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SATUBBAY, ' NOVEMBER 4, 1871.
The clamor of the-KuKlaxDemo-cracy
is that the suspension of the writ
of habeas corpus in South Carolina is
1 ' the inauguration of despotism the first
step toward the establishment of the
Empire. Those who sustain the Gov
ernment in this necessary movement
are denounced as Imperialists and plot
ters of the overthrow of Republican In
stitutions. All manner of evil motives
are ascribed to them, and in the effort
to subdue the Ku Klux rebellion, in
our sister State, from the President
down to the lowest official concerned in
it, one and all are "fceld up to the
country as the wicked and mercenary
enemies of public liberty. To those
who thus ignoring or perverting the
facts of the current history of the times,
vehemently and violently traduce the
conduct and misjudge the motives of
the officers of the Government, it would
seem useless to present the evidence of
the multiplied cases of wrong whicn
Justifies the military arrests in South
Carolina ; or to address them any argu
ment upon that evidence, in support of
the conduct of the Government. The
man who has, with any degree of fair
ness, read and considered the testimony
in proof of the numerous acts of syste
matic, organized lawlessness and crime,
in various parts of the Southern States,
for the last twelve or eighteen months
past, and sees in it all no signs of an
extensive, dangerous and powerful com
bination equal, if left unchecked much
longer, not only to the overthrow of
the established order of things, but to
the subversion of every essential prin
ciple of civil society, must be blind in
deed. Such persons there are, no doubt
some the willing, others the uncon
scious slaves of party prejudice. Dis
cussion with such is useless. But there
is a class of respectable and worthy men
in the Democratic party who admitting
the truth of enough of the evidence to
be convinced that many outrages have
been committed and that these outrages
have been the systematic work of or
ganized effort, naturally desire that the
inculpated parties should bo punished,
and their organizations broken up. But
they stickle about the means to be used
to this end ; and insist so strenuously
-upon the most vigorous recognition of
their exploded dogma of State's Rights,
in the execution of repressive or primi
tive measures hy the government, that
practically their co-operation is worth
less. Standing on their platform of
State's Rights, with a laudable disposi
tion suppress crime, while they are
quarreling with the Government about
an obstruction, the Ku Klux Klan
marches on brazenly and defiantly to
new murders and assassinations, mocks
at their denunciations and laughs at
their promise that the Klans shall dis
band.
While they hang back from a cordial
and open support of the Government
in its present measures (which many of
them really want to give) because they
f fear the establishment of some form of
despotic authority, they seem insensi
ble to the fact, that such proceedings as
those now carried on by secret societies
throughout the South and sympathized
with, if not supported, by a great party
at the North, are the sure forerunners
and promoters of despotism. They
forget when they denounce Gen. Grant,
as an aspirant for absolute power, that
so long as they keep up or encourage
such associations as the Ku Klux Klans,
so long as they fail to throw all their
energy and influence in favor of a stern,
decisive movement of the Government
against these outlaws, by just so much,
are they paving the way for the over
throw of those institutions, whose ben
efits they vaunt so much, and building
upon their ruins some form of arbitrary
rule. Common sense will prevail, at
last, somehow or other, in the politi
cal regulations of the American people,
whatever may become of Constitutions
and speculative theories of liberty and
Government. The liberty to kill and
maim at will the liberty to deprive an
individual, or class of individuals, of
the exercise of guaranteed rights, in
any other manner than by a lawful and
regular repeal or modification of the
laws on which these guarantees are
based the liberty to control any of the
departments of the civil administration
of the different States, in response to
the mandates and dictation of organiz
ed secret societies, and to make their
laws above the ordinary laws to which
the people owe obedience, is a mon
strous treason against all Republican
and American ideas. The spectacle of
an Empire which the . distorted vision
of these alarmists now see, is s nothing
in comparison of the hideous view of
the future, controlled by the. Km Klux
Klan. It is a choice which the Ameri
can people are not .yet. called upon, to
make, and may not soon be called upon
to make, between organized disorder
and anarchy on one side and Imperial
or any other absolute authority orf the
other, but when they are called on to
choose, the safety and security of their
lives, their. persons and their property
will be attended to, and they will take
shelter, where every other people simi
larly situated have found refuge, in
some form of Government, wise'enough
and strong enough to protect those ele
mental and essential rights.
