‘The Tioga County Agitator.!,
sy ts. a. uobb s I-
p,ihlishe«lerwy Wednesday mnrainjgand inaUedto
t abjritw"i*i «WJ« U«)i;L\U ASO totfTYCKNTS
per vetr. always ADVASOK, |! -
flit* postage f«ccaubai'-übere,
(bough they auv receive their mail at p.jsi-i'.ffiueg lu
lled in counties « uune.llately adj.lining, tor runven
u.eDce.
i’ljE Agitator it the Official paper uf Taoga Co.,
cartes to every neighborhood therein. f3ub-
being uu the advance-pay >yet«&h; it«cm u-
Lite* uuoag a class t.i the interest of advertisers
to reach. fcKas r., tdvertlser-s a* liberal &* of
fered by auy pdpei H eirc.ilai.uu -Northern
peon.- ♦ iraina " ' ’ •
A *h- it»e a pape£, denotes
that ■ •- i- **.iiout to expire
i P*p*te will 00 Hpppci tfhdD the iabcsrOptloli
rse ■- cpires, iioles? tbu .nent ..rderr rtiei* uontinu
'.r..*c ,
l.i!s LOifftEl' Hl S f\ WIILS&N,
* TCORN‘tt's i- OOiJNSEL.LORS ~r LAW,
XJ- «r»U -luehi tfts Courts .if Ti-Sn Potter aca
[dVli.b. r.j, Jan' l.Tilbu.j
iuKean r:uatiei
DICEIHSOK HwC&E,
ccui> in e , n y /
ilij. ! A. FIELD X, ..a. Proprietor.
GUESTS cak-ju to anj from thfi Depot free
of "barge, ' [l*o,l 1863 ]
PenHSI'LfANIA HOUSE; ■
Cch'-iER OF W.ON iXKEir I 4.JD IHE A VE.'.lit
iSuiUii&ro. £*«,
•J. W. BIUONY
THIS popular fL ■ t oi.- havir ( y tryg’rl" rtT-fitt ! r J
ani fo-furnUhed tfaroaznout/i! now open to the
public &< A firat-clas; house. [Jan. I, 1383.]
D. HART’S HOTEL-
WELLSBORO. TIOG ‘ CQ. 'FEN'KA.
THE subscriber takes this method to inform
his old friends—and customers tfa*U he has re
sumed th*e conducted .the old *• Crystal: Fountain
Hotel,” and vrtll hereafter giro it his entire intention.
Thankful for pust fsvcre. be solicits a renewal of the
same. DAVID' HART,
Wellsboro, Nor. 4, 1663 -ly. [
iZAAK WALTOH HOISE,
Osinas, Tioga County, Pa.
H, C. VERMILYE®, Proprietor.
fpHIS is a new hotel located within easy- ac :
JL cess ot the heat fishing and hunting grounds in
Sorthern Pennsylvania. No pains ‘Trill bo spared for
i&o accommodation of pleasure seekers and the trav.
# iUng public. [Jan.l, JB63,]'
A. FOLEY, ■
watcnea, Clocks, Jewelrv, &c„, &c.,
KEPAIRED AT OLTJ BRICES.
POST OFFICE BUILDING,
NO. 5, MX lON BLOJK.^
Well?bcro, May 20, 1863. ’ : I _-
WESTERN EXCHANGE HOTEL,
KNOXVILLE, BOROUGH, PA]
THE undersigned having .leased the fcboveHotcl
for a term of years would respectfully inform
;be traveling public thftt he has put the HoUj in first
cUsa order tor tbe reception of guests and no pawrs
will be spared in tbe accommodation of tipplers, and
as far as the situation will allow, be‘will keep a first
class Hotcl„in all things, except piiees, tfhich will
be modeinte. Please try its and judge for.yourselves.
Knoxville, Oct. 19, 1564-tf. J. H. MARTIN.
DRUGS Ac n£DlCllt£«. -
.VO. 3, UNION BLOCK, WELLSBOIIO, PA
P, R. WILLIAMS,
BEGS leave to anhout.ee to me eUizeasrof Wells
boro and vicinity, that be keeps constantly tin
hand all kinds of . -
DRUGS AND MEDICINES,!
Uc-nioals. Varnish, Points, Soaps, I’ertumei'y, Glass,
Brashes. Putty. Fancy .Goods, Pure Wines, brandies,
u;ns, and all vlher kinks of Liquens ,of the beet
quality. Ail kinds ot
PATENT MEDICINES.'
'such as Jayne's Expectorant, Alterative and Pills:
Ayer's Sarsaparilla, Pills and Cherry Pectoral; Helm
bul'i's Extract Bacbar Sarsaparilla and Hush Wash ;
iiri. Winslow's Sorbing Syrup Wright’s Pills;
Ci.ra's and Cheese'man’s Pills: Halts Balsam: Bin
der's London iiock Gin Hemok'i Priis ’Pnd Plas
ters : Brown's Bronchial Troches, Ac ,•&□-
May 2a. 1301-ly P. K. WILEIA MS.
