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. . V .' ' ;- . - - " ... . ' .-."- " : ;;:;,,..-, Published by J. .H. & G. G. frlyrover, Corner Anderson and Oid Streets, Fayeitlville, N. C. VOL. 2 NO. 21. Subscribers receiving the Iojfrwith this notice designated to them by a blue mark, are thvs notified that the term of -3 their subgcription. iciU exnire in i two weeks, and that at the end of that turn the paper will 'be discontinued unless a renewal is made. It will also tcrre as a notice to those in arrears thai their names wili.be dropped ct the expiration of two vaeks unless a remittance is made. , The . necessities of our'busintss compel us to adopt this plan, which will henceforth he rigidly enforced- Look out, then, for the HI tie 2Iark. North Carolina Gazette. J. H. & G. O. MYItOVER, TERMS OF S UBSCniPILGN : ( tuo year (in advance) . Six ia ullis, " ThHB " " ..82 50 .. 1 2". 75 CLUIi RATES: lOcopibs (sent to one addreBit) with au extra coy $ 22 50 40 00 40 " " Snl a premium of a fin chrnmo. Talue S25 1 00 copies (Kent to onn address; with an extra copy and a premium of a fine chrowo, value $10 73 00 90 00 150 00 HA TES OF AD VER TISIXG : Oue square (9 lines solid nonpareil) one insertion " . " " " " t wo " " " " " one month ' " " " three " " " " " " : Six - " . " " " twelve " 1 Ou i r.o a. 5o 5 oo 9 oo 15 00 Longer advertisements charred in proportion to th above rates. S.oecial Notices -25 per cent, more than regular ad vertifmenta. ' . Home Circle. 'Home is the Sau-ed Refuge of Our Life." Dnden. THE JlYSTERY --3F TWO HATS. My name is Dorians-Thomas I)oTlan. I belong to the detective force. I have been in the service nearlj twenty years; and, without being boastfuyi may say 1 have been instrumental in Yorking vp a good many important eases, uie of which has just entered my mind; ano.if you like I'll tell vou about it. It happened nearly ten years ago, and was one of the strangest murde cr.ses 1 know of, which is saying a goodjeal; but by the time 1 have finished you win agree with me that this affair uf the tvoats is yeard. ' The murdered man was named Bvgs; he was a middle-aged man, and own. ;i o-ood deal of property; he was fi widdver. and lived in good style' up-town. LChe o murder was uout? m a utn, odd feature to beoin with. If it had -1 3 V n t. A (lint an een done in the house, or -even in the stret: , or not r iii ing ci- out in the fields somewhere, it would have amieared so strange; bit a murd a ,.u.k with a driver on the btx, dri -ttirv.n.rli bnsv. crowded street;, it a bi ty is not a'cdmmon occurretce Mr. Rricp-s had hired ti hack ti the ev o,nT to drive out. He had l.ftfiis hfms about eight o'clock; so that avcKhng. ti the evidence of the hack -dri ver Jmd Mi. Briggs' honse-keeper, the murder Just Lave beencommitted between eight !nd hall past ten the time of the return. Indeed, an attempt was made to briDg itwnstil! finer for the hackman . swore t having seen 'Mr. Briggs alive some minu s aftei nine had struck, when he re-ented tin carriage after making some purchtes, and directed to be driven home. , Of course, you are of the omnii that, the hack-driver was the murderer, nd so w as almost every one; but on takin hold of the case, I asked myself, was it?kely, if he really was the murderer, that ht onhi have driven Mr Briggs home? Wsldivt he rather have driv.en out of to o thrown the body into seme ditch, orad h somewhere? He might have driver orue to ward off suspicion from himself, btt hat seemed too bold. To be sure, he wa ept in custody that was all right for he were not the real murderer, it lookedjery much asifhe were in' league withjim, and as if the blood-thirsty villain mid be o rl" of his. ' ' I Now it came out on the inquest, link when the dilTerent witnesses w ere dra ined that the hackman drove to. the,oj Ur?oW house, and, after waiting &o- ment, dwn and opeifed 'the dotj.if the carriage, thinking hiif assenger nn -have fallen asleep. iooKing imo luoir riage, he saw that the gentleman had i len down between the two seats, and,?, ofcinf to him he reached in to sH, ' VSm Knt. RU ddenlv withdrew his handj U1UJJ ml , V 4i,.-,,irht of blood. Sure, enough, tl was blood upon it. At this he gave- The nolice came, the body ;r,tn the house, and the hackms h-q tnken into custody. On a surg examination an mciseu wuuuu wo uui nu iuc uuuoc ivaitucu, auu m on the left side and one or more stabs alows" tracking the suspected man v$erey- 0t,,V .shoulders the one in tbW he w ent. He was of middle Mature, side having carried with it almost instaniiight brown hair and moustache, and rath aneous death as the point of the knife hadr neat in his dre3S. His name was Mil enteredHhe heart. , 1 . , " V and his business was that of a tailor. The question of course, arose how hadfcry soon IHaad gathered enough to war the assassM gained access to the carriage, Vit his arrest; and not tbe less was I con- and how had he committed the deed witu out any alarm having been heard! it r, rM.J;iir bo p-nswered, for he migt this can readily be answered, for he might lave followed the carriage atetartmg, and trucked it around from place to place; or, ' it that seems unlikely, he might hav? ned across it on his route, and when the' slow one. srjransr upon tlie step. ,,! o-o-nod '.admission. The noise the thoroughfare might have browned alarm, or the first stab might have . the fava 0ne finishing the business moment. ! -' Robbety seemed to have been the mo tive, andmethinp- else perhaps as you may judge -hPTi von have heard the sto ry. A valval gold watch and chain had been taken itom tbe person 0f Mr. Briggs, out n, was no- V, .