Harper's Weekly 1859-11-05: Vol 3 Iss 149

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“ ' ‘ 5 Vou. L1L.—No. 149.] A NEW SERIAL. — — - We shall commence in an early number of Har- per’s WEEKLY a new Serial Tale by Wirkie Cot- tins, Esq., of which we have purchased the advance proof-sheets from the author. This Tale will be con- tinued through the Week y till it is completed. In réply to several inquiries, we beg to say that Mr. Dickens's new Serial, “‘A Tate or Two Cries,” was commenced in Harrer’s Werekiy on May 7 and Mr. Curris’s delicious Story of American Socie- ty, entitled “ T'rumps,”’ on April 9. We can send the back numbers from those dates, or from the beginning of the year, to any person who remits the money. For several months past we have printed from E1euty to Nryery-tTHrRee Tnousanp Copies per week of Harprer’s WEEKLY, more than pouBLE that of any other Illustrated Newspaper in the country. For terms, etc., see Advertisement. ; LA FILLE BIEN GARDEE, (AN INTERCEPTED LETTER.) WITH AN ILLUSTRATION BY MILLAIS. No, Edith, I have got no briefs—I want no briefs at all, I want to know that you're come back, and safe at Shirley Hall; And till I get a note from you, announcing that return, I've neither head nor heart for Chitty, Sugden, Hayes, or Fearne. Your letter speaks about “hard work,” and “rising at the bar ;" I read it, Edith, at my window, smoking a cigar; GENERAL VIEW OF HARPER'S FERRY, SHOWING THE BRIDGE, ARMORY, ADJACENT HILLS, ETC.—(See Pace 71 “NEW YOR na ry 7 K, SATU] Entered according to Act of Congress, in the Year 1850, by Harper & I -DAY im the 7, NOVEMB » . a. | PRICE the Southern District of Ne York And I'm to work while you're aw Yes, I'm in one Assizes caso—th You can believe, or disbelieve me, Edith A fellow's work's all bosh unles sa fel And studying ( ss Remainders Over While yo ire in Frat sand I'm a « Don't, Edith, write about myself, I want t And what you're doing day by And whether Mrs. Armington (« } Is still acting like a friend, or ly like And takes you, Edith, every where, an And in society performs what's 4 Nor, while her own long girls are pu Permits you to be talk'd to by the t And, Edith, as she's full of epite he is And hates me for that harmless sket Inform me if those vicious rendors ah« And talks at briefiess barristers, and Or if she ever gives you, Edith dari (There's nothing that a woman wouldn't That I've been fast, and people say That at getting briefs and paying bills a Or talks of our engagement in Makes it, at picnics, an excube f le And drawls, that cold old lip of bh “ Of course, engaged Miss Ediths do You'll call me such a worry, Edi To be stuck in Temple chambers w! So pity for a lover who's conden When She—and every body else—are off I wander in our Gardens when thé The gardener tells me not to smoke fe a way that Kivi CENTS.

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HARPER'S WEEKLY.

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\ Paper Butidings, Edith, in a sketch by fancy drawn, an old baronial mansion, with the grass-plat for its lawn: The Thames, its lake; myself, ite Lerd (his income, lucky chance, vetly fifty thowsand pounds, paid yearly in advance) ; I st the eastern turret a eweet form is conjur'd up, nd Edith waves a kerehief white, and calls me in— Ss bless you, Edith. When you sail'd, I put aboard ’ yl sir, by Thackeray, and my dear old Hound, by Grip; (nd to no girl her destiny more sure protection sends ran such a dog to bite her foes, such book to bite her friends. 8. B. Queen's Ban Rive, Tewrie

“~ ‘< r™ r HARPER’S WEEKLY. Sarcurpay, Novemper 5, 1859. THE TRADE IN FOOD. ( CTOBER is ended, and all over the world ) farmers are summing up the results of the ae h will hardly be ascer- In many dis- to tell—perhaps how Providence has he actual yic ld of corn omputed before Che whole trut t d for a fortnight to come » wheat-growers refuse know themscly ‘ seldom be « a few sharp t enough is known to enable per- to form a pretty shrewd : s the « real product of the year 1859. | th is known to enable t 1 a month since, rg rally admitted that the \ at though large, is not so universally $s was at « time believed. Vir- 1 is said to have harvested the largest crop | reat Genesee Valley has done LK Southern [l- | Sou n Ohio, Southern Indiana, South- , and nearly all Mis- wheat than usual. but i ern ois, many parts of Ohio Indiana, Northern Io t Southern States, th Allowing for this defitiency, we 700,000, 000 bushels of us to correct the s which were form rennessee an itucky, gan more », and large sections wheat crop is below t, instead of hich was the er. the c | 175.000.0000 bushels. prevailing estimate in total crop will not probably ex- Nearly all this, llent in quality. r, is exce The famous Chicago ,cnnessee and the T : vre “a grain are l } s was ever known. Judg- f milling which have ar’s work will retrieve flour, which was year’s produc t. crop is known to be large—how Esti- vary from 600,000,000 to 800,000,000 We must at present be content with » knowledge that the crop is abundant.

nerican naged by last it this time impossible to say. In Europe, as a rule, the crops have not done well. In Great Britain, the drought and storms of July operated unfavorably on the It thrashes out very light; and, as ners know, this is a defect which is always rather understated than exaggerated. Farmers \ have harvested large quantities of good- looking wheat are always slow to admit that the straw is unduly weighty and the grain i Thus far, wherever threshing has be- s has proved to be the case; and the British farmers admit that the crop is consider- ably below an average. In France, the agri- cultural authorities have ascertained that there a marked deficiency in the yield of wheat; y estimate it at 20 per cent. as compared with last year. In Spain, the crop is known In Austria, owing to the war and is a large deficiency. The is true of Beigium and Italy. With re- rd to these countries, we have no information is to the amount of the deficit. From South- 1 Russia and the Principalities our advices wheat. { gun, th they to be short. ether causes, there sume rue; it is stated, however, at Odessa, that ld of wheat has been greatly reduced by oughts of July and August. Nothing is } crop in Egypt. In Prussia and the Baltic countries wheat is be- lieved to have done well. ‘To appreciate the importance of these waifs and estri vn with regard to the vs of intelligence it must be borne in mind that Spain, Austria, Italy, and Belgium usually produce, on the average, about enough it for home consumption, and no more; while the Baltic countries, France, and South- tussia have among them an average sur- plus of forty to fifty million bushels. In En- gland, the consumption of wheat exceeds the production by 50,000,000 to 75,000,000 bushels annually, The reader is now in a position to estimate the consequence of the reported deficiency in this year’s crop in Europe. If the current re- | are true, France and Belgium, which were ] exporters of flour last year, have not cnough this year fer their own consumption— for they did not export last year over 10 per cent. of their crop, and the deficiency this year is set down at 20 per cent.; Southern Russia, ch exports from 12,000,000 to 20,000,000 bushels annually, has much less to spare; grain | be needed by Spain, Italy, and Austria; Kngiand will meed at least 50,000,000 to

60,000,000 bushels; and to supply all these deficiencies the only European countries which can be relied upon are Prussia and its Baltic neighbors, which would be sadly embarrassed to furnish 20,000,000 bushels over and above their home consumption. Turning to the United States, and assuming, as above, that our wheat crop this year is 175,000,000 bushels, we find that of this at least 130,000,600 bushels are required for home consumption. We may be said to have com- menced the current agricultural year, on Ist September last, in a state of absolute starva- tion. The crop of 1858, short as it was, yield- ed grain so poor in quality that most of the flour was unfit for human food. During the past year the people of the United States have been consuming the remains of the crops of 1857 and 1856; these, with what could be eat- en of the crop of 1858, have so barely sufficed for our home consumption that the country was probably never so bare of flour as it was on Ist September last. This is proved by the eager- ness with which the new supplies are seized by the country millers. Chicago and Miiwaukie have been for some time shipping 800,000 bushels weekly eastward, hardly any of which gets as far as the sea-board. _ It is fair to pre- sume, therefore, that the whole home consump- tion of the current year must come out of the crop of 1859. Assuming this to be the case, to the 130,000,000 bushels required for home con- sumption must be added at least 30,000,000 bushels reserved for seed and held back for high prices; and about 10,000,000 bushels sup- plied to the West Indies, the British colonies, South America, and other countries which we feed. This would leave only 5,000,000 bushels available for export to Europe. If the European nations always consumed the same quantity of wheaten flour in good and bad times, and however the crops turned out, it would be safe to predict a very active move- ment in food this winter and next spring, and famine prices for wheat and flour. Happily for consumers, the premises fail; the European consumption of wheaten flour varies with the price of the article. When wheaten flour is cheap, poor men in England, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain feed their families on wheaten bread ; when it rises, they fall back on rye, bar- ley, Indian corn, and other substitutes. In many localities they reduce the amount of their consumption ; they eat less, in short. To dis- cover the extent to which reduced consumption may counteract the tendency to higher prices, caused by the diminished product of this year, is the great problem of the trade in food. There is this to be said in favor of higher prices; wheat has not been so cheap for ten years as it is at present in England. The last quotation at the time we write is 41s. 3d. for the quarter of eight bushels, or less than 5s. 2d. a bushel. In New York the same quality of wheat is selling at present at $1 25, or thereabouts ; while choice Southern wheat commands $1 40 @ 1 60 the bushel. To render the export trade profitable, prices in England should be a shilling higher, and our prices here 10c. @ 20c. lower. Thus far the pressing necessities of our home consumers have sustained prices here above their natural level } while large accumula- tions of grain at the commercial centres abroad have kept prices below their proper range. == FEMALE PHYSICIANS. Miss Exvizanetu Biackwe tt, a practicing physician of this city, has just returned from a tour through Great Britain and France, where she has been warmly received by Miss Florence Nightingale and other great and good women living in Europe. Miss Blackwell's observa- tions abroad have confirmed her in her purpose of continuing the fight she has so nobly waged against stupid prejudice and ignorance; she proposes not only to continue the practice of her profession, but so to labor as, if possible, to draw into the ranks other ladies of good educa- tion and social standing, until female physicians become a recognized and an honored class in this country. Every person of right feeling and sound judgment will wish her well. Whatever objections may be urged against the theories known by the name of ‘* Women’s rights doctrines,” there can be none against the study of medicine by women. Every woman, to be a wife or a mother, requires some knowl- edge of medicine. Until she possesses such knowledge, her existence is miserable, and, in many cases, the life of her children is in jeop- ardy. No mother can keep a doctor always at her elbow, to tell her when, how, and in what proportions to administer medicine, promote perspiration, secure ventilation, regulate diet, direct exercise, or superintend the general hy- giene of her family. These matters are usually learned by cur women by experience—often at the cost of the lives of one or more of their children. It is not likely that so stupid a sys- tem will long prevail in so enlightened an age as the one in which we live. ‘The day can not be distant when young women will all be taught the elementary principles of domestic medicine at finishing schools; we will venture to say that the first great school which introduces this nov- elty in the place of some of the rubbish now

taught to girls at fashionable academies will achieve a very remarkable success. The moment we begin to introduce common sense into our system of female education, fe- male physicians will follow as a necessary con- sequence. Once let plain reason have its way, and the rest can not be hindered. If women of thirty, mothers of three or four children, re- quire some knowledge of medicine to do their duty knowingly in their homes, there is no ex- cuse for not teaching such women such knowl- edge when it can be learned without risk of human life; and once admit that girls ought to learn something of the medical science, who shall set a limit to their studies, and where ? Every man and woman of extended experi- ence and ordinary intelligence must have noticed the extraordinary aptitude which sensible wo- men display for the medical science. Very few doctors are as safe guides in the illnesses of infants as experienced mothers and nurses. In diseases of women the advantage possessed by a female doctor over a bearded professor are at once obvious. We risk little in saying that, while male patients will probably continue to be treated by male doctors to the end of time, and surgical processes will probably likewise remain the monopoly of the masculine hand, if the medical colleges were thrown open to girls to-morrow, twenty years hence women would never think of consulting a man for their own little infirmities or the diseases of their ba- bies. The fact that this is so is probably the secret of the obstinate resistance made in many col- leges to the admission of female students. An ingenuous French youth, studying law at Paris a couple of centuries since, inquired of Chancel- lor D’Aguesseau the object of the interminable and unmeaning involutions of language used in legal documents. ‘‘ My son,” said the Chancel- lor, ‘* if deeds were drawn simply and plainly, men could draw them for themselves; and then, where would our noble profession be?” Just so with the doctors. If they once admit the other sex to the profession, at least half of the scent- ed ignoramuses who make a living by flattering women and killing babies will find themselves superseded; and so, for the sake of their fees, they make a fuss about modesty and delicacy and maidenly reserve—and deluge us with ar- guments which, if they were candid, would only prove the grossness—as, being dishonest, they illustrate the meanness—of the minds which urge them. Miss Blackwell, we are glad to hear, is going to deliver a course of three lectures on the ne- cessity of the study of physiology by women. We shall take pleasure in announcing at the proper time when and where they can be heard ; and as all sensible young women will go to hear them, the number of the audience will af- ford a fair test of the intelligence of our female population.

A NEW ARCTIC EXPEDITION. Our latest English files intimate that a new Arctic expedition will probably be shortly or- ganized and dispatched to the mouth of Back River and Montreal Island. It will be borne in mind by the reader of our brief history of the Franklin Expedition and its successors, pub- lished in the last number of the Weekly, that no actual evidence has ever been obtained of the death of the last survivors of the 105 men who departed from King William's Land, under Cap- tain Crozier, to make their way to the conti- nent. It is now intimated that some of these men may be alive among the Esquimaux at or near Montreal Island; and it is argued that it is due to humanity to make one more voyage expressly for the purpose of ascertaining wheth- er or no this be the case. Recent experience proves that an Arctic ex- pedition need not involve any actual expendi- ture of life. To undertake an Arctic voyage, even among the “‘congeries” of islands lying north of the American continent, it is necessary to have a small screw steamer, well-built and adapted for Arctic voyages, amply provided with every appliance and supply requisite for life in the Arctic regions, and manned by thirty to forty men—not more. Such a craft, it is be- lieved, could, in two seasons, effect such an ex- ploration of Montreal Island and the outlet of Back River as would forever set at rest the pos- sibility of there being any survivors of the Frank- lin Expedition. If any of the hundred and five still live, such an expedition would rescue them from an ignoble death among the Esquimaux. If they are all dead, it would set at rest har- rowing doubts which still distress their families. These are the arguments upon the strength of which influential Englishmen are urging their Government to fit out one more last expedition ; we should not be surprised to hear of their suc- cess. There are always numbers of adventur- ous spirits who would be glad to engage ir an- other Arctic voyage merely for the sake of the peril and éclat of the affair. The cost would not be great. And, after all, though common sense is opposed to more sacrifice of life and energy in the Arctic cul-de-sac, the spirit of the age will not permit any one to fence off a part of the globe and close it to the daring tread of the audacious sons of Japheth.

THES LOUNGER. AN AMERICAN'S VIEW OF PEI-HOo. Aw American merchant, who has resided for fif. teen years in China, has written a pamphlet which sums up the Chinese question in a very sensible and satisfactory manner. The work is only print- ed, not published, and is designed to have some practical effect in London, where it is issued. The writer warns Englishmen against suffering them- selves to be led by the Times, and gives the follow. ing simple statement of the whole matter: The English Government, he says, has always ignored the dignity and importance of the Chinese Government—treatiny the whole nation as a crowd of savages with whom no treaty was to be honest. ly made or decently enforced. The consequence has been the fomenting of a rebellion which has long raged in China, and of whose history and progress no outsider is very fully informed. The arms of the English have succeeded in humiliating the mandarins, in destroying the prestige of all in- ternal government, and in annihilating the only authority with which a treaty was possible. When, therefore, the English send an embassy to conduct negotiations they have only themselves to thank if the rebels, not respecting or fearing the Govern- ment with which the English seek to treat, but whose prestige they have destroyed, suddenly turn upon the English themselves, and blow them out of existence. To make it the pretext of another war is only to aggravate the old difficulty. In this condition of things the writer urges an alliance between England and Russia; insisting that, if it be not effected, the Chinese will*seek and obtain it, in which case a long and extensive and unmanageable war will ensue. If England, however, succeeds in a Russian alliance, she can gain a hearing at Pekin and settle the consequences of her own mistake by negotiation, pe: manently establishing the bases of commerce between the nations. This is the substance of a very lucid and intelli- gent view taken by a gentleman who probably knows as much of the state of opinion and of af- fairs in China as any foreigner can. For several years of his residence he was the head of the chief American house in the country; and the clear, calm common-sense of his considerations heartily commend them to the sober attention of John Bull, and of all his cousin Jonathans who are interested in a very grave question. os NO TOBACCO-CHEWING HERE? Dear Mr. Louncer,—I hasten to inform you that as I lately stepped into a car of the New Jer- sey Central Railroad—one of the pleasantest roads in the neighborhood of New York—I saw the fin- ger of my Aunt Jerusha, with whom I had the happiness of traveling, pointed to a notice at the end of the car. My eyes followed the direction of her finger (which is all rough at the end with needle-pricks), and I saw the words conspicuously printed, ‘* No tobacco-chewing allowed in this car.” I had suffered so much from this nuisance, and had seen other ladies suffer so much, that I de- termined to let you and those other ladies know where they might be secure. I am sure I do not see why cars should not be protected from that kind of filth as well as from any other kind—I mean, of course, not the chewing, but the spitting. If men have such disgusting habits, why should women suffer all the nasty consequences? If I were Pres- ident of a Railroad—and I believe you are in favor of women’s having their rights—I know what i would do. I would tell the conductors to turn out every man who made puddles on the floor inte another car; and if he wouldn't go, I'd tell him he ought to be ashamed of himself. They have a smoking-car on most railroads, but I'd a great deal rather have a man smoke a sweet, fragrant cigar* in the same room or car- riage with me than squirt the detestable liquid all over the floor. Why, Mr. Lounger, it was not three weeks since I was sitting on one of the Staten Island ferry-boats, and saw a woman in a nice silk dress (it was Sunday, and I know the woman had not many silk dresses) quietly seat herself opposite me, and the bottom of her skirt lay in a puddle of sp*t, soaking it all up! I know it’s horrible to say such things, and to write them for young and pure minds to read. But what is it, then, to de them? Pooh! Mr. Lounger, I suppose there’s many a man who will read this and think it's a very disagreeable thing to talk about a lady’s dress draggling in such a mess, who wouldn’t hesitate to make the mess itself! I appeal to him—I ap- peal to every honest man and decent man to say whether we are well treated in this matter ? If a man chews, and will only choose to keep it to himself, it is bad enough for him, but other peo- ple do not suffer. When he chews, and chooses to expectorate all about him, then he becomes a most unmitigated nuisance. Suppose a girl and her lover were sitting together upon a steamboat ex- cursion, as so often happens, and when she got home she found her dress all saturated with his to- bacco juice, don’t you think it might strike in ?— the feeling, I mean, not the other—and would she not treat him as he deserved if she said to him, “Either you must give up chewing, or you must chew to yourself, or you must give me up?” I write this letter to you, Mr. Lounger, hoping that you will print it in your paper, and that it will be sold in the cars, and perhaps read by some of the sinners I have been speaking of. Won't they please te think about this matter ? Aunt Jerusha says Amen. Yours respectfully,

Proey.