REFCNEE «TAIHP^
JUHN M. PHELPss Deputy Mans
field has just received a large lot vt 'Revenue
turns, of all denominations, from one cent'- up to $5.
Any person wishing Slanps can get ijjtfni Si my office
in Mansfield, or of jo. BULLARD. Assistai I Assessor,
£t WelUbcrO; Pa. M. P TELP3.
Mansfield, May 2, l?&4. i ’ /
P. NEWELL, PESTiST,
TIOGA CoUIi'TZ P^,
T 5 prepared to operate in nil (be 1 improvements in
fi the various departments ol filling, exct-Kting, in*
serling artificial dentures, £c. f
Mansfield. August 10,-1564-ly. l;
KOESE. r
fTIHIS House which Las been open far convenience
i of the traveling public for a roimbef'ol years,
has lately been newly furnished throughoufand fitted
ap ;a as gvod style (is can bo found in any.country or
Miv Hotel. The Proprietor does not hesitate in say
ing that there will he no pains spared to add to the
comfort of his guests. end moke it a home for them
The ben of stablihg lor teems; and'a good bostkr
tl”H7s it attendance, all of which can.be found
cce or.ie eanoY'KnoxviUe. Pu. -
M.'V. PURPLE,
Deerfield May 25. t564.-ly.
WELLSBORO HOTEL
v Ocrr.er drain .'iirett mtd the d.ent*« )
- WellsbußO. Pa. 1 . .1'
E. B. HOLIDAY, Prcpiietor: ' ,
One (.1 ihe most popular Houses up-‘tbo county.
Ibis H i- 1 ie the principal Stage-house in Well-boro.
'Lge: leave Uaily as follow?’ • -
fur T-oga, hi Va. m : For Troy, at S a in/; For
hrsey Sb.re etery Tuesday «ud Frida> at 2 p. m :
fJr C.*uiersport every Tuctdiiy and Friday -at 2 p. in
Arrive—From Ttcga, Rt 12 1-2 o’clock
F fi* w n> Tu.y,at 6 o'clock p.Un.. Fyom. Jersey
Tucs:i;y «cd Friday 11 a. m,; From'Cnuders-
uud Fr;d.*\ II a in. f
li. B Cowden, the well-known hcstler,
vill u fviu.i on hand. * * .
WcU;h.r„ Oct. IS64-ly.« ■.
rH YOUNG, -
iEK''- .V STATIO.WK,
HIO
BOOE^ELIi
deaur IST ; j
can Vi•?Jk|J American, English, and Swiss
J .vjfry, Silver-Plated War©. -Spectacles,
?‘-turc Frame?. Photographic Albums, Stereoscopes,
jb:rosenp P? Perfumery,* Yankee Pishing
anr! Flies, and Fancy and Toilet Article'.
,S9* SZWjOL BOOKS of every Wud iscd in the
(County, cons: irmy .on hand and sent by utfiil or otb
crw i?e. to i r«Ui *
•‘O. 5. ('StOS BLOCK, WELLSBORO, PA
11EV EtffJJE ST A»I PS|- .
\ l.‘.U-r£ -.SSORTMESI of Reve&!ft Clamps
all deii'-minalions, just received £,;ihe First
•'aimnai H:*nk ol WcUsAnro, in the Sto*/, building
of V. i J. 1, U.,hlnson. Persons wanting arc
rc '4uest to cjiil and get a supply. . r ]s -
M^ 7 25, 1864-lf, * /;/
AVfl/roii'S KOT/C'K—' The hav-_
lr,t - beets appointed an Auditor to die'Vri|>oto the
m haiids ’>t Administrator of de
will attend to tbe duties of gai • ap Ointment
p Q * RIX>AY, the 9tn! day of Beccmbcr, V&-\4t- at the
°QiniiB3ioD t . rs * Office, in Wcllsboio, at* 2. o’cf /ck P. M.
Aor. ie. JSS4. THOS. ALLEN,/jaditor.
O IT T lON.—W herons. my wife sasoea'. bos left
\J my bed and board without nny just cause »>r
f r uvocati**n : I hereby forbid - all persons harboring or
Jesting her on my account, as I shall pay no debts of
er contracting after this dale. bis -
MARTIN X STEVENS. .
tne«B preiont. D. G. Stevens. - mark*
aiddlebury. Nor. 9,1864. . -' ** -
THE AGITATOR.
V"l. XI. WELLSBOKO/TIOBA.COUNTY.. lA.. WEMESBAT MORNIIifi, JANUARY 4, 1565.
CLOTHING * CLOTHING!
(One door below Harden’ s Sfcie.)
