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4 ' ?- ??a?? | " ==== iin'jr''fi!)::'.t J^g |ttt^aptr: /or % promotion of % ^political, Sochi ^gridto! :tnb (Jowrtkl $ittmsfs of % ~~ ^ VOL. 14. YORKYILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1868. NO. 11. 1 - - - l - ? ? -- -1 * i mi 1* i _Li_. _t_i_ I it. - l . i ./ viA -it: a. u_L,.LLitn 1 ji.r lie BULLET MARKS. A WIMBLEDON STORY. We were sitting around our tent one evening last year at Wimbledon?the "we," being our major, the captain and sub of our company, his covering sergeant, corporal Williams, and a certain sapper, to-wit, myself. We were drinking pale ale, and smoking, as was every one else in the hundred tents around us. "Here's my last bull's-eye," and the sergeant produced from his cap-pouch a flattened bullet, turned inside out as neatly as possible. "What's the cause of all that, I wonder, said the corporal. "You see," said the captain?being an engineer he was bound to know?"when the point of the bullet strikes the target, part of the lead is melted by the development of heat caused by the sudden arrest of the bullet's motion, and goes off in the splash, the rest of the bullet is softened by the heat; and inasmuch as the parts must stop m tneir order of succession, the edge of the cup of the bullet is driven in level with the base of the cup. Is that so, Major?" "Yes, quite right; but if you like, I can spin you a yarn about these said bullets, that may just last out these weeds." "Well, let's have it" I had a sort of second-cousin, Gerald Ashton, who had been brought up witWmyself and my sister, my father being his guardian. We had all been like brothers and sisters, when one day he woke up to find he could not live without a nearer relationship to her. He spoke to the old gentleman, and there was a little family fracas. He had only a hundred a year, and my father did not think that was enough, though Gerald did; there was no objection at all in other respects?let him earn some more and they would see?wait a little?you know the kind of thing an old gentleman would say. Well, it was of no use. He said he felt himself a burden; there was no scope for 1 ' 1 ? L. J!J his energies, and he would go?ana go ue uiu. I urged upon him that he should get something to do. He had been well educated, and a clericship, or something of the kind, could be got for him if he still resolved not to go on at the hospital. No?he would go. There was only one thing he did do well, that was shoot; and he would carry his abilities to a market where they would be appreciated. And so, at the mature age of twentytwo, he left us, his profession, his home, and his prospects. He disappeared, and six months after we heard he was with, say the 40th Dragoons in India. - 1 "We wrote, and offered to buy his discharge, but he would "have none of us." He liked it very well; was already corporal; expected the three stripes soon; and was "Gentleman Jack" with his comrades. Some six months after this I was sent out to India with a company, and as my sister was getting thin, and showing other signs of the desirability of a sea-voyage and a warm climate, it was agreed I should take her over. We reached Calcutta, and in a few weeks settled down. There was war going on, and I v??o pWcJ In charge of one of the chief depots for small arms and ammunition, besides having my regular duties with my company. T was down at the store, when my sis ter arrived, pale and breathless. "Look, Charles, poor Gerald's in dreadful trouble." I put her into an office chair, and took the newspaper and read? "Yesterday evening as an officer of the 40th Dragoons Guards was returning to camp, he was shot at from behind a clump of bushes; the bullet struck him in the thigh, and lodged in the saddle. Although wounded so severely, he had sufficient presence of mind to ride straight to the bushes, and there found one of his own men, a corporal of the troop, nicknamed "Gentleman Jack" by his comrades, whose rifle was still smoking from the discharge. Fortunately, atthis moment, the guard arrived, and the man was at once arrested. A court-martial will, of course, be held at once, and although the man had previously borne a good character and is reported to be respectably connected, it is to be hoped he will receive the proper reward for so abominable a crime." "Oh," I said, "thisisall nonsense. Gerald's no murderer, or else he's very much changed. I'll see what they say at headquarters." "Do for God's sake. If anything happened to Gerald I should never forgive myself, for if I had run away with him when papa was so cruel, he never would have enlisted at all." "Don't talk nonsense, Meggie, but go home, and I will come with the telegraph news." I went to headquarters; they gave me permission to use the telegraph for a question or two.? The report was not encouraging. It was our Gerald?the officer had seen the flash and heard the report?an extremely loud report, as if there had been two charges of powder in the carbine. The bullet was found in the saddle, and one cartridge was missing from his twenty rounds. Courtmartial had declared him guilty, and the general's c MAMfAn/iA Itorl incf orrirp^ T?lf coimnnauuu ui tuc o^uiguw umujuuv ? >*.. ty lashes in the camp square, and four year's imprisonment in the civil jail. Sentence to be carried out on the 12th. Everybody was sorry, but quite convinced he had tried to murder his superior officer. No one could understand with what motive. I did not know what to think; there was more evidence forthcoming in a day or two, when he had the papers. His statement in defence was, that we had jus! been returning from guard, when he remembered that he had forgotten to bring in a book one of the officers had asked him to bring in from the town, some three miles distant. Without stopping tc think he walked off at once; got the book, and was within a half mile of the camp, when he fancied he saw a tiger. He got behind the bushes tc watch, and saw one making for the distant camp. Anxious to secure the prize, he cautiously broke open one of bis packages, and loaded, to have a shot at it. He had covered the beast, and was firing at the tiger, when he heard another reporl simultaneously with that of his own carbine. He saw the tiger roll right over as if shot, and thee bound away. In another instant the officer came round the tope bleeding, and ordered