be necessary to
come to some settlement, whatsoever
it maybe, which may cause the diver
gent interests now actually in con
flict to co-exist. The American na
tion would then give a proof of high
political wisdom in seeking in com
mon such settlement beibre a useless
effusion of blood, a barren squander
ing of strength and of public riches,
and acts of violence and reciprocal
reprisals shall have come to deepen
an abyss between the two parties of
the confederation, to end, definitely,
in their mutual exhaustion, and in the
ruin, perhaps irreparable, of their
commercial and political power.
Our august master cannot resign
himself to admit such deplorable an
ticipations.
His Imperial Majesty still places
his confidence iu that practical g,(7)(1
sense of the citizens ofthe Union who
appreciate so judiciously their true in
terests. His Majesty is happy to be
lieve that the members of the Feder
al Government and the influential
men of two parties will seize all oc
casions, and will unite all their efforts
to calm the effervescence of the pas
sions. There are no interests so di
vergent that it may not be pos
sible to reconcile them by labor
ing to that end with zeal and perse
verance, in a spirit of justice and
moderation.
If, within the limits of your friend
ly relations, your language and your
councils mat- contribute to this re
sult, you will respond, sir, to the in
tentions of his Majesty the Emperor,
in devoting to this the personal influ
ence which you may have been able
to acquire during your long residence
at Washington and the consideration
which belongs to your character, as
the representative of a sovereign an
imated by the most friendly senti
ments towards the American Union.
This Union is not simply, in our eyes.
an elegant essential to the universal
political equilibrium ; it constitutes
besides a nation to which our august
master and all Russia have pledged
the most friendly interest; for the
two countries, placed at the extrem
ities of the two worlds, both in the
ascending period of development, ap
pear called to a natural community
of interests and of sympathies, of
which they have already given mu
tual proofs to each other. I do not
wish here to approach any of the
questions which divide the United
States. We are not called upon to
express ourselves in this contest.—
The preceding considerations have
no other object than to attest the
lively solicitude of the Emperor in
the presence ()f the dangers which
menace the American Union, and the
sincere wishes which his Majesty en
tertains for the maintainance of that
great work so laboriously raised, and
which appeared so rich in its future.
It is in this sense, sir, that I desire
you to express yourself as well to
the members of the general Govern
ment as to the influential persons
whom you may meet, giving them
the assurance that in every event the.
American nation may count upon the
most cordial sympathy upon the part
of our august master, during the im
portant crisis which it is passing
through at present.
Receive, sir, the expression of my
very deep consideration. [Signed,]
"GORTSCHAKOFF."
Colonel John A. Washington,
Who was killed at Cheat Mountain,
had five large landed estates in Vir
ginia,—three in Jefferson county
near Charlestown, one in Fauquier
county of one thousand acres, undone
thousand and seventy-five acres left at
Mt. Vernon, after the ladies had se
lected their two hundred. The New
York papers have confounded Colonel
John A. Washington with Colonel
Lewis Washington, of Belleview, near
Harper's Ferry. It was the latter
upon whom John Brown made his at
tack. A Washington friend of the
former, receiving much good treat
ment from Colonel John Al Washing
ton, denies that he was at heart a
secessionist, and desires to say thus
much in justice to his five little chil
dren, now entirely orphans, their
mother having fell dead, about a year
since, in the excitement of welcoming
her husband home, on his arrival at
Faquier from Mount Vernon. The
war sword of General Washington is
in the United States Patent Office,
with his regimentals. His dress
sword is at Fauquier, the property of
John Augustus Washington. An or
dinary sword is with Col. Lewis
Washington, near Harper's Ferry..
Arne American Risress took
through Onetime", lindist, nine
tons 0' army , 49 1 1,184ng lb?
A Story of General McClellan.
