Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 16, 1874, Page 16

R i e e RS fHE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, AUGUST l6, 1874, BEECHER-TILTON, tnrn, was fairly lald DISASTERS. Five Persons Killed by Collision on the Lludson River Road. Fatalities Resulting from the South- eastern (Canada) Railroad Disaster. ConswaLx, Pa., Aug. 15.—A train bearing the American Mechanics' excarsion party, which left Nonistown early this morning for 2 tripto New York and up the Hudson River, came in colligion with = coal-train on asiding, the switch being musplaced. The forward cais wero telescoped, and soveral persons,were Lilled and a pumber injured, Physicians bave reached here from Thiladelphis, Trenton, Bristol, and other places. nmm}i&: accident to the ENWALL, ug. 15.— By proncd on the Trenton (N. J.) Railroad, near Eddiogham Stauion, about 7 oclock this morning. ‘The alleged cause wes the mistake of = ewitch-tender, who, having bo potice of the excursion truin coming first, turned the switch right, apd then, i his confusion, put jtback. Au extra car, next to the engine, was Lelencoped with the next passenger car. Five deaths are reporied, with fourteen persons seri- ously injured. * The Late Accident on the Southwest. crn (Canada) Railway. MoxTnesr, Out., Aug. 15.—Four more of those injured in the late accident oo the South- western Railway are not expected to recover. By the storm which caused the accident, the valtey for 11 mites was inunda:ed and twenty- five bndges were desiroyed. WASHINGTON. /fhe Alobama Claims Commissioners —The 5 Per Cenis—luternal IZcves nue fLcceipis. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. WasaNGzoN, D. C., Aug. 15.—The rules of the Court of Commiesioners of the Alabama Claims have been neatly printed in pamphlet forn, coutaining also the names of the Judges and ofScers of the Court, and an appendix giving 80 much of tho Washingion Treaty as relates to the settlement of claims, tho award of the Go- neva tribunal of arbitration, aad the act of Con~ gress creating the Court of Commissioners, for the information of claimants and other intercst- ed parties. The scatement should be made that doexcts of cases tobe heard by the Commisgion- ers will bo published in the newspapers from time to time. No award will be made until all claums shall have been decided. RESIGNED. Upon George B. McCartee, Chief of the Treas- ary Burcan of Engraving aud Printing. having bad bis atteation calied to tao published stories to the effect thas he had resigned Lis oflice, £aid to-day thec he was one of the most resigned in Dis present position that can be found in Wash- iogton. Heis an eflicient officer, aud 1s 80 re- garded by President Graut. THE FIVE PER CEXTS. The amount of now 5 per cent bonds taken from heie to Now York last mght, to bo carried to tho new European Syndicate by the¥steamship leaving to-day, is etated st £2,000.000. The first iustallment under the new arrangement was to have been larger, and to Lave becn forwarded about the last of this month ; but the Syndicate has repeatedly tele- graphed for bonds during the past week. and the comparatively mall batch sent vesterday was prepared o a burry upoo a tew hours’ notice. Another lot wil be fornurded in the course of two or thiee weeks. TREASURY STATEMENT. The Goverment receipis to-Jay have been greater than &t any time since the pame. Inter- nal revenue receipty, $441,775. Customs re- ceipts, $776,325. g CRIM Shot by a Drunken Negro. Avouszs, Ga., Aug. 15.—Capt. A. F. Butler, Local Ageut of the South Carolina Railroad, was ahot this evening under the following circam- stances: He was accompanied by bis wife on the street-car. In getting off the car an intosi- cated negro was sitting on the step obstructing tlo paseage. Butler pusbed the negro with his hand, teiliug bim to get up. Gabriel snd 3hclel Muller, both negroes, wero together, oue sittiug on the sieps anda the other standing ou tho platform. Michael pushed Mrs. Butler Lack 2s ¢he was in tbe act of being assisted out, and Gabriel puled out » pistol and ghot Capt. Butler, the ball penetrat- ing bLie brain. 1he negrocs wero captured. Gnbriel was slightly wounded in the face when arrested. Capt. Butler 15 scill lingening, but can- Dot live. The most intense excitenment prevails, and it is believed that Gabriel Mauller will bo Iynched before moruing. Killed Ris Wife’'s Paramour. CouxciL Biurss, Ia., Aug. 15.—Yosterday, at Stlver Creek, 12 miles from Lere, Jacob Stoves ehot and instantly killed J. J. Clark. Both wero farmers in good circumstances, The cause of the shooting was alleged criminal intimacy be- tween Stoves’ wife and Clark, which is_said Lo Leve been going on a year and & balf. After do- ing all w bib power to reclaim his wife, Stoves at Just biad recourse to the use of & shot-yun to rid Lumeelf of tbe destroser of bis happinoss. He was brought to town ot a late hour last night ad i pow in juil awaiting preliminary examina- tion, which wiil be keld in a day or wo. Murder Near Nashville, “Teni NasmviLre, Tean.. Aug. 15.—Robert Bsnks, a cclored musician, was shot and killed by Will- iaw Killam, & whito man, at Kingston Springs, this evening. Banks, woile standiog in front of a saloon. was approached by Killam on horseback, who agked him if he did not want to_ shoot with him. The negro replied, “XNo, sir.” Killam Deliberate B gaid, *Then I'will ehoot with you,” and imme- diately diew a revolver and fired, ove shot from which 100k effect in Banks' abdomen, productng * 2 wound from which be died soou afser. Killam, who was under the influence of hiquor, fled to the woods. Attempted Murder and Suicide. New Yonk, Aug. 15.—Jobn Braadstein, aged 54 years, while drunk yesterday, shot his wife, attempted to xill s policeman, wounded 2 citi- zen, and ended by blowing out his own brains, The Cressman Murder Nenr Cresse maa, Neb. Oxams, Neb., Aug. 15.—Charles Crawford, eupposed to be one of the murderers of Cress man, mear Bushnell, was captured yesterday. Hs is not more tuan 15 years old, Near Cress- man's body wes found ao ax_stained with blood. 1ii3 head waa broken. The wagons were burned about 2 miles trom tho place of the muider, evi- gealy to deseior traces ol blocd. Tsch prisoner cnonledge of the affsir, bus tho otuer did it, rschen A Heavy Haul. ?Tm Yonx, Aug. 15.—E. M. Denieon. 125 El- dridge street, haa his pocket picked of §17,000 worth of Schaylkill Compa)y cosl stock whilo Tdiog m & Third avenue car this evening. FIRES. At Princeton, 111, Special Dispatch to The Cricage Iribune, _Prrscerox, L, Aug. 15.—The Princetoa City thuu owned by Georgo Cressles & Co., was this orenoon entirely consumed by fire, together T 000 busliels of wheat snd 400 basrels of < Total loss abour £13,000. The fire was tly the work of an incendiary. s St & THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. 7 E!\::w Youg, Aug. 15.—A card from Dorman 3. mmnn explaius that it is erroneous to suppose b the Civil-Servico Commissioners havo aban- dooed their ].xg\mm 0D account of ths recent act of Congress in reference to an sppropriation for their exnenees. The Commission is still hard ot dork p}_r;;ga :p'erili;:hu: o ot conident Spirit o rel i Vsl tue firm support 1t Teceives from. the Tracs ot wid his Cadivet, and of the hold that it is ghy. tauug upou the convictious of the people. et T o 5 A HEAVY CLAiM. Nrw Yomx. Aug. 15.—Complai 12! domand which has already been mado upon Slie bank, to pay the city somo §6,500,000, as- rumed to bo_still elandiog to thocits's crodit. The case for Lib city 1¢ats on the principle that the Broadway Baik is liable for the return to th public treasury of the money paid out dur- ing the rule of th late ring on warrants bearing forged indorsements, and that the validity sup- posed to bo lent 1o the fictitious signaturcs by the initials or the fuil name of B A. Woodward i an ontiroly illusory ove THE CALIFORNIA PACIFIC. A Mountain of Obligations. Sax Fraxaisco, Aug. 15.