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. Heavy on Lawyers.
The Devil came up to the earth one day,
And into a Courthouse wended his way
Just as an attorney with a very grave face
Was proceeding to argue the points of a case.
Now a Lawyer his Majesty never had seen,
For to his region none never had been,
And he felt very anxious the reason to know,
Why none had been sent to the regions below
Twas the fault of his agent his Majesty
thought,
That none of the Lawyers have been caught,
And for his own pleasure he felt a desire
To come to the earth and the reaso i inquire.
Well the Lawyer who rose with the vision so
grave,
Made out his opponent a consumate kiave,
And the Devil was greatly amused
To hear the Attorney so greatly abused.
But soon as the speaker came to a close,
The counsel opposing then fircely arose.
And he heaped such on the head of the first
That made him a villain of men the worst.
Thus they quarreled, contended and argued
so long
Twas hard to determine which one was
wrong,
And concluding he'd heard quite enough of
1%b fuss.
Old Nick turned away and soliloquised thus.
If all they have said of each other be true,
The Devil has surely been robbed of his
due.
But I am satisfied now it's all very well,
For these Lawyers would ruin the moral,
of Hell!
They puszle the courts with their villainous
cavil,
And I am free to confess they have puzzled
the devil,
My angels are right to let Lawyers alone,
If I had tham they'd swindle me out of my
home. T. W. G.
MARION, S. C., Octobe~r 15.-Th e
trial of the parties charged wvith the
burning of the town of' Darlington on
the night of the 4th of July last was
concluded on Saturday. It occupied
five days of the court, and resulted
in the conviction ot all the prison ers.
The investigation of the case revealed
a conspiracy, which for studied and
careful preparation, diabolical wick
edness and devilish intention, is
without -parallel in the history of
crime. It was planned and executed
under the supervision of Alfred S.
Smith, a son of Representative Jack
Smith, Whittemoro's friend and as
sociate, in whose house he ate and
lodged, and wh'ereeno doubt he sug
gested the arson. Alfred is quite a
young man, and was for nine years a
student at the Claflin and South
Carolina Universities. IIe is said to
be an astute fellow.
The jury was compo3ed of black
and white men, and the best Jegal
talent in this section represented the
* Sta,te and the prisoners. The legal
conteot wds earnest and able, and the
facts and the law wore probed to the
'bottom. They are all negroes, and
were sentenced as follows. Alfred 8.
8mith, Capt. Thomas, Isham Jack
son, Samuel K, Smith, hard labor in
the Penitentiary for.life; Calvin John
son, bard labor in the Penitentiary~
for $0 y ear8; Milly Smith, hard labor
in the Peanitentiary for '10 years.
A Romance of Arizona.
A TALE OF PRINCIPLEs AND A PONEY VS.
BEAUTY AND GOLD. UNTOLD--nOW
MOUNTAIN JOE BOUoUT Tft_43EAsT
AND WON T1E BEAUTY.
A correspondent writing from Tuc,,
son, Arizona, to the Pittsburg Tele
graph, tells the following intoresting
story of frontier life:
"There comes 'Mountain Joe' on
his pony," said my friend, Co). Fle
anco Fitz Roy, to day, as we were
seated in the shade of a spreading
mulberry, in the Grand Plaza. The
peison referred to was a handsome
looking young man of perhaps thirty
five, something above the medium
height, of gracehal carriage and agile
appearance. He was armed with a
half carbine, half navy revolver, that
hung in a belt by his left side, and was
clad in a buckskin suit.
"Mountain Joe, as you call him,
colonel, seems to be rather a fine
specimen of the frontiersman, but I
don't see anything remarkable about
his poney to which -you particularly
refer."
"Thereby bangs a tale, which I
will untold it you feel like listening
to it."
"Go on, tell it by all means."
