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In the mailer of a road in Penn Forest town
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Schoouover Committee of Benjamin Schoono
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re.er uuiz arm noranam muz, rarmers in ,
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ver 1 tt ' to Mr. Burnett as he entered. Rather surprised to
Owen Rice attorney for the Heirs of Joseph j see a stranger conduct himself so like an old friend
Horsefield, deceased, vs. Abraham Butz, Peter: of the house, Mr: Burnett said aloud, "Sir, may I
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Same r. Same.
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THE BEAD ALIVE.
A Thrilling Sketch.
The subjoined narrative, published originally in
Chamber's Journal, is stated to be translated from
a foreign newspaper. It is necessary to remind
the reader that the island Mauritius, appertaining
at this day to the English, was originally colon
ized by the French, and that the population con
sists in a great measure of persons of that nation,
to whom, by a formal treaty between the two pow
ers concerned, their ancient laws and usages were
preserved without material alteration.
About three or four months ago, the Sieur Clod
omir Frenois, a rich merchant of the island, was
found dead, and frightfully disfigured in his own
habitation. His body was discovered lying on the
floor, with his face mutilated by a pistol, and all
doubt as to the cause of the catastrophe was dis
pelled by the discovery of the fatal weapon by the
side of the corpse, as also of a paper in the handwriting-of
the deceased. This paper contained
the following words :
" I am ruined ! a villain has robbed me of
twenty thousand livres sterling ; dishonor must
"v portion, ana 1 cannot survive it. I leave
my wife the task of distributing among my credit
ors the means which remain to us, and I pray that
God, my friends, and my enemies, may pardon my
self-destruction. Yet another minute and I shall
be in eternity. (Signed)
CLODOMIR FRENOIS."
ijreat was the consternation caused by this
tragic event, which was the more unexpected as
the loss alluded to in the note had never been
made public. The deceased had been held in
great esteem over the colony, as a man of strict
honor, and was universally lamented. His at
tached widow, after endeavoring faithfully to ful
fill his last wishes, (bund her grief too powerful to
mingle longer with the world, and took the resolu
tion to consecrate her remaining days to the ser
vice of religion. Two months after the sad end of
her husband she entered a convent, leaving to a
! nephew of the merchant, a physician, the charge of
comPlellnS ,ne distribution ol the effects of Fre
nuns among nis creditors.
A minute examination of-the papers of the de-
j ceased led to the discovery of ihe period at which
I the unfortunate merchant had been robbed : and
that period was found to correspond with the date
ol the disappearance of a man named John Moon,
long in the employment of Ftenois. Of this man,
on wnom suspicion not unnaturally fell, nothing
! division of the merchant's property, Moon appeared
I in the colony. When taken up and examined re
specting the cause of his flight, he stated that he
had been sent by his master to France, to recover
certain sums due to the merchants there, in which
mission he h
ad been unsuccessful, and ho further !
if Clodomir Frenois, in his existing!
averred that
correspondence, had thrown any injurious suspi
Cions on him ("Moon the whole was but a nretext
to account for deficiennies nf which the. merr.hnnt
himself was the sole cause and author. This 1 Jty. !' said l with tears in my e)'es. 'nothing
declaration, made by a man who seemed to fear i wmcn man can do can now injure thee ; yet par-
no nd whose circumstances H6
mamed to appearance the same as they had ever j 11 1S lo Prent the ruin ol not one but twenty
hQe had lhe effect of silcilcir jf it did nol sat. families. And should success attend my attempt,,
icf,.- do ov-,?- . ff.;. ,nn cji ; I swear that thv children shall be mv children.
j great measuie, out of the public recollection.
iwi 1 tus- vAiuuiuwio , uiiu me ciiiti 1 1 autu icii m
1 Tu: r 1 r - i . - . 1?
1 mugs remaineu jor a snort time m mis conoi
tion, when one morning Mr. William Burnett,
principal creditor of the late Clodomir Frenois,
heard a knocking at his gate at a very early hour.
Me called up one of his servants, who went down
I and opened the door, and immediately returned
' r
wilh lhe jntelliqence. that a stranner. who seemed
desirous of keeping his person concealed, wished
to speak with iMr. Burnett in private. Mr. Bur
beg lo know your business with me "
Fhe stranger turned round, and advanced to sa-
late his host warmly and courteously. Mr. Bur
nett started back, and uttered a loud exclamation
of surprise and alarm. Well he might; for before
his eyes stood his friend and debtor, Clodomir
Frenois, whom he had beheld nearly a year be
fore a mutilated corpse whom himself had fol
lowed to the grave !
