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ISTew Series.
HARD PRESSED.
A WOLF STORY.
“Stop, gospodin, stop ! In the name of the
blessed Panagia, rein up and hear me. You will
be glad to have hearkened, Ecglish lord.”
The crisp, shining snow cracked beneath the
hurrying feet of the speaker, as panting breath
less, he came bursting through the brushwood,
and emerged from the pino copse into the road,
not a pistol shot from the two pillars of the red
granite brought fiom the ural that decorated
the extremity of theevenue leading to the coun
try hou.-e hard by. With some difficulty the
driver of the sledge—a tall, manly young fellow,
whose fair hair and ruddy cheeks contrasted
forcibly with the swarthy sallowness and black
elf locks of the Russian inoujik who had thus
suddenly accosted him—brought the fiery horses
to a check.
“Why, Isaac, ray good friend," he said, smil
ing, “whnt news have you for me that brooks
no delay in the telling ?”
“Excellency,” said the man, with a vehement
earnestness whick made itself felt, “I am here
to-rfay to pay a debt. We Russians have a
memory tenacious of kindness, and the poor
vagabond, Isaac Paulovitch, hig not forgotten
that but for your intercession he weuld have
tasted before this of the black bread and the
knotted thong to Jotomir jail. I've run to-day
nineteen versts through the snow, to warn you
that lhe foreigner and the gentleman who trav
els the Vasilkoff road this night carries his life
in his hand. I knew you to be on a vist to the
baron’s yonder. He’s in no danger, but woe to
every castle from the ferry to Boguslaw and
Skudra, for they will be one and all in a light
flame before inoonrisil”
“There is a rising, then, among the serfs?"
asked the young Englishman, eagerly.
“There is," answered the man called Isaac,
with a nod. “The people of the twenty villages
have sworn the oath on the gospel to root out
these Sobleskis and Jagellons, and the rest of
the unbaptized Polish counts and princes and
wring the withers of the poor."
“Do you mean Count Nicholas Gnlitzin, of
Czerngorod?” asked the young man, growing
pale as he spoke.
“That do I,” replied monjik. “A heavy ac
count he'll have to settle, the proud—”
But before the sentence was finished the
young Englishman had slackened the reins of
his steeds, and, to the indefiablc surprise of the
querulous Isaac, the whole equippngc rapidly
disappeared along the road leading to the very
district to which this warning had reference.
In the course of ft three year’s residence in
Southern Russia, Edgar Marstoa, who was man
ager of the land bank at Vasilkoff—a post of
trust to which he had been apponted through
the influence of relatives—-and gained a thor
ough insight into the condition of the province
in which he lived, and knew the bitter hate
which the Rutheniau peasants entertained to
ward the land owners, most of whom were Po
lish nobles who had won their estates when
Poland was a wide-spreading .kingdom. He
knew, too, that Count Galitizin was personally
obnoxious to his late vassals for a hundred ar
bitrary acts nnd petty exactions, and he trem
bled lest he should not reach the lonely manor
house in time to give warning to its inmates of
their approaching peril.
“And Anniet'e i3 there 1” said the young man
to himself, half unconsciously,as he encouraged
the mettled horses to do their best. Yes, that
was the secret of Edgar Marston’s eagerness to
give timely notice the coming storm to those
beneath the roof of the Gaiitzin castle. He
had fallen deeply in love with the count’s young
and pretty daughter—the Countess Anniette, as
she was called, in compliance with that courtly
Russian rule which bestows titles on all the
members of an aristocratic family—and he knew
that his love was leciprocated. He had, indeed,
been formerly on terms of intimacy with Count
Galitzin’s household, and although, on propos
ing himself as a suitor for Anniettc’s hand, he
had been met by a very decided refusal.
This short winter's day was nearly spent, and
when Edgar reached the outskirts of the village
of Czernogorod, the sun bad sunk beneath the
black screen of sullen pine trees that marked
the boundary of the forest, while through those
glared an ominous, ruddy light, and shouts,
shots, and a roftr as of an excited crowd came
confusedly to the ear.