The Washington correspondent of James Jackson, of North Alabama,
the Philadelphia Inquirer tells this well known in New Orleans, particu
larly to the turfites thereabouts,
nzitvol
story of General McClellan. It may „red as a private, and joined the
be true: 4th Alabama regiment, which suffer-
"General McClellan is in the habit
of riding around occasionally in citi
zen's dress, accompanied by a few of
his staff. A few days ago he was
walking through one of the encamp
ments, across the Potomac, and pass
ing the rear of the tents he saw a
bucket of coffee standing near a fire.
lie asked what it was, and one of the
soldies said "coffee." "It looks more
like slop," he replied. "Oh," said the
soldier, "it is not fit to drink, but we
have to pat up with it, and our other
food is not a bit better." "Oh, our
Quartermaster is drunk most of the
time, and when he is not lie is study
ing how to cheat." McClellan pass
ed on, and seeing more evidence of
the dirty and slovenly manner in
which the Quartermaster continued
his operations in his tent., he accos
ted him with the remark that the men
were complaining of bad treat-merit
from him. The Quartermaster flew
into a passion, and it was none of his
business, and he had bette rnot come
sneaking around trying to make mis
chief. McClellan answered him, tell
ing him he had better be cautious how
h e talked. Quartermaster replied,
"who are you, that you assume so
much apparent authority?" -I am
Gee. B. McClellan, and you can pack
up your traps and leave!" The Quar
termaster was struck dumb, and Mc-
Clellan turned and left him. That
evening the Quartermaster left to the
a Rogue's March," played by some of
the boys who had got wind of it.
They now have _a Quartermaster who
does not get "dru»k" and that regi
ment would risk their lives at the can
non's mouth for the man who does
care how the men are provided for.
''The story has been circulated
around some of the camps, and the
officers are now always on the look
out for the General, and of course do
not have too much lying around loose. so ""
More Fighting with Lee--Reynolds Holds
his own--Another Skirmish, &c.
A special dispatch to the Cincin
nati "Gazette," dated Carnifex Ferry,
1-ith, states that Gen. Lee resumed
the attack along our whole line at
Cheat Mountain the day before. Af
ter a long contest, Gen. Reynolds
fairly repulsed him, with considera
ble rebel loss, and little or no loss on
our side, owing to the fact that our
troops fought behind entrenchments.
Lee has manifestly a large force, but
is alarmed lest Roseerans should
come up in his rear. We presume
the following from Elkwater are
more detailed accounts of the affairs
in the neighborhood of Cheat Moun
tain : On the P2th a detachment of
three hundred men, from the Four
teenth Indiana and Twenty-fourth
arid Twenty-fifth Ohio Regiments,
dispersed three Tennessee regiments.
under Gen. Anderson, on the west
side of Cheat Mountain, completely
routing them, killing eighty and ob
taining most of their equipments.—
Our loss was eight killed.
The enemy made an advance on
Elkwater the same day, with a force,
it is supposed, of fifteen thousand
men, but were driven back by de
tachments of men from the Fifteenth
Indiana and Third and Sixth Ohio
Regiments, and shells from Loomis'
battery. They have retired some
eight or ten miles. A strong force
of Arkansas, Tennessee and Virgin
ia troops also threatened the east
side of Cheat Mountain, but have
not had a general engagement.—
A shell thrown from one of Loomis'
guns, two miles into the enemy's
camp, killed ten and wounded four.—
The Thirteenth Indiana had a severe
skirmish with superior numbers of
the enemy on the 12th, and killed ten
or twelve, with trifling loss. As the
enemy advaced ou Elkwater,ithe col
umn was handsomly checked by a
detachment of the Indiana Seven
teenth. Lieutenant Morril, of the
Topographical Engineers, was taken
prisoner by the rebels while ou his
way to Cheat Mountain.
Cool Reception of Com. Barron.
His officers; descended to the deck
of the flag ship Minnesota, where
Commodore Stringham was stationed
on the quarter deck to receive him,
Gen. Butler presented Barron to the
gallant old Commodore, saying,
"Commodore Barron! Commodore
Stringham." The later raised him
self up to his full height, looking the
traitor straight in the eye, and
barely inclining his head, replied, "I
have seen Mr. Barron before." Bar
ron, who has always prided himself
on the hauteur monde, fairly winced
under the whole volume of sarcasm
contained in that look and sentence.
When the first salutations were
made between the United States
officers and Commodore Barron, ho
asked "how many were killed on the
fleet?" The answer was "None."—
"How many were wounded ?"
"None," was the - reply.. "Why," he
exclaimed, "you astonish me. I
thought that to capture these forte it
would cost a thousand lives, and it
wgyldbe clasp at that."
114.40 4.POr °l* I — Far ig i r
Russia are &Vont to the men.
