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I a ,„ old and Mind !
jj pn ,«,inl at roe as amltttea by God’a frown ;
Afflicted and deserted of my kind:
Yet 1 am not cast down.
I im weak. yet strong;
I murmur not that I no longer see;
IVjr, ->! I an I helpless, I the mo re belong,
Father Mip.cme, to Thoe.
O Merciful one!
When men are fa rl he rest, then Thou art most
near;
When friends pass by me and my weakness shun ;
Thy chariot 1 hear.
Thy glorious face
la leaning toward me ; and its glorious light
Shines in upon my lonely dwelling place—
And there is no more night.
On my bended knee
I recognise Thy purpose clearly shown ;
My vision Thou hast dimmed, that 1 may see
Thyself—Thyself alocc.
I hare naught to fear;
This darkness is the shadow of Thy wing;
Beneath it I am almost sacred ; here
Can come uo evil tiling.^
Oh ! I seem to stand
Trembling w here foot of mortal ne’er hath been.
Wrap|»ed in the*radiance of Thy sinless land,
Which eye hath ucver seen.
Visions come and go;
Shapes of resplendent beauty round me throng ;
From Angel lips I seem to hear the flow
Of soft and holy song.
It is nothing now,
When Heaven is openiug on my sightless eyes?
When airs from Paradise refresh my brow
The earth in darkness lies,
lu a purer clime
My being tills with rapture—waves of thought
li")l in ujioi) my spirit—strains sublime
Break over me unsought.
(lire me now my lyre!
I feel the stirring of a gift divine,
Within my bosom giows unearthly fire,
hit by no skill of mine.
How Sambo Was Caught.—The
New Orleans Picayune says: “Not
long ago a country store, in close prox
imity to the city, had one or two boxes
of torpedoes, that are about the size
of a wren's egg, left over ironi its holi
day st<>ck. In rearranging the shelves
one of the little boxes was opened and
nil its contents given away, except one
single torpedo, which, resembling a
‘bird’s egg’ candy, as the colored
folks call them, was left on the. counter.
A wise-looking old negro rode up to
that store on a malicious-looking horse
about nine o’clock at night. He hitch
ed his ‘ critter,’ and came into the
store to get a drain. While the clerk
was pouring this out, old grizzly-head,
thinking that where even the smallest
thingsa:v available, opportunity should
not l>e lost, slid his horny palm over
that “bird’s egg” candy* and hauled
it in. Then he made out like he was
putting a chew of tobacco in his
mouth. He rolled his apparent quid
with his tongue hack to his jaw teeth
and then he must hare shutdown upon
it tight, for the explosion of yells, and
shrieks and howls, and sulphur
smoke com mingled t hat ensued was
perfectly awful. The old negro tore
out to his nag howling, and under the
impression that he had got ‘conjured,’
flea as fast as his sorry hones could
fly. The next morning the clerk pick
ed up, on the floor of a store twenty-
eight miles below New Orleans, a jaw
tooth that smelt of sulphur auu tobac
co, and saw a few spots of blood. The
colored people in that locality ‘don’t
put no confidence in deni things no
how.’”
Mihth.e Men in Trade.—There
i« no denying the court that is paid to
the rising party by men of all callings
and conditions. The other day a ven
erable preacher of the Christian per
suasion was holding service in his
church, which is in the heart of a
Grange community. In the course of
his sermon he became eloquent, and
exhorted his hearers to come to Christ;
and insisting upon personal and direct
communion with the Father, declared
that all other means were as useless as
middle aien in trade. The next day
he went to his butcher’s to buy him
some meat, and was thunderstruck to
lie denied. “ What,” he exclaimed,
“don’t I pay for what I get?” waxing
wroth as he reasoned. “Haven’t I al-
always paid for what I got ?” “Yes,”
coolly replied the butcher, “but I can’t
sell you any more meat. You must
go to your steer for your steak, and I
am going to Christ for my religion. I
don’t want any middle men around
me.”
A MAP OF BUSY LIFE.
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No. 3.} Athens, Georgia, Saturday, October 18, 1873
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NEW
SERIES—Volume LII.
SERIES—Volume II.
LAUtillERISMS.
TEE MODOC HANGING.
CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.
The New York Star says “the bulls arc
completely cowed.*’
The height of impertinence—Asking a
Jew what his Christain name is.
There is nothing so effective in bring
ing a man np to the scratch as a healthy,
high-spirited flea.
Mrs. Partington thinks that the grocers
ought to have a music-teacher, to teach
them the scales correctly.
A Beloit editor takes it upon himself
to say that‘tows, elephants rhinoceroses
may run gracefully, but women never.”
What is the difference between a veter
inary surgeon and a longshoreman ? One
is a horse doctor, and the other is a dock
hoister. f t
A saffe*erirogge*s an improvement in
the orthography of the word panic. He
thinks it would be better to spell it (pay | went on. I did not counsel the C’om-
By order of General Wheaton,
Jack was then asked by an interpre
ter
WHY THEY KILLED GENERAL CANBY
AND THE COMMISSIONERS,
and what they expected to gain by such
action.
Captain Jack rather evaded the ques
tion, and said f » v
“I wished for peace but the young
men said they were not ready for peace.
They wanted war, but they did not give
their reasons. I was always for peace,
10 through the tn£uepce^>f Abe young
men, headed by Hooker Jim the war
m\).