\\T L have just arrived in Wellgboru with
» Stock or CLOTHING and
Gentlemen's fiunlsnlng Goods,
Alio, HATS A CAPS, and a great assortment of
* LADIES’ CLOAKS,
....Proprietor
‘WTifclTwe" offer Wellsboro and sur
rounding country at
30 PER CENT. CHEAPER,
than Koy other establishment in this part of the
country*. Our object-la to deduce our
, .WINTER & FALL STOCK OF GOODS. '
PRICES:
OVER (fOATS from S 4 to S4O.
BUSINESS COATS from ?3 to £25.
PANTS from $2 to $lO.
VESTS from to-$8- -
W© boughf our goods when Gold was only 1.60
and w© ban afford to soil m;r goods cheap." .
- AlLour- Goods are manufacturedmnder- our-own-eu
pervision and can not be surpassed in quality and.
durability.
We respectfully invite every one whoso interest is
to be economical;, to examine our
before purchasing elsewhere,
KAST A AUERBACH,
of Syracuse, N. Y., and Blossburg, Fa.
Wellsboro, I»ec. 14, 1864—tf.
E. A H. T. ANTHONY A CO.,
Manufacturers of Photographic Materials,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. -
501 BROADWAY, N. Y.
In addition to onr main business of Photographic
Materials, we are Headquarters for the following, viz :
Stereoscopes & Stereoscopic Views, :
Of these we have an immense assortment, including
War Scenes,’ American and Foreign Cities and Land
scapes,’Groups, Statuary. £c., Ac. Also, Revolving
Stereoscopes, for public or private exhibition. Our
Catalogue will be sent to any address on receipt of
Stamp.
PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUMS.
We were tbefirst-to introduce these into the United
States, and we manufacture immense quantities in
great variety, ranging in price from 6U,cents to S5O
each. Our ALBUH<I have the reputation of being
superior in beauty and durability to any others. Th€y
will he sent by mail, rnc£, on receipt of Iprice. .
gS&T Fine Albums made to order.L^S?
P HO.TOGRAPHS. ‘
Our Catalogue now embraces over Five Thousand
differ out subjects (to wblcb additions are continually
being made) of Portraits ei Eminent Americans, Ac.',
vizr about
ICO Major-Generals, ’ 650 Statesmen,
200 Brig,-6eDcrnU,. 130 Divines,
27b Colonel?, 125 Authors,
VUO Lieut.-Colonels, .. 40 Artists, *
250 Other Officers, 126 Stage,
75 Navy Officers. 50 Prominent Women,
150 Prominent Foreign Portraits.
3,000 COPIES OF WORKS OF ART, .
including reproductions of the most celebrated En
gravings. Paintings, Statues. Ac. Catalogues sent .on
receipt of Stamp- An order .for On© Dozen PIC-
T.URES from oar Catalogue will be filled on the re
ceipt of sl.So,.snd sent by*mail, free.
Photographers and ethers ordering goods C. O. D.
will please remit twenty-five per cent, of the amount
with their order.
E. & H. T. ANTHONY <S: CO.,
Manufacturers of Photographic: Materials,
501 Broadway, NewJYork.
jSssit" The prices and quality of our goods cannot
fpil ("’satisfy/ {Nov. 16, 1564-1y.3 /
WELLSBORO ACADEMY.—The second Term
cf the present school year will begin
illonday, Dec. 12, 1564,
Pupils arc prepared for College, or for business
pursuits.
j TUITION (fora term of 12 weeks;.
Primary-Course §3 60. •
Common English Blanches • . 4 00.
Higher English Branches../.j o 00.
Languages tt 00-.
Pupils designing to'attend hat half the' tenia, will,
be* charged accordingly. ;
r Sc deducts nis made for absences,.unless in cases
of protracted sickne*:. ' J. B. GRIER,
WclUbnio, Dec'. 7,1864-3 t. Principal.
MILLIiVEBY I would Inf mu my friend* in
and around Tioga boro* that I have opened a
shop in the dwelling formerly occupied by Miss'Ra
cht-I Prutercao. Iwill have new FALL
millinery good: constantly on band.
BRAIDING <fe EMBROIDERY,
3LA,C H I N E jS.OU,N Q.
of all descriptions, dene on a first-class Grover A Ea-*
ker uaebino. Materials made up .in the. neatest’
manner. MRS. J. P,
Tioga, Oct. 26, 1364-3t*
FARM FOR BALE.—Tbe,undersign«d wishes to
dispose of his Farm in Covington township, ly
ing bn Elk Run. about three miles' from Covington
Boro, and generally known as tbo “ Wetberbee
Farm." It contains about, 9i acres, with about 60
acres improved.
Tbe soil is of tbo-vury best quality of upland and
tbo cleared Pinion'is entirely free from stumps. It
is well watered and has good buildings. Those who
want lo buy a good Farm may find it to their advan
tage to pay this one a visit bet ore they u settle down.”
