DURLIN bz SLOAN, PUBLISHERS. VOLUME 26. tiPtt portrn. THE MYSTERY D&T•RD T•I'LDII. rho , ,„„, oot cf rad ; tbou a. t out goes to dust; Itas 11:1 1 / 4 Lby luvaliurg• loall tall to foroaleu stiv,to by Tinto, sad thrust Late tto solemn gulf that covers all. Tsai statist $M wholly perish, though the sod 5,0 k with the violets closer to ttly bruit; Tt, AO by Ow* feet of geoeratioos trod, besolstoue crumb' es from thy Pilo* of Mil rb . t r,,e , of thy bileaty eannot the, Tee Sweetness of thy preseoes shall cot fadr, g ir th or. nut all the glory of thine eyes—. Decti Al! not keep what death has never made It -is not .bins, that forehead strange owl *old. X.r :awe dumb lips, they hid beneath the snow, r h , nnan entilil throb beneath the passive folds, fly rands for Ma that stony clasp forms. Eat thou has tows—gene from the dreary land, Gone fr.ra the storms le: loose from-every Mil, Limed by the meet pertuesint of a hand wt :1 tali thee somewhere in U.. distance still IT'Ars'er t'ott art, I know thou wearrst yes ss besri! , -lotag beavty sanot.fied t . e.:7111r ) v, sod touched w•th soft regret r , :t tilt° who Po,:kit, bu: oannot reach thy still irr,, for thee the lisiog lore of A:I sore thy place to Nro, 4re, u a child, iftuse hand is pared triim his playmate's hold, Rscders a ones along a lonesome wtid. ItZeD in the wet i e massages of i rue fo.itsteps of thy i spirit tiugering near, Ica dueness the way th .t should go. I of my heart, I bear lrer I.fe, and snow pd the empty r.a'me restore e •ymb. of thy heavonly pant Cr!! thou not T - t: la, 'di of barren rleee p,,a 0 'r the ft perfect rocs c uf my heart? :.a. •01 cue ben I.ng 91111ZSEIN :.,, ~. f%+ t.c' er warratt fr,m ma • •'.! , 112 , 14 W NW ': e.:4•30 T-,e ,itot (13,1 e, Al I glr , tr.to i 4 l.•h with thee o:hoict THE JORN ALMANAC: -OR-- CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. ST ♦ YIIVO•AAT o 5 TRIL PUIRIZI The prairie over will( ll Li..‘, road lay, was just scgi.ng i ts sea like outline vital tue purple Al' I ,the horisiu, m and wisA be(it,ing so 1nd'5...,,,,, ...,,,,, ~ , ,he vibiutt, that itt*ight ace been taken ' , teeocean iti tivilightgan io 'trernb d, and over the #.,s{ ulitl , while groups AkiChere and ih..re. larked l t• e dark islands I i ' %jut! till...be re , l , pset t if the prilrif wits vikible the bright .jaiblinktimith s shot), sh 1 nitig like a bright t ika ...is tithisen The path waf t lonely, and as 2 . ISt It in sup, caddie as I had once before t.t.t il4hpen boat l At night, on' tie starlit sea 04y quies4tied its pace a 0 it saw the ida laft & a mile's ;smart rifling. I could 1N..1.- ~ u tJirie of a low roof on t 4.• verge of • I - , iwo di ju,i where the pr•ine bAnded towards le A'.CT :::. di tuti!ln , nient two pers ,- os drew near on k, tow.Al.l, rue. Tuey were a Tipp* w.,14 arFi yiuog wouu.4u, and ..ter: couvtr -13;43,15. Tae g ni w.l mounted ,n a .fie 60rie, and 14er cJaip,tu.ou rycle a fyrwec.l wurt ectt i ktug, as we wit escu .ttier It• re was not light euJugh for mo to see .Itir ftalur Mere was n indtberibable aDAIt Hap f Wale, [GAL cOnviuced ale tn.tt, ahe to very fan - ;As tbey wrut uu I u e ard them td,r,g and Iltup , og, and ni•)re than once, the iauglt ul the girl r aeh , i my ears. ,vers. I ssl,l )n my thoughts, t. ar golug to \the nix. pantatiun :4,s I had 1t5411 , 1 tab ut f ur back across sud Lte*lues tae planter's house were iJodman s hut, 4 rule e.,uut;y m. awg Cause ...he trees, 4n•.1 a few resiutuc•s f tart e, )rairie hatni.,t 10 a few miuuttb I teLehed the biackimith's do ur . The flee was not blazing, Gut goiug en, and Cat Cameron, the young swan, was Laing up and dews his ...hop with ebasty and •,;ry step, and the gleaming coals of his furnace it a %ILI rAre wpm au angry brow H' absorbs I in Li. ~ wn g:onmy tho'ts, - .r I upproan.d unheard, and heard him mut • v t ball necer,see the day!" tu,n), Lit, iho.fuot fB,l of my pony rung u fragrneo of Iron on the ground, and k‘ quit.a,y up "Who's then, ' Le lel:nal:ied, almoat fierce- "It is me. C , Arner,o,i I answered, f , r I was uim, busing oly the wiek oetore, had r rimy biatki by him otr,rov way up, and twice Kri at uis near lOon near his shop, for euterat,,, ! hJated travelers, aver anio,, , laflaand fare as he had, u.. t, v .ung bac hoosekePping r ,t tri,t border k rr; hut as be was a • Luntsmol, and gamin wa4 plenty, enaion 1.,;d turkey were seldom wanted itt. aard Cameron's father had hveu au old [radian '_'er, an 1 hfter the w,irN ,_ttis.(l in a rough, i.nd of a pay' upon a body of nob tee, o , rleritiir the prairie ; but what with his free !Janus, and the wild life of his eon trii.us. In ditP,p4tiog ,%ir) few wei.iks, at the Iter •own of A.,ierdeeti. ti; 'e•-u rr tighteen miles ~•tr. tt,r (~r a f r air a alto. n,.1 s J , k place at a • rig uircell o%er the creek., and baying lost suot, and enraceil U) ur.r.k, he quarei ' rr t% the winner, and was only prevented bin dead with his rifle by the quick ' I the other, who fired hail a Fecoui before \Va., bits son, was absent at the time, but t , ok up the feud, and n 't being t kill his father's murderer, quarelled with N 6n , Oie. 401, bray,: ynuug fellow, and - übk to presuke him to hostilities, one Er,i a , LIEU as be passed the ahop, but miss it)liPd his horse Wat," said the young man quietly, u ....ngagei himself tr.)n, the as:tithe, "I hope ~ let my mare g as an offset to the old I could not well aff. , rd to lose her, but let • ,top here and be even tic I;Actieron w a de no reply, but suddenly dropped I rifle tutu the h•O!!')I! of his arm, he passed sivte an! out into the woods. TLta r , ccurrt d two years prior to the evening which I drew rtua at Cameron's door. In . :e interim, within a tow months the daughter la farmer, in rood ctrt.ouistauces who had been of the lowcr conotte s at school for four rourned to the bloom and grace, and in ' of a spright l y youag lady, and was rev gnia,d as the b ,:e of the prairie!' Alspron, wet himself a tall, go o d looking "tlag ftliow, wiLti a bright black eye, Lad jet fr.t saw her, as she rode by with her fath• ois horseback He stopped to speak to Cam about a plough, and the daughter bei ng 4 trodueed, the young smith was instantly be. 