A bachelor editor, who had a pretty
unmarried shut, lately wrote to another
similarly circumstanced, “Please ex
change.”
An ignorant old indy was asked by a
minister visiting her if she had religion.
She replied : “I have slight touches of it
occasionally.”
A Boston landlord is in the habit of plac
ing an extra fork beside the plate of such
lxiardors ns have not paid promptly—an
intimation to “fork over.”
“Silence, silence!” cried the Judge, ii
great wrath. ‘Here we have decided half a
dozen cases this morning, and I have not
heard a word of them.”
If success in an undertaking was pro
portioned to the earnestness brought to
tliear upon it, a hen could run about eigh
teen hundred miles a day.
Some of the wives of Ivnox county,In
diana, are about organizing a Grange to
prevent their husbands visiting the
grass widows of that section.
The “Brevity” man of the Alta (Cal.)
News suggests that Wise’s next balloon
be constructed of the national currency,
as it stands such an enormous inflation.
A Green Bay man called a young lady
his “precious, darling little honey-dew of
a blooming rosebud.” and then stood a j
bread) of-promise suit before he would
marrv her.
batheshes or Hot Creeks to fight. I
was for peace. They came to me and
made my hea-t sick, for they wanted
to fight. When I came here I hoped
to be set free, as I was not the instigator
of these bad doings. I hoped to live
on Klamath with my people.”
General Wheaton then told the in
terpreter to tell Captain Jack his peo
ple would be conveyed to a comfortable
home and well Liken care of. He
asked him which one of the band he
would like to take charge of his family
when he was gone.
REALIZING HIS FATE.
Jack rather winced under that ques
tion, and said:
I can think of no one who could Like
good care of my family. He would
lie suspicious of all, even of Scar-faced
Charley, whom he thought a good
man.
Captain Jack then expressed a desire
to know if he might entertain hopes of
living, and on being told the President’s
orders would be carried out, he said :
“The great chief in Washington is a
long way ofl, and he thinks that he
has been misrepresented, and
IF THE BIG CHIEF WOULD COME
to see him he might change his opin-
He was then told the big chiefs
A fellow named Coleman, Gallapin. 1 ni “ l,, * u mc u ‘V"u "
Texas, engaged a coffin for a man named children numbered millions, ami that
Sinead, hired a grave-digger and four I “ e was guided by good men, who re-
carriages, and then hunted up Sinead I presented him.
and shot him. Jack then continued:
Mrs. Minnie Myrtle Miller discoursed I “I don’t wish to talk a great deal,
in Placcrville, Cal., last week, on “Silent and only about those things near my
Women,” We can’t imagine where she heart, and I would like to have exccu-
gathered material tor the lecture, unless I tj on „f sentence postponed until things
it was in the cemetery. I cou ] c i fog ma de more clear.”
“Don’t you know that sign hangs I striking intelligence OF jack.
against the ordinance t” said a city offi-I ^ . . n .. ,
cer to a gentleman, who had put up a I . yu hearing that the Presidents de-
new sign yesterday. No sir, was the I c, Ston was not given without a good
prompt reply, it hangs against tli e wall. | deal of thought. Jack said :
“I know judging by the details, he
was not hasty in the matter, but I
think he shouid have heard what I had
to say.”
The interpreter then told Captain
Jack that General Wheaton advised
dm note to : hink of reprieve, hut to
A Loiigswamp father (Berks county,
Pa..) has given Iris son a long name, which
will certainly swamp him before he will
livable to master it—Herman Dechon
Schindlc Doctor Shiner Peter Wickert
A young man at Niagara, having been
crossed in love, walked out to the prec
ipice, took off Iris clothes, gave one I pay a tt ntion to what the chaplain had
lingering look at the gulf beneath him, t 0 '« av «o him
and then went home. His body was T -V... . .
found next morning in bed. Jack said that he knew what the
... r . t , , chaplain said was good, and he should
An Arkansas farmer was absent-mind-,.,. 1 .. . k b ft „ ’ ; .^i l*
cd enough to leave his pet panther and f? 110 '! ,l ’ *“<1/ they permitted him.to
mother-in-law at home together while lie j “ ve “ e w °uld become a better man.
went to a show, but much to his anger I-After expressing a desire to have a
and amazement, the old lady was alive talk with the four scouts, he said:
and the panther dead on his return. It is terrible to tbiuk I have to die
I hope Mrs. Giles, said a lady who was because whenever I look at my heart
canvassing for a choir at the village 11 see a desire to live; I would like
hearts, one Indian and the other white.
I am a boy, yet you all know of what
I am guflty. Although a boy, I feel
like a man. When I look each side of
rue I think of those men and women.
'Sconchin. I -am not afraid to die.
I think I am the only tnau iu the
room. 1 fought ia the front rank with
Shack Nasty, Steamboat, Bogus and
Hooker Jim. I am who I am, not
half woman. I killed General Canby,
assisted by Steamboat Frank and Bo
gus. Bogus said: Do you believe
these commissioners mean to try to
make peace with us ? I said: I believe
so. He said: I don’t believe so; they
want to lead us into some trap. I
said: All rights. I go with you. Cap
tain Andrew remembers when Bogua {
came in camp in the evening, and when
I came iu the morning. I would like to
see all my people, and bid them good bye
to-day. I would like to go to the
stockade; I feel that if I criminate
other parties it would not amount to
anything.
i see it too late, now,
that our chief men were not at the
bottom of that ali’air, and they did not
take such a prominent part in the mas
sacres the young men. Iain young—I
know but little. When I see anything
with my eyes I kuow it.
