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CHARLOTTE, N. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1867.
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la i lvance. Obituary notices are charged advertis
ing rates.
Advertisements not marked on the manuscript
for a ,pe ih"c time, will be inserted until forbid, and
charged accordingly.
$1 per square of 10 lines or less will be charged
for each insertion, unless the advertisement is in
serted 2 month? or more.
$30,000 WOItTII OP
GOLD and SILVER WANTED.
lias just returned from the North with a splendid
Stock of
FINE WATCHES, CLOCKS,
Jewelry, Silver and Plated Ware,
Table Knives fnd Cutlery, Mearskanm and Brier"
Hoot I'ipes, Guns and Pistols, Ac , &c , which is
wrranted superior to anything ever before intro
duced into i,is market, and which will be sold at
twenty-five per ceni icoe tbD th same class of
good. can be purchased at any other establishment
in the State.
Kajr Particular attention w ill be paid to the re
pairing of Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Ac.
Those indebted to me w ill please close up their
accounts, or I w ill be forced to put them in the
hands of an oflicer for collection.
CALL AND SEE THE CUCKOO.
Aug. 19, I87. JOHN T. BUTLER.
MRS. L. A. NORRYCE,
Would kindly solicit the patronage of the ciiizens
of Charlotte, and inform them that she is now pre
pared to do all kinds of
NEEDLE WORK,
Plain, Ornamental and Fancy.
Gents and Ladies Underclothing beautifully made.
A New System of Cutting and Fitting
Three afternoons in each week devoted to teach
ing little- girls Ornamental. Fancy Embroidery,
BritiJitig and all kinds of Needle Work.
Mrs N. is compelled to make her support by her
Needle and close industry.
Feeling truly gtateful for the great kindness shown
by the community of Charlotte for the past year she
has been with them, she would beg a continuance
of the same. Will be found in the new house next
to Mr Allen Cruse's residence.
July 22, 1867.
a i7a1TTb s tock
OF
SJPZRIjSTGr GOOUS
Fine white and colored Marseilles Quilts, just
received at Ii ARUINGKR, WOLFE k CO iJ.
Ladies French Dimitry Skirls, India Twilled
Long Cloth, Linen Iress Goods, Extra Fine Lace
Collars and Cutfs, Valencine Lace, Cleny Lace,
Black bilk Guper Lace. Call and examine our New
Goods. BARRIXGER, WOLFE & CO.
mSf"' Irish Linen of an extra quality ; Bleached
Shirting, extra quality. Call soon.
Black Challey for Mourning Dresses, English
Crape and English Crap Veils, at
BARUINGER, WOLFE & CO'S.
April IS, 1867.
JUST RECEIVED AT
C. M. QUERY'S NEW STORE,
A large and well selected Stock of
SPUING AND SUJIUCR GOODS.
I)HV GOODS, at extremely low prices.
WHITE GOODS, a full assortment, which will be
sold low for cash.
TRIMMINGS Our stock of Trimmings is com
plete, and was selected with cure.
A full assortment of YANKEE NOTIONS and
FANCY GOODS.
HOOP SKIRTS Bradley's Paris Trail Skirts
the most itopular Skirt uow worn all sizes Ladies,
children and Misses.
KID GLOVES all colors and sizes, of the best
article Ladies' and Children's .Mitts, all sizes, and
of the bet quality.
FANS AND PARASOLS A full assortment of
all kind.
SHOES Ladies', Children's and Misses' boots,
shoes and gaiters, of the best Philadaphia make.
Also, Men's and Boy's shoes and hats.
MRS. QUERY would inform her friends that
she has spared no pains in selecting her stock of
Milliner3' and Trimmings: and having had a long
experience in the business feels satisfied that she
can please all who will favor her w ith a call.
Bonnets and Hats made and trimmed to order, on
he most reasonable terms and shortest notice.
Dresses Cut, Fitted, Trimmed and made, on reason
able terms and at short notice.
Our terms are strictly Cash. Our motto is, small
profit, and just dealing to all.
April 1. 1867.
ROE$ WANTED.
A Chance to Make Money.
The subscriber will purchase Bones at 50 cents
per hundred, delivered at Concord Factory, or at
any Railroad Depot betweeu Charlotte and Greens
boro. Cash paid on delivery.