'Wand by ha beistbaS thit saas Siam mark ERIE WE_LY.I4O-1-'SE!j'VEII ..ttd he, ins cheerful ed at the cold, and scarcely recognised nod, whereby she acknowledged his deferential bow.; In that country, aristocracy of occupation is wholly unknown, and a young blacksmith of good character could sit as as equal at the cot ton grower's table. Among country people, la• ; bor and mechanical employmentdoes notdegrade. "A man is a man for a. that." Paul Randolph, at whom Cameron had shot, was a small plantar, but on his roadside he ear ried on a wheel-vrrighte trade also; so the young men were on an equal footing. A few days passed, and Watkins Cameron resolved to make en errand to the house of the prairie beauty, for he had done nothing else but to think of her, and dream of her, and build palaces of imagina tion, in which she wu to reign the queen. Mounted upon a fine horse, and dressed in his best apparel, Cameron alighted at the gate one Sunday evening, and was received by the farmer with a cordial shake of the hand. ' The young lady, Catharine Deerfield, or "Kate," aa she was termed, did not recopies in the well-dressed and handsome young wooer the blacksmith in his shirt sleeves and leather aprea,and received him with a grace and civility that greatly flattered him She bad not beard his name distiootly, but half an hour afterwards, when it was spoken by her father, a change immediately came over her features, and coolness and reserve took the place of frankness. It was too apparent to Cam eron not to be felt, and without being able to define the cause, he vainly tried to converse with her, but finding her answers brief and repelling, he arose, deeply mortified anti vexed, and took his leave, haughtily and angrily bowing to her He galloped homeward across the prairies in a rage. His horse was white with foam, and panting as if he had mu a race, when he drew rein at his own door. "Proud minx: she scorns the blacksmith:" he muttered u he entered the cabin. "I will humble her! she did not know me at first, it semis. So, perhaps, she has an admirer and can do without ma. Whoever it is, we are foes to the knife hilt:" Not many days afterwards, Cameron's suspi cions were confirmed. Kate Deerfield had an admirer, and it was none other than Paul Ran dolph, a man be loved not well. From the hour this intelligence reached him, he became gloomy, sullin, unsocial. lie kept his secret in Lis heart, but those who had occasion to go to his shop were head to say that "Yirat would do his work, but never a civil word give to any comer high or low." It was Dot the mere "blacksmith" that Catha rine treavd coldly on the Sunday evening we have before alluded to, but the aaaaaetn , the man who had fired with intent to kill at Paul Randolph—for Paul was already received as her admirer before the visit of Watkins --and her 'rank, geoeruus nature, led her to show her con tempt for a man of spirit and temper like that exhibited in Cameron's chasacter There was also another lover, a young mer chant of the next villiage, who pretended busi uees with her father in order to make snit to the daughter; but she bad but one heart and it was given to Paui, who had been her "lover," when both were children and before she left her fath er's roof to go to the boarding school, from which she returned the beauty of the prairies. All the young men, to be sure, who saw her at the vil lage ohurch, fell in love with her, and she was more talked of and visited than any other maid en of the prairies. She was attractive by her amiable temper, beauty of features, goodness of heart, intelligence sod fins spirits. .She was so agre able toall,(save Cameron,) that every youth fancied that himself was the only one favored with her sweetest and most winning smile. Yet Kate was not a flirt Her good nature made it bard to treat with coolness any one who sought bet soelety. Her whole heart was Paul's; but her smiles were like the sunshine, dispensed to all wahin her iofluenoe Being an only child. she was heiress to that pact of the world, and would bring a fortune of fifteen thousand dollars to the successful suitor of her baud. But the young men thought only of her beautiful face; and Paul had not a selfish feeling in his heart. Cameron's motives were not apparent; but the youug merchant evidently had an eye to the fif teen thousand dollar, and "enlarging his busi ness;" at least, that was whispered, for he was a parsimonious and "hard man." Having thus initiated the reader into the en tkcedeuts of the parties to my narrative, I will now resume the thread of the story which I have to tell. Upon alighting at the shop of the blacksmith, be said, in a growling and disagreeable way, "You bad better go on: I don't want any travel ers to stay at my house to•night " "I have ridden hard to reach here, Mr. Cam eron, and can go no further, as it is ten miles to the pert place that entertains people; and the rain storm now rising in the west, will be upon me before I go three miles." The man looked at me steadily a moment, and then•said sharply: "Alight: But I have no supper." "It matters not so I have shelter," was my cheerful reply, as I led my horse through his shop towards a small stable in the rear, where my pony had lodged before, when the master of the place was in better humor than he seemed to be now. I found his own horse there with his foot bound up and very lame "You met a couple of people riding across the pnurie?" he said as I came baek and was asking him about his horse's lameness. "Yes." "Did you know them?" "No They were a young man and woman." “F ere they riding fast?" "No: At a walk." "Yes," he muvered, "they will take their time They will not hurry! Lovers love to daily " " Who are they, Cameron?" "Now should I know! It was dark when they went past ,here," he answered with a rude and savaget. tGne. "But go in—go inl I will see about 'your horse." Thus speaking, he led the way at a quick pace into the small log dwelling that stood in the yard next to his shop. The house consisted of two rooms only, plainly furnished In one of these rooms were three