THE VIRGINIANS. THACKERAY has finished his novel; which is another chapter in the history of the Warringtons, the Esmonds, and the families of whom the novel- ist is the historian. The work has its ardent ad- ° Hear, hear!—Lounger.

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Novemser 5, 1859.] mirers who prefer it to any thing he has written ; not pretending to find in it the peculiar sting of “ Vanity Fair,” but enjoying the cheerful, exqui- sitely elaborated detail of desc ription. Asa picture of the times it is masterly. If there be less fulfill ment of what may have been his original intention of describing two brothers drawing their swords upon opposite sides in our Revolution, yet there is so much the fuller filling in of the lights and shades of a society with which his sympathies and studies have made him familiar. Every thing is in har- mony Che plot moves like the progress of a fam- ily story It is purely don

sestic, but of that quaint,

remote, picturesque quaintness, which belongs to the last century. You feel as if you had strayed into some old English country house, and loitering ° b a week away, had found in an odd closet the manu- script memoirs of the family, over which you pore through the still, warm days. You have time to learn each one of them by heart; to compare, to criticise, to sympathise, to wonder, and to find yourself, at last, hanging with a pensive interest upon the progress of events, while the figures bloom, develop, and decay before your eyes, while young men become old men, and under the varied aspect of events you hear the low, slow, sure beat of Time's unresting pendulum. Ihe charm of the “ Virginians” is in the delinea- tion of character and the fidelity of the still-life painting. he story is elaborated with a Dutch faithfulness—you see the very rouge on Lady Maria's face—the very powder on the Baroness sernstein’s hair. There is the same mingling of

motives, the same inconsistenci which are the characteristics of hi lly Thackeray does. Lord Castlew which no author so heroi

is a figure executed with consum:

r seliishness, his cold-heartedne rising into crim perfect propriety of his manner, and ! self-possession: his entire unscrupu- lousness and P lite « fession of his villa ny as the yst natural thing in the world, reproduce to the t lineament a kind of Englishman which every

! f th tory and memoirs of the time will I recall H juiet little traged Sir George War- s secret sadness, as time pushes him for- ward; Madam Warrington's pride— ire touched and hinted with « a felici- ty, and total want of m ir ing W i reveal t 1 of : t among x nov keray is unapproached as a master of literary art. It is in that that he is Shakespearian And as art is founded upon et 1 and nutable laws, whoever has artistic | I iulready one element of immortality So lifelike is this story that, after following the fortunes of the characters, month by month, for » years, the reader reluctantly closes the book vl turns away. He sits, still holding it, and linking of the men and women whose motives 1 I ! led to hi He }

ld it with a sneer, but a sigh. PARTIES.

Nor tea-parties, nor din " r-parties, nor parties wered waistcoats, but political parties. Are y not inevitable in all constitutional govern- vents? If you meddle with politics at all, must you not, of course, act with one or the other great party? Is not the effort to be what is called ‘‘in- ependent”’ simply an effort to sit on the fence? Does not experience prove it in our history? In every intelligent constitutional country there must necessarily be two great policies—one, upon the whole, conservative or stationary; the other, upon the whole, progressive. Each of these is rep- resented by a party. Now a man may not think that every measure of the first is really a conserv- itive measure, nor that each one of the last is pro- gressive; but must not his influence, upon the whole, go with one or the other, or be lost ? ‘“There’s a great deal to be said upon both s,” says somebody ; and somebody has always said so upon all questions; and somebody has, refore, always fallen between two stools. Let see if there be. Is there any thing to be said in favor of squan- g the public money ? ‘No,” replies somebody; “ but then there is ry question, what is squandering the public

Well, but there is such a thing ? Undoubtedly.” And you think you see when it is squandered ? er ? Then you act with the party that seems to you not to squander—do you not ? Yes, unless both do it.” Very well; if both do it, then they are so far jual; and you turn to other points—do you not? and act according to your approval ? “ Yes.” And these points are determined by some central idea ? “Yes. Well? ** Well, that is what I call independence—to act igainst any measure of any party that seems to me unjust or impolitic.” True; but if, upon the whole, the course and ums of one. party command your sympathy, al- though you may differ about certain details, do i not see that, if you are an honest man and act politically as you believe, you must necessarily be llied with that party? N igogue talks or thinks of th ul vi

body but a crazy dem- ‘going the party up to i¢ hub,” or of ** voting for the d—1 if he be the Candidate of the party ;” and the only possible

HARPER'S WEEKLY. 70 honest ‘* independence” of a is his independent choice of the party w ! ‘ the whole, seems to him to be 1 st s fulfilling the great intentions of the government and of all government. Edmund Burke was as wise as usual when }

spoke of the necessity of parties, and the ability of parties, in constitutional governments lo shilly-shally is not to walk along the golden mean. To ery “ Good Lord! good Devil!” is not to be heroic. To sit upon the fence is t neces- sarily to be superior to the combatants. A man tossed in a blanket, or hung upon a gal i higher than other people, if that is all ve - Wherever politics reach vita] and ra ples, a man’s real position is determine } his will, by his sympathy upon one side or the ot er. if he says he is “ independent,” n ri different, he is either a man who can not in which case he is unfortunate; or he is a man who does not « hoose to say what he Sees—1D WICH Case he is—making a great mistake. oan stinitciliaerti A WORD IN TIM Ir any body wishes to know where to go next summer, let him hear a word in time, and go to the

& Valley of Wyoming. There is no place in the country of more poetic a at none t 1 with more of the feel V F h fam $5 s r not only for their i l lis for a sonal, human hist ( ell w " * Gertrude of Wyomir 1 Hall 1 t of our own poets have its rms Mr. Spar rowgrass sat At ite para t Lour it ind yet, when it | rather « lided the I . } { tha Sparrowgr \ v Wvyomi is a 1 pl It Q 1 \ alle ft ‘ Q ' 1 ’ intervale land three mil w lt ‘ t l shut in by hill ra W ling of the Bl Ri \ I Lacka inna and the Sus hanna per end of the valley, and the 1 I ' ‘ pa man 1 Litt ’ 1 l leri f coal— i I | Ww I or Vv ol i pastt I I i {trou : t t rv rre, V it ately Cou like t : l s ofa Fla rs tow past ot / , non the Ars } ; hor ; Vv all } | ur a. . I | \ t P lvania to t " I lovelier fields nor re t in xqui scape than in the Val of Wyomi All that is said of the Valley is t All that you expect of it will be f lied. If y t Easton, and on Mauch Chunk, then the river and thre h the Valley of Wyoming, stil

‘ s | al through the Lackawanna Valley to Scrant and then by stupendous Lackawanna Rail “ the mountains to the Delaware Valley, and t the Delaware Water Gap, you will have tal of the most reeable and easy trips that in me y could } ibly perf The »M tai ffom w I you ent retch of I walled by the Blue Ridge, perpendicularly cleft

by the river, is one of the most imposing pa of railway travel in the land If you are a wise man you will stop at Scrant where you will find an admirable hotel; a that impromptu little town, dedicated by Yanke« industry and genius to coal, iron, and wealth, y will see the largest steam-engine in the counts i ' and a rolling-mill for railroad iron which would have suggested a new hell to Dante, and wi one who has seen it by night will ever forget Scranton is in the same county with Wilkesbarre and there is the same kind of rivalry between then that there is between St. Louis and Chica Scran- ag ing and puffing by night and day ; Wilkesbarre is the St. Louis—sedate old borough, the respectabk county town, a little vexed by the superior activ- ity of its parvenu neighbor, and ton is the Chicago—pert, bustling, successful, roar ditional position in the county, which the auda- cious little neighbor openly disputes. They are in the northeast corner of Pennsylva- nia. The Valley of Wyoming is one of the most picturesque, Scranton one of the most characteris- tic, of American “ localities." You will not sorry if you choose to bestow a few fin yst them next summer.

a CHANGED I weer her often on the village walk ; She passes pr ; And never with a love-smile greets me now, And never tarries for a moment's talk

y with a formal bow, And in the church on sunny Sabbath days I hear her dear voice in the sacred s And surely Heaven will forgive the wr I worship only her who sings His praise, I glow and tremble like an autumn leaf; And sometimes, when my tir s heart permits, I cast my eyes where she superbly sits Only to cast them down again in deepest grief For never now as in the sweet past time Is my devotion met with a reward Those eyes that once met mine in true accord Look lovingly in other eyes than mine, Yet when I think of the great happiness With which she filled my life in loving then, Although that love is taken back again I can not blame her; I can only bless. Then may our dear God her good guardian be! May coming days no tearful mem'ries stir! But may all days alike bring peace to her Who, in this change, hath left no peace f Croit YorKE. PARTY SPIRIT

We have recently had s hibitions of the fury of party spirit

f. Tit < : j | ; ‘ ‘ ’ : . in } y " " ’ WW t ” f It is p } \ try not that tl . ’ New York there are s nor that they assaul i peaceful « y 80 ¢ whe It i t " " : not that me men ci t, and perjure them ives and ht away her im ir 1 tl | rre- | Pp \ spond 48 are every where | ¢ I , rl re th ngerous i But the pl 1 lies i fact that these t re ap- I pr i t are 1

| | | | Sketches of the People who oppose ty | our Sunday Laws.

CORRESPONDENCE, course. Here beer reigns \ power. BASE-BALL. Seiiie cman ft with To the ] ft. of I pers Weel ceaseless en : weeps

per of October 1 i say that | by the “W troll, with mugs 1 “*d very much whether base-ball be (a | in ha pt upen the

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~ sUd tr spring up j Ace rs from the 1 soi i reposing tran- - } f r qu The enes at \ is are not mo- I I vays rambling or l n ’ KR OF : ’ i g : " 1 - e f trace ps and stall S i s, bullets t m of . i laughing out | er diminis! I sely, and you 1, te abu f lent See that fan t pear tr a tre ing ex ene trout Peo 7 ‘ and a th ‘ d . Sr fits ¢ and absent « th f amd make pass- t \ I i es a h the air rest sign of infantile You t kita l idea, this conjur t ffed lage ar Ha I i st i an " - " . } } y aA c i t 1d r 8 t il para ed. lea f all inte « 7 wi t id he father has joined the merry sportsmen wl n nin pop-guns , him } He has tried a st Ss ips him on tl back and cries “ Brat He dilat a littl ind essay r. He 1 to shoot for wagers. His w ur issua ut he tips her a rrimace of d rt to sa See, now, how I w j these f s ] f ws—dark-lool i f ly I hooked 1 l brows 1 glaring costume iT t 8 I I i The hook ysed ir t ( many wins H s t s ry et, and dra f } } fa inute later, u ° ters tl ' j Another he wit Exultant, he boist ts t ill be itly a ! I t possessi nd de t r} me } every thir rl t i r } f St tr ‘ tells t it t }

“THEIR MOTHER “TWIXT TI! was deceived—that his first winnings were per- mitted only for the purpose of leading him on to larger risks. He doubts, but will have positive assurance. He stumbles up to make investiga- tions, and is repulsed. He persists, and is hustled off, a little bruised and much torn. He suddenly ecomes repentant, and rejoining his wife, hovers round the wagon as she draws it A little after noon the visitors evince a disposi- tion to settle near the centre of the Woods. You learn that a tight-rope performance is to be pro- away. led This must be seen At an elevation s great that you have not before noticed it stretche the line—an airy nothing. People say, with evi nt complacency, that the last night's rain has ude it so slippery that the danger is extreme He is Presently the funambulist appears clad i white shirt and trowsers, without coat or hat, and with slippers on his feet. You ask who he i re told his name is Chiarini, and that he thus simply dressed “ out of respect to the day are convinced that the day will feel honored by this mark of Mr. Chiarini’s respect. Ile begins his evolutions, and the

plauds noisily. He skips about, and lies it, and elevates his feet, and in many other ways rsakes safety and invites danger. Now he ingly spins round, teetotum-like. But stop—he swerves, his foot slips, his balance-pole rushes through the air; will he fall The crowd gasps and shudders, then rushes off a little to give him ‘ “i clear space to drop upon, if he must c SHAFTS DID FARE." ad own own. Sut no; he clings closely, and by a con- New and louder shouts encourage him, and he persists in At length, exhausted, he and the throng dissolves to seek again vulsive writhe restores his equilibrium. more audacious efforts. retires, fresh pleasures and fresh beer. Thus pass the Sundays in the Woods of Jones, THE PLAGUE OF ELLIANT.

FROM E BRETON Al e proy f alla still g in tl ga gs of t I nj try—at the pardon t : ft edding, or r ‘ ion of w < graf - late t l sofr 1 i 0 f ese time-w t 1 f 1 t coinag 4 ‘ 1 ~ hard peasa j l y of its ep ‘ | ‘ f sa é min ark, i 1 he I Ellia which the follow $ a I think can be made f Eng I ha preserved t metre t v 1 be sung to the I y e“] Ell I I 2 Y allad comme n ravaged | t it y T Book of Liandaff sus ( oO : t is plag a l f th ~ ( € made i t ry by Gurdest ft convent I acc pecial me i : s of e plague i aris ft t ryi | 1 i al t 4 preserved f a

SUNDAY AT JONES'S WOODS, IN NEW YORK.

© 0, [November 5, 1859. scourge by the prayers of a saintly hermit named Rasian. He is mentioned in the ballad, which, like all other ballads in M. de Villemarqué's “ Barsaz Breiz” (from which my translation was made), was taken down from oral recitation of the Breton peas- antry.) *Twixt Faoitet and Liangolan There lives a bard, a holy man— His name is Father Rasian. On Faoiiet his hest he laid: ‘Let every month a mass be said, And bells be rung, and prayers be read.” In Elliant the plague is o’er, But not till it had raged full sore: It slew seven thousand and five score. Death unto Elliant hath gone down, No living soul is in the town— No living soul but twe alone. A crone of sixty years is one, The other is her only son. “The Plague,” quoth she, “is on our deor- sill ; Twill enter if it be Ged’s will; But till it enter Lide we still.” Through Elliant’s streets who wills to go, Every where will find grass to mow— Every where, save in two wheel-ruts bare, Where the wheels of the dead-cart wont to fare. His heart were flint that had not wept, Through Elliant’s grass-grown streets who stept, To see eighteen carts, each with its load— Eighte : en at the grave-yard, eighteen on the ror. Nine children of one house there were Whom one dead-cart to the grave did bear: rheir mother 'twixt the shafts did fare. The father, whistling, walked behind, With a careless step and a mazy mind. The mother shriek’d and call'd on God, Crush’d, soul and body, beneath her load. “God, help me bury And I v A cord of the wax so long und fine, [shrine. To go thrice round the church and thrice round the Nine sons I had; I Now Death has ta’en them, creat my children nine, w thee a cord of the wax so fine: , ’ bare them all; and small. Hath ta’en them all from my own door-stone: None left, e’en to give me to drink—not one!" The church-yard to the walls brims o'er, rhe church is full to the steps of the door: They must bless fields, if they’d bury more. There grows an oak by the church-yard wall, From the top-bough hangs a white grave pall— rhe Plague hath taken one and all,

WA Why y,

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November 5, 1 859.]

ABEL IN GENELBAL BELCH’S

TRUMPS. BY GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS, CHAPTER LXIX, THE WILL OF THE PEROPLI Geverat Bevcn's office was in the of Nassau Street. At the outer door there was a modest slip of a tin sign, “ Arcularius Attorney and Counselor.” ’ There was dingy and forlorn was rp on the floor, the windows were very : i slats were broken out of the blinds—t! h:

did not match—there was a wooden book- with a few fat law-books shelves, the table was a chaos of ] lounging upon printed forms, newspapers, and files of letters, with a huge inkstand, inky and a great wooden sand-box. Upon each side of the chim ney, the grate in which was piled with crushed pieces of waste paper, and the bars of which were discolored with tobacco juice, stood two large spittoons, the only unsoiled articles in th office. This was the place in which General Belch did business. It had atmosphere of Law Sut, above all, it was the spot where, with on leg swinging over the edge of the table and one hand waving in earnest gesticulation, General Belch could say to every body who came, and especially to his poorer fellow-citizens, “I as! no office, I am content with my moderate pra tice. It is enough for me in this oun try to be a friend of the people.” As he said this—or only implied it in saying something else—the broken slats, the dirty win dows, the uncarpeted floor, the universal un tidiness, whispered in the mind of the “* Amen!” His residence, however, somewhat atoned the discomfort of his office. Not unfrequer he entertained his friends sumptuously; and whenever any of the representatives of his party, who acted in Congress as his private agents, had succeeded—as on one occasion, already commem- orated, the Hon. Mr. Ele had done—in putting a finer edge upon a favorite axe, General Belch entertained a select circle who agreed with him in his political philosophy, and were particular friends of the people and of the popular institu- tions of their country. Abel Newt had already called at the General's office, and had received overtures from that gen tleman, who offered him Mr. Bodley’s seat in Congress, upon condition that he was able to sex things from particular points of view. “Mr. Watkins Bodley, it seems,” said Gen- eral Belch, “‘ and I regret to say it, is in strait ened pecuniary circumstances. I understand he will feel that he owes it to his family to re- sign before the next session. There will be a vacancy; and I am glad to say that the party is just now in a happy state of harmony, and that my influence will secure your nomination. But come up to-night and talk it over. I have asked Ele and Slugby, and a few others—friends, of course—and I hope Mr. Bat will dropin. You know Aquila Bat?” “By reputation,” replied Abel. “He is a very quiet man, but very shrewd. He gives great dignity and weight to the party. A tremendous lawyer Bat is. I suppose he is at the very head of the profession in this country. You'll come ?” Abel was most happy to accept, for the rooms in Grand Street had become inconceivably gloomy There were no more little parties there: the last one was given in honor of Mrs. Sligo Moul- trio—before her marriage. The elegant youth

the rlorious « hearer,

OFTicl I niture is j etty s pt : nstant ser set of mé ‘ ls ' me I ‘ famili I ind gambi t r eid ‘ { st , ‘ Mr. Ne hye and men’s dr that a remonstrated m 1 the w

morning, and had been ruck B when I ut W vul and had l as he was always thi Kraut, it was 1 Ww nthe tr Newt as vulga Abel Newt w months in tainers of flowet In the even presente to remember 1 had he had had Chairman ¢ Belch, audibls glad to kn guished a nar pliment, to litely, while |} much more com per.” They wine. ice-cream rl drank coffee. and fresh of cigars wer¢ scrvants were t summoned. At this 7 I the do opene | ed forward “My dear here, Sir Gen ! The company was Abel bowed. seemed to be made of plexion, of the hue of that he was usually kept in on it ree < And this mus ‘ i " ! f G J And I ( ' j I ee i] { ‘ 1) ( } \ ( era i « I Ci I sc. G ' It . I : () ! < 1 Us i } | me sa ‘ " A mana i! pple ! B ened saw Abel r I telligence I a li urmé Mr. 1 ( I Mr. El latG B W ] he TY B A be é emt ‘ I M lar } I (rt ral B i Mr. Ne hie f | } +} NT ! i And now, i ty IB h. che I had we he ' fe ‘ as a lidat f rages to suc the Hon. Mi Vas an en

ti inpremeditated t hich had, in fact, only struck him while he had been sit- g at that hospita le board, but had im- pressed him so forci bly that he could not resist speaking — if he might venture, he JIM AND MK. ; ! \ a ! M ‘ ! ‘ have 1 re j l ‘ M ’ tot ‘ ' Ihe \ ' . \ ! ! r I G \ \ SLUGBY.