-WW he had considerable uat Qf mouev The hackrnan's not having the watch anu chain did not relieve him from "suspicion, for he would have passed them over to a confederate, had he committed the crime. But then, if he had done the butchering, he must have left his bos, and diawn his horses up to the curb-stone: r he must have driven out of town, where, it would seem natural, he would have left the bod y. But, in addition to all this,' if' he had started' to have driven out of town, would not Mr. Brings have ffiven the alarm? Or even supposing his suspicions not to have been arousecf, would not the driver have dragged him from the carriage, to avoid bloodying the seats? But the popular be lief was that the driver was accessory. It was the day following the murder tllat I tfSTealled" upon to work up the case. I first had an interview with the hack-driver: I believed that the job had been put up by a 'pal' of his; but of course I. didn't let on that I thought so but did my best to lead him to think I believed he was innocent. He was a middle-sized man, of strong build, with not a bad face; a rough sort of fellow, but not a desperate character. He professed to -have thought lie at one time heard some little stir in the carriage, but as the street was just then much crowded, Jbis attention was taken up with his horses, and as everything was quiet afterwards, the thought passed from his mind. The man's whole manner was in his favor: it was frank, outspoken, and there was no shuffling or attempt at evas ion; besides his employers gave him an ex cellent character, and I was inwardlv cou vinced of his innocence, though 1 kept my opinion to myself. Convinced that this man was innocent, either as principal or accessory, the trail lay somewhere else, and I went in search of it. Head men tell tales sometimes, al though thev sav they don't. I went, to the dead man. Now, as lack would havt it, I hit the right nail on the head at once, though it was some time before I was pos itive about it. The moment I enired tin room where the corpse was, my eyes feli npon the hat, a- high-crowiked silk tile, that had been taken fronvthff carriage, a long with the bodv. It occurred to me like a flash to try this hat on the dead man's head. I felt .a momentary pang ol disappointment on finding it was a tit not a perfect one, such as a first-class hat ter would have made to order, but still a lair enough fit. I confess that for the tjmeibeing I was thrown oif the scent, but I was much comforted by the reflection ihatthe hat was rather vounrieh for so staid a man as -Mr. Briggs. Noa-' if I Vilun-larod ler- t "w-cmld eret aln-oad, and I should be litujjhed at. The ! hat bore the name of the maKer, Yralker. j Did Mr. inggs get hts hat from Vv alkej" How could 1 find out without calling1 ami inquiring if such were the case? But first 1 asked the housekeeper if she knew who was Mr. 15n?gs hatter; she did not. Then I went to the. hatter, bnt there was no such lame on his books. Mr. Briiros img-hi have bought the hat ready-made; he coula tell better if he saw the hat. On going a gain 1 took the hat with me. It .was cer tainly made on the premises, and was be sides one of two or, perhaps, three hats li ned with a certain pattern stun receiver am France. It was purchased ''irufti the shelves," as he expressed it; but what I the purchaser's name may have been it w as impossible lor him to tell. Just at thi; time the errand boy, who had been out. returned, and on the . clerk's re-iterating what has been described, he remembereu distinctly, not the name of the person, but the street and the number of house to which he had taken the hat. Now, if the boy's memory could be re lied upon, the hat in my possession b-dong- u to some other person than Mr. 1 -riggs:, md the tatter's hat was in the possession of the person who committed the crime. That night I called at Mr. Briggs' house, and asked to be allowed to look over hi. business papers. Among other bills, 1 found there one of a recent date from a hatter named Snow. On inquiry of Mr. Snow, I learned that he had made JMr. Briggs hats regularly for upwards of ten years; that Mr. Briggs was very particular as to the fit and style of his hatj that this bill was for the hat before the last, and that the last had been sent in ?,bout a week previous Mr. Briggs would