Good warrantee deed given. For terms apply to H.
H. Potter, Middlebury Center, Pa , or to Levi Rock
well, Cherry FUlis, Pa. J. *B. POTTER.
Wushingtan.'Xl.XL, Nnv- £O, 1664. , „ .
M 1 L I JJi E K Y .
BR A I DI NG & EMBROIDERY,
MACHINE SEWING.
DRESS & CLOAK-MAKING.
I would inform my friends in and around Tioga
borough, that I have opened a shop in tbe dwelling
formerly occupied by Alisa Rachel Pmuman. I will
have new FALL 4 WINTER STYLES of Millinery
Goods constantly on hand.
Th.gH. Nov. 23, '64-3t» MRS. J. P. TJRELL,
CAUTION. —Wberca«, *ay wife, CAROLINE, has
left my , bed and board without just cause or
provocation ; I hereby forbid all persons harboring or
’lusting her on toy account, for I shall pay 'no debts
of her contracting after ibis .date.
; 7 CHARLES I. BOEHM.
Blossburg. Nov. 23, 1864-3 t:
at
i\ . • ' ROY'S DRUGf STORE.
Settorro to t&e mvtmuiQn of tUr ntt* oriFm&om swtr tftr of mtaltfys Meform.
WHILE THERE SHALL BE A WHONU UNRISHTED; AND UNTIL “MAN'S .INHUMANITY TO MAN” SHALL CEASE, AGITATION MUST CONTINUE
STOCK AND PRICES
ASiWAI. AHDKEBS
OS’ THH OABRIBB OF TK3
AGITATOR.
TIOGA
JANUARY-1. 1865.
0 Time, God’» Warder, open wide
The gates which pivot on To-Day :
Which, closed, ihe Past aad Future oide
From ns who in To-Day abide;
For come ere morning-tide.
And one shall pass away. .
Yet not’.as men the years of Time
Go benoo, ro ripen in tb©tomb; ......
_ _ jtijne r s,years jevanish in their prime,
' Whilb heayts are glad/ and’joy-bells chime,
Then reappear, all purged of crime.
Ip youth's perennial bloom.
the record, seal its pages, .
Eighteen Hundred Sixty-four
Rests from labor with the agea
Which have gone before.
Close the record : but its teaching
In our hearts is deep engraved :
Seer-like speaks, tbc’years forereaching.
Of a nation saved.
Low down on the Southern horizon
The battle’s red lightnings play;
Low down on the Southern horizon
Settles war's pall of gray ;
From the banks of the Father of VTators
To the stormy Atlantic coast-.
On tireless pinions, Humor -
Follows on-rumor, post.- -
And many a Southern river'
With the wine of war is red;
And many a sunny meadow
Is cumbered with the dead.*
And famine, and desolation,
Stalk over the Southern land;
Smiting the hosts of treason
With pitiless knife and brandl
0 gioribus age of heroes ! eclipsing the fabled days,
When the mighty deeds of a Cyrus, or Philip of
Macedon,
Of victors and vanished peoples, were the theme of
song and praise,
When wept great Alexander that jio more worlds
were to be won.
These were the slaves of Ambition, power for the
•sake of power
Was tbe stake for which they struggled, and broke
the peace of tbe world:
Then tyrant wrestled with tyrant, and bondage ww
thfe dower j
Of tbe victor host, whichever in the dust of defeat
,was buried.
They fought the fight 6f ambition: we fight the fight
‘of tbe world;
Their banners ,wer© borne for empire; ours for the
Right are unfurled.
They fooght for tbe glory of passing tbe vanquished
under tbe yoke ; .:
We drew not the sword till treason the peace of the
nation broke.
Ouriathers towed in the seedtime, and watered with
blood and tears __
And prayed . that, their children might-harvest in
peace for unnumbered years.
They gave us''the hire of their labor; a nation-re
deemed arid free,
We swore to preserve it forever as the freehold ofi
Liberty. ' 1
We hold it in trust for the nations this land by
martyrs bequeathed, *
And till every traitor is vanquished the sword shall
* never be sheathed.
Wo wage the war ibe patriots waged.
So well, in other years:
Like them, we water, as we sow.
With precious blood and tears :
-Like them we seek to make this land -
A glorious beacon star,
To peoples chafed with* heavy yokes
In other climes afar.' <
For this, a million stalwart men
Around our standard swarm ; 1
For this thoy leave their quiet homes
And, brave tho wintry storm;
1 For this they dare the hurtling deaths
And stem the battle-tide;
For this two hundred thousand men
Have nobly fought and died :
For this the patriot freely gives
His treasure and his life—
T%at lasting jssaa. not truce xrith
May crown Ih ’« kov.r of strife.