him into arrest. He was quite sure that he hit the tiger, and equally sure that another rifle was fired at the same moment that he pulled the trigger. Of course such a lame statement had no effect, and he was sentenced. I could not help thinking that there was a flaw in theevidenoe. How was it if there was, as agreed, a loud report?which meant a full charge of pow. der?that the bullet stopped at the saddle instead of going through both saddle and horse. That was a great discrepancy, a full charge would have mads ' a loud report, and sent it right through anythinf at a distance of two hundred yards. I felt then was something _wrong, and made up my mind t< go on the spot I had but six days to go in, bu much might be done. Margaret insisted on goinj with me in spite of all I could do to keep her a way. "Have I not done all you wished me to do sine* we have been out here? Do, for heaven's sake, let me have my way in this." a So we went up the country in post haste. w I was, of course, as one of the staff, admitted to s] see Gerald, whom I found terribly cut up. "I don't mind the imprisonment; it's the disgrace ! The lashes! By God! * I shall kill my- p self directly I get loose, after it, I know I shall." "No, no," said Meggie; "don't for my sake. 0, Gerald! if you knew how I have suffered for re weeks past, you would live for my sake. I do not care about the brand of lashes. I know you are innocent, and that there has been some horrible se blunder committed in this matter. 0, Willie, dear, ir do think of something to save him." 01 "0, do, there's a good fellow! get me some stuff that will make an end of me." cj "Don't talk like that, Gerald; there's some in- it fernal mistake in it Don't despair yet. Let's go over the ground again step by step,' and I made u; him tell me the whole story over again. 6f "It seems to me, Gerald, we want but a few tl things to show you are not guilty. We want the ol tiger you shot at, and that we shant get; and we a want, the clew to the mystery of the other rifle." h "0, I've thought of it all till I'm sick. I don't fc care what happens now. I'll wait till the day be- gi nr>/1 fJinn Hroolr m\7 llPJlli a- 01 lure it O MJ WU1C VII) auu vuuu vivMik ?, ? gainst the walls." . w "Don't be a fool, Gerald! I'm sure yon are in- h nocent So is Margaret" b "Yes; so are a hundred others; but it's all no la use. In three day's I am disgraced for life, if I w live." U "Well, I must leave you now, and see what I can do." ' ' w "Let me have five minutes with Meggie, will h you?" I then left them alone for some ten minutes, 0 and then told Meggie she must go home with me. p I was beaten; I o6uld not see how I could get J, any fresh evidence, and without that a reprieve?a d postpontment?was impossible. a I went to the wounded officer, the captain of n his own company, and got him to tell his own sto- p ry; it was just the same thing over again, always t< the exceedingly loud report, and the fouled and 0 still smoking carbine. a "I would," said the captain, "have given the price of my commission rather than have had it p happen. He's a fine fellow as ever sat a horse, f( brave, kind, and as thorough a gentleman as the 0 colonel himself; I always made him my orderly g, when I could, so as to have company. I declare u to you that I did my best at the Court-martial for him, and got into disgrace with the general pre- 0 siding for "coloring my statements"?that was his ^ expression?so as to favor the prisoner. I almost r, snivelled when I heard the sentence, as if he had t] been my brother. The men are mad about it; there n has not been a lash or public punishment of any kind in the regiment for the last twenty-five years." ^ I hardly knew how to pass time; I tried to think, but my ideas only traveled in the same old ^ grooves again. u I invited the assistant-surgeon to come up to my quarters, and introduced him to my sister. He h was quite a young fellow, and seemed quite flat- w tered oy my simple accenuon, ior m me uiuiy mey a have not made up their minds whether a medical officer should be treated as a gentleman ; but the ^ strangest thing I ever saw in my life was my sis- j ter's conduct. Of course, sneaking ro vou fellows I shan't be misunderstood, and some of you have seen her. She laid herself out to please him to an extent I never should have thought my dear grave Meggie capable of; sang to him, played to him, and made eyes at him till I thought her brain was n turned. She said she should so like to see his T] quarters, asked him to ask us to lunch, and shut ^ me up like a rat-trap when I ventured to him that g: it might not be convenient. Well, he went away at last as mad as she. I spoke to her after he was gone, and she fell into my arms, sobbing as if her heart was breaking, jj and then, without a word of explanation, ran out tj of the room. 0 Next day we went to his quarters, and nothing tj would satisfy her but that he should mix up some medicine for her out of the bottles of his travelling a case. There she was, handling, and sniffing, and tasting everything, like a child of ten rather than ^ a girl of eighteen. She sent him about the room; made him bring books from the opposite side of it, q so that she might read about the properties of the Q drugs; and, in short, behaved so like a lunatic that I thought the trouble about Gerald must have af- ^ fected her mind. I got her away at last, and in- ' tended to insist on her remaining in the house and putting some ice to her head. It was quite unnecessary; the minute we left the surgery she was calm and silent as a man. c Well, the /lays passed in some sort of dreary fashion till the evening of the 11th. I had been asked during the day to go down with the officers to see some rifle practice, at some temporary marks, ' and I went down. * ' ' - ? T J? It was ratner laie wneu x roue up iu mc mmg point, and they were just leaving off; and one of them came up and said? "I say, Captain, tell us the cause of these new bullets turning inside out ?" and he handed me a bullet reversed; just such another as Williams has * in his hand. 0 I took it, just to explain the matter to him, when a thought struck through my mind like a" flash of lightning. "Saved, by God!" I exclaimed. "Who's got the bullet out of the saddle ?" "What bullet?" c "Gerald's?my cousin's." 1 "Oh! 