hardly have purchased two hats, and. there was little doubt that a change of hats had been effected but how to find the missing ouet I sent a trusty assistant to the house where the boy said he had left the hat, with in structions, if it were a board ing-hocse, to inquire for board; and, if the landlady was at all communicative, to 'pump' her as" far as possible." t ile came back with all the information requisite, and in an hour time - ced of his guilt when I learned that he ut ted Ms shop of Mr. Briggs, to w hom he Vt backward in his payments. pliers tnai, came on m aue season M of tbe first witnesses called was the tyr, Walker, wrho gave his evidence as manufacture of the hat, its peculiar- of ltJV3cc. The hat fitted Miller exactly; ans landlady testified to having seen any been in -a Iulpar a new hat similar to it, about the Una oraa asiid to be nnrchased. But. in to this, there . was found among effects a hat which Snowr identif- ied iV.jng' the last one made by him for Mr. X gs, although, as he aamitted it was JZ jn the crown. Bat Snow went orr to 7 jn bjs evidence that the hat had been 4own just so far as to remove the anv purchi name, which he inserted un hiui. der &Anr of vhe crowa of all his cus- torn-made bats;, and, most significant of ali, the crown had been sewn on, not as a hat ter would do it, but as a tailor. Don't you see? Miller was a tailor. The one thing in which I was wrong was as to how Mil ler got into the carriage. This he made known in his confession," written the day before he was hung. He seated himself, luring one of the stoppages, and while Mr. Briggs was in a store, under the front seat. Being a tailor, and accustomed to sit with his legs crossed, he could compress him self into a remarkably small compass, and was possessed of very considerable agility. Bat his confession contained a still more remarkable revelation. Avarice prompt ed him to seize his victim's w-atch and chain, alter the murder was committed; but hatred" and revenge had driven him to the perpetration of the deed. Mr. Briggs had been dogging him for weeks for his rent,. and the. very evening oi the muraer lie called upon him for money, and high, pas sionate words passed between them: That night, as Miller was going to his boarding house, his persecutor, as he regarded him, stepped from a carriage at one of the street corners, and entered a store.' Like light-Tiirgttie-murderousplan flashed through his mind- his opportunity,' the gratification of vLis revenge, and the hope of booty for his 'reward. He jumped into the carriage, con cealed himself, and w-hen the vehicle was again-in motion, sprang forth upon his vic tim, and slabbed him to death, as has been described. Well -here was a pretty clear case, I think; and Tom Dorian was right almost from the very start, eh? But as if to heap proof upon proof, Mr. Briggs' w atch was traced to a pawn-broker, wdio identified Miller as the man who had deposited it the whole forming a weight of evidence that effectually cleared up the ni3"stery of the two hats. Ajt Analysis of the Coquette. Punch says : The coquette is a . graduate in the science of flirtation, has taken every degree from her alma mater who is so good n mistress of arts that she no longer needs a trainer and is competent to man age her own affairs without the aid of a chap eron. She is a psychological euriosity - undergoing two changes before arriving at maturity from the insect of the school "period she becomes the chrysalis of the kall room, whence she emerges from be neath the wing of her chaperon, to flatter forth the full grown butterfly, or coquette. She has a scale of attractions . by which she measures her deportment toward dif ferent individuals. She can at a moment's notice be intenselv agreeable or quietlv repel lant. qhe can smilo with one side of uer lace upon a new conquest, and irown with the other upon his waning rival. She knows nistinctivclv the exact moment when o commence a flirtation; and having no passion, no leenng, can adroitly break oh; an ineligible one, even if the wedding liveries iiave been ordered. Flattery is her food, and caprice her rule of conduct. She may win our astonishment by her boldness, iu geriuiy, and protean changes of demeanor, but not our admiration or estetnn. 