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(Tfjromcte anti Sntftncl.
W FL) NESDAY MAY 27, 1874.
HALA-MAY, 1878.
The following appeared in the London
Tinies over the signature of Houghton, doubt
less Lori Houghton (Richard Alonckton Mil
nee), in counection with the report of Dr. Liv
ingstone 8 funeral :
The swarthy followers stood aloof,
Uuled—unfeathered ;
Ha lay beneath that grassy roof,
Fresh gathered.
He bade them, as they passed the hut,
To give no warning
Os their still faithful presence but
••Hood morning.”
To him. may be, though broken sleep
And pain- at.ate 1.
Tnese words were into senses deep
Translated.
Dear dead -alutes of wife and child,
Oi l ktrkyard greetings.
Sunrises over hillsides wild—
Heart beatings.
Welcoming sounds of fresh biown sea
Os hunt; tar t rtvel
Tangles oi thought's last memories
U nraveL
• * » * * *
’ tea h R i-;'.aud s fretted r of of fame —
Wit i fl .w-rs atoning
An ope . grave—• .m sup ihe same
‘ Uood mo nutg,”
.M .rnmg's o'er th it weird continent
Now -lowly breaking—
Europe her »u ien s-If-restraint
Forsaking. ,
Mornings of svmpnthy and trust
For such is b .re
The Master's spirit sacred crust
To England's shore.
DOT OLD PAPER BUSTLE.
BY KATHBINE VONBUFFLUM.
Hiw oxpe istf of me, vhen I dink of my
girlhood.
Vhen old mudder Time vas hold dem to new:
Dsr gartou. der cabbage, der shweed-smelltn
rosebud.
Her ret paudyloon- vat my infancy knew :
Der vid -sh .reading hoops, and uer dress vot
slitood by it ;
Der bonnet and cap vhero der vaterfall fait
Der long woolen shtockings h&it a sriug-lookin
fit. „
Und de old paper bustle, vat hung on so veil.
Olt. and .1 paper b stle. dot newspaper bustle,
Dot c ..th-covered bustle, vot hung on so
veil.
Oh. dot moth-eaten bunch, I vas hail dot a
treasure.
As morn, noon und night, by my house I got
loose ;
I yoost dook him up, and examined mil
pleasure.
Und diuke i it der boautifules lifter in use ;
How nerfoiie l got ms. vhen I folded him out
Und doubled and sliq eezed him, der bundle
to eh well !
In shapes it got bully ; der shtrings dhey vas
stout.
On der old paper bustle dot fitted so veil ;
Dot rag paper bustle, dot worm-eaten bustle,
Dot tress-lifting bustle, vat hung on so veil.
How -beet it vas lookin', vhen der back vas all
in it,
Vhen broperly mounted, it inclined to der
shky:
Not much many tollar vould tempt me to
leave it,
Der virtuosi, der lightest, dot vomans vas
1 shly :
But now 1 vas old. und wrinkled und gray,
Und der tear by mine eve vas intrusifiy sliwell.
Dook*. me back of my memory to dot liabby
day,
Vhen 1 vo;e mo dot bustle vat hung on so
veil,
Oh. dot old paper bustle, (lot vire-covered
busilo,
Dot moth-eaten bustle vat shtuck on so veil.
| ,V. O. Picayune.
Mr. Young, of Washington, has written some
sweet ‘'cremation'* poetry, from which we
make the Hollowing extracts:
This world is all a fleeting show,
How sweet from it to pasH,
To vanish up die chimuey as
Carbonic acid gas.
Don't lay me on the river bank
Amid the fragran flowers,
Nor where the grass is watered by
The early summer showers;
B t put me in the chicken range,
And open wide the damper;
And then my vaporo s remains
Can up the chimney scamper.
We lit tho poor fellow at dead of night,
t liecaicass continually turning.
In order that every side might get its share
Os this new patent process of burning.
No pleting rain-storm . ame wetting the pile
Os faggots'to which we had bound him ;
No Babcock ilistinguisher deadened ihe glare
That formed -ucli a halo around him.
TUE MAIDEN'S FRAYEB.
Cremsto m», mother darling, cremate me
mother dear,
Also my twenty dollar braid, likewise my new
back I air;
Let not the worms feed on this cheek; ah!
save me from that fate ;
lucin'rate, nuitber darling—incin’rate or cre
mate.
LITTLE WILLIE.
Little Willie we have burned him,
The heat ho did not feel,
And so te dorlv we turned him.
While we held him l.y the heel. *
“BEK HAVEN.”
Vonoo ttbort a midtdghd druatv, as I come
home put tv beery,
Und laid me down tibon tier sofa, und purl y
soon pegau to shn re ;
I thought I heard some boobies talking, und a
noise like some von valking
On der new laid "Nicholas Uafement," on and r
octdstdo ov my door :
On dor voodon "Nto iolas Uafement," on del'
oudside ov tiiv door.
Only dis uud someting more.
11.
Vos. oxtinctly I romembered, id vas der ninety
fourth v Octember,
Und each "Nicholas basement member" had
poeu aV" k oudside rav doo ;
1 hoped dey (1 po avay to morrow,but I thought
I'd dry mm porrow
Two or tree five dollar williams ’cause I didn't
has no mo e :
Bud dey all said dey vas busded, so I didn't got
some more.
Only dis und someting more.
hi.
‘ Sir," I said, ‘‘you vill oxcoose me, und I know
you von't abuse me,
Bud it vid so much amuse me, iv you told mo
blca-e some more;
Vy you come to-night, ahem ; ven it’s twelve
o'clock, o. M
Cause der neighbors you vill vake dem, knock
ing at my up-stairs door."
I took der lighd uud bulled der kuob, und
obened und my up-shtairs door.
Only noting uud noting more.
IV.
Und I thought dat awful funny, und again 1
cried out, ‘‘Sonny,
Iv you have got bleuty money, come inside und
close der door.”
Bud effervthing vas vest so quiet, und I came
back mid der lighd,
Und sat on der sola by it, und heard der same
uoise Uko pefore;
Hoard some feller knocking vildly on dor oud
stdo ov my door.
Und I vent up-shtairs vouce more.
T.
Ben tier door I obened videly, ven some man
rushed in quite vildly
Iu a vav 1 didn't link bolitely, inside ov mv
oudside door;
Und 1 said it s some poor duffer, vat for gotten
lighd must suffer.
Und dt r very shtrict bolices dried to catch him
by my door :
He enehered Matsell's shtrict bolices ou der
outside ov of my door ;
Only dis u..d someting more.
VI.
Soon I lit auouder lighd, cause I vant to bo
bolite.
But hoped h > couldn't ehtav all night, sitting
oi. tuv parlor floor.
Yen all ova sn ;deul\ I bethought me, und my t
tushtinet quickly taught me.
Ova club vat I had pought me. vat vould
shtart him off my floor :
Ova loetle hickory ghib shtick, vat vould
shtard him off my n or,
Only dis aud someting more.
Tit.
Bud I thought pefore I'd use him. pefore I
shtarted to abuse him.
But my eves dev shouldn't lose him, I vould
ah poke to him some more;
To soe iv he hail blayed some game, so I near
er to him came.
Und I told him ■\Vha - 's your name ?so ve ean
gouverse some more;
Tell me vot is on der door-blate on der inside
ov your door?”
Uud he answered. "Nefermore.”
TIH. •
Den I thought der air grew thicker, shmeld of
dis bad live cent liquor
Till id made me f el much sicker ; it vas now
‘bond hal'-pasd four;
Uud 1 svd i side my muid.dat I vonldn’t pe
so kind.