beds. As I was to have no supper, and as there was no light but that of the stars, I bad no notion of setting up, and be ' ing fatigued with a long day's ride, I at once went to bed while he went out, closing the door, and saying, "Don't feel-uneasy about your horse; I will feed her well, thcnw,h I have got nothing for I you." I I soon fell asleep on one of the narrow mat tresses, filled with pine leaf stbut I was i suddenly awakened by I know n otes at startling dream—for though I found myself sitting up in bed, I could not recall any part of the dream that must have made me wake so singularly. All !I was quiet; but the room was at intervals illumi nated by vivid lightning, and I heard distinct peals of sharp thunder. The gashes soon became I so incessant that I could not. sleep, and the thun der grew nearer and heavier, so that it was but half put eight o'clock I h ad not been in bed therefore, three quarters of an hoer. _ I g up and dressed , - and finding a pine knot, lighted it by a match from a box that I always carried in my saddle bap. I then took from them a book and began to read. The wind now began to be istr and &dross that my pony ghoul be well iiereei iiau tis gattatiag sum I west to open the outer door to go out, but round it fast on the other side. Cameros was not in his bed, and had evidently leaked no In with out thought. Findtng that I weld net open the door, I raised a window and stepped oat, but bad no sooner reached the ground than two large dogs sprang towards me ferociously, and com pelled me to regain the window for safety. It soon eommeneed raining in torrents, and I eon tintinued to read quietly by my pine knot, up' posing that Cameron might be in his shop doing some late work, though I had heard neither ham mering iron, nor the ring of the anvil. I read for an hour sad a half, and the Arm having gone over, the thunders ceased sad the sky brigtitening with stars, I yielded to a recur. ing disposition to sleep, and was about going into the room where my bed was, wheal heard a fast galloping Tong the prarie road towards the shop. I looked out through the window, sad sew a and throw himself at a leap from a white horse, sod disappear with it eroded tote angle ci the In the ilmenrity, I could act tell who it was, bps I thought the horse, being irhiliaand most lash ed very mush Tike mina, and I thought of my pony when I saw it. In . a few urinates I heard Cameron's neigli, u if another horse had joined him in the stable, "It is some wet rider who has been out in the storm," I said mentally; "and I will make up a fire for him," and adding a few pieties of fat pane to my bluing knot I kindled a bright fire in a moment, upon the hearth. I had hardly doge so, when I heard a quick tread on the gallery; the door was unlocked and flew open, sad Cam eron entered. His appearance startled ase. His feu wore an expression, unlike that I had even seen on human features; his eyes were fiery, and his figure looked u if inspired with a demon. "What are you up for?" "The rain would not let me sleep, Cameron," I answered; "here is a fire to dry you; I see you are wet through." "Dry me! how do you know that I have been out?" he asked furiously; "WIT, you been watch ing me, you confounded spy?" and he advanced as if he would mese me by the throat. "So, Mr. Cameron, I have not been out; you locked me in too securely for that," said I, stag ing. "Then you tried to get oat, hey?" and his clenched fists approached my face, and, as they did so, I saw that the shirt wristband of one sleeve was red with blood. The idea instantly warred to me, that be had been fighting with some one, and hews this blood, his rage, and angry appearance. "I was going out to see that my pony was well sheltered from the storm " "Yon were, hey?" he said with an indiseribe ble evil look. "You have not been out then?" he said, in a more calm tone. „ No „ "Well, it is good you did not, for my dogs would have torn you to pieces! thesis thermion I locked you in—for your safety, you see!" sad he tried to laugh, when the effort produend the glare of a devil's smile. His language, his violent manner, the wild ness of his disordered appearance, made a disa greeable impression upon me. I thought it best to be silent and retire at once--eepeoially when I saw him take a bottle from the cupboard, 'poor out a tumbler full of whiskey, anddrinkitdown. He made no objection to my ranking, and in order not to be intruded upon by Ws in the dight, I locked my do r. For an hoar or moire I beard him walking up end down the dour talk ing incoherently, and sometimes breaking forth in the most appaling curses. Suddenly a horseman hailed the house from the road. He started, and I heard him 004 his rifle before he opened the window to reply. "Can I ledge here to-night?" asked the tra veler, in a thin, shrill voice "No, I don't open my doors foranybody after dark. All in bed, been in bed since snn set.— Ybody goes out or in after dark on these pre mises. Bide on. An't you Mr. Basset?" "Yes," said the shrill vice "I've hurt my self by falling." "Then be of, or I'll set my blood hounds after you., The man was board to pile" forward is huts, and Cameron, shutting the window, muttered "Miserable shop keeper, he dare to look that way! Let him go on and pt her toslo up his hurts? He'll find a nights lodging there. Go --Satan sent him this way!" I beard nothing more. Bleep oversaw lac In the morning I was roped by his hams voice. "Come, getup, stranger! it is time you were traveling. In a quarter of an hour I was is my mddle and on my way towards town. Oamerou had saddled my pony for me and brought it to the door, as if wishing to see me off. The money I offered, he refused with a sores; but as I was moving off, he said, fixing his eyes upon my facie, "You know I was at home all night; remem ber it, will you?" He added in a menacing way that surprised me. "If any one asks you if yon met Basset, the traveler, you can tell him be passed by here last night, riding serous the prai rie, on his way to Deerfield's. About noon I reached town, sad had by the next morning my stormy night t r :=- ron's, when I was