Secession Anecdote,
ed so severely on the 21st. On the
first charge of that gallant regiment
Jackson was shot through the lungs
and when the regiment was pressed
back he was left among the killed
and wounded. Shortly after, a
Yankee approached him and said ?"
"Friend, you appear to be badly
wounded; what can I do for you!—
Jackson replied, "Some water, for
Uod's sake." The Yankee in giving
him the water, noticed a fine fob
chain hooked in his vest, and said
"Young man,
_I see you cannot sur
vive, give we your watch and I will
send it to your mother." Jim look
ed at him askant, and said, "Horse,
that game is played out; I know you
will take the watch from me and I
want to make a trade with you. If
you will place me in the shade and
fill my canteen with water I will
give you the watch." The trade
was struck in a minute and after
placing Jim in the shade and filling
his canteen until it gurgled over, Jim
told him to unhook her and draw her
out ; and before he left said to him
that if he evermade a match race and
wished to know the speed of his
horse, to time him with that watch.
fur he had given $285 for it at Liver
pool, and there never was a better
one turned out from the manufactory.
Jim is getting well, having laid un
til Monday about 10 o,clock before
he was found. and declared that his
watch trade was the best trade he
had ever made since he arrived at
man's estate.
ijitaz of ttt Pats.
Battle at Lexington, Mo.--Price's Forces
Repulsed with Great Loss.
JErrEasoN, Mo., September 18.—
Two couriers have just arrived from
Lexington. The following inteli
genee is believed by the commanding
officer here to be in the main reliable:
General Price commenced the attack
on the entrenchments at Lexington,
commanded by Colonel Mulligan, on
Monday. The fight was very severe.
lday long Price assaulted the works
but was repulsed with severe loss.—
The fight was renewed on Tuesday
morning, but feebly sustained.—
When the couriersTleft, Gen. Lane
was at Johnstown, Bates county, with
a force of from two to three thousand
men, marching to the relief of Lex
ington. The rebel loss -on Monday is
reported at four thousand, and that
of the the Federal troops at eight
hundred, which is probably exagger
ated.
JEFFERSON CITY, Sept. 18.—Monday
afternoon Gen. Price sent word to
Col. Mulligan, at Lexington, again
demanding a surrender. Gen Mulli
gan's reply wsa a decided refusal. An
attach was immediately made by first
opening with artillery, and then
made advance under its cannon on
the town.
Price was repulsed with a heavy
loss. General Lane with an estima
ted force of five thousand Kansas
troops is reported to be within forty
miles of Lexington, rapidly advanc
ing to reinforce Col. Mulligan. Our
federal troops are rapidly moving
forward from St. Joseph and other
points to reinforce Col. Mulligan.—
The Bth, 22d, 24th and 25th Indiana
regiments have gone, via steamer, to
Lexington. Also, the forces sent
from St. Louis on the steamers Des
moines and White Cloud. Those re
inforcements number about 6,009 ef
tbetive troops, and will reach Lexing
ton to-morrow morning, the 19th.—
Every confidence is felt here that
Colonel Mulligan will be able to hold
Lexington until reinforcements ar
rive. The Osage bridge, eleven miles
from here, on the Pacific Railroad, is
said to be the first point threatened
by \lcCulloch's forces, now believed
to be advancing rapidly from the
Ssuthwest.
Price at Lexington 7 Movemente of MoCul-
loch.
JEFFERSON CITY, Sept. 18.—The
correspondent of the St. Louis "Dem
ocrat" says: we have no definite
re
ports from Lexington, but it is cer
tain that that place is invested by
Gen. Price with some fifteen thou
sand rebel troops. Good military au
thority here however arc confident
that the United States troops have
been reinforced, and that unless the
place was take yesterday, it is safe.
Price is reported to have a large
park of artillery, part of which are
the guns taken from Gen. Siegel's bat
tery at the battle of Springfield. A
part of Price's force is reported to be
forty miles from this city. His scouts
have been seen fifteen miles from here.
Ben McCulloch, with eighteen thou
sand well armed rebels, is reported to
be advancing rapidly from the South
west, in the direction of either Rolla
or this city. Many think this will be
the point of attack. Another object
of his march is said to be to get be
tween our troops at Rolla and other
points and prevent junctions, while
Price is operating against Lexing
ton and the capital, and if these plans
are successful, then farm a jupction
with Price. •
trim COrropmArmts.
