The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1870-07-21

against these dealers in wholesal
: murder =
. The effect was electrical, agita
, ing, awful. Men leaped to their fee
hy dozens others started and tren
, bled in mortal terror; braves clutche
convulsively their daggers, and will
hunters sprung the triggers of thei
trusty rifles. Had the trump Of tn
archangel sounded its last peal, tn
astonishment could not have bee
greater. 1t was the stranger, tn
pale student, the forgotten lawyer
Albert Willis, who had uttered tn
daring sentence, and he followed
up with asplendor of diction, fore
of unanswerable logic, and a burn
ing vehemence, such as never befor
or since were heard in the back
woods.
In his word-pictures, the very dea'
seemed to live again, causing tn,
people to shudder, as if the very al
itself were peopled with shielded
ghosts. AT one point, he realized
the summit OF the sublime. 1t wa
when he mustered all his energie
for final burst of thunder into tn
souls of the assassins. The appea
was the shock of an earthquake
Even Bill Shelly shrunk from il
covering his face with his hands, lik,
one blasted by flash OF lightning
And the great multitude, total,
frenzied with rage, uttered wilG
shout .........
Tear the murderers to pieces
Blood for blood Down with the
clique of tyrants =
80 the grocery cried Ball anG
the assassins fed for life.
They entered their fortress, barred
their doors and windows, and pro-
truded twenty-tiv muskets before the
crowd were all aware of their escape,
Bill. Seelley, being keeper of the pub,
llc arsenal at Fayetteville, had pre-
viously stocked his grocery with arms
and ammunition, and had provided
each wall with port holes.
The people showed a disposition
to assault and carry the place by
storm, but were dissuaded by Albert
Willis, who had in one brief hour be.
come the general idol aud oracle
He advised the observance Of order
and scrupulous regard for the au-
thority of the law. Shall it prove
we'll or i'll for him, that the counsel
was followed
In the meantime, a scene was &C.
curing within the fort, destined to
secure the guilty from justice. The
assasslns were giving themselves up
to Judge Hoge, then in a partial state
of intoxlc alton, who admitted them
to bail in the penalty of ten thousand
dollars.
The fact becoming known, again
excited the multitude to Madness
They broke open the United States
arsenal, took out and loaded two
cannons, and placed them within
two hundred yards Of Shelley's gro
Gerry. 1t needed but the touch of a
spark to have blown the frail fortress
into atoms. and hurled it's garrison
into the dark grave of their numer-
Gus victims.
But once more young Willis inter-
posed and prevailed on the people
to await patiently the results of a
final trial before the next Distric,
court. Undeniably the homicides
that day owed their lives to him. But
will they thank him for the unde-
served boon ? We shall soon see.
At sunset that evening husband
and father might have been seen part
ing with his wife and child
Il go, dearest said he, 'to be alb
sent week. Were / to remain home
now, my enemies, in the first fury OF
their passions, might provoke me to
personal difficulty, which l am anx-
ious to avoid. Before l return they
will have time tor reflection, and can
not fail to perceive the folly of furth-
er resort to violence.
But, my Albert demonstrated a
proud:aced, magnificent woman,
with intensely black eyes, 'will they
not say you are coward for leaving
at this crisis p
Il would rather be called a coward
than actually be a homicide replied
the husband, mournfully.
But persisted the wife, may not
the ruffians avenge themselves OH nut
and your innocent babe p
Nonsense, Mary replied young
Willis, with a smile, that would be
an act beneath the neanest devils.
We'll rejoined Mary, seeing all
her arguments unavailing, kiss us
good bye, and be sure you come
back in a week
Then there were tears and tender
embraces, and the little child's lips
mingled with those of its parents
and then the father suddenly vaulted
into the saddle, and shot away over
the prairie with the speed of an ar,
row, as if he were endeavoring to es
cape from the spectre of some gloomy
thought.
He took the road to the Cherokee
country, intending to visit Fort Glib
SOD, and prefer charges against Bill
Shelley, aSskeeper of the arsenal al
Fayetteville, in order to procure his
removal and he made the utmos
haste, fearing that some emissary o
the clique would anticipate him, ant
prejudice the ear of General Ar
buckle. But his mind was ill at ease
the parting words of his beautiful
Mary
May they not avenge themselye
on me and your innocent babe p run,
like knvn fom eternity through hi
feverish brain. At midnight he paus
ed to drink Of crystal spring on tb,
Indian line, thirty miles beyond Fay
etteville.
He stopped down and imbibed
copious draught, and laved his burn
ing brow hut when he raised hi
head he stood transfixed with horror
A low hurting murmur, as of bus
wings, sounded in the air above him
He looked and saw fiery, luminou
vapor, the size and figure of coffin
was floating along in the air. Di
imagination pain the rest or was
a mere optical illusion, engendere
by the wild heat of the brain 7 O
have the dead at times truly the pow
er to flash their pale faces before tn
living eyes !?
These are problems which ever
ono will solve for themselves. B,
the young attorney saw, or though
he saw an awful group gathere
around the coffia of fire as it floate
away into eternity. There was w a,
non with his gigantic features all di
torted by the death-agony and Pc
lock with the pale smile which gel