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gatoson MUfklfl Journal, j Published Every Friday. E. & J.IC CHRISTIAN , fOITORS AND PUBLISHERS. TERMS—Strictly in Advance. Three months $1 00 Mil months ».#2 00 Cue year SJ 00 Rates of Advertising : One dollar per aqnsre of ten lines for the Bret insertion, and Seventy-five Gents per square for each subsequent insertion, not ex ceeding three. One square three months ? 8 00 oiie square six months 12 00 One square one year 20 00 Two squares three months 12 00 Two squares six months 18 00 Two squares one year 80 00 Fourth of a column three moths 80 00 Fourth of a column six mouths... .. 60 00 Half column three moths 45 00 Half column six months 70 00 One column three months 70 00 One column six months. 100 00 Liberal Deductions Made on Contract Advertisements. 'UMitHtniMMimfiimHiiittiiiiiiiiitmiHiiHiittiiiiimimiiir Legal Advertising. Sheriff's Sales, per levy, $2 50 Mortgage Fi Fa Sales per square 6 00 Citations for Letters of Administration, 8 00 •< “ •* Guardianship,. 300 Dismision from Apministration, 6 00 “ “ Guardianship, 4 00 Application for leave to sell laud, 6 00 Sales of Land, per square, 5 00 Sales of Perishable Property per equ’r, 3 00 Holiccs to Debtors and Creditors,. 3 60 Foreclosure of Mortgage, per square, 2 00 Estray Notices, thirty days, 4 00 Job I Work of every description eie •utedwith neatuess and dispatch, at moderate rates. SIMMONS & HOYL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DAWSO.Y, - - GEORGIA. L «. hovl. jan2s Iy. a. r. simmoks. C. B. WOOTEN, attorney! at law, 21 v ~Pn.w-°n - C*n. jTpT WATCH AXD REPAIRER JEWELER. Dawson, G-a.* 13 prepired to do anj work in his line in the verv be*»t style. it S.H ITI3, OU3ST SMITH and Machinist, it A ir.SD.P, : •* Georgia. Krptirs all kinds of Guns, Pistols, Sewing Haiti"es, etc., etc. 2 * T ! W. C- P A R K S, _A-ttorney at Law. M»rß Iv DA tf*SOA',GA. C. w. WARWICkC. A'torney at Late and Solicitor in Equity. t.niTUt'ILLE - . - GEO., \\riLL practice in Lee, Sumter, Terrell V V and Webs'er. j. E. HIGGINBOTHAM, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Morgan, Calhoun Cos., Ga., Will practice in all the Courts of the South western and PatattlaCircuits, June 1 dawnon no m. BY WILY JONES fit HR Proprietor has neatly fitted up the I Dawson Hotel, and is prepared to make bis customers satisfied with both Fare and Lodging . Connected with the Hotel is a RAR ROOM,” in which is kept the best li quors in the city. No pains will he spared to please. fe226m PAINTING"! PAINTING! JAS. M.DODWELL, lICCSE AND SIGN PAINTER, &c DAWSON, Gr A.-, IS prepared to do all work in his line—such as house and sign painting, graining, pa per hanging. 4c., in the very beßt style, and on short notice, at reasonable prices, febl.fi-n. BROWN HOUSE, E. E. BROW A dfc SOY, Fourth St., Opposite Passenger Depot, Macon, Georgia. FROM the Ist of July the business of this House wilt be conducted by E. E. Brown 4 Son, tiie Senior having associated his son, Wm. F. Brown, in the management and in terest of the Hotel. The house contains sixty rooms, which are reserved chiefiy for the use of travellers and transient guests. Competent assistants have been sea cured in every department, and eve ry attention will be paid to ensure comfort to their customers. Rooms clean and airy, and the table always supplied with the best the affords. I’orters attend arrival and (departure of all trains to convey baggage and .conduct passengers across the s'rect to their quarters. juh27,tf #> «ot BRoyvs, Titos, n sts» urt. BROWN & STEWART, NMare House a nd COJIHBBIOV Yl LUC II A ATS, at Sharp &, Brown’s old f»land f PAtFSOJT GEORGIA. We are determined to use our utmost en deavors to give entire satisfaction to all who rniy favor us with their pitronage J and as far as possible to be to them, in this depart ment, (what we have often felt, and what eve ry planter must feel that lie needs) iqd. and erliahle friends. That we may be better epa bled to carry out this design, we have secured as business agent ( the well known and reliable Cap'. John A. Ful'on. "A just balance," iaour motto. Afarch 8 1867. W, R. & N. M. THORNTON Practical Dentists, DA li'SO.r, GA. nr Office in Harden’s new building, West Plde, Depot Street. Dec. 14, THE DAWSON JOURNAL. Vol. 11. POLITICAL. Loyal Lciigncisiu-Tlie Botlvm Kicked Out. There is ao old and respectable gen tleman, says tbo Atlanta [utelligencer, over at Nashville, l’cnnesse, widely