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The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-01-20

PUMPS,
LEAD PIPE,
STOVE PIPE,
ZINC,
HOLLOW WARE,
TIN WARE,
JAPANNED WARE,
PRESSED WARE,
TOILET WARE,
ENAMELLED WARE,
LANTERNS,
COAL HODS,
SHOVEI.S and TONGS,
CORN Peppers,
APPLE PARERS,
FLAT-IRONS.
WAFFLE-IRoNs, De, 40.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-02-10
HOW | WAS BETRAYED.

That was in love was fact that did
not admit of shadow of doubt. de-
ported myself like q person in love-I
looked and felt like person in love. The
affection that had taken possession of nv
youthful heart was no every day one. l
was sure of that. There were not words
enough in the English language to de-
scribe the height, depth, length and
breadth of its grandeur. 1t was destined
to be a grand accompaniment of the ages
yet to be-a fixed principle throughout
eternity-a planet of surprising beauty in
the broad heavens of home affections. Ny
love was returned; the strong yearning of
my nineteen.year.old-heart went out in
the direction of the most beautiful maiden
in all -shire, who, in return, sent the
yearnins Of her heart to meet mine.
Twice week, as often as the week
came round, | went up to the old brown
house Of DR.. Stoddard to tell his daughter
my love, and as regularly listen to the re-
cital of its return from the red Inns of NV
charming Janet. The good doctor made
merry at our expense, and his wife took A
wicked pleasure in constantly reminding
Us of our youth. Janet was tortured by
sly references to her playhouse in the
shed, her long.sleeved pinafores, and nan.
talettes of six months before, while l was
offered an old cost of the doctors for INV
mother to make dressing gown for me.
We were, nevertheless, determined to
be married. We would steal slyly away
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-02-10
BURROUGHS ns-HaRRls TRAGEDY.
Details Of the Killing Of Andrew
j. Burroughs by Mary Harris.
Her Statement Of her Relations to
the Deceased.

From the National Intelligence.
Yesterday afternoon another horrible
murder was perpetrated in this city, being
the third within week. Andrew jackson
Burroughs, q clerk In the Office of the
Comptroller Of the Currency, was shot in
the Treasury building by q woman who
gave her name as Mary Harris, and who
said she was from Illinois.
MISS HARRB' OWN srArEAnNr.
The Washington Chronicle contains the
following account:
Desiring to acquaint the public with the
version of the case which the prisoner
might be wiling to give, and to judge of
her condition by careful observation, we
visited the jail and sought an interview
with her.
Upon entering the room, we found Miss
Harris pacing the floor in evident severe
mental distress, and her entire appearance
gave unmistaksble signs of the terrible
agony of the, few hours which she had
passed within the prison walls. We OBJ
tanned the first view of her face and form
a. she ceased her steps for an instant, and
in glance, while greeting Us, endeavored
to read our feelings and the purpose Of our
visit. That view instantly impressed Us
Hvidly with the belief that she has long
been nursing an earnest conviction of the
grievous wrong until her physical nature
had been impaired thereby, her moral re-
fection distorted, and she had virtually be-
come monomanise. This conviction was
strengthened by all of her looks and words
throughout the interview.
Miss Harris appeared to be few years
older than she is said to be; is of good
figure, rather slight, has q well formed
head; dark hazel eye; fine hair, which
seemed in the light in which we SAW it to
be black, cut short, and worn in curls; ia
graceful in her manners naturally intelli-
gent, with highly sensitive organization,
and appeared, - she said, to have bnt few
educational advantages. She, however,
employed good language, and was not su-
perfluous in the use Of words.
By earnest expressions of sympathy,
and careful inquiry, We gathered from her
story, frequently Interrupted by choking
sobe, but expressed with seeming artless-
ness which would have excited the sympa-
thy of the most stoicA listener.
The following is the substance of her
statement:
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-02-10
NEW SERIES-NO. 5S5.

