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VOL. V.
THE
EUREKA
AMMONIATED 808
SUPER-PHOSPHATE
OF
LiIMIE
Is for sale at
All Points of Importance
IN GEORGIA.
WE HAVE SOLD IT
FIVE SUCCESSIVE YEARS,
AND KNOW
It is the very Article
JOB
PLANTERS TO USE.
DAVID DICKSON, Esq.,
Os Oxford, says
It is superior to any
COMMERCIAL
FERTILIZER
He has ever applied, and
RECOMMENDS IT
TO EVERYBODY.
WE SOLD OVER
Two Thousand Tons
IN GEORGIA
LAST YEAR.
IT HAS BEEN TRIED
AND ALWAYS
PAID
THE
PLANTER.
Send for a Pamphlet. An. Agent
may be found at almost every De
pot, but information can always be
had of
F. W. SIMS & CO.,
Savannah, Ga.
Agent at Cuthbert, Ga.,
H. H. JONES.
Agent at Fort Gaines, Ga.,
SIJTEIVE A »KAHAM.
i
jan2o-3m
CUTHBERT §B|f APPEAL.
STATE OF GEORGIA,
DEPARTMENT OP STATE, >
Atlanta, March 27th, 1871. 5
ORDERED:
By His Excellency, the Governor, that his
proclamation of December 13,1870, offering a
reward of one hundred dollars for the arrest
and conviction of any person who may vio
late the laws in relation to the sale of intoxi
cating liqnors, and the carrying of deadly
weapons on election days, are hereby revoked.
Given under my hand and seal of office.
mar 24 4t DAVID G. LOTTING.
A PROCLAMATION.
GEORGIA:
By Rufus B, Bullock,
Governor of said State.
WHEREAS, The President aud Secretary
of the Agricultural Society of the county of
Cobb, notify me that a notorious horse-thief,
calling himself James R. 11.11, alias Simmons,
has, during the last three years, been commit
ting depredations upon the stock of the far
mers and planters in that section of the Stale,
carrying ou a traffic in the stolen property in
the adjoining counties ot Alabama ; aud-
Vt bereas the civil authorities of the coun
ties have exercised, aud are still exercising ex
traordinary dilligcnco to lerret out and bring
to puuishment this notorious character; aud
Whereas, it is certilied to me as aforesaid
that the ends ot justice demand the assistance
of the Executive department of the State :
Now, therefore, I, Rufus B. Bullock, Gov
ernor of said Btate, do hereby issue this, my
proclamation, offering a reward of One Thou
sand Dollars for the arrest and delivery to the
Sheriff of Cobb county ol the aforesaid James
R. Hill, alius Jones, alias Simmons.
Given under my baud and the gieat seal of the
State, at the Capitol, in Atlanta, this 33d day
of M.rcli, in the year of our Lord Eighteen
Hundred and Seventy-one, and ol the Inde
pendence of the United Slates of America
the ninety-fifth.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK.
By the Governor :
David G. Cutting, Secretary of State.
DESCRIPTION:
A small, slender mao, dark complexion dark
hair, dark hazel eye*, small foot, about No. 6
shoes, quick spoken, weighs about lUS pounds
Was last seen near Ucliee, Russell county, Al
abauia * mar3l 4t
A I^rocltimation.
GEOR GIA.
By Rufus B. Bullock,
Governor of said State.
WHEREAS, official information lias been
received at this Department that John A Par
ker, a citizen of the comity of Lnmpkin, while
in the act of aiding and asriating the Sheriff of
said county of Lumpkin, while in allot ting the
arrest of A. J. Blackwell and one Henry
Spencer, was shat at hy Lbe said Blackwell
and severely wound -d ; and
Whereas, the said A J. Blackwell and Hen
ry Spencer, aided by one John Speucer, in tbps
resisting and ohstruc ing legal process, and and
make their escape, and are now at large :
Now, therefore, in order that they may he
brought to a speedy-trial and punishment for
the offense with which they, and each of them
stands charged, 1, Rufus B. Bullock, Gover
nor of said State, do hereby issue this, my
proclamation, offering a reward of five hun
dred dollars, each, for tbs arrest and delivery
of the said A. J. Blackwell. Henry Spencer,
and Johu Spencer, to the Sheriff of said coun
ty of Lumpkin.
