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Fabruary 22, 1857. ly
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£ YER Y VARIETY OF
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Bress Goods, Domestics, Notions
Bats, Cups, Boots, Shoes,
Ready Made Clothing,
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he is determine. :<-• sell a? low oh anybody.
! Grooverville. Om. 25, 1867. 'ib-if
W. E. BARNES,
Watch Maker and Jeweler,,
QUITMAN. GEORGIA.
CILOOKS, Watches and every descrip- WTW
J tion of Jewelry repaired promptly. JLtj!
neatly and satisfactorily. MB
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February 22, lbGf. ly
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Miscellaneous Scaling.
the iSilif m.
I.—THE ARRIVAL.
An August evening ;it Savnnnnh, that
strange, gombro town of Georgia ; eight
men, the sous of rich Carolina planters,
four of them lately returned from the
West Indies were sitting drinking Bur
gundy in the balcony of the first floor of
the Muscogee House on Bay street—the
fashionable hotel of Iho city at the peri
od of our story—the year proceeding
the war of independence.
The grave and mysterious city was
that August evening quieter and more
silent than usual. Ti e broad unpaved
streets were deep with soft sand, that
muffled the wheels of the cotton bale
wag ns and of the carts laden willi hags
of rice just arrived from Augusta. The
long avenues of that not very rejoicing
tree, the Pride of India, scarcely moved
a leaf—not a twig stirred to show that
they even breathed in their sleep. Here
and there a negro and ,-d upon tho door
step, or chatted with some gossip, in a
stealthy way at a steet corner ; indeed
the whole city would have seemed silent
as a cemetery hut for the wild moaking
laughter that rose from the balcony
where the ChaUahouchio (or Death's
Head) Club was holding its nightly lev
el. The laughter was an exasperating
laughter loud tipsy, defiant taunting and
insolent—the sort of laughter that would
have made a high-spirited man, passing
by slip his hand to his sword and look
tip to discover from whence tho jarring
sound had come.
Tho sudden gleam of light through the
open folding doors of an inner room that
showed the dining room and sanctum o|
tin 1 Duelists' Cluli, ready for their rcccp
It'i i seemed to act as a mute signal for
lot tin mom to return to the table
for more wine and to rally tnoro round
the chairman. The room was decorated
in a way that could only have been car
riptl out by men of wealth who had graf
ted on their natural vices the morbid
farouche, and fantastic extravagance
peculiar at that time to Spanish nod
French voluptuaries in the West Indies.
Pleasure among these men had noiid of
the Preach gaiely about it. 'They were
wanton arrogant, ruthless quarrelsome
and overbearing—conscious of being
the dread of half Georgia and proi and of
of tho fear they had excited.
It was scarcely a wonder tl at the
mystery and terror with which they had
surrounded their iniquitous association,
together with the frequency of their
deadly duels,—nearly always fatal to
their adversaries—had roused the fear
and hatred of the citizens of Savannah
to a pitch which can only he compared '
to the horror excited by the even still
more infamous Hell-Fire Club in our 1
country.
Their club room wan horrible and
ghastly in its decorations,iyet, hut for
the crimes of those who sat there and
the fact of their braggadocio being back
ed by tlieir daring it would have appear
ed merely pureile and theatrical, fit only
to alarm persons whose blood could bo
chilled by he sham horrors of Mrs. Rad
clilfc’s romances.
The room was hung with black cloth,
on which was worked in silver thread the
names of all persons wl.o had fallen by
the sword or pistols of the members and
the date of each death. Over the mantel
piece was a large star, composed of
death’s head moths, and a long rack full
of swords and saw-handled pistols; each
locked in its place like the favorite cues
in a billiard room. The cups were hu
man sknlls, lined with.silver, in the man
ner Byron afterwards perpetuated in
E igland ; and a bleached skull projected
from the ghastly pinnacle of tire black
dais that sp so! above the chairmans
seat. Ev< rything that could be black
was black, but the chairs and they were
cover-d with red velvet and studded
with silver nails—in aw ay to honibly
remind one of stale coffins.
