cin FRED'K KURTZ, Editor if al NEW ADVIRTISEMENES. 'Y . ‘ A aaanst tae pure } Yvardd area ang ON. . . \ Al 3 NA ar nereony ane cautioned dy ] hy me 1867, without inter i value for the same. | pay it, unless: comp Hod bye law. BRENRY KERN, ie Ma Tw 1 UW iN THE KIRBY. To Farmer und Rey «, Will Kirby. Send fi or catl on SHORTLIDGE & CO. . aplU es, hin. Bellofs ¥ IME COALGAND LU oan 1111) il © tails fweniyv-t dIArs, given rt hal re 34h S to Joseph Rishel, dated in June, nonths, Yi: 3 ine 3 A mm nin i y' TL NOU Baving rect 1 ana C3. refuse to api at ant of 8 Mower well to exannne the 0 deseriptive Cawtlogue do t Ww AMOI a BER. Phe beat Wood and Coal burnt Lime can be had at the Bellefonte Line Kilns, on the ike leading to Milesbhury, at the lowest We are the only parties in Central w who burn in Patent Flame XNiln, which produces the best White Wash and Viastering Lime offered to tho trade. The best Shamokin and Wilkesburrie Anthirecite Cond, all sizes, prepared express Iv for fanily use—also Silver Brook foun- \ : Prices, enn'a dry cond, at the lowest prices Also a bonrds, br: plastering lath for sale chean, Office new yard, near Se Eugle Valley R. BR. Ps SHORTLLL lot of first and second quality 3 he hint od ond rails, paling, shingles snd 3.31.} ‘ 1 £ } mth end ol Bald ies apples 1y, TINWARE! TINWARE! Respectfully announces th the citizez Totter township, that he 1s now | . rel \ Hoovd an to furnish n shortest yy Yt ens Hix} sat FOLIC, 2 . . chean fs else her y OV OT) Od Tin and Nheetiron Ware. STOVE-PIPE§ SPO All kinds of repairing done, on hand buckets, cups, : Ne, SILVERPLATING. : 1 th, 3h Cilia Art 6 FEI rN SY dale, ic has wl- ys 3 dippars, Qleil- i 1M nest and GrIve 41m a Cri nj ! [14s FARMERS LOOK HERE. ry. gr GET THI: VALLEY CHIEF REA- 4 “Ty iy Pi : MOWER, . »l: reh X Co, Lewis- rE. i bu = 3 v NOW 1 in or gras: no matter nuch he lodged. his celeln nie d Reaper & Mower, can at the residence of the agent, one mile t of Woils store. It ts the wt inven- i, all cast iron and stowed, und when in (8 L weighs only M0 pounds. It is two-wheel machine, and warranted to work factorily, and 17it does ne wrk accord- arantee, it will be made to } “the In he “y Toit: tis IRENE tua - n eration fw anufacturers, in . R21 at six Price of Mower $175 casi ‘AM. EHRIHART Agent, Wolls Store. a 2¥) ach or S$ BLLGIES! pring Wagons &e., ? ; ited to FIVE siltls- ’ addi did . 14 i= . i H reprirmg ( 1} and x Sud + i Worrrerrad } R11 a0d SCC 1S S1OCK vl buagries be- \ 1 . syn ol 3 clas 3 a ng eisewhere OF (LATE HUMES, ¥ecALLISTER, & OO E.C. HeMEs, Pres't. - J. P. HARRIS, Cush. Thi: Bank is now organized for the we of Banking under the laws of the d States, {Certificates issued by Humes, MeAllister, Hule & Co., will be paid at maturity, and i 13 usu nopre- id First 2 ir- pt Uni 1H le 1¢ 3 Checks of deposits ut vight tl o1 sentation at the ce tional Bank. Particular atte fthe sa -y nto o unever « sption given to the purennse Secu t { % AF EL Filles, HUME atl Ad i ] £ Lv 0n y and sale of Governmen oS, * fog Ys ‘3 aplr es, President. HENRY BROCKERHOTF, J President. D. SHUGFRT, Cashier. i \/ JOVER & CO, BANKING CO. RECEIVE DEPOSITS, And Allow Interest, : Discount Notes, Buy And Sell Government Securities, Gold and Cou- pons, apll 68, Jous D. INGATE, DNENTI OT excep ty Yi er of Bishop and t, perhaps, the vt hs on Northwest « At home, eecks of every raonth. th extracted without pain. Bellefonte, P apli’ C8 tf. a. a] ¥3 D. NEFR OM Ae Surgeon, Center Oftere his professional s0 zens of Potter township. Dr. Neff has the experier oo 36. . ) the active practice of Medicthe gery. i . en AEA Pivsician and gil, Pa. 05.10 the citi- ) PE NW et re Ae A eR — - — > ca Ji. N. M' ALLISTER. JAMES A. BFAVEK, 0) BEAVER 2H 0, 0 tS 9 /\! i Ne) Ss ALLISTER & ATTORNEVS-AT-LAW, Bellefonte, Centre Ce., Penn’a. J e E MITCHELL -ATTORNEY af law, Bellefonte, Pa. appl 6s, rvs & ALEXANDER, Attorney-at-law, Bellefonte, Pa. api 68, DAM HOY- A Pa. ani Orth and Proprietor. 