and favorably known in that State us Capt. Wm. Driver. We believe he was a Union man throughout the late uuhapv struggle, and bad, as it would scent by the seqnal, in a thoughtless moment, found his way into one of those holy of holies, a loyal league, from which he was subsequently expelled fer express sious made outside not cutitely iu accordance with the inside teachings and requirements. At any rate, the captain, who is now a candidate to rep resent Davidson county in the lower branch of the Legislature, is giving the league an airing, through the columns of the Nashville Gazette, and it must he admitted that he is doing the work well. In the absence of more important matter, and for the information of tbe loyal leaguers in this direction, we pub lish a portion of the captain’s last, with tbe remark that it will bear reading even this hot and sultry weather. Nasviule, July 9th, 1897. To the Editors of the Gazette ; Many of your readers will doubtless remember nay letter, published in the Gazette of Juue 18, which W.is largely circulated by the press of this and oth er oitics of our State. If there is one sentence therein not iu accordance with law and tbo true principles of liberty and humaue rights, I don’t know what constitutes those safe guards of man, and I have been “raised a fool.” For writing and publishing that letter, I was at once “expelled” fri m “Loyal I. No. I,’ where I had been sworn “to do even unto death,” all in my pow er to “keep ever burning on the alter of the American heart, the sacred iLme of L berty.” Let the world sit in judgement on my life ofbixty-years, rtd particularly on tbe part of it embraced in the past seven years. I court its in vestigation, and will abide cheerfully by its award. lmiifferent alike to flat tery or abuse, I shall do my duty, even though asses bray, and dogs snap and howl. Expe led from the leyal league! Now, gentlemen, permit me to intro duce you to that sanc'um sauctorium of p iitieal humbug. 1 promised this, I'll do it. At the first door you give two light taps and whisper through a hole there in, “Loyal men.” The door opens. You move on to a second door and give two taps. A k>np hole is opened. You whisper “Must Rule,” and then march ed round a darkened room, and wel comed by the "Good Chairman,” in tbe following words- ‘-The good and true are always welcomed, etc. Y'ou are now marched round the room and are placed before an alter on on which is spread the American flag. 11. re aiou lies open a litble, and a buck with the old original, unaltered, Con stitution of the United States gift of our fathers, as it was, is, aud ever should be, unohaugfd. Th»re, too, lie crossed two common swords, such as arc w. rn by army sur geons. li ;tween the points is a myste rious looking bronze chalioe filled with something, the smell ot which reminds you of “Old Robertson.” At your right, at a small altar, stands long, lank, lean “Forty Acres,” behind you at another desk or alter, stands a once Provost Marshall. Around this long, dark, dirty room, sits the “Loyal Leogucrs,” some black and some white, and among them some of our most wor thy citizens Thre are also cot a few whose ‘copper,’ which sticks out through the whitewash given by this loyal league. The gas is now darkened. “Forty Acres,” with eyes upturned, like a duck in a thunder storm,” bis lean hands open out toward Heaven, mumbles out a prayer 1 TL’& done, the Chairman (the jolly, good natured, kind looking miller, not ol‘Mansfield,” though quite as portly) steps forward with book and match in hand, and fires the mysterious looking cup, which darts up a flekermg blue fl ime, such as is represented as burning in tho “Eternal Hades.’’ With right hand on tbe book, and left in the air, you now take the oath of allegiance known to all, and are most particularly required “to defend the Coßs’iimion of the United States,” (unaltered,) on which your band rests, and the Consti tution of the State of Tennessee. What is the latter Constitution ? Who can tell you 1 You are also sworn to keep the se cret of the I.eague, “to vote for none hut layal men,” &r In this long, dark, dirty room, on the right side of which stood about one buudred old rus ty mU'kf ts, in such presence, before tl e flickering blue flame which but made “darknpss visible,” with ihe usual twang ot “Forty Acres,” voice in prayer still Hoarding in my ears, I was with others, made a Loyal Leaguer. Surrounded with paraphernalia, of