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' Happening to be spending the winter of
the year 1800 at Gibraltar, I, one day in the
course of my wanderings, found myself in
the cemetery set apart there for the burial
i of strangers. Protestants, and the like, who
we(e , membeI 0 ,be Komi.h comrnnn-
ion.
situated on very high ground, and there was
not much iu the snrroonding, details and
picfuresqneness of the grave, as sometimes
is the case in foreign bbrial-places, to in
terest a sight-seer, with one xception : -In
the extreme eastern corner, aud on the
, most elevated ground, stood a simple whi e
I cross of marble with initials "M. L." on it,
j and the date of the person's death; a
- wreath of flowers encircled the stone, and
he tfrave wa, evideuUy very carefully
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watched, presn..ng thereby a
considerable contrast to those of the other
strangers who had found their last retting
place on that bleak rock. .
So struck was I with the neatnes of this
individual grave, that seeing an old man
working hard by, I a&Ved him if there was
any particular history attached to it, and if
helcnew whoihs person was that was bn
ried there. His answer did not give much
information, beyond the fact of its beins; the
grave of an English lady, who had died
there some years before, and whose hus
band paid him C'he old man) a 6mall sum
yearly for keeping; that spot in order, ard
supplying the cross constantly with flowers.
This little incident had quite parsed out
' of my m5nJ a9 a ma,,er too trivial to be
worth remembering, till I was reminded of
it in ra'her a startling manner a short time
azo. ' ' : : -
. I was staying al a -country houe in York
shire, the host and th? hostess beins DOin
of them old and dear friends of mine, when
late one evening the conversation happen
ed to trrn upon a subject sufficiently exci
ting to rouse the most sleepi'v inclined of
Ihe gnests into wakefulness. It was debated j
whether instances had ever really occurred
of people having been buried alive, i. j
whether any authentic cae could be Mated
of a man who had fallen into a trance, and
who had been in that condition buried, had
afterwards come to life for a brief interval,
and then had been suffocated in his coffin. :
Opinions were pretty equally divided on j
the subject; the one party affirming that it j
was impossible, in the present stare ol med
ical science, for anybody to meet with such -a
horrible fate, and the other, though appa '
rently enable to ere any examples, declar- j
ing that they were sure such a thing might ;
happen, though they admitted at the same
time that cases of that nature would be less j
likely to occur in England, where a reason
able time elapsed before the burial, than on
the Continent, where the laws enforced the
interment of. the body so soon after death, j
In the midst of the discussion, the ;lady ot ;
the house, who had seemed to take but lit- j
tie interest in one way or the other, sud
denly surprised us all by saying that if we
would give ber our attention for a short time
she would tell us a story on that very sub-
ject, and relate what had truly occurred to a
near, relative ot ber own many year be-
fore. ' ' ......
"You say have often heard me mention," 1
she said, turning to me, "ray two cousins,
Charles and Frank Livingston, though I
doq'i much think yoa ever hid personal
acquaintance with either of tbem. ' It is
just twenty years ago now that they fell in
love with two of the prettiest girls in York
shire, sisters and heiresses, whose names!
were Mary and Florence Arden. As the
progress of their love aftairs has not much
to do with the gist of my story, it is enough
to say that everything went on very satis
factorily, and, thatln due course, aod on the ,
same day, Mary and Florence became' the 1 turned partly on one s'tde, as if with the ef
wives of my two cousins, Charles and Frank fort of trying to free itself from the icy grasp
respectirely. - Mary was the eldest sister, of ihe tomB. From the date of that discov
thoogh at -the time of their marriage she: ery, he haa never ceased to reproach him
was barely nineteen, and to ray mind the t self for being in some part the cause of her
mos taking and loveable of the two;, of' death ; but be has never ceased to wonder
course Frank' though! differently, aod per-J bow it was that the recollection of that dream
baps it was well he did so.
