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f i f # rem soren t clogs RANI C Si a THE WIFE'S REYVERIE. 6 cll. * © heart of mine, is our estate Our sweet estate of Joy-assurad? It came so slow, it came so f late,, Brought by such bitter pains endured; Dare we forget thoso sorrows 8Ore And think that they will come no morn? With tearful eyes I sean my face, And doubt how he can find it fair; Wistful, I watch each charm and grade I see that other women wear; Of all the secrets of love's lora, I know but one-to love him more! I see each day he grows more wise, ~- His life is broader far than mine; I must be lacking in his eyes In many things where others shing O heart! can we this loss restore To him by simply loving more? I often see upon his brow . A look half tender and half stern; + for $1. His thoughts are far away, I know; To fathom them I vainly yearn; ~ But naught is ours that wont before; O heart! wo can but love him more! I sometimes think that he had loved, An older, deepor love, apart From this which latet, feebler moved His soul to mine. O heart! O heart! What can we dot This hurteth sore. Nothing, my heart, but love him more! Detective Sketches! EIGHT YEARS' SECRET SERV -IN- , HUNTING COUNTERFEITERS, «HORSE THIEVES . i -AND- OTHER DISREPUTABLE CHARACTERS . -IN- New York and Pennsylranis from 1853 to 1861. xo. 5-coxTIxU®Ep. {Written Expressly for the Telegrom.] The Post cre=ker did not remain long in the village, going to the tavern, getting his bottle filled with whisky, which he paid for in good money, treated the farmer, and called Tom one side nnd enjoined him to \ never give him away,\ gave Tom a sign which for prudential reasons He did not reciprocate, and returned to his home. - Tom ordered supper and inqhired the dis- tance to Hornby xi’furkq. Boing told the dis- tance, which was much farther than he ex- pected, he concluded not to go there, but to go to Millport that night and gean if he could not get a job in one of the boat yards. A butcher was at Beaver Dam and told Tom he might ride with him nearly to Millport The moon would shine brightly that evening sor Tom eunaluded to go. _| , By the way, he was intending to walk there: that night, for he wus sure that by 8 o'clock the next morning that the boat captain would be there. It 'was slow work locking up through tho forty-four locks, but Tom wus satisfled that the captain was ia '* pusher\ and would improve every moment. The buteher waited for Tom to eat his sup- per and away they started for Millport in & shambling stock wagon that made more uoise and clatter than a threshing machine. Tom gleansad cousiderable fmuportant infor» mation from the butcheft, who was purchasing euttle, sheep, swine and pouitry In the country surrounding Millport, and gave unknowingly a nuluber ouf yery goud points by which he subsequently profited. ' The butcher finally concluded he would have to go to Mkiport and go to his market, so he set Tom down neur the canal in the western portion of that village. Tom went into a lock-tender's shanty which stuod on the heel-path, or western side of the cunal, chunged his clothes, and wont to the hotel. . . - . He found that his horse and buggy were thero allright. unl his hat box was in a cupboard behind the bar. Tom urderod it to his room along with his satchel. Early the next morning Tom went over to the ecaual and found that the boat captain had not yet arrived. He walked down the towing path, passing several locks, and could see nothing of him. He therefore returned to the hotel, ate his breakfast, and again Went over to the canal, going into tto same grocery where he had ' overheard the conwersation hetween. the boat eaptain and the citizen. The citizen was there, and soon the expected boat came in view. «000 There was n lock near the grocery, and any onn sifting could look out and seo all that transpired near the lock. _| The citizen seemed impatient and walked back ward and forward on the towing path in tront of the grocery while the boat was gliding (slowly, into the loex., As soon as the gntes were closed behind it and the upper paddles were raised, the lock filled up ami brgught the boit up above the level of the filling around ft. The eaptain stepped down on to the towing path, having in one hand a package wrapped in the'-ame pauper that the original package was put up in at Albany, The eaptain called to the citizen, saying: \Here I have a package fort you; let mo s90 (pretending to examine a huge shipping bill), the charges are (in a whisper unintelligible}.\ \ Weill, well,\ says the citizen, \ I ought to pave Lad it a month ago; stap in here and I will pay you.\ They went into the iAentical place whore» -they had met ton or tweivo days before, and sTom could hear the citizem say: \ Five, ten and twenty are thirty, and twority aro fifty, and twenty are seventy, and ten ure cighty, and twonty are $100. Captain, is this not rathor dear stuif?\ \You will make a clear ©375 out of it I can make another trip. It seoms to me that is doing well enough. That is more thau I am making with my beat and team with over $8,000 investad in the concern. They are getting up a now thing that will rouilly bo worth $50 on $100. I havia sample of it now. Take this $10 bill and give me one #5 und if you are not satisfied I will rofuad your money.