If the true friends of the Constitution
either as it teas, or the Constitution as
it is, are afraid of the Empire, on ac
count of the" military proceedings in
South Carolina let them 'remember
that the existence of the Ku Klux,
which they admit ; the perpetration of
many hienous outrages by them which
they admit arid denounce as deserving
exemplary punishment, gave rise to
the necessity for the employment of
the military power in the enforcement
of the law, and to the suspension of the
writ of habeas corpus. If these steps
are disastrous to public liberty, the par
ties who produce the disorders which
make such steps necessary are respon
sible for the result. If they refuse to
live under a government of law, and
seek to establish society upon the bloody
principles of passion and revenge, a
conflict must occur, sooner or later, be
tween them and the constituted autnor
ities. It is a fight for life, between reg
ular Government and Anarchy, and no
people have ever yet in such a contest
failed to choose the former, by whatev
er name it may be called, or whatever
title its rulers may assume.
Dalton and the University.
The SentmeVs correspondent, Dalton
in his last letter, under the head of "A
Few Hours at Poplar Mount," sheds
crockodile tears over the removal of the
late President and Faculty of the Uni
versity. They are extolled to the skies
as men eminently fitted for the stations
which they filled, and who ought to
have been retained at its reorganiza
tion. To this we have nothing to say
at present, except that such talk comes
with a very bad grace from the repre
sentatives of the Conservative party
Who has forgotten the attacks made
upon GovSwain and the Old Faculty
by Plato Durham, and others of the
same party, in the Legislature of 1866-
67 ? The obiection then made to them
was that they were believed to have
entertained Union sentiments during
the war that they were radicals and
therefore, did not command the confi
dence of the Southern people. Smart
ing under these attacks Gov. Swain
came to Raleigh and made a speech in
the Commons Hall, to the members of
the Legislature and others, in defense
of himself. Subsequently one of the
present leaders of the party was heard
to say that he would prefer " Jim Har
ris to Gov. Swain as President of the
University." Yet these same men now
lift up their hands in holy horror at the
removal of the men whom they then
denounced. O, shame, where is thy
blush?
The University should be revived,
but it can never be revived under the
auspicies of political rings and political
parties. It should be revived upon a
basis that will elevate it above the con
trol of sect or party.
Resigned. Rufus B. Bullock, Gov
ernor of Georgia, has resigned his posi
tion as Chief Magistrate of that State,
which took place on the 30th of last
month. The reason assigned by Gov.
Bullock for his resignation is, that the
Democratic Legislature of that State
which assembled on Wednesday last,
had agreed to impeach and depose him;
and for the purpose of defeating that
object and for the further purposes of
installing Mr. Benj. Conley, President
of the Senate, as his successor. It ap
pears that Mr. Conley is a Republican.
Gov. Bullock's administration of the
affairs of Georgia reflected no credit on
himself or the Republican party of that
State. From information that we have
before us, we are constrained to believe
that Gov. Bullock, Foster Blodgett and
and others of like ilk, are responsible
for the present condition of the Repub
lican party, of Georgia. That State has
been cursed, as most of the Southern
States have, with a class of men, natives
and others, who are no credit or profit
to any people. The people of the State
generally, and more especially the
Republicans, are to be congratula
ted upon the exodus of such men from
the Southern States.
Speaking of the installation of Gov.
Conley, The Atlanta Sun of Nov. 1st
says:
"We doubt if this-was a legal step.
The Constitution provides that in case
of a vacancy in the office of Governor,,
the President of the Senate sluxtt exercise
the duties of the office of Governor.
