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POETICAL.
A Reply to the “Conquered Banner.”
Gallant nation, foiled by numbers,
Say not that your hopes are fled;
Keep that glorious Flag that slumbers,
One day to avenge your dead.
Keep it, widowed, weeping mothers,
Keep it, sisters, mourning brothers—
Keep it with an iron will;
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Keep it till your children take it,
Once again to wave, and make it
All their sires have bled and fought for—
All their noble souls have wrought for
Bled and fought for all alone!
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MiUions deplore the strain ;
Shame, alas! for England’s glory,
Freedom called in vain,—
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Treat it gently, for’t is holy—
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Then once more unfurl it gladly
“Conquered Banner "—keep it still.
SELECT MISCELLANY,
WHO IS GUILTY ?
“The man waits outside,” said Mr.
Spencer Fenton’s servant, ns he stepped
in front of the law office table, piled with
books and law papers.
Mr. Fenton’s servant was a man of
penetration, and knew where to draw the
dividing line between the commonplace
“man” and tho higher order of being,
known as the “gentleman,”
“Let him come in,” said Mr. Fenton
quietly, as he took a pistol from a draw
er, laid it on the table, and dropped a
newspaper over it.
Mr. Fenton was a lawyer in good prac
tice in a large city, and was known wide
ly among the class of customers for
whom he practiced as a celebrated law
yer of “great expectation” and fame.
The man was admitted, and proved to
be a sullen-looking, brutish personage.
Mr. Fenton looked once at liis square
jawed, savage face, and judged his man.
“You may go John,” ho said to his
servant. “Take an hour or so for your
self, if you like.”
John went out, and the lawyer then
took a seat at the table ojiposite his cli
ent, looking at him sternly.
“Now my man, he said quietly, “we
are together, and I want to know exactly
how the matter stands.”
“I’m going to tell you how it stands,
honest Injun—l am.”
“Very well. Now, as to this bank
robbery ? You say you can give infor
mation—for a consideration, of course.”
“For five hundred dollars.”
“Very will.”
“Then I’ll tell you. The man that
put up that job was Seth Amity, the
cashier of the bank. ”
Fenton started to his feet, and for a
moment lost selfpossession.
“Seth Amity ! Man, you are either
drunk or crazy?”
“Be I? Then you take me som’ers
and git me swore to it. I’ll take my af
fydavy, and whereas that he’s the one as
put up that job. I aint a goin to swear
to a lie.”
“I believe you would swear to any
thing for a dollar, Sonter j but that don’t
matter. Os course, if you can prove
what you say, the man must be punish
ed. Seth Amity! I would undertake
to swear that you are lying.”
“I ain’t, Mr. Fenton, so help me, I
ain’t. He’s the man as done it ; he’s
the man as put the others up to the fast
enings, and gave the others the impres
ions of the safe key; and the word to un
lock the safe by.”
t‘You know a great deal about this
matter it seems to me. ”
“Cours, I know about it. I ain’t
sneaked and crawled there hull nights
for nothin’. See her, Mr. Fenton, they
are going to make another haul on the
bank, end they are going to meet to ar
range it to-night. Would you dare to go
with me and listen?”
“Can you lead the way ?”
“I kin ; and you’ll see what your pre
cious Seth Amity amounts to.”
“Shall I bring a policeman?”
“I don’t like them chaps ; but bring
one if you like—he can’t hurt me,”
“Very good. You can leave me now,
but be on hand at nine.”
He arose and unlocked the door, and
Sonter shuffled out in liis usual sullen
manner. As he passed down the broad
stairs, a young man brushed passed him
rapidly, and gave him a look of silent
scorn. Sonter stopped on the stairway
and looked after him,
“That’s you, Seth, my boy. You are
down on me for a traitor, and informer,
but I’ll fix you yet.”
The young man tapped at Fenton’s
door, and entered. The lawyer looked
up at him quickly, and an expression of
doubtful meaning passed over his face.
“Good morning. Seth, he said. “How
do matters go on at the bank ?”
“They are in trouble, of course, for
there is absolutely no clue to the scoun
drels who robbed the safe. They were
cunning enough to take nothing but gold
—actually leaving a large quantity of
notes which they might have taken as
well as not,”
“Do you suspect any one connected
with the bank ?”
“I own I have my suspicions, Mr.
Fenton, but I have no proofs, and as the
man and I are not friends, it might
look like personal enmity if I should
speak of it.”
“The safe was opened with the key
and word.”