'Gentleman Jack's'affair. The doctor's got it." ? "Where is he?" 1 "Don't know?quarters, I think." ^ 1 "No, he's come into town; I saw him on the r road as we came by." I sped on into town, leaving them to think what * 1 they pleased; and spent more than two hours * ! finding the doctor. At last I caught him. In another minute we were riding full gallop to ( 1 his quarters. % * i He had the bullet?a little bruised and singular1 ly flattened, and blunted at the point?it must ? > have been just spent when it struck. f I then went to the sergeant who had charge of { the nineteen rounds of ammunitionlhat were found ^ in Gerald's pouch. About midnight I contrived c to find him, and after some little delay I got pos c > session of them. c T '1 ?1?? ~4 nr?r1 WA pnnin.nrAf] 1 ' I men rciurueu vu mu uuvwt, u,..^ w?r 1 the nineteen bullets with the one found in the sad- 1 > die. I then ran to the telegraph clerk, roused him t out of bed, and told him to telegraph to the headI quarters of Calcutta, to my lieutenant in charge of i the magazines. ( After an hour's waiting, ringing at the bell, an ( , answer came that the night-watchman would fetch 1 the lieutenant I then sent message No. 1. c r "Examine the books, and see the date on which ( , the last ammunition was sent for the use of the i 40th Dragoons; find the same parcel, and careful1 ly remove one cartridge from each of twenty pack- J s ets, selected at random ; take out bullets and re- f i move plugs; and send No. in base of cup of bul-" t : lets." i ; The answer came that he understood, and would c ) rouse up the people to do it. 1 t After an hour and a half the answer came ; back? i "All the bullets are numbered 5, with a dot on ^ the right." 1 9 I then sent message number 2? "Examine what cartridges bear the No. 2 with a dot on the left, and report to whom issued, and n hen; report quickly?a man's life?depends on seed." tl Again I waited another hour. No answer came, h It wjIs getting late?half past two; at four the ai arade would take place. I urged more speed. s< The reply can a:? 'We have ten men at work breaking open bar- a sis, and searching. No No. 2 yet found." At last it came? "One barrel No. 2 in store; the rest of the ime shipment was damaged and useless, and sold a i bulk to native dealers for value as old metal, at ie of the clearance soles, some time ago." a I had learned all I could. I spurred hack to imp with the bullets, from which I never parted, si i my pouch. I shall never forget the scene. a: In the middle of the camp the men were drawn p in three sides of a square, in the centre of the w juare were the triangels, with Gerald lashed to 01 iem. I saw them, as I came down the hill, take w EF his jacket and lash his wrists. I sped on. I ti >uld see the old colonel, with the paper in his ft and, standing alone, and then I saw nothing more ai ir a dip in the road concealed them ; as I rose a- cl ain to the crest at less than a quarter of a mile, I b iw a woman rush in frjom between the ranks toards the triangles, holding something in her ri and. I darted on, and rushed into the isquare, & lit just in time to seize the farrier's arm as the * sh was descending, and to see that the woman p as my sister, and that she was being led away by tl no sergeants. tl "Stop, Colonel, for the love of God 1" I cried, n ith my hand still grasping the farrier's aim: "I a ave evidence to prove the man not guilty." tl I then showed the Colonel the bullet that had jrae from the saddle, and the others from the b ouch, and pointed out that while one was marked !o. 2, the others were all marked No. 5, with a ot. I assured him, on my honor as an offiijer and 0 gentleman, that it was almost impossible that a D umber 2 bullet could, by any chance, get into a 0 acketof number 5 bullets. He was only too glad ) hear me, and agreed to postpone the execution f the sentence till further orders from the Gener1 of the Division. P I've heard some shouts, and I've seen some dis- v lays of enthusiasm in my time, but I never shall b )rget the shout that rose the minute that the Col- 0 doI had pronounced that the execution ot the w intencc on Corporal Ash ton would be postponed D ntil further orders. n The men had been standing at "attention," many f them with tears rolling down their cheeks, but v rben they heard "postponedj" they broke ranks, ashed up to the triangles, cut the lashings, broke le cat, screamed, shouted, and danced like mad- a len. , " ^ "Three cheers for 'Gentleman Jack,' and his ife! Again ! again, boys!" ti Officers and all joined in for a few minutes, t "here stood the old gray-headed Colonel in the lidst of a scene that out-bedlamed Bedlam. As for me I was like a man in a dream: I felt a undred hands grasping mine. I had my sister z jbbing in my arms, and then I heard the Colonel ly to the bugler, "Sound the assembly." What a change! in less than a minute I stood y the fallen triangles in the centre of three lines f living statues. Not a sound; not a movement olioon, **ofort? juui wluiuii auvl l/ioak | ff your men," said the Colonel; and then walked way with myself and sister. "But what did your 6ister do there ?" Well, she had promised Gerald that he should ot suffer the disgrace of the4ash ; and had, duing the hour 1 thought she was fooling with the octor, managed to get hold of his bottle of prusic acid, and had rushed out with half of it for im and half for herself; and her appearance had o thoroughly surprised every one that she had eached the triangles, and almost raised it to his ps, when the doctor recognized, his own blue botle, struck her hand a violent blow, and dashed it n to the ground, besides disabling ber from geting ber own share. "And bow did the affair end ? Was the Gener1 of the Division satisfied?" I don't think he would have been with that evience alone, and so we went about to hunt for a lore. I begged that, as we had found so much, I lerald might be permitted to accompany s. party a f search, under a guard, to find the missing tiger, y We went there. Meggie insisted on joining us. p ill the officers off duty went, and about half the f len. s Gerald then pointed out the spot where he had c tood, and where he shot the tiger; and from that I oint we started, crossing and re-crossing, till there s ould not have been anything as large as a half i rown that could be hidden. f Meggie and I were riding in front of the line, t rhen Meggie exclaimed? I "What a horrible smell comes from that copse." f "Don't smell anything, Meg." f "You've lived here so long that you've to sense g f smell left." s Of course, as Meggie was with us, Blinkers was t here too. Blinkers advanced to the copse? c laused?and rushed underneath the grass, barking 1; s if infuriated. "There is something in there, Willie." j Some of the others coming up, we pushed our t ray into the depths, guided by the frantic bark of t Jlinkers, and, after being much scratched and I orn, found ourselves in the centre of a trampled I irele of jungle grass, with the half-devoured re- i nains of a large tiger. 