BY S. J. E0.
CLEARFIELD, PA., "WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1861.
VOL. 7.-M). 31.
IN MEMOEIAM-
Another little form asleep, .
And a little ipirit gone.
Another little voice Is bushed,
And a little anel Born.
Two little feet are on the way -; - T
To the home beyond the skies,
And our heart are like the void that comes
When a strain of music dies.
A pair of little baby shoes,
And a lock of golden hair; -The
toys oar darling loved,
And the dress she used to wear ;
The little grave in the shady nook
Where the flowers loved to grow-
And these are all of the little hope
That came three years ago.
The birds will sit on the branch above,
And sing a requiem
To the beautiful little sleeping form
That used to sing to them.
But never again will the little lips
To their songs of love reply ; .
For that silvery voice is blended with .
The minstrelsy on high.
HOW THE MORTGAGE WAS PAID.
Counselor M., late of the Massachusetts bar,
lor a long time enjoyed an enviable reputation
and a lucrative practice was honored by bis
constituents with many important trusts, and
has often been cited as an example of rapid
progress and quiet success. Nothing, Low
ever, is really wider from the truth than that
Counsellor M. rose rapidly in his profession ;
little do they suspect that be was a sound,
practical lawyer, and had been ten years in
the profession, before the circumstances oc
cured that call bim into public notice, gave
inn an extensive reputation, and introduced
him into a higher and more lucrative sphere
of practice. His otnee, was at the time, locat
ed in the great manufacturing city of New
England, some twenty-five miles from Boston
He was seated one day in his office exam in
ing a recent volume ot iteports, and com
paring the principles it contained with the
English common law, when a young man en
tered whom he remembered to have seen
in some way connected with one of the manu
facturing corporations. He was an intelligent,
good-looking man, apparently of about twenty-
eve years, and dressed tu the garb of the bet
ter class 01 operatives in me mills, lie was
possessed cf that independent and self-reliant
air that distinguishes the American mechanic
from the laboring classes of all the world, and
indicates a degree of intellectual cultivation
w hich is at the same time the pride of our ci
tizeus and the safety ot the republic. An ex
pression of deep anxiety was upon his counte
nance, and be proceeded at once to say
"I wish to consult with you upon a matter
cf deep importance 'involving the integrity
and happiness of a poor but virtuous and hon
orable family. A young woman by the name of
l.ucy Kendall, who is engaged as a weaver in
the very room in which I am overseer, is accus
ed of grand larceny under circumstances of the
most grave suxpicion. Public opinion ivery
much againbt her, but 1 am satisfied that she
it innocent of the crime. The net of circum
stances seem inextricable, but she must be
saved in some way and at any hazard."
The Counselor suggested that perhaps she
was really guilty of the charge.
o, no," he answered, "it is impossible!
uvc Known tier irora a Child, we were
schoolmates together in one of the little vil
lages among the granite hills of New Hamp
shire, tier lather was a man of considerable
property then and I was a poor man's son : but
we were in the same classes in the Tillage
school. She was two or three years younger
ttian I, but I looked npon her even theu, as
the personification of virtue and goodness;
am the bright example she set us then, and
me admiration I had lor her character in
those school-boy days, has never since been
lost. At the age of eighteen I left my native
mage, ana came liero as an operative in a
cotton mill, in which I have ever since been
gngcu. x tosi signi oi aiiss Kendall till a
year ago last Summer at which time she came
here and entered the mill as a weaver: and
then I learned tor the first time that her
lathers circumstances had changed sadly
mat ue n aa lost an Ins proper 1 7 exceot
small farm on the out-skirts of the village, on
wiucu aiso mere was a mortgage of Ave hund
red aonars pressing for payment. She had
vuiuc nuui uume m oraer 10 assist in raising
the necessary funds to pay off the incumbrance
fj ner iaoor In the mill: and she had com in.
tied to work most industriously for that pur
pose up to the time the circumstances hap
pened that have brought her under this unfor
tunate suspicion. Ail my former opinions of
".i nurni are stronger than ever, since the
renewal of our acquaintance ; and having been
in the receipt of $3 aday for the past fouryears,
u hivq a urge portion of my wages, I have
"Fwicmy onerea to lend her the balance to
pa? on her father's indebtedness, which she
'as uniformly declined. She is now accused
stealing from the office of the corporation
package of money containing five hundred
pilars on the Globe Bank, Boston aud has
been arrested on the charge. The examina
tion takes place this afternoon, and I am re
quested to engage you as her counsel."