“Heaven help them 1 the castle must be al
ready on fire !” exclaimed the young man, as lie
saw a tall column of smoke, streaked by fiery
showers of sparks and burning flakes lise high
in the air. “What by this must be the fate of
those within 1”
His apprehensions were, however, destined to
be proiuptly relieved, since, as lie drove by the low
boundary fence of the count’s gardens, he heard
his name called, and saw Anniette Galitzin her
self come running towards him from amidst the
darkling clumps of shrubs. Iler dark hair was
hanging loosely over her shoulders, and her lit
tle feet, in their dainty Paris shoes, sank at
every step in the keep snow, making it evident
that in her alarm she had darted forth from the
burning manor-house, having barely time to
snatch up the short hooded cloak lined and
trimmed with costly fur, which she wore.
“Mr. Marston-- Edgar!” she exclaimed, with
a terrific earnestness, “oh, pray, save me ! Take
me with you before they seek me out to kill me.
I feel half dead, already, at the very sound of
their savage shouts ar.d tramping feet. Papa,
thank Heaven,.is safe at Nasilkof, where he and
my dear mother went but yesterday, leaving me
here ’alone with the German governess, and
when the peasants btoke in, Mademoiselle Her
zen thought of nothing but her own safety, and
fled into the woods, and—”
By this time Marston had sprung to tho
ground, fastened n ijts to a projecting bough,
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and by a vigorous effort had succeeded in tear
ing away a portion of the ill-kept fence, so as
to establish a gap through which a slender fig
ure might pass. Yet a minute and Anniette
was seated beside him in the sledge, speeding
rapidly away from the pillaged castle.
A chilly breeze sprang up, and the evening
grew perceptibly cooler, but the sledge was well
provided with wraps, and Edgar was careful to
draw a heavy furred pelisse around the trem
bling form of the young countess, while in fond
and soothing words he tried to calm her agitated
neives. She was pafe. Within an hour or two
he should be able to place her, upen their arriv
al at Vasilkof, under the care of her parents,
and that before the alarm of the serfs should
hare spread itself. The horses went well, the
distance was trifling, and—
What interrupted Edgar's speech was a fierce
startling cry, accompanied by the pattering of
feet among the withered leaves and the snow,
and then, a long-drawn, whining howl that
seemed to issue from fifty throats, while dark
objects began to glance, phantomlike, between
the trees.
“Wolves 1 wolves 1” cried Anniette, with a
shriek of terror; but already the affrighted
horses had set off at a mad gallop, swerving
from side to side of the road in a manner that
threatened to upset the siege. Again there
burst forth that horrid cry. Marstqn exerted
his skill and strength in maintaining a mastery
over the snorting horses, and Anniette, looking
fearfully back, announced the unwelcome tid
ings that they were pursued.
“You must be cool, dearest one, now for both
our sakes—for mine,” said the young English
man, as he cast a glance at the small specks
dotting the suow. “You can drive well, I know.
Only keep the horses to the road, and all will
be well.”
As the young countess took tho reins Edgar
stooped for his trusty rifle, and leveled it with
deliberate aim at tho foremost wolf, now bound
ing far before the rest. The huge brute rolled
over on the crimsoned snow with a cry of rage
and pain that was answered by the yell of the
hurrying pack, and [then sucereded a hideous
medley of confused sounds, followed by a period
of siicnce.
“Have they given up the pursuit?” asked An
niette, with white lips, as Marston reloaded his
piece.
“No, no,” answered the young man, shaking
his head. “The creatures have but paused, as
is their custom, to devour their wounded com
rade. It is but an instant's breathing time
whieh”—
As he spoke he fired both barrels into the
thick of the advancing pack. Four more shots
from Edgar’s rifle brought down as many wolves,
but now they were too near and too eager in
their ravening fury to be beaten off. The wind
ing of fhe road, too, enabled some of the leaders
of the pack to gain upon the fast-flying sledge,
and, with a rare audacity, to endeavor to over
leap its sides, while Edgar, flinging down the
gun, slashed at the broad paws aud hazy throats
with the keen blade of bis heavy hunting-knife,
and succeeded, though with difficulty, in disa
bling the two foremost of the assailants, the
third, slightly hurt, slunk howling away ; but,
a few yards in the rear, the clamor of the re
mainder of the fierce drove told how ruthlessly
the chase was maintained
He rose to his feet and looked to the right and
left. Close to the roadside on the left grew a
mighty beech tree. Could he set his back to
that tree, kill or cripple the first of the furious
wolves, and swing himself up among the lower
branches out of reach of the other, he might yet
have a chance of life, while the sledge would
gain so much vantage ground that it would not
be easily ovei taken. Yes, the desperate venture
must be risked.