\ - \All right,\ says the citizen and the two, separated, the captain having to min to over. take his boat which by this time was nearly to the next lock. * Tom went back'to the hotel and ordered up his horse, While he was waiting for It to be harnessed and driven astound, a candy and cracker ped- Aler from Ithaesa, whose route was from this place to (Candor, Spencer, Owego, Waverly, vhemung, Eimira and etsowhore was showing the landlord a counterfeit bill which wus passed on him at Waverly, and expressed him- self in very strong terms in regard to it and believed that there was & regular gang of counterfo ters down there. From this conversation and other things - which the candy and eracker peddier said, who by the way was a man of striet integrity, Tom determined to go to Elmira at once, (Although \ he intended to spend another day along tho canals) see his friend Stephen Mack, leave his Borse at. Elmira and go down by rail to Waverly. He knew there was a line of counterfaiters tcading into Elmira from the south, and be was satislled that there was also one from the uerth, and one from the east, branching at north to Utica, east to Newburgh nuikahmg the Erie to New Jersey and New go ck. 20. J lie accordingly drovo to Elmira, only stop- iuug a fow minutes at Horseheads to rest his 10rs8e, At Elmira he delivered over to his friend Stephen Mack, the specimen counterfeits and -ulored bills and related briefly what hoe had uccomplished and that he had determined to spend a day or iwo in Waverly and Owego,and poss.bly go on to Binghamton. He cuutioned Mack not to say anything more to the assuciation than this, \that he bad beard from Tom White and he had reported # 32 * mws' pWitn this understanding they departed, Tom the state and noarl In four days Tom returned to Eimirs laden with information-and proceeded to make out his report. When it was completed and his friend,. Stephen Mack, preginted At to the exacutive committee of the association, thoy were again astounded at the revelations, Before, the month of October had tFamed. forty arrests were made in various sections of #15,000 of the spurious- money, crucibles, ures, dios, plates, ofe., caxtumd. - . number of those wore In Chomung, Tloga, Bchuyler, Steuben and Tompkins counties. Among them was the Post crookor, who was arrested at Geneva, the boat cuptsain in the same plave, the \citizen\ of Millport, & saloon kcepor in Elmira, a woman, keeper of a house of ill-fameo, togother with several frequonters of hor establishment, Vasquelin, of Troy, sscaped, but his partners were seized. Wharton was arrosted and procured bail but umped his bail bond. I side from the rogues pointed out by Tom, j Shoriff Pickering, of Chemung county,arrosted several parties who claimed Williamsport and Pottor county as their homes. But notwithstanding these arvests sand al- most - certsin - conviction - of the cal- prits, the country _ was flooded with countorfeit money. 'Tom in his investigations bad struck trails that led into Boston, Hurt, ford, New York, Brooklyn and other points in tho east and Philadolphla, Baltimore and Rich- mond in the south, Wheelinlg. Pittsburg, Columbus, Chicago, St. Paul and Detroit in the wost and northwost, and Ottawa in Canada Wost-who sent out thoir agents with the samo rogularity that modern whosesale morchunts send out their commercial travolors. It was evident that the most difingsrous and culpable characters were not the Inboror, mechanic, boatman, saloon-keseper, although they helped to swell the number, but it was the mon of capital who had money, and who, urged on by avarico to double thair fortunes had engaged in the business. This iden began to be eptertainad by the peo- P10 generally, And they reasoned that if the 'big bugs\ could work this scheme, surely they, the middlo classes, had the same right. This roasoning proved disastrous to many happy firesides. . he rich could give bail or. buy off the offi- cers of the Inw, but the poor mun was nimoat certain of conviction and imprisonment. Bo wide-spread _ wore the - operations of \ the - countorfolters, | and - so - an- noyod und dofrauded were the business mon and bankers, that in- addition to the usual numbor of United tates detectives or marshals, associations wore formed in a large number of counties in New York and Pounsylvania similar to the one in Elmira, with this difference, that thoy did not appoint a detective like Tom White, who was unknown to the association nnd all but one of its morn- bers. 'The result was that notwithstanding they mado a reasonable number of arrests, that in many cases some of those who wore largely engaged in counterfelting, from their previous good character, would become members of these associations in ordor to nscertain who their detectives were, and to forewarn their frionds in the counterfeiting business, During Tom's labors as & detective he was the means of bringing a nuriber of these mombBers to an account. . Three men in Chemung county wore pre- vonted by Tom from becoming members of the at Elmira, by reason of his placing their names before the nssociation as suspi- clous charaoters, two of whom were afterwards arrested and convicted. Que of thom was taken \awn in Alabama,\ and tho other at down south ort beposit, {| Md., while the third skipped for Canada, und thus eluded the uificers of the law when they were about ready to pounce upon him. Tom was now In pussession of several coun- York and northern Pennsylvania, enough, at least, to keep him busy almost night and day, But a now phase in the chuructor of the counterfeiters was being assumed. A number of the ecountesfcliers had been sont to the penitentiary, and their friends, while not only continuing that line of business, 'out of revenge it was claimed, begun to burn and destroy the property, or steal It, of those who had in any lugrua been dnstrumental in cuusing their arrest and convietion, This wus a very serious matter, for not only was the irl'upully of the Individual destroyed, but his iffe and the lives of innocent persons, men, women and thildren, placed in (yummy. Incendiary fifes were frequent, sinde and frait trees were cut down, horses were stolen aud young cattle wore driven out of the fields Into the woods rnd siaughtered and hall their curcasses left to spoil. . In addition to the great task already before him, Tom essayed to hunt out the culprits. .Muny of the bulidiugs burned were unin- sured, and a cortain class, in order to avold suspleion from themselves, claimed that It was the agents of tho insurance companies who were doing the burning, in ormler to frighten tho people Into getting Insuréd at heavy rites, or If a persons property was burngd that was Insured, then they would raiso the cry that the person himself had set it on flre in order to ob- tain the insurance. They would take both sides of tho qnostion, and in Tom's opinion many of them were very suspicious characters,. business long before hs came to the conclusion that the parties who did the burning did not reside in the village or town witere the fire oc- curred, but wers imported from othur to- caulities. Of course there were exceptions to this rule. But the systematic burning was done, for in- stunce, if in Elmira, by some one who lived in Ithaca? Uwego, Waverly, Troy, Pa., or Williams- ort, Pu. P The Elmira and Willlaumsport railroad was now completed, and a man could easily slip up from Troy or Willlamsport, stay over 11mg! at some réspoctable hotel, or for that matter take up his headquarters in the saloons, commit the arson, and return to his home without being suspocted. Whilo the man uFon whom suspicion would naturally fall woal« thut night at least in the most raspeptable pluecs ho would be permitted to lounge, 'and romain there in respectable company while his Williamsport accomplice would be \ getting in his work.