—On the Tih inst., Michael Reese sued the California Pacific Rail- rond Company, Miltou S. Latham, and others, to recover £7,000,000 on account of alleged frandu- Jent transactions. To-day, Lathan filed a sep- arato answer, He declares {hat, until within two days of tho institution of the suit, Reese had never been the owner or holder of auy stock in tho California Pacific Company, and bas been induced to lend lis namse to tho Central Paci- fic Railrosd Compauy in bringing action ; that the real partics are -the Central Pacific. and that the action is prosecuted entire- Is by them; that all the allegations of fraud made by Reeso against the defendant are infu~ mously false; that he never was interested with Roelofsen, Ryder, and othersin building the roads of the California Pacific Company; never had any shares of stock except a few isshied in 1870 in order to enable Lim to becomo a Director in the Company ; while the Californis Pacific ex- tension was conxtructing, Roelofsen and Ryder ap- plied to London and San Francisco banks fora loan, and Latham sesisted them toobtain it else- where, for which service he reccived tienty bonds of the Company, reblizing therefrom $18,000, which is all the interest ho_ever had in either Company ; that in January, 1570, defendaut be- come o member of the Board of Directors of the California Pacific Railioad Company consoli- dated; that at this time said Company was i deuted to the bank of which defendant is mau- ager, and defendant was also azent and repro- sentative of the holders of a large awount of capital stock in said corporations owned bous fide by various pergons residing in Eastern Statcs and Eurove; that for the sole purpose of pro- tecting their interests, and without tho elightost interest of bix own, direct or indirect, defendsut became s member of the Bosrd of Directons of the Railroad Compauy on the Sth day of *June, 1870. Shoruly thereaflter aplication was mada by the contractors for the constrastion and equipment of the California Pacitic Railrosd Ex- tension Company for a release from the obliga- tions of their contract, This_ apptication was bssed upon their offer to suriender certain notos of the Calfermin Pacific Railroad Compauy, which bad been deposited in Eserow in the bank of which this defendaat was 1 charge, for safe Leeping, and this defendant, having ascertained the utter wability of the contractors to complete the raitroad of the California Pacific Tiailroad Extension Company, and, acting with his codurectors, voted for a rolease of said con- tractors from their contract upon condition of the surrender and cancellation of said notes ; thatin March, 1871, the Company issuea bonds to the amount of £300,000 known since as the in- come bonds, and which weie transmitted to London, taken in good part by oivncrs aud hold- ers of the capital stock of the Company. Tho proceeds amounted to 1,352,284, all of which was accounted for to the Company. He gives au account of tho purchase of tho property of tho California Steam Navigation Company, North Pacific Railroad, San Francisco & Humboldt bay Railroad, ana on the consum- mation of these sales, the Central Pacific Direc- tors became Directors of the purchased compa- pies. This was before the bouds were issued, and it was understood that on their issuance all the companies would be consolidated. Stauford & Co. were ro determined to own and control the California Pacific Road, though knowing its in- debtedaess of §8.421,000, that they promised Latham, if ho would visit New York and obtain consent of the ‘ockhold- ers, whom he represented, and person- ally assumo all obligations over the samo named, they would, on his return from New York, give him their note for £250.000. He went to New York, procured the consent of the stock- Lolders to the ‘erms of tie propored sale, also tho consent of those m Europe. On his return to California, the Company issued vonds_to tho amount of $1,600,000, securod by sccond mort- gage on the Compnny's_ property, which bonds were to bo guaranteed by the Central Pacific Company, _Alter the iseuance of the bonds tho Directors resigned, and Stanford, Huntington, Hopkins, and others, were elected Directors i their stead, and its capital stock was delivered to Stanford and associates. He says that with the exception of the note to im of Sanford et al. for $230,000, they never raid a dollar for tho 76.101 shaces obtained by them. Sanford & Co. have refused, he ears, to pay the interest on tho bonds of the California Pacific, and have caused the Compauy to confess judgment for $1,394.000 on its promissory note, one day oid, in favor of J. B. Haggin, of this city, through’ whom they ate trying to obtain o perfect titlo to the Cali- fornis Pacific Railroad. In round uumbery, the total obligations of the Vallejo System may be put down at” £10,00,100, a0d 1t Lias been suggested that tho best thing for the bondholders will be to foreclose and take poskession of the roads thomselves. —_— THE WEATHE Wasmxerox, D. Cu, Aug. 15.—Over the lake rogions stationary and falling baromoter, winds mostly from the east and south, stationary sud rising temperatare, partly cloudy weathor, and over the Upper Lake region occasional rain sreas. LOCAL ODSERVATIONS. Curcago, Aug. 13. g £ 3 Hour of ob- sertation. Direction and| force of wind.| f Weather, 6: 8 1L:18a, a 00 p. 65 3:53 p. .. 20, €3 9:00 o, m..[30.08f 70 | 84 36:18 p, m...[30.04| 70 | 79 Maximum thermomel Minjmum thermomst GENEBAL OISERVATIONS. CaIcAGO, Ay Wind. | Raim Station. Lag. Thr, Breckeor'ge 2.7 E., gentle. 2 8., gentle. 8, Cal Milwaukee OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. New Yomw, Aug. 15.—Amved, Deutecbland, from Bremen. Loxpos, Aug. 15.—Steamsbip State of Penn- sylvania, from New York, for Glasgow, has ar- rived out. < Steamship Donan, from Now York. arrived ont. VESSELS PASSED PORT HURON. Porr Hunox, Mich., Aug. 15.—DowN—Props 8t. Joseph, Passaic ; schrs L. C, Woodruff, David Vance, Harvest Home, H. A. Richmond, Fiying Mist, Morrell, Pride of America, Oriental, ‘Ur—Props Indis, Fhil Sheridan : echrs Hippogrift, 0a¢ onta, Thomas Quasle, Gordou Campbell and con- steamsbip ‘Weather Sne. 15—Evening.—Dowx—Props faud, Bindbury snd tow, ‘TXD—Northeast. Yorr Hunoy, Japan, Alwa, Munr e Alleghary and tow; schrs Mary Merritt, China WInp—Southeast ; light, _ A Terrible Tragedy At Sed. The Journal Officiel of Paris Lus received an accouut of a terriblo occurrence at éea, the par- ticulars of which are as follows : On the 8th of tfune’ the Itajian vestel Napoleon Caraarero gailed irom Macao with a crew of 40 men, 663 coolies for Callao, and 8,000 packets of fireworks, After a lapse of two the interpreter dizcovered o plot tmong the emigraute to seize on the ship. Tho Captain_immediately ordered onc-baif of them ta be confined in the Lold, but the next day thoge w30 Te- mained 03 deck armed themseives with Enisce, belay-~ 1ng-pina, pieces of wood, 1n sbort, anything they could Iay thelr bands on, a0d attacked thio crew, who do- fended themselves with muskets and revolvers. Tho ccoties tlien maesed themsclves on the forecastle and set tire to the vessel. hopiug that the crew would set to work at the pumps to extinguivh the flamea. During that time they hsd aleo frecd their comrades, and mur- dered tho few saliors they could get bold of. The Captain, accing what they were doing, ordered tie Loats 10 Le lowered, and leit the ehip with the remain-~ der of his men, Some sailors who remuained on board with the doctor, the magazine man and interpreter, Were unabie to prevent the flames from reaching the Breworks, and the ship blew up, scatiering the frag- ments of the mutineers fn_every iou, under the eIy e5es of the cscaped crews RIS TIN N PI Besepe i . FRENCH JUSTICE. A Victim of Circumstances. The Evil Effects of a Bad Reputation---A Story of the Seventeenth Century. From the New York Times. In tho year 1657 a splendid mansion in the Rue Royale, Paris, numbered amoug its tenants Francois, Count De Montgomery, and his lady, who occupied the basement and firss floor, and the Siour aud Mmo. D'Anglade, who rented tho socond and tlird floors. The Count was a man of wealil, keeping up an extensive cstablish- ment, aud movink in the first circies of society. 