e Abel | T . ' , | 4 P ‘ ‘ : il ' L . ‘ ' } « tah end t he j { friend et ned £ al Giene

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“4 we - HAPTER J | I i B Rn bb 1 ¢ } LA i ) vv t ea w 1 you m. Nov r ‘ W r t -_> Tr Afi I ey [Ww a rT ‘ ™m m TY , And were ‘ 1 rund tf 1 1 own + ¢ ‘ the frier f tne tf or nd, and make a one of them, i wave the glo you'll have to r | | | | I “ S } } pres t I [ } M i» y ] t ‘ } to y ! } t t rel i V1 [ NovEeMBER with great favor. Immediately upon its conclu- | %sseciated with him on the bench: Dr. Alexander, Jot } } J. Lock, John F. Smit I os H. Willis, ¢ . sior n oved at liournment. which was is, G W Jim 1 ed ‘ . ch } thet i I and Moses W. Bus unanimously carried ff was directed to | neighbor ‘ née Ww j t { the j soumble 9s A guard was « -_ . | rt-house was brist : ‘ y 4 arles I Ha . A few ¢ tw. ans i by A t Mrs 4 r nwen | vy ( i | ny d J. Ele | é f we ‘ 5, 1855 H Mr. Ne Mr. ( N ‘ I LITERARY. | e pr rs could ples : " t consider Mr. Brow est HARP BRoTuet t of nev oks for } | The prisoners were « luring the ar ises T VIRGINIAN Thackera 1 ent, Stevens being | two bailiffs ‘ ' . . - “ I artist of Harper's Week n,"’ Was pres pe , s Ki A Goop Fieut, als ent i took sket 8 arraigned plet Hi Ler, a novel 3 | I f ied about twenty ‘ } ifte oy | \ Each ed to the ques- ‘ vt rj t N «1 separately ys Mr. Hunt hn Brown Hi ipital I THI ) i I iN } Some time was ‘ lise R s | v thr at ‘ t 4 t | : i 1 decided at r I t ‘ " jury were t called j ] rs } ed as to ha g t ’ , ¥ ote Mnatd ‘ n . : . I ‘ t excl it w were pres at I i P ‘ ’ ' | ‘ : . i ‘ ala b 4 a he y . —_ " k anid aw DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE, |: ' remaining six ie I w ally f l the t THE TRIA F BROWN AND THE OTHER oOvT | | ard Timberlake JacobJ. M LAW | ' M vers I us Osborne I I I us Wa j George W. Boye ed i \ ‘ I | t ( | n ‘ aA ‘se n Copland ‘ H A. B I ld, and Shields ¢ 1 d y / ( } ment of pris ed } / iand m t . . BROWN'S SPEECH. clared t State, asked t ’ forts.” prisoners ad — prisoners had ¢ l ‘ , ‘ | > e ( t f I te for any q Newt, ] ‘ » have my { B ginia tendered 1 ‘ > - t fair trial; but manner. 1 | able to have a f unanit & I ‘ icclamatik I . my blood, you can have it at any 1 Mr. Must . : nn _ - s mockery of a trial. I have had no « . I . ; t been able t vis itha Ik | Ly Ss unanim it the feelings of my fellow ers, and | S ‘ | for three « inable t vy way t yown d ‘ 6} ' 4 1’ ory dor u my health is insuf \bel Newt, ¢ 7 . ‘ Cc improving. Thereare mitiga y circums ‘ ‘ d urge in our fav faf al is to} The ¢ I but if we are to be fa l with a mere f VI ‘ ( ) r exec y t ts 5 sel ve F ITamr for.1 I Ir ask a ‘ 1 mocke 4 t : \ the w h conscience giv cowardice would vn ) pr € I ask again to be excn \ Ff: . 2 hand I ery of a trial I do not ev know ¥ i ! t beat t Convention ma . ’ . _ CI l R LXAU PPRENTIC!I THE EXAMINATION BEI RE THE LAGISTRAT Cro {) 8 f th . rh : \ N - | ed The evide De Mr. § G | mould- | : ' ! Bs ¢ i rair I l ‘ ‘ Ty } ‘ ¢ | £ H ta 1 his | “ At ae | al it se was ‘ t { i7 . Fish ! I like said Mr. Gray. | found a true! t day Don't I THE ARRAIGNMENT. | shed and At twe clock on 26th the - 1 The . |} Grand J rey ed a I g pr t > 0 ‘ } a lw scharged Charlies B. H ass 1 by Andrew I er 5 D M B ng? Your | rese ed ‘ monwea i¢ Faulk rG | Mr. Gi and La Botts are « sel fort I P oil ; \ bill wa ead € I Yi 2) SS od | for I . ‘ to |} € e, “‘I suppose | , I | for treason to the ¢ P a \] f ne fish din herd, f r . , rhe | t ‘ par l by richt } s | I t . Hand a body I y passed t the s 5 \ ( ] | eagerly round tl i ent house wit the slightest d t ( ’ s 1 he, | ons é ' , Brow hat nnd his eye wa t so 5 I swol Steve | be 8 i ned . 7 ‘ ; PI | : Mrs. G Frida . mattress on the fi f the court-room, e y Mr. G Mark Bland ble to sit, He has the appeara man, \ Mark brea v 1 gI difficulty \ aun Before the read f the arra ment Mr. Hunter call t fis ‘ ( me 4 , ‘ ‘ e+ ‘ t ecessity of M I i t Go to bed additional « lf the } er at that ri) fant ( | k ed i ty « t, . a NI \ for Uncl Savory had no | h th fore, had ! sel t { y | e oni his ;t ( wa gn ti 1 e | « proj v1 f Mr. Gr Bi , y* t . \ is £ : y arew sht cel per fr | t 1 sa sin Brown, Mr. Botts said that joys I } vhich is a | ¢ 1 ele it e Mr. Green, \ } , , there i na nt of the | If ( i accede I | +} +} I ( mem- | F ‘ personal]: her f « 1 } S he repeated yw) | The Court requested Mr. Green to act as counsel fer | | 9 s to i ress their duc the prisoner, and he consented to do s imt tance “Wi vou think his name OLD BROWN ASKS FOR DELAY W g ‘ 5 is nomina Brown then arose, and said Ia t intend te

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1859.] HARPER'S WEEKLY.

NovemMBeEr 5, 18 JOHN BROWN INSANE? On Thursday 27th, Brown was bronght in walking, and lay down on his cot at full length within the bar He looked considerably better, the swelling havi his eyes. Senator Mason was present. Mesars. Harding and Huuter again appeared for the Commonwealth, and Messrs. Botts and Green for the prisoner. Mr. Botts read the following dispatch, which was re- ceived this morning:

“ Axzown, Ouro, October 96, 1859. “ To C. J. Faulkner and Lawson Botts “John Brown, leader of the insurrection at Harper's Ferry, and several of his family, have resided in this county many years. Insanity is hereditary in that fam ily His mother's sister died with it, and a danghter of that sister has been two years in the lunatic asylum. A gon and daughter of his mother’s brother have also been confined in the lunatic asylum, and another son of that brother is now insane and urder close restraint facts can be conclusively proven by witnesses resi ling here, who will doubtiess attend the trial if desired = H. Lewt These

Mr. Botts added that Brown disdained to avail himself of the plea of insanity Brown then raised himself up in bed and said: “I will add, if the Court will allow me, that I look « as a miserable artifice and pretext of those who ought t take a different course in regard to me, if they took any at all, and I view it with contempt more than otherwise As I remarked to Mr. Green, insane prisoners, so far as my experience goes, have but little ability to their own sanity: and if I am insane, of course I should think I know more than all the rest of the world. B do not think so. Iam perfectly un of insanity, and I reject, so far as I am capable, mpts to in- terfere in my behalf on that score."

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nscious any att COMMENCEMEYT OF THE TRIAL. A fresh attempt of Brown's to have the trial postponed in order to obtain counsel from the North having failed, the case was proceeded with The jury having been sworn to fairly and impartially try the prisoner, the Court directed that the prisoner might forego the form of standing while arraigned, if he desired it. Mr. Botts put the inquiry to the prisoner, and he con tinued ta lie prostrate on his cot while the long indict ment, filling seven pages, was read First, For conspiring with negroes to produce insur rection ; Second, For treason to the Commonwealth ; Third, For murder. and, THE SPEECHES AND THE EVIDENCE. The case was then opened at length by Messrs. Hard ing and Hunter for the Commonwealth, and by Messrs. Botts and Green for the prisoner. The following nesses were examined: Dr. Storey, Conductor Phelps, and Colonel Washington. Their testimony was a mere restatement of the facts which have already pub lished. wit we A BOSTON COUNSEL ARRIVES. On Friday, 28th, George H. Hoyt, of Boston, counsel for Brown, arrived He is quite a youth rhe « met at eleven o'clock. Brown was led over from the j walking very feebly. He lay down upon his cot, tor Mason entered the court with Mr. Hoyt, the Boston counsel of Brown. The jury were called, and answered to their names, Mr. Botts announced the arrival of Mr. Hoyt, who had come here to assist the counsel for the prisoner; at pres ent, however, he did not feel disposed to take part in the case. Whenever he should feel disposed, he would do so Mr. Hunter suggested that he had better be qualified as a member of the bar on producing proof from the Bos. ton bar. Mr. Hoyt had not brought his credentials of admis- sion The Court said that that was not required in order to be strictly legal: to that fact any citizen's evidence would answer. Mr. Green said his partner had read letters from fel- low-students of Hoyt, alluding to him as a member of the bar. Mr. Hoyt then took the customary oath. FURTHER EVIDENCE FOR THE PROSECUTION, The following witnesses were called to the stand, and testified to the facts already before the public; Colonel Washington, Conductor Phelps, Armistead Ball, John Allsteadt, Alexander Kell Albert Griest, Henry Hun- ter, Colonel Gibson, Benjamin T. Bell, Lewis Starry

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e EVIDENCE FOR THE DEFENSE. For the defense, Joseph A. Brewer, A. M. Kitzmiller, James B r, and others were called, but no new facts

were elicited s swore to having been a party to the killing of the outlaw Thompson in cold blood Several witnesses for the defense were called, but did not answer One witne BROWN REPUDIATES HIS COUNSEL, Brown arose from his mattress, evidently excited, and standing on his feet, addressed the court as follows: ** May it please the Court,—I discover that notwith- standing all the assurances I have received of a fair trial, nothing like a fair trial is to be given me, as it would seem. I gave the names, as soon as I could get them, of the persons I wished to have called as witnesses, and was assured that they would be subpenaecd. I wrote down a memorandum to that effect, saying where those parties were; but it appears that they have not been subpenaed, so far as I can learn; and now I ask, if I am to have any thing at all deserving the name and shadow of a fair trial, that this proceeding be deferred until to-morrow morning, for I have no counsel, as I have before stated, in whom I feel that Lean rely; but Iam in hopes counsel may arrive who will attend to seeing that I get the witnesses who are necessary for my defense; I am myself unable to attend to it; I have given all the attention I possibly could to it, but am unable to see or know about them, and can't even find " and I have nobody to do any errands, for my money was all taken from me when I was sacked and bed, and I have not a dime; I had two hundred and ifty or sixty dollars in gold and silver taken frgn my pocket, and now I have no possible means of getting any body to co my errands for me, and I have not had all the witnesses subpenaed. They are not within reach and are not here. I ask at least until to-morrow morn- ing to have something done, if any thing is designed; if not, I am ready for any thing that may come up." Brown then lay down again, drew his blanket over him, and closed his eyes, and appeared to sink in tran- quil slumber.

their names;

THE BOSTON COUNSEL SPEAKS, yt, of Boston, who had been sitting quietly all d side of Mr. Botta, se amidst great sensation and addressed the Court as follows

May it please the Court, of Mr n with him | would add my voice to the Brown, although I have had no consulta- that the further hearing of the case be ed until morning. I would st the reason of est. It was that I was informed, and had reason lieve, that Judge Tilden, of Ohio, was on his way Charlestown, and would undoubtedly arrive at Harper's Ferry at seven o'clock to night. I have taken measures that gentleman's arrival in this place to-night vaches the Ferry. For myself, I have come from traveling night and day, to volunteer my serv- of Brown I could not undertake the re- sponsibility of the defense as I am now situated. The

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gentlemen who have defended Brown have acted in an honorable and dignified manner in all respects so far as I know; but I can not assume the responsibility of de-

m mys many reasons First, it would sin me to do it, because I have not read the ind ic ent t gl ave not, « pt so far as I have listened t if Ca and heard « r this morning, got any idea of the f f proposed, and have no knowledge of the inal code of Virginia, a time to read it. I had no time to examine the « * arising in this defense, some of «hich ar f consid

importance, especially th tion over arn ontinuati

relative to t ! ry grounds For all these rea a I ask n of the case till te-morrow r

THE SOUTHERN COUNSEL RESIGN arose to state that Mr. I and | self t i « and | in f r, he hav g | lared here t confide the have been 1 his Feeling fident » done my whole duty so far as I have be« S stat n f Ils l feel myself an

1 this case we I had not u him from this rward » undertake the defensa, t

‘ e duty on me; andid ese rcumstances, when I feel com f the case, that the Court « | I ir ai 1 such an unwelcome sit : THE EVIDENCE FOR THE DEFENSE CLOSED. On Saturday, 29th, Samuel Chilton, of Washington,

and Henry Griswold, of Cleveland, O io, appeared as | prisoner's counsel with Mr. Hoyt, and were d

fied. After some discussion in reference to d y.’ h the Court refused to grant, the following witnesses wer: examined, and testified mainly to Brown's « i

desire to avoid the shedding of blood n EF. P. Da field, Major Mills, Samuel Snyder, ( aptain Sit Israc Russell, and Terence Burns THE ARGUMENT FOR THE COMMONWEALTH After some further argument in reference to delay i likewise upon an objecti n to the multifariousness of i ed the prosecutor to proce Mr. Harding then c ir ent for the Commonwealth, and spoke only f y minu He reviewed the testimony as « ed duri the examination, and dwelt for some time on the absur ity of the claim or expectation pr er that he should have been treated according the rule f hor orable warfare, He seemed to have lost sight of the fact that he was in command of a band of murderers and thieves, and had forfeited all title to protection of any kind The Court then adjourned at five o'clock, to meet again

at ten o'clock on Monday morning, when Mr. Chilton will deliver his opening speech for prisoner JOHN BROWN'S APPEAL FOR COUNSEL. As every thing now relative to that mis led. d ed man has interest, we give a letter received by Judge: ilden “he body the ha f Sheriff Campbell, | by “Old I “ Cuartestows, Jerrenson ( wTY 7 ‘To the Hon. Judge Tilden Dear S1rx,—I am here a prisot eral sa cuts in my head M ect in writing btain able a ne myself and fellow-prisoners, f hav faith of Virginia pledged thr 1 merous prominent citizens, to give us a fa y Ww r we can obtain such counsel from without the & States, the facts in our case can « e bef world, nor can we have t benef fs f be considered mitigat the view of hers I have money on hand here to the amount of , and personal property sufficient to pay ar t lit eral fee to yourself or any able man w! ! lertak our defense, if I can be allowed the benefit of said proy erty Can you or some other good man con diately, for the sake of the young men prisoners, at least? My wounds are doing well “Dor + send an ultra Al tionist “ Very respectfully yours, Joun Broww P.S.—The trial is set for Wednesday next, t 6t) instant J. W. Campprny, Sheriff Jeff. Co ARREST OF COOKE Captain Cooke was arrested on © yM . Daniel Loganjand Claggett Fitzhugt Frank lin County, fourteen miles from ¢ re sylvania. His printed commission, filled up and signed by Brown, and marked No. 4, was found on his per as was also a memorandum, written parchment, of the pistol presented to General Washington by Lafayette and bequeathed to Lewis W. Washington in 1854 I pistol, he says, is in a carpet bag, which he mountain, He came the mountain into the set

‘lement to obtain provisions, and was r hf ed d and almost « He was brought to Chambers and after an examinat before Just I and be ing fully identified by a citizen who fort knew } was committed to jail to await a requisit from G ernor Wise. H« owledged having thre It w

him en the mountains, one of whom was seen and versed with, having a bive blanket over } r and carrying a Sharpe's rifle and a d barrel The former, he said, belonge« » his part “ had

gone for provisions Governor Wise sent a requisition for him, and 1 taken to Virginia next day by officers from that Stat

and the party who arrested hi I e Sharpe ‘ and a «mall lot of ammunition were f din the wood by some boys. One rifie has C. P. Tidd I ing. They were no d& er the ‘

the men left on the mounts not been recovered, and n men A dispatch, received at Frederick City Captain Cooke passed through ing, in charge of a strong guard town, where he would arrive during gerstown the prisoner was exhibited the hotel to a numerous cr Hagerstown same ever

wd ANOTHER DOUGLAS MANIFEST Senator Douglas has publi General Black's views of

eignty. Mr. Douglas enters into the mer ' ject at considerable length, arg g with great ! favor of the position which he originally assumed \

thorities are extensively quoted to sustain his views. | conclusion, he repels with much indignation the charge preferred by the Att : working candidate f the his time of life he would 1 ) term in the Senate, with the chance which re-election, to being nominated for a f dential term. ral, that he is a