told by one whom I met in the street, that Catharine Deerfield had been found murdered on the prairie, a mile from her father's house, and that Paul andolph had been arrested as the murderer. The intelligence till ed me with surprise and horror. A short ties before I passed the two riding home in the live- liest spirits; and now to hear that one was mur dered and the other a murderer, almost petrified me with surprise. Upon partical inquiry, I learned that Paul's horse came gallopintup to the house of a young farmer of Deerfield! in the midst of the storm, sight which alarmed the family, and immediate ly Mr. Deerfield started to see what had become of Paul and his daughter, whom he was expeet mg inkier his *loon. Half a mile from the house they met Paul on foot. He was in a state of the wildest excite ment, and immediately reported that about half an hour before, as be and Kate were riding along ithin a mile of home; and were about to quicken their pace to escape the storm, a horse man, mounted on a small white animal, rode ra pidly up, passed them by a wide sweep on the prairie, and then meeting %beta, mind his rifle and fired at him; that he was wounded in the head, and dropping his rein, his horse startled by the shut, leaped, and east him headlong upon the ground. "In a moment," said Paul, "I was upon my tset, only to see the imessin with the rein of Kite's horse wlthia his grasp, and riding 4 with her at full speed, straight tato the optm prairie. My horse was gone, and although I pursued, they were soon lost to view in the ob scurity. I stall bid on is the pursuit, when in s different direction, I heard a shriek afar off, and the report of a gee or pistol. Bewildered and faint fr.,m bleeding, and sot blowing is what direction to seek her, I made my tray hith er to give the alarm and proses, hams toreeoter your daughter." This was the sweat gin by Paul. Mr. Deerfield, haring without delay ■oaated Pail ea one of the seraaat's hares% aid seat bin book to call others to assist is les pursuit, rods the party swiftly is the.direstioa whisk Pool bad WWI She semi trial MA ad*. The S 1 50 A YEA ADVANCE. EIX SATURDAY ti it iiHOIMBER 29,.E tier sad loser were Mew* eaglet bat a few wade were spoken as they dashed ea as the 40est speed of their honer. When they mac& ed the plies about where the Aria h a d b ees baud, they shouted sad eene. d the aside' by same, but then was so sowed heard la response. Almost reside timbals's is their supine* sad the danger surroaading bete Maly rode rapidly is sarimidireetioss about the pidideoks h k aa rT ga oalli sad then listening. Sa only they heard a distal WO*, and galloped precipitately in the direetiea wham it came./ They bad not ridden* quarter of a mile, _whoa they discovered a dark object ea the apse held, and drawing aisr they at it wee a bone. In a moment they were at its side. "My domino", banal" mild the father with emotion; "mew, Wheell it my ebildr "What is dim spas the ground?' emeleimed Peel Both discovered the object at the ease imams, sad both wog to the pwwwd. ißy Whe star light they amid me that It **plat- imam gone. Pawl sad the litther r stit ,.... !mmed. Dea rde Mar pod and neogoised Her Wm was wet with bloc — r — ite bad boon shot through the heart. We draw a veil over this sone of grief aad horror; the father's *aguish, the lover's grief and rage, pea and ink outset They took her up and laid a rlifelees form upon her horse, and walking beside it, bore it to her home. It would be impossible to describe the feeling which agitated the neighborhood whoa the aad news Lew from ear to ear. The house wee Sled the text morning. The lovely dead girl was robed in white aad laid in the hall, and all eyes that gazed, wept; and none more freely than those of the numerous young men, who, hearing of her warder, bad own to see her, and learn the dreadful particulars. Among the visitors was Watkins Cameros, carefully dressed and fall of condolence; nor did he fail to lay great strong upon the feet that he had seen her pass the evening before with Paid Randolph, just before the storm. In the absence of any definite direction in which to look for die author of such a murder, it was easy for envy sad jeskiusy le think of and speak this fact, till at kagth the suspicion so grew that the young lover who was overwhelmed with grief, aad had sought the private apartment of the house to weep with the father, was intrud ed upon and &meted, charged with the murder. His amazement made him dumb, and his silence sad confusion were construed into positive guilt. At length the day of trial came. The wart was crowded to suffocation, for the whole cum. try was deeply interested. Paul was kept is prison. He was in good cheer, save the sor rows that the cruel death of her he loved caused to weigh down his heart. Singularly enough no suspicion bad been directed towards Cameron, except by me—for in the moment I heard of the murder, I said in my heart "Cameron is the mar darer." And when I afterwards recalled ears fully all the -eirennistances of the sight I *peat beneath his roof, and his strange weeds end sow duet, then sa anaoountable, I was as well °melee ed of the deed being done by his bawd as if I had bee can eye witnees. He, himself, influenced by the suspieks that always is attached to guilt, sad hiring lest Paul migistashoss biesce4 kisaitudke dual &beat Basset having aroseed Wm And so frequently did he speak of it, that t ape friends of Paul, who disbelieved his guilt, suspected Basset, the trader, to be the guilty person—for they knew he had been rejected by the maiden, and therefore might have a motive in avenging himself. Therefore there were two parties sus pected by the public, but Paul woe the only one under arrest But Basset hearing of the suspicion, proved by two gentlemen that they bad overtaken and joined him at the blacksmith's, cad that they had kept on together in the storm and reached Okolena, and pat up at the same inn, an alibi to which the inn keeper bore testimony. This fact being established, Paul was regarded as the guilty man; even his friends were beginning to falter in their confidence, believing him to have been the murderer, actuated to the deed by some unaoeonntable impOlse of jealousy. It was easy for his atomisers to account for the wound in his head by charging hint with Misting it upon himself to give oolor to the deed be led done.