But to M t>omice him from pehiud ondside ov
mv chami e door,
Dat I’d ake him vi-om der neck, und put him
oudside ov my door.
But sometnig sung oud, "Nefermore."
is.
“Come look at me. und take my valuing, for
di Id shtnff our li eyli re pawing :
You'll has a sbrelied head in der morning bud
you Tout got tighd some more ;
Got up. i sav. und go shcott free: got up, 1
say. mid led me be.
Or I II make murder bv der secogond degree,
und dat's all righd py der new law;
I'll go to s-ug sjng bur get hardened veu I m
dere three years or four "
But he answered. "Nefermore.”
x.
Dat e pla'ed mid. von awful loafer, you vot is
part much tighd all ofer:
Take your feed off my new sofa; take your
self oud of my door ;
My shvallow-head coat, see how you've tom
her. so as I cannot no more pawn her.
Dere's a beer salooi übon der comer : don't
you b'eare come back -ome more :
Go ui.d shtay oud ou der corner, und don't
blease come back some more.
But he answered ‘ Nefermore.”
XI.
Und as Dm wriding he is shtaying, and no
sylabnb is say ng.
Uud no kind ov board is paying, though he
owes tree veeks or more :
Cud in his voi re dere is a rumble, like a bee
Tats got sbnmble ;
But dat man vill Defer tumble, und he rout go
home some more :
Bo I take hinny der season. Tor he Tout go
home romemore.
Only die und noting more.
Geoboe Hoev.
Bt HIS OWN HAIVD.
A CLUB DINNER AND WHAT CAME
OF IT.
The True Story of a Tragedy—A
Strange Narrative of Crime and
Remorse—Suicide of a Principal on
the Field of Honor.
So many rumors, contradictory and
absurd, all of them painful, some of
them crnelly unjust, have begun to get
abroad in regard to a certain late most
unfortunate and tragical affair that we
have taken some trouble to ascertain the
whole truth and actnal circumstances of
the case, which we now lay before our
readers, if not with the approval exactly,
at least with the tacit consent of the
survivors principally aggrieved. No
l imps are mentioned for several reasons,
la the first place, the authorities are
still moving in the matter, aud any un
lue publication might defeat what are
popularly called the ends of justice. In
•he second place, if the authorities
should finally decline to let the matter
sleep, on the plea that mischief enough
las been done already, we do not wish
to make any improper disclosures. The
nt-re mention of the leading facts will
sufficiently explain to persons acquainted
vith the parties who they were ; and
those who have not heard of the affair
ior the parties may as well remain lgno
trit about them. At the same time we
feel it to be our duty as conscientious
j iiirualists to remind the police authori
ties that this is a democratic country, iu
which the laws must be enforced with
iut regard to the wealth or social stand
ing of individuals, ud that our forbear
ance on this occasion (which wi 1 not be
repeated; is due, not to our respect for
their conduct, but to our compassion for
:he unhappy sufferers. On a certain
lay in February last (it is not material
to state what day) the papers contained
m obituary notice to the following ef
fect :
X., Jr,—Suddenly, on January —,
while on a hunting excursion in Florida,
X., Jr., son of X., Sr., of this city, aged
twenty-eight years.
The funeral will take place, &c., Ac.
X., senior, is a well known merchant
banker of great wealth and the highest
social, mercantile and political standing.
His son, X., junior, was a rather fast
young man, of popular manners, however,
and an extensive acquaintance. There
were some wild scrapes on his record,
both here aud in Paris, and some
nventures scrabreuscs told of him; but
he was somewhat attentive to business,
even while not neglecting his pleasures,
and observing persons remarked that X.
was shrewd, keen at übargain, and,when
he had sown his wild oats, would
become a thorough man of business. X.
was the owner of a yacht, which, how
ever, was not inscribed in the club fleet,
though occasioaully sailing with it; and
he was at? active member of a large aud
fashionable up town club, rather noted
for the elaborateness of its menu and
the extravagance of its wine list. The
announcement of young X’s. death
caused some regret and more comment.
He was not knowu to have been given to
field sports, though fond of games of
chance, and his acquaintances were sur
prised to hear of his having gone to
Florida to shoot. The newspapers dis
missed the matter with a paragraph of
the briefest; but those who inquired
most closely could learn but little more.
X., they were told, with a small party
of friends, was deer hunting, when a
gun, accidentally discharged, in the
nands of one of the party or iu his own
(it was not certain which), put an end to
his life after a few hours’ agony. His
father had a letter to that effect, dictated
by X., and signed by hjm, aud was ap
parently satisfied.
In a few days, however, the rumor
somehow got about that X. was not
killed by accident. Some said there had
been a duel, while others whispered
about that there was ominous talk of foul
play. To add to the coufusion of the
quid nuncs it was reported that one of
the hunting party, a law student of the
highest connections and comfortable
fortune, had sailed for Europe imme
diately after the affair, though matricu
lated for a full course of lectures at one
of our most prominent institutions of
learning. It was moreover stated posi
tively, and upon what seemed to be very
good authority, that X. senior had gone
to the police, secured the services of a
detective, and begun to have the affair
thoroughly sifted, when, after an inter
view with one of his son's intimates, he
suddenly abandoned the affair, forbade
the detective to pursue it further, and
procured orders from the authorities en
forcing the prohibition. Matters were
iu this mysterious stage whan anew
actor —actress rather—appeared upon
the scene, in the person of Mine. Q., a
French woman of great beauty, who is
said to have accompanied young X. from
Paris, aud who was often called Mine.
X. She, with an appearance of great
grief for X., did not hesitate to express
her belief that he had beeu murdered,
oul avowed her purpose to hunt doa'Ji
Ins destroyers with acharnement. What
she actually did was to employ a private
elective to work the matter up, giving
him a liberal retaining fee, aud promis
ing him a considerable sum conditioned
upou his ascertaining all the circum
stances connected with X.’s death.
The detective set about his business
methodically. X.’s yacht had been dis
mantled and sent to Stonington ior sale.
The detective, however, found some of
the crew, and from them learned that
they were unanimous in thinking a duel
had been fought. X.’s body, when
brought aboard tho yacht at St. Augus
tine, and before a cofliu had been pro
cured, had a hole in the right breast
“big enough to stick a broom handle
iu ” Two of the gunning party, who
had not been of the yacht’s company in
her sail down the const, but had joined
X. and his friends at Ht. Augnstiue, re
turned indeed with the body to that an
cient city, but there left it without going
on board, and took the cars at once for
the North. The yachting party com
prised, in fact, only X. aud two intimate
friends of his.
The detective now proceeded to St.
Augustine to find, if possible, some
actual witnesses of the reported occur
rence who were not bound to secrecy
nor likely to be interested in keeping
the matter secret. At a hotel in that
city he found registered the names of
Y., the law student mentioned above,
and a friend of his, both from New
York. Making inquiries, he speedily
ascertained that the impression was very
general in St. Augustine that a duel had
been fought, and there were several
good reasons why this belief should
exist, Iu the first place, the two par
ties, while evidently meeting by ap
pointment, were not on friendly terms,
but ouly those of formal Rud ceremoni
ous courtesy. Iu the second place, it
was absurd to talk of any parties going
hunting for large game on Anastatia
Island, where no large game existed. In
tlu) third place, persons going hunting
in an unknown country would have
taken a guide, whereas X. and his party
refused to have one, though it was
several times suggested to them. In the
fourth place, the party had taken a sur
geon with them, aud this surgeon cer
tainly did not go huutiug, since he took
no arms. Yet, so anxious were they to
have this gentleman (a surgeon of the
United States army) with them, that,
not finding him at St. Augustine as they
expected, they waited three days while
the yacht sailed up the coast to Fort
Pulaski to fetch him.