"Mountain Joe, as lie is called, was
born somewhere in the Eastern
States, and infatuated with the Indian
stories he had read, ran away from
his parents and came to the South
west. But lie has had some hard
knocks since, and the hardest were
received in earning that pony or
rather $5 d ,llars worth of it. You
see, a few years ago old Senor Ru
muldo, whose ranch lies out along the
Pinto road, owned that. pony and one
of the loveliest daughlters in all thjese
par'E. Ile was inmenslv wealthv
and owned several valuable wines,
and thero' was-no telling how much
gold and silver buillion lie had stored
a way.
"Now, all t lie young fllows ar oun d
hore wer e crazy after the ("irl 'Inez,
but Joo set his heart on the pony,
and wvanted to buy it. Ie is a fel
low wvho always has his own way, and
it is a blessed good thing that his
head is alw ays right, otherwise some
body would get into trouble. But
when Joe tried to buy the pony ev
ery b -dy thought he was balked fur
once.
"The Senor asked $65 for it, and
Joe dug around to raise the money.
Ile raised it all except $5, and want,
od Romuldo to trust hinm for the rest
of it till he would come back from a
hunting expedition. This the old
Spanish curmudgeon refused to do,
and Joe vainly ap)pealed to his friends
to loan him the other V. Failing, lie
got mad and swore that he would
not live in such ra community. One
day he left and was not heard from
for nearly a year.
"Ini the mecantimie a band 'of Kick,
ap)oo Indians swoopeCd down upjoni
Romnuldo's rancho, during his ab
sence~ in town, ran oil his stock and
carried the pretty Intez away into
their mountain tastnesses. Several
parties went out in search of the
captive, only to be amblushbod and(
whipped. Thten it was that Senor
Romiuldo begani to bewail the absene
oft 'Mountain Joe,' for every body had
faith that ho could have rescued the
lovely lnez from the dreadful fate in
store for her.
"Finaully, just as the unhappy
Spaniard was giving up in despair,
Joe suddenly puLt in appearanco. 'if
you will recover my child,' said IRo
muldo, 'I will give you a half million
dollars. You may have half my
property, and whatever else you
may ask.' 'I am not particular about
the reward,' said Joe, 'but I'll try
and rescue the girl.'
"And thien hie set about making
preparations for the undertaking.-.
Several gallant young tellows volun
teered to go with him, but he ,de L
.lined their services. He piled up f
hat overgrown revolver of his, stow- I
)d away about 500 cartridges and i
Lbout ten pounds of jerked meat in i
his clothes, and taking the trail of the t
Kickapoos, set out early in the morn
ng. IIe followed it all day cautious
y, and by night was.far up the moun- I
Ains. The next day, near noon, as E
ie reached the brow of an immense I
mrecipice, the redskins opened on I
jim in the rear.
"Ile was completely trapped. All I
means of retreat wcro cut off, and I
:here was death before and behind I
iin. But Joe made up his mind to <
lie game. Dodging behind a rock, I
je opened with his shooting iron and j
nado it lively for the ambushers. 1
Every shot told, and soon a dozen I
lead Indians wore stretched out on
ie mountain top. But their com- i
rades were undaunted, and nearly a I
tundred of them mado a dash to i
eize him. ie had already killed E
tweutg,six of them, but he saw that
be must soon be overpowered.
"Fight was impoksible, and pre
ferring to kill himselt rather than be
tortured by the Indians, lie rushed 1
to the precipice, fully 2,000 feet high
and leaped into space. But during
his fearful descent lie did not lose his
presence of mind. IIe was going
down near the face of the rocks and
observed thiat stunted pines and
hemlocks grew out of the freqnent
crevices. -Ie beganl gasping in the
tops of them, which first bont and
then broke, but he found that he was
breaking the force of his fiall. For
the last 300 feet tihe bushes were
thick, and Joe was soon going down,
dropping from one to the otLer in
perfcct safety.
"At last he revched the bottom,
suffering from a few brui6es and sov
oral rather serious wound3 received
in the contest with the Iiidi.,ns over
wad. Just as he was congratulating
limseif upon his wondlerful escape I
mother pack of the red devils broke
Ie chapral and opened fire. Anoth
ir hand to-hand contest took place
md Joe killed nine of his enemies.