31. D’Anglade, wisose means were comparatively sl was seen less freyuently ia the baunts of fasbion. S:itl he and lus wifo made desporato efforts to ** ruflle it with the best.” They went out 88 often as they conld. and, whenever they had money, spent it frecly in the cullivation of fashionable friends. Among these they num- bered many in distihguisbed ppmtions, includ- itg s thowr meighbors, the Montgomerys. Of their wntecedents, howover, uotinng much was kvown. Rumor had it that D’Anglade was a gambler, aud no one knew that the pair had any visivle und reputable means of support. ‘This uncertain reputation did vot prevent their as- sociating with the best society in the capital as Jobig a8 they behaved themselves aud paid their way; but whon trouble or suspicion should fall upoun them their donbtful character was sure to act a3 u wmillstone about their necks, and circum- stantial evidence, which would leave unburt ono inan assured position, would work the ruin of there Bohemians of society. Ou Moudsy eveuny, Sept. 22, 1637, the Count and Countesy Montgomery iefv Paris for their country place at Villchousin, The D'Anglades accepted an invitation to accompauy them, but, for eomo _tiivisl reason, subse- quently declived. Thoy returned on Wednos- day, & day soouer than they expected, aud for asingular reason. Tho Count, on mitting down to table after Lus arrival at Villehousin, was startled by tindivg 8 drop of blood on bis napkin, the presence of which could be in no way accounted for. Disturbed by a vague pre- sentiment that there was something wrong, he Larzied back to Puris. On the eveuing of thair return the D'Anglades called on them 3i/supper to pay thewr compli- ments, and & lively and pleassit conversation ensued. Early the nest day the Count waited oo the Lieuteuaut-Crunivel, and aunounced that dur- ing his absence s cofler in bis aparuments had been forced opon, aud thirteen bags, containing 1,000 livres in silver esch, Liad been stolen, be- sides 11,509 livres in gold, and a pearl uecklace velued at 4,000 livres mora. The proper oflicers at ouce repaired to tho house, aud were soon conviuced ti:at the robbery bad been effectad by some oue fanuliar with the promises, aud a gon- oual inquiry was rosolved upon. M. D'Anglado was tie first to demand search. Coffers, cabi- nets were ransaciied, beds and " pillows fipped open, but nothung was fouud, The searchers then went up to tae garrets, Mme. D'Anglado excusing hetself from sccompanying them on the plea of fatigue. In the firat room, concealed in an old chest full of ragged Linon, was tound & rouleau of seventy louis d'or, wrapped in & geue- ological paper befongivg to the Count, which he identifled, aud now, without further ceremony, charged the D'Arglades with bemg concerned in the robbery, and demauded that thoy should be submitted to a scparate iuterrogation. This »as done, and a cerimn besitation in their an- swers, hardly to be wondered at under the cir- cumsiances, increased the suspicion of their gt . Unfortunately, it bappened that Mme, D'An- glade drew attention to the fact that tho door of the sorsants’ bedroom was anlocked. Search was made, and in a recess wero found three bags containing 1,000 hvres each. No other part of the roows occupied by tho Count was scarched, & remarkable omission, seelug tuat the recent discovery bore suspicionsly upon his own do- mestics. He, indeed, offered to be angwerable for the laller, but what can be thought of the impartiality of the magixtrate, who, on the dis- covery of the louis d'ory, turning to D'Anglade, coolly remarked: * Monsicur, #f yon did not commit this robbery it was L" The D'Anglades were arrested and confined, tho hustand at the Chstelet, the wife at Fort I'Evequa. Two days later they wore tried for burglarr. The cvidenco sgainst them was in- trivsically very weak. The lois d'ors found m tho garret, to which, as_occupying the upper floors, tuey Lisd most ready access, and the avi- dence of a mster of the Count, who bad seen D'Anglsdo near tho door of tho valet's roow, where tho bags were found, beforo and aiter the Counys arrival, was all tho evideuce which tend- «d to implicate the D'Anglades in Fhis robbers. What riuned them was tue evidence of charactcr. Several witnesses testified thet D'Augiadoe was & gambler, aud supported himself by play; that o Lixd 10 money, and noone knew how he lived ; one wituess aleo testiied that he bad resided with the accused in & botel whero some silver- plate had been etolen and never traced. On Jan. 19, 1683, the Judge ordered that D'Anglade shonld be submitted to' the question ordinary and extraordinary, by which euphemism the French Courts were wont to designate the tor- ture, which uoul the Revolution of 1759 was in constant use Lo extort coufessious. D’Anglado nppealed tG tho Parliament of Paris. The Inter decieed that besbould undergo the questions as intended, but ** maneutibus indiciis,"—i. €., cor- roborative proofs being still required, aud the non-confesxion of the accased not freeing him fiom tho charge. The torture was applied, but without extracting anvthing from the prisoner. e was tlien condemned on the strongih of the testimony already procured. Ca Feb, 1§, ho was sentenced to the galleys for nine years, his wife being banisbed for the same period ; fined 3,000 livres civil reparation, and 25,673 livres to the Count, besides 4,000 Livres on failure to produce the pearl necklace. D'Anglado, whose health was_but feeble, ap- peared completoly overcome and prostrazed by thiy fata] result. * Nevertheless be was removed irom the judgment chamber only to be cast into & dark and miserablo dungeon in tho Castfe of Montgomery, languishing in that confinoment Withous air, comfort, or companionship until ho was couducted forth to the Chateau de Tourville, aud invited to the dreaded galley-slaye's chain. Sick, and near his end as he supposed bimself to be, bo still protested his innocence, and made a declaration in writing fo that effect. Contrary to expectation, he recovered, and prepared to undergo the sentence passed upon him. 