“Yes. that is the puzzle ; for only two
of us had the word. The key is another,
thing it might have been taken in a dozen
ways. Why, if the directors did not
have the utmost confidence in me, I
might have been suspected myself. Are
you going to the house ?”
“No. But you must give the name of
the man you suspect ; of oourse, it will
go no further than myself.”
“Honry Dana, the assistant cashier,”
replied Seth, slowly. “You know he
has not been friendly with mo Bince he
knew that Mary and Iwere engaged,for he
hoped to succeed himself.”
“Humph! You are going to see
Mary ?”
“Yes, I thought perhaps you were go
ing down. I can’t stop a moment; so
good-by, and if you find out anything
let us know it at o ice.”
He hurried out, and Fenton remained
with his head upon his hands in deep
thought. He had trusted Seth Amity so
far that ho had accepted him as the affi
auced of his only daughter, whom he
loved as few parents love their children.
He knew that his informer was a brute,
but a good spy, and he had given him
trustworthy information before, and it
looked bod for Seth. If it proved true
he would bo the one to break his daugh
ter’s heart, aud consign Seth Amity to a
prison cell for years. But ho had been
retained by tho bank officials to work up
this most audacious robbery, and he
would do his duty.
Seth hurried down to the cars and rode
up to the Fenton residence. As he went
up tho Hteps the door opened and ayoung
man stepped out, who cast a savage
glance at him, and passed by withousay
ing a word.
“What is Henry Dana doing here?”
he muttered, “and what a malicious
glance he gave me. I must understand
this matter at once.”
He touched the bell, and sent liis name
np by the servant who answered the call.
Directly after, the girl came back with
a card, upon which was written:
‘ ‘Not at home to Mr. Amity. I will
never see you again.
Mart Fenton.”
Seth looked wildly at the servant, and
then tearing the card in pieces, stamp
ped upon them furiously, and hurried
out into the street, his heart full of
doubts and fears. Mary had refused to
see him again. Who had poisoned her
mind against him?
Sontor was on hand at tho appointed
time, and met Fenton at liis office, where
they were joined by a policeman. Fen
ton had armed himself, aiid after a stern
command to bo careful what he did, the
informer took the lead, walking several
paces in front of tho others, and not ap
pearing to belong to them. He took a
cab at a corner stand, and they followed
his example, and after ordering their
driver to keep the other cab in sight,
they drove through the city,"and half an
hour after alighted in a side street, where
the houses were of that class known as
suspicious. The cabmen had their or
ders, and drove away, and Sontor joined
the party.
“Where is the place?” said the police
man.
“Gentleman Tom’s,” replied Sontor.
“Tom keeps a little game of faro, and a
good many rough customers liang around
him,” said tho policeman. “Will you
go in ?”
“Os course,” said Fenton quietly.
“You are game!” muttered Sontor.—
“This way then.” He opened a gate,
and by the talismauic power of certain
words and knocks they were soon inside
the house, in which the gambling was in
full blast. *
Sontor led the way up stairs, to a
snijll room which wus carpeted so thick
ly that their foot steps gave no sound.—
Sontor moved a small pannel scarcely an
inch across, and motioned to Fenton to
look in. He applied his eye to the open
ing, aud saw three men seated at ft table
almost within reach of his hand, and
conversing in a low tone. All of them
were masked closely, and two of them
called the third by name at different
times, and that name was—Seth Amity,
Fenton listened and heard the whole
plan of the proposed robbery, aud he
knew that the man he had trusted, and
to whom he had been about to give his
daughter in marriage, was a villian aud
a partner with robbers.
All compunctions were at an end, and
the last words he heard as the men arose
were these: “I have invested the pro
ceeds of our last haul in Chicago in such
a way that it will give me influence
enough with that old shark Fenton, to
induce him to hurry up the marriage
with bis daughter. There are over forty
thousand in gold in the bank, and the
specie will flow in heavily to-morrow.
This will make us rich enough to retire
and live like honest men.”
Twice during the next day Seth passed
Mr. Fenton in the street with a wild exci
ted look in his handsome face, arid the law
yer found it hard to believe the evidenoe
TERMS-TWO DOLLARS IN ADVANCE
of his own ears. Seth did not look like
a criminal, but rather one whom some
unexpected sorrow had driven to despair.