He tlieu proceeded to narrate the ctrcum
nces of the arrest, but it is unnecessary to
repeat them here, as they will appear in the
"quel," 11
"And you really believe," remarked the
toucsellor, after he had listened to the narra
"that she Is innocent of the charge."
1 As Innnopnf o a tha kau iinKn 1 r waiiM
e willing to risk uiy soul's salvation upon it.
nnrt 7 11 Tillaio7 as well as guilt somewhere,
1 1 Wrongly suspect where it is. I have
"easons than n In K ntornpturt in Ihia
f,,a!!eri.Lut tho fir$t of a" to save the innocent
.11 .t ---fe'-o du punisi
isgrace and punishment : and besides
'"", it would add the
last dm n nt hitter-
t,Z. . f cnP of an honorable and proud-
to i..mi u man one who has ever been ready
ho.
-vmu m lit minn a.
Year ok .1. 1 . . t
0jT -, -"& tiieereu rae in my struggles
ndin nd PTerty It would bring disgrace
sorrow npon a large class of reputable con-
"wand-and" i
tionsr put. n end to the ,oml anticipa-
deen i eria'n person who had an unusually
ConnsX?'1 Ia her Welfre 7" uS8ted the
' "Yes." . -'
ttW
What I can do for
f . -'11 ue flnna If : - u : .
"Od hi i. many (uuuuvui,
tter tiPfc er !If ,ao ia guilty, better, far
. "5rilO have fnnnt i J : t -
laai.h of 0,1" replied the young man, "to
5"ed lont min1 aH We of guilt as con
- Ua her. I tell yon she has not so
I .-i :. : i It
soon, and in the noble cause in which she has
been struggling, forgotten the lessons of her
youth. Whatever maybe said of a lawyer's
ability to advocate an unjust cause, I know it
is not in the power of man to do' so with the
lame zeal which would inspire him on the side
of truth ; and if you do not give full credit to
ber innocence now, you may do so hereaiter
when it will be of no avail."
After some further conversation, the young
man whose name was William Johnson, with
drew, and the Counsellor reapplied himself to
his task. At the hour appointed for the ex
amination, be repaired to the office of the mag
istrate in and around which a large crowd was
collected, much interested and excited, con
versing in small groups npon the probabilities
or the prisoner's guilt. She was sitting in the
office, deeply affected by the disgrace of ber
position. She was well but plainly dressed, of
an intelligent and interesting appearance, but
very pale, and her countenance bore evident
trace of recent weeping. No. one could look
upon her without feeling interested her iu fate,
ana no wonder that the crowd felt strong syni
patny in uer neiiaii. me examination was
then commenced, and sufficient evidence in
troduced to fix strong guilt upon the prisoner,
and warrant the magistrate in holding her to
bail in the sum of three thousand dollars, to
answer to the charge of grand larceny at the
next term ot the court. The prosecution evi
dently did not go into tho case, which was at
the time kept a secret, introduced no evidence
at all William Johnson and two others, also
overseers in the mills, presented themselves
and were accepted as bail.
That evening Johnson had a long consulta
tion with Counsellor M. "These circumstan
ces look suspicious indeed," remarked the
Counsellor, "with one or two more links in
the chain, which may yet be forged before the
time of final trial comes, there cannot be a
jury found in tho country who would not ren
der a verdict against her, unless these matters
can be explained away. We must be vigilant
and secret in this matter; the counterplot
must be deeply laid, aud I am more than ever
convinced we acted wisoly in not showing our
hand in this preliminary exatuluation. Our
time has not yet come. Better to bear suspi
cion unjustly for a time, than to escape in the
end and leave a stain of doubt upon ber char
acter. Her reputation is as dear to both her
and you as her liberty or life. Now first of
all, go round to all the stores in the city, and
leave secret orders to have the bills on the
Globe Bank of Boston, answering the descrip
tion ot those which have been lost, particular
ly watched. Ihe clerk assures me that they
are a new issue, and not yet in general clrcu
Iation. After that is done, we will make other
arrangements for the defence."
The interval of time between tho preliniina
ry examination and the day of trial was not
spent in idleness, although the defence gave
no clue to the course they intended to pursue.
Utner circumstances bad come to light which
seemed to fix the crime still more surely upon
Miss Kendall. It bad been ascertained that
her father received a package of five hundred
dollars about the time of the theft, with which
be bad paid oS the mortgage on his farm.
