The Greensboro patriot [October 23, 1872]

              THE PATRIOT
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
AT GREENSBORO, N. O ,
BY PUFFY A- XOBEHEAD.
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Established in 1824. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1872. {New Series Ho. Z4S.
Conn unto*, -ix wnt-k-, •?; VaglilntM
notice*, four wctka, $5; Aduiiiii*iraivn' no-
- x m*akB, g:t .'.0—in advance.
Double ntM lor double culumu adrertiM-iii
»-iiin.
S|..-. inl DOtiCM *<0 n«r cent, additional.
W.-klv ohangM :V. |»r cent, additional.—
Ifobthl/ cbturgn Kpaff cent, additional.—
Vt-ar!v i.ilv»-rtiiM-iHMititcliangi*d'juart*rly when
ordrrvd.
Cy'»l'itii»riM, over ten I.IIM*, charged a*
t.Iv.-r'i-»-nifiiii«—payable in advauce.
ULYSSES HAD A LITTLE PUKP.
L'lyaaM got TOD HddU pap
All ooTtr* o'er mit hair,
l'n'1 efery vere vot Uaeleea rent
Jut pap TU ■boorlj dere.
Dm pap ho TU do pull iest pap
Vat eTer joa did ■*«;
His uoao HI tarood ao uicciy ap.
As »DJ pap'a coodpe.
Professional Cards.
JDO. H. Dillanl. Jnu. A. Gilaier.
Murray F. Smith.
Dillard, Gilmer & Smith,
ATTOHNKYS AT LAW
HIid
BOLIC1TOR8 IN BANKRUPTCY,
Offloe OTer Hank <>f Gr»*en»boro, opposite
liftibow House.
PRACTICE in .State and Kederml Court*.
.1 atteUtwa given to uiattera in
Bankruptcy, and auuM arimug under Inter-nal
K'-vt-iiue, iti I>i*trirt Court of Western
I;- i p| of North Carolina. Collection* in
Biateaod Federal Courts solicited.
JiiawSG. 1«72. 20:»:ly.
He lo»fcd der summer drougb ;
Vera e'er be T«at, dog on if be
Don't took dat hall pap, too.
Vpn efer be goes ond to rite,
To actnufTderoschen preezn,
You see dat pup stredebed py bis site,
Or stredebed upon his knees.
Dis pup vuH gifen to Ulyss
Py sum itc.iR.ard cbap out vcM,
Wbo vauli an offis, dinkin' dis
Der ebeepeet TUT und pest.
Und so dis cunning chap dougbt be
Vould dry dis pully vay
To git an offis from V. Ci.,
I "nd make dot pull pup pay.
lie sent him mit bis komplements
By Adams' express;
De charge $1 und 90 cents.
Paid in advance, I guess.
Pecunee he couldn't git him drungh
To V&shington mid out ;
Und if be cood, dis feller know,
Grant ronldnt took him out.
—«— HANtS*
R&dioaliam.
1( I say long live Ulysses Grant!
, DaTidao*, Fereythe, stokes, Ran-j May he continae to be President of
a pb and AUinanee: abo. u. s. circuit and {tbe United States until every white
1>I«IIH-I i.oiirtn r>iHM:ial uiteution given to ( - « <■ »
m i ,.»'.- "' u- mmTm* "•lmau over,for!?J*™8 of ,"C w,'°
.:■-.- in lS:n.krii].l.r. Ill VPS south Of MaftOIl and DlXOIrS
(•y oii;,,. „i.,.tu'..r North of Curt HOUM., line hiis been forever put into' the
'"' -'}y I Kronud."— Wendell Phillip* tpceek at
w.a.BALL, Tiio.i. n. HF..IHII, Lynn Mam.
V. S. U'imini"»*T. l{t^i.l»r in Bankruptcy.
1IAI.I.A HKIMJII,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
OKKB3C8BORO, N. CM
PRACTICE in ili- Cmn. of Ciuillord.
If,,, kniL'liKiii. Diiviilmin anil |{an,lnl)ih.
AI-" in lit- I irruil an,I District CnurU ol tli*
Uliilrd HtalM l„r North Can.lina.
rariirular uil-niion givoa to
limtilll 1IKVKME €AC«BS
in ili.- r. s. Couru tod Wf,.re ill- UKHABT-i officiate from now till alter the 5th
MKM .1 WASHIM.T.N m<!of November next. As the powers
\\ i fiv- HiM-,ial all-ntion to till- nroaecu-i t ,, .... . , . v
.,■„,- Ugabnl ih- KovernnUt for «* <"«-'8e fellows are _ widely over-pnipertj
i ik«« by ih- I.'. 8. Army, ami will rated we pro'iose to give the exact
.. i..i,,r- iii- t'"inaii»»ion appoinud by facts of tho ease. Lu the first place
I ol Uongrna ta i»W, th. t-.iimony. ,et „„ collsi(ier the pOWPrs wllicll it
W.il alan attvod pmniullv tu appl nation.. . . . . . .. K. , . . " ..
,,,.n''„+-r.».'r-tor!nK to th- '» claimed by the Administration
■urriTon "till- «ar of 181S. | they possess. We hare before us a
Jan l*ly
ballots, or to write opon the reps-try
books, tally lists, &c, exceeds
his powem, and is a hare, naked
offeuder agafnst not only the Btate
but even the Federal election laws.
