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threw but dim ligh, upon the spot, bat it was
sufficient.
She saw the robber raise a pistol. She
could not die She had a husband-a child
and had set herself to save the carrier. With
these thoughts dashing through her mind, she
pulled the the trigger. A sharp report went
ringing through the house. and its echo was Q
deep groap from the cellar bottom.
Ere the second robber could show himself
Morton came rushing into the room with d re
yolver iD each band.
"What is il 81 be cried.
There. There !" gasped Polly, pointing 70
the doorway. where savage looking face had
inst presented itself.
Liant Morton had been long enough rsed ID
danger not to waste time in conjecture, and
Immediately sho; the william dead, who fell with
a heavy sound upon the cellar bottom.
Are there auy more?' be asked, cooking
bis pistol.
And so you meant TO save me?" remarked
the carrier. as Polly hesiiated-
Yes. yes-I did. Yes that was it."
Aud as soon as the noble woman was sufh|
GENTLY recovered, she told him the whole story
Morton expressed bis thanks as best hd
could but, after all, the moisture OF his lighl
grey eye. the changing Of his couuteuance, aud
the very lack of language, told more thad
words could have done.
After due deiberstion. it was decided thai
the bodies should remain where they were I'D
til morning. So the cellar door was shut, thu
front door boiled, and then they prepared oDc{
more TO retire but for the rest Of the nigh
Morton made his bed on the floor OF larg{
room
In the morning, just as the carrier was dress
ing, there was loud rap on the door, accom-
panied by voice which he knew full wei
He FASTENED TO open the door, and gave Ell
trance to Jacob Burnap. The hunter had me
a party of traders at Lewisburg, aud dispose
of all of his skins to them, thus finishing hi
Journey SIX days earlier than be had anticipa
ted
Polly was soon upon her husbands bosom
and when be had told bis own story, Morto
gave him an account of last nights adventur
Jacob was at first incredulous but when /
had been down and seen the bodies, he ws
satisfied
Polly, my jewell he said. placing his ar
around he neck, Il am proud of you. | loy
you more and more, for every day | find moi
to love-" And then turning to Morton,
added
What do you think Of such wife ?"
"Ah," returned the guest, with deep feelinI
"if poor Liant Morton had such a wife
wouldn't be mail carrier
When Morton left be was directed to std
at the first settlement and state TO the Office
what had happened, and be promised to do
He once more blessed the brave womd
who had saved his life, and then set out. La
in the afternoon two officers arrived at
cabin, and when they were shown the DEF
bodies, at once proceeded TO remove theI
And, ere the week had passed, whole sett
ments blessed the Border Heroine for the wo
she had done.
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years. I remember as ii it we're but yester.
day; how used to throw stones into it just
to hear the splash 10 the water"
4Do you remember where that well used to
| be - asked the gentleman.
As near as can recollect," replied The
woman, at is on the very spot where you now
stand"
| He suddenly started as If be bad trodden on
serpent They at once commenced digging
up the ground At about twenty inches deep,
they came TO layer oil bricks. which being
broken up, revealed some rotten boards These
were easily removed, when they beheld the
dark mouth OF the well.
Il was quite certain that was the spot,
said the old woman. What fool you were
to stop it up, and then have to travel so far
for water y
A sounding line furnished with hooks was
now let down into the well-the crowd hard
pressing around them breatblessly bending
over the black and fetid hole, the secrets of
which seemed hidden in impenetrable obscnri-
ty. This was repeated several times without
any result At length. penetrating below the
mud, the hooks caught in something OF consid
erable weight and after much time and effort
they succeeded 10 raising it from the obscure
hole. 1t was on old chest The sides and lid
were decaysd, and it needed no locksmiih to
open it. Within it they found what they were
sure they would find, and which filed the
spectators with horror-the remains Of q hu-
man body
The police officers now rushed into the house
and secured the old man. As to his wife she
at FIRST could not be found. But after IA
tiguiug search, she was discovered beneath q
nile of wood henc mnch hruised hv the heavy
logs above her. BY this time nearly the whole
population of the town had collected around
the spot.
The old couple were brought before the
proper authorities and separately examined.
The man persisted in bis denial most obsti-
nately but his wife at once confessed that she
and her husband, very long time ago, bad
murdered peddler who possessed large sum
of money. He had passed the night at their
house; and they, taking advantage of the
heavy sleep that encompassed him. had stran
gled him, after which they placed bis body in
a chest. The chest was then thrown into the
we'll and the well stopped up. The two Grim
inals had reason to believe themselves free
from detection, as there were no witnesses Of
the crime, and its traces had been carefully
concealed. Nevertheless they had not been
able TO hush the voice of conscience. They
had fled from their fellowmen. They we're in-
timidated at the slightest noise, and silence
thrilled them with fear. They had often
thought of flying to some distant land; but
some inexplicable influence kept them near
the remains of their victim. Terrified By the
deposition of his wife, the old man at length
made similar confession and six weeks aftsr
the guilty couple expired on the scafold.
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NEGRO PEoSs.-It seems that system
peonage, like that in vogue in Mexico. is like
to grow up in the South in place of SLAYER
A Cincinnati correspondent OF New Yo
paper writes
Many OF our citizens are experiment.
with negroes on Southern plantations. | m
one of them and asked him how they work
it. He told me it worked we'll They b.
hired the old overseer and paid the negro
wages. Will they work regularly l aske
Yes, when they have no money But y,
said you paid them wages Oh, yes, bat '
keep them always in debtr"
The slaveocrats are opposed to peonage, b
absolute and arbitrary slavery is divine
stitution
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GEN. Mcdowell has issued an order ID
all men arriving at San Francisco, known
have been in the rebel army, will be requir
to take the oath of allegiance" With vid
to compliance with this order all such as q
now within the limits Of this Department,
we'll as those who may hereafter come with
it, will report Immediately to the nearest PI
vost Marshal or Commanding Officer Of pd
and take the required oath.
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SoxyANBuLIsr.-B Between two and thr
o'clock yesterday morning, a respectable mi
ried lady residing on Fills street was seen ru
ming down Pine street, between Hyde al
Leavenworth. in her night dress, by an ol
half insane Frenchman, who mistook heI for
ghost, and yelled murder at the top of
lungs. The lady was found to be a somnal
bulist, and was awakened by special offic
and taken home.-Aita, June 26th.
This will be back set to suspicious fello'
and old bachs'-haIting between two Opinion
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MILITARY ORDER AGAINST MATRINoSY.-Iq
said that General Halleck has been commanded
the President to rescind the order which he issrI
in Richmond forbidding the granting Of marrid
license until the contracting parties had taken |
oath of allegiance.
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The United States gunboat Tuscaror, from e
ress Monroe, with Alexander II. Stephens q
Postmaster Regan on board, arrived at Bos
on the 25th Of May. The Rebel dignitaries "
safely lodged in Fort Warren.
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A LARGE COLA Colburg colt, owned by
c. Myer of Ashland Mills, Oregon, now fourte
months old measures l6 hands high, girths 81 T,
and weighs over 100 pounds, and for form V
compare with any colt from thorough bred hoI
The sire of this colt has weighed 10000 and
eighteen hands high.
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THREE of the four candidates for the PRESIDED
in ls60-are now dead-Douglass, Bell and
coin. The fourth is living. The ways of Pr
dence are inscrutible.
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SPIRITUALIsT AEREsTED.-A spiritual medi
has been arrested in Rochester by the U. S. In
nal Revenue officers for not taking out a lice
as juggler.
The weekly union record., 1865-07-08