humbug, we were sworn also, as beforo said, to do even unto death all in our power to make lib. rty eternal “to vote for none but loyal men,’ &e. We were next it itiated into the signs and pass-words, &e. Let one suffi-e; but if you vish, you can have them all. To pass yourself a leaguer, when questioned, gives the “Four L’s follows : right hand raised to Heaven, thumb and third finger touching their ends over tbe palm, and nronour.ee “Liberty ” Bringing the band down in a liuje with tho shoulder, pronounce “Lincdn.” Dropping tho hani open at your side, pronounce “Loyal." With your hand and fingers downward in the chest, the thumb thrust into the vest. 0 r waistband,across tbe body, pronounce “Leagua.” DAWSON, «A., FRIDAY, AUGUST O, IBG7. There is a great deal of other “tom fooling" tis the same character unwor-a thy of place here. Sufficeit to say that such is the character of a com bination which bids fairto rebaptizc un happy Southern souls with blood; such are th willing or duped sentiments ready to carry out the will of oo“ mod - : .n Jeffreys and Dalrymnles Masters of Stairs, Glenlyons and Lindseys*—such are the Loyal League which, iu darkened rooms, before the blue mysterious look ing fires, cross swords and psalm-sing ing bumbugs Lave sworn in “about forty-five thousand,” simple freedmen, and takes from each a mine .-able half dollar fee of initiation. Thc.e po r crea tures have stood before that blue flame and all the other grim paraphernalia of this dark room humbug, wiih a super stitious awe mingled with fear. To them it was tho “Garbo DitLaa” of tbeir native jungles, the “Obi Man,” with bis poisonous eocannr. They will never forget that blue flame, thosecross swords, the wild upheld eye of “Forty Acres,” with ominiously uplifted fin ger of tho “worthy miller,” as he pro nounces tbe “Anathema, Marana —on all who secede or break tho terrible pledge. Poor, simple, wroDged crea tures I In tbe wildstorms of midnight when the blue lightning thrusts its tin ge s through tbe storm tossed cloud, tfieir imagination will bring out clothed with terror, that darkened room, that mysterious flame, the upturned eye of “Forty Acres,’and “So mote it bee” of the mixed multitude. Gentlemen, fcllow-citzens, freemen —look at this mummery—this politi cal hLmbug, and think that men of rank, of standing, of fine intellect and kind hearts are there How can you account for it, in this nineteenth centu ry ? Has the Lord ou' God farsaken üb? Are we a people ? ILshe made us blind that our ruin maybe sure? Leaguers and mad men beware! Like blind Samson, you now sit beneath tbe tower, not, of oppression, but of human rights. Y r ou are madly grasping law and the ballot box—the pure columns • f lil erty. if you bow yourselves as he did the beautibul etrutnre will fall, and you and your children will perish unwept under its ruins. Leaguers be ware ! A day of retribution is coming. Rlind guides 1 ading the blind, how oao yon escape ? Every aot of jour own nod of your leaders is calculated to pro yoke blood. You know this. Do you think to grind the Anglo-Saxon race beneath the heal of of your colored dupes? You thrust them once into the firery furnace of war to save your owd children. Y’nu emancipated them as a military necessity. As tho last hope ol our tottering government to save yourselves, you and your party laid vi olent hands on tho ‘colored element, and now you say it was all for the love of tbat-ejement. •See Mscatilaj’s Mss«ac.e of Glencoe. nr,A tromblp for the spirit in here ! • _ MISCELLANEOUS. THE RED t KOsm INN. BY ARTHUR N. Ml SERVE. Years ago a friend of mine made a tour on horseback—“suliWiry and alone,” except where a chance travel er bore him company—through the greater part of Southern and Western Europe. It was, in those days, con sidered quite an undertaking, but now, ‘hrough the agency ol railroads and steamboats, the tour has come within the reach of every individual, and been fobbed of ail its romance aud novel ty- The following adventure, which oc curred during his trip through Spain, my triend often related, and as 1 be lieve it has not before found its way into print, I now give it to the reader as nearly as passible in his own word : “Tho c’ose of a dull, oppressive Sep tember day found me winding along a narrow valley among the mountains of Nor hern Spain Alongside my path ran a bubbling stream, now nr.d then crossed by rude wooden bridges that seemed to need only a rapid