[Ic then started to run along the base
>f the cliff, wheun on a sudden the
3arth gave way under him, and1 be
[ell into a deep fissure. The Indians
were immediately upon him, and
tired two or three volleys down the
bole and then covered it up
with immense boulders. .
"Joe had fallen twenty feet, and
realizing the danger from shots above,
got under the shelving of the rock
and thus avoided the balls. The In
dians, supposing him dead, made no
further in vestigations. Realizing h is
desperate situation, Joe sot about ex
tricating himself, and found that ho
was in a vast cave with a large nuum
ber' of ramifications. Ini the midst of
pitchy darkness he began his exp)lo.
ration, which cantinued for four or
five, days but which to him seemed
as many years.
"The jerk meat on his porlson) sat
tafited the cravings of his apetito, and
lie found plenty of pure wvater to
drink. At lasE lie gavo up, and lay
down to die. Listening intently lie
heard what ecmed like human voices
and this onco moro gave hinm heart.
Crawling in the direcetion from whtich
tho sounds casuo, lie at length reach
ed a point from which lie was able to
look into a vast ro0tundaIL fitted up in
bar baric splendor, and lighted with
pine knots and1( sputtering lttmps, and
therc, reclining onl a couch of bear
skinis, hie beheld Inez Romtuldo talk.
ig wvith an old Indian squaw, who
aljparatntly, was her jailer.
"At length the old1 kiag withdrew
in an' opposite direction, and Joe
speedily made his presenco known to
his fair captive. A hurried consul
tation followed, arid the whole situ
ation was taken ini.
"Inez explained that she was held
a prisoner by tihe chief of the tribe,
Red Eagle, who was determined she
ihould marry him. Rod Eagle was
k half blood, his father being a Span
ard. The entrance of the cave was
iarrow, well concealed, and its oxiS
enco known only so a few of the In.
lians.
They still swarmed in the monn
aine, but in two weeks were going
outh for a raid upon the settlements,
mnd only a small guard were to be
eft in t'e cave.
"All this Inez hurriodly explained
;o Joe, and it was agreed that he was
o lie concealed in the unexplored
)ortions of the cave to the rear, re
,over from his wounds, and wait till
he Indians left before attempting a
-escue, whilo Inez was to furnish him
vith provisions from hor own allow
Lnce.
"The chief, Red Eage, -in .the
neantiine treated her with distin
Yuished consideration, offei ing her
io indignities, and ordering that she
ihould have whatever she called for.
Vfter three weeks of weary waiting
[nez learned from the old woman
hat Red Eagle and his bravos had
yone South, and that four braves had
,een luft to guard her night and day
.hey took up their places in the cor
ier of the great hall, and Joe waited
impatiently until they shoulJ go to
sleep. Day and night were the samo
in the cave, but finally the braves
3trechied themselves out one after
another to sh:ep. That sleep was
Lheir hst, four shots from Joe's re
volvinfg arbine fired in rapid suc
Cession killed them all before either
was aware of his danger.
"The old woman was forced to
guide them to the entrance of the
cave, which was found after many
and tortuous windings, and Inez and
Joe 6inorged from their living tomb
just after sunriso. Joo then saw that
lie had passed entirely through tho
monlitainl.
"Ronit:tlo and his faiunds had
ong given them both up for dead,
ind their feelings n.ay be botter im
Iginled than detcribed when they re
turnd safe and sound1( after their
mniraculous ad ventures. Ever since
then1 Joe has ridden that pony and
has been perfectly happy."
"But yo'u dlont mean to tell me,
oolonel, that Joe got no other r'eward
than that miserablo little picce of
horseflesh, le married Inez, of
"That's the way the story writers
would fix things," said tihe colonel,
"'but they never deal in facts as I
have done. The Senor was as good
is his wvord, and got, a surveyor to
divido the ranch into two equal parts
and showed Joo about fifteen cart
loads of gold and silver bullion as
bis ebare.