This surgeon was still in St. Augus
tine when the detective reached there,
but peremptorily refused to give the ofli
eer any information whatsoever, except
that it was a most unfortunate affair—
an unforseeu accident, Ac. The detec
tive now went to Auastatia Island, still
hoping to come (across some witnesses
of the occurrence. In this he twas not
entirely mistaken, but his errand was
still bootless. A good mauy persons,
chiefly negroes, had seen the party ar
rive, and return with the dying mail —
none, however, had been on the spot
where and when the alleged accident oc
curred, except one old planter, an aristo
crat in a ruuwiin shirt and Kentucky jeans,
who occupied a story high unplastered
log house, and lived on bacon and
eoru-dodgers, bat who solaced himself
in solitndefhe was a bachelor) by reading
Sophocles and the Hevue dr* Deux.
Monde*, smoking Cuba tobacco in a clay
pipe, and drinking Sue French brandy
from a tin cup. This truly Southern
original avowed to the detective that he
wit: eased the occurrence and knew a
good many of the particulars, but de
clined to tell what he knew unless as
sured the officer was entitled to know.—
When informed of the det- ctive's errand
he was immensely disgusted, and swore'
he’d see him to’ the devil XrtUne he’d
cir. him au item of intelligence. The
detective, greatly non-plnssed, returned
to St. Augustiae, and after a day or two,
tinding he could not gain any further in
formation, came back jto New York.—
Here he reported to Mn»«. Q-, and ad
vised her to give the affair’pufcljeity,
have the body exnnraed, and, bv gousg
before the local Florida grand jury,
bring the maUer to trial. To his sur
orise Mine. Q. would do nothing of the
sort. She had lost *U interest in the
affair, she said, and had determined not
to pu.'h it further, befog sow
that the death of X. was the resgli of
accident. This, however, did mat suit
the detective' and he avowed hi* deter
mination, if she would proceed no
further, to make the whole matter pub
lic, with names and all. ‘‘You had bet
ter not,” said Mme. Q., but the officer
said he was not to be bluffed. That
night the detective was eweated and
throwu into Ludlow Street Jail, n
charge which he knew he could u«t
meet, but which had been tacitly held
back by those cognizant of the misde
meanor, among whoa was a prominent
lawyer, well known as couitaal sos the
senior X. Next morning this lawyer
came to see the detective, and a com
promise of some sort is thought to have
been effected—at least, the charge was
withdrawn, the officer released, and the I
sensational report did not get published.
So things went on for about a month.
At last, however, there began to be a
determined rumor arouud the clubs that
X. had been shot in a duel with young
Y. the law student; that the cause of
the duel was a quarrel about Mme. Q.,
and that its fatal termination was in a
great measure due to the fact that Y.. in
his trepidation and haste, had tired out
of time, and thus indeed killed his man
accidentally, bat in a duel nevertheless.
This story was so often repeated that it
got to Paris, and thence to Heidelberg,
where Y. was studying law. Y. imme
diately wrote to Z., the friend who had
accompanied him to Florida, to inquire
about the rumor, aud, “if found to be
designedly set afloat, contradict, and
prove negative by giving particulars.”
Z. a subtle and thorough going young
attorney and IV s ardent friend, made
some private inquiries and speedily
ascertained that this new version of the
affair had originated with Mme. Q.; that
she had received just previously a deed
for the house and lot in which she lived
from X. senior; and that the furniture
in this house, which had belonged to
young X., was now hers. Z. also learned
enough to satisfy him that Hiese nego
tiations had been conducted through the
old lawyer, who had forced the detective
to come to terms. Some other facts not
necessary to mention here were cumula
tive evidence to him that his friend was
being aspersed at the instigation of X.,
senior. Satisfied of this, he at once
called a meeting at his house of tweh-e
persons, six of them friends of the dead
X., six friends of the absent Y., and,
explaining first the reasons for liis ac
tion, proceeded at once to recount to
them the actual history of the tragical
affair, and to require them, as in honor
they were bound to do, to contradict
formally the vindictive rumors set afloat
in regard to Y. It is from those who
heard Z.’s narrative that we derive the
following true account of this most
harrowing affair :
For eighteen months before liis death
X. had been engaged to be married to
liis cousin, Miss J. This engagement
had been dictated by family reasons,
and for the same reasons had been al
lowed to subsist, even after Miss J. had
lost the rather slight esteem she had
once had sot her cousin, upon finding
that, though her betrothed lover, he
still kept up his connection with Mme.
Q. There was another reason, however,
why Miss J. had learned to dislike the
chains which yet she disdained to fling
off. She had become acquainted with,
interested in young Y., and she knew
that Y. was desperately in love with her.
This X. suspected, a~d he hated Y. for
j it, because he knew that the family com
j pact required him to marry Miss J., for
whom he had fondness enough to desire
her respect at least when she should be
come his wife. On the other hand, Y.
heartily despised X., both for his gen
eral manners, and in particular for his
supposed ill-treatment of Miss J.—
Things being in this state it may be
imagined that only a few slight sparks
was needed to cause an explosion. The
spark was soon supplied. Y. went to the
theatre one evening with Miss J., aud
while there they encountered X., wait
ing upon Mme. Q. What passed be
tween Miss J. and X. in consequence of
tnis contretemps is not known ; but a
day or two afterwards X., meeting Y.,
accosted him in a tone of concentrated
bitterness, and accused him of imperti
nence and intrusion. Y. resented his
language haughtily, and there would
have been an open quarrel on the spot,
but X. said : “Stop ! You are in my
way, or lam in yours. There’s one too
many of us. Will you go to Florida
with me to settle which ?” Y. assented
at once, but objeoted to the appearance
of quarreling with X. in any way con
nected with Miss J., whom he declined
to compromise. “That is easily settled,”
said X.; “do you think you are more
careful of my betrothed’s good name
than I ? Let us make up a dinner at the
Club ; plenty of wine there, cards
afterwards, und we can quarrel regular
ly.” Y. agreed ; and sure enough next
day received an invitation to dine with
X. at the Club, aud to bring a
friend with him.
Y. took Z. to the dinner. X. was ap
parently most free and cordial, but in
leading the way to table whispered in
Y.’sear: “Don’t be uneasy. Let me
take the initiative. I will give you a
sufficient and palpable casus belli.” No
more and the dinner passed off
brilliantly, with wine enough to create
something more than a sparkle of wit.
After dinner tho party adjourned to a
card room, and, as there were just eight,
two whist tables were brought into play,
with supplementary cigars und brandy.
X. aud Y. were antagonists at one of
these tallies, and the stakes were high
high enough to be worth the winning.
In tho course of the game, X., who pre
tended to be or was becoming “tight,”
deliberately slipped a card. Y. saw this,
aud at tho same time felt X. kick him
under the table, as if to say, “ now’s
your chance.” Y, hesitated, however,
unwilling to tight his opponent upon so
gross a charge as this. The deal passed,
and soon X. did the same thing over
again. Y.’s partner hesitated, aud then
rose from the table, saying he did not
intend to play any more. X. scowled at
him, then turning to Y. said: “Your
partner soppm to agree with you, but lie
does not dare i,o say why.” “ Why do I
not dure?” asked Y., quietly, “ Because
you are a coward,” yelled X. 11 (J PO !”
said Y, “ not a coward ; but, I confess
it, ashajped to have to tell iny host that
he is a liar and a cheat!”