quently learned that he had been there
ana gone without my knowledge. This
renewed my resolve to come on here and
secure redress, if possible, by prosecution.
and at all hazards to see him.
/ bad been disowned by my parents. I
could not return to them; and in Burlinp-
ton, as well as in Chicago, had been re.
ported to have had improper relations with
him. This was never so. And was
bent on vindicating my character. If the
stories against me had been true, I could
never have had the heart to come here to
seek redress or to vindicate my repute. l
believed that ! should wipe out the stain
on my name by the prosecution Or in some
other way, I hardly knew. u
A few days before starting from Chicago
(two weeks ago) I was walking along the
street and saw some pistols in a shop win
dow. Having learned that many Of the
ladies in Chicago carried pistols, especially
when travelling, / determined to buy one,
and at once bought the one. l did not
know how to load it. The morning of the
day that / left Chicago I examined the
printed directions upon the wrapper &C.
companying the pistol and cartridges, and
by following them, succeeded in loading
it. / was then called to breakfast, and
putting the revolver with my things, for
got to unload it. After I started con-
cluded to keep it loaded, but had then no
intention of using it when got here.
After my arrival here 1 became almost
frantic with desire to see him, and put
on "nubia " (Which was not wont to
wear) and veil, and so disguised went to
the Treasury.
When I went into the Treasury building
yesterday morning, ! inquired for the room
in which Mr.. Burroughs was, and having
learned that, walked up and down the hall
for some time. Once went to the door
of the room, opened it few inches, and
saw him at his desk. The moment looked
at him, sitting there SO comfortably, the
thought Of all I had suffered, and Of his
being the cause, enraged me, and my hand
involuntarily pulled back the trigger of the
pistol in my pocket / closed the door,
and stepping away, moved about again, 1
know not how or where, except that kept
my eye on his room until the men began
to come out of their rooms. Then placed
myself where I knew he would have to
come near me in going to the staircase.
When he appeared felt suddenly lifted up,
my arm was extended as stiff as iron, and
I saw him fall. I knew nothing more un-
til was called back as was leaving the
building. "Pray, sir, what will they do
with me7 If it was not for my poor father
and mother I would not care. 3
Gbn ~ov>n~k~a1-
ton that there had been nothing improper
between her and Mr.. Burroughs.
Accepting the above to be true, the
reader viii readily decide upon the meas
ure of justification contained therein.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-02-10
Janet was doing. What, oh what should

Janet was doing? What, oh what should
/ do7
"Dont they look nice, mother ?" asked
the doctor, putting one broad hand over
his mouth, and doubling his grey head al
most downto his knees. "He-haw, he
haw, he-haw, he-haw mother, he-haw!
don't they look nice, (" roared the doctor.
! couldn't stand it any longer. The
doctors laughter was signal; it was
echoed from all parts Of the house. Fan
cackled from the chamber window Sam
shouted from the barn; Mrs. Stoddard
"he, no, hoed!" from the kitchen; while
Charlie threw himself down in the door
way, and screamed like wild Indian; I
gave leap across the garden. Every
Stoddard called after me. I am wrong
every stoddard but Janet; she remained
One told me to come back for the bread
and cheeses another, that I had forgotten
my bundle and bride; another bad me
wait for Molly and the new buggy; Fan
bade me hold up my coat tails, or should
get them dragglea. I didn't heed any of
these requests; I went directly for home.
I reached home feeling sheepish no,
sheepish 10 weak word for i'll can't
express to you how I felt. had better
be dead than alive; that I had made an
idiot of myself. It was all plain; Fan had
betrayed us. / vowed vengeance upon
her until daylight, and then sneaked out
to the barn, and hid in the haystack.
.staid there until Charlie Stoddard brought
my fathers horse.
The old gentleman was frightened /;
wanted to know how he came by the horse.
he was told to ask me; he did ask me,
and made clean breast oft. didn't
promise not to repeat the offence; there
was no need oft; but am sure of this
l didn't look at q girl for seven years.
When the eighth came round, I remsm-
bered my old vow against Fanny Stod-
dard. Well, to make a long story short,
/ married Fanny. Janet became a par
sons wife. --~-
And here let me tell you in confidence,
reader, tGat really think that little Fam
ny Stoddard had a deep motive in her
head when she betrayed Janet and me,
though she was but q child. She liked
me even then, believe. Well, at any
rate, she declares every time the affair is
mentioned, that I have had my revenge
upon her. Bless her faithful heart, it has
been indeed q sweet one!
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-02-10
NRWs AND OTHER ITEMS.

