- r If 1 r 1 0 THE W U. JACOSY, rrojirielor.; VOLUME 13. STAR OF THE NORTH, PUBLISHED EVKRY WEDNESPAT BT w. ii. jiio bt, Office on Kafn St., Sri Sqnare below Market. TERMS: Two Dollars per annum if paid within six months from the time of snbscri ting : two dollars and fifty cents it not paid within the year. No subscription taken for a less period than six months; no discon tinuances permitted until all arrearages are paid. unless at the option o the editor. The terms of advertising vill be as follows : 'One square, twelve lines, three times, SI 00 Every subsequent insertion, 25 One square, three months, 3 00 One year, : . . 8 00 THE WAR NEWS. Gen. B F. Kclley Eonles the Rebels, Coplar ing Three Cannon and Jlany Prisoners IJebel tVagms & rump tqnlpg-e Token. RETREAT TOW J It I) WINCHESTER. Ntw CRrts Va.Oci 27 Brig General B. F. Ke.'ley marched !rom this point on , Friday nighi ami attacked the rebels en trenched at Romr.ey yesterday afternoon. , He routed the enemy, capturing many pris , oners, three piece ol cannon, a1 d alt iheir .wagons and carnp equipage- The Rebels . retreated towards Winchester. Our loss is trifling. That of the enemy has not been ascertained, bnt it is believed to be large. OFFICIAL DESPATCH rF GEN. KFL1.ET. Washington, Oct. 27. Lieutenant General Scott io-day received the following despatch. da'ed Komney Va., Oct. 26 P. M. : 4ln obedience tr your orders I moved on - this place at 12 o'clock last nihl, attacked the enemy at 3 o'clock th:s afternoon, and 'drove in iheirout posts, and altera brilliant " action of twohours. completely routed ihem, taking all their cannon and much of their ramp equipage and many prisoners. Our loss is but tririiug, but cannot say to what extent. Brig. .Gen. B. F. Kellt. commanding." GENERAL KtLLET S COLUMN. This gallant Virginian has not only re- Virginian has not covered from his severe wound, inflicted large majority of them will evail themselvps by the treachery of rebels, last sontmer, but j of ihe opportunity to steal back home. i again actively at woik in the field. Ilis j Tne prisoners taken represent them as gen beadquarter ha e alternated lately between , eraliy sick o! their undertaking- and anx G rail on aud New Creek. He has had sis ! ions to ret away. JefT. has only been regunents under his command, and ,lhese have been stretched in line lrom Cumber land (Maryland) to Grafton Their prmci pal business has been to guard the line of the Baltimore and Ohio R.ilroid between these point, and to keep the Secessionists I .from making incursions out "of the valley of j Virginia into the we s ern par of that Siate. i By his movement upon Romney, the j ' forr-s in the valley of U.e Shenandoah are i outflanked, and W inchester, only 25 miles ' from this point, is seriously menace J. By this ror.ie Manassas can te completely ! turned, or a march made upon Richmond through Staunton, wiJioul regard :o Beaure- yard's army. j Jt is donbifnl ho-rever. whether Kelly has ; sufficient force to do more than maintain ! liitnst-i! ' It he ha more than enough, there will be a forward movement uprt Winches ter The crossing of the river at Kdward's Ferrv, by Stone?s colnmn was evidently in tende 1 to be in concert with General Kelly's ridva .ee from the northwest, in the general direction. ROHXCY si'nated in a bowl of mountains There pre rich fertile valleys running along their ' ; i.aoM. Thmnmrv surround m j is oro luci- f ive of the cereals The town nseii is one ! of the most thriving in that pan of Virginia. Many ol it.e inhabitants still long for a res toration of the old Union. It can be easily fortified and held. But its posses-ion, except as a point to guard the rear of an advancing column, is ot little niiii'.ary importance. Winchester is the strategic point ol that region. Col. Wallace's Indiana Zouaves, early in June lat. whilst stationed at Cumberland, made a da.-h upon a par'y of l"on federate troops stationed at this point, and took all their caro; equipage and a large number of arms, routing thern completely. From Missouri. Official De'potth nom Gen. Fremont- Brilliant Action ut tprthfificM 2,000 liehelt J)rcen t ry ii . y . j T - c . i ey r i eiri"iii t notiy uuaru t ue oiu unu Slr'pes R iiseJ on-the Court Jhug. , St. Louis, October 26. -The following de spatch was received here this evening - Head Quarters in the Field near ) Humasstille, M Oct. 23 1861. j "To Capt. McKeever, Assistant Adjutant General: "Yesterday afternoon Major Zagoni, at the fiead of my body guard, made a most bril liant charge on a body ol the enemy drawn up in Ji'.e of battle in their Campai Spring field, 2,0i"0 or 2,200 strong. He complete ly routed them, and cleared tnem from the town, hoisted the National . Flag on the Court House, and retired on a reinforce ment which he has already joined. Our loss is not great. "This successful charge against such very large odds is a noble example to the army. 