These duties are to be exercised by him,
by virtue of his being President of the
Senate. He does not thereby become
Governor only exercises the duties of
the office. When he ceases to be Presi
dent of the Senate, he ceases to have
authority to exercise the duties of Gov
ernor. If this view be correct, Judge
Conley will be out of office to-morrow:
and whoever is then chosen President
of the Senate will have the -legal au
thority to exercise the duties of the
Governor's office. We present this
view as a reasonable one entertained
by many.
If the view above presented is held
to be not according to law. the Legis
lature has authority to order a new
election, which it will, no doubt, do at
once,' and we shall have a new Gover
nor." . f
REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY !
N. Y. City and County Robbed !
ONE HUNDRED MILLIONS STOLEN!
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The exposures of the frauds and robbe
ries which the Tammany Hall King
that is Mayor Hall,W.M. Tweed,P.B.
Sweeney and , Richard Connoljy, have
perpetrated upon the city of New York,
exceed anything of the kind in the his
tory of this country . In less than two
years the debt of New York city has
been increased over ONE HUNDRED
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. The ring
composed of Hall, Tweed, Sweeney and
Connolly, have grown suddenly rich
by their stealings from the city treasu
ry. Various men have been paid enor
mous prices for work done for the city,
part of which found its way into the
pockets of the ring. New York papers
of Friday last contained disclosures tra
cing to Tweed the amount of NINE
HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUS
AND DOLLARS which was received
by him as his sJiare of disbursements
to the amount of SIX MILLIONS OF
DOLLARS, which the city paid for
work which wTas never done.
The history of the ring during their
offiial life, is as follows :
Tweed began a bankrupt, and now
owns property to the amount of twelve
millions of dollars.
Connolly swore in 1866 that he owned
no property. He now owns property
to the amount of three millions of dol
lars. Sweeney has invested fifteen hun
dred thousand dollars since 1866.
Mayor Hall has invested one hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars since
1866.
For several months The New York
Times has been engaged in exposing
the frauds, rascalities, robberies, and
stealings of the ring. At first the press
and people thought TJie Times had
raised that same old cry of fraud and
corruption, that we hear so much of
these days ; but it was not long until
the other papers of the City,seeing that
the charges and figures of The Times
were not denied, feirinto line, and for
more than three months a persistent,
bold, open, and fearless war has been
made upon the municipal ring. The
honest people Democrats and Repub
licans have been aroused to a sense of
their danger; the result is, that the
various political associations of New
York City, opposed to Tammany Hall,
have united in making war upon the
ring. Leading lawyers,such as Charles
O'Conor and Wm. Evarts, have been
put in nomination for the Legislature
by the opponents of Tammany Hall.
Everywhere, throughout the entire
State, unrelenting war has been made
upon the allies of Tammany Hall.
Democrats and Republicans who are
tainted with corruption, have been
denounced and made to take back seats.
Where ever such a man has secured a
nomination, the honest men of both
parties have united for the purpose of
defeating such nominee. With the
exception of a . silly feud between the
followers of the the two New York
Senators Conklin and Fenton and
The Times and The Tribune the war
against Tammany Hall, has been
wrorthy of a free 'press and of a free
people. Notwithstanding the want of
harmony in the Republican ranks, we
are not without hopes of carrying the
State on Tuesday next.
On Thursday last, the 26th inst.,
Tweed was arrested on civil and crim
inal suits begun by Mr. Charles O'Con
or in his capacity as Actin r Attorney
General. The affidavit upon which
the order of arrest was granted,is made
by Samuel J. Tilden, Chairman of the
Democratic Executive Committee.
Tweed waived an examination and was
admitted to bail in the sum of two
millions of dollars.