'The Count not only took measures to in- suto Lis depariure before Lie was fullyrecovered, but evzo took post on the roadside to see him pass on_bLis wav to the gallevs. D'Angline was too weal to walk; he was lifted by two men into a cart, and at tho end of a day’s journey laid on some straw in a bara. On his srrival at Mar- seilles he was taken tothe convict's hospital, which he vever left alive. He died March 4, four months atter his arrival at Marseilics, Mme. D'Anglado was seized with a painful illness, the result of the great shock she experi- enced when the sentence was passed. She waa reduced to the brink of the grave, and languished in a wretched dungenn, Lier ouly nurse her little dauglter, somo 10 years old. At last the daugh- ter. too, fell ill, and, «lthgugh sufering from fover and cold sweats, the unfurtunate pair were neither allowed clesn liacn mor fire. At last, after five moutbs, they were removed to a better cell. But now a chango was at band. Within a short timio of the sad death of M. D'Anglude certain anonymous letters were ad- dressed to more thian ong person iu official posi- tion, in which the wnter stated thal, being on the point of eutering a monastersy, he desired to mako known thac the Sieur D'Anglade was com- pletely ipnocent of tho theft for which he had been condemned ; that the Teal auihors of the crime were one Vincent Belestro, son of a tan- nor at Mans, aud the priest Francois Gagnard, slmoner of ' the Count De Montgomery, and that 5 woman pamed De La Comble could torow some light on the affair. One of these letters was zddressed to the Licutenant-Crimiuel, who placed it in the hands of an expert detective; auother was sent to tha Countess Montgomery, who kept it sacret ; whils s third was received by a gentleman named Log- eilion, and proved of much value in the ensuing process. Unpon tho publication of these facts, the friends of the Montgromeries said the letters were simp- Iy an artitice of Mme. D'Anzlade to clear her busband’s reputation. Search, however, was made by the authorities iuto tue antecedents of the parties accused, with the following results : Belestre, while 8 mere youch, had beeu con- cerued in ‘s murder, which compelled him to fly from home sud triends, sud wssume a falso name. He eulisied in the army, but, iu con- sequence of au ufTray in which a Sergeant of his regiment was kilied (it was suppised by his hsud), be bad deserted. Since that time Le had Uecome » vagabond, supporting himecif by roguery and mendicancy, uniil, becoming po- quainted with Francow Gaguard, his fortunes anderwent a sudden chauge.~ Ho was known to be 1 possession of large sums 10 gold and silver coin, woro laced clothes, and actually purchased &5 entls néar Maus worth from 4,000 to 10,000 ivres. Francois Gagnard was the son of a turakey of the prieon at dfans.’ lieving forferted the bail bohsd given when uuder arrcst for some of- fense, ho fled lo Paris, He subsisted en thoe masses he performed at St. Esprit till he en- tered the Count's household a8 almoner. Whila in this position he alwsys seemed in povercy, but on quitting it launcbed into overy extrava- gance, and induiged himsolf in all the fashion- aole luxuries, includivg & mistresa, upon whom this ornament to the priesthood squandered large sums, Loth the nccused were at once arrested, or to epesk more correctly, transferred to other cus- tody, both being, eingularly enough, in confine- meit on other charges—Gaguard for having Doen preseat at a recout murder—Belesire for swindling a countryman out of 500 Livros. The woman Do La Comble was algo produced, and gave most damnatory evidence, while, for- tunately for the ends of justice, Belestre himself furnished the prosccutior with information as to whiore they could seck for furiher testimony. A witness was prouuced to wWhow somo persons uoknown had cowmunicated circumstances connected with the robbery. To him Bel- estro petulantly 1emarked, that he spoke un- der tha gromptinga of certain persons of doubt- ful charicter, viz.: ove Giraut, tho Abbe Do Fontspeire, La Roque, and La Fonds. It was inferred that these parties were accomplices; they were all apprehended, and the truth ro- vealed. The circumetances of the robbery rendored it certain tuat entrance to the premises had been effected by means of a falue key. Belestre was shown both to have mavufactured and to bave bought such. Ho had exbivited s key to ong witness, pointing at the eame time to a bag of mioney with the remark: ** This should be a key of gold, for it has opened my way to all you sec there.” Being aclod to explain, Lie said it wasa false key he bad mode from a wax impcossion of the true one. This candid practitioner owued to several indifferent persons that his favorite mode of becoming Tich was by the use of such inatraments. He lovingly callod the key in ques- tion “la gaillard doree.” The Abbe de Fontspeire, who had written the anonymous letters, testified that e Lad over- heard the following conveisation between the prisoners when they wera diuing together: * Eat, drink, my friend,” #aid Belestre; *let us be jolly, now 5. Ie darqnis ja at the galleys.” “Nevertheloss,” said Gegnard, “Iam sorry for him ; hie was not a bad fellow, after all, and it's rather hard on him." “ Bow, bou!” exclsimed Belestre, ** how pity & man whose ruin makes our fortune ?” The woman De La Comble, alias Cartaud, sworo that Belestre showed ber large sums of money and a pearl necklece, which be said Lo had won at play. Prior to tho robbery b told ber he was about to make a grand **coup.” Shortly aftorward whilo walking with Belostre at the Lusembourg, be asked wituess to with- draw, a8 he expected his partner in the graud *coup,” who was coming to divide with him. At this time Gagnard made Lis appearance, aud scemed much confused st not tinding Belestro alono. The latter geutleman also showed wit- Dess & bundred lowss in a leatheru belt. Upon her romarking that it was wrong to steal, he said that tho party from whom he had taken this was rich enongh to stand the lous. Other witnesses confirmed her statemonts; and it is 8 singular fact that while the D'Anglade trinl was goiug on, all the_thieves of Parin knew that Belestre and Gagnard were the guilty par- ties. 1t was also shown that Delestre had, through ons Ribon, procured the insertion in tho Gaseti d'Hollands of the following para~ rap) e Tbero have been recently oxecufed at Or- leans two crminals, oue of whom, at the last moment. confessed that he had committed tho robbery at the house of the Count Le Moit- gomery, for which the lato Marquis D'Augisdo was condemned to the galleys. Ho seems to bave regardod this as s passport, if not & pardon, for ho never stirred without it, aud hiad 1t ou his person at the time of his ar- rest. Both the prisoners wore convicted 2nd scn- teoced. Belestre, being put to tho torture, #aid notuivg, but Gaguard made a full confersion. loreover, he stated that, when the robbery was discovered and search made in the Louse, he was £0 flurried and torrificd that had he been inter- rogated he would surely have let tho cat out of tho bag. Ho bad made the wax impression of the key and given Bolestro all necessary infor- mation about the house and it occupants, The innocencg of the D'Anglades being thus established, Parliament granted letters of Tovia- 10n to that effect. Their chuld, Constance Guil- Jemot D'Avglade, by her guardisn, also put forvard a clum for damagea agsinst the Count, and on this point greater diflicultios arose. Tho process continued many months, and a vast amount of legal knowledge was bronght to bear, the question being substan- tially on the degree of justification that might be vleaded by tho Covrt on the ground of circum- stances cortainly suspicious, thongh subsequent- 1y explained. The final decrco was at last rendered. It cleared the memory of both Lusbaud sud wife from alll complicity, and declared their imprin n- ment and the coniiscation of their goods uujist and injurious, It ordered iho erasuro {rom the records of ali ment:on of their process, sod con= demuod the Count De Montzomery to restoro cortain sums calculated on the basis of the money scized, the sale of effocts, loss of intorest, etc.. amounting to noarly 30,000 livres. “Thin decres, dated 17th June, 1693, terminated this remarkablo case. i gt = b ACHIEYEMENTS FOR WAGERS., The old magazincs aro full of gossiping para- graphs relatmy to achievements performed to de- cido a wagor. Walking foats sro among the most pmerous of these; geuerally an under- taking to cover 8 cortain number of miles in & certain timo, In 1772, Foster Powell achiosed a work which was much admired st the timo— that of walking_from Loodon to York snd back in gix davs, Thoso wbo know the rond may fecl sn intorest 1o tracing him on bis jour- ney. Ho walked from London to Stamford, 89 milce, on the first day: to Doncaster, 73 miles, on the second; to York, 37 miles, aud 22 milee’ back to Ferrybridge, on_tho third; to Grantham, 65 miles, oo the fourth ; to Eatou, 54 miles, ou’ the ifch; and the final spiu of 56 milos'on the sixth—inaking o total of 354 miles between ionday mornivg sud Satarday night, and winning a wager of a hundred guineas. “Tho reign of George I1L. was plentifully strewn with such examplew. A fow yoars after Powoll's achievement above describad, aud when 53 years of age, bo performed the wonderful feat of walic- ing 112 miles within twents-four hours; he started ffom Canterbury at 4 . m., reached Lon- dou Bridge at 2:30 p. m,, aud got back to Cautor- bury at 3:54 s m.