'Our advance will occupy Springfield to night. ' John C. Fresiont, . "Major General Commanding. General Fremont' body guard numbers but 300 men. THE, RECAPTURE OF I.EXISGTOX. Major Frank White, who recaptured Lex ington recently, at the head . of 180 men, and released our wick and. wounded soldiers ifter driring out some 500 rebels, is the eon 0.1 a prominent lawyer of New York. t V. The Cattle at Frederiektown. -; Fifty prisoners, taken at the battle of Fred eriektown, have been put to ! work in the trenches at Cape Giradean.' The report of Major Schofield, who commanded the bat fery ir; the action; shows that this victory was the most complete of any yet achieved by oar army during the war.--JefT. Thomp son escaped On foot," after having hTs horse kiileil nnde' him. The rebel force was about 6,000, while our own force was only 4,000. - - - - ; St. Loci?, October 27th Special to the Ft. Louis IlepuLlicjiiJ-Y eacquartkra Wes tern Department, Yortz Station, Missouri, October 26ih. The following despatch has leen received, announcing a brilliant vic tory at Springfield by General Fremont's fcedy gsard, numbering 150 men. -- . Five JIn.Ks our of Dolivas, 10 a.m., OcL 25. : General I report respctfally that yesfer- day, at. 4 o clock, t met in Springfield aooci- two inoosana oi tne reoets tnrsneu to BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 6, 1861. reception, bnt your Guard with one feeling I madrt a charge.and in less than three minutes 'he enemy was completely routed by 180 ........ ,, t- vicaicu me tiiy oi every reoei, and retired i being near uiuht and not feeling able to keep the place with bo small a force. Major While's command did not participate in the charge I have seen'char-es, t ut such briliiaut unanimity and bravery 1 have never seen, and did not expect. Th-ir war cry, 'Fremont and tike Union,'' broke forth like thunder. Chart rs Zgom, Major Commanding Body Guard. Colonel John M Richard-on, who rode over 10 uie vicinity ot Springfield iast evening, says that Major Zagoni was iruided to the town from the Jefferson to the Mount Vernon road by Judge Owens. The rebel camp was just outride of the city. Major Zagoni was compelled t -pass through a line, and let down a number ot fences and rails, before he could charge on. the foe. ;hu drawing tneir fire. There was t good deal of street-firing in Springfield and lrom the houses. Two rebels, who ran out of their dwellings and fired at the body-guard, were killed. Major Zagoni was advised of the hrce of rebels, but he was determined to have a tight. Colonel Pearce, said to be from Arkansas, commanded one of trie rebel regiments. It is thought that the cause of the increased rebel force at Springfield was the large amount ot plunder gathered there for some weeks pas: which it is stated they intend to take Sou'h with thm, but which will, of course, now fall into our hands. The loss of either side is not stated. Sccrssion "flayed Out," in Southeastern 31o. A correspondent of the Missouri Democrat, riling from Pilot Knob, under date or Oc- wrinn; tODer za, says : Last evening, onr army, with the excep tion of Col. Cariin's regiment, arrived here I have had the pleasure of meeting Major Schofield, Captain Mamer, Colonel Baker, Colonel Murphy, and a number of the offi cers who bore a part in the fight at Fred eriektown. Colonel Carlin remained at Fredricktown. The rout of the rebels was complete ; and it will be long ere Jeff, will bo able to collect his scattered forces. A able to keep them together by occasionally shooting one for desertion. Secession is "pliyed out" in Southeast Missouri The Retreat of the L'ebkls from South western Missouri. A correspondent of th? same Journal, writing from Rolla, under date ol Oct. 24ih, says : A report is in circulation, bronght in by a conmyman to the effect that mi order had bee.i issued lrom the rebel headquarters for the Texas troops to march to Houston, Texas, th Arkansas troops to Little Rock, and the Missunrians to camp Walker Such an order, i considered here to be quite superfluous, as said troops are being driven home by our legions as fast as pos sible. The 3IaaiffstD of Juhu C. Brrckinridie. 1 ha St. Louis Rep'iWcan says that this gentleman has 'published a Manilesto to same j ,ne People of Kentucky. It is dated at B w i ling Green, and he says it is written at the nrst moment since hisexpnlsion lrom home la A ..j. k i .i . r that he couicr place his leet on the soi of e"t"cKy. In n he resigns his seat as a member of the Serine of the United States. J'";! exchange, with proud satisfaction a term olsix years in the U. Senate, for the mu-ket of a soldier." The address would fill two columns of our paper, and is made up of sophisms and misrepresenta tions. Me says there is no longer a Senate ot the United States within the spirit of the Constitution "the Uni ed States no longer exists the Union is dissolved." But. he takes care tocorceal from lh people whom he is addressing and whose confidence he has betrayed, that, while yet Vice Presi dent and presiding over ibedel ibratinn of the senate, he and a band ol Senators