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which belong to all persons in her situa
tion of life were pointed to as evidence
to prove that she had been guilty of
heinous crimes. Bv the light of events
which have recently transpired, and
which will be treated of more at length
hereafter, it is seen how this little gos
sip has redounded to the fearful injury
of this sorrow-stricken woman.
Another circumstance that was point
ed to as an evidence of Mrs. Wharton's
guilt at the time of her arrest was the
fact that she was
PREPARING TO GO TO KT'ROI'E
when she was arrested. This was dis
torted into an inclination to flee the
country to escape the consequences of
crime. The most imaginary tales were
told about her endeavor to borrow
money, to sacrifice property and to be
tray friends for the purpose of enabling
her to leave. Indeed, the stories of her
conduct, as told, were, to say the least,
exceedingly suspicious, and this circum
stance alone poisoned many minds into
a candid belief of her guilt. It now
transpires that the trip to Europe had
been contemplated for at least a year,
and that tickets for the passage' had
been purchased for months ; that the
day set for their departure to Europe
was the 7th of June, and that, that ar
rangement having interrupted by
THE SICKNESS OF HER DAUGHTER
Nellie in May, the 12th day of July had
been substituted as the day of their de
parture ns far back ns her daughter’s
illness in May. These facts, coupled
with the knowledge that Miss Nellie
Wharton had at this time in her posses
sion and to do with as she pleased,
SIS,(XX) worth of Government bonds,
which would have been ample for their
trip, taking into consideration the fact
that passage, &c., was all paid, entirely
controverted the fact that she was so
sorely distressed for means that she
could not fly the country if she so de
sired without sacrificing her property or
betruying friends.
There are many circumstances which
were urged against Mrs. Wharton that
might be related equally flimsy and
without significance as those presented
above ; but, after a candid,
THOUGHTFUL AND FAIR INVESTIGATION
of nearly all of them, it is asserted, with
out fear of successful contradiction, that
there is nothing in any of all this ar
ray of “ suspicious circumstances" that
might not surround any person in her
situation in life without possible expla
nation.
Returning again to
Me uiam ntiiomES. kbtchcm
it be well to follow the incidents of
the next few days in connection with
this important matter. As stated be
fore, General Ketchnm breathed his last
at three o’clock and fifteen minutes on
the 2Sth of June, 1871. The next day
I)r. P. C. Williams, his attending phy
sieian, as lie has stated, suspecting that
General Ketchum had been poisoned,
called around him Drs. Chew and Miles,
of the Maryland University, an old de
crepit institution of Baltimore, and per
formed an autopsy upon the body of.
General Ketchnm. the results of which
undoubtedly puzzled both Dr. Williams
and his associates, as it is stated and
was published nearly a week after, ns is
nnderstood by the authority of Dr. Wil
liams, that General Ketchum died of
congestion of the brain. It is evident,
at the least, that they were unable to
find any post mortem lesions that could
enable them to account for his death,
and they were “ therefore convinced
that
GENERAL KETCHUM HAD BEEN POISONED.”
So his stomach was taken out, placed in
a jar, taken to the Maryland University,
and there submitted to analysis by Dr.
Aiken, the chemist of that institution, j
Until the 7th of July' these doctors, to
gether with this old chap Aiken, experi
mented and endeavored by divers ways
and means to ascertain the cause of Gen
eral Ketchum’s death. They finally came
to the conclusion that he died of tartar
emetic poison, although it is painfully
evident that
NOT ONE SINGLE SYMPTOM OP THAT POLSON
was present during his illness, if we may
believe Dr. Williams’ statements of his
symptoms. On the 7th''of July, about
4 o’clock in the afternoon, nine days af
ter General Ketchum had died, Dr. Wil
liams waited upon Leo Knott, State’s
Attorney of Baltimore city, and, for the
first time, confided to him the suspicion
(not the fact, which he had gained after
eight days of assiduous labor,) that
GEN. KETCHUM HAD BEEN FOULLY DEALT
WITH.