\ He gould certainly provo an allbl at least, and the citizens, In their tanocone, would suy, Joo (as the case might be) for they were ut the | Rathbun house or Maight & Reedor's hotel all the evening.\ * in Wiitam-port or Troy, an Elmirg fire-bug and sympathizer would be selected for the Job. This, Tom learned was what the custom was in the carly history of the burning. But by and by they become emboldened and did their own work in their own locality and pretty generally landed iu the ponitentiary to ex plato the{rerimes, | For several months Tom as a side Issue hunted the fire bugs, at the same time, causing the arrest of counterfeiters At Waverly, Owego, Binghamton, Eimira, Big Flats, at the Moun- , tuin house, nt the Summit level in Pine Valley, at Yan Ettanville, Newfleld, Reynoldsviile, near Meckionburg, Gibson, near Corning, at Muncy, Sunbury, Halifax, Groen's Dam, To- wands, Tunkhannock, Columbia, Murietta, Highspire and at Wormleysburg upon th» Cumberland sido of the Susquehanna opposite Harrisburg. Equipped with a perfect outfit of disguises, Including farmers' suits, lumbermen's sults, laborers' sults,gentlemens suits femule sulta, he traveled by rail, canal, stago or foot and by i vory. He went on a special mission to Olean and finally brought up in the lock-up at Erte for being found dressed in women's clothes and was fined 43. Lucky for Tom that bo had a good sult in his satehel at the Reed bouse in that city. He was exposed by ohne of the porters at the Redd house who saw him through th8 key holo of his room door, followed him out and reported hir to an officer, who hesitated very much to srresthim, believing Tom to be a genuine tady. 'Tom passed the thing off as u good joke, saying that he had found the Indy's apparel in his room, and for tho fun ol tho thing he thought he would try them on, and finding that they fitted so well, ho thought hoe would perambulato tho streets, The clerk recollected that tho room had been occupied by a indy from Buffalo, N. Y., anid that it probably belonged to hor. * The apparel was consequently left in the room and Tom changed his programme, and gained the information in a diflerent way, and struck an important lead which connected $21??? Elfin erszxt a? in Wyoming county, in e rk, thence to Moun r N??? Tork. t Morris and Bath, om wus wall pleased as welt mick wdim the tetanus of that trig“ as Stophen n order to assist the association in def Tom's expenses Tom proposod that tin-11313?! friend, Stephen Mack, should solicit the ap- pointment of apecial detective from the depart» ment at Washington, 'Fom refusing to have the Asking the old mail train oast on the Erie, commission made out in his name, terfsiting lines that led in to southern New. Tom had not been Investigating the burning take up his position for \ Well, you can't lay that Job to Hank, Bilt or Then, i! the gang wanted gome one burnt out . Tom Inughingly told Stephen Mack that they sould divide the gmfits of the ofice~-Mack, for his sharo could have the honor, while Fom would do the work and racsivs the pay. This arrangement was affected. - Elevon if the rogues should find ont that Stephen Mack wasappointed a detective \ they would not fear him and would second the appointment, for Stephen Mack, was always business hours st piace of business, and was not Hkoly to interfere in the loast with thoir operations. pWhetbar It was over known outalde of the de- partment at Washington that Btophan Mack was a sacret detoctive we cannot say. A now shorlff had bean clocted in Ohemung county, the late Major William M. Grogg. Tom was wall pleased with his olection, Heo believed ho would make an efficient of- . ieor and would gain;1 a lvoly interest in bring- ing offonders to justios, This was also the opinion of Mack and & ma- jority of the association. ‘ Arrests continued to bo made svrery few days without the culprits over surmising tho truo source from whenee the information came that epused thom. “33m or two arrests waro made of \ fire bugs.\ Among the sufforers from tho incendiary fires was a lumberman who lived nan; thoe giwnxnlmg river west of Elmira in the town of :; Flats, > from than haif of the business places in the village of Big Flats wero consumed, evidently the work of an incendiary. Baros without number, tobaceo sheds and a now grist mill on the ovo of commencing work, also was sot on fire, ~ Horses wore being stolen In all sections of the country. . Tom wis requested by the association, through his friend Stephon Mack, to direct his attention for a few months to these incendie ries and horse thieves. Fom consented. In order to the more successful prosecution of his work, Tom had Bong Wood, of Paintod Post, a celobrated gunsmith make him a rifle and shot gun combined, and Tom assumed tho character of w hunter. Strangely as it may appear, Tom commenced his bupting unanimous in the county of Tomp- kins and grudaally worked his way through the open country, small groves and o tim- bored tracts to Waverly. He ovon visited Owogo and through the courtesy of the jallor was periaitted to visit one of the inmates in his cell, to inquire about tho hunting grounds in Bradford, Flogs, Pot- tor, MceKegn, Clinton and Clearfield. * 'Tom was preity well ncquainted with tho hunting groumds and lumber eampsa in those counties, but tien he was not so éelf sufficient