The evidence of Tweed's guilt is com
plete. The conspiracy to defraud the
City and County of New York began
in 1870, when Mr. Tweed, on April 26,
forced the County Tax Levy through
the Legislature, and legalized what is
now familiarly known as the ad inter
im Board of Audit. That law author
ized Mayor Hall, Mr. Tweed, and Con
troller Connolly to audit all existing
claims against the City. At the only
session of that Board ever held, and
which lasted only fifteen minutes,
Mayor Hall submitted in his owTn
handwriting a resolution delegating
this power to James Watson, then
County Auditor,and making the claims
audited by him payable on the sole
approval of William M. Tweed. The
rogues went immediately to work.
Claims were adjusted and warrants is
sued atronce, and it is shown that many
of the latter were forged by Elbert A.
Woodward, who, on the sudden death
of Watson, became the agent of Mr.
Tweed and his accessory in crime.
Over $6,300,000 of warrants were made
out, and passed into the hands of four
men, as thus far shown. Each warrant
has been traced from the Controller's
office to the final division of its proceeds
among these four rogues".
The election for a portion of the
States officers and members of the Leg
islature, takes place on Tuesday next.
The issue between the two parties is
made up t The triumph of the Demo
cratic party will be the triumph of
Tammany Hall and the rogues who
have so unmerciful robbed the city.
The triumph 'of the Republican party
will be the triumph of Jionesty, jprmc?
pie, reform , and retrenchmeritIfhe
peopic'of New York State dojhot put
their seal of condemnation upon Tam
many Hall and its allies, we shall be
very much mistaken, and shall not
feel very sorry if the rougues should
runaway with the new Court House
one of these days.p
IDUS-Iiir lUB pupitJ ti xev
State have made, a strenuous fight
against official robbery and corruption.
If this effort should fail, then alia ten
tanda via est: Whether that methdd
will be Revolution, is not for us to say.
So far as Raleigh is concerned we
will simply inform its people that un
less they do better, and: show a better
disposition, the State Fair will be re
moved from their city. They must not
expect the whole State to come to their
own doors and pour money into their
coffers, while those receiving and prof
iting by the same stand supinely by or
permit others of their kin to raise up
obstructions to the Fair.
The Era had best employ its time in
culcating these lessons upon its people
before it is too late. A word to the
wise is sufficient. Tarboro Southerner.
The Era, in its issue of the 26th ult.,
devoted its leading article to "inculca
ting the lessons" referred to by The
Southerner. It was the very first to
take that view and urge it upon the
business men of Raleigh.
We hope The Southerner does not re
gard the Local of The Era as The
Era, and that it will make the proper
distinction in future.
The Illinois State Journal says:
" Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina,
Iowa, California, Colorado, Montana
and Maine have air given sweeping
Republican majorities. . What does it
signify ? It signifies that the adminis
tration of President Grant gives gener
al satisfaction to the people, in spite of
all that has been said against it. It
means that it is regarded as sound,
honest, economical and useful, and is
therefore satisfactory.
The elections also mean that the peo
ple of this country do not yet feel like
trusting the leaders of the Democratic
party to the extent of putting them
into power. All their new departures
and other changes of front appear to
be of little avail. The nearer they
come to adopting Republican princi
ples, the more they condemn their
own record; and when they attempt
new disguises, without any recantation
of past errors, they but add hypocrisy
to inconsistency, and give the people
new causes of distrust. Besides, what
could the nation expect from the ascen
dency of such a party, in the way of
purity or peace, economy or oder, after
such exhibitions as it has lately made
by its Tammany Hall in New York
and Ku Klux in the South?
At all events, and whatever the con
trolling reasons may be, the people ac
tually seem to have come to the con
clusion unanimous enough for all
practical purposes to let the Demo
cratic party tarry yet a little while in
Jericho.
Requisition. We are informed that
the Governor of Georgia has made a
requisition on Gov. Caldwell for one
Wm. Bland, who is now confined in
Robeson county jail. Bland is charged
with having committed murder in
Broome county, Georgia. The requi
sition was honored, and a warrant for
the delivery of Bland to the messenger
from Georgia, was issued.
Letter From Raleigh.
Special Cor. of the Charlotte Bulletin.
Raleigh, N. C, Oct. 30, 1871.