"A fire occurred on the I'd inst. in the
Ninth ward of Pittsburg, destroying the
patent leather factory Of J. Y. McLaugh-
lin and the rolling mill of Reese, Graft &
Dull; also, the oil refinery Of Weisenberg-
er, Fisher & Co. Loss about $4,000
mostly insured.
-Massachusetts has 1906 men to raise
under the new call.
Newspapers are not all in . starving
condition. The three proprietors Of the
Chicago Tribune pay taxes on about $685.
600 income each Wilson of the Journal
has an income of $24, 1000 and Storey Of
the Times about 100000. Tho income of
Potter Palmer of Chicago is $sss,4s5.
Mr.. Lincoln said in his inauaural ad-
dress, 1--WE are not enemies, but friends.
We must not be. enemies. Though passion
may have strained, it must not break our
bonds of affection. The mystic cords of
memory, stretching from every battlefield
and patriot-srave to every living heart and
hearthstone in this broad Land. win vet
swell the chorus of the Union, when again
touched, as they surely will be, the better
angels of cur nature
"A Lady advertises in st. Louis paper
for husband. She wants to exchange
pictures, correspond and marry. She
gives her age at 81 and weighs $50 pounds.
There is big thing for somebody.
Petroleum companies may advance
their stocks 10 per cent. on learning that
the Pope has consented to allow the use of
finely purified petroleum oil for anointines
in place of olive oil
Eastern petroleum companies are mul-
tiplying 30 rapidly that the vocabulary of
names is almost exhausted. The lstest
formed companies have commenced with
the names Of animals, and we accordingly
find, Bull Greek Company" Cow
Greek Company, /" s'Calf Greek Company"
Wonder if there are any Gull Greek COM
panies among them2
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-02-10
Written for the 81. Pan! Pioneer.
THE FUGITIVE HOMESTEAD.

THE FUGITIVE HOMESTEAD.
1.-The following lines were written by SOL
dier who was compelled to fee his homestead
In the fall of 1862 during the Indian disturb
ances on the frontier. Though defective in
some respects, their deep feeling viii be appre-
ciated.
I'm standing on the old place, Maggie,
The place for which you and
Have toned for many . weary hour,
Where we hoped to live and die.
We strove to make US pleasant home,
OF our allotted bit of earth,
And happy Children shared with Us
The earthly blessings of our hearth.
I'm thinking of the old time, dear wife,
OF the time when you and
First pitched our tent on the sloping bank
OF the river flowing by.
No plow had turned o furrow then,
The prairie stretched far and wide,
And the forest shadowed the river brink,
Just on the other side.
We built us happy home, Maggie,
Though that homo was cabin low,
And we deemed our lot blessed one,
As the earth could well bestow.
A fruitful field of ripening grain
Took the place OF the prairie green,
And where the deer had pastured once,
The waving corn was seen.
I'm thinking of the day, dear wife,
Of that pleasant summer day,
When We sat in the shade of the oaken trees.
And watched our boys at play.
The flowers that blOomed around US then,
Are withered and forgot
But you and must still regret
The old familiar spot.
I'm thinking of another time.
Of that mournful Angus: day,
When the murder cry came swelling on,
Came to urge our steps away.
And the smoke of burning cabins rose
In the murky western sky,
As we gathered our loved ones up, and babe
Our cherished home goodbye
The autumn winds are blowing now.
And the leaves are falling fast
From those Osken trees on the garden hill,
As they bend before the blast
The chimney looms from the cabin roof
In the frosty morning air,
But no rising smoke gives a single sign
OF life or welcome there.
Another root now shelters those
Who fed frightened from their own,
And the hearth, which once we all gathered
round,
must stand upon alone.
That hearth is cold, but the heart still warns
Toward the absent ones the same,
And they, as they gather at your knee,
Fondlv whisper the fathers name.
Tis true there lays between us now
Many a weary league of land,
For how should the helpless cling to him
Who must strive with q ruthless band
A steady hand and . trusting heart
Must guide each unerring blow,
For our desOlate homes must be redeem'd,
And vengeance follow the foe.
But well not repine, you and ], Maggie,
While ourselves, and our boys remain,
For the sunshine will lay on the cabin floor
When we open the windows again.
And the rays will fall upon our lives
As warmly as Of yore,
When chidren's glee, aud summer air.
Shall fill the old home once more.
For the wife, whose smile was the light of life,
With the boys, who were my pride,
Shall sit at the open door again
Which looks toward the river side.
And the trees will bloom, and the grain will
grow,
Dear wife, for you and /,
And the smoke will rise and the river flow
As they did in days gone by.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-30
VOL. XIX---NO. 2S5.