WHY THEY KILLED CANBY
and the commissioners. He said that
all the presents they received had no
influence on them, and they suspected
Canby and the commissioners of
treachery and got up a big mad.
Boston then made a long harrangue,
in which he tried to show that Jack
had no share in the massacre, and
that he had worked very hard in keep
ing the young men quiet. He appear
ed to lay all the blame on Bogus, and
a’so said that Bogus slept in white camp
the night before the massacre, in or
der to disarm any suspicions Gen.
Canby might have had about their
intentions. Bogus thought Canby,
Meacham, Gillem and Thomas were
powerful men, and that their death
would satisfy them. When they saw
Dyar coming in place of Gillem, they
decided to kill him also. When Bogns
came, in the evening before the
massacre, he told Riddle’s squaw he
was going to kill the four, and she said,
Go and kill them. I am telling what
I know to he true;* nothing more.
Captain Jack then alluded to what
Boston had said about bis share in the
massacre, and then said:
I have always had good heart, and
have now. Scarefaced Charley, my
relation, more man than I am, and I
would propose to make an examination
and
church, you will persuade your husband
to join us. I am told he has a sonorous
voice. A snorous voice, mam, said Mrs.
Giles. Ah you should hear it comin out
of his nose when he’s asleep!
A widow in New York has been three
times married. Her first husband wns
Robb, the second Robins, and the third
to live until 1 die natural.
Gen. Wheaton then asked if any
of the others had anything to say,
and then Slolu, one of the two Com-
bateshe, said:
I want to talk. People call me
George. I have been confined in the
is ant right, but after your retreat I
thp^htl could come and surrender aud
bi} l fecure. I felt that these murders
m been committed by the boys and
that I had been hurried alung with the
currenL When I think of these things
thig Great Spirit had looked down upon
S from above and judged mo with His
and said young men were anxious
for war. You kuow whether I am
g°« or not, because you have raised
the’law on me. Hooker Jim always
thought he was strong, good shot, and
did these things contrary to my wishes,
aud-1 spoke against these murders of
the citizens. When the Big Chief in
Washington read the evidence all over
“he must have been led to believe that I
L.-uichjn) was a wicked savage, and
id not know that I (Sconchin) had
used all my influence with young men
tion. He kissed his little soil repeat
edly, and when just before retreat
they were taken away, he laid down in
his cell and rolled himself like a hall
in his blankets. During the afternoon
of yesterday a number of soldiers and
citizens went out-to see
MR. FIELD’S PATENT DROP
tested, and it worked like* a charm,
letting down the trap every time with
out fail. Some thirty or forty citizens
were standing around the scatfold, and
they Appeared highly interested with
the device of Mr. Fields’ plan to low
er the drop. The scouts were also loaf
ing around there, and in the evening
one of them came to me and asked me
if I had anything I could give him to
do. This morning, shortly after day
break, I took a walk out to the scaffold,
and found a number of Indians, Kla
a. I .1 /. 1 1UUIIU it llUillUCr U1 AIK
on the evidence he gets from his subor
dinates, and perhaps thinks Sconchin
a nuked nan, while Sconchin has
been
A GOOD, QUIET INDIAN
all his lifetime. The Great Spirit
w 10 looks from above will see Scouch n
unwieldy machine with rather curious
eyes.
TWO ADVENTUROUS YOUTHS.
In Fayette county, near the line of
the Chesapeake aud Ohio Railroad,
there is a famous rattlesnake den,
in chains, but he knows that Ids heart wl,ich htts always been a source of ter-
is good, and savs: You die; you be-1 ror and tear to tll0S ° wll ° liave l‘ M ’ked
you
come one of my people. I will now
try to believe that the President is do
ing according to the will of the Great
Spirit in condemning me to die. You
may all look at me aud see that I am
firm and resolute. I am trying to th nk
1 over its precincts, as well as to those
who have even heard of the fearful
i revalutions regarding the size and
number of the venomous reptiles
[ which infest this poison-stricken cavern.
In number their name is legion, and
that it is just I should die and that the in a £ e > size aud downright Radicalism,
Great Spirit approves of it and says it ‘here are no figures or names to represent,
is law. I am to die. I leave my son. | them. A shorty time since two daring
Robinson. The same door plate lias guard-house through ^ misrepresenta-
served for the whole three, and the tion, and iny child died yesterday and
question now is what extended name 11 could not go with the mourners. No
can be procuied to fill out the remainder body here can say that he saw me at
°1" I the scene of the massacre. I would
Eatonton, Georgia, claims a negro wo- like to know who were the witnesses
man one hundred and fifteen years old. | a „ a ; ust me . They told lies. I took
"Fittecn or twenty years ago, when Geor
gia negroes sold for eight hundred or a
thousand dollars apiece,” says the
Courier-Journal, “they died young; but
now, when they don't sell at all, they go
right along and lire always.”