5 The doctor was sent for, and the wound discov- s red ; the beast had evidently been lamed, the bul- c et breaking the fore leg. It was also evident that, 1 rounded as it was, it had lingered on till it was s nere skin and bone, and had died only within the a ast few days. Assisted by some of the natives, % he good-natured doctor commenced the horrible ] ask of searching for the bullet, and, after half an f lour's labor, the most disgusting he had ever un- 1 Icrgone, it was found flattened against the large i >one of the hind leg, and handed to me. 1 Never shall I forget the pleasure I felt when I I iaw on the rescued bullet, the No. 5, with a dot as c resh and clear as if it had just come from the I jressing machine. I Great was the rejoicing that night in the camp 1 ?f the 40th. Blue fires were ; burnt the band i auie and serenaded Meggie. The whole of the 1 ifficers, including the old Colonel, came :>s to a > evee; but still I felt there was one thing more to >e found out How did the No. 2 bullet get into j he saddle ? s At IcDgth I inquired whether any of the officers t nissed any of their arms. Curiously enough the e >nly missing arm was a gun belonging to the wound- I ;d Captain. I asked did he remember the size. 1 5e did. It was just a size smaller than the bore i )f the regimental carbines. You could gel; a gov- i ;rnment bullet down by a good deal of hammer- s ng. t I now propounded my theory, that the bullet t STo. 2 had been fired by the Captain's missing rifle, I or the point of the bullet was marked with rings, t ind considerably flattened. Now, there was nothng in the flesh, and nothing in the saddle to pro- i luce these marks, and they must, therefore have c >een made before firing. e I then proposed that a full search should be t nade with dogs, for at least two miles round from s vhere the shot was fired, to see if any traces could j )e found of either the man or the gun. We made the most careful search; presently I i ame to a stone on the road itself; marked in a lost peculiar manner. 77 "What's the cause of these marks?" said I to le farrier of the troop, who had volunteered to elp, and who said he never .felt more grateful to ny one in all his life, than he did to me for the jueezing of his wrist so hard that day. "What's the cause ? It's been used as a homier for something?a nail in a shoe." "Nail-heads are square." , ' 'True for you?these are round.'' "Do you think a ramrod would make these larks?" ' 'It just would. Somebody's been driving down hard bullet with it" "So I think. Now take (lie stone and throw it raight over that gape into the middle of the copse rid I'll mark where it seemito fall" He threw it and marking the spot, we found our ay into the jungle; and there, within a few yards f the stone, under the long leaves, we found what e sought?the remains of. a native, stripped enrely of flesh and skin except on the hands and :et, and with a great gaping wound in the skull; nd in the inside, which the ants had perfectly leaned out, was a large piece of the breech of the urst gun that he had by his side. The whole evidence was there; two empty cartdge cases; another No. 2 bullet; eight untouch [l cartridges, it was clear enougn toat toe man, 'hoever he was, had taken the Captain's gun and utting in two charges of powder, rammed down lie too large bullet with the blows of the stone on lie now brused end of the ramrod ; and the load iport that all the witnesses spoke of was as loud 9 the simultaneous report of the discharge of the liree charges of powder could make it. While be want of force in the bullet was acoounted for y the bursting of the gun. We took home the skull, and the burst rifle, and be cartridge cases, together with some remnants f clothing; and we there found out the intended inrderer to have been one of the syces, or grooms f the Captain, that he had horsewhipped a month efore for ill-nring a horse of which he had charge. "Did he leave the regiment?" Not a bit?why should he ? The men worshiped him, and the officer who was wounded was in-' alided; and he and his comrades managed mature among them so well, that at the first parade j f the regiment in Calcutta, some six months afsrwards, the old Colonel presented to the men a ew officer, Captain Ashton, adding: "If he lakes half as good an officer as he did a soldier, bere will not be a better in Her Majesty's serice." "And your sister Margaret?" "0, I've just sent a little case, lined with velvet nd something inside engraved, "William Gerald Lshton, from his affectionate uncle." "Now, lads, there's the 'out lights,' so we'll urn in quietly, and make bull's eyes at exery shot i>-morrow." IfJiSfritattciMis |leadiwj. ' OUR BABY. To-day we cat the fragrant sod. With trembling hands, asunder; And lav this well beloved of God, Oar dear dead baby, under. Oh, hearts that ache, and ache afresh, Oh. tear* * , Our hearts are weak, yet being flesh, Too strong for our restraining ! Pleep, darling, sleep! Cold rains shall steep Thy little turf-made dwelling; Thou wilt not know?so far below? What winds or storms are swelling; And birds will sing, in the warm spring; And nowers snau Dioom hdoui inee; Thou wilt not heed them, love! but oh, The loneliness without thee! Father, we will be comforted! Thou wast the gracious Giver; We yield her up?not dead, not dead? To dwell with Thee forever! Take Thou our child! ours for a day, Thine while the ages blossom! This little shining head we lay In the Redeemer's bosom 1 From the Broadhead (Wis.,) Independent. TRUTH STRANGER THAN FICTION. About the year 1856 there moved to this village family by the name of Buraham, consisting of )r. M. L. Burnham, his wife, and two children, daughter aged sixteen, and a son three or four ears younger. Br. Burnham was a man of some iroperty, and of the