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THE VIGILAT -0 The early history of California and Nevada was filled with tragic deeds. From the spring of 1850 until long after the Washoe excite ment, the entire Pacific coast north of Lower California was filled with wild and adventurous spirits, all searching after Gold. Every min ing camp of any note had its roughs, all well armed, well drilled in the use of weapons, and as reckless of life as any bandit who ever cut a throat. These dare-devils were fre quently employed by mining coin panies to drive off miners and hold mining property, in order to save the trouble of appealing to the courts to adjust their difficulties. The writer arrived in the wild mining town of Aurora, Nevada, in the spring of 1862, when the "Wide West" and "Real del Monte" mines were at war over supposed vaulable mining ground. Each company, acting upon the claim that might makes right, imported from Washoe a lot of the most villainods and reckless roughs to be found in Ne vada. After a nutmber of fights between the two factions employed by the wide West owners on one side, and the Real del Monte on the other, the adjustment of the dis puted ground was finally left to the courts, and the roughs, being thrown out of employment in their legiti mate business of throat-cutting, went to work at a trade which, one of them said, would pay better highway robbery. After robbing a number of persons, four of the worst villains murdered and robbed, in the public streets of Aurora, a kind .hearted old man by the name of Johnson, who had fed them in his hotel without receiving any pay. The names of the murderers were Masterson, Daily, Buckley, and Three-fingered Jack. The four as sassins, after doing their bloody work, left town at once, and started for Mono Lake all well mounted, and each heavily armed. The sheriff, Mr. Francis, with about ten picked men well armed, started in hot pursuit. The cut-throats were overtaken the second day out, about twenty miles south of Mono Lake, Inyo country, in the lava beds of that volcanic country. They were surrounded and captured without a shot being fired. Sheriff Francis, one of the bravest and coolest men in Nevada, was asked the next day, when he brought his prisoners in town. heavily ironed : "How did you do it?" HIe answered in his quiet way : "We hiad the drop on them. They knew we were thar; and, when we covered 'em with ten Sharp's rifles, I said: 'Boys, throw up your hands,' and they did it quick as lightning. When I was putting the handcuffs on three-fingered Jack, he laughed and said : Francis, old man, you did it mighty quick."' ,The following day a vigilance committee of about seven hundred men was organized, well armed and ready for work. A large, solid scaffold was hastily erected on the sidehill above the jail where the murderers were confined. Promptly at twelve o'clock, on the fourth day after the murder, a little band of about thirty picked men, headed by Captain Palmer, commander of the vigilante forces, with a twelve-poun der loaded with grape and scrap iron, marched down in front of the jail. Sheriff Francis, cool and deliber ate, with about half a dozen picked deputies, each armed with a Sharp's rifle, stood in front of the jail door. Captain Palmer, as he drew up his little force in front, said, as he raised his hat : Sheriff Francis, I demand from you four murderers, whom you hold as prisoners." "By what authority do you claim these men?" asked Sheriff Francis. Captain Palmer in a clear voice which rang out loudly, ~ered: "In the name of the v' 1ants." "Then, by the authcrity in me itatad ua ShatIr of the county. I refuse to give them up," quietly bu firmly answered sheriff Francis. Captain Palmer deliberately drev his watch from his pocket, and look ing steadily at the minute hand said: "Mr. Sheriff, I will give you jus1 five minutes to retire from the front of that jail with your deputies; i: you stand there one second over the five minutes, I will blow you, yom deputies, and the front of the jail tC destruction." le held his watch steadily in one hand, and with the other light ed a fuse and held it over the can non. For about four minutes it was still as death-not a man oi either side moved. Palmer and Francis stood facing each other about ten feet apart; there faces were white as marble, but not a muscle moved. Both men were giants in stature, and brave as lions, But the sacrifice of one of those lives