—53 hours 5% minutes. A reputed contenariau, and admittediy a very aged man, undertook towalk 10 miles, on tho Hammorsmith Road, in 2 honrs 30 mioutes, for a wager of ton guivens; nnd Le ac- complishied 1 in 2 hours 23 minutes. = Capt. Bar- clay, & famous pedestrinn in the early part of tho present century, began his exploits at the carly age of 15, by walking G miles in au hour, fair toe and beel, Ho noxe was to walk from Ury, in Kincardineshire, to Boronghbridge, in Yorkshire, about 300 miles, in five vcry hot days. He haz- arded tho large sum_ of 5,000 guinieas tuat ha would walk 90 miles in 20 hours 30 minutes, and ho accomplished this arduona task in 19 hours 22 munutes. Withont noticing the walking bouts of the last balf-contury, which are more likely to have como under tne nokice of the roader,we will advert tos fay in which conditions of peculiar kind were stipulated, or in which one mau failed and another succeeded. Wentworth, an Oxfordshiro man, undertoolk, for & wager. to walk 600 miles in fen doys; he broke down; but Head of Knaresborough did it, although greatly distress- ed. DMulling, & watch-case makerat Shoreditch, wagered that ho wouid waik from Shorediteh Charch, o St. George's in to Borough, 4 milcs, in 50 minates, barefooted ; what was the state of the rond at that time wo aro not told, but he sccomplished the distance in 46 miuntes' 30 seconds, Macdonald, & tailor; went without shoes or stockinga, by prefercnce, aoing the greater portion of & walk from West: minstor Bridge to Chatham and back: he stipu. lated for 15 bours, but did it in 1% hours 20 minutes. Capt, Barclay and Mr. Wood wagered 600 guincas s o which sbould go farthest 1n 24 bours, walk or run as they pleased ; Wood had before accomplished 40 miles in 5 hours in this way; but bie failed on this occerion, afier taking ok and putting on his shocs two or threo times; and Barclay had no need to continzethestraggla bosond scven hours, A fish-hasker at Chelsea undertook to run from Hyde Park Cormer. 7 miles aiong the Breatford Rosd, in one hour, with 56 pounds of fish on bis head; if bo did it, 24 recorded, in 45 mioutes, it doubtless de- served the character given to it of being ‘ the most extraordinary exploit of the kind thut has been performed for many years.' Bolonging to this clasg of exploits is that which was achioved by & gardencr's apprentice, who for a wager of 7 guiness undertook to walk from Waudsworth totue Borough Market, 6 miles, in 1 hour, with 300 hiead of asparagus as a load; he accomplish- editin 53 minutes. An exploii of analogous character was that of au orange porter at Thames ~Strect; he mado twenty journeys Irom Botolph lasio 0 Spitalficlds Market, each time carrving 1 cwt. of oranges; tho 43 milos ho andertook to accomplisb in 10 bours, and won a wager of 10 guineas by doing it in 8 hours and 35 minutes. The pace for tis kind of work it kind of trot, midway between walking and run- sing. Trotters or runnors isve sometimes taken s cosch-wheelas & companion. Thus, o wheel- wright's appreutico, a youth of 16, ran & coach- whool from Blackmad stréc in the Borough to the S-mile stone at Vauxhall and back: ho undertook, for a wager of 10 guineas, to do it 1 an hour, and finished his task in 67 minutes. More rtapid than this was the work of s man who ran & coach-wheel 8 miles in an hour, with half a minute to spare ; but he had a smooth road purposely pre- pared for him; s wooden platform, a quarter of a mile long, raised a few inches from the ground. We are not sufliciently versed in these matters to koow whether the narrative needs correction ; but the chroviclers of Charles i1.'s time toid of a butcher at Croydon who ran from St. Albans to Londop, about 20 milew, in less thau an bour and & balf. It is gratifyiog to learn that he “*ran the last 4 miles so gently, that ho scomed to make 1t rather his recreation than & race.” James Smith, s Falkirk man, undertook for a wager to walk 2 miles backwards in half an hour; if he really did it, a8 recorded, in 20 mivutes, the tendons of his feet must have had po small strain upon them. A blind man undertook, early in the present century,.to runn raco with the mail- coach from 1Ialifax to Bradford, a distance of 8 miles ; he biad 5 minutes start given to him, and cae in 12 minutes before the mail, thus beating it by 7 minutes. A bystander exproased a belief that the victor could ee ; whereupon the blind 1man offered to bave hin eyes completely covered with plaater, and thus run the distaice on equal terms for s weger—a challeuge which was Dot accepted. It is to Capt. Barclay that pedestrians attrib- ute the introduction of- the celebrated feat of walking 1,000 miles in 1,000 successive hours, To do 24 milos & day for six weeks, aithough for- midable prospect for any beyond a comparative- 1y small number of men, and an impossibility for the majority, would not aster any real pedes- trian, sceing tLiat he could bave along ana sound sleop every night ; but the case in very different when every hour in the six woeks, nighit and day, is to have it distinct mile of walkiog; since in 1o caxe can the men slesp or rest moro than about an hour and a half at a time. The fess had been tried several times before, without success; Capt. Barclay accorphished it about 1809. Noless than £100,- 000 wus staked on the issue. Newmarket was selected as the course; and the walking occupied from Juve 1 to July 12. 1le suffered during tko ordeal, sud had often to be hifted after resting; but his appente remained good, and he camo in victor amidst a vast cocconrso of spectators. This feat has frequent’y been performed aince. Eston did 1,100 mites in 1,100 hours; while oth- er perrons have accomplisbed the atill more difli cult foat of walking 1.000 quarters of s milo in 1,000 successive quarters of an hour: More diffi- cult in oue respect only, that of having such very short intervals for rest; tho total time being of counse ouly one-fourth as loug ss Barclay’s. A pedestrian named Buker did 1,000 miles in twenty days, 50 miles 8 duy; to sLow his stamina, bo accomplisbed 75 miles on the last day, and “thrice dunced & hornpipe.” . Of course the wagers a8 to the fleotness of Liorses aro known woll enough, seeing that they foru tuo staple commodity of most of our races. Beforo betting and bundicapping, however, bo- cawo roduced to o system, individual bets of a specisl kind wero made, somo relating to saddlo-Liorses, tome to tbe driving of some kind of vehicle. Mr. Shafto wageréd 1.000 gnineas against Mr. Reynell that he would produce a person who could ride 2) horses 2,900 miles 1o 49 days, each horso doing a complote 100 iles in & day, and ous rider performing the whoie; this rider, Mr. Woodcock, falillled Lis task. Wo do Not romomber what is tho greatest distanco covored within a given time by tho Tartar couriers of Turkey and Persia, such 38 JMr. Frazer describod somo years azo; but we apprebend that this rido of Idr. Woodcock’s would bave well compared with theirs. -What aro tno uotable doiugs of donkess in the art of running, wo do nct know; but there was one instance in which a bot of £100 to £10 was laid that a donkey would go 100 miles in twenty-four hours; the affair came off at Newmarket, when Neddy