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PHILADELPHIA. August 13. 1863.-!y. A--f98I 03 Anf "nllHtl IS jamzjBO fQl 5 201 'soX 'aiddv -K'oanx 'ssauaav oxiavsii CIKV "3vo slliilu 83XVH VIH TC3(IVTIH & J.S2JHOIH F or Rent. An office on Centre Street. next door north of Esq. Kinkead's office. Possession given Immediately. JOSEPH M'DOJTALD. April 18, 1864 Startling Revelations O F LIFE IN THE OLD WORLD. f From the New York World. The federal capital of the ancient re public of Switzerland is just now in a tremor of excitement over the judicial denouement of one of the darkest and most appalling tragedies of domestic life which have ever come to the light, even -in this age of startling "sensations." The interest with which all France hung upon the details of the crime of the Count de La Pommerais, the fashionable homeopathic physician of Paris, who first insured his patients lives, and then poi soned them, is more than equalled by the eager and tremulous curiosity with which the public of Berne are watching the suc cessive revelations which the law is ma king in its close investigation info the guilt of Dr. Hermann Demme, one of the most brilliant and promising young men of science in Switzerland, charged with conspiring with the wife of one of his most intimate friends to poison that friend, whose young daughter was, at the same time his betrothed wife. We condense from our late foreign files the rniin outlines of this fearful story, which throws into the shade the darkest pictures ever drawn, even by the jx.-ncil of liclzac, of the human heart and its inte rior possibilities of evil. Herman Demme is a young man not thirty years of age. His father is a dis tinguished professor of the University of Heme, and the son, early introduced by him to the study of the science, has for several years been looked upon as one of the future glories of the republic. lie was sent at the expense of the confedera tion into Italy in 1850 to study the French system of ambulances, and the whole hospital service of the French armies. He has published a work on military surgery, which had made for him a name in Germany as well as in Switzerland, and which secured him an invitation to act as a collaborator on one of the most important medical journals of Germany. Of late he had devoted his attention par ticularly to toxicology ; and a recent trea ties of his on the eilects of strychnine and curare was quoted, but the other day, with commendation, in the l'aris Revue Drs Deux Mamies. Hermann Demme wears in his physiog nomy all the evidences of his intellectual rank. lie has a high open forehead; short brown curling hair; his face is pale, and its most marked characteristics are energy and thoughtfulness. Two years ago Dr. Demme was sum moned to attend a certain Madame Trum py ; then a woman thirty-eight years of age, still handsome, but of a singularly nervous and excitable character. In a quarrel with her husband, the latter had flung a lamp at her which struck her in the face and destroyed one of her eyes. Dr. Demme saved her life, but could not save her eye ; and at the earnest entreaty, both of the husband and the wife, he sup pressed the circumstances of this misfor tune. Mr. Trumpy, the husband who took such liberties was a banker of lierne, living in a charming house called Wabern, situated on the Aar, at the foot of the mountain opposite lierne. He was still in the prime of life, and was well known in the city as a financial operator and daring speculator ; a man living like Ma homet's coffin, between heaven and earth ; to-day almost a millionaire, and next week almost a bankrupt, but always living in a free and dashing sort of style such a man, in short, as one may see by the score in Wall street between 10 a. m. and 4 r. m. He made such advances to Dr. Demme as resulted in a close intimacy. Dr. Demme first became a regular guest at the Wabern dinner table, jnd then had a chamber set apart for him in the house. When the Trumpys went traveling, Dem me joined them, and in this way they visited together, during the first year of their acquaintance, Jerusalem and the East ; and, during the second year, Italy. On the loth of February last, Gaspard Trumpy, whose affairs were at that time in a particularly embarrassing condition, thanks to his connection with a certain speculator named Ilelwing, was taken very ill during the night. Demme had for some days been attending him for a painful disorder under which he was suf fering, in consequence of certain excesses in his way of living. He insisted that Demme should sit up with him, and that nobody else should. The next morning he died. Shortly afterwards Dr. Demme was betrothed to the only daughter of the deceased, a young lady of seventeen. Down to this time the death of Trum EBENSBURG, PA. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1864. py had been regarded as natural, and the whole matter passed quiet out ot the mind of all but those directly concerned, when Heme was electrified by Madame Trum py's denunciation of her intended son-in-law as the assassin of her husband, and as her own guilty lover ! This extraor dinary denunciation was made in a letter of which the following is an extract : " As I have told you I have too much upon my heart. 1 suffer ; my conscience gives me no rest. Yes ! I am an accur sed woman. I have been guilty of every vice, of every excess. I have been guilty of falsehood, theft, adultery, and I have ended by becoming the assassin of my husband. It is by my fault, and through my example, that my husband and my child have become wicked. I have sown evil around me. I have fallen myself, and in my fall have dragged down my nearest family. I have passed part of my life alternately as a victim and a seducer. A man came into my house as a friend, he became my lover, and the assassin of my husband. Ah, I deserve all possible chastisements. Whatever penalties you may inflict upon me, I deserve them all. They are an expiation. I resign myself to everything ! 