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two dollars per annum. } GOD _A_jSTD G)TJK COXJlSrTR.Y. always in advance. VOLUME 8, K SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 12, L8T4. ~ NUMBER U THE SAD STORY OF LITTLE CHARLIE ROSS. The New York Times gives the annexed history of the noted Charlie Rofs, whoso abduction and mysterious disappearance make it one of the sad ?dest cases ou record : Mr. Christinn K. Ross, father of the abducted child, Charlie Ross, is rcpor ted to bo in a sinking condition. It is said that for several days past his rcasun has been growing weaker. This dis patch, which came from the associated press at Philadelphia, on the 15ch im-t., by ir.o?t persons will be deemed n sulB cirnt refutation of the heartless slanders that have been publish d in eonnecti-.n with ono of the 6addest abduction cases on record. It was lurd enough, surely, tha?. Mr. Ross should have been robbed of an idolized child, without adding a thousandfold to the poignamy of his grief by deliberate Matementa to the effect that he himself had been the abductor, and that the correspondence of the supposed kidnappers had all been written by his own hand, for the purposo of obtaining $10,000 or 20,000 from the public. Pressed down by the weight of this suspicion, by anxiety of his wife's health, and l-y the continual tortuie that came of false reports of the discovery of his boy, it would have b?uu a wouder, indeed, if his reason had re nmiued unaffected. On the 1st of July the little boy. Charlie Ross, then four years of ago, while plnj'ing wHi his brother, a b oy of six. was tukmitito a buggy by two men and carried beyond the reach of t?arcut8, as well as detectives. The father immediately offered a reward of $300 for the restoration, but this O'lly elicited an anonymous communication, iv. whieh it was stated tint he could it u. l>c returned for u les? sum than SHI, 000. TliO distracted father proo ptly replied by a "p< r.^onul" in the Phi'udcl jdiiti Jjulger that he was ready to negotiate to the extent of his ability. SEARCH U-Y THE POLICE. In mi.o j?>. -r._i n.. ii ,u_ police department of Philadelphia having been awakened to thrt necessity of doing something to save its rcpum tion, issued a circular d^soriljin^ tho vehicle iuto which I bo boy wns enticed ?"a falling-top. yachtbody buggy, painted dark all over, lined with dark material To this \vas added the im ...ant information that the wagon was ?trawn '"by a dark b-jy or browu horse, fifteen and a half hunds high, and driven, it is believed, without ohectc xcin." Then there was a description of ithc two men who were engaged in the ttbducation. One woro a broad brim med straw hat, look ing us if it had been Worn a ecason' or two, and much 8-u browned: Tho other woro a high crowned dark colored straw hut. One wore u liueu duster; the other a gray alpaca duster. One had a light, with a tendency to sandy, complexion, sandy mustache, and a rather rod uose and face, and aboflt thirty years of age. and five feet eight or nine inches high. The other was ?vo feet eight or ten inches high, about forty years of age, with a mustache and full beard, or Whifckcrs of brown or sundy color. With such a "wild" description, it Was not at all surprising that so many cases of MISTAKEN IDENTITY Jollowcd. The arrests ut Philadelphia Were ot a piece with the character ol tho circular. 1 he police failed utterly to find a particle of evidence to connect their prisoners with the crime, and the latter had to be dischargoJ. In tho meantime poor Mr. Rosa was receiving unonymOUs 'letters from the kidnappers, contoiniug^plans for tho surrender of hin son upon payment of the ransom, at a certain bridge in tho outskirts of the city. He would then have borrowed jmd begged until ho had procured the /unount demanded, and would have had .' his hoy, hut it was npt considered right that public juBtioo should bo defcited ? Viewing the subject in this light, the city authorities of Philadelphia finally pgreed to offer a reward of 320,000 for '?such information ua would load to tho recovery of the boy, and the arrest und conviction of the abductors." This was tho u.eans of gaiuing tho services of Allen Piokcitoo and bis men, in addi* tiou to those of tho regular detectives of the country, nnd the scores of amateur I detectives who ore always ready to take a haud when tttore is a prospect of turn ing an honest penny. Finding so many persons at work iu his interest .Mr. Ross became more hupelul, and waited day after day for favorable intelligence. Tt was at this point thai the