"I need scarcely tell yoa tbaf the happy,
couples passed the hooey-moons verypleas-j
aatly in, various spots id England and Scot
land, and afterwards settled down a few
rn:!oj from'each other' In" close proximity
with lhecity of York itself. '
''The marriage happened in the spring of
the yearand in the following autumn, much
to the delight of the two brides, it was de
termined that a yacht should be' chartered'
for a few months, and the winter spent in
cruising about from place to . place their
ideas chiefly pointed towards the Mediterra
nean as tbey one and all bad a great desire
to visit Malta and Gibraltar and' moreover,
if possible, to Jand; at 'Africa"; I lh latter I
believe merely that they might have the
satisfaction of saying that they had onca
f..n a r!- ' -
Truth
URG. COLUJH BI A
lng ground set apart tor strangers woo were
no Roman Catholics. Mary Livingston,
who had been, so they afterwards recol
lected, silent and apparently pru-occupied
all that day, when she first caught sight of
the cemetery started, and seemed surprised;
after they bad looked about them, and la
mented the general untidiness that pre
vailed, she suddenly astonibed them all
by walking to one corner of ground more
elevated than the rest, where she stopped,
and planting her foot on a certain-spot raid
she was going to relate a curious dream she
bad had during the previous night.
".She dreamt, she said, first thai she was
lying in the cabin of the yacht sick almost
onto death ; that her husband and sister,
standing by, seemed, by their actions and
gestures, to imagine that she was dead; but
thongh she was conscious of what was tak
ing place, yet she was utterly unable to
move hand or foot, or to make any sound to
attract their attention ; in the second part of
her dream she seemed to be carried on
men's shoulders, still perfectly conscious,
along the road they had just traversed, that
she passed by their aid into the cemetry,
and that the men deposited their burden on
the very spot where she then stood a grave
had been dug, appearently for her, she sop
posed, and she was buried, so it seemed to
her in her dream, alive, but motionless and
powerless to help herself in any way. The
horror of her situation, as she was being
lowered into the earth, seemed to give her
strength, and in the 8ct of striving to cry out
she awoke.' What seemed so curious to her
was, that though she bad never seen the
burial-ground before, or the road that led
to it, yet, when she came to visit them the
day after her dream, she found that the re
ality was just exactly like the'dream?'
"Weil, hot,'.' I interrupted, "you haven't
told us anything yet that '
"Excuse me, ''.replied our hostess, 'but if
jou will do me the favor of waiting till I
have finished my story you will find yoo
will have no reason to complain.
"Her hnsband and her friends laughed at
Mary for her evident belief in her dream,
and ascribed the whole circumstance to in.
digestion ; they did not, however,stay much
longerin the cemetery, but returned to the
yatcht.' "
Two days "trrs'twardf, and on tbo even
ing before that on which, they proposed
leaving Gibraltar, Mary Livingston was sud
denly taken ill. a doctor was at once sent
for, who pronounced her attack to be a
slight one of cholera, assuring her friends at
the same time that they need not be under
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however the symptoms changed for the
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worse, and so rapidly, that before evening
it was evident she was sinking fast, and that
no hopes could be entertained of her recov
ery. She died during the night. Her bus
band, as yon may imagine,' was overcome
with grief, but he had to stifle his feelings,
and settle all things, connected with her fu
neral, which was obliged to take place on
the evening of the very day after she died.
"All, at I was told afterwards, happened
according to that dream of hers ; she was
carried alo.ig that sleep road, and her grave
; had been dug on the very spot where but a
few days ago she had stood before tbem full
of life and beauty;but strange to say,aod al
most incredible, neither, her husband nor
sister remembered the circumstance of her
relating her dream to them ; and it was not
until some six or seven months afterwards,
that one evening in the twilight of their
1
Yorkshire borne, Jhe memory of the stroll
throogh the burial-ground and the event
j connected with it flashed across the mind of
I the widowed husband. Remorse at the
thought af its being now all to late was his
first feeling, and then an irrepressible desire
seized him a longing to see if his darling's
dream had come true, and if ibe bad, in re
ality, been buried alive. As fast as it was
possible for him "10 do so, he berried to Gib
raltar; it was with some difficulty that he ob
tained permission to have the ground open
ed, and when be -had succeeded h? found
that his worst feara had been realized; there
was no doubt left in his mind that his wile
bad recovered consciousness after she had
been supposed to be dead, for the body was
of hers passed-so quickly from. his mind,
and. was not revived till so long afterwards.