Ou the instant both men rose, and X.
struck Y. in the forehead with a decan
ter, inflicting quite a wound. They
were immediately separated, but before
they left the club house that night a
challenge had passed from Y. toX.,
been accepted, and the agreement was
mmfe to fight in Florida with double
barrelled shot guns, loaded with musket
ball and buck shot. X.’s yacht could
not be got ready in loss than ten days
for sailing, and it would take that time
for Y.’s wound to heal, so that he could
travel safely. It was agreed, therefore,
that both should start for St. Augustine
on the same day, ten days from that
time, X.’s party sailing with him, aud
Y. and his friend going by rail. Two
days after this fracas Miss J. sent a note
to "Y. iusioting upon his visiting her at
once. He went, “I have heard of this
duel,” said the young Jady impulsively;
“Idivinethecau.se; it must and shall
be prevented.” Y. said nothing, but
pointed significantly to his bandaged
head. “J will prevent it nevertheless,”
said Miss J. “You cannot and must
not,” said Y. “I trill,” insisted Miss
J., and she persisted in that resolution
to the end of the interview, which was
necessarily a painful one.
On the day appointed the parties met
at St. Augustine. X. was excited and
nervous. Y. silent and sombre. When
the surgeon was finally obtained, they
went across to Anastatia Island in two
boats, and avoiding all but the old
planter (who came upou them while ar
ranging the preliminaries, and courteous
ly asked leave to stay spd “see the
sport,” informing them at tho s tone time
that it was his laud they were going to j
fight on), made haste to prepare for the j
sanguinary fray. It was arranged pre
viously that both barrels of the guns
should be loaded, tha men to stand forty
yards apart, fire one barrel each at the i
word, then advancing until only ten
yards divided them, deliver the reserved \
lire at will. After some delays, short- j
eued by the invaluable aid of the old ;
planter, who seemed to know all about
the business m which the rest were no
vices, all the details were completed, the
combatants placed, and at tha word they j
fired simultaneously. The bullet from
X. gun whistled through Y.'s hair, j
while one of Y.’s buckshot cut two tin- 1
gars from X.’s left hand. “ Advance !"
cried V- ’* second ; but at this moment
Y. flung down his gun. “ Stop !” he j
cried, “ I haye proved that I can stand
fire, now to business!” f‘ Villain,” I
shonted X-, beside himself with fury, ;
“ take up your gun and advance, or I’ll I
shoot you like a dog as you stand J”
“ You must do that tnrough my body, i
Mr. X.,” said the old planter, stepping I
forwaid so as to cover Y’. “ Now, Mr.
Y-, jf yon have any reason why the duel i
should pot gp on let us have it quickly-” !
“Gentlemen,’' said Y-, taking a large i
relope from liis pocket, “I am bound
to confess that tße issue upon which we ;
are fighting—that Mr. X. cheated at j
cards—is one male qp between him and j
me. But here”—touching the envelope j
—“are affidavits aud other erifl ace, !
coming to me the n ght before 1 left ■
New York, from whence I cannot tell ;
bttt it is evidence— record —that shows j
Mr. % . b® a cheat at cards, a con
fessed forger, a man too dishonor
able and dishonored to gyer hope to have j
an honorable antagonist fisc Jife
against him !” “Take care, young mans ‘ ,
shouted the old planter, snatching up !
Y-’i gun and pointing it towards X.; “if
yon dare *_Loot your unarmed antagon
istic, damme it l don’t kill yon myself!" j
X.’s face was frightful to witness as he
put down the gun, resting the ai-jck on
the ground and holding the barrels in ;
bis hands. “Mr. X.,” said Y., “if you
etui «b#proye these allegations the fight
shall go (in/' Y. was silent, except for
4 groan. T. again, “if
you will deny these charges Do "ght
mav go on P %■ looked up. “Do "yon •
mean,” said he slowly, '-fhai you will
not fight me unless I can disprove-.—deny ,
those—those records ?” “I most etr-;
tainly will not,” answered Y. “Then,"
X., in a ringing voice, “I have the .
hum* inform you that they are every j
one tru« -#**! may God have mercy
upon bit soul P TitfH-e was a sudden,
swift motion of X-’s 'four, g muffled re
port, and, as the smoke cleared away, X.
was seen lying shot through and through.
He had killed himselff!
They raised him up while the surgeon
came to his side. He beckoned to Y. to
approach. “Shake hands, Y.,” said he,
in a feeble voice, “von are a happier fel
low than L” Y. held his hand out, X.
clasped it, aud when Y. drew his away
there was a little, crumpled, blood
stained note in it. X. fell back again,
vomiting blood, and never more revived
until a few moments before he died,
when he dictated and signed a note t"i
his father. Y. s when he was by himself,
made haste to read the note that X. had
slipped into his hand, aud which he saw
was in Miss J’s. well known handwrit
ing. It was brief, but it was a revela
tion to Y. It read thus: “X. ! Yon
have done what you could to break my
heart. You shall not murder the man I
love. I have prevented the duel!" In
conclusion, Z. said that these facts were
known to the senior X., he knew well,
because, he, Z., had himself communi
cated them, aud there had in conse
quence been an agreement between them
to hush the whole matter up. That
agreement Mr. X. has himself broken;
whence, as Mr. Y’s. friend, Z. had felt
himself obliged to assemble the geutle
men together and make them the com
munication he had made. If things
went further, he should be tempted to
publish the affidavits and other evidence
in his possession. Here, however, one
of X’s. friends spoke up, and said Z.
was mistaken. X., senior, had not
broken the agreement, but his wife, a
revengeful woman, and deeply grieved
for her son, whom she loved iu spite of
his vices, had done it all, from first to
last. “Two days ago,” continued the
friend, “she was detected in the act of
trying to manufacture evidence to com
promise the character of MissJ., who
has gone, temporarily at least, into a
convent. Yesterday the unhappy Mrs.
X. was taken from her home to a mad
house a raving maniac.” These are the
leading particulars of this shocking af
fair, narrated without the least attempt
at coloring, and with solicitude to pre
sent the truth alone with severe accuracy
and without commeut.
FORTUNE.
A Tale in Six Parts.
I.
( Advertisement. J
The advertiser will initiate those who
apply into the secrets of a business
which requiree.no capital and no efforts,
and which will yield an income of at
least .SSOO a year, requiting no special
knowledge, and suitable for men and
women of all conditions. Letters to be
prepaid. John Veeysmakt, Agent.
n.
Omaha, March 4, 1874.
John Very smart, Chicago:
Dear Sir—Having seen your adver
tisement in the Tribune, I request you,
at your earliest convenience, to intarm
me of the nature of the business refem'd
to in the same. I confess that a safe
and yearly income of sooo would be very
acceptable to me. If your promises
prove entirely satisfactory you may rely
on my warmest gratitude.
Bespuctfully yours,
Tiios. Dunce.
iii.
Chicago, March 12, 1874.
Thos. Dunce, Omaha:
Dear Sir— ln receipt of your favor of
4tli instant. lam willing and ready to
give you the desired information, but
have to request you to send me five dol
lars as fee, us you will readily under
stand that I could not part with so valu
able a secret without some tangible con
sideration. John Verysmart, Agent.
iv.
Omaha, March 15, 1874.
