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Muscular Piety.
A NEGRO I.AVMAN’S SPRAYER.
Alexander Clark, in Lis MethodU
Recorder, gives a graphic description
of “A Sabbath iu Richmond,” and an
account of bis visit to the First Afri
ean Baptist Church in that 'city. We
take from it this specimen of charao
ter is; ic natural eloquence:
A layman being called upon to
l^irlty, led this pkrt eff the service in a
fervent appeal to God, it plea at once
eloquent hi simile, and musical in ut
toTOTce.
Itrtvas a jffcfhred petition, vivid to
pleasant to the ear.
Withy a 'voice of elevated key, the
pleader recounted the mercies of God
and besought blessings from above.
It may have been indecorous of us,
but the prayer was unique, so like a
chant, a dream, and yet so like a con
verse with the listening God, that we
ventured to note down a few passa
ges, while no less sharing the devo
tional spirit of the hoar and place.
[The words spaced were prolonged
and ciroumfilexed in a higher key, as
if tiro words of a song, while interve
ning words were uttered with a rap
idity almost beyond comprehension,
the final words of each sentence be
ing pronounced in a low voice and
with the failing inflection.]
"Oh! Lord, our blessed Father of
love, thou k-n-o-w-s the ’dition of the
worl’. Thou knows the p-o-r-e mis’-
ble sinner despin’ dy grace who turn
ed his back upou dy call. Thou sees
his footsteps in the w-i-I-derness and
you sees de bloomiu’ roses grow’n
all ’round de thorns de debil’s a shar
penin’ for his feet, Iu this dark way
of sin and death, while de loud thun
ders of do wrath r-o-1-1 in majest’ in
his ears, and de b-I-a-z-e of dy fury
flash in sudden fore his eyes, oh send
y-o-u-r broodin’ spirit like a dove
thro’ de storm and speak peace to
bis wretched soul Tore ’tis c-v-e-r
--lastin’too late! Show him de slip
pery rocks and de miry clay. Make
him see dat Satan follows last trip -
pin’ at his heels, and hell yawns open
to catch him when ho falls. Oh !
’rest him by de ’mighty p-o-w-e-r of
dy grace. Pour down your mercy
like rain from de summer clouds, and
make him open his blind eyes to see
de beauty of dy holiness a shinin’ in
de face of your beloved Son, like de
rainbow when de storm done gone
and passed away!
“ Oh, thou great King of Glory
who rides in de gol’ti chariot in de
New Jerusalem, above de sun, I do
’seech an’ p-r-a-y you drive dy cha- !
riot dis way; and when de hoofs of
de horses strikes dis lower worl’ and
de dashin’ wheels comes in our sight,
& top dy chariot at \\ ashington city,
and ’light in loving kindness at de
door of dy servant, de President
Grant, an’ tell him ’xactly what to
do. Soun’ de moanin’ of your will
into do C-o-n-g-r-e-s-s halls, and
tell de great men ’thout their own
axin’ how to serve dare country bes’;
purge de hearts of de senators an’
’sentatives from de love of sin, and
dare stumblin’ steps from de
snares of hell. Help them to ’mem
ber dy servants in every s-o-r-r-o-w
and temptation, as Jesus ’members
them. Thin out the ’sire of honor
and the love of salary from their
s-o-u-l-s like suckers out’n corn;
and may your name be above every
name, and d-y kingdom come into
the high places and de low like the
light of mornin’ eome to de hills an’
de valleys de same. Af’r leavin’
Washington city, an’ takin’ dy time,
drive your chariot down over de
fields and reign up dy h-o-r-s-e-s oi
hre at the capital of Old Virgin’y.
’Light out at de Governor’s door an’
go into his house an’ tell him what
t’ings he ought to say, an’ show him
what t’ings be ought to do, like a
£-a-t-h-e-r who ’structs his own
child.”
Etif* 14 Brick 5 ’ Pomeroy wants all
Lis namesakes to send hint their pic
tures, and be promises to send each
one a present of a pretty book. This
will be good for the book trade, but
j-alher hard on Pomeroy. Ihe nam
ing of children alter him will now
proceed with redoubled alacrity.
Wtfjb Pone. —The Marietta Jour
nal says that Mr. Eidson, a one
armed soldier, made, this year, on
live acres, 130 bushtls corn, 53 bush
els wheat, and a quantity of potatoes,
peas, turnips, etc. Two of the acres
made 75 bushels of corn.