1 submit to my destiny." Upon this denunciation of Madame Trumpy, she herself and Dr. Demme were arrested, and the remains of Mr. Trumpy were subjected to a chemical ex amination. And here we are introduced to a new and most striking feature in this extraordinary case. For some time no traces of poison could be found in the body ; nor were any of the effects of the best known poison observable in it. Dr. Schwarzcnbach, one of the examiners, after testing in vain for morphine and qui nine, suddenly thought by accident of strychnine, applied the test, and when he saw the violet tinge appear, which reveal the deadly presence, started back, as he himself says " horror struck." Hut the strychnine thus detected had tseither pro duced the cramps by which its fatal ac tion is attended nor had it passed beyond the small intestines. It had evidently not been long enough in the body to cause death ! I low was this accounted for ? One professor, Dr. Hausemann, supposes that Trumpy, weary of his financial troubles, took strychnine ; and that bfure it had readied the liver, a shock of hurror at his own act sent the blood to his brain, and caused hit death by apoplexy, tltc su-tft men tal emotion outrunning thus the more materi al minister of death ! This hypothesis would, of course, ac quit Dr. Demme. Hut in what a hide ous light must Madame Trumpy then re main ! We shall revert to this terrible feature in the case presently, pausing now to point out another and scarcely less dread ful complication toward which the revela lations of the chemical examination ap parently tend. One oPthe examiners, Mr. Emmert, is known to entertain a deep and bitter jeal ousy of Professor Demme, the father of the accused. An anonymous letter pro duced in court, and in the handwriting of Madame Emmert, was used by the advo cate of the prisoner to introduce, or at least to hint, the frightful suggestion that the poison found in the body bad been put there by Dr. Emmert as a means of vengeance upon the two Demrccs ! Hut the younger Demme has since avowed that he himself wrote this letter and counterfeited Madame Emmert's hand- j writing in order to throw the law upon this track ! He maintains, however, that anonymous letters had previously been written to himself and to Madame Trum py, which he believes to have come from Madame Emert. All this secondary plot will be unvailed by the examination of Madame Emmert and by the researches of experts in handwriting. Meanwhile the main force of the drama is concentrated upon the conduct and character of Madame Trumpy. Whether Demme be guilty or innocent, it is im possible to imagine anything more shock ing than the moral phenomenon which this personage of the terrible story pre sents. Madame Trumpy is described as a de vout Catholic, belonging to that class of which the author of "Le Maudit" has drawn so powerful a sketch in his picture of the female devotees of the parish of St. Aventin. At once cold and passionate, ardent and cruel, she appears at the suc cessive stages of this strange history as half woman and half panther. She talks calmly with him whom she accuses of being her lover about the way in which he shall conduct the post mortem examina tion of her husband's dead body ! She first throws her own daughter if her 6tory be true, into the arms of her own lover, and then ruin her peace of mind for life by publicly exposing the whole fearful history, it her story be false, she mur ders the happiness of her child and takes the life of an innocent man, in order to gratify the savage thirst of a disappointed passion. Her demeanor before the tribu nal speaks terribly against her. It is described as strangely calm and self-possessed. That any woman not physically, mentally, or morally mad should thus bear herself while trampling under foot all the instincts not only of maternal ten derness but of personal shame, is simply impossible. " C'est Venus touto entiere a sa proie at tachee." The blind rage of Phoodra driving her helplessly into crime and death finds its modern counterpart in this Swiss woman of the nineteenth century ; and one is tempted to ask one's self how far, after all, we are justified in our habitual boastings of the absolute moral superiority of our Christian civilization over that of Greece and liome, when the vail blown aside for a moment by Providence from one or another home in Christendom reveals such glimpses as this into the hearts of its inmates. The trial of Dr. Demme and Madame Trumpy was still going on when the Aus tralian sailed. The Augsburg Alloemeine Zeitumj, of November 3d, says of it : " The revelations of the first week were in the highest degree startling and absorb ing. The trial swallows up the whole attention of the community. The accu sed, Demme, seemed during the last two days more deeply moved than before. His father Professor Demme, is constant ly with him. The sympathies of the public will go with them. ihe trial will hardly end before Thursday or Friday of next week. After the evi dence shall have been put in, it is expect ed that the pleadings will occupy at least two da vs."' A Coos Uxuku iiik Crinoline. We witnessed an amusing incident on one of our suburban street, last Saturday. A fashioneble young lady, got up in the highest style of the milliner's art, and