John Verysmart, Agent :
Sir —Enclosed you wall please find the
required fee of five dollars, in return for
which I expect, by return mail, to be put
in possession of your valuable secret,
hoping that tho same may correspond to
the rather high price you ask for divulg
ing the same.
Respectfully yours,
Thos. Dunce.
Chicago, March 25, 1874.
Thos. Dunce, Omaha :
Dear Sir— ln receipt of your favor of
the 15th instant,with enclosure as stated.
I hurry to place you in possession of the
valuable secret concerning a business
hitherto unknown to the public, and you
will, no doubt admit that it pos
sesses all the advantages claimed for it.
The business is very simple aud consists
in the following : You advertise in some
newspaper of wide circulation that you
are able to indicate a business by which
it would be easy to earn from five hun
dred to a thousand dollars a year,
&c., exactly as yon have seen it in my
advertisement; you will receive many
applications in answer to this ; yon will
then request the applicants to send you
a f- w dollars as preliminary fee—exactly
as I did in my respects of 12th instant.
When you receive the fee you will make
exactly the same explanations I have
given you iu the present, which I hope
will reach you safely. In this manner
you will, no doubt, without much trou
ble or effort, have a yearly revenue of at.
least SSOO, and congratulating you in
advance of this agreeable experience, 1
remain yours sincerely,
John Verysmart.
vi.
[Advertisement. 1
At least SI,OOO a year can be made in
a pleasant and agreeable way, and at
tention is oalled to the fact that no capi
tal whatever is required for the estab
lishment of this business. For further
information, apply to
Thomas Dunce,
Omaha, P O. box 96,742.
UEOIiGTA ITEMS.
Savannah is soon to have a fox hunt.
Darien had twelve inches of rain last
week.
Crops in Floyd and Chattooga coun
ties are doing well.
Lightning struck a brick store in Sa
vannah last Saturday evening.
The Griffin Light Guards aud Spald
ing Greys have been reorganized.
It is no uncommon thing for infants
to be left on porches in Columbus.
Eight hundred and twelve persons
have registered so far iu Cliatham
county.
Judge Pottle is presiding in Chatham
Superior Court in the absence of Judge
Schley,
Ripe plums have appeared in Colum
bus and the doctors in consequence are
kept busy.
A Grange of the Patrons of Husband
ry was organized at Flowery Branch,
Hall county, on the2)th inst.
A negro man and white woman who
desireefto miscegenate in Valdosta jail,
had to be starved into a separation.
Seventeen hundred and eighty-seven
dollars aud ninety cents were realized at
one table at the Atlanta Catholic Fair.
The net proceeds of the recent Catho
lic Fair held iu Savannah, for the bene
fit of thp new Cathedral, amounted to
the handsome sum of $16,997 73.
Mr. William Solomon, of Atlanta, fell
from a window of his residence last
Saturday, the fall producing concussion
of the brain which soon caused his
deatl).
The argument in the Chisholm case
was concluded in Fulton Superior Court
Saturday evening. The Judge charged
the jury and adjourned the Court until
yesterday morning.
The Columbus mills have taken thus
far this season 6,850 bales of cotton
against 5,246 last year, showing an in
crease of 1,604. The Colnmbus cotton
receipts are now 59,4£5 bales—3,736
more thaa last year.
In a difficulty iu Atlanta, last Satur
day, between James Wilson and Joseph
Knight, Wilson drew a pistol and fired at
Ijuigfit. The ball missed the latter and
came near striking a woman who was
passing at the time, Wilson WUS ar
rested.
There is a gentleman living on the
Southwestern Railroad near Columbus,
wh» has thirteen daughters. He buys
clothing for them by the wholesale.—
Thus when last in Columbus he bought
370 yards of calico, 100 of lawn, 13 cor
sets, 26 pairs of shoes and other goods
in proportion. Unlike many fathers
who have pply one daughter, he paid
cash for all his pnrehasps. Though an
old man, he has never bought a bushel
cf corn or pound of meat, but raises
them himsoU, Jfe h as n e ? e r sworn an
oath, and does not owe a dollar. La.-t
week he sold the remnant of his cotton
crop, forty bales, and in addition t>l,2So
in gold.
Y/. Field, the Superintendent
of Publio Instruction if? Brooklyn,
having reported that the association of
sexes in different public schools in
Brooklyn was productive of immor
ality, sixteen principals of schools have
sent a denial of the facts to the Board
oi and that body has ap
pointed a special committee to inquire
into the fact. Mr. Field in the mean
time has written to a committee of tne
Principals’ Association maintaining his
insertions, and saying that if he cannot
saxisjactotily prove that the association
of the sexes gn th~ higher and par
ticularly the souplelneujtfry classes is an
ewun fedure, fie will he readyto assent
to his unfltnnas fop fiis office.
The separate votes taken in the Con
necticnt Legislature yesterday render
certain the election of Eaton to-day.
WATTERSON AND THE EMPIRE.
The Other Side of the Picture.
[Cincinnati Commercial.]
When tho telegraph ominously whis
pered that “H. W.,” of the Louisville
Courier Journal, meandering all along
the coast, was making the flaggings of
Pennsylvania avenue resound to the
dumpings of his editorial brogans’ we
felt in all our bones that the fullness of
time had come for another of those vio
lent shocks which send a thrill of horror
to the extremities of the body politic.
It has been impossible for some days to
pick up a damp copy of that enterpris
ing newspaper without feeling that
some where amid the wild luxuriance of
prodigal information in which it
abounds, the startled eye would light
upon something over the well known
initials, pregnant with impending
national calamity. At last it has come!
It is contained in a letter dated “Wash
ington, the 9th of May,” and under the
heading of “The Political Outlook.”
If it were not for the quieting assur
ance given in the concluding paragraph
of the letter, that it is made up of
“stray notions” which found their way
into the editorial brain “between the
sherry and the champagne,” we should
be utterly disconsolate, and prepare to
write “Ichabod” upon the portals of the
Republic. It does not seem to us, how
ever, that the case is absolutely desper
ate and hopeless so long as a luminous
editor is able pensively to contemplate
the vast phantom of Caesarism, without
confounding the editorial digestion or
palsying the editorial hand as it lifts
the beaded and sparkling glass to the
rubicund editorial lips. The festive
and joyous allusion to refreshing bever
ages that moistened deglutition while
the “stray notions” went and came, un
bidden guests at the least, shows that
the grisly phantom possessed none of
the terrors that shook the nerves of
doughty warriors at the Last Banquet
of the Baron.
We are further reassured against
our fears when we look again into
the letter for the exciting causes of
the weird phenomena that disturbed the
darkened soul of the editorial bonvivant
iu his hour of supreme enjoyment. A
personal dynasty, and an indefinite
period of bullet-headed Generalism in
the Executive chair, is predicated upon
the fact that Grant vetoed the Senate
Financial bill! Now, had Grant vetoed
it because he believed it to be a measure
not in harmony with the pledges of the
Republican party aud the past policy of
his Administration, or because he
thought it violative of good faith to pub
lic creditors, and calculated to put off
indefinitely the day when a paper dollar
shall have the value of a gold dollar, we
might reflect upon the act with tolerable
composure of mind.
But no such patriotic or lofty motive,
we are told, actuated tli3 President. He
vetoed the bill because he wanted to kill
off Morton, put Logan back a thousand
years, extinguish the prospects of all
dangerous rivals, liopelessh* disrupt and
divide political parties, aud secure the
succession to himself. Having bribed
Conkling to acquiesce, bought off But
ler, dished Dawes, disposed of Wash
burne, hamstrung Hendricks, thwarted
Thurman aud demoralized both political
parties, this astute soldier civilian
adroitly, and as he did at Appomattox
Court House, comes in at the supreme
moment, looming gigantic over prostrate
forms and the general wreck of things,
the central and vast figure of an impe
rial colossus.
