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H j THE ADVERTISES. Per laionta. Pr Yeer. 1. J-- C. ii nj mmii y i m -. - I Published every Thursday by r jM B& MM t&,W ."""vWa 4 .M FAIEBEOTHEE & HACKEE) SB . B r EA'AAS AJI I 1 i y ( VM aJH Jk AAI't A A A advertising batss. , V B H Mj B b H H HL BB v . b VA h! IS nfiH Y H 0 Sbv H HH Ib fl WhBv fepacc I 1 w i i m . .. - 1I 9BK ! Bv i -m. V & SMB ffB -V JBB1 I wBBh V "" . -- tlce1S0.74Mcl,hcrAor.'8iioCi,-,uPbtaIr, W ' S ? V Mi si M M -xVM i &M M fl if"l 9F llnch ?t co r tz oo f st ce 2 50 4 00 ISO 4 DO 6 00 I 275 7 TO 10 00 & CO 12 00 18 00 S 00 tioeo 20 00 36.00- 1C0 00 Terms, in tavance: j - v v v jf n ' xy xr -sz XJ N f 7 v V .rt5HT. one year. n,coPJ.sixmontS .Oae copy. the mouths RB1PTXG -tfJL lR OX EYERY jiGE 3IY DOG. jirlAKYFIlA-CIS, WOODSTOCK, VEllllOKT. Uead and ray heart dial with him ! Burled what love lies there I Cone forever and ever, Xo longer my life to fahare ! 'Only a dog J" Ycs-"only" Yet theso are bitter tears ! Weary, heartsick, and lonely, I turn to the coming years. Something that always loved mo! Something that I could trust ' Something that cheered and soothed me, Is mouldering here to dnst! t,entle, and faithful, and noble Patient, and tendr, and brave-- My pet, my playmate, my darling And this Is his lbilcly grave. 1 gj to my emptj chamber, And linger before the door There once was a loving welcome I shall listen for that no more ! I alt by my blazing hearthstone. And lean my head on my hand The best of my wayward nature Lies low with the Newfoundland ! Oaep'ank when the ship was sinking In a wild and stormy stid One star when the skj' was darkened, Was the love of my dog to me! A star that will shine no longer A plank that has missed my hand ; And the ship may sail or founder "So watcher Is on tho strand. I stand bn icy sllnny upland This beautiful autumn morn The crimson-leaved maple o'er me, Fronting the golden corn ; I hear tne brook In the valley It Mngs as It sang of yore Unt the faithful eyes that watched It Will answer to mine uo more! Qver that sunny Upland ; And climbing the breezy hill. Haunting the depth of the woodland, Lonely and silent still Silent and lonely always, I know that this life must be But in the nnseen future '. "What Is in store for me? Oh! well may the Indian hunter Lie calm on his -oiicll di skins When the pain of this world ceases, And the Joy of the next begins ! Va the "Great Spirit's" prairies. Under the blue skies of yore. . Will not his steed and watoh-dog Answer his call once more? Blue hunting-grounds of the red man. Cannot Jdream. tho dream? Surely my old companion But waits till I cross the stream ! Walts with a faithful yearning. Almost akin to pain Till in some fewer heaven Tie bounds to my feet aglan. OUE NEW YOKE LETTER. The Currency Bill The Veto Its Ef fect In the City Cremation Galvin 3Ioek Auctlons-Femlulue uoctors Business and Rum-Rapid Transit. tiirttpondfcnco "o'oraska Advertiser. New York, May 1S74. INFLATION THE VETO. The financial circles of the city were agitated last Wednesday to a degree seldom seen. It was known that on that day the President would either sign or veto the currency law, and the whole money intertst of the city hung breathless on the event. The wires were burdened with dis patches to Washington, for every Speculator desired to have the first in telligence of the fate of the bill, that he might buy or sell,- as the case might be. All sorts of He3 were put afloat. One moment It would be an nounced that the President had sign ed the bill; the next that he would 6end in a veto message, and so on. At last, at about 2 p. if., came the au thoritative announcement, "the Pres ident has vetoed the Senate Finance Bill," which set the matter at rest. Immediately those who were operat ing for a rise in Governments became jubilant, and those who were gamb lingor a fall were correspondingly depressed. The rich men out of bu fcmesa, were gratified heyond meas ure, while the younger men in active business felt that a sure prop had been knocked out from under them. The papers of the city, without an Exception, approve the act of the Resident. Even the Tribune has a good word for him. But there Is a strong party in tho city that desires an increase of currency ; and it i3 a Power. The papers do not echo pub lic sentiment in New York on this matter. The question is an import a&t one, aud will show itself in next fell's elections. CREMATION. The idea of burning the bodies of the dead Instead of burying them is gaining favor rapidly. The matter is being discussed every day in all the Papers; the churches have been ap pealed to for their opinion; in short, ftere is a great deal of genuine feei ng on the subject. And the feeling Is all in favor of it. The idea of avoiding the decomposition of the dead of reducing the mortal remains to ashes, and preserving the ashes, strikes the people s something of an improvement. The clergymen have Sen it as their opinion that it in no ""ay crosses the dogmas of the churoh and everybody seems' to' favor