"The grave he told me, is marked by a
white cross of marble, with the initials "11.
L.' on it and the date of jier death." .
, The. tale of our hostess was finished ; and
as; she ended, the memory of that grave
with its wreath of flowers and the bleak
graveyard came Into my mind, and made
Ihe prdbabilities of the story more apparent
10 me. J haVe. told the tale as it was told to
me ; for myself I believe it to be trne ; for
my readers' they most decide lor them-elves.-:
' ' 7
" The names; of couMe,' have been altered,
as, for. aught, J know iq ihe contrary, soma
of the actorsic; that carious; dream are liv
ing till.V- 7' ' '. , (; V u A
and Right God and ocr Country.
COUNTY; PA.. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1865.
' 7 A Tale of Terror.
At the 1 Crow Inn" at Antwerp, some
years ago, a white spectre was seen bearing
a lamp in one hand and a bunch of keys in
the other thia unpleasant visitor was seen
by a variety of travellers passing along the
corridor-
; Nothing would katisfy the neighbors that
an unfortunate traveller had not been at
eome period or other despatched in that fa
tal room by one of the previous landlords
of Ihe house; Ihe hotel gradually obtained
the name of the "Haonled Inn," and ceased
to be frequented by its old patrons.
The landlord finding himself on the brink
of ruin, determined to sleep in the haunted
room, wiih a view of proving the ground
lessness of the story. To make the matter
more sure, as be said, he caused the hostler
to bear him company on pretence of requir
ing a witness to the absurdity of the report;
bat in reality, from cowardice. At dead of
night, however, just as the two men were
composing themselves to sleep in one bed
leaving another which was in the room
untenanted the door flew open and in gli
ded the spectre.
Without pausing to ascertain what it might
attempt on approaching the bed towards
which it directed its coarse the tw,o merf
rushed naked out of the room ; ard by the
alarm they created, confirmed more fully
than ever the evil repute of the house.
Unable longer to sustain the cost of so
unproductive an establishment, the poor
landlord advertised for sale the house in
which he and his father before him were
born and had passed their lives. But bid
ders were as scarce as customers ; Ihe inc
remained for sale for nearly a year, during
which, from time to lime, the spectre re
appeared At length an officer of the garrison, who
had formerly frequented the house, moved
to compassion in favor of the poor host, on
derook to clear op the mystery by sleeping
in the aforesaid chamber; nothing doubted
that the whole was a trick of some envious
neighbor, desirous of deteriorating the value
of the freehold iu order to become a pur
chaser. ;
. His offer having been gratefully accepted
the captain took up his headquarters in the
fatal room, with a bottle of wine and a
brace of loaded pistols on the table- before
him, determined to fire at whatever object
might enter the room.
At the usual hour of midnight, accord
ingly, when the door flew open and the
white spectre, bearing a lamp and a bunch
of keys, made its appearance, he seized
both his pistols, when fortunately, as his
finger was upon ihe point of touching the
trigger, he perceived that the apparition
was no other than the dangler of his host,
a young and pretty girl, evidently waiting
in her sleep. Preserving the feiriclst si
lence, he watched her set down the lamp,
place her keys carefully on the chimney
, . . . . , . .
n In a dnrl PAtlPA In Ind rprAlp nP(l whirh
place and retire to the opposite bed, which,
as it afterwards proved, she had occupied
during the lifetime of her late mother, who
slept in the room.
No sooner had she thoroughly com pr,.ed
herself, than the officer, after locking the
door of the room, went in search of her
father and several competent witnesses, in
cluding the water bailiff of the district, who
had been one of the loudest in circulating
the rumors fconcerningthe Haunted Inn.
The poor girl was found quietly asleep in
bed, and her terror on awaking in the dread
ful chamber afforded sufficient evidence to
all present of the state of somnambulism in
which she had been entranced.
From that period the spectre was seen
no more, probably because the landlord's
daughter removed shortly afterward to a
home of her own ; and the tales of horror
so freely circulated to the bewilderment of
the poor neighbors, ended in the simple
story ot a young girl walking in her sleep.
