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" VOL X. VI P... ---ICKENS, S. C., TI[URISI)AY, SEP~TE 8,187 NOE50 CAPTURiNG 1)ESElITEIS. METHODS OF IECAPTUREK DUKlN(: Till; WAR. A Conscript in Fohmalt Attiro--Vatching a House for Several l)ayn-.The COming Days of the ilt.bellion--A i)espnrate Struggle. In the summer of 1864 Wirt Adams's cavalry, after an arduous camlpaign, rested to recruit men and horses in Shepherd's old fields in Copiah county, Mississippi. Food and forage were abundant; the horses grow fat, and the lazy life soon wearied the men, whose home was in the saddle. Time dragfed, but Sergeant Heath's old Creeper cre:'ted a diversion, one morning, by stampcd ing the brigade horses, which were all loose at grass.. Creeper know a thing or two, and counted on fun when ho laid his plans. Working around the two O(iousand grazing horses, until all were between himself and the camp in the Woods, the old horse, whose wisdom was known yud acknowledged throughout the brigade, took his stand and surveyed the ground. With a wild snort aln a ringing neigh ho sprang into the herd. 4Vhat he intended to convey to the iii derstanding of lhis fellows 1 e'tnnot say, but a panic seemed to seize each rrpairate beast, and with thundering hoofs they bore down upoi the camp. Then was there "mounting in hot haste" the friendly trees beneath whose shelter we l,ivouacked. Mad, blind with- an ni ilamed terror, and turning not aside, like an avalanche the flying squadron swept through the camp. With the strearintg mane and tail, head on h gh, and tlashing eyes, that old demon Creep or led lhi irightened hosts. It was; pain to ste that ho gloried in the misohief lie .hx ! wrought. AT'rACIma NO TlE CAVALy. Thme camp monotony was broken at last when the outlying seouts repor."d the advance of a Federal incursion from Bruinsburg, on the Mississippi ri': r. I This force of white and negro trop, composed of infantry, cavalry, and fi.l1 V artillery, aind amounting in all to about 1,200 men, had been hunled from tros ports on the river, presumably fe.r the purpose of surprising and capturing our force at Shepherd's old fields. Tinily wrning enabled General Adnis to no it ths more than hwlf war. JEleveii mi!("s "i of Port Gibson is' Coli nin's ; innl, e county of Jefl'orsou, a(nd here the of the hostile forces mat. and aln( ex()mange o f I1 ' 1fri)js onl cit mr t. lfem n f etie the eneine dl . . .. at one , ud without exploding. The rough rail was driven with tremendous foico from an ier the officer, leaving a great splitr -three or four feet long, and of the tliick ness of two lingers, transfixing the un happy man's tiaiglhs and projecting a foot or moro beyond each hip. 'The man swore with rage and pain, repelling all approaches on the part of frien,is, until Dr. Martin coining up forehly broke off one projection of the toughi oak and drew out the remainder from the other side. The wounds healed and I the captain 50011 resumed his duties, but I he heard not the last jibe onh that "croSS buttock" thrust until ho met a soldier's death in the closing days of thbe struggle. UnRIvINo THm FED)EnIALs ltA(K. -Thie enemy had p)osted himself in and abou?' Coleman's dwelling, barni s and outbmi2dings. Here w~e assaulted himz and drove him out and hack after a shor;t resistanci! The Federal force greatly outnumbered ours, but would assuredly have been captured nad the white con. tingont been as easily dcmolalized as were the ne-gro soldiers. Time aRter time these ruen, comnposing the rear guard as the Federal commander drew off his forces, wore broken and hurled holter-skelter upon the main body, anud only the stubborn fighting of the white troops enabied any portion of thle com11 n.:and to escape. Darkness fell while we still pursued thorm, and the chajse was not given over until near miidnight, when exhaustion compelled a hailt.TDay .transpoits, and( the fleet steamied away for hatobez. I have o)ftenl thought lhat had the Federal force beeni skillfully -ounanded on tis occasion General Adams would have found that this attack was a rash venture. R ad his force been a third larger not a blhuo coat would have escaped. Toe the best of my knowledge the Confederate force did not exceed four hundred menl, while I am11 sur1e I saw three times thaut nunber of the enemy. They had also the advantage of a st,rong position of thei' own vvjee tion, taken- ai soon1 as made aware ofi our approach. Our first rush, however, drove them from it, and their oflicers foned it imlpossib)le fully to rally the ner4ro troops. They woeuld stand when~i we e used, but each succeeding onset speedily broke their ranks. Their the was very high. .Far above our hieeds the muuie bulletsl sang an angry chorus, anld our loss was trilling, At intervals, when L'rossmgl an1 eminence, a man wouhld fall in darkness. Andrew Battle, a rugged Irishman, went