Leaving out the question of the high
character of the physicians that per
formed the autopsy upon General Ketch
um’s body, which is not questioned, but
were no less open to suspicion than Mrs.
Wharton’s up to the time of her arrest,
the public might like to inquire, whether
or not it was not a little out of the ordi
nary manner of pursuing such investi
gations for Dr. Williams, with his two
medical friends and his chemist, Aiken,
to conduct a mb rosa investigation upon
the remains of a man supposed to have
died from poison, without the authority
banner of the south and planters’ journal.
i and tone which only judicial and legal
] functions can guarantee. Whatever may
j be thought of this case, it is painfully
evident that there has been a mistake
from the first, followed by neglect and
BTUPIDITT, IP NOT OBIXINALITT,
in the end. It may be reasonable to
suppose, if we can judge from the light
of events, that if this matter had been
placed in the first place where it should
have been, in the hands of the officers of
the law, that some other chemist com
pentent to have done his work, and ob
tained satisfactory and legitimate results,
would have been employed, so that we
should have had
CERTAINTY OP GUILT OR INNOCENCE.
As it is there is an uncertainty overhang
ing the matter which is galling to the
public and unjust to the prisoner, guilty
or innocent, which can never be remov
ed. If this woman be acquitted, and i
pass out free and untramelled into the
broad sunlight and to the bosom of her
friends, she goes there tainted with the
suspicions that something might have
been found if a proper chemical analysis
had been made, and this physician, or
physicians, who took it upon themselves
to make this investigation without the
just and unbiassed supervision of the
legal authorities are responsible for
Whatever of injustice that has been done
toward Mrs. Wharton.
There are other peculiar phases con
cerning the commencement and contin
uation of this investigation which might
furnish an interesting study. This
analysis of Professor Aiken—if it may
be so termed—
was made wrrnouT the authority
or knowledge of the law officers of the
State of Maryland or the city of Balti
more, as authoritatively stated. Later he
declared that he had found the evidence
of poison, and his analysis was assumed
to he correct and the action of the State
authorities based thereon. It might be
pertinent to inquire that, had not Pro
fessor Aiken obtained these “satisfactory
results,” who was to pay for the investi
gation ? 1 f the physicians who carried it
on then they are entitled to a praise for
their zeal in behalf of the public good
that few people will be very likely to
accord to them. Whatever else may be
thought of the action of
GEN. KETOHUM’s ATTENDING PHYSICIAN,
high-toned Christian gentleman as lie is
j reputed to he, the public, in view of all
■ the facts, will be likely to hold him re-
I sponsible for a grave error, which no
future action of lus can account for, nor
the verdict of a jury make good, what
ever that verdict luay be. Upon the
action and communications of these
physicians or physician attendant upon
General Ketchnm’s demise and post
mortem investigation Mrs. Wharton
wus arrested, and this terrible sorrow
brought upon her heretofore Qonttened
and happy household.
On the 10th day of October, 1871,
Mrs. Wharton was brought from the jail
to the criminal Court of Baltimore city
for arraignment, after a confinement of
throe months. She was accompanied by
her daughter Nellie, who had shared her
mother's prison confinement equally
with her, refusing to leave her side even
for a moment, except, perl laps, to turn
away and
EASE A BREAKING HEART
in a flood of tears. The Court room was
crowded to suffocation nearly, and the
most intense interest was manifested in
the proceedings that were to take place.
The Judge asqpnded to his seat at ten
o’clock a. m., amid breathless silence,
and the crier opened the Court. At this
moment the hushed breathing of the
crowd gave evidence of the intense ex
citement prevailing, and all were anxious
ly looking to see from whence the pris
oner, of which so much had been said,
should come to answer for the crimes
whereof she stood charged. At length
she came from a place in the rear room
allotted for prisoners, accompanied by
her daughter and counsel. She at once
stepped to the Clerk’s desk, and then
followed some short proceedings, which
were an enigma to the wondering crowd,
and then passed out of the court room,
entered her carnage and was driven
rapidly back to the jail. It was soon
after found that this little proceeding
had been the usual preliminaries neces
sary to the removal of the case from
Baltimore city to Anne Arundel county,
the Capitol of which is at Annapolis,
and where the case is now being tried.