it but the undertakers. It would be hard on them. They see in this movement fin abolition of the ugly coffin with lls sickly smell of the gorgeous heare, with its" ghastly trappings, of carrlagesand all the absurd and costly aecompanyings of funerals. Instead of all this, a dead body resolved into the elements in a simple way by the action of fire, and the retnains, a handful of whitish-gray ashes, placed reverently in an urn, and kept as a fiacred househeld treasure. Is not this better than burying? I think Eoi and so does almost all of ISfew ' York. Indeed, a society has beeri formed to introduce it, the members hindinj: themselves to dlreet in thek i i U-. K'00 N. I : . - . . -.. - . - - , j . ,- - bldest Paper in the State.' ' wills that their bodies shall be burn ed instead of buried. It already numbers eight hundred. OALVIX, convicted of the robbery of a jewelry store on Kinth aveiiue, and sentenced td twenty years ip the penitentiary, was very recently a keeper in the Tomb3f I mention this to show the style of men who attain place under the City Government. This man's character was as well known before his appointment a3 it is now; in fact it was, probably, his character that gave him the appointment. A rob ber an official in a prison ! Is it any wonder that great criminals have cared nothing for imprisonment or conviction? All they had to do was to "stake" such a keeper as Galviu and the doors would fly open. How many Galvlns are yet in these places? The Democracy are in con trol of the city; the same kind of men that put Galvin in his place have yet the appointing power. New York is in a bad way. MOCK AUCTIONS. The mock auction business, which the authorities got .under some years ago, has broken out afresh within a few months. The Bowery is full of them. Stores filled with the vilest pot.metal jewelry, with thetongueiest of auctioneers and the usual assort ment of ropers-iu and bidders at the door, are becoming as plenty as in the old days before the poiico killed them out. The young man from the coun try Is roped-iu; the "genuine gold watch" is put up; he buys it; and while the "guaranty" Is being made out it is adroitly changed, and he finds when "away that he has paid $40, $50, or $60 for a concern that would bf dear at five dollars a bushel. It is a fact that respectable" jewelers have been driven out of localities b' these Peter Funk concerns. Rascali ty is irrepressible ; hold It in one way and it will break out in another. FEMALE DOCTORS. There is very much that is bad in New York, and a great deal that is good. One of the best of the good things is the idea of the female phy sician. There are over fifty regular practising phj-siclans in the city of tho softer sex women who have gone through a regular course of study and hospital practice. And they have practice, too. Few of them have an income of less than $3,000 per an num, and a number of be'm earn as much as $10,000. Their practice is, of course, entirely among 'women aud children, and it is claimed by those who employ them that they are more successful than physicians of tho oth er sex. There is a rea9oti for thi3. The invalid woman cau confide more fully in a woman than she can in a man, and it is more fitting that wo men should staud at the bedside of women. There are four colleges in the city devoted to the training of women for this wide field of useful ness. The"re cannot be too many of them. BUSINESS AND RUM. Business has been dull, flat and un profitable all last fall and all last win ter, and it continues in the same state of health now. The merohants have made no money, and the same Is true of all the professions. And yet there has been more fine, costly liquors consumed In this city this winter than ever befortf. The amount of costly champagnes that have been drunk Is really startling. Now one would suppose that when money is scarce and tight, and business dull, that men would economize in their luxuries. But it does not so work. The harder the times the more expen sive the potations. Does a man get desperate from adversity? That is the question. The tailors, shlrtmak ers, shoemakers everybody who fur nishes necessities have suffered from the hard times, because men have worn their old clothes to economize ; but the same men are drinking the most costly drinks money can buy. Curious, isn't it? BAPID TRANSIT. The city Is and has bfeefi for years trying to get some better way to get from one end of the island to the other, bnt so far to no purpose. With the exception of the elevated railway on the west side of the city, there is nothing better or faster than the com mon horse-car or the primitive stage, and as the companies owning these lineB have untold wealth, and' as ev erything in Albany is governed by money, it is probable that there will be nothing devfeed for years to take their place. But it is a terrible want nevertheless. It takes half the peo ple of the city a full hour to get from their homes to their places of busi ness, which takes up two hours of the twenty-four