for the four cut-throats was too much, and Francis waved his hand, and his deputies stot)d one side, and he walked up to Captain Palm er and handed him his rifle. After the Sheriff and his deputies were put under guard, the four murderers were taken from their sells and led upon the seaffold. They were blindfolded, and a noose hastily placed about their necks. Masterson stood on the left, a large, powerful man, about forty years old; next to him, on the right, stood Daily, a man, of me dium size, about thirty years old, a miserable wretch who stated in jail, just before he was hanged, that he had killed two persons besides Johnson, and one of them was a child. Three-fingered Jack stood on Daily's right; he was a man of small stature about thirty-five years old, dark complexiou, and black, piercing eyes. le looked truly the bandit that lie was. Buckley stood on the extreme right; he was a small slender youth, of about twen ty years. He asked to hav.e the bandage taken from his eyes. It was done, and he wrote a few words to his mother, and handing it to a friend, said. with a smiie to the ex ecutioner; "Now I am ready; you can cut the rope." Masterson and Buckler (lied bravely, but Daily and Three-fin gered Jack died like cowardly curs. Both attempted suicide on the scaf fold. Daily swallowed arsenic, while Three-flngered Jack suddenly drew a derri.ger pistol from his boot leg, and putting it to his head, drew the trig,er. But it snapped. He threw it o-: the scaffold, and ut tered a wild cry, saying: "I must die like a dog. In less than half an hour after the four men were taken from their cells over six hundred men, armed with repeating rifles, surrounded the gallows in close order, to pre vent any attemnptedI rescue of the prisoners, as it was said a large force of roughs were coming from Washoe save the ilprits. Captain Palmer gave the s ~nal to the four executioners by i .ving his sword. At that signal a g in was fired on the opposite hill, nnd the four mur derers were launcL; ,d into eternity. -Argonaut. WHlY THE BOY CAME BACK. *A small boy, with an intelligent face went into a fruit dealer's store and depositing a box of grapes on the counter, stood looking down. "I don't wanit the grapes, my lit tle fellow," said the dealer. "I've got as many grapes now as I can sell. 'rake them away." "They are yours,' the boy sDid, looking up. "Mine ?" "Yes, sir. .Yesterday evening I came along here and took this box of grapes from the stand at the door. I knowed it was stealin', an' my mother nlways told me not to take anything that did not belong to me, but I couldn't help it. Just before I left home my little sister that was sick saidt, 'Oh, if I had some grapes like them I saw down town I could eat 'em.' We didnt have no money, and nobody knowed us, 'cause we had just moved into the house. Mother washed clothes, but when sister got sick she had tc quit. When I took the clothes home the lady told me to come next day for the money. but when I went there the house w-as shut up and the people was g;one, so we didn'1 have any money to get grapes with Mother said 'nev-er mind, we would get some money after a while.' ] saw her go into the room, an' wher I watched her she had her fac< buried in a pillow an' was prayin' I come away down town an' stooc aroun' a lon:g timre waitin' to git: chance, an' after a while, when yoi wasn't lookin', I took a box an' ram away with it." "But why did you bring it back ?' the dealer asked. "Because," replied the little boy choking down a sob, "when I go hoale the little girl was dead." It is vain to gather virtues. with out humility for the Spirit of Go< delighteth to dwell in the hearts C the knenhia LETTER FRON GRENADA. The following old letter has been handed for publicat'on. It will be of interest, as it recites events of the past which are always of iute rest. This was about the first move made by Gen. Grant down the Mis sissippi River. Grenada, Miss. Dec. 1 1863. EDITOR MIssisIrPAN.