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BY AV. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. _ ABBEVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 10, 18?S). ' VOLUME XVII?NO. 20? '
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ALL IS WELL.
BY J. CI. WIIITTU'K.
llor window opens to the d:>y,
On glistening li?i*t vr n; is' y B'-iiy;
And there, nt dfiwii r.tr' ,-ot t-f df.r.
At prayer oho Unooh i
"t>cnr Lord," die ?uit!i, "to p. ho.no
From wiud and wave lh<> wanderers tome ;
1 only see tho t<.M.ii;? foauj
Vi irr.rg.ir k?.c!^
''Blown out and in by Summer g>ile-?,
Tho stately ships, Willi crowded ;<ui!.s,
And sailors leaning o'er the rails,
Before ine glide ;
TllOl- fntllrt llw.M ?Y.? l.Ml
Spice laden from ilie Inui iti slioro. .
1 see hia Bwiftwinged I*? lore,
Tiic wave divide.
"Oh Thou I wil'i wliotii the nitclit w day,
A I'tl one the jioftr and far awny,
I-i ok out on yot:r gray \va;.te a:i.l suy
V.'h.ro lingers lie.
Alive, perchance, on nunc lone bcauh
Or thinty isle beyond t):e reach
Uf man, lie heard the mocking rfj cceli
Oi wind aad sou.
"O, dread aiul cruel doep, reveal
The secret which thy v.* uvea <.o:i?:t-al,
Auuyo wild liirl.vr wheel
And l? U yoli:* tal'\
Let winds that to.sed his raven hair
A mc-tviigo from my lost one bear?
Sonic thought of me, a lust foil J jirayer
Or dying wail!
"Come, with your dreari?'?t truth f=hut out
The tears that haunt mu round abou:;
O, God! 1 can not bear this doubt
That stilled breath.
The woiv-t. i^ hotter than the dread,
(live x.io hut leave t o tiwiru my dead,
Aiileej* iii hop.', "iiul trust instead
Of life iu death ! "
It. might havo l.eeii the evening breeze
That wliisjieie.l in the gard. n trees;
it might have been the .=mi::d of send
That rose and fel! ;
I'.ut with her heart, if not her ear,
Tho old loved voice the seemed t;? hear:
"1 wait to meet thee; he of cheer,
For all is w? ll! "
[From tlic Mobile Register ]
TEE NEGRO IN POTJTIflS.
Abstract of a Speech of Claiborne Stores,
Colored Democrat
Gentlemen:?I am not a speaker,
because I am not a man of education,
but I am a Southern man,
and have the interest of ruy people \
at heart, and I desire to talk to them, j
and I will continue by telling them
a:i anecdote. (We omit tho anec-;
dote to abbreviate?Hog.) The In
dian once owned this country, and
for a while lie and tho white man !
lived together, they foil out, as you !
are trying to full out with tho white j
man; and where i.; the Indian to- j
day? Sec him on the streets as he ,
comes from his pine bark shanty, j
to sell litdit-woed at ten cents a ;
O |
load for bread. This is *vhat you !
are coming to if you follow the >
miserable teachings of Kadicalism. ;
I tame near going the way of the j
Indian over a year ago. At that i
uiiiu j. was worKing on jjaiipum
street railroad, and getting ninety
dollars a month in their shops. It
was a fat place for me. I was
growing rich and happy, my wife
and children were luippy, for we
were laying by a good sum every
month, Avas working with my old j
owucrd and friend.-?, and some ofj
these Radicals came and put their >
arms auout my nock and said:
" Brother comc with mc to tlio
League; it is the place for you, the
place to lieli) you." I am sorry to
sav so, but I went; I listened to the j
lying promises and pledges of the '
men I met there. In a few days
the President of the road; who
}>aid rac niuety dollars a month,
came to me and said, " Clay, you
are forsaking your people and helping
these carpet-baggers stuff their
pockets and ruin 113 with taxation.
It' you go and vote with these people
you must leave this shop." I
stated this fact to the League the
night before the election, and three
lnuiflrnrl nion mif nn mid onM <( ~
? >mu OUIU,
and vote, and wc will stand up for
you,; this is what tho League is
for." I did go and vote and jthe
noxt day I was walked out of the
shop. In two weeks my tamily
had no home, and I was nearly
t velve in a shanty without any roof;
out of town and liardty a piece of
fbread to eat. Whcro were my
League friends then? I wont to
V?Onr? On/l tKair liiiinn/l
MMVt (lUlUV/U U W ilj' UUU
did not have time talk to talk to
me, and if some of tho gentlemen
had not come and taken me up
again, I would have etarvod for
bread.