not ouly did his daty, but accomplished it in twenty~ono hours, leavitg three good bours to upare. Special journcys have sometimes béca made involving wea a8 well as land travel. John Stow tells of one Bernard Calvert, who left London at 2 o'clock ove moruing, rode to Duver, sailed in 2 barge to Calais, and back again to Dover, and thence rode back to London, reaching Shore~ diteh Chuich at 8 o'clock in the evening of the eamo day. As the land-riding was 142 miles, and the barge-vovage 42 milcs, it is certainly wonder~ ful (if true) that such » journey could have been performed in seveuteen bLours, with such appliances 2 wero availablo in tho days of Jumes I Great notics was taken in 1803 of a journey from Paris to Lon- dan made by Mr. Huuter; be completed it 1 twenty-two hours, the shortest tiwe ever known up ta that period; but wo inchno to think that, all things taken into accuunt, Calvers's work was the more remarkable. Some of the achievements dapending on the incentive of wagers were in paet times verv odd; 2nd journalists always looked out for such mar. ratives, in times when socicty had not yet begun 5 move op, literally and figuratively. atrailroad speed. In tho early part of the reign of George 1Fi two gentlemen made an cccentric wager ata coffec-honse ncar Tomple Bar. One of them undertook to jump into water 7 fect deep, with all his nsual clothing on, and undrees himeelf compietely. He didit; and if we pio- Lutre to ourelves the twisting and wrigeling m- volved in such an_oporation, floating the whole of the time, we must admit it to_ be as difficult an affair as it was ludicrous. A butcher, on a caln summer's ovening, undertook, for a wager, 0 cross the Thames in his wooden tray. Intaws exploit, using bis handas as paddles, he mado tho passago safely from Somerset Stairs to the Surrey side, providing Limself with a cork- jacket in caso of accident. The chronclers took care to record that ** seventy boat-loads of spectators were present; aud bets to thy sgaregeto amount of more than_ 1,0y guiness depended on the event.” Riciary Jenkios, s merchant of York, wagered g large sum that he would pave 1,000 squar yards with stone in nine hours. Ho accome plished it, but wo aro left in the dark as to~ wwhat kind'of paving it was, sud in whaet way the work was performed. A goutlemsn uodertook, for a wager, that he would etaud for a whole day on London Bridge, with & tray full of good sterling sovercigns, and would fad to_find cus- tomers for them at a peouy apiece. Tho report i8, that he won the wager, all the passers-by bolieving that ho was merely trying to cheat them with brdss imitations. During a visit paid by ove of the royal Dukes to a victorious ship- of-war at Spithead, & sailor got upon tho very top of.tho mammast (the truck), and stood thera upon his bead, waving his hat round and round o one foot. Itis to be hoped that this display of autipodean loysity was duly appre- ciated. Heidegger, Master of the Revels to Georgo Il., was considered to bo tho ugliest man in £oglaod. A wager was Iaid that a competitor for this doubtful homor could bo found. An old woman from 6t. Giles' was brought forward, and the napire, with Heideg~ ger'sown nyxrrnvll, was about to award tue palin 70 hor ; but Heidegzer, in Tesponse to a sugges- tion, put on the old womau's banuet, to reuder tho conditions more _enual ; the additional ugli- neas was so indescribablo that the victory was awarded to him, Loug before the days of steamboats, a gentleman wegered 1,003 guineas that ho would make a boat move 25 ‘miles an bour. He accom- plished itin a very singular way, snd at acon- siderable outiay in money and ingenuity. Ho caused a circnlar canal to be dug, 100 feet in diameter, and 9 feet wido, and filled with water ; a horizontal pole, equal 1 length to the radius of the circle, was pivoted at ono end toa strong post in the middle, and fastened at tho otber end to a boat; » horse trotted 1n a emaller cucle, at a point nearer to the post than to the boat, dragging tho polo round: aad the lewerage thus singularly obtained sufficed to give » velocity of 25 mucs aa hour to tho outer end of the pole, and_consequently to the boal. A DBarouet and a clergy- man laid & wager a8 to tho time when the first Emperor Napoleon would dic; but a court of law set aside this bot as illegal, on the ground that it gave one of the partics an intorest in the speeds death of 8 man much exposed to bazard- Wo have only mpaco lefs to notice finally the wager coucerning Sir Jobn Throckmorton's suit of clothes, on which 1,000 guineas dopended. At 5 o'clock, on a Juno morning in 1811, two Southdown sheep were shorn; the wool was washed, carded, slabbed, roved, spun, and woven; tho cloth was scoured, falled, tented, saised, sheared, dyed, and dreesed; and at half- past 6 the same evening the wool which had clad the sheep in the morning was worn as & dress- suit by Sir Jobn at Jus own dinner-table. i S EaR e —3ons. Michelet's library was sold yesterday. It was w0 worthless a collection that his hLeirs did ot think it worth while to print acatalozue, The books were unimportant. I wondered how they could have attsacted Mons. Michelet's at- tention. - They were eold in lots. The first lot put up was five baskels of pamphlets. Tho baskets were 3 feet hizh by 2 feet long, and wero filled with pamphlets, "All of tho pamphlets wero prescntation copies, and hadou the fly- Jeaf a complimentary note signed by tho author, The contents of the five basicts fetched 27, which price is at the rate of 5 cents a pound. The books fetched even leas. None of the celo- brated book-buyers were present. Tho Jowest class of second-hand booksellera (those who sell on tho quays, their property exnibited in wooden Dboxen piacad on the top of tho qusy’s wall) had it all to themselves,—Paris letler, (Continued from tue First Page.) desth. With regard to that, I merely refer to my previous statement concerning my bodily symptowms, and add, that on this dayI felt symptoms upon me. The main point is that I was worzied out with the whbole business, and would have been glad to escape by death, of which I long bad litele dread. I “could sea no end but death to the sccumulation of tor- ture, but I resolved to stop short and waste po more time in making matters worse. I felt that Ar. Moalton had bektor stop too, and let the whole tbug come out. I dotermined then to make a full and wue statement, which I now make, and to leave the result with God. Alr. Tilton had repeatedly urged me, a8 atatod in my Jetter, not to betray his wife, and I felt bound by every senso of honor, in case Ishould be pressed by inquiries 1rom my church or family as to the foundatiops of rumors which might reach them, to keep this promise. By this promiss I meant only that I would not betray tue excessive affection which his wife, a8 I bad been told, had conceived for me, and ha confessed to bim. It certainly did not refer to adultery, If there had been sucha fact in ex- istence ita betrayal would have ruined me as well s her, aud & pledge not to destroy mysalf would have been too absurd to mention in & Ittor. MOULTON'S REPLY. In reply to this note, which was calm and re- served rather thaa gloomy, Mr. Moulton wrote that same day a letier of three and a half sheets of copy paper. He began as follows : My Dean FRIE: You know I have never been in sympathy with the mood ous of which you_have often spoken as you have written this morning, If the truth must be spoken let it be. I know you can stand if the whole case was published to-uworrow, and 1 my opinion it shows a geifish falth in God. Haviog proceeded thus far, Mr. Moulton seems to have perceived that the tone of this letter was rather likely to determine me in my deter- ‘mination to publish the whole case than other- wise ; and as this was opposed to the