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and did not know. that was committing

and did not know. that was committing
treason"
Roth of these men were killed in the
attack on the engine-house when Brown
was taken.
When Lieutenant Stuart came in the
morning for the final reply to the de-
mand to surrender, I got up and went to
Browns side to hear his answer.
Stuart asked: care you ready to sur
render, and trust to the mercy of the
Government" 2"
Brown answered promptly: "No! I
prefer to die here.
His manner did not betray the least
fear.
Stuart stepped aside and made the
signal for the attack, which was instantly
begun with sledge-hammers to break
down the door.
Finding it would not yield, the soldiers
seized long ladder for battering-ram,
and commenced beat.pg the door with
that, the party withia hrins5 rntly.
I had assisted in the barricading, liking
the fastenings so that I could remove
them upon the first effort to get in. But
I was not at the door when the battering
began, and could not get to the fasten-
ings until the ladder was used. I then
quickly removed the fastenings, and
after two or three strokes OF the ladder
the engine rolled partially back, making
small aperture, through which Lieu
tenant Green of the marines forced him.
self, jumped on top of the engine, and
stood second in the midst of shower
of balls, looking for John Brown. When
he saw Brown he sprang about twelve
feet at him, and gave an under-thrust of
his sword, striking him about midway
the body and raising him completely
from the ground. Brown fell forward
with his head between his knees, and
Green struck him several times over the
head, and. as then supposed, split his
skull at every stroke.
was not two feet from Brown at that
time. Of course I got out of the
building as soon as possible, and did not
know till some time later that Brown
was not killed. 1t seems that in making
the thrust Green's sword struck
Browns belt and did not penetrate the
body. The sword was bent double. The
reason that Brown was not killed when
struck on the head was that Green was
holding his sword in the middle, strik-
ing with the hilt and making only scalp
wounds.
When Governor Wise came and was
examining Brown. 1 heard the questions
and answers; and no lawyer could have
used more careful reserve. while at the
same time he showed no disrespect.
Governor Wise was astonished at the
answers he received from Brown.
After some controversy between the
United States and the State of Virginia
as to which had jurisdiction over the
prisoners, Brown was carried to the
Charlestown jail, and, after fair trial,
was hanged.
OF course / was a witness at the trial,
and must say that I have never seen any
5isr>IaS--,.,-,. <---s,es-- -.-.1 s@rt+tal>
than John Brown showed under the try
ing circumstances in which he was
placed. L could not go to see him
hanged. He had made me prisoner,
but had spared my life and that of other
gentlemen in his power; and when his
sons were shot down beside him, almost
any other man similarly situated would
at least have exacted life for life.-JoHN
E. P. DAINGERFIE1D in the Century
Magazine.
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TERMS $3.50.
sURRENDERING HIS PENSION.
A Man who Said he Thought the Govern
ment Had Done Enough for Him.

A good-looking, well-built man came
with the crowd of callers at the Pension
Office, in Washington, and entered the
room of First Deputy Commissioner
Mclean. When his turn for an inter-
view was reached he asked the Deputy
to be allowed to see the Commissioner.
The Commissioner is busy, sir. If you
wish to see about a claim or to secure
an appointment we can attend to the
matter here"
ST want to have my pension stopped"
The Deputy Commissioner looked at
the man, then at his papers, then at the
man again, and finally touched his bell
button and sent a messenger for the
record.
"Have you considered this step suf-
ficiently, sir ?" asked the Deputy. ''You
are, I see, receiving $72 a month
nearly 81, 900 year"
eyes, 1 have considered it. The Gov
ernment has done enough for me. /
want to give it up"
nave yOu all dUuuUduCo VI mcduo
''No, but have enough for comfort.
"Well, I guess you had better see the
Commissioner"
Col. Mclean thereupon introduced
the visitor to the Commissioner. After
a short interview, record of the case
was taken, in order that the pension
might be cancelled "upon claimants re-
quest"
The mans name is Snyder. He be-
longed to New York regiment. Gen.
Black says this is not the first case of
the kind within his knowledge. Not
long after he entered the office Ken
tuckian named Stevenson sent on his
certificates, with a request that his
claim might be cancelled. He surren-
dered at the same time quite large
fund of accumulated pensions which he
had never drawn. He wrote that he
was convinced that he had fully recoy-
cred from his disability.
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AMENITIES OF WAR.
Walking Into n Friendly Enemy's Camp
and Out Again.
from the CHICAGO rnter-Ocean