A “dismal prospect, indeed,” as the
editor remarks. With the Democratic
party just strong enough to lose, the
Graugers just strong enough to hold on,
the Liberals neither strong nor weak
enough to count, and the Republicans
disordered and divided, what is to pre
vent the ascendency of this one man
power, this incarnation of imperial des
potism ? “Behold the opportunity and
the man !” exclaims the astounded edi
tor. “In the atom and motion, behold
the Universe,” says Saguiney. Yea,
verily. There is nothing like it. Given
a lively imagination, the dome of the
Capitol visible between the necks of a
sherry decanter and a champagne bottle,
aud be would be a miserable wretch,
without the soul of an oyster, who could
not conjure up as melancholy reflections
as did Marius sitting amid the ruins of
Carthage.
We have a faint hope that when “11.
W.” shall have shaken off the dust of
the Capital, and resumed his wonted
place in this Western seat of Empire, a
serene faith in the omnipotence of the
people will scatter the “stray notions”
that have saddened and sobered a us
ually buoyant mind, and inspire confi
dence in the ability of 40,000,000 of in
telligent freemen to preserve the insti
tutions which the fathers established
with infinite care, and which their chil
dren have maintained at infinite cost.
It is not impossible that General Grant
may aspire to a third term, though as
yet we have seen no evidences of it be
yond the gossip of sensational corre
spondents, and the evolutions of the
consciousness of the intellectual depart
ment of the New York Herald. But
should he become President a third
time, it will be by the consent of the
American people, in accordance with
the forms of the Constitution, and
without <my surrender of sovereignty on
the part of those who would hurl from
the Executive chair and grind to fine
dust any man who should presume to
hold the Presidential office one hour be
yond the time to which he is entitled to
exercise its prerogatives.
Mrs. Gaines as a Lawyer.
Belva A. Lockwood’s recent appear
ance iu the Court of Claims in Wash
ington reminds the New Orleans Pica
yune of what occurred in the District
Court of that city nearly thirty years
ago. It was on the trial of one of the
first of the many suits of Mrs. Myra
Clark Gaines. Judge Buchanan pre
sided, and the case was submitted to a
jury. It happened that the lawyers,
some of the ablest at the bar, fell into a
bitter wrangle with the Judge, and were
so offended at his rulings that they
withdrew from the case and the Court.
Mrs. Gaines and the veteran General,
her husband, were present in Court.
The General wore his full uniform, his
sword and sash, in conformity to the
regulations. The lady was there in the
meridian of a beauty, grace aud vivacity,
even now preserved to so remarkable a
degree, after reaching the Scriptural
limit of human life. Immediately upon
the withdrawal of her lawyers the
stately old hero of Fort Erie, taking his
wife by the hand, led her to the bar, and
addressed the Judge as follows:
“ May it please your Honor, I was
educated for the bar, and the honored
relative whose name I bear (the celebra
ted Chief Justice Edmund Pendleton,
of Virginia), impressed me, in early
youth, with the profoundest reverence
for the civil courts of my country. Per
haps iu the view of the world and of
the Court, it would be my duty to sup
ply the place of my wife’s lawyers upon
their retirement from her ease. If it
were a duty that I thought myself ade
quate to perform, I should not shrink
from it, for tire lady, besides being my
wife, is the daughter of my old friend,
Daniel Clark, to whom lam bound by
many ties of an ancient friendship and
warm esteem, to render every service I
can in the maintenance of the rights of
his friendless daughter. And this ser
vice I should be bound, as a soldier and
a gentlemen, to render to any lady in like
circumstances. But as the lady is far
more qble to argue her case than I am,
I beg that she be allowed to conduct her
own case.”
And then, raising his head and gently
touc’uiug bis sword, he tqrued to the op
posite counsel and remarked; “For
whatever the lady shall say or
do I hold myself responsible, to the
full measure and in every manner recog
nized by gentlemen.”
Judge Buchanan was greatly annoy, and
at this proposition, and fired up at the
allusion of the General to his personal
responsibility. He manifested his an
ger by reminding the General that a dis :
play of military pomp and menace could
not be ..flowed iu the Court. Be was
not to fie overawed in that way.
Genera} Qqines, }n a mqst courteous
and submissive styie, begged to assure
his Honor that, if he referred to his
presence in Court in military dress and
accoutrements, it was from respect for
the Court, aud in strict conformity to
the regulations of the service. The
sword which he wore would never be
drawn with more alacrity than in the
defense of the civil authority and tribu
nals of the country. Mrs. Gaines then
took charge of her case, and for several
days conducted it with all her spirit and
zeal, confronting and vexing the learned
counsel, and worrying the Judge with
her sharp little speeches and piqnant
personalities, winding up her case with
a very effective speech tp the jury. We
do not now remember the result, but
have a very distinct recollection that the
Judge, who was a plucky but nigh-tem
pered gentleman, did not resume his
plate on tfie fiench the next day, and for
several days thereafter. The filial j udg
ment in the case was in favor of Mrs.
Gaines.
The Rome Commercial says: We
have been to some trouble to ascertain
as accurately as possible the crop pros
pect* of this county. The capricious
Winter through which we haye just
oassed has been very severe on wheat:
Indeed two weeks ago our farmers pre
dicted a complete failure of the wheat
crop. In all this section wheat is look
ing much better than it did ten days
ago.’ The few varpi flays that we have
had has exerted a vtf T? beneficial influ
ence, Farmers are iu better heart, and
hope to reap an average grain yield this
season.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Congressional.
Washington, May 18.—In the House,
the first hour of the session was given
to the introduction, reading and refer- 1
ence of bills. Nothing of importance.
Mr. Hays, of Alabama, to-day suc
ceeded in having the House pass his
resolution authorizing the President to
issue rations and clothing to the inunda
ted destitute of the Tombigbee, War
ren and Alabama rivers. The resolution
now goes to the Senate. The passage
of the bill required considerable person
al urging. Senere, of Virginia, tried
but failed to get an amendment to the
post office appropriation bill to pay mail
contractors in the Southern States
prior to April 1871. Bills passed to
remove political disabilities from Jos.
Wheeler, of Lawrence county, Ala., and
L. L. Lomax, of Virginia. A resolution
for a select committee to proceed to Ala
bama was offered by Poland, of Ver
mont, but was rejected.
The Senate has up the Legislative,
Judicial and Executive Appropriation
bills.
The Senate passed a bill to relieve
ships and vessels from compulsory pilot
fees in certain cases. It provides
that no owner, agent, master or con
signee of any ship or vessel when trad
ing between district and district or be
tween different places in the same dis
trict, or carrying on a fishery shall by
virtue of the laws of any State be com
pelled to employ or pay a pilot, not
voluntarily employed on entering or de
parting from any port or harbor. Alcorn
introduced a bill to provide for the ap
pointment, by the Secretary of War, of
a commission of three army and two
civil engineers to investigate and report
a permanent plan for the reclamation of
the alluvial basin of the Mississippi river
subject to inundation. Referred to
the Committee on Levees of the Mis
sissippi. The Senate to-day agreed to
the committee’s amendments to the legis
lative, judicial and executive appropri
ation bill which provides for three night
watchmen in addition to the other of
ficers in the office of the Assistant
Treasurer at Now Orleans and an ap
propriation of §2,16:) for their compen
sation: also the following appropria
tions : To re-open the branch mint at
New Orleans which is to be conducted
hereafter as a mint, subject to the pro
visions and restrictions of the coinage
act of 1873—salaries—Superintendent,
§3,500; Assayer, who shall also perform
the duties of melter, §2,ooo—five work
men, §3,ooo—fuel, lights, chemicals, re
pairs to building, &c., §SOO more.
