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WHITE & MoINTOsII, Proprietors. VOLUME YIH. IfflisttUiiHCons. fIESEIW CLOSET. “For munlcr, th-nigh it have no tongue, will fcpeak with most miraculous organs.” In the year 18—, John Smith (I use fictitious names) was indicted for the ■wilful murder of Ht nrv Thompson. The case was one of a most * xtraordinary nature, and the interest < Netted ’ v it was almost unparalelled. 'J lie a-eeu- i was a gentleman of considerable property, re siding upon liis own estate. A person, supposed to he an entire strangert.o him, had, late in a summer’s day. requested and obtained shelterpuid hospitality for the night. Hohad.it was supposed, al ter taking soiqe light refreshment, re tired to bed in perfect health, requesting to be awakened at an early hour the .fol lowing morning. When the servant ap pointed to call him entered the room for that purpose, lie was found in his room peileetly dead; and from the appearance of the body it was obvious that lie had been so for many hours. There was 'not the slightest mark of ..violence upon Ins person, and the countenance retained the same expression it had borne iluring“iie. Days and weeks passed on, and little further was discovered. In the mean time rumor had not been idle. Suspi cions were vague, indie l, and undefined, and were at first whispered, and after wards boldly expressed. The precise object of these suspicions was nut clearly indicated; some imp! ited one. p • son and some another; hut they all pointed to Smith, the master of 11m ltou.-e, a ; concerned in the death of the stranger; and, in fine, the meg: trales were in duced to commit Mr. 8: .ith to jail to take his trial for the wilful murder of Henry Thompson. As it was A emed essential to the attainment ofju.-tii - to keep se cret the examination of the witnesses who were produced before the magistr.it all the information'f which the public were in possession l-eforc the trial took place was that which I have narrated. iSueh was the state of tilings upon the morning of the trial. The couusf 1 for the prosecuta-nopened his ease to the jury iu a mn liner that in dicated very little expectation of a con viction. He began by imploring tiem to divest their min i • f all that t hoy h and heard before tie yea into the box; he entreated them to attend to the evidence, and judge from ill.! alone. It would he p ■■■ •dl-y.-.i.J a | ■ abili ty of a doubt, tilt, the deco::. I died by poison poison of a mo.-t so-e 1 nature, in its operation, and p" e.-smgthe won derful and dreadful qit l; ty of Ivatin ;no external mark or teken by winch its presence could be <1- tected. Tim ing:l -of which it was compo: »and w. re of so sedative a nature that, instead of the body on which it had been u 1 exhibit ing any contortions, or marks < f suffer ing, it left upon tile features noth ug but the calm and pi t and quo t o! rep se. The prisoner's family n c ...Jed only of himself, a house!,, eper, and one man servant. The man s-. vant p ; in an out-house Adjoining the stable, and did so the night of Thompson’s death. The prisoner slept at one end of the house and the housekeeper at the other, and the deceased had been put. into a room ad joining the house!:, epel’s. It would be proved I>y a person who happened to be pa - Jug by the hour ■ on the night in question, ;d >mt three hours after midnight, that lie bud b.-en induced to remain and watch, from hat in- h..-> at tention excited by the eireum and . aees, then very unusual, of a light moving about the house at that late hour. That, person would state most pos.tively tbr.l he could distin-tly see a figure, holding a light, go from the room in which the; prisoner slept to the home I op i- room, that two p-r ns then came o- ‘ of the housekeeper's room, and the light disap peared for a minute. tVhotlo-r the two persons went into Thou pom's room he could not sec, as the window of that room looked another w ay: but in about a min ute they reinsur'd, passing qu o- along the house to .Smith's n.o.n again; ami in about five minutes the light was extin guished and he saw it no more. Such was the evidence upon which the magistrate had committed Smith; and singularly enough, since his committal , the housekeeper has and: - appeared, Bur | can any trace of her he di covered. Within the last- week the witness who J saw the light had been more particularly examined, and in order to re-fresh h;s memory, had h; --ti pke-, and at dark in the verv spot where he had stood on that night, and another person was placed with him. The v.'hole scene, as he had described it, was acted over again, but it was utterly impossible, from the cause above mentioned, to assert, when the light disapp ared whether the part-iy* had gone into Thompson's room. As if. however, to throw still de.