Presidency, an mue prefer

years FOREIGN NEWS. ENGLAND THE ‘‘ GREAT EASTERN” COMING AT LAST. The Great Eeatern is attracting gr Holyhead, and the Queen was to visit at crowds of exe

sionists t

ing her sojourn in Wales, on or about the 17th insta Nothing definite is known as to the timate movemer of the “ big ship." The Londo Times editorially cises her performance between Portland and Holyhead, and draws unfavorable deductions from the eed the attained. It thinks that unless the (re Ea ’ sents a more decided superiority t aller ve ian she at present seems to do, she will hardly be taken fora model The latest rumors are to the effect that the Great Fast- ern would sail for America about the 24th of October now ROLLS

SHE The correspondent of the Daily News, in his account of the trip from Portland, writes as follows: * A few hours before daybreak on Sunda; rning tl Great Eastern gave the first indicat sed by the motion of the

t t ad retire t the the nob-bau tic

sleep by a sensibl scillat w ) : . 4 ‘ i and, © very near t | t ft ‘ infor | ‘ ‘ s exact | " 1 and 5 h if necessary va el ances of wind and way I we ulthoug ficient t cca | n ome r tw ases, was varia ‘ t im the t ships we have bee 1 in be and of « se greatest when t ship was being ‘| at e eeting cr rrents and heary seas. | is sea ASA ’ t steadicst sailing is aga ! att liest point is with hiigies t DEATH OF ROBERT STEPHENSON. y and Smith's 7¥ The pul . with ‘ death of Mr. Robert & nt engineer, which t e I lecrased eman had bee feeble state of health for » time previous 1 la 1 under a : {ics—dr f the liv r i ‘ de . 4 ‘ ‘ ta , Mr. § enson ¢ a¢ i } t< " : va . ad proce { , Parlia ary e t toa acked eca-sich juced ja , Be to have la founda f a t ated fata Mr. Step ry ‘ wa was rehea wed | er, a his own works \ le le Hlis f Ss an " ar brid ve e b Nor Wales l £ k t . 1 ‘ . \ I k at the country s id ‘ ka, ite tw greatest ‘ i * Mr. Stepher } ‘ . v ’ i h } V y ff : fes t wt I they d« it ‘ years M led a life of « ‘ } | } ‘ i 8 Means, was | f all € V I career was a . by 1 FRANCE THE EMPEROR ON THE Por The Emy a f x t Ar p of I x} I thank I f X pressed Y r t t t and I i sprea ess ala I ank I eca | f Ié terta t . a f { Fat I I | y and | f Ita I v I f f ‘ pla i Fa , ed } g } i N ] \ ‘ | \ Is l e will acua v { ! ‘ ‘ 1 pa ‘ a iy f } ! a y 2] rea Ww ry : | A a B ni 5 we | a a | t ~ ‘ j ! ny to I \ . ik e¢ f lé b j 1d bt that . f En f “ ‘ t t s of Hea s and ra» SWITZERLAND THE ZURICH ONFERENCES The stat ard ey} f affairs a the Z h Confers s are ¢ A dispat lated 7 o ‘ k I ( f i aw a \ ‘ t le fl t sa ‘ | ] A La , g . 1 ‘ 1 ‘ France, w AS | itha t 1 ' ‘ \ ITALY rHE MURDEI A I Vi ‘ I vi Poat, dated ¢ f \ \ 7 k pla eects of I n \ ain ¢ LA ‘ ‘ ’ tate n al vy, and ‘ ated " rer f e late dyna w t 5 I furiated I was discovered by * ev at t f ‘ lis , dressed pila y, but a WA f eaid, as a peasant H ‘ uid t et essed of jet “, F € and a Papal j ® and t take i par n ‘ tria ‘ 11g ¢ guarantee se pa lle was ’ » t) hands of the ge larme it P ‘ y ne eir barrack rhe “ apture rar idenly like a shock t i As the word passed dow I 1 ‘ art ' trom and ‘ A wd ed r i barrack, a \ aT bee ' " ‘ ‘ abled " ‘ . i ha ! 1, J i it up ‘ f " | ‘ Iden w 1 { knew ‘ ‘ w rHE DICTAT AMATION AGAINST THE A 5A iN A le ‘ Pa . o Rays A proc mae ’ I . | has been posted uy in t ‘ 1 at this plac s ¥ eme bra ed i 5 Amma states : Italy has rise ! ‘ i devoted ict of ts sons in teem of a zed nations, and her pul cons insists u atisfac nf th rrid leed. and all be obta 4 I DD ‘ fa ‘| at vested the peo} v miss to } ect t efore a f . I f " I i. and th l be d ( iN ‘ BR ’ le at und of It I fi I aced K 7 r uke sactT f t ere : is ta ed I t fv Ema l has been afflicted by this dread nt lie is t govern people w ashe ‘ 1 of ‘ I i the batt f i; w kr ~ w ninta liberty f, as well aa 5 < ‘ f ere. because it w bey the laws of try At ‘ smati 1 the same sense has been pul by General Fat General Ril has been a pointed general « mande e tr f e town and province of Parma.” PROMPT MEASURES TAKEN The French consul at Parma has receive rders fror the imperial government to quit post Parma less prompt tice is ne, and-« ‘ ast ‘ ‘ ad : thar f+ ‘ ‘ 4 : ) ‘ ‘ | )

ae A ' I 6 A DI RA } li “ , ‘ ‘ , } w " 5, a 1 w I ; t ii ‘ alt } ne t! gh his slaughter f castl European sé pare tw mate—the 5 to the heart. 7 the ha ' is suppe awake ! las he la leck, ala sufieiently the deck a I V ger jumpe : " I At daybreak | A rope | f i } , “ I sed t ce leck I re V led. wer past nu the convicts had sli called and sec jer, it was fe large, and they , I

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[ NovemBer 5, 1859. —<—— THE LATE INVASION AT HARPER’S FERRY.—{From our own Artist CorRESPONDENT. } writer the anony- h warned the Sec- As the mous letter wh retary of War of the intended at- tack on the United States arsenals, etc., did not seem t yhave any clear idea of its geographical position, we think it robable that many of our readers may be equal- ly uninformed. Harper's Ferry is situated in Jefferson County, Virginia, at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers, on a point just opposite the gap through which the united streams pass the Blue toward the Ridge here is about 1 feet in height, ie , 18 cliffs on quite if Ridge on their way Che ocean twelve hy read

showing bare, pre either si snd exhib- eautiful enery to be » country. The ally built on tv 7 , 1 } of the most [ r natural s

found in t was orig stretchin, between the base the rivers, meeting nearly a right angle, ectively Pot town

) streets shelf of the blaff and at the point at and named and Shenan- rrow g along a na res} doah streets. To acc mae nmodate its increasing population the town has bluff, and, 1 villages and s sidences, straggled up the ste in deta ed re level ground above—about four hundred feet above the stre It has alt atter- occupies the ‘ am. gether a popu

and had been courteously enter- tained by him, took advantage of the knowledge thereby gained of the premises to steal a number of treasured family relics, among which was the sword presented by Frederick the Great to General George Washington. Some of these articles have been since recovered It was not until four o’cleck on Monday morning that the citizens of Harper's Ferry began to suspect that some mischief was afoot. The regular watchman at the bridge was missing, and an armed stran- ger stood guard in his place. As this fact was reported to Heywood, the well-known negro porter at the dépét, he went down to see about it. When he got there he was ap- proached by several armed men, one of whom handed him a rifle, and ordered bim to stand guard in the cause of freedom. Heywood expostulated with them, and res- olutely refused to take the rifle. Their motives were hastily ex- plained, and he was threatened with instant death if he did not join them. With heroic firmness the answered that they might kill him, but he would nev- er join in their murderous schemes. Seeing an opportunity, he attempt- el to escape, and v Thus the first life sacrificed by these philanthropic liberators w a necro s shot dead

of five thousand; is distant from that of a faithful negro. Richmond 173 miles; from Wash- Shortly after the workmen be ington City, 57 miles by turnpike gan to go to their work-shops. — road; and from Baltimo sO Among the first, a Mr. Kelly, on miles by rai lere the Baltimore n arme¢ ard : » grate a ee ere the Baltimore PORTRAIT OF OSSAWATTOMIE BROWN, WOUNDED AND A PRISONER.—[Sxercusp sy Porte CRravox DURING WIS 3ckod by what eas ees tomac by a magnificent covered EXAMINATION BY GOVERNOR Wiss. | taken I yssession of the public bridge, 900 feet long, and passes remises. The guardr plied, ““ By along Potomac Street westward, its track lying 40 | have doubtless been sufficiently and fully inform- At an hour after midnight Colonel Lewis Wash- the authority of God Almighty.” He was ordered feet above the river. The Winchester and Har- | ed on that subject. Indeed, the last accounts of | ington, living four miles from the town, was | to enter as prisoner; but, instead of obeying, per’s Ferry Railroad, lying along Shenandoah | the whole affair by the Baltimore reporters have | aroused from his sleep by a loud knocking at his | turned and made his escape, receiving a bullet Street, connects with the Baltimore and Ohio at | been sufficiently full and accurate. Some errors | door, and a voice calling him by name. Suppos- | through his hat as he ran. Mr. Boerly, the bridge. Potomac Street is entirely occupied by the workshops and offices of the National Armory, and its entrance is inclosed ite ly and iron railing Near] junction by a handsome at the angle of

are the old arsenal buildings, where usually from 100,009 to 200,000 stand of arms are stored. ° other buildings on the point, and nearer the bri are railr tels, eating-houses, stores, yad offices, h . Shenandoah Street contains stores honses {

r half a mile or more, when to Hall's rifle-works, situated on a small vah River. J e plat of the town would enlighten more than twenty cription, but I have non

at hand Of the antecedents, motives, and character of the men who made the attempt to possess them selves of the United States Works, and arms there- in contained, we shall 1 peak, except incident lle 7 ; ally, in the course of our narrative, as the public THE STORMING OF there are of minor importance, which have doubt- urred through haste and inadvertence. Some names have been gazetted who were not in the fight—some overlooked whose conduct merits commendation. There are also some important views connected with the moral of the affair that have not been made sufficiently prominent. In- deed, the very name of insurgents, with which the writers have seen fit to characterize the actors in the tragedy, and the term insurrection, as applied to the movement, are entirely inappropriate, and calculated of themselves to produce a false impres- less oc sion abroad. We shall dub them outlaws and invaders. The first overt act of hostility committed by them was the seizure of the watchman on the Po- tomac Bridge, who was carried prisoner to the Ar- mory buildings, of which they had already quietly taken possession. This was on Sunday night, 16th October, about half past ten o'clock.

ing it to be some friend come to claim hospitality, he lighted a lamp and went to the door, where, to his amazement, he found himself in the presence of six men armed with Sharpe’s rifles, knives, and revolvers. The leader, J. E. Cooke, told him he was a prisoner, but that he need feel no alarm, as no harm was intended to his person. The Colonel took the matter as coolly as could have been de- sired, assuring them that he not only was not frightened, but appreciated the honor they had done him in supposing it required six men, armed to the teeth, to capture a single man in his night- shirt. While he dressed himself the outlaws arrested all the negro men on the premises, attached horses to the Colonel's carriage and two wagons, and thus drove off toward Harper's Ferry. On their way they captured a Mr. John Alstadt, his son, and men-servants, in like manner. Cooke, who had previously visited Colonel Washington’s house,

a grocer, witnessed this scene as he was about opening his shop, and running out with his gun, fired at the guard. The next moment he was shot dead. In the mean time the rumor of these murders l as the town was aroused tained that the telegraph and below the town; the morning train stopped and detained for a time, and then permitted to proceed; and also that sev- eral leadi taken front their beds, and were held prisoners by a band of un- known persons in the Arm rrounds. The number of these prison twenty-five or thirty by the captu began to spread; an from sleep, it was « wires had been cut above

ling citizens had been

rs was increased to e of officers and employés, who went to the works to attend to their duties or from curiosity As the sun rose up outrages and the showed that from whatev came it was of a serious character. n the scene, the reported the murdered men er source the movement Sentinels, bodies of THE ENGINE-HOUSE BY THE UNITED STATES MARINES.—[Skercuen vy Ports Caaron.]

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Novemser 5, 1859.] iui with rifles and pistols, were seen guarding all the public build- ings, threatening death or firing at all who questioned or interfered with them; and the savage au- dacity with which they issued their orders gave assurance that the buildings were occupied by large bodies of men. Messengers were dispatched to all the neighboring towns for military assistance, while panic-stric ken citizens seized such arms as they could find, and gath- ered in small bedies on the out- skirts of the town, and at points remote from the works. All was confusion and mystery. Even the sight of several armed negroes among the strangers did not at once excite suspicion that it was an Anti-Slavery movement, and the report of one of the captured slaves confirmatory of that fact was received with doubt and in- credulity. Indeed so averse was the public mind to the acceptance of this belief, that the suggestion was every where received with de- rision, and every and any other explanation adopted in preference. Some supposed it was a strike among the discentented armorers, or the laborers on a Government dam, who had taken this means to obtain redress for real or imag- inary grievances. Others argued that it was a band of robbers or- ganized in some of the cities for the purpose of robbing the paymaster's strong box, known to contain some thousands of public money ; that the armed negroes were whites in disguise; that the idea of inciting a servile insurrection was a ruse, put forth to distract the public mind and enable them to escape with their booty. Still aroused, as much by curiosity and love of excitement as by the idea of real danger, the pee- ple of the neighboring towns and farm-houses armed themselves with such weapons as they could find, and trooped toward the scene of action by tens an‘4 by hundreds. Ina few hours Harper's Ferre, was surrounded completely with a bristiing cordor of men with every variety of arms, costume, 4. 9u- trement, and of all ages and condition. Here was the gray-haired farmer q ly pushing a greased bullet down the muzzle \is trusty squirrel pick- er; there a boy of fourteen, escaped from school, armed with a rusty horse-pistol loaded to the muz- zle with slugs and gravel. On foot and on horse- back, laborer and landed proprietor, the trades- man from his shop, the merchant from his coun- ter, the lawyer from his office, still they gathered in, armed and unarmed. The hunt was up—woe to the game inclosed within that fiery circle. In the mean time a guerrilla ficht had been fom- menced by the citizens of Harper's Ferry. A man named George Chambers, whose house com- manded the public grounds, shot the negro senti- nel that guarded the arsenal, and a dropping fire was heard in different quarters. Hall's rifle-works BROWN, HIS HARPER'S WEEKLY. After thi incident Mr Fon- taine Beckham, Mavor of Harper's Ferr and of of its most bh loved izens, ¢ ‘ elf on t a cK Y , ul from the engine-house, and wa ad As the spot w! he f va mm 1 completely ' : rt av I I , la ere for several hours b it VY ed The « t m f bloc neled wit! sy At ¢ ht the LiAW {j Thom who had t been k told to prepare { ith. He begged hard, but he wa ! ate hot lt v r 4 th ugiu t ba le ‘ into | bod ! fell f ‘ feet he wa } ¥ er eft to swi the | f ’ the next } 1 wy its « V re twer i bul- ] ‘ } ble ex iste At Kay of } } men f 1 Mart l in the nger train \ h had been turne k int morni T} party " pa li rmed \ out or ga \ 1 yl on I ch trot ri r mo i When the AIT 1 at t} upp nd of the Ar ry | é the P " u t ity ? { t ' l dt George Woll the rails } lear ! lant as tl t l l of th ‘ Wellet brol ‘ the ‘ ma hear ed in SON, AND ANOTHER OF THE OUTLAWS AWAITING EXAMINATION.—[(Sxercuxp py Ponte Crayox.] "ong himself in, but was shot rough ! arm Y @ rifie- : 1} tt kK was p ] " on the Shenandoah were assailed by the Jefferson | to reconnoitre the position of the outlaws in the | with al f i, three of them dat Volunteers, supposing it to be strongly occupied Arm« ry in losure, and while so doi was shot ge is] Ir) f " he It was taken without great difficulty, and to the dead Captain Turner was a graduate of West ation of eight l ] rs astonishment of all, its garrison was ascertained | Point, and for some years an officer in the United and the deat v I to have consisted of but fivemen. These attempt- | States Army. He wasa gentleman of fortune, and | ed of the M ! le mene ed to escape by wading and swimming the Shen- | one of the most esteemed citizens of the county ti ar ih, but four of them were shot while in the When the shell was cracked at the rifle-works, and G v j and one was taken unhurt. A wretch, | found to contain so small a kernel, people began t I I» y ‘ mortaily wounded, was dragged from the river perceive they had greatly overestimated the num- K he . ; a citizen, and laid upon the bank sh.vering with bers of the enemy, and no time was lost in taking ‘ vo Hi. M cold and joss of blood He hegged to be t to possession of the town and closing all the passages N. Hooper a fire, promising to « very thing. ‘The by- | ofescape. The outlaw chief, too, had by this time | A standers carried bh old cooper's shop bard | perceived that, instead of hundreds of allies, he was One of the out! ed the Armory in by, where a hasty bl» was kindled. He told | hemmed in by thousands of infuriated enemies; | closure by ' ' which led that his name was Lewis Leary ; that he had been | and gathering together the remnant of his desper |} to the Potomac Ri He tl way bist enlis' ed Oberlin, Ohio, to serve in the great | ate band, wit ith a few frightened negroes and the | and attempted t ! was hindered by the war of tion to commen ¢ at Harper's Ferry. élite of his prisoners, he retired into the fire-engine weight of | enc I r the fire of He left a wi three cl \dren, and entreated | house, within the public grounds A short time twenty! ! t a1 MI raw some one to write to them inform them of th after two of his party came out, each leading a cit a knife, atte v ' G manner of his death. He s:: he was enlisted by izen prisoner—whether to parley or to escape was Schoppart, of Ma wade at Ut within aman named Willet, and wa: awfully deceived. | not understood. When they appeared in the street | ten paces of A nn l. In his pock- He was a good-looking mulatio, quite young, and | one of the outlaws was immediately shot down et was! ‘ which reads as nearly white. After lingering in gr zeny for | and the other captured ; the citizen prisoners thu foll twelve hours he died. rejoining their friends. The outlaw who was thus japrene, Wan Deraavunst, About this time Captain George Turner, who | shot was Aaron C. Stephens, who still lives a pris- wl W. IT. Leem ux 1 inated a captain had come down with the Jefferson military, went | oner, although supposed to be mortally wounded. in th 1 stablished under the Provisional Cons Hi ithe ii ti Me THE GUARD-ROOM, WITH THE WOUNDED PRISONERS.—(Saercuep sy Pears Caaron.] ih F ee