-- On this "circumstantial evidence," Paul, after suffering two month's imprisonment, was arraign ed to answer for lih °Oath: ' The trial oontinued till the shersom of the second day, and every slap seemed se fasten the guilt of murder upon the lover, who had been last seen with her. I was in court, too, having been summoned as a witness, to say what I heard and saw when I met them on the prairie. But bad I not been slummed, I should have been present from another motive, as the sequel will explain. The prosecution on the part of the State having got through with its part of the evidence, all of which was purely circumstantial, but which seemed to carry full conviction to the guilt of the prisoner, Paul's eousel now took up the line of defence can the part of his client. He spoke eloquently of the axes/lent character of accused, of the well-known attachment existing 'between him and Milli Deerfield. He stated that the marriage was soon to have taken place, and the ides that a sudden quarrel, as suggested by plaintiff, while they rode along in lively humor, could not have ended in snob a tragical and dreadful way. The murderer must be looked for otherwise. Were there no motives which could lead any person to do the isee'llbd she ever given mortal offence to any young man? Lovers rejected are more likely to be enoAss to a maiden than a lover accepted—s husband betrothed and on the eve of marriage. Had the deemed Miss ' Deerfield offended any muff Young men of honor and right feeling do not harbor miles because a young girl expresses her choice of another. But there are unprincipled and hardy young fellows who hate where before they admired. The re cords of criminal courts (=stain many reports of , trials, where lovers rejected, have, in revenge, ' taken the life of the rejector to their suit asps cially when another had been preferred. The circumstances conneeted with the late murder show that it was a two-fold murder in intention. It looked like a discarded lover's reassume, for he first attempted the life of her wooer, and then destroyed her. Who in this community was likely, from what is know of his antecedents, to have been a revengeful lover. Who had been heard to use vindictive language against both the demand and the prisoner at the bar! Who is well known to have been rejected by her, and al so to have been long as enemy of the defendant —nay, once attempted his life? I see that some eyes turn towards my Mead, Mr. Buses, but public opinion,'as well u his examination before a justice, showed that be had no part in this deed. (Glances, not a few, were also &meted to wards Cameron, who was in court). Bat he would bring leeward his testimony, sad keep them no longer in suspense. The counsel for the defendant then Baled in succession four witnesses, young men, all of whom testified that at various times, and 11011 than ow, they had heard Watkins Crineroe utter oaths, when at his ewps, against Peal lksodcdph and Catharine Deerfield. One testified that he hoped that tome good rile would pet a ball through his had before be married her! AEA ,/ tillidied that he had said that he woilid ether see her drowsed is the Bed Beef Were ehreissild wiry s ass OM bed kb* fie ir Bo& bolph. A third testified that one day he ea is Oesteroa's shop, ad saw him oasis" ballets, es he said, a kill deer; het taking ay ate of tho ballets, AM had burned bias, he 'bowed it to witiese,aail odd that its would hes btm mss se sat li , mit Willa go through Pad Itead4re Smear A bactii, maws other teetasaay, save aides°, that ha was hams his horse shod one day by Oaneroa, rims Kr. Deerfield sad his daughter rode past. "non goes s girl I will either awry or auderin add Cafteroa, who was then setnewhat node: the isdasume think. The eve of the wort wea by this lima hal apoa the you; blacksmith, who sit with a meta face sad kat brow, not moving a lasso* and eadarrothg to appear wholly uamaseiorts sod bt difereas Bats' cohort. of rage bunted beam* him bosom. The testimoity, however, did net weigh against , ..the fest that Paul was lase aeon with her, sad I that blood was on his band. My testinisay was at length rand for, sod wader Ostli e l i Es a de tailed Gomm of** meets af the paned by me es Cassereies house I *at y mitt fiercely cross questioned, but the testimony re mained the same. The court and the andieacie at the conclusion of it was evidently as clearly sonviseed of the guilt of Cameron as I had been from the hour I beard of that night's de ed of bl Paul's friends began to / smile on him as a 1 reaction of opinion was rapidly taking is the court room, when Cameron rose, in the I most violent and indescribable manner, denied all I had said, with terrible oaths and execrations, 1 and was beginning to charge me with not having reached his house nn after the storm, aod that if Paul Randolph wio not the murderer .of the girl, I was. At length the court compelled him to be silent and sit down; but be had to be held in his seat by two constables, r he foamed and writhed like a chained tiger, and swore ha would have my life and the life of every witness who had testified against him. A complete revulsion was now effected. But, though suspicion had a new object, yet the psi sonar had not been able to prove his isnoessee. The strongest efforts were made by the attorney for the prosecution—as if his own honor and cre dit depended on hanging the prisoner at the bar --to tarn the ride against Peal. The Court seemed dividing and hesitating, when the wawa for the prisoner milled up another witness. It was Basset, the trader. H e testified that after leaving the blacksmith's shop, on being refused shelter, and being soon afterwards overtaken by the two travelers, they rode on rapidly together, putting their horses to a canter to get shelter from the storm as soon as could be. About a mile before reaching Deerfield's hones be said that seeing eomething