-per mystery over this extraordinary tr;in-:aetion, the witness persisted in adding an- w feature to his former statement, that after the persons returned with the light into Smith’s room, and before it was extin guished, he had twice p reeived some dark object to intervene between the light and the window, almost as large' as the surface of the window itself, and which he described by saying it appeared as if a door had been placed la-fore the light. Now in Smith’s room there was noth ing which could account for this appear ance; his bed was in a different pa. t, and there was neither cupboard nor press in the room, which, but for th“ bed. wis en tlrelv emptv. the room in which he dress ed being at a distant.' beyond. He would state only one fact more IllflUilll * ! (said the learned counsel,) and having done his duty, it would bo for the jury to do theirs.' Within a few days there i had been found in the prisoner’s house the stopper of a small bottle of a very singular appearance; it was apparently not of English manufacture, and was de ! scribed by the medical men as being used by chemists to preserve those which are most, likely to lose tlieir virtue by expos ure to the air. To whom it belonged, ol io what use they had been applied, there was no evidence to show. Bueli Was the address of the counsel for the prosecution; and during its do | livery I had earnestly watched the coun tenance of the prisoner, who had listened, | too, with deep attention. Twice only i did I perceive that it produced in him ; the slightest emotion. Whell the disap pearance of the housekeeper was meu ; tinned, a smile, as of scorn, passed over his lip, and the notice of the discovery of the stopper obviously excited an interest I and, I thought, an apprehension; but it quickly subsided. 1 need not detail the evidence that was given for the prosecu tion; it amounted, in substance, to that which the counsel stated, lior was it va ried in any particular. The stopper was produced and proved to ho found in the house; hut no attempt, was made to trace it to the prisoner’s possession, or even l knowledge. When the case was closed the learned judge, addressing the counsel for the prosecution, said ho thought there was j hardly sufficient evidence to call upon the j prisoner for his defense; and if the jury ! were of opinion they would at once stop i the case. U pon this observation from j the judge, the jury turned round for a : moment and then intimated their acqui : esenee in his lordship’s views of the evi- I deuce. The counsel folded up their j briefs, and a verdict of acquittal was | about to be taken, when the prisoner ud ! dressed the court. He urged the judge ;to permit, him to state his ease to the ! jury, and to call his housekeeper, with jso nm-h earnestness, and was seconded so strongly by his counsel, that Lord Mansfield, though very much against his inclination, and contrary to his usual jlialjli, gave way and yielded to the re qn • :1. The prisoner then addressed the jury, and entreated their patience for a short time. Her. nested to them that lie never could feel satisfied to be acquitted mere ly because the evidence was not conclu sive, and pledged himself ill a very short, time, by the few observations ho should make, to obtain their verdict on much higher grounds upon the impossibility of his h-iug guilty of the dreadful crime. Os the stopper which had been found, he disowned all knowledge; he declared most solemnly that he bad never seen it before it was produced in court; an I he asked,Yonhl the fact of its Vicing in the lii.use only a few days ago, when hun dreds of people had been there, produce upon an impartial mind even a moment ary prejudice against him? One fact of his having gone to the bedroom of lbs hous.-k ...per on the night in ques tion. He had b ,-n subject for many years of his life to sudden fits of illness : he had been seized with one on that occa sion, and had gone to her t-, procure her assistance in lighting afire. She had returned with him to his room for that purpose, he having waited fat a minute in the passa;:-) while she put on her clothes, which would account, for the momentary disappearance of the light; and after she had remained in his room fora fewminu’es, finding himself better, he had dismissed her, and retired again to bed, from which lie had not risen when he v.c.s informed of the death of lus guest. It, has been said that,, after his commit tal to prise. u, his housekeeper had disap peared. lie avowed that, findinghis.