Hastily the young man kissed Anniette’s cold
cheek, and bidding her be of good cheer since
he had devised a stratagem that "vould outwit
tho wolves, he struck the straining horses sharp
ly with the whip, and with his hunting knife
between his teeth, took a clear leap over the
low brushwood and feel on his hands and knees
at the foot of the beech tree.
Goaded by terror the horses flew along the
nartow road, which fortunately at this part of
its course became straighter than it had hitherto
been, and the light sledge was hurried along as
if it had been a feather-weight over the frozen
snow. A whirl of confused thoughts passed
through the girl’s brain as with relentless speed
the sledge dar ed on, further and further from
the spot where Edgar Marston had sprang out
to confront wlmt appeared to be inevitable
death.
“Forme! for me 1” Anniette murmured, as
after a last despairing effort to rein in the un
manageable steeds she cast a glance at the white
road, now gleaming, as the sledge emerged from
the woodland into the open country, in the first
rays of a newly tisen moon.
The scared horses needed no urging to strain
every sinew in the race, as, snorting and gasping
for breath, they dashed into the wide, straggling
main street of Vasilkof.
In the spacious market-place or public square
of the town, a crowd had collected, in the midst
of which the light of a number of torches fell
on the glistening bayonets of steel and the
bright brass mounting of military accoutrements.
A column of the flat-capped, grey coated infantry
of the Russian line was preparing to march,
while a cavalry escort encompatsed two or three
carriages mounted on sledge-runners, and to
each of which three or more horses had been
Itarnessed.
“Halt, there !” halt, I say I” called out a sen
try, roughly, as the sledge that bore Anniette
swept like a whirl-wind across the market-place,
scattering to right and left in dismay all who
barred its ftantic course. Amonr those who
had been present when tho sledged had crossed
the square had been the old count and countess
Gaiitzin. They had recognised their daughter’s
pallid face as she was hurried past, and within
a few moments the half-fainting girl was in the
arms of her parents,’and surrounded by friends
and well-wishers, who seemed disposed to wel
come her as one risen from the dead.
“We are about to set out for Czerngorod,” the
Count explained, when Anniette appeared to be
sensible to her mother’s caresses and endearing
words, “with the escort with which the kindness
of his Excellency, the Governor, had provided
us, hoping—but hardly daring to hope, my lamb
—that you would have been spared in the first
outbreak of the tury of those serts of which
the news reached us but an hour ago. Troops
are about to march for the scene of the revolt,
but, since you are safe—though through what
marvelous pieces of good fortune I cannot con
jecture.”
“It was though no such fortune,” interrupted
Anniette, piteously; “'twas his life, his gallant,
noble life, dearer to me than my own, that he
gave to save me—wretched me 1 Yes, lam sufe>
but at what a price ?”
And hero a darkness came before her eyes,
and her voice failed, as she sank fainting into
the arms of her mother; but soon, as it nerved
by the recollection of her lover’s danger, she
roused herself to tell, in broken accents, what
had occurred, to indicate the place where she
left him, and to implore that rescue might be
sent thither without delay.
In spite of dismal forebodings, it was determ
ined that not an instant should be lost in carry
ing help to Edgar Marston, if human help could
indeed avail ; and about thirty gentlemen, some
in sledges and some on horseback, set off at a
rapid pace, escorted by twice as many of the
mounted Cossacks, the Governor having decided
to delay the marching of the column until sonic
tidings should arrive as to Edgar’s fate. The
distance was rapidly traversed, and as the ex
ploring party entered the forest, a wild, mourn
ful sound came floating on the night wind.
“They are there yet, the pack of them,” cried
old Baron Jagellon, spurring his horse nnd
handling his gun. “Push on and let us pepper
some of their grey hides at any rate.”
But wolves are cunning as well as fierce, and
when the rescuers came in sight of the huge
beech tree around 'the foot of which the pack
had gathered, howling and whining over some
object at first indistinctly visible, their querulous
cry changed into a note of alarm, and they hud
dfed themselves together among the chestnuts
birches, with their bushy tails drooping,
and their bright eyes shining through the dnrk
*ko points pi Hume, Am irregnler dis
charge of musketry 'succeeded, while the Cos
sacks lowered thier lances, and dashed forward
with their shrill “hurrah” as though charging
against human foes. Neither lance nor bullet
did execution anjoung the wolves, who, fairly
cowed, slunk off into the recesses of the woods
while the headmost horseman checked his fiery
steed but just in time to prevent horse and rider
from falling headlong into a deep narrow pit
dug at the foot of the huge beech tree.