What passed at that interview between Mr.
Burnett and his strange visiter remained a secret.
Mr. Burnett was observed to issue several times,
pale and agitated, from his dwelling, and to visit
the magistrate charged with the conduct of tho
criminal orecesses ol the colony, in the course
r ,ul ,i,;i0Un T,mn wa rpoalincr himcpif
VI I1IC UU.T, IHH wv.aa. . . w . . . .
with tea, under the palm-trees of his garden, with
a Circassian female whom he had bought some
time previously, he was arrested and taken lo
orison bv the officers of justice. On the follow
ing day, he was brought before the criminal court,
if oncoH nf rfilihinrr tliA Into fllnnttiir TJVrtnmc llio
ctime being conjoined with a breach of trust and
violence I
, , . . 11 .1 c my iamuy to tneir places in society, ano 10 re-
Moon smiled at the charge with all the confi.deemlhecredUofanamo on which bjot was
uenceoiaman wno imu .1 mig i .ear
1 e 1 1 1 .t.: f tm
11 na hivnirr r o m n n r-n rw mm 11 tin rnn ncpn '
the crime, the accused replied that tho charge
uwjo . 1
was altogether absurd ; that clear testimony was
necessary to fix such a charge upon him ; and that,
so far from there being any such evidence produci
ble, neither the widow of the deceased, nor any
one person in his service, had ever heard the pre
tended robbery even once mentioned by Frenois
during his life.
" So you then affirm your innocence !" repeat-;
ed the Judge, gravely, after hearing what the oth
er had to sav.
I will avouch my innocence," replied Moon. !
"even before the body of my late master, if that;
be necessary." (Such a thing often took place
under the old colonial law.)
"John Moon," said the Judge, in a voice bro-
ken by some peculiar emotion, " it is before your j
late master that you will have to assert your in
nocence ; and may the God of Justice make the
truth appear."
A signal from the Judge accompanied the words,
and immediately a door opened, and Clodomir
Frenois, the supposed suicide, entered the court.
He advanced to the bar, with a slow and deliber
ate step, having his eyes calmly but firmly fixed
on the prisoner, his servant. A great sensation
was caused in the court by his appearance. Ut
tering shrieks of horror and alarm the females fled
from the spot. The accused fell on his knees in
terror, and shuddering, confessed his guilt. For
a time no voice was heard but his. However, as
it became apparent that a living man stood befoie
the court, tho advocate for the piisoner gamed
rniiraoa to sneak. He demanded that the identity
of the merchant bo established, and the existence
be explained. lie said that the court should not
be biassed by what might prove to be a mere ac
cidental likeness between a person living and one
deceased, and that such an avowal as that of the
prisoner, extracted in a moment of extraordinary
terror, was not to be held of much weight.
" Before being admitted here as a witness,"
continued the advocate, addressing the resuscita
ted merchant, " prove who and what you are, and
disclose by what means the tomb, which so lately
received your body, mangled with bullets, has
given up its tenant, and restored you to the world
in life and health."
This firm appeal of the advocate, who continued
steadfast to his duty, under circumstances that
would have closed the lips of most men, called
forth the following narrative from Clodomir Fre
nois :
"My story may soon be told, and will suffice to es
tablish my identity. When I discovered the rob
bery committed by the accused, he had then fled
from the island, and I speedily saw all attempts to
retake him would prove fruitless. I saw ruin and
disgrace before me, and came to the resolution of
terminating my life before the evil day came. On
the night in which this determination was formed,
I was seated alone in my private chamber. 1 had
written the letter which was found on my table,
and had loaded my pistol. This done, 1 prayed
for forgiveness from my Maker, for the act I was
about to commit. The end of the pistol was at
my head, and my finger on the trigger, when a
knock at the door of the house startled me. I con
cealed my weapon, and went to the door. A man
entered, whom I recognized to. be the sexton of
the parish in which I lived. He bore a sack on
his sholders, and in it the body of a man newly
buried, which was destined for my nephew, the
physician, then living with me. The scarcity of
bodies for dissection, as the court is aware, com
pels those who are anxious to acquire skill in the
medical profession, to procure them by any possi
ble secret means. The sexton was at first alarmed
at having mel me. 1 Did my nephew request you
to bring this body.' 4 No,' replied the man, but
I knew his anxiety to obtain one for dissection,
and took it upon me to offer this body. For mer
cy's sake,' continued the sexton, ' do not betray
me, sir, or I shall lose my station and my family's
bread.'