Tho end draweth nigh ; for treason's dark crest, -
Erst borne by. the traitors so and defiant,
La buttered and bowed by the So:? of,thc W'est, ,
Who smites, right and left, with the strength of
a giant
Its banners are trailed in the dust of defeat
From the plains of the West to the fleet-bearing
ocean; , y
And the loyal and true, on highway and street, •
Greet the loyal and traCwitb grateful enjotion;
When Sherman clove through, with his host,.to tbs
sea— * ' '
And smote traitor-land with warVdesolation,
He gave us a pledge of the peace that shall bo
When the land has fulfilled, its dark hour of pro'
bation -
And the pain of suspense when the tidings went
forth 1 ~
Of bis legions encamped at the gates ol Savannah,
Turned to joy-nnd welled up from the heart of the
’ Horth, 1
And rang through the laud in a mighty hosanna !
Then came the glad news from the far Tennessee; —
hood’s legions, by Thomas, were routed, and fly
ing,— .
And joy was a ghest of the loyal and free 1
That the tiydia ol Treason was stricken and dying.
With God in our favor and Geaht lor our chieff
And houe&t,“ Old Abu M at the helm of tho nation,
Hope picreds the storms of this winter of Grief
And heralds the spring of our country's salvation. .
K&iflceUang.
APSTOAMAW ROBBSBS.
Americana are familiar with the history of
the settlement of, Califurniu. when ruffianism
andi violence made the Pacific coast dreaded by
all the peaceful people till the Vigilance Com- i
midtee rose up like' a giant of law. Austra
lia resembles.at the present time, the Califor
nians of twelve years ago. , Since the recent
discoveries of the rich Lambing Flat diggings, |
highway, robberies have been an incident on '
the great Southern road: Numbers have gone •
from the Victoria side, and amongst these, i
crowds of old convicts who had originally been |
expatriated to Vari’Dieinan’s Land, and who ;
since the term of : their original’ sen- !
tence had expired, had been prosecuting their';
callings, in the various branches of robbery, >
on the Melbourne gold-fields. These men al
ways herded together; they had their peculiar ‘
code of signals and a dialect by which they i
could at once recognize one of the initiated,
and they actually took possession of many of ,
the back gullies, one of which, in particular, ’
was called Blackguard Gully. They were os-'
tensibly engaged in digging, but in reality they ‘
had lived by plunder; and in a very short,
time grog'shops, sparring and ten-pin alleys I
were established by them in all directions.—
At last, in February, 1861, tb first disturbance 1
with the Chinese took place ; and the honest j
diggers thought that when they had driven off ;
the Chinamen, they might as well make a clean
job of it, and drive off the thieves as well.—
The very morning they started on the expedi
tion, two of the Irish diggers were fonnd lying
| P.oot the entrance to Blackguard Gully with
> their skulls fearfully mangled from repeated
1 blows of bludgeons; they, however, still
j breathed, and ultimately recovered. Of course,
this caused still greater indignation amongst the
diggers, and they rushed at once to a tbieve’s
lodging-tent about half a mile, up the gully,
and in .this they found two men whose clothes
were covered with fresh stains of blood. The
diggers at'onoe took charge of every one they
found in the tent; they set it on fire, and stood
by until everything in it was totally consumed.
They they then went on to next shanty,
as these haunts were called, and did the same
to it, amf so on right round the diggings, ap
prehending the most notorious of the fiasb
■ characters, warning off all the others, and
burning, down all their tents. The .prisoners
whom they had taken were delivered over to
the police, and were sentenced on the following
day by the bench of magistrates to various,
terms of imprisonmept, as rogurs and vaga
bonds. These measures frightened the thieves
away from-the-.main diggings, and they spread
out over the branch creeks and gullies; from
that period commenced the regular highway,
robberies.
The first hetorious band consisted of five
m£n, well mounted and armed ; these flourish
ed for about three months, and defied all the
efforts of the troopers to/ capture.them. After
that space of time, they found the country
round the diggings was getting too hot for
them, so they shifted the scene of their opera
tions to the Lachlan river, where the gold-field
has since been discovered, thoogh at the time
no such thing bad been thought of there.—
They opened the._campaign.in their new dis
trict by riding Tip to The. inn at Jeamlong, ta
king possession of it,-and securing all the
arms, money, and jewelf jr, which they could
find in the house. They then sat down to din
ner, drank what liquors they chose, and went,
out to smoke under the veranda. . While they
were thus employed, a stockman came up dri
ving a mob of horses, and as he passed the
front, of.the inn. one of the robbers leveled
his piece, and called out to him to “ bail up."