A Sunday school teacher was cxplain-
I am con
Another Fatal Balloon As
cension.—Prof. J. W. Bailey made a
balloon ascensiou from the Fair
Grounds, near Wapello, Iowa, on
Thursday last. At the appointed
hour the balloon was cut loose, Bailey
hanging hy his bauds to the horizontal
bar beneath. Just after the balloon,
which was inflated with hot air, left
the ground, it took fire. near the
mouth. Bailey did not apparently
see the fire until it was too high to let
go with safety. He hung on until he
nad reached an altitude of 1,200 or
1,500 feet, when the canvas that held
the hoop from which he was suspended
burned away and he fell, reaching the
earth not far from the point of start
ing. His body was fearfully mangled,
bis legs being driven into the ground
up to his knees.
Too Thin.—Lucius Claff, of Mena-
ser, Wis., took a drink of carbolic acid
the other day, {supposing it to be bran
dy. After ascertaining what he had
done he drew his arms afouud his wife’s
neck and exclaimed, “My God, I have
been poisoned,” and was a dead man in
two minutes. We find the above going
the rounds of the press, but it is alto*
gether too thin. We heard once of a
cross-eyed hunter whofired thirty-seven
tunes ata mosquito on the end of his
nos#, thinking it was a snipe on the op
posite bank of the creek, and with a
little persuasion, we might hara beliv-
.**• for a man to mistake car
bolic acid for brandy—phew!
no part iu the massacre,
fined here without cause.
Baruclio, the other Combateshe :
I am innocent. I want to see the
man confined who really killed Gen
eral Canby. I was some distance away
ing the omnipresence ot the Deity to his I when the killing was (lone,
scholars, and ended by telling them that They were then told that they were
he was everywhere. Whereupon a red on ] y charged with carrying arms to
Th a , f. ^ aS "D my p , ockct< ” assist iu the u.as,acie, and they both
The teacher re plied that the question was I , - , . . J ni .
rather profane, but lie would answer yes, | dt ! nicd worrying auy aims at all. Black
he was everywhere. “I’ve got you 1 “ lm then said:
there,” said the boy; “I ain’t got no pock- I I 866 a great many men present, but
et.” I have no talk to make as Jack talks. 1
A henpecked gentleman determined to always tell the truth, aud am well-
sop with a party of friends against the l known among my people. Was wound-
will of his wife. He was resolved that ec j j n the first fight at Lost river aud
J® "?" ,d * and « h « thf he should not go. gick f m * lnonths au)l uot on
He did not go. His friendsnnssed him, I .. J 4 .«* _ f
and, just lor a lark, invaded his residence’, the war-path. My heart tc Is me I am a
where they found him and his wife I g°°d a,| d strong man, aud able to takc
sitting in their chairs, fast asleep. lie care of the Modocs. If Jack and bcou-
had given hernn opiate that he might | chin arc killed I should then be lett to
slip away, and she had given him one that take care of the Modocs. Ido not
he might not. know what Jack and Sconchin think
A certain old lady who had been famed about it. That’s my idea,
for sour looks and not very sweet words, 1 am afraid Of nothing,
touching the various accidents ol life, was , , - , , . r
observed to have suddenly become very I and " heu it s war am always in front
amiable. “What happy change has come rank. If I have been guilty of a crime
over you i” said a neighbor. “Why,” the law of chiefs decides that 1 should
said the reformed, “to tell you the truth, die; I am willing to die, and am not
I have been all my life striving fora con-1 afraid to die. 1 have been a long time
tented mind, and I have finally made up I confined in guard bouse without even
my mind to sit down contented without I a c hance to talk, and if we are to die
L” .1 think we should make some arrange-
A youth in love thus aadressed his I mca t£ f or 0 ur spirits iu the other
inamorata: “Loveliest vision os my wor j ( j aU( j j would like to hear the
eyes rest upon thy sylph-like form, my - - ’
soul is filled with the scintillating fancies s P t L 11 n,a “ , . , . ,
ofthepoeL 01 lovely Dido, dost love General Wheaton^explained that the
the humble suitor that craves thelaintest chaplain bad come for that purpose,
glimmer from the meridian rays of thy Capt. Jack then said:
young heart’s affection t O! angel fresh | 1 would like this matter to bede-
frorn the burnished streets of Paradise, i ] aye d until my speech can be laid be-
clsd in the halo of the queen of night, I p ore tke big chief or people. [The
doth pity the latter did not know that B$gus Gliar-
beforethee. Go West, young man, and aud H(M)ker Jim ^ ated lhe
"7 rather amusing incident occurred on “ urd . er t of t £ nb /-*3 J wish to be good
the Cheshire Railroad the other day friends to the whites, ana ant willing to
One of the passengers considerably an live in any part ot the world they may
noved the conductor by repeatedly ask- seud me. I feel friendly toward every
ing him to tell him when he got to W- 0 ue, and the whites are my friends.
The conductor told him if he. 1 J ac k persisted in begging for re-
would keep still be would tell him when 1 p r j eve he was told, by order of General
be got there. Vheaton, that the great law-makers
cause, fofljpaTit until they were two miles of theGoyernment had carefullycon-
nast the station, when, suddenly remem* sidered bis case ami that that Presi-
bering it, he rang the bell and the train dent’s decision was fiua.:
was ran ’back to the station. He then in- boston CHARLEY confesses.
formed the gentleman that he was ia W. Boston Charley then expressed a
“All right,” said he “I was not desjre tQ ^ :
well this m g _ . y „ | “You all know me during the war,
toll met© tako apUl'when I^otM for as I “You aU know me during
toia me re “ v a but it seemed to rue that 1 had two
ncre.