whitish on the bla ck ground e( the prairie, he thought it looked like a dollar, and he stopped and got down to see. But it wag a piece of paper, and as he thought it might pee sibly be a bank note—he could not well see—be put it into his waistcoat pocket to examine it when he should get into the light, for he passed any pieces of paper without looking at them. (Here there was a slight smile observed on the faces of some who knew the trader's par. simony and love for money.) "I was not a minute behind my companions; nay, as was proved before at the justice's eourt, one of them stopped with me to see what I got down for. The newt messing I had fiergeoterr the paper, and I thought no mere of it liatil 1 had beard that a murder had been oommittod on the prairies. This reminded me of what I pick ed up, and looking at it I saw that it was cramp. old and burnt with powder, end was a piece of an almanac: It also had a part of a name on it." Here a visible start made by Cameron drew die eyes of many towards him, and they saw that he was pale as death. I showed the paper to no one, for I had my own thoughts, but went with it directly to the counsel, who I heard had been engaged by the prisoner at the bar, and placed it in his hand, as I thought it might lead to the discovery of the person who bad fired the shot. Upon going with the lawyer to the place where I picked it up, I found that it was where Paul Rudolph bad said he had been shot. After oonsultation with the lawyer and sheriff, we took an opportunity, when we knew Cameron was in town, to ride out to his house, for the words written on the piece of wed ding were 'MASON.' This we., of course, guide enough for our surmises. We entered his house, and found above his meads piece an almanac, on the back of which was written, 'WertioN CA,' and putting the piecer together, we found that they matched perfectly, both as to the writing and the prinixi parts, which had been torn.— There was also another portion torn out of the almanac, which we then knew nothing of:" A murmur mingled with excitement now ran through the court room. There was not a human eye that Cameron was not the abhorrent object of. Be hung his head with all his bravery; and when Paul's counsel, taking from his pocket book the torn almanac, and held it up, and placed the piece where it belonged, the excitement it the court room was so great that the sheriff had to aid the bench in calling the multitude to order. It was now objected that though it maid be prone that it was Cameron who fired at and wounded Randolph, this was an old feud and could have nothing to do with the death of the young girl; that her murder was quite another and distinct affair, aed was not of necessity corn suited by the one wo fired at Paul Randolph.— This argument, however, we. silenced by the production of Dr. Charles M ,as a witness for the defendant. His testimony was that he had extracted the hall, which had been proved to fit Cameron's bullet mould exactly. (And here the bullet was exhibited to the court, and shown to fit the mould.) In opposition to this evidence it was suggested by the Fomenting attorney that another person might bate got poseeakeo of one of those bullet.; that a ball from Cameron's bul let mould might have been fired from the prison er's gun. Bat the ooansel for the prisoner was not yet defeated. The morose: was celled by hies to the stand, and testified that he had taken from the dress, near the wound, she wadding of the gun, and that he had kept it, as likely to be of use in the trial; that he had seen the torn almanac, and it proved to be the other part which bad been torn of. Here the wadding was produced. It fit ted the mooed page of the almanac, letter to letter "What need of further witness?" cried the muse! for the prisoner. And turning to the jury, hs said "Is the prieoner r ovhe bar guilty or not guilty?" Before the evert could interpose to cheek this irrepilarity, the jury nee and "Not guilty!" "Not guilty!" cried the people uith loud en thusias' ms- sad while some rushed towards Paul, who se is shads °venom* with surpris e sad joy, made a leap towards W Cameron, who wee desperately trying *nub an open window to make his maps. In vein the call of the court to order; in vein the struggles of the blacksmith. He was seised by a dome infuriated hands, and arise d "lynch him! hang him to the nett tree!" rung throsgh the court hcisse. Is a moment he was dragged out through the frost door, followed 'by half the people, whose nil arid rotase wee m immistibie as a stow my ma Weals% its bonds. Paul's Meade gathered about him wits► ths deepest joy. The soars was brokat up rather dna alAjamaad, aid tea fin aa■nats asagasbabitiasa, *Oa CURIO with aesaratiens @gainer, Cameros, prevailed. Buddedly there was a cry °etude that they Vow hanging the blacksmith! Tbe Judge shout , od an order to thesberiff and officers to arrest the man, and bold him in custody fur a fair trial. But their voices might as well have been thrown to the care of a whirlwind! In an inoredibly short dine, the mob, consisting mostly of young men, excited by ungovernable rage, had taken a rope from a horse, tied it to a tree, sod slipped it in a noose around the wretched man's neck, who implored, and begged, and entreated and finally shrieked ter many. Heedless of his cries and terrors, they knew neither mercy nor oompu lion. 