from the Chicago Inter Ocean.l
While we were in front of Chattanooga
1t became fashionable along the picket
line to exchange papers. The plan was
for Confederate who wanted paper
to come to the front, shake Southern
paper as flag of truce, and in this way
invite exchanges. The pickets on either
side in that immediate vicinity would
cease firing, the Union soldier would
start from his line and the Confederate
from his line, and they would meet half
way, shake hands, exchange papers, and
if there were no officer in sight sit down
and have a chat. This had been kept
up for several days when there came an
order from headquarters that no more
papers should be exchanged. But the
boys, choosing their time for exchange.
continued the practice against orders.
There came week, however, in which
no rebel responded to waving, or shak-
ing, or fiutterings of paper or handker-
chief, and we knew then that orders
against exchange had been issued on
that side as well as on ours.
But one morning quite early my
partner discovered man on the rebel
line frantically waving large paper.
He suggested that we slip away from
the reserve and go out and see what the
man wanted. He took paper, waved
it, and We started toward the rebel front.
When we had proceeded about half way
to the point of meeting the fellow ceased
to wave his paper. We were puzzled at
this, but finally concl7sssa ahat he was
down in hollow, and we would see him
when he came up on high ground. So
we walked on and walked without warn
ing into group of soldiers at the rebel
picket post. The men were just ready
to take breakfast, and after the first
furry they ioked us good deal about
our extraordinary willingness to get into
their clutches at breakfast time. When
we spoke of the exchange of papers the
officer in charge informed Us that orders
were positive against exchange, and
that all his men understood it. AS this
was the case, he took the position that
we had come willingly into their lines,
and that he could not allow US to return.
saw at once that his men disagreed
with him, but the question was how we
were to get away.
My partner, who had been a soldier
in Germany, joined in the Jokes at our
expense, and proposed that he make the
bows some coffee that was coffee. The
Confederates had very poor excuse
for that article, and without more ado he
proceeded to make kettle OF coffee,
the aroma of which seemed to fascinate
the coffee-hungry sharpshooters. When
he had poured the coffee into the cups
and had expatiated on the good it would
do the men, he took up his rifle and
said to me: "Now let us start for our
own line." ! followed him, and not a
soldier on that picket post lowered the
cup of coffee from his lips or looked our
way.
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Guns Sometimes Burst Easily.

In bravado young man placed the
muzzle of his fowling piece under the
water and fred the charge. The result
was the bursting of the barrel near the
breech, and the mutilation of his hand.
Another placed and held the muzzle of
his gun square against piece of plate
window glass and fired the charge
powder and bullet. The glass was
shattered, 80 was the gun barrel. An
other instance was that of an experiment
ter who had heard that a candle could
be fred from the barrel of gun through
an inch board. He drove candle into
the nuzzle of gun, fred, and the ex-
plosion split the barrel almost its en-
tire length, and did not even drive the
candle from the muzzle. Still another
burst of gun barrel was caused by the
use of wet grass as wad, we'll
rammed down over charge Of
shot. But perhaps one of the
most singular exhibitions in this line
was Colts navy revolver, which some
years ago was sent to the factory in
Hartford, Conn. This was before the
adoption of these pistols to the metallic
cartridges and it is probable that in
loading with open powder and ball
only small amount of powder got into
the chambers, and the bullet was MOI
propelled with sufficient force to drive
it from the muzzle; at least the bullet
did not go out but lodged. AS the
shooter did not know whether the bullet
escaped or not he kept on firing until
the barrel burst or bulged, and when il
was sawed in two longitudinally there
were found fourteen bullets wedged one
into the other, and so much "upset" by
the hammering of the successive ex-
plosions of the powder charges that some
of them were not less than one inch in
diameter, fattened dies instead of conf
cal bullets. THE Manufacturer and
Builder.
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NOTHING NEW.
Paul BOyton's Joke Annotated Over One
Hundred Years.