The moment be heard of his daughter's arrest,
he had hastened to see her, and was immedi
ately subpoenaed and compelled to recoznize
to appear as-a witness in behalf of the People,
: 1 -1 a
anu against, nis own cuna.
The tide of public opinion, which, at first,
was in her favor, set stronger and stronger
against ber, as one fact after another came to
light, on which the prosecution depended to
make out their case. It seemed that some ac
tive agent was at work, in secret, to prejudice
the community against her: but who it was,
or for what object, remained concealed. The
paleness of her cheek the depression of her
naturally buoyant spirit, weighed down by the
terrible suspicion that was fixed npon her, and
the disposition to shun all unnecessry inter
course, or to allude to the coming trial, wei
interpreted to her disadvantage, and set down
oy the gossipping newsmongers as unmistaka
bio evidence of guilt. Her intimate friends.
however, interpreted them otherwise, and read
with anxiety the enect of that agony of mind
attendant upon the consciousness of impend
ing but unmerited disgrace a burden which,
unless speedily removed, would end in a bro
ken constitution, and an untimely crave.
Johnson had gone, she knew not whither, lie
had obtained leave of absence for a few weeks,
on the pretence of visiting friends in Ohio.
The desertion of one whom gossip had fixed
upon as her champion and lover, was also in
terpreted against her.
At length the time arrived for the sitting of
the criminal court. Tho Grand Jury were em
paneled and found an indictment of grand lar
ceny against 31 iss -Kendall, and the case was
set down for trial on the next day but one
At the opening of the Court, that day of trial,
a dense crowd that had been waitiner round
the door, lushed in and filled every nook and
corner of the spacious court room, nope and
fear, anxiety and doubt and curiosity were de
picted on every countenance. The prisoner's
appearance, unlike the calm and dignihed de
meanor we are wont to associate in our imagi
nation with innocence, in a trying sceue like
this, was pale and agitated; shame and fear
and grief were written on every lineament of
her wan face. Her father, a white-haired old
man, was sitting by her side, and . Counsellor
M. was consulting with them, while the crier
was making order in the court, and the court
was empanneling a jury to try the caso. The
District Attorney then proceeded to open the
case on behalf of the reople, and stated, in
substance, tlfat he expected to prove, by cir
cumstantial evidence, beyond all reasonable
doubt, the guilt of the accused.
The clerk of the corporation was first called
and sworn. He testified that on the Saturday
before the arrest of the prisoner, be bad been
paying off the operatives in the mill that he
bad taken from the safe about the amouat
necessary for that . purpose, in packages of
from one to five hundred dollars that all the
bills paid out were on the Lowell Bank ; but
that, in addition to the sum paid, he had ta
ken from the safe a package in a brown paper
envelope, of five hundred dollars, in tens and
twenties, on the Globe Bank, of Boston, that
were lying on his desk, inside the railing that
fenced off his place of business from the rest
of the office that the prisoner was the last of
tbe operatives who were paid that day ; and
after having received her nor.ey, she at down
by small table to make an .entry inasmaU
book fa ber possessipn at which he stepped
out of the office for a few moments, and on hij
return sba was gone, and the package of mo
ney had also disappeared- Tho witness was
here shown a torn envelope marked "$500,
$10's $20's Globe Bank." He indentifl
ed it as the envelope of the missing package,
and tbe writing was in his own hand.
Julia Mason was the second witness called
by the prosecuting officer. She testified that
she worked in the same house with the prison
er. That on the day but one alter the money
had been abstracted, she bad gone out shop
ping in tbe city, and, by mistake, bad taken
Miss Kendall's reticule, instead of ber own, as
they were much alike. That on ber return, in
removing tbe articles she had purchased, the
envelope introduced in the court was found
under them, but the seal was broken, and no
money in it ; and that she immediately called
the attention of tbe clerk of tbe corporation
to the fact, and gave the paper to bim.
.. The express agent testified that about the
same time, a package of five hundred dollars
was deposited in the office, directed to J.
Kendall, , New Hampshire, and by him
forwarded to its destination ; by whom it was
deposited it was impossible to tell.