in travel. Then the dis comfort of the travel is something foorfiv Tf it rains- the cars swarm with people Every seat is occupied, the aisle is crowded with standing men and women, the platforms front and rear are jammed, even the steps are occupied. When it is hot the crowd Is the same ; in short, from 7 to 10 in the morning, coming down, and from 4 to 7 irf the afternobn, go ing up, each car is a moving purga tory. The trouble the New Yorker hss to face is, he cannot live near hta business, because rents are fearfully high he cannot live away from his business, because of the waste of time and discomfort of going to and fro. But the latter alternative is the one he has to accept, and consequent ly he stands and rides and growis three hundred and twelve days in h '1- J9 iV V s Y 1 I 1 T ' m ' - the year. Various remedies are sug gested. There is an underground railroad, the cars intended to be pro pelled by compressed air, on which some hundreds of thousands of dol lars have been spent; but it never will be finished. Then it is proposed to build a railroad around the city, but that has been headed off. Rail roads are projected underground, in the air, on pillars, propelled by all sorts of motive power, but nothing has come of any of the schemes. It is singular that a city of a million of people should not be able to find a way through a difficulty so simple. THE WEATHER has been frightful for a week. It has been rain and slush, slush and rain. Let us hope that winter will cease to linger as soon as possible. Pietbo. muRderI: A. Gang of Outlaws In ziols. Southern Xlli- For the last foUr years Williamson County, Illinois, has been infested with a gang of murderers and ma rauders who, in the atrocity of their deeds eclipse the Bender family, of Kansas. The principal places of their exploits are along the lio j of the Car bondale and Shawuoetown Railroad, and the Big Muddy River, the latter a small stream winding Its way thro' the northern part of the county. But their bloody deed3 are by no means confined to that part of the county. Other parts have shared in their aw ful visitations. About four years ago one Mr. Pin key White, a respectable farmer, school teacher and one of the former sheriffs of the county, suddenly and mysteriously disappeared from the walks of men. As to.what become of him nothing is known. But it has been stoutly maintained by the citi zens that he was maliciously murder ed by the gang, and his body sunk in the fiig Mdddy. In 1871, one Mr. Walker, au old farmer of Williamson County, was brutally murdered while at work. Suspicion rested upon John C. Owen. He was immediately arrested and put in jail. He broke jail once, b'dt was captured and brought back again, and chained to a ball. Circuit Court came aud it was 011I3' after the examination of over two hundred men that a jury was obtained. And after the exam ination of twenty or thirty witnesses, enough circumstantial evidence was obtained to convict him, and he was sentenced to tho Penitentiary for a term of twenty-five yerfrS. In May, 1872, Mr. Vancll, an aged farmer of considerable respectability, living on tho Big Muddy, was taken from bis house during the night and hung by masked men. The men guilty of this dastardly deed made good their escape. Last fall Mr. Bullinger was shot dead, while riding homo in the even ing from Uarbondale. A few weeSs ago his son and son's mother-in-law were shot while going home from church, the young man dying in a few hours. In the early part of last week two gentlemen retdrniiig from a sale near Carterville a station on the Carbon dale and Shawueetown Railroad saw a man fall full length behind a log by the roadside. They determin ed to see who he wsfe; so, dismount ing and hitching, they proceeded to the spot. Upon their arrival they found a man lying upon his face. They demanded his name, when ho presented a revolver and shot one of the party through the thigh ; rising to run, he fired another sho'S, which took effect in the other thigh, near the femoral artery. But tho m'ost bloody, cruel aud in human act remains to be told. In re gard to it, the Observer of Saturday contains th'e following: "One night last week a peddler stopped to stay all night with a family consisting of ii mother and two daughters. The mother was called away during the night to see the sick wife of a neigh bor. After tho peddler and the glrl3 bad retired to bod, the hushand of the sick woman came to the house, and after locking the door leading to the peddler's room, told the girls that if they did not pro'duce .the money be longing to their mother, supposed to be about $S00, ho would kill them. They persistently refused to tell him where the money was, whereupon he drew a knife and cut the throats of both the giils. Meantime, the. ped dler hearing the noise, broke down the door while the murderer was Searching for he money, and quiok as lightning shot him dead on the spot. He then went to tho house where the mother of the murdered girls was, it being the nearest house in the neighborhood, and broke to her the terrible news. When de scribing the murderer the sick wo man swooned away, 'with the excla mation, "My God, it was my hus band !" And report says it so proved to be. Undoubtedly, the idea of the villian was to kill the girls and obtain the money, leaving everybody to sup pose that the dastardly deed was done by the peddler. Even handed justice deoreed it otherwise." &. Louis Democrat. What hankers were hardest off duT ing the late panic ? Those who couldn'tf even pay one a little attention. I) is estimated that one person is killed? arid' four injured every working day in the year on American railroads. BBOWJtYJLLE, NEBRASKA, THUESDAT, MAY 7. 