Paul Boyton's recent prank in placing
dummy torpedo against the British
war ship Garnet in New York harbor
brings to mind Sergeant Lees attempt
to blow up Lord Howe's flagship, the
Eagle, in the same waters in 1776. He
used a torpedo boat invented by David
Bushnell afterward captain in the pa
triot army. 1t had been tried with sue
cess experimentally, and gave promis
of being useful in serious warfare. The
first opportunity for such use occurred
when the British feet took possession of
New York harbor. The Bushnell boat
was more like barrel than aboat. It
was of oak, iron-b banded, and only large
enough for one person. When floating
upright, the navigator's head was q lit
tie above the level of the water. By
means of two force pumps, worked by
the occupants feet the. vessel could
be made to sinaz or rise in the water by
forcing water out or in, and so changing
its specific gravity. It's progress hori-
zontally was governed by two revolving
paddles in front, turned by crank in
side. The torpedo was fastened to the
back of the boat by screw, the release
of which set in motion a clock con-
nected with gun-lock and flint. After
the predetermined interval of time had
elapsed, the clock would strike and ig-
mite the powder.
The torpedo carried by Lee against
the Eagle was charged with $50 pounds
of powder (some say $50 pounds), and
the clock was set to explode the charge
in thirty minutes after the torpedo was
placed. Lee was towed to the neighbor-
hood of the feet by party in whale
boats, and then proceeded to attack the
feet alone. He succeeded in reaching
the Eagle, 64-gun ship, undetected,
and spent long time in a vain attempt
to fasten the torpedo to her bottom
with hooks and screws, band of iron
at the edge of the copper sheathing
proving an especially serious obstacle.
As daylight approached, he was COM
PEELED to leave the feet and return to
the city. Off Governors Island he was
intercepted by British barge, when,
to avoid capture, he exploded his tor
pedo, escaping from his pursuers dur
ing the panic which the explosion ex-
cited. If the torpedo had been pro-
vided with strong magnet, the strip of
iron which thwarted him would have in
sured the success of his undertaking,
and the use of torpedoes in naval war.
fare might have been hastened half
century.-Scientifc american.
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NOTES AND COMMENTS.

ORDINANCE SERGEANT CHARLES LANCE.
now on duty at San Francisco, has been
In the United States Army in continuous
service for thirty eight years and prob
ably is known on the payroll as Aud
Lang Syne.
oNAPPINd TURTLES are contrary crea-
lures. When in captivity they are so
delicate that they are liable to die at
any time. But in their native element
it their heads are cut off, they will live
for an incredibly long time.
The English sparrow has a fresh in
dictment az aiust him, that of wantonly
nipping off the blossoms from orange
trees in Louisiana and Florida, where
the growers are complaining that short
crop will result from this destruction.
IT is estimated that forty leading
hotels in New York entertain an average
of 5000 transient guests daily. Includ-
ing the dying horses, t is believed
that not less Tnan Is, 900 transient guests
find resting place in New York every
night.
THERE is bird roost at Lake Gentry,
in Brevard county, Fla, covering tract
of eighty acres, in which, it is estimated,
over 100000 birds gather every sea-
son. 1t has been a resting place for
birds of every sort and description
from time immemorial,
THEY have as bad landlords in the Old
Country as in this. There is house in
Dublin, Ireland, which is worth at the
most only $40. Eight families are
crowded into it, who pay rent of $41O
a year. The owner, it is said, is gen.
Heman of wealth who lives abroad.
HERE is hint that it will do well to
consider. Put your fingers for some
minutes in ice water such as you drink;
reflect how it must be to shower that
water upon the internal organization,
especially when heated, and that will,
to sensitive person, say more than all we
could write further.
RELIGION, according to a statistician
costs the people of the United States, on
an average, only half cent each yearly
to maintain. And he might have added
that, unlike some worthy institutions,
the cost is as a rule so nearly graduated
to mans means that no hardship is felt
on the part of its supporters.
A MAN who fell over some carpet
placed across London sidewalk for
party guests to tread upon brought suit
in damages for his injuries. He said, at
the trial, that he did not see the carpet,
as ne was star gazing at the time, and
the justice awarded him $500, saying
that man had a perfect right to pass
along the street with his eyes fixed on
the stars.
A LADY was walking along street in
Rockland, Me-, very rapidly. A gentle
man was walking just behind the lady
at an. equally rapid pace. The lady saw
pin on the sidewalk, and stopped sud
denly to pick it up. The gentleman
Eszled to put down bzeaks and took
a header over the lady. Neither party
secured the pin, adds the local paper
which gives US the item.
AN eighteen-year-old boy was before
a Kentucky court for carrying deadly
weapons. The Judge consented to dis
miss the case on condition that his
mother openly cowhided him in court,
which she did with will, stripping him
to the waist. In Louisville, same State,
four boys were publicly whipped by
their parents; the choice being between
the whipping and the House of Refuge,
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Rapid Transit In Idaho.