'gran would have hanged Paul Randolph, you double ainansio!" cried one. "Hang now your miff' "You shooed so storey to her—yoo bays soa• from us. All ready than, csear cries another. "AU ready!" was the response of s dosed voiees. - "Up with Mm , *ear - -- In another instant he was raised of this ground by the line, strongly bound, withie the bands of some of his executioners, and his cries for mercy —for time to sty a prayer—were suffocated in his throat, a load shout of revenie tilled the air as he swung between heaven and earth. lu a few =looses the bodycessed to struggle, and hung dead from the limb. Leaving the blackened corpse to swing in the night wind, the crowd escorted Paul to his house with mad rejoicings. Thus terminated one of the most extraordinary trials, and the most fearful tragedy, that the south-west country has known. It occurred many years ago, and illustrates a case of eireumstantili evidence such as seldom occurs in the histocy of criminal trials. The proceedings in the courts orthat day wets not marked exiictly with that regularity of progress and order of taking evidence which would hive pleased Chief,Justice Hale, but these things are now improtsi, and the courts of this region are at the present time conducted by the same rtiles that distinguish those in the older portion of tin Union. Lynching is also abated, and the authority of the law is everywhere re spected and recognized. GULP' WEED AT c. G. rsinria. ♦ weary woad. tossed to and fro, Dreadfully 4ronched in the ocean brine Searing high and sinking low Lashed along without will of mine; Spots of the spoOm of the surg. g sea, Flung on the foam, afar and nose, Mark my marigold mystery,— Growth tad grape is thy place appsaz I War round Darla*, gray and r°4, Rootless and rover though I be, Spangled leave., waken ntevly spread, Arboreeee ea a tninkless tree;— Coral' eartoas out is o'er White and hard ta apt array, 'Mid the wild wawa' rule uproar Gracefully grow 4 night and day. Hearts there are on the sounding shore, flesetbing whisper l sport to me, &OW and Amass; tautened:ma Like this dreary weld of the *ea; Bear they yet on snob beaung breu Th' eternal Type the woo,i•on. Lot , . Growth unfolding amidst unmet, Grace beferaiing with Went soul. Th. Dead Yen's Train on the Old Colony Road. The Old Colony Memorial, published at Ply muth, narrates an incident which- is sufficiently marvellous to please the most ardent believer' in "signs and wonders " It s• e {, as a matter of common notoriety in Plymoutli,, that during , the i r last summer months, hetwee • ,three aid ‘ femur o'clock in the morning, ,ther , . as regularly and distinctly heard upon the railr aid the whistle as of en approaching train. As Waiwell known. however, that no train passedltivert the road at such a tune in the ;arming, Nlr gentlemen at the Samoset House determined to investigate the mystery. Accordingly, unknown to any one, they one morning about two o'clock stationed them selves on the railroad track, about a mile from town, gni nviniaed tam arrival of the supernatural visitor. They did not watch long, nor wait in vain, for immediately' they distinctly heard, far off in the north, the sound of .a ratiwiy whistle, and presently "the distant clatter of wheels was heard—louder, nearer, nearer still it er.me—the click of she rails in their chairs; the rush of steam was as plain in their ears as it the lantern glar ed before them—the shriek of a demon whistle close at hand made them leap froth the track, as the train thundered down the grade—the hit breath of the panting steed was in their very faces as it passed—aa the unearthly scream ceas ed, they heard the brakemen screwing up their brakes, the tinkle of a bell and a sound of meet ing ears, as if the invincible spectre monster of the road had reached his journey's end." About a month sines, says the Memorial, one of the watchers visited a spirit circus in Boston, where he was an entire stranger to all present, save one to whom he had never revealed the summer incident, when the engineer , hf the spec tral train held spiritual converse walk the aston ished oompany. A protracted sitttng was sud denly brought so a close, by the communing spi rit announcing that he must go. "Where and for what?" some one ailed. "To run the train," was the prompt attswitr The sitters looked each upon the other, awl "What train?" was the universal exelattiatiota "The Old Colony train," Wits the repo. " o you mean for us to understand that at this our of the night a train of oars passes over that ra way?" There was a long pause. Slowly and eliher ately, as if making no common revelation, e arm of the medium moved at host, and the pencil wrote these wards:—"ln life I was an engineer ; upon that road. At stated intervals, a train unlieen of mortal eyes, takes the spirits of pious died to the Pilgrim home they consecrated by their lives. Mr. —, who is with you, will say wheth• er he has ever tard or knows ought of thattrain. It is not for mortals to know more." The ikrnorial vouches for the trath of this wonderful narrative. It is a little singular, we will simply hint, that spirits who can enter rooms with closed doors, and who are ever pre- I sent at the mill of mediums, should require a train of cars to transport them to Plymouth -1 Boston Journal. A VIRGINIAN'S OPINION or KANSAS.—A correspondent of the Winchester Republican, who emi gra ted to Kansas from Frederick comity, writes a letter to that paper ander date of NJ ember Bth, from which we sake the following extract: "Kansas, aceordin to oar liumble l opinion, is greatly overrated. Timber is extremely scarce, being found only along creeks, 143., but the soil, generally, is very prolific. The Territory has been very usbielthy, and the shakes have for ced many to sigh for 'home pin.' Kansas will undoubted:y be a free State, for we have twice as many arrivals from the North as from the South. The largest city in Kansas dose not contain over 1,500 inhabitants, and many of the cities you 'reed about', exist only in same. Ma ny an murals& and spas the whole, Yawn.is a limbo." N B. F. SLOAN, EDITOR. NUiIBER 33. A imAy who was palest at the Danis al Sartr Mrs. Margaret MartiSorho is et preemie ping as the residence of her grubs*, is this city, is ninetyeight years of age. She is cos of the few remarkable wonsen of the lievolistios wh*took pi&in the memorable oemuresses of the struggfc Amencan. Independesee. Nis husband, Gilbert Martin, was a sergeant is the army of Gates, and was envied in the battle si St:ratoga. Mrs. Martin, then a very ram i u p. Opal, was on the field durintboth struggles ess-- stitnting this battle, and terminating feat of the splendid army which Ingram WI transported with such immense fisher aid =peso from Canada, confidently auticipatisi am he would be able with it to divide the army GI OM patriots, and secure Sir Henry Clinton WC session of the