For the Messenger.
Who are Secessionists and
Traitors?
When our national difficulties first as
sumed a warlike attitude, by the outrage
upon Fort Sumter, many of the Republi
can presses and politicians indulged in the
most insolent and insulting language to
ward the Democracy; and they have con
tinued it until the present day. In many
localities, all Democrats are denounced as
secessionists and traitors, and the most inso
lent threats of personal violence are made
against any man who dares reiterate his
attachment to, and confidence in, the long
tried principles and policy of the Nation
al Democracy. It is not enough, that
Democrats should rush by thousands and
hundreds of thousands to the standard of
the Government, in its efforts to put down
rebellion—they must go further, and en
dorse the madness and folly of that sectional
ism, which has brought all this great trouble
upon our once happy country. It is not
enough that Democrats should raise their
voices in the forum, and bear their breasts
upon the battle field in support of the
Constitution and Laws; but they must go
thrther, and cease all opposition to the rot
ten and profligate administration of Gov
ernor Curtin, and all that selfish sectional
ism .that mould let the Union slide rather
than preserve it in the spirit in which our
fathers made it. This, I say, has been
the insolent and arbitrary course of Re
publicanism. Their press and politicians
freely denounce Democrats as secessionists
and traitors, and even threaten to hang,
without judge or jury, the most quiet and
' i , law-abiding citizens, merely on suspicion
of disloyalty, not to the Union and Con
stitution, but to the pernicious dogmas of
the Republican party. Where is the Dem
ocrat who is not for the Union and the
Constitution? These have been our watch
words ever since the rise of sectional abo
litionism in the North. Love to the Union
and Constitution lives in every true Dem
ocratic heart, and each one bears upon his
breast the noble sentiment of our immor
tal chief, who declared "the Union must and
shall be preserved." And yet we are de
nounced as secessionists and traitors, because
we will not fraternize with a party whose
greatest leaders have openly advocated a
dissolution of the Union. I do not 'say
that all Republicans talk and act in this
way. Thank God, I am permitted to
know to the contrary. There are members
' of that party who frankly admit that the
Democracy have always been a National
Union party—they admit, too, that in all
the great political contests of past years,
the Democracy have been most con
stant in warning the country against the
inevitable consequences of Northern section
alism—that, it must beget sectionalism in
the South, and eventuate in bloody civil
Nvar, it' not the ultimate destruction of the
Union. They admit; that during the late
Presidential campaign, even in Greene
county, the Democratic press and speakers
strongly urged the danger of electing a
sectional candidate to the presidency, and
predicted that civil war must be the con
sequence. They admit that when these
warnings were urged upon the people, the
Republican leaders scoffed at, and ridicul
ed them, declaring that we could not kick the
Southern States out of the Union. They admit
that thus far things have transpired just
as they had been predicted by the Democ
racy of the North.
It is but comparatively few of the Re
publicans, however, who will make these
honest admissions, and they are not of the
politicians or office hunters, but of that
honest, patriotic class of the party, who
think more of the peace and prosperity of
the country than of the Chicago platform
or the emoluments of office. The larger
body of that party deny this measure of
justice to the Democracy. They constant
ly hurl the charge of disunionists and traitors
at us because we put forth every effort to
prevent civil war, by means of a fair and
honorable compromise qf all matters in dispute
between the two sections of the country. The
very men who have heretofore denounced
the Constitution as a "Covenant with death
and a league with hell," and boldly advo
cated a dissolution of the Union, are now
stigmatizing n:= traitors and soyssionists
those who have ever been National Union
men. The very men who advised the Mex
icans to "welcome our gallant soldiers with
bloody hands to hospitable graves," are
now occupying high places under the pres
ent administration, and are crying out
traitors or secessionists against all who dare
question the policy or conduct of the war,
or who denounce the stupendous robberies
committed upon the Government and army
by the remorseless vampires that are put
in position to feed upon their vitals.