Given under my hand and thn great Seal of
the State, at the Capitol in Atlanta, this 22J
day of March, in the year of our Lord Eigh
teen hundred and Seventy-oiie, and of the
Independence of the Uni ed States of Amer
ica tho Ninety fifth.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK.
By the Governor :
David G Cotting, Secretary of State.
DESCRIPTION:
The said A. J. Blackwell is about ‘-28 or S3
yeatsofage, lias dark eyes and hair, weighs
about 150 pounds, is about 5 feet 6 inches high,
and speaks qu'ckly when addressed.
The said Hemy Spencer is about 22 years
old. 5 feet 7 inches high, rather spare made,
weighs about 135 pounds, has light hair, fair
complexion, blue eyes, and a scar on his face
or neck, is very coutteous iu manners, and
speaks quiikly when questioned.
The said John Spencer is about 28 years old,
rather corpulent, about 6 feet high, weighs
about 200 pounds has fair complexion, light
hair and blue eyes. One of his legs is a little
short, which causes a slight limp in walkiug.
mar3l-4t
A I *i*oatiou.
GEORGIA.
By Rufus 15. Bullock,
Governor of said State.
WHEREAS, Official information has been
received at this Department that on ih« 15th
of March last the body of a colord man named
Samuel Gretn was fcuud at a place about five
miles from the town of Albany, U the County
of Dougherty, and upon examination by the
Coroner’s Jury the evidence disclosed the
act that the said Green was murdered by one
Jackson Colbreth aii is Culhbert, colored,wlin
has fled from justice :
And, whet as, the Sheriff of said county of
Dmuhery ceitifies to me that the said Gol
bieth is a notorious a- sperado, and that he Iras
used every possible means, in Ills power to ap
prehend idui, and that, ihe offering of a suita
ble reward is esseiiti I as a means of making
certain the arrest of Said Uolbreth.
No"-, therefor 1 ltt*yi? thought proper to
i Sue this, my pruehiinatio ■, hereby offering a
leWaidolO.e I’li.-Usami DofluTt* for the ap
prehension *.rnl (h.livery <>f (he waiit - Colbi'eilr,
aias Ciuhberr. with videtu-e siilFi ieut to
convict, to .hr Siu nff 1' wild cuiOrtvfcud St .to.
iu order that he may be bmugut to trial tor
the offence with winch be .standseiiargt-ri.
Given wide my hand attd Lb grin' seal of.
the JptiuK. at tin Capitol i. Atlanta, ihis
fourth day of April, i the ye .r of our
Lord Etc btoea Hue Ire > and Seventy unC
and of Independence of Unit'd
8 ~t . ,o- A:-, ca til- N o-tv fi rh,
Rfj: US t; BULL o K
B■i,■ V ■ ■ r :
David Gi Corn tee, Secretary of oiate.
apr7 It
CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1871.
®jjf <£ntj)l)ctt g,ptal.
Terms of Subscription.:
One Yeah $3 00 | Six Months....s2 00
INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
53?” No attention paid to orders for the pa
per unless accompanied by the Cash.
Rates of Advertising :
One square, (ten lines or less.) $1 00 for the
first and 75 cents for each subsequent inser
tion. A liberal deduction made to parties
who advertise by the year-
Persons sending advertisements should mark
the number of times they desire them inser
ted, or they wil! be cont inued until forbid and
charged accordingly.
Transient advertisements must be paid for
at the time of insertion.
Announcing names of candidates for office,
$5.00. Cash, in all cases.
Obituary notices over five lines, charged at
regular advertising ra'es.
All communications intended to promote the
private ends or interests of Corporations, So
cieties, Or iudividnals, will be charged as ad
vertisements.
Jon Work, such as Pamphlets, Circulars,
Lards, Blanks, Handbills, etc., will he execu
ted in good style and at reasonable rates.
All letters addressed to the Proprietor will
be promptly attended to.
Chu.roli Directory.
METHODIST CHURCH— R. B. Lester,'
Pastor.
Preaching at 11. A. M. &. 7 1-2, P. M. Sab
bath School, 3, P. M
BAPTIST CHURCH — P. M. Daniel, Pas
tor.