ar rayed in all the glory of five dollar a j ard silk, a twenty dollar bonnet, and a three hundred dollar shawl, was majestically sweeping along in the direction of the Fair Ground, while just behind u little boy was leading a pet coon. A countryman in a brown slouched hat and a linsey woolsey warmus," came along, followed by a "yallah" dog, whose nose was scarred diagonally trans versely and latterly with the scars of many a fiercely contested battle with members of the racoon family. Tiger no sooner saw the ring tailed representative of his ancient enemy, than he made a frantic dive for him, accompanied by a furious bark. Cooney comprehended the situa tion at a glance, bolted incontinently and sought a sanctuary beneath the ample circumference of the young lady's crino line. The young lady screamed, while tho dg made rapid circles, snuffing the air, and evidently bewildered to knmv what had become of the coon. Tho situation of the young lady was critical and em barrassing. She was afraid to move for fear the coon would bite, and the coon declined to leave his retreat until the dog retired. Finally the dog was stoned off, the boy dragged the coon from his hiding place, and the young lady went her way with the lively consciousness of having expenenceu a new sensauon. ys ior me. coon he was instantly killed. Indianajyo lis Journal. The Cost of Slustitltes. On a call of 500,000 men it would cost three hundred and fifty million of dollars to fill it, at the price per man ($700) now paid for substitutes in Harttord. And it Con necticut's quota is 11,000, as it probably will be, ii would cost the people of our State seven millions, seven hundred and seventy thousand dollars, at the same rate. This tax, provided the quota snouiu be filled by substitutes at this rate, would be greater than the entire internal revenue and tax on foreign importations ; ana mis, too, for barely securing the men, without a uniform on their backs, or a ration in their bands. If Hussia quailed under an expenditure of two hundred millions of dollars a year in the Crimean war, what is to become of this country one of these days, at the rate we are sailing? Hartford Times. fST Prentice says "an industrious searcher after the man-clous is busy ma king a collection of tho various forms of oaths administered to American citizens under tne present Administration. We understand that he has already collected nine hundred and forty-seven varieties. We don't know whether the collection in cludes Andy Johnson' variety. Webster's LETTER TO HIS MAK1GER, Washington, March 17th, 1852. " John Taylor ; Go ahead. The heart of the winter is broken, and before the first day of April all your land may be ploughed. Buy the oxen of Capt. Mars ton if you think the price fair. Pay for the hay. I send you a check for $1 60 for these two objects. Put the great oxen in a condition to be turned out and fatted. You have a good horse team, and I think in addition to this, four oxen and a pair of four year old steers will do your work. If you think so, then dispose of the Ste vens oxen, or unyoke them and send them to pasture for beef. I know not when I shall see you, but I hope before planting. If you need anything, 6uch as guano, for instance, write to Joseph lireck, Esq,, and he will send it to you." " Whatever ground you sow or plant, 6ce that it is in good condition. We want no pennyroyal crops. ' A little farm well tilled ' is to a farmer the next best thing to 'a little wife well willed.' Cul tivate your garden, lie sure to produce sufficient quantities of useful vegetables. A man may half support his family from a good garden. Take care to keep my mothers' garden in good order, even if it costs you the wages of a man to take care of it. 1 have sent you many garden seeds. Distiibute them among jour neighbors. Send them to the stores in the village, that everybody may have a part of them without cost. I am glad that you have chosen Mr. Pike represen tative He is a true man ; but there are in New Hampshire many persons who call themselves whigs are no W'higs at all, and no better than disunionists. Any man who hesitates in granting and se curing to every part of tho country its constitutional rights is an enemy to the whole country. "John Taylor: If one of your boys should say that he honors his father and mother, and loves his brothers and sisters, but still insists that one of them should be driven out of the family, what can you say of him but this, that there is no real family love in him ? You and I are farmers ; we never talk politics ; our talk is of oxen ; but remember this : that any man who attempts to excite one one part of the country against another, is just as wicked as he would be who should attempt to get up a quarrel be tween John Taylor and his neighbor, Captain Hurleigh. There are some ani mals that live bet in the fire ; nnd there are some men who delight in heat, smoke, combustion and even tieneral conflajira tion. They do not follow the things that make for peace. They enjoy only con troversy, contention and strife. Have no communication with such persons, cither as neighbors or politicians. You have no more right to say that slavery ought not to exist in Virginia than a Virginian has to say that slavery ought to exist in New Hampshire. This is a question left to every State to decide for itself ; and if we mean to keep the States together, we must leave to every State this power of deciding for itself. I think I never wrote you a word be fore on politics. I shall not do it again. I only say, love your country, and your whole country ; and when men attempt to persuade you to get into a quarrel withl the laws of other States, tell them that 'you mean to mind your own business,' and advise them to mind theirs. John Taylor you arc a free man ; you possess good principles ; you have a large family to rear and provide for by your labor, lie thankful to the Government that does not oppose you, which does not bear you down by excessive taxation, but which holds out to you and yours the hope of all the blessings which liberty, industry and security may give. John Taylor, thank God, morning and evening, that you were born in such a country. John Taylor, never write me another word upon politics. Give my kindest remembrance to your wife and children ; and when you look flora your eastern windows upon tho graves of my family romember that he who is the author of this letter must soon follow them to another world. Daniel Webstek." C?