II is said that woman first resorted to tight
ing to show mankind how well they could
squeezing.
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Two horse trains have arrived at Dayton, oY
land from the Missouri river. One has fifty,
other seventy five horses.
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Why doctors give advice gratis is, because
it is generally worth nothing.
The weekly union record., 1865-07-08

MAJOR GEN. ORD is assigned to the military c
mand of Oregon. headquarters at Portland.
The weekly union record., 1865-07-08

CoSsTABLEs will be elected at the general q
tion in September, and not at the Judicial elect
in October, as many suppose.
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WHEN a wife hugs her husband. it is always
because she wants to get around him."
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THERE are in the armies of the Potomac,
Tennessee and Georgia, probably 1000 of the fl
six-mule teams in the world.
The weekly union record., 1865-07-08

The notorious guerrilla, Champ Ferguson,
has been captured and lies in irons at Nash
vile.
The weekly union record., 1865-07-08

DAVIS in confinement" is reported as conf
able Is could be expected under the circumstan|
The weekly union record., 1865-07-08

CoxpEssxp ale is TIE latest invention in Engl
in the beverage line.
The weekly union record., 1865-07-08

A ,RovrRBrALrY easy man is the hardest to
deal with.
The weekly union record., 1865-07-08
ST. NICHOLAS HOTEL,
FfLLE.
The st. Nicholas will always be kept as q
First Glass Hotel.
The Table