Those who will accumulate Bones in quantities
at any poiut on the Railroad lines, and inform the
subscriber, arrangements will be made for their
purchase. U. E. McDONALD,
April 1, 1867 tf Concord, N C.
t;tl' of i. C;troliii;i, Union County.
Court f PUas $ Quarter Sessions July Term, 1 8i7.
W. N. Parker, adnTr of John Walters, dee'd, vs.
Uriah Walters aud others
Petition to subject real estate as assei3.
It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that
the defendants, William Walters and John W. Wal
ters, reside beyond the limits of this State, it is or
dered by the Court that publication be made for six
weeks in the Western Democrat a paper published
in the city of Charlotte, notifying said absent de
fendants to be and appear at our next Court of pleas
and quarter Sessions to be held for Union county
at the Court House in Monroe, on the 1st Monday
io October next, then and there to answer the alle
gations of the aforesaid petition, or judgment pro
confVsso will be taken and the land ordered to be
sold.
Witness, J. E. Irby, Clerk of our said Court at
office, the 1st Monday in July, A. D.. 1867.
' J, E. IRBY, Clerk.
Smt adv$10
Smith's Boot and Shoe Store,
CHARLOTTE, N . C,
NEXT DOOR TO DEWEY'S BANK. "
Jl. It. SMITH Sc. CO. will furnish Mer
chants their Fall and Winter Stock of BOOTS and
SHOES
At New York AYhollsale Prices.
One of the firm has visited the Factories North,
and had a large stock of Goods made to order, with
a view of supplying Merchants in Western North
Carolina and Upper Districts in South Carolina.
Having devoted our entire attention for many
yeara to the
SHOE TRADE,
We claim advantages in it, and will deal as liberally
as possible with all.
fi Call soon, or send in your orders early.
Every article warranted as represented.
We have alo a large Stock of
Shoe Findings, Emitter and Rubber
BELT! KG,
Sept. 9, 1867. B. R. SMITH & CO.
PICTURES AT 50 CEXTS
And upwards, at the
PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY
Over Jas. Harty it Co's Store, next to the Court
House.
Call and get a superb likeness of yourself and
family, at low rates according to style and finish.
Copies taken of old Pictures in a superior manner.
- Satisfaction guarantied at the Gallery of
H. BAUM GARTEN,
May 6, 1867. Next to Court House
LIME, PLASTER,
O emont zxtzlcX TIair,
A large supply always on hand, and for sale on
most favorable terms, by
WORTH & DAIilEL,
Wilmington, N. C.
Monthly receipts of fresh Lime from Maine.
July 15, 1867 6ra
CO.CORJf JTIII,LS.
Having opened a House in Charlotte, near the
Post Office, for the sale of our own manufactured
goods, we invite the attention of merchants and
others to our YARNS, SHEETINGS, SHIRTINGS,
OSNABERGS, CARPET CHAIN, STOCKING
YARNS, Ac, &c.
flggp" Cotton taken in exchange for Good3. We
sell low for Cash.
j. Mcdonald & sons,
August 12, 1867. Concord, N. C.
The Southern Fertilizing Company,
RICHMOND, VA.,
Are now receiving and preparing their Fall stock of
FERTILIZERS, and offer for sale in unlimited
quantities
Crushed Peruvian Guano,
selected from the purest cargoes imported, war
ranted pure and of the highest standard;
Plaospho Peruvian &Old Dominion,
prepared under the supervision of Professor William
(iiLHAM for the Wheat crop, combining a lar,e per
centage of the Phosphates, with an adequate amount
of Ammonia ;
FRESH GROUND PLASTER.
Orders solicited.
JOHN ENDERS, President.
Office No. 104 Fourteenth street, Richmond.
fifST-JOHN A. YOUNG, Agent, Charlotte, N. C.
Rock Island Maxcfactcriko Co.,
Charlotte, N. C, Aug, 15, 1867
1 have been using the most approved Fertilizers
upon my Farm for many years. Upon my Wheat,
Corn and Cotton crop this year, 1 used the "Old
Dominion Fertilizer," and cheerfully testify to its
merits, by asserting that I have never used any that
gave as much satisfaction.