10.9 Mo Fy 5! uN ne of Br 2) | walt Hh ad gen ov LS ape Fs Fr Da gi ——l ha CA fo 21.84 2 fv Swe Ape ING A i 2 ~~ NANT Ny 5 . ig 3 .n h We Ry Rew § Fn KOS LORY ax jo 3 & Ny CENTRE HALL REPORTER. NGS FRIDAY, APRIL 17th, f yy en p £2800 | EB 2. R11 Yreltl 10D ‘ 7, AUDITOR GENERAL: A R*Y ‘ OY LE, FOR HON. CHARLES E. B of Fayett € Oi IVEYOR GENERAL: FOR RU GEN. WELLINGTON H. ENT, of Columbia County, | ATR Postpone The Trial. Underthe above head the Werld has the following Washingto We have further threats of impeach- ment of Judge Chase to-day fiom the | extreme Radicals, Ove Radical Sen- ator this morning sid to an acquain- tance: “Wait ull we get President; then look We will impeach him sure.” A class ol nN RAVICCS: pression of opinion as the trial pro- eresced : but they are of the pronoun- ced original impeachers, and their pos- ition has not at any time been misap- ha Sone A000 A UTI thted hy the nrehended, A 2 vet, none oft 11 i - : tae | tors WHORC DPOSIHION 18 ¢ ¥ .- 1 *s bin ax to the nerits or demerits oil Phis act has 1 achersthat they have loubly i Ay ments t impeachment. rhed the imp ] i the pending impeachment by themse . . + 13 ves wah nm for the postponement of the : : : trial, sO (hat th may ne enabled 0 sel the benefit of the VOUS of Benators py * 3 . 3 iby { olorad ) that kfaén ud the ey trom Arkansas, and poss | by the adinizsion of Tk ry of Colora bBiaic. Such pertponement of hearing wi be urged until it shall be shown that the Preeident’s counsel are not dispo=ed to ask foa further d This project is seriously entertained by a portion of members of both Houses, but no ene save of this class beileves that the plan { ean succeed. To admit new jurors or | Senators to participation in the delib- | erations upon impeachment, when the | trial has progressed thus far, would be 50 bold an injustice could not reeaive the wi ¢ Q Wtial LALA LLL WR y 38 i EVIE 21:10 lav ciay, iy ! i that the proposition vy considerable here sare about » ml aozen nenier vill resort to i g Piriri4 2 $ bia t } xs | the President, thet thicy i . " - » a flacrantoutracre as this to Inerur | such a fi 1 | success of the scheme te fen] nf tha Nirvi: Oil {ac Removed from the execut Wy + egy Ore , " 3 { RCs Of | conversant wi the pu 1 ORCS } { (out. It is admitted by the impeach | ers, In private conv this i 3 | i 4 i i i i i 0 . Ol 18 1 iwversations, that th nas weakened daily by the do ala WH y OTHE Galiy ny 1c {i velopemcnts of the impeachment trial, oN ) ver’ and that if the Case shall he determin- ¢ 1 ts & , ‘e » iy he law, the fact and simple | ed upon Le a) \ i that the 1n- bt. 1 ' Just=ee, tnev have no cas | peachment project haa ns greatest | . : | strength in iis inception, and has been | weaker at every mention of it there- | after i 1. UL AS 8 - + vyes seb ur ows 14 read pare measure I : i i | fecare the conviction of Mr. Johnson. | i Chief Ju Ap Br stice Ci e’s Position. "Nr - 125 1 * y+ - * | date of 31st ult. writes as follows: ry The post Chief-dnstice t ment trial, is egrrobo mdicated in thag { but does not ent then predicted he to-day assumed by in the impeach- rative of what was espaches last week, r dover the ground I. Phe circumstances of the trialto-day, io cver, were not such as to bring out a thorough exposition of .the leon] opinions entertained by Judge Chase. " Whether they chall hereafter prove to be fully up to thestan- dard indicated in these despatches or no nevertheless sufficient evidence seems to have been given to the minds of the extreme Radi exercise them se- verely, and cause threats to he made by some to impeach the Chief-Justice, and it is asserted to-night by friends of General Butler that he D to prefer charges against Judge Chase for alleged assumption of powers that do not pertain to the office of Chief-Justice. Your correspondent does not vouch for this report as a correct representa- tion of General Butler's purpose, but it comes from a creditable source and Sr re “ Is given merely as a renort. wi" A Johnstown, Fulton County, 1n tins le | 1 ee - » + State, has heredgfore been good for about 600 Republiean majority, but this epring elected a Radical $¥5ubervi- . . 