southern line of defences. Martin represents the struggle'm ss it _ ___ She says, that towards evening, when maddesmi k by the.OO4IIIIiOI3SINSI dist ail . didtwge abort to be debosid e his wholsrre mad cavalry feral apes as lot ble army of the patriots, the =flutists' BMW within half musket shot of eaeh Wier, sad paw ed in their deadly volleys, while itrlithe Ike ea either side fell in their tracks, and still neither gave one inch. Towards evening,, Mr. Mar* was wounded in the shoulder; and while hilted,' was in the act of affixing a bandage, sbe horsed was wounded in the band. Bbe says, "Gilbert sprang up like a chafed lion; 'Peggy, said he, 'l'll go and teach those cowardly dogs hotter miners than to shoot at a woman'--4-and I sew him no mere ell the fight was over., Of such material were the men and toms of the Revolutyn. We can readily islets' that the field of.daeatoo,a was a strange plade foe these of the ~s ofter sex."i t Mrs Martin, boltreiver, her evidently been a wo as of uncommon 4 =l . character. Her flame still exhibits of strength, and her eye sparkles as she reeessie the deeds of that glorious day, or speaks of otrNT coward Gates, yho stayed safe and sollnd ales, in hie tent, and cared a,t for the men who seri. falling like sheaves in the harvest." One bps* the survivors and laudtnaks of the Revolsisi , are fading away —Troy nig. An Arkansas Lekialstoz A member of the lower chamber'ef ths.Logia. lature of Arkansas was pursuaded by some * of his neighborhood that if he did not mak: State House at ten o'clock on the day-Okfases tiling he could not be sworn, and would kola bio seat He immediately mounted with boating frock, rifle and bowie knife, and spurred till he got to the door of the capital, where he hisobsi his nag A cr, , wd were in the chamber of tke lower house, on , the ground floor, walking stoat with their hats on, and smoking cigars. Those he passed, ran up stairs into the Senate Cham ber, set his rifle against the wall, and bawled out: "Strangers, whar's the man that swan mein?' at the same time taking out his credentials. "Walk this way," said the Clerk, who was at the mom, nt igniting a real Principe, and be wr ewnrn without inquiry. When the teller cAme to count noses he fared that there was one Senator too many present. The misuke was soon discovered, and the limb man was informed that be did not Wens dim& "Foot who with your corn bread!" he rowed, "you can't Huck this child no how you can fitt it —l'm elect, d to tine hero Legislature, and I'll go agin 3i. Laak• an i eternal improvements' AM if th , re's any y oratory gentlemen wants to get se ono}, ju•: ,iv t ue word, and 111 ig.ht up. on you like a nlzzer on a w ,olchuck My eon tstitueLt, scut me here, and if you want to door this twr, lewged animal, hop on, jest u soon u lou like, for though P.m from tie back ooantry, 'm a little smarter than any quadruped yen inn nt n t ut of this drove " ' • After this admirable harangue, be put his bowl kuife between his teLth, and took up hie rifle: with "C ,1112 uere old Suke, stand by se!" poin'iog it at the eLairtuau, who, however, hid seen such p2.)ple Lf,re After some expos Lion, the !pan wt persuaded that he belonged to the sower eh ber, upon which he sheathed hie knife, dun. its g un on his shoulder, aad with a prufuut) I c remarked, "gentlemen, I beg your pin )1a Buttei I d think that lower room was a Er-.,.: r :ery; trily I be ehot." "WHAT TS A '—A friend, just radius ed from abroad, skis be once fobnd two A 11144.• an Culit , .ini's ea,leavorine to teaks out iio • name:from his traveling trunk. One called ABB the other wrote They got it "Mr. ?eased 80-I,zer 1,zer " Th trunk was marl. “Wocrwatell sole 'eater." . . ' Oar A - ...••,.r. iirg to 4a) ler, women bear Imager bett. r than %Jen; according 41bPIntaireb, theyomat rthoL it re6tst th.t , ffets of wine better, &coo ' to Unger, th'v grow old and never bald; aeon to Pitoy, they are acid On attacked by lions, (on the contrary, they wl lru;ki tatter lions), wor ding to Guuter, toey o talk a few! Mr An Inlbmatt/and a Frenchman WWI to be banged together. The latter strouglfailleet. ed by i= sttuatiou, white Paddy took it very easy, and te:d his vompanion to keep up his pluek, for It las \ti alt to be hanged. "Ah," Pr, utu wan: `• zar, be une grand. dif lietivet.n you and me, for se Inanimate used to it." Coot.—"My - drat JeLthha Auck,`may 1 se jou home f* ,, m Fingin' school tonight, and keep the spolliks away from yuu?" "No, Jouuhao!" pettishly answered the dogs caster, you, our your company." _ _ "I ) ..,rhap; 4 yer didn't hear what I we" imbed Jonathan, stppin F up to her. "Yes, I dig. IJU asked tae+if yon amid lift me home?" "No, I Aidn'tii" yawned Jonathan, «I aged par bow yer moth was." ICE MANI'. en:luso =The editor of the Clevelander sa s at toe Cuyahoga Loomed's works, in Cleve • no, there is a steam engine M work making le . By means of the engine sad sundry ~ondensiirs, ether is diyiven from a retort containing thrills hundred and fifty pounds be.. tween a range 4) double iron plates, within whisk water is pumps , and by the ether emoverted 11- to lee. We it s sees the ice made is am ass- Der, &lid watch the process. The arrangemesM are not as yet co lete, but even now ice sae be manufactured wit the thermometer at 90, at I cost of not Door . titan half a cap t per pound.— These ice engines li l l be in grestdemand "down South." A friend o rs spk. says says that h• /Maids app!pog for apa s for a maohias, whisk he says, when Ironed and set in moth*, will chase a hog over a t acre lot, catch, oko, sad ring him, or by a sl i _ • : change of it will shop him into saws: - . work his b es into shoe brushes, and ma facture- his tail into a oink screw. Great machi. , that. A SUOGETSION—I stated that the heafaicat will ree lin meu lin hi Message the _purchase Si the rights and posse:. of the Hodson Thu , Company OEI the no 1. ward of the west of tbe co ntinent. The rights and possessions an it emised and held within the territory ofes, a a large portion of which formerly we ai the Old Buil° Fur Cosepeay. CI I El
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