to 10000 bales, against Al, 900 during the
same time in 1860. The receipts on the
Texas coast, including Houston, since Sep
tember first are $1,000. The probable re-
ceipts this year will be 100000 bales.
AtLastI
The Mississippi Legislature has adopted
the bill permitting negro testimony in all
cases, except when only whites are inter-
ested.
General Gregors course in Texas is gem
orally denounced, and he is said to be in
fusing insurrectionary sentiments in the
minds of the freedmen. He has addressed
the freedmen, denouncing the course of Col.
Strong, of General HOward's staff, who in a
previous address advised them to return to
their former owners, and not depend on the
Government for assistance.
The San Antonio Herald of the 18th says
that number of Liberal officers have ar
rived there from Mexico, considering their
cause so desperate that they will be com
PEELED to abandon it.
The s3s Me4lisa6Bu 4lisa6BuTTtg TTtnH5 Of the immioratios to
Mexico.
The Imperialists claim victory near
Ajacco, routing 800 liberals, killing 81, and
capturing 6S.
,,r The lake m the neighborhood of the eity
Ia,,aI e. - rose to within one inch Of the
A. e,i a. sne city, creating quite an alarm
,,1tIon N Saf E6tns POUOsI, which Will plant
FIVE thousand acres of cotton.
The robbers made furious attack on the
town of Perros, N Coahalin, but were re-
PEELED by the citizens, inficting heavy
loss of the robbers.
The family of Emperor Ilursilde will
leave Vera Cruz on the 9th in an American
vassaI
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-30
General News.
NIurdred.

MuEuEcu-
ALBANY, November 29.-0n Monday night
last, the family of Daniel Walawrath, OF
Manhean, Herkimer County, consisting of
himself, wife and daughter, about twelve
Years of age, were murdered by party or
1arties unknown. Walawrath was shot
through the head, which was mashed in a
fearful manner. The child's throat was
emf. The Coroner of Mohawk County Is
holding an inquest to-day. No clue to the
murderers.
There was a heavy fall of snow here this
morning. Thermometer 80.
Sale OF Horses.
FoRrREss MONROE, November 2l.-One
hundred horses and a lot of government
mules are to be sold at Camp Hamilton on
the 5th of December.
Hamilton Hospital.
DIR. ]. H. Frontz is now in charge of the
Hamilton Hospital, and has about 100 pa
tients, mostly convalescents. This hospital
will soon be closed.
An Order.
General Miles has issued the following or
der:
All vessels from foreign ports entering
Hampton Roads or Chesapeake Bay, will
anchor at the quarantine grounds near
WiIloughby Point. The ship TO remain
there until examined by health officers.
Fight with Indians.
SAN FRANcxsco, November 27.-An official
telegram received to-day from Nevada says
On the 18th inst 1t. 0smar with so California
volunteers and howitzer attacked large
band of Indians who had fortified them
selves in the Black Mountains, about 100
miles northwest Of DWnygelaD, in the north
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-30
From New Orleans
Legislature.

LegisIa. .ure.
New ORLEANS, November 29.-Nothing
doing in the Legislature. They are waiting
for country members.
Resumed.
Pierre Soule has resumed the practice of
the law here.
Closed Up.
Bayou Plaquenens is now being rapidly
closed up.
Sugar and Cotton.
The Parish of Iberollea, which before the
war made nearly fifty thousand hogsheads
of sugar, will make this year about six hun
hundred hogsheads, and produce about SIX
hundred bales of cotton.
The Galveston Civilian speaking IN refer
ence to the stock of cotton in Texas says
that the receipts up to the 18th inst, since
the first of Septsmber last, were $4,000 bales
at Galveston. Including the stock on hand
the first Of September they would amount
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-30
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, hai
signed and filed petition for the pardon
of Mallory, the rebel Secretary of the
Navy.
The correspondent of the Boston AdUer-
tiser was lately driven out of Albany,
Georgia, and the excitement ran SO high
that company of thirty United States
soldiers were powerless to resist it.
The Virginia Legislature, which is to
meet in a few days, will try to abrogate
the Alexandria Constitution, so as to get
rid of the few Union members of their own
body.
An interesting insurance case was de-
cided in Pittsburgh on Saturday. d.
Fawcett & Co.. brewers, brought an action
against the Pittsburgh Insurance Com
pany to recover $4,000 the amount of two
policies taken out by plaintiffs on a guam
tity of barley stored in the warehouse of
Morse Il Leavitt, at Lima, Ohio, which
was destroyed by fire on the night of the
2lst of April, 1864. The plaintiffs claimed
that they had upward of 5000 bushels of
IRE, the value of which was fully equal to
the amount insured, while the defendants
alleged that the amount MAS ANAL, and
refused to cancel the claim. A large mass
Of testimony was heard on both sides as
to the quality of barley destroyed, and on
the jury brought in verdict for
for S3,059 20.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-30
GonernI Scott.