8" sor by two majority. yo" ef lp pm pRB Tar YOUr 3 re f " ti " A+ WO negroes are running 18r ide Legislature im Georgia and will be sup- | ported by the Radicals, 1 : 4 licals LO '] OP OSes fd Poy ! hh : _ : ad Fry YX ¥ ND “ - : & : «8 OP fo Ah em HALL EERE COR TSE KREMER REPUBLICAN COWARDS. With one word ma on the party which dares not trus ISInyY endranch verdict and for a W hites {oO cheat in is own favor. They are cowards, “But the gentleman from Pennsyl- vania (Mr. Broomall) was pleased to Suv, 1 the course of his remarks, t) v man who feared Lneero race in this country was a cowarq, “Mr. Speaker, 1s 1t evidence of cour age to court the domination of negr the body of electors, poverning and law making classes, the most inferior, | norant, and corruptible races on the earth? Sucha policy has not been tolerated or adopted by an) except the present Radical party this country. by the intelligence and virtue of the people cannot be safely committed to such guardians. “Ah, M. Speaker, who are the cow- ards in this country to-day? Arvethe Democratic party =a party whose fidelity to principle has been character- ized by a degree of cournge and self- sacrafice that has known no parallel in the history of political parties or of civil government. I wil tell you who the cowardsare; they are those LUN he Radial party, who are afraid to Democratic party 3 meet tae to-hand s 1 their own race, bloed and lineage, | mt seek to skulk and intrench them selves behind the power and influence and aid of a negro population. They are those who are the cowards, Yes, they are afraid to appeal for support to, and [abide] the verdict of their own race. They tremble as convicted crim- inal before such a tribunal, and by an unratural and unjust exercise of power appeal for support to a race utterly incompetent either to govern or support themselves. They fear to avow before country tha principles on which they stand. Let it not be said that the members of the Democratic party are cowards because they fear neg domination. We have no fear when we have only to do battle before the Hi Higence and virtue of the people of this country ; but when we are compeli- icnorance and bharbar- +1 tae t “1 Les ) {to meet thie LR i=m and stupidity and vice of the coun- v political par- I say, we do : 4) Of 1he then, wetiire iy JR Aaa POW XY. i It 18 lation ; it is rv I'he 1 not because we , Y . neero as well as the white @ ln 1h ne a Ile Tribune twenty-three States h Chicago held Ys . \: y » : . 1 Tey States or District Republican ( onven- £1 te Ye 2 stad . i ] DHOINTeA delegates x0 lhe A A . 1 nounced +, " Yo : ] wr 101 the 1 it S1ACLHCY. A Radical dp olf fn essen nn hill, bitterly denounced the aavingsthat an “intelligent better than an irnorant Irish The Democera in the recent town election in Machias, fp ifm: Appa : 1 ts gained — A ap - X. has given his portrait il Pius | {oO Mr. Peabody, with a Latin quotation 1 eulogium onl . 11}3¢r ¢ Phd . written with his Holiness’s own hand. contain enevolence, The baptism of the youngest son of the Crown Prince of Prussia was cele- brated March 22. ile the names of Joachim Frederick nest Waldemar, has received 1, Aal- On Tuesday, of this week, at York, Pa, William Donavan was hung for the murder of the Squibb family eigth- teen months ag lle was an Irish- man, of middle age, and attended by Catholic priests, and protested his in- nocence to the last, It costs Pennsylvania four dollars a year to support criminals and paupers, the areat portion of which crime and pov- erty is due to intemperance. {). every man in the State of - An imperial decree has been made public by which the Government (lommission for Internal Affairs in the Kingdom of Poland is abolished, and its administrative jurisdiction is handed over to the respective authorities of Russian Empire. The complete union of the province of the Kingdom of P o- land with the other portions of the empire is hereby effected. A writer in the Columbia (S. C.) Phenix nominates ex-Confederate Wade Hampton for Governor. IN WEY Rp » AIA] ‘w » 'ERIOUS Pl i) HISTORY. 