"Hello, old man, where are you
bound ?" inquired the conductor of an
acquaintance in the smoking car.
"Going back East, was the response,
rather sourly.
"Have you quit railroading out in
Idahop"
"Yes, I have"
"What's the matter ?"
"Oh, 1 don't want to run a locomotive
in country where towns die off so fast
that in the place where we get our din
ners one day the next day we stop as
usual and look all around, but not
shanty is to be seen. / like my dinners
regularly, do, and no more Idaho in
mine, please. &C Chicago Herald.
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What His Business Was.

A good story was of an old Methodist
brother, who on account of long ac-
quaintance, was disposed to spend a
great deal of his time in the Office of the
original Harper Brothers. On one oc-
aston he said to James Harper:
"Brother Harper, I never could
unde and what your duties are here.
know that Brother John is the cashier,
that Brother Wesley is the correspond
ont, and Brother Fletcher is the editor;
but never could learn what were the
duties of Brother James"
"My duties" he replied, are the
hardest of them all. My business is to
entertain the bores.
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THE Yosemite stage which left
Madeira was robbed by highwaymen
near Clark's Station. Among the pas
sengers were several members of the
Raymond excursion. Everything in the
way of Iewelry and money was taken
from them. The robbers also secured
the Wells, Fargo & Go. treasure box, the
value of which is not yet known. The
names of the tourists robbed are w. A.
Waite and wife, of Providence, r. l.,
Mr.. Chance and wife, @. @. Wheeler and
Mr.. Harris. A reward of 81, 200 has
been offered for the capture of the high
wsymen, and four Sheriff with posses
ere in pursuit of them.
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THE LOST LANDS

There Is story Of beauteous land,
Where fields we're fertile and where flowers
were bright,
Whefe tall towers glistened in the morning
light,
Where happy children wandered hand in
in hand,
Where lovers wrote their names upon the
sand.
They say it vanished from all human sight;
The hungry sea deyoured it in night.
You doubt the tale? All! you will under
stand,
For as men muse upon that fable old,
They give sad credence always to the last,
However they have cavilled at its truth,
When with tear-dimmed vision they be-
hold
Swift sinking in the ocean of the past
The lovely. lost Atlantis OF their youth.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
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The Following is Partial List OF my
OFFERINGS OF REAL ESTATE :