highest respectability. The amily soon became active members of our village ociety, the Doctor beiDg an active member and ne of the deacons of the Congregational Church. )r. Burnham was a well read physician, and did ome practice, in addition to keeping a drug store, d which his daughter Ellen assisted him as a clerk or the first two years of the Doctor's residence lere. Miss Ellen Burnham was by no means a eautiful girl. Her hair and eyes were dark; eatures regular, but rather coarse and masculine ; orm tall, square shouldered, and wanting in that ;race of outline that inspires admiration. If a tranger were tempted to look at her the second ime, it would be from surprise at the strong, masuline appearance, unnatural to a woman, especialy one so young. Miss Burnham was not a favorite with our oung men, nor did she seem anxious to be. Her ime outside of her domestic duties, was devoted o instrumental music and to horse-back riding, in toth of which she was decidedly accomplished, ler life for the four years subsequent to 1856, was lot unlike that of other young ladies of the place. She had a large class, mostly of young girls, whom he instructed in instrumental music. In the fall if 1858, a young man by the name of Powell came lero, and was employed as principal of the village chnnl. Powell resiened the leadership of the ehool in the spring of 1858, and started the Rexrrter, the first paper published in our village, luring the summer he became intimate with the amily of Dr. Burnham, and became engaged to tfiss Burnham in the fall of 1859. The engagenent soon became known outside of the family, rhe only surprise excited on account of it was sur)rise at the taste of Mr. Powell in selecting a girl >f such masculine appearance. Miss Burnham's >arents seemed particularly pleased at the pros)ective marriage of their daughter, whom they.beieved well qualified to make a good wife for an edtor. In February, 1860, L. W. Powell and Miss Sllen Burnham were married by Rev. Mr. Cochun, the Congregational minister. The happy couple took a Bhort bridal tour, prcjaratory for settling down for life. After an ablence of a week, they returned to the residence of he bride's parents, who, in honor of their daughtsr's marriage, sent out invitations to large num>ers of our citizens to wecome the bride and groom. rVe were present at the wedding party, and could mt but think that the bride and groom appeared emarkably solemn. We did not kiss the bride, tlthough that was the fashion. Our objection to he kissing part of the performance was a dislike o come in contact with an unusually heavy and Jack moustache, which marred the upper lip of he bride. Mrs. Powell became more and more masculine n her appearance as she grew older. She took a ase in the Reporter office, and learned the printirs1 trade rapidly. In a short time she proved to >e the best jour in the office. She also took to looking, in the cultivation of which habit she >roved herself a printer. In the spring of 1861, wehn Powell had been named about a year and a halfj the 7th Wisoon sin regiment was organized. Powell's wile not having presented him with an heir to make home doubly pleasant, he resolved to go to the war. He sought, and through the influence of friends, obtained the appointment of State agent or "wet nurse" of the gallant 7th, then ordered to Washington. Mrs. Powell being of a tough and hardy make, resolved to accompany her husband to the front No objection being raised, she fitted herself out and went to Washington. The regiment was for a time detained at Washington, and Mrs. Powell made herself happy by working up that moral town. A few weeks after her arrival there, while she was riding on horse-back one day, her masculine appearance attracted the attention of a Government detective, who made up his mind that Mrs. Powell was a man and a rebel spy. The detective followed her about the city and to her quarters. He dogged her steps for several days, until, just before the regiment was ordered off, Mrs. Powell took it into her head to return to Broadhead. She packed up her rig, took leave of her husband and the regiment, and started for home. The detective accompanied her to Chicago on the same train, and at the Briggs House, where the lady booked her name, he placed her under arrest as a rebel in disguise. In vain she claimed to be a woman, and the wife of a member of the Seventh regiment. She called in the landlady, who asserted that she had seen Mrs. Powell at the house before. Mrs. Powell finally induced the detective to telegraph to Gov. Randall, of this State, and to her husband, at Washington. Gov. Randall telegraphed back that there was such a lady. A similar telegram arrived from Washington, and the detective released her and returned to Washington. In a few days Mr. Powell reached Chicago, and the unhappy couple made their way home to this village. Language cannot describe the feelings of this unhappy pair. Hardly over the first blush of connubial felicity, and the wife had become an object of suspicion to strangers, and was in constant danger of being arrested as a man. They remained a few days, when Mrs. Powell informed her parents that she was going to visit some relations east The fond parents, little dreaming of the arrest and subsequent scenes at the Briggs House, urged her to remain and replenish her wardrobe. She readily answered that she could procure more becoming and stylish garments at the East. After her departure, Mr. Powell procured some cloth, and went to Mr. Mooney, one of our tailors, and informed him that he wished to present his brother with a suit of clothes. He informed the tailor that his garments fitted his brother, and a suit made to fit himself would be just the thing. The clothes were made and expressed to Chicago. Soon after Mr. Powell informed Dr. Burnham that Ellen had changed her dress, and was now wearing men's atttire and living in Chicago. The doctor was thunderstruck, and the mother half crazy. The only satisfaction they could get out of Powell was, that his wife was not a woman, and would not dress as a woman any longer. The doctor requested Powell to accompany him, and immediately went to Chicago, where he found his daughter dressed in a snit of clothes which Mr. Powell had had made for his brother. Mrs. P. informed him that.shewas not a woman, and would no lopger try to act the part of