-nc lnies determined, if possible, to accomplish his ruin, he had thought it probable they might, tamper with his servant ; he had, therefore, kept her out. of the way ; but for what pm pose ? Not to prevent her testimony being given, for she was now under the care of his solicitor, and would instantly appear for the purpose of eon- | firming, as far as she was concerned, the statement he had just made. Such was the prisoner's address, which produced a powerful effect. It was de livered in a firm and impressive manner, and its simplicity and artmssness gave it an appearance of truth. The housekeep er was tin n put upon the box and exam ined by the counsel of the prisoner. Ac cording to the custom at, that time al most universal, of excluding witnesses from court until their testimony was re quired, she had be n kept at a house near at band, and had not heard a single word of the’trial. There w is nothing remark able in her manner of appearance; she . might lie about thirty-five or a little more, with regular though not agreeable features, and an air perfectly free from embarras-fme tit. She rep- ate 1, almost in the prisoner’s own words, the story he had told of liis having called her up, and her having ac companied him to his room/ and bed been awakened by a man servant in the morning with an account of the travel er’s death. She had now to undergo a cross-exam ination ; and I may as well state here, which, though not known to me till af terward, will assist the reader in under standing the following scene. The counsel for prosecution bad, in his own mind, attached considerable importance to the circumstance mentioned by the witness that saw the light, that while the prisoner and the housekeeper were in the room of the former, something like a door intervened between the can dle and the window, which was totally HEBE SHALL THE TRESS THE FEOfLE’S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY TEAR AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN. QUITMAN, GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1873. irreconcilable with the appearance of the room when examined ; and he had half i persuaded himself that there must he a secret closet which had escaped the ofli i eers, the opening of which would ac count for the appearance alluded to, and the existence of which had so mysteri ously disappeared. His object, therefore, was to obtain I from the housekeeper (the only person except the prisoner who could give any clue to this) such information as he could, without alarming her by any di rect inquiry on the subject ; and by him self treating the matter as immaterial, he might lead her to consider it so, and thus unexpectedly draw forth all she knew. After some unimportant ques tions, he asked her in a tone and mu,inter calculated rather to awaken confidence than to excite distrust,: “During the time you were in Mr. Smith’s room, you stated that the candle stood on the table in the center of the room ?” “Yes.” “Wes the closet, ortlie cupbord, or whatever you call it, opened once or twice while it stood there ?” A pause; no answer. “1 will call it to your recollection. Af ter Mr. Hinith took the medicine out ol the closet, did lie shut the door, or did it. remain open ?” “He shut it.” “Then it was opened again for the purpose of replacing the bottle, was it r’ “It was.” “Do you reei oiled how long it was open the last, time r” “Not above a minute.” “The door, when open, would ho ex !ai fly between the light and the window, ! would it not ?” “It. would.” “] forget, whether yott said the closet was on the right or left hand side of the window ?” “The left.” “Would the door of the closet make any noise in opening ?” "None ” “Can you speak positively tothefaet? ! Have you evt r opened it yourself or seen ! Smith open it ?” i “I never opened it. myself.’ j “Did you ever keep the keys?” I “Never.” “Who did?” “Mr. Smith, always.” At this moment the witness turned her eyes toward the spot where the pris oner stood, and the efi'i’-t was almost electrical. A cold damp sweat,stood on liis brow; his face had lost all its color. She no sooner saw him than she shrieked and feinted. The consequences of her ; answers flashed across her mind. Bhe had been so thoroughly deceived J by the manner of the advocate, and by | the little importance he seemed to attach !to her st.atcne nt; that she had b. on Id I on, l.y one question to another, till she ' had to and him all he wanted to know. During the interval in the proceedings j occasioned by her illness, the solicitor 1 for the prosecution left the court. It was between 4 and o o’clock will'll the ! Judge resumed his seat upon the bench, j the prisoner liis station at the bar, and | the housekeep 'r hero 111 the witness hex ; j the court in -he interval had remained crowded with Spectators, scarce one of whom had left liis place, lost, in his ab sence, it should be seized by some cm". The cross-examining counsel then ad dressed the witness: “I have a very I’.-w more quest ions toa.sk you, hut, be ware that, vou answer them truly, for vi,ur own life depends on a thread, Do vou know this stopper?” “Ido.” “To whom does it belong ?” “To Mr. Bmitb.” “When did you see him last r ’ “On the night of Mr. Thompson's death.” At this moment the solicitor for the prosecution entered the court, bunging with him, upon a tray, a watch, two uion-'V b iga jewel ease, a pocket h-ok mid a bottle of the same manufacture as tin' stopper, and having no cork in it ; come other art idea were in and not materi al to my story. The tray was placed on the table in sight of the prisoner and wit ness, and from that moment not a don 1 I remained in the mind of any spectator ol the guilt of the prison"!'