" While the man was speaking, a strange idea
entered my mind, and brought to my despairing
bosom hopes of continued life and honor. I stood
for a few minutes absorbed in thought, and
then recollecting myself, I gave two pieces of
gold to the resurrectionist, the sum which he ex
pected. Telling him to keep his own counsel, and
that all would be well, I sent him away, and car
ried the body to my cabinet. The whole of the
household had been sent out of the wav on purpose,
and 1 had lime t0 carry into execution the plan
wmcn ,iad struck me. The body was fortunately
of the same stature as myself, and like me in com
plexion. I knew the man ; he was a poor offend-
; er abandoned by his lamily. Fonr relic of mor
; . . j
1
and, when my hour comes, we shall rest together
in the tomb, to which thou shall be borne before
me
At this portion of the merchant's narrative, the
most livel? interest was excited in lhe court, and
, iBsuueu even oy tears irom many oi me auaience.
j 1 renis thus proceeded :
' the body them. This accomplished, I then
jl biiwti iyy my viu tiiuo anu uibdobu
took up my pistol, and with a hand more reluctant
than when I applied it to my person, I fired ii
close to the head of the deceased, and at once
caused such a disfigurement as rendered it impos
sible for the keenest eye to detect the substitution
which had been made.
" Choosing the plainest habit I could get, I
then dressed myself anew, shaved off the whis
kers I was accustomed to wear, and took other
means to alter my appearance, in case of being
subjected by any accident to the risk of betrayal.
Next morning saw me on board a French vessel,
on my way to a distant land the native country
of my ancestors. The expectation of this scheme
was not disappointed. 1 knew John Moon was
the man who had robbed me, and who now stands
at the bar of this court, and that he had formed
connections in this island which would in all pro
bability bring him back to it, as soon as the intel
ligence of my death gave him the promise of se
curity. In this I have not been disappointed. I
have been abundantly fortunate in other respects.
While my unworthy servant remained in imagina
ry safety, I have been successful in discovering
the quarter in which, not daring at first to betray
. , . , .
me ujijjeiiiam.c ui eiuii, ue juuyeu hid wuuit; ui
the money. 1 have brought it with me, and also
sufficient proof, supposing his confessions of this
day to be set aside altogether, to convict him of
the crime with which he stands charged. By the
same means," continued Clodomir Frenois, with
a degree of honorable pride, in which all w
ho heard
I mm sympatmzea, - win t oe enaoieu to
1,1,11 otupaiinztju, win i ue eimuiuu 10 iusiuiu
left by those who bore it
before me, and which,
. .
Dleasa' (joci. J shall transmit, unstained, to mv
children's children."
John Moon, whose guilt was. thus suddenly and
strangely laid bare to the world, did not retract
the confession which he made, in the extremity of
his terror, and without separating, the court sen
tenced him to confinement in the prison of the
colony.
The news of Clodomir r renois reappearance
spread rapidly, and the high esteem in which his
character was held led to an universal rejoicing on
the occasion. He was accompanied from the
court to his house by a dense multitude, who wet
corned him with prolonged shouts. It would be
vain to attempt any description of the feelings of
Ins wife, who had thus restored to her the oeioved
being for whose sake she had quitted the world,
She was released from her ecclesiastical vows,
and rejoined her husband, no more to part tin tne
grave really claimed one or the other of them as
its due.
"I hope you will be able to support me," said a
young lady while walking out one evening with
her intended, during a somewhat slippery state of
the sidewalks.
" Why yes," said the somewhat hesitating swain,
"with a little assistance from your father." There
was some confusion, and a profound silence.
T&r, e-graphic. Well, wife, I dont see for my
part how they send letters on them ere wires with
out teaiing 'em all to bits.
Law me, they dont send the paper, they just;send
the writin' in a fluid state, you fool !
Oh iha-'s the way, hey
Burying Alive.
The Edingburg Quarterly Review thus explains
phenomena that are generally supposed to indi
cate a return of vitality after sepulture :
' In the midst of exaggeration and invention,
there is one undoubted circumstance which for
merly excited the worst apprehension : the fact
that bodies were often found turned in their cof
fins and the grave clothes disarranged. But what
was ascribed, with seeming reason, to the throes
of vitality, is now known to be due to the agency
of corruption. A gas i3 developed in the decayed
body which mimics by its mechanical force many
of the movements of life. So powerful is this gas
in corpses that have lam long in the water, that
M. Devergie, the physician to the Morgue at Paris,
and the author of a text book on legal medicine,
says that unless secured to the table, they are of
ten heaved up and thrown on the ground. Fre
quently, strangers seeing the motion of the limbs,
run to the keeper of the Morgue, and announce
with horror that a person is alive. All bodies,
sooner or later generate gas in the grave and it
constantly twists about the corpse, blows out the
skin till it rends distension, and sometimes bursts
the coffin itself. When the gas explodes with a
noise, imagination has converted it to an outcry or
gioan ; the grave has been re-opened ; the position
of the body confirmed the suspicion, and the la
ceration been taken for evidence that the wretch
had gnawed his flesh in the frenzy of despair.