Preaching at 11, A. M. & 7 1-2, P. M. Sab
bath school 9 1-2, A M.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH—J. S. Coz
by, Pastor.
Preaching at 11, A. M. & 7 1-2, P. M. Sab
bath school. 9 12, A. M.
v Through the World.
Some hearts go hungering through the world
And never find the love they seek :
Some lips with pride cr scorn are curled
To hide the pain they may not speak.
The eye may flash, the month may smile,
The voice in gladder music thrill,
And yet beneath them all the while
Ibe hungry heart be pitting still.
These know their doom and walk their way.
With even steps and steadfast eyes,
Nor strive with fate, nor weep, nor pray—
While ethers, not so sadly wise,
Are mocked by phantoms evermore,
And lured by seemlqgs of delight,
Fair to the eye, but at the core
Holding but bitter dust aud blight,
I see them gaze from wistful eyes ;
I mark their sign on fading cheeks ;
I hear them breathe in smothered sighs,
And note the grief that never speaks ;
For them no might redresses wrong,
No eye with pity is appealed.
Oh, misconstrued and suffering long,
Oh, hearts that hunger through the world !
For yon does lilc’s (lull-desert hold
No fountain shade, no date grove fair,
No gush of waters clear and cold,
But sandy reaches wide and bare.
The foot may fall, the soul may faint,
And weigh to earth the weary frame,
Yet still we make no weak complaint,
And speak no word of grief or blame.
Oh, eager eyes which gaze afar !
Oh. arms which clasp the empty air !
Not all unmarked your sorrows are,
Not all nnpitied your despair.
Smile, patient lips, so proudly dumb--
When life's frail tent at last is furled,
Your glorious recompense shall come,
Oh, hearts that hunger through the world.
The Best Way to Advertise.—
The best and cheapest mode of ad
vertising in the world, is that in the
newspaper. Every successful ad
vertiser will say this. Seed strewn
Ihejce— if the seed is good for any
thing—always brings up a crop of
some value, most generally a hun
dred fold. Placarding the dead
walls and showering hand-bills
among the people are auxiliaries in
advertising, but it is doubtful
whether, as a rule, they more than
pay the expenses, while there is no
doubt that they are a nuisance.—
The blankest of dead walls is only
disfigured by posters, provoking,
in tie well regulated mind, a sense
of aversion to the man who so ad
vertises and the articles upon whose
excellence he expatiates ; while as
to hand-bills, nothing so prejudices
a citizen against going to see any
show or buying any goods as the
ugly slips of paper thrust at him
from all quarters, eloquently re
commending him to do those tilings.
—Journal of Commerce.
Cleaning Woolen or Silk
Goods. —ls among the innumerable
benzines and cleansing fluids afloat,
one does not happen to have any
thing satisfactory to obviate the es
feet's, of an overwhelming accident,
as, for instance, getting wagon
grease on some costly fabric ; try
the yolke of an egg. We have
used it for years, and like it still.
Separate the yolk from the white
as perfectly as possible. Then
stretch the fabric on a board, and
with a soft clothes brush' dip into
the yolk, and rub the spot with it,
until the grease seems loosened. —
The yolk will not injure the most
delieate colors, but the rubbing
may, if too severe. Then rinse
with warm rain water, rubbing the
edges with a damp cloth and clap
ping the whole between dry towels.
If the stain is not quite gone, re
peat the process. It will not do so
well for fabrics mixed with cotton
or linen. Rural Hew Yorker.
About Fertilizers.— The New
York Farmers’ club says the fol
lowing fertilizers are best tor the
respective crops: White beaus- —
barn-yard "manure. Onions—hen
manure, salt and lime Irish pota
toes —marl. Sweet potatoes —little
or no manure. Cabbage—the rank
est barn yard manure, lime, ashes
and no pig manure. Sweet corn
the richest manure to be obtained'
Tomatoes—well rotted stable ma
nure on poor soil; on rich soils, no
manure, *
For the Cuthbert Appeal.
History in its Relation to Educa
tion.
AN ESSAY —BY KERO.