At night three men, with hats drawn
closely over their brows, crawled through
the alleys at the back of Morton’s Bank
and reached a door, which was entered
by a key, and they entered. A man lay
sleeping on the floor, who was quickly
overpowered bound and gagged. The
one who appeared to be the leader
showed them the way to the place where
the other watchman was seated, nodding
ever a table. He was disposed of as
easily os the other, and left upon tlis
floor helpless, and then tho leader pro
duced the key to the vault and opened it
easily enough. The floor was quickly
strewn with small canvas bags, each of
which represented a large sum in gold.
Ab they wero gloatiug over the prize,
wliich far exceeded their expectations,
there came a sudden rush of men, and
the three robbers were secured before
they had time to think of danger,
“Taken in the act Seth Amity,” said
Fenton, showing himself. “You cannot
hope for mercy at my hands.”
One of tho officers removed his cap
and held up a lantern; nnd they saw not
Seth Amity, but Henry Dana, his dark
face distorted by rage.
“I am beaten; take me to prison; let
me hide myself from the whole world !”
said Dana.
So tho throe robbers went to prison,
and Seth Amity was cleared in the eyes
of all men, aud what he cared for most,
in those of Mary Fenton. Dana had
told her that he robbed the bank, and
that the officials had proofs of his vil
lainy, and she was strong enough to cost
off the man she believed to boa villain.
She made ample atonement for those
moments of doubt, for she is now his
wife, and will love him the better because
she sinned against him for an hour.
The stolen property was nearly all re
covered and returned to the bonk.
Dana was sent to Sing Sing, where he
was found dead in his cell in six months
after the prison closed behind him.—
Whether he died by his own hand or con
flicting passions of his own heart no man
knows.
How Briggs’ Baby Was Treated.
Thomas Briggs’ of Twelfth street, has
a boy baby about ten months old, who is
admitted at the begining of this article
to look just like his father, and to be
tho smartest boy baby of liis age in
Detroit. Yesterday morning the child
was sitting on tho floor, playing with
five or six big coat buttons on a string,
nnd taking an occasional nibble at an
apple to bring out his first crop of teeth.
Mrs. Briggs and a neighbor were talking
away os only women can gossip, when
the baby hid the buttons under a mat
and started to finish the apple. A bit of
the skin got in his throat and he gave a
cough and a whoop and pawed the air
and rolled over on his head. “Oh, them
buttons! he has swallowed them but
tons 1” cried the mother as she yanked
him np and shook him. “Pound him
on the back !” yelled the other woman,
trying to hold the baby’s legs Btill.—
“Run for the neighbors!” cried Mrs.
Briggs. “Ob, he’ll die ! he’ll die!”
screamed the other, as she ran out.—
And the neighbors came in and made
him lie on his stomach and cough, and
then turned him on liis back and rubbed
his stomach, and joggled him about all
sorts of ways until he got mad and he
went to howling. Then a boj ran for
Briggs, and Briggs ran for a doctor, and
the doctor came and choked the baby,
and ordered sweet oil and mustard plas
ter, and told them to hold him on his
back. Everybody knew that those six
big buttons were lodged in that baby's
throat, because he was red in the face,
and because he strangled as he howled
and wept. They poured down sweet oil,
and put mustard across him, and wept
over him, and the mother said she could
never forgive herself. Boys drove by
calling out: “Slab wood for sale !”
and the scissors man went by shouting :
“Sharp 1 sharp !” but that distressed
crowd held the baby down and shed
their tears over his whole length. The
doctor was looking serious, and Briggs
was thinking that he hadn’t done any
thing to deserve such a blow when one
of the women pushed the mat and dis
covered the buttons. Then everybody
laughed and danced, and they kicked the
sweet oil bottle under the bed, threw the
mustard plaster at the doctor, aud Mrs.
Briggs hugged angel to her
bosom and called him her “wopsy topsy
hopsy dropsy popsy little cherubim.”
A South Boston woman of wealth who
had run up a milliner’s bill, when it was
presented, gave the money to her hus
band to pay it, but he instead of putting
the money in his pocket, gave a forged
receipt to his wife. After several
months of waiting, the creditor dunned
the lady for the money. “Why,” said
she, in surprise, “your bill is paid, aud
I have your receipt in my pocket. ” Thus
was the forgery discovered ; but it is
hardly ueeessary to state how that wo
man whirled out of that shop and went
for that recreant husband ; she “saw”
him and the bill was paid before night.
There is to be a Catholic College in
Georgia, and every city in the State is
orying for it.