1 i i ne » 3 * 2h i [he records of the past furnish us | d ou 1 } i ‘ VOICE CHIRLTALCLE DS 1 hat seem to have had a mysterious | ' ence «iter the public have been | informed of their tragcieal To | Y 1 (oentines, tent hin i ch an MUCH Bi] CA ay, with ere Yy » Th » hos s \ i y } y RIN LOT Hell Nena HRY soul } 3 pill, LIT Hinbs LY lis « WHS | i @ strung to city pate I biut » ir} a * + iI) oh fut {ill theu Spr walks abroad i Nu these Spills seem get rally to | ‘r 3 : wrthly DOULES, yv credit the tales of travel: 1A Tl . We aay been slow in making a startling histo- is young republic has not ers, ¢ that has all the romantic old Europe. Yor rv, and on pages of century. J. WILKES BOOTH, who, like that phantom ship, the IPly- ing Dutchman, is, from time to time, reported to have heen sCCH mn propria persona in various parts of the world; the latest story being that he now is the captain of a pirate vessel and the terror of the China seas. At intervals the press informs the public that some reliable correspondents have seen the notorious assassin in Europe. One time he has been seen playing rouge ef noir at Baden Baden : another at the opera in Vienna. One positively swears that he saw him driving in the Bois de Boulogne at Paris. And an- other is equally confident that he be- held him visiting St. Peter's at 1 One fact certain in reg disposal of the corpse of B its resting place 1s known to and the public at large are as to whether it now moulders in a se- cluded and unknown grave, or wheth- 3 OI, the that CW, . 18 ml 8) | ooth, h ut ceived his saangled remains, indeed, may be said to be the only re- yp ata in our annals, although, perhaps, the few years we have been an inde- pendent republic, no nation ever made its history so faust. One of the local traditions New York that has caused much wonderment, is the ca of + ol SL JOIN C. brother of Samuel the Colt revolver. He murdered in 1842 a man named Adams, to whom owed an amount of money, and had d i Coltr considerably, i iit L COLT, (‘oit, inventor of ye who Orr “4 : 7+} lice of Colt, on ii 1 + 1)» 3 . 1 ) { corner of Droadway and Cham ! i ‘At i a 2CUINe ensued, and I HEAT, QOE-] then went while walk- (1 tO return, ent i hody un and send it to New Orle- A Jat ae y Up : ans: but in the meantime Adums was | lost geen gomye m- | y' 2 a to Colt’s office, that gentleman was (3 4 LOG 3} fa uspected, and it wus asce om | a box had left the of- | This box was found at the bot- Colt was tried and | i 3 1 i fice. Yor} fessed 1t on his dy yu bed 7 mirodueced n the morning of : } ssid committed ¢ execution. Sever "Ye ) . tral x { + were Aiitache( 10 murder and suicide, before the excention wilard the Sheriff and offered calicd upon ihe heriit and ollered 1 facilities for the ] Re 1} Mysterious this » tha As ¥y Or ule Cyiehing Fig 3 1118 iu . $43 3% AS FCs ANOS +3 is “11 a an 1 aiseulise flor { vhich Proposi- ir two betore Colt was to have been wmneed the bell-tower of the Toombs took fire and a great deal of contusion | ensued. Although an was { 1 ] mquoest that Colt had es- | eaped. Even now reports come fron various parts of the world that he has been seen alive, and about fif cen years ago many sensational articles appeared, purporting that he had es- caped and was still hving, believed “PHE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY.” Whether