It is a common error to regard
knowledge and education as. synon
ymous terms. A little reflection
will enable anyone to perceive the
nature of this error. Knowledge is
an acquirement; education is the
development, growth, and enlarge
ment which results from the labor
of acquisition ; just as the muscles
are enlarged, the sinews strengthen
ed, the blood purified by a healthful
bodily exercise. The development
of the virtues is moral education ;
but m its common acceptation the
word refers to the cultivation of
those faculties by which we are
able to think, to compare and to
reason. The perfection of these
faculties is to be sought in the ac
quisition of knowledge, since the
study of any science involves the
necessity of thinking, comparing
and reasoning, which require effort.
Such effort operating as a powerful
developing force upon the faculties
in question, their powers are en
larged in proportion to the degree
of exercise, and the adaptability of
the science pursued, to drawing out
the latent forces of the mind. It is
in tracing effects to the cause, and
in following truths through process
es by which they are arrived at,
that the reasoning faculties are de
veloped. I come now to the study
of history as a means of such devel
opment.
Glancing at the progress of soci
ety through past ages, we perceive
a constant succession of revolutions,
in the dramatis personal of which
we find every variety of human
character. Here w r e find a bound
less field for study and research.--
the vigilant and truthful historian
has thrn off the tinsel, with which
ambition gilds corruption, and laid
it hare for our inspection. Scanning
the faithful record we look into the
motive power of human actions in
past ages, and learn, by analogy, to
discriminate between the false and
true of our own.
The truly great of former times
arc presented in contrast with the
corrupt and selfish over whose
shoulders the insignia of power is
often thrown by fortuitous circum
stances. Honor, patriotism, valor
and devotion to truth are commend
ed to the willing reverence of pos
terity ; while tyranny, treachery,
cowardice, selfishness and vanity
are held up to be condemned and
despised.
We know the men of the present
age as they appear ; the men of
history as the action of their lives
portray them. The politician, en
dowed with splendid talents and fas
cinating address, seizes the occasion
of some popular impulse, to pour
forth, with masterly eloquence,
such ideas as cannot fail to please
the popular fancy. We applaud,
we promote, wc place the sceptre of
power in his hands.
Fve seen Ambition move the yielding crowd
Os human things, that gaped to hear his
words,
And ride to power on the deep and loud
Huzzas of creatures, whom with sorrow bow
ed,
He'd pass unroticcd ss inferior herds.
[ —Unpublished I’oem.]
But it remains for history to un
mask and hold him up to the scorn
of future generations as a plunderer
of the public treasury, and as anoth
er illustration of the lesson which
has been so often taught, that vir
tue ought to be the highest recom
mendation to public confidence, and
that no splendor of talents, no brill
iancy of genius can compensate for
the want of this quality.
Men of great intellectual power
and earnest public devotion, are of
ten ostracised through party preju
dice, and thrust aside to give place
to inferior and less patriotic, but
more ambitious men. But the man
of intellect w who consecrates his
hours by vigorous effort and an hon
est aim,” however much he may
be decried by those who, unable to
cope with superiority in open com
pletion, resort to villification and
traduction in the furtherance of
their selfish ends, never live in vain.
It is the province of history to pre
sent him and his principles to the
judgment of future ages, when the
passions and prejudices of the
the day shall have passed away.
Every age, while it has its roll of
infamy, has also its list of heroes
who have nobly battled for the
right j and as the earnest student
of the historic page, follows then\
in their hard conflicts with error,
bis heart involuntarily yields the
applause often unjustly withheld
by contemporaries; the glorious
principles which their lives have illus
trated are stamped upon his mind
and his heart; and he is thence
forth imbued with more liberal
views of humanity, and a higher ap
preciation of honorable purpose. As
it is not in the nature of the young
student to look upon a base action
without a sense of indignation, so,
on the other hand the conteftiplation
of deeds of chivalry, inspires him
with generous emulation.
Drowning of a Spy in Paris.
The Dehats, of February 27,
gives an account of the popular de
monstration ou the previous day,
which was marked by a fearful
crime:
“Since Friday last—the anniver
sary of the revolution of 1848—
great crowds of people had assem
bled at the Place de la Bastile,
where a perpetual parade of nation
al guards detiling in front of the
Column of July was in progress.—
From six o'clock on the morning of
Sunday until evening detachments
marched up to the column, the or
namental figures around which were
covered with crape, aud occasional
addresses in praise of the republic
were delivered. Toward the after
noon a body of some two or three
hundred men were emerging from
the Rue St. Antoine, escorting, or
rather dragging, a well-dressed
man, who, bareheaded, was held by
the collar by two -"Chasseurs-a-pied.