“The melancholy days have
co me ” —the saw-dust of the year.
HAMILTON, HARRIS CO., GA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1875.
A Thrilling War Inci4eit.
SOUSE, CHARLESTON—Time, Ajl’l 23,
1804.
Tire Yankees, froth time 'to titne,
thrown shell Into tho city, end no
body seemed to mind it. mis
fortune willed yesterday that, a shell
should throw the entice cominunity
into mdXrning.
V b -s Anna Pic Veils, the ‘daughter
of one cf our former Governors never
consented to leave the city. Despite
tho representation of Gen. Beanre*
gard she remained, braving shells
and Greek fire, attending the woun
ded and cheering all with her pres
ence.
Among the wonwded officers under
her care was Mr. Andrew de Roch
elle, a descendant of one of t he nob
lest Huguenots of Ibis city. The
young man was full of the liveliest
gratitude for his fab nurse; gratitude
gave birth to tender sentiment; his
suit was listened to; Gov. Pickens
gave b’.o consent, and the marriage
WR's fixed for the 23d April. Lieut.
De Rochelle was on duty at Fort
Sumter in the morning, and it was
determined that the ceremony should
take placo at the residence of Col.
Bonhatn, at 7 o’clock. At the mo
ment wheu the Episcopal clergyman
was asking the bride if she was ready,
a shell fell upon the roof of the buil
ding, penetrating to the room where
the company was assembled, hurst
ami wounded nine persons, among
them Miss Anna Pickens.
The scene that followed cannot he
described; order being at last re-es
tablished, the wounded were removed
with the exception of the bride, who
lay motionless on the carpet. Her
betrothed, leaning and bending over
her, was weeping bitterly arid trying
to staunch the blood that flowed from
her terrible wound under her left
breast.
A surgeon came and declared that
Miss Pickens could live hut two
hours. We will paint the general de
spair. When the wounded girl re
covered her consciousness she asked
to know her fate, when they hesitat
ed to tell her. “Andrew,” she said,
“ I beg yon to tel! me the truth; if I
must die, I can die worthy of you.”
The young soldier’s tears were his
answer, and Miss Anna, summoning
all her strength, attempted to smile.
Nothing coiild be more heartrending
than to see the agony of this brave
girl struggling in the embrace of
death and against a terrible mortal
pain. Gov. Pickens, whose courage
is known, was almost without con
sciousness, and Mrs. Pickens looked
upon her child with the dry haggard
eye of one whose reason totters.
Lieut, de Rochelle was the first to
speak. “Anna,” he cried, “I will die
soon too, but I would have you now
die my wife. There is yet time to
unite us.
The young girl did not reply. She
was too weak. A slight flush rose
for an instant to her cheek; it could
be seen that joy and pain were strug
gling in her spirit for the mastery.
Lying upon a sofa, her bridal dress
all stained with blood, her hair dis
heveled, she had never been more
beautiful. Helpless as she was Lt.
de Rochelle look her hand and re
quested the Rev. Dr. Dickinson to
proceed with the ceremony.
When it was time for the dying
girl to say yes, her lips parted several
times, but she - could not articulate.
At last her word was spoken arid a
slight foam rested upon her lips. The
dying agony was near. The minister
sobbed as he proceeded with the cer
emony. An hour afterwards all was
over, and the bridal chamber was the
chamber of death.
A darkey left in charge of a
telegraph office while the operator
went to dinner, heard someone “call”
over the wires, and began shouting at
the instrument, “Da operator isn’t
yer.” The noise ceased.
“Pa, I guess our man Ralph is a
good Christian.” “How so, my
boy?” “Why pa, I read in the Bible
that the wicked shall not live out
halt his days; and Ralph says he has
lived out ever since he was a little
boy.”
SST A drunken man who fell down
in the parlor, remarked to his wife
that he considered that a pretty place
for her to peel peaches and throw
the skins.
VST It was either whisky, water, an
ax, or something else, that caused his
death,is the finding of a coroner’s jury.
From the Riston Commercial Hr, 1 let in.
A strange STORY OP OIR
CT AST ANTI AL EVIDENCE.
Dn the morning of the 2G li of No
vember 1810,1 read in the Rutland
(Vt.) Herald tho following notice;
“ mußder 1”
“ Printers of newspapers through
out the United States are desired to
publi-h, that Stephen Hoorn, of Man
chester, in Vermont, is scuteueed to
lie executed for the murder of Rus
sel Colvin, who has been absent
about seven years. Any person who
can give information of said Colvin
may save-the life of the innocent, by
making imme'diate communication.