-Jn your issue of yesterday I notice an edi torial touching the late approach of the enemy toward Grenada. As a ,participant of the scenes incident thereto, I beg a place in your inter esting columns for the insertion of the facts in the case, in order that justice may be .done both to the town of Grenada and the mili-i tary authorities stationed here. A member of Col. Starke's Cav alry arrived here on Saturday last reporting that Gov. Ilooey, at the head of 12,000 infantry and 3,000 calvalry, had landed at Delta, in Coahoma County on the Mississip pi, on the preceding Thursday, that he, the said cavalryman had been captured by these forces, but escap ing the next (lay had made his way to Grenada to report the facts, that the enemy were supposed to be ad vancing on this town with a view to its occupation if not destruction. This statement being deemed reli able was immediately telegraphed to Maj. Gen. Van Dorn by Capt. J. S. Reid, the efficient commandant of the post, who at the same time, asked for instructions touching the dispositions of the stores, &c; at this place. This was answered by a telegram promising reinforce meuts, but-they never came. At nine o'clock Saturday night, tele grams were received from head quarters at Abbeville with instruc tions not to remove the governmet stores, and to have the railrof bridges near our city picketted by the State troops under command of Gen. George. This assurance of confidence in o.ur ability to repel the invader rendered things in Grenada a rquiet as the circumstances would perrpit, and our citizers slept~ well oh that night. The next morning our break fast at the Collin House was sca soned with various rumors about the Yanks, and men in blue buck ram were reported as having been seen any were within a few miles of Grenada. The arrival of Brig. Gen. Winter's Calvary scouts with the information that they had been fired or. by the advance guard from Hovey's com mand the previous night, who ac cording to their accounts were with in nine miles of town, dissipated all doubts. Now here let me re mark, that your informant, however intelligent, does unintentional in jury to the fair fame of Grenada, by speaking of anything like a Panic, in connection with the Gren ada affair. A "Nashville miniature panic," could not have been photo graphed by the most accomplished sensation artist at any time during the excitement. very natural to the unexpected invasion of a quiet, un fortified town. Your correspondent wishes only to do justice to all concerned, and he most cheerfully bears testimony to the energy, zeal and untiring .in dustry, during the entire dry and night of Sunday,ofthie Commandant of the post, the Quartermaster and Commissioner and their assistants, in putting the . town in a proper state of defense. and securing the the valuable stores deposited at this place. And so successful were they, that even if the enemy had come in Sunday night, he would not only not have found any gov ernment stores here worthy of the name, but from the canebaakes on and around Grenada, he would have received a welcome as bloody as his prototype the Persian barbarian received from the gallant Greeks at Marathon. The citizens, that is the few that remain unconnected with the army, were organized into an inipromptu organization under Capt. Stanfred, of Stanfred's battery, here on fur lough, and cheerfully did picket duty Sunday night. The State forces under Gens. Winter and George, were well disposed on' the principal approaches to town, and being well armed and led on by such gallant spirits, would have done true yeoman duty on the van dals. But the enemy did not come. A cavalry force of about one hun dred, approached -within eight or nine miles from town, committing outrages whenever they remained. They burned the railroad bridge near Hardy station, on the Missis sippi and Tennessee railroad, en tered private residences, stealing whatever valuables they could put their hands upon, wantonly shot down stock, and left the usual Tan kee trail of depredation and infamy along their path. May they be ac cursed, is the fervent ejaculations of every lip. Should they come again their stay may be longer, -judging from the gray uniforms iswarming the precincts of our town. t-The citizens of Grenada owe mucha to the coolneis and ability of Capt. Reid, the commandant of the post, and the government officers here whose unflagging performance of duty baffled one of the boldest raids of the Western invaders. The last we heard of the enemy, lie was making tracks for Helena some 25 miles north of here, with our forces closely at his heels. He will find Mississippi a little to hot for pleas ant quarters. We miss our "Daily Appeal" friends, may they find farther South that.cordial welcome which their genial-patriotism and ability deserve, McClanahan & Dilt and their attaches, fill a warm place in ycur heart Yours Respectfully, CIVILIAN. P. S. Since writing the above, I learn that the Yankees shot and killed a respectable gentlemen. a Mr. Wiley Turner, and two negro men. One of the negroes was shot for attempting to get away, and the other for remonstrating with the scoundrels for taking his mistress' property.