reck lessly conspired, by their speeches and acts :o break up and de-troy the Union, that this was done long before the Presidential election took place, that he connived at ihe course of the secessionists in the Charleston Convention in preventing a nomination of president by the Democratic Convention, and gloried in it as being one sure means, if the Democracy were defeated, of dissolv ing the Union ; that to make assurance don&iy sure,' he lent himself as a willing tool of the disunionists in their conclave at Baltimore, and was the chief instrument in bringing about the result which he hyp ocritically pretends to deplore. The plot developed itself so fully so scandalously uiureanu Joutnern ena;ors and Jlepre sentatives,and broken down politicians pro claim their intention to break up the Union that it was no, necessary to wait for the inauguration of the new President to con vince the country of that fact. If President Lincoln had abated himself before them and promised them even more than they ever required.stili they would have insisted on a separation. There was treason in every act. and they know it.. They'kneT that, the President would go before the new Congress utterly power!es ; that the House of Representatives was sure to be against him; that the. senate was still more decidedly1 against him, and that the su preme Court was inflexibly honest and just And yet they, persisted in carrying their traitorous designs against the Union, and succeeded. They are the authors of this civil war, with all its blights, all its sicken ing details of crime, and all the monstrous barbarities which have been so far exhib ited. He has no right, therefore to speak of the Union being destroyed except in a spir it oi utter selfcondemnation. No wonder that he is now a refugee from Kentucky af ter his complicity in alt ihe acts of perfidy and crime by which thin civil war has been produced. -' - - x ' - - On this point alone the world will con demn Maj. Breckinridge and it is . not worth hile to ioliow him in other frivolous and unjustifiable excuses for a bad act. Eepartnre of the Xaral Expedition. Fortress Moxhoc-Oci. 29, via Baltimore. The great expedition sailed this morning. The flagship Wabash took the lead 'at day light, wnen a gan was fired as 'a signal The steamer Catawbit brought up the rear. The vessels, more than Fifty in number, formed in line a few miles down Ihe Roads and went out !etween the Capes in eplen- did style. TUe steamer Baltic bad the ocean express in to r f-a-.-.,f; f?-u. Tnth The morning was the most beautiful one of the season, and the spectacle was the grandest ever witnessed on this continent. It is alledged that the fleet was to sail in three divisions The Wahask will be the headquarters of the first division, tnder General Sherman ; the Vanderbill oi the second under General Stevens. The third was under command of General Wright. The firt division will land first, the second to follow, and the third to act as a reserve. Th ree hundred sailors from the men-of-war are detailed to man the surf boats together with the numerous surfmeu from New fork. Serrell's Regiment of engineers will land with the first division, together with all their implements, to erect fortifications. It ssems to be well understood among military men that Ihe ground on which the forces are to land has to be conquered. AFFAIRS W-KEiVrrCKY. The Stumping System in Kentucky in its Rela tion to the Crisis. Whilst almost all the people of the North ern States wonder at the apparent want of numerical force which Kentucky has sent into the field, they seem to forcet that, in the chrysalis state of progress, from sym pathy with the Southern institutions, th -ough the doubtful and unhealthy climate of neu trality, toward the full vigorous develop ment ol unalloyed Unionism, many serious grave, terrible difficulties had to be er coun tered by those who were called upon to lead. These thoy have met manfully, and with tremendous energy. In order to avail ihemse-ves ot the usual modes of reaching the popular ear at least the modes best known to their own State they appealed lo that tribune of the Soutwestern Stales by which all public events are hearl and finally adjudged. The Stamp. Sine our civil troubles have teem, the champions of Unionism in Kentucky have exerted themselves to the utmo-t to reach effectively the popular standard of conmu nication and thought amongst the pe pie of their State. Hence the controlling intel lects of tire Union cause have gone upon the stump, and proclaimed the justice, the truth, and the necessity, involved in the preservation of the Union. Amorg the most effective of the young men who have thus become apostles for the difTus on of Union principles, is Laban T. Moire, of Morgan county, known familiarly ty the sobriquet of the "Mountain Boy." Ill serr- fed as a member o.f the Congress of It 58-60. Confession of a 3lnrdcress. We abridge the following from th j Em pire of Sydney: Most people whose memo ry carries them back for a quarter of a cen tury, will remember the leading features of an extraordinary crime which took place in London, about the year 1S37, and which ex cited in the public mind as great a degree of horror as any deed of guilt ever cnmrnil ed in the metropolis. 