The powers of these Federal sujier-visors,
once more let it be under-stood,
extend no further than to be
in the immediate presence of the
State election officers and able to
witness their proceedings. A seat
Von at Long Pranch, down by der sea, just outside the railing and within
seeingaistanccof the ballot boxes or
a perch on some commanding win-dow-
sill is all that the supervisors
cnu demand and all that is incuui-lient
on others to supply. They
cauuot arrest; they cunuot finger
ballot-boxes, ballot, or tally lists;
they cannot demand names or
search houses. Their duty is sim-ply
to see what is going on. so as to
be coinpeteut witnesses iu case any
illegality occur.
C. P. MKNIIKMIALL. JOHN N. STAPLES. |
MENDENHALL & STAPLES,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
IIIIKEMIBOKO, K,C, |
Will praetioB In iho Court* of Guilford, Mock-'
Powers of Federal Super-visors.
—-
■H eyes, the more ao, perhaps, be-c
»»«« my history was known.
From the rode cabin. I had risen
to a palace.
Bat St. Petersburg—the gorge-ous
capital—there it wae-rauiua
■pwodors almost like-enchanbnenta
that blight fell upon me.
There, amid the crowd of wealth
From tbo Now York World.
The partisans ot the Adruinistra-j
tion are busy in this city and
throughout the Uuited States iu ap
pointing supervisors of election to »"<• should have been treated as
Gerrit Smith on Punishing
Rebels-
Now that the Grant party have
made all the capital they can a-gainst
Mr. Greeley ont of their pre-posterous
charge of secession Renti-ineuta,
it ia refreshing to find the
chairman of tbeiridelegatinn from
New York to theitenoininat ion Con-vention
coming in with a letter like
the following. Mr. W. O. Speucer,
of lakeport, N. Y.. had uddressed
Mr. Gerrit Smith aaetter saying that
there were thousands ot Republi-cans
who believed that Jefferson
Davis escaped p traitor's fate be-cause
Mr. Greeley aud Mr. Gerrit
Smith united in signing his bail-bond,
and asking hi in whether Jqi-ferson
Davis could have been legiti-mately
and ]iro|iri-ly. tried for trea-son.
Mr. Smith replies:
" FKTERItoBO, Sefrte.iber 27, 1872.
" IV. O. Spencer, E*q.: Dear Sir,
—I have read every line of your
thoughtful letter, and I am sorry
that my reply to it must be so brief.
I am seventy-live years old, and a-mongst
my infirmities are failing
sight and failing voice.
" I have always held that the
South had become a uatiou defacto,
THE LADY OF THE KEY.
"This is the place, doc»r; and,
for God's sake, make baste, or we
shall be too late."
With these words, the rough, la-boring
man who summoned me,
threw open the door of a rickety
tenement bonse, in a back lane,and
together we began to mount the ! and gallantry that came to lay it*
crazy stairs. , homage at my feet, I first saw the
It was a borribU spot—filthy,
dark and wretched—the abode ot
poverty and woe; and, <s we went
up to tbe topmost story of the reek-ing
bnilding, I fairly shuddered to
think that there existed human1>e-ing8
who huddled together there
and called that den a home I
The thousand and one clocks of
the city were tolling out the hour
of midnight as we entered the sick
room, and stood in tbe presence of
a woman who I knew at a glance
was dying of starvation.
My profession had, in a measure,
hardened me to such scenes, for I
had been but two years a physician
caose of all my woe.
There first burst opon my dazzled
vision Count Ivan, glorious in all
the charms of opening manhood.
The peach-blossom of youth was
upoa bis cheek, and the romance of
love was in bis voice!
I owned his infloence in my
heart, bnt shrank from it as an ad-der.
Yet, whenever he was near.I was
conscious that new beauties flashed
into my face, and that strange, un-wonted
sensations penetrated my
bosom.
I scarcely ever dared openly to
look at him, bat my furtive glance*
and the practice of a yonng medical revealed to me a terrible fact.
fledgling is, it is a known fact, gen-erally
amnug the lower classes,
where want and the evils which al-ways
follow in their track abound.
Tbe chamber, if tbe small cramp-ed
apartment was worthy of so dig-nified
a uame, was withont a car-pet,
and contained, by way of furni-ture,
only two half broken chairs,
tbe dingy bed upon which the pa-tient
lay, and a small, nnblacked,
cheap cooking stove.
The walls were dirty and smoky,
and tbe sombre glare of a greasy
old oil lamp, with a chimney nearly
obscured by the accumulated soot
of many weeks, cast bat a feeble
light around. -
I looked at the woman stretched
out and nearly cold before me, and
as her closed eyes quivered with a
taint but ineffectual attempt to
The Count Ivan looked upon me
with languishing eyeafeev
Adonis himself never seemed
more lovely to impassioned Venus
than he did at times to me.
Bnt I loved my husband tender-ly,
devotedly, and the thought of
treason to him was madness.
▲nd I did not meditate treason.
His passion tor me still continued
as erer, aud was daily manifested.