Colviu is about five feet five inches
high, light complexion, light hair,
blue eyes, ami about forty years old.
Manchester, Vt., Novomber 20th,
1819.”
This communication was copied
very generally by newspapers, and
created a great deal of interest. Be
fore describing the events that fol
lowed, let us go hack to the year
1812 and the little town of Manches
ter, Vermont.
Barney Boom, an old man, had
two sons, Stephen and Jessie, and a
daughter, Sarah, wife of Russell Col
vin, a half crazed, half-witted day la
borer. They were a bad lot, poor,
ignorant, and in doubtful repute for
honesty. Two miserable hovels serv
ed them for shelter, and a few acres
of pine barrens constituted all their
possession. They raised a few pota
toes and garden vegetables, and eked
out a scanty livelihood by day’s
work for the neighboring farmers.
In May, 1812, Colvin was at home.
In Juno he was missing. At first
this occasioned no remark. Ho was
always a tramp, absent from home
sometimes for weeks together. But
this time he did not come hack.
As weeks grew into months inquiries
began to be made among the neigh
bors about the missing man. There
are no tongues for gossip like those
which wag in a Yankee village.
One spoke to another. Excitement
grew - . Wonder, like a contagious
disease, affected everybody.
It was known that there had long
existed between the old man and
hoys a grudgo against Colvin; it was
in proof that the last time the miss
ing man was seen ho was at work
with the Booms clearing stones from
a field, and that a dispute was going
on ; and Lewis Colvin, a boy, son of
Russell, had stated that his father
had struck his uncle Stephen, and
that the other returned the blow, and
that then, he, the boy, becoming
frightened, ran away. Again, a Mr.
Baldwin had heard Stephen Boorn,
in answer to tho inquiry as to where
Colvin was, say, “He’s gone to hell,
I hope.”
“Is he dead, Stephen ?” pursued
Mr. Baldwin.
“ I tell you again,” replied the man,
“that Colvin has gone where pota
toes won’t freeze.” *
For seven years the wonder grew:
Colvin’s ghost haunted every house
in Bennington county. There was
no known proof that the Booms
were guilty, and yet everybody be
lieved it. A button and jack-knife
were found, which Mrs. C. believed
to have belonged to Russell; dreams,
thrice repeated, were had by old
women and kitchen girls—and ten
thousand stories were in circulation.
Five years afiei Colvin was missed
Stephen Boorn removed to Denmark,
N. Y., while Jessie remained at home.
After the former had left, some bones
were accidentally found in the de
cayed trunk of a tree near his house,
and, though all surgeons said to the
contrary, it was universally believed
that they were part of a human skel
eton. Of course, then, they must be
Colvin’s bones. Jesse was arrested,
Stephen was brought hack from Den
mark, and both were held for exami
nation. Although all the testimony
when sifted was found to he worth
less, yet tlie two brothers were re
manded back to jail, and Jesse was
worked upon to make him turn state’s
evidence. The jailor tormented him
with suggestions, which his wife
followed uj> with womanly adroit
ness. Neighbors helped. Reset with
preaching and prayers, tracts and
sermons, religious conversation and
pious directions—told that there
was no doubt in any one’s mind but
that Stephen committed the murder
—urged to make a eleaD breast of it
and thus save both his body and soul,
what wonder that the man confessed,
I was alleged to have confessed, that
Stephen Boom did murder Russell
Colvin ?
On September 3, 1819, the grand
jnr v. found a bill of indictment against
Stephou and Jesseo Hoorn for the
murder of Russell Colvin. William
Farnsworth testified that Stephen
confessed that ho did it, and that
Jessie helped him; that they hid the
body in the bushes, then buried it,
then dug it up and burned it, and
then scraped the few remains and hid
them in a stump. Upon this unsup
ported evidence the jury returned a
verdict of guilty against both prison
ers, and they wore sentenced to be
hung on January 28, 1820.
And now the men came to thoiV’
senses. They asserted their inno
cenco. They said that they had con
fessed as their last hope. Some com
passion began to be felt for them.
'l'liey might., after all, be innocent.
A petition for their pardon was pre
sented to the Legislature, but it
availed only to obtain commutation
of Jesse's sentence of imprisonment
for life. No more. Stephen was to
be hanged.
Let the render now turn to another
chapter of this strange history.
In April, 1813, there lived in Do
ver, Monmouth county, N. J., a Mr.
