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coming forward. “First the plates.
Then you return with us to New York,
and keep your promise to Louise. Why
give us this trouble? I tell you frankly
tiiat the expense will be deducted from
your share, and that you wdl be strictly
watched in future. I should have cut
your throat but for my promise to Louise.
Now, where are the plates?
“Look in the closet in the next room;
rake out the coals, and take what you
find.”
“Good. Come, Baron.”
And they left me to operate on the
coals. Springing up, I seized the revol
ver, darted to the door, and in a mo
ment had locked them in. But my
triumph was of short duration : for
Orloff was on the other side like liithtn
ing, the rotten woodwork tore out under
h’s vigorous wrench, and his hands were
on my throat before 1 could grope my
way to the stairs.
Then [ know that life depended on the
struggle, and I fought like one possessed
lor tne revolver. The Baron came to his
friend’s help; but 1 found time and op
po tunny to sen 1 hm reeling t) the
ilie ground. Oiluff was the weaker man,
but he outdid me in skill; and a dexter
ous joint threw me off my guard, leav
ing the revolver in his bauds.
Purple with passion, he fired instantly,
and I felt a sharp sting in my left shoul
der; and then all earthly things seemed
to be fading away, and a world beyond
opening co view.
When 1 recovered, I found myself laid
on a mattress on the office-table, and my
wife tearfully bending over me. There
was a calm faced surgeon, too, who show
ed me the ball he had extracted, and told
me cheer up, for I should be better in a
few days, as no damage was done.
Mr Moss w’as there too, and came to
my bed—l mean my tableside, and
whispered how he had been called up
by the police, who, hearing a pistol-shot,
had come upstairs, and arrested Orloff
and the Baron, and, finding me on the
ground bleeding, had sent for a surgeon
and my wife, having found my private
address from a letter in my pocket.
I was only faint from less of blood ; the
bullet did little damage, and 1 preferred
getting up, and then gave an account of
the evening’s adventure, not noticing at
the time that a tall inspector of police
was in the room.
“Will you kindly show me those
pieces of paper?” he said, advancing. “I
have the men in Mr. Moss’s office; but
beyond the assault on you I have no
evidence against them; but 1 know them
well.”
I produced them, and the inspector
fastened on the one which seemed
to be a plan, then looking around
said—
“ This is a plan of your office.”
“Call me a Jew if it ain’t!” exclaimed
Mr, Moss, taking it.
“ics, it is certainly a plan of your
office. See, here is the doorway, and
there comes the other room. Then there
is a cross against the fireplace in this
room, on what I judge from the lines
to mean the fourth board from the hearth
stone, and another cross against the
sixth from the hearthstone in the other
room. Get a crowbar, Mr. Moss.”
“There’s one downstairs.”
I do believe that if had asked for a
crocodile he would have got one “down
stairs.”
Crowbar and a policeman to wield it
were soon produced, and then the mystery
was unravelled.
Close to where I sat were unearthed
several copper plates for the forging of
Russian rouble notes of various amounts;
and in the back room under the flooring
were found several hundreds of well
executed forgeries carefully soldered up
in a tin case, together with correspondence
implicating Orloff and the Baron. It ap
peared that Brunton was engaged by a
Xcw York gang to engage the plates, and
that he had never seen his employers, the
agent between them being the Louise
before mentioned, whose fair hand I had
been compelled to decline. Brunton had
evidently been frightened, and had fled,
lie was no traitor or he would have de
camped with the plates. Perhaps the
dread of having to espouse Louise may
have had something to do with his flight,
bhe was a very handsome woman, if I
may judge from a photograph of her found
in the tin case, but looked like one ac
customed to rule, and who would not
hesitate to administer wholesome correc
tion to her spouse.
Assisted into a carriage which was
waiting, I had the satisfaction of seeing
the Baron and Orloff brought down in
handcuffs, the Baron regarding me with
a sweet smile, and Orloff scowling on me
like a fiend. I did not prosecute, for
they were so well known to the policy as
forgers, that there was evidence enough
for the Russian Embassy to procure a
conviction and a sentence of ten years’
pemii servitude; and in due time I re
covered, and dismissed the matter from
my mind.