Jealousy was as remote from his
great soul as from God himself, and
hence, when' gay noblemen, and
with them tbe Count Iran, were
admiringly about me.the Duke was
not only pleased, but actually treat-ed
the homage extended to me, as
part tendered to himself. '
I tried to shun the Count Ivan.
My soul whispered danger to me.
But tbe Dnke was partial to the
open when her du'.l ears caught tbe ! youth ; he told him, while I shud-such.
and hence that no man should
have been tried for treason."
" Yonr friend.
GERRIT SMTH."
Effigy Sargent having failed to
carry the Goat Inland job through
Congress, his irmsterR, the inana
'pamphlet sent for instructions, to Ker8 „t the Central Pacific Railroad,
l:\l.PH COHUKLL, , federal supervisors, from which it , nave m.nerouslv proposed to the
IIMllu.rmu,e*): .a..nwal (tonuiiniix-enllonrr aatt Ur 'aPI*8™."'»' t'""y ar« "peeled K> people Of Sam Francisco to sell out LJIW, make a listofall persons regist•-"""g, their claim to the coveted island,
Greensboro, N. C., ! obtaining lrora each person his wnich |H,](1IIKS tl,the United States,
liriLLpraetieaia ih. court, of Alamauoo, name for this purpose ; to take a aB(l which thev have not the siight-
,'V "»"' <i...ifor.l a.i.l Kaiidoinh. and piisition behind the railing in the ' t prospect of ever obtaining, tor
lUoKn,,,, .,.,,r.: .. Be.-No.;, Law ftow on registration office or behind the bal- the \nJ,.TltU. „„,,, ()f *-.r»0l>,O(K).-
iv.,,,,,, .urt.i BiT» 'to clWiing, tadU°* Do»s wbf" votiuS is B°'»8 °" I ; In other words, the monopolist say
all nifor bu»in«a committed to hia can. , to count and canvass every TOM I („ tue people ofSam Francisco that
April 47, WU:ly_ cast, and to forbid any State In-, thev win abandon their scheme for
,,. „ . I , „ „„,,,. flK'ftor to couut or canvass any: appropriating Government property
""'"' ' ••"'■■ J w- s,u"'n ballots at the time this is going ou; ■
Clark & Mullen, ItOIDdorae on the registry books,
Attorneys At Low, , HI lists, tallies, check books cer
* i tincates, statemeuts, or returns
HALIFAX, N. C, ] made by the State officers, any
PRACTICE in all ili- Couna of Halifax, statement as to their fairness which
Mamii. Norlliamptou and KduK-oniU- („ ,|,e supervisors, may seem lit ; to
In III- SHI,rein- Court of Kortb .„,„. .,„ „. li...tX . i.„'
t^CoUvviioMBUrdvIa -llparuol North rests; to make arrests themselves
Carvluu*. mar 14: lj
D. A. &. R. F. ROBERTSON,
Surgeon Dentists.
! when no deputy is by ; to person-
| ally examine every house in their
i district to verify registration ; and
| to see to it that they do not allow
themselves, under any circum-w"&
S5& «ftSM be "iterfered with by
iu iii- prai-in-i- of the State law or State officers.
r^^ctfuMToflcr! The Federal tlection law a* it note
y^ uSfTproSaloB- f*"'*''??. novarrant ^haUoerer
v-,' "w'J'v;® »' Hrv ice» to the \for any of these claims, hvery one
Y^> cilixona of of these asserted powers, it should
y <£*-*■ - (ir.ii,»boro, i oe dearly understood, is in direct
dinxoooatry. lortheoibw of then, violation of the act of Cougress,
ran alwaya I,- found at tbeir nflic« on j approved June 10th, 1872, supple-
.inn. r np ataira, anttaaca EaM : men ting and amending the election
Market Btreet ! law of February 28, 1871. The final
Itetiafactory n-ference eiven, if desired, I ?■ 'Z"IT» 7
from „ur r,-p,,iiv-i„,ir„iia during the;l'roT180D to said amendatory act
past twelve or fifteen yoan. -iVi:tt reads: That the anjiervisors herein
v | provided for shall have no power
| or authority to make arrests or to
I perform other duties than to be iu
! tho presence of the officers holding
the election, and to witness all their
IUIEui rail. l,imd..r the firm n»m»ofiP5ocoe<linB8'ncladin8 the counting
• i:,iiiin .v tiwen." have aiwumcd ih.-, of the votes and the making a rc-agency
,,I ili- above Company for middle
North Carolina.
\Y.. have no haaitatlon in cnnfidently
r,A-,,niiii,.|iilli,j; ll,e t'ulupaliy, to the puh-
■ entirely aolrent; liberal in ii. sion of Congress to inject into tbe
general appropriations net a provis
THE iqinillli: LIFE
Assurame Society
Ol Hi.- lulled Mate.. New York.
turn thereof."
It will be remembered that when
an effort was made at the last ses-t-
ruiK und thoroughly jui-t towards ili,
poliey-holdera ; and th-y reap-clfiilly
Kolu-il investigation from all who wish ti
ni.iir...
T. KtrKKIN.
•i-.r-.tf TlldMA.S M. OWEN.