1 allude to the mur der by Greenacre of Mrs. Brown, a woman to whom he was to have been married on the day following that on which he perpe trated the atrocious offence for which he jcstly paid the penalty of his worthless life. Some of the circumstances were so horribly uro'esque. that no lapse of years can efface j them from the memory of .those who then . . , - ., became acquainted with them " Greenacre, it was proved at the trial, completely dis membered the body of the unfortunate Mrs. Brown, and, after disposing of the trunk and limb in various p'aces, actually rode about London in cabs and omnibuses, for two or three days, with the bead under, his arm. wrapped in a silk handkerchief tell ing thoe friends and acquaintances who happened to inquire as to the contents of a bundle he was so careful of, tht it ras on ly a cabbage ! Of the murderer bimelf. and of the par ticulars of his trial and execution, I shall here say nothing. The circumstance which I am about to relate has no further connec tion with him and his history, than that it refers to the ultimate fate of the wretched woman who was his paramour and accom plice, who assisted him, if not in tha actual murder, at least to conceal the evidence1 of it, and who was to have shared the j roceeds of his pnilt. Sarah Gale, the women allu ded to, became, it possible, an object of greater execration than :ht murder r him self She was admitted or the trial to give evidence against him, and by this means lo preerve her worthless life for the fate which befel her many years afterwards in the far interior of this country. It will per taps be necessary to explain that at the dm of the murder of Mrs. Brown 1 was almost a child, that it was the first crime of horror vith the details of which I had ever been acquaint ed ; and that the impression left on my youthfut mind was of a vivid and painful nature. In the year 1858 I was re tiding in a remote part of this colony. I did not reg ularly follow my profession as a rieans of livelihood ; indeed. the population v asmuch too scattered, and far too healthy, f induce a medical man to remain there. When, however, accident or the osaal accompani ments of domestic life threw anything in my way, I took advantage of it to help out an otherwise not very liberal income, and by this means became acquainted with the dreadful crime alluded to twenty y jars after it was committed. One morning before daybreak I w as arous ed from my sleep by a heavy kne eking at my bedroom window, which looked out into the verandah of my residence. O i inquiry I found I was required, at a distance of sixty miles, to attend a woman who bad been thrown from her horse against a tiee. The messenger informed me that if I ra ide haste and could save the patient, I sionld be handsomely rewarded, as she was very rich having some thousands of cattle aud stations half as big as England itself; that resh hor ses woutd meet us, and that if I ride well, we could do the distance in some thing like five hoars. This rrt'ji" ?"f ... aud Right God and our Country. twenty minutes I was on my way to Big river, across long arid plains.with not a tree or shrub in sight. After a ride of six honts and ten minutes we arrived at the homestead or hea;I station . After running tho gauntlet through a dozen hungry kangaroo dogs, I reached the pa tient's bedroom. On approaching the door I saw the bed directly oj'posite, it seemed to contain a huge pile of something in the centre. On going close to the bedri 'e I found my patient to be a vom tn of vat size and weight certainly not less than sixteen stone, and the heap I had noticed on my entrance was her very px'.ensive and respectable corporation. On examination I found she h ad suffered both from external and internal injuries to such an extent that I feared the case was hopeless. She turned to look at me. I begged she would not dis torb herself. "Not disturb myself." she in terrupted. "It is easy to say so.bv.t w hy do you not give me something 'o relieve this dreadful pain 1 Give me something, I pray, or I must go mad." At noon next day, a marked change for the worse had taken plac9. The period had arrived for me fo perform an unpleasant du ty. I broke the news to the ur furtunate woman with as much caution as possible telling her to prepare for the worst, and to arrange any affairs she might wi.