in his knowledge that ho would reject a ** pointer \ or a word of advice from one who had ranged those sections and so to speak know overy incl, of ground, know whore the best grounds wore for bear) door and small guino, and every vacant lumber or hunting camp in all that region. Ob, no, Tom always sought information. And then his partial knowledge of the country enabled tho prisoner in his cell to communi- cate in a more intelligent manner to Tom what he most dasired to know,. From Owogo, Tom prased Into Pannsyivani’u, gotng to Willinmsport und Lock Haven, visit- ing two old huaters confined in those Jails, thence to Coudersport, und from thero to Gaines, in Tloga county on Pine cresk, the scene of his \ set to \ in the bar room. But, he did nog stop at that particular place, Silas X. Billings, esq., had a mun in his ser- vice who hud surveyed all that country and even, counted the pine and hemlock trees, esti- mated thair value and noted thoir locality. Ho was an honest und truthful man and is yot living, ' From hf“; Tom learned the precise locality of every bith ehanty, lumber camp, creck, ra- vino and the best hunting ground. Tom also visited nn old settler, who had lived upen Pine creek for many years, whose char- uctor was hot so honorable as it might be. In a shanty attached to this man's dwolling Tom saw a plece of a broken crucible, The plrcee to an ordinary observer would have eaused no remark or Interest, Tom wus a hunter and n, geologist, picked up the pluce of broken crucible, and remarked that thore must be coal in the utountains here. To which the old man replied that there was. Tom extracted, ygs that's the word, ex- tracted a great deal of informmtion from this old man, in their conversation about rafting, lumbering, hunting and even about counter- feiting and horsu stealing. His son came in aud checked the garrulous old fellow, or there is no telling what\he would have sald. j Tom had the faculty of working his victim up to a high pitch, could tell a pretty large story, but always suffered his vietim to toll a lirger and better one, one that was more laughable or startling. j * In this manner Tom drow out the facts from the old hunter, and atder and abettor of coun- terfeitors und horse thieves, From Gnulines, Tom took a tramparound over the big Biephant, a mountain bearing the re- sombinnce of a mammoth elephant, and spont a day or two in the mountains in and about the headwaters of Elk and Codar Run. He then retraced bis steps to Gaines and crossed the mountain northeasterly, striking .] the tributaries of Crooked creek, On this tour he found a very suspicious va- cant eamp. By certain sigas and trails he Jruced tho occupants of this camp to a resident of whore the village of Little Marsh is now situated, In the township of Chatham, Hoga county, vl’n. From the latter point he followed down Cropked ervek to Middiobury, thence to Tioga village; thence west up the Elkhorn, a wild and romantic stream into Farmington. letraucing his steps to Tloga, thence up Mill creek to lBHoseville, Sylvania, Columbia ¥ Ioads, Troy, Burlington, thence west again to Daggett Mills, and AMillorton; thence north to the head of Hendy Hollow, und over to Stick- lertown to the Chomung river near the Che- mung and Steuben county lines. Thence north through the eastern rtion of the town of Corning to Post creak, over to Wayne village and down to the Conhocton, Thenen to Knoxville below Pafrated Post. Tom could alwnys In an hour while in the wouds kill enough small game as partridge or squirrels to give him the appearunco of a genuine hunter when he appeared in the open country, of at any of the villages where he stopped or passed through. Tom was guining a mass of Information, both in relation to counterfeiters and horse thieves. He run Into company of a man near Coopers Plains above Painted Post, from whom he not ouly extrnctod the revised work of the mongrel gzws-words and signs horctofore referred to ut quito a Hst of the members. ' One of the chief officers of the association lHyod new Bath, anothor ut Ithacs, one at Wuwrlg und another on Pine crouk, one at Jersey Shore and anuthor at Bellefonte. The was a branch of a grand association whose western headquarters wery tin QObio nour Columbus, southorn at Baltimure and enstern at or near Newburgh, and the nporthorn at Wategtown on the Black river. It would tuke us u tong while tq explain to the reader, how skillfully Tom wormed this information out of this man at'C and therefore puss un, * LQODOX'S Plains articles over some of this very ground. Then wo were looking for another class of { for an additional cluss now, and sarily cover the ground again. Tom had to become familiar Ingsof the horse thief gang. | He asorrtained first thnt the horses stolon in me York werv ultiinatoly disposed of in Ohlo That for Instanen, a horse was stolen in Tomp. | kins eonnty, New York, he wus taken first cither to Waverly or run over to Wayne in must , noces- Post crotk. From Wayne to C viile, Crooked creek u): Pino at???” £331? 35.23). wore colored, clipped and othenvlsz» disfigured 1:1:um Pins crook they were sent erther via of Comlersport to Warron on the Allegheny river, or down Kettle creck to Westport on tho west brinch of the Susgquehanns, thence through Clearfield, Indinns or Jefferson count tollszmmri; lg? itlmucn into Ohlo. * some localitles theso hors F the day time tn the groves, mm lgmtrm ha a: 5212.5; d in the taros uf certain membersposi 6\ preaii & Those thieves aftor they bad got a sale dis- , {ance trom home eithor procured themselves by purchase Weith counterfeit money or bold} helpad themselves to buggies or carriages (mg the rest of thejourncy wis porformud at leisure One of the arringements also was that at ,| vartous stations an agent of the gang would receive tho horses, 'pay u cartain per cant. of their supposed market voaluo, and lst the title! return to his old field of operation for moro 5:12:3sz irum: the agent would take the ro- oust 64. 