back for a horse to carry off the bedy of Ed( Sueduskic, a mess mate. "'Whlonm have you there?" he was asked from a bank on the roadsidlo) ''Poor Ed Suoduskie, as dead as hi- '' he answered. "Tlhat's a lie, Blattlol" relied hlis questionier, who was none outher than Sueduslkio himself. D)own *nt the unknown dead upon tIle . muni, and Battle, with an oath strong suggestive of dlisgust, resumed his co among the pursuers. A young < -wvalryman, intent upon(0 glory, went, contrary to orders, mocuntedl into the action. Soon he was aeon on feet rush ing to the rear. "II'llo, Jones, where now?" ''My horse was shot fronm under me and 1 amn going back for another." Again he flies to the rear and again re ports his horse killedl. Five separate timies that day and night his horse was "shot throughI and through." Next day all five of those un ifortunalte animals were' fouid unseratched, peacefully graz ing Among the slain. Well, weli, their rider s scarcely more than a boy and doubtless he sent home his thrilling bul letin, and mother and sisters gloried in his dashing courage and marveled at his wondrous escapes. Poor fellow! ho had his weaknesses, but he had his virtues and his friends. HUNTING TEIJ: DESEm ElIS. Amont the Southern soldi'is' duties, one of ts.& least important toward the close of te war, was that of bringing in from the hills an( forests and habita tions in the wilderness deserters from the armies and slippery conscripts who sought to evade the service. The caval ryman's soul delighted in this work for awhilo. A detail for such an expedition meant relaxation from the discipline of the camp, exemption from the hardships of the march, ta variety in place of irksome routine. There was also a spice of adventure, for deserters would some tiues fight., though skulking was their main point. The writer was one of twenty men, under the command of a lieutenant, sent during the early part of 1864 into Scott and Lake counties, in Mississippi, o a man-hunting errand. (lame was abundant and our officer was provided with a fornidable list of those to he run down. We took a guide from a neighboring county, whose name was Pigue. He knew the country and he knew the people, and he went disguised. His disguise was effectual, but bis rnaule must b) changed out of consideration for the future. From pig to shoat was an easy transition, though something safer might have been found. Never theless, to us ho was always Shout. Ho served as faithfully as lie had served his State in the field before being wounded and disaled. He was a good guide, and 1 hope his neighbors will not call him to account when they read this. 'OFNU rlNI TH: lI:U,. 1ho first house we visited wau watched in vain for several days. Authentic in formation said there should be two do serters thereabouts. Two of our party lay all night under the house listening to the conversation of the inmates, but not a word was dropped of advantage to t our quest. Openly in daylight ;lhe hhuse was visited ad diplomacy used in r vain. Th e women Would not h h'd intto Let raving their lords, but recreivc(l with heen hlsjpicion and reserve iil our ad- < vua:ces. Sri'ounding and searehing lie lo:seu i the small houn, after midnight u:! ave us our lahbr for our pnius. a Yet th. mnca were knowin to l,e a' least 1 in consuuinication wuih their 1hom. s, and oir ord;'rn to til:e themt w. re ilmpeativo. I TheIa vi' ble meinb r11'- of the hiouseOhold I coust o.ie; of a beah-idden id wou a, two < m11(id -^'%' wmni, and a sniali an.y I of w'hito"-Lai ted scion'. A second ti.e I pies we i'c placed under the bous', tad atboUtI miliight one (f th emii caie to ihe i reIdez vou1s :'l ,'*' rid tlat lie and i:is 1 coral 111 1id heard wltiSe;ing ov.r h ead, :tal bel " vel they i:ld detec:ed a ""'N VeIer. ' ! on 'e the houso mis'0 and the women n.y we eiititued to . They es:erted in the1 tege- terms that the whrcea)outa of their husbands was absolutely unknown to them, and declared that they had not i seen or heard of thenm for monti.s. Dis regarding all their protestittions, we pro ceded to turn the cabin topsy-turvy. The seanaft inriture was moved Ind the loft ransacked in vain. Nothing rc tm:aiiedi but the bed on which the he!p- i less old woman lay. When called upon to rise that. it might be overhauled, Fihe ( wept and her daughters remonstrated violently. They vowed that she could I mot get up, and to move her woull kill her. Tho lieutenant approached to lift l her, when she sprang.at him and attack ed him with the ferocity and celerity of I a tigress. Leaving him to defend him- 1 s(lf against her long talouns, wec tore away the bed clothig, and uinder the 4 bloardsa wasl rev'ealed a box-like structure wvherein lay the objects of our search. They were wretched, eraven-hookinug creatures and shivered and whined as we dragged their hinmp earcases out. IN 