1874. COXGRES'SIOSTA-.. The Last of the Vetoed Bill. Interesting Explanations toy Senators SENATE. Washington, April 23. On the expiration of the morning hour, Mr. Wright moved to lay aside the pending order, and that the Sen ate proceed td the consideration of the Finance Bill and the President's message vetoing the same. Mr. Sherman moved that the bill and message be made a special- order for Monday next, and a long debate followed, which took a wide range. Mr. Thurman said that he 'did not understand this great diversity of opinion between the administration Senators. For his part he longed to have a return to the good old days of Andrew Jackson, when the Presi- 1 dent had a good wholesome influence upon Congress; when the policy and views of the administration had some weight. Mr. Edmdnds said that he liked that speech. It nut him in mind of old times. (Laughter.) The differ ence between Republican aud Demo- craucauministrations was tnac in a Republican administration the Chief Magistrate attended to his constitu tional duties. In the good old days of Andrew Jackson, if a Democratic Senator failed to come to time, of sup port any measure of the administra tion, he was not allowed to have any position in his party. It was for that reason the people in this country broke down the Democratic adminis tratlon, because under them there were constant aggressions against the liberty of the people. In the Repub lican party every Senator Ifad a right to his own opinions, and acted ac cording to his own views. Mr. Thdrman, iiueply to this, re ferred to the deposition of Senator Sumner as Chairman of the Commit tee on Foreign Relations as evidence that Republicau administrations did not brood opposition: Mr. Edmunds replied that the non election of Mr. Sumner to the chair manship of the committee on Foreign Relations was not for tho cause stated by the gentleiiian, (Mr. Thurman,) but solely for personal reasons. The Senator had no right to say that Mr. Sumner or any othe'r' Senator had been pursued by the administration or any of his party. Mr. Cameron said he was not plac ed at the head of the Foreign Rela tions committee at li is own request. The way he came to be made chair man was by being gecond on the com mittee. He had boon given that po sition at the request of Mr. Sumner, when that gentleman was chairman. He was absent at his home in Penn sylvania, when assigned the chair manship. He came here at his ear liest opportunity, intending to do eline, but upon entering tho Senate Chamber and hearing the remarks of the Senator who was over-zealous in behalf of Mr. Sumner, which were not complimentary to him (Camer on) he reconsidered his determination and accepted. He had seen it- an nounced in the newspapers that he had robbed Mr. Sumner of his place on the comfnittee. Great heavens, he did nothing of the kind. Tho feeling between himself and Mr. Sumner was of the most friendly character. When he (Cameron) had to go home to his sick ftrtnily, he ask ed Mr. Sumner to pair with him on a bill then up ; Mr. Sumner replied : ,'Yes, Cameron, gladly," and we shook hands. He said, "God bless you," and I said, "God bless you1." Mr. Hamlin said he thought ft ap propriate to state that at the time Mr. Cameron was placed at the head of the Foreign Relations' committee iu place of Mr. Sumner it was done simply and solely upon the under standing that Mr. Sumner was not upon speaking terms with the Presi dent or Secretary of State. Mr. Anthony said Mr. Sumuer was not removed on account of his oppo sition to the San Domingo treaty, and that reference had been made during this" debate to a speeoh Mr. Sumner wrote, that was not a speech of Mr. Sumner's. He, wrote it, but decided not to deliver it, and the man who violated his confidence, over his" new made' grave, committed an act of per fidy which would not be forgotten. Mr- Sumner did him (Mr. Anthonj') the honor to show him that speech. There were not more than half a doz en copies given out and each one con tained a memorandum, "This in strict confidence." If Mr. Sumner had lived no man would have dared to make it public. Mr. Tipton said he thought the Senate of the United States had nev er exhibited such a feeling as that ex hibited on' this occasion ; it was a feel ing of absolute terror for fear a debate might spring upon the Presidential veto'. A vote was then