A fellow in Aroostook county. Me, an
swered a New York advertisement repre
senting that the advertiser could furnish
any person with a wife. The advertiser
replied directing the writer to a neighbor
ing asvlum for idiots'. The same youth,
not at all abashed, whose r..nre is John
Morris, speaks of himself as follows :
Iam 18 years old, have a good set of
teeth, and believe in, Andy Johnson, the
star-spangled banner, and tbe 4th of July.
I have taken up a State lot, cleared up eigh-
teen acres last year, aod seeded, ten of it
down. My buckwheat looks firstrate, arul
the oats and potatoes are bully. 1 have got
nine sheep, a two year old bull andtwo
heifers, besides a house and barn. I want
10 get married. I want to buy bread - and
butter, hoopskirta and waterfalls for some
person of the female persuasion during my
life. That's what' the matter with rne
Hut I don't know how to uo it. .
A Qcetion for Lawters.' A'newspaper
correspondent,' having lately visited the Si
ameese twins, put the following question :
Should Chang, one of the twins, infringe
the law by something worthy of death how
should be be punished and justice be satis
fied, if it could not be without the death of
tbe innocent? ' : ' '
5 A good story is told of a recent "smash
ap1' 00 4 Western- railroad.- - A soldier who,
in coming from- Baltimore Mo Rock Island,
had met vviih four accidents, Was orr this
occasion in the car that turned completely
oveh; llakinghia tray 'throogVa window,
and gaining an upright jrgsit;, he looked
How an Editor Tied.
His Coolness and Courage He Makes a Wi'l
Amid tke Howling of the Tempest The Vet-
, tel Goes to Pieces and he is Drowned.
A San Francisco correspondent furnishes
this account of a remarkable case of cool-
ress and courage. The Gentleman aliuaea ,
to was JameB Nisbet of The San Francisco ;
Bulletin, who was lost on the steamship
Brother Jonathan, and his body was found
floating in the ocean seven miles from land.
When it was taken ashore and examined
ther9 was found in the deceased's vest pock
et a will which was writen after the ship
struck the fatal rock. Contemplating calm
ly ihe terrible scenes about him, and calcu
lating his chances for life, he had the cool
courage to make such a disposition of his
property as would be most beneficial to
thot-e who would be left behind him. That
old man writing a will amid the howling of
the tempest that was lashing the ocean into
foaming billows.and aurrounded by drown
ing men, women and children wailing out
their agony to the pitiless winds and the
raging sea, presents a heroic picture. Here
is a copy ol the will, and let the reader ob
serve with what care it is written.
'At Sea on Board the Brother Jonathan
July 20, 1865.
"In view of death, I hereby appoint my
brother, Thomas Nitbei, at present engaged
on ihe Pacific Railroad, near Clipper Gap,
California, my sole executor, with instruc
tions to wind up my whole estate, real and
pereoiial, and convert ihe same iuto cah,
with all conveuient speed, but 60 as not to
sacrifice the same, and to pay over and di
vide the same equally between himself and
my sole sister Margaret Nisbet, now resid
ing in England ; and under burden of the
payment of a legacy of 5,000 in gold to
Almira Hopkins, wile of Casper T. Hop
kins, insurance agent, San Francisco, Cal
And I desire that my brother, said Thomas
Nisbet, shall not be asked to give security
for his intromission with my estate.
Jab. 'Nisbet "
The document was written with a pencil,
the writer cooly recollecting that pencil
marks are less affected by water than ink
marks. It was clearly written in Mr. Nis
bei's bold and steady penmanship. When
he bad concluded tbe will he found that he
had yet a little time left betore the ship
would probably go down, and he added the
following brief note to a family in this city
where he had boarded for many years :
''Mr Dear Ma: A thousand affectiona'e
adieus. You spoke of my sailing on Fri
day hangman's day and ihe unlucky Jon-,
alhan. Well, here I am with death before
me. My love to you all to Casper, to
Belle, Mellie, aud little Myra kiss her lor
me. Never forget Grandpa.'''
The children familiarly addressed (heboid
nsn as grandpa, although he was in no
way related to them.