1F3AiLE ATT'r[li. WVe wvatchied another honse for days i and p4assed a small field whey e twvo wvo-1 men cultivated ai crop~ of corn. The manim we waYnted1 was not to b)e seeu1. Thelm womeni gave nio inidicationis that they knew the nature of our er-raudl, but wotuld talk at any time withi apparenf lt] frankness. The wife of the deserter said that her Ihsbanid had abandon1ed her and thbat she anid his iister, who lived with her, had a hard struggle to kee pthe wolf fromi the d1~or. We were all but convinced of this facet, and should have bleen wholly so buit for the direct and1( authentic manner ini which we had b4een informed to the contrary. Fmilly we were compoll to abandon thuis case from shecer lack of any clew to wet k ulxm01, as, in spite of constant and rigid (spinage, we made no hecadwaiy and saw 1no suggestive action on the par1t of the two womnen. The detective iinstintct must have been utterly lacking ini every memiiber of the 5(Juad(, fo,r we learned sometime after that the alleged SWiter ini law with whoum we had fre(queutly Coin versed, and whom wve had many times seen at work in thme fild, was simply theI deserter himself, clothed in onte of ia wife's homespun gowns. A TERinLEu~i 51(411r, Another ease was that of a man4I who had no family, Hie was a shaggy, bearded giant and owr:ed two old( ne groes, who guardled him and tie secret of his haunts with a . agacity and14 fidelhity abnost supe)(rhimnani. His habit was to lie out in theo woods, seldom alpproaich ing the11( house, andl the negro serve nts ol.' rived to provide for his damily sus tenanct,e 1i1 spite (.f all1 our efTorts to, pre venit it. It w'ouild haive beenk en: y to prle vent Ine ut(groes fromi going to hijm b'y phri; themi ini dureel or by re moviig thni m altogetheri from the eet. lBnt this msight have defeated our ends, for we knew niot how (lose the hider m night be lying anid had no assurace that we ourselves were not uder his ob1 servation, for the dense woodls and thickets 'encroached directly upon01 the( under close surveillance for twenty -four hours uininterruptedl. A t break of day the cabin was entered by two men and they were given certain instrucetionis and informed th at the slighitest violation or attempted infraction would result in the imu1ediaIto death of both. i3n 10W peortnit ted to pass~ the dloor at~time, anid thme (dead-nne, which lay nearat hand, must not be crossed. 'iliyWr cautioned anaina ... ': y~ were assurod that such an attempt would be promptly punished. Men were lying in ambush all around, and at dark our line was drawn in to closely encircle the building. Shortly before midnight a stealthy form crept past me in tbo gloom and the game Was in the toils. Swiftly passing around the cordon i notified the men that Stowers had entered the house, and we at once took positions at every door and window. As soon as the lieu tenant's stop sounded upon the porch the fugitive leaped from a back window into the iron grip of Sergeant Howard. The man fought and bit and swore and yelled like a demon, but strong arms bore him down and strong cords bound his writhing limbs. his hair and beard fell down his back and breast i-1 matted masses, his hands and face were black with the accumulated grime of months, and the nails of his fingers resembled the long curved talons of some great bird of prey. His eyes glared like a mad man's, and every strugglirg motion re minded us of those of a builkd, raging wild beast. The sight was terrible, and une who witnessed it can never forget it. The Cotton Movomnnt. The New York Financial Chronicle, in its review of the movement of the cotton irop for the week ending on the night f August 2(;, says that the total receipts [,avo reached 19,270 bales, against 9,649 )ales last week, 7,270 bales the pro vious week, and 1,499 bales three weeks ance. The exports for the week reach a total )f 22,3(5 bales, of which 17,585 were to 3reat Britain, 2,518 to France, and 2,182 o the rest of the cont;nent. The total sales for forward delivery or the week are 387,000 bales. For ui nediate delivery the total sales foot up l,276 bales, including 5,475 for export., ,801 for home Consumption. The imports into continental ports or the week have been 15,000 btu.,. 'here is an increase in the cotton in ight of 83,324 bales as compared with he same date of 1S8(, an incremse of 8,57G hales as compared with the cor esponding date of 1885, and at decrease f 313,938 bales as compared with 184. The old interior stocks have increared luring the week 2$1 bales, and were, riday night, 21,381 bales less than at lie same perod last year. 