Beside every gtoup of wine enps lay a
pistol to be employed in a case of an im
mediate duel springing up from any snd
den disagreement between two members
It was no wonder that exaggerated re
ports of the mysterious and unhallowed
orgies of these young-rake-hcll* had m
vested .heir meetings with an atmosphere
of almost sup rnatural horror- The vice
of those troubled times was as defendant
and reckless as it was heartless and
cruel.
Two memb< rs of the Death's Head Club
more lazy, more drunken or more con
templative than the others, remained in
the out room leaning over the balcony
watching night darken down over the |
s reet where the fitful lamps now grew
momentarially more brighter ; tiie one a
dark handeom: young fellow, with col 1 ,
keen eves and a malign mouth was rap
ping the balcony rail with his sword
hilt; the other a flushed swaggering, I
dissolute looking old officer, whose blood
shot eyes s etuod starting out of his head,
was caiiefulLv ak'tfflioj -Lt;*Ek of cayds
with tho practiced air of an iuveterutr
gambler, Heated with wine tho two
revelers seemed to bathe themselves in
the cool evening air that blew freshened
from the river. It had been a burning
day and the very day seemed caliuly
enjoying the cool twilight breeze.
All at once there was a sound of
wheels a furious crack of whips, loud as
pistol-shots, and a large dusty traveling
carriage swept round the coiner of Broad
street It was drawn by four foaming black
horses, ntid the two negro postillions
who shouted at the tired animals to urge
them on were dressed in showy scarlet
and yellow jack a. The vehicle drew
up at the door of the Muscogee Hotel.
The carriage door instantly opened,
and out stepped a tali gaunt officer in
French Uniform who handed out his
traveling companion. The lady evident
ly his daughter was a young girl about
eighteen and of a benuty of tho rarest
and most perfect type. Some fire-flies
that the servant had caught for her in
the course of the journey glistened like
diamonds in her dark hair, and gave an
Undine sort of character to her pale sen
sitivenessand intellectual face and seem
ed to cast such sparkles cn her large
Italian eyes us stray stars cast upon the
river at midnight. She was dressed in
black and thut sombre color, so jarring
with youth, scorned only to spiritualize
the tender beauty of her face and the
del cate symmetry of her form.
'Cliason, it’s that colonel's daughter
you made love to at Gnudaloupe 1' said
the elder of thepnon in the balcony. ‘.May
I Tie' -r sweep the hoard again if it isn’t
Miss Dol a .Vasiar !0 jo lucky dog!
Edgar you must propose to her again,
and if she won’t have you carry her off,
and we'll stand by you."
'You are right, Johnson; it is Dolores,
said l.he younger man leaning eagerly
over the balcony "Yes, it is; how bean
tiful she looks I And there's that sour
beggar of a father, whom the general
would not let me fight with, though he
refused uie Dolores. Now I’ll liavo my
revenge, lie shall fight me now or give
me his daughter's hand. 1 know she
still loves me—l know that—’’
“The colonel refused to fight members
of our club at Guadahiupe!" said the
other savagely. “He cal cd us gamblers
and assassins; but we’ll try him now.
Here, you moil, come here.”
Oliusou and Johnson ran into the other
Mini. Tho elder explained matters; the
younger laid down his cruel scheme in a
lew hasty hi ntcnccs:
“The fighting member of the night lifts
a right to a kiss from eve y lily that
enters this house. He must demand his
right; lie wiil ho refused; he must then
force his claims and fight the colonel. I
shall pretend to interfere to carry out a
certain plan of iny own against thelady,
hut that is nothing to any of you. If the
colonel wounds the limn of the night, the
next member in rotation fights him. 11*
will not pass two of us. Johnson’s
lunge at the armpit is pretty sure. 1
killed a man last week, but I am the last
on the list now. You know 1 don’t fear
fighting, but we must take our turns.
You have all sworn to carry oat the
schemes of any of your brother mem
bers-”
“We are ready,” cried the men.
The fighting member—the bravo on
the balcony—hesitated a moment as he
took down his rocked hat and sword
from a nail behind the floor.