One other of ray Loaguo friends
got in the guard-house, a short time
after tho election, and sent for some
of the Lecgue lawyers jto got him
out. The lawyers would not go
near him, because ho could not
raise fifteen dollars. The man lii
iin.llv sent for a his oh! master,
Isaac Donovan, and he j-aid him out
without a word.
Yv'Iiy in it that wa.ues arc now rei
duccd for you ami your wives to
] oi^ht and ten dollars a month? It
; is because the Kadical villains havo
got the taxes so high on the white
pooide already that they cannot pay
any more.
I am very sorry to sny that some
ol" mj> race havo not as much sense
i in tliis as a brute. The simplest
man in a lunatic asylum has more
sense than a four-footed brute, and
yet if a denj or a horse comcs to
your door, and you Iced him, he
will come bade, and if you keep
feeding him hiin ho will keep coming
hack. 15ut not so with some of
the eolored people in this thing of
politics. They get their bread from
the white people of the South, arnJ
have been geltim; it t'roin them all
I their lives, and yet they are fjiiittiiig
| their door;; to run after eavpet-hnggeiv,
who arc honeying them only to
rob and to starve them.
T i ii.~ ?t - - *?
X. n?n lillDl'U AVI til tliu Will 1(3 111011 OI
this country?the gentlemen of the
South. 3to and my young masters
used to fight when we wore boys. The
| big ones used to whip me, and I would
l whip the little, and old master would
I whip us all, and ho never knowed any
dilVcreneo it' wo would behave ourselves,
and not bo led astray by those
lying ilogs who come hero and say,
! " Brother, L left my wife and children j
to fight lor your freedom ; I slept in |
ditches for 3*011 : now come and help
mo." It is a lie. Those thatare here
that did fight?and they arc very few
?went in for the bounty, and they
camc down hero for the bounty, and
they are hugging the darkey for the
bounty .and nothing else, and my
colored brothers, may see it too hite
to do you any good.
For tie little that I run with the
carpet-baggers, I took up with the
most respectable looking one in the
?a prcachcr culled Brother Branch.
Brother Branch taught school in the
ciLy, and would preach in the Baptist
church in the morning, in llui Methodist
in the afternoon, and anywhere
lie could get crowd enough to Luke up J
a collodion lVoai in thu evening.
I generally wont with hi in because
I felt sorry for him?ho was so mock
I
and ho 'mighty good. The suitors
would alway:s crowd around !ii:n and
ask, " Brother, how is 1113* cliild learning
at school?" Jlis answer would
be, "Oh, my darling little Mary will
go on in tlie reader next week;" when
little had never been out of her A, 1>,
C'ri.
Brother Branch always wore big
holes in bit; shoes and clothes, and
' I
would toil how poor ho wan, and we j
toolc up collections for hiin two or !
throo times a Sunday, until wo got'
his pockets full, and soon after wc j
had mado one or two big collections
v/hich went into Brother Branch'.*
hands, that branch was dry; lie run
somo other way, and no body lias
seen him since. And this is what the
last ono of them is going to do as soon j
a3 they get something to go on. And j
where will you be, 1113' colored friends, ;
after vou have dono nil tin* ilnni-urr* <r? !
*" ;
the racc of this h;nd which you can j
do? Will it not ho too hitc for you i
to ask favor of them then? They
need your help now ; they will not j
need it after awhile, and now is the I
time to help thorn. j
Some poor folku talk to mo ahout
being ashamed of a colored Demoj
crat. I am ashamed of a earpct-bagj
ger or a scalawag thief. And if J
1 wcrorammod in a cannon to be blown
j out, my last and proudest words would
j he Democrat; for I know Democracy
to mean right for me, and right and
salvation for my people.
In conclusion, I will repeat you a
little piece of rhymo I fixed up in my
head whilo eating dinner, and it will
shown j'ou what Radicalism means,
for you all know something about it:
This piece of poetry I compose,
I am the man called Claiborno Storos.
The Radical party ia never at rest,
Fjr here bo little they possest.
They pick our pockets?rob oar purse,
And leave uh all tan times worse.
They shipped for Texa3 Borne time ago;
It made the crew quite glad you know ;
They sung their song*; they pat their juba,
They fell asleep and woko in Cuba.
A letter with an undccypherablc
superscription was lately received at
the Fashau (N. H.) postoffice. Postmastor
Swain concluded that the
country contained only ono man capabio
of this chirography, so ho ondor
sed the onvelopi as follows, and remitted
it to tho faaftil: "Returned to
the writer, supposed to bo Horace
Grceloy, for a more lcgiblo direction."
Aftor tho lapso of thrco days the
letter reappeared, legibly addressod
to a relative of H. G.
