The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-18

seen things calculateu 20 curdle her blood, /
and make her flowing ringlets somewhat per- |
pendicular and porcupiny. Only for five days |
had she been domiciled at house in Morgan |
street. Every night man appears to her |
and saws that his name is not Giles Scropoins |
but Joseph Scott Let not the reader inter |
pret this appearance to the disadvantage of |
Miss Jennies virginia. purity, for the man is |
spectral and can do no harm. Even if he |
were veritable flesh and bone, his tout en-
sen,ble is not of a kind to kindle the
fires of passion; for, though he has "a fair
complexion and brown, curly hair" advan-
taoes sufficient to catch. a woman's eve, he
''has also deep cash in his throat, a cut on
his head and he is all covered with blood"
No gallant, thriving wooer ever came in this
plight; and moreover his name is Joseph
not Joseph the son of Jacob, nor yet Joseph
Andrews, but Mr.. Joseph Scott. This phan-
tom told the trembling Miss Debonaire that
(while in the fiesh) he was slaughtered by one
philip Amburg, who stole his money and
buried il with the body in the cellar of that
very house. This he proceed ed to prove to q
demonstration; for he led the trembling
maiden to the cellar and showed her upon
which side he was buried and
upon which side the specie was
deposited. After this he became little
amorous, demanded kiss, which showed
that, though his throat was slit, he had yet
all his wits about him, and then he exhaled
The next night he came to Jennie's bedside,
and pathetically implored her to speak to an
undertaken and have his bones removed from
their present ignominious resting place to
some regular cemetery, adding that she was
at liberty also to disinter the money paw the
bills out of it, and keep the balance for her
own personal use. He also offered to confer
upon her the power of curing diseases, making
her DIR. Jennie Debonaire without the trouble
of studying for diploma. And then he sx-
haled again, whether with or without kiss
we are not informed.
These were, indeed, astounding slater nents.
The captain Of the police was puzzled, but
made memorandum on the station book A
regiment of ''spiritualists" went into per-
manent session in the haunted house, ready
to cross-examine Joseph Scott and two re-
porters called for IAN interview" They
learned very little and, of course, made very
long and affecting reports in their respec-
| tive newspapers But what is most remark
able is, that though 'the spiritualists" have
| assiduously dug in the cellar, enlarging it to
twice its original capacity, they don't find
any bones. This would be of very little
| consequence by itself; but, mournful to re-
late, they don't find Mr.. Joseph Scotts money
either. At least, if they do, they keep it a
! dead secret and refuse to take the public
| into their confidence. Still we must confess
| that it is a very remarkable case. Should
any ribald scoff at the tale, the proper way to
put him down is to quote at him the stock
argument of ''the Spiritualists: There are
more things in heaven and earrh, Horatio,
than are dreamt of in your philosophy"
And why should there not be "more things"
| in st. Louis cellar? Why not we repeat,
why not? Alas! even while we are writing of
| it. the mystery of the haunted house of st.
Louis is exploded. The girl Jennie is no bet
ter than she should be. She and others had
squatted in this house, and being determined
to keep others out of it, they devised various
apparatus for ghostly knocking and sundry
lies about the ghost with the slit throat. Miss
Jennie is locked up; the poor ghost is no
longer perturbed and the city of st. Louis no
longer trembles. How many of these beauti-
fully narrowing stories are to have this limp
ing and potentless ending? l.t
THE CASE OF FITZ-JOHN PORTER.
From the N. Y. Sun. '...- t'La .'.t ".n
The agent of the Associated Press, ON We'd
nesday, telegraphed from Washington sum-
mary of the controversy touching the case of
Fitz-J ohm Porter, who, it will be remem-
bered, was cashiered and declared, by COM
petent military court, to be ever after dis
qualified from holding any Office of honor OF
, trust under the Government of the United
States. .ss.-, 15y I'. 49,. ,,.'...
The reason for this sentence was simply
| Ludt GOrter, Wnl0 COutudDul1B corps VI t1e
, Army of the Potomac under Pope, during the
second Bull Run campaign, was criminally
slow in marching to the assistance of tn,
latter, and that, after arriving upon the fanl
% of the enemy, within a short distance of tn,
field of battle, he failed to attack, although
D positively ordered to do so. s s5...l.i OH
a Porter asserted at the time of his trial tina
|, he had marched as promptly and rapidly a
possible toward the enemy, and that he faile
0 to attack previous to the receipt of Pope
a order because he was convinced that tn
Q enemy was not only too strong, but to
: strongly intrenched, to leave him any hope O
a success; and that when he received Pope
O order, which reached him shortly before sur
o down, it was then too late to obey it. II
a now claims to have obtained evidence fror
IS Rebel official reports showing that his convit
r tions were correct in regard to the positio
"a and strength of the enemy. Upon this b
e makes an appeal to the President for a
v order relieving him from the disqualification
d imposed by the sentence of the scourt whic
= tried him. AS for this Rebel evidence, afte
" having examined it carefully, we have to sa
,e that it does not in the least affect the mai
st question decided by the court, and that nov
W as before, the only fault to be found with tht
le tribunal is that when it found the accuse
n guilty it did not order him to be shot. o. yd
r, 1t is sometimes said, by way of excuse fc
n. Porter, that General Pope ''labored under th
~ misfortune of being the most disbelieve
st man in the army" but it must not be forgo
IL ten that, truthful or untrRthful, Pope W,
Il, the legitimate commander of the army the
a IN Virginia; that he had marched promptly
t- search of the enemy upon all occasions, figh
az ing Whenever and wherever he could fin