taken' on Mr. Wright's motion to lay aside the Lou isiana bill and take up the Finance bill with the President's message, and it was agreed fo yeas 35, nays 27. The Chair announced that the Fi nance bill was before the Senate, aud the question was should it pass not withstanding the President's objec tions. Upon this question the consti tution required that the vote should" be taken b'y yeas and nays. No one taking the floor the roll wasr called and the vote resulted yeas 34, nays 30 as follows : Yeas Messrs. Allison, Bogy, Bore man, Cameron, Carpenter, Clayton, Couover, Dennis, Doraey, Ferry,' Mich., Goldthwait, Gordon, Harvey, Hitchcock, Ingalis, Johnston, Lewis, Logan, McCreery, Merriman, Mitch ell, Norwood, Oglesby, Patterson, Pease, Pratt, Ramsey, Robertson, Spencer, Sprague, Tipton, West, Winslow and Wright 34. Nays Anthony, Bayard, Boutwell, Buckingham, Chandler, Conkling, Cragin, DaVis, Edmunds, Fenton, Frelinghuysen, Ferry, Coiin.j Flana gan, Gilbert, Hager, Hamilton Md., Hamilton, Texas, Hamlin, Howe, Jone3, Kelly, Morrill, Yt., Sargent, Scott, Sherman, Stevenson, Stewart, Stockton, Thurman and Wadleigh 30. Two-thirds not voting in the affirm ative the bill was lost. A DRINKING SONG. BY lONdFELLOW. Cdtne, old friend, sit down and listen From tho pitcher placed between us How the waters laugh and glisten In the head of old Sllenus. Old Siledus; bloated, drunken, Led by his Inebriate satyrs; On his breast his head Is sunken; Vacantly he leers and chatters. Hound about blm fair Bacchante!!; Rearing cymbals, flutes, and thyrseaj "Wild from Xaxlan groves, or Zante's Vineyards, sing delirious verses. Thus hq won, through all the nations, Bloodless victories, and the farmer Lore, as trophies and oblations, Vines for banners, plows for armor. Judged by no o'er-zealons rigor, Much the mystic throng expresses; Bacchus .was the. typo of vigor. And Sllenus of excesses. Theso are ancient ethnic revels Of a faith long since forsaken; Now the satyrs, changed to devils, Frighten nlortals' wine-o'ertaken. Now to rivulets from the mountains Point tho rods of fortune-tellers ; Youth prepetual dwells In fountains, Not In llasks, and kegs, and cellars. Claud ins, though he sang of flagons, Aud huge tankards filled with Rhoulsb,' From that fiery blood of dragons Never would his own replenish. Even Eedi; though he chauntcd Bacchus in the Tuscan valleys, Never drank the wine he vaunte'd In his dltliyraniblc sailies. .1 .11 .. Then with water fill the pitch'er, "Wreathed about with classic fables ; Ne'er Talernlan throw a richer Light upon Lucullus' tables. Co'me, old friend sit down and listen, As it passes there between us, How Its wavelets laugh aud glisten In tht head of old Sllenus. WHAT AN ENGINEER. Vdhv. I am an engineer. Ever since the C. road was laid, I'v traveled over it every day, or nearly evefy day of my life. For a good while I've had the same engine in charge the San Francisco the prettiest engine on the road, and as well managed, if I do say it, as the best. It was a Southern road, running, we will say, from A. to Z. At A.my good old mother lived ; at Z. I had the sweetest little wife under the sun, and a baby ; and I alwaj's had a dol lar or two put by for a rainy day. I was an odd kind of a man. Being shut up with the engine, watching with all your eyes and heart and soul, inside and out, don't make a man talktive. My wife's' name was Josephine, and I called her Joe. Some people called me unsociable, and couldn't under stand how a man could feel friendly without saying ten words an hour. So, though I had a few friends, dear ones, too, I did not have so many a6 quaintences as most people, and did not care to have. The house whioh held my wife aud baby was the dear est place on earth to me, except the old house which held my mother, up in A. I never belonged to a club or mixed myself up wftn'atraug'efs in any such' way, and never should if it had not been for Granby. You see Granby was one of the shareholders, a hand some, showy fellow. I liked to talk with him. and we were friends. He often rode from Z. to A. and baok agaiu, once he said : "You ought to belong to the scien tific club, Gueldou." "Never heard of it," said I. "I am a member," said he. "We meet once a fortnight, and have a jol ly good .time. 'We want thinking men like you. We have some among us now. I'll propose you, if you like." I was fobd of su'eh th'fng's, and I had ideas that I faucied might be worth something. But then an en gineer don't have night and day to himself, and the club would" have oh'e evening in a fortnight from Joe. I said : fc "I'll ask her. If she likes It, yes." "Ask whom?" said fife. "Joe," said I. "If every man had a3ked his wife, every man's wife would have said, "can't snare vou. my dear,' and we should have had no club at all," said Granby. But I mada no answer. At home I told Joe. She said r "I shall miss you, Ned ; buti you loveTsuch things, and then if Granby belongs to it they must be superior men." "No doubt," said I. "It isn't everybody who could be nfade a