Loud cries of ‘To the river !’ ‘He
is an informer, a spy of Pietri’s!’
were heard, while other voices ex
claimed, ‘They want to restore
their bludgeon days. No pity;
away with spies!’ If was stated
that this person had been seen, pen
cil in hand noting down the num
bers of the batallions which made
their appearauce upon the place.—
Upon being questioned by the two
soldiers, he replied that it was no
business of theirs, and it was as
serted that lie struck at them with
a casse tete. He was then seized,
searched, and upon him were found
a revolver and papers, proving that
he belonged to the police. This dis
covery exasperated the crowd, and
the unhappy man was dragged to
ward the canal, into which lie was
about to be cast, when some bet
ter disposed person thrust him into
the guard-house, and the officer
commanding the post ordered the
gates to be closed. The quays
were thronged with an excited and
furious crowd, who demand the sur
render of the prisoner, and the ex
ecution of the popular sentence.—
The officer climbed upon the rail
ings and explained to the mob that
it was his duty to retain the prison
er in order that he might be con
veyed to the Prefecture, and be
sought them to be calm. His ex
hortation was not listened to. Cries
of ‘They want to let him escape !’
‘Give him up to us 1’ drowned his
voice. Some foot chasseurs got
over the railings, and were follow
ed'by many of the crowd, and re
captured the poor wreteli, whom
the national guards on duty made
no effort to save. Blows fell thick
ly upon him; he was hustled and
kicked, and appeared almost dead.
There were at the time about twen
ty thousand persons collected on
the Place de la Bastile; but, al
though those who called for the
death of their victim only number
ed four or five hundred, of whom a
great portion were mere gamins,
no attempt was made to prevent
the execution of their bloodthirsty
decree. The prisoner was dragged
toward the Boulevard Bourbon, he
begging to be allowed to shoot him
self. The chasseurs who held him
put him upon a bench, aud submit
ted the question to the crowd.—
‘Will you allow the prisoner to blow
out his own brains with his own re
volver?’ ‘No!’ was the response,
followed by cries: ‘To the water
with him !’ A move was then made
toward the Quai Henry IV., and
there, doubting whether their vic
tim might be able to swim, they
took the precaution of tying his
arms and legs, and in that condi
tion he was carried as a mere bun
dle on to a barge, where they flung
him into the river. The current
immediately bore away the helpless
man, at whom showers of stones
were hurled.
Some men belonging to river
steamers attempted to cast life
buoys to the drowning man, but
they were driven off by the furious
execrations of the mob, and ulti
mately desisted. The body drifted
under the piling at the point of the
Is e St. Louis, and was no more
seen. These horrible scenes lasted
for upward of tw r o hours. Upon
the.Quai Henry IV, two persons,
who ventured to exclaim against
these brutal proceeding, were them
selves assailed, as police spies, and
threatened with death. Other per
sons were similarly treated, and
barely saved themselves by oppor
tune flight. In the meanwhile the
Piaee de la Bastile continued to be
thronged, and the cases and wine
shops drove a flourishing trade.”
—Mr. Grammar, of Jersey, clan
destinely conjuugated Miss In
gham. Her father and brother did
not agree, and being iu the objec
tive mood entered Grammar’s house,
dragged him from bed in the im
perative, and pounded him in the
subjunctive, while they bore away
his wife in the vocative, which, is
not according to the rules of Gram
mar.
Marked for the Knife.
Abo#t two years before the start
ling revelations respecting the dis
secting trade in Edinburg had
placed the legal supply of “subjects”
upon itspresent satisfactory footing,
there occurred to my elder brother,
at that time a delicate boy of about
fourteen, a singular adventure, in
volving such a shock to his nerves
as, the doctors believed, very much
hastened his death, which occurred
in less than a year after it.
We then resided in a large white
house, with a row of poplars in
front, close to one of our canals.—
Within a stone’s throw of our hall
door was a lock and a lock-house,
and then followed one of the longest
and most solitary levels to be met
with in the United Kingdom.