But I had rot heard the last of it.
About twelve months after the trial and
condemnation of the Baron and his friend
there came one night a timid knock
at my office door, and my clerk (for I had
such a luxury then) ushered in what, at
first sight, seemed to be a moving bundle
of rags. Strictly speaking, the bundle of
rags insisten on seeing me, and ushered
itself in, spite of all remonstrances.
It came and stood before me, and re
solved itself into the resemblance cf a
man—a man lean, haggard, sunken-eyed,
ragged and dirty, but with a face some
thing like my own; and without putting
a question, I knew that I stood face to
face with Carl Brunton, and I addressed
the rags by that name.
“I took that name,” the poor shivering
thing replied, “but my name is—but no
matter. May I speak to you ?”
“Yes; goon.”
“Will you give me some drink first ?
I have had none to-day and I feel deli
rium tremens coming on. Ob ! how
cold it is, and how I shiver !”
1 sent file clerk for some brandy,
which he took raw, and with shaking
hand held the glass out for more.
“I imagine it is Mr. Moss you want
to see, is it not ? If so, you will find
him to-morrow, at ten o’clock,”
“No, no, you, you 1 want—l—l am
very poor, very poor. Will you give
me sixpence ?”
I gave him half a crown.
“Now what can I do for you ?”
“I—l left some property here when I
went away. You won’t refuse to give it
up? I seem poor, but I am rich—ah !
so rich!—and I will pay you well.”
“You menu the forged rouble-notes
and the plate you engraved them from ?”
“Ah! Who told you that? Then you
have found them and used them ? I ran
away from them, and wished to lead a
better life, but they drew me back; and
now you have robbed me, and I shall
starve.”
I explained to the poor wretch what
Lad become of his possessions, and how
they were found, and inquired if he
had not heard of the fate of his accom
plices.
“No; I have been wandering about
the country, living in hospitals and work
houses, because they hunt me down from
place to place. They will kill me as
they killed the Posen Jew and the en
graver at Stockholm, all because they de
manded a fair share. They are dogging
me to-night—one of them is outside now.
Let me see what did I come here for ?
Oh, sixpence Lend me sixpence ; I’ll
give you a hundred pounds for it to
moi row.”
I made a further donation, and, as the
man was evidently in a state of delirium,
I told my clerk to fetch a medical man.
But before he could execute the order,
the bundle of rags crept down the narrow
stairs, sitting os each step and wriggling
by aid of his hands to the next below,
whilst we, unable to pass him, looked on,
wondering how it would all end.
The street gained, he stood upright,
and casting a terrified glance around, fled
away into the darkness, and wc, following
in the direction he had taken, learned
shortly afterwards that a beggar had
thrown himself into the Mersey from St
George’s landing-stage, and had sunk to
rise no more.
Ilis body v/as never found, and I, hav
ing had enough of Mersey street, moved
my quarters, much to the regret of Mr.
Moss, for, quoth he, “Two of ’em are at
Portland, and another at the bottom of
the river; so you may call me a Jew if
any one troubles you again.
But I went; and the office is still with
out a tenant, and I shudder when I pass
through the street at night, and looking
up, see the two black shining windows,
like two great eyes watching me, and
fancy’ I can see a shadowy form in rags,
pressing its face to the glass, and gibber
ing and mowing at the busy stream of
human life which surges to and fro for
ever.
THE FENIAN BROTHERHOOD-
A UNION OF THE TWO RIVAL WINGS AGREED
UPON.
The Efforts ot John Savage Crowned
with Success—General O'Neil Re
cognizes the Latter's Jurisdiction —
The Basis of the U?iio?i—lreland to
he Called upG?i to Profit by the Ex
ample of France.
Considerable excitement throughout
Fenian and Irish circles, both in and out
side of the city, during the last ten days,
has attended the sitting of the Fenian
National Convention. At this, the Ninth
Annual Congress of that body, which ad
journed last Monday after a session of
seven days, efforts were made to bring
about a union between the two opposing,
BMSII m TI Hr
or at least distinct wings of the Fenian
Brotherhood. These efforts have been
attended with success. As all of the re
cently published accounts have been
either extremely partial or inaccurate,
a few words e of review may be appro
priate by way 7 of introduction.