one. The doctor insisted upon an examination. At length, to satIftfy V* am nV? n f ey Inf n T*^ r? Brainard should examine her. Dr. Brainard did so, and informed the father that his daughter was not a female, and had done the best thing to be done in changing her attire. After much solicitation, Ellen permitted her father to examine her and satisfy himself that she was not a woman. Dr. Burnham then procured a situation for her, under the name of Edgar Burnham, in the wholesale drug house of J. H. Bead & Co., in wnose employ he remained about one year. During this time he roomed and slept with a young man by the name of Andrews, now doing business in Crosby's Opera House block. He also became engaged to a young lady on State street, the daughter of his landlady. We frequently visited young Burnham at his room on Washington street, .being ourselves at that time in the law office of Meech & Kedfield, then officiating in Dearborn street Young Burnham made up in appearance as a man all the beauty and grace he lacked as a woman. Chicago had few and better looking young men than the former Mrs. Powell. He was a portion of this time organist at the Plymouth Church, Rev. J. R. Shepherd, pastor, and for a time organist of one of the Baptist Churches. We were particularly amused at his hearty admiration of the girls. He would leave his piano or work any time to look at a wo? ? ? 1 OCO nAiinnf Hni-nhom rofnrno/) fn "Rrnnrl LUULI. JLU X UUU, J\JUI15 jLruiuuuui avvui uvu w jltivwu head, and went' into the drug business with his father. He was at this time engaged to the State street lady, who was entirely ignorant of the story of her lover's life. We have it from the best authority?a young man who resided in the family?that Burnham was a devoted lover, and even after he removed to Broadhead, corresponded regularly twice a week with his betrothed, and paid his visits of two or three days' duration. After her removal to Broadhead, he was a decided favorite in the society here, both on account of his good looks and his skill as a musician. Men, women and children flocked to the drug store of Burnham & Son, to trade for the sake of Beeing the young man who was a wife. At length Dr. Burnham sold out'his property here in 1864, and removed to Waterloo, Iowa, taking Edgar with him, and there opened a drug store.? Soon after the removal of the family, Edgar sought and obtained in marriage, the hand of Miss Gerta Everette, one of the prettiest girls in Spring Valley, Rock county, Wisconsin. The Chicago engagement had been broken off". They have now been married about three years, and living at Waterloo. They have no children as yet, all stories to the contrary, notwithstanding.? Should they ever have children, or either of them, we shall make haste to inform our readers of the fact It is simply ridiculous to suppose that Edgar Burnham was ever a mother, and quite as insane, to believe that he can be a father. From the best of authority, namely, from Mr. Powell and the surgeon, who examined him, we 1 ? VJno. "Rumlinm ?q on Tt nnrl will nevpr A LIU W tllttb JUU^at jltuiuumm. .M ..... ..... be anything else. It is due to the young lady to whom he was engaged in Chicago to say that she never knew the make up of her lover from first to last, and that the engagement was broken off" by her before his history became known. Miss Everette, his present wife, knew the facts of this remarkable case, substantially as we have related them, and married It willingly of her own accord, and against the wishes of her parents. What Our Baby Did.?The other day Nettie was eighteen months old, and she celebrated the event in the following style, with a regularity and promptness which almost defies competition : 1st Upset a quart of milk on her bran new flannel gown. 2d. Put the hair brush in the slop tub. 3d. Took a spoon from the table and plaistered the carpet and floor with soft lard, and then wiped it off with the clean dress just put upon her. 4th. She did not "string spools on the cat's tail," but took another form of expressing her devotion to that pet, by trying to cram it into her father's boot. 5th. Found her way into the pantry and upset the kerosene into a pan of meal that had just been sifted for use, and to cap the climax, greased her little red shoes with the mixture, 6th. Ate some Dreaa ana mux ana went on ro sieep These things were done in spite of careful watch ing and (as we have since learned by experience is but a fair- sample of her every day life. Babie are mischievous 1 What can a mother do witl three or four little fellows at a time and keep th< house in order? We've resolved never to fine fault if supper isn't ready just at the right time Monroe ( Wis.,) Sentinel. SUFFRAGE IN THE NORTHERN STATES, There are but five of the Northern States, anc these five are New England States, which make no distinction in the right of suffrage, on account of color. Maine gives the right of suffrage to every male citizen of the United States, who has resided ii the State three months, excepting paupers, per sons under guardianship, and Indians not taxed. NV>w HfttnnshirA rulmits as pl?y?tr?rs. "everv mali inhabitant," excepting paupers, and persons ex cused from paying taxes at their own request Vermont gives the ballot to "every man" twen ty-one years old who has resided one year in th* State. Massachusetts admits every male citizen twenty one years old, excepting paupers and persons un der guardianship; but no person can vote or b* eligible to office who is not able to read the Consti tution in the English language and write his owi name. Rhode Island gives the ballot to every male cit izen of full age, one year in the State, six month in the town, and who owns real estate worth $134 or renting $7 per year; and to every native flial citizen, twenty-one years old, two years in the State six months in the town, duly registered, who ha paid$l tax or done militia service within the year Connecticut gives the ballot to all white citizen of full age, who have resided one ycarin the Stat* and six months in the town. Negroes who wen free men (if any such survive) at the adoption o the State Constitution, in 1818,- may vote. Th question of negro suffrage was submitted to th people, October 2, 1865; whole vote 80,706; ma jority against 6272?in a State that, in April of th same year, gave a Radical majority of 11,035. New York?every