How Smikes Stopped Chewing To
bacco,
Smikes made up his mind to stop
chewing. He never was much of a
chewer, anyhow, he said. He hadn’t
used tobacco but a few years, and rarely
consumed more than an ounce paper in a
day. But he feared the habit might get
hold of him and become fixed, and if
there was anything that he abhorred it
was to see a man beoome a slave to a bad
habit. He had used the weed some to
be sure, but there had never been a time
during the last ten years when he oould
not stop at uny moment. But so long as
he did not beoome habitual in its use he
did not care to stop. He could break off
at any minute, and it was a great satis
faction to feel so. Thompson, he
thought, was an abject slave to his pipe.
He pitied Thompson, for he had seen
Thompson try to stop smoking several
times, and failed iguominously every
time he undertook it. But Smikes want
ed to show his wife how easy he could
quit. So one morning he remarked
carelessly to Samantha that he guessed
he would stop using tobacco. Saman
tha said that she was glad of it, and
added, impetuously, what she had never
said before, that it was a vile habit.—
Smikes appeared a little nervous and
confused when Samantha said this, and
mumbled out something about being
glad he had never got into it himself.—
In his agitation he pulled out his tobac
co box and was about to take a chew
when he recollected himself, and plung
ed out of the front door, forgetting his
umbrella. About half way to the office
he met Jones, with whom he was having
some business transactions. While they
were talking the thing over Smikes got a
little enthusiastic, and he had almost
reached the office before he noticed that,
he was rolling an uncommonly plump
quid around his mouth like a sweet
morsel. He puzzled over that little
thing all the rest of the forenoon, and at
lost he took it out of his mouth and
threw it away satisfied that he must have
taken it while talking with Jones. Twice
that afternoon Smikes took ont his
tobacco box and looked at it. Once be
took off' the cover and smelled of the to
baoco. It smelt so good that Smikes
felt impelled to remark to himself that
it was the easiest thing iu the world to
stop chewing. He congratulated him
self again and again that day that he did
not become entangled in the mesbes of
the filthy vice, and he alluded to the
mutter three or four times that evening
at the tea-table, till Samantha marveled
greatly ut the firmness of Smikes.
She had always heard, she said that it
was a herd thing to leave off. But
Smikes had told her, and kept telling
her, that it was “just as easy,” and her
reverence for the virile strength and
independence of character of Smikes
grew like a gourd. That night Smikes
had the nightmare. He thought that a
legion of foul fiends had got him up in
a corner of the back yard and had rolled
upon him a monstrous quid of “fine cut"
as large around as a cart wheel, and they
were trying to force it into his mouth.
Smikes struggled rigorously, sad when
Samantha shook him and asked him what
was the matter his only reply was that
anybody could stop chewing if they only
made up their mind to it. The next day
Smikes was a little nervous. He told
everybody who came in what a simple
thing it was to stop chewing. The third
day he harped about it all day long.
The fourth day Smikes heard that chamo
mile blossoms were sometimes used as a
substitute for tobacco, and just out of
curiosity he devoured a oouplo of ounces
of them. He said to the druggist when
be bought them that it was easy enough
to stop the use of tobacco. On the fifth
day Smikes got sick. His nerves gave
out. That day the devil whispered to
Smikes that tobacco was really beneficial
to some temperaments. Smikes bad a
temperament of that kind. The sixth
day he felt like a murderer. Smikes
seemed to himself to have become trans
formed into a Modoc. His mouth was
dry and parched. And a stout, healthy
old gentleman came into Smikes’ office
that day. He was a friend of Smikes,
and as he drew forth his silver tobacco
box. and dantily shook out a small por
tion of the pungent weed, Smikes felt
his mouth water. He remarked to Mr.
Johnson that he had not chewed any for
six days, and that he had retained so
long just to satisfy himself that anybody
could chew or let it alone. Mr. Johnson
said he had chewed regularly for thirty
years and it had not injured him.—
Smikes took the box and accidently rolled
a large quid into his left cheek, remark
ing that he thought there was a great
difference in some men. He was satis
fied that he could stop chewing at any
time, but there were some temperaments
to which a gentle narootic or opiate was
really a blessing.
The giant mule, supposed to be the
largest living specimen, is now exposed
for sale at Einstein’s market, Newark,
New Jersey. This mule was grown in
the far West, is now six years old, stands
17J hands high, and weighs 1,605
pounds.
“Doctor, is tight-laoing injurious ?”