Eight Chinoeo wore robbed of their
quoues by hair thieves on the day oJ
their arrival in San Francisco.
cuba And the united states, i
The Northern liadical journals |
now proclaim that the time lias come ,
for tlio Administration to enter into (
negotiations with Spain, looking \0 <
| the wtx'vliaijo of the inland of Cuban
j from that country, and, with charm- : i
i ing unanimity, ur^je upon President j i
C?nuitand the Secretary oi' State the j
importance of commencing operations t
j at once, and making an otter to Spain (
for her valuable West Indian colony i
' while the former seems to bo in the j
I humor of sellin<j. A cable dispatch, i
I received a few days since from .Madrid, x
stated, on reliable authority, thai tlie ,,
preliminaries of a treaty for the cos!
sion of Cuba to the L'nitod Sliito.';
had already been signed; find while, J
it is true, the dispatch lias not been
believed by the Northern Radical
paper.-?, yet they have evidently aceoj)tcd
it us a favorable omen of what ^
tho action of the Spanish revolution- a
ary government will be in the event j.
that such a cession is proposed, and \
thoy earnestly advise thai the Administration
shall procccd at once in the u
matter. il
That General (irant and his Secre- c
tary of State, Mr. Fish, intend to v
heed this appeal we can have no c
doubt; for since tho lirst breaking out 0
of tho. insurrection in Cuba it has {l
been 110 secret tl.at tho eyes of the
President have been wistfully turned |
in the direction of the "Queen of the
Antilles," and that his warmest sym- si
palhies have been with her rebellious j.
inhabitants?believing, as he did, that ?
if they could succeed in breaking tho i,
chains which bound them to the ti
Spanish crown, they would eagerly :i
favor annexation to this country, and u
make the "ever-faithful Isle" a State r,
in the American Union. Now, that j,
the successes of General Jordan, the [
American commander-in-chief of the
Cuban armies?and whom it is said a|
went to the Island with the Presi- u
dent's knowledgo and consent?and %v
of Ccspedes, tho provisional President
of tho revolutionists, have baliled tho js
offorts of Do liodas and his Spanish 6]
forces and rcoonctihrd thn
country, somewhat to the idea, of los- c,
ing her province, the Administration n]
will hardly ri^iect this opportunity H|
for driving a bargain with Prim and C]
the Spa:.hli Junta. u:
Strange to say, too, within the past h
fuw weeks a remarkable change?coins :i,
to have taken place in the opinion* of' tl
the leading European journals on this a!
subject, and they now favor the ^
scheme of sale and annexation. The t.:
most prominent leaders of public :l
:enliment among the press of France ni
and Great Britain, in speaking of the ??,
condition of tho two countries, now hdec'aro
that the best course which jj
Spain can pursue is to relinquish her ft
vain attempts to cotnpcl tiie Cubans u
by force of arms to return to their .$1
former allegiance, and sell her disaffected
subjects to the United States .tl
for a good, round number of American p,
dollars. They assert that it is now
several months since the ling of insurrcction
was hoisted on the island; %v
that during this time Spain has put js
forth every effort, sent her best offi- ,]
cers and soldiers to crush the rebel- v
lion and yet, despite these exertions,
the insurgents uLi 11 hold out and are, j,
apparently, as strong and determined
as ever. Under these circumstances u
they think that Spain should exorcise ;l
what little authority she still possesses ;l
over her diseonted province and cede
j Cuba to the United States. c,
The price, which it is said, will bo o
demanded lor the island is ?20,000,000, f(
or about one hundred millions of t
American gold dollars?amounting in h
currency to the snug little sum of li
moro than one hundred and thirty c
millions of dollars. Wo suppose, how- h
over, that if Spain be disposed to sell, a
a mere triflo liko this will not stand <j
in the way of the purchase of Cuba j:
| by tho Government. Arc not our s
taxes already too light, and aro there c
not many superfluous millions in tho 1
National Treasury which can bo used j
by tho Governmont in its 1-oal estate t
speculations? Most assuredly so; c
and if our moral Minister at tho capi- 1
tal of Spain, Daniel Sickles, can sue- i
cccd in buying at tho small figure t
above mentioned, wo suppose that a c
Kadical Senato Will not hesitato to 1
confirm tho purchase. i
Thcro yet seems to remain, howev- ?
i cr, ono littlo obstaclo in the way of 1
tho proposed annexation, via: tho t
consent of tho Cubans thomsclvcs to j
tho measuro. On this subject tbo j
Governmont of Cospedes has prcsorv- 1
od a most ominous silence. No whoro j
in any of tho proclamations or appoals i
of tho revolutionary Junta, has it i
4? * ' *
uvuu tliu iquhc remotoiy mentioned. 1
The leaders of the insurgents have I
often risked for assistance in racn and <
money from thfs country; have often
begged a recognition of their bclligoront
right%from tho Administration,
but at no time havo they domandod
annexation. They are anxious to
free themselves from tho liatod yoko
of the Mother country, and thoy wish
Llio United .States government to he!n
them achieve tIiiri freedom, but it by
no moans follows that they will f^ivo
;i?> their liberty as soon as it is obtained,
lor the p'irjKtse of transforming
.heir country into a province of the
United States. If the President docs
lot mind he will find more difiiewlfy
n t!ic way of his pot scheme of anlcxation
than ho has heretolbro an.ieipaled?anil
the opposition will
some from a most unexpected quarter.
kVhat the Cuban people scorn to desire,
s liberty and independence, and not
he mere change of a Spanish for an
Vuicrican master.?Chronicle & Stulit
cl.