K. C. Cox, British Vice-Consul at
Key West, has been recognized.
Nominations—John Cochren, Collec
tor First Louisiana District; Joseph Jer
geman, Postmaster at Petersburg, Vir
ginia.
The privilege of the floor of the
House was accorded the Indiana editors.
Many under petticoat rule were absent
because their sweethearts were not
included in the privilege.
American Bible Society.
Washington, May 17.—The 58th an
niversary of the American Bible Society
was held in the hall of the House of
Representatives to-night, which was
largely attended. Addresses were made
by the President, Rev. Dr. William H.
Allen, of Pennsylvania; Rev. Alex. Mc-
Lean, of New York; Representative
Maynard, of Tennessee, and Professor
Julius H. Steele, of Massachusetts. It
appears by the Secretary’s report that
the receipts for the year were §664,436,
including §333,238 for publications,
§171,284 from legacies, §115,713 from
donations, and the remainder of the
sum from other sources. The number
of volumes issued was 990,572, includ
ing 832,070 from the Bible House in about
forty languages, and 158,502 abroad.
The entire number of volumes issued
during fifty-eight years is 30,972,786.
The gratuitous work for the year
amounted in value to §340,644. The
number of families visited during the
last eight years, 4,526,145. The num
ber of families found destitute of the
Bible, 450,623; destitute families sup
plied, 323,537; destitute individuals sup
plied in addition, 267,168; Sabbath and
other schools supplied, 11,759.
Nellie Grants’ Wedding,
Washington, May 19.—Every precau
tion has been taken to save the marriage
of the President’s daughter from the
characteristics of a state event. Only
Sir Edward Thornton and lady, who
represent the nativity of the bride
groom, are invited. No other diplomats
have cards, of which only two hundred
and fifty have been issued. The East
Room will be decorated. The gates of
the White House grounds will be closed
to secure privacy, and immediately after
the ceremony the pair will leave for New
York and thence for Europe on Satur
day.
Cabinets, Compensation and Cau
cusses.
There was a full Cabinet to-day; No
Southern nominations. The argument
on the postal telegraph occurs on the
27th. The Committee on Pensions will
report a bill for thirty dollars per mouth
and nearly two thousand dollars back
pay in favor of the widow of Capt. Hall,
who died on the Polaris in the recent
Arctic expedition. In the Republican
caucus Clayton’s resolution to send in
vestigators to Arkansas was defeated.
A resolution to adjourn June 22d, was
adopted.
Durell to Be Impeached.
Washington, May 20.—The Judiciary
Committee, by a vote of six to four have
agreed to report to the House articles of
impeachment against Judge Durell, Dis
trict Judge of Louisiaua. Personal
of the vote in the committee: For the
articles—Butler, Poland. Wilson, White,
Eldridge, Potter. Contrary—Ward,
Frerman, Frye, Cessna. On the vote in
the Busteed case the committee was
equally divided, Jewett was absent
when the votes were taken.
The Committee on Patents will re
port adversely to the extension of the
Tanner Car Brake Patent.
Nellie Grant’s Wedding’.
Reception dresses without bonnets
are to be worn at the wedding to-mor
row. The marriage license is as follows:
Algernon, Charles Frederick Sartoris,
of Wars, Ash, House Titchfield, Hants,
of England and Ellen Wrenshall Grant,
of Washington.
Contirmation-Rockrem, Collector First
District of Louisiana.
THE EPISCOPAL CONVENTION.
Bishop Stevens’ Address.
Philadelphia, May 20.—Bishop Ste
vens, in his annual address to the Con
vention, referred to the Reformed Epis
copal Church as follows: Since we
were last in convention an event has oc
| curred which is unprecedented in the
history of our church. One of its
Bishops has abandoned its communion
and transferred, as he declared, the work
and office and consecration he re
! ceived from this church to another
sphere. The other sphere lias proved
j to be the establishing of a “Reformed
I Episcopal” Church. The unfaithful
ness to his three fold vows of ordina
tion, this needless rending of the
Church of Christ, he has crowned by an
act unparalelled in the annals of Christ’s
Church, consecrating by his single self
a lawfully deposed clergyman to the
work and office of Bishop. Vigorous
efforts have been made by the disaffect
ed sect to asperse the purity of our
church, and sow the seeds of discontent
amidst our clergy and laity. To this
end falsehood, misrepresentations and
perversions have been resorted to
through the press and pulpit in reference
to our prayer book,our policy and our leg
islation. In thisdiocese it is satisfactory 1#
know that only one clergymau has been j
led away in this schismatic movement
aud he under very peculiar circum
stances. Rev. Walter Windeger, to
whom I refer, ministered in a church
building erected at the sole expense of
a wealthy layman who kindly loaned it
to the congregation of Trinity Qhqrch,
Falls of Schuylkill. The property, how
ever, never belonged to the parish and
they had no right in or oontrol over it.
When this really excellent layman cast
in his lot with this Reformed Episcopal
church, he of course carried the
church building, which was his private
property, with him, while it was but
natural under the circumstances in
which they were placed, that a large
portion of the congregation worshipping
in that building, and many of whom
were more or less nonnected with the
manufacturing works of that laymnn,
should follow their minister and their
benefactor. The future of this sect
very much depends on the course
which shall be taken in reference to cer
tain grave questions by the next Gen
eral Convention. Should that body, rep
resenting our whoiguopamuniop,
to the interests of all its 'members, and
legislating, not for momentary issues, bqt
for the future welfare of the Church,
modify some of thp existing canons and
give KUipuatm condemnation of the
doctrines and practices now broeched
by the advanced or so-called Catholic
party which has recently appeared
amongst ns not only will occasion for
leaving our church be cut off, but the
movement itself will have lost its lever
age in the removal of those things from
Owl liturgy which gave it origin and
power.
The Savannah Schcetzen. —The Sa
vannah Schnetzen Gesellschaft have
completed arrangements for t&e>7 pom
ina annual festival, dmuiations wRI be
extended tq tfye Savannah volunteer
companies and to the Sohnetgen Socie
ties of Charleston, Augusta, Aiken, Mo
bile and Selma,
LAST DATS OF J. WILKEB BOOTH.
[From the Baltimore Sunday Telegram.]
In the beautiful country near the val
ley of the Rappahannock, and about
three miles to the south of that grand
old river, is situated the house and farm
where J. Wilkes Booth met his unhappy
end. Once a thriving and prosperous
land, where on every hand one saw the
green fields teeming with plenty, and
heard the song of the negro, as when
their day’s work was done they wended
their way to happy homes; but where
now the broken fences and worn out
hill-sides tell too plainly that the iron
hand of war has swept over that once
beautiful laud, and left too many sad
traces of his presence.
It was a beautiful evening in April,
when three horsemen were seen coming
down the road that leads to Edmouds
bury (Mr. Garrett’s house.) These,
Willie Jett, Lieutenant Rtiggles and
Wilkes Booth, as he was introduced,
Mr. Boyd. Mr. Jett asked my father to
let Mr. Boyd remain with him a few
days, as he was wounded and could not
travel. My father consented and Messrs.