7 A Stokt of Jacksox. The Cincinnati Ettqwrer'k engaged in a controversy as to Andrew- Jackson, and it resents the ac cusation that the old hero was a man of either ''imperious or boorish manners,'' declaring that "we never had a president who w as more elegant in demeanor or im pressive in his external appearance." A story is told of him by Governor Wise, who admired him greatly, that is musto tive of his character. During the admin istration of Monroe, Jackson, in command of some troops, invaded Florida,; and cap tured Arbuthuot and Ambristes, two Lnsr Hsiiraea, who, it was charged, incited the Jn iiiin;; to depredations just as the carpet -aggers now incite negroes to riot. He at 0!;ce ordered a court-martial and had them anno- and with but little time for preparation. He was arraigned for this offence before the cabinet of President Monroe. Mr. Adams, then Secretary of rotate, aeiended him on the high ground of international law, as expounded by urotnis, Vattel and Fuflendori. Jackson, ho had quarreled with Mr. Monroe, was opposed to regard tbe matter as personal niounu vxrotins; comounu rnltcuaon; At r JTT 1 y.T- niat er between Jim Monroe and me." It is alo paid oFhim that, pending the ques tion V disnute between this eonntrv niwl i ranc m regard to the demand for five ruillipis of dollars, his message to Con gresa, Contained a direct and insultinc: threat v, Louis Philippe. The cabinet consume, and urged a cliange of the phraseol Mr. Forsvth. then Secictarv of State, jtJroitl y changed the language dictated, the President, so as to soften it, ana ra&-e the 'message more diplomatic in terms to more comformable to courteous intejnatiOBf intercourse. But when Mr. Donelson,t,e President's private secre tary, read i him from the proof-sheets, Jackson stop,,) him when he fnt to the part relating t0 prance. "ifead that again, sir," esi he; "that is ; not my lan guage; is has en changed, and I will nave no other pression of my own mean ing man my c words." The original words were sub, and hia absolute uiciation wranu,,m Frsnce the money which could have been obtained through diplomat An ingenious ir stor recently presen ted tp tha cashier ile Assemblv at Ver sailles, an order for .'S francs, due to M de Cezanne, deputy lv the Hautes-Alpes me signature seenifto perfectly genuine. and tne money was mJed over, but it was uiscoverea tnat t gicrnature was a forgery, and.M. e Celine iusisted that he should not be made u bear the loss tiis claim has been admtt ,i v,v the End- get Committee, and . the J,ubio payment is to be charged to the cfttter of "eundrv expeuae ' - .'. . THURSDAY, JANUARY Ix Beelin. A correspondent of the Jetpisli Messenger writes: " Berlin at once strikes a visitor as a great city: the streets are noisy;- a bnsy crowd is filing past on the sidewalk ; the stores are filled with customers; and stages, cabs and postal wagons rumble over the roads. The people wear the garb of all nations: English swells in velvet coats and bulging trousers; Ameri can tourists, oi course, (ahem!) dressed like gentlemen, with perfect taste and propriety, and with the bearing of free men and the dignity of lungs; quaint looking peasants, with their smocks and head-gear of a convulsing nature; Berlin fops with heavy canes and eye-glasses, ruddy faces, fat hands, rfnd tight panta loons adorning " stout legs ; "lean artists. with hair flowing down their shoulders with Corinthian luxuriance, and 'capping the climax' with caps sufficiently broad for a race-course ; German women with seraphic faces and kitchen costumes; pret ty flower-maidens, fierce soldiers, courtly old gentlemen, pale-faced children,' dusty laborers all pass us as we jstand by the palace m a part of Berlin wLich gives the best view "of most of its beauties. A few moments more, and we post ourselves bv the momimeh-t of Frederick the Great. Before wo enter TJnter den Linden, which is immediately in front, let ns turn to view the scene in the opposite direction. We can see readily the broad Opernplatz, npx on which the sun is shining with scorch ing force; the palaces of- the kaiser and the crown prince, before -which sentries are slowly pacing; the. opera house, be sieged by ticket-seekers and speculators; the library m the rear of the emperors pal ace; the univei ity, the academy and the" arsenal all in close proximity ; and then, a little in the distance, the museum and the old Schloss with the Schloss bridge. Monuments of notable men are seen in various points, on the bridire and on the sides of the plaza, while domc-crowned churches are chiciino;. forth the hour of the day with the correctness to be expected from such timepieces." ;TriE Silver Bells. la Eastern poe try they tell of a wondrous tree, on which grew golden apples and silver bells; and every time the breeze went by and tossed the fragrant branches, a shower of those golden apples fell, and the living bells they chimed and tinkled forth their airy ravishment. On the gospel tree there grow melodious blossoms; sweeter bells than those which mingled with the pome- granate on Aaron's vest; holy leeiings, heaven taught joys; and where the wind bloweth where it iistetb, the south wind wn.lt bi or. w lipn tlie TTnlv snirit. brenilios nr- a7 . -- r on that soul, there isthe shaking down jif mellow; fruits, and the now of healthv odors all around, and gush of sweetest music, where gentle tones and joyful echo ings are wafted through the recesses of the soul. Xot easily explained to others, and too ethereal to define, these jovs are on that Hccount hut the more delightful. The sweet sense of forgiveness; the con scious exercise of all tue devout affections, and grate! ul and adoring