member," said Joe; Why, of course you mustsay yes." So I said yes, and Granby propos ed me Thursday fortnight I went with him to' the rooms'. There were men with brains, and some without. The real business of meet ! ing was the supper, and eo it was ev ery evening. I'd always been a temperate man. I actually did not know what effect wibe could have upon me; but com ing to drink more of it than I ever had, at the club table, I found-it put the steam on. After so many glasses I wanted to talk ; aftB? so many more I did. I seemed like somebody else, the words were so ready. My little Ideas came out and were listened to; I made 6harp hits ; I indulged in re partee ; I told stories ; I even came to puns ; I heard sdme one say td Gran by : "By George! that man's worth knowing. I thought him dull at first." Yet I knew it was better to be quiet Ned Gueldon, with his ten words an hour, than the wine-made wit I was. I was sure of it when three, hours after I stumbled up Stairs to flud Joe waiting for me, with her babe on her breast. "You've been deceiving me," said Joe ; "I suspeoted it, but wasn't sure. A scientific club couldn't smell of a bar-room." , "Whioh means I do,1' Baid I, wav ing in the middle of the room like a signal flag at a station, and seeing two Joes. "And look like one," said Joe, and she went and locked herself and the baby up in the spare bedroom togeth- er- ... "Ned," Bald she, "do you think a thing so much like a bottled-up and strapped-down demon as wteam, is fit to put into the hands of a drunken mau? And some day, mark my wo'rds, the timo will home when not only Thursday night, but all the days of the week will be the same. I've often heard you wonder what the feeling of au engineer, who has about the same as murdered a train full of people, must be, and you will Know if you don't stop where you are. A steady hand and a clear head have been your blessing all these years. Don't throw them away Ned. If you don't cdre for my love, don't rdih' yourself." My little Joe. She spoke from her heart, and I bent over aud kissed her. One club rilght, as I was dressed to go, Joe stood before me. "Ned," said she, "I never had a fault to find with' you before. You've been kind and good, and loving, al ways ; but I should be sorry we ever met If you are to go on this way. Don't ask mo what I mean. You know." "Joe," said I, "It's only one club nlght" ''It will grow," said she. Then she put her a'rms around my neck. "Don't be afraid, child. I'll never pain 5'ou go again" And I meant it; but at twelve o' clock that night I felt that I had for gotten my promise and my resolution. I couldn't go home to Joe. I made up my mind to sleep on the club sofa, and leave the place for good next day. I Already I felt my brain reel as I nev er had before. Iff an hour I was in the land'of stupor. It was morning. A waiter stood ready to brush my coat. I saw a grin npon his face. My head seemed ready to burst; iSy hand trembled! I. look ed at my watch ; I saw that I had only just five miuutes left to reach the depot. Joe's words came 0 n'i'y rrfiud.. Was I fit to take charge of an engine ? I was not fit to answer. I ought to have Asked some sober man. As it was I only caught up my bat and rushed away. I was just iu time. The San Francisco glittered in the morning sun. The cars were filling rapidly. From my post I could hear the talking, bidding each' other good by, promising to write aud come agqln. Among them was an old gen tleman I knew by sight, one of the shareholders; he was bidding two timid girls adieu. "Good-by, Ritty ; good-by, Luo," i heard1 h'iuYsaj' ; "don't be nervous. The San Francisco is the safest en gine on the line, and Gueldon the most careful engineer. I wouldn't be afraid to trust every mortal I love in the batch to their keeping. Nothing could happen wrong with the two to gether." I said, "I'll get through it some how, and Joe shall never talk to me again." After all it was ea's enough. I reeled as I spoke', I heard the sig nal. We were off. Five hours from L.' to D. ; five hours back. On the last I should be myself again, I knew. I saw a red Sutter, and never guessed what it was uhtll we were past the down train at the wrong place". T wo min utes more and we would have had a collilNon ; Somebody told me. I heard him say respectfully. "Of course, Mr. Gueldon, you know what you are about?" " . Then I was alone, and wondering if I should go faster or slower. I did so'riifetbiffg, and th'e ears rushed on at a fearful rate. The same man who had spoken to me before was standing near me. I heard some questions. How many miles arr hour we were making I did not know. Rattle, rattle, rattle. I wa3 trying now to slacken the speed of the San Francisco. I could" not remember what I should do. Was it this or tlrat? Faster, only faster. I was' playing with the engine like a child. Suddenly there was a terrific roar some VOL. 18.-N0. 