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ton: now therefore, In pursaance of the authority vest- ed in me by said Constitution, we do hereby appoint and commission the said W. H. Leeman captain. Given at the office of the Secretary of War this day, Ith of O tober, 1859 toun Brows, Commander-in-Chief. H. Keys, Seeretary of Wer From this time there was no more active work. The town was occupied by a thousand or fifteen hundred men, including volunteer companies from Charlestown, Winchester, and but the armed and unorganized multi- tude largely predominated, giving the affair more the character of a great hunting scene than that of The savage game was holed beyond all possibility of escape. To storm the building, and annihilate the remnant of the bloody band, would not have been the work of twenty minutes; but the dread of thus hazarding the lives of the citi- zen prisoners restrained the wish for immediate ac- rmined to guard the premises During the night Colonel Shepherdstown, else where, a battle. tion. It was det narrowly, and wait. Robert Lee, of the United States Army, arrived with about a hundred marines and two pieces of artillery Major Russell was in immediate com- mand of the troops, and Lieutenant Stuart, of the cavalry, acted as volunteer aid to Colonel Lee. [bese tro ps took possession of the Armory yard, ! ximity to the engine-house, and the night was passe in immediate pro i in comparative quiet. One of the prisoners reports that during the night Brown acknowledged that all was lost; he knew that he had forfeited his life, and determined to sell it as dearly as possibile. The courage of his men, too, began to give way, and they wished to surren- der; but he urged them to continued desperation. One whom the idea seemed to strike for the first time, asked, ‘‘ Captain Brown, would this enter- prise in which we are engaged be called ‘ High Treason?’” “Very likely it would be so consid- ered,” replied Browr rhen,” said the man, ‘I will not fire another shot ** It will make no dif- feren you,” said Brown, “except that you will lie like a dog b

g like a man.” ” says our informer, ard continually repeat- you awake, men? are you ready ?’” instead of fallin * During the livelong ni

‘the voice of Brown was he iz g. ‘Ar When Tuesday morning came the troops were put in position and a flag was sent to the besieged,

borne by Samuel Stricler, a citizen, and accompa- nied by Lieutenant Stuart, Colonel Lee’said. They were received at the door by Brown. The demand for an unconditional surrender was peremptorily refused, The terms proposed by Brown were, that he and his party should be escorted by the marines to the Maryland shore and pursuit by the citizens restrained until he could in which case he would leave the country and give up bis prisoner hostages unhurt. escape ; Of course these terms were in- nissible, and the parley lasted some time with- out result. In the mean time the storming party of twelve marines, headed by Lieutenant Israel Green, took position on either side of the centre door. As the parley ended, the officer stepped back several paces and waved his hat. Two stal- wart soldiers sprung forward, and with heavy sledges tried to force the door. One of the engines inside had been pushed against it, and it resisted all their efforts. Thirty men then came forward, and taking a heavy forty-foot ladder, used it as a battering-ram, dropping upon their knees at each blow to avoid the expected volley on the falling of the door.

At the third or fourth blow it gave way, and the stormers rushed in gallantly, headed by Lieutenant Green. The pent-up excitement of the multitude now burst forth in a shout that shook the air, and nearly drowned the sharp crash of fire-arms that received the stormers on their entrance. Private Quinn, one of the first who entered. re- ceived a mortal wound. Turning back, he drepped his musket and staggered to the rear, where he fell, preserving to the last bis quiet, soldierly bear- ing. Private Rupert receive! an ugly wound in the cheek. Colonei Washington, who through all these trying scenes had borne himself with an intrepid coolness that ex cited the admiration of the brigund chief himself, now did important service. The moment the marines entered he sprung upon one of the engines, told his fellow-prisoners to hold up their hauds that they might be recognized as non-combatants, and then rapidly pointed out the outlaws to the vengeance of the soldiers. Having discharged their pieces in the faces of the soldiers, several of these threw down their arms and begged for quarter. Untamable to the last, old Brown sat in a corner loading his rifle, a breech-loader, and in this position received a sabre-stroke from Lieutenant Green which threw him forward on his hands and knees. Two or three bayonet stabs fin- ished him, it was then supposed, Ottowa Brown, his son, was shot down and bayoneted. A soldier seeing Colonel Washington in an act- ive and prominent position, mistook him for one of the outlaws, leveled his piece and put his finger on the trigger; but fortunately remembering the cau- tion in regard to the prisoners, he desisted. Shields Green, alias Emperor, a negro M.C. under the fu-

ture provisional srmment, sneaked among the slave prisoners, hoping thus to escape notice and detection; but perceived by Colonel Washington, he was hauled forth to meet hisdoom. Doubtless, at that moment he would have swapped himself and his honors to boot for the meanest field-nigger on a Georgia plantati The citizen captives, released from their long and trying confinement, hurried out to meet their friends with every demonstration of joy; while the bloody carcasses of the dead and dying outlaws were dragged into the lawn amidst the howls and »xecrations of the peepl It was a hideous and ghastly dpectacle. Some stark and stiff, with star- ing eyes and fallen jaws, were the dead of vesterday; while others, struck with death wounds, writhed and wallowed in their blood. Two only wer brought out unhurt—Coppick, and'Green the ne- 1d they only escaped immediate death hy accident, the soldiers not at once distinguishing them from the captive citizens and slaves. The quiet and thorough manner in which this delicate business was executed ‘reflects great cred- it on the officers and men engaged, and is a beauti- ful exemplification of the immense superiority of trained soldiers over all others. Thus ended the first battle of the Provisional Government forces led by Lieut.-General Brown. ‘¢Quem Deus vult perdere prius dementat.” The outlaw force consisted of only twenty-two men, who were disposed of as follows : LIST OF THE INVADING PARTY. . John Brown, of Essex Co., New York, wounded and prisoner. Ottowa Brown, his son, of New York, killed. Watson Brown, ditto. ditto. killed. Aaron C. Stephens, of Conn., mortally wounded. Edwin Coppick, of Iowa, prisoner. Albert Hazlett, of Pennsylvania, killed. William H. Leeman, of Maine, killed. Stewart Taylor, of Canada, killed, . Charles P. Tidd, of Maine, killed. . William Thompson, of New York, killed. . Dolph Thompson, of New York, killed, . John Kage, of Ohio, killed. . Jerry Anderson, of Indiana, killed. 14. Dangerfield Newby, negro, of Ohio, killed. 15. O. P. Anderson, negro, of Pennsylvania, killed. 16. Lewis Leary, negro, of Ohio, killed, 17. Shields Green, alias Emperor, negro, of Pa., prisoner. 18, _— Copeland, negro, of Ohio, prisoner. 19. J. BE. Cooke, white man, ef Connecticut, prisoner. i ” POP AS Aw yo —~ ro =) There are three unaccounted for, who have prob- ably escaped with Cooke; but it is to be sincerely hoped, for the credit of humanity, that their escape is not final. The mid-day train of Tuesday brought Governor Wise, accompanied by several hundred men from Richmond, Alexandria, Baltimore, and elsewhere. There was real disappointment to find that the fight was over, and when the Governor was in- formed of the mere handful of men who had cre-

ated ail this bobbery he boiled over. In his wrath he said some good things. Indeed it was univers- ally seen and felt that Governor Wise was just the man for such an occasion. Accompanied by Andrew Hunter, Esq., a dis- tinguished lawyer of Jefferson County, the Gov- ernor presently repaired to the guard-room where the two wounded prisoners lay, and there had a protracted and interesting conversation with the chief of the outlaws. It had more the character of a conversation than a legal examination, for the Governor treated the wounded man with a stately courtesy that evidently surprised and af- fected him. Brown was lying upon the floor with his feet to the fire and his head propped upon pil- lows on the back of a chair. During the examin- ation I sketched the portrait, which is an accurate likeness of him as he then appeared. His hair was a mass of clotted gore, so that I could not distin- guish the original color. His eye a pale blue or gray, nose Roman, and beard, originally sandy, was white and blood-stained. His speech was fre- quently interrupted by deep groans, not awaken- ing sympathy like those of the young soldier dying in the adjacent office, but reminding one of the agonized grow] of a ferocious beast. A few feet from the leader lay Stephens, a fine- looking fellow, quiet, not in pain apparently, and conversing in a voice as full and natural as if he were unhurt. However, his hands lay folded upon his breast in a childlike, helpless way—a position that I observed was assumed by all those who had died or were dying of their wounds. Only those who were shot stone-dead lay as they fell. Brown was frank and communicative, answer- ing all questions without reserve, except such as might implicate his immediate associates not yet killed or taken. I append some extracts from notes taken during the conversation by Mr. Hunter: ‘* Brown avers that the small pamphlet, many copies of which were found on the persons of the slain, and entitled ‘ Provisional Constitution and Ordinances for the People of the United States,’ was prepared principally by himself, and adopted at a convention of Abolitionists held about two years ago at Chatham, Canada West, where it was printed. That under its provisions he was ap- pointed ‘ Commander-in-Chief.’ His two sons and Stephens were each captains, and Coppick a lieu- tenant. They each had their commissions, issued by himself. ‘“* He avers that the whole number operating un- der this organization was but twenty-two, each of whom had taken the oath required by Article 48 ; but he confidently expected large reinforcements from Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland, North and South Carolina, and several other Slave States, i<sides the Free States—taking it for granted that it was only necessary to seize the public arms and place them in the hands of the negroes and non- slaveholders to recruit his forces indefinitely. In this calculation he reluctantly and indirectly ad- mitted that he had been entirely disappointed." But most of the particulars of this conversation have already reached the public, and we will not present them a second time. Concluding that the prisoner must be seriously weakened by his vigils and his wounds, the Gov- ernor ordered some refreshment to be given him, and, appointing a meeting on the following day, took his leave. As some of us lingered, the old man recurred again to his sons, of whom he had spoken several times, asking if we were sure they were both dead. He was assured that it was so. ‘‘How many bodies did you take from the en- gine-house ?” he asked, He was told three. “Then,” said he, quickly, ‘they are not both dead; there were three dead bodies there last night. Gentlemen, my son is doubtless living and in your power. I will ask for him what I would not ask for myself; let him have kind treatment,

for he is as pure and noble-hearted a youth as ever | breathed the breath of life.” | There was some show of human feeling in the | old felon at last, but his prayer was vain, Both his boys lay stark and bloody by the Armory wall. I had observed Stephens holding a small packet in his folded hands, and feeling some curiosity in HARPER'S WEEKLY.

regard to it, it was handed to me. It contained miniatures of his sisters; one, a sweet girlish face of about fourteen, the other more mature, but pret- ty. What strange reflections these incidents awak- ened! This old man craves a boon for his noble boys, which neither pain nor death can bring him to ask for himself. The other clasps to his dying breast a remembrance of his gentle sisters and his father’s elm-shaded cottage far away in peaceful Connecticut. Is this pity that thus dims my eyes ? a rising sympathy that struggles in my heart? Away with puling weakness. Has not this hoary villain, that prates about his sons, been for months a deliberate plotter against the lives and happiness of thousands? Did he not train these very boys to aid him in his attempt to waste, with fire and sword, the fairest land under the cope of hoaven? And this bloody dupe—his follower—how many men’s sisters did he propose to murder; how many social hearths to quench in blood; for what use were those hundreds of deadly rifles, those loads of pikes, those bundles of incendiary fagots? A felon’s death! Almighty Providence! is man in- deed so weak that he can inflict no more ? And all about this good-humored, good-for-no- thing, half-monkey race—the negroes. Let us walk through the streets of Harper's Ferry and see what part they have played in the drama. It seems that there is not the remotest suspicion that a single individual among them had any fore- knowledge of Brown's moyement. It is well as- certained that neither threats, promises, nor per- suasion could induce one of them to join the move- ment when it was proposed to them. Heywood was shot dead while heroically expressing his hor- ror of their nefarious designs. Brown discovered early that he could make no use of such as he had captured, and on Monday morning sent Cooke and two other white men, with eleven negro prisoners over to the Maryland side, where they were em- ployed in removing the arms and munitions of war from the Kennedy farm to the log school-house in the mountain opposite the town. This was done that they might be more convenient for those im- aginary recruits which the insane brigands still seemed confidently to expect. As Cooke and his companions went at times to the river to fire across at the Virginians these ne- groes escaped, dodging through the woods, swim- ming the river, and running every hazard, re- turned to their respective homes. I conversed with several of them who narrated their adven- tures, while in the power of these cut-throat stran- gers, with great humor and vivacity. One fellow said that, when he was taken, a pike was put into his hands by Brown, who told him to take it and strike for liberty. . “Good lord, Massa,” cried Cuffee, in a tremor, **T don’t know nuffin "bout handlin’ dem tings.” “Take it instantly,” cried the philanthropist, “and strike home. This is a day that will long be remembered in the history of your race—a glorious anniversary.” “* Please God, Massa, I'se got a sore finger,” and Cuffee exhibited a stump, the first joint of which he had lost in a wheat-:uachine some vears before. Finding that he had no mind to be a hero, Brown took him to the Armory, and during the siege sent him out for water. As soon as he got out of range of their guns he broke the pitcher and fled for his life. I narrate the story faithfully as it was told to me. Many similar anecdotes I gleaned from the darkeys themselves, but have not space to re- late them. In the town they were passing to and fro with entire freedom, jubilating over their own escapes and jeering at the dead carcasses of the Liberators. Several told me that Brown, in urging them to arm, said, repeatedly, “ Don’t you know me? Did you never hear of John Brown of Kan- sas—old Ossawatomie Brown?” ‘This only fright- ened the negroes more. They dropped the pikes, like the devil's gifts, and took to their heels, hiding every where under straw ricks, barns, and stables. On the other hand, there is sufficient ang full evi- dence to show that, had their masters been present in any instance, the slaves would, in their defense, have very cheerfully thrust the pikes into the bod- ieg of the pseudo-philanthropists, proving that they were not so ignorant of the pitch-fork exercise as they pretended. As for the non-slaveholding inhabitants, on whom Brown calculated so confidently for assistance, it is estimated that at least four out of five of those who volunteered so promptly were non-slaveholders and of non-slaveholding families. They were the fight- ing men of the occasion, the stormers, who went to work with a remorseless ferocity equaling that of the outlaws themselves. Any man who has heretofore imagined that he had sounded the depths of human folly and human wickedness will yet be amazed when he considers this affair at Harper's Ferry. It is generally re- garded as the insane attempt of a monomaniac; an act which, as it is without precedent, and is likely to remain without a parallel, whose intense silli- ness is only equaled by its atrocity, would be lu- dicrous had not the blood of some of our best citi- zens made it tragic. As for Brown’s boast, ‘‘that, if at liberty, he could bring five thousand men to aid him,” it is not credited ; for if he had these means at his dis- posal, why did he enter Harper's Ferry with twen- ty-two only ? Brown is evidently the originator of the whole scheme—its head and right arm. After two years of effort he has only been enabled to muster twen- ty-one dupes with nerve enough to follow him; and these, without exception, where they have had an opportunity to speak before they perished, have acknowledged that they were miserably deceived. That there are persons at a distince who have aided and encouraged him is proven by the cap- tured correspondence. But these white-livered suborners of murder and treason are not danger- ous. The head of the fanatical serpent, with its bloody fangs, we have crushed under our heel— its tail may writhe and rattle, but can not bite. D. H. Strormer. BerKELey Springs, Virerta.

[Novemper 5, 1859. LOIS THE WITCH. IN THREE PARTS.

PART III. “Tre sin of witchcraft.” We read about it we look on it from the outside ; but we can hard. ly realize the terror it induced. Every impulsive or unaccustomed action, every little nervous affec. tion, every ache or pain was noticed, not merely by those around the sufferer, but by the person himself, whoever he might be, that was acting, being acted upon, in any but the most simple and ordinary manner. He or she (for it was most fre. quently a woman or girl that was the supposed subject) felt a desire for some unusual kind of food —some unusual motion or rest—her hand twitch. ed, her foot was asleep, or her leg had the cramp ; and the dreadful question immediately suggested itself, “‘ Is any one possessing an evil power over me by the help of Satan ?” and perhaps they went on to think, ‘‘ It is bad enough to feel that my body can be made to suffer through the power of some unknown evil-wisher to me, but what if Sa- tan gives them still further power, and they can touch my soul, and inspire me with loathful thoughts leading me into crimes which at present I abhor?” and so on, till the very dread of what might happen, and the constant dwelling of the thoughts, even with horror, upon certain possibil- ities, or what were esteemed such, really brought about the corruption of imagination at least, which at first they had shuddered at. Moreover, there was a sort of uncertainty as to who might be in- fected—not unlike the overpowering dread of the plague, which made some shrink from their best- beloved with irrepressible fear—the brother or sis- ter who was the dearest friend of their childhood and youth might now be bound in some mysteri- ous deadly pact with evil spirits of the most horri- ble kind—who could tell? And in such a case it became a duty, a sacred duty, to give up the earth- ly body which had been once so loved, but which was now the habitation of a soul corrupt and hor- rible in its evil inclinations. Possibly, terror of death might bring on confession, and repentance, and purification. Or if it did not, why away with the evil creature, the witch, out of the world, down to the kingdom of the master whose bidding was done on earth in all manner of corruption and tor- ture of God's creatures. There were others who, with these more simple, if more ignorant, feelings of horror at witches and witchcraft, added the de- sire, conscious or unconscious, of revenge on those whose conduct had been in any way displeasing te them. Where evidence takes a supernatural char- acter there is no disproving it. This argument comes up: ‘‘ You have only the natural powers; I have supernatural. You admit the existence of the supernatural by the condemnation of this very crime of witchcraft. You hardly know the limits of the natural powers ; how, then, can you define the supernatural? I say that in the dead of night, when my body seemed to all present to be lying in quiet sleep, I was in the most complete and wake- ful consciousness, present in my body at an assem- bly of witches and wizards, with Satan at their head; that I was by them tortured in my body because my soul would not acknowledge him as its king ; that I witnessed such and such deeds. What the nature of the appearance was that took the semblance of myself, sleeping quietly in my bed, I know not; but once admit the possibility of witch- craft, and you can not disprove my evidence.” This evidence might be given truly or falsely, as the person witnessing believed it or not ; but every one must see what immense and terrible power was abroad for revenge. Then, again, the accused themselves ministered to the horrible panic abroad. Some, in dread of death, confessed from cowardice to the imaginary crimes of which they were ac- cused, and of which they were promised a pardon on confession. Some, weak and terrified, came honest!y to believe in their own guilt, through the diseases of imagination which were sure to be en- gendered at such a time as this. Lois sat spinning with Faith. Both were silent, pondering over the stories that were abroad. Lois spoke first. “Oh, Faith! this country is worse than ever England was, even in the days of Master Matthew Hopkinson, the witch-finder. I grow frightened of every one, I think. I even get afeared some- times of Nattee !" Faith colored a little. Then she asked, “Why? What should make you distrust the Indian woman ?” ‘Oh! I-am ashamed of my fear as soon as it arises in my mind. But you know her look and color were strange to me when first I came; and she is not a christened woman; and they tell stories of Indian wizards; and I know not what the mixtures are which she is sometimes stirring over the fire, nor the meaning of the strange chants she sings to herself. And once I met her in the dusk, just close by Pastor Tappau’s house, in company with Hota, his servant; it was just before we heard of the sore disturbance in his house, and I have wondered if she had aught to do with it.” Faith sat very still, as if thinking. At last she said, «If Nattee has powers beyond what you and I have, she will not use them for evil; at least, not evil to those whom she loves.” “ That comforts me but little,” said Lois. ‘‘If she has powers beyond what she ought to have, I dread her though I have done her no evil; nay, though I could almost say she bore me a kindly feeling. But such powers are only given by the Evil One; and the proof thereof is that, as you imply, Nattee would use them on those who offend her.” ‘*‘And why should she not?” asked Faith, lift- ing her eyes, and flashing heavy fire out of them at the question. ‘* Because,” said Lois, not seeing Faith’s glance, “we are told to pray for them that despitefully or