Matrimomal Inconstancy. A queer in
stance in illustration of this vice has recent
ly teen brought to light in a neighboring
town. A married woman moving in high
circle, leit her home one evening last week,
aud. taking a conveyance to a hotel in the
rural districts, was soon joineil by an un
faithful husband, who ought to have been
at home taking care of his own family, in
stead of ergagitjg in intimate companion
ship with those outside of his own house
ho'd. The couple ordered a room together,
representing themselves as man and wile.
At a later hour the same night, a carriage
drove up to the door of the hotel with an
otner couple, who engaged lodgings in an
adjoining chamber. All passed off quietly
enough until next morning, when the two
couples'were summoned to the breakfast
table. There they met, when lo and be
hold ! there was a mere change of part
ners, each gentleman having upon his arm
the wife of the other! Although there was
mutual blushing mental cursing and recrim
ination, it was deemed best, after a sober,
second thought, to let the matter rest as
quietly as possible, but the coincidence was
a too remarkable one to avoid the ear of
the over curious. Lowell (Mass.; A-Tstrf.
An array correspondent writes: In the
army and among returned soldierb, I have
noted one fact, in particular, somewhat
at variance with the usaal theories. It
U that light-baited men, of the nervous.
, sanguine type, stand campaigning better
than the dark haired men, ol bilious temper-
; ament. Look through a raw regiment on its
f way to the field, fully one half its members
' sesm to be of tbe black-haired, dark skinned
1 large boney billions type. See that same
regiment on its return for muster out, and
you will find that the black haired, element
hRs melted away, you will notice that two
thirds, perhapsthree fourths, of the regiment
to be represented by red, brown and flaxen
hair. It is also noticed that men from the
cities, slighter in physique, and apparently
at the outset nnable to ecdure the fatigce
and privatioo, stand a severe campaign and
fatigue much ' better than ' men from the I
agricultural districts. A thin, pale looking
dry goods clerk will do' more marching and
starving than many a plow boy, who looks
muscular enough to take a bull by the tail and
throw him over a staked-and-ridered fence.
Pittsburg is a queer -place. The other
day three men went into a lager beer saloon
and two commenced catching' all the flies
therein, while the third ate the insects as
fast as crught, on a bet that he could eat
them quicker than his companions could
catch them." They were. arrested and fined
hhree dollars each for the fan.- , "
If yoo are poor, eit down and .gtowl
about it. Bf so doing yoo are sure to jret
A Railroad Car at Night.
B.F. Taylor has been takiug a railroad
ride, and having failed, perhaps, to enjoy
the ride, enjoys himself in describing what
he saw. The following glimpse at his com
panions as they appeared when night said
'-sleep," will be appreciated by ait wno
have 'been there."
I came near forgetting that your old friends
were all on the train; the woman who
plumps down into your seat and regards
yoa with thankless and supercilious eye
brows, as if yoa were somebody that had
blundered into breathdom without leave ;
and the man who dons his best garments to
travel in ; mounts the train as clerical as
black broad cloth can make him.and leaves
it with the looks of a dusty miller. And the
night scenes, sounds and scents are as curi
ous as ever. Whiffs of boots and smothering
gusts of musk, patchouli, cheese, tobacco,
and feet that could never be fit to "walk on
Zion's bill" without a wade and wash in
the Jordan, are blended. As the night
wears on, the fellow who always fails t5 be J
funny flickers out like a penny-dip; the
ten-pin of a man who had sat bolt upright
all day, grows aa courtly as a Mandarin, for
even "Homer nods" at times; the girl with
little giggle, that had been rippling like run
ning water, "weak, washy" and everlast
ing, intermits; grows interesting and falls
asleep ; men make letter Z's of themselves,
6hut up like pocket-knives, roll up like por
cupines, diverge like Y's; trim and shapely
women tumble to pieces, and lie in little
heaps of undistinguishable garments upon
the seats, the red and dissipated lamps wink
sleepily and hazily at you, and tbe clatter-te-clank
of the iron wheels hammers out
the long, dull strip of darkness. Then
comes that menagerie ol respiration that
men have agreed lo call sncring; yoa hear
barks, snorts, snuff, and growls ; one creaks
like a rusty hinge, another pants like an
engine, or whines like a spaniel, or is for
ever blowing oat candles, liy and by, the
car windows turn rebel grej,(or a day is
beginning to dawn. Did yon ever see a
woman hatched out? Now is the 'golden
opportunity. Leda il that is the lady's
name we read of whose dooble-yolked egg
gave us Castor and Pollux if I havn't for
gotten all abonttit was hardly more won
derful. Yonder bundle of skirts, bbawls
and cloaks, as shapeless as a grist, begins to
siir,firs.peepsoutapairoffeet,andther.a;aborljonjMlhe mordere, of innocentt,
pair ol hands, and then a fair and tangled
head; at last emerges female shape; an
Eve is hatched before your eye and the
world is better lor a waking woman.