IARK TWAIN'S EDITORIAL SALUTATORY.
"Mark Twain" has become one of
he proprietors of the Buffalo J-Jrjwcss,
nd publishes his "salutatory" in tho
5sue of that paper of Saturday last.
Ye quote:
Being a stranger, it would bo imlodcst
and unbecoming iu mc to Kudenly
and violently assumo the as.soiatc
editorship of the liufialo J'Jrjtrcss
without a single explanatory word of
omlbrl or encouragement to the unifending
patrons of t!ie paper who
re iiUtJiit to bo exposed to constant
Hacks of my wisdom and learning.
!ut this explanatory word .shall bo as
rief as possible. I only wish to asure
parties having a friendly interest
I tho prosperity ol" the journal that
am not going to hurt tho paper debcratoly
and intentionally at any
me. I am not going to introduce
ny startling reforms, or in any way
Itompt to make trouble. I am fcimly
going to do my plain, unrivtendig
duty, when 1 cannot /ret out of it:
shall work diligently and honestly
ad faithfully at all times and upon |
II occasions, when privation and j
ant shall compul mo to do it; in
riting I shall always confine myself
,rie<ly to tho truth, oxcept when it
i attended with ineonvenionco; 1
ndl withcringly rebuke all forms of
rime and misconduct, exccpt when
immittcd by tho party inhabiting
iy own vest; 1 shall not make uno of
ang or vulgarity upon any occasion
[ under any circumstances, and never
ijo profanity except in discussing
ouse rent and taxes, indeed, upon j
jcond thought, I wiil not even use it !
ten, for it is unchristian, inelegant j
tui degrading?though to speak ;
uly I do not see how house rent anil |
arc going to ho discussed worth
cent without it. I shall noL often
icddle with politics, because wo have
political editor who is already cxccl;it,
and only needs to Ferve a term
i the penitentiary in or Icr to he per- J
ft. J shall not write any poetry, i
nles:i I conceive a .-pile against the !
jbseribors. j
Such i:i my platform. I do not see I
ny earthly u.se in it; but custom is 1
l\vj ami custom must bo obeyed, no j
latter bow much violence it may do j
> one's feelings. And this custom
liieb i am slavishly following now
i surely ono of the least necessary
lat ever came into vogue. In priate
life a man does hot go and trumet
his crime beforo ho commits it,
lit your new editor is such an impormt
personage that he feels called
pan to write a ''salutatory" at once,
ml be puts into it all that he knows,
nd all that he don't know, and some
kings ho thinks he knows but isn't
urtain of. And ho parades his list
f wonders which he is going to pcrjrm;
of reforms which ho is going
o introduce, and public evils which
e is going to cxtcrininato; and pubic
blessings which ho is going to
reatcj and public nuisances which
io is going to abate. IIo spreads this
,11 out with oppressive solemnity
>vcr a column and a half of largo
irint, and feels that tho country is
aved. His satisfaction over it is
inormons . IIo then settles down to
lis miracles and inflicts profound
latitudes and impenetrable wisdom
ipon a helpless public as long as they
:an stand it, and then they can send
. *co i A ~ ?
inn mi v>uu3iii lu muiiiu savage l-sianu
n the Pacific in tho vaguo hope that
,ho cannibals will lileo him woll
enough to cat liim. And with an inmmanity
winch is but a fitting clinax
to his carcor of persecution, iuilead
of packing his trunk at once, he
ingers to inflict upon his benefactors
i "valedictory." If thcro is anything
more uncalled for than a "salutatory,"
it is one of thoso toarful,
blubbering, long-windod "valedictories"?-whorein
a man who has been
annoying tho pablio for ten years cannot
tako leavo of them without sitting
down to cry a column and,a half.
Still, it is tho custom to writo valediotorics,
and custom should bo respooled.