TURN SCAR-FACED CHARLEY OVER IN
MY PLACE,
and then I could live and Like care of
my family.
This modest request rather amused
the spectators, and, to Jack’s disgust,
did not receive much consideration
from General Wheaton. Jack conclud
ed by sayiug, “I am ready to go and
sec my Great Father above.”
SCONCHIN HAS A TALK.
Sconchin was asked by order of
General Wheaton, if he had anything
he wished to say. The old chief’s eye
lighted considerably at the prosjiect of
talk, and, making a sign in the affirma
tive, he presently commenced, and
spoke as follows—his speech being in
terpreted by Oliver Applegate aad
Dave Hill:
You all know me here. I was
always a good man. There was a time
when I did uot want a white man here.
I asked advise from white men. I sent
my boy to Yinax reservation and he
chose a piece of land for his home.
Boston Charley lias told the truth when
he called me a woman. I was like a
woman and opposed to war. I was
always a peace man, but there were
some young men that were over-rash
and anxious to do something to distin
guish themselves. Hooker Jim and
some other boys made nil the trouble,
and when I look at these irons on m v
legs I feel that they should wear them,
aud not I. They were the cause of the
trouble. I have always given young men
advice, shook hands with the white
people, and here I am now condemed.
with irons on my feet. I heard what
the Great Spirit man had to say and I
think it good. I should not die for
what others have done, but I will now
cross the river and will go to meet my
father in spirit land.
Jack now Ixgan to move restlessly,
and presently laid down on his side of
the bench.
“My father lived long ago, begged
to see him in the upper world with
Great SpiriL If the law kills me I go
up to spirit land. Perhaps the Great
Spirit will sry to me, My law has taken
, your life and I accept of you as one of
[ my people. I am sure it is not in my
heart to do wrong, but I was led away
by the wishes of them. It is doing a
great wrong to take my life, as I can
tell you.
THE GUILTY PARTIES
are Bogus Charley, Steamboat Frank,
Hooker Jim and Scar faced Charley.
I was an old man, satin camp and took
no active part, and I would like to see
those executed for whom I am now
wearing irons. I tell you the truth.
I am a good man and have a good
heart. I have lived a long time with
cattle and horses and never stole any
stock. The boys that murdered the
K ce commissioners are citizens on
driver I have an interest in as my
children, and if the law does not kill
them, may grow and become good men.
I look back to the history of the Mo
doc war, and I can see Ordeneal at the
bottom of all trouble. He came down
to Linkville with Ivan Applegate;
sent Iven to see and talk Captain Jack,
and no good. If Odeneat come him
self all the Modocs go to Yinax; at
least I think so. Therefore I think
Odeneil responsible for the death of
General Canby and the chains on my
feeL I have heard of reports that were
sent to Yreka asking Jackson that the
Modocs were making trouble on the
warpath, and such Dad talk brought
Major Jackson and the settlers down.
I do not want to say that my sentence
I hope he will lie allowed to remain in
this country. I hope he will grow up
and make a good man. I want to turn
him over to the old Chief Sconchin at
Yinax, who will make a good man of
him. I have always looked on the
younger meu of our tribe as my special
charge and have reasoned with them
and I am to diq as a result of their bad
condition. I leave four children, and I
wish them turned over to my brother
at Yiuax. Must die. If I had the blood
on my hands, like Boston, I should say
kill him. I killed General Canby. I
killed Dr. Thomas; but I have uolh-
to say about the decision. It is
already made, and I would never ask
it to be crossed, you are the law-giv
ing power. You have tried me and
said I must die. I am satisfied if the
law is correct. I have made speech.
I would like to see the Big Chief face
to face and talk with him, but he is a
long distance off, like at the top of a
high hill, with me at the bottom, and
I can’t go to him ; but he has made his
decision, made his law, and I say.
LET ME DIE.
I don’t believe all the talking I
can do will make the President cross
over his decision, and I don’t talk lor
that purpose. I wish to let you know
my heart.
Gen. Wheaton then told the inter
preter to tell Capt. Jack and the others
that if they wanted anything to ask
the sergeant of the guard and he would
bring it to them. They were also told
they would he visited in the evening
by their squaws and families.
The post chaplain got up and deliv
ered the following prayer:
“O God, our Heavenly Father!
who didst make all men in Thy image,
that they might be good and happy,
Thou hearcist the confessions and state
ments of these men altogether and
these things of which we are ignorant.
Oil may the light of Thy Gospel pene
trate their minds! May they become
sorry for their sins and so repent that
they shall receive pardon and be ac
cepted as Thy children and saved. O
God! as the thief on the cross was
pardoned and saved, may these all be
saved by a live faith. Bless Thee for
this example of the power of Thy grace.
Oh, glorify Thy mercy in this present
case by saving these men also. We
pray Thee for them. They are sinners
like all men, irrespective of the offenses
for which they have been committed
and sentenced to die. They have
sinned in less light than we have had
and have mercy upon them. Although
guilty, briug them true repentance;
renew and save them ; glorify t'<e mer
cy in them, for Jesus’ sake Atncn.”