or not the person who bears this pseudonymne was the cub- ject of a cieverly concocted fible cr not, it is at least a singular case. The person who is said Lo have born this title was a Philip Nolan, a notice of whose death appeared last year in a New York journal. It ran thus: “Died Ol board {. Mm. corvette f.ov- ant, on the 11th of May, Philip No- lan,” The etory is as follows: When Aaron Burr made his first dashing expedition down to New Orleans, in 1805, he met a lieutenant named Phil- ip Nolan, belonging to the Legion of the West. The young officer became faicinated with the brilliant states man, who enlisted him in his treason- able schemes, The authorities sus- pected Nolan as being an accomplice of Burt's, and on the court-martial the impetuous youth cried out, in a fit of frenzy, “D—n the United States! I wish 1 may never hear of the Uni- ted States again,” These words shocked the Revolutionary officers that formed e court-martial, and Nolan was condemned to be sent on board a vessel, where he was never IR th L 5 again to hear the words United States, ARSE WERT Nv meta TYRANT ENTE and the Instructions received “\V vervaron,” (with thao 11 POCeIVEe {roan {.ieu- which must have been late You will 3 Gtr 11% , Inte no lieutenant in the United Minter ay "i iad * . : martiel expressed with an oath the his wish fulfilled, “For the present, the exceution of to this department. “You will take the prironer on hoard your ship, snd keep him there “You will provide him with such quarters, rations, and clothing would be proper for an officer of his late rank, it he were a passenger on your vessel on the business of his gov- ernment, “The gentlemen on board will make any arrangements agreeable to them- selves regarding his society. He is to be exposed to no indignity of any kind, nor is he ever unnecessarily to be reminded that he is a prisoner. “Dut under no circumstances is he ever to hear of his country or to see any information regarding it ; and yon will specially caution all the officers under your command to take care, that in the various indulgences which may be granted, this rule, in which his punishment is involved, shall not be broken, “It is the intention of the govern- ment that he shall never again see the country which he has disowned. DBe- the end of your cruise you will receive orders which will give efleet to this intention. “Respectfully yours, W. Mournagp, “For the secretary of the Navy.” HE fore Nolan seems to have been passed from vessel to vessel and to have re- mained a prisoner for over sixty years, and was made the subject of innmmner- ble traditions and prlpaple myths, He was strictly guarded, and the name of the United States never mentioned to him. It is penemily supposed, how- ever, that thir myth wus originated during the recent war by some highly imaginative individual who desired to institute comparison and similes be- tween Nolan and the leaders, Of course, Nolan repented of his folly, and died deeply regretting the Ineau- tious words that condemned him life of imprisonment, which was prob- ably mor , irom mterfering Im i y rebel i XAPOLEON 11. The mass the ny of well-read, Vil H., and the reason why the assumes the itle of Napoleon 111. 1s to them : i Napoleon Francis Jo- les Pe napart, or Napoleon the son of Napoleon the that sov- resent emperor i { a marringre between n d was from his birth styled the When his father, the wh 12 11%: pomeo went his mother to Vienna, and was there Educated by his grandisther, the Emperor of Austria. His was that of Duke of Reichetadt, and he was most carefully instructed, es pecially in the milit xy art. But he t L { y tion was weak, and carly symptoms oi consumption unfitted him for the la- horious duties of a military carcer. On Napaleon’s return from “Ilba, in 1815, an attempt was made to remove ted by the Austrian authorities, He made a