'The rect i tij .t the same town lan been 727 bales ess than the sane' week last year. lthough the receipts at the outtports he past week were 19,27 hales, the etuml movement from pllantations Wats mnly 19,510 bales, the balance going to terease the dock at. the intt ior towns. Ast year the receiSts from: the p lanta i0ns for the sat::e weeI w" ro 12,2(17 ;Ies, and for 1885 they wre 12, . >atles. The figures from J3omi sy ;how a do :raso conipar-d with last year mui t'e veek's receipts of 2,Ui)i bales, aI no j shango in shiplnm,ts, and the shipments ince January 1 show an increase of 4U, )0) bales. since January 1 thu to :el ox orts of col ton t(' 1'urope from all India nave been I,332,000 bales. The Chronicle says that cothon for fu ure delivery at New York for the wet k nder review has been sluggish, and re tricted almost wholly to the brokers mid regu!ar operators on the floor of the jottoi .Exclaugo, attracting very lit tie tttention from outside parties. The teature of the week was the sharp ad 7anCe .n Saturday last, on a demand to over contracts, arisiug from the belief hat ''bear" inlluencos hiad been exhaust 'd for the present.. Monday and 'Tues lay saw the loss of part of this advance inder sales to realize. Foreign advices md crop accounts had little eIlect, be tauso not very decided in their chiaracter; >ut the increased receipts at the piorts tero a depressing influence on Monday. in Thursday notices were freely issued or deliveries on August contracts, with very depressing cffect up~oni options for his month and weakenmng the whole narket, to which the fall of needed raiins n Text' ; and liberal receipts at (alves onl in some degree contributed. Friday here was a further diecline and a ve'ry insettled feeling. Cotton on the spot ins met with a good diemand for export1 mnd home consumiption, atnd qulotations5 vere advanced en Saturdlay, Tuesday and a eilnesday-1-16e. each day. Friday >riees receded 1-10c., middling uplands losinig at 9 13:-16c. Th e Chironicle's weather rep)orts indi.. 'ate that beneficial rains have fallen in >ortions of Texas during the week, but hat att some points the drouth continues. L'hue co rrespondent at Columbia, Texas, -oports thatd ini conseqNuence of shiowery wet(ither, caterpiiliars have b)ecmo nlu merous and arle doing nmchil dlamage. At )t her ploints ini the South the conditions livo beeii fairly favorable. Picking is rogressing finiely. -.---.= - --... A~li nn arkab 1 4'. .fohn i 11. Itobbii, a Caden, 'a. ,paper nioger, oi years old, whuihas luhul a needle traveling iraron in his hixaly for t hirty one ear', wasi relieve oh thei po'inted piiece of s~teel lTuesdlay, by I le surJeonis at thle Coop.' itr liosptial, in P'hiilhia. iIe went to lhe hositarl alondahy sufferting~ froma a sen. sitie tuimir tin his thigh. Th Inurgeon ind <hr elde'! tn ina I luria l pertio. tA lth knOtif rearb' aibnist down to I the thiieh prod to b iiI an '.idiinary sized nIieedh., Iimt whlih- siliin; ul rg ti he llo wh-ii t lhe was but itl ye.< tol 'Ii had dh lie ai 'it be re finvend.ii i tt h- teim.ed bt i t whle h dP Oit r iu itil iiL i< (in! it a Ii ethireIlyl tfirnte I !lli h u whiihi tiua indomn Ojin cnti t i All of thle be-st maukt's. $25 ch ~ ind balance N ovembi er I, at sp~ot cshl ice. s oni a Piano. S1) ecash anmd bailane No. vembea:r 1 , att spoit enish prices oni an Or'gan. D eliveredl, freight free, ot your nearest delict. Fifteoen days test trial and freight both ways if nott satisfactory. Writec for circulars. N. WV. TR U MP', * Columbia, S. C. Tlhei Secirietary o f Warr has appilrovied the reCpi est of (tx enfederate Ai-eatin t i Chiic(~ator er (merbdti eof f)OWN IN 1IEXICO. ii ow (.e,rral CerctanIC1 'V Entomle(I A live In Sight. of Ills IIOI. (Mexican letter ) A few years ago a good deal of kid nappig was carried on in Mexico, money having been generally the ob ect. Anybody of wealth and influence was liable to be seized in an unguarded mo ment anl spirited away, and seldom, in deed, were the victims ever heard of again, unless their friends "came down" most handsomely. The modus operandi, after a man hi d been secured and bhid den, was to post notices hero and there within sight of his family--sometimes they were plnned up, ku-klux fashion, with a dagger, or decorated with skulls and cross-bones-stating what sum of money was rc(luired to be left within a given time at a certain spot to ralisom their relative, and plainly intimating that nonh-compl)liance With this demand would seal his (leath-warr.ant. When the m.oney was promptly paid, the kidnapped persous were usu;!ly released, according to promise; but in many instances a fresh demand was mado, followed by another, and another as long as there wore the slightest proslcots of further gain. A Loo)-cUR)N,I1(; TALa. One of the Im:st celebrated cases of this kind was that. of General Cervantes, which occurred, 1 believe, in 1874. lie was a prominent" politician, in the prime of life, belonging to a fam;ly of great wealth and i:fl ece, and the miscreanti who captured him we-ll knew that his people would mox e I leaven and earth for his