THAT'S RIGHT,
Low.prie
loa -pi
I,, Hi,
■d SEWING MACHINES like
■<! Watch,-.,are a great aunovam'-
rners. Tho ViihmA l.il.l.s
"''«Inn Maeliine girea nniveraal
i, inHI. Ii la iheladiea favorite—
*,'i.iii-.- II IIIIIH light, makes no noise,doe>
all kind. ,-l work, never gels out of ordei
and ia »a»iljr c pi. I led bj all. An)
-iiinga Sewing Marhine is in-
Vited t„ (all .ii mv residence.
IAS. W. ALBRIGHT.
ion extending the election act of
February 28, 1871, to every voting
precinct in the Uuited States, tbe
Democratic members iu the House
and Senate resisted desjierately,
and though unsuccessful iu warding
off the entire wrong, deprived it of
much of its venom by insisting on
and carryingthree amendmeiits:first
that the supervisor must be a qual-ified
voter of the district i:i which
he was appointed to act; second,
that no compensation should be al-lowed
any supervisor except those
appointed iu cities or towns of
twenty thousand or more inhabi-tants;
aud third, that supervisors
should have no other power than
'•to IH- iu the immediate presence of
the officers holding the election
STOP AT TIIK
Baleigh, >'. c.
(i. W. Mat-knell. Proprietor.
which is needed for the military
protection of the harbor of San
Francisco, on the payment of the
sum already named. The unbound-ed
impudence of this proposition
was very forcibly demonstrated by
Senator Cole at t> public meeting in
San Francisco on the evening of the
23d tilt., when tbe Senator took oc-casion
to pay his respects to the
Kail road Company's agent iu Con-gress,
whose name is Aaron A. Sar-gent,
but who is more popularly
known as Kffigy Sargent, or Goat
Island Sargent. The wilful mis
representations indulged in by this
tool of tli.> monopolists in his efforts
to carry out the fraud projected by
his employers in the attempted ap-propriation
of Government property
were characterized in terms which
must have made the fellow's ears
tingle, notwithstanding that they
have become pretty familiar with
expressions of contempt aud deri-sion
troui the people he assumes to
represent.
Statistics, in the matter of dogs,
show that in this country there are
something like 21,000,(100 animals
oi this species. Estimating that
the cost of each dog per year is 88)
the result is an annual expenditure
of 8168.000.000 for the maintenance
of the canine population. In Great
Britain, according to the latest sta-tistics,
dogs number 1,118,203, and
their owners pay a tax amounting
to £297,573—about 81,487,000.—
IT(.-)iAini7ton Patriot.
sound of our coming, I shook my
head
The face of my conductor fell.
"Is she past hope f tbe man ask-ed
anxiously in a whisper.
I nodded affirmatively.
"1 bought some brandy as I came
to you," said the kind hearted fel-low,
still iu a whispei ; "wouldn't
that do some good I"
I reached out my hand for it and
tasted it; it was vile stuff—a nan-dered,
that his doors were ever open
to him.
I could not warn my husband ; I
could not tell him of my fears. And
I wept alone.
Meanwhile the Count Ivan was
almost always near me, and each
day grew more ardent and more
open in his passiou.
I could not fail to understand him
now.
At last the crisis came,and Fate!
semis compound of crude whisky | horrible aud grim fate wrote in its
and adulterated cognac oil; but it; awful book the fulfilment of my
was the best sold in tbe neighbor-: deatiuy I
hood, it had strength—so I put the [ One evening I was left alone with
flask to the patieut's lips, aud fore- my lover. We were at St. Peters-ed
a few drops down her throat
She revived almost instantane-ously
and opened her eyes widely.
"Where is itt oh, where is itf
she gasped faintly, and her pale,
bony fingers began a
search about her neck.
burg, and tbe Duke was absent
somewhere, busied with the affairs
of bis vast estate.
It was a gay winter season, and
the frozen snow that night was
tremulous j alive with tbe tinkling bells.
I was alone with tbe Count Ivan
1 thonght it was delirium, and ! in the great reception chamber of
waited silently. At length she : the palace.
fastened on a gold chain that was { He was sitting beside me on a
about her neck, one end ot which divan, the red velvet covering of
was bidden away in her bosom. which was but pale compared to tbe
A shade of relief passed over her crimson flush that was on my
worii countenance at this, aud cheeks. We spoke in low whispers,
■lruwiog the portion that hud been ' We talked of love. God I tbe deli
A correspondent of the Tribune il-lustrates
once more the management
of the Post Office Department. It
seems that religious journals, paid
for by benevolent person, cannot be
sent through the mails as simple
copies: but specimens of a Ifcw
York Grant organ HIV thus sent, in
defiance of law, to Tribune snbscri-liers
whose names have been snrrep
titionsly obtained. This is Grant-ism,
pure and simple.—A'fie York
Tribune.
:
We have received by mail a
, beautiful specimen ot tobacco made
aud to witness all their proceed- ] ''.v one °f onr subscribers, Dr. J. A.
ings." Harris, of Buncombe county, X. C.