Lieutenant-Clolonel in 1851, and commanded a baitalion of Vienna: but his death, when he was but 21 years old, cut him of before he had reached an age in which he might have displayed any abilities he possess ed. During his lifetime he never as- sumed the title 0 Napoleon 11, inas- much as the abdication of’ his father, in his favor, was never admitted by the French Government. But in 1852, when the resumption of empire by Lou- is Napoleon rendered rome title neces- sary, he was considered Napoleon 11, and the new Emperor took that of Na- poleon 111. The latier title, however, having been recognized by the several governments of Iurope, the recogni- tion of the former ix implied. LOUIS XVII, who was supposed to have been poison- ed by some person in the Temple at Parisduring the french revoletion, and by others to have escaped, was the son of the unfortunate Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette. It was only recently that a report was circulating in the pa- pers that a gentleman of advanced age had died in March, in 5t. Petersburgh, who was believed to have been Louis XVII. He was the third child of Lou- is and Marie Antoinette. His first ti- tle was Duke of Normandy, and he be- came dauphin by the death of'his elder hrother, Louis Joseph, June 4, 1789. He was carefully educated under the supervision of his father, and at the out! reak of the revolution was a boas uful] tively, and mtelligent child, but remark ’ : a al i glint, 1 bly impatient and unmanage- fe was imprizoned in the Tem- ple with the rest of the royal family C August 15,1792, After the execution | of his father, January 21, 1793, he was procleimed King by Lis uncle, the Count of Provence, who was then a re- in Germany, and was recognized as King by most of the Courts of Eu- y the Vendean chiefs, and by the insurgents in the South of France. | These demonstrations, together with | several unsuccessful attempts by the | royalixts to rescue him from prison, irri- tated and alarmed the revolutionary | covernmet, and on July 3, at 10 o'clock at night, the boy was foreibly taken from his mother’s arms, and, frantic with terror, was earried screaming to another part of the prison. Here he wis consigned to the eare of a shocma- ker named Antoine Simon, a violent Jacobin of rough manners and brutal temper, who treated with systematic cruelty, apparently with the dexigh of getting rid of him without committing panipable murder. The young prince was shut up in a cell and left there alone day and night, without employ- ment or amusement, or any opportuni- ty for exercise or to breathe the fresh air. A vessel of water, seldom replen- ished, was given him for drink, and some eoarce food was occasionally thrown in at the half-opened door. He was allowed no means of washing him- self, his bed was not made for rix months, and for more than a year his clothes, his shirt, and his shoes were not changed. By prolonged inactivity his limbs became rigid, and his mind, through terror, grief, and monotony, became imbecile and deranged. Some- thing that he had said, in reply to ques- tions having been perverted to the in- jury of his mother, he resolved hence- forth to be silent, and for a long period neither threats, nor blows, noreoaxings could induce him to speak. When not sleeping he sat quietly in his chair, without uttering a sound or shedding a tear, or shrinking from the rats, with which his dungeon swarmed. Louis, after the reign of terror, was placed un- der the care of more merciful keepers, but he wes still kept in solitary con- finemment, and not allowed to see his | iter, who was imprisoned in an ad- | joining apartment. At length, in May, 1795, a phyrician was allowed to see him, who pronounced him dying of scrofuln. He died at 2 p. m., in the | day, June 9, his body was identified and certified to by four members of the | Committee of Public Safety, and by