In my heart I admire my
prcdcccsBOr for declining to print a
valedictory, though in public I say
and shall continue to say sternly, it it:
custom, and ho ought to havo printod
ono. l'coplo novor rood them any
moro tlian they do tho "salutatorics,'
hut noverlhoicks ho ought to have <
honored tho ohl fossil?ho ought to t
have honored tlio old fossil?ho ought (
to have printed a valediotory. 1 said ,
as much to him, and ho replied: t
"I havo resigned mjr place?T have
departed thirf life?I am journalistieally
dead, at present, ain't I ?" ^
"Yea." !
"Well, wouldn't you consider it di.s- *
graceful in a corpse to sit up and comment
on the funeral!"
I record it here, and preserve it ^
from oblivion, as tlio briefest and best
"valedictory" that has yet come under
my notice. (1
A<c>> S
On Going Surety. |
Ought a man ever to go surety
for another? Why not? It is a t:
most friendly act. If prudently 1
done, it may bo of the most eini- ,;
nent benefit to a neighbor. It 11
gives him the benefit of your good
reputation when ho is not known. 11
It lends him your credit where I1
his own is not Riifucienf. It puts ^
him in fund3 which otherwise lie 0
could not command. Such service tl
to a friend is generous, and some- *<
times even noble. No better use tl
can be made of one's money than n
to help a true friend. AVe arc a
commanded to " remember those in Hbonds
as bound with them." To
be sure, this was originally applied
to bonds of a different kind, but
with not a whit more propriety than
to pecuniary bonds. A man who tJ
by a few thousand dollars, can save
liis friend, and perhaps bin family,
from bankruptcy and want, could
hardly spend his money in a manner
which all his lifelong, he would 01
remember with more satisfaction. ^
15ut there are certain moral and ^
p u lential considerations which ^
should always be borne in mind in y,
going surety for a frioud. You ir
should mako up your mind hpw tl
much-property you have, and how ai
much you are willing to give away, w
! absolutely for a friend whom you
: indorse. Never indorse without
I saying to yourself, "This may come
i round upon me. I may have to '1:
pay it; and, if it comes to that, I Cl
am able and willing." Nino out of
ten of the fatal mistakes make by ^
bondsmen arise from taking the op- j
posite course to this. They consid- y
or the act of indorsing a friend's 1V
paper as a mere commercial form, j t]
I "There id no risk, I shall not have j tl
it to pay. lie is abundantly able to | w
care of his paper. I shall help him sv
without harming myself, and he in
a stingy man who will not do that." w
a'his ia the calculation on which "i
a man binds himself to pay a
t IVieud'ri debts in case the friend cannot
pay them himself. But how s*
I does do these things turnout? One 11
^ t/c
| need nut go far to ascertain ? Every
j village has an illustration. The Ct
j borrower was more involved than j
you supposed, or, perhaps, than he j
himself knew and his creditors tj
nil liiin n?wl Wrttin/1 liini "n
W. W.. MllVt "VIIUU J J 1 I IX MJl'J jji
and were overjoyed to find such a r
good name as yours on his paper, tl
| Or the sanguine scheme on which p
which he had ventured, which seem- li
ed sure of success, almost without oi
possibility of failure, suddenly, 1?
like a loaded wagon, slipped oil* '<!
a wheel and upset into the dirt!
Or, just aa every thing was at the ll
point of success, your friend sick- n
cned and could not look after his
affairs, some critical matter was
neglected, or some dishonest per- ^
son stepped in and crooked matters;
your friend died, the estate s
went into oxecutors* hands fot- settlcment,
was badly managed, warp- t)
ed and crooked, and finally turned
out insolvent. t
And whatbecameof you ? Why? t
you were surety for tho full amount o
of what you arc worth! In an
hour you find yourself confronted s
with a debt that sweeps away your 1
house, your farm, your little sum in *
bank, and where you began twentyitAniifl
nr*A urifVi /liAuVAn AA
uvu j vuio uguj tvnu tnio uiuci\;uv/Uj ^
that then you had only yourself to t
provide for, now you have a wife r
and eight children. Then you ^
were twenty-five years old and life a
was all before you, and now you 1
" are fifty years old, aud life pretty <
mueh all behind you I You haVo 1
given away your children's bread.
You have not saved jour friend, (
but you havo ruined yourself! i
Perhaps yonr friend had settled on
' his wife a small property. So much
the better for her if ho had. -Of
. coiifcie she will divide with you,
, since it was to save her husband,
[ that you wero ruined. But, if she
will not, (and human nature is
made tip <?f shaky Stuff,) fa?r i
,
jhihlren ceo to school, while yours
ilay at liouic; and if thny live in a
jornforlablc house, pleasantly furlislicri,
while you arc hiring a
cw rooms in the cheapest quartor
>1' the town, then I suspect that '
,'ou will chew the cu<l of a great
nany hitler rcllcctions. When it
s too late, you will be very wise.