The next witness's name was Miller. He
was employed as a second overseer by the
corporation bad a reputation for low cunning,
and was universally disliked. He was a man
who, it was generally believed, would sacrifice
friendship and honor to bis own advancement,
and who had shown himself, in more instances
than one, vindictive and revengeful to the last
degree. It was known in confidence to a few,
that he was a rejected suitor of Miss Kendall,
and tout he bad sworn that be would be re
venged on her that If any other man ever
made her bis wife, it should be after she was
disgraced forever. It was also whispered that
he had lately been paying marked attention to
Julia Mason, .who bad sworn to tbe finding of
tbe envelope. Miller testified, that on the
afternoon the larceny was committed, he was
passing across the yard near the office : that
he saw the clerk come out, and in a few mo
ments after, the prisoner likewise ; that, on
seeing him, she appeared confused, and thrust
something into the bosom of ber dress ; that
he thought nothing of it at the time, nor un
til after the Theft bad been made public and
Miss Kendall was arrested.
Old Mr. Kendall was now called to the
stand. Although be felt in bis own soul that
his daughter was innocent of any crime, be
feared and believed that the weight of his own
testimony would seal her fate. After being
sworn, tbe district attorney inquired, "Hid
you, on or about tbe 2Utb day of August last,
receive a package of imney by express from
this city 7" Answer, "I did." . "How much
money did it contain, and of what denomina
tion were the bills ?" "x ive hundred dollars,
in tens and twenties." "Uid any commum
cation accompany tbe money, and if so, what
was it ?" "A few lines, merely. I was di
reeled in tbe subpoena to bring it into the
court. This paper is tbe one." Its contents
were as follows : "August 20, 18 .
"Deab Sia : Please apply the accompany
ing five hundred dollars towards the satisfac
tion of the inottgage on your farm, and oblige
one interested In you and xours."
Question by tbe district attorney : "Is that
your daughter's hand-writing " "I cannot
say, positively ; it is not her ordinary hand."
"Do you think it is ber band disguised ?" "1
can conceive no reason why she should dis
guise ber hand to me." "Answer tbe ques
tion, and do not comment upon or evade it."
The old roan really supposed that the mo
ney had come irom ber, and consequently,
as tbe writing bore some faint resemblance to
hers, he bad made up his mind on its recep
tion that it was bis daughter's. - There was a
struggle in his breast at the repetition of the
question. He cast an imploring look upon
the unrelenting questioner, and then turned
his eyes slowly and sorrowfully upon bis daugh
ter's face. He suppressed his emotions, bow-
ever in a moment, ana tnen answered siowiy
and distinctly "I should call the writing
hers."
"What bank were the bills upon ?"
The counsel for the defence objected to the
question on the gronnd that the bills them
selves should be produced in court as the best
evidence on that point; but-the prosecution
removed the objection by proving that the
bills bad passed through several bands since,
and finally been taken West by a drover to
purchase cattle, and it was impossible to pro
cure them.
Answer I cannot recollect the bank."
"Was it on the Globe Bank, of Boston ?"
The counsel for the defence again interpos
ed, and objected to the question on the ground
that it was a leading question of tbe most ob
jectionable character, and put, too, by the
examining party to his own witness.
The court overruled the objection, and sus
pended tbe general rule, on the ground that
the witness, though no doubt bonesl, was from
the very nature of the case, and by reason of
bis connection with tho prisoner, an unwilling
witness.
The old man cast another imploring look
on the District Attorney, but he disregarded
the silent appeal, as it was his duty to do, and
pressed fop an answer.
"I cannot sivear positively, but I thiuk that
was the bank," replied the witness.
"You say, then, that you have no doubt
they were upon the Globe Bank ?"
"Oh, no! no ! I did not say that I cannot
positively say, but I think they were! I would
not perjure myself to save my child."
Tbe old man buried bis face in bis bands
and wept bitterly ; and many an eye in that
crowded court-room was moist in sympathy
with the father's distress. The prosecution
here rested their case.' . -
Counsellor, M. in behalf of the prisoner ad
dressed tho jury briefly in opening the de
fense. He said that as to the commission of
the crime, by some one, there could be no
doubt. That a chain of circnmstances,"partly
accidental, and partly resulting from a coin
cidence of independent events, and which be
should be able satisfactorily to explain, con
nected with a deep laid scheme of fraud and
villainy involving another not only in the
crime here charged upon an innocent and un
offending girl, whose character up to this time
has been above reproach, but also the deeper
and damning crimes of conspiracy and perjury
most foul. That he trusted . with tbe aid of
facts within the knowledge of tbe defence,
and of unimpeachable evidence which he
should be able to produce, not only to explain
away all evidence on the part of the prosecu
tion, that made against tbe prisoner, and set
ber character in all its pristine beauty before
all men, hut also to fix the double guilt be
yond donbt npoa the real party. That if be
should succeed as be anticipated, in shielding
a really innocent person from the mistaken
vengeance of ollended justice, it was all he
asked ; and he trusted in God and in the right
eousness of tbe cause in which he was enga
gca, to be able to show the character of the
accused as pure and spotless as the noonday
sun in neaven.