0 p “a“ wwyfit, gotting rid of them in any man- us a horsa thief res 3 i Steuben, Tompkins, flogeifmgnritfingh “$0318 y other county in the state, who could g‘étg horse to any of these agoncies was sure of re- ceiving from $25 to €50 por horse, which was actually worth from $125 to #175, with the work; | ‘ lore hp would recsivo. mils: gantEufi to him in good mom? . mires n m‘ U ggggtggxyifépfi gunk! therefore make & ood trip o ' © * Tho 1320 of good money would sometimes save him from arrost, for if cornered, ho could say that he 'had boen working in the lumber woods in Tlogs, Potter, Clearfield, or some always roferring to somo fictitious name, who claimed that ho got the money out of the k. The bad or couutorfelbt money would always bo as wo havo sald beforo, of denoy mination than the infigar (and 805311139 gglgonnrhd therefore the traveling horso thio? 8 = terfoiter would be releasod or suffered to travol on. \The illiterate dbago was usually played by #C8mMp3. <_, - > It tgiy had really graduated with high honors from some of e best\ educational in- stutions af. the land, they would set up tho plea that thoy could not road or write, that they wore hard-working mon, which their af- d indlexto, boing, dressed in peurance woul conrso and sometimes dirty clothes. At other timos thoy would assumo the gon- tleman dodge, and boing well drossed, display- ing a gold witch and chain, a Inrge pocket- book, for bills if caught up, would indignantly resont the charga, and throw out a £50 or nn $100 genuino note, and insuitingly ask \is this counterfcit, too?\ > Tom, after bunting over tho territory de- seribed, returned to Elmira and made ro- sort. | I Ho had positive evidence sufficient to arrest and convict ono man near Ithaca, two at Wa- verly, one at Lock Haven, one st “idlinmsport, one at Warron, ons, on Pine croek, ono at Troy, Pa., ong at Mui creek, and a number of others clsowhoro, but as thoy were all perma- nent residents and not lisble to run away. Tom advised tho association to wait a fow weeks, boelloving that It was pollgglto do so, and gave as his ropsons that by waiting a short time he would havo the evidence that would implicate a Inrge number of others, and that with the efficient aid which ho know ho would reevivo from the new sheriffs cf Obhemung, Stoubon and 'WFioga in New York, and the shoriffs in Pennsylvania, thot they would be enabled to make & grand raid, unpnralieled by any simiinr ono in the history of Pennsylvania and New York. * Thon again, the legislaguro of Ponnsyivania through Tom's instigation and counsel, would undoubtedly pass a law whereby offenders or fugitives from justice, escaping from other states, could bo nrrested within tho stato and held untit a requisition could bo obtained from the governor uf the stato from whence the cul- prit had escaped, upon the governor of Penn- sylvania, to deliver such offenders to the cus- tody of the officers and court having Jurlsdic- tion over the sumo. Theso and wither prudebtial reasons which aro hore unncsessitry to state, worp colncided with by Stophen Mack and the exeoutive com- mitted, Tom had entered into this work with a de- termination io win If possible, oven though he bad to appeal to the loglslaturoe of the stato of. Pennsylvania to pass a Iaw to assist him and all others in causing the arrest of criminals escaping into that state, and also aiding in the arrest of eriminais escaping from FPenosylvanin into New York. Although Tom was too modest even to claim any honor in the matter of tho passagor®f such a Iaw as above referred to, still to him who suggested and drafted tho essence of the sta- tute, and to a genotieman then living in Lock Haven, Clinton county, Pa., now deceasod, the credit should be given. Tom continued fis Investigations,{n the mean- time working up s ease of counterfeiting where the parties invoived wero nowise interested in horso-stealing “Y house burning. The reader will bear tn mind that in the first portion of this history the writer referred to, or rather deecribed, a visit that Tom and Hes- slogor, the Lancaster man of so many aliases, mude to Centervie, ner Painted Post, the losing of the memorandum boek by Hessinger, and the copying ef the same by Tom. Well, when Tom was at Warsaw, in Wyoming county, New York, ho struck a which led to OQpdensburg, St Lawrences county, to Bath, N. Y., ond to Centervillo, near ted Post, and took a long jJamp from tho latter place to Coxo's Town, near Hurrisburg. Tom deterntined toe work this up so far as Centerville was coneerned. Tom bad to display great tact, caution and diseretion in this caso. _ . , Tho parties implicated enjoyed the con- fAdence and respect of the community and held a high social position in society. {To sx coxtinvgp.] -- e @ < «_-_-__. OUHE QUESTION BOX. This departinent (s inlenial for a medium through which our readers may on matters @ general inferest - Dopuirics not accompanied by the name and address of the sender will receive no attention. Corr ohou'1 not Feel disa ppotnied whentheir ques wms are not anseored within several weeks, as the information sultrited frequently requires cmsilerable rescarch, for which ample time should be allowed. Ad dress communicatiwn$ for this department, Eimer K. Burungame, Etmira, N. ¥. l11-8-*%% Puff. F. B.-Address Frank Hordlc, Williamsport, ”Jam H.-Havo not spaco to givo the stamp fiirta- “it. M.-Address Holmes & Hamilton, Elmira, H. asp H.-You would follow sult if possible in euchro. A éiist‘iiu—Tpo Crystal Palace was burned October mlzafilmhca a copy of the TEL®GRAX 6f Novem- “111335123 i«ll-nastier: is unintelligible arnd wo ”Sin fink-”£3,115: was killed on tho Little Big J, W. W. -Addruss Weed, Parsons & Co., Albany, od. N. ¥., for the law books unm N C dc- Douftogts £00, Model Press $196 ifiu’géifié’fi'aif’iffifii? is worth from adt 5 dgn i north, fom orig ponte to seventy- c ki. ThP aoi, mi fritan at the a rn t - le F. N. M.--li is estimated that the M. ro 2,5 Catholles in the world, and aus.szs,waurgr2c;0£30:ZL8g.8 C. 4 u. -Write to Heut: & Co., T2 Broadway, N. 36521: a coppor coin catalogue, prico, twenty-Avo It. P. P. wishes the old song, \ Po % > , rry'ls Victory.\ £215?) 3332115 a copy of the old \ Forget-Me-Not Mua M. E. T.-Cbarles O'Connor, th lawyer, died at X rat ragers} ind antucket, K. L, May 12, 1684, agod »Ww. 1. H.