So many are the circumstances which will constant
ly occur to support a conclusion that is no more
substantial than the fabrication of a dream."
Surgical Opcratiosa by Doctor ITIolt.
We find the following brief report of an opera
tion by Doctor Mott, at the New York University
a few days ago, in Noah's Sunday Times ;
A young man had a tumor growing out of one
of his nostrils. It came, in time, to fill the whole
cavity, and was as large as a hen's egg. It was
so large, and so extensively and firmly attached
that it was impossible to pull it out with forceps,
as is done with polypi. The worthy professor put
on his considering cap and studied out an opera
tion, and then, to make sure, he performed it on a
dead body. Satisfied of its practicability, he be
gan : First, he made a straight incision from the
inner corner of the eye to the mouth, through the
upper lip; then he dissected the flesh from the
bone, so as to turn all the fleshy part of the nose
over upon the other side of the face. This done,
he sawed through the bone, and by a nice piece
of carpenter work, laid open the whole extent of
the nostril. The tumor was now exposed, cut
loose, and easily extracted, and the patient got
well without any disfigurement but a line where
the fleshy parts were reunited. This was an in
genious, bold, and successful operation.
Crime in New York. A Sad Picture.
Mr. Matsell, chief of the police of New York,
has addressed a letter to the Mayor, in which he
gives a fearful picture of the progress of crime in
the commercial emporium. Ho says :
" I allude to the constantly increasing number
of vagrant, idle, and vicious children, of both sex
es, who infest our public thoroughfares, docks, &c.
children who are growing up in ignorance and
profligacy, only destined to a life of misery, shame
and crime, and ultimately to a felon's doom.
Their numbers are almost incredible, and to those
whose business and habits do not permit them a
searching scrutiny, the degrading and disgusting
practices of these almost infants in the school o
vice and prostitution, and rowdyism would certain
ly be beyond belief. The offspring ofalways care
less, generally intemperate, and oftentimes itiimor
al and dishonest parents, they never see the inside
of a school room, and so far as our excellent sys
tern of public education is concerned, (and which
may be truly said to be the foundation stone of our
free institutions,) it is to them an entire nullity.
Left, in many instances, to roam day and night
wherever their inclinations leads them, a large
proportion of these juvenile vagrants are m the dai
ly practice of pilfering whenever opportunity of
fers, and begging where they cannot steal. In ad
dition to which, the female portion of the youngest
class, those who have only seen eight or twelve
summers, are addicted to immoralities of the most
loathsome description. Each year makes fearful
additions to the .ranks of these prospective recruits
of infamy and sin, and from this corrupt and fes
tering fountain flows on a ceaseless stream to our
lowest brothels to the Penitentiary and the Slate
Prison. .
Reports have been made to me from the Cap
tains of lhe 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 10th,
11th, and 13th, Patrol Districts from which it ap
pears that the enormous number of two thousand
nine hundred and fifty-five childred are engaged as
above described in these wards alone. And of
these, two-thirds are females between eight and
sixteen years of age. This estimate I believe to
be far short of the number actually thus engaged.
Astounding as it may seem, there are many hun
dred of parents in lhe city who absolutely drive
their offspring forth to practices of theft and semi
bestiality, that they may live lazily on the means
thus secured selling the very bodies and souls of
those in whom their own blood circulates, for the
means of dissipation and debauchery:
The report of ihe Colleclor of San Fran
cisco, which has been received at Washington,
htates the receipts for duties from the 12ih to
ihe 30ih November, to be $113,000, expenses
$10,000. He pays $29,000 a year for four
rooms in which to transact custom house business.
No. 25.
