Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

2 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.