-Tho first Republican national conven- tion met in 1850; the party was organize «dvlvat of tho \ in 180%. *S a after the G. M.--Wao do not know where yo U & barber shop. It is not tu our Info to 511131333332}! hess locations for our rondera. We havo taken the rounder in our formor | Hteuban county via of &ipine, Millport and | I b. b-Jersey City has a population of Nowork, 152,088, Pai 230; G on, Begay Nesat: 18908h pig: Camden, avsed) F. T. K.-It dopends allogoth . & or upon wh of un organization your club!» is lnwgded Yo zklfifi form us and wo shail be pleased to suggest a usme. men than wo are now, or rather weare looking | mil- W. M.-Ths word billion has no hard and fast eaning - It. may - incau 1,000,000,000 meal 1.mx1.0uu.um.ooo~1ust' us tho p3r§§u“u§'1§§ may select - li is not used by mathomaticlans by people who are accurrto in speech. « or R. W. T.-The electoral commiss . a lun was =- Winding Judges (fay-ml, S.roug, Miller; Fiek, £1931- 24', i of Senntors Edmunds, Morton, Frelinghuysen f mint-figm’flagqrd; ul Representatives Payne, Hun. (at, c} bot, Gartield, Hoar. [Dom.crats are in C. H. E. writeg Aro Bland dollars wi im; A ‘ (“when in the dsgle's tail at a pmmlumhmtx’x’gxla‘; $1!” cultectors? | It so, how much sro thoy worth? ‘ey are dated 1878, but 1 find most of thom bave $22; angst.) {it (withers. I1 have one with eight tuil Axs - Wo aro entirely at m loss for anser to this corres H Toad. ors give us gie pondent Can any of our read- ti. M.-Hoyle says of raffio dice: an \ threo aise, tike precedence of pairs, mhflffirggif 000+ wii sent twu sizes and a five. Thi 8 umes A-Lqml diff: reutly, triplets only aruguzomgg pmirs\ = tua \ ru'es of the nouse\ govern. ingm > ablseuce of rules, any triplet will beat any pair, 0.113 threo qouces brut two sizea and other number. --\\ 0 \\\ * $9 05 any pair C. C. G. -One of tho be K : . a. gt modes of im art of thinking is to think over some “33325310 {fitting- ffirih nudumen observe alter what manna;3 s dee; to the inind of somo gr you wiil th n otservo whether you finsgtngezslgg you tinvo oxcsvacd; ana oy ind o eo £50 thot vd; y Toces: i sonsibly catéh tho manner in watch 58512312? mlmd- viows a great quostion. min PETEX G.~-UGeneral Butler w . as not \ of the Afs; Massachusetts regiment m‘zgotrfiggng‘ xu‘mure. but tho M&Zth was put under his cog gig}: $1; rt. aud In; inarchod it into Baittmore Olin t; a t som» time after under th sis-cw York regiment -and encamped 01103332012! gin? 3 120 gigglfigngroium; this drenclod Now York- schoolhouse shelter the Massachusetts boys, M’Bfillfi 7 the New Yorkers out of the ralu. Thoy grog? ered Hood's Sarenparilia cures bfHousness, 4 & t Theltartherfiwut the thiot sold to an agont , other county and was paid off by his omployor, [ ' 1,6me U Itake c hak oma -* ( h P énmzflvrgwwzzucmnp wnmtmifip 13161701; gm {£52};ng sie an apo g care w. 's . 4 _, to the point. 1 ou stand F %1 Ca In I9 Hikes ante Cub emmm mmm | 1 HAYE LOYED YOU £0. : Bwost, I have lored you so these long {Lem past With all the passion of my ardent youth, That o'or'our lives a lovely glamor cast; I stakod my honor on your ceasolo truth. And now! | With dreary wondermont ] , The clinging tenderness of long £§0, ugs The gontlo sympathy, tho answering kiss, * * * And I have loved you sol Dear, for ono hour, one little hour to-night, We two must fuce the weary length iof years That looms before us, bare of all delight,. And heralded by bitter hoart-draw tears. Ard we to bresk the over-loosened chain That held us once so closely in Its keep? Or will tho sharppess of our present pain \ Be lullod by patience to &a fitful sloep? | | Dear. in your hands I loavo our aftor fate,; , With but one prayer for all the love's sake; If you should answor, it is all too lato . To drenin a dead affection should awake. - Bpeak without bitterness. Around us He The tender memories of long ago, ° That witnoss mournfully our last gogd-bye- * * * And I havo loved you sol From \ Hope On, Hope Eyer.$®' To the Editor of the * Old Arm Chair\ ; | I am convicted of inconsistency, and by \Splendid 19,\ who takes me to task about that \ little striped frog.\ - Well I can assure her that this little fellow was a \' very\ dead one, and that it was simply impogsible for It to have the senso of feeling, as it about as natural as a nickel minnow which also ght some good fish for me, .She seolds spind dig, and I am not even a little bit vexed. ;' N. O. T.,\ I shake your hand with pleasure, and am very glud to talk about Michigan with you., It is a grand state, and the paradiso pf thost who wield the rod and gun. wil bo yery glad in- dced whon I have another chance of enjoying its benuties. The stillness of the forest is awo-inspiring, the air is pureand 'bracing, and the gid among is far away. Ionumerable objects charm the eye and delight the senses. A happy duy could boe spent gathering rare ferus, mosses and flowers, or owibhg wind- Ing streams through the woods 'in search of eurious pubbles. - Here the naturalist could find many interesting specimens of gnimal, bird and Ansect Hife. Tho sportsman would not havo to search in vain for his game, nor would the fisherman lose his patience wishing for a \bite.\ The many rivers and ljkes provide never-ending sport for the canofist and bather. Some strange incidents came under my notice while visiting that Innd of forests. Not far from Charlevoix is an Indian encampment. An Indian and his squaw were fallowed from town one night by x party of reckless and drunken whites, They insulted the squaw, whom the Indian bravely defended, wounding some of his assailants. This maddened the brutes, and they shot dowh the ppor warrior, afterwanis behaving most horribly towards the defenseless widow. saw one of the white flends sitting outside a drug store in a small town near by the seene of the tragedy. He had beenarrested, bailed, and sat there in daylight us unconcernadly as if he had nover taken part in thoe eruel outrage. A young man drove me in a buggy to a small \temperance\ town. He was not a hater of the potent spirit, for he looked around, but in vain, for a tavern. At length he proceeded to a drug store, purchased a bottle bf