“Os oors-ei is, madams,”
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Combat in Mid Air<
Little did the tens of thousands of
men, women and children who thronged
the public square Agram, Crontia, on
the 15tb of August, anticipate that they
were about to witness a spectacle such
as has, perhaps, never been seen before
—a mortal struggle in mid air. The oc
casion of the gathering was a perform*
ance on the tight rope.
The acrobats, Andreas Kolter and
Francis Pergowitch, were to appear on
the rope which had been stretched from
a window in the fifth story of the Court*
House to a window in an opposite house,
a distance of two hundred and fifty feet.
The acrobats were to meet midway, and
then to pass each other. When the
clock struck twelve, the acrobats emerg
ed from their respective windows, dress
ed in tights, and without balance poles.
Kolter walked rather cautiously, while
Pergowitch came to meet him from the
opposite direction with a nervous, quick
step. At last they met, and the sus
pense of the crowd underneath changed
the next moment to a feeling indescriba
ble horror. Pergowitch suddenly utter
ed an angry exclamation, and dealt Kol
ter a terible blow on the head. Kolter
staggered and fell, but in so doing suc
ceeded in clutching the rope with one
band, while with the other he grasped
the left leg of his assailant. Pergowitch
now foil likewise, but passed his right
arm arouudthe rope, so that he hung
upon it in comparative security. And
now began a life and death struggle. •
Kolter, with his right hand, tried to drag
Pergowitch from the rope, while Pergo
witch kicked Koltier with his right foot,
and with his left hand tried to loosen hia
antagonist’s hold. No one was able to
interfere, and it was easy to be foreseen
must result in the death of one or both
of the acrobatß. Many women fainted,
while strong men wept like children.
What added to the general despair, was
the appearance of Kolter’s young wife at
the open window from which her hus
band a few moments before had set out
upon his fatal walk. Her piteous
screams were heard above the diu below,
and herappeals to Pergowitch to spare her
husband's life would have moved the
heart of an Apache. The struggle in
mid air lasted perhaps a minute, when
Kolter uttered a last cry, and lost his
hold. He fell to the ground, striking it
violently, and expiring instantly, While
the people gathered around the corpse of
poor Kolter, his murderer on the tight
rope managed to get on his feet again.
With a diabolical expression on his face,
he uttered a yell of triumph,.
The Perfect of Police ordered Pergo
witch to surrender, and in case he did
not do so in five minutes to shoot him
down like a dog. Finally he raised him*
self to his feet and ran quickly to the
court-house window, where he surren
dered, begging that he might be protect*
ed from violence. There was great dan*
ger of this being executed by the people,
who loudly clamored that the murderer
be given up to them; but the military
made a bayonet charge and cleared the
public square. Pergowitch being asked
what had caused him to perpetrate this
crime, said there had been a grudge be
tween him and Kolter ever since the lat
ter had married young Roeita Serganoff,
a young Polish girl of rare beauty.—*
Kolter, in a fit of jealousy, had told him
that he knew one or the other of them
would have to die on this account. An
dreas Kolter was the youngest member
of a distinguished family of acrobats of
that name.
Grant Stands bt Mosbt. —The Alex
andria Gazette, a few days since contain
ed the following paragraph:
It is understood that Colonel Mosby
has written letters to General Grant and
Postmaster General Cress well, explana
tory to his position in the present canvass
in this State, and upon each, that if
becanse of the patronage bestowed upon
in the distribution of certain offices, %
different course was expected on his part
it would be gratifying to him to have
the said appointments revoked. It is fur
ther stated that the letters must have been
satisfactory, as none of the appointments
made at the suggestion of Colonel M.
have been revoked.
The Warren ton Index, published at
Mosby’s home, makes the subjoined state
ment, no doubt at the instance of the
Colonel, oorroborative of the above:
The understanding of the Gazette is
substantially correct. The letters re
ferred to were written. In confirmation
of the prebumption that they were satis
factory to the parties addressed, we stats
that when a Radical delegation headed by
Platt, waited on Postmaster-General
Cresswell this week and demanded the
removal of the appointees made through
the influenoe of Mosby, Cresswell refused
to oomply.
A Galena man went to the cemetery,
dug up. his father’s grave-stone and offer
ed it for sale to a stone-cutter. The
Gazette triumphantly adds as a chal
lenge to the world, “Bring on your mean
men!”
We know a man in this State who can
beat that fellow, and give him two and
the deal.— [Jour.]
A photographer’s epitaph—Taken frftm
liffc