whole line of his policy, he crossed out with one dash of the pencil tho whole of this, and commenced anew, wniting the following letter = SUNDAY, June 1, 1873, My Dean Famsp: Your letter mukes this first Sabbath of summer dark and cold likea vault. You lave never inspired mo with courage or hope, and if I had listened to you alone my bands would have drop— ped helpless long ago, You dou't begin to be in the danger to-day that has faced yon many times before. If you now 100k it square in tho eyes it wiil cower and sliok away again. You know that I have naver been in sympathy with, but that I absolutely abhor, the un- mauly mood out of which your letter of _this niorning came. This mood {8 & Teservoir of mudew, JYou can stand if the whols case Were published to-morrow, Inmy opinon it shows only selish fanth fn God o go whining into Heaven, if you could, with a truth that you are Dot coursgeaus enough, With God's help, and falih fn_God, to try to Livo on eartl. Yoa know tust.f love you, and becsuse 1 do 1 shall try, and try, and try, as in the past. You are mistaken when you say that, “ Theodora charges you with making bif appear a8 one graciously par- doned by you.” He said the form in which it was published in some of the pipers made it 80 appear, aud it was from this thst he ssked rolief. Idonot think it imposble to frame & letter which will cover the case. May God bless you; I kuow ho will protect you, Fravg. In tho haste of writing, Mr. Monlton appar- ently failed to perceive what he had written. In tho Tirst instance, bo wrote on one side of a half- sheet of paper, and used the clean sida of that half-sbieet for the purpose of the Jetter which he sent in tho shape be had given. But it will be seen that he deliberateiy and twice in succession reaf- sirmed his wain statement that there was noth- ing m the whole case on which I could mot safely stand. Ho trdats my resolution as born of such morbid despair as be had often reproach- ed mo for, and urged me strongly to maintain wy faith in him, Tilton yiolded to lus porsua- #ion and graciously allowed humself to be sooth~ ed by the publication of a card exouerating him from the autborship of the hase Lies to which the trpartite covenant referred. So once mare, and this time agaist my calmer judgwent, I patch- ed up a bollow peace with bim. A *'ROUGH AND RAGGED ERGE.” That T have gricvousty erred in judyment with this perplexed case, no one ia moro conscious than Lom. I chose the wrosg path and accent~ ed a disastrous guidance in the beginnwg, and Lavo indeed traveled on a “rough sud ragged edgo™ in my prolonged effortd to Buppress tius ecandal, which has at last spread 8o much desolation through the land. But I caunot admis thut I erred in de- giring to keep these matters out of sight. In this respect I appoal o you and to all Chris— tian men to judge whether almost any personal eacritize ought not to have been made rather than to suffer the wmorals of an entire commuui- ty, and especialls of the young, to b corrupted by the 1ilthy details of scandalous falsehoods, daily iterated and amplitied, for the gratification of impure curiosity and tho demoraiization of evory child that is old enough to resd. BLACKMAIL. The foll truth of this history requires that one more 1act should ba toid, especially as Mr. Til~ ton has invited it. Aoney has been obtained from me iv the course of .these alfairs, in con- siderable sums, but I did not at first look upon the suggestion thi should contribute to 3lr. Tilton's pecuniary wants as savoriug of black mail, ‘This did not occur to mo until I had paid perbaps ¥2,000. Afterward I contributed at ono tiie §5,000. After the money had been paid over, in five £1,000 bills, to raise which I mort- gaged the house I live in, I felt very much dis- saustied with myself about it. Finally, s square domand and a threat was made to oneof my contidential friends that if $1.000 more were not paid, Tilton's charges would be lud before the public. This, I saw at once, was biackmail in 48 poldest form, and I never paid o cont of it, but challenged and requested the fullest ex- posure. ILTON A BUTNED AN, But, after tho summer of 1873, I became in- wardiy satisfied that Tilton was, inhorensly and inevitably, a ruined man. Ino longer trusted eithor his word or his honor. I came to feel that his kindness was but a snare, and his pro- fossions of friendship trescberous. He did not mean well by me nor by his own houschotd; but I suffered sl the more on this ac- count. As bhe had grown up under my influence and in my cburch, I could mever free myself from s certain degree of responsi- bility for his miadoings, such as visits & fatber for 5 wrong-doiug sox, and, in times of great mental depression, this = feeling somotimes amounted almost to s mania. EFFURTS TO BESTEAIN TILTON. Among the last desperate efforts to restrain him from overwhelming himself, bis faguly, royself, the Church, snd the wholé commaunit; with the fetin ~flood of scandal whic he biad by this time accumulated, were those connected with the charges of Mr. West, and the subsoquent preceedings of tho Examining Com- mittee of the Church. The prosecution of Alr. ‘ilton I felt bound to prevent. In any form I would strivo to prevent the belching forth of a scandal ; but in that form it wax peculiarly dis- tastofur. It preseuted no square issuca upon whick my guilt orinuocence could be tried; it wag a roundabont issue, on which Ar. Tilton could have excaped, possibly, by showing that he be- leved the stories be told about me, or that heo had not * circulated ” them, or by the mere fail- ure of the othier side to prove that he had done 80, or by tha decision that he was & monomaniac aud mot respousible. Any euch half-way de- sision would leave me in tho attitude of over- throw, and yet no party to the case. Moraover, I felt that Tilton thought I Was setting my church sgainst him, —and I wss bound he shaould not think that; for if it had not been for me he would have been dropped two vears before for non-attendanco, and for his distinct notice to me that he was out of the church. I bad got the Examining Committee to postpone the usual ac- tion, becauso he was lotting bis wife still attend the church, and I thought this would gradually influence bim for good. Indeed. he had de- luded me with hopes that he would give up his bad women associates aud reform his lifo. Ifelt that we had no right to claim him as a momber under the circuinstances ; for the sole purpose of nis public trial. Jir. Moulton inmsted that everytuing must be done to pravent that trial, a3 tho Examining Committeo was likely to be equally divided, whether tho facts sustained 3ir. Riitow's plea, whether bo was out of she church or not. [Beccher then states that, in order to stop the scoundrel, he wrote 8 letter of reeignation, which was never sent, 88 it would have veen “‘a 1nere useless sacritice,” but which he showed to Monlton.