male citizen of full age, te days a citizen, one year in the State, four month in the county, and thirty days in the District. Bu no negro can vote unless he has been three years citizen of the State, and for one year the owner c a freehold worth $250 over incumbrances, and o which he has paid a tax. .New Jersey?1"every white male citizen" of fo age, resident one year in the State, and five month in the county, excepting paupers, idiots, insan persons, and persons convicted of crimes excludin; Vinm frnm Vioinnr Trifnoacpg Pennsylvania?every white freeman, resident on year in the State and teu days in the District. Ohio?every white mala citizen of full age resi dent one year in the State. Negro suffrage wa submitted to the people in 1867, with the followin result: for, 216,987 ; against, 255,340; mtyoritj against 38,353. Wisconsin admits every white citizen of full ag persons of Indian blood declared citizens by act c Congress, and civilized persons of Indian descent but the amendment to State Constitution to strik out the word "white" was rejected in November 1865, by 8059 majority. Minooeofn- iLo nanro ao Wlaoouoxa vrZil* -njp^ri to white citizens, and admits Indians certified b District Court tobe fit for citizenship. In Novem ber, 1865, the State rejected negro suffrage by 200 majority, and again in 1867, by 1298 majority. Oregon?every white citizen of full age, si months resident in the State, and every alien c full age, resident one year in the United Stater but "no negro, Chinaman or mulatto." Indiana?every white male citizen of the Unite States, resident one year in the State, but "no n< gro or mulatto shall have the right of suffrage.1 Michigan?every white male citizen of full ag( and to every civilized male Indian not belonging t any tribe. Missouri?the constitution of 1865 exclude blacks from voting. Illinois?every white citizen of full age, resider one year in the State. Kansas?every white male citizen adult, resider: six months in the State. The question of negr suffrage was presented in 1867, and in a total vot of 29,904, was rejected by a majority of 8,938. California?every white male United States citi zen, (or of Mexico, who elected to become a citi zen un^er the treaty of Queretaro), of full age no Chinaman, negro, or mulatto can vote. Nevada?law similar to that of Oregon. "The thirty-four counties designated as Wes Virginia" do not permit negroes to vote. Congres passed a bill enfranchising negroes in the Distric of Columbia, December 14, 1866; in Senate 3 yeas, 13 nays! in House 126 yeas, 46 nays; Prej idont Johnson vetoed bill January 7, 1867 ; sam day Senate re-passed the bill?yeas 20, nays 1C and the House by 113 yeas to 38 nays, when th bill became a law. May 15, 1866, House passei a bill that "there shall be no denial of the electioi franchise to citizens of the United States becaus of race or color, and all persons shall be equal be fore the law"?to amend the organic acts of th Territories of Nebraska, Colorado, Dakota, Mod tana, Washington, Idaho, Arizona, Utah and Net Mexico. The vote was 79 yeas to 45 nays. Jane ary 10, 1867, the Senate adopted a substitute tha there should be no denial of the elective franchis "on account of race, color or previous condition c servitude," in any of the Territories of the Unite States, now or'hereafter to be organized. The bi was passed by 24 yeas to 8 nays, and in the House same day, yeas 104 and nays 38. This bill becam a law by failure of the President to sign the bill or return it with veto, within ten days after it presentation.?New York World. AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS. The New York World says "it is evident tha every year the West of Europe becomes more an more dependent upon us;" that from the lstc September last, Great Britain has imported fror this country nine millions of wheat and flour a full prices, and would have imported twenty mil lions more at full prices, if we had had it to spare As for corn, it says : * "We are absolutely unable to find ship room t< transport to her our surplus, for which she is ma king urgent call and paying most liberal prices The export of provisions has been on a scale o unsurpassed magnitude. In the past three month we have exported many thousand tierces and bar rels of beef and pork, and many million pounds o bacon and lard ; in fact, quantities almost unpre 1 1 ?' ??.J il>AnA Vi n tt/-? /vnna (amvaimI o ceaemeu, ULIU lUCOC ^iuuuvu uaitfjvuoiviniuua good prices. During the past year, domestic to bacco has increased twenty per cent in price, am during the same period the exports have been 01 a scale far in advance of any former year, and an only impeded at the present time by deficiency o supplies." "As respects Cotton, the superiority of thi Southern States for the growth of this staple needi no more effective demonstration than that Man Chester, after having for seven years put forth he utmost efforts to develop Cotton growing in othe: parts of the world, finds her supplies' so reduce< that she bids for our cotton twice as much as thi average price before the war." All that the country requires, says tie World, i "The restoration of good feeling between th< several sections, and among all classessof our wide spread country; the restoration of Statesmen U . me control ui oar puuuo mums, iuo iciuuiu ui oppressive and invidious taxation; a sound cur) rency, and the establishment again of that sense of s justice and security to which, unhappily, we have i been-for a considerable period strangers." \ < A POLICE STORY. A Paris correspondent writes: '-The.recent death of Nuzillard, the senior cashier at the Comptoir d'Escompte, through whose hands more gold > has passed than would boy up an empire, reminds I me of the following story. Nuzillard had always i enjoyed the reputation of being the most qlever and t at the same time most prudent cashier. However, in 1849 he managed to get robbed of a sum of 5 ?4000 in ?40 notes. The director of the Comp i toir, although he had always had toe greatest con fidence in the often-tried probity of his clerk, still thinking it strange that he could have had so large i a packet of notes taken from him without his knowl edge, went to the Prefect of PoneeTM. "Csrfier, imd told him all about it The latter pronounced an o piniop favorable to the honesty of poor Nusillard. i "Remember," said the director, "that a hundred bank notes make quite a thick packet, and I can* - not see how, with this paoket on his breast ??" - "Nothing for a clever thief," interrupted M. Care lier. "Here is a newspaper; fold it, and button it - in your breast-pocket Now, I will not promise a you it will still be there when you leave the Prefecture!" 