release. Well, days and weeks went by, and though the country was scoutetl for the mis;ng man no trace of him was discovered, or was likely to be so long as a penny c' uld be gained 1by his rekntion. His family spent thou sands cf I liars in the vain seareh, ao:d in repettedly (10.)ositiig large sii uls of money for his I1ansO m, as indicated by mysterious plaeards, mtiil they wt-re completely iii peverishted; aid then, movd 1, y the tear.i of his distracted young wife tit1 the 1ravers of his a:d mother, the ,!overrln1( nit ot'red a ccn sidera blo sri tin!. her his restoratii a. B3u1t; still no (ervaiite ap p1,e:retd. At last by the a reat acid(en I.h was diseover ed--in the heart of the poploulms cii v and withi.h a stone's tlrow of his o(ni diwelling-utnlor the floor of a desertcd house, lyng tat il'on his back in a place barely wide en sigh to hold him, gagged, be'iu;d hand and foot, with several weil-slarpentd da,ggs thrust n itlhim a hatir'.i bred!h 'If lii body, ao that if he t-hould have atirrcd they would have pieire( (1 hi. hiv aing remallined so 1",tn! in I bie terrible 'nidition heo was barely alive when found, and it waa only afte week: of careful nur:sin!g, daring whieih tinie he lay speechleas and his life hung by a thread, tlt he was aible to tell his adve; tures; and. iueantime, of course, the ni,ereAnts hatd armple oppor tunity to cscaper. It scens that late one evening he was standing in his own door, wh< n sudden ly a zerape was thrown over his head by soile unknown lereons and drawin so tightly ats to prevent any outcry; then he was placed in a carriage and driven raidly a v";ry long it diiee, as he sulp poscd. )ot !htless the rapid drive, they huivng returned to nearly the same point whence they started, was intended for a ''bhiu ,'and he never beli(ved himisc!f St near hone. ''he faces of his captors Io never saw, for they were closely ia'ked, and they visited him only at iight by the dini light oi lan teiri. Ilav ing gagged and bound him, they first talked of takiing hown a portion of the wall and brieking him him uip, leaving a loose plar where a brick or two could be remrovedl when it was necessary to feed himi; but, fortunately for him, they decule, upoin the Iloor as less trouble some to themselves. 'Tearing up a plan0k and1( placinig himn under it, lie was founid to be too coirpulenit, despIite all their erowdinig, to allow the board( to it in the place again, so a little earth was dug out to accommodate him with at living sepulchre. Afewl small hiolesi, bor(d above his face, admiitted suitlicient air to keep hiim in existence, mid1( there lhe re mainmed for weclm, helpless, voiceless, enutomubed alive within sight and sounid oif his~ hoime, while his friornds were ran sackiing the world for him. E~very night his captors camle, removed the p)lnik andh hauled him up, and with the point of a diagger at ilh thiroat too(k (lit the gag andl gave him food, andi then walked him up anid dowvn theo room awhile for exer cise. IBy and1 by hcle grew) 81o wVeak asi to beII ~iimu jbe o)f oultcry or resistanie, andSi thou his keepers forced lstin1aants dlox n his thiroat, and1( dragged him about foIr needled exercise, di.iring to keep the b)reath oif life in himii as long as imoneiy might be foirthcomiing. F'inlly, be lieving him ab out dead e.ud thuat all re sources of prolit had bleon exhausted, they adde!d menOltal torture to his mlisery' by assuring him that his friendis hadii re fused to pay anything for- his ranlsom, and, crowdling him undetr the plank again, they left hliml toi die iat leisurle. It halppened that very night that a heavy stormi cameT lil, ai a bIeggar ea- red th( d esert ed diwelling for she!lter, Ihv chiance seat ing himse lhuon thle bo101r0 uindler whichj Ce-rviantesi lay.Hern fromn the lowyer regionis, t.he fellow was frighitenied nearly tI deathI, b elievi1 " that it camet from 5(ome gho'da, and' he ran stratighitway to th lerlarest pield. Strangely enouiigh, ill this h:a-/.y emmtry, whelreI sluper7$i(iut funcies ar e or oii 51on occil renei, (:< n- h was inlsti tuite, and1( what rained)0( o (f peer Cervantes was reced- RIot an Ihur too soon1. 'I wan' i to IthanL k \,11 It> I / 111'i m of I hmiil hi'''s-avr l.el. I el i io wi. i lyte hriliIind,l "or a b>3sl lmeiii "riesu.: ;h i inerb . ch iro thadl trr iliii bac ache andil eings dow(n2 h Oeaions ross mel an wt(as hiite elfak aid que chag le l ita ! and t .wn oIf t h mederii , V., as ire t ig your5 letter, aIifnty 3 e.ait hlu- ime i lihuidiy ht, ri-caing p ln the- military ii rent ipotio fc Petierug Va., adsl n tinoon. SI'r:I) IN 8TENO;ItAPI'Y. Tiwo IIiundre(l VorlI t' r Minute anti Fif teen SeconQtI to Spare. "All this talk about speed," said a short-hand writer, "reminds me of a hit tie experience that I had away back in 1866. I was then located in New York, and was a more lad and comparatively now in the business. I had never been in a court room and know abst,'utely nothing about the form of trials. 