-The killing of Mr. Tur ner is looking upo.i as a cold blood ed assasination. AUCTION SCENES IN BRE MEN. Although the free Hanseatic City of Bremen has gradually done away with many of her traditional prerogatives, yet does she cling to some of them to this day. The Senators no longer wear Spanish wigs or cloaks, but the so-called Council messengers still appear on solemn occasions in flaming red coats, knee-breeches, white stock ings and side-swords. The gates are no longer closed at night, nor are the bells rung on the outbreak of a fire; but the "Rathskeller" is punctually closed at 10 p.m., and nobody is allowed to enter the sacred precincts after that hour. With re markable tenacity, however, the good Bremeners adhere to the an eient custom of the so-called '-burn ing candle," by the light of which all peremptory sales of real estate Lake place to this day, as may be seen every Friday in a hall over the old exchange. At one end of a long table is seated a judge and scribe, at the other 4sap4s the city crier, and by his side a Council messenger, in flaming red dress, holding a stable lantern. In his and he has a box filled with ends of small candles that can burn but a few minutes, and of which he has to light one after the other until no other bid is made before the candle goes out, in which case the last and of course highest bidder be comes the owner of the estate. As ate as the beginning of this century every person who overbid another while the candle was still burning, thereby putting up the price, re ceived a gratification of a so-called "fine third," equal to about two marks. Freqnently some porters errand men would come in and bid in order to turn an honest penny by going for .the "fine third," al though they ran the risk of some weeks' i-nprisonment if by chance the candle went out and they thus remained the last bidders without being able to pay for the property knocked down to them on account. It is a comical sight to enter the hall just at the moment when one bidder has silenced a competi tor. All eyes turn to the bit of can dle in the lantern, which grows: smaller and smaller; hardly a breath. is drawn; the company looks as ifI they were petrified. Suddenly there comes another bid, another candle is lighted, and the comedy is re peated, until finally the extinction of a candle has fastened the sale upou the last bidder. This custom of the "burning candle" may be justly termed one of the traditional peculiarities of Bremen, there being but few, if any, other German cities or towns in which this ancient cus tom still obtains. A JUJD1CIOUS DARKEY. Texas Siftings. Old Uncle Mose had never been to the theatre, but having struck up bills for a theatrical troupe and having received a complimentary ticket to the gallery, he concluded to attend the performance. HIe went dressed up in his Sunday at tire. He had not been inside of the theatre more thai an hour when he emerged shaking his head. "Don't you like the performance, old man?" asked the surprised door keeper. "No, sah, I don't like dem per formance no way ye kin fix it." "Why what's the matter?" "Nuffin' much, 'ceptin' a 'oman on de platfum got to talkin' 'bout family 'fairs wid de husband ob an udder 'oman, an' marster in Virgin ny got shot plum ter pieces for do ing dat berry foolishness. Dar.s allers trouble whar dat sort oh fool ishness is gwine on an' Ise a ju. dishus niggar, I is. I 'don't want ter be shot in de leg by mistake, or be brunged up as a witness in de case when it strikes de courts." The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrational bipeds who hurt only themselves. HOW TO CARVE AT TABLE. First as*to tools, let the knife be of the keenest and the fork of the sharpest, and keep them in excellent condition at all times, otherwise the most competent carver cannot avoid mangling fish, flesh and fowl. Be fore setting the carver to work it may be well to advise as to what may be called carver's etiquette. When carving, do not stand up, or sit with arms akimbo or bow the back. All the necessary strength can be brought to bear while seated by inclining the body sufficiently forward. During all of the pauses in carving the knife and fork