JOHN A. YOUNG.
Aug. 19, 1867. 2jm
Slate ut'X. Carolina, Mecklenburg co.
Court of fleas .j- Quarter Sessions July Term, 1867.
J. R. Kirkpatrick vs. S C Boyce.
Attachment Arthur Grier and S. A. Boyce sum
moned as Garnishees.
It appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that
the defendant in this case is a non-resident of this
State, it is therefore ordered by the court that pub
lication be made, for six weeks, in the Western
Democrat, a newspaper published in the city of
Charlotte, notifying said defendant to be arid appear
at the next Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions to
be held for the county of Mecklenburg, at the court
house in Charlotte, on the 2d Monday in October
next, then and there to answer, plead or replevy, or
judgment final will be entered against him, and the
effects in the hands of Garnishees condemned to
plaintiff s u.e.
Witness, Wm. Maxwell, Clerk of our said Court at
office in Charlotte, the 2d Monday of July, A. D.,
1867.
82-6w WM. MAXWELL, Clerk.
Mate of iV Carolina. Mecklenburg co
Court of J'leas Quatter Sessions July Term, 1867.
Charles Junker vs. The Blakesly Mining Company.
Attachment levied on three Mules.
It appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that
the defendants in this case reside beyond the limits
of this Sta'e, ii is ordered by the court that publi
cation be made, for six weeks, in the Western Dem
ocrat, notifying the said defendants to be and appear
at the next Conrt of Pleas and Quarter Sessions to
be held for :he county of Mecklenburg, at the court
house in Charlotte, on the 2d Monday in October
next, then and there to answer, tdead or reDlevv. or
. i j
judgment final will be taken against them, and the
property levieu upon conaemnea to sattsiy piaintm s
debt
Witness, Wm. Maxwell. Clerk of our said Court at
office, the 2d Monday in Julv, A. D , 1867.
82-6w WM. MAXWELL, Clerk.
Slate of AT Carolina. Mecklenburg co.
Court of Pleas y Quarlrr Sessions July Term, 1867.
J. B Alexander, Executor of R. D Alexander, dee'd,
vs. the Heirs at Law of R. D Alexander, dee'd.
Petition for settlement of R. D. Alexander's Estate.
It appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that
W. B. Fewell and wife Agnes, defendants in this
case, reside beyond the limits of this State, it is
therefore ordered by tbe court that publication be
made for six weeks in the Western Democrat, noti-
fying said defendants to be and appear at the next ;
term of this court, to be held for tu county of:
Mecklenburg, at tb Court Hou&e in Charlotte, on j
the 2d Monday in October ne, then and there to j
plead, answer or demur to the petition, or judgment, 1
pro confesso, will be taken and the same beard ex- f
partee as to them
Witness, Wm. Maxwell, Clerk of ur said court
at office in Charlotte the 2d Monday in July, A. D..
1867.
82-ev WSL MAXWELL, Clerk.
PRESIDENT'S SPEECH
AT
AKTIETAM CEMETERY.
My fellow-countrymen : In appearing be
fore you it is not for the purpose of making any
lengtby remarks, tut simply to express my ap
probation of tbe ceremonies which have taken
place to-day. My appearance on this occasion
will be the speech that 1 will make. . My reflec
tions and rry meditations will be in silent com
munion with the dead, whose deeds we are here
to commemorate.
I shall not attempt to give utterance to the
feeling and emotions inspired by the addresses
and prayers which have been made, and the
hymns which have been sung. I shall make at
tempt at no such thing. I am merely here to
give my countenance and aid to the ceremonies
on this occasion, but I must be permitted to ex
press my hope that we may follow the example
which has been so eloquently alluded to this af
ternoon, and which has been so clearly set by
the illustrious dead. When we look on yon
battle field, I think of the brave men on both
sides who fell in tbe fierce struggle of battle, who
sleep silent in their graves. Yes, who sleep in
silence and peace after the earnest conflict has
ceased. Would to God e of the living could
imitate their example, as they lay sleeping in
peace in their torubs, and live together in friend
ship and peace. Applause.