terrible ordeal be bad to pass through was begun in earnest. On the 25th day of July fresh tears were wrung from his heart by a telegraphic announcement that "a suspicious apparently crazy, man." giving the name of Myron Lcisur.:, hid been arrested at Richmond, Va., whilo en route to Baltimore , with "the corpse of a child" that had died at Dayton. Ohio. His contradictory statements gave rise to a suspicion that the derd body was that of the abducted Charlie Ross. It subsequently transpired that deceased child was only tei months old. but it nevertheless was not considered cruel to send a special dispatch to Philadelphia to the foregoing e'Fect On the 4th ot August MR. ItOSK* HOPES WERK RAISED by the notification that a woman, giving the name ofjuckson, had beon arrested at tbo West Philadelphia railroad depot in company with a chil l th it bore a strikiug resemblance to the littlo Charlie. He hastened t>thedop>t. as may be supposed, with a palpitating heart to find that there had boan a mis take In his sympathy fur tho child's mother be gave her a lottcr to secure her against further annoyance. lie had scarcely ceased to think of the incident at the West Philadelphia depot when be received a dispatch from BcnningtOil, Vermont, to the effect that a Mrs Froderick Hamilton, of that place, had been arrested with a child iu her possession "o irrosp Hiding to thj description given of Charlie Boss." The additional infer natio.i w is vouchsafed that -he has the ss tue colored huir and eyes; I.is hair has been recently cut lie is about the same age, talks plainly, says that his name is Charlie, and that be bad a nice homo once." Surelv this mformtmon was enough to m ike p >or Mr. Boss almost die of expectation. Mr. Joseph Lewis, Mr Boss' brother iu law, started at once for Benuington. and arrived there only to find that the little boy was the adopted sou of a man iu the employ of Mr. P. T. Barunin. Ou the 18th of August another tele gram arrived at the Boss house. THIS TIME IT WAS FROM OD ELL, ILLI NOIS, and contained an account of the arrest of two men and a woman, "having in their possession a child supposed to bo tho missing Charlie Boss." The trio, it appeared, had caused suspieio i tbroU'h having arrived from Philadelphia abtut a mouth previously, and furthermore , through thu indiscreet utterance of tho family with whom they were domiciled The arrest wus uiudc by direction of the circuit attorney, so soon us it had been represented to him that "the child was dressed in girl's olothos, and bore a striking resemblance toChariie Boss.' Mr. Boss was greatly excited by this news, uud immediately began a corres pondence with the authoriti ts it Oldl. The *uppos?ii Charlie was if;o ward questioned closely, but "be failed to givo a vat is factory aecouut of himself." In the midst of the excitement the fact came out (hat the little boy was t!ies>U of cue James Heuors ui, and that "like nearly all children of ten lur age, Jim tnie wore a fro-rk,nol this wis rs^irdil as evideuco of an elf ?rt to djuca.il the boy's sex." Alter this A HIGHLY SENSATIONAL STORY was publishod concerning the effort of a mythical Pittsburg detective, who had traced "suspicious parties" to New York city,* aud wts hourly in expectation of encompassing their arrest. It was stated in this conueotiou that, within a week of a certuin date, the ro.il abduc tors of the little Charlie had removed to New York from their hiding place i n PcnosylTuuin, and brought their cap live with them. Cuptaiu Irving, of our Ceutrul Detective force, quickly ex ploded this statement, by informing the publio that during the period mention ed the utmost vigilanco had been ob served in watching ruilroad dopota and steambout landings. Washington, D. C., was the next point lroaj which Mr Ross received nows of tho diso >very of his son. Acting upon the information that a mysterious "Englishman and woman" had placed a boy four years o f age, resembling the Ross chill, a? a boarder <u the home of "a family living in an obscure portion of the country be tween Tcnallytown and Brightwood," detectives were sent to investigate They brought the child to Washington. The "'mysterious English man and woman" were subsequently arrested, ' but the detectives wero satisfied that the family likeness proved that tho child was theirs." It was on the 7th of September that the news of the "discovery " at Washing ton was sent to Philadelphia, b it scarce ly had tho detectives finished their investigations when a dispatch came from Jeflcrsouvillo, Indium, that the Hoss child had just been found