1 could write short hand, nowevor. 'T here was a big murder trial going on ill North Carolina, and they sent to New York in hot haste for a stenographer. I hap pened to be the only one at the tiue available and (Iraham sont me down. "1 shall never forget that experience. About the first man I came in contawt with was the judge advocate. Ieo was gruff and sarcastic as a cross-cut saw half a mile from an oil can. lie looked me over in a sneering way that I shall never forgot, and seemed to he sadly disap pointed over the fact that there wan not more of me. ''The muau whose shoes voui have been sent to fill could write two hundred words a minute,' he said grullly. 'how many can you write?' "'I don't know extctly, sir,' .1 stim mered. "'Well. I'll drop into your room in the morning before cotut opens and ptt you through your paces,' he said sarcastic ally. "'hen 1. got to my room I was about the worst frightened boy you ever sav:. This was a nice sort of m1:an1 for one who knew nothing wla:teve r about. courts to encounter. A bout the tiarst thing 1 saw when I entered my room was an oll volume of Webster's sp)eeohes. An idea at once r4ruck me. I picked out one of these and practiced on it mo.t all night. Ihe cons tluence was Ihalt I had cet mitted it to memory and hld it right at my finger ends. All that renaine I was to devise some scheme to get the judg, advocatte t) select, the 1 partic iar speeclh for the text. Bright and early the next morning he came into my room. "'Have you anything lre that I can rend to you from?' he aiked. ''I don't know,' I "epliel, a caekcI s ly as pos.;ible. '1 et'a seo. Alh, hie r ' at book w hichi seems to i e-long to the Iroom. Jt's W el:,ter'; sp.ccheo. ltbbi this might do.' "1 opened it carclt naly at the partijell - lar speech wl.ich I had ni.t i,.1 ul and landed it to him. !le ex.nuim.d i carethilly, and all the titne my teart wat in my month. I waw af aid lc wc"n'd turn the ptigeaa and tiek out :,omtie otlt speech. But he didnt't. "'I. should think thia woui do,' l, bai;l, and proeeded to coutt ott I hundred words. ''ell, at it we went, and wIetn ti:. tcwo liundrel iwo\rds were 'ritIn i ,1 i had iifttein Secm(bttl ot thet lmnut o I spare. lie timed me with one of those old stop-watches, and 1 can see it yet.. "' urn!' he said, 'I guess yo'It' Id and aiter that he seemed to think I was to.t+ of a man than I looked." E:uI:TT:it lant I;I,, Io-OL'I. Not I_i $i ihn t ol e ris'y n wint p-- atippintA in N'terf"ordl. I. i .' I tilatielphi Timeia-.) Everette 1arttelle, the li-year-old boy who disailp eared from his ime near Wautc:fordh, N. d., Fridlay and wt!hose ilis appearance caused the people of that vicinity to lesert their chutrcth on Suu day and scour the country for miles around, was found at St .Erie street, Camden, and taken home. Sunday the searching partits trampl)ed many miles and failed to find any trace of the boy. About 2 o'clock one of the party in the swamp called: '"There's the htell! the boy is found." All stopped and listenied. Sure enough the big bell on the Epiiscopal Church, four miles away, could he heard sptread mtg the news that brought joy to a mother's heart. "'Thanik Glod! I hope lhe's alive,'' ex claimedi the big hearted constab le. A fervent "'amen'' went up from a score of throats. The (logs were caliled in and the searchers startedl for home, hoping for tIhe beust, buti feainig that (lily the body had been fountd. When the p)arty reached Waterford Ihey were met bty aniother crowd, and thle cheers of the men when it was known the boy wasM safe made the pines rinig. Baggage Master Dill, of the Camden and1( Atlantic Railroadl, found the hl cormfortably housed at 88. Ei street, Camden. Everetto lued gone there Sat - urday niighit andI asked for1 somuetinug to (at. lio said lie had nteithier fathetr nor)1 mtuithe'r anid had been working on a farm and the people had t.ned him away. 'The Cainiden and Atlantic IRaiiIload oifliciaIs allowed the Conotabile and thle little fellow to travel hiorne oni one of the. freight trainsu .e'l Gaey terivedl at Wtti ford shortly bieforo two o'clock. When the Constable andh E,vrette stood otn fhie steps of the Barttelle home the fathjet called out : "' hsle (dead I?" 