rise of tbe stream or a high wind from the hills to sweep them away. On either tide of the valley rote rude, jaggard cliffs, in many places completely desti tute of verdure, and in others overrun with a wild luxurience of vines and shrubs. The who’© distance I had come since partaking of my noontide meal at a small way ide inn some doz en miles hack, bad been one wild scene of desolation. Now and then for the first few miles a small peasant’s hut would loos out from some thicket, and a half wild flock of children would gaze for a moment upon the stranger, and then run scampering away, appa rently in affright. Hut for an hour or two this re ief in .he seemingly endless monotony of hills and crags had die appeared, and fully six miles were traveled ere 1 again looked upon a | •human being, and he was an old man j seated by ihe roadside, of whom I in- : quired the distance to some place] where 1 couid he accommodated with : lodgings for the night. He directed j pie to the Red Cress Inn, standing i alone in the midst of a king narrow i valley. To me it seemed 1 had been pursu ng this same valley for the last i two hours, and at every turn of the ! road-1 expected to see it burst upon j my gaze, but as yet I bad heen disap I pointed, and had begun to think that the information I had received of its whereabouts was not entirely relia ble. “The day had been very sultry for' the season of tho year, and as it wore i away, the thick clouds teat gathere ! j about the summits of tho mountains : aud hung over tho valley, with bow j aud then tho rumbling of distant than- ; der, told me that a storm was at hand nd that I must hurry on toward the Red Cross as fast as |>ossible unless I wished to run the risk of getting a thorough drenching. “Startled by a clap of thunder much more distinct that any than proceeded it, I was about to urge my horse into a canter when it suddenly shied to one side of tho path, and in looking for the cause, I saw. crouched on a stone by the side of tho road, what appeared to be a young woman, though at first I could baldly tell, as her face was concealed by a thick veil which was thrown over her head. One hand that was visible was small and white, and I judged from this, as well as from the tex'ure of her garments, that she was at least <fa better class than the peas ants I had met that day. “Partly out of curiosity, and partly to learn the distance to the lied Cross, I stopped my horse, thut in a moment had recovered from its fright, und made the necessary inquiry. “At the sound of my voice the cov ering that concealed her features was partly withdrawn, and a pair of dark eyes gleamed out whi h 1 could not help instantly thinking were not set in the head of a person perfectly sane.— _ But she answered my question with a faint smile upon her lips aod with all the politeness that is so natural to the natives of her country : “ ‘lt is half a league, senor, to the Re 1 Cross Inn; just round the next great turn in the road.' “ ‘ls ihe lon a good one?’ I said, willing to keep up the conversation a few moments longer “ ‘That I can hardly answer, senor, for the man who keeps it is my hus band. A shelter, if a poor one, is bet ter than none, for there is a grent storm coming over the mountains, and it will he such a night as we seldom have.” “ ‘Pardon me, senora,’ T exclaimed, not a little abashed at finding that I was addressing no less a personage than the landlady of the Red Cross Inn. “Still I could not help thinking that it must be a strange inn if she I saw hef.ire me managed the indoor at fairs. “ ‘You have done no harm senor. But look ! There is rain on tbe moun tains now. Unless you hurry on, you will he drenched before you reach the inn.’ “ ‘And you. Do you not fear the storm ?’ “ ‘lt cannot harm me, sgnnr ; lam used to it, and o'her things far worse. But do you not see how fast it is com ing on ?’ “A glance showed me that the storm was indeed at hand, and with an incli nation of my head 1 rde on, leaving her seated upon the atone. '■The great drops overtook me be fore l had ridden up to the door of the inn, and given my horse to the keeping of a villainous looking hostler, who appeared from the direction of a halfraised shed in the rear of the house. The landlord stood in the doorway and greeted me with much politeness, and then led the way into a low, dark re ception-room, teat was rendered more gloomy than ever by the coming storm. “ ‘YYiu were just in time senor,’ said my host, as a wild gust of wind slam med the outer door too with a hang that startled me in spite of myself ‘We shall have a bad night of it.’ “ ‘Y’ou are right, senor. I was lucky to get here when I did. r hope there is no one caught in tbe valley to night ' “ ‘lt sometimes happens so, senor. Two gentlemen went past here not above an hour ago, and they cannot reach a shelter for sometime yet. I warned them of the storm, but they wou’d go on.' “‘I saw a woman half a league back,’ 1 had opened my lips to say, but the words were not uttered ; for just at that moment tbe veiy person of whom I was about to speak glided through the room. From whence she had come, and how she had reached the inn before me was a mistery. Probably there was a nearer path than the odb I had followed with which she was familiar. “The landlord of the Red Cress ras not quite so villainous-looking as the hosder, who soon came into tho room ; but there was a look about him show ed he was ro less the villain, and while waiting for my supper, I came to the conclusion that neither master nor man would hesitate to commit a crime. “Supper bad j'lflt been announced by a young woman, whom 1 took to be a sort of maid*of all-works, when there was a rattle of wheels outside, followed immed ately by a loud shout for tho door to be opened. The landlord sprang forward to an. swer the summons, hut a glance I through the w indow caused him to ! pause, and an oath to fali from his lips- , , j “For a moment only no appeared to remain undecided, 'hen he sprang io the door, and throwing it open, gave admittance to a great gust of wind aud rain, and a gentleman an I lady, the latter so do«e!y enveloped in a large cloak that neither her lace nor form could he distinguished, “The gentleman demanded a pri appartnient at onco. and they were shown into it. and all I saw of them before retiring was one glance through the open door of their room a» 1 pass ed it on going to nipper. That glance showed mo that they were both young, ami that the lady was deeid' dly ham.some. “1 sut through the evening in the low reception room, with mine host and tho hosder for companions, and sorry ones indeed they proved, “From the time he had got n g’inifise through the window ot his new guests, the landlord had appear ed liko another man. These was a scowl upon his brow, and a look ol devilish hate would overspread it, whenever, now and then, the sound of ringing irughter cams lrom the room across the way, where tho new comers seemed to be making a merry evening of it. Not half dojen words did he ad dress to me during the even ng, but once when, as I sat in corner where tho shadows fell thick, they ihougut I had faflen into a doze, there was an eager whispered conference between them, the purjiorl of which I could not catch, but 1 was sure it boded some body co good. “Unce, durin j the lat'er part of the evening, the woman I had seen by the roadside glided through the room with a white, scared look upon her face thfit I had not seen Before. 1 thought as she went out thut she made a motion as if for me to follow; mine host chancing at that momert to have hTs’eyes fixed fu l ujion me, I resisted au impulse to follow her and remained in my seat “ As the evening went on, the st r rm seemed to increase Now and then a v*id flash of lightning followed by n deafening peal of thunder, would star tle us for a moment, and then the dark ness would seem more intense than be fore. ‘ Tired with the journey of the day, as well as with mv surly companions, who. as before said, rarely uttered a word unless it was in a low tone to themselves. I expressed a v ish tore tire, and the landlord moodily rising from his seat, lighted another feehie lamp and signed me to follow. “Passing out into the ball, I saw the door that led into the room where the other guests were was closed, but they had not yet retired, for I could hear their voices in pleasant conversa tion “Passing up a narrow fl ght of stairs, my ho>-t U'hered me into a large, roomy chamber, and setting down the lamp he went out, hi Idmg mo good night, as he closed the door behind him. 1 I waited until his footsteps descen ded the stairs and thin I cornm-nced an examination of the apartment. As I have said, it was la r ge, and I found that there were two door* leading from it, one bj which I had entered, and another on the right-hand side that apparently led into another apart ment. The latter, upon trying, I found