It is true, that the Democratic party,
during the last session of Congress, labor
ed with heart and soul to effect a peaceful
compromise between the North and the
South. It is true that they offered awl
voted for repeated propositions, submitting
tke queetiosu ix. dispsds test direct vete of the
people; but the Republicans were in the
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majority, and in every instance voted down all
such propositions—they would not trust the
people • with a matter of such vital im
portance to the country. It is true that
the Democracy have always been in favor
of giving to the South, as
. well as to the
North, all the rights which each section
can justly claim under a common Consti
tution, and to neither a whit more. It is
true that while we were in favor of requir
ing the South to live up to the letter and
spirit of the Constitution and Laws, we
were in favor of wiping from the Statute
Books of the Northern States, all Legisla
tive acts in conflict with, or contrav(, ;
ng
the same Constitution and Laws. It is true
that when the Southern rebels attempted
to coerce the Federal Government into
terms and to rob it of its property, every
Democrat in the North, with the lamented
and immortal Douglas in the lead, was
ready to fly to the support of President
Lincoln and his administration, to assist
in putting down the insurrection and in
vindicating the honor and power of the
Government. Democrats did not stop to
ask how this war had been brought about
—whose fault it was, or who had the con
trol of the Government. It was :enough
for them to know that the Constitution and
the Union were in danger—that the Stars
and Stripes bad been assailed, and they
leaped to the defence. Yet in the face of
all these facts—these undeniable, indis
diutable facts—the Democracy are charged
with being secessionists and traitors, and are
impudently asked, in many instances, to
reiterate, by oath or affirmation, their loy
alty to the Union. In our own District
the Democratic press was threatened with
mob violence, because it made the distinc
tion between sustaining the Government
and endorsing Black Republicanism. Even
in our own county such threats were
made.
Now, if any man, whether Democrat or
Republican, be guilty of treason, we say let
him suffer the penalty according to the Lou's
—but let no man, or set of men, presume
to take the law into their own hands, and
to deal out its penalties as they may judge
proper. The Constitution itself plainly de
fines what treason is, while Congress has
declared death to be its penalty. No man
can be legally convicted of treason, except
by ft fair and impartial jury of his coun
trymen. It follows, therefore, that the
man who has been urging mob violence
against Democrats or others, has been set
ting the Constitution and Laws at defi
ance, and is morally guilty of treason to
the Government and Laws. Now this is
all wrong. We are engaged in one of the
most bitter and bloody--as it will prove
one of the most eventful—wars in the his
tory of the world. It is all important that
we should be harmonious and united in the
prosecution of this war. So far as a hearty
and vigorous support of the Government,
in all its Constitutional efforts to put down
the great rebellion -is concerned, we should
know no party distinctions. Democrats and
Republicans must stand side by side and
shoulder to shoulder in support of the
Government—reserving the right at all
'times to criticise fully and freely the offi
cial conduct of all our public servants, both
great and small, This is a right the Con
stitution guarantees to us, and to destroy
or abridge that right is as flitch a viola
tion of the Constitution as secession itself,
and would soon lead to inevitable despo
tism. When that Constitution fails to
protect us in the rights and privileges it
assumes to guarantee, it is no longer worth
our effort to save it. Whenever it is made
the pretest for mob violence and galling
wrongs upon a portion of the people, it is
worse than anarchy. But to maintain and
preserve this Constitut,on—the great char
ter of our liberties—in its letter and spirit,
in its intent and purpose,—should he the
first object of all good citizens ; and to do
this all men, of all parties, must be equal
ly amenable to its provisions—the subjects
of its protection, or the victims of its
In conclusion, therefore, I would advise
all men, whether Republicans or Demo
crats, to stand together as one man in
support of the Union and the Constitution
—uphold the Government and Laws—and
then when you go to the polls, be sure to vote
for that party and that policy which you
religiously believe will the soonest restore
the Union, and bring peace, prosperity and
happiness to the country. JUSTICE.
iiiirThe announcement that the
greater portion of the second Benton
aneies still vacant in the new regular
regiments will be filled by the promo
tion of deserving non-commissioned
officers and soldiers, appears to have
produced a good effect upon the r g
ulars in and around Washnigtoii,
judging by the letters received from
some of them who are working hard.
to entitle themselves to a commis
sion.
SUFFOCATED.-A Toronto lady, on
Sunday night last, in extinguishing a
gas light, turned the stop cock entire
ly round, and was found dead on the
floor of the apartment ne was
delicate health, and in -consequence
was probably very quickly overcome
by the escaped gas.