Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-04

/ prefer to call Il, Of aphioeopnio,,n viePHsi7
ton, i simply entered IN my note-pYohl MI MI
inc it there, az / sat In the clear moophght |
luxurious illusion prodrced lDecember "a |
1891 bv hunger and fatigue" Iiln.s. .g ..ie,i |
NevertheIess. as / sat at breakfast in Paris |
nm The morning Of the nineteenth, j received \
word by post that Mary Ross and her two |
children we're dead oftyphus fever. Mary,
the letter said, kept asking for you, William,
as though you could save her little ones, any
even after they were out of the reach oI
earthly aid. She herself did not survive
them more than few hours. They all o'eu
on the fourteenth at5i
NV second t'startlinr situation was not
rhostly one, although the LOCALITY was lar
better adapted TO such phenomenon snan
the highroad TO Paris--a hne olo menUr i
house fn Staffordshire, that had been q preps.y
nart had sailed out of IL az the head OF
III rakehelly Babeaters, and Cromwell had
atovmed Il with his Ironsides, shifting Agag-
9hat h 10 saw, its then possessor, Sir Jasper
Seton-bip andthigh. He was cut TO pieces
| In the great hall, which is now the music
| room, or was in the days knew III and the
| clash of steel Is still TO be heard there IN
wild winter midnights, although can not
| saw that ever detected II MYSELF for certain.
| There were, however, the most mysterious
/ NIGHTLY sounds in that old house, whose fur-
| nifure. though good and costly, was through
ont from gafret to still-room, exceedingly
ancient. never was, indeed, in any. dwell
iup-house where Antiquity had 1T so much
her own way. It was full of necessary and
nnexnected flights of stairs, of tortous pas
saVes, of long, dark, slippery galleries, ana
especially full of lingering echoes, always
diving out, and never dead. Nine-tenths OF
the mysterious noises came, OF course, rom
these same echoes; but who made the other
tenth and set the noises going, was prop
lem not SO easily solved. Who emptied SACKS
of potatoes every night down the Wloe
uncarpeted oak stairs in the aforesaid music
hall was quite an open question: lot eSery-
body agreed, though there were no potatoes
TO be found there that that was the operation
which the disturbance most resembled. w nc
| went about and seemed to tolisten-with hst-shp'
pers on-at the chamber door2 Who rang
; the drawing-room bells, when nothing was
t wanted, and everybody had gone to bedr MY
answer, on account OF the pnllosoPnic crSi, Tti,
| acter of my nature, was always--kats. lns
house so swarmed with them, that it mign
II have been called Rats Castle The arms, II
r such of the chambers as were not in constan
: use. were rat-eaten and moth-eaten. INT
wainscots were riddled by rats; and they
were only kept away from the provisions Q
the household by patent safe; that was :, tn =,
one modern contrivance, IN BurlDy nall m
N Nevertheless, the old place was the yer.
home of Christmas hospitality, and had 10
me, who did not care for rats, only on
>, source of annoyance dare not indulge y
two of my usual customs getting up early y
the morning, and .sleep-walking at nigh'
: for fear of being shot by Captain Seton, IN
ig eldest son of Sir Arthur, who, engaged o
10 the state of terror in which the ieInale pol
V ton of the domestics were plunged, peram
ID bulated the house at all hours with revolver
:, wherewith he had pledged himself to put
;" end to all disturbers of the household peac'
His sisters being Setons, were, of eours'
/ afraid of nothing; but ! confess that for M
part did not like that six-barrelled impl'
= inent of the young dragoon at all. III
he nightly noises, however were no whls "
T, creased by this amateur watchman; ana OF
, December night, when d grim north.easo
was irving doors and windows from withou
and the rats were at work as usual with the
~ potstoe sacks and list-slippers within,
- added considerably to the general tnmu !,
by ringing huge hand alarn-bell which
of had had placed in his bedroom IN case
n such an emerrency--and all the inmates
~ the mansion fiocked to the summons as be
~ are gathered by the hivesman. We, four
az the captain in his dressing-gown IN the ce
az ter of the western gallery, standing BY,
ne ugly mark in the panneGng, which he h'
on made with the muzzle of his pistol. AZ =.
on "Here he il" cried he; Hthe fellow we
lef through here, I'll take my oath heard hi
nd listening at my door and was out in a niinu
taking snapshot at him, but the thi
4, missed fire" "a, ..,
Heard whom heard whom ~ inquir
Ike Sir Arthur. .llr yt9aS ~ hg, ~ ~
,or ~ don't know how---how should lPf1
It'll Piled the young man. Perhaps ghost,
yer | If not. somebody who was never so near bel
to a ghost III warrant him. as he was 4
A minutes back. I'll have this panel brok
Il i'm. No father, we'll not leave it till TOM
~ row. If YOU please; that's how these things
ON on-letis do il at once. There's pickaxe
nto the stable-yard; go and fetch it, Thomas"
wn SO the pickaxe was brought, and-s
of Arthur unwillingly assenting-we broke
I'VE the black oak panneling into q hundr
ost splinters, and then through thick ste
yo- wall, without hinge or entrance, as
er- seemed, Of any kind in it, into chamber,
the the existence of which no person in the ho'
be had ever known. A modern chamber
md small sitting-room, barely furnished W
age chairs and tables Of a date of construct
Inv later by at least two hundred years than al
thing in the house, except the patent 81
be- but there were no windows to the room,
lis | any means of ingress that could be discover
the save that very rough one OF our own.
ON not think that either ghost or burglar co
me | have affected us all more strangely than
"a sight of thatuntenanted and unknown IN
q is ern room. 1t is still to be seen in the "
the pallery of Burlby Hail. the sole approach
an it---for so the Setons win have it--yet ly
non open between the splintered planksl
me broken stonework, as when it was first fou
d IL The mystery concerning it and its occupal
|, to IL any, is still unsolved, and the rats m
ute Just as much noise about the grand old pl
ing, as ever. l-s ln- = - - .-- rig