Will at all times be served up with the greatest
variety of eatables-the best the market Affords
and in style to suit the most fastidious taste.
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way"
The mild eye that could aim an uerring bull
let at the forest beast did not even betrsy the
thoughts of that woman's soul. nor did look
tell her meaning. She was pale, but she did
not tremble.
This way, sirs,'' she whispered.
Aud as she spoke she turned towards door
OF the little bed room and the pantry. She did
not open it until both men were close behind
her.
Don't you her him breathe p she whis-
pered.
did hear breathing, but it was of the child
close at hand.
AS they thus answered her, she threw the
door opeu-it opened Inward. The men saw
a dark void. but they pressed forward. 10 an
was upon the threshold and his companion
noble woman threw herself against the rear
man, aud the next moment both the robbers
lay sprawlDg on the cellar bottom.
This had been the door opening to the deep
excavation, and the only means of egress was
by perpendicular ladder. Could this have
moved, Polly would have pulled it Immediately
up, but it was spiked to its place, and she must
let it remain. To close the door would be use
less, for she had no ready means to fasten it..
So she did what she had resolved upon from
the first; she sprang TO the fireplace and
caught the trusty rife from its place, and hav-
ing cooked it she moved towards the open door.
She heard the curses OF the Williams as they
reached for the ladder, and she soon knew that
one of them had found it.
Back w sha cried, as she saw hssd above
the threshold. The candle upon the table
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VOL. XIX---NO. 3O4.

in an eff rt to establish their separate indie
pendenee of the authority of the United
States, and resisted by leyying war. The
punishment for treason was, anterior to the
passage of the act of 1868, death, o. impris-
onment. But this act imposed an additional
penalty, that persons thus accused shall not
be admitted as Attorneys in the United
States courts. Congress in 1862 passed a
law, saying: Whenever the President
deemed it proper he might declare general
amnesty. The Constitution confers on him
exclusive power of granting pardons and
reprieves. The pardon places the recipient
of in the position he stood before the COM
mission of the crime. makes him a new man
and divests him of all antecedent conse-
quences. Suppose this law of 1865 had been
made part of the act for the punishment of
treason, and the man committing crime had
been pardoned, would it not also have ex-
empted him from punishment for the offense,
and prevented him from being excluded
from practicing as an attorney in the U. s.
courts? The pardon covers every part of
the offense, and Congress cannot, after the
pardon has been granted, pass law to pun
Ish for the offense pardoned. The disgrace
ful fact is presented to the world that Con-
gress undertakes to interfere by denying the |
power of pardon as conferred by the eonsti- |
tuition exclusively on thA President SSithnnt |
limit. Congress cannot say to the petitioner
you shall be tried for treason after having /
been pardoned. If this was true of one |
class of crimes it was true of all Others
Mr.. johnson quoted from varions judicial
opinions to fOrtify the points of the argu-
ment by him presented.
The court holds the matter under advise
mont and has adjourned to Tuesday next
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NORTHERN OHIO NEWS,
ASHTABuLA COUNTY

Mr.. Joseph S. Chaplin, of Kingsville,
dressed yearling hog last week weigh
ing 43O pounds; also one somewhat older
weighing 492 pounds. Surely Kings
vile is ahead yet.
The Conneaut Reporter gives the de-
tails of most shocking murder, said to
have been committed by one II. N Dur
fee, of Pierpont township, upon his wife,
whom he took to Michigan and murdered
in secluded field in October last, the
facts of which have recently transpired.
He attempted to kill her child, and left it
for dead, bat it recovered and wandered
to a neighboring house, where it was
cared for. The husband and wife are sus-
pected of having murdered her first hus-
band sometime before. The fiend has
thus far escaped, but his brother has been
arrested as accessory.
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hauled these noble women about was pet
tish and overbearing with them, ruled
them roughly-they submitting to It all
because not to be dressed by him was to
be out Of the fashion, and that, in many
cases, they were over head and ears in
debt to the man. No thought of shame,
at being exposed but half clothed TO his
gaze, nay, his touch, seemed not to disturb
the ladies' 1t was fashionable to be dressed
by him, and modesty had nothing to do
with the matter. Do not believe that
French ladies alone patronized Worth;
there were English ladies, and, I grievs to
say, American ladies who did it. In fact
I should say, who do it now, as Worth Is
still in the zenith Of his vogue. Que vo,sEss
UOHs9 Fashion is mighty, and must pre-
vail.
1 have cited the Worth establishment
merely that might draw the parallel and
make the application. Here you see in
this immodest I might say outrageous
substitution of man as ladies' millinsr
and maid, the final result of submission
to male measuring. By degrees, the ladies
learn to tolerate the thing, and, finally,
become convinced that the men have the
mora tasta; in fact that as t0ilettss are
dOnned to please the rougher sex, defer
ence to male ideas upon the subject must
be the most rational means of insuring
success. This is a deplorable results
are all things which tend to lessen the
most charming, most winning trait Of
woman-her instructive mOdesty.
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rhe ReheI nebts 70 be Paid.