there, and that ho ha 1 bee t photographed , and his picture sent on to Pail* I:'. thi i for id nti?cation. This proved as delu sive as all the others. In ten days afterwards Mr. Ross' hopes were once more cruelly raise 1 by the following dispatch : "Chicago, Sopte nbcr 20. A Tribune special from Line dn, Nobr u'ci. slys deputy sheriff Manning, of Harlan county, has arrested one Jackson, with a boy who answers perfectly the do scriptum of Charlie H.iss. The boy says his mother's name is Belle Ross. M in ning will leave with the man and b)y for Philadelphia to-morrow." The foregoing dispatches woro n >t ill that dame to Mr. Iloss m 1 t> tho dotcj lives at Philadelphia There wctc Bcorcs "of others that wer; tnoru vajuu au 1 unsatisfactory. 1'INKKllTON ?IV KS IT UP. On the 28th of September, A Ten Piukcrton announced that tha eise had got the better of him, and that he was willing to relinquish t!tc reward of 820, 000 "to the parties who shall give itifAir mat ion which shall lead to th ) ro;)v.;ry of tho child un I the capture of the abductors " Un the loll iwing il ly tho proprietors of a Reading ( IVujmA news paper Were arrested lor libelling Mr. Ross. It then came out in the testi mony of the family physician that Mr Iloi-s was "in a condition of prostration, .in which he is unable to concentrate his thoughts or to express his meaning." In spite of that testimony iiich hive been found brutal enough to make jokes at his expense. One of these, the most brutal, perhaps, was perpetrate I in Philadelphia, iu front of the Adams 12.x press Company, Chestnut street. On the pavement stood a box laholo 1 ''Rob ert Swan, Newcastle, Del." At about 0 o'clock in the morning a distinct cry of "Let mc out, I'm dying " The bo* was peized and turne 1 upon its side and the voice, which it was now plainly evi dent came fro n the inside, cried, "Oh. don't; you hurt me. Let mc out." The reporter, who was present, may now bj left to describe what followed in his own way : '"Excitement was at fever heat, and threats of lynching the partv who had shipped the box were freely uttered. In a few moments the who'e neighborhood became aware ol'tho fact that the lost boy, Charlie Itofs had been found in a box at the express o!Hce. About the express office things wero aasutuiiig a highly interesting phase. Some shouted to burpt open tho box; others exclaimed it would be illegal. Many hooted tho idea of stopping to inquire into its legality, and 11 to 1 . The boy will bo dead before y io git it 'open' FinaPy, Wat ren appeared with an axe and wont at the box. You could hear the leaves on the trees flutter over head, and every sir Ac the axe made was distinctly heard wu the cor ler below, while, "I'm dying hurry,'camo from the inside in a faint voice. The top is loose; another stroke, and off it flics. A huul red pair of eyes anxiously peer into tho box. * * * Sold ! aud such a sell is not up iu record, while but lew, tho 'initiated' only, imagine for a m i n mt that all tho furore was crcato 1 by the quiet little gentleman leaning calmly against tho awning polo, twenty feet away and uttering not a word. It was j the 'King of Ventriloquists.'" It was no wonder that poor Mr. Ross lost his reason. He aud his futility h ivo beju treated with savago cruelty. The re 1 fusai of this uufurtuuutc gentleman tc ' submit for publication a aeries oflottard i\om the kidnappers, lull ol* tho moat djisgustiug personalities, was made the biisis of cowardly and heartless slanders. r\ gcntlouian connected with the staff ojf tho Springfield Republican, who was permitted to examine some ofthennony idous letters, promptly mad') a fincer-.; and cl iboratn defense of Mr. Ross. In the moantime THE WORK OK " DISCO V Bill NO" TUB STOLEN HOY OOES ON in the same unsatisfactory manner. On tljo 4th ol the present month he was '?found" at New Haven by ' a gentle man, while entering .1 dint ng room, with a '.woman claiming to be his mother. The gentleman made arrang'emonts to have them followed, but after pursuing thorn some time tho trail was lost II ! is confident he saw tho kidnapped boy." The very latest "discovery" was made among a band of gypsies within a few miles of Wcstchcstcr, Denn. A child "very much resembling the boy, Charlie Brewster Boss," was d ttectcd in the gypsy camp. Tlu dispatch siys : '?The likeness to Charlie is very striking II c is closely watched and cannot be appro ached. Olfiecr Car pen tor has tha case in hand, and has telegraphed M tyor Stokely to sea l some on 51) sec au 1 identify tho b ?y." Thus the case drags along, while the heart broken mother is daily fed with new hope of getting back her boy, and the' poor father?is tho dispatch head iitg this article states?is in "a sinking condition." ???