. A few words will bring my tale to a close. The house where the murder had been committed was between li.na and ten miles distant. The solicitor, as the erosij-examination discovered the exist ence of the closet., and its situation, had s-l off on hors -1 ask, with two officer- , and after tearing down a part of the wall of the house, had detect, and tLi q place of con cealment. The search was well rewarded ; the whole of the property belonging to Mr. Thompson Was found there, amounting in value to sr veral thousand pounds; and to leave no doubt, a bottle was found, which the medical man pronoun ced to contain the very identical poison which had caused the deaf h of the unfor tunate Mr. Thompson. The result is too obvious to need explanation. The case presents too, perhaps, unpar alleled instance of a man accused of mur der, showing such a defense as to induce the Judge and jury to concur in a ver dict of acquittal, but who, persisting in calling a witness to prove his innocence, was, on the testimony of that witness, convicted and executed. A widow in New Yo"k has been three times married. Her first husband was Robb, the second Robbins, and the third Robbinson. The same door plate has served for the whole three, and ike quc.i t;on now is, what extended nun- can be procured to fill out the remainder of it. DON’T SCOLD ME. “Don’t, Tommy —don’t do that. You know that it makes my head ache.” “Does it, make your head ache, moth i er?” asked the child curiously, and with a nitying tone in his voice, he came creeping up to his mother’s side, und looking at her as if in doubt whether he would be repulsed or not. “Bometimes it does, my son,” replied Mrs. Lyon, kindly; “audit, is always un- I pleasant. Won’t you try to play without making so much noise?” "Yes, mother. I’ll try,” answered the little fellow, cheerfully. “But I forget sometimes.” He looked earnestly at his mother as if something mora was in his thoughts, “Well, dear, what else ?” said she, en couragingly. “When 1 forget, you’ll tell me, won’t you P" “Yes, love.” “And then I’ll stop. But don't; scold j me, mother, for then l can’t stop.” Mrs. Lyon’s heart was touched. Site caught her breath, and bent her head down to conceal its impressions, until it rested on the silken hair of the child, “Bea good hoy, Tommy, nml mother will never scold you any more,” she mur-; mured in his ears. His arms stole upward, and as they twined closely about her neck, he pressed bis lips tightly against her cheek thus sealing his part of the contract with a kiss. flow sweet to a mother’s taste were these fruits of self-control I In tlie ef fort to govern herself, wlial a power she had acquired. Only first fruits were these. In all her after days did that mother strive with herself, ere she entered into a eonti st with the inherited evils of her children; and just so far as she was able to over come evil in herself, was she able to over come evil in them. Often, very often, did she fall back in to the old states; and often, very often was self-resistance only a slight effort; but the influence for good that flowed from her words or actions whenever this was so, warned her of error, anil prompt ed a more vigorous self-control. Need it he said that she had ail abundant re ward ?” A Beautiful Young Lady Selling Chickens. A Danville correspondent of the Richmond Whig writes : Among the loca l incidnents of the past, week was t he appearance of a beautiful young lady from North Carolina seated in a, wagon in the market space, with chickens and butter for sale. Her beauty excelled any seen in these parss for some time. She was accompanied by her mother and lit tle brother, arid was modest, in appear ance, with a countenance that indicated a good and true heart within. Her beau ty attracted many of our young men to : the wagon in which she was seat -d. One | of them he-a-ine so enamored with her j that he actually bought all her market ing arid sold it for the same he paid for i it, considering that the sight of her had ! amply repaid him for any loss ho might, j sustain. This beautiful young lady did not j wear a two story chignon, with the little J appendage oil ilie tOh of th- le ad called i a “bonnet,” nor was she attired ill twen- I tv-two yards of dry goods, doubled and ! trehblcd with the usual “turk-up” be hind; but, she wore a plain and t idy dross, consisting of about eight yards ol calico, made ;n till! plain and neat style of olden time. Lucky will lie the men who suc ceeds in captivating young lady for a wife. Down the Hill. The evening of ex. cry man’s life is coming apace. The day of life will soon he spent. The sun, though it may tie up ill mid-heavi n, will miss swiftly down the western sky, and di appear. What shall light up man's path when the sun of life is gone down ? lie must travel on to the next world ; hut what shall illuminate ids footsteps after the nightfall of death, amid the darkness of his journey ? What question more important., practicable more solemn, for each reader of our journal to himself? 