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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! FIFTEEN VALUABLE VETERINARY RF.CIPBS FOR FIVE DOLLAR3. A disabled Confederate Soldier offers fifteen Valua ble recipes for the treatment of diseases of horses and cattle. Including Fistula, Pole Evil, Glanders, Pharcy Rinhone, I ire, Concha, Grubs, Colic, Worms, 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 ter JAMES n. PRICE. decO—£y Box Jo. 1, Scoltsville, Va. i RIFLES, SHOT-GUNS, REVOLVER, GUN MA- ! TEHIAL. Write for Price list, to Great Western I Gnn Worfce, Pittsburg, Pa. Army Gnus. Revolvers, &c., bought or traded for. Agents Wanted, an gl 5—5 m SIXTY-FIVE FIRST PREMIUM MEDALS AWARDED. WM. KNABE&'co” 1 y Manufacturers of GRAND, SQUARE AND UPRIGHT PIANO FORTES. BALTIMORE , ML. Those Instruments have been before the public for nearly Thirty Years, and upon their excellence alone attained an unpurchased pre-eminence, winch, pronounces them unequuled in TONE, ♦ TOUCH , WO UKMA NSIIII\ And DURABILITY J sy All our Square Piano* have our New Im provod Overstrung Scale and the Aghaife Tbkulk. We would call special attention to our late Patented Improvements in GRAND PTANOS and SQUARE GRANDS, found in no other Piano, which brings the piano nearer perfection than has ytt been ait lined. EVERY PI\NO FULLY WARRANTED FOR FIVE YEARS. We arc by special arrangement enabled to fur* nish PARLOR ORGANS and MELODEON3 of the most celebrated makers, Wholesale and Retail at Lowest Fa itory Prices. Illustrated Catalogues and Price Lists promptly furnished on application to WM. KNABE & CO., Baltimore, Md, OR TO I*. Bhf.nnek, Solo Agent, Augusta, Ga. oct2B--f»m 1871. Fall Trade. 1871. , GUNS. GUNS. GUNS. Double and Single Barrol Guns, Breechloading and Muzzleloadiug Uttiis, of English, French aud Ger man manufacture, AT ALL TRICES. Single Gnn« at $2 no, * LOO, *ll.OO, *a no. *12.00 to *2O oacli. Double (Juim from *7.oflto *2OO etch. PISTOLS. PISTOLS. PISTOLS. Smith k Wesson, Colt’s, Allen's, Sharp's, and all tho popular and approved kinds. Ammunition tor Guns, Pistols and Rifles. Sportsman’s Goods of Great Variety. BEST QUALITY AMD AT LOWEST PRICES. Country Merchants and Sportsmen are invited to call and * xaminc our large and well selected stock of the above goods, which we Import direct and buy from the manufacturers. We guarantee qua.ity equal to, and prices as lo a as any responsible house in this country. Orders by mail filled promptly, and sent by ex press, C. O. D. POIILTNEY, TRIMBLE & CO., 200 W. Baltimore Street. Baltimore , Md. aplß—ly—sep2 Enm6lan Grapes- THE BEST WINE AND TABLE GRAPE OF AMERICA. The Subscriber is prepared to furnish a limited number of this new mid very Superior Grapevine at $1.60 each, by mail; $1« per dozen; $125 per hun dred. It <s earlier aud raoro productive thau the Hartford, hardier and more vigorous than tho Con cord, and equal in quality to the Delaware, and su perior as a Red Wine Grape to the Nortou, Compe tent Judges everywhere pronounce it as tho best black aud Red Wine Grape of America. HENRY M PRICE, Eumelon Vineyard and Nun-ery, Central Plains. FluvaUua co nty, Virginia. aplß—ly ( Established 1820.) W. J. Young & Sons. Successors to Wm. J. Young &Cos., Wm. J. Young at Sons, Wm. J. Young. MATHEMATICAL AND ENGINEERING INSTRUMENT MANUFACTURERS, At their old location, - NO. 43 NORTH SEVENTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, Have so increased their facilities as to believe thAy can in tuture keep a lull supply of instruments on hand. m Tapes, chains, stationaiy, draughting int-truinenU and all supplies for field dr office. feb!B—ly ROYAL VICTORIA HOTEL, 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 BRINLY PLOWS WEST AND CHEAPEST IN tSE. Have taken over 800 Premium* at m*. Fairs throughout the Bouth. Send for .. £2 « illustrated Catalogue with £ a Price List.andcertificates O £2” of planters who use them. B sf-2 SOLE manufacturers: £ 3* BRINLY, MILES A. HARDY. «u Louisville, Ky. auglfl—6ca AVOID QUACKS.—A victim of early Indiscretion, causing nervous debility, premature decay. Ac., hav ing tried in vain every advertised remedy, has dis covered a simple means of *elf-eure, which he will send iree to his fellow-sufferers. Address J. H. REEVE-*, 78 Nassau et, N. Y. auglfl—ly (JlQr7p: A MONTH—Expenses paid—Mslo or Fe |J)o / v/maie Agents—Horses and outfit furnished. Aduress, Novelty Cos., Saco, Me. novlß—l3t 7