James Polhamus. During that month
a wayfarer, begging food, stopped
at his door. Buing handy, go’ocl
nntured, quiet and obedient, home
less, and weak of intollect too, It*
was allowed to stay. Ho said his
name was Russoll Colvin, and that
he came from Manchester, Vt.
Not far from Dover lies the little
town of Shrewsbury, then a quiet
hamlet, now invaded by the cottages
and villas of Long Branch pleasure
seekers. Here lived Taber Chad
wick, brother-in-law to Mr. Polha
mus, and intimate with tho family.
Accidentally reading the New York
Evening I’oHt, he met, not with the
notice of the Rutland Herald, hilt
with an account of the Booms. Con
vinced that the Russell Colvin al
leged to have been murdered was
the very man thon living with Mr.
Polhamus, ho wrote to the Evening
Post a lettor, which was published
December 9, 1819.
Upon the arrival of this paper at
Manchester it excited but little atten
tion. Tho letter was believed to be
a forgery or a fraud. Had not the
people iii the town long believed tho
Booms to bo guilty ? Had not one,
perhaps both of them, made full con
fession ? The bones of the murdered
man, a button of his coat, his jack
knife —had they not all been found?
Had not an upright judge made sol
emn charge that tho evidcnco was
conclusive, and an intelligent jury
found them guilty, and tho legisla
ture sanctioned the findings? There
was no doubt of their guilt—none
whatever; and therefore no benefit
of a doubt had been given by jury,
chief justice or court of appeal.
Mr. Chadwick’s letter was, never
theless', taken to Stephen’s cell and
read aloud. The news was so over
whelming that nature could scarcely
survive the shock. The poor fellow
dropped in a fainting fit to the fioor,
and had to be recovered by dashes
of cold water.
Intelligence came next day from ft
Mr, Whelpley, formerly a resident of
Manchester, that ho himself had been
to New Jersey and seen Russell Col
vin. The members of the jury which
had convicted the Rooms, however,
hesitated to accept anything short of
the man’s presence, and .Judgo Chase,
who had sentenced them, pointed to
Stephen Room’s confession.
The third day caino another letter.
“ I have Russell Colvin with ine,”
wrote Mr. Whelpley. “1 personally
know Russell Colvin,” swore John
Rempton— “he now stands before
me.” “It is the same Russell Colvin
who married Ann Boorn, of Man
chester, Vt.,” made affidavit Mrs.
Jones, of Rrooklyn. Hut it would
not answer. Pride of opinion is
stubborn. Doubt of opinion dies
hard. Manchester intelligence, not
to say piety, was ori trial, and it be
hooved all good residents to hold out
agaiust conviction to the last.
However, Colviri.or Colvin’s double,
was on his way. As he passed
through Poughkeepsie the streets
were thronged to see him. * His story
was printed in every newspaper and
tol 1 at every fireside. At Hudson
cannons were fired; iu Albany he was
shown to the crowd from a platfoim;
and all along the road to Troy bands
of music were playing and banners
were Haunting and cbeers were given
as Colvin passed by. Some men be
come famous from having been mur
dered. Russell Colvin was famous
because he was alive.
Toward evening of Friday, Decem
ber 22, 1819, a double sleigh was
driven furiously down the main street
of Manchester to the tavern door.
It contained Whelpley,' Kcmplon,
Chadwick and the bewildered Russel
Colvin. Immediately a Crowd of
men,women and children gathered
around, and as tho sleigh unloaded
its occupants and they took their
placo on the piazza, exhibiting the
last man to view, “ Thai’s Russell
Colvin, sure enough! There’s no)
doubt about it!” eauie fr ml the lips \
'of scores ef the grffcers. ITe embraced
his twfo' children, asked after the
Booms, and : started 1 for the jail.
The prison doors were unbolted
and tho news was told to Stephen
Boorn.
“ Colvin has como, Stephen,” sitid
the Rev. Lemuel Haynes.
“ Has ho f asked the prisoner.
“ Where is he ?”
41 Hero I am, Stephen,” said his
brother-in-law. ‘‘What’s them on
your legs ? ”
“Shackles!” replied Boorn.
“ What for? ”
44 Because they said I murdered
you.”
“ You nevor hurt me in your life,”
replied' Colvin.