“I have taki'n rather too much Bur
gundy,” lie said, “to be very steady;
but 1 think I could run a house-fly thrif
the head at the second pass. Como let’s
foe! the fellow’s pulse.”
The men put on tlieir swords, arid de
scended in a noisy body to the private
apartments to which the waiter had just
ushered the colonel and his daughter.
“Hot fools,” said Clisson to himself;
“they little know that the colonel lias an
incomparahlo parry, and a return thrust
which he plants just under the left col la
bone; that no duelist in France who ever
crossed swords with him has escaped
that thrust; and that two out of the
three it lias killed.”
As the deputation of the Death’s
Head Club passed into the room, the
colonel met them sternly at tho. door.
‘Gentlemen, you mistake; this i*a pri
vate room.’
Captain Johnson, the fighting member,
advanced at once in an insolent manner
to Col. Massard, and his daughter, who
had come from an inner room, and war
now clii ging to his arm, alarmed at the
menacing and dissolute faces ot the in
truders.
‘lt is the custom of tho Muscogee
House,’ said the bully, ‘in our club, for
the fighting member of the night to de
maud a kiss of every laly guest who ar
rives here. For that we have now come
I am the fighting member. My dear
mademoiselle, allow me.’
lie laid one large id hand on the
shoulder of the shrinking (f rl. Tho n xi
moment ho lay bulf-stuu led npo.i t«■ j
floor
The co'onol stood with uno foot on j
Johnson, and waved his drawn sword iu
his baud. The c!.ub drew back.
[53.00 per Annum
NO. (i.
j ‘Kill liiiu !’ cried the prostrate luilly.
| Three or lour men drew Ilieir sword-;
j and advanced; lint the colonel shuck
one in the arm, the rest fell hack before
the furious charge.
At that moment CHsmuii forced his way
to the front.
‘Gentlemen,’ he said, with assumed in
digestion, 'this is unmanly, this is un
worthy of brave* men, you are six tonne
The colonel is no doubt ready to give
any one of you satisfaction.’
Dolores recognized him, and looking
up, thanked him silently with a faint
smile.
‘Young man,’said the colonel, sternly,
‘I can protect myself against even a doz
on of such ruffians. 1 have heard before of
your association of murderers; I vowed
to check it, as I did at Gaudaloupe
Yon have hurried on your own doom. I
did it there hy the law; here I will do it
by the sword. I will light you one hy
one, in your own order, and in your own
place. If 1 fall, there ore friends in the
town who will take care of my daugh
ter.
Clisson advunced and offered his hand
‘No,’ Ik: said, ‘I remember you; you
arc a gambler and a duellist. I refused
yon Dolores then, and 1 refuse her now.
She needs no protection of yours. I see
other old friends here too, no less unwel
come than you; Captain Johnson,
drummed out of his regiment for selling
information to the enemy. Mr. Thorn
ton, a detected gambler, sent to prison
in New Orleans lor using loaded dice
Mr. Gib son, you need give me no other
proof ufyour reformation; I see it hy
your companions.
II—THE RENCOUNTER.
The rules of the Death’s-Head Club re
quired their duels to he by candle-light,
without seconds; the combatants were
locked in the club room till the victor
gave the signal for the doors to he open
ed. The colonel made no objection to
these restrictions He only smiled
haughtily when he saw the theatrical
horrors of the room.
‘Good to frighten children,’ he said,
‘but good for nothing else. I prefer
lighting without seconds. One can de
vote one’s self more thoroughly to the
w rk on hand; besides there is less in
terruption. Have yon a .surgeon ready,
gentlemen V
‘There is no need of a surgeon,’ said
his antagonist, the red-faced captain lie
had trodden under foot the night before.
‘My sword generally saves any expense
that way.'
Tlu: doors were locked. There was a
heavy stamping of feet as captain John
son advanced to tho attack; then a sound
of shivered steel, a gasping cry and a
heavy fall upon the floor.