"No, sir," said Joe, "I want none
,)f these. I want that sorrel pony.
IIere are tihe $60, andl I want to
know if you will trust me for the
thier $5."
"PIll give you the pony anid any
thing else you want," said the Senor.
"You dleservo anything that you will
rak for."
''But with ntll that tihe Senor conidl
io or say, Joe made him take t he $00
mnd let himn have the jpny with $5
eon it."
"Well, that is the mo st unrnatu ral
LInd(ing to a wonderfully romnant ie
story I ever hard. (Col. iFitz Roy,
there is somting wrong with the
sentimient and civilization of TuIon"
"Now, don't deceive your'self there
[gain," put in tihe colonel. " Moun
tain Joe and Iniez Romnuldo are to be
married next week, andi we will b2th
go to the wedding."
It is said that while the President
was on his Southern tour' some mran
called out for three chieers for Hayes
and Wheeler. The President anid
his traveling comlpan ions were 8o as
tonished that they looked at each
other in astoniishment, and butrst into
laughter as another fellow liqiuired,
"W ho the h----l is W heel-r.
The Forty-filth Congress.
The following is a synopsis of the
message of the President to the spe
cial session of Cungi ess:
The messago begins by referring
to the failure of the late Congre8 to
pass the army appropriation bill,
and states that the army is a branch
of the Government, authorized by
the existing statutes, and the ohliga
tion to maintain it is in full foice,
and thal in the absence of specifle
appropriation the Government was
unauthorized to make the necessary
oxpen(ditures. The absence of this
authority is'regarded as fit grounds
for the convention of Congress in ex
tra session.
The message asks that an appro.
priation be made upon the basis of an
army of 35,000, and that. all ques
tions of increase or decrease or mo
dification of the personnello or ad
miration in either branch of the
military servico bo suspended until
somec future time. The message then
states that the amount necessary for
the war department for this purpose,
ace )rding to the estimates, is $32,
439,764.
The President then proceeds to
designate his reasons fur the various
estimates which accompany it. These
are the library of Congress, for bind.
ing newspaper file8, etc., $22,800; for
adjusting cases under the Court of
Claims, $1,206,453; for divers mnis.
cellaneous deficiencies in the Treas..
ury Department, $273,891; for print.
ing stamps in the Postoffice Depart
ment, $700,000; for deficiency of
navy pay, $2,003,861; for contingeni
expenscs f [Juited States Courts,
$262,535. The nessage then refere
to the great benefits to accrue to the
induistrial and manufacturing inter
ests of the United States by proper
representation of this Goveinment of
the American industries at the ex
position at Paris, to be opened May,
1878. It alludes to the receipt Qf
communications from our Diploma
tic representatives at various courts
of Europe which have expressed a
dermination to p)articipate. It re
commenomds that a plani somewhait
similar to that estab)lishied by Con~.
gress for Vienna in 1878 be adlopted.
It refers to thme amount of $200,000
as the sum ap;ropriated for that oc.,
casion, and closes by alluding to the
invitation sent to this governmnent to
apploint a rep)resentation to the In.
tornationial Prison (>ngress, to be0
held next year at Stockholm, and
states that these mieasures in the in
terest of thme prevention of crimo are
regarded as ighl1y sat isfact ory in
tihe past, and recommends that a
suitable app)ropriation maify be made
that the invitation may be accep)ted,
'and representatives of thme United
States he prsn at thecir delibera
tions.
It is undelrstooJd that Qumeeni Vic
toria is becoming' so norvous that she
cannJot he surrounded by a crowdl for
more thman a few moments at a timo)1
ShAe refused to go to Manchester to
open the no0w town hall simply bo
cause shme could not hear the excito
mnent of the ceremonies. She did not
wanit to open Parl iament in person,
nor to open the London season, but
Lor)1d ihanconsfield urged her so
strongly that she consented.