. 1 here was a breathless stillness throughout
the court-room during tbe progress of these
remarks. The confident manner In which
they were uttered, in the face of testimony so
astounding, which had carried conviction to
almost ' every mind, of the prisoner's guilt,
awakened a redoubled interest, and caused a
painini idea in the minds of the more reflect
ing, that possibly, in the silent workings of
tneir own mougnts, they had condemned the
prisoner too soon.
The gentleman who had held the mortgage
was me nrsi witness caned Dv the defence
ne came into me court-room a few moments
before with the drover to whom be had paid
me money, accompanied by William Johnson,
who, it now came out, had been to seek bim
in Ohio, and bring him back as a witness in
the case.
Tbe mortgagee testified to the payment bv
nim 10 tue arover ot the same 0111s he had re
cetved from the prisoner's father, but he
could not identify the bank.
ihe drover, however, swore positively that
they were on the Granite, and not on the Globe
Jiank. That be noticed and remembered them
particularly, as ten and twenties, check letter
"i)," and that he bad paid them out for stock,
in small amounts at a time, except two or three
of the bills which were then in his possession.
and which be produced in court.
Alter having been searchingly cross-ques
tioned by tbe District Attorney, without va
rying in the least from the previous statement,
be was permitted to withdraw, and William
Johnson was called upon the stand. After
having been shown the letter which accompa-
led the package or money pent to tbe prison
ner's father, he was asked
"Have you ever seen that letter before !"
"Yes."
"Can you, or can you not, identify the
hand?"
"I can. I wrote that Utter myself, and sent
it, with the money that accompanied it to Mr.
Kendall. I drew it from the Granite Bank,
of Boston, on a check in my own name. From
motives of delicacy, it was kept a secret at
the time : and when I explained it to the coun
sel for the defense, by his -advice it has been
kept a secret until now."
There was confusion and excitement in the
court-room, and it was some time before qui
et could be restored.
' He said, in answer to tbe District Attorney
on the cross-examination, that be bad no se
creey or delicacy about the matter now ; that
be bad been some time engaged to the pris
oner at the. bar, and that unknown to any one,
be bad taken on himself the privilege of dis
charging the indebtedness of a man whom he
bad known and honored in early life and who
was tbe father of bis intended wife.
Tbe teller of tbe Granite Bank fully corrob
orated tbe drawing of the funds by Johnson,
and produced the indentical check on which
they had been drawn.
Miss Mason was now recalled, and asked if
she bad lately purchased a shawl oi Campbell
& 00.; to which she answered that she bad.
and that the price was twenty dollars.
Question "Of whom did you receive the
money you paid for it ?"
Answer "Of Miller, one of the witnesses
for the prosecution."
The clerk of Campbell & Co., produced the
bill, which was paid by the last witness for
the shawl, and it was identified as one of those
which bad been stolen. Miller was seen at
thi3 moment to bo making for tbe door in ev
ident baste and confusion, but the eyes of the
whole Court were directed toward him, and
he was immediately taken into custodv bv a
warrant from the Bench. The trial was sus
pended for a short time, while a search was
made of his apartment, and nearly all tbe
missing money was found in the bottom of bis
trunk.
The case was then submitted without argu
ment or charge, and tbe jury at once return
ed a verdict Ab Guilty."
The most intense excitement prevailed in
tbe city. A crowd assembled before the jail,
threatening to seize the villian Miller, and
tear bim limb from limb ; but being overruled
by better counsel, they repaired to the Court,
and as tbe prisoner (now prisoner no longer)
came down the steps ' leaning on the arm of
Johnson, sent up a loud, long cheer to heaven,
that made the welkin ring again. The coun
sellor and his fair client, with her father and
Johnson were placed in a coach, from which
the horses were unharnessed, aud drawn by
tbe ready bands oi excited men, in triumph to
their homjjgt.