to be fastened in some manm r upon the other side, as there was no lock upon it. It seemed to be secure, for upon trying I found that I could hard ly jar it in its place. “The other and the one w liich I had entered could be fastened by a holt on the inside and when I had made it secure I sat down upon the bed and examined my pistols to see that they were in good condition—a precaution that I never neglec’ed—for traveling in the manner I was, I know not but wba* I might be called upon to use them at any moment before daylight. As yet I had never had occasion to shoot (moth er to save my own life, though l was not sure but thai a timely display of these weipnns had saved me the necessi ty of so doing. “Satisfied thafthey were ir good or der. I glanced un, and as I did so I beheld standing he f ore me, so close that I could have touched her by putting out my hand, the woman I had met by the roadside, and twice seen since I had taken shelter at the lUd Cross There was that, white, frightened look upon her face that I had noticed tho last time pbe bad passed through the re ception room, and as she caught my eye she made a mofioD for silence, and I sank back upon the edge of tbe bed from which I bad half risen in surprise at her sudden appearance. “How she had entere 1 the room was a mystery, for both do'rs were shut aiid only a few moments before were appa rently securely fastened. Had I been a believer in the supernatural I should have thought there was something un. canny in the figure before, me. “ ‘What do you wish?’ I said, at last, in a low tone, fi 'ding that the wo man did not speak, but, seemed listening intently for gome sound she more than half expected to hear •• ‘Help to prevent a terrible deed be ing done hero to-night, senor,’ she said, in alow, thrilling voice,as she bent her face close to mine. ‘There will be murder committed be fore morning comes unless you and 1 prevent it.’ “ ‘Who pints the deed, and who is to be tbe viotim V <' ‘Don Aloaco and bis young wife will occupy tbe chamber next to to n'ght, and my husband has sworn that they shall not leave this alive, it was an ill fortune that sent them here, and but Fr tbe storm they would not have get foot beneath this roof. But mayhap they think they have nothing to fear from him—that be bas forgot ten ihe past, but they little know the demon withiD him. ‘People say he drove my wits from me, aLd sometimes I think they aro right, for my hi ad feels so strangely, and he has been such a tyrant.’ “ ‘And why does he wish to harm the Don?' “ ‘For a long time before their mar riage he paid court to bis wife, aud when at last she refused him and married the Dip, he swote he would be revenged. Only a wei k after, be asked me to be bis wife, and I, ODly a giddy git I, with no nc to tell me better, accepted him. He did not love me then, mbe has many tin Oi told ute, and oily made n e his wifo to show her that he cared nothing for the love she had refused him. No. £SO ‘He has hated me ever siucc, and some day he will take my life.’ “ ‘And you think he will a’tempt the Don’s life to-night ?’ ‘I know ho will. li’s all planned between him and Pedry, tno hostler They will wait till tboy are asleep, and thon tho blow will be struck.’ ‘Have you warned them of tlioir dan gor ?’ ‘No, and if 1 did it would make no difference. They would not leave the inn alive. We must save them. That door through which I have just entered leads to their room, and I shall leave it unfa-toned. When they start on their bliody work I shall follow them unseen, and at a cry from me do you eomo to raj aid. 1 shall not be unarmed, fori bar- h ß d a dtgger to defend myself with. Hirk ! They are erming to their rom now. Romember what, I have said and for the love of all the saints, and as your own soul, do not fail me,’ and with this list injunction sir glided awav, and the door closed behiud her. “For several minutes after I was left alone, I sat and thought on tbe strange revelation that had been made me, aud pondered whether what I bad heard was not the wild fancy ol a maniac, rather than that of a sane person I heard the guests enter tbe adjoining room, hut t was sure it was not the landlord's footsteps that went down over the stairs. It wa« the hostler’s, and I thought to myself, and then reflected wh. t course I should pursue.' ‘I was tired aud needed rest, and I knew that if I laid down I should lose myself in spi’e of all my efforts to the contrary. Were Ito keep awake all night merely on the words of a woman that I could not help seeing was not in her right mind, or was I to dismi a ev erything from my thoughts acd at ooco seek the rest I so much needed.’ ‘At last I made a eomproini**. The words of the wo nan gxined addrinnal strength as I reflected on the manner of the landlord after the arrival of bis guests, and m:de up my mind to keep awake until after midnight, and if all remained quiet, to s’eop, and this de termination I earned out—for how long I hardly know—but it could not have been a great while before 1 was sleep ing soundly, unmindful of tho storm beating upon the joof, and all else about mo.’ ‘Snddenly I was awrkened by a sound that brought me to my feet. Again it was repeated. A cry of a woman’s voioe for mercy. ‘Grasping my pistols that I had kid upon my pillow, I sprang toward the door, now thoroughly awake. A blow sent it inward, aod I beheld a terrible scene going on—a scene that makes my blood run cold as I think of it, to this viry day. ‘The landlord was bending over the bed, a bloody dagger in bis hard, striv ing to inflict blow after blow upon the motionless form of the Don, while bis young wife was striving to protect him by making her own body a shield and target for the blows; while at the same time she was shrieking loudly, implor ing mercy of the villain s’anding over 1 e\ ‘On the floor near another dorr that went into the room, was struggling tbe landlord’s wife, held down by the ras cal l'edro, striving to clutch her by the throat. A long dagger had evident ly been wrested fron his band, as it was lying against the wall, some distance off, while a small one was still clutched in the hand of the woman, but which from her poeitioo, she was powerless to use. ‘The situation of affairs I took in at a moment’s glance, aided by the light of a limp that was burning upon n shelf, undoub’edly left there by the couple on retiring. ‘Acting upon the impnbe, I aimed one of my pistola at the head of the landlord, and fired. The villain sprang up for a moment, and thens- ll for word on the body of hia victim, and I knew that his career was over, for that night at least. ‘The next moment a bullet sped past my bead, so near that it clipped a lock of hair in its passage, ind I saw tbe gleam of a pistol barrel in tbe band of Pedro, who had given up the struggle with the woman upon the floor; but a moment after he gave a borid cry of ag ony as she plunged tbe dagger into his side, and he f ll forward upon the floor muttering terrible imprecations. “We ore masters tow !’exclaimed tbe landlord’s wife, as she drew the dagger from the side of tbe wounded villain, and I saw that tho gleam in her eyes bad deepened until it seemed as if they were on fire. ‘Yes, and now let us be merciful,’ a. I turned toward the bed that bore its tripble lend. ‘We must bind up the wounds if those that still live and needs our care ’ ‘The woman took the lamp from tho hclf and came and stood by my side. The lanlord was dead ;my bullet had gone through his brain. He was lying across the Don, who was lifeless also, ihe blood floaing frrm more than a dozen wounds, ttlmost -ny of which would have been enough to have caused his death ‘ilia wife had gone into a swoon, and l left her to the care if my companion while I turned to Pedro. •The villaiu had a bad wound, but 1 thought he would live, and after dress ing it as best 1 could, I went down stairs, and mounting my borse, rode to the village that he told me was tLrcc leagues distan*. There I told mv st> ry to the proper authorities, and just at daybreak, with tho stein over, wo went back to the iccno of strife.’ ‘The Don’s w ife had recovered, and was bend ng over the body of her bus band, giving way to tbe most agonizing expressions of grief, and it was with great efi rt that wc tore her away and curried her below, that we might tuaM proper dispositi in of the dead. ‘During my absei ce, iVdro, fearing" tho halter, bad tern the bmdaga from his wound, and when we turned our •<* tention to him he bad bled ao that I*- oovery was imooaaible, aud not long ni ter he expired.' ‘The fiiends of tbe Don war* •not' for, and that af’ernoon tba.v oartind away his bedy, followed by bis yonug wife, convulsed with her great beriavr ment, and I never saw her agai». Tb" bodies of the landlord and Pedro warn buried, and the half crazed wife disap peared a few days after, as I lcarnod on my return that way, three woaks la ter. What became of her was net known, but it was supposed tbatshs had either committed suicide, or bad gon* to sora*. distant town and entered a con vent. Tbo Red Cross Inn was tenant los-q aod a few years since I laarued of a traveler who bad passed that way, that it bad fallen into ruin,but that tha peasant told him the story, much as I have related it.’