should be placed on the knife-rest, and never thrust under what is -being carved. . Nor should the knife and fork be held in one hand while add-, ing the gravy with the spoon in the other. Do not tilt the dish while serving tife gravy, or the table-cloth may be soiled or the roast capsized. Should there be no gravy-well, a tiny crust of bread may be plac'ed under one end of the dish to cant it a little. Serve horse-radish with the fork. Up to the moment of using the gravy spoon should be in a vessel of hot water placed at the right hand of the dish. Hot plates are essential to the perfect condition of roast meat; even a second hot plate for a second helping. It is scarcely necessary to eaution the carver not to forget to ask what the preference is before carving. When carving fish, if salmon, avoid breaking the flakes by divid ing crosswise; carry the knife down to the bone lengthwise of the fish, and remove a slice of either the thick or thin part, as preferred. Mackerel are split at the tail, and the upper half raised from the bone at thst part; the bone is removed and the lower half served either entire or divided in sectionD. This applies to most other small fish. . In carving a turkey or chicken, roasted or boiled, place it with the neck.toward you; take off the leg at the fi;st joint and then the thigh, or take off the whole leg and then joint it. Remove the *ing close to the joint, leaving the breast intact. Then commence from the -wing joint, cutting straight into the bone and somewhat diagonsIly up to the front qf the breastbone. Remove the side bones by placing the fork firmly into the breastbone and cut ting with the knife from the tail end. With a goose or duck,- after th4 joints are removed, as already des cribed, draw the knife straight across the breastbone the entire length of the meat and directly to the bone, serving outwardly and with parts of the meat from the thigh. THE PLUMBER WAS CALLED. "You see," said the bad boy. "we have been troubled with rats at our house, and we tried poison, but they got fat on it. We - tried cats and the rats drove the cats away. So pa went down and got some steel traps and set them around on the floor of the basement.' The floor is cement, and just as smooth as can be, and me and my chum go down there and skate with our roller skates. This morning pa came down and wanted to put on my skates. I told him he,couldn't skate, and that he should try some other amuse ment, but he said he knew all about it, and he didn't want no boy to tell him anything. Well, he wab bled around for a few minutes, and held on tc things till he thought he had got his bearings, when he struck out for the back end of the base ment. As he came along by the furnace one leg began to go over toward the neighbors', and he grab ded hold of the furnace, swung around behind it, out of sight, and we heard an earthquake, and some thing snapped like a steel trap, and pa yelled 'By crimus,' and ma came down and saw pa and said 'Merci fuil goodness,' and by that time me and my chum had got there. Well, you'd a dide to see pa. He had come down like a ton of coal, right on that steel trap, and it had sprung and caught a whole mouthfl of pa's pants. 0, it was the most ridicu lous position I ever s4e pa into, and he got mad and told me to unspring th~e trap. We turned him over and me and my chum tried our best to open the , but'it was one of these *th a strong spring and ' t. Pa was the only one thatccid uspring the trap, and he codid'n't go around behind hisself to get at it, so I told him I would go after a. doctor, but he. said this was a case where a doctor was no good, but he wanted a plum ber or a blacksmith. Ps. wanted to go up in the parlor to sit on the sofa while I was gone after the plumber, but the trap was chained to the furnace, and we couldn't get it loose, so pa had to lay there on the cement floor till the plumber came. The plumber laughed at pa. and said he had done alt kinds.of plum bing before, but he never had a call like that.