alcohol - alter signing a declaration that it was to be used for medicinal purposes - fhen added water and was thus enabled to gratify his wretched craving. I cannot name the town where this occurred, but I was a witness of the incident ard can vouch for its truth. Now, I must givo you the history of a very uncommon buggy rids. My leave of absence having nearly expired, I hired a vehicle at East Jor- dan and started at 8:80 a. m. for Boyne Falls, a town thirteen miles distant, to catch the 10:10 train from the north to Grand 'Rapids, The road was cut through a dense forést and was full of holes and hillocks. e $111 poured down in torrents, the thunder crashed, while the lightning played around the drivor and me. Snorting and steaming our brave little horse gushed on through the terrible storm, which ad transformed the road. In some places the water lay in sheets and every rut was turned into a deep mud hole, 'The HKorke splashed through the water while the buggy rocked from side to side like a ship in a storm. On, on, we urged the willing animal; anxiously watching the flight of time: *! Water, water everywhere,\ ’ Mile after mile was passed, till at length Boyne Falis loomed up in tho distance, Into the town we drove.-and hastened tothe station. \The train passed fifteen minuted ago,\ was the answer to our first question. We were in a miserable plight, and the next train was not due t!ll the afterroon. Such a drive! Buch a storm! Such a disappointmet! | |! Well, 'tis now of E139 past and I can smile as I think of it. ** N, 0, T.,\ let troubles and careslisleep for a while (they will not oversileep themselves) and tell us some of your adventures in Michigan. What do you think of the \Chair '\'as an anti- doto for troubles and worries? A warm grost- ing to all our friends and may all fired spirits Hors Ox, Horr E NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. YER Suggestions From a Remfier. To the Rditor of the \ Old Arm Chair \: ' Allow me fora moment to rest myself =' twoen the cushioned arms of that) anciggt pleco of furniture; I assure you} I will en- deavor to merit the favor. The reason I nfake this request, is not to free my mind in regard to the present condition of politics, or allow it to flow off in the imaginary aspirations of petty politicians. But simply this: Listeu and bark ye, what I say. As Iwas passing down street the othor evening, and gazin §n thet wmtdowq (handsomely degorated) of dif- erent enterprises, my vision for a mome was attracted by two very beautifully boa/11113 volumes. I inquired the price, pur- chased the objects of inquiry, andp F my bteps to my lonely bachelor apartments considering mysolf fortunate being in the p08: session of such literature. And now as I have aroused the curiosity of my readers, 1 will announce the names of those precious vol- umes, first © Milton's Paradise Lost:\ second t* Dante's Inferno.\ After admiring . the many illustrations of Gustave Dore, 1 turned oven-2; few of Dante and commenced to read and as I read on and on about the different fiuxxishmcmt, which the post witnessed and nowing the work to be fiction, L thoupht to myself, what state of mind could this man have possessed while preparing this book for the public? And the more I thought,the more vague became my reasoning, and considering myself utterly powerless .to arrive at any\ reasonable vorsion, I concluded I would seek assistance from your many correspondents,. I do not see why we ernnot benefit by some argument \in regurd to such subjects, and let pass,for a time the dizzy whirl of the skating rink. Now my young friends let me hear from you, give mi ridicule ideas and remove this curmh}, which 8 rouds my scope of vision so that I may see y the light (mind) of others, and profit there- by. Hoping to be received and mado welcome with this (not my first) introduction, I remain, BUFFALO, N. Y. You Ought N f ® ot to Be Out Nights. ° To the Editor of the \ Old 4rm Chair\; whts Tama young girl of sixt gen ani ugguid that I may be out of place Sggngl gig SAOX‘ and more dignified occupants of the lot rm Chair,\ but I thought that you might Bfiytfilfiflfiguxg tilt) just 'once. What 1 want to : ero no way in whic! girl can be protected in on):t sm¥£éghéitie§°gn§ lzglger toiling?l Now I was n othor evoning in my native town whore in rather a lurk corner aojfoung man came up and put his arm around mo. I dared not scream for fear of him and 1 was com- | shagqgtggefipxixgt a)“ 151m. iIzm- an hour I walked sition. threp times and was tglgingoxge tile Piloto nt of the town when 0 happy chance brother. Isought his . stant the mining who : protection for us? I ask youragm‘k is there no ying the 'C 10 ¢ aig th Chai 20 ong and tnt apne eave, I Ixownm»er - a rs Contr{butfona to this de mmn’taé always tha ‘W ay stie Hagens Bome time afterwards I° hastened |, . out walking the l lonely part | T metpmy H In an in- ' approached ms was ' may suggest a | , _. zo . A ous 00.0 To the Edéor of the * Old Arm Chatr\: bo NL. home.\ ‘ heart, because it seemed that the writerthoughz Boes he not know that for every such hom there are a thousand baggy ones-homes where love is queen and ppiness: is com.» lete? By home I do wot mean simply a dwell. ng place, for home in its truo senso de more than this. -It 4s the conter around which the affections cluster, 'The ons vision which never fudes, A paradiso on earth. 'The kingland whose queon is a faithful wife. - Nodnvasions mre permitted during her reign. . - forsakes her subjects in an emergency di« the vell {from their hearts, and, throws sun- shino araid the darkest scones, A good wife is hepven's bost gift to man, his angel of mercy, 1 his gem of many virtues, her {voice his sweet. est music, her-smiles his brigh tho guardian of innocence, her industry surost wealth, her Hps his faithful counselors, and hor prayers the ablest advotatesof heaven,. God pity the bachelor.' He no home. When the world looks dark and cheerless, ene. | mies may gather in his path, but no fond heart sympathizes with his trials. ° When sick he goos to the hospital, no loving hand soothes his pillow, no one weeps when he dies, no one cherishes his memory or bathes the grass 'above his head with tears, Yea, \ Bob-0o-Link,\ lot us thank God for home and all that the word implies. Its influences will not only be a crown 6f glory for our head when prosperity smiles, but also anf achor flof our souls when adversity frowns. «NIcK L. ANGELICA, N. Y. t | From \Happy Harry.