In 1865 a split occurred in the Bro
hood.
The seceding party was at that time
and thereafter known as the Roberts,
wing. Later it has become familiar to
the public as the Canada party of Gen
eral O’Neill. The larger division of the
Fenian Brotherhood has. in the interval,
been represented by its Chief Executive,
Mr. John Savage. The distinction be
tween the two has been substantially
this: The O’Neill wing has advocated
active and overt opposition to England
under all circumstances and regardless
of consequences, and has tried it. It
might have been designated as the war
at-any-priee party. The body represent
ed and led by Mr. Savage has been
somewhat more judicious and conserva
tive, though doubtless at heart cherish
ing the same sentiments and lo king for
ward to the same end. The one.policy,
culminating in the untimely and illegal
demonstration upon Canada last May, has
stranded its leader a prisoner for two
years at Windsor, Vermout, for the in
fraction of the United States neutrality
laws. The policy of the other has left
him in the more quiet and perhaps more
effectual possession of the French head
quarters at Nos 19 and 21 Avenue A,
in New York City.
The deliberations of the recent con
vention were accomplished with closed
doors. The question of the reunion of
the divided forces of the brotherhood was
the principal subject of these delibera
tions. To this several days of the session
were entirely devoted, and according to
the habit of this deliberative body, the
discussion was in two instances protracted
far into the hours of the next morning.
Correspondence during the progress of
the convention was opened with Gen.
O’Neil. He responded in a pliable and
promising spirit, is one a of num
ber of telegrams over his signature, which
the Standard reporter had the honor of
reading at the headquarters of the con
vention:
Windsor Prison, Vfc., Sept. 6,1870.
Joseph Paul. Chairman of the Com
mitteon Conference , No. 19 Avenue
A, New York City.
Sir: We must have a united brother
hood. I will assist you all I can in
bringing it about. Am indifferent as to
details. John O’Neill.
From the tone of this correspondence
the convention was assured that an un
derstanding and reunion, which had been
for a long while desired, could be estab
lished between the opposing parties. A
committee was designated by that body’,
to’repair to the place where the soi disant
leader of the Roberts-O’Neill division is
now detained by r circumstances over
which he has no control. After a per
sonal consultation with Mr. Savage, this
committee proceeded last Monday night,
forthwith upon the adjournment of the
convention, to General O’Neill’s place of
rendezvous. The committe consisted of
the following gentlemen: Col. John
O’Mahony of New York, Edward
McSwceny of St. Louis, and Edward
Couuihan of Boston.
Upon the receipt of the telegram qot
ed above, which followed the ministra
tions of the committee above-named, and
closed the correspondence on the part of
General O’Neill, Mr. Savage called a
meeting of the council which had just
been appointed for the ensuing year by
the convention already alluded to. The
council is constituted as follows: Chief
Executive. John Savage, Council, Colo
nel John O’Mahony, Anthony A. Griffin,
Joseph Paul, Edward McSweeny, John
J. Warren. Auditors, George Cahill,
William Burke, Boston; Richard J. Mor
rison, New York; P. H. Ford, Brooklyn.
Financial Secretary, John Barry.
This council held a secret session last
evening. The principal business at this
meeting was the reception and adoption
by the council of the following basis of
union reported by Colonel O’Mahony,
chrirman of the committee to Windsor.
Windsor Prison, Sept. 7, 1870—A
greement made between Gen. JchnO'Neill
on behalf of self and the Fenian organiza.
tion, of which he is President, and Col-
John O’Mahony, Edward McSwceny,
and Edward Couuihan a commitee appoint
ed by the Ninth National Congress, F. 8.,
on behalf of the organization presided over
by Chief Executive John Savage.
First. That the said Gen. John
O’Neill accepts the constitution of the
F. 8., as presided over by C. E., John
Savage, as the constitution of the Uuited
States Brotherhood.