Dear Bulletin i I thought it might
do you good in your old age, to hear
once more from the city of the Oaks,
and from your quondam friend of other
and better times.
I was glad to see the stand you took
on the Convention question. Time has
shown that you were right. It Was no
time to call a Convention. I am glad
to say that both parties here are going
to work to consider what changes
,$hould be made by Legislative enact
ment. This is just what should be
done.
Your course in boldly and openly de-'
douncing the Ku Klux, meets with
great favor here. You are right too in
saying that the old line Democracy is
not responsible for this infamous or
ganization. It is the out-cropping of a
mongrel Conservatism, a so-called par
ty, that , has no well defined princi
ples, and any number of ambitious
young men who don't know what to
do with their talents, and finally turn
to politics and to Ku Kluxing. I think
however, the thing is dead. I begin
to see and feel a great changes
It is said here that Gov. Graham,
Gov. Bragg, and all the prominent
leaders of the Democracy are opposed
to the extreme course of The Sentinel
and the young bucks. They say it must
be stopped or the whole South is
ruined. "-
It would, do you good to see how
much this city is improving; and I do
believe that if people generally at the
South would betake themselves in some
honest work and let party politics
alone, the whole country would soon
recover "from its depressed and distress
ed condition.
I hope; my dear old friend, that your
days may; be lengthened ; and that you
may continue to receive the encourage
ment and support of good men , of all
parties. ; Yours, fec, . . ,
En Route for Liberia. On Thurs
day morning last, a party of one hun
dred and sixty-seven persons' men,
women, arid children, all colored, pass
ed through this City en route for the
Republic of Liberia. They are from
York county. South Carolina. They
; - w . .
left the homes of their birththe land
where they saw the first light of Free
dom because of the persecution and
outrages of the KuKlux. Thereare thir-
tv voters in the party. Their fare for the
vhole party is nine ' hundred and
eighteen dollars from Rock Hill, South
Carolina, to Liberia. When they reach'
Liberia married men get twenty-five
acres of iand; single men ten; both get
six months rations and shelter pr the
same length of time:
. Instead of immigrants settling in the
South where they are so much needed,
Southern people are emigrating i i to
Northern and Vestern States and,' to
Liberia. ThisYs the legitimate effect
ofKuKluxism.
What is the Matter. Mr. James
H. Moore, nominally State Printer,
formerly belonged to the Central Exe-f
cutive Committee of the Democratic
party. His name does not appear - at
the end of that address. What is the
matter? .Has. Mr. Moore resigned as a
member of the Committee, or did he
refrain from signing that address be
cause too much money has been drawn
for State Printing? Let us have an
answer.
A Startling Revelation.
Chicago Fired by the Soclete Rationale
Confession by a Jl&mber!
The following extravagant 'narrative
which we give in an abbreviated form is
taken from The Chicago Times, which
paper devotes a column and a half in
fine type to its exciting details :
"Though it appears at first to be ut
terly romantic and improbable, there
nre not wantinar confirmatory circum
stances. The original explanation of
the origin of the nre has been conclu
sively disproven. It can be attested by
every one who listened to Train, at
Far well Hall, on the night of the fire
that he used the language recited be
low, &c. Little doubt remains that
the city was fired in several different
places."
The informant, professing to be
moved by remorse, does not divulge
his name.
He states that the Society had its
headquarters in Paris, and branches in
London, Edingburgh, Manchester, Liv
erpool, Dublin. Berlin, St. Petersburg.
Naples, Florence, Vienna, and other
i ' ... -r 3 i "XT "XT' 1,
Clues in .ErfUrut;, umi 111 xev xuxtw,
Boston. Washington, New Orleans.
Baltimore and Chicago. The Society
was organized during the political ex
citements, which preceded the election
of Louis Napoleon to the Presidency.