On the Ist day of December the
steamer Samuel J. Pentz, moving down
the Chesapeake Bay, had on board Mrs.
Ellen G. Wharton and a little knot of
friends, bearing them on towards An
napolis, where this prisoner was to meet
her trial for life upon the following
Monday morning, the 4th of December
They had been conveyed quietly through
the streets of Baltimore and passed upon
the steamer almost unobserved, and were
seated in an obscure and unostentious
‘ part of the cabin during the ride over
| the water to the new prison house, in al
i most full view of the hay upon which
j they were being borne.
THEY ARRIVED AT ANNAI-OLLS
| about ten o’clock in the morning, and at
! once entered carriages which were wait-
J ing for them, and were then driven to
the jail. As soon as they arrived the
prisoner and her friends ascended to the
second story of the jail in which was the
room that had been prepared for her,
and which she was to occupy during her
stay at Annapolis. The wffrden who was
waiting in the passage, as she appeared
upon the threshold swung back the huge
oaken door with its thousand spikes of
iron, and Mrs. Wharton and her friends
entered this her new prison cell, where
she was to remain for how long no one
was then able to tell. When they had
all entered the huge door was swung to,
the heavy bolt flew forward in its clap,
and they are left alone until Monday
morning, when she will go and her
friends follow to the old Court House,
which stands not far distant, to be sub
jected to the rude gaze of the idle and
common herd, and to answer to the ter
rible charges that have been alledged
against her.
The Wife Market—An Apparent
“Corner." —While the National Con
gress are engaged in’ the laudable work
of retrenchment and reform, it might be
well, perhaps, if they would turn their
attention, for a moment, to the price of
wives, which is, certainly—if we may
judgo from a recent case in Now York
State—at so low a figure as to justify a
suspicion of “ hearing” or “ cornering”
on the part of a portion of the male
community.
Here is the report of the matter, taken
from the New York Evening Mail :—
“An interesting case has come before
the Courts in Western New York. Five
years ago, a resident of Rochester, nam
ed Hendrickson, sold his wife to John
Barnhart for 84. A bill of sale was
made out and signed, and the woman
transferred to Barnhart’s house, where
she lived happily with her purchaser for
four years. Recently, however, she
eloped with another and more attractive
person. Barnlmrt, not wishing to he
thus swindled out of his property, ap
plied to the Court for redress, and a
writ of replevin was granted. On the
day set down for the trial, however, the
justice failed to appear, and the case
will now lie moved to an adjoining town
for adjudication.
Just think’ of such a proceeding or set
of proceedings as this, in the present
century, and in the “ empire State” of
the Union. Not only is a -.voinau, and
a white woman, in a iree State, actually
sold (we can hardly think to the highest
bidder, considering the price), but a
judicial tribunal positively recognizes
the validity of the transaction by grant
ing a writ of replevin to the beast who
was deservedly cheated of his disgrace
ful bargain.— Philadelphia Record.
A Returned Diamond-Seeker’s Re
port.—Wm. P. Burns, of Buffalo, N.
Y., lias returned to his home from the
diamond fields of South Africa. Mr.
Burns was at the diggings from May to
October, inclusive, and munaged to ac
cumulate 170 gems, varying from one
quarter to 27.1 carats in size. His most
valuable find, a stone of 25 carats,
brought him £930 in London. The dia
monds of South Africa, aHis well,known,
mostly incline to straw color in hue, and,
as the supply has been immense, this
variety of stone lias fallen prodigiously
in value. Mr. Bums adds, however,
than his own good fortune is by no
means a fair sample of the luck usually
met at the diggings. He says that not
more that two persons out of a hundred
on an average, succeed in making a
handsome thing of the business. Many
suffer and toil for months and months,
and are glad at last to get away penni
less. Mr. Burns reports the further in
teresting fact that a large proportion, if
not a majority, of the seekers at the dia
mond fields aro Americans. This sug
gests, says an exchange, *lliat anew
American State may thus arise in Africa,
and the singular spectacle may be pre
sented of Americans ruling in Africa
while Africans govern one-half of the
United States.