"You, my fellow-citizens, have my earnest
wishes, as you have had my efforts in time gone
by in the earliest anil most trying perils to pre
serve the Union of these States, to restore har
mony to our distracted and divided country, and
you shall have my last efforts in vindication of
the flag of the republic and of the constitution of
your fathers." Applause.
,
THIS COUNTRY IS AN OLD ONE.
Geologist make it pretty certain the American
continent is the oldest in the seties. 13ut the idea
prevails that man has not occupied it so long as
he has Asia, Africa and Europe This is mere as
sumption. If pains were deliberately taken to
classify the evidences that might be collected to
show the antiquity of the works of man on both
sides of the llocky Mountains it would conclu
sively prove that man was at a vastly remote
period, even anterior to the mould-builders and
they flourished, perhaps several thousand years
before the advent of the Indians It is not diffi
cult to make reference to four distiuct races who
have existed here, fulfiled their destiny and dis
appeared. Their demi-advances in civiliation are
faintly indicated by the merest fragments of de
signs, but which man alone could produce. How
many races or generations had preceded even the
oldest of tbe old of which we have vestiges is
lost in the accumulating lumber of unrecorded
cycles.
That this continent was untenanted by man till
within the last thousand or five thousand years
admits of a question, since the more the ground
is overhauled by those with Anglo Saxon blood
in their veins the greater number of strange
things come into view, indicative of an antiquity
of the continent, and an antiquity, too, of mau,
which will become more perplexing as those rel
ics are multiplied and examined. One may see
throughout the whole series of the Western States
indications that there population has been far
greater heretofore than it may again be in two
hundred years to come, under the best auspices
of modern civilization.
PROSPECTUS op the CARRIER DOVE,
OR
Mecklenburg Female College Magazine
We propose to send forth from tbe Institution,
November lath, 1867, The Carrier Dove, or Meck
lenburg Female College Magazine, designed ex
pressly for young ladies.
This will be a Periodical of Forty-eight Pages,
well printed on fine paper, and handsomely illus
trated. The aim will be to make it, in tbe highest degree,
attractive and entertaining
It will be issued Quarterly, at one dollar per an
num, in advance.
For five dollars, six copies will be sent to one ad
dress. Forward names and money without delay. An
encouraging number of subscribers have already
been obtained.
All communications should be addressed to
Rkv. A. G. STACY, Charlotte, N. C.
Editors who publish this Prospectus will be
entitled to the Magazine gratis for one year.
September 16, 1867.
Notice.
I respectfully inform my friends and the public
generally, that I have engaged the services of Mr
T. W. SPARROW, who will take pleasure in serv
ing his friends at my store.
Sept 9, 1867. B. KOOPMANN.
Wilmington & We I don Railroad fo.
OrricB CniEF Enginkkr & Gen. Scp't,
Wilmington, N. C, Sept. 1, 1867.
REGULAR SCHEDULE.
On and after this date, the following Schedule
will be run by the Passenger traius over this Rail
road :
DAY TRAINS,
Will leave Wilmington every morning (except Sun
days) at 6 o'clock, A. M., and Weldon every morn
ing (except Sundays) at 10:40 A.M.; arriving at
THE
ilmington at 8 o clock, P. M., and at Weldon at 3
o'clock, P. M
NIGHT EXPRESS TRAINS,
Will leave Wilmington at 9:30 P. M., daily, and
Weldon at 6:25 P. SI , daily: arriving at Wilming
ton at 2:20 A. M., and at Weldon at 6 A. M. Thirty
three hours to New York.
Trains pass Goldsboro', at 1:57 A M, and 10:35
A M, going North, and at 3:05 P M, and 10:1 1 P M,
going South.
Passengers to "and from the N. C. Railroad going
to or from the North make close connections at
Goldsboro with Day Trains
Passengers-going East or West from Goldsboro,
should take the. Day Trains from places South of
Goldsboro.' Both trains counect at Wilmington
with trains on Wilmington & Manchester Railroad,
and at Weldon with trains via Richmond and Ports
mouth, Va. The Day Tiains connect with Old Bay
Line. Tbe Night Trains with Anamessic Line.