Lrou will say to you wolf, it may be,
'A man is a fool who signs for any
argcr sum than ho can eouvoniont1VIV
" Amnn 1 I
"Before a limn puts his name
town on another man's paper, he
hould ask himself, am I willing to
;ivc this person as much money as
sign for?" Amen, say I!
" To sign a boml on the suppesiion
that it is a mere form ; and
hat you will have nothing to pa}',
i to put one's head into a fool's
oosc. Anion, again, say I!
There is no harm in signing for a ]
cighbor or if 3'ou have got the ,
roperty; if you arc able to pay i
he amount without harming your i
wn household; and if you love <
lie man for whom you sign enough i
3 be willing to Give liini outright
lie sum -covered by your endorsement.
Otherwise, to go surety for
neighbor is a folly, a sin and a
liame.?II. W. Bccchcr.
1
,
Shooting a Mniotcr in his Pulpit. i
i
BEaMN, August 11.?"1 behove in I
od tlio Father, God the Son, aad <
ud the Iloly Ghost." I
"You lie I" /
A shot, a cry, general commotion, j
On Sunday, August 8, in the pros- 1
ice of a numerous congregation, this t
icriligious scene was enacted in the 1
atlicdral Church, of 13crlin. The
cv. II. Ileinriei was standing before
10 altar, reciting the Belief, wheu a
oeng man, rising from a front seat
itorrupting tho clergyman, gavo hfrn j
10 lie, and at onco discharged a pistol j?
his breast. Tho next moment ho t
as in tho hands of tlio sexton and c
lietly Buffered himself to bo led c
tvay to the vestry. A portion of tho ^
Jlltrvoifation unntml ? +
u rJ ?c uirsLauv:u'j *
iving only the report and seeing the j
irling smoke, without any definite ^
5tion of what was going on, immcately
began to move toward tho j
lor. and created considerable tumult
it those neat* the altar, who had t
>en witnesses of tbG daring attempt, t
stained their scats. In preserving
icir composure," the}r but imitated i
ic noble cxaircp'o of the clergj'man ^
hofie life had just been placed in |
sel* jeopardy.
The Itov. II. Ilcinrici was unhurt; \
:>r had the moral firmness of the j
an whoso body the ball had missed c
sen shaken. Xo sooner had tho r
ying interlude, the details of which t
>em to have been observed with tcrble
distinctness i?y those near, come \
> an end, than the intend- 'victim c
. i-.i 1 ? '
uiiii y i cwiiuiii'u reauiMg mo creed, j
ml with redoubled fervor pror-laimed
mt belief the utterance cf which i
:id imperiled his lifo. After this, ]
?o services wero continued in accor- j
imcc with the proscribed rkual. The i
ev. II. Ilciurici left the altar, wlion (
ic liev. J)r. Kogcl ascended the pulit,
and preached a sermon, in which
o introduced a passago expressive j
f his thanks to (Jod for tho miraeu>u!)
escape of his clerical brother.
>fiiet had been speedily restored, and ,
:io greater portion of the congrcga- |
on, agitated as they were by the
lost powerful emotions, left the '
hurcli only after the final bencdic- |
ion. j
In tho meantime, tho criminal had ;
con conducted by a policeman to tho
carost station, and examined by a <
upcrior officer. To all tho questions
ut to him ho replied with tho utmost
i-ankness and composnro. lie said :
"My nanio is I3iland. I am ninoeon
years of ago, a Protestant, and
ho son of a blacksmith, in the villago
f Lank, County of Lower Barnim, a
ow milos from Berlin. My parents
ent mo to a grammar school, 'wishing
no to bocomo a candidato for tho
ainistry in tho Established Church.
3ut my eyos woro.aoon opened to tho
:reed I was exnectod soma dav t.n
A ~ */
each, and my . dislike was increased
o disgust when I percoived that
nany of those professing to believe it
vero liars at heart. I refused to purme
a career which had becomo bo
latcfal to mo, and resisted all atempts
of my patents to force mo to
>orseverfe. '
"Byontualty, I saw myself lefl by
ihom to ray own deviccs, and began
;o study art?the dramatic art?I
nean I wished to bocome an actor,
?nd to prcaoh to tho public in my own
way^ but the roligions mendacity
rampant around me gave mo no rest.
Homo I saw uttering deliberate untruths
; while' others, knowing them
Lo bo such, listenod with contemptuous
indifference. .Gradually I taught myBelf
that ?9m{)i spiking doed yas vp*
. ' A
flKDWMPJ paw msmm^rxmm^naadtBmmcxmmetuammmmam
dispensable to rouso tho public mind
from its apathy, and cbaso away the
mists of superstition.
I therefore determined to seize the
first favorablo opportunity tb:j.t ottered
for shooting a clergyman while in
the act of uttering his accursed perjuries.