MjARfrand Julia. Mason were indicted for a
corfspiracy, and the trial set down for that
very term of tbe Court; but a nolle prosequi
was entered in ber behalf, on condition that!
she would disclose the ulot. She said that'
Miller bad promised her marriage on condi
tions involving ber own dishonor, and had af
terwards refused to fulfil them. That he had
subsequently renewed his promise with the
most solemn protestations, in case she would
aid bim in fixing the larcenv he himself had
committed, upon Miss Kendall in order, as
be said, to avenge an insult which he had re
ceived at her hands and tl.at he had given
ber the twenty dollars which she bad given to
Campbell & Co. that after many promises
and threats, she bad at last consented in tbe
hope of retrieving ber own disgrace, and that
she bad placed the envelope, which was given
ber by Miller for that purpose, in the place
where she testified it was found.
Miller was tried, found guilty, and senten
ced to the State Prison for ten years; Coun
sellor M.'s reputation was established as a cel
ebrated lawyer; and Lucy Kendall, with un
blemished character, was restored to ber fath
er, her lover, and ber friends.
There was a'wholesale execution of river
pirates at Canton, China, lately ; not less than
two hundred being decapitated on tbe bridge
where such executions occur. Tbe whole bu
siness took but half an hour. Tbe execution
ers, of whom there were several.vied to see who
could do the largest amount of work ; one suc
ceeding in cutting oil 63 beads, for which be
would receive what he would consider a nice
douceur, aa 500 cash is given tor each caput.:
' Several iron -work in Centre county have
comme.oc4 operations since tbe ptssage of
tbe new tariff bill. . .
DISLODGING TABLE BOCK.
George Wilkes writes : "I said I had some
thing to do with the fall of Table Rock, that
broad shelf on the Canada side, which in 1850
looked over the very cauldron of the seething
waters, but which tumbled into it on a certain
day in the month or Juneof that, by me, well
remembered year. About noon on that day,
1 accompanied a lady from the Clifton House
to the Falls. Arriving st Table Rock, wc
left our carriage, and as we approached the
projecting platform, 1 pointed out to my com
panion a vast crack or fissure which traversed
the entire base of the rock, remarking that it
had never appeared to me before. The lady
almost shuddered as she looked at it, and
shrinking back, declared that she did not care
about going near the edge. "Ah," said I,
taking her hand, "you might as well come on,
now that you are here. I hardly think the
rock will take a notion to fall merely because
we are on it."
"The platform jetted from the main land
some sixty feet; but to give the visitor a still
moro fearfull projection over the raging wa
ters, a wooden bridge, or staging, had been
thrust beyond the extreme edge for some ten
feet. This terminated in a small box for vis
itors to ptand in, and was kept in its position,
and enabled to bear its weight, by a ponderous
load of stone heaped upon its inner ends. The
day was very bright and hot, and it being al
most lunch time at the hotels, but very few
visitors were out so we occupied the dizzy
perch alone. We gazed fearfully out upon
tbe awful waters, we streacbed our beads ti
midly over tbe frightful depth below, and we
felt ouSiatures quail in every fibre by the
deafening roar, that seemed to saturate us, as
it were, wito an indefinable dread.
"This a terrible place." said I. "Look un
der there, and see on what a mere shell we
stand. For years and vears the teeth of the
torrent, in that jetting, angry stream, have
been gnawing at that bollow, and some day
this plane must fall."
"My companion shuddered, and dtew her
self together in alarm. Our eyes swept the
roaring circle of the waters once again ; we
gazed about in fearful fascination, when sud
denly turning our looks upon each other,
each recognized a corresponding fear. "I do
not like tbis place!" exclaimed 1, quickly.
"Ihe whole base of this rock is probably dis
integrated, ana perhaps sits poised in a sue
cession of steps or notches, readv to fall out
and topple down at any unusual perturbation.
That fisure there seems to me unusually large
to day. I think we had better leave, for I do
not fancy such a finish ; and, besides, my pa
per must be published next week." . .
" V ith these very words tho latter uttered
jocosely, though ' not without alarm seized
my companion's hand, and, in absolute panic,
we fled as fast as our feet could carry us to
wards what might be called the shore. We
first burst into a laugh when we gained tho land,
and jumping into our carriage, felt actually as
it we bad made a fortunate escape. We roll
ed back toward tbe Clifton, but before we had
proceeded two minutes on our way, a tbund
ering report, like tbe explosion of an earth
quake, burst upon us, and with a roar the
ground trembled beneath our wheels. We
turned to find that the Table Rock had fallen
We were the last upon it, and it was doubtless
the unusual perturbation caused by our flying
foot-steps that disturbed the exactitude of its
equilibrium, and throw it from its final poise
In a minute more the road was filled with
hurrying people, and during tho following
hall hour we were told a "bund red times in-ad
vance of the next morning journals, that a lady
and gentleman whp were on the Table Rock
had gone down the falls. W e aro told that
tbe trot of a dog would shake old London
bridge from end to end, when it would not be
disturbed by the rolling wheels of heavy load
ea trains, lauie kock uaa not been run up
on in the way I have been describing for years
perhaps never and therefore, whenever I
bear it spoken of, I always shudder and feel as
if I bad bomething to do with its fall."