Five to ten car loads of "Time freight will be
carried on Day Trains in fourteen bears between
Portsmouth and Wilmington, and in fifty boors be
tween Portsmouth and Charlotte, via Goldsboro,
S. L. FREMONT,
Sept. 9, 1867 lm Ch:f Eng'r and Sopt.
Clover Seed,
A first rate quality for sale bv - ,
hamjjoxd t Mclaughlin.
September 9, 1867, ,
THE TAX ON COTTON.
The following judicious remarks on the cot
ton crop and the cotton tax are from the pen of
G. W. GrifEn, late editor-in-chief of the Indus
trial and Commercial Gazette :
There is every indication that the cotton crop
for 1867 will be very small, even smaller than
that of last year. Although a number of our
cotemporariea express a contrary opinion, our
own advices from Alabama, Mississippi, Texas
and Louisiana, are anything else but encouraging.
In these States tbe worm and the overflow have
destroyed nearly two-thirds of the entire crop,
while in other parts of the. country, where the
seasons have been more favorable, the planters
have, in many instances, been wholly unable to
procure help. Tbe freedmen, if they work at
all, do not care to work in any other way than
on shares, and usually demand one-hall of the
crop for their services. This deluded class of
human beings flatter themselves with tbe belief
that a day of luxurious ease is near, at hand;
that the landed property of the South will be
confiscated for their especial - benefit, and that
they will soon become the sole possessors ot un
told wealth. Their imaginations are filled with
visions of splendor, and dreams of debasing
servitude for their former masters. No wonder
that they are sullen and insolent, when asked to
labor. But these are not the only difficulties
with wbich the Southern planter has to con
tend. His taxes are becoming daily more and
more burdeosome.
Almost every article of human consumption
is taxed. He is obliged not only to pay an in
direct tax on everything necessary for growing
bis crop, but for tbe clothing he wears, the light
he burns, and the books and papers he reads;
and last, and meanest of all, has to pay a tax of
2j cents on every pound of cotton he raises
Under these circumstances, it is not at all
strange that cotton is no longer King; that, in
stead of sending millions of bales abroad, we
find the supply scarcely equal to the demand at
home, and that other countries and nations are
cultivating it as well as our own, and are meet
ing with success undreamed of before. Eng
land, our greatest commercial rival, has not been
idle. Her statesmen and political economists
have exerted themselves beyond all precedent
to force tbe cu'tore of this indispensable article
in ber dominion. They have succeed in uniting
their country to tbe Indian Empire, as it were,
uby a bridge of gold." They have silenced the
grumbling of tbe Sepoys, and quelled every dis
position of mutiny and war. They have widened
and deepened canals, and constructed new ones
They have built railroads, and bridged mountain
chasms and mighty rivers. They have improved
navigation, thrown up bigh-ways, and repaired
common roads, and taught the ignorant inhabi
tants industry and sobriety. The great Penin
sular and East Indian railroads, through which
cotton is made marketable, were projected and
built in a spirit of enterprise unsurpassed by
any nation of modern times. During the com
ing year, the former will pass from Bombay to
Calcutta, a distance of fifteen hundred miles,
while the latter has the longest unbroken line,
under the management of one company, in the
world.
In times gone by, we were able to boast that
we monopolized tbe cotton market of England
Now, she is independent of us, with the excep
tion that our cotton is of a better quality and
better suited for manufacturing purposes. Shall
we remain longer inactive, and make no effort
to recover the supremacy from our aspiring rival?
It would seem that there is no other way to
awaken the American people to a sense of duty
than by reminding them that we are losing our
greatness as a nation. We have spoken un
pleasant truths, but we have been compelled to
give utterance to them.
The tax on our greatest staple should at once
be repealed, for it is not only unjust, but dis
graceful. Our legislative authorities should go
to work in earnest, and by a system of wise and
judicious legislation, encourage the developments
of our agricultural resources, and afford every
protection to our commercial interests, go that
we can again wrest the sceptre from England,
who, with a grasping tyranny, has extended her
sway over weaker empires, and, with an all
absorbing avarice, is aiming at the conquest of
every clime where wealth is found.
GREELEY CAUGHT.