K? Men talk of the silver cord of friendship of
the silken ties which bind young lovers together
of the pure effection of husband and wife as if it
were durable as adamant, and as pure as the love
of angles. But a hasty word, a thoughtless ac
tion, or a misconstrued expression, may break lhe
first ; a slight neglect, some inconsistency, or a
trifling favor denied, may sunder lhe second; and
even the last may be destroyed, or the green eyed
monster may find some entrance, and blight the
fairest flowers of this sweet earthly paradise
But there is a love which neglect cannot weak
en, which injury cannot destroy, and which even
jealousy cannot extinguish. It is the pure, the
holy, the enduring love of a mother. It is as gen
tle as the breeze of evening, firm as the oak, and
ceases only when life's last gleam goes out at
death. During all the vicissitudes of this chang
ing world, in sickness or in sorrow, in life or in
death, in childhood's halcyon days, in youth's
untroubled hour, or manhood's vigorous prime, the
mother clings with the same unwearied affection
to her child. It is the same amid the snow and
frosts of Siberia, the temperate and joyous region
of our own, fair land, amid the arid sands of Af
rica. Governor Johnston and the Mission
to Russia..
A correspondent of iho Philadelphia Ledger,
at Washington, has revived the oft-exploded
lie, that Governor Johnston is seeking an ap
pointment under the general government.
This base falsehood, got up without any foun
dation, whatever, has been so often refuted,
thai we had supposed no tool of lorofocoism
could be found, degraded enough, to give it
currency again. Tho story now runs, accord
ing 10 ihe Ledger's correspondent, that the
Hon. TOWNSEND HAINES, late Secretary
of Slate, has been at Washington for several
days, importuning the President to send Gov
ernor Johnston as Minister to Russia. This
letter was dated on Saturday last ; and the
truth is, that Mr. Haines was at his home in
West Chester, (where he has been ever since
he left his post at Harrisburg.) up to Monday
morning last, when he took his departure for
Washington, and could not have reached there
before yesterday morning. This shows very
plainly lhal these slanders upon Governor John
ston are, altogether, sheer, malignant fabrica
tions; and that there is neither rhymo, reason,
nor probability to sustain them. The cause
must indeed be desperate, that requires such a
system of tactics to support it.
While the President could no where find a
gentleman belter qualified, in every respect,
han Governor Johnston, to discharge ihe high
and responsible duties of the Mission alluded
to, we know that no position, however honora
ble and distinguished, could tempt him to quit
the Gubernatorial office before the expiration
of the term for which he was elected.
Harrisburg Telegraph.
machine for Cleansing and Assorting
Wool.
A Washington letter writer mentions, as an
illustration of the influence which inventive
genius exercises upon manufacturers, that some
gentleman in Boston, a short lime since, em
ployed an ingenious American mechanist 10
devote some study to a mode of cleaning and
separating into different qualities the wool from
the River Plaie. The attempt was success
ful. The machine was produced. The wool
was thrown imo ii and thoroughly cleansed and
divided into three kinds : good, better and bear.
and is thus turned out assorted and cleansed
and ready for market or manufacturer. The
wool costs six cents a pound, and the first sort
produced from it is wonh forty cents a pound.
JLady Miners in California.
A young man from Maine, wining 10 hi
friends from California, says thai his party
found, neat the Sacramento, and almost thirty
miles from an' other diggings, two intelligent
and beautiful young ladies, with no attendant
except an old grey-headed negro, whom they
had enticed to accompany them, and who is
the servant of the father of one of them. The
eldest of these girls was not twenty. It seems
their imagination had become excited by ihe
gold stones ihey had heard, and they had de
termined to try their hands al making a fortune.
The old negro was past work, and was left in
tho camp during the day to look after the house
hold affairs, and keep watch while the girls
pursued tneir mining operations. v ncn tne
party reached their camp, lhe old darkey was
alone in it, hut the girls camo in
cunns
the
day, and received their visiters hospitably.
They expressed no fear of being molested or
robbed, and said that they should leave for
home when they had accumula'ed S 10,000 ;
hey had already gathered $7j000. J bey wero
fiom Florida, and the youngest ran away from
school to enter upon the expedition.
Connecticut and Usury.
The people of Connecticut have probably the
simplest, cheapest, and at the same time most
effective Iaw-tysiem 10 be found in ihe Untird
States. A deed can be drawn in five minti'es,
and when drawn by a lawyer generally co&ta
rom ihirty-seven aud a half to fifty cents, in
cluding tho blank, and justice's fee for certify-
ng the acknowledgement. Yet there is never
any question as 10 ihe meaning 01 the deed,
becauso ii tells its story in plain English. In
several other respects Connecticut legislation
has been more enlightened than thai ofiis
neighbors. Tho usury question is a case in
point. At lhe lat sesaionofihe Legislature
an aci was passed limiting the foffciture in ease
of usury 10 the usury itself, including legal in-
erest, but leaving the principal as inviolable.
This was almost equivalent to a .repeal of the
aw ; for very few would turn knave lo avoid
he payment of interest whereas for principal
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