‘You may- upon tho door, gentlemen,’
said a voice. The door was opened, and
there lay tho champion of tho club
wounded to death. Ilis broken sword [
was at the farther end of the room. The
colonel, as they entered, horror-stricken
took off Ids hat, sheathed his sword, bow
ed and retired. The club was astonished
and dumbfounded. The captain had been
run through the lungs, just under the
left collar bone. There was little hope
of his life. The second and third days
the colonel dangerously wounded his
man in an equally short space of time,
and with equal cold and formal gravity.
11l THE SECRET.
The evening of the third day, as Do
‘ores Mansard siu in her room at her
ta.uli mr-framc, in tho absence of her
father, who had come on a secret mission
from the French government to 'some of
the planters near Savannah, disaffected
to the Knglith government, her black
nurse suddenly entering the room, whis
pered in a low frightened voice :
‘Young gentleman, dear, old friend, to
sec missy !’
The woman had been bribed by Glis
son, who now entering the room throw
himself at the feet of Dolores, and, seiz
ing her hand, covered it with passionate
kisses.
‘Dear Dolores,’ he ssid, ‘my life, rny
soul, do you love me no longer V
‘O, Frank, you must not see me here.
My father has forbidden ino to see you ”
‘Dolores, you loved me once. Do you
remember that night hy the seashore,
when we exchanged those vows of eter
nal love?’
‘Ask your own heart, Frank; ask it if
I can folget that on the death-bed of my
mother I swore never to give my hand
to yon. And that, vow I will keep.’
‘Dolores, you do me wrong. You think
I am one of those wild, reckless men who
insulted your father. 1 am not one ot
those men. 1 tried in vain to repress
their insolence I come to you as a sup
pliant. To-morrow my father fights
yours. I know ho must die. I know
that nothing can save him from the irro
sistible swordsmanship that lias already
struck down man after man. I would
willingly die for my father; but lie will
not let me take his placo because I am
not one ot his band of professional assas
sins. O, Dolores, does not your heart
bleed for me 1 Pitty me, pitty me, Do
lor s, tormented hy this territi e fear, and
helpless before this cruel destiny ’
‘Frank, my I cart do s blew! for you;
! but how can I help you ? I have no pow-
I el.’
The perfidious lover clasping her in
; l<is arms, tears rose in his eyes. ‘Yon
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| father’s secret of success. My fntlioiV
knowing 1 thin, can bailie him and dsnf.rt
j him. Ah I 1 ope for succor in my lust
hour, it is only t > save my father that f
ask tin's.’
I).> mow sank her head for a moment f
thou sin? Hung her arms around (Jlisa< n'i
j neck and killed his forehead,
j 'Frank/ trim said, 'though wo may
i never more flee each other in thin world,
I cannot refuge this request, f<»r I know
: how <l’ur a father’ll life is. I can trust'
I you, Frank, I know, with the secret th*f
j guards the life that is bound up with
I mine. Mv father years ago lost his loft
I arm at a siege in India} it was replaced
| by one of Wood, skillfully made, working
j with metal springs, and strengthened lx)-
i low the elbow by metal hands. On this
hr receives his ndv •naary’s first thrust;
I thee, quick as thought, ho breaks in twif
i his enemy’s blade with a heavy side
blow, and delivers his fatal thrust under
I the left collar bone/
Oliasou’rt lips were pressed to hers,
when a warning from the black nurse,
of the colonel’s carriage stopping at tho
hotel door, disturbed the lovers, and ihey
part and with a hurried uud passionate
embrace.
That same night—to the astonishment
of the club and tho no great sorrow of
the next combatant—Clisson announcer!
his intention of being the next man to
cross swords with the Colonel.
‘I have my reasons/ he said, 'and to
night 1 carry off the girl.’
‘Hut that confounded thrust?’ sug
gested the chairman.
‘O, leave that to me. I did not learn
fencing of Destouches for nothing; never
you fear me/
'Clisson has got s >me mischief in hand/
sain one of the inen; 'lra eyes sparkle
so, and he is in such mad spirits. Well,
FJ just as soon he fought this colonel
before me. I’d rather the old fellow got
a thrust or two in his sword-urm beforo
my turn cone’
The duel to6k place flic next morning.
The colonel paused wlu-n he saw Clisson.