'Data," tbe Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun, gives the following :
About a month ago Mr Greeley printed an
editorial in tbe Tribune, based on a rumor by
the telegraph that General Steadman had been
appointed Secretary of War. In that article
Mr Greeley says :
'The appointment of Steadman as Secretary
of War, monstrous and ridiculous as it is in
trinsically, is in perfect keeping with Mr John
son's policy, which is alwajs to choose the worst
man in the country for a given position. If be
could have found a successor to Mr Stanton more
obnoxious to the people, and less worthy of the
office than Steadman, be would have inevitably
chosen him, but that was impossible. Steadman
is the last man in the United States who ought
to be Secretary of War," &c.
Something over a year ago, when Gen. Stead
man was named as the then probable successor
of Mr Stanton, Mr Greeley wrote a letter to 3Ir
Johnson, a copy of which was retained by the
friend of General Steadman who delivered the
papers to tbe President. That friend furnishes
your correspondent with tbe following copy :
Office of the Tribune, New York, Jan. 23,
186(5. Confidential Dear Sir: The jour
nals generally say that 31 r Stanton has tendered
his resignation and expects soon to leave tbe
War Department. Should this be the cise I
venture to suggest as his successor Gen. James
B. Steadman of Ohio, one of tbe bravest and
truest of our Union volunteers, and a capable,
devoted patriot. Trusting you are aware of his
merits, I remain yours, Horace Greeley.
Hon. A. Johnson, President.
As it is certain that Gen. Steadman will again
be urged for tbe place of Secretary of Wax, and
as it is probable that he may jet be appointed to
that "office, the foregoing editorial and letter be
comes interesting. "
A LAWYER'S ADVENTURE.
About four years ago, while I was practicing
law io Illinois, on a pretty large circuit, I was
called on one day in my office bv a very pretty
Woman, who, not without tears told me that her
husband had been arrested for horse-stealing.
She wished to retain me for the defence,
asked her why she did not go to Judge R
an ex-Senator of tbe United States, whose office
was in town. I told her that I was a young
man at the bar, &c. She mournfully said that
be had asked a retaining fee beyond her means;
besides, he did not want to touch the case, for
her husband was suspected of belonging to to
extensive band of horse-thieves and counter
feiters whose headquarters were then at Moore's
prairie. .
I asked her to tell me the whole truth of the
matter, and if it was true that her husband did
belong to such a band. . :
"Ah, sir," said she, "a better man at heart
than my .George never lived, but he likes cards
and drink, and 1 am afraid tbey made him do
what he never woujd have done if he had not
drank. I fear it can be proved that he had the
horse; he didn't steal it; another stole it and
passed it to him.
I didn't like tbe case. I knew there was a
great dislike to tbe gang located where she
named, and feared to lisk the case before a jury.
She seemed to observe my intention to refuse
the case, and bursted into tears.
I never could see a woman weep without
feeling like a weak fool myself. If it hadn't
been eyes brightened with "pearly tears," I'd
never been caught in the lasso of matrimony.
My would-bc client was pretty. The handker
chief that hid her streaming eyes didn't hide
her red lips; and her snowy bosom rose and fell
like a white gull in a gale of wind at sea. I
took the case, and she gave me tbe particulars.
The gang, of which he was not a member, had
persuaded bim to take tbe horse. He knew it
was stolen, and, like a fool, acknowledged it
when arrested. Worse still, he had trimmed
the horse's mane and tail so as to alter its ap
pearance, and the opposition could prove it.
The trial came on. I worked hard to get a
jury of ignorant men, who had more heart than
brains; who, if they coum not fathom the depths
of an argument or follow the labrynthine mazes
of law could feel for a young fellow in a bad fix
and a weeping, pretty wife, nearly heart-broken
and quite distracted.
Knowing the use of "effect," I told her to
dress in deep mourning and bring her littlo
cherub of a boy, only three years old, into court,
and sit as near to ber husband as tbe officers
would let ber. I tried the game once in a mur
der case, and a weeping wife and sister made a
jury render a verdict against law, evidence, and
the Judge s charge, and saved a fellow that
ought to have been hung as high as Hainan.