Its object was the promotion of a com
mune, with equality of rights and rich
es, poor and wealthy, ignorant and
learned. The coup d'etat, which placed
Napoleon on the throne temporarily,
defeated its purposes; yet its organiza
tion was intact, and the alleged evils of
the Emperor's reign caused the attrac
tion to its ranks of all malcontent ele
ments. He proceeds to say that the
miserable results of the late war invited
them to a trial of their ferrible princi
ples, and the gorgeous city of Paris be
came the scene of their bloody orgies,
and, as by the torch of Hecate, the
flames of destruction wasted the relics
of grandeur and the trophies of nation
al power.
The most horrible record of devasta
tion and woe the century will take
down to futurity he charges to this
Commune. Its final defeat did not ex
tinguish it, and now yet strong in
trembling France, its members, whom
the whips of the Furies must urge on,
are scattered throughout our own pros
perous cities. He states also that
strikes
in Great Britain have been instigated
by them, and men powerful to influ
ence crowds by fiery 'eloquence added
to their body everywhere, and that
they have failed in many attempts to
foment strife between employers and
laborers, and as a ultima ratio they de
termined to burn Chicago as the city
where rapidly-growing wealth was
widening the social distinctions in ex
treme. The confession includes the name of
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN,
as a member, and reminds that he sta
ted in Farewell Hall Sunday evening
before the fire :
'Tliis is the last public, address that
will'be delivered within -these walls:
A terrible calamity is impending over
the, city of Chicago. More I cannot,
dare not say." He adds that another
word would have ended his life, as there
were scores of pistols pointed at him.
PETROLEUM MINES
had been laid by plots in secret conclave
beyond the reach of mortal observation.
Mines in various streets were simulta
neously fired, and in order to contra
vene any possible effort to stay the con
flagration Dy explosion of buildings by
gun-powder, a train communicating
with the magazine could at a moment
destroy it. . ; - ;
The first barrels moved by the pow
der brigade were those with which the
train communicated, and hundreds
were saved who would have been kill
ed byexplosion. Many of these mines
started new fires, and the water-works
were also under-mined. He asserted
that the men executed the design, and
that buildings destined bytheSociete
to be spared fell.- Concluding, he says
that two of the original founders of this
fearful fraternity in Chicago found their
death in the flames, and he, the narra
tor, is exposed to hideous death j for
treachery j that other cities are threat
ened in like manner, and that every
circle of society has the sworn members
of the Societe Rationale in its midst.
The Thugs of India had no parallel
power in the numbers he estimates as
belonging to the Commune.
Revenue Tax on. Tobacco,
IMPORTAN XETTEIl FItOM TIIe
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
v, AT WASHINGTON.
Peddlers or Retill Xlealer. of Tobacco
, Pay a Special Tax of Five DoU
v!
i! . wncre in the State.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
, Office op Internal Ukvekur '
. . Washington, Oct. 2Sth, 1871
Rm: In reDlir to Vur ktipr r,f r.
mf - v Vy(J
24th, in relation to peddling manufactured
; tobacco, I have to say that a manufacturer
of tobacco may sell ins product anywise
in the United States without pnyin a
special tax as a dealer in tobacco, buto
caii sell only in the original and unbroken
packages. . He may send out an employ
to - peddle for, him,, who may sill in ihc
same manner and under the same condU
Hons as the manufacturer.
A ; peddler of tobacco, who is not an
employee of the manufacturer, anil li,.so
sales exceed $100 per annum, U liable to a
special tax as a dealer ic tobacco for sell
ing manufactured tobacco in the manner
ot a. peddler,, and such a pcddlcr who lui
paid the special tax for so selling tobacco
,-may retail from wooden packages, packm i
and stamped according to law.
, Very respectful lv.
f v , . J. W. DOUGLASS,
. Commissioner.
W; D. Jokes. Esq , As-esor 4th Distiic
Raleigh, N. C.
The Chicago Fire.