The meeting then broke up, aud I
shook hands with Jack and Sconchin,
who both appeared glad to see me.
JACK WANTS SCAR-FACED HANGED IN
HIS PLACE.
ESCAPE OP THE BALLOON.
Jack, however, soon deserted anil re
newed his attack on General Wheaton,
urging that it would be quite proper
for Scar-faced Charlie to take his place,
and then his valuable services wou d
be saved tor his family and his tribe.
The aeneral, however, could not see
the point, and left Jack in a rather un
enviable state of mind. The prisoners
were shortly afterward returnel to
their cells, and at 5 P. M. were visiied
by their families. This was tho first
meeting since the death warrant had
been made public, and, as it was to be
the last before death separated them
forever on this earth, it would natural
ly have been affecting, but I was per
fectly unprepared for the
FRANTIC STATE OF GRIEF,
into which the women worked them
selves. They howled their weird death
song, and threw themselves on their
doomed friends, fawning them all over.
Even the little children seemed to catch
the infection, and they cried and wept
in the most finished style.
Jack appeared very much affected at
meeting nis favorite squaw Lizzie and
the little papoose. His sister Mary was
even more affected, and worked herself
into a perfect paroxyistn of grief. The
little girl even appeared to compre
hend the situation, aud sobbed bitterly.
As Jack gave her
ONE LAST, FOND EMBRACE,
the squaws returned to the stockade
and the murderers were left in their
cells, with no other companion than
the gloomy foreboding and anticipation
of the morrow. Old Sconchin met
his family without much visible emo
tion, but his children cried bitterly,
and the squaws y«Ued as if the world
was coming to an end. The chief did
not betray any outward signs of agita-
young men resolved to make an exper
iment, by way of forming some insight
as regarded their numbers, and cloth
ing themselves from head to foot in
suits of thick buckskin (such ns our
friend Donnally uses to make his best
gloves,) with large, sharp knives in
hand, they sallied forth into the poison-
infested region. They entered, cut
ting and slashing, the snakes rattling,
hissing and striking at their adversa
ries, and when these enterprising
youths landed on the other side their
clothes were a sight to see. As the
snake would strike, his fangs would be
deeply and firmly implanted in the
buckskin, and oft* would go his head
by a well-directed blow by the hand
and knife. By making a fair count
it was found that two hundred and
forty snake heads were attached to the
clothes of one party, and one hundred
and sixty heads firmly fastened to the
other. More would have been secured
hut it was not a good day for snakes.
But any o:.e who doe- not believe the
foregoiug true story, will lie convinced
of its entire correctness by inquiring at
this office for the name of our infor
mant.— Greenbriar (Fa.) Indejicndent.
Railroad Meeting.—A large meet-
ting was held at Walhalla. not very
long since in behalf of the Augusta,
Hartwell and Walhalla Railroad, with
which it is proposed to connect Augusta
and Walhalla, crossing the Savannah
at Andersonville.
At the organization lately in Augus
ta, Mr. Moore, of that city, was chosen
President, Col. E. F. Anderson, Vice-
President, with Directors in each coun
ty through which it is to pass. Its
length is computed to be 117 miles, and
the cost of construction to be not more
than $16,000' a mile. The meeting
was addressed by Col. E. F. Harri
son, of South Carolina, Hon. E. M.
Rucker, of Elbert county, Georgia,
Dr. Love, of Franklin, North Carolina,
and Mr. Ansell, of the same place.
Col. Harrison stated that he consid
ered the prospect of buildiug the road
to be agood one. The city of Augusta
had agreed to build the first twenty
miles out and secure the right of way
and depots, and lots for the use of the
road in the city. This would cost
§500,000. The Georgia counties
would contribute as follows : Colum
bia, §25,000 ; Lincoln, §60,000; El
bert, §100,000; Hart, S60,000 ; and
if Oconee county and the town of
Walhalla would raise $200,000, he
thought that, with perserverance and
Unity of effort, the enterprise would
succeed. They had the Georgia State
guarantee of $15,000 a mile, and a
first mortgage of its bonds to fall upon
if necessary.
A Boy Hero.—Governor Letcher
the other day related a very interesting
i -cident of the war while in Kemper’s
room at the hotel. He said that, in
one of the battles below Richmond,
four flag-bearers had been shot down,
and a call was made for a volunteer to
carry the colors. A strippling took
the torn standard. In a few min
utes the staff was shattered by a shot.
The boy sat down, unloosed a shoe
string, and tied it. He started in front
again. Another bullet splintered the
staff. It was then fastened by the
other shoe string. He had hardly
shook the folds out a second time when
down fell the flag, struck by a ball.
The shoe strings had given out. He
unbuttoned his jacket, ripped his shirt
to ribbons and wrapped the broken rod
and carried the tattered ensign through
the fight. Governor Letcher said,
“When they brought me the boy,
with the shattered staff patched up
with shoestringsand shirt tail, I made
him an officer and gave him the best
sword Virginia had. The gallant lit
tle fellow was from Monroe county.
He was killed in battle.