Instead of obeying thia order by reining in
bis horse, the stockman dug;the spurs in row
el-deep, and galloped on ; the robber fired,
both barrels of bis gun after hiln, and slightly
wounded him in the shoulder; but still he
kept his seat, and was out of range in a--tpo
ment. This man’s escape rather startled the j
gang,, and. they, immediately mounted their j
'horses and-rode kway. In the meantime the
stockman pushed on for the nearest- station,
which he reached after a ride of twenty-sis
miles. There was a general muster for brand
ing, etc., there, at which all the neighboring
bushmen were assembled, and the next morn
ing at sunrise fourteen meh,mounted and armed,
started -in pursuit of the gang. These stock
men knew every inch of the country for some
hundreds of miles around, and they very soon
struct the track of the robber’s horses; This
they, followed for several miles, and then they
found, by the hoof marks, that the robbers
had caught and mounted fresh horses that very
morning..- This circumstance, however, did
not discourage the pursuers, for they had got
on the track,'and they knew they could run it
to the end, even for n thousand miles, provided
it kept clear of .populous towns. They camped
just before at dayj light started on.
They soon saw the robbers did not know, the
“ lay” of the country ; and so, while one stuck
to the track, the others opened out so as to bo
just in sight of each other. In this manner
they rode on till about two o’clock, when one
of them, who was a few hundred.yards in ad
vance, suddenly pulled up, and waved his hat
to the-others. These closed up at once, and
peeping cautiously over a hill-top,-they saw
the five men they wanted, baited in a group
about half a mile away on the plain. The
pursuers stopped also for a few minutes to
breathe their horses, and then patting in the
persuaders (spurs), they, ga.loped full speed
right at the gang. The latter named gentry
hesitated for an inetantwhether to fight or flee ;
but the stock-lads came on like lightning, so,
that the robbers turned tail, and fled
in different directions. Unfortunately for some
of them, horsemanship was not one of their
aoctfmpliahroents; so before the chase had last
ed for more than a couple of miles,,two of the
gang were thrown from their horses, and were
immediately secured. The other three escaped
for that time; but the two who were captured
were tried, convicted, and sentenced to ten
years’ hard labor on the roads.
The next man- who distinguished himself in
the line was’” Jack-in-the-ljoots.” He had
been sent too Cockatoo Island (the penal es
tablishment of New South ,Wales), under-a
sentence of ten years; and on the occasion of
a disturbance there thirty of the ringleaders
were sent fn irons to Darlinghurst jail. Jack
was one of these ; and on a certain day, whilst
in the exercising—yard, and under the very
eyes of two warders, the prisoners contrived to
get out two or threo'stones from the wall, and
were coolly walking out. The governor of
the jail happened to be passing by, andj he
was thunderstruck at beholding the menj in
gray suits and iroari* at large. Of course the
alarm was given at once. Seventeen prisoners
bad escaped ■ bu( they were all re taken al
most immediately, with the exception of “ Jack
in-the-boots. It chanced that a genfleman,
who was visiting at a house in the vicinity of
the jail had left his horse fastened to a gate
post, so Jack jumped on it, and disappeared.
In a few days after this, two Jews who were
hawking’ jewelry about on Tumut (about 300
miles from Sidney) were stopped and ribbed.
Then every day came fresh robberies; the
mail was stopped, and several stores and pub
lic houses plundered by the same man, who-,
from a peculiarly rough voice, was identified
as Jack, nothing was talked in the Southern
district but Jack-in-the-hoots and his exploits.
At last, however, his race was run ; a large re
.ward had been offered for hie apprehension,
and he was taken by" some bullock-drivers
whom he llad : plundered. He was tried at
Gundagi, in the’ latter pact of’last year, eon-
victed and sent down to his old quarters for
eight years longer.
After him, “ Dido” and his party plundered
every one who straggled away from the main
diggings, so that it was dangerous even to go
and look for a horse, unless there were three
or four in company, and with arms in their
hands. This, however, continued for only a
few weeks, for there was a great land sala to
be at Burrowa (about seventy miles off), and
the gang started off in that direction, in the
expectation of getting some large sums of
money from those who were intending to pur
chase land there. However, they were too
late, and their intended prey escaped them ;
so, by way of consolation for this disappoint
ment, they stopped and plundered every one
they met on the road until they reached, Down
ing, the township next to Yass, on the South
ern road. They took charge of tbs inn there,
plundered it, andthep sat down to enjoy them
selves. The assizes were just being held op
country, and, as one of the district judges and
the crown prosecittor wre riding along the
Yass road,-tbs bushrangers gave chase to them :
but the legal gentlemen were well mounted, so
they galloped on into Yass and informed the
police there. The trooners mounted in hot
haste; but before they had got to Downing,
Dido and his friends had got so very, drunk
that the constables had only the trouble of
lifting them up and conveying them to jail.—
This party was convicted and sentenced to ten
years on the roads.