45. a crash ; I was flung somewhere. It was illtp the water. By a miracle, I was only sobered, not hurt, I gained the shore. I stood upon the ground between the track and the river's edge, and there gazed at my own work. The engine was In fragments, the cars in splinters: dead, dying aud wounded, were strewii around men, women and children, old age and tender youth. There were groans and shrieks of despair. Tho maimed cried out in pain ; tho uninjured be wailed their dead ; and a voice, un heard 6y any other, was in my ears whispering, "murder." The news had gone back to A., and people came thronging down to find their lost ones. Searching for an old man's daughter, I came to a place un der the trees, ana five bodies verb ly ing there in all their rigid horror an old woman, a young one, a baby and two little children. It was fancy, it was pure fancy, born of my anguish they look like O ! great heaven ! they were niy old mother, my. wife and children ! all cold and dead. How did they come on tho train? What chance had brought this about? I gazed on tho good old face of her who had given me birth, on the love ly features of my wife, on the child re'ti. I called them by name ; there was no answer. There never could be; never would be. As I compre hended this, onward up the track thundred another train. Its red eye glared on me ; I flung myself before It ; I felt It crdsli me td trim's ! "His head is very hot," said some body. I opened my eyes and saw my wife. "How do you feel?" she said ; "a little better?" I was rejoiced and so astonished by the sight of her, that I could not speak a first. She repeated the ques tion. "I must be crushed to pieces," said I, "for tho train run" over me; but I feel no pdlii." "There he goe3 about tho train again," remarked my wife. "Why, Ned !" I tried to move ; there was nothing the matter with me ; I srtt up'. I was in my own room opposite to' a crib in which two children were asleep ; one had a tiny bald head. My wife, arid two children were safe : Was I de lirious, or could it be?" "Joe," cried I, "tell me what has happened." , . , "It's nine o'clock," said Joe. "You came home in such a dreadful state from the club that I couldn't wake you. You were nut fit to manage steam and risk people's lives. The San Franolsco i3 half way to A., I suppose,' aiid yo'u have been frighten ing m'e to death with your dreadful tall" And Joe began to cry. It was a dream, only an awful dream. But I lived through it all as though it were a reality. "Is there a bible in the houso, Joe ?" said I. "Are we heathens?" said Joe. "Give It to uie'this moment, Joe." She brought It, and I put my hand on it, and took au oath (too solemn to be repeated here) that what had hap pened never should occur again. It never has. And if the San Francisco ever comes to grief the verdict shall not be a3 it ought to be so often "th'e I engineer was drunk." MUIII5ER AX ROBBERY. The James Brothers at Bloody Work Agahi. AN EMIGRANT SHOT DOWN ANO ROBBED OF $4,700. From the St. Lbrifa Republican. Sra'ithville, Clay Co., Ho., April 0. Our quiet little village was thrown into a fever of excitement last night by the announcement of an atrocious murder and robbery commfttW on the Platte City road, four miles west o'f this place. The victim was a man by the name of Isaac Clark, who, in company with his wife and child (a babe in arm,) was traveling from Iowa to Kansa3 in a covered wagon drawn by tv?o horses. They had stopped for the night by the wayside, and were attacked aboutabout two o' clock by three desperadoes with drawn pistols. Clark attempted to defend himself and farn'ily, and had reached for his revolver when he was mercilessly shot down, alter which the murderers proceeded to rifle his pockets in the presence of his half frantic wife. They found on his per son the sum of $2,700, and left in haste without harming the wife or child". The three desperadoes in question are believed to be the two James boys and one Fielding Kenly. The last tnaraed, &euly, i3 a fugitive from justice, who formerly live'd' ?n Ken tucky, but ha3 been living in this county for the pa3t two years. He Came here direct from" Buchanan f county, where he associated with out laws of the worst character. No efforts have been' made1 to pur sue the perpetrators" of the foul of fense, es yet. Th'e inhabitants' stand in awe of these desperate characters, and are half afrafd to track them to track tbem to their dens. Kenly 13 about thirty-five years of age, five feet erght Inches, stoop shoulders, long sandy beard, and-'has a bad countenance. The' murdered man will be buried" to-day, by .the. Masons of Smith ville. In the name of God, how mnch longer are 'the peo ple of Missouri to put up with these deeds of horror ? Let something be side resolving be done by our author ities hpfnra thft nnricrht citizens of thft State leave for safer quarters. Yours, Ltnily, Johnr. iNrxoN. XiegalRdyertisein'entsfitlgaratesiOaeiqiiara (1011neofi7bnpareUspace,or loss.) first lasortlon 1,00; eachsubsequentlnsextlon, 5x. a 3r All transclunt advertise ieau sxastbe paid forln advancb. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUXTXi BUSBY'S IRON WEDDKSG. Buabv. of Trenton, celebrated his iron wedding" one day last week," and ho invited about 120 guests U ine wedding. Of course each person felt fcdnlp'elled to bring & pr.eserit df some? kind, and each one di3. "Whon Mr. and Mrs. Smith came they handed Busby a pair of flat-irons. When Mr. and Mrs. Jonesarrjved, theal&o had a pair of flatifons. All' hahda laughed at the coincidence. And there was even greater merriment when the Browns arrived with two' pairs of flatirons. But when Mr. and Mrs. Robinson came in. with anoth- erpair of llatirous the laughter be came perfectly convulsive. Thero was, however, something less amus ing about it when the Thompsons ar rived with four flatirons wrapped in Brown paper. And Busby '3 face ac tually looked grave when the tnree Johnson girls were ushered Into the parlor carrying a flatiron apiece. Each one of the succeeding sixty guests brought flatirons, and -thero was no break in the continuity Until old Mr. Curry arrived from Philadelphia with a cast-iron cow bell. Now Busby had no erirtlj.ly', use fdr a cowbell, tiud, at any oihe time, he would have treated suoh d present with scorn. But now he wad actually grateful to Mr. Curry, and he was about to embrace him" When the Walslngharos came In with the new kind of doubie-polnted fiaUrouti with wooden handles. And all the rest of the gnesta brodght the same" articles, except Mr. Rugby, and hd hud with him a patentstand for hold- ing flatirons. Busby got madder and madder every minute, and, by the time the company had all arrived, be was nearly insane with ia"ge ; and ho went up to bed, leaving his wife to" entertain the guests. In the morning they counted up tho spoils, andfound they had 213 llatirous, one stand, and" a cowbell. And now the Busbys h'avo. fciit th'e Smiths, afid Bfowiis, anti Johnsons, and the rest entirely, fo they are convinced that there was a preconcerted design to play a trick upon them. The fact, however, Is; that the hardware store in the place, had an overstock of flatiron, and sold tbem at an absurdly low figure,' and Busby's guests unanimously went' for the cheapest thing they could' find as people always do on such oc casions. Busby thinks he will not celebrate his "silver wedding"" Maui Adelci'. - .- y-o 11 a. A RELIGIOUS IV All IN TOIjAXD. New York. April 27. A letter from"' St. Petersburg!! gives som particular of the disorders in Poland, growing out of an attempt to force th6 Inhabi tants to' attach themselves to the Rus sian National Church. The priests of twenty -six parishes in the govern ment of SieuYee were'all thrown into prison for refusing to carry out the orders of the Russian Greek Churoh. The inhabitants refused to recognize the Russian preists or to attend the churches, whereupon they were sentr thero by force. In some places tho' the peasant stoned the priests, and iu the village of Carlef resistance wan" made to the military, and several, sofdiers were wounded by pikes audf stones.- The soldiers fired on tho peasantry, and a large number Ward killed. In tho village' of Prolulir similar disturbances took place, in which several officers and many soldlera" were killed, and some fifty-seven peasants were shot down. The pris ons of Siedleo aud other chief fowpa are crowded with prisoners. Besides the arrests that wero made, the in habitants of the troubled? districta' were sentenced to be beaten, the nfen with fifty blows, the women with 25 blows, virhile the children received ten blows each, without distinction of age or sex. Some women who' were violent iu tneir language, re ceived as many as one hundred' and fity blows. REMINISCENCE ,.OP MR. SUM- The opinion recently expressed by his physician, Dr. Brown-Sequard, that the blows received upon hlsheacf at the bands of Bully Brooks, were not the cause of the death of Mr. Sumner, has' revived many interest ing reminisences of the distinguished statesman's career in the early days when Mr. Sumner attacked the "bar barism of slavery" in its stronghold. Arrfcng the bold followera of Mr. Sumner .was the fat'e Anson Burlin-" game, who represented the district in Congress now represented by Mr. Hooper, of Boston. Bully Brooks' had outrageously insulted Mr. Sum ner and his friends, and Mr. Burlin-1 game, not afraid of plantation' black guard nor Southern bullet, pitched into the South Carolina bully, and did not shrink from a defense of speech' ffnd" the Honored-State which bo, with Mr. Sumner, represented. Result:' Mr. Burlingame was" challengeo 5y Brooks; the challenge was immedi ately accepted, the weapon's rifles,, and the place Niagara Falls. Brooks discovered that he btfd canght a Tar tar caught a man who' was one of the best shots in the country and "crawfished," so to speak. Massa chusetts half condemned-, half ap--prove'd the acceptance of the" chal lenge, but in- the meantime Brooks slunk away add went into disgrace And now Sumrier, Bnrlingame and? Brooks have gone to' th'eir Ibrig' rest? but Brooks has b'een forgolfen. The others still live In the hearts of their countrymen. Chicago Evening 'Journals