-h to have settled before her final departure from this world. She told me the whole cause of the accident, in a calm, collected manner, and begged 1 would be kind enough to draw up a will for her, as she informed me ths whole of the property was hers, and that she was living with G , but not bgally married to him , therefore sho could dispose of the property as she liked, which she did. The will being finished, I wished her to sign it in my presence and in that of other witness c ; she had a marked repugnance io do his, which appeared dreadful to her as a last act. I showed her the necessity of do ing so white in possession of all her facul ties or before any derangement took p!ce. She refnsed to Bign it but in the presence of two persons whom she named, her husband and myself. I ordered the Mom to be clear ed, and gave her the pen, putting at the same time the nsnal questions. She hita ted a long time there was a stillness that was fearful to me for some ten minnte ; at lat, she summoned sufficient resolution to commence, but stopped at the first letter, S. "Oh, wait a little," the said, "1 am think ing, thinking, thinking of I'itps long pan," and as she seemed to be talking more to herself, as it is called, thsin addressing u I made no reply. Her hii-band who wa now sober, witnessed this death bed scone with evident emotion. "James," said the woman, "I should like to be alone with the doctor a little while. I have somethinp to tell him, but nothing I have to confer that you do not know." The husband then left. She then told me what I wa never, n-?ver to tell again. 1 was at first absolutely paraly zed. There in lhat remote solitude, did that dying woman reveal facts so dreadful and so connected with my painfully distinct recollection of by-gone days, that I abfo lutely shook with agitation. It seemed mor like a horrible dream than awakirjr reality She recalled me to my senses by her de spairing appeal to beaten for fortrivpfess. She seemed completely hopeless of; anion I tried at length to con.fort her, a-d bade her not despair. "How tlad I am yon are here, doctor ; yon shall be well paid for all this. Do you know I feel happier now since I lold you all. Oh, if I could have seen a clergyman, but there none rearer I than 150 miles. Too late, too late! I shall soon be elsewhere. Ah, where 1 I b2Jed of her lo sincerely repent of her faults,' and seek hope for the future; she clasped her hands together, sight-.d deeply as though her heart were too oppressed, and she was at a loss for words. She spoke at ht wi'h effort and evident fatii."io. ' Call him in," she said. I did her bidding; In the prps. ence of her husband I gav-; her th pen, site gave one look of despair ami anguish, signed the will, and 1 witnessed at once the death and signaiure of ' Sarah Gale." As it was too late to Ftart for home the same day on which Mrs. G died. and to sleep was impossible, I made a memoran dum of the circumstances an hour or so al ter her death took place. I have said all that I feel at liberty to di vnlge of a story that will ever haunt my memory. Going it Blind. A blind man named Thomas Bishop was brought before the Po lice Court in Cleveland, last wepk, rharged with bigamy under the folloniiitf circum stances: The fello w,u appears.resides near Zanesville, and has been blind about five years. On the tenth of last September, he arrived at the American Hotel, Cleveland with a blind girl 17 years of age whnm he had brought lrom Huron. He married her the next day under the name of W m. Gib sout. The parties remained at the Ameri can till the 17th, when the blind Lothario, having made 'he acquaintance of another girl, also blind, in the meantime took her before the Rev. Mr. Starkey and was united lo her in marriage. On the 18th, the day following the marriage, Bishop went to Steubenville with his second victim. He staid there one night, " and the next day deserted her, taking with him all her dress es, jewelry, &c, and ?65 in money belong ing to her, amounting in all to about ?20'J. On leaving Cleveland he hd robbed the Huron girl of all she possessed. He went from Steubenville to Marietta on the 20;h, where he passed under the name of Angnst Cook. At Marietta he met another blind girlalso from the Blind Asylum, named Mary Delaney, twenty-two years of age, to whom he was married on the 25th of September. He lived with her four days. He then deserted her, taking all her proper ty in jewelry and dresses He went next to Parkersburg, thence to Cincinnati, and thence to Iowa. He soon afterwards return ed again, reaching Columbus on Saturday last. On Wednesday he went to Zanes ville, and' on Thursday he was arrested four miles -from -Zanesville and trkenLa Eromthc Vh.ln Evening Bulletin. BALL'S CLtTF. Big Bethel.. Bull's Run and Ball's Bluff 0 alliteration of blunders ! Ol blunders more than enough, 1 n a time lull of blunders and wonders. History ! shut up your book, Or biot ironi your record the story, Nor honor such scenes with a look. Where the tharne to eclipses the glory. No one to blame ? Oh no I No one to blame lor the slaughter ; None but the truculent loe Aud the merciles rush of the wa'cr. Where could be found braver men? Braver men ne'er were in battle ; Who drove them into the pen, I here to'be slaughtered like cattle ? Two thousand men against six, Led as the blind lead the blind ; Two thousand hemmed in by six, And the