Jett and Buggies rode off in the direc
tion of Carolina Court House.
Mr. Boyd then said he was very fa
tigued, and would lie down on the grass
in the yard He seemed very sad, and
when asked if his wound pained him,
said, ‘Yes ; that riding jarred it.’ He
ate very little supper and soon retired.
We slept in the same room with him
that night and noticed that he had a
pair of Colt’s revolvers and a very hand
some dirk, which he said was the gift of
a friend.
He rose quite early the next morning,
and seemed to be in very good spirits.
As it was quite warm he stayed on the
porch or in the yard the most of the day
with the children playing around him.
He seemed to be very fond of children,
and took some pains in showing them a
pocket compass and an opera glass that
he had with him. Just before dinner,
ho and my older brothers proposed to
practice shooting with a pistol. We
were surprised at his splendid shooting,
for he could hit a small mark about the
size of a dime at every shot. The marks
of the balls are there now in an old
cedar post in front of the house. In
the afternoon Harrold came, and they
proposed to go away the next morning.
Ah! he did not think that the next
morning’s sun would rise upon his life
less body.
They spent the evening in talking,
and seemed to be quite merry. Harrold
told a great many jokes, and kept all in
a good humor. That night they pro
posed to sleep in the barn, and my
brothers, who had just returned from
the army, slept in adjoining one, for
fear of losing their horses, as there had
been several stolen in the neighborhood.
The other part has been often told,
and is familiar to all. How the : oldiers
came, and how he was shot, and the
barn burned and how, in desperation,
he begged the officer to withdraw his
men fifty yards, and he would fight
them all ; how he refused to surrender,
and boldly stood with the flames creep
ing closer and closer, until at last a
sharp report, and he lay quivering in
the agonies of death on the floor. One
of his last remarks was : “Captain, it
is very hard that this man’s property
should be destroyed when he knows
nothing of me.”
He was carried to the house and laid
upon the floor of the porch. The doctor
was sent for; he soon came, but he could
do nothing, as the fatal bullet had done
the work. W 4 hile the doctor was kneel
iug beside him he asked them to show
him his hands. When he saw the nails
turn dark he dropped them and said,
“useless, useless.” He'was now sinking
rapidly. Once again he called to the
captain and whispered faintly, “tell my
mother I died for my country. I did
what I thought was best.” A gasp, a
quiver, and all was over. A dark stain
on the floor and a solitary post which
stands where he fell, are all that remains
to tell the tale.
It has been said by some that Booth
was betrayed by false friends, but when
we remember that there was no tele
graph within a hundred miles of the
place, and that he was killed within
forty-eight hours after crossing the
Rappahannock, any one can see the folly
of such an assertion.
A Memento of the Late Civil War.
[New York Herald.]
An interesting case came up for argu
ment yesterday in the Supreme Court,
and is one of the suits periodically turn
ing up in the Courts bringing up memo
ries of the late civil war. Thomas 8.
Metcalf, according to the statement of
William C. Church, was worth about
§3,000,000 before the war. He was a
resident of Georgia, and took a lively
interest in the Confederate States. Ho
was the trustee of Mary E. Church,
Maria H. Metcalf and Lorana D. Mar
tin, and under the will of Thomas 8.
Metcalf’s brother received §40,000 in
trust for Mrs. Maria 11. Metcalf and
Mary E. Church. This was as far back
as 1841. The trust was one giving power
to invest as the trustees pleased, and
under it he had invested the funds in
the Mechanics’ Bank of Augusta, Ga.,
of which he was a large shareholder and
President. When the war began the
funds of that bank were almost all given
to the Confederate States upon securi
ties of that government, which havo
since become entirely worthless, and
Mr. Metcalf became insolvent. He
died in 1870, leaving a will under which
he appointed Mr. William C. Church
one of his executors. Mr. Church was
also trustee of the will of his brother in
1841, but, not being a resident of
Georgia took out no letters testiment
ary on Mr. Metcalf’s estate, under the
advice of legal friends in Georgia.
There was one relic of his estate in a
claim against the United States for cot
ton seized belonging to Metcalf and
Batttrsby, an Englishman, for which
ultimately there was awarded §487,-
242 07. This was deposited with Dun
can, Sherman & Cos., of this city, and
Metcalf’s share still remaining with that
firm, Mr. Church, as trustee under the
elder will, asked that it be applied to
the settlement of the trust under that
will. Mr. Charles li. Stone, the execu
tor of the estate, claims the money for
the general purposes of the estate. Mr.
Church meanwhile has obtained letters
testamentary in New York, and now
brings a suit against Mr. Stone and
Duncan, Sherman & Cos., to have that
money turned over to him as executor,
but more especially to have an amount
reserved sufficient to meet the trust
funds under the elder will. The case
came up on a motion before Judge Don
ohue, in Supreme Court Chambers, for
an injunction to restrain Duncan, Sher
man & Cos. from acting with the money
until the questions between Mr. Church
and Mr. Stone could be decided. The
defendants insist that the whole ques
tion is one for the Georgia Courts and
that in any case Mr. Church has no right
to bring this suit. They also deny many
of the facts, among the rest that Bat
tersby and Metcalf have yet settled their
affairs. The case was argued at great
length, after which Judge Donohue took
the papers.
That extraordinary fraud or remarka
ble antiquity, the Cardiff Giant, has
turned up again. The Boston Herald,
having Rtated that the aforesaid Giant
had been sold in New Orleans for the
insignificant sum of SB, the proprietor
of the Giant has brought an action to
reoover considerable damages. He says
that the Giant has not been sold, in New
Orleans or anywhere else, for $8 or any
other money—that he is now and has
long been in Fitchburg, Mass.—that
be is worth fifty thousand dollars—that
he isn’t a fraud, but “ a colos
sal monolith”—that a purchaser for
$30,000, scared by this newspaper arti
cle, has backed out—that he, the pro
prietor of the aforesaid Giant, has thus
suffered great loss, trouble, coat, dam
age and general botheration. We trust
that this ease will come to trial and will
be thoroughly tried. It cannot be
denied that a great many learned and
intelligent people believed in the Giant,
and it will be satisfactory to have his
pretensions to antiquity passed upon by
a jury. If the ease only takes a proper
turn and the right witnesses are sum
moned, it will be not only an entertain
ing but an instructive one. So we beg
that it may go op. \"
There i c uo.t a finer oi heroic life
pnd in modern times than that
afforded by the short and obscure career
of George Gordon, Sixth Earl of Aber
deen, who was lost at sea three years
ago while serving as mate on an Ameri
can sailing vessel in the West Indies,—
He was one of those youus poWemen, of
great wealth greater heart, who be
lieve l hßt hqmanity has some claim upon
him, and he proposed to prepare himself
for the duties of his exalted station in
life by practical experience of the strug
gles gntl privations of the poor. He
oame to this country, and, under an as
sumed name, worked for a living with
his hands, gaining the regard and confi
dence of his fellow-laborers, who never
suspected his real rank and position.—
He became an able seamap at' last, and
was lost in a ttorm in 1870. His
mothpL *be Countess of Aberdeen, has
just sent a contribution of $1,600 to the
American Seamen’s Friend Society of
Boston for the purchase of books for
the use of sailors. If a proper his,tory
of his romantic life could W' written
from matepuls now in the hands of his
family, it woqlcl be extensively read
among the fashionable society of Eng
land, and might induce some young gen
tlemen, now at the crossing of the ways,
to devote their lives to something bet
ter than horses and ballet dancers.
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