The canal, at a point about sev
enty yards from the lock, makes a
slight deflection. The consequence
is, that neither the lock nor out
house are visible from the long,
straight level that follows, and
which is closely fenced between tall
hedges and old trees.
My brother had been ordered
walking exercise, and my father
generally appointed the path beside
the level I have described for his
walk. The traffic never very active,
was at that time in a state little
better than extinct. Not more than
two or three boats passed in a day,
and chiefly owing to its perfect
quietude it had been chosen for the
walk of our solitary invalid.
It was now summer, and the hour
of his daily walk was from 5 to 7;
the earlier hours of the afternoon
being pronounced too hot for exer
cise.
On the evening in question, he
set out alone. Ills usual walk was
to a point two miles up the level,
where there was a stone block, on
which he used to sit and rest a lit
tle before setting out for home.
While he was taking his ease on
this stone bench, and listlessly'look
ing up and down the long and de
serted reach of water, thei-e emerg
ed, a few hundred yards to his left,
from a sequestered path, a singular
figure, which approached slowly
aud passed him by with only the
narrow tow-path between them. It
was moving in the direction of out
home, and was that of an emaciated
man, with a complexion dark as
very old box-wood, limping, as it
seemed, painfully, very much stoop
ed and with a big angular hump
upon his back. His hair was long
and sooty black, he had prominent
dark eyes, under thick black brows,
and his face and chin were stuhhled
with a week’s growth of beard.—
lie was leaning heavily ou a long
stick, and walked with a kind of
hitch, which resembled a spasm,
and gave one the idea that each step
was accompanied by a separate
sting.
The face of this man expressed
extreme weakness and suffering, and
might almost be that of a man
dragging himself away, with a mor
tal woubd, to some spot where" he
might lie down and die in quiet.
He had a long and heavy bottle
green coat, which had grown to be,
iudeed, a coat of many colors, for
over the threadbare and greasy
ground it was overlaid, with fantas
tic and extraordinary industry, with
a tesselation of patches, of every
imaginable color, in which yellow,
aud red, and blue and black, were
discernible under a varnish of
grease, and toned with a variety of
dirt; and even these patches were
patched again, and had broken here
and there into rents and fissures,
and bunches ot shreds and tatters.
Round his body was buckled a
broad discolored leathern strap, and
he wore a wide-leafed felt-hat, with
a rather conical crown, brown and
griiumed by time and ill-treatment.
This figure with long gaiters of
rabbit skin and shapeless brogues,
limped past my brother without
taking the slightest notice of him,
and uttering now and then a siiort
groan, as if of suppressed pain, he
excited the wonder and in some de
gree the compassion of the boy.
lie watched the progress of this
man, who was moving with great
difficulty and with many halts in
the direction of our home. It was
not until lie had got on nearly a
quarter of a mile that my brother
got up, not quite rested, to fellow
in the same direction.
As this strange, crooked man,
with the stick, got on, he appeared
to grow more and more exhausted,
and at length he tottered into a lit
tle recess at the edge of the path
and fell helplessly on his side among
the bushes.
The boy quickened his pace, and
as he approached the spot, he
passed the head of a narrow lane,
in which he saw a donkey and cart
standing. had in it, upon
some straw, a piece of old carpet,
from under which emerged some
folds of coarse canvas, like a part
of an old sack; but he could not
see any one in efiarge of this con
veyance, though, being anxious to
obtain help, he called repeatedly.
Despairing of succor, he went on
and reached the point w*here he had
seen the man fall. Here he found
him. He had crept a little further
in among the bushes. He was sup
porting himself feebly on the
ground upon his elbow, his eyes
turned up as if he were on the point
of swooning, and he moaned faintly.
The boy’s courage almost failed
him ; but the sick man seemed to
perceive him, turned his eyes upon
him imploringly, and extended his
hand toward him, so evidently sig-
I nailed for aid that my brother could
not help drawing near.
The faiutiug man then told him.
in a whisper, that if he would take
his hand and draw him gently to
wards him, he would perhaps he
able to turn himself a little, to his
great relief.