} _—— Cricket, the Sorcerer. From Frank Mocre's * 1o Shoe Buckles, and Wha They Hate Seen.” 8ir Gervas Elways, Lientenant of the Tower, was dispatched as chief of the embassy. On bis arrival at Rouen ho was received by the officera and attendants of the Court of Louie with great pomp and coremony. Alisays a favorite in tbe Itoyal houschold of Queon Elizabeth, bis fame bad gono before him. Leicester, tho lover of the Queen, naturally a diolomat and by expe- rience @ courtier, had overstocked tae heads of tho gay aud devil-may-caro French- men with wonderful storics _of Sir Gervag' dazzling adventures. From the northern gate of the historic old town the mes- senger of England’s virgin Quoen was escorted by & cavaleade of mxéy mounted kuights, with their squires, preceded by the “keeper of tho catle, satride & milk-white” stallion, and he, in danced attendance ap ang b7 outrizen peopla thronged mpp'fmg“"“ the ling, b stranger, filling the air witly eriey fl:';;, Teaomd come. gy The castle of Belloplace and_set apart for octupation o tiEma it Sir Gerevas retired to an’ i Cithing ber, overcomo with the labor ang b, Chiae long summer day. Priviloged ]‘“rzf thy ladies wero admitted to bis. prespié Lave before eaid, even after Sir Geryey, A 1 gsived from the Royal hands o 1™t Mz Majesty the Queen the two =3 portunity was 1ost to displfy then. slrare ol oty sl 10 with'their diamond eyes, and srouud them. 204 b seen of gy t happened in Rouen on th Tenown of a sorcerer was at imuxf,?;i" that thy country round about _rang. mith pe o, 2 the feats bo had accomplished. This ‘mas Lot for the fiiends of Sir Gervas, for hy rproiltta t0 notbing but amusing taledor siawyond ltten The story of the sorcerer was toth gtagyp, o it% amusing, aug thida i the way 'twag mla,“,[,,‘f,‘;nd e buckles heard it from the lj ow mlllt_ibirt: Puof thelsdy ghy e domestica of the Ducheas &, it into thoir hoads to ates] sy ANOTE tonk monds, awaiting an opportunity to sapLt dt- divide what would be an ample fortane 1ot A28 "The nsnal means were exhausted in m‘“"_fl\. to upravel the affair. The sccompirl B8 silent, No clow was obtuined. Thp b (9% despairing of success, had rocourss to 4 living in"s distanc’ village, and offereq o Iarge sum if he would‘consent to eomnr 3 Chateau Pont-au-Boi, aud thero exercisgpo, sty of inlorpratation bormeen th dend gy tredsure, Notwlthstanding his sssuranes th sorcorer did ot feel certain of 00 He rofused nt first, but was nrged oo naciously that, fearing the loss of hig e, tion, he accepted upon theso fancify s tions: he was to remain turea days g chatena; to o thers eorved with the as delicious as those of the rich, an tendal by & Tckey—oesiiams e ] * once an insizht into elegant E!e, ere e 1 to his village indigence. The condition granted. 1o had » fanny Dame, this sorcepes It was Celery. ‘Tho famuly carriage was san 1, bring him from bis homo ; e was Iodges 'S gorzeous -;imn;eu’g 5 overything waa placed of his 08al, an: 8 Wa8 permitte i eh;{mfla ‘mansion. Permltted to euaning e thicves, littlo credalons aud confd; their mutual discretion, remaned e h.3 of them was designated to attend the sorcerer He received the firat dinser spocified in thy eore tract. The peseant gormandized at his lewsagg and swallowed eversthing indiscriminately. Do licious wines, game, birds, tit-bits—all diay peared. ‘Tne’lackey was infinitely divestad & this glutton. He laughed in his sieeves at hig mistress, who was simple enongh to believa g tho imbeeile, and at the imbecils himself, who assumed such grand airs. When Celery hag eaten and drunken Lis ll, be rose, with pyuny 80 well dusteuded he could not have bestowed therein anotber trufle, and abstracied) observing the vaiet before him, he mumage] solemaly “ Behold, one of them [” There is o traitor like the conscienca, Thy valet, couscious of his guilt, and alarmed by the fixod regard of the sorcerer, thought himeelf dov tected. Ho hastened to seek bis accom recounted to them the incident, and motm be could nc longer remsin near this redoubtably ‘man withoat betraying himself. Ons of hiscome rages, loss of & coward thsn be, ridiculed his fright, aud with confidence, offered t take his place the nest day. The next day thesunsscens was repeated. Celery ato tho delicons dinoer, discussing it with the same lingering delight, and, in rising, be observed with an accent morg tragic even than that of yesterdsy: **Behold, the second of 'em!” The lnckoy, 80 brave at a distancs, vax struck aghast at this coincidence. He fied to bis trispds still moro frighteed fhan tho fmt. He affirmed that tiie man was indeed & sarcerer and knew the whole of their affair. “You are both cowards!” cried the third lackey. *Iwill gomyrelf. You shall see tist chance onlyias broght about your fright, sad that he will not recognize me at all I And be did go. Dunwng tho dinner Celery did not pronounce s word, but sighing like & fur nace, prolonged the dessert as much 23 he conld. Finally he had to riee, aud sadder and moro des- erato thaa ever, as ho took humself off, ke ob- Sersed, regarding his attoudant with a wild sud frenzied nir: “And this, then, is tho third and the hsh onoi” At this blow al! scopticism vanished. Th third valet and bis comrades, conviaced {ns science had detected them, and hoping to obisin indulgence by a tardy confession, threw them- selves at the feet of the great man, avomed their guilt, and offered restitution, ca condition thab they sbould not be delivered np to justice. The astonished Celery, at first not compte- hending how be could be so able. by degrees ro- covered himself, and resumed hig addresa: You see that nothing is hidden from me® said be. * [t is just as easy for me now 1o tell where you bave put the tressure. But I wand 1o test your sincereity. If you do_not doceira me, I promise to intercede for yon.” Tho valota hastened to diecover to him the place of tho hidden cssket. Celery noted the ground very exsetly, and then remarked o his victime : “ Well! you are pretty robbers! Neverthe- lesa, koen quiet, Thero 1a timo onough per baps. When I have arranged your affur I advise you.” A means of communication was sgreed upon and the criminals retired to the shade. At tha same timo the shrewd Celery caused himeelf to be shown to the drawing-room, where tho Duch- ess and hec friends, among whom was the teller of this story, were gathered. There he at- vounuced that he had seon the diamonds, thatths criminals were in his power, and that he wa ready to conduct the Duchess immediately to the place whera her jewels were de- posited, ~ Deeply _impressed, tho ladies Ml started. The Duke d' Astorg was absent. _ Credulous women, in fall jor, €Y werg doubted nothing. Celery took a wand, made 8 thousand passes and contortions, mith all the aura of & grand genius of the magic art. Sud- denly the wand appeared to bend toward the wished-for place. The gronnd was opened, sud tho treasure recovered. Loud exciamationa ful- lowed the miracle, aud the sorcerer mado bhis way to bis village boms. During these incidents the Uuke refurned. He laughed at the Duchess and ber friends, aod declared that the sorcerer must have owed knowledge to some intrigue, and that at lesst it would be very easy to confonnd him. “ Let Lim be brought back here,” he sdded, “and we sball ses!” The Duchess and her friends wers too sure of the facts to hesitate. Celery was sent for, ths whole household was gathered together, and thea the Duko said: + Here is a little box well sealed. If you csa find out what is inclosed 1n it and make it kuown, 1 will consider you & true magiciag, and yon sk bave 20 louis, “If you mistake, 1 will accass you of being the accomplice of robbers. Yon shall bave fifty blows with a cudgle and thon be deliv- ered up to justice.” The ashapps, trembling Celery tack tha bz, and, joining his bands over it, cried out : «'Ah! poor cricket! Hers you are at lasc!” ‘Some days ago this enigma was golved. Cel ory happened to visit an abboy in the neighborhood of Rouen to oxerciss bis pro; bs caught fession. The people of Madame tbe Abbess where him arrested and thrown foto prison, ions and re- confessed the falkity of his pretentions counted the story of tho three valets. Asfor tho cricket, it was chance, too. In makioghid idiotic incantations, he was accustomed to i~ tata the chircap of this little 1nsect. From ?;‘ Dabit ho had been nickoamed the cricket bY 19 peagants of his village, and 1t was in z:d himself and in tho mortal fear which had sciz him that ho had cried out, * O, poor cricket? REAL ESTATE. FOR SALE, WILLARD A. SMITH, Room 18, 76 East Monroe-sh No. 1365 Indiana-av. No. 1355 Prairie-; No. 1353 Prairi No. 1346 Prairic. 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