'No, lie's alive andu all righit,"' answer ed the ttflicer, tiieiker thum it cani be told the tnothi r' hiad thiiown oln.n th Idoor(1, and1( chIledi her boy in lien armas. Shie wep t for joy as shte shiowered kis es on him, miigI jpi(lking htimt up, rnu i 'to( thle house. Thie fathert graisped the Con,e-tibIe's hand11 a.ii h a grip l thattehue himij e inee~ an.1 a \\ houn the bioy wasI Itin .y 'a T0114 ro.itt r hI sid :llii " I .:i o11 1e .;i tiiet .Itrtphe 11 beta Waterb I '. All ithe iiliti'l the boyd t ayu and IO ni:te I, gl lto' Athtit e tit : :tu i i the 0:o t :.,i tti v..Ode tueLI Cwe wr ho i. I wt. jlaing thll woid they wtitdi hi--. tni' road. !I w110et0111 alongtit and h got. Threy gav m m y br(l.hl(l mo t !it way alon the road ith at rno I b in; rlaito . II git .ydne1tafamhm n 'mln tokm to'u' Camld(en.l I s (i,lboij ply I watched, thtm util3 iht wh<ei a wentsi ilto 11 ther ileMr v(atel for led I I fail ii wated(' t hst ther, btO Mtr. promise my i mut.oteri I wold' runwaye Syi ar, andgIIi t hILLg,e hu am gIladIr tbe Thei Ii Itrt ise ( le combrscoin ('ievelitu atl( <1 tht, Nat 1i,1al 1'tatforna of I Ra-1 Fully ratorKil. The fullowing is the platform adlopt',d by the' 1)euinoeratic S'te Couvention of 1'entnsvlvai:a; Fr.Thaut we renow our allegiantce to the priuci}ites atal (eel'trations of the platf nto ailop ted at Chicago int 1881, which Mr. Cluvetud, the ntomineo of tie ijrty, heartily ilndorsed, declaring in1 hiM letter of ac(ceptmlixuE': ''1 htaveu (are fully considercd the plat form adopted by the coventiont auti Cordially approve the :auue. So plain a atate'meit, of J)emt oeratic fait.h and the principles ttjolt which t'ntt party atppoltls to the ttrages of the people needs no sutpplemont or cxphtiatiol.' 'To thos prilciples i his faithfully adhored in all his publie ultterancer. We farther atlirmn the plat. fotml alop tted 1>y our Stato Convent ion of I8 n, mid in view of the existing con ditioi (it t( heitblIIC treasury WI (lumald wit h1 ('mnphabia t htt the hirge surplus al in th'Treatury 4.ha11 be used to pay the jul lic debt and that the current. am0 m111e i ,'.sarV ittcrea o going on be yotld the ne(ed of government shall be Iuletdiattely 'r ee'ttd 1 by a wiso iand(1 pinilentt redtiucti(,n1 of internal taxatfo 1111(1 of duti C s ,n1 (1. ii.'t , in aecordante with ti, fo(tregiii; tte hi:t-ions. iur'x\1. h'a :t w!fully iiucorse the ad mliu istt-.I>un (' I 'r('nidenlt Cle(ve1land. Wi. a', :a teIo1 an d tritit c, he has resiorud contideic t) the 1bIuIsiNtess iI tcre'st of Ith contitry in tIie 1)etuocratio p.ity, li, 1irect et lie Ii u acitI atll'iir:. of thI, g ve'ri:):en! vwith opt ability, hast htrengitheiied p.'., ub 'lie credit, atnd ilmr,"by given Li 'iod of greatt in- 1 Iilu:trha nd 1(1((t:>1w.:cit,l pm pellrit,y. A}p 1)rt'b(ilieln sII It u I of )nImJi tlt 1h ( 'tvtnt of I tt p-'iI i > ihit ouitro t it the t'dert,l l; i t l1.'t ,uhl bto daun gerolu! Ito:- hie('u td1 +li'1. >t r jpeole' atre mnore' emont !bt, it :( i l-to-doe tlIt'ta tit many '1arI n.,i0 d Imr r'p: i d '",tthan nin I": on h. . n ,, .I 1'to , ,pr' mi-t i t. . t t i i:'. f c t . i I,c dr' ( n t w iis revisd orext ed. " I 1 I . ' ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ I Ilf I Iit'ti.dI,itlll ") '.i 11 fu l i i 1 ,t 1 :1 I t t : 1 . ,i 1 . ( ! i > i'~ ' I u t , tI, li t)( 't ti , : l Y ". i i .n .'y l' :t l '' ' llu tirt I.T e "u re li l ith it ii. t o mn e htl,t er it i d, I nr :iafiy p fctei d ta ; b(i n f titt b' '' sht in allr ,'(t11t'll 'f ta a i afristil eii iin l * gl fth ctit,iiiilLo - w(0. alt (her)b the eopi t-le m st py u lorporit itIi 1 ion t I', lIII ih' ul t tt he (i't } irtti oll , 11(11 t' :t :y 111, y'.ra rt t i t 1. t n hu ,'in," Ilt,ai U o at t i iny t any antion iLl i t . 'J' t :t 11urt c(It ih (a 'l ht(\eli U(-tt l ofthIe1(11iol tii; (, tI,I e o-iiure of luth fraudl o triinal ntegltet,u odthed atut rime a s I lit lrth Inth ti, ty p('1pi0 ant cL th e t 11i rjn'Ity of the r;t lii ngt raion nit 'rvo'l .V thit pacoj)la ie ofs ptyh1 tleglihuliolttrs:wi nrtply nfrI tO:to ihnt priitj( l uta ai('t 1 7, li 't h elI uti 1 o thiI cortjo rl'tio , irh ti to I ori tutIn t rt ut venit iinprLopeC isrnintin adt hiit. T I wet,enounce Iteatini of the ht'ruulian l"gihtitre in the dfrtn t (1f thetil fru tetl i e "tt(1 I O ft, tw producers an etnl ofli h il d is c fth tt,liw as h aUl ingshy bul as bing i thei.rN Of moooyantgistteitreto,h peopl of icit,larg secton o teitate byI the poll o tI Unini as tea l<su of th ettr ' n t tf r:tmocatic pt oh.it i ey. in:gratin ofhtm rlto29 r-n iiLan ii <ili 21) tle elionhement of'r ra 'acr flt finer'ita - :aniit e eh x rg h iru wikeh thatplthe WeNof "e .e"0! tenis A GIAMBLEK'$ DREAM. Thue Nanle of the Winning Horse Revealed to h im in Sleep Beforehand. (From the St. Paul Globe.) A down town pool-room furnishes a story, while not romantio, proves that dreams, while not infallible, can be turned to good account at times. A prominent St. Anthony hill youth who had been playing the horses there l97 three weeks with intermittent fortune, was going home a few nlgtats since well uu(lr the influence of cocktails which he had absorbed purely^ for their medicinal virtues, lie was in tlt happy mood when everything out of th'b nary run of things attracts the eye and makes a strong bid for the curiosity of the beholder. The young man had felt his way carefully along the sidewalk to the