I have done it. I have myself
cast the ball and done tho best to render
tho shot fatal. I am sound in
body and mind, and scorn tho suggestion
that I havo acted under the disturbing
influence of temporary insanity.
I perfectly knew what I was
about, and am convinccd there nro
many able to comprehend the disinterestedness
of my purpose, though '
they nun', perhaps, not approve the
method chosen to compass it. My 1
... i _ .1 i *r t? .
wan vu Biiooi jjr. uoinrici, and
L was prepared to pay tlio penalty of i
the deed."
Such, in substance, was the state- I
mcnt of the reckless, misgukled
young man. Inquiries seem fully to <
con firm his words. He having miss- j
ed at a distance of three pace:*, lit first j
gave rise to the surmise that he had
lired with blank cartridge; hut it is (
only too true'that there was a ball iu .
the barrel. The course of the ball ,
has been exactly traced. Passing
within an inch of the clergyman's
bead, it penetrated the open ballusIrade
of the gallery, in which the
Doni Cher?-celebrated for its vocal
performances ? was stationed, and
grazed the cheok of one of tlio clior- '
isters, a boy of twelve. Tftc little ''
rellow, although his cheek instantly
began to swell, did not leave the 1
. iiHicn, out eang his allottod part to <
.he end. Tho Princo Adalbert, the J
>nly member of tho royal family
present, when 'tho service was over ^
lastencd to express his sympathy to t
-lie clergyman and tho little chorister ]
)oy.?Correspondence London Times.
Making a Tam Vool mit Himself. ^
An excited individual of tho Dutch
)orsuaaion rushed One day into tho c
HayOr'a oflfeo in a city not over a (
houaand miles in & dircct lino south B
>f Communipnw, and determined
in an interview with that
vorthy functionary, lie was told by
Com Brown that tho mayor was sub- ^
octcd to eating something, and had '
here fore gone to dinner. c
" What do you want with him?"
nquired that impassive officer. c
' I vants Mister Hcelum to get me c
fin b!iper to kill a tog vot pitca mo on s
he leg," answered the Dutchman.
"Ah! you wnnUaft order of execu- 1;
ion Hoticd against the vicious canine," a
aid Tom, who l*:ia a omuttering of t
egal acquirements. n
" No, I tussant vant no such (linn- T
OJ ?
rartt ono papor to tell mo to kill the ?
mb. He pites my leg so bad you neb- 0
ir see. I kits to bytorfobia by tam ^
mt I Wiuits to kilt bim or I gits mad
00"Ob,
now I see," said Tom; "you
vant authority to procecd with force s
if arms against tho dangerous nninal.
1
" Mein Got, no I dat is not vat I i
:ant. I vant to marc to git mo vono f
iccnse to kill to tiftn dog. I wants
lim to mako mo ono baper, so ven I l
cills tlio dog ho can nicht go into to ^
rourt and swear against me."
" The dog swear against you ? "
" Nein not te tog : te man vot owns
,e tog. You seo, if I kills him?"
"Whatkill tire man?" j
" Ncis not to to" und to Man shues ,
(
no for the price of to tog, den I vanta
Le law on my side, you see! "
" Ah ! now I understand yon," said
Tom, gi'eatly amused at tho Dutch- |
man, and humorously intent on ex. J
liaustingliis patience; "you want to
arrest tho man who owns the dog, so <
that the animal may not bite you
ngain?" (
"No, no! CJot in liimmell No; <
you kits evoryding by to tail!" cried 1
tl\o Dutchman, who began to think
Tom was making fun of him. "I
dinks you vant to mako choko mit mo.
Do tuyvoll?1 vant shustico, not
chokes. I vant to knock to tog's
brains out; and if do maro von't gif
mo one baper for to do um, I knock
his brains out anyhow t"
"Tho mayor's brains ?"
"Neic, to tog!" roars tho eicitod
Teuton, and turning to leave tho office
niot at the door tho mayor, who had
just /^turned from his dinner. Tho
officer promptly gave him an order to*
oxcoqte the vicious animal.
As ho was leaving the offioe, ho encountered
tho impressive Tom.
"Ail right now J" inquired he.
"Yjtb, 4tU right 1 I coos right off to
tho pwnor of to tog," and kills 'om."
'WhaV tho, owner ?"
"NO to tog 1 Look hore, Miator
Tom,.you mako a tam vool mit yourself
py saying tog von I moans man
and saying man yon I moans tog,?
Now yon kin slyiat co to to tuy vol 1"
and'tho Dutchman departed.
< A Paris laundross deoured the payr
| niont of her bill by carrying off the i
hflooden log of ft refractory ^usU}m$x.
? r-?~ > L
DIAMONDS.
Tho numhcp of pictures sent this
year to tho Annual Exhibition o~
Living Painters, in Paris, is over
5,500, against 5,000 last year.