In view ot this plain provision j '' to beautiful indeed. It was cur-the
assumed functions of the Feder- i e(l •»>' ^'r- Charley Carter. Pittsyl-eral
supervisors who have been so ! vania county. Mr. H. writes:
freely appointed of late are assump I '"There will be a large quantity
1 AlililllUH III UOl'SE Tl,iolm """rely, and any attempt at ; of tobacco tor sale iuBuncombe aud
' their exercise can be safely resisted ' v
N'o man cau be lawfully made to
give bis name to any inquiring su-pervisor;
any supervisor attempt-ing
to pry into a citizen's dwelling
cau aud should be ejected like any The A'etr Crop of Tobacco.—The
intruder; any arrest by a sn|icr- weight of testimony goes to show-visor,
either in person or by bis iu-1 that while the color of the new crop
struction to a marshal, is iu law an | oi tobacco in this region will be
assault aud battery, aud tbe assail-: bright, the weight will be light.—
ant may not only be tried therefor > Dan. Times.
but may be sued for false imprison- _ .„ , „ , ,. .'.... ...
ment; and any supervisor seeking _|* Btocknall of the celebrated
iug to handle ballot-boxes, or to Tarbo^n°-T., ,e,fVh:i V r"
count or direct the counting of, P-e?ented with the stuffed skin of a
° 1 mnn.lar rait A-anotA
I lirruliir Saw*, t.nnimi'ri, Ac
V - -v'' ''■" »»pplT at a
>ln,rt notice. 8aw« of any tin w description,
- Bide Kil.n „r any other arti.-l^
,re,l by llenn- Dbatan & tk.u.l'liil
adelphia.
and Laaihar Baiting
lib, length or ■haalllli.
lured hy ,!„. \,.w York IWting Couipanv,
»''l J. fi Hoyi A C,,, Newport. Call and
k-M a circular. S..1.I only for cash on delirerr
"ii al manufacturer.' pricen.
Fab. 1,1-;-,
of any re
manufac-
JAB. SLOANS' SONS.
Madison counties.''
Mr. II. expects to have 30,0001bs.
himself. We congratulate him upon
his success —Dan. Times.
i monster rattle-snake.
concealed into the light, she clasp-ed
convulsively iu both bands a
small iron key that was attached to
it, aud pressed it to her lips.
"Thank Heaven !" she murmur-ed,
as she did this, aud glanced
sharply about tbe place. "Now
wheu he comes again he will not
harm me!"
Immediately she grew stronger,
aud shortly she said quite rational-ly,
but feely:
"Yon are a doctor f
"Yes," said I.
"Why is that other person with
you f
The man himself answered this
question :
"I am the owner of this bouse,
and your frieud."
"My friend!" repeated the wo-man
in a low voice. "My friend,
sir! I had a husband, but be was
no friend, and be is dead—and I—
I am dying, too."
I tried to stop her from talking,
but it was of no avail, aud she con-tinned
:
"Doctor, yon are making efforts
to save me ; I know you are. You
know the strength of a womau's
willt Yes. Well, I have made np
my mind to die, aud L will not be
balked You ask me my reasous.
Well, you shall have them—after
I'm gone. They are written out in
this paper. Promise me you will
not break the seal until I'm dead 1"
I promised; and she drew a
small packet from under her pil-low,
aud placed it in my hands.—
Then, entirely exhausted by the ef-forts
she bad made in speaking, tbe
woman closed her eyes, and after a
quick gasp, ceased to breathe.
My companion, provided with the
necessary certificate, sought an un-dertaker,
and I went home as
speedily as possible, glad iu my j
heart of hearts that the woman was
at rest.
Once seated in my office, I broke
the seal of the packer, and read the
following strange story:
"I have been a faithless wife;—
but, oh, bow bitterly have I been
punished !
I was a native of n far country—
a Kussian. Here I was but a pov-erty-
stricken and unhappy exile.
Years ago I was the young and
happy wife of the Dnke of all the
Kussians! He was powerful and
rich, aud the slave of my beauty.—
I loved bim iu return, with all the
ardor of a passionate soul.
He had taken me to bis heart a
peasant girl, and hsd raised me
from harsh, daily toil, to a proud
corouet.
My husband was forty years my
seuior, yet, ob, how kind ho was to
me—how fatherly!
We dwelt in the country to the
south, and the Dnke had a winter
palace at St. Petersburg-
At court, I was the cynosure of
rium of delight I experienced.
He drifted back to the regions of
classic fable. H- spoke of tbe
amours of the devinities of Monnt
Olympus.
Ah, so glowing, so passionately
be spoke ! I listened, I bung upon
his breath,enraptured—enthralled 1
Tbe dark angels that were battling
for my soul held victory, balanced
in their bands.
I was afraid; I trembled; I al-most
wept.
The Count Ivan looked into my
eyes and seemed to read my tery
soul! I shook like a leaf. I buried
my face in my hands.
Suddenly tbe Count Ivan clasped
me in his arms, aud imprinting a
burning kiss upon my lips, drew my
bead upon his shoulder.
"Mine now, foreverP
But suddenly, oh, horror! I
heard the well known voice oi tbe
Duke upon the stairs outside. Tbe
Count Ivan sprang to bis feet, and
in a second I thrust him into a
large wardrobe, and was just turn-ing
the key when my husband en-tered
and stood before me. He
was pale as tbe face of a corpse.—
Great distorted purple veins stood
out on bis forehead, and hia lips
were twitching with a terrible con-vulsive
motion. He knew all!
We had been betrayed I
Ho spoke no word whatever, but
went silently to the wardrobe and
turned the key I had left sticking
in the lock in my fright, twice, aud
tbeu withdrew it and put it in his
pocket. Then, for the first time,he
spoke.