emotions God w-ard; the lull of sini'ul passions, itself ecstatic music; an exulting sense of the security of the well-ordered covenant; the gladness of surety, righteousness, and the kind spirit of adoption, encouraging to say, "Abba, Father;" all the delightful feelings which the spirit of God increases or creates, and which aro summed up in that comprehensive word- "Jov m the Holy Ghost." - ' Saytxg is Wealth. One great cause of the poverty of the present day is a fail- lire of onr common people to appreciate small things. They do not realize how a daily' addition, be it ever so small, will soon make a large pile. If the young men and young women of to day will only begin, and begin now, to save a little from their earnings and plant it in the soil oi some-good saving bank, and weekly or monthly add their mite, they will wear a happy smile of competence when they reach middle life. Not only the desire but ability to increase it will also grow. Let clerk and tradesman, laborer and artisan, make now and at once a begin ning. Store up some of your youthful force and vigor for fatn re contingency, Let parents teach' their children, to begin early to save. Begin at the fountain head to control the stream of extravagance to choose between poverty and riches. Let your youth go on in habit's of extrava gance for fifty years to come as they have for fifty j'ears past, and we- shall have a nation ot beggars, with a moneyed aristoc racy. Let a generation of such as save m small sums be reared, and wo shall be free from all want. Do not be ambitious for extravagant fortunes, but do seek that which is the duty of every one to obtain, independence and a comfortable home. Wealth, and enough of it, is within the reach of all. It is obtained by , one pro cess, and by one only saving. Ait Incid'e. At one of the Boston restaurants, last week, a; mechanic, with his overalls, took his eat at the table and called for his dinner, when the following scene occurred : Waiter ''I will take the money for your dinner." Gent "I usually pay after 1 have eaten my dinner." Wait er "We must have itTbefore." Gent (leisurely and with some display, and turn ing down his overalls, taking from his pock et a $100 note) "Can you; change tmsJ Waiter "No. Have you nothing small er?" Gent "Yes, plenty. Here is a $20 bill, vhich yoa"may change. If you- had chosen to wait nnul I finished my dinner, I have plenty of small change with which I would have paid vou, but now yon can take it out" of that." The result was that the waiter had to go out for the change. and the numerous spectators of the scene had their laugh over the new illustration of the old truth. 'Don t trust in appearances 7,, 1875. THE STRAXGEB-TFlTSESH1 A gentleman, followed by a- seftfant -in ivery, rode into an mn-'in-.thdowefet of England one evening, a little aftf?? - ihtsk. He told the landlord" thaf; he shou4l4 de tained in that part of the countgy for , a w days, and wished to" know wf :, there were any. amusements going offi in the town to occupy the time, as.he was l&HtU usy. He was informed by the Iaudlorlptbit i was their race and assize week j ' Md, Ithat; he theretore would have plenty t.bccupy his leisure moments. On the gejflenaan's making answer that this was fortjjiatt as be was fond of hearing brials; theh6sjtv in formed him that a very interestin iliolibery trial was to come off on l -Jthe ftextidav; That the evidence was trrruaMnt the prisoner, and the peopled opi;bnwas greatly divided, as the man insifpd that he was in another part of the pjsingdom when the robbery was committed! hf I he gentleman expressed ccfjmdefable anxiety to witness the trial. ,Ael(rdingly the next morning the host pruciufljt liini a good location. through his innueSce with' the court officers. " ' rf. . ' While the evidence proceeded against him, the prisoner's eyes rernaiS3?di jflxed on the ground; but upon being cjjfledlupon for his defense he looked up, and p.eing the stranger, he fainted away. At fiirsti this was supposed to be a trick to Sint jtime, but beihsr questioned on his' rec ery, he asserieu tnat tnat gentleman c Id save his life if he might pat a few qu lions' to him. . The eyes of the whole court lere rMw turned upon the stranger, who seeiBed'eome what embarrassed, but stated thaUhough he could not remember. the prisonpf, hp was willing to answer any question'tyiti might be proposed.. The court giantecMliej pris oner's reqnest, and he asked theKstrjanger it he remembered .being in Doveypp tain date. To v,'hi:h the genfl&ftiah swered that he had landed' at Djfcjf ly before, but could not positi$ 4 that he was there that exact "dav on't vou remc?mbev that, a" blue jacket and trowsers carried to the inn?" asked tlie prisoner. "1 remtiiiDer that a man did trunk, but 1 do not remember hi "But, 7 .sad the prisoner, l-Hisly, "don t vou Temeinber that the-" nan) who carried your trmik told you a stpyijabbut his being m the service, that hxp t,hpught himself an ill-used