At tho Hippodrome in Paris M;! ,
TCuphro.sino JJrartz has driven a velocipede
over a ropo suspended a liun<Ired
feet above tho ground.
Parisian liippophagists ate G05 horses
in Juno.
Fashionable preachers in Paris biro
their audiences at thrco coots a head.
rri.^ ?
xiiu fspni, among tbo Cincinnati
Quakers has given their meetinghouse
to bo inado a beer Haloon, and
their grave-yard a becr-gardon.
A Minnesota editor has in his offico
a encumber vine, upon one branch of
which are growing a cucumber and a.
Lomato.
The remnant of tho Seminole Iniiaus
in Florida complain of outrageous
treatment from their whito
jeighborsIf
you want your neighbors to
'know all about you," give a party
xnd don't invito the folks "who livo
ltfxt door."
The talk is revived of bringing
.o France, with great pomp, the regains
of the Duke of Rciehstadt' tho
ion of tho first Napoleon.
Railroads aro projected in Switzerland
across the St. Got hard Mountain
Mid across the Splugcn.
Tho Russian Minister of War lately
tried to commit suicido because his
a i-i? ?--?
....J tiivu^utvr nau ciopoa with a
L<ren::h actor.
Mils. Euphrosino Braatz ridoa tho
rclocipedo on a tight ropo nearly
ighty foot from tho floor in tho
?aris Ilippodromo.
Baron Leibig Btatea that the land
?f IIchso has risen 300 per x:ent. iu
aluc during fifteen yea 113, eiifiply iu
:onscquonco of ecientifio agriculture.
Bishop K^mppr, of Wisconsin, re;<Jntly
helo a confirmation amofig tho
7noida Indians at Groen Bay. Tho
ervico was in tho Mohawk language,
ind sevdrai persons wero confirmed.
A Newark lmck roan huug his can:as
feod-bag on a lamp-post, and on
lis return from dinner found it full
>f letters.
A Pittsbul*!/ Wrirhpr ?lr>ir>af -
0 MIU4X/OV autuu Ur
tustoincr by wiping arsonie in his
ytj. It lio don't die,-it will bo a oloso
luive.
A musician of Hamilton, Canada,
ias suddenly lost his beard and hair
,ud bccomo a smooth-faced boy, much
o his disgust and natural astonishment.
A c:ill has bocn published for a
itate "Woman's Suffrage Convontiou
if Ohio to meet at Cincinnati Septcm>er
15.
CI l'Oa.'l\Annn?fi ~ 1 1 1 ""
v..?ounu^j?.ii] jhc uu last utilized.
:Io\va is teaming" with grashoppers,
ays a paper of that State.
A Utica minister thinks thftt tho
principle use of Good Toinplar moetngs
is to afford an opportunity for
lirtation.
Tho virtues of soft soap recently
cceived new exemplification at tho
Chicago jail, whero a young scamp
:ovcred himself with the article and
slipped through tho window bars.
Only one American paper was represented
at tho great convention of
German journalists at Vienna, by a
Licrman correspondent of tho Cincinnati
' Volkublatt.
A sensith'o young lady rcmarkod
:ho oUier day that sho did not liko
ro rW'll llfePfinRA UJ lion ntfAM oKa
J M 11VUV/TV1 DUO W 1E311UU
to say "lady" sho had to Bay damv
^damn).
It h/is bocn solemnly decided in a
court in Morgan County, HI., that a
citizen of Chicago is a competent witness,
notwithstanding tho poople of
that city aro of such notoriously
bad roputo all oyer tho country.
A Mrs. Lovi, who died in Patterson
N. J., last Saturday, before breathing
her last, callod her family .(among
whom aro grown-up children) to her
bedsido, and said that in all her mar
' r r ? .y
riod life of twonty-flvo years, neither
fl WA!?rl nAl? IaaIt Ko/i nrrnn Ktooon^l
VMM II V*M Vf VI > J
between herself and httsband. <f
i -& (
A "lady" in New Bedford, Mass., '> g
recently bought a pair of white gloves lb
to be returned in case they did not *
snit. They wore returned as iiofc
suiting, when it was disoovored that
tboy had boon used to deoorate the Mm
hands of a corpse, and remoued before
tho I'ui of tho coffin was, soretecd yi
The Matquisi of Hertford; the owner
of the park of Btigalelle, tr<5ar
Paris, is constantly bdBot: by dueUist^^ :
requesting tho use* of bis gronniM;
The Marquis, thongli on; the point^K^
'death ftam oancer,, n^ver,rolaxQ^Bj^
'his courtesy to those applicants,
their number is 90 great that
dolicatoly intimated to them the (propriety
of purchasing duelling gfpqnd