The door* clotted, and they were left
alone.
‘Young man/ lie said, ‘we have old 1
grudges, and it is well we meet. Have
you not taken warning by your compan
ions ? Will nothing teach yon wisdom ?
1 thought ill of you in Gaudaloupe, am!
refiiHod you my daughter, and here I Hud'
you the member of a club of assassins.
Come, draw, air I’
‘Colonel Massard/ said Clisson, biting
his underlip till the blood almost canity
'you owe more to good fortune than to'
skill or courage. I, too, have been for
tunate with the sword. Luck may turn
this time. 1 have my companioiiM to re
venge, ami your insults, old and new, to
repay three fold ’
Ti.c colonel t r w his hat behind him
and drew his sword.
‘Y ung man/ lie said, Y am told that*
in your club priority goes according to
the number of homicides yon have (‘fleet*
ed. lu that case you have not made, I
presum o , more than two or three wid
ows. Now, sir, come; death waits for
you /
Tho colon* 1 was cold and steri/y reso
lute; hut there was no eagerness for
blood in the manner in which he ad van
ced to the attack. There was more of
the judge than the executioner about
him as ho lo* ked roui and the dim, ghastly
r miiii. He aicmcd as confident of victo
ry ns if he had been sent from Heaven to*
perform a punishment that had been
prophesied, lie stood there a frame of
steel, li s sword feeling along his adver
sary’s blade, sen-sit ve of the finest vibra
tion and thirsting for the thrust.
Cli son stood keen of eye and watch
ful. Suddenly the colonel dashed his
left arm at his point. Wooden fingers
opened to clutch tnc blade. Clisson saw
the moment hud arrived, lie passed Ids
point to the right, threw off his adversa
ry's sword, and then with u swift cling
ing pressure towards the hilt bent it lo
the floor. The colonel drew hack aston
ished ; hut cureless of his life, lie did not
retire irom the threatening sword that
was raised to strike him to the heart.
Gli>son delayed his vengeance only to
taste it the longer.
He had pierced his adversary’s left
shoulder, and the sword was raised for
the coup do grace, when tho folding
doors ot the inner room, leading to the
balcony, were dashed open. It was Dolo
res who rushed in, and drawing a pistol
fired at her cruel and faithless lover, who
fell to the ground pierced hy a bullet.
The brave girl, a soldier’s daughter,
perfectly reliant on her lover’s truth, yet*
Htill, she knew not why, apprehensive of
the result of the duel, had concealed her
self armed in the inner room of the club,
with the co operation of her faithful black
nurse. The first word spoken hy Clisson*
proved to her that she had been betray
ed ; and hear ng her father in danger,
she at once appeared on the scene as »»r
avenging angel, to save her father ai.df
punish her worthless and hi ig lover.
.‘Gcnl'c.neu/sa and the cob nel who had
heard all from Dolores, as he threw open'
the door and admitted the now terrified
club, "it was my daughter who struck
down this man, not 1. He was a liar
and ascouudroi ; lie broke his word and
he has deserved his fate even if it be in
stant death. Take up your champion, l
have now punished you eiiougn. To-'
night my daughter and myself depart for
New Orleans, where It can be heard cf
by any of your club still wishing to
cross swords/
Ciisson eventually t covered and fled
t> Soil lit America. He reappeared du
ring the war of ii.d< pen ljuce, hut sank
lower and lower in ii* amy till a pistol*
shot over a gambling table at Callao,
fctally rid t c .vorld of ahopeless villain.
A« k»r C d.tiled Massard he settled after
tho peace in Arkansas and materially
helped to reclaim the wild territory tronv
t’Ue Indians.
Tti© facts of this story, i v n to the min-'
u teat detail, nify bCdcpen* el on as strict-'
!y true. D doits Mas ar l, lb e« J**ar»
a ter the downfall »»f the Death’s H- ad
CJlub, man elan* p'.ew of Gener j Wash
ington Her d< sCendant-s arc n w weal
th p jo; I ii L uidatia am. have a Urge
estate a lew mi Vs from Raton R ugc, dtf
the banks of t' e Miss ssiypi.