Transforming the Complexion.—The
transformations produced by Hagan’s
Magnolia Balm are quite as astonishing as
any scone on the stage of a theatre. That
famous beautificr, transmutes a sallow,
peeky looking complexion, into one in
which the lilly and the rose vie for admira
tion, and imparts to a dry, harsh skin, the
softness of perfect loveliness. Tan and
freckles, which country air and sunlight
are pretty sure to produce, in spite of para
sols and sundowns, are completely obliterat
ed by it; while it has a perfectly magical
effect in banishing undue redness, blotches
and pimples from the skin. When the lady
who lias used it to remedy her complexion
al defects looks in the mirror, she is
equally astounded and gratified at the im
provements, in her appearance. Every
blemish has disappeared ; her neck, arms
and bosom, now rival in whiteness the
snowy collarlwhich encircles her throat, her
cheek mantles with a peach-like bloom,
and she is ready to invoke a blessing on the
inventor of the article which lias wrought
such a delightful transformation. It
EXAMPLE FOR THE LADIES
Mrs. L. V. Phillips, of Brooklyn, has
used her Wheeler & Wilson Machine since
October, 1862, dress-making in families,
without repairs; earning sometimes $4 to
$5 a day. 11
MONUMENT
TO THE
CONFEDERATE DEAD
OF GEORGIA,
And those Soldiers froirt other Confed
erate States who were killed or died in
this State.
THE MONUMENT TO COST $50,000
The Cornrr Stone it is proposed shall be laid as
soon as the receipt * will permit
2,000 Prize*, valued at ($V 0,00() Five Hundred
Thousand Dollars. That amount only, in Tickets, to
be sold.
For every Five Dollars subscribed before the first
day of February, 1872, and for every Ten Dollars
after that date, there will be given a certificate of Life
Membership to the Monnmental Association. This
certificate will entitle tbe owner thereof to an equal
interest In the following property, to be distributed
as soou as the requisite number of shares are add,
to wit: a
First. Nine hundred and one
acres of land in Lincoln
County, Georgia, on which
are the well known Magru
der Gold andjUopper Mines
valued at ...$150,000
And to seventeen hundred and forty
four shares in one hundred thousand
dollars of United States currency to-wit:
1 Share of SIO,OOO SIO,OOO
1 “ ot 5,000 5,000
‘J “ of 2,500 5,000
10 “ ot 2,000 20,000
10 “ of 1,000 10,000
20 “ of 500 10,000
100 “ of 100 10,000
200 “ of 50 10,000
400 “ of 25 10,000
1,000 “ of 10 10,000
SIOO,OOO
From tlio ftrst-chss real estate, offered by well
known patriotic citizens, to tbe Confederate Monu
mental Association, the following have been selected
ana addod to the foregoing Shares :
Ist. Berzella. This well-known resort, with the
large residence, store, etc , and four hundred acres of
land, immediately on the Georgia Railroad, twenty
miles from Augusta. Paying an annual yield of Fif
teen thousand dollars.
2d.—Tile well-known City Hotel. iroLting on Broad
street. The building is of briek, three stories high.
134x70 feet. Valued at $20,0 0
3d—The Solitude Plantation, in Rußsell Orunty,
Alabama, on tbe Chattahoochee liiver, with elegant
and commodious improvements. The average Rental
sinoe 1804, has been over Seven Thousand Dollars.
4th.—That Urge Brick Residence and S ore, on
Northwost corner of Broad and Centre Streets, known
ns the Phlnizy or Baudry House. Rent, Two Thou
sand dollars.
sth—The Rogers’ House, on Greene Street, anew
and elegant Brick Rosidencelu most desirable portion
of that beautiful street. Valued at $lO 0< 0
6th.—Flat Bush, with 120 Acreß of Land, half a
mile from the city limits, the eiouant Suburban Resi
dence of Antoine. Poulliiu, Esq., in good order.