25OAere with fair dwelling suitably
age PASTURE wood timber apple running
formerly
saw within mI soil strong and productive farm would
gd worth 50 900 farms selling VIII sell down.
800 per year.
buildings good good son price
down, balance so year.
Hyde village abons man
who wishes and his vegetables
balance so year.
Dwelling Hyde Park village good buildings new
good price per year.
Land out of Hyde Park vfage-a desirable
meadow good price $50 per acre v
VIII sell part or all
Building Hyde village enteping
young put labor
timber lumber stone brick glass; shing
and wherewith build respectable allow
payments three
Price of lots, $75, $780, s125 and $3.50
village Store"
probably II pee
s2Ooo-s5OO down. balance 500
Sixty notsu
taxation equity
lot miles of
sawmil bad hills cheap
for desiring logging s25 in
two two dollars reserved until paid
Timber about hundred
mill which supplies H. $500
800 down. 25 dollars stumpage
Building Lot in Belmont Mass,
Ftchburg Wy down.
An examination placed
alton much below what but
Parties desiring and will this
their either the
estate CHEAP the
described
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THERE are some racy idioms in
Kansas. Adopting a few of them a
visitor recently wrote home saying that
he rose at "sun up" and felt 'tright
peart," for it was ''pretty day" ON the
rolling prairies. The darky woman of
the house was "rightfully handy" but
on the whole the "darkeys" of Kansas
are a "trifing set." He had good
breakfast of pone and pork, went to the
creek to ''wash up" and rode cold
Mary mare" for amusement
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My Calf Skin Business is absorbing my capital, time and
attention. and having decided to close out all of my other
branches of business we'll my miscellaneous personal
property and real estate offer for sale all the land own
except that occupied in my business and my dwelling and will
dispose of at very low figures and easy terms of
payment
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RIoH,-The richest colored man in
Philadelphia is John Mckee, a real
estate dealer, who is estimated to be
worth between 5000, 900 and $500, 900.
There are two or three others in the
same city whose fortunes run up into
the hundred thousands.
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WHY SHE KILLED HER LOVER,
PetitiOninR n Governor to Commute N
Grips Death Sentence.

PetitionInR n Governor TO Commute q
GirPs Death Sentence.
Annie e. Cutler, the young woman
who lies in the Philadelphia Jail under
sentence of death for the murder of her
lover, William 81. Knight, belongs in
Newport, r. L, where her mother re-
sides and holds respectable position
in the community. Mrs. Cutler and her
daughter came from Lynn, the former
now residing on Fillmore place. She is
member of the Second Street Baptist
Church, and has the confidence and es-
TEEN of all her friends and neighbors in
and out of the church. She brought
up her father less daughter with scru-
pulous care and educated her well.
About three years ago knight came to
Newport for the summer. A party OF
young people took moonlight drive
around the Ocean Drive one evening,
and Annie met young Knight. From
that time during the summer the young
couple met frequently, and before
Knight left for Philadelphia they had
become engaged.
Not long after the parting Knight be-
gan to write to his fancee, urging her to
go to Philadelphia and prepare for their
wedding. His appeals were so earnest
and so persistent that at last Annie con-
sented, but on her arrival there she dis
covered that they were not in a position
to marry, and accordingly she took po-
sition in family, who became much at
tached to her. There she remained for
nearly three years, giving Knight the
bulk of her salary, he promising that he
would add to and prepare home for
her. In March last Annie discovered
that Knight, having betrayed another
woman, had been compelled to marry
her.
She then shot Knight in broad day.
light and upon the public streets.
Affidavits are now being prepared set
ting forth the above facts, and stating
that the girl, who is now only twenty
two years of age, has always been of q
good character and of a most amiable
disposition. A petition to the Board of
Pardons is being signed. Mr.. J.
Murray Speer, formerly editor of the
Prisoners Friend, is here conducting
the arrangements for the forwarding of
petition to the Governor of Penn
sylvania, asking that the sentence OF
death be committed. Miss Cutler is
most highly spoken of here.
LITTLE ERNEST, a small boy recently
emancipated from kits, walked into the
nursery one morning, and was quite
disgusted upon finding that it had not
been put in order for the day-one of
the rules of the house being that no
playthings should be brought out until
the sweeping was done. He left the
room for short time, and, finding
matters no better on his return, ex-
claimed impatiently "Well, hasn't this
room been sweeped yet ?" "Why,
Ernest, said his mother, edo you think
that is good grammar ?" "Oh, we'll,
then," said he, "has it been swopen ?"
st. Nicholas.
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The Department of Agriculture is re-
ceiving many requests for silkworms,
eggs, and replies that they cannot be
shipped successfully till fall.
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CHINA, il is said, will reorganize her mill
tary system, as Japan has already done.
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A FEW STRAY JOKES
FOUND IN THE HUMOROUS COLUMNS
OF OUR EXCHANGES,

That Old Pin ARain-A Tree VIII Leave
The Boy In SwimminE-The Final Test
The Albany Platter
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CARROLL s. PAGE.

Hyde Park, VT, Feb 2, 1856.