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Novemser 5, 1859. ] use us, and to do good to them that persecute us. But poor Nattee is not a christened woman. I would that Mr. Nolan would baptize her ; it would, maybe, take her out of the power of Satan's tempt- ations.” : . “ Are you never tempted ?” asked Faith, half scornfully ; “and yet I doubt not you were well baptized.” “True,” said Lois, sadly. “I often do very wrong; but perhaps I might have done worse if the holy form had not been observed.” They were again silent for a time. “ Lois,” said Faith, “I did not mean any of- fense. But do you never feel as if you would give up all that future life, of which the parsons talk, and which seems so vague and so distant, for a few years of real vivid blessedness to begin to-mor- row—this hour, this minute? Oh, I could think of happiness for which I would willingly give up all those misty chances of heaven—” “Faith, Faith!” cried Lois, in terror, holding her hand before her cousin’s mouth, and looking around in fright. ‘Hush! you know not who may be listening ; you are putting yourself in his ower.” But Faith pushed her hand away, and said, “ Lois, I believe in him no more than I believe in heaven. Both may exist, but they are so far away that I defy them. Why all this ado about Mr. Tappau's house—promise me never to tell living creature, and I will tell you a secret.” “No!” said Lois, terrified. ‘I dread all se- crets. I will hearnone. I will do all that I can for you, Cousin Faith, inany way ; but just at this time I strive to keep my life and thoughts within the strictest bounds of godly simplicity, and I dread pledging myself to aught that is hidden and secret.”’ “As you will, cowardly girl, full of terrors, which, if you had listened to me, might have been lessened, if not entirely done away with.” And Faith would not utter another word, though Lois tried meekly to entice her into conversation on some other subject. The rumor of witchcraft was like the echo of thunder among the hills. It had broken out in Mr. Tappau's house, and his two little daughters were the first supposed to be bewitched ; but round abeut, from every quarter of the town, came in ac- counts of sufferers by witcheraft. There was hardly a family without one of these supposed vic- tims, Then arose a growl and menace of venge- ance from many a household—menaces deepened, not daunted, by the terror and mystery of the suf- fering that gave rise to them. At length a day was appointed when, after sol- emn fasting and prayer, Mr. Tappau invited the neighboring ministers and all godly people to as- semble at his house, and unite with him in devot- ing a day to solemn religious services, and to sup- plication for the deliverance of his children, and those similarly afflicted, from the power of the Evil One. All Salem poured out toward the house of the minister. There was a look of excitement on all their faces; eagerness and horror was de- picted on many a face, while stern resolution, amounting to determined cruelty, if the occasion arose, was seen on others. In the midst of the prayer, Hester Tappau, the younger girl, fell into convulsions; fi: after fit came on, and her screams mingled with the shrieks and cries of the assembled congregation. In the first pause, when the child was partially recover- ed, when the people stood around exhausted and breathless, her father, the Pastor Tappau, lifted his right hand, and adjured her, in the name of the Trinity, to say who tormented her. There was a dead silence; not a creature stirred of all those hundreds. Hester turned wearily and un- easily, and moaned out the name of Hota, her fa- ther’s Indian servant. Hota was present, appar- ently as much interested as any one; indeed, she had been busying herself much in bringing rem- edies to the suffering child. But now she stood aghast, transfixed, while her name was caught up and shouted out in tones of reprobation and hatred by all the crowd around her. Another moment and they would have fallen upon the trembling creature and torn her limb from limb—pale, dusky, shivering Hota, half guilty-looking from her very bewilderment. But Pastor Tappau, that gaunt, gray man, lifting himself to his utmost height, signed to them to go back, to keep still while he addressed them; and then he told them that in- stant vengeance was not just, deliberate punish- ment; that there would be need of conviction, per- chance of confession—he hoped for some redress for his suffering children from her revelations, if she were brought to confession. They must leave the culprit in his hands, and in those of his broth- er ministers, that they might wrestle with Satan before delivering her up to the civil power. He spoke well, for he spoke from the heart of a father seeing his children exposed to dreadful and mys- teriou, suffering, and firmly believing that he now held the clew in his hand which should ultimately release them and their fellow-sufferers. And the congregation moaned themselves into unsatisfied submission, and listened to his long, passionate prayer, which he uplifted even while the hapless ilota stood there, guarded and bound by two men, who glared at her like blood-hounds ready to slip even while the prayer ended in the words of the merciful Saviour. Lois sickened and shuddered at the whole scene; and this was no intellectual shuddering at the folly and superstition of the people, but with tender moral shuddering at the sizht of guilt which she believed in, and at the evidence of men’s hatred and abhorrence, which, when shown even to the guilty, troubled and distressed her merciful heart. She followed her aunt and cousins out into the open air with down- cast eyes and pale face. Grace Hickson was going home with a feeling of triumphant relief at the de- tection of the guilty one. Faith alone seemed un- easy and disturbed beyond her wont, for Manasseh received the whole transaction as the fulfillment of a prophecy, and Prudence was excited by the whole scene into a state of discordant high spirits. “I am quite as old as Hester Tappau,” said she; ‘‘her birthday is in September and mine in October.” “What has that to do with it?” said Faith, sharply. ** Nothing, only she seemed such a little thing for all those grave ministers to be praying for, and so many folk come from a distance—some from Boston they said —all for her sake, as it were. Why, didst thou see it was godly Mr. Henwick that held her head when she wriggled so, and old Madam Holbrook had herself helped upon a chair to see the better. I wonder how long I might wriggle before great and godly folk would take so much notice of me? But I suppose that comes of being a pastor’s daughter. She'll be so set up there'll be no speaking to hernow. Faith! think- est thou that Hota really had bewitched her? She gave me corn-cakes the last time I was at Pastor Tappau’s, just like any other woman, only, per- chance, a trifle more good-natured ; and to think of her being a witch after all!" But Faith seemed in a hurry to reach home, and paid no attention to Prudence’s talking. Lois hastened on with Faith, for Manasseh was walking alongside of his mother, and she kept steady to her plan of avoiding him, even though she pressed her company upon Faith, who had seemed of late de- sirous of avoiding her. That evening the news spread through Salem that Hota had confessed her sin, had acknowledged that she wasawitch. Nattee was the first to hear the intelligence. She broke into the room where the girls were sitting with Grace Hickson, solemn- ly doing nothing, because of the great prayer meet- ing in the morning, and cried out, “‘ Mercy, mercy, mistress, every bojly! take care of poor Indian Nattee, who never do wrong, but for mistress and the family; Hota one bad wicked witch, she say so herself; oh, me! oh, me!" and stooping over Faith, she said something in a low, miserable tone of voice, of which Lois only heard the word “ tor- ture.” But Faith heard all, and turning very pale, half accompanied, half led Nattee back to her kitchen. Presently, Grace Hickson came in. She had been out to see a neighbor; it will not do to say that so godly a woman had been gossiping ; and, indeed, the subject of the conversation she had held was of too serious and momentous a aature for me to employ a light word to designate it. There was all the listening and repeating small de- tails and rumors, in which the speakers have no concern, that constitutes gossiping ; but in this in- stance, all trivial facts and speeches might be con- sidered to bear such dreadful significance, and might have so ghastly an ending, that such whis- pers were occasionally raised to a tragic import- ance. Every fragment of intelligence that related to Mr. Tappau’s household was eagerly snatched at; how his dog howled all one long night through, and could not be stilled; how his cow suddenly failed in her milk only two months after she had calved; how his memory had forsaken him one morning for a minute or two in repeating the Lord's Prayer, and he had even omitted a clause thereof in his sudden perturbation ; and how all these fore- runner’s of his children's strange illness might now be interpreted and understood—this had formed the staple of the conversation between Grace Hickson and her friends. There had arisen a dispute among them at last as to how far these subjections to the power of the Evil One were to be considered as a judgment upon Pastor Tappau for some sin on his part; andifso, what? It was not an unpleasant discussion, although there was a good deal of dif- ference of opinion ; for as none of the speakers had had their families so troubled, it was rather a proof that they had none of them committed any sin. In the midst of all this talk, one, entering in from the street, brought the news that Hota had confessed all, had owned to signing a certain little red book which Satan had presented to her, had been present at impious sacraments, had ridden through the air to Newbury Falls, and, in fact, had assented to all the questions which the elders and magistrates, carefully reading over the confessions of the witch- es who had formerly been tried in England, in or- der that they might not omit a single inquiry, had asked of her. More she had owned to, but things of inferior importance, and partaking more of the nature of earthly tricks than of spiritual power. She had spoken of carefully adjusted strings, by which all the crockery in Pastor Tappau’s house could be pulled down or disturbed; but of such in- telligible malpractices the gossips of Salem took little heed. One of them said that such an action showed Satan's prompting, but they all preferred to listen to the grander guilt of the blasphemous sacraments and supernatural rides. The narrator ended with saying that she was to be hung the next morning, in spite of her confession, even al- though her life had been promised to her if she ac- knowledged her sin; for it was well to make an example of the first-discovered witch, and it was also well that she was an Indian, a heathen, whose life would be no great loss to the community. Grace Hickson on this spoke out. It was well that witches should perish off the face of the earth, In- dian or English, heathen, or worse, a baptized Christian who had betrayed the Lord, even as Judas did, and had gone over to Satan. For her part, she wished that the first-discovered witch had been a member of a godly English household, that it might be seen of all men that religious folk were willing to cut off the right hand, and pluck out the right eye, if tainted with this devilish sin. She spoke sternly and well. The last comer said that her words might be brought to the proof, for it had been whispered that Hota had named others, and some among the most religious families of Salem, whom she had seen among the unholy communicants at the sacrament of the Evil One. And Grace replied that she would answer for it, all godly folk would stand the proof, and quench all natural affection rather than that such asin should grow and spread smong them. She herself had a weak bodily dread of witnessing the violent death even of an animal; but she would not let that deter her from standing among those HARPER'S WEEKLY. 715 who cast the rccursed creature out from among them on the morrow morning. Contrary to her wont, Grace Hickson told bor family much of this conversation. It was a sign of her excitement on the subject that she thus spoke, and the excitement spread in different forms through her family. Faith was flushed and rest- less, wandering between the keeping-room and the kitchen, and questioning her mother particularly as to the more extraordinary parts of Hota's con- fession, as if she wished to satisfy herself that the Indian witch had really done those horrible and mysterious deeds. Lois shivered and trembled with affright at the narration, and the idea that such things were pos- sible. Occasionally she found herself wandering off into sympathetic thought for the woman who was to die, abhorred of all men, and unpardoned by God, to whom she had been so fearful a traitor, and who was now, at this very time—when Lois sat among her kindred by the warm and cheerfal firelight, anticipating many peaceful—perchance happy—tmorrows—solitary, shivering, panic-strick- en, guilty, with none to stand by her and exhort her, shut up in darkness between the cold walls of the town prison. But Lois almost shrank from sympathizing with so loathsome an accomplice of Satan, and prayed for forgiveness for her chari- table thought; and yet, again, she remembered the tender spirit of the Saviour, and allowed herself to fall into piety, till at last all ber sense of right and wrong became so bewildered that she could only leave all in God's hands, and just ask that He would take all creatures and all events into His hands. Prudence was as bright as if she were listening to some merry story—curious as to more than her mother would tell her—seeming to have no partic- ular terror of witches or witchcraft, and yet to be especially desirous to accompany her mother the next morning to the hanging. Lois shrank from the cruel, eager face of the young girl as she begged her mother to allow her to go. Even Grace was disturbed and perplexed by her daughter's perti- nacity. “No!” said she. “‘Ask me no more. Thou shalt not go. Such sights are not for the young. I go, and | sicken atthe thoughts of it. Bat I go to show that I, a Christian woman, take God's part against the devil's. Thou shalt not go, I tell thee. I could whip thee for thinking of it ** Manasseh says Hota was well whipped by Pas- tor Tappau ere she was brought to confession,” said Prudence, as if anxious to change the subject of discussion. Manasseh lifted up his head from the great folio Bible, brought by his father from England, which he was studying. He had not heard what Pru- dence said, but he looked up at the sound of his name. All present were startled at his wild eyes, his bloodless face. But he was evidently annoyed at the expression of their countenances. “Why look ye at me in that manner?” asked he. And his manner was anxious and agitated. His mother made haste to speak : “It was but that Pradence said something that thou hast told her—that Pastor Tappau defiled his hands by whipping the witch Hota. What evil thought has got hold of thee? Talk to us, and crack not thy skull against the learning of man.” “Tt is not the learning of man that | study: it is the word of God. I would fain know more of the nature of this sin of witchcraft, and whether it be, indeed, the unpardonable sin against the Holy Ghost. At times I feel a creeping influence coming over me, prompting all evil thoughts and unheard- of deeds, and I question within myself, ‘Is not this the power of witchcraft ?’ and I sicken and loathe all that I do or say, and yet some evil creature hath the mastery over me, and I must needs do and say what I loathe and dread. Why wonder you, mother, that I, of all men, strive to learn the exact nature of witchcraft, and for that end study the word of God? Have you not seen me when I was, as it were, possessed with a devil ?” He spoke calmly, sadly, but as under deep con- viction. His mother rose to comfort him. ‘*My son,” she said, “‘no one ever saw thee do deeds, or heard thee utter words, which any one could say were prompted by devils. We have seen thee, poor lad, with thy wits gone astray for a time, but all thy thoughts sought rather God's will in forbidden places, than lost the clew to them for one moment in hankering after the powers of darkness Those days are long past ; a future lies before thee. Think not of witches or of being sub- ject to the power of witchcraft. I did evil to speak of it before thee. Let Lois come and sit by thee, and talk to thee.” Lois went to her cousin, grieved at heart for his depressed state of mind, anxious to soothe and com- fort him, and yet recoiling more than ever from the idea of ultimately becoming his wife—an idea to which she saw her aunt reconciling herself un- consciously day by day, as she perceived the En- glish girl’s power of soothing and comforting her cousin, even by the very tones of her sweet cooing voice. He took Lois's hand. ‘*Let me hold it. It does me good,” said he. “* Ah, Lois, when I am by you I forget all my trou- bles—will the day never come when you will list- en to the voice that speaks to me continually ? ‘“*T never hear it, Cousin Manasseh,"’ she said, softly; “ but do not think of the voices Tell me of the land you hope to inclose from the forest— what manner of trees grow on it ?” Thus, by simple questions on practical af- | fairs, she led him back, in her unconscious wis- dom, to the subjects on which he had always He talked on these with all due discretion till the hour for family prayer came round, which was early in those days. It was Manasseh's place to conduct it, as head of the family ; a post which his mother had always been anxious to assign to him since her husband's death. He prayed extempore; and to-night his supplications wandered off into wild, unconnected fragments ef prayer, which all those kneeling shown strong prac tical sense. —==!_ — : — around began, each according to her anxiety for the speaker, to think would never end. Minutes elapsed, and grew t quarters of the hour, and his words grew only more emphatic and wilder ing for himself alone, and lay ing bare the recesses of his heart. At length his mother x ae, Lois by the hand, for she had faith in Loi over her son, as being akin to that prav- which the shepherd David playing on his harp bad king Saul sitting on his thron. She lrew her t ward him, where he knelt f inte the circle with his eyes upturned, and | need agony of his face depicting the strugyle of the troubled soul within. ‘+ Here is Lois,” said Grace, almost tenderlr - ‘she would fain go to her chamber.” (Down the girl's face the tears were streaming.) “' Kise. and finish thy prayer in thy closet.” But at Lois’s approach he sprang to his feet, sprang aside. ‘Take her away,-mother. Lead me not into temptation. She brings me evil and sinful thoughts. She overshadows me, even in the pres- tnee of my God. She is no angel of light, o ‘ would not do this She troubles me with the sound of a voice bidding me marry her, even when Tam at my prayers. Avaunt! Take her away! Rx would have struck at Lois if she had not 8 ink back, dismayed and iffrighted His mo- ther, although equally di mayed, was not affright- ed. She had seen him t before; and under- stood the management of his paroxysm “Go, Lois! the sight of thee irritates him, as once that of Faith did. Leave him to m« And Lois rushed away to her room, and threw herself on her bed like a panting hunted creature, Faith came after her, slowly and heavily. * Lois,” said she, ** wilt thou do mea favor? Tt is not much to ask Wilt thou arise before day- light, and bear this letter from me to Pastor No lan's lodgings ? I would have done it mysel t mother has bidden me to come to her, and I may be detained until the time when Hota is to be hung ; and the letter tells of matters pertaining t life and death. Seek out Pastor Nolan where he may be, and have speech read the letter.” f him after he has “Can not Nattee take it?’’ asked Lois, “No!” Faith answered, fercely. “ Whv should she ?" tut Lois did not reply A quick suspicion darted through Faith's mind sudden as lightning It had never entered there before. ‘Speak, Lois. I read t thoughts Thou wouldst fain not be the bearer of this lett ‘*] will take it,” said Lois, meekly ** Tt con- cerns life and death, vou say “Yes!” said Faith, is voice. quite a different tone of But, after a pause of thought, she added, “Then as soon as the house is still I will write what I have to say, and leave it here. on this chest; and thou wilt promise me to take it before the day is fully up, while there is yet time for action.” 7 ** Yes! I promise,” said Lois. And Faith knew enough of her to feel sure that the deed would be done, however reluctantly The letter was written—laid on the chest: and ere day dawned, Lois was astir Fai : h watching her from between her half-closed evelids—evelids that had never been fully closed in’ leep the live long night. The instant Lois, cloaked and hooded, left the room, Faith sprang up, and prepared to go to her mother, whom she heard already stirring Nearly every one in Salem was awake and wp on this awful morning, though few were out of doors, as Lois passed along the streets Ilere was the hastily-erected gallows, the black shadow of which fell across the street with ghastly significance ’ now she had to pass the iron-barred jail, through the unglazed windows of which she heard the fear ful ery of a woman, and the sound of many foot- steps. On she sped, sick almost to fais tness, to the widow woman's where Mr. Nolan lodged. He was already up and abroad, gone, his hostess be- lieved, to the jail Thither Lois, repeating the words “‘ for life and for death !"' was forced to go. Retracing her steps, she was thankful to ree him come out of those dismal portals, rendered more dismal for being in heavy shadow. proached. What his errand had been she knew not; but he looked grave and ead, as she put Faith's letter into his hands, and stood before } im just as she ap- quietly waiting until he should read it, and deliver the expected answer But, instead of opening it, he held it in his hand, apparently sorbed in thought. At last he spoke aloud but more to him. self than to her: “My God! and is she then to die in this fearful delirium? It must be — can be — only delirium that prompts such wild and horrible confeasions! Mistress Barclay, I come from the presence of the Indian woman appointed to die. It seems she con- sidered herself betrayed last evening by her sei- tence not being respited, even after she had made confession of sin enough to bring down fire from heaven ; and it seems to me the passionate, impo- tent anger of this helpless creature has turned to madness, for she appalls me by the additional res lations she has made to the keer re during the night—to me this morning. I could almost fancy that she thinks, by deepening the guilt she fesses, to escape this last dread punishment of as if, were one tithe of what sche savs t could suffer such a sinner to live. Yer to send her to death in such a state of mad terror! What is to be done ?” ** Yet Scripture says that we are not t ffer witches in the land,” said Lois, slow]; ‘True; I would but ask for a rest the prayers of God's people ! rot ilies Some would pray fer her, | wret she i You would, Mistress Barclay, I am sur But he said it in a questioning | “| have been praying for her in the night many a time,” said Lois, in a in my heart at this moment; | suppose 1 bidden to put her out of the land have her entirely Ged-forsaken But, Sir