more than twenty of the officials of the Temple. His remains were buried in the cemetery of St. Marguerite, and ev- ery trace of the grave carefully oblite- | rated. Several pretenders, claiming i to be Louis XVII, have appeared; among them, in France, Hergagart, a | tailor’s gon, who died in 1812, in prison, and Bruneau, a shoemaker, who was to prison in 1802; and in the Uni- {ueee y . ’ A? rope, hy a . + RCI Uf-breed, Indian, who died in 1850. MAN IN THE IRON MASK. Within the walls of the Bastile du- ring the reign of Loues XIV. was en- acted the inexplicable mystery, which has continued a mystery to this day, of the Man in the Iron Mask. When heard of, he was confined in the | Marguerite Islands, in the Mediterra- | nean, whence Le was removed by Lie Saint Mars, who was his private gov- ernor, and answerable, it 1s supposed, for his safety with his own life, to the Bastile, where he died, on November 19, 1703, and was buried on the 20th, in the cemetery of St. Paul, under the name of Machiati, No man, except the governor, so far ar ir known, ever saw his face, or heard his voiee; two persons, to whom he had conveyed written words, in one case marked up- on & linen shirt, in the other engraved on a silver plate, died, without appa- rent cause, immediately afierwards, During his conveyance from the Mar- guerite Isles, De Saint Mars dined at the same table, and slept in the same chamber with him, with pistols ever at hand resdy to destroy him, in the case of an attempt on his part to re- veal himwelf. In the Bastile he was waited on, at table and at his toilet, by the governor, who took charge of and destroyed all the linen he once used. He was never seen but with a mask of black velvet, fastened behind his head with steel springs; and when he went to hear mass, the invalids, who were in charge of him with mus- kets and lighted matches, were in- structed to fire on him instantly in case of his speaking or slowing his face. A hundred conjectures have been risked as to who this mysterious person was, who was treated with such respect, yet with such jealous rigor— whose life was held sacred against ta- king off, yet made one scene of inces- sant misery. The abscence of any person of sufficient note from the stage of history to account for precautions alone baflles all inquiry. The general idea seems to be that he was an elder brother of Louis X1V., the fruit of an adulterous intrigue between Anne of Austria and the Duke of Bucking- ham, or some other unknown lovor, who being born in wedlock, could not have been dispossessed of his claim to the throne had his cxistence been ad- mitted. THE CHILDREN IN THE TOWER. The amour of Edward the Fourth i 2 Yau {db x} re. first VOL. .—NO, 2. | CO — | sugmesied to his brother, the Duke of (ilostor, afterward the notorions Rick- ard 111, a means of attaining the | throne. He evén did not hesitate to malign his own mother, affirniing that the resemblance of Edward IV. and of the Duke of Clarence two notori- ous gallan's, was a sufficient proof df their spurious birth, and that the Duke of Gloster alonegof all his SONS, appeared by his features and counte: nance to he the true offspring ‘of the Duke of York. Shakespeare and his: tory have made the murder gf ihe babes in the Tower a familiar story; as well as that of the numerous pre- . tenders, among whom were Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck, so it is unnecessary to give a recapitulation here. The account of Sir Thomas More, which was collected from ‘the confession of the murders in the nex reign, is as follows: That Richard h in vain tampered with the governor of the Tower, Brackenbury to put then to death, but found a ready in- strument for the execution of his purs pose in Tyrrel, his master of horse | that Tyrrel was despatched with a commission to receive the keys of the Tower for one night, and that during that