My brothel- did give his hand ac
cordingly, and the fainting man, in
stead of taking it, seized his arm
above the elbow, with a gigantic"
hand, in a grip like a vice, and jerk
ing him under, sprang over him,
thrusting his other arm round and
beneath him, so as to pinion him
fast, lie had carried in his hand
the end of the belt which he had
removed from round his own body
while waiting for prey, and with a
dexterity acquired, no doubt, by
long practice, in a moment, with
the now disengaged hand, he drew
it and buckled it round the boy’s
arms and body at a single jerk,
with a pressure so powerful that he
could scarcely breathe, much less
disengage his arms.
In another moment, with his knee
on 4he boy’s chest, and one broad
hand placed right across his mouth,
so as to stiflle his screams effectual
ly, ho hitched round what had
seemed to be hh hump, but what
proved to be, in fact, a bundle from
which, with the other hand, he took
out, with the quickness and neat
ness of a skilled manupulator, two
things: one a sort of cushion, about
eight inches square, covered with
chamois leather—l have that horri
ble relic, no doubt intended to aid
in the process of suffocation, still
in ray possession—the other was
the renowned pitch-plaster.
The miscreant kept his face close
to his victim’s, with his powerful
eyes fixed on his. His,-dark, lean
features and long beak,and the thick
hair that hung forward like a sooty
plumage round it, and the long sin
ewy neck that arched over my poor
brother as he lay at his assailant’s
mercy, gave him, in the fascinated
gaze of the boy, the appearance of
a monstrous bird of prey.
I dare say this ghoul had an act
ual power, such as many men are
said to possess, of controlling the
springs of action, mental and bodi
ly, by some occult power of the
eye. To my brother it seemed that
it needed a perpetual and desperate
struggle of will to prevent a fright
ful trance from stealing over him.
For a moment the wretch’s hand
was slightly raised from the hoy’s
mouth. He intended, no doubt, at
this instant, to introduce the pitch
plaster, which was to stop both
mouth and nostrils. But my broth
er, now struggling frantically, ut
tered two piercing yells, which
compelled the murderer to replace
his hand before he had accomplished
his purpose. He was evidently
now transported with fury. Up to
this lie had been operating as
methodically as a spider. He look
ed so fiendish that my brother fan
cied he would cut his throat, or
otherwisedispatch him at the mo
ment.
His plans, however, were differ
ent. He had no idea of losing sight
of his interests, much less of his
safety. No principle of his nefari
ous trade was better established
than the absolute necessity of leav
ing no trace of actual violence upon
the persons of his victims. Even
the knee with which he hold his
prey was padded so carefully that
this young boy’s breast did not ex
hibit the slightest contusion, al
though lor so long under a pressure
which held him at the verge of suf
focation.
liapidly, and with more success,
the villian again essayed his final
sleight. One dreadful yell escaped,
and the deadly pitch-plaster was
fixed on mouth and nose, and an
other sound or respiration became
impossible.
The leafy bushes above and about
him, the figure, the face of the
spectre, began to swim before bis
eyes. He saw the mm, still on his
knees, rise with a start and pause,
with eyes askance and his dark
hand to his ear. In the next in
stant he had disappeared.
In his struggles the boy now
rolled from the lair in which he had
been attacked into the clear light
upon the open path, where he lay
perfectly insensible.
When consciousness returned,
which was not for some minutes,
three men were about him, drench
ing his head with water, and all
endeavoring to extract a word of
explanation, but for long after he
could not speak a syllable, nor, for
some time, even hear distinctly
w r bat they said.
Not a moment was lost, as soon
as he was able to describe what had
happened, in directing pursuit,
wherever any result was the least
likely.. All my brother could say to
the point towards which the assas
sin had directed his flight was that,
as his sight failed, he thought,
though very indistinct, ho saw him
pass away obliquely in the direction
of the lane in which he had ob
served tho donkey-cart.
It must have belonged to an ac
complice, who was there by arrange
ment. Everything had been pre
pared to carry away the body of
the poor fellow, which would have
been secured in the sack, enveloped
iu the carpet, and covered with
straw, and thus secreted in some
lonely lock-up yard, until, at the
dead of night, it would have been
conveyed to the dissecting-room. —
The boy’s hat thrown upon the wa
ter would have turned the inquiry
off the scefit, and induced delay.
The strap, still buckleed with cru
el force about the poor fellow’s arms
: and ribs, the chamois cushion I
| have mentioned, and the pitch-plas-
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ter fixed over the lower part of his
face, were the only “properties” of
the villian left to indicate his visit.