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have not read my cousin's letter. And she bade me bring back an answer with much urgency.” Still be delayed. He was thinking of the dread- ful confession ‘he came from hearing. If it were true, the beautiful earth was a polluted place, and he almost wished to die to escape from such pollu- tion into the white innocence of those who stood in the presence of ty vl. Suddenly his eyes fell on Lois'’s pure, grave face, upturned and watching his. Faith in earthly good- ness came over his soul in that instant, “and he blessed her unaware.” He put his hand on her shoulder with an action half p iternal—although the difference in their ages was not above a dozen years—and, bending a little toward her, whisper d half to himself, ‘‘ Mistress Barclay. I thank you; you have done me g od.” “1” said Lois, half affrighted, “I done you ’ good! How?” “By being what youare. But perhaps I should rather thank God, who sent you at the very mo- ment when my soul was so disquieted.” At this instant th y were aware of Faith stand- ing in front of them, with a countenance of thun- der. Her angry look made Lois feel guilty. She had not enoagh urged the pastor to read his letter, she thou ht; and it was indignation at this delay in what she had been commissioned to do with the urgency of life or death, that made her cousin low- er at her so from beneath her straight black brows. Lois explained how she had not found Mr. Nolan at his lodgings, and had had to follow him to the door of the jail. But Faith replied, with obdurate contempt, “ Spare thy breath, Cousin Lois. It is easy see- ing on what pleasant matters thou and the Pastor Nolan were talking. I marvel not at thy forget- fulness, My mindischanged. Give me back my letter, Sir! it was about a poor matter—an old wo- man’s life. And what is thet compared to a young girl's love ?’ Lois heard but for an instant; did not under- stand that her cousin, in her jealous anger, could ect the existence of such a feeling as love be- en her and Mr. Nolan. No imagination as to its possibility had ever entered her mind; she had respected him, almost revered him—nay, had liked him as the probable husband of Faith. At the thought that her cousin could believe her guilty of such treachery her grave eyes dilated and fixed themsel That serious, u wp the flaming countenance of Faith, nanner of perfect inno- cence must have told on her accuser, had it not been that at the same instant the latter caught sight of the crimsoned and disturbed countenance of the pastor, whe felt the vail rent off the uncon- stious secret of his heart. Faith snatched her let- ter out of his hands, and said, ‘ Let the witch hang Whatcare I? She has yugh with her charms and her sorce- done harm enc ry on Pastor Tappau’s girls. Let her die, and let all other witches look to themselves; for there be many kinds of witchcraft abroad. Cousin Lois, thou wilt like best to stop with Pastor Nolan, or I would pray thee to come back with me to break- fast. Lois was not to be daunted by jealous sarcasm She held out her hand to Pastor Nolan, determined to take no heed of her cousin’s mad words, but to bid him farewell in her accustomed manner. He hesitated before taking it, and when he did, it was with a convulsive squeeze that almost made her start. Faith waited and watched all with set lips and vengeful eyes. She bade no farewell; she spake no word; but grasping Lois tightly by the back of the arm, she almost drove her before her down the street till they reached their home. The arrangement for the morning was this: Grace Hickson and her son Manasseh were to be present at the hanging of the first witch executed in Salem, as pious and godly heads of a family. All the other members were strictly forbidden to stir out until such time as the low-tolling bell an- nounced that all was over in this world for Hota, the Indian witch. When the execution was ended, there was to be a solemn prayer meeting of all the inhabitants of Salem; ministers had come from a distance to aid by the efficacy of their prayers in these efforts to purge the land of the devil and his servants, Tl was reason to think that the great old meeting-house would be crowded, and when Faith and Lois reached home, Grace Hickson was giving her directions to Prudence, urging her to be ready for an early start to that place. The stern old woman was troubled in her mind at the antici- pation of the sight she was to see before many minutes were over, and spoke in a more hurried and incoherent manner than was her wont. She was dressed in her Sunday best; but her face was very gray and colorless, and she seemed afraid to cease speaking about household affairs for fear she should hb ive time to think. Manasseh stood by her, per- fectly, rigidly still; he also was in his Sunday clothes. His face, too, was paler than its wont, but it wore a kind of absent, rapt expression al- most like that of a man who sees a vision. As Faith entered, still holding Lois in her fierce grasp, Maaasseh started and smiled; but still dreamily. His manner was so peculiar, that even his mother stayed her talking to observe him more closely; he was in that state of excitement which usually end- ed in what his mother and certain of her friends esteemed a prophetic revelation. He began to speak, at first very low, and then his voice increased in power: “ How beautiful is the land of Beulah, far over the sea, beyond the mountains! Thither the an- gels carry ber, lying back in their arms like one fainting. Thev shall kiss away the black circle of death, and iay her down at the feet of the Lamb. I hear her pleading there for those on earth who consented to herdeath. Oh, Lois, pray also for me, pray for me, miserable !” When he uttered his cousin’s name all their eves turned toward her. It was to her that his vision related! She stood among them, amazed, awe- stricken, but not like one affrighted or dismayed. She was the first to speak. * Dear friends, do not think of me; his words may or may not be true. I am in God’s hands all _HARPER'S WEEKLY. } the same, whether he have the gift of prophecy or not. Besides, hear you not that I end where all would fain end. Think of him and of his needs. Such times as these always leave him exhausted and weary when he comes out of them.’ And she busied herself in cares for his refresh- ment, aiding her aunt’s trembling hands to set be- fore him the requisite food, as he now sat tired and bewildered, gathering together with difficulty his scattered senses. Prudence did all she could to assist and speed their departure. But Faith stood apart, watching in silence with her passionate, angry eyes. As soon as they had gone on their solemn, fatal errand, Faith left the room. She had not tasted food or touched drink. Indeed, they all felt sick at heart. As soon as her sister had gone up stairs Prudence sprang to the settle on which Lois had thrown down her cloak and hood. ‘‘Lend me your mufiles and mantle, Cousin Lois. I never yet saw a woman hanged, and | see not why I should not go. I will stand on the edge of the crowd; no one will know me, and I will be home long before my mother.” “No!” said Lois, ‘*that may not be. My aunt would be sore displear I wonder at you, Pru- dence, seeking to witte.3 such a sight.” And as she spoke she held fast her cloak, which Prudence vehemently struggled for. Faith returned, brought back possibly by the sound of the struggle. She smiled—a deadly smile. ‘Give it up, Prudence. Strive no more with her. She has bought success in this world, and we are but her slaves.” “Oh, Faith!” said Lois, relinquishing her hold of the cloak, and turning round with passionate reproach in her look and voice, “* what have I done that you should speak so of me—you that I have loved as I think one loves a sister?” Prudence did not lose her opportunity, but hast- ily arrayed herself in the mantle, which was too large for her, and which she had, therefore, consid- ered as well adapted for concealment; but as she went toward the door her feet became entangled in the unusual length, and she fell, bruising her arm pretty sharply. ‘* Take care another time how you meddle with a witch's things,” said Faith, as one scarcely be- lieving her own words, but at enmity with all the world in her bitter jealousy of heart. Prudence rubbed her arm and looked stealthily at Lois. “Witch Lois! Witch Lois!” said she at last, softly, pulling a childish face of spite at her. ‘‘Oh hush, Prudence! Do not bandy such ter- rible words. Let me look at thine arm. I am sorry for thy hurt, only glad that it has kept thee from disobeying thy mother.” ‘“* Away, away !"’ said Prudence, springing from her. ‘‘I am afeard of her in very truth, Faith. Keep between me and the witch, or I will throw a stool at her.” Faith smiled—it was a bad and wicked smile— but she did not stir to calm the fears she had call- ed up in her young sister. Just at this moment the bell began to toll. Hota, the Indian witch, was dead. Lois covered her face with her hands. Even Faith went a deadlier pale than she had been, and said, sighing, ‘‘ Poor Hota! But death is best.” Prudence alone seemed unmoved by any thoughts connected with the solemn, monotonous sound. Her only consideration was that now she might go out into the street aud see the sights, and hear the news, and escape from the terror which she felt at the presence of her cousin. She flew up stairs to find her own mantle, ran down again, and past Lois, before the English girl had finished her pray- er, and was speedily mingled among the crowd going to the meeting-house. There, also, Faith and Lois came in due course of time, but separate- ly, not together. Faith so evidently avoided Lois that she, humbled and grieved, could not force her company upon her cousin, but loitered a little be- hind, the quiet tears stealing down her face, shed for the many causes that had occurred this morn- ing. (TO BE CONCLUDED IN OUR NEXT] FRANKLIN. Tue Polar clouds uplift— A moment and no more— And through the snowy drift, We see them on the shore— A band of gallant hearts, Well-ordered, calm, and brave; Braced for their closing parts— Their long march to the grave. Through the snow’s dazzling blink, Into the dark they've gone. No pause: the weaker sink, The strong can but strive on. Till all the dreary way Is dotted with their dead: And the shy foxes play About each sleeping head. Unharmed the wild deer run, To graze along the strand: Nor dread the loaded gun Beside each sleeping hand. The remnant that survive Onward like drunkards reel; Scarce wotting if alive, But for the pangs they feel. The river of their hope At length is drawing nigh— Their snow-blind way they grope, And reach its banks to die! Thank God: brave Franxum’s place Was empty in that band. He closed his well-run race Not on the iron strand. Not under snow-clouds white, By cutting frost-wind driven, Did his true spirit fight Its shuddering way to Heaven. But warm, aboard his ship, With comfort at his side, And hope upon his lip, The gallant Franky died. His heart ne’er ached to see His much-loved sailors ta’en; His sailors’ pangs were free From their loved Captain’s pain. But though in death apart, They are together now; Calm, each enduring heart— Bright, each devoted brow! A TALE OF TWO CITIES. By CHARLES DICKENS. BOOK IIL THE TRACK OF A STORM. CHAPTER X. THE SUBSTANCE OF THE SHADOW. ‘*T, ALEXANDRE Mayetrte, unfortunate phy- sician, native of Beauvais and afterward resi- dent in Paris, write this melancholy paper in my doleful cell in the Bastile, during the last month of the year 1767. I write it at stolen in- tervals, under every difficulty. I design to se- crete it in the wall of the chimney, where I have slowly and laboriously made a place of conceal- ment for it. Some pitying hand may find it there when I and my sorrows are dust. “These words are formed by the rusty iron point with which I write with difficulty in scrap- ings of soot and charcoal from the chimney, mixed with blood, in the last month of the tenth year of my captivity. Hope has quite departed from my breast. I know from terrible warnings I have noted in myself that my reason will not long remain unimpaired ; but I solemnly declare that I am at this time in the possession of my right mind—that my memory is exact and cir- cumstantial— and that I write the truth as I shall answer for these, my last recorded words, whether they be ever read by men or not, at the Eternal Judgment-seat. ‘*One cloudy moonlight night, in the third week of December (I think the twenty-second of the month), in the year 1757, I was walking on a retired part of the quay by the Seine for the refreshment of the frosty air, at an hour’s distance from my place of residence in the Street of the School of Medicine, when a carriage came along behind me, driven very fast. As I stood aside to let that carriage pass, apprehensive that it might otherwise run me down, a head was put out at the window, and a voice called to the driver to stop. “The carriage stopped as soon as the driver could rein in his horses, and the same voice called to me by my name. I answered. ‘The carriage was then so far in advance of me that two gentlemen had time to open the door and alight before I came up with it. I observed that they were both wrapped in cloaks, and ap- peared to conceal themselves. As they stood side by side near the carriage-door, I also ob- served that they both looked of about my own age, or rather younger, and that they were great- ly alike, in stature, manner, voice, and (as far as I could see) face too. *** You are Doctor Manette ?’ said one. “43 ons,’ *** Doctor Manette, formerly of Beauvais,’ said the other; ‘the young physician, originally an expert surgeon, who, within the last year or two has made a rising reputation in Paris ?’ *** Gentlemen,’ I returned, ‘I am Doctor Manette of whom you speak so graciously.’ *** We have been to your residence,’ said the first, ‘and not being so fortunate as to find you there, and being informed that you were proba- bly walking in this direction, we followed, in the hope of overtaking you. Will you please to en- ter the carriage ?” ‘‘The manner of both was imperious, and they both moved, as these words were spoken, so as to place me between themselves and the carriage-door. ‘They were armed. I was not. * * Gentlemen,’ said I, ‘ pardon me; but I usu- ally inquire who does me the honor to seek m assistance, and what is the nature of the case to which I am summoned.’ “The reply to this was made by him who had spoken second. ‘Doctor, your clients are peo- ple of condition. As to the nature of the case, our confidence in your skill assures us that you will ascertain it for yourself better than we can describe it. Enough. Will you please to enter the carriage ? ([Novemner 5, 1859, en- d after me up the steps, ve On at its **T could do nothing but comp} tered in silence. They both a ve —the last springing in after putting The carriage turned about and dro former speed. “I repeat this conversation exactly as jt eurred. I have no doubt that it is, word for word, the same. I describe every thing enncty as it took place, constraining my mind not rl wander from the task. Where I make the tng ken marks that follow here, I leave off for th time, and put my paper in its hiding-place. P ‘‘ The carriage left the streets behind, passed the North Barrier, and emerged upon the coun try road. At two-thirds of a league from the Barrier—I did not estimate the distance at that time, but afterward when I traversed it~ it struck out of the main avenue, and presently stopped at a solitary house. We all three alighted, and walked, by a damp soft foot-path in a garden where a neglected fountain had overflowed, to the door of the house. It was not opened immediately, in answer to the rine. ing of the bell, and one of my two conductors struck the man who opened it with his h riding-glove across the face. “There was nothing in this action to attract my particular attention, for I had seen common people struck more commonly than dogs. But the other of the two, being angry likewise struck the man in like manner with his arm - the look and bearing of the brothers were then so exactly alike that I then first perceived them to be twin brothers. “From the time of our alighting at the outer gate (which we found locked, and which one of the brothers had opened tc admit us, and had relocked) I had heard cries proceeding from an upper chamber. I was conducted to this cham- ber straight, the cries growing louder as we as- cended the stairs, and I found a patient in a high fever of the brain lying on a bed. “The patient was a woman of great beauty, and young; assuredly not much past twenty. Her hair was torn and ragged, and her arms were bound to her sides with sashes and hand- kerchiefs. I noticed that these bonds were all portions of a gentleman’s dress. On one of them, which was a fringed scarf for a dress of ceremony, I saw the armorial bearing of a Noble, and the letter E. “T saw this within the first minute of my contemplation of the patient; for in her rest- less strivings she had turned over on her face on the edge of the bed, had drawn the end of the scarf into her mouth, and was in danger of suffocation. My first act was to put out my hand to relieve her breathing, and in moving the scarf aside the embroidery in the corner caught my sight. “‘I turned her gently over, placed my hands upon her breast to calm her and keep her down, and looked into her face. Her eyes were dilat- ed and wild, and she constantly uttered piercing shrieks, and repeated the words, ‘ My husband, my father, and my brother!’ and then counted up to twelve, and said, ‘Hush!’ For an instant, and no more, she would pause to listen, and then the piercing shrieks would begin agein, and she would repeat the cry, ‘My husband, my father, and my brother!’ and would count upto twelve, and say, ‘Hush!’ ‘There was no varia- tion in the order or the manner. There was no cessation, but the regular moment's pause, in the utterance of these sounds. *** How long,’ I asked, ‘ has this lasted ” **To distinguish the brothers, I will call them the elder and the younger ; by the elder, I mean him who exercised the most authority. It was the elder who replied, ‘ Since about this hour last night.’ “*She has a husband, a father, and a broth- er?” *** A brother.’ ***T do not address her brother ?’ “He answered with great contempt, ‘No.’ ***She has some recent association with the number twelve ?’ ‘* The younger brother impatiently rejoined, ‘With twelve o'clock?’ ** *See, gentlemen,’ said I, still keeping my hands upon her breast, ‘ how uséless I am, as you have brought me! If I had known what I was coming to see, I could have come provided. As it is, time must be lost. There are no medi- cines to be obtained in this lonely place.’ ** The elder brother looked to the younger, who said haughtily, ‘There is a case of medi- cines here ;’ and brought it from a closet, and put it on the table. .... ‘* T opened some of the bottles, smelled them, and put the stoppers to my lips. If I had want- ed to use any thing save narcotic medicines that were poisons in themselves, I would not have administered any of those. **Do you doubt them ?’ asked the younger brother. “*You see, monsieur, I am going to use them,’ I replied, and said no more. “TI made the patient swallow, with great dif- ficulty, and after many efforts, the dose that I desired to give. As I intended to repeat it after a while, and as it was necessary to watch its influence, I then sat down by the side of the bed. There was a timid and suppressed wo- man in attendance (wife of the man down stairs), who had retreated into a corner. The house was damp and decayed, indifferently fur- nished—evidently recently occupied and tem- porarily used. Some thick old hangings had been nailed up before the windows to deaden the sound of the shrieks. ‘They continued to be uttered in their regular succession, with the ery, ‘My husband, my father, and my brother: the counting up to twelve, and ‘Hush! The frenzy was so violent that I had not unfastened the bandages restraining the arms; but I had looked to them to see that they were net pain- ful. The only spark of encouragement in the cary