bill board hiding Alderman Dowlan's 'ood yard, on Wabasha street, when ithrough the dim glare of the street lamp the highly colored lithograph advertis ing the play "My Goraldine," caught his eye. There was something about the blazing building, the tall man with a twenty inch dagger in his hand, the lemon colored locks of the girl floating on the night air and the elaborate lettering that tickled his curiosity, and leaning up against a telegraph pole, he gazed at the gaudy bill and read and reread, "My Geraldine, my Geraldine," and when he reached home and had rolled into bed he sank to sleep whispering "My Geral dine, my Geraldine." In his dream that night he met a beautiful girl with divine form and way ing h;: th" had captured the softest beams of the n:idday sun and married lh'r. With her personal charms she brought him great wealth in valuable city property and bank stock, and her ne was Geraldine. The following mlornintg the young man awoke and lhthtt('d his (xt(ende(1 mtiud in iceo water eel went dOwi to breakfast, but he cdnuld not drive the dream from his head rd as lie went. dlown town to his office mi lips mechanically muttered "Geral ntin, (ieruldine." IId l.opped into the jool-room, as 've lii cust om, and in looxing over the 'i ("t hurves that Were to contest in the t,;tr:to-a races he was startled when half "v yhown the list his eye fell upon the :.'.:e Cieraldine. A queer superstit into his imind and ho concludea t her hard for a winner. The horre i ot a iavority in the race and the cro vd 1 gerly grabbed at the young ;t's ottr to play her and gave him +i+ral odds. At last, with all his avail d fuinns placed on the ratce, he rested otl ntt thatt he would win. Finally in i ep voiwe thi iool seller announced mt the hoises were oilf, and the ,.ung man calmly waited for the Iidme of the winner to be given. He had not l'>g to wait and he showed no signs df surprise when the caller sang out: ''Geraldine wins the race.'' th outg man walked calmly up and cashedi in his checks, putfing $600 deep into his trousers pocket as the result of a few cocktails and a drop or two of snperstit ion. vAn (OV1?RNet vISE. I'ott Itluall't Story A boalt 111n ult Two Cti,itol Stattes. (troni t hle atti5td)n I1t. li1aiO ,.) It seets a fact that history repeats tself. The )lirase, ''Let her go, Gal atgher, that hts been going the rounds lutely in the Southern papers, reminds is of an incident that occurred in Wash iigton a good many years ago when Ion. ienry A. Wise was a member of Jongress. While engaged in conversa i(n ntear the statue of WVashington, on lhe east fronit of the Capitol building, a ttrange looking genius applroached us mid tasked: "'If we could toll him the uanrg of the statue opposite--the fltan withl the extendted arm anid a ball in iis hand, lookintg directly in the face of hte statue by which we were standing?" niid aso asked, '"Who tihe statue repre enitedl near uis?"' Mr. Wise looked intontly at him for a ew inoments and, being satitled that he was really seekintg ittformation, explain 'd to himt who the statues represented, ihn man with extendled arm andl ball in htis hland represente(l Christopher (lo htoubuns, thte discoverer of America, and thte ball in his hand illustrated histheory that the etarth was rounid andl by sailing 1 te west lhe coutld ci rctunavigate the globe, or rathter Iho wotld find a new onitinen t tot banlanco thte one they knew dI i ah<mt. 'The statue by whtich we were 'tttmiding~ repiresentedt George Washing att, kntown ast the "Fthetr of his Coun try." Mir. Wise called his aittention to lie sulmerscription: "'First in Pleace, I'irst itn War and First in thte Hiearts of hti5 Ctotuntrymen'"- wvhich hand ovidently scapiet the ttrtnger'sm attention, but there i nit namtot or intscription on the *statuto of Cohlimbu is, anid he or any one lse cottld be reasonably excused for ekinig to whotm thte ttatue was ercted uud the mettning of thet ball in the hand. but Mr. Wise (cntintued by calling thte denmtioun of the stranger to the right am of thte Wasingttont statue, extended withi the hamt ou nd lllA ii ooking dlirectly mI tIhe fiace of Cohtnat bus, about 120 yards I;'itt Cohubus looking as in the nt f th rowitng the ball at him. Mr ie idi it reind'~l (1 hhn of boys vy ea(vi (ba~se ball wats not ktnown at ), andt hto ab'ot fanciewd hieer~ldb orj', aney, "'Lot her go, Christoph ut lcatcht hter!" A (Otw Nuir. a it A ut lettan.t of tis city ht, a fine Io that Stttitely ftash' tn qund of hioeel thintd shte iatI the cowt wans slek. l ii h'declited tt hter nihnte il ittti th e d low . " Ot iit t '!:iV ii e' ly adotedsy'a et 0 ai t' ttld iftsah, tretine, : nd i ct Iut nive a. in veryngtot .yn to me howtt "tL' Imeyn COt I theI tun h,t{ tt. uiyengae hsnw si an this acuted )fl by httsmlik for tatenusc. I agaIth:itteri ws aV5 very m unlvhbttl theretw o'rc kiledeb