-? Tho Power of ! mtvgination. Alexander Pumas published some time nt'O, in a daily Baris paper, a nor cl in which the horione, prosperous an 1 happy, is assailed with consumption: All the gradual symptoms were most touehingly described, and the greatest interest was felt lor the hcriono. One day the Marquis de Dalomicu called on him. 'Dumas,' said he, 'have you compos :d tho?nd of the story ut.w buing publish ?Of con-ve * 'Does the bcroino die at the en 1 ?' ?Of course, dies, of eiurso?dies of consumption. Alter suuh symptoms as 1 have described, how could she live?' 'Von will have to make her live You must ( hange the catastrophe.' 'L can not.' ;\ os you must; lor on your heroine's life depends my daughter's !' ?Your Daughter's V Yes. She has all the various symp tons of consumption you have describ eil and watches mournfully for every U'.mbcr of your uovel, reading her own f.te in )our heroine's. Now, if yiur heioin ? live, my daughter, whose imagination has been deeply impressed, wiil live too. Come, a Ii 'a to save is a tnnj tattoo ?' ? Not to be rcsi?te 1.' Dumas changed his last chapter, li- luorine recovered, au 1 was hap '}'? About live years afterwards Dumas met the Marquis at a party. 'Ab, Dumas!' he exclaimed, 'let me 'ntroducc you to my daughter; she owes it r life to you. There she is.' 'That line handsome woman, who ooks like Joai ne d'Are V 'Yes, she is married and has four chil reii.' ' And my novel, has four editions,' aid Dumas; .so we ate quits.1 At the close ol the lato session of the Jourt at Greenville, Judge Cooko gave lOtice to the members ol the bar that le would require them hereafter to j.vcar the regular court habit ol black, lie directed the Sheriff to provide him keif with a cocked hat and sword, which ho must wear as he escorts the Judge to the scat of justice. A ^oung man in Daiilit Id Iowa, re ceived a letter front his girl lsat Suuda' and, live minutes after raadiug it, shot himself dead. 13vcry woman in the town would give teu years of her lifo to know what the letter contained that made the youtig man feel.so. How to be a Christian?don't think boaveu was madj for the exclusizo uso of yourscll and friends. A View to Lookout Mountain Bat tic Field. Polking among the crevices with awal king cane Was amclnnclioly, one armed man, who wc thought was a soldier; and vc wondered if ho had como back, after the battle to look for tho lacking arm He seemed so sad?so thoughtful?and as he stirred awny the fallen leaves with his stick,wo wondered if his memory was not poking around among the orack and crevices of tho past to uncover what had once been on that very spot. And we concluded he wis a good man to in, tcrview, and L approached him and suid 'You seem familiar with this place sir.' He took a sort of inventory of him Fclf, as it to sec what led me to such a supposition, nud replied very quietly: No, sir; I have never been here be fore' ?Ah! Some personal intorest in the spot, I suppose?' Your regiment, per haps, was in tho buttle?' 'No, 1 never was in the army.' ?Ah ! but, uh ! 1 ch, wc ch, my friend there and I were wondering if you did..'., lore your arul in the battl c.' 'That arm, sir,'he said 'was snaked in a raw mill,' and he left mo liko a man who was terribly borcl. That interview didn't turn out to suit us, and we thought wc would have souio fun with the colored troops, (.-all iug a mtiniuoth lump ofebony to him, my friend u-ked : ?What do you call thi? a b.itlte ground lor V 'Cam. der wuza fight here sah.' ' -Vho fought V 'Mas?a Gcr.,1 Hookah, sah; an' 1 don't 'now de other gentleman's natin, sah; I disrcrnenibah dit just n>w.' 'Which licked V ?Massu (jcti'i Hojk ill, sah, of course' What did they fight about?' 'Well, sah, I don't just reckon what this beau fight was 'bout; do whole fight, sah, was to free do niggnh, sab.' 'Who owned the nigger, Hooker or the other man r Pompy's eyes opened till they looked like two round agites. He loo'cdd at my friend and then locked at mo, then In; looked over to his companions, who were ihoutitig ami laughing at the an tics of one of thoir number in a swing; but he didn't reply. My fr.cnd spoke sharply; 'W-w-w-ubar's you bin?' Who is you, uxin' me dis?axin' dis chile who owns dat niggah V Whar's you bin?' 'I ve been all nround here, but I didn't sec any fi^ht. When was the ?ght V 'Kight smart run of time since dat, sah; dat's a good while ago; boss, dat was. 