rushing river behind. The rnhing river behind And the furious foe before ; Who could have ever divined That these were the perils of war? Six thousand rifles ahead, And behind them a river like Styx, Gnlphing the wounded and dead God pity the two against six? A river a fatal as Styx, With a heart dying out on each wave. Till the flood where the streams intermix Is swoln with the blood of the brave. The stain of the sornw and shame Is mixed with the stain of the slanehter, And the dead heart write vainly a name. On the face of the innocent water. For no one's tollame! And yet, Wiio ifsued the murderous order? We men may forgive or forget, But not the Eternal Recorder. A R U N FO R LIFE. A Railroad Adventure. Alt father was an extremely clever and capab'e artisan , who possessed besides abil ity considerable prudence and no small share of ambition. With such qualities it was only naUTl thai he should rise in li!e ; and he did so Bifore I was sixteen years ot at'e he held a lucrative and responsible position in the lo comotive department on one of the great i.orth country lines, and hid he lived I tf.irk he might have maile himself a name in ihe world I was his only son, and he gave me a good education, deeply tin-red with a mechanical coloring, in the hope lhat 1 should improve on his success. In this hope, if he were alive, he would n"t per haps be altogether disappointed ; bnt al though I have no rea-on to complain of want of present prosperity and social posi tion, it is untie the iess true that the spare hours and holidays of my school hlr were spent chiefly among workshops, mechanics and engine-drivers. .In those young days I h-d a passion for the locomotive, and my boyish ambition was to become a master of ail the mysttfries and duties connected therewith Thus f was forever loafing about the engine houe ar.d getting an occasional trip with good natnred drivers more ready to plfae an inquiring youngiter than care ful to obey the Company's reiiulaions. In thts way I early gained a tolerably complete insight into the management of the locomo tive, and being a shrewd, self confident lad soon acquired a profound belief in my ca parity for disc-hurling all the duties cf a driver. I had, besides, an insepa rable com panion named Mark Hilberd, whose fath er followed the calling I thought I should on much adorn, and Mho delighted equally with me in pottering about among the en Simes and men, or riding short distances whenever the opportunity occurred. The elder Hilberd was an extremely daring and clever driver, a firsl rate workman ; but unfortunately like too many of onr very l esi prtirar.s, tiven lo occasional fits of drunken ness Thi peculiarity had got him into trouble once or twice before the time of which I am speaking, but as on each occa sion his escapes had been productive of no actual harm and l.e was in other respects a very valuable man, he was retained, but cautioned. Mark was quite as great a pro Jicient as myself in know'edge of the craft, and the dearest wish ot both was to have our abi-ihes properly recognized among the workmen who were our companions. In all our little enterprises ar.d advenlnres Mark, however, was ihe leader; he inheri ted his father's skill and conrage, and soon acquired, even among tt e men, a good rep utation lor steady pluck and shrewdness Such were young Hibberd and myself at about the age of fifteen ; but in order that you may clearly understRtid the whole of my story, it will be necessary for me now to explain the situation and peculiarities of our station and the neighboring line Coulston is a large town or, the Rail way, standing midway between Allonby, which is ten miles below, and Castleton, which is ten miles above it. Attached lo the sta'ion are the locomo tive works already mentioned, and a very large engine house. In thela!ter, the num ber of engines was generally considerable, and this was our favorite haunt, where we lurked at all hours, hoping lor the chance of a run with some ccmplaisant comrade sown to Allonby, whence we trusted to ihe chapter of accidents and "Shank's mare," for a return journey. The engine-house stood at A distance of about 200 yards below Cou'ston station, with which it was con nected by a siding joining the main lirie, trains stopped, while our town was large and - of rising . importance. The nearest down station of any size was Lichester, about forty miles di-slant. It happened one dark but clear November evening that Mark Hibberd.and I were lounging about our favorite engine house, chatting to one and another of ihe drivers who were busy. oil ing and cleaning their respective locomo tives. Old Hibberd's "Firefly" was there with steam op, an order having come du ring the afternoon that Mark's lather was to be in readme", fo take a "special" down to Lichester at e!ht o'clock precisely. II ib berd himself was not there, though it was titer, half past seven, and Mark paid casu ally, in answer to a question from olJ Bob Jacobs, his fireman, that he hoped his