Chicago correspondents continue to
furnish copious details and incident?
of the great fire, with abundant com.
ment on the present aspect of the situ
ation. One correspondent writes: "A cat
has actually been recovered, alive and
squalling, from the desolate ruins of
the post office and custom house build
ing. I have with these . orbs beheld
that feline salamander. She still wears
her royal vestment of fur, and retains
her lung-power and appetite, both mar
vellously improved. James M. Hub
bard, Esqr., Uncle Sam's mail dis-
Eatch officer at this pointto whom,
y the way, considerable credit is due
for the rapid reconstruction of our pos
tal facilities was hunting in the rain
to-day for something he thought might
still be preserved; i "Meow!" lledis
tinctly heard the' familiar melodous
voice. He is a judge of music, and
could not be deceived. He listened.
Again rose the muffled falsetto. "It
must be a ghost 1" He stepped lightly
over the crumbling brickbats and help
ed some women to excavate the ruins
in the corner whence the sound pro
ceeded. Lo I There, eight feet under
ground, at the mouth of a sewer nK
upright in a pail of water, sat grimal
kin, with a cold inherhcadand cinders
in her eyes. Sister of Shadrack, 3Ics
hack & Co., she had survived, the fiery
furnace, and came forth unscathed. It
seemed, on examination, that she had
exhibited the presence of mind to stick
her legs in the water and her head in
the sewer, whence sh6 drew air, and
Erobably smelt mice ; and when the
uilding collapsed a column fell so as
to shelter her. A million dollars in
gold had melted into bullion within
twenty-feet of her. Pussy is an im
mense favorite in the Post Office, and
has resumed her place as a regular
member of the statf. How is that for
cat?
A Backwoods Adventure. A
Virginia banker, who was the chair
man of a hotel infidel club, was once
traveling through Kentucky, having1
with him bank Dills to the amount of
$25,000. When he came to a lonely for
est, where robberies and murders were
said to be frequent, he was soon lost,
through taking the wrong road. The
darkness of the night came quickl v over
him, and how to escape from the threat
ening danger he knew not. In his
alarm he suddenly espied in the dis
tance a dim light, and urging his horse
onward, he atlength came to a wretch
ed looking cabin. He knocked ; the
door was opened by a woman who said
her husband was out hunting, but
would soon return, and she was sure ho
would cheerfully give him a shelter for
the night. The gentleman put up his
horse and entered the cabin, but with
feelings that can better be imagined
than described. Here he was with a
large sum" of money, perhaps in the
house of a robber whose name was a
terror to the country. In a short time
the man of the house returned. He had
on a deer-skin shirt, a bear-skin cap,
and seemed much fatigued, and in no
talking mood. All this boded the in
fidel -no good: He felt for h is pistols m
his pockets, and placed them so as to
be ready for instant use. The man ask
ed the stranger to retire to bed, but he
determined to sell his life as dearly as
he could. His fear grew into a perfect
agony. What was to be done? At
length the ; backwoodsman arose and
reaching to a wooden shelf, took down
an oldbook,and said: "Well, stranger,
if you won't go to bedx I will ; but it w
always my custom to read a chapter o;
the Holy Scriptures before I go to bed.
What a change did these words pro
duce I Alarm was removed from this
skeptic mind. Though avowing him;
self an infidel, he had more confidence
in the Bible. He felt safe. He felt
that a man who kept a Bible in hi
house, and read it, and bent his knee
in prayer, was . no robber or murderer.
He.; listened to the good man and dis
missed his. fears, and lay down and
slept as calmly as he did under his fa
ther's roof. From that time he ceased
to revile the good old Bible. He be
came a sincere Christian, and often re
lated the eventful journey to prove tho
folly of infidelity.
The famous French tri-color is still
flying from the spire of the cathedral
atMetz. (There is said to be in all
Metz only one man who is both skill
ful enough and daring enough to climb
the steeple to its entire height. This k
he who placed tho flag there. He b
poor workman, who, during the war,
'affiihnrl tliA flntr fn the neak of tne
spire for five francs, but the patriotic
Frenchman has refused tho Prussian
Governor's offer of POOO francs to re
move it. ? , ;
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