Tbe prosecution opened very bitterly and in
veighed against thieves and counterfeiters, who
bad made the land a terror to stranger and trav
elers, and who had robbed every farmer in the
region of his finest horses. It introduced wit
nesses, and it proved all and more than I feared
it would. The time came for me to rise for the
defence. Witnesses, I bad none. But I had
to make an effort, only hoping so to interest tbe
jury as to socure a recommendation to guberna-
ttonal clemency and a light sentence.
So I painted bis picture. A young man en
tering into life, wedded to an angel; beautiful
in person, possessing every noble attribute
Temptation lay before and around him. He
kept a tavern. There were many guests; it was
not for bim to inquire their business; tbey
dressed well, made large bills aud paid prompt
ly. At an unguarded hour, when he was in
sane with liquor, they urged upon him; he de
viated irom the path of rectitude. 1 be demon
alcohol reigned in bis brain, and it was his first
offence. Mercy pleaded for another chance to
save him from ruin. Justice did not require
that his young wife should go down sorrowing
to the grave, and that the shadow and taunt of
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a lelon lather snouict cross toe patn oi tnat
sweet child. Ob, how earnestly did I plead for
them! The woman wept; the husband did tbe
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same; the jury looseu meuing. xi l coum
have bad tbe closing speech be would have been
cleared; but tbe prosecution had the Close, and
threw ice on the fire I kindled. But tbey did
not quite put it out. -
The Judge charged according to law and evi
dence, but evidently leaned on the side of
mercy, The jury found a verdict of guilty, but
unanimously recommended the prisoner to tbe
mercy of the couit. My client was sentenced
to tbe shortest imprisonment the court was em
powered to give, aud both jury and court signed
a petition to tbe Governor for an unconditional
pardon, which has since been kindly granted,
but not before tbe following interesting incident
occurred :
Some three months after this, 1 received an
account for collection from a wholesale house in
New York. The parties to collect from were
hard ones; but tbey had property, and before
they had an idea of tbe trap laid, I bad tbe
property, which they were about to assign un
der attachment. Finding that I was a neck
ahead and bound to win, tbey "caved in" and
forked over $3,594 18 (per memorandum book)
in good money. I bey lived in Shawneetown,
about thirty-five or forty miles southeast of
Moore s prairie. I received tbe funds just after
the bank opened, but other business detained
me until after dinner. I then started for
C , intending to go as far as the village of
Mount Vernon that night.
I had gone along ten or twelve miles, when I
noticed a splendid team of horses attached to a
light wagon, in which were seated four men,
evidently of tbe high-strung order. They swept
past me as if to show' me how easily they could
do it. Tbey shortened in, and allowed toe to
come up with them, aud asked me to "wet," or,
in other words, diminish tbe jug of eld rye they
had aboard; but I excused myself with tbe plea
that I lad plenty on board. They asked me
how far I was going. -1 told them as far as
Mount Vernon, if my horse didn't ' tire out
They mentioned a pleasant tavern ten or twelve
miles ahead as a nice stopping place, and drove on.
I did not like the looks of those follows, nor
their actions. Bat I was booed to go ahead.
I had a brace of revolvers and a nice knife; my
money was in a belt around my body. I drove!
slow io hopes that they would go on, and I
should see them no more. It was nearly darkf
wheal saw the tarero sigo ahead. 'At the"
same time I saw their wagoa beforo the door.'
I would have passed on, but my horse needed
rest. I hauled up, and a woman came to tho'
door. She turned as pale as a sheet when sho
saw me. She did not speak, but with a mean
ing look she pat her finger on her Hps, and beck-
oned me to come in. She was the wife of my
client. ... .
When I entered, the party recognized me,
and hailed me - as an old traveling friend, and'
asked me to take a drink. I respectfully bat '
firmly declined. 1
"Bat yoa'H drink or fight!" said the noisiest-1
of the party. . . u
' "Just as you please; drink I shall not!" said
I, purposely showing the butt of a Colt thai1
kicks six times in rapid succession.
Tbe others interposed and very easily quieted
my opponent. One offered me a oigar, whioh 1 1
should not have received, bat a glance at the 1
woman induced me to accept it. She advanced -and
proffered me a light, and in doing so slipped
a note into my band, which she mast have writ I
ten the moment before; it was written with a
pencil. Never : shall I forget the words tbey
were :
"Beware they are members of the gang? '
Tbey mean to rob and murder you. Leave :
soon, and 1 will manage to detain them.";
I did not feel comfortable just then, but tried -to
look so. . .