Second. That the said Gen. O’Neill
agrees on the part of himself and the
organization of which he is president to
nominate two members of the council,
one of whom shall be an auditor, or to
accept a position on the council himself
as one of the members.
Thiid. That this agreement between
the pai ties above named is made with
the earnest hope that it will tend to the
union of all Irish Nationalists for the
common cause of Ireland’s independence.
(Signed ) John O’Neill, John O’Mahony,
Edward Counihan, Edward McSweeny/
Measures were also taken last night
to carry out the provisions of this basis,
and perfect the union of the now har
monious wings.
Another transaction of importance at
the meeting of the council last night, was
the passing of resolutions congratulating
I ranee on the attainment of a republic,
sympathizing with that great nation in
its noble attempt to achieve political
freedom, and expressing the confident
hope of its success and the benefits of its
example on the progressive people of
other European nations.
It is understood that the resolutions,
of which this is the substance, are in two
or three weeks to be issued in the form
of a circular address to Irishmen in
Ireland, as well as throughout the United
States.
The distinction, as herein before in
timated, between what is now the United
Fenian Brotherhood and what was lately
the Roberts O’Neill faction, is that the
former is a society of propagandists,
rather than a company of musketeers.
It holds the pen to be more powerful than
the sword, and operates with circulars
instead of Minie balls. Unlike ne
cessity, it knows the law, and aims to ob
serve it. It is chartered by the laws of
the State as a society for benevolent and
charitable purposes.
Measures were discussed and deter
mined on by the council last evening to
seal the union of the two Fenian branch
es by securing the earliest practicable
release of Colonel John O’Neill, and it is
understood that these were the anteced
ent and suppressed conditions to the
basis agreed upon. However, as the
proceedings of this body are secret, the
reporter of the Standard refrains
from disclosing more directly their scope
and nature.
It is due to Mr. Savage to say that in
the recent convention he declined, with
the strongest expressions of sincerity, his
renomination to the position of chief
executive, which he had already held
for three consecutive years. It was
urged upon his consideration as an
eminently fit and proper thing that he
should continue in that capacity to per
fect the reunion of that brotherhood,
for which he has been long and as
siduously laboring, and his objections
were finally overcome.
After other business of a comparative
ly uninteresting character, the special
meeting of the council adjourned.
N Y. Standard-
From the Charleston Courier.
PIUS IX- AND ITALY-
Giovanni Maria Mattai Ferretti, bet
tor known as Pope Pius IN., was born
ai Siongaglia on the lltii day’ of May’,
1792, and is consequently seventy-eight
years of age at the present time. In
1808 he went to Rome to pursue his
studies, and ten y’ears afterwards he re
ceived holy orders Having spent some
time at Santiago, in Chili, in preaching
and instructing, he returned to Rome,
and in 1825 he received from Pope Leo
XII. the appointment of President of
the Hospital of St. Michael. In 1827
he was appointed Archbishop of Spoleto.
During the disturbance of 1831 he was
entrusted, ad interim, with the civil ad
ministration of Spoleto and Perugia, In
1832 he was transferred to the See of
Imola, and in 1839 he was created a
Cardinal. After the death of Pope Gregory
XVI. he was chosen Pope on June 10,
1840, and which election surprised no
one so much as it did himself. A quiet,
modest, pure and pious man, he had no
personal ambition to gratify, and had he
been consulted, and had he been able to
refuse the tiara which he had won with so
much honor to himself aud to the Church,
whose representative lie is, it is not at
all improbable that the Catholic world
would have been deprived of the services
as Pope of one of its noblest defenders
and firmest and bravest advocates.
Known to be a Liberal in politics his
election met with universal satisfaction,
and we have been told by an American,
who was a student at the Propaganda
during that period, that*among the stories
current with regard to him was one to
the effect, that when on one occasion some
one said to him that the Roman people
desired a Republic, the Pope answered,
“If they do, why not let them be gratifi
ed !” Shortly after his election he pub
lished a general amnesty to political
offenders, and lie reformed the adminis
tration of the Government; granted con
cessions to railroads; lowered the taxes;
threw the public offices open to lavinen
and attempted to develope
and agriculture. This‘course met •ho
approval of people of every sect, bothy,
Europe and America; and ia 1847
meeting of Protestants, in New York,'en
dorsed his course.