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1859, and I en. after me the steps, OD at its r aS it oc. word for 1g Cxactly nd not to e the bro. ff for the lace... | id, Passed the coun- from the ce at that -d it— jt presently all three foot-path, ntain had It was the ring. onductors his heavy to attract 1 Common Ogs. But likewise, his arm : were then ived them the outer ch one of and had g from an his cham- aS We as- tient in a at beauty, st twenty. her arms ind hand- is were all Jn one of a dress of of a Noble, ute of my her rest- n her face he end of danger of it out my in moving he corner my hands her down, vere dilat- d piercing R husband, n counted an instant, isten, and agein, and sband, my ount upto } no varia- ere was no pause, in sted 7 | call them er, I mean y. It was this hour d a broth- t, *No.’ | with the rejoined, eping my I am, a5 wn what I provided no medi- ce.’ younger, . of medi loset, and led them, had want- cines that not have great dif- ose that I repeat it r to watch ide of the essed wo- an down ver. The ently fur- and tem- rings had o deaden ued to be with the brother!" sh!’ The nfastened but I had net pain- mnt in the HARPER'S case was that my hand upon the - sufferer's breast had this much soothing influence that for minutes at a time it tranquilized the figure. It had no effect upon the cries; no pendulum could be more regular. ‘For the reason that my hand had this effect (I assume), I had sat by the side of the bed for half an hour, with the two brothers looking on, before the elder said : “«* There is another patient.’ “T was startled, and asked, ‘Is it a pressing case ?” “*You had better see,’ he carelessly an- swered; and took up a light. ..... “ The other patient lay in a back room across a second staircase which was a species of loft over a stable. There was a low plastered ceil- ing to a part of it; the rest was open, to the ridge of the tiled roof, and there were beams across. Hay and straw were stored in that por- tion of the place, fagots for firing, and a heap of apples in sand. I had to pass through that part to get at the @ther.. My memory is cireum- stantial and unshaken. I try it with these de- tails, and I see them all, in this my cell in the Bastile, near the close of the tenth year of my captivity, as I saw them all that night. “On some hay on the ground, with a cushion thrown under his head, lay a handsome peasant boy—a boy of not more than seventeen at the most. He lay on his back, with his teeth set, his right hand clenched on his breast, and his glaring eyes looking straight upward. I could not see where his wound was as I kneeled on one knee over him; but I could see that he was dying of a wound from a sharp point. *“*T am a doctor, my poor fellow,’ ‘Let me examine it.’ ***T do not want it examined,’ he answered; *let it be.’ “Tt was under his hand, and I soothed him to let me move his hand away. It was asword- thrust, received from twenty to twenty-four hours before, but no skill could have saved him if it had been looked to without delay. He was then dying fast. As I turned my eyes to the elder brother, I saw him looking down at this handsome boy whose life was ebbing out, as if he were a wounded bird, or hare, or rabbit; not at all as if he were a fellow-creature. “ * How has this been done, monsieur?’ said I. “*A crazed young common dog! A serf! Foreed my brother to draw upon him, and has fallen by my brother’s sword—like a gentleman.’ “There was no touch of pity, sorrow, or kin- dred humanity in this answer. The speaker seemed to acknowledge that it was inconvenient to have that different order of creature dying there, and that it would have been better if he had died in the usual obscure routine of his ver- min kind. He was quite incapable of any com- passionate feeling about the boy, or about his fate. “The boy's eyes had slowly moved to him as he had spoken, and they now slowly moved to me. “* Doctor, they are very proud, these Nobles ; but we common dogs are proud too, sometimes. They plunder us, outrage us, beat us, kill us; but we have a little pride left, sometimes. She— Have you seen her?’ “The shrieks and the cries were audible there, though subdued by the distance. He referred to them, as if she were lying in our presence ‘I said, ‘I have seen her.’ *** She is my sister, Doctor. They have had their shameful rights, ‘these Nobles, in the mod- esty and virtue of our sisters, many years, but we have had good girls among us. I know it, and have heard my father say so. She was a good girl. She was betrothed to a good young man, too—a tenant of his. We were all ten- ants of his—that man’s who stands there. The other is his brother, the worst of a bad race.’ ‘It was with the greatest difficulty that the oy gathered bodily force to speak ; but his spirit : spoke with a dreadfal emp shasis. “We were so robbed by that man who stands there, as all we common dogs are by those su- perior Beings—taxed by him without mercy, obliged to work for him without pay, obliged to grind our corn at his mill, obliged to feed scores said I. } bidden for our lives to keep a single tame bird of our own, pillaged and plundered to that de- gree that when we chanced to have a bit of meat we ate it in fear, with the door barred and the shutters closed, that his people should not see it and take it from us—lI say, we were so robbed and hunted, and were made so poor, that our father told us it was a dreadful thing to bring a child into the world, and that what we should most pray for was, that our women might be barren and our miserable race die out!’ “T had never before seen the sense of being oppressed bursting forth like a fire. I had sup- posed that it must be latent in the people some- where ; but I had never seen it break out until I saw it in the dying boy. *** Nevertheless, Doctor, my sister married. He was ailing at that time, poor fellow, and she married her lover that she might tend and com- fort him in our cottage—our dog-hut, as that man would call it. She had not been married many weeks when that man’s brother saw her | and admired her, and asked that man to lend her to him—for what are husbands among us! He was willing enough, but my sister was good and virtuous, and hated his brother with a ha tred as strong as mine. What did the two then, to persuade her hasband to use his influence | with her to make her willing ?’ “The boy’s eyes, which had been fixed on mine, slowly turned to the looker-on, and I saw in the two faces that all he said was true. The two opposing kinds of pride confronting one an- other I can see even in this Bastile; the gen tleman’s, all negligent indifference; the peas ant’s, all trodden-down sentiment and passion ate revenge *You know, Doctor, that it is among the Rights of these Nobles to harness us common dogs to carts, and drive us. They so harnessed him and drove him. You know that it is among their Rights to keep us in their grounds all night, quieting the frogs, in order that their no- ble sleep may not be disturbed. They kept him out in the unwholesome mists at night, and or dered him back into his harness in the day But he was not persuaded. No! Taken out of harness one day at noon to feed—if he could find food—he sobbed twelve times, once for ev ery stroke of the bell, and died on her bosom.’ ‘Nothing human could have held life in the ie but his determination to tell all his wrong He forced back the gathering shadows of death, as he forced his clenched right hand to remain clenched, and to cover his wound. ‘“** Then, with that man’s permission, and even with his aid, his brother took her away ; in spite of what I know she must have told his brother —and what that is will not be Jong unknown to you, Doctor, if it is now—nis brother took her away—for his pleasure and diversion, for a lit tle while. I saw her pass me on the road. When I took the tidings home our father’s heart burst; he never spoke one of the words that filled it. I took my young sister (for I have another) to a place beyond the reach of this man, and where, at least, she will never be his vassal. Then I tracked the brother here, and last night climbed in—a common dog, but sword in hand.—Where is the loft window? It was somewhere here ?’ “The room was darkening to his sight; the world was narrowing around him. I glanced about me, and saw that the hay and straw were trampled over the floor, as if there had been a struggle. “*She heard me and ranin. I told her not to come near us till he was dead. He came in and first tossed me some pieces of money; then | struck at me with a whip. But I, though a common dog, so struck at him as to make him draw. Let him break into as many pieces as he will the sword that he stained with my common blood; he drew to defend himself—-thrust at me with all his skill for his life.’ “My glance had fallen but a few moments before on the fragments of a broken sword, lying among the hay. That weapon was a gen- tleman’s. In another place lay an old sword that seemed to have been a soldier's. “*Now lift me up, Doctor; lift me up. Where is he?’ “** He is not here,’ I said, supporting the boy, and thinking that he referred to the brother. “*He! Proud as these nobles are, he is afraid to see me. Where is the man who was here? Turn my face to him.’ ““T did so, raising the boy’s head against my knee. But invested for the moment with ex traordinary power, he raised himself complete- ly: obliging me to rise too, or I could not have still supported him. ** *Marquis,’ said the boy, turned to him with his eyes opened wide and his right hand raised, ‘in the days when all these things are to be an- | | swered for, I summon you, and yours to the last of your bad race, to answer for them. I mark this cross of blood upon you, as a sign that I do it. In the days when all these things are to be | answered for, I summon your brother, the worst of the bad race, to answer for them separately. I mark this cross of blood upon him, as a sign that I do it.’ “Twice he put his hand to the wound in his | breast, and with his forefinger drew a cross in the air. He stood for an = y with the finger it, and I laid him down dead. ‘* When I returned to the bedside ¢ f the young woman I found her raving in precisely the same order and continuity. 1 knew that this might last for many hours, and that it would probably end in the silence of the grave. “T repeated the medicines I had given her, and I sat at the side of the bed until the night was far advanced. She never abated the pierc- ing quality of her shrieks, never stumbled in the of his tame birds on our wretched crops, and for- distinctness or the order of her words. T! } yet raised, and, as it dropped, he dropped with 1 2 } WEEKLY. were always, ‘My husband, my father, and my brother! “( ne, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. Hush!’ ‘This lasted twenty-six hours from the time when I first saw her. I had come and gone twice, and was again sitting by her, when she began to falter. I did what little could be done to assist that opportunity, and by-and-by she sank into a lethargy, and lay like the dead “It was as if the wind and rain had lulled at last, after a long and fearful storm. I released her arms, and called the woman to assist me to compose her figure and the dress she had torn. It was then that I knew her condition to be that of one in whom the first e mpectations of being a mother have arisen; and it was then that I lost the little hope I had had of her. ‘Is she dead ?’ asked the Marquis, whom I will still describe as the elder brother, coming booted into the room from his horse ‘Not dead,’ said I; ‘ but like to die.’ ‘Ww hat strength there is in these common bodie 3!’ he said, looking down at her with some eur sity. “ «There is prodig rious strength,’ I answered him, ‘in sorrow and despair.’ He first *hed at my words, and then frowned at them. He moved a chair with his foot near to mine, ordered the woman away, and said, in a subdued voice: ‘ Doctor, finding my brother in this difficulty with these hinds, I recommended that your aid should be invited. Your reputation is hi nd, as a young man with your fortane to make, you are probably mindful of your interest Che things that you see here are things to be seen and not spoken of.’ “T listened to the patient's breathing, at d avoided answe ring ‘Do you honor me with your attention, Doctor ?’ ‘Monsieur,’ said I, ‘in my profession the communications of patients are always rece ved in confidence.’ I was guarded in my answer for I was troubled in my mind by what I had heard and seen. ‘Her breathing was so difficult to trace tl I carefully tried the pulse and the heart. There was life, and nomore. Looking round as I ré sumed my seat, I found both the brothers intent upon m¢ ee ‘I write with so much difficulty, the cold is so severe, I am so fearful of being detected and consigned to an under-ground cell and total darkness, that I must abridge this narrative Chere is no confusion of failure in my memor: it can recall, and could detail, every word that was ever spoken between me and those brothers. ‘She lingered for a week Toward the last I could understand some few syllables that she said to me by plac ing my ear close to her | | She asked me where she was, and I told her; who I was, and I told her. It was in vain that I asked her for her family nam« She faint] shook her head upon the pillow, and kept het secret, as the boy had done. “T had no opportunity of asking her any ques tion until I had told the brothers she was sink g fast, and could not live another day. Until then, though no one was ever presented to her consciousness save the woman and myself, one or other of them had alously sat be hind the curtain at the head of the bed when I was there. tut when it came to that, they seemed careless what communication I might hold with her; as if—the thought pas my mind—lI were dying too “‘T always observed that their pride bitterly resented the younger brother's (as I call him having crossed swords with a peasant, and that always sed through peasant a boy The only consideration that ay peared really to affect the mind of either of them was the consideration that this was high ly degrading to the family, an 1 was ridiculous ~ MARK THIS CROSS OF BLOOD UPON HIM, their « re me deeply for k bov lie was er than the elder: |} was an encumbrar “My patient di —at a time, by 1 the minute when | alone with her w! drooped gently on « wrongs and sorrow ‘“‘The brothers w stairs, impatient them, alone at the with their riding-whi down. ‘ At last she is d I went in. ‘She is dead,’ sai ‘I congratulate } words xs he turns ly ‘He had bef had postponed taki leau of gold. I t it on the table. I |! ul i} l resolved ¢ ‘Pray exe cumstances, n hey exch to n ws 1 bent n without another ‘Il am wear mise I car with this gaunt ‘Rar +} was left at my name on t anxk cor de t iste “ ! ul which I } it which I had , cumstances 1} i what tl i I had kept tl I rom eS; ! y lett I f mv real d there nv t be my sed | I} essed I was much omy t iH l¢ ™ me the last da t bet m t cor a lady ] “J im ¢ task | . et? 1 el ‘ ™ is sO dread I me T T reat agita > the wife of the M nected the title | ed the elder brothe broidered on the s« arriving at the nobieman very t¢ ns My memor vrite the word f that I am watched I kn not ‘ She had in part ered, the mat husband are She i not kn hope ] i how he i ‘ AS A SIGN THAT I DO IT.’

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ar 718 from a House that had long been hateful to the suffering many. ‘¢She had reasons for believing that there was a young sister living, and her greatest desire was to help that sister. I could tell her nothing but that there was such a sister; beyond that, I knew nothing. Her inducement to come to me, relying on my confidence, had been the hope that I could tell her the name and place of abode. Whereas to this wretched hour I am ignorant of both. . m “These scraps of paper fail me. One was taken from me, with a warning, yesterday. I must finish my record to-day. “She was a good, compassionate lady, and not happy in her marriage. How could she be! Che brother distrusted and disliked her, and his influence was all opposed to her; she stood in dread of him vd dread of her husband too. When I han r down to the door, there was a child, a pretty boy from two to three years old, in her carr . ‘For his sake, Doctor,’ she said, pointing to him rs, ‘I would do all I can to make what yx nds Ican. He will never pros- per in | tance otherwise. I have a pre- sentiment that if no other innocent atonement is made for this, it will one day be required of him What I have left to call my own—it is little beyond the worth of a few jewels—I will make it the fir arge of his life to bestow, with the compa 1 and lamenting of his dead mother, on this injured family, if the sister can be discover l “ h and said, caressing him, ‘It is for thine own dear sake. Thou wilt be 1, littl arles?? The child answered iely,* Yes!’ I kissed her hand, and she t : arms, and went away caressing him I never saw her more. ‘As she had mentioned her husband’s name in the faith that 1 knew it, I added no mention of it t lett I sealed my letter, and, not trusting it out of my own hands, delivered it In} that i " e last night of the year, to- ward , a man in a black dress rang my ¢g d unded to see me, and softly fol- ved my servant, Ernest Defarge, a youth, up airs. When my rvant came into the room where I sat with my oh my wife, beloved of my heart! My fair young English wife!—we the man, who was supposed to be at the lent behind him. ‘An urgent case in the Rue St. Honoré, he l. It would not detain me; he had a coach , SLanauing § ‘It brought me h it brought me to my gvrave. When I was clear of the house a black drawn tightly over my mouth from nd, and my arms were pinioned. The two ers crossed the road from a dark corner, | iden 1 me with a single gesture. The s took from his pocket the letter I had ¥ ved it me, burned it in the light of tern that was held, and extinguished the with his foot. Not a word was spoken. l was brought here, 1 was brought to my living if it had pleased Gop to put it in the hard heart of either of the brothers, in all these frightful years, to grant me any tidings of my dearest wife—so much as to let me know by a word whether alive or dead—I might have thought that He had not quite abandoned them. But now I believe that the mark of the red cross is fatal to them, and that they have no part in His mercies. And them and their descendants, to the last of their race, I, Alexandre Manette, unhappy prisoner, do, this last night of the year 1767, in my unbearable agony, denounce to the times when all these things shall be answered for. UT denounce them to Heaven and to earth.” A terrible sound arose when the reading of this document was done. A sound of craving { eagerness that had nothing articulate in it but blood. The narrative called up the most revengeful passions of the time, and there was not a head in the nation but must have dropped before it. Little need, in presence of that tribunal and that auditory, to show how the Defarges had made the paper public, with the other cap- ed Bastile memorials borne in procession, and had kept it, biding their time. Little need show that this detested family name had long i anathematized by Saint Antoine, and was lit into the fatal register. The man never trod ground whose virtues and services would we sustained him in that place that day, against such dennnciation. And all the worse for the doomed man that t denouncer was a well-known citizen, his own attached friend, the father of his wife. One of the frenzied aspirations of the populace to t tur imitations of the questionable public virtues of antiquity, and for sacrifices and self- immolations on the people’s altar. 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HARPER'S WEEKLY. — NOT A BAD JUDGE. Aummestive Boy. “‘ My eye, Tomy, ADVERTISEMENTS. GEORGE G. EVANS, PUBLISHER, No, 439 Chestnut Street, PHILADELPHIA. Now Ready, The Best Book of the Season. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH. MEMOIRS or ROBERT-HOUDIN, AMBASSADOR, AUTHOR, CONJTROR, WIZARD, MAGICIAN NEOROMANCER, SORCERER, ENOCHANTER, AND PROFESSOR OF BLEIGHT OF NAND, Written by Himself. EDITED BY Dr. R. SHELTON MACKENZIE, With a copious Index This Book is full of interesting and entertaining anec- dotes of the interviews of the Great Wizard with the most distinguished personages of the present day, and gives descriptions of the manner of perferming many of his most curious tricks and transformations. From the Editor's Preface. A man may not only * his Autobiography, take his without own life," by writing committing felo de se, but ay carry himself into future time, by producing a book which the world will not willingly let die. 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