A Skeleton Story. There is a very strange
story current in Kittaning just now, in which
it is related that a farmer named Hooks, resi
ding in one of the adjacent townships, has be-
como suddenly rich through the discovery of
certain buried treasure, with the existence of
which ho became acquainted in tbe following
singular manner. While digging a bole for a
fence post one day, he struck upon a hollow
substance, which he afterward discovered to
be the skull of a human being. Being a gec-
tleman of weak nerve, the sight at first appal
ed him, but resuming bis labor be succeeded
in digging out the entire skull, beneath which
he found a brass kettle containing some beads
and other relics, and also a small box, within
which be found a paper on which were words
written in the French language. This writing
he afterwards took to Freeport, aud had it
translated by the Catholic priest then residing
there. It stated among other things that the
deceased formerly resided at Le Bueuf. in
rie county, and that certain treasures of which
be was possessed were buried at a particular
place in that locality. Shortly after this, Mr.
Hooks absented himself from bis family, and
was not beard of in the neighborhood for some
time. However, one pleasant morning he re
turned, enjoying the very best health, and has
ever since been in the enjoyment of such
quantities of money as to lead bis neighbors to
infer that be availed himself of tbe informa
tion conveyed by the mysterious writing, and
has become possessed of tbe wealth of the de
funct Frenchman. - The story is related by a
gentleman of undoubted veracity, who is ac
qainted with Mr. Hooks and bis circumstan
ces, and avers that the facts are substantially
true aa we have stated them.
Tbe N. Orleans True Delta says that at an e
lection for trustees in the town of St. Martin
ville, on the 3d, all doubtful voters had, be
fore depositing their ballots, to take tbe oath
of 4eing citizens of the United States.
'An Irishman working on the canal lately
walked into the water, and coming across a
turtle, with bead and legs extended, hallooed
to his companion that be bad found a box full
of snakes.
Colorado and Nevada are Spanish words.
Colorado means colored, generally reddish,
and ia tbe name given to several rivers in A
merica. Nevada means white at snow.
It Is said "the bare is one of the most timid
of animals, yet it always dies game !" Why
shouldn't it, when it is made game of 1
A BIT OF ENGLISH SCANDAL.
An extraordinary marriage case whicW is go
ing on at Dublin iaat present occupying mora .
attention, perhaps, among all classes in Eng--land
and Ireland, than any other topic. It is
an old story ; has been before tbe courts in a
nother form previously, but not accompanied
with certain details which now invest it with
uncommon interest. The story, as gathered
from the English papers, may be briefly told.
Five years ago Miss Theresa Longworth", scion
of an old Lancashire family, but appearcntly
more connected by natural ties with Ireland
and France than England, and Major Charles
Yelverton, of the Royal Artillery, crossed to
gether in a Channel steamer and fell in love.
They did not see each other till more than a
year had elapsed, but afterwards met in Lon
don, in France, in Naples, in Malta, and in
the Crimea, the most ardent letters passing be
tween them at intervals, the lady being cer- "
tainly not the least eager for those occasional
and out-of-the-way meetings, which extended
over a period of lour years, with irritating in
cidents sufficient to prove once more that the
course of true love never did run smooth.
During this time the lady became aware that
the man of. ber choice was hopelessly invol
ved in debt, from which there was no chance
of extrication until bo succeeded to the Earl
dom of Dromore, ot which be is now the ap
parent and was then tho remote beir. She
bad JC200 a year, and though they might tide
over with that and bis pay until better times
came. Marriage, but under a bond of sec ro
sy, was an understood matter between them.
and before parting iu the Crimea he endeavor
ed, ineffectually, to induce her to let the cere
mony be performed by a Greek priest in Bal
aklava. Subsequently in Edinburgh be read over.
with her, the marriage ceremony from a Scotch
prayer-book, and wished to claim marital
rights ; but being a sincere Roman Catholic,
she refused to recognize any ceremony but
one performed by a Roman Catholic priest.