“What wizard’s work have we here?” exclaim
ed the soldier as he wheeled his horse. “My
name isn’t Dimitri if Ldid not hear a groan from
yonder open grave !”
“Grave, forsooth I” returned the Baron Jagcl
lon, hastily dismounting; “it is a bear trap,such
as peasants set in likely spots, near where the
honey of some swarm of wild.bees that dwell in
hollow trees is sure to tempt bruin to the pit
fall. And, as I live,” # he added, after listening
for a moment, “there is someone down there,
and alive—young Marston, for a thousand gold
eagles !”
And then, by means of a rope hastily con
structed by linking together stirrup-leathers
and.buff-belts, a Cossack was lowered into the
pit, the truth of this conjecture was confirmed ;
for Edgar Marston, pale, livid and exhausted,
but to all appearances unhurt save for a bruise
upon his right temple, was drawn forth from it.
The bystanders crowded round him, hut he was
faint and weak.
Edgar’s story, when he was able to tell it, was
a simple one, and had already been anticipated
by that matured sylvan experience of the baron.
When he sprang from the sledge it had been
with a full conviction that he was about to save
Anniette’s life at the {sacrifice of his own. He
had, however, made a desperate effort to rcnch
the great beech tree, in the poor hope that, by
setting his back against it and making vigorous
use of his hunting-knife, ho might gain time to
grasp one of the lower boughs and draw him
self up beyond the reach of the wolves. But
to his consternation the treacherous surface on
which he alighted, and which was composed of
rotten branches coated with moss and dried
leaves, gave way beneath his feet, and he was
precipitated into the narrow pit below, receiv
ing as he fell a blow on the head from a pro
jecting stake which stunned him for a moment,
and wheD he recovered his senses it was to hear
the furious yelping and howling of the disap
pointed wolves that raged around the brink of
his prison, and to see by the gnashing teeth, as
they bent over the edge and vainly tried to eieze
the prey beneath them.
The tale is told. The prejudices which had
induced the Count and Countess Galitzin to
object to Edgar as a suiter for their daughter’s
hand, melted like snow in the sun when their
hearts were touched by the generous self-sacri
fice of the gallant young man, whose praises
were on ever hand.
Newport is moderately gay and com
fortably filled. The place would bo
much improved by forty-eight hours’
hard rain, and every body is confident
it will come, sooner or later. Polo is
the reigning excitement, and all for 50c.
Why may a tipsy man fall into the
river with impunity'? Because ho won’t
drown as long as his head swims.
Vol. T.-No. 18.
AWOMAFS WIT.
A gentleman not unconnected with
the Boston press wad in St. Louis re
cently, and while there confided to a
friend the details of an adventure in a
Boston hotel so remarkable as to dfeserve
a special line in print. The story is
brief, but with an immense moral as
showing how ih somethings lovely wo
man will always come to the relief of
a sister in distress to outwit the tyrant
man. The journalist above referred to,
stopping at the hotel; a private one
where the guests were accustomed to
the entiro freedom of the lioubo, felt late
one night the imperative neccesity of
eating somo fruit before retiring. It
was too late to selul otit to buy any ; ho
did not want to arouse the servants of
tho house at so late an hour, and yet
fruit or preserves or something tooth
some of the kind seemed to him a
personal hecccsity. He knew where
the store-room was, know that the door
was left open, and finally resolVed to
go down and prig enough to satisfy his
need. No sooner was tho thought con
ceived than acted upon, and within fivo
minutes lie was in the storeroom hook
ing preserves out of a jar and enjoying
himself immensely in satisfying Jthe
craving which had come upon him.
For a few moments the enjoyments
of tho man at tho preserves was Com
plete. Then ho was startled by a light;
swift stop in the hall, there was a which
and a rustle of garments, tho door
opened suddenly and some ono bound
ed in with such suddenness as, coming
squarely against the form of tho midnight
raider, to kuock him half way across the
tho room, and squarely off his feet.
