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1867,
without inter
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pay it, unless: comp Hod bye law.
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THE KIRBY.
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or catl on
SHORTLIDGE & CO. .
aplU es, hin. Bellofs
¥ IME COALGAND LU
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to Joseph Rishel, dated in June,
nonths,
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refuse to
api at
ant of 8 Mower
well to exannne the
0 deseriptive Cawtlogue
do
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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-
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dippars, Qleil-
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1M nest and
GrIve 41m a Cri
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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
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anufacturers,
in . R21 at six
Price of Mower $175 casi
‘AM. EHRIHART Agent,
Wolls Store.
a 2¥) ach or S$
BLLGIES!
pring Wagons &e.,
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Ae Surgeon, Center
Oftere his professional s0
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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
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| 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
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the pending impeachment by themse
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ves wah nm for the postponement of the
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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
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that the proposition
vy considerable
here sare about » ml
aozen nenier
vill resort to
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| the President, thet thicy
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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
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| conversant wi the pu
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(out. It is admitted by the impeach
| ers, In private conv this
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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)
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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
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read pare measure I
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| fecare the conviction of Mr. Johnson.
|
i Chief Ju
Ap Br
stice Ci e’s Position.
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| 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"
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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,
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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-
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t
“1
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{to meet thie
LR
i=m and stupidity and vice of the coun-
v political par-
I say, we do
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Of 1he
then,
wetiire
iy JR
Aaa
POW XY.
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lation ; it is
rv
I'he
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not because
we
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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.
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'ERIOUS Pl i)
HISTORY.
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[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
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Th » hos s \ i y } y RIN LOT
Hell Nena HRY soul } 3 pill, LIT
Hinbs
LY lis «
WHS |
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@ strung to city pate
I
biut
» ir} a * + iI) oh
fut {ill theu Spr walks abroad
i
Nu
these Spills seem get rally to
|
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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
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the
that
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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
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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,
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COLT,
(‘oit, inventor of
ye
who
Orr
“4 : 7+}
lice of Colt, on
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{ 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 |
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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
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Mysterious
this
» tha As ¥y
Or ule Cyiehing
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. $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
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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
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11% ,
Inte no lieutenant in the United
Minter ay
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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
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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-
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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
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| 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