Don't Swsar. Profanity is cna of tbe
most offensive and disgusting habits to;
which unredeemed humanity is given ; to
say nothing of its sinfulness, (which every
one of course underused s.) profane swear
ing is a vile, vulgar, low bred habit, from
th9 indulgence of which a proper self-respect
should restrain a man, even if he hs.s
no regard for the dictates of religion. It is
a habit, loo, which increases with fearful j
rapidity, when once given way to; and we 1
have krjown of instances where men who
were once highly respectable, but who,
unfortunately contraaied this habit, have
soon sunk so low as to use pro fa no language
ia their own families, and even to swear at
their wives and children.
He Fobuot Something. ''What did yoar
mother say, my little man 1 Did yoa give
ber ray card?" asked an inexperienced
young gentleman of a little boy, who?e
mother had given him an invitation to call
upon her, and her street door was accorJ
ingly opened to bis untimely summons by
the urchin aforesaid.
"Yes, I gave it to her," was the inno
cent reiHy, ''and she said ii you wa-u'l a
nal'ral fool, you wouldn't come Monday
morning, when everybody was washing "
At this juncfU'e, mamma. 'with a sweet
smile of welcome, made her appearance
at the end of the hall, when, to her surprise,
Mr. Verisopht, the visitor, bolted.
"What does the man mean V inquired
mamma.
- 'l dunno," replied Cub, "guess he's for
got sumihin' !" " '
An artist invited a gentleman to criticise
a portrait he had painted of Mr. Jenks, who
was given to drink. Putting his hand to
wards it, the artist exclajmed, "Don't touch
it; it is not dry." "Then," eaidhe, "it cannot
be like my friend Jenks."
A teacher in a contraband school asked a
young darkey what a certain letter of the
alphabet was. The darkey looked at il
earnestly for a short time. and aaid; 'l know
dat well enough by sight, but am bresed if
lean tell it by name." He was told he
could take a back seat.
"Doctor, kin yon tell me what's the mat
ter with my child's nose? She keeps a
pickin' of itv' "Yes, ma'am il'e probably
an irritation of the gastric mucus membrane
communicating a sympathetic litilation to
ihe opthalium echaerian." "The-e, now,
that's just what I told Becky ; but she Mowed
it was wortntni !" -.
. A teacher of vocal musie asked-an old
lady il her grandson had any'ear for music.
"Wa'll," said the old woman, "I really don'l
know, won't yoa take the candle and see ?"
A clergyman slid in a recent sermon
that the path of rcditud had 'freen "traveled
$2 00 In AdTance per XnhuEr.
NUMBER 51,
I "Loyal" fflnfrnnte Fallen Reverend Colo
, nel Jaeques in Jail fur Procuring an Abor-
Hon. ' -' ' ' "
From the LouuvVle Pre Sspt. 25 J
The fall of such a msn as Colonel Jacqow
is sufficient to arouse the sorrow of every
man who knows the former worth .'6f tbe
gallant Jacquep. He was one of the first
and most influential of the Methodist de
nomination, in Illinois. When that body
established a female educational school in
Jacksonville he was placed in charge of it.
He managed it with such talent and success
that when a greater educational enterprise
was projected he was transferred to it. He
was engaged in this when the rebellibn
commenced. Col. Jacques was a man of
intense loyally, of commanding influence,
and oi great oratorical ability. He took the
field in behalf of tbe. Uuion, and sp'eedily
raised one of the finest regfrnerits'tha't Illi
nois gave to the service of the 'Union, h
was caHed tbe preachers' regiment, on ac
count of the number of preachers enlisted
in it. Of this regiment Jacques was made
Colonel, and he served with great dis'inc
lion. During the progress of the war 'Colonel
Jacques had numerous conferences with
Bishop Simpson, and both were well satis
fied that if a Methodist of proper position
in the North could get among the Southern .