F~if'teen States have yet to hold(
elections this fall. Louisiana, Mas*
sachmuset ts, MIi nnesota, .Miss1isippi,
Ne,braska, Nevifda, New Jersey,
New York, Poumnsylvania, Tomnes.
see, Texas, Virginiai and WVisconsin
vote on the sixth uf November and
Georgia on the fift'm of December.
In add itioni, liis 1 elects cunty
oflicers on November sixth.
T1heo Chicago T1imecs siays mn 1880 thc(
D)emnocrats wvill, of' course, no11! mat(
Ilayes anid Ihampton, if tho liopuhli
cauns don't~ got thoe start of thoem b)
nominating 11amptn and ILayes.
Business is Business.
COLmDrA, 8. 0., Oct. 15.--C. Cf.
Bo,ren and Paris Simpkins testified
before the in vestigating committee to
day. The testimony of Nosh clinches
the case against all the high priests
of Radicalism in this State. Ie fur
nished the missing link in the chairr
of evidence. Patterson is gone be
yond redomption. IIe (Nash) is re
lieved of penal respcVnsibilities, but
civil suits against him are still in or
der. Over fifty witnesses will be ex.
amined this week. Oourt meets
Monday next.
The preliminary examination of
Barker and Paris bimkins was con
mnenced before Justice J. Q. Mar
shall this morning, but, on account of
the absence of material witnesses,
counsel for thc State moved a posts
ponement of the cases until Thursday
next, which was ordered. Both par.
ties gave bail in the sum of $5,000
for their appeara ce on that day.
The charge against both parties is
having receivod bribes to vote for
the passage of the printing bill, which
has been so fatal to Maxwell, Smalls
and Nash.
A Spiritualistic doctor in Philadof
phia describes a deathbed scone, in
which those assembled whilo singing
a hy mn had their spiritual eyes open
ed and saw the dead brother issuing.
out of his mortal tenement, joining
his wife and child and floating away.
Tho strongest hold that the Chi
nose have upon California, is in re
spect to cookery and domestic work,
but proprietors of intolligenco offices
in San Francisco say that many
houeoholdors, particularly ranches, aro
discharging Chines and employing
white cooks.
The Museum of the Royal Collogo
of' Surgeons has received from tho
11on. C. P. Berkeley the skeloton of a
crocodilo, shot by him in Egypt.
sixtoon foot Jong. Thoso animals aro
now very scarco below the Cataracts,
and this particlar one was well
known as a man cater.
The Burlington Ilawkoyo observes
that "Iowa Republicanism is tho
kind to tie to, because it is founded
on living principles."" It is founded
on bayonets for the South and five
years more of good stealing. A mas
jurity.of the people in this country
wvont tie to it worth a cent.
"If I oould only got elected cashier
of a Chicago Savings Bank," solilo.
quized an experienced thief, a day
or two ago, "blame if 'I wouldn't
reform, and be a better man, and go
to Europe in a mionith or two with
$50,000) in my pocket."
ibnanm, the forgeor, is IIenry Ward
Boccher's n)ephe)w. II. W. B. mado
some pulpit remarks on the subjoet
and admitted that he had just emei'
god from another "cave of gloom."
lion. M. J. Crawford, of Georgia,
was lately killed by being thrown from
his buggy. His brother, last year,
(lied from the poisonous offect of tho
sting of a bee.
A building has been erected near
Brighamn Young's grave for the she!.
ter' of a party of zen who keep a
conitinual guanrd over it day and
night.____ __
Noew York unliconeed grog shops,
if p)lacedl in a row, would fill one- side
of a stroot twenty miles long.
The great objection to womern
suffrage is there would be too much
scratching at th)e polls.
Among the last words of Arcl..
bishop JBayley were these: "GiYa
sume money to' the pnor!
Trho Republican p)arty is breaking
up into "lsmus." The~ Demnocratic
piarty stands firm and congners.