''Gen Scott, old, feeble and gouty, to-
dav walked from the Fifth Avenue Hotel
down Broadway to the Metropolitan, to
visit Gen. Grant. The old veteran is very
feeble, and walks with a shambling air
that is painful to look upon. He is suffer
ing very much from gout, and to-day has
been the first time that he has been able
to get about since his return from the
West Point examination. While crossing
the street to reach the hotel, crowded
Broadway paid him singular and hand
some tribute. The drivers of the omni-
buses, wagons, carriages, &c, Which at all
hours block up Broadway, as if simulta-
neously inspired with the same feeling of
respect for the old hero, stopped in their
wild race and wide margin of street
between the line of coaches was left open
for him to cross in, while the usually noisy
drivers kept respectful silence. The Cen
eral occupied some time in crossing the
street, and the consequence was jam,
which the police were several minutes in
disentangling."
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scandal al the italian Court.

1t is evidently high time, says the Flor
ence correspondence of the London Star,
of October 2Sth, to marry Prince Hum
bert. He has now been allowed long
enough time to cultivate that particular
field Of oats which yields cakes to Others
beside wild Scotchmen. In the meanwhile,
Prince Humbert will 90 to Naples again, to
spend there the winter and a great deal of
money. Scandal saws he is over head and
ears in love and debt. A Lombard bank
er. whose name figured in the Bastogi bus
mess. is said to have obliged his Royal
Highness lately with a loan of 100000,
and another Lombard house-not bank
ing one, Thoughts said to have got clear
of all its debts, of which it was known to
have great many; and these two state
ments formed a combined topic of common
talk in Milan circles. Verify, 1t Is time
for this 'fast" young prince to get steady
bv marriage. Indeed, the evil tongues pre-
! tend that the matrimonial yoke alone will
save him. There is probably exaggeratlon
! in these rumors, but they are not baseless
Nor are the Kings affairs quite in such
an order as one might desire. The three
millions given up last year by the civil
list to relieve national finances were more
sensibly felt as loss to the donor than as
a gain to the relieved. The remaining
twelve millions form a pretty round sum,
but "Urrot ne uit pas de Peu, said Babe
lais. Sella has lately been sounded as to
whether the national finances be not sui
fciently relieved to dispense with the
three millions. His reply is not known
vet something is likely to be brought for
ward next session for the increase OF the
roval family's income. The motion will
not be pleasant one to make, but it viii
no doubt be carried
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-30
Manners I'm ROYAL style.

" "Rascally sweet young Prince" as Ed
ward of England is called, it seems that
he sometimes acts as graciously and rude
" as the other Prince of Wales, who was
given to consorting with fat knights,
thieves and swash-bucklers. The heir
prospective to the throne of Great Britain,
and his young wife, have been paying a
visit to Liverpool, where they were re-
ceived with due honor and ceremony. On
landing at the quay the mayor of the city
offered his services to escort Mrs. Wales
to her carriage, service which the English
papers say was graciously accepted" 1t
then became necessary that the "hope
and fair expectancy of State" should act
as escort to Mrs. Mayor. This he did
with such a sauntering, lack-a-diasical air,
not offering her his arm or even keeping
close by her side, that the English news
papers, obsequious as they usually are to
royalty, felt themselves bound to give the
young man a talking to for what in any
body but Prince would have been con-
sidered a piece of rudeness.