"Follow me!" he said, and, more
dead than alive, I obeyed. We
went down the stairs and out into
the bitter, biting air.
A traveling britzka stood waiting
near the palace.
I was hurried into it, and after a
few words to the coachman, the
Duke turned to me and gave me
the key.
"Keep thi«," he said; "I must
go back; I have forgotten some-thing
!"
He disappeared in the darkness,
and was absent perhaps ten min-utes,
when he returned and got into
the carriage by my side.
We moved slowly away, and as
we went, my husband pointing from
the coach window said :
"Look there V
I looked, and, O God I the palace
we bad just left was a sheet of
flame ! And the Connt Ivan was
perishing there, locked in tbe ward-robe,
of which I had the key !
With a wild, heartbroken cry, I
fell back in a swoon, and I lay, I
know not bow long. When I re-vived,
I was alone in the britzka—
I felt the weight about my neck. I
touched it. It was a massive gold
chain! Attached to it was the key
to that fatal wardrobe! The chain
was rivited to iu place, and I could
not remove it
A second time I swooned.
When I again recovered, I waa
ih a compartment of a railway car-riage-
The coachman waa with
BaO.
I inquired our destination, he an-swered:
"Paru.»
In due course ot time we arrived,
and I was taken.to a set of furnish-ed
apartment*, where I waa left. I
determined at ouoe ou suicide, and
waa about to carry my project into
Immediate execution, with the aid
of a small pocket knife I had in my
possession, when my hand waa ar-rested
by ary husbaad, who at that
moment entered tbe chamber.
He bonnd me by the moat terri
Me oath aerer te make tbe attempt
again while he rived, under pain
that if I violated the compact, be
would instantly publish my shame
and bring dishonor upon my fami-ly-
I was thus forced sorrowfully to
live on and to submit to his visits,
which took place regularly each
month.
His love for mo was changed into
intense and bitter Hate, and hia
highest pleasure each visit waa to
recount minutely to me all the cir-cumstances'of
my treachery to him,
all the events of that awful night
iu St. Petersburg. He made me
swear to wear the chain and key to
my dying hour!
This lasted for twenty long years,
during the course of which ho never
once failed te appear promptly at
the appointed time.
At last the welcome tidings of
his death reached me, and I came
to London to eaiTy out my cherish-ed
design of putting au end to my
woes.
I have taken this obscure apart-ment
with a view of effecting my
design by starvation.
The total omission of names and
clues is intentional. I do not wish
to bring further disgrace upon my
husband's family or my own."
Daylight was peeping in through
my study window when I finished
reading this strange narrative.
Was it tbe wild outpouring of a
lunatic's brain, or was it a sober
truth t At all events, I myself had
seen the chain and key.
However, as I myself could not
judge of its falsity or verity, I have
determined to publish tbe narrative
iu full as it came into my posses-sion,
with my own experience as
connected with it. and I hope that
its readers, if with them when they
have perused it, it may lack confir-mation,
will at least find a toueh of
meiancbolly interest in
THE LADY OF THE KEY.
Where the Money Comes
From.
When it was charged, just before
thfrlrorth Carolina election, that
laige sums of money bad been sent
to North Carolina ostensibly to de-fray
tbe expenses of tbe United
States Courts, but really for politi-cal
purposes, tbe defenders of the
Administration vowed by all that
Was sacred that not a penny had
been speut beyond the absolute ne-cessities
ot justice, and that tbe ex-penditure
was little if anything in
excess of the average for previous
years. Now the truth is beginning
to come out. A letter from Wash-ington
gives some curious facts, the
interpretation of which seems obvi-ous
enough. Uutil recently the ap
propriation for United States! 'ourts
has beeu about $500,000 a year.—
For the year ending June 30, 1872,
however, Presideut Grant asked
and obtained an appropriation of
no less than two millions, and by a
deficiency bill in May last be got
an allowance of au additional mil-lion.
With an appropriation six
times as large as the ordinary ex
penditnre be ought to have been
able to prosecute the Ku Klux
cases, enforce tbe bayonet law, and
have a considerable surplus; but
now tbe acting First Controller of
the Treasury gives notice to court
officers that the money is all gone,
and their unsettled accounts cannot
be paid.
Where it has gone we can easily
guess. Marshal Carrow took 9250,-
000 to North Carolina, instead of
the $10,000 which has usually suf-ficed
for that State, and with that
sum he kept iu pay during the can-vass
a perfect army of deputy mar-shals
and deputy commissioners,
who bad nothing whatever to do
except to make Grant voters. More-over,
the acting Controller says
that "the snms drawn by several of
tbe marshals have proved to be in
excess of the amounts needed by
them." How this could occur,
when their requisitions bad to be
audited and approved in the office
of the Attorney-General before a
cent could be paid on them, the
Administration will perhaps be
able to explain. Wbat uae has
beeu made of this money t What
pretext was given for drawing it
out of the Treasury 1 Why is it
not returned at once f In States
where Ku Klux violence and illicit
distilling have prevailed in past
years, deputy marshals with sur-plus
funds in hand are almost irre-sistible
as electioneering agents,and
we shall not be greatly surprised if
use be not found for that money be-fore
the 5th of November.—A. T.