\ To the Editor of the * Old Arm Chair\; ko, Hello! I see the \Old Chair\ is not quite filled yet. May I rest awhile? I would like to 'join thehappy cirele very much indeed. While you arg trying to make upyour mind about in- viting mp, I would like to have a ghat with the *\'Chair\ callers. , I quite agree with \Young Man\ in regard to intemperance. I think every yougsl man should join the I. O. G. T. Girls, you may doa great deal of good by using your influence with those young men who are addicted to strong drink-they will disten to you before they will listen to their «parents. ment at the I. 0. G. 'T. lodge one night then there ever was in a bar-room or saloon, and far better society. Bome girls may think a young man who dresses fine, no matter what his character may be, is a gontleman; but I think they must. be blind. Long life to the TrErEorax. I sign myself, F' ~ Harry Originates in scrofulous tairit In the blood. Hence the proper method by which to curo catarrh is to purify the blood. Its many disagreeable symptoms, and the danger of developing Into bronchitis or that torribly fatal disease, consumption, are entire- ly removed by Hood's Sarssapariila, which cures catarrh by purifying the blood and also tones up the system and greatly improves the general health of those who take it. catarrh and impure blood than anything else I ever used.\-A. 351.1, Syracuse, N.*Y. . 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Obt: He's [waiting there to welson “33. h Benny Havens, Ont © Beneath his daisy sHelter tent, . \ mqlmfigpcse Meade Hes; __ The stars he w intfiy We'll ch h in our mepmory #76 The gallant Seagwick's name; He lay in a mantle hen the Pev . * igxfimsummon iriend and fos To everlasiing brotherhood ~ YWith Benny Havens, Onl ° - E - ngfh ivy-sail; of immortelies, the Sumner's fitly crowned, As through the echoing halls of # His glories still resound; j The page 0 truthful history Fresh honors will bestow; . He'll hand jin hand, by Reynolds ¥. With Beqny Havens, OHI | - - Upon the James, the gunman, And Rap; s shore * | «We lost bhesoic soldier friends, On earth to meet 50 more, * But when the angel mpet sha The last assembly bIow, : We'll find them in iReshining B With Beroy Havens, Obnl | d. ghostly walls, the cypress mDagrk mines qu Maivera's he Viith plaintive thrill the whippd Pipes for a spectral fight; Bee morn advance, with radiant And chanticleer's bold crow, . Back to the sky.the shadows 3 \ With Benny Havpens, Oh! ( so d k % At Burnside's bier we drop a te For soldiers sunk to rest; A kpightly.soul has reached its Neath Ifodker's honered cres In waglike igys we'll chant the Teat he we serre for ayo n r 'With Benny Havens, OR! While gathered st the festive b Will yet remembered be _ -The Army offthe Cumberland And of the Tennessee; . The broad {Potomac with their : Unites with loving flow; + _ A mighty tide of commdahig). ** With Benny Havers, Oni The summer wind sighs softly Atlanta's lovely vale, __ .. A fragrant hymn of requiem McPherson to bewail; . O'er Thomas, on Mount Ida's ® Down under battle mounds th Fair fields with ghastly gree The busy worn on tireless foo! , Weaves in celestial sheen, | From warp of bige.and woof { Robes white as driven show, The uniform for judgment da Of Benny Havens, On! . When life's campaign is at an And we aro mustered out, The Yankee cheer and rebel y Will mingle in one shout; . We'll greet our late antagoms Afhd then no more shall knQ Nor union ner confederate _ Wil. Renny Havens, On! .. 1 For our hoglg first oqmlmaml ' We crusH a etip of wing, s ._ To sprinkle on the feuréls bri __ That round his deeds ont» To the well-b>ioved chiéfiain Let bumpers overfOw, ~ May he live long to sing the ® Of Benny Havens, 01313 DAYS BATTE a The Famous Butterficld Brigads able Contests Before Bichmo The men of the third brigade under fife at Yorktown And house were about to undergo ar Yorktown and Hanover was m4 In fact it is said by many milifa was one of the hardest fought campaign for the number en had gone through * Beven Pines, declared they war before. to. The régiments composing R gade were the Twelfth Kew ¥o New York, Forty-fourth Lew worths avengers; Sixteenth the Eighty-third Pennsy!vanizs. T Lglish to speak more partiG regime nts of the brigade, the 8 gan, 'Forty-fourth New Yor Pennsylvania, as the Twelfth were in the second line,. and di were taken to the Tight to as there, who were hard pressed. stand they did théir duty nobly a on every occasion. | On the afterpoor of June 26, and moved on through the wo! battle was afterwards fought,: the direction of Cold Harbor. . were the rumors as tion, for at that time the pl though known perhsps to f _ generals, were not yet known. file. . < After Fair Oaks at which G awas severoly wounded, (G# next in rank took command o For weeks during our inactivl concentrating. their forces and man 'from the southern and w gether with their fresh levies Richmond. Lee whs soon display of his combinations : numbers against us. Jackson\ © down from the valley and wai over court house, Lee's plan the main body of his army to the Chickahominy and atk front, while Jackson with 50, hurl his legions upon Our Their object was to crush th our army, break up our base: white house, and thus force u greater distance from Rickmd ' ing forse numberad about d Porter's corps which were alone to sustain the shock G columns numbered 27,000 ma The reader will understand of our army before - like the shape of a letter -¥4 banks of the Chickahominy, little beyord Fair Oaks, 4 . miles from the rebel enpitol . tended thence in an nortlig down fo the river at Gaines {y callod tho hoo! of the tof ning northwest up the loft b the vicinity of MechantesyiH corp$ occupied the left b ; the right wing of the army. ._ to which our brigade belong . mill; Sykes's second diyisid on the Mechunicsville road