-Peck's Sun. Judson B. Rodgers, a leading merchant of Abb,eville,s died sud Len1y in thatownn on ths 24th iit ADVEITISING lATES Advertisemeus lnserad at the rate o $1.00 per square (one inch) for Arst insertio-, and 75 cents for each subsequent inseror. Double column advertisements ten per een on above. Notices of meetings,obituaries and tributes of respect, same rates per square as ordiamy advertisements. Special Noticos in Localcolmal5tect perline. Adverdsementd notmarked wfth thm ber of insertions wil be kept fa t f*bi and charged accordingly. Special contracts made with lg adver Users, with liberal deductions on verstes JOB PRIJING DONE WITH NEATNEsS AND DISPATCH TERMS CASH. A CURE FOR PRIDE. An old man who had for years done much for the cause of temper ance, was 1cund lying by in the State of intoxicatian. He war drawn up before a oommittee of the - society and asked to show cwise why he should not be expelle& "I acknowledge that I was drunk, brethren, and I've got a mighty good reason for it." "Family trouble?" asked the chairman of the committee. "No' sir, for I've got no trouble. It was pride." "Pride !" exclaimed the chairman. "Yrs, pride. As I went along to town I met a drunken fellow,-and' - began to think well of myself be cause I had never been drunk. Pretty soon I began to feel proud )f it. A little further on I met an ordinary lookin' feller an' would rot speak to him. My neck got 0o 3tiff with my pride that I wouldn't even nod to people, I reflected that my pride was wicked, and I tried and tried but could not throw it off. [ tried to pray, but was a li ttle too prond to pray with fervor. 'This won't do,' I mused. 'I am getting o be a regular Pharisee.' After walkin' round awhile I met an old aegro an' asked: "'Uncle, can you tell me how to' hrow off my pride?' "Dat I ken, sah; dat I ken. "'Well, I wish you would, for to ,ontinue in this proud way will be langerous to my soul.' "'Wall, dar's one thing dat neber .ails ter knock down a man's pride, 3oss, an' dat is whisky. Get drunk. in' when yer gets sober yer'll feel mightily 'miliated. "I acted on this suggestion, an' ;ot as drunk as a-well, as an owl, ;hough I never saw an owl drunk. When I got sober I was the most numiliated man in the world."-dAr- 4 kanusaw Tra2,.ler. Cas You TEr, Mat-Wha; is ~he difference between the head boy of his class and three and nine tenths? One is foremost and .the >ther is 'most four. What do iien never 'wish to be in and yet -labor hard toges Bonds. What may be called the drnkards' ige? Wreck age. What pit isof great use in the world ? The pulpit. Why is anewspaper officeolike a akery ? Because the editor makes puffs, and the printen often 'makes umbles and pi's. Why is a farmer's green band ike Plato?i He is no .mower What) two letters will make us odiM and- Hwill miake us nush. At Brooklyn, N. Y., in December, Ir. Rossa said: "In three years we ixpect to have Irishmen so discip ined that they will be able to cre ite such a panic in England that she will gladly release her hold on [reland. You break no law of America in supporting the dyna mite war. The law does say that you must not make ar on Eng land when an the United'States, u it is silent about your putting your dollars for men who will strike - England with dynamite." ~When will the end be? England has found Ireland a most restless province, when by a little moderation and wholesome laws the Irish would be her most loyal subjects. Said the Prince, .on being intro duced to Mary Anderson: "I an derstand your exposition at Louis ville.is a big thing.' "You -just ought to see it," said Mary. "rm just burning to see how those chick ens are hatched without any mam ma," said the Prince. "Yes, but - you'd be scared when you saw the. man hold up the little alligator by the taig" said Mary. "You forget - how I hunted the tiger in India," said the Prince. "But an alligator is a good deal awfuller than a tiger," said Mary. Here Dr. Griffin, see ing that a dispute might arise invol ving the peace of two friendly na tions, adroitly put in and .directed the talk into another channel. "Oun FnmsT DAUGHTEn."-It is told of the wife of Buchanan's first postmaster general, Mr. Brown, that she had been married before, - and so had her husband, and each had a daughter by the flrst marriage. Then they had another daughter. Mrs. Brown, used to present the daughters at her receptions in ti way: "This is Miss Brown, Mr. Brown's daughter by his first wife; this is Miss Sanders, my daughter by my first husband, and this is Miss Brown, our joint daughter!" It is stated in Washingtoa that it is probable that an investigation will soon be 'made of nineteen - United States officials in South Carolina for al'eged oUcefal mais conduct.-Ez. . Yes, investigate until every one is 'vestigated out-fth'e State. We have been over ridden abused s cheated by these radicastillge tiene is abu ezmmdsend.