'The director laughed, and declared it was ims possible, while he carefully placed the newspaper , at the side of his pocket book. The two gentlemen e remained some time in conversation, during which , the Prefect of Police was receiving ppople and s writing orders. When the director rose to go, M. . Carlier, after shaking hands with him, said: "By b the by, I suppose you have the newspaper all right! e But, lo and behold! to the intense stupefaction of j the director, both pocket-book and paper had disf appeared, whereupon the prefect rang the bell, and e the property was brought back by the amateur e thief who had done the deed on a pencil command r from his master, and the astonished owner of the e stolen pocket-book then and there declared his complete belief in his cashier's innocence." ? GRANT AS AN EQUESTRIAN. t The father of General Grant, who is attempting o the life of his son in the New York Ledger, rives ,f the following anecdote illustrative of the equestrian D powers of the General when a hoy: "Once, when he was a boy, a show came along, |] in which there was a mischievous pony, trained to B go roqnd the ring like lightning, add he was exe pected to throw any boy that attempted to ride g him. "Will any boy come forward and ride this pony?" shouted the ring master. Ulysses stepe ped forward and mounted the pony. The performance began. Bound and round and round the [. ring went the pony, faster and faster, making the s greatest effort to dismount thej-ider. But Ulysses g sat as steady as if he had grown to the. pony's r> back. Presently out came a large monkey and sprang up behind Ulysses. The people set up a great shout of laughter, and on the pony ran, but ,f it all produced no effect on the rider. Then the . ring-master made the monkey jump up on to Ulyse sea' shoulders, standing with his feet on his shoulders, standing with his hands holding on to his hair. At this there was another and a still louder A hatft/in mnrnd y There was not a tremor of his nerves. A few more rounds, and the ring-master gave it up?he had 0 come across a boy that the pony and the monkey both conld not dismount." x The question suggests itself whether this is to be ,f regarded as a typical foreshadowing of the politij5 cal career of Ulysses ? Is the intractable pony that threw over his head every boy that tries to mount d him the same that is now endeavoring to dialogs k. Andrew Johnson? Is Giant to be the rider that " will master that mischievous animal? And if so, when Grant is riding the pony, who is the "big o monkey" that is to ride Grant Baltimore Sun. 8 A LOVE ROMANCE. ^ A corrrespondent at, Detroit furnishes the Cleaveland Herald with a scrap of History in the lt life of Miss Matilda Kirby, who died at Cleave0 land in August last The correspondent says: e "Miss Kirby, was living in New York in 1860, where she formed the acquaintance of a man named [. C. H. Niles, living in Erie county in this'State. [. The girl's parents were wealthy, but she resolved . to leave them and go with Niles. They left the State separately, he a few hours in advance. Niles went to Toledo, then returned to Fremont, where the girl met him, and both went to Toledo. Niles 8 secured work in a manufacturing establishment at ,t Toledo, and the girl peddled oranges and cigars. 2 She was so fearful of pursuit by her father that, at h Fremont, she assumed male attire, and this she e wore constantly for two years. As the oouple were i walking in Toledo one evening, a policeman overheard their conversation, discovered the sex of the rj disguised girl, and she was arrested. Securing her Q release by donning her proper apparel, the two went e to Nashville, the girl again taking men'e clothing for her wear. Niles got a position as engineer on , e the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad and Miss Kirby was his fire-man. N After some time spent in this way they returned * [. North?went to the Medoc gold mines, and thence >t to Cleaveland. Here the girl died (done among e strangers, Niles having gone to Chicago at the (f time of her fatal sickness. During all the time of d their travel and working together, they were law|] fully married." > THE HOUSE OF JOHN FRASER & CO. 6 A notice in another column of to-day's Newt an-' nounces the reorganization of this old firm, which 8 has so long held a foremost place among the great cotton houses of Charleston. The style of the partnership is to remain unchanged, and the firm ,t of John Fraser & Co., under the experienced lead d of Mr. Theodore D. Wagner, will lose nothing of if its ancient prestige and character. Mr. William o L. Trenholm, the retiring partner, is to be associa,t ted with his father, the Hon. George A. Trenholm, |- whose commercial fame extends over both contii. nents, in the establishment of a new firm, under ????? if fluroa A Trenhnlm Son. ILIC llt?Ults V* V*vw?gv ?? -Mr ? 0 Id these changes oar city will be the gainer. . Two powerful houses will be actively engaged in , trade where before there was but one; each posf sessing vast energies and resources; each thoroughs ly indentified in sympathy and interest with our 1 people; and each an important and powerful agent f in the work of building up that oommercial pros. perity which we all hope is in store for Charleston t in the future.?Charleston News. J A Compliment Well Deserved.?The London Quarterly Review, replying to an essay by 1 Goldwin Smith, who cites Lincoln, Grant, Shersf man and Stanton (!) as examples of great men, says: v . v "We admit that Mr. Stalnton and hia ooDeagues have done great things on a great scale, but they 9 lack the stamp of individual greatness. If that is to be found anywhere in America, its under the r modest roof of General Lee, the cham pion of a J lost cause, whom prosperity never intoxicated nor adversity depressed, and who exceeded his oppo3 nent as much in real nobility and greatness of character as he did in military skill and daring." s * ? ., 3 Mournful.?"Nat, what are you leaning over . that empty cask for? "I am mourning over de>| parted spirit!,"