'What sort of a tight wos it?a prize ' light V 'A which, sah ?' 'A prize tight. Did they for n a ring and pound each other with their fiits ? Did Hooker mash up the other fellow with his lists ? Who got the first kn >ak down ?' The expression that grew on that man's face?tho transformatio i seme passed over that man's features was a better answer to tho qujstio i th in his tongue could have given. Pirst a lo>k of bewilderment, then of ami >yauoo, then of ntty contempt, a i 1 utter disgust successively, till be turned silently and walked back to the party, seeming to wunder which was the greatest fool, he or we. A swell, while being measured for a pair of boots, observed : "Make them cover the calf." ''Impossible I" exclaim ed the astonished boot maker, surveying his customer iroin head to foot, "ain't leather enough on earth!" "Press do Lord for do multiplication table for it was of dat tablo dat da good Lord eat do fiippor, my brodorou," is what we are reliably iuf'ormcd a colorod nxhorter said iu addrcssiug his audience no loug ago. Upou the marriage of oo? cf hor com pauions, a little girl nb >ut oloven yens of age, of the same sohool, siid to hoi* pa ' Why, don't you think Amelia is married, and hasn't gone through frao tiuus yet-' Old Dutch Proverbs We must row with the oars we havej and as wo cannot ordorlhe wind we are obliged to sail with the wind that God gives. Patience and attention will bring uo far. If a cat watches long enough at the mouve nest, tho mouse shall net escape. Perseverance will obtain good oab b ages and lettuce whero otherwise noth ing but thistles grow. The plowman must go up and down, and whatever clso may be done, there ia no other but this long way to do the work well. Learn to sleep with one eye open. Aa soon as the chicken goes to roost, it is a* good time for the fox, If weary with walking, your portion soon will bo meager Grind while tho wind is fair, and if you neglect, do not complain of God's providence Gcd gives feod to every bird, but ho docs not bring it to tho nest, in like manne r be g'^ea us our daily bread, but by means of our daily work. Rise early, then the fisherman find-* Iiis worms. The dawn of day has gold in its mouth. lie that lags bchiud in a road whero many arc driving always will bo ia a> cloud ol dust. Items. Von Arnira's father hid eleven broth crs, of whom five fell at Waterloo. The market value of yews largely de pends ou who is pastor or rector of }he church in which they are situated. A house maid in Chicago had her hair to turn white in n single night last week. She fell h-ui forimnt into* flour barrel. An old lady, upon taking her first ride in the cars, remarked, when the u uln ran off tb? testete. You _ fetch jqjL.? rather sudden, don't ye '/' The season approaches win a the ba 1 man wants to find if his neighbor is g> ing to have a big wood pile, anl if he is near sighted. A Pittsburg woman was cured of ppcechlulncss by the prayers of a priest II er husband is now prowling around after the priest with a shot gun. If the patient does not recover his health, ought the physician to recover his fees 7 If the doctor orders bark, has not the patient a right to growl T When one learns that205,800 ponnda of faUe hair wore aotu illy sold in Paris in one year' what a sad and sawbusty sort of Sahara this world does see to. A Nevada silver miner changed hia clothes the other day, for tho first time in twenty two months, and then only because ho was sick, and the doctor or dered it. An Indiana clergyman sued a nawj paper for libel anj dropped deal with in a week. The Detroit Free Press saya these fellows will learn something by and by, A Boston auctioneer has in his pos session an umbrella seventy two years old. It was built in England^ Poyte are rcquostcd to limit their/contribution to thrco stanzas. The ouly excuse a Tonnessee man had for shooting a stranger, was that the strangers namo was Moses Bogar dus Smith lie said nobody could bring that name into Teunesseo and live Mr Bcrh attention Is called to the fact that a number of women plaoa their furs away in snuff during tho summer Hundreds of m ?th have saoozad their In ads of ia consequence. Milwaukee Sentinel: A Chicago young lady is visitiug our fair, waved her hand i nthusiattically during the raco yesterday. Grangors off thought it was a new patent five barrod gate There arc no millionaires in Turkey When a Turk his accumulated anything beyond uine or ton thousand dollars th> boss Turk of all orooks his fingers at him, whispers, come down money,' and tho balanco ia handed over or off goes his head