*. The Josh Hillings Papers. NOATS. Munny has done one thing for tbw world thut nothing ebe could have did so well—it bus develop'd the phool*. The best kind ot advice for mu to so low iz this; “Pay tew the order of Jo»h Billing* 50 Dollars, and charge to my akount —John Burch.” I had rather ban* 10 dollars ov this kind ov advise than six hundred dollurs in Christian conats- . lation; there is more sassage iu it. Although mankind worship wealth, i wi! give them credit for cue thing —they seldom mistake it for brr.iiia. Most aul tbe grate things huv been did by taking the dinners. Prudence has but one eye, while fortune baa a thousand. If a man had 2 stummicka and 2 outs’des, there might he somo excuse for adding 10 thousand dollars mors cut h year tew hiz pile. I don’t read enny body else’* poe try but Homers, upon the same prin ciple I alwaz drink, when it is just aa handy, out ov u spring instead ov the outlet. Treuson iz one ov them kind ov stainH that wash well. If a man has got tew he poor aul his life, 1 ain't sure but it would be some munny in his pocket tew be ig norant. Fvirst class virt. u z a!wuz ansus tew avoid temptashun. You kant transplant a ya"k“e snek eesafuliy without taking a good deal ov the file with the roots. Original! y in writing iz az diffikult az gett ng a fishing pole by the side of a trout-brook—ml the good j oles ha** been cut long ogo. It iz easy er.uffto git religion, huk tew he'd it iz what bothers a feller A good grip is better than rubiw— yea ! than much tine cotton cloth. I enjoy a good luff —one that rushes out ova mans 'oul like the breaking up ova Sunday School; hut a luff'that cume tew the surfaco, az the hiokups cum, or backs out of a man. like 'he strngg'es ova chicken choked with a chunk ov wet dough, I utterly la ment. There ain't no poetry, but enny' num ber ov feet by blank verse. When a fel'er knows he iz being stnred at, it mukes him uckt us unnat ural as though he was setting for his piktur. I am colled a “broad humorist,” and lam g’nd ov it; there iz p'enty ov . narrow humorists in the country with out me. Enny man who will kompell a wo man tew make a shirt tor 20 cents, ought tew be filled full ov fish hooks, and be used for bait tew ketch sharks with. bileuce is one ov tho negatiff tews. A Cow Story. —Our friend, J. 8 , of Dawson, is pretty tougb on a yanr when you draw bim oat. Hearing a crcwd bragging of cows oa the street the other day he said : “He once knew a man wbo had a very fine cow, which was in the habit of straying off occasionally. On one ccea sion this animal went off and stayed in the meadows a whole week, before com ing borne. They usually milked her in a considerable hollow in tbe stock lot. In thu hollow ths milkmaid, as usual, put ker pail under the eow and went to work with both hands. Iu less time than it has taken to tell this, the fluid was coming in snch a stream aa to ovetflow and bide the bneket, causing the maid to have so w&do up to her knees, and theralf had to “swim like forty” to get out of it. The poor eow was drowned but tbe "churning” pro duced by her struggling and kicking caused large cakes of butter to rise to the surfacr, aud the owner saved about seventeen firkins of it.” If anybody can beat this, as far as we are concerned -'‘they can take the prize.” A Wins Pr.iTri.RM.—Tbe Gborlots ville (Va.) Chronicle says the follow ing are the planks of its platform : 1 We are in favor of railroads, frea trade, a gold aud silver currency, low taxes, ships, canal, steam, machinery, patent wringers, rifled cannon, photo graphy, solidifl and milk, newspapers, gas, and congregational singing. “We are opposed to test oaths, to P»- land, Ireland, aud all forms of oppre->- sion ;to standing armies, passports, ju ries, tax on paper, political disfranchise ment., sectional tyranny, military gov ernment, kerosene, hoops, stay lawa, free tickets, and chewing tobacco. Who is the laziest man? Tbe fur niture d> a’erjfer he keeps chairs and lounges about ail the time. It, is said that tl o pen is mightier than the sword. Neither of them ig > much value witbuwi- Su-lder.