■Meanwhile, to the westward,. Peazley* and
Gardiner kept the police in constant employ
ment. They had a haunt aningst the moun
tains, and made constant descents on all the
roads hear Bathurst. Peazley, especially, had
a celebrated black' blood-mate, and need to
laugh at .all the attempts of the troopers to cap
ture him. At length information was received
as to the exact locality of his retreat, and two
troopers started from Barthurst to affect his
capture. They found out that the hut just as
it bad been described to them, and they quiet
ly dismounted; then, with revolvers in their
bands, they crept up to the door. It happened,
that Peazley was away, and Gardiner was alone
in the hut. He heard their footsteps, land as
they rushed in at the front door, he jumped
into a back room. The troopers fired, and
Gardiner returned shot tor shot from bis den,
uqtil his revolvers were emptied ; then out he
sprang, and made for the door, but he was
met with two shots, both of which took effect,
and down he went: The police then handcuff
ed him, and whilst one kept guard the other
went out and saddled Gardiner’s horse. They
than lifted him into the saddle, fastened his
Get to the stirrups, and placing him between
them, started for Bathurst. They were riding
comfortably along, when Jack Peazley gal
lopped up; the troopers fired on him immedi
ately, and the next instant both of the saddles
were emptied from Peazley’s revolver. The
re-united bushrangers then rode away. Nei
ther of the troopers were killed, though one of
them bad s hall lodged in his forehead; he
was, fortunately an Irishman, and had a pret
ty thick os frontis; and after this nothing was
heard of Gardiner for some months. This
was, not,the case with Peazley, for he shifted
his [camp to the Abercrombie Mountains,
whejre a sisterof his lived, and he was frequent
ly in that,quarter. A letter, purporting
to be from him, appeared in one of the Bath
urst papers, ini which he said J that he loved
bis native hills (he was an Australian), and
that he never would be taken alive.’ A re
ward of one hundred and seventy pounds was
offered for his apprehension, accomponied with
-a fnll description of his person, and a state
ment that ‘ he bad been seen in Sydney a short
time previously-’ Of course, all the Southern
patrol and police-constables professed to m be
constantly searching for him ; but they could
never encounter him, although many bushmen
saw him daily. His haunts' and habits were
well known to several in the Abercrombie ran
ges, hut as he had injured no one but -the po
lice, arid never robbed a poor man, no one in
that neighborhood would betray him. I
One day, however, he was drinking with
two small farmers (whose brother was in the
patrol) and a quarrel arose between them, —
The next day, nows was sent into Coulburn
that Peazley had shot them both. Of course
he was at once denounced as a murderer; but
as it was allowable that it was with their own
gun, and in a scuffle,-the-general -opinion was
that they had attempted some treachery against
him. Afall events, the entire available police
force was sent out in search of him, and for a
long time without effect.
At last, however, a telegram whs received
from the- Qundagai announcing his capture,
which bad. taken place in the following man
ner; He had considered it dangerous to re
main in the Abercrombie ranges any longer,
so ha bad taken a pack-horse with him and set
out with tbs'intention of going.over into Vic
toria. He passed the Murrumbidgee river at
the Mundarlo Inn ; baton his road from thence
to the Taecotta creek he was met by one of
the mounted troopers, who, after exchanging a
few words with him, suddenly challenged him
by name. Peazley at once let go the bridle of
the horse which he was leading, and went off
at full speed. The trooper-pursued him, and
fired his pistol at him, it had one barrel only,
and seeing that Peazley was getting out his
revolver, the other relinquished the chase, and
went in search of further assistance. Peazley
then rode back by the game road which he had
travelled in the early part of the day ; and, on
arriving at the Mundarlo Inn, he dismounted
there! He walked into the bar, and had some
liquor ; and on sbme of those who were p res
ent asking him if he had not passed in the
morning leading a second horse, he replied
that he had ; bnt as it was broken away from
him, be intended to stop that night at Mundar
lo and go in search of it in the morning.’ Ho
then remained lounging about the bar and tap
room. Thera happened to bo at the Inn on
the day the overseer of a neighboring cattle
station, and his suspicions as to Peazley’a
identity were aroused ; accordingly he closely
observed his demeanor, and whilst standing at
b window overhead some expression of Peaz
ley’s which made him almost sure of his man.
■He therefore rode away to the nearest police
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station, whence ha procured a pair of hand
cuffs. and where his previous suspicions were
changed into certainty hy hearing of Peazley's
morning encounter with the trooper. He than
returned to Mundarlo, and communicated bis
design to the landlord, and they arranged be
tween them the- plan of operation to be pur
sued. In accordance with this, when supper
was placed on the table, Peacley was invited
to sit down; he did so, and called for soma
bottled ale and porter. The landlord came
himself to supply these to him, and, as he
stood behind Peaziey's chair, be suddenly
seized both bis arms ; others sprang instantly
to his assistance, and in a moment Peazley
was securely handcuffed. He struggled des
perately'at first, but they secured his legs with
a heavy bullock-chain, puthim-into a cart, and
drove at once into Qundagai, where he was se
cured in the jail. From thence, he was for
warded to Bathurst for trial, and—though he
made a daring attempt to escape from his es
cort—most probably he had suffered the ex
treme penalty of the law.