'That, is a long journey to travel without, a. friend. V. t every man must perform it. The time is not far distant when all men will I.: gin the journey. There is an evening star .in the natural world. Its radiance is bright and beautiful, und cY'cring to th" benighted traveler. Dot life’s evening star is a good hope of heav en. It- beauty and brilliancy are re flected from the Son of I;ighteousnes.;. whose blight lays light up the evening of life, and throw their radiance quite across the darkness of the grave iuio lin mail - ii d’s laud. It has iiimiiinat-1 fhefoot ps of many a traveler into eternity. It is o■" priceless value. A thousand worlds cannot purchase it; vd it, is offer ed without, money and w.tboiit price, to j him that will p -uit. ntly roc ive it.- Ex- Ki-:i:p A List. 1. Keep a list of your ! friends; and let Hod be the first in the j list., however long It may he. ‘J. Keep a list, of tlie gifts you get; and j i -t Christ, who is tin unspeakable gift,be j first. | 3. Keep a list of your mercies, and let ; pardon and life stand at the In ad. 4. Keep abst of your jey u r and let the ' joy unspeakable and full of glory bo first, j Keep a list of you" hopes; and let ' the hope of glory 1 e foremost. ! (;. Keep a ii.-rt of yotfr sorrows; and let 1 sorrow for sin he first. 7. Keep a list of your enom'es; and however many there may be, .put down the “old man” and the “old serpent” first. , 8. Keep a fist of your s : ns; and If t the j sh> -f unl-1: fhesi t down as the first and worst of all. — Fro.nptcr. SaMimiali. j r,. .1. QUILMARTIN. JOHN FLANNERY L. J. 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Subscription ih nilvMlfe, #2.50 a yens; to Ministers, $2.00. rfl" ."end for specimen c M nms, clrfiflnrs. ate Address, JAC I*. HARRISON A CO.. Proprietor*!. IVUERXITY TlMlflE Ipens ()ctober 1; continues ihrougli nine’monthH, h is bi i'ani/a'4 in sehnnN on the elec ivo sys lein. with full course' in Classics, Lifera'ure, _ eicnee (with j racice in Chemical and Physical Laboratories,) in Law Medici e. Engine* ring, reaching and A icii'lure. .\*>plv for Cata loguesto JAMIO' !•’ I! ARP-S' )N. Chairman. P. O. I niversity of Virginia, Albemarle Cos., V®. bubi guTna ran Fourlli (Iraml Gift Concert Tfor the benefit of the PIJBJiI (i LI HR AR¥ • K ENTBCK Y 12,000 CASH (}JFTSS 1 fifoo,ooo very Fifth Ticket Draws & Gift ,<>,• #,10.00. , r l he I'onrlh (irrnd (iill Concert anlhorizetl bv pecial act of the Leg suture for llie benefit of the Public liibrary ri'Kentucky, will take place ii Public Library Hall, ai T.onisi ille. Kv.. V\ LDNKSDAY. DTA 17 M lIKK 3. ’73 Only sixty thousand tickets will be sob; and -no half of these are iub'nded for tin* Lnropean Market, thus leaving only 80 000 for sale in the Cnircd Slates, where 700.000 were disposed of >r the Third Concert. The tickets are divided nto ten coupons or pai ls and have on their fm«k S •homo wi h a full of the Inode >f di awing. At ‘in concert, which will be ihe grand tusical di-p'ay r witnessed in this country, he unprecedented sum of *1 500.000, livided into 12,000 cash gifts, will be distributed tv b*t among the lidd h biers. The numhirra rs llie tickets (.'» be drawn from one wheel Mind children and llie gilts from another LIST OF GIFTS: >ne < J rand Cash (Jiff $2 50,0^0 >rie (irand c : ~-|, (iif! 100, fi'i )ne (7rand Cash fjjft 50,<K )ne Grand Ca h Gift 25, Oi* )ne (; • and < 'ash Gift 17 ~V 10 Cash Gifts .sp .000 each ...' ]OO,C 80 Ca«h c-f'is 5 (-C0 each, 150,0* 50 Gash Gifts 1.000 each 50,0 - 80 C »sh Gifts 500 each 40,ft' 100 Cash Gifts -lOOeu li 4(7,0 150 Cash Gifts 200 each 45, 'SO Cash (7 iffs 2*eccfi sft 0« 825 Cash <7 iff« 100 each 32,5. n,OO*J Cash Gifts r *n each 550, < Total 12,000 GIFTS ALL CASH, amounting to $1,500,0' The distribution will he p< silive, whether •> h • tickets are sold <>i not. aid the 12.000 g!u ill paid in jirnporlinn tnthe tickets sold—all *■ old Pickets being dedro ed. as at tlie Fiist ir* S ond Concerts, and not represented in 4* draw log. rum: or tu kets: Whole ticki s SSO; h szs; Tenths.f ach Cniipon, $5: l‘ilevm \S I, b* Tickets for ssc, ,t\ Tickets for S LOt-O: 118 Whole Tickets # t -5.000; 227 Whole T'e r i-> fir SIO,OOO. Jr. iiscount on less than S">00 worth of Tickets at ♦ itne. The nnparalled success of the Third Gift Con( •ert. as well as the satislaetinn given In the irst and 8» i ond makes i; onl\ necessaiy i nn lOimce the Fourth to injure the sale ol cverj l icket. The Fo.if lit Gift Conceit will be con ducted in all its details like the Third, and full articular* may be lea ned from circular*, w hich will be sent tree from this office to all win tpply for them. Ticke'B now ready for salt*, and all orders ae* companied by the money piouiptly filled. Lit cral lei ms given to those who buy to sell agafe- TIIOS. !\ (ill \SiLETTE. Agent Pub 1 Libr K\., and Manager C;• Coucert, Publ Libr. building, Louis\ ille K . M ‘ 4 ' /-