night he watched without while one of his grooms, accompanied by a notorious assassin, entered the sleeping room of the Jiees, stiffied them PE with feather beds and pillows, and bur: ied their bodies at the foot of the stair: case. The testimony of More is als most contemporaneous with the event itself, 2nd is confirmed by the honors certainly conferred upon the 2ll murderers. In the reign of Charles II, when alterations were made in the tower, there was found at the foot of an old stairway (at present shown to visitors) a heap of decayed bones; which proved to be those of two boys. The indications were deemed sufficient that they belonged to the unfortunate Edward V. and his brother, and they were removed by roval command to Westminster Abbey, where an inscrip- tion, beginning, “Ossa desideratorum div et multum quaesita,” was placed upon the monument. So well-conceal: ed a matter as the death of the royal princes leaves room for paradoxes and istoric doubts ; but it is certain that, though the name of Edward V.stands on the list of English sovereigns, he had hardly the shadow of a reign ; that under the dark protectorship of his uncle he went speedily from the palace to the prison, within whose precincts he found secret death and burial. Not: withstinding these sorroborations, there are many among the English nobilit who «till believe the princes escaped, and one house in Yorkshire claim to be the direct descendants of Edward V. THE LAST OF THE STUARTS. Henry Benedict Maria Clement Stuart, Cardinal York, the last male i representative of the Stuart family, was bornin Rome in 1725, died in Venice in 1807. He was the younger ward, (the I'rince Charley of the Scot: tish song) whom he was preparing to aid with a body of Proee troops as- sembled at Dunkirk, when the over: throw of the Jacobites at Culloden ruined the Stuart cause in Britain. He subsequently took orders in the Roman Catholic Church, and in 1747, was appointed by Benedict XIV. a Cardinal. On the death of his brotl- er,in 1788 he assumed the title of King of England as Henry IX, grati» Det, non voluntate hominwm, as th. medal which he caused to be struck of the occasion declared. He was sul sequently obliged to make refuge fron French invasionin Venice, and durin : the last years of his life was dependent upon the British Court for means of subsistance. He was the last male of the Stuart family, and with his death the line became extinct. Its ehiel branches in the female line are th. houses of Savoy and Orleans and the Duke of Modena, all descended frori Henrietta Maria, daughter of Charles I, of which king the present Duke of Modena is the lineal representativ.., being thus, but for the act of settlement, heir to the crown of England. There are two families of the name of Sti: ré on this continent that elaim falsely i: be the descendants of the Stuarts, and if they be the descendants they ean nat be the legitimate lineal representativ-, because the last male of the line died a priest, and was never married ; and tii. females, on marriage, changed their names, One of these females resid-« in Jackson, Mo., and the other iu Lenoxville, Canada. ry - ili. gP— Mary Heismilier, residing tn Ch: lette street, in Cincinati, Ohio, comm i- ted suicide yesterday morning by jumping into a cistern. The fall broka her neck. ; : In New Orleans a cotton fraud in- volving 830000, is being unearthed, but the intplicated party is rusticatin-/ in Havana. > A fire in Cleveland on 5th inst., di- stroyed property to amount of $27,- 000. A correspondent of the Louisville Courier nominates Judge Woodw «| for the Presidency. The auditor of Montana writes, und. date of March 16, that owing to incre: machinery and the discovery of new ¢ and silver fields in that Territory, the ye i: of these metals will be ten times more tha: lust year
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