Shortly after Peazley’s capture, Gardiner
was again heard of; had pitched on the lev
els and the Wedding Mountains as his bead
quarters, and'from thence he made excursions
to the Lambing flat gold field. Gardiner, like
Peazley,. never the bush or stock men,
and for that reason he was able to defy all the
efforts which the troopers made to apprehend
him. In the beginning of 1862 an innkeeper
on Lambing flat boasted that he, by himself,
could take Gardiner if he could only meet him.
Some days after he had said this, he was out
in the bush, when suddenly Gardiner rode op
to him; a revolver was pointed at his head,
and he was compelled to surrender his arms
and his money. Gardiner was about taking
his saddle algo, but he begged hard to retain it.
So Gardiner consented that he should do so on
payment of ten pounds; accordingly they rode
side by side to a neighboring station, where the
innkeeper borrowed that amount and handed
it over to Gardiner, who wished him good mor
ning and rode off. About two hours subse
quent to this, two of the mounted patrol came
up, and bn being informed of what had occur
red, they, together with the innkeeper, started
on Gardiner’s fraok. After riding about twen
ty miles they! reached another station, where
they saw .Gardiner’s horse fastened to the two
rail fence which enclosed the home paddock.
One' of the troopers remained to watch this;
the other, in company, with the innkeeper, pro
ceeded in search of the owner. In a short
time they perceived Gardiner in the paddock.
When he saw them he turned to run, and they
ran after him, firing as fast as they could- dis
charge their weapona. When Gardiner found
that these were (all emptied, ha doubled back,
and made a sudden rush for his horse. He
presented his revolver at the constable who was
guarding it, and ordered him to hold up his
hands or he would blow his brains out. The
trooper, taken by surprise, obeyed, and Gardi
ner jumped on bis horse and rode away laugh
ing. These rough notes may enable soma of
the good folks at home to perceive that an
tralian adventurer, besides enduring the inev
itable hardships’ of a golddigger’s life, is pon
stantly liable to be deprived of his hard won
gold by the hand of the Bushrangers.
Married (in a High 'Wind.—An old Con
necticut newspaper contains this announce-
ment
Married— ln the public highway at Green
Hollow, in Toluntpwn, Ct.. on Sunday, the sth
inst., about one o’clock, p. m., the rain pour
ing in torrents from the clouds, with high winds
from the southeast, by Elder Charles Weaver,
jwhile on the way to attend the funeral of Mrs.
Amy B. Gallup, 2d, Esq., of Yoluntown, who
died Nov. 3d, aged 26 years—Mr. John Tan
ner, of the former place, to Miss Mary Carter,
of Hopkinton, county of Washington, State of
Rhode Island.
Coksehtaxives.— -There’s a sort of men in
the world who can’t bear any progress. I won
der they ever walk unless they walk backward.
I wonder they don’t refuse to go out when
there’s a new moon, and all out of respect for
that ancient institution, the old moon. But
there were always snob people and always will
be. When luoifers first came in, how many
old women, staunch old souls, many of them
worthy to be members of Parliament, stood by
their matches and tinder-boxes, and cried “ no
surrender !” And how many of theee old wo
men, disguised in male attire, go every day
about at public meetings, professing to be rea
dy to die for any tinder-box question that may
come up ! Yes, ready to die for it, all the rea
dier, perhaps, because dying for anything of
the sort’s gone out of fashion .—Jerrold.
A contraband, undertaking to find a situa
tion for bar daughter in Cincinnati, insisted on
said daughter being instructed. On being re
quested to indicate what kind of accomplish
ments she was desirous of having her hopeful
daughter possess, she said ’• de gal must be
lamed the pianoand paintin anyhow, and meb- r ,
be arter a while readin’ and writin’.” '
A Yodno damsel in Canada, twelve years of
age, became united'in wedlock to a youth of
fourteen summers, with, a salary of font-dollars
per month. It is to-be hoped that theymay he
happy, but to that end. extravagance must be
avoided. ' !
A man applied to Dr. Jackson, the celebra
ted Boston a box of specimens.
' “• Can you tell me what this is, sir ?”
“ Certainly I can, sir; that is iron pyrites.”
“ 'What, sir?” in a voice of thunder.
“ Iron pyrites/’
“ Iron pyrites 1 and what is that?”
“ That’s what it is,” said the chemist, pot
ting a lot on the shovel over hot coals, where
it disappeared. “ Dross.”
“ And what is iron pyrites worth ?”
“ Nothing.”
“Nothing! Why, there’s a woman who
owns a hill full of that in onr town,—and I’vq..
married her!”
—We like to see a fellow take a twenty cent
cigar from his mouth to grnmblejat paying fltr
oenta for a papdr. ' “
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