Methodists much might be done-toward
crippling the rebellion. .This mission Col.
Jacques undertook with the approval 'of
Bishop Simpson and of Mr. Lincoln. Col.
Jicques bravely met tbe peril, and travelled
extensively among the Southern Methodists.
He returned just before the battle of Chick
amaoga, and took a conspicuous part in that
battle. ; ;
Col. Jacques was the companion of M.t.
Gilmore in a visit to Richmond for an in
terview with Jeff. Davis, in which musioti
they succeeded. This visit was intended
to bring about peace.
The Colonel has recently been detailed
for breaking op the negro camps, sOch bb
Camp Nelson. This is the cause. 6f his
presence in Kentucky. ,
On Friday last, Col. Jacques employed
fellow calling himself Dr. H. G. Miller to
procure abortion in the case of a Georgia
woman. The Colsntl was f resenV daring
the tragedy, and was arrested wiih the fe
male abortionist, al whose house the mur
der was perpetrated, and with Miller, the
The victim died in about eight hours after
Millar fnmmf fifil hi denreriatianfr. Th6
ho,e party wer(J orr(Jp,ed in fiizgrante de.
lido and are now in jail, the coroner's 'in
quest having amply confirmed all the sus
picions that led to the interference ol the
police. Mr. Tnrner, "the policeman, saw
signs of the outrage in progress, and rnado
his preparations for arresting the guilty par-,
ties, in which, as we have said, he suc
ceeded. We do not rejoice in iniquity, and
we cannot bat drop tears of sorrow Over the
fall of such a man as Col. Jacques. '
Tbe Da; and the iToor. . ...
A certain Captain Baker, an "engineer
officer in the British service, haa recently
published 9 book . in which the end of ths
world is set dotvn for September 20tb, 1878.
Nothing can be more . regular and ship
Fhape than the style in which the events
that are lo precede the grand catastrophe "
are chroni'C ltd. In December, 1867,Jaeen
Victoria is to resign, and the Prince of Walei
to become Prince Regent. Inl869and 1870
Austria is to seize Greece, and Russia
gobble Turkey. Between 1 87 1 and 1874
inclusive, ftursia is to take Greece frim
Austria, and receive homage from Francis
Joseph ; after which Napoleon is to make
covenant with the Jews, and the Czar to get
himself killed in a row with the French
and Jews in Palestine. About this , time
Louis Napoleon wiR become paramount
throughout all the countries comprised in
the Old Roman world, prior to his first ap
pearance as Antichrist. The letter event
will not coma off until after the translation
of the saints; which, if Captaia Baker'
programme is correct, will occur all o'clock
A. M. January 25 h, 1875. Shortly . after
wards Paris is to be taken by tbe English
of course. Previous to the grand finale,
Antichrist, otherwise Louis Napoleon, will
have a good time generally, smiting, the
Saints, hip and thigh, blaspheming, ahd
compelling church members and other re
spectable people to go down on their
marrow bones end worship him.. The per
formances will conclude some lime in 1878.
and it is announced that there can be no
postponement under any circumstances, be
cause the world will be six thousand years
old and must be abated as a public nui
sance. . , , .
No doubt many people will believe this
stuff and tremble supposing that a crack
brained engineer has fathomed . the secret
which the Saviour has expressly declared
uo man shall fathom ! Marvellous is human
gullibility. ....
Waggs went to the depot of one of out
railroads the other evening, and finding the
best cir full, said in a loud tone ,
. "Why this car isn't going." ' . -
Of c onrse these words caused a general
stampede, and Waggs tookthe best seal.
The c-ara soon moved off. In, the midst of
the indignation, the wag was questioned
''Yon said this car wasn't going ?'
jWell, it wasn't then, but it is now." '
The "soldy laughed a " little bot Wajgs
came rather near a yooJ thrashing.
ci k-t directs. m