Leaping up at once, he closed with bin
assailant to be startled by a sudden
shriek and to find that ho had captured
a woman. Further, and more terrible
still, ho discovered that tho pljunp form
of tho lady who had wanted something
to eat as well as ho was clad only in a
night dress. Still, tbbugh trying, the
occasion was ono not of umuixed horror
by any means, and in a moment tho
gentleman’s nerve returned and his
curiosity roso to fever heat.
“Who is this I ?’’ ho demanded of the
pulmp figuro in his arms. No answer.
“Who is it!” ho repeated. “You'll
not got out of this until you tell."
Still no answer, but a struggle in tho
darkness, tho plump figuro trying hard
to get away.
Again the quex-y was repeated, with
equal lack of response, but this timo a
resounding slap in the face from a hand
that was doubtless pretty, but which hit
with decided force, was tho roward of
the questioner.
He was put on bis mettle nt once.
“You think you’ll get off unknown !
Wo’ll see about that!” he exclaimed.
“I’ve a device that’ll work, I think.”
And thon, after a silent aftd determined
struggled, ho Jcaught a little ‘bit of the
lady’s right cheek between his teeth and
b.t it—not badly eons to break the
velvety skin, but sufficiently hard to
leavo a mark which he know could not
disappear for a day or two. Then ho
released his unknown prisoner, and she
fled like the wind along the passage,
disappearing in some room impossible
to locate in tbo dai’kness.
The next morning the gentleman with
a mystery to solve came down to break
fast early. No ladies had yet appeared
but at his table were one or two intimate
male friends, and to them ho confided
the story of his adventure in the night,
relating also the moans he had taken to
secure the identification of the un
known lady. The Ynost intense curiosi
ty at once prevailed at the table and
the advent of the ladies was awaited with
an impatience scarcely to bo controlled.
Five minutes later the door opened and
the belle of tho hotel entered demurely,
glided across the room and seated her
self for 'breakfast. Eager eyes fol
lowed her, and, as her face was fairly ex
posed, there was a sensation among the
gentlemen. Upon her right cheek was
a strip of court-plaster an inch long !
The excited men exchanged glances
and whispers and smiles The mystery
was solved early. But just then another
lady entered, this time a dignified mat
ron. As she seated herself there was
pisclosed upon her right cheek a piece
of court-plaster identical in appearance
with that upon the faco of the belle!
Another and another lady entered. Up
on tho right cheek.of every one of them
appeared a piece of court plaster. Tho
tables filled up and not a lady at one of
them but wore court plaster on tho
right cheek ! And then tho gentlemen
looking confidently for a revelation wilt
ed. Thoy comprehended tho situation.
Tho lady who had been captured in the
night bad confided her extremity to her
friends and they had come to tho rescue
to outwit male humanity. They had
succeeded, too. The discomfitted men
at that particular table knew that be
neath one of the many pieces of court
plaster in the room were hidden the
marks of teeth, but which was the iden
tical bit of court plaster they could not
tell. And they never learned.
“I say, boy, is there anything to shoot
around here ?” inquired a sportsman of
a boy lie mot. “No, nothing just about
here,” replied the boy ; “but our school
master ia just over tho hill thore, cutting
birch-rods. You might walk up and pop
him over.”
Orth sighs when. he thinks of that
Austrian mission which he Cast aside for
fresh honors which crumbled in his
grasp.
—Tho Turks arc engaged in tho out
rage business.
—Railroad accidents is the prevailing
epidemic.
—Ono of tho Turkish driilieS is said
to be at the point of starvation.
—Sheridan will attempt to' raise it
band of 100 Pawnees for scouts.
—Anderson (S. C.) Deinocratifc clubs
have more members than the prti’ty fete?
voted ih tho county.
—Troup county lias a Cox which her
peoplo want in the Legislature—nt) re
lation to “Sunset ”
—The damage inflicted by the festive
grasshopper is not so extonsive as was
at ono time contemplated.
—Memphis received her first bale of
cotton from Mississippi on the 18th.
—Two negroes murdered a farmer
named McClish near Fort Donaldson.
They beheaded him. Troops!
—A New York nogro fatally razored
another son of Ham. Troops!
—A Washington City black beau fa
tally slabbed a friend and brother who
was about to marry bis sweetheart.
The army must bo incronsod.
—J. R. Holloway, colored, in Clay
county, has taken the Stump for Tilden
and Hendricks. Wire the news to Mor
ton 1
—The citizens of Augusta hifte drop
ped the code, and Sow pufnfnol each oth
er ala prize ling.