Tribune.
A Stubborn Duel.
If you wish to know what nap
net of young man Gov. De-Witi
Clinton, of New. York, was, yon
hare only to read the official repon
of tbe duel which he fought in 1801
with John Swartwout, at Weekaw
ken. Clinton waa then opposing
Aaron Burr, and fiwartwout a IBM
ed him of being actuated in hia op-position
only by personal and sel
fish motives.
I "He ia a liar, s scoundrel, and a
villain,"exclaimed the hotheaded
Clinton. '- sJ^S* •
A challenge followed, and the
duel waa fought I suppose that it
waa the most remarkable affair ol
the kind that ever occurred—out m
Ireland. Tbe first fire doing no
barm to either antagonist, one of
the seconds asked BwaTVwoot s
«Are you satisfied, atrT
"I am not," he said, with more
blnntness than courtesy
They fired a second time without
effect.
"Are you satisfied, sirT* asked
the second.
"No I" thundered Swartwout.
The men fired a third time with-out
any effect, when'the same gen-tleman
again politely asked' Mr.
Swartwout rt he was satisfied.
"I am not," war the reply; "neith-er
shall I be until that apology is
made which I hare demanded. Un-til
then, we must proceed."
Swartwoufa second then present-ed
a paper containing the apology
demanded for Clinton's signature,
saying:
"We cannot spend our time in
conversation. This paper must un-signed,
or proceed."
"I will not sign any paper on the
subject," said Clinton, with a firm-ness'and
dignify. "I trtre' no- ani-mosity
against Swartwmt. I Will
willingly shake hands, and agree to
meet on tbe score of former friend-ship."
The fourth fire then took place,
when Clinton's ball struck his ob
stinate antagonist in the left leg be-low
tbe knee.
"Are you satisfied, sirf tbe
wounded was again asked.
Standing firmly at his post, he
answered:
"It is useless to repeat the ques-tion.
My determination is fixed,
and I beg we may proceed."
While the surgeon waa extract-ing
the ball from the opposite aide
of Swartwoui's leg, Clinton again
declared that he had no animosity
against Swartwout, that be was
sorry for what had paased, and was
willing to go forward, shake hands,
and bury the circumstances in ob-livion.
Swartwout, however.stand-ing
erect at his place, insisted upon
tbe written apology. A fifth time
tbey fired, and Clinton's ball
struck his antagonist in the same
leg, bnt a little below the former
wound.
"Are you satisfied, sirf asked
tbe second.
"I am not, sir!'' replied Swart-wout;
"proceed."
Clinton then left his station,
threw down his pistol, and declared
that be would fire no more.
Whereupon Swartwout, turning
to his second, asked what he should
do, to which the second replied :
"There is nothing further left tor
you now, but to have, your wounds
dressed."
So tbe combat ended, and the
two parties returned in their barges
to the city.
" Dus Onion Hill coome by dees
carst" Inquired a jolly Dutchman
on Saturday night, as he staggered
into a Union Hill car at Hoboken.
" Yaw, Fritz," answerd a fellow
countryman.
" Veat cakes, all the vile, Yacob,"
said Fritz, nearly crushing bis
friends toes in his attempts to
steady himself.
" Fritz, you pe tam heavy to-night."
" Yais, I bees full of hot Tom and
Sherrys, Yacob; I vas a fool to dry
Yankee drinks; Dom and Sherry
doo much for Fritz. I must dry
and get some fresh air on the plat-form
Yacob."
Fritz succeeded in getting the
door open about six inches; a bit-ing
wind blew through tbe aperture,
wben an indignant passenger sprang
to his feet and closed tbe door with
a suddenness that turned Fritz half
aronnd.
" Bees dis ear on the outside or
inside f inquired Fritz.
" You are all right, Fritz: sit
down in this corner," said Yacob.
" Dank you, Yacob; if I sleeps
when miue house coomes along,dell
too who I am."
Why is tbe root of tbe tongue
like a dejected man t—Because its
down in the month.
Why is a young lady's bustle like
a historical tale 1—Because its fic-tion
founded on fact
A country newspaper speaking of
• blind fiddler, says: "Although
he cannot see, he saw."
" What is home without a moth-er
I" as the young girl said whea
she sent the old lady to chop some
wood.
Spotted Tail the Indian warrior,
is opposed to Greeley. As tbe phi-losopher
has no hair on the top of
bis head, he says he don't care a
d—dime who Spotted Tail is ior.
A Fort Wapne man who has in-vented
a new recipe for cleaning
clothes, parades it on his advertise-ments
nnder tbe standing bead of
"Every man his own washerwo-man!"
It ia not always a mark oi frank-ness
to possess an open countenance.
An alligator is a deceitful creature,
and yet he presents an open counte-nance
when he is in the very act of
taking you in.
A Judge who had been more ac-customed
to pronounce the death
penalty than the marriage ceremo-ny,
did it thus: "By the authori-ty
in me vested I now pronounce
you husband and wife and may God
have mercy on your souls." ]
IsaUill^W.SxuaUcs und
'; ■'.r"*~
STUPID 8KAXX-The
atriped tasks lu one of
alyppsrysst jobs that natur
the
They travel ron the lower aids or
were made for some good purpose,
but I never hare been Informed for
what nnleaa ft was tow bate their
heads smashed.