fath er was not 1 on the lush ;" but he had been down to the Railway Arms again that after noon for the first time during the last three months. We were standing on the foot plate as we talked, and s'earn having been up some time and the water in the boiler somewhat low, I said to J.icobs. ' Bob, you'll have to run her down to the crossing and back a time or two to fill up the boiler," it being necessary, I rnuM tell you, to put an engine in motion before the pumps which feed her with water can work. "Right jou are, Mas'r Charley," Paid Bob; 4 but do you and Mas'r Mark lake her down to the points and back again while I light my lamps aud fill my oil can." Here was one of the little chances we de lighted in. It wanted exactly twenty min utes to cght when Mark turned on steam, and we glided slowly out ,of the engine house, leav.ng old Jacobs trimming the "Firefly's" lamps. We had run backward and forward over the hundred yards of rails between the crossing and ihe house when Mark's evd genius prompted him lo ex claim : I say, ChsrleyHet's run over ihe points and down ihe line for half a mile or bo; we can be back easy by eight o'clock." No sooner said than done. When we reached the points I drooped ofl and open ed ihe switches, thus shifting the engine on the on-line, upon which we proposed to in dulge onrelves in rome l o or three min utes" gallop, and then return. Now in acting thus, you must understand that we did no bing w haiever involving any danger from ordinary cources, and were in nil human probability perfectly safe from mishap. The next train was an np-exprp-s. not due at Conistan till 8.20, but which did not j stop at AILmoj-. Nothing could possibly I follow u from behind for we were cn the J vp line of rail?, and as we should be back i again before eight o'clock, there was of course no danger to I e apprehended from the coming tram. Hibberd, on our return, had only to thip his lamps and start on the j down line for Lichester. j Our programme, however, was deranged j in a way we little expected. Prudent, if bold, we did not allow the delights of our ! gallop to detain us too long, and it wanted j some minutes lo eight when we passed the dossing on our way back to the engine- J house; we had slackend speed on arproach- ' ing the points, anil were traveling slowly 1 and quietly, when Mark shouted to me, j ''Put down the break, Charley, here's the; "fcwallow" coming out at a lick, end no mistake !" In a moment we had flopped and reversed the ''Firefly," and we tegan i lo move tlowly ahead down the op line ; again, j-reatiy wondering what it all might mean, but not in the least alarmed for oar safe y, since we had only to allow the 'Swa low" gradually to overtake u, and! when she saw us (which, as we had no j lamps, was not so tay both engine miht j return together. Meanwhile the giant be hind us came cn at such a rapk'.ly increas- j ing speed that we wore unwillingly obliged j lo travel faster as well We shoutedandtried j to attract attention from her driver, but in j vain, and we presently began to think that ! something mitt lip wrong. At length Mark i whisppred, ' Charley, -yon may take my word for it that's the Governor, and he's mad drunk. Like enough he's got on the j first engine that came lo hand, and don't j know at this moment if he's on the upper or down line or ht he's doing he's the very devil after he'p been drinking." Here J was a p'eaant situation. It was just cn the stroke of eight o'clock; in another ten minutes at farthest the up express woiild pas Allonby on its way to Coulston ; before us therefore was the cer tainty of collision, and behind us an engine already running at a great rate, which in creased with every minute, and driven by a man mad drunk what was to be done ? it was a case in which moments are pre cious, and decision must be the work of a second ol t;me. "Let us run for Allonby," said Mark at once, with his hand upon the regulator. ' Keep the whistle open all the way. and trut in Frovidence they'll hear it and have time and fense to shunt us on the "down' before the, express runs through." I was for less vigorous measures. Some thing assured me that Mark was right, and lhat the engine behind us was driven by Hibberd in a state of intoxication; but 1 fancied that however drunk he mich: be, he would vet not be so utterly insane as to persist in running against certain destruc tion, provided we could make him under stand his danger; so I proposed that -we should slacken and let htm ovettaxens, then climb upon the "Swallow," and by pgryuaMon or forre iridnce.Jlr'!iJLoTe Two Dollars per Annum. NUMBER 44. tell it you ; in fact, the whole affair was a succession of such rapid action following upon decisions so swift that I find it impos sible to give you the faintest idea of the Man ling suddenness with which ihe cir cumstances crowded on each other. For a moment Mark thinking, doubtless, more of his fathpr than himself approved of ray suggestion, and . we slackened speed.' By this lime both