Valued at *16.000
7tb.—TheDe.iini? House, a larue and commodious
Ro.ldeneo, with Thirty Oily Lots 00x210 feot, fronting
ou McKium* uud Carnes streets, Valued at (Id.OOO.
Bth—Stanton llusldence and Orchard, on the Geor
gia Railroad. Valued at *3,000.
Also—l share of One Hundred Bales of Cotton ;
1 Share of Fifty Bales ; 1 Phare of Twenty-five Bales;
244 Shares of One Bale. The Bales to average 400
pounds, and class Liverpool Middling.
The value of the separate interest to which the
holder of each Certificate will be entitled, will be de
termined by the Commissioners, who will announce
to the pub ic tbe manner, the time and place of dis
tribution.
Tlio following gentlemen have consented to act as
Commniissioiiers, and will either by a Committee
trom their own bod)’, or by special Trustees, appoint
ed by themselves, receive and take proper charge of
the money for the A.ouumont, as well as the Real Es
tate and the U. 8. Currency offered as Inducements
for subscriptions, and wi 1 determine upon tbe plan
for tbe Monument, the inscription thereon, the site
therefor, select an orator for tho occasion, and regu
late the ceremonies to be observed when the Coruor
-8 tone is laid, to-wit:
Generals L. McLaws, A. It. Wright,
M. A. Stovall, W. M. Gardner, Goode
Bryan, Colonels C. Snead, Win. P.
Crawford, Majors Joseph B. Cam
ming, George IVJackson, Joseph Gan
alii, I. P. Girardey, lion. It. 11. May,
Messrs. Adam Johnston, Jonathan M.
Miller, W. 11. Goodrich, J. D. Butt,
Henry Moore, Dr. W. E. Dealing.
Agent* are allowed twenty per cent They are re
quired to pay their own expenses ; Tickets and Cir
culars alone being furnished to them They will re
mit Weekly the amounts Irom sa<os received, less
their commission. (No Commissions will be deduct
ducted irom simple contributions.
'1 he price of tickets (five dollars) will be the same
until the Ist day of February next, on and after
which day it is proposed that one-half ihe tickets
then unsold will be withdrawn, tlio remainder to be
sold at Ten Dollars eich, the mrchaser to be ou the
Hanie foo.ing in every particular with those previous
ly sold.
On jccount of tbe very great labor required of the
General Agents, the offered services of one or more
prominent gentlemen, well and favorably known
throughout the South, will be accepted to act with us.
Parties desiring to contribute to tbe Monument,
and who do not wish to participate in the award, will
receive a special receipt The money will be turned
over to the Treasurer, and will be appropri ited to the
Monument without any deduction whatever.
L. & A. 11. McLAWS, Gen. Agt’s,
No. 3, Old P. O. Range, Mclntosh Bt.,
HON. JAEE3 M. BMYTHE, Traveling Agent. „
Every Planter Should Have Them!
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A disabled Confederate Soldier offers fifteen Valua
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Scours. Sweeny—hilly tested before and 6iuce the
waiv-for sr>. They have proved almost certain remc
dieiPiu almost every instance. If parties who pur
chcaearenot satisfied after fair trial, the money will
he rounded. Address, inclosing by Registered Let
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NASSAU, N. I\,
BAHAMAS.
Arrangements have now been completed by which
travelers in the Southern States may visit tins favor
ite winter resort before returning North.
The first-class steamers, of tho Atlantic Mail Steam
shin Cos., leave Key West for Nassau direct as follows:
MISSOURI, Capt T. H. Morton, Jan. 6.
COLUMBIA, Capt. E. Van Bice, Jan. 20.
MORRO CASTLE, Capt. It Adams, Feb. 3 ; and
every fortnight thereafter until further notice.
Persons visiting Nassau may retur » North by New
York direct, or via Havanna. St. Thomas and Jamai
ca. B jard $3 per day American gold.
LEWIa F. CLEVELAND, Proprietor,
dec23—lm
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