Tbey- are aed tew be Innocent,
bsjMuejf hat got a bad rspstosbam,
ind all the ianeeeuee in the world
won't cure a bad rspntaahnm.
They liv in th* grass, but seldom
fit slept on *leiuuM they don't
taylongenong in tssright place.
When. I was a little hoy and wore
naked'feet aod was loafing around
loose forsfrawberries, I waa often
timesJust • goiag to atop en a stip-ed
snaik, bat it always cured ass of
strawberries.
If a atriped anaik got into a 10
akre lot before idid, i alwas kon-sidered
that all the atrawberrya hi
that lot beloaga tow the snaik.
'Fast cam, fust aurre,' was my
motto.
I'm just az fraid ovsnaikanowaa
i was 50 years ago, and if i shouldiir
tew be old ax Nebudkennesor waa
and go to grass as he did oae atrip-ed
snaik would spileSO akeraof good
luMtare for me.
Wimmen don't 1ST sneaks enny
more than j do, aod i.-rsspekt her
for this.
How on earth Eve was seduced
by s ausik ia a fust class mystry to
me, and if i hadn't read it ia lbs-Bi-ble
t would he against it
I believe everything there iz in
the Bible; the things i kant under-stand
i believe the moat.
I wouldn't swop opb the faith 1
bar got for any living man's knowl-edge
Snaiks are or all sorts and sizes,
and tbe smaller they are the more
I'm afraid of them.
I wouldn't buy a farm at half
price that had a atriped snaik on It.
Ded anaiks are a weakness with
me; I alwaya reepekt them, and.
whenever i see a ded one iu tbe
road, i don't drop a tear on him but
i drop another atone on him for fear
ho might, niter bis miud and knm
flew life agai,u,.lor a snaik hates tew
die just az much az a kat dux,
I never conld ackount for a snaik
or kat hateing tew die so bad, un-less
it waz bekause tba was so poor-ly
prepared for death.
BABYS.
Bubys i lav with all my heart ;
they are mi sweetmeats ; ilia warm
up mi blood like a gin sling; tha
krawl into and uestlo by the side or
my soul like a kitten under a kook
stove.
, I have raised babys miself, and
kno wbat i am talking about
I hav got grandchildren, and tha
are wus tbau tbe fust crop to riot a-niong
the feelings.
If 1 conld hav my way i would
change all the human beings now
on tbe face of tbe earth back into
babys at once, and keep them thare
and make this footstool one grand
nursery; but what i should do for
net nurses i don't kno and don't
care.
I would like tew have 15 babys
now on mi lap, aud mi lap ain't the
handiest lap iu the world for babys,
neither.
I am a good deal ov a man but I
konsist of length principally, and
when I make a lap uv myself, it is
not mattrass but more like a couple
uv rails with a jint in urn.
I cau hold more babys in my lap
at once than auy mau in America,
without spilling one, but it hurts
the babys
I never saw a baby in my life
that i did not want tew kiss ; i am
wuss than an old maid in this res-pect.
Ii have seen babies that i bar re-fused
tew kiss until tba had been
washt; bnt tbe babies want to
blame fur this, neether waz i.
There are folks in this wurld who
sa tba don't luv babies, but yu kau
de|iend on it, when tha waz babies
snmboddy luved them.
Babys luv me, too. I kan take
I hem out ov their mother's arms
(ost as easy as i kan an unfledged
bird on) ov biz nest. Tha luv me
bekause i luv them.
And here let me sa, for the kum-fort
and konsolation ov awl moth-ers,
that whenever tba see me ou
cars or steeinbote, out ov a job, tba
needn't hesitate a minnit tow drop
a cloen, lat babee into mi lap; I will
hold it, and kiss it, and be thank-ful
beside
Perhaps there iz peeple who do
not envy mo all this, but it iz one
ov the sharp kut, well-defined Joys
ov mi life, mi luv for babies and
their luv fur me.
Perhaps there is peeple who call
it weekness, i don't care wbat tha
call it, bring on the babys. Unkle
Josh alwas haz a wurd and a kiss
fur the babys.
I luv babys for tbe truth there ia
in them, i ain't afraid their kiss will
betrav me, there iz no frauds, ded
beats nor couuterflt among 'urn.
I wish i was a baby, (not only
once more,) but forever.
Joan BILLIHOS.
A Sharp Transaction.—The Har-tranft
party in Philadelphia took
the precaution to register 163,000
votes. This was before tbey knew
that tbey could purchase the officers
ot election to make just such a count
as tbey wished. Having bought
their men to make tbe count they
wanted, tbey reduced the total vote
to 118,000—but still retained their
majority of 20,41". This trick ap-pears
to have imposed upon the
New York Herald, which adduces
the small vote as evidence of fair-ness
of the knaves.
But there stands the twenty odd
thousand majority to testify to the
vilianly.—Richmond Whig,
" Would you take the last cent a
person has for a glass of soda wa-ter
T" asked a youth. " Yea," re-sponded
the unthinking proprietor,
whereupon hopeful pulled out the
cent and got the drink.
J. W. Schenck, tbe recently de-posed
sheriff of New Hanover is de-faulter
to the tune of $35,000.