The cool old assassin had carried
off every other trace of his pres
ence, and he and his combade, fak
ing the donkey-cart with them,
had decamped with celerity, and
managed their disguise with an art
which, as matters then where, and
with a full hour’s start, had baffled
pursuit.
No doubt, with the police force now
at our command, the result might
have been different. As it was no
clue whatever was discovered ; and
this was positively marvellous, con
sidering the marked peculiarities of
dress aud of person that belonged
to the culprit. The persons best
acquainted with the ways of our
criminals at that period* were of
opinion that the strange details of
the dress, the gait, the halt, the
complexion, and the distortion of
the figure, were parts of an elabo
rate piece of masquerading.
No doubt these poachers on a
great S4-ale were thoroughly skilled
in all the finesse and strategy of
their contraband art. The regular
ity of my poor brother’s solitary
walk, its favorable hour, and the
easy suggestion of drowning as the
cause of his disappearance, had all
been noted, and the enterprise was
as I have told you, very nearly ac
complished, when an unexpected in
terruption saved him.
My brother was ailing at the time
this dreadful attempt was made up.
on his life. He survived it little
more than ten months, and the able
physician who attended him, refer
red his death to the awful shock
which his system had received.
Proposed Democratic Platform for
1872.
It is said that Hon. Fernando
Wood, of New York, has prepared
a scries of propositions, setting forth
the views and policy of the Nation
al Democratic party, and that he in
tends, the first favorable occasion,
to present them to Congress. It
consists of fourteen sections, in
which it is declared to be the duty
of Congress:
First—To provide for the imme
diate reduction of direct taxation
and of import duties to a strictly
revenue standard.
Second—To provide for the im
mediate reduction of public expen
ditures in all the departments of
the Government.
Third—To abolish all sinecure
officers and the system of collect
ing the revenue by secret informers
and spies.
Fourth—To restore to the people
of the States and their local gov
ernments, the rights originally pos
sessed by them under the Constitu
tion.
Fifth—To abolish governmental
money and to restore the only con
stitutional currency—gold and sil
ver.
Sixth—To redace the army to a
peace footing, and abolish a system
recently established of employing
military officers in the discharge of
civil duties.
Seventh—To provide against
accumulation and retention of large
sums of money in the public treas
ury, by which the interests of the
people are subordinated to govern
mental influence and made depend
ent upon the caprice and personal
views of the head of that depart
ment.
Eighth—To preveut the purchase
and sale of the public credit by the
Secretary of the Treasury, at his
own option, with no other control
that his individual and personal
will.
Ninth—To bring the President
and his cabinet advisers uuder the
authority of law, making them
obedient to its provisions and alike
with others subject to its penalties.
Tenth —To restore to the South
ern States and people, peace, pros
perity and contentment, which can
only be accomplished by a cessation
of vindictive legislation and milita
ry interference, and a recognition
of their equal rights, including self
government and political equality
with the other States and peoples of
the Union.
Eleventh —To revive Amorican
commerce.
Twelfth—To restore American
credit.
Thirteenth— To reinaugurate Amer
ican republican simplicity in the ad£
ministration of public affairs, and
Fourteenth —To aid, by proper,
legal and constitutional authority
in the full development of the ag
ricultural, mineral and commercial
resources of the country.
A Green Sharper. —This is the
way a couple of Muscatine sharpers
served a greeny from the country:
He stepped into a saloon for ‘su’thin
warm. A couple of ‘dead beats’
got up a sham quarrel and reques
ted him to hold their coats while
they fought it out —intending, on
reclaiming their coats, to accuse
him of having ‘gone through their
pockets, and then ‘go through’ him.
They walked iuto each other like
wildcats, when they happened to
observe that the eoat-holder was
nowhere visible. There was some
tall running and swearing done,
but greeny has not returned to that
vioinity since.
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To Cube Gapes in Fowls. —We
have seen the most, gratifying re
sults ensue from giving blue pills,
in very small particles, to chickens
for gapes and cholera, Calomelj
mixed thoroughly in their corn
meal mash, say fifty grains to two
quarts of food, and fed to twenty
chickens, will cure them of cholera.
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