nfan, and that hp showed you a scar he had on on of lviu -fVn-t.lwo rl - 1 . During the last part of theeci the stranger s tace changed, and he fesaid that he did remember the scar.' TliS prisoner pushed aside his hair, displayingiiacarQn his forehead, and the witness afhfoiied pos itively and with great emotion teat he wits the verv man. A buzz of satisfaction ran though the court, for the aay on which thfi ..." - A witness had met the prisoner at DovtT was tne very day of the' robbery. The stranger, however, coufl hot be certain of the time, but statedj tljiat he sometimes, made .memorandum o dates in his pocket book, and turning to pL? found that the date of his landing cosSeknonded with the prisoner's assertion. Tii being the only circumstance n'ecessaryKto prove an alibi, the prisoner was imineiMiidlv ac quitted amid great applause ahdacimgratu Litions. " The above trial occurred in' g" and within less than a . month the galltli miSilf witness who came to the inn aaeRi ded by a servant in livery, the servantfi -1 & a ho toi- loWed him, and 'the prisoner, ere an three brought back, to, the san; ail- foT robbinjr the mail. It turned oujf.i iiat the clever defense at the last trial WB& skill- fully arranged plot of the .confeij rates to release their accomplice DON CARLOS AT MASSii A Correspondent of the Lon?gf News, writinsr from Estella. savf n , Daily Every day each regiinent is i&irph not 1 to church at some hour or other forMi saying j? -. f -l. c '-.SitL,- oi tue rosary; uui on ouuuaysgte ccic mony becomes more striking. 1 gs mid-day mass is attended by the king, )feequar- ters are in a roomy house just praqsite the square. A little before tw elve. that dav the men of the king's escort, - r - . J Iiiihuenng about a hundred, and the reriin t of the king's foat guards, are parad n arms xinon the square with their L .'.their I - 4 - fifes and drums, etc ana & he clocl strikes twelve are marched i jehurch, with fixed bayonets and band tilavuig, The infantry. stands facing the altar 'in cn nirtris r.f firaniaiiii'S. leavirS:! an aisle m the center of the church. 1 pi ? jis lined at once by the dismounted h the kin rr'c perort. Tho kin.f semen ol i ... M '4 enters the church, accompanied bv his3Tafi', and -- r 3 v proceeds up the aisle to the foolMfj the, al tar. The baud strikes up, the R-pops pre sent arms, and a low mass is Ef a few drummer boys in their regimenMisj acting as acolytes. Tbe band plays yPS the whole short servicej only at ilp moment cf the elevation the escort drf .'swords and all the troops . drop on nO ;knee, which is customary In Roma Catholic countries. On Sundays the square of Ea- tella is thronged with men fiM . women from all parts of the three proy$gies, who come to see the king, &n:h?2when lie appears at the church porch, -gmss being over, he is saluted by vociferonEI acclama tions. It is in vain ; that hil:f6llower'3 close around him, and that a of sol diers on either side endeavor, tpkeep the wav clear the people, men. winerr, and children, press forward, and a saWgle be eins among: the foremost in tins rowd ,to eaten, noiu oi me King's nanyi kjss mi lt 4l.: Z lAr "get between the soldiers, and ivuttoir repressible. Such iVje ent3iUra of tue lnhabita-rf tT. nrovm&fc ftV this a cer- an- rkh( WAV- a. iii in a Jfur trunk Earrv my idiress.'5- f pEjaoe. As I Baid bllbrei they weariness of this long war, and of the burdens it lavs upon them. Indeed, one of the most remarkable fea tures of this strange struggle is the perfect amity which reigns between the soldiery and the population. When off duty the soldiers will help the people upon whom they are billeted, in their labors. - The vintage has just been finished, and while it lasted the vineyards were full of soldiers assisting the country people to get in their grapes. What Oxe -Vote Did. A single vote in New York city, says the Express, made Jefferson President of the United States. ana this one vote moved the pobcv of the! txovernment, not only under Jefferson, but 3 : . V t- i - a single vote of 100,000 votes made Mar cus Morton Governor of Massachusetts. So one vote elected Wm. Allen, in the Chillicothe district, Ohio, to Congress in 1oj4, and ono vote subsequently made him United States Senator for six years later. The following case of the kind is still more remarkble : In 1830, Dan Stone, of Cincinnati, was a candidate for the State Legislature. Walking up Main street on the morning of the election, he overtook an acquaintance going to the polls, who in tended to vote the opposition ticket. Stone solicited his vote. "We are old friend said he, "and I know you will show an old friend that mark of kindness." Party spirit was then comparatively quiet. The voter replied, "Well, Dan, you are a pret tv clever fellow. I don't care if I do." That one vote elected Stone, and gave a ma jority of one to the Legislature, which made J nomas Ewing United States Sena tor. Mr. Ewmg's vote on the question of confirming Martin Van Buren as Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain enabled the Vice President to give the castiug vote against it, and so made Mr Van Buren then President, first Vice President and and determined the general policy of the country for four years. t Whose Boy is That? He may be seen any day, in any part of the village; he never makes room for vou on the side walk, looks at vou saucily, and swears smartly if asked anything; he is very im pudent, and often vulgar to ladies who pass; he delights in frightening and some times does serious injurv to little boys and girls; he lounges at the street corners, and is the first arrival at a dog. fight or. any other sport or scrape; he crowds into the post-ohice in the eveniug, and multiplies himself and his antics at such a rate that people Having legitimate nusmess are crowded out; he thinks himself very sharp; he is certainly very noisy; he can snioke and chew tobacco now and then, and rip out an oath most any time. We ask whose boy he is. Mother, is he yours I v V e think he i, for there are many good qual ities in the lad, and we do not think that you know what he does on the street. Look after him, mother; keep him more at home. Train him, and you will have a son -to be proud of. The Heart Shes'ig in the Face. I love a minister whose face invites me to make him my friend a man upon whose door step you read, "Salve," "Wel come." Give me the man around whom the children come, like flies around the honey-pot; they are first-class "judges of a good man. When Solomon was tried by the Queen of Sheba, as to his wisdom," the rabbis tell ns that she brought some artifi cial flowers with her so beautifully made and delicately scented as to. be fac similes of real flowers. She "asked Solomon to discover which were real. The wise man bade his servants open the window, and when the bees flew in the- flew at once to the natural flowers, and cared nothing for the artificial. So you will find that chil dren have their instincts, and discover very speedily who is their friend, and depend upon it" the children's friend is one who will be worth knowing. . Have a . good' word to each and every;' member of, the family the big boys andthe young ladies, to the little girls and everybody. No one knows how much a smile and a hearty sentence may do. A man.-who is to do much with men must love them and feel at home with them. Correspondence. ' FOK THS GAZETTE. Reminiscences of a Bojonra of Many Tcar3 in the Principal Empires and UinjJoms of Europe xo. xr.v. Messrs. Editohs: 1 have left . my friend, and our pleasant companion Kaiser alone m tne Tyrolean Alps ot Austria, so after this number you wiil excuse me irom any further rambling through Italy, France and Bavaria in search of jhose pleasantre- collections which p-e fast fading away in my mind, so much; so that if it 'were not for the moments k solitude that I cherish, and which give memory ample time to re capitulate, I would have forgotten those many and various phases of the customs of t.hft Catholic Church in Europe, some of which are so interesting as well as so beau tiful, and one of which I can never forget: It was at Munich, Bavaria, on the square where the statue of the Virgin Mary is sit uated, and where one of the barracks is al so situated. At these barracks, every night at 9 o'clock, the" tattoo ist beaten, and after that eight men with small drums pass out of this square to Lud wig street, and up Ludwig to Charles street, and up Charles street to barracks. ?, They always beat the same thing until the night of Good Friday, when four fifes are added. They beat or play what I suppose t may call a funeral d?rra or ronn;n-Jl-' -.M-.e-r - j. e sweetest music I have ever heard in any country. I did not kn.cT until then that it w-as possible to produce such music with the sharpy shrill fife. This custom show no signs of WHOLE NO. 73. has been in vogue for many years. O' the morpihg of Good Friday, if one go to any of the churches in Munich, . will there see, in the extreme end of tho building, a deep recess, sometimes in tho . form of a cave, and sometime as a- sepul- chre, in which is placed an image of our Saviour truly represented as the history it given in the' Scriptures, with the except ion of glass lamps burning in a row in front. Tiiose churches that wish to have the sceue still more ghastly, add to it by having the lamps either green or pale blue, w hich-giye an awful, death-like appearance. This figure remains in the tomb until the night of-the third day, or the resurrections when it is moved. On the next night, if one w ishes a musical treat, let him attend 4l.e SasilirF, the NotmIame,Wt;. Lu4 ' wig: mere ne will see every kind bt a mu sical instrument brought into requisition, and will hear both instrumental and vocal music that' cannot be surpassed; for, he it said to their credit, , the Germans follow close upon the footsteps of the Italians in music. It is a great pity that mankind' cannot be as