The sequel is soon told. Stephen
Boorn was released from prison, as
was .Jesse also, liussull Colvin re
turned to Now Jersey. But the
judge who suffered an innoemtf man
to bo convicted of murder by
mission of extra-judicial confessions—
the members of the jury who delib
erated hut one hour heforo agreeing
upon a verdiot of guilty, upon evi
dence that should not hang a dog—
the deacon and church members who
urgod confession and preached re
pentance—and the ninety-seven mem
bers of the legislature, sitting as a
court of appeals, who refused re-hear
ing of evidence —what became of
them ?
JL®- The Athens Watchman says
that Mr. E. M. Thompson, of Jack
son county, recently reached that city
with a train of twenty wagons, loaded
with cotton from his plantation. He
has made 150 halos of cotton and 750
barrels of corn this year.
Fooled Him. —An Atlanta lady
lately went so far as to allow a young
tnan to procure a marriage license,
and then, at the last moment, told
him she was only joking. In addi
tion to tho loss of a wife, tho young
man is out five dollars for carriage
hire, and two dollars for the lieensi.
During tho last three months
noarly ono thousand hogs have died
of cholera in Shelby county, Indiana.
5-3F* A passenger train of the Cen
tral railroad was fired into one night
last week, about three miles from
Macon. No one was injured
-1 --
lEgT The Albany News says that
Capt.T. 11. Willingham, of Dougher
ty county is not one of our smallest
operators. He plants from live to six
thousand acres—two fifths cotton,
two-fifths corn, and ono-flfth oats.
nr Bill Taylor, “a wild whilo
man,” was arrested in Marion coun
ty a Jew days since, who confessed
to his captors that ho had associated
with tho worst class of negroes and
lived upon theft since he was twelve
years old.
t-ST The lunatic asylum farm pro
duced 1,500 bushels of sweet pota
toes this year.
I iffiW -•
fW The Forsyth Advertiser says:
Mr. It. L. Callaway, who has been
farming with Dr. Lawton for several
years past, made fifty acres of laud,
which has been in use fully fifty years,
produce one thousand bushels of com.
This result was had in spite of two
severe droughts during the past sea
son. The land wae manured with a
compost made on the farm.
t&r At tho American Centennial
Exhibition, Krupp, of Essen, will
exhibit a mammoth 1,000 pounder
gun.
c§r Five negro men of Wilkinson
county killed one hundred squirrels
iu one day recently.
-—-- m -**—
The marshal of Atlanta sold
over sixty Ids for taxes last week.
ggjr In what meter should “Up
in a balloon ” be suug ? Gas meter.
If captains would be less reck
less there would be less wreijks.
$2.00 A YEAR.
WIT and HUMOR.
A man who wae saved from con--
vietibu for horse stealing by the pov„
erful plea of his lawyer, after his ac
quittal by the jury, was asked by his
attoruey, “ Honor bright, now, Bill,,
you did steal that horse,didn’t you ?”
“Now, look a here, Judge,” wae the
reply, “I always did think I stole a*
*hoss, but since I born your speech to
that ’ere judge. I’ll be dbgoned if i
ain’t got my doubts about it,”
A woman is very like a kettle, if
you come to think of it. She Hugs
away so pleasantly —then sbe stops—
and, when you least expect it, *W
boils over-
lie was smoking a cigar on m ear
where there were ladies. A tody
took out her purse, got ten cents, and
handed it to the smoker. ** What’*
this for ? ” asked be- * It’s to buy
you a good cigar when you smoke in
tho presence of ladies.” He throw
the cigar out of the window,the scrip
in the ladyhi lap, jerked the Strap,
and jumped out.
An Englishman was boasting to a
Yankee that they had a book in the
British museum which was oece own
ed by Cicero. “ Ob, that ain’t noth
in’,” retorted the Tankee; “in the
museum in Bosting they’ve got the
lead pencil that Noah weed to check
off the animals that went into tho
ark.”
“OTbellois the way that a Mil
waukee compositor, of Irish descent,
prints the name of the Moor of Yeu
ice.
“ Did you notice how splendidly I
went tbrongh that last reel at. tho.
ball last night, Tom?** “Yes, end I
noticed that yoa kept it ap all the
way home t "
A little girl went into • neighbor’s
house one day, where some apple
parings by os plate on the table.
Afier sitting a- while, ah* said, “ I
smell apples.** “ Yes," the hdy re
plied, “ I guess you satoll these apple
parings on the plate.’* “No, no,”
said she, “tain’t them I easel]; I smell
whole apples,"
Why is a printing office like a well
regulated financial institution ? Be
cause there are plenty qf quoins in
the bank.