We Cremate ? is the text for and
column editorial in the A.ugusta Chroni
cle. You can't Ghent the Old Boy that
way, Colonel Grfe#g.
—Signs are bcihg discovered to pre
sage the election of the Democratic tick
et. They are good in their way, but we’
wouldn’t sacrifice a good square vote for
a baker's dozen of them.
—A financial crisis at Lisbon Catteod
a suspension of several banks.
—Two robbers entered the State Sa
vings Bank, at Dallas, Texas, knocked
the president down, and helped them'
selves to about S2OO.
—The O. A. U.s are putting some
sharp Questions to Hayes touching the
seventh plank in tho Radical platform.
—Grant has vacated the Executivo
mansion to drdm tip custom for Long
Branch.
*—Captain Bancroft Gn'cradi, U. S. N.,
haH been suspended for two years for
punishing a seaman contrary to law.
Tho wholesomo cxamplo of a “Confede
rate” House is beyond calculation.
—Speaking of that “Confederate”
House, the yankees have lately got to
speaking of it with a capital C. i'ublic
Printer Clapp might make a Uote of this.
There’s nothing like preparing for tho
exigoncice of the future.
—Wo believe the public verdict has
been mado up as to Senator Norwood's
successor. It is T. M. Norwood.
—Mr. U. P. Wade nnd Rev. Randolph'
Cooper are the prominent candidates for
the legislature in Scriven.
—The nomination of Jonathan Nor
cross by the Radicals set the independ
ent sails of Judgo Wright to flapping.
—The investigation of the case of ex
Treasurer Jones for malfeasance iff office
4e in progress in Atlanta beforo Auditor'
Pace.
—The Atlanta papers vaguely hint
that a prominent Georgian is to be tried
for tho attempt to bribe certain mem
bers of the late General Assembly.
—Pope Barrow is mentioned as being
a prominent candidate for tho legisla
ture from Clarke.
—G, W. Hewitt is renominated for
Congress from the Sixth Alabama district.
escaped Fenian prisoners
reached Now York recently.
—Twenty-nine new United States Sen
ators will be elected next winter. If the
emocrats hold their own and elect nino
additional it will give them control of
that body.
—The Griffin Press and Cultivator at
tributes the great increase of insanity
among the negroes to religious excite
ment. There are others who put it down
to natural meanness.
—The Radical North can lie about
the South faster than the combined press
of the South can send forth denials.
—Harper’s Weekly is horror-stricken
at the idea of Tilden’s election, and yet
its pious serenity was not troubled a whit
by Belknap’s thievery.
—The senatorial convention in the 28th
unanimously nominated Dr. J E God
frey, of Moigan.
—Markham, of Atlanta, is a Radical
candidate for Congress. Mark h’m for
a defeat.
—Dr. Felton has announced himself
a candidate for Congress in tho 7th dis
trict. Tho 7th has Felt’n interest in this
matter. *
—Talbot will send up J. C. Mound
and J. M. Mathews to the legislature.
—Stewart will try to wriggle through
with her sixteen candidates for legislat
ivo honors.
—Tho Radicals have Gove for a candi
dato for Congress in tho sixth.
—Ben Butler has accepted a proffered
nomination for Congress.
—The House Committee on Louis
iana Federal offices recommended suits
against Collector Casey to recover mon
ey unappropriated.
—Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati,
has published a letter to tho public, say
ing that tho Catholic bishops and clergy
have no intention of interfering with tho
public school system.
—Suits against tho Speaker of the
House of Representatives and tho mem
bers of the Real Estate Pool Committee
who voted for his incarceration have
been instituted by Hallet Killbourn for
false imprisonment.
Mr. Disraeli, England’s Prime Minis
ter, has been elevated to tho peerage
with the title of Earl of Beaconsfiold,
and received the Privy Seal.
—A party entered a train on the Union
Pacific Railroad and carried off a United
States judge to prevent his holding court
and qualifying a receiver for tho Colora
do Central railway.
—Sam Bard has gono to New York to
secure an outfit for anew daily.
—Schuyler Colfax has been heard
from, and is for Ilayes and reform. It
might be well to mention that Belknap,
Butler, Babcock, Simon Cameron, Zach
Chandler aud Grant are also on that pe
culiar lino of reform