- Mr. Reynolds, the dramatist once met a free and easy actor, who told him that he had passed' three festive days, at the seat of the Marquis and Marchioness of , without an invitation. He had gone there on tho assumption that, as my lord and lady were not on speaking terms each would suppose that the other bad asked him and so it turned out. c- A gentleman complaining of the income tax- savs he cannot put on his boots in the morning without a stamp. VOL. 11 NO. 48. Uow Tastes DllTcr. Remair relates, on the authority of M. Dela Hire, that a young French lady could never resist the temptation of eating a spider whenever she met with one in her walks. They are said to taste like nuts, at least this was the opinion of the celebrated Taria Schurman, who not only eat them, but justified her taste by say ing that she was born under scorpia. Latrille informs us that the astronomer Lainne was equally fond of this offensive morsel. Man is truly an omniverous ani mal, for there is nothing which is disgust ing to one nation that is not the choica food of another. Flesh, fish, fowl, in sect, even the gigantic centipedes of Bra zil, many of them a foot and a half in length and a half an inch broad, were seen by Humbolt to be dragged out of their holes and crunched alive by the children. Serpents of all sorts have been con sumed as food, as the host of the cele brated inn at Terracini frequently accost his guests as politely " requesting to know if they prefer the eel of the hedge or the eel of the ditch." To evince this attach ment to their favorite pursuit most natu ralists seem to consider it dispensable to taste and recommend some insect or other. Darwin assures that the catter piller of "the hawmoth is delicious ; Kirby and Spencer think the ant good eating and push their etomological zeal so far as to distinguish between the flavor of the ab domen and thorax j apd ilemir re commends the the catterpiller of the plastic gramma as delicious dish. How much we eat and upon how much we might live, are curious matters of specu lation and in an article on the subject in an English review we find the following suggestive facts : The accounts which travelers give of the quantity of food that can be consumed are extraordinary. Sir John Ross esti mated that an Esquimaux will eat per haps twenty pounds of flesh and oil daily. Compare this with Valentine's six pound., or with Canaro's twelve ounces of solids and fourteen ounces of wine. Captain Parry tried as a matter of curiosity bow much an Esquimaux lad who was scarce ly full grown would consume, if left to himself, and weighed the following arti cles before being given. He was twenty hours getting through them and certainly did not consider the quantity extraordinary : Sea horse-flesh, hard froze, four pounds four ounces ; do. do. boiled, four pounds four ounces, bread and bread dust, one pound and twelve ounces. To this must be added one and a quarter pints of rich gravy soup, three wine glasses of raw spirits, one tumbler full of strong grog, one gallon of water; Capt Cochrane, in his Journey through Russia and Siberian Tartary,' relates that the Admiral Saritcheff was informed that one of the yakutis ate in four and twenty hours, the hind quarters of a large ox, twenty pounds of fat, and a proportion ate quantity of melted butter for his drink. To test the truth of the statement, the admiral gave him a thick porridge of rice boiled down with three pounds cf butter, weighing together twenty eight pounds, and although the glutton had already breakfasted, be sat down to it with great eagerness, and consumed the whole with out stirring from the spot. Captain Coch rane also states that he has seen three Yakutis devour a reindeer at a meal i and a calf weighing about two hundred pounds is not two much for a meal for five of these gluttons. Some catterpillers cat double their weight in food ; a cow eats forty-six pounds daily, a mouse cats eight times as much in proportion to its own weight as is eaten by a man. Hut when such facts are cited, we must bear in mind the enormous differences in the nature of the food thus weighed, their relative amounts of water, and the indtgcstable material. The same caution is requisite in speaking of a man's diet. A greenhorn desires to know why crockery ware dealers re anlike all other shopkeepers ; and adde,- very innocently " because it won't do for them to crack their goods." Men speak of men's virtues when they are dead ; and all toombstones are marked with epitaphs of good and virtue. Is there any particular cemetery where bad men are buried ! C3- A debtor that can't par is apt to run away. Like lightning, if he can't fork he bolts. ey An impertinent fellow wishes to know if you ever sat down to tea where skimmed milk was on the table without Uring asked, " Do you take cream f '