Eventually they were married in a Roman
Catholic chapel, at Rostraver, nearNewry, Ire
land, Major Yelverton representing himself as
"a Catholic, but not a very good one," in or
der to induce the priest to go through the cere
mony. They .afterwards lived as man and
wife, but the ban of secrecy being still held
over the lady's bead, she went abroad to be
confined and by common consent they seen
afterwards to have lived apart with the same
purpose in view. The Major has since mar
ried a rich widow at Edinburgh ; actions
against him for bigamy have broken down ;
and the present suit is to recover a sum for tho
maintenance of the lady whom most persons
will consider is best entitled to be called bis
wife. Tbe Major lepudiates the liability on
the ground that he was really a Protestant at
the time a Roman Catholic priest married bim
to Mis Longworth, an i that therefore the cere
mony was illegal. This is In effect an admis
sion that be willfully perjured himself, and
travestied a solemn ceremony in order that be
might debauch one who loved bim and whom
he professed to love, conduct scarcely becom
ing one who assumes to be "an officer and a
gentleman." -
All that can be said against tbe lady is that
she was of an impetuous temperament, aud
perhaps too fond of receiving general atten
tions. But these are qualities which claim
tbe sympathy of Irishmen and Irishwomen,
and in Dublin she is received as a heroine.
One curious contreteinpl appears in the very
voluminous correspondence which has been
read at tbe trial. In one of her letters Miss
Longworth slipped in the wedding card of an
other admirer, a -naval lieutenant, and ber sol
dier lover either misunderstood or wilfully
interpreted this into an announcement of ber
own marriage, writing back that she had now
earned his "lasting gratitude, as, on reflection,
I find that I had placed myself in a false posi
tion with regard to you, and one of all others
the most painful to me, viz., that I had prom
ised to you to do more than I could have per
formed when tho time came." A high spirit
ed woman might have resented this remarka
bly free confession ; but Miss Longworth on
ly reproached bim for supposing her capable
of inconstancy, became more ardent in ber
expressions of attachment, and even wrote
"Be you a very devil, I feel I am fast to you,
for some good end, no doubt, in the far ofTfu-
ture." To such lengths will even a virtuous
woman's passion go on paper.
The scenes in court during the trial bave
been peculiar. Both parties have been pres
ent, Mrs. Yelverton being a witness (the suit
is brought by a Mr. Thelwall, a friend, to re
cover moneys furnished her, and therefore she
is ablo to testify ; technically, the case not
being her own); the father of Major Yelverton
and the second wife also attend. On one oc
casion the odic force seems to have exerted
some of its old force, for tho unfortunate vic
tim of its influence, discovering the presence
of ber magnetizer, fainted away, and was una
ble to proceed with ber testimony until he had
left tbe court-room. The two wives thus
present at a trial whose result will determine
tbe legitimacy of the marriage of each, must
furnish a strange spectacle. The struggle is
for a peerage, as well as for an honest name.
therefore the present Lord Avonmore attends,
to discover which of the ladies is his daught
er-in-law, and will hereafter belong to that
distinguished body, the British Aristocracy.
Detective Keese, of Washington! has seized
and retains by order of the Court, bogus and
counterfeit notes on twenty-seven different
banks, amounting to $260,000; also, plates,
dies, etc. The larger packages contain the
following: $30,000, in counterfeits, on the
Bank of Augusta, Maine ; $60,000, unsigned
counterfeits, on tbe State Bank of Ohio ; $30
000, bogus, on tbe Columbia Bank, Washfng-
ington City : $30,000, in counterfeits, on tbe
Farmers' and Mechanics Bank, of Virginia j
$8,00J of seven denominations, in counter
feits, on tbe Camden Bank, New yjrsey 1 and
four plates of the above bank. Dies of the de
nominations of ten cents, one dollar, ana two
and a half dollar pieces, were also captured. "
We know tbe richest man on earth' cannot.
heal all ; but every man may select a patch of
the moral desert, and cultivate that patch, and
try to make it brighter, if not to blossom as
tbe rose. -: 7
People talk about the equality of the sexes
they are not equal. Tbe silent smile of a
sensible, loving woman, will vanquish ten ts ea.
f - - , .1 j
Life would bo a-parpetnal fiea hast if one
were to roe down, all th In sin nations; untruths
and suspicions that are- started, -: :