The Union men who control the present
Congress are determined to place beyond
a peradventure the reputation of the
rebel war debt. This determination was
manifested very decidedly by the vote in
the House on "Wednesday on Mr.. Wilson's
Joint resolution amending the Constitu-
ton. The amendment briefly provides
that no debt incurred in aid of the rebel
lion shall ever be paid This resolution,
although it aims deadly blow at what
the Plain Dealer calls discussion of our
financial affairs" was passed in the House
without debate or delay, by the over
whelming vote of l4s to ll-Only the lat
ter number of Copperheads, out of 40 in
that body, having the hardihOod to vote
against it. Among this corporars guard
of determined champions of defunct
Confederacv were Ja.nes BROOKS, Of New
York, and Andrew ]. Rogers of New
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STARK COUNTY.

The Canton Republican says: "An
immense amount of pork has been sold in
this city within the past two weeks. 1t
did not, however, bring the price that it
was expected to command, selling at from
eight to eleven lcents, dressed, and from
seven to nine, live weight.
Mt. Union Collge is about to construct
new brick boarding hall, lSO by 40 feet,
and three stories high.
A half crazy old man was robbed of
$3.50 at Alliance on Saturday night of last
week, by young man named Hents, who
had previously stolen some clothing from
the American Hotel at Canton. He es-
capped without detection.
Plain township has raised $25 for the
freedmen.
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THE NEWs-
COLD closed last night at 1891.

| N0AD closeo iast nlgnt at t46k
A VERDICT was rendered yesterday in tn,
Supreme Court of N. Y, against Ketchum &
Sons, for S25O, 900.
TRAINS from the extreme West, are snow
bound on the plains, and large numbers Of
animals are dying of cold and starvation
PRESIDENT LlNoOLx's remains were yester-
day removed from Oak Ridge Cemetery to
the vault near where the monument will be
erected.
a DELEGATION Of Mississippians waited on
the President, on the 21st, and presented a
petition for the pardon of JEFF. Davis. No
answer wssgfyen by. the President.
The American citizens resident in Paris
celebrated Thanksgiving day with becom-
ing spirit Addresses were made by Minis
ter Bigelow and Major General schofeld.
GEN. WARRES, recently appointed Min
lister to Guatemala, is a candidate for the U.
s. Senate from his State, Iowa, and prefers
delaying his departure from this country
until after the caucus of the Legislature.
A dispatch from Wilmington, North Car
olina, represents that considerable appre-
hension Of an insurrectioh by the negroes
thereabout, exists in that city, and prepar-
ations are making to meet such an event.
The Government has no official information
that the French Emperor intends to with
draw his troops from Mexico. Probably
the French soldiers will return to France.
and Austrian hirelings be brought over in
stead.
AN army psymaster was robbed in Wash
ington, yesterday, of $4,000, the thief Ia
king package containing this amount from
he counter of a bank while the paymsster
vas in the act of making out check. The
hiefescaped-
TEE people of some portions of the South
ear an insurrectiOn of the negroes during
he holidays. The Richmond and Danville
abroad advertises that it will not carry
reight between the 2lst of Decent er and
he 5th Of January, apprehending that the
legroes will attack and rob the trains.
WASHINGTON specials, few days since,
firmed positively that the President had
ent General Logan's name to the Senate
Dr. confirmation as Minister to Mexico the
anne Veracious reporters now assure the
ubiic that Hon. L. D. Campbell, of But
sr Co., Ohio, has been nominated for that
OsitiOn, General Logan having declined.
The Fenian emute still RACES, without
ny prospect of an abatement. The parti-
ms Of both elements are jealous and deter
lined, and matters look very much as
lough the war will not be carried into
leland, but that the question of Irish lib
-ty will find its burial place in the cradle
its birth.
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