The telegraph has announced the
failure of the transAtlantic balloon
enterprise on Monday last. The New
York papers contain full accounts of
the liailoon from Brooklyn to North
Canaan, in Connecticut, the onljr por
tion of which that possesses any inter
est is the description of the perilous
descent of the mronauts. The Herald
says:
It appears that the balloon was try
ing to cross a medium sized hill in the
above locality and began to hug the
big trees and knock its uncouth ap
pendages against the projecting rocks,
to the great danger of the voyagers’
limbs, who were shivering and shaking
from the wind and rain in the non
sensical old bag. Then Mr. Donald
son said “he did not know what to do,”
whereupon Mr. Lunt suggested “to
open the valve and let the gas out of
her.” They wore then shaken by a
gust of wind, and so violently that the
good people of Canaan could not un-
detstand where tho screaming came
from. Donaldson then said, “Let us
all jump out.” The bag was only thir
ty feet front the ground and soon after
only twenty feet aboveground. Lunt
jumped into a tree and fell down
through the branches upon the rocks
bei.eith. Donaldson and Mr. Ford
jumped out siinultanously. The dis
patch further describes Mr. Lunt’s
critical position in the air sweeping the
cobwebs off the sky and asking Don
aldson for assistance. Then Mr. Ford
says, bewailing yet resignedly, “I am
sorry about the pigeons. I hope the
balloon will be found.”
The balloon was found a mile from
the place where the voyagers jumped
from it.
Death of Baunum’s Rhinoceros.
— While on exhibition in Philadel
phia, Barnum’s large Rhinoceros gave
signs of uuusual excitement, and
presently began a vigorous assault
upon the iron bars of the cage, vainly
eudeavoring to break through, and
soon after died. The struggles of the
great brute drew a crowd around the
cage, but when the wood work began
to succumb to the furious assaults of
the enraged animal and it became evi
dent that there was great danger of it
escaping from its confinement, the
feeling of curiosity gave way to that
of fear, and when the huge monster,
with a terrible snort and powerful
upward thrust of its head, carried
away the top of the cage, ripping it ofl
as though it was thin gauze, the crowd
liecame paralized with fear. Women
and children shrieked in terror and
sought safety in flight, while strong
men stood speechless before the dan
ger that threatened them. The strug
gles of the dying animal was fearful to
behold, but fortunately were of short
duration. As it was, the edge was
torn and shattered as to render it unfit
for further use, and had the paroxysms
continued a few moments longer, loss
of human life might have resulted.
The dead animal was the largest one
of its species in the country, and cost
nearly $20,000. It is understood that
it died from a fit. The corpus will be
sent to the Smithsoniau Institution for
preservation.
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“MAMMA IS BEAD.”
Mr. John W.' Van Brocklin, of
Twin Bridges, a short distance away
from this city, was helping to build a
church at Sheridan, and was away from
home with his wagon and team from
Monday morning till Saturday night.
He had been several weeks so occupied.
He wus, therefore, absent from his wife
and two little children, the eldest five
years old, all the week 1 , except Satur
day nights and Sundays. Mrs. Van
Brocklin and the children enjovedgobd
health, and the husband aud father hail
no fear for the safety of the birds iu
the home nest. There were near
neighbors too. On Saturday, evening
the two children used to toddle a good
distance along the road by which their
lather came, to meet him and get a
ride home in the wagon. On a late
Saturday Mr. Van Brocklin was return
ing home as usual, and the two’little
follows had goue quite a distance to
meet him. He stopjied to take them
in the wagon, and as he lifted them up'
he asked, “How is mamma?” Two’
little voices replied, “O, papa, mam-
urn’s dead.” Ho thought lie did uof
hear correctly and asked again, “Youf
mamma?” The little voices again
climed together, “Yes, papa, mama’s
dead in the bod.” Van Brocklin hur
ried his team home, lie found his
wife indeed in lied insensible,, and fast
sinking in death. She was there alone;
no neighbors were near. He Killed
loudly tor help ; the neigldiors were
alarmed ; a doctor was summoned, hut
b .'fore he arrived the poor woman had
passed away. The doctor said her at
tack was of a luiralvtic nature. This
is the children’s story, gathered from
them by odds and ends: On Thursday
evening Mrs. Van Brocklin called her
children to her aud told them she was
sick, and to run and cull the nearest
neighbor. Then she fell down on the
bed. She never said anything more to
them, and they at first supposed she
was asleep. It wns growing dark, and
they .were afraid to go for the neighbors.
They slept in their clothes and tried to
waken their mother in the morning,
but she would not rouse. They ate
what they could find cooked ill the
house and drove up the cows morning
and evening to be milked, but there
was nobody to milk them, and at the
usual time they turned them out into
the pasture again. The neighbors see
ing the children at their usual task*
supposed of course, that all was right
with their home, and it so happened
that none of them called. The oldest
child began to lie a little frightened,
and suggested to the other, What if
mamma should be dead. She must be
dead, or she’d waken up,” and so tho
little boys came to the conclusion that
their mother had gone away from
them, and wondered what papa would
say when he heard of it. Their curi
osity on this point was excited, and,
with their hearts full of news, they
started out to meet their father coming
home in his wagon. They had been
forty-eight hours with the shadow of
death in the house, and were not
old enough to realize what it meant.'
From Virginia GiHj (Nevada) Enter
prise.
A Ghost.—The ghastliest sort of
literature is popular in Middle Georgia.