"Have you any room to put my horse?" I
asked, turning to the woman.
"What! you are not going to stay here to-
night?" asked one of the men; "we are going -
on." ;
"I think I shall stay," I replied.
"We'll all stay, then, I guess, and make a
night of it," said one of the cut-throats.
"You will have to pat ap yoar own hoss: ;,
here's a lantern," said the woman. ;
"I am used to that, I said. "Gentlemen.
excuse me 1 will join you in a drink when I :
come in." .
"Good on your head! more whiskey, old gal," ,
shouted they.
I went out and glanced at their wagon. It -
was old-fashioned, and lincb pins secured the
wheels. To take wXit my knife and pry oae
from tbe fore and hind wheels was but tbe work
of a moment, and I threw them in tbe darkness
as far as I could. . To untie my horbe and dash
off was but tbe work of an instant. The road
lay down a steep hill, but my lantern lighted me
somewhat.
I had hardly got under good headway before
I heard a yell from the party I had so anoero-
moniously left. I put tbe whip to, my horse.
Tbe next moment they started.- I threw my
light away, and left my horse to pick his way. :
A moment afterward I beard a crash a horrid
shriek. The wheels were off Then came the
rush of horses, tearing along with tbe wreck of .'
the wagon. Finally they seemed to fetob up in
the woods. One or two shrieks I head as I
swept on, leaving them far behind. For some
time I hurried my horse you d better believe
I "rid."
It was a little after midnight when I.
got to Mount Vernon.
The next day I heard that Moore's prairie
team had run away, and two men of the four
bad been so badly hart that their lives were des
paired of; but 1 did not cry. My clients got
the money, bat I didn't travel that road any
more.
"Do You Know What You Can Do ln We
have men of very long bodies and very short
legs, and men of very long legs and very short '
bodies. One of the latter class, who while.sitting
down, looks like a small roan, but who towers
like a giant when be gets upon his feet, once edi
ted a country paper near Cincinnati. ' -
One day a man who had no acquaintance with
the editor, and who had become greatly exas
perated at a certain article in the journal refleo"
ting upon himself, rushed into the editor's sanc
tum in a terrible rage, vengeance in bis eye and
the paper in his hand espying a quiet looking
little man sitting by ibe table writing, be rushed '
up to him and exclaimed :
"Be you the editor of this paper !w
"I am, sir," was the reply.
. "Did you write that infamous article on me !
pointing to ihe editorial in question.
MI did write the article yon are pointing at sir,"
returned the editor, quietly.
"Then, sir," exclaimed tbe enraged man, pul
ling off his coat, "do you know what you can dot
Raising himself slowly upon his feet until be
lowered at least a foot and a half above his would
be adversary, and bringing his fist down on the
laUe savagely, said : "Well, sir, what can I dot"
Tbe man eyed him from bead to foot for a ,
moment in utter amazement, and then slipping
on his coat again, exolaimed :
M What can you do? Well, stranger, Ije'
think yon can give me tbe gol-darndest mauling
that a man ever got," and he hurriedly shot out
of the office.
A Queer Wxddino The Hartford Post re
lates a curious incident near that city. Mrs.
Eliza Barusley, a young war widow, had been
courted aud won by a young lawyer from Prov
idence, who spent bis vacation in tbe neighbor
hood. The day for the marriage was fixed and
all tbe arrangements made, but at the appointed
hour the bridegroom came not He bad gone
from the town in an early train. The bride was -disconsolate,
the friends outraged. Worse than
all, the dinner was getting spoiled by waiting.
Seeing this state of affairs, one of the invited
guestv a middle aged farmer, who bad been a
secret admirer of Mrs. Barnsley, and whom she 1
had encouraged before tbe lawyer's advent, ttep- ;
ped up, offered to take the groom's place, and '
was accepted. Tbey were married, ate their din-'
uer, and promise to make a happy couple.
A Quaker lady recently explained to her new-i
domestic that wabday came on every Second '
Day. . The girl, left, in , high dudgeon. She.
didn't go to be washing every other day not
she
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