engines were running at a perfectly frightful velocity, and the "Swal low" almost instantly overhauled us. :No sooner did her buffets louch ours than Mark flung himself upon his father's engine I watched him clamber along the boiler till I lost ihe oudine of his figure in the dark nes. A minute of unspeakable suspense followed, during which the "Shallow" held on her rapid speed. I now did all 1 could to impede her progress. I. shut off steam and screwed my breaks down till they were one idicet of flame, but Mill the hinder en gine drove me lorward. At length, after what seemed a hole hour to me, 1 heard above the din of the open whistle a success sion ol yeiis mingled with hoarse curses I closed the handle a moment to listen, and soon felt certain that a fearful struggle was going on between Hibberd and his son. 1 caught at the "Swallow," pulled myself on lo her, and climbed as fast as I could toward the foot-p'ate. Half way along the boiler 1 met Mark returning, reckless. ' On to your engine," he screamed, "and run for Allonby ! This was enough for me ; it was no time to aik or answer questions, and anoiher'eec otid ortwosaw us both upon the "Firefly" breaks up, whistle open, and all steam on. We drew quickly away lrom onr com panion ; but the few minutes of delay had frightfully diminished our chances of safety. It was so dark that I could not clearly sea Mark's face, but I knew from the disturbed appearance of his clcths there had been a uisel, and I said simply, "Well, Mark?" While speaking, I opened ihe fire door, and as the red gleam burst out, I started in re newed horror, for his whole face, neck and hands were covered with blood. 'It's my own, Charley ; he whispered; and even while he spoke, with the certain ty of an awful death before him, the uobld lellow'a eye filled as he ?dded, "Gold help my poor father ! he's seen his last drunken spree lh?3 night.." In hnrried words he lold me that on reach ing the footplate of the engine he found Hibberd alone, and raging drunk; that he had made an effort to reverse the "Swal low's'' gear, and in order to do so put his hand upon the starting Isver This lairly maddened Hibberd, who flew upon him before he could accomplish his object, and commenced the brief but deadly struggle I had heard. Mark was powerless in his father's strong hand, and escaped almost by a miracle from being dashed off on to the line by a blow which felled him. In the fall his head was cut open against rome o? ihe iron work, and he was forced to re turn as I have deecribeJ without gaining his end. Bat no kind ot danger made the brave lad blench, and his eyes darkened and his teeth set as, with hand jpon the whistle, he strained forward for a glimpse of Allonby signals. As for me, I grew sick ; I look oat my watch for what I feerpd was the last time, glanced at the hands, and then sat down upon the tool-box, covered my face, and wept bitter tears as I thought of the father at home who was so proud of me, and the mother whom I loved so dearly. A tofich of Mark's roused me. I looked at the dial again , but could not read the fig ures ; he took the watch from my hand, and his voice was quite steady as he said : "Another two mi-nttes for us Charley, cn l there are Allonby signals." We had bpen travelling only eight min utes since we first knew our danger, but what an age it seemed ! I remember he was handing me back the watch when his hsnd touched mine, and I felt him start as if fhot. The next instant he clasped me tight by the wrist, and whispered in my ear, "The red lamps ! It's ail orer. God save my poor father." Again, though, he spoke out strong and clear, "Hold tight to me, Charley, and when I say the word, jump for your life." We stood a moment poising ourselves upon the oscilating en gine, then he shouted, "Now !" and sprang. I was nervous, my foot slipped, and 1 lell along the foot-plate of the engine. In an instant there was a horrible grinding crash. a dazzling flash of light before my eyes, a huge heave upward and onward, then blackness of darkness and insensibility. Six weeks afterwards I was suffie'ently recovered from fever brought on by ray injuries and the excitement of that night to hear ihe sequel of the story. Beyond a broken leg and rib I bad escaped unhurt. Violent incarnation, accompanied by delir ium, had however, greatly retarded my con valescence. Hibberd and Mark were both dead. The firmer was greatly cut about the body, bur the la ter exhibited no visible injury beyond" a comparatively trifling wound in the head, serious, it is true, but not sufficieot la have caused his death. He dieJ from internal hemorrhage.and rcne bcl myself knew that the scalp wound had been ihe work of the lad's own father. Concerting the great ac-s ciJent to the night express on the line at Allonby Mation in 184, 1 dare say yon remember the newsraper accounts; lo-night I have tried to give yon a true and faithful history of the cetii-es which produced that
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