The specimen appended is from the
Covington Enterprise : A real ghost
has been seen in this county. Au old
negro woman from town went into the
country to stay with her dead sister’s
children. The first uight her sister
came back and told her that “dang* r”
was close upon her, and she had better
“make tracks,” as the devil would lie
there in fifteen minutes to jiay her
back for stealing a preacher’s money
on the Huntlay night that she (the
ghost) died. The old woman liecame
so frightened that it. is said by the
children that $3 iii silver fell from her
nose, and was joined together l>y a
ring and chain fastened securely toher
mouth. A dark shaggy figure, resem
bling a wild hull, appeared, and tak
ing the chain in his teeth, led her from
Newton Factory to Sheffield and fas
tened her in a large hollow poplar tree,
where she was forced to remain until
daylight next morning. She walked
to town dirty and smutty, and told
her adventure with the devil, and said
she did steal the money, but her sins
were now forgiven, and henceforth she
intended to be a Christian woman. If
her story is not true how could she
have gone from the Factory to Sheffield
in so short a time? When the ghost
appeared it was at two o’clock a. m.,
she was met in the road leading from
Sheffield to town.
I'fiKK OF A DEAD HOUSE.
Who would not be a Farmer?—
A Louisville paper pays the following
tribute to the occupation of the filmier:
“ If a young man wants to engage in
business that will insure him in mid
dle life the greatest amount of leisure
time, there is nothing more sure than
farming. If he has an independent
turn of mind let him be a farmer. If
he wants to be engaged in ahealthv oc
cupation, let him till thesoil. In short,
if he would be independent, let him get
a spot of earth, keep within hjs means,
shun the lawyer, be temperate to avoid
the doctor; be honest that he may
have a clear conscience; improve the
soil, so as to leave the world better
than he found it, and then, if he can
not live happily and die content, there
is no hope for him.
The Worst Over.—Tho Philadel
phia Press has the following: “The
panic has now doue its worst. Its im
mediate consequences have been felt,
anfl its ultimate results can be accurate
ly estimated. The evidence is entirely
conclusive that there can be no general
financial revulsion such as the country
experienced in 1857, nor any such
prostration of legitimate channels of in
dustry and trade as that of 1860-1.
The legitimate business of the whole
country has now been tested in the
severe crucible of a mad panic, and it
has not only stood the trial, but it has
been unshaken. If to-day the men in
financial circles would but rationally
trust each other the panic would end,
and confidence would be sjieedily re
stored, but if, on the other hand, men
exhaust each other by unreasonable
demands and strike at the very lounda-
tionof all credit, serious embarrass
ment and grave losses may ensue.
Horrible.—Who can read without
emotion the story of two little girls iu
Green Bay, Wisconsin? The eldest
was seven years of age, the youngest
only five. A drunken lather left them
alone in their room for six days, with
only a small loaf of bread for food
When the children were found the
elder sister was nearly dead, having re
fused to eat of the bread so that her lit
tle sister might not suffer. We bear a
;reat deal of heroines. Does history
urnish an example equal to this?
As soon as the horse is dead, fnV
blood is sought for by the manufac
turers of albumen, and by sugar refi
ners and the burners of lampblack.
Not a drop is allowed to go to waste.
The mane and tail are wan ted for hair
cloth, seives, bow-strings and brushes.'
The skin js converted into leather for
cart harness, boots and shoes,- anV?
stioig collars. Tho hoofs nro used fot*
tombs, horn-work, glue, and in’ old
times were the chief source of hartshorn,
now obtained from the gas-house. The
flesh is baled down in the rendering
vat, and much oil and fat are obtained
from it. The flesh left after all has
been extracted from it that is of any
service, is sometimes burned to he used
as manure, or is worked up into, nitro
genous compounds, such as ^vanities,
to be used by the pratographCr in tak
ing our pictures. The stomach and in
testines make, valuable strings find cords
for musical instruments, nud out of
the bones so many useful articles are
manufactured tlint it is almost impossi
ble to make a complete list of them.
Among them are buttons, toj*s, tweez
ers, knife-lmndl«s, rulers, cups, domi
noes, balls and the residue from all
these things is burnt into boneblaek,
to be used by the sugar refiner, who
puts in a claim upon the dead horse;
and some part of the backbone is burn
ed white, to he used by the assaver in
testing gold, and when the asgayerand
refiner have finished with it, it is con
verted intosuperphosphate to serve as a
valuable manure on onr land. The
teeth are used as substitutes for ivory,
and the iron shoes, if not nailed over
the door to inrure good fortune to the
household, are worked np into wrought
metal. Some portion of the boneblaek
is converted into phosphorous for thef
manufacture of matches, and lately a
valuable bread preparation is made of
the phosphate, and medicines are pre
pared for the use of consumptives.—■
Scientific American.
Underground Telegraph. — It
is now definitively settled that the tele
graph wires in Germany are no longer
to be affixed to poles in the open air,
but are to be buried in underground
tubes. The lines on which the principle
is to be first introduced are those re
quiring, a large number of wires, and
those first on the roll are the line from
Berlin to the Rhine, which branches to
different points.
Here’s richness: Col. Oscar Hart;
of Jacksonville, Clerk of the Circuit
Court, has been arrested and bound in
the sum of three thousand dollars on u
charge of outraging a child under ten
years of age. If we are not mistaken,
this man Hart is a brother of the im
becile Governor of Florida.
Tbe Patrons of Hnsbandiy have
nine Granges in successful operation in
Abbeville county. - 1