good alt the year round as during the three last days of Lent, And if mankind were as bad, as licentious and immoral indulging in all manner of vice the whole year round a3 during the two weeks of Carnival before Leut,lj , looks like it would be better for ns to be swept from the face of the earth. "- During a" car nival that I spent in a city 'of Italy, my preceptor in languages, who was a lioman Catholic priest and a very good, man, re marked to me that during Carnival was the time to see the most of persons in their true costume. I thonght it a very sensi ble remark. In some pails of Bavaria and in Austria and Italy it Is difficult to get meat during Ient. Any restaurant that was known to prepare meat on Good Fj-iday for the Italians subjected itself to severe penalties. But I must except tho late kingdom of Sardinia, over which tho great and good Victor Emanuel reigned, and where, it can be truly said, no .suck despotism was exercised over the people. As for the remainder of Italy, it was al most unnecessary for those despots of tho house oi llapsburg to have any law pass ed that their subjects should not eat meat on any day, for it was with great dilGcuTty that thev gotbread. much less meat. ; (In a former number I promised to say something in relation to the Confessional. Of the secrets of the Confessional no one knows anything, for everything divulged to. the priest is sacred. But perhaps there are some of your readers who have never seen onei In tho large churches anu cath edrals of Europe you will seo from thirty to forty, and some of ihem are double at every column in the body of the church, and every column toward the sides of tho church, i (I have to express myself in this way, as there are no aisles m the large churches, of Europe.) My preceptor, of whom I! have already spoken, being a priest and a perfect gentleman, was good authority, and he told mo that in connect ion with anv largo church or cathedral in Italy there were from fiftv to ono hundred (and sometimes more than that) priests. He took!nie4o the church in which he of ficiated, : opened his confessional that I might see it. It was like all the others; : ahoutfeigbt feet high, and five feet each way; the form is various- hexaf onal, or octagonal; there is a partition be tween the priest and the confessor, with a '- little window in it the size of one's hand which sometimes has wire over it; both priest and confessor have a little stool up on which they kneel. He told me the best time of the day was early in tbe morn ing; that he heard more then thtin at any other time of day. He had a confessional box and altar at which he said mass. In a former communication I spoke of the Great Altar, and distinguished it from the many altars there are in a cathedral. Often," when there are a great many priests connected w ith a cathedraly there will be from two to four 'who will perform mass at the same altar, but have their stated hours. My friend (for such I found him) Said that about twenty-five cents -was as small a sum as ho would say mass for, but he often got-much more; he said tjjathegot various prices for confessionals, but as there wrero so manv priests there was great competition existing, and some, wonld cut under, lie said his only income was from the confes sional, mass, funeral and marriage fees, that he was not what we call a curate, or in other" words he had no benefice. Tho great altar of a cathedral is always situa ted at the extreme end of the church from the doors you enter, and on each side, as you go from the door to-the great altar are the various chapels, in each one of which is a small altar, making in ail in onecath edral from twenty to thirty altars. Mass at the great altar is a very solemn and im posing service. It. 13 performed ' there for the benefit of the very rich and distinguish ed persons. There one will soe candles from twelve to. fifteen feet high, and from nine to twelve inches thick. That part of the chnrch near the great altar is made is1 as dark as possible during the day timp, and hundreds of candles from two to five feet long are lighted. There are no pews in any of these large churches or cathedrals except for the nobility, anL they are situa- ' ted all -along on each, .side of tho church, close to the alfar and about 10 to 15. feet from the floor. There are no carpets ; on. the floors, which are all lai.I with tile, flag, or marble, so that on a-cold,, wet .day tho interior is very disagreeable, oh account of so many going in with snow on their feet. In the body "of the; church: you will 6eo some fecveral hundred chairs, .looking 'ex actly like our old; fplit-liottom chairs w e have in this country. If yon tako a seiit von will feel ttotae one touch yon, and on. IciLVSsround you, will see an old wonaan with a lea she will tell you (du- ring the s i at vou . owe her two cents, i A until I find my-two friends X Jeft in VOX AGS CK. the Air- its-
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