The revolutionary spirit of lS4s ] n
ing extended to Italy, the Roman p CO - ( l’>
became discontented with the moderam
course of the Pope, and this discontent
was increased by bis unwillingness to
take active part in the fatal Italian cam
paign against Austria. Pius IX. issued
a proclamation promising a liberal P m.
stitution, and summoned Count Rossi t ,
the Ministry. He, however, was assas
sinated on the 15th of November, and on
the next day the populace forced the l\,p e
to accept a Radical Ministry. On the
24th day of the month he escaped from
Rome, disguised as a simple Priest, and
went to Gaeta. He immediately issued
a protest against the action of the revolu
tionists, and on February 18th, 1849, ho
called upon the Catholic powers for arm
ed assistance. On the same dav the
Roman Republic was declared, Rome
having capitulated on July Ist, IS4Q :
the Pope returned in April/] 856. From
that time to the present he has shown n >
disposition to return to the liberal ten
dencies of his earlier years. The theories
of Cardinal Antoneili seemed to have
prevailed over those which were checked
by the violence of the revolution of
1848.
In 1854 he summoned a Council which
promulgated the doctrine of the Immacu
late Conception as a dogma of the
Church.
All who are.familiar with the Austro-
Italian war will remember that a pamphlet
was published in France with the title of
Napoleon Ilf. et Vltalie, supposed t >
have been dictated by himself,
which proposed an Italian Confederation
under the presidency of the Pope. This
was clearly the intention of the French
Emperor at the time, but he was out-gen
erated by Favour, and mastered by
events. The treaty of Yillafranca was
signed, and Victor Emanuel became
Ring of Italy. An Italian kingdom,
without Rome, appeared, however, but
little to the imagination. We all remem
ber how restive the Republicans became
after the treaty of peace, and that French
bayonets were necessary, to preserve the
small remnant of the Papal Slates from
invasion. With calm courage and
moral force the brave old Pope has re
sisted for years any encroachments upon
his rights, and up to the present time he
has succeeded. France, however, reqiur
ed her soldiers, and they were scarcely
removed before the lestiess spirits of
Italy again demanded Rome as the seat
either of Empire or Republic. To resist
on the part of Victor Emanuel, would
have been, not improbably, to lose his
throne. He has, therefore, been obliged
to yield, and it is not at all improbat.de
that Rome will become the Italian capital
As far as the Pope is concerned, it has
always seemed to us a matter of sinu .1
moment whether he possessed temporal
power or not. On the contrary, we have
always thought that he would be strong:,
without than with the petty cares of
Government. The man who can, at his
word, bring together men of all nations
and of all tongues, needs no throne to
give him strength, lie has a higher hul l
upon mankind. His rule is founded ca
faith and honor and love. Whether he
be a temporal sovereign on earth or not.
he is at all times, in all places, and under
all circumstances, the spiritual head ol
the Catholic Church. To him earthly
sovereignty is nothing, but to the King of
Italy the establishment of Rome as the
capital of Italy may be pregnant with
great results. V» bo knows whether that
tact alone may not revive the memories
ol the old Roman Republic, with its tri
umphs and its power, and who can ven
ture to assert that the occupation of Rome
may not, sooner or later, lead to the de
struction of monarchy in Italy.
♦ ■. ... .i-
Length of a Mile in variou sCoun*
tries. — The following exhibt cl the
number of yards contained in a mile
in the different countries, will often
prove a matter of useful reference to
readers ;
Mile in England or America I,P- 1
yards.
Mile in Russia, 1,190 yards.
Mile in Italy, 1,467 yards.
Mile in Scotland and Ireland, 1
yards.
As daylight can be seen through very
small holes, so little things will illus
trate a person’s character. Indoel,
character consists in little acts, habi
tually and honorably or dishonorably
performed; daily life being the quarry
from which we build it up and rougo
hew the habits that form it.