Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 September 1887 — Page 2

THE rNDIJSTAPOIilS JOUBKAL, SUKDA, SEPTS MBEll' ll, 188 7 T WE LiVi3 PAGJS3.

Printed by Special Arrangement with Author Copyrighted by Associated Literary Press. TEXAR'STEVENGE BY JULES VERNE. A Story of the American Civil War.

CHAPTER XIX. A PRISONER. jit last the federals were masters of Jackson ville, and consequently of the St. John's. The troops brought by Commandant Stevens imme diately occupied the chief points of the city. The usurping authorities had fled. Of the old committee only Texar had been captured. Whether owing to weariness at the exactions of the last few days, or to indifference on the slavery question, the people did not give at all a bad reception to the officers of the flotilla, who represented the government of Washington. Meanwhile, Commodore Dupont at St. Angus tine busied himself in closing the Floridan coast against contraband of war. The passes of Mos juito inlet were all seized. That at once cut off the trade in arms and munitions with the Bahamas. It was evident that henceforth Florida would be subject to the federal govern ment The same day as the surrender of Jacksonville, James and Gilbert Burbank and Mr. Stannard and bis daughter crossed the St John's to Camdless Day. Perry and the assistant-overseers were waiting for them at the little landing-place with a few of the blacks who had returned to the plantation. It can be imagined how they were received, and with what demonstrations they were welcomed. Soon James Burbank and his companions were at bis wife's bedside. It was when she thus again beheld her son that for the first time she learnt what Lad passed. The young officer clasped her in his arms. Her people would never leave her again. Alice could give her all ber attention. She would soon recover ber strength. There was nothing dow to fear from Texar's schemincs. The Spaniard was in the hands of the Federals, and the Federals were masters of Jacksonville. But if she had to tremble no more for her husband and son, her whole thought was on her daughter. She wanted Dy;.and Mars must find Zermah. v "We- shall find them!' exclaimed James Burbank. "Mara and Gilbert will help in the search." "Yes, father, and without losing a day!" "As we have got bold of Texar," said Mr. Burbank, "Texar must speak." "And if he refuses to speak?" asked Mr. Stannard. "If he pretends he knows nothing aoout the disappearance of Dy and Zermah?" "And how can be?" said Gilbert "Did not Zermah recognize him at Marine creek? Did sot Alice and mother hear Zermah shout his same as the boat moved off? Can yon doubt that be was the author of the outrage, and was in command there?" "It was Texar I Eaid Mrs. Burbank, rising as if she would have thrown herself out of bed. "Yes," said Alice, "I recognized him! He was standing up in the stern of the boat, which he was steering into mid-stream." "Be it so." said Mr. Stannard. "It was Texar. There is no doubt! But if he refuses to say i where be has hidden them, where are we to look? for we have searched in vain along the river for miles." To this question, so clearly put, there was no reply. All depended on what the Spaniard said. Was it his interest to speak or be silent? "Do you cot know where the scoundrel usually lives?" asked Gilbert "No one knows; no one has ever known," said James Burbank. "In the south of the country there are so many huge forests and inaccessible marshes where he could hide himself. To explore that country would be in vain. The federals themselves could not there pursue the retreating militia. It would be trouble thrown away." "I must have my daughter! exclaimed Mr. Burbank. "My wiM I will find my wife!" said Mars; "and I will force the rascal to tell me where she Is." "Yes," said James Burbank, "when the man sees he may save his life by speaking, he will speak. If he were in flight he might despair. With him in federal hands, we can get his secret out of him. Have confidence, my poor wife! We are on the track, and we will give you back your child." Mrs. Burbank fainted and fell back on her bed. Alice remained with her, while Mr. Stannard, James Burbank, Gilbert and Mars went down Into the hall to talk matters over with Edward CarrolL It was agreed to wait till the federals had organized their capture, and that Commodore Dupont should be informed of the facts relative not only to Jacksonville, but to Camdless Bay, Perhaps Le would decide to bring Texar at once before a military tribunal? Gilbert and Mars would not let the day pas3 without starting on their search. While James Burbank and Stannard and Carrol were thinking over the first steps, they would be off up the St John's, in the hope of discovering a clew. Was it not to be feared that Texar would refuse to sneak, and in bis hatred prefer to undergo the last penalty, rather than surrender his victims? Better to do without him. Let them discover where it was be lived. But that was a vain search. They knew nothing of Black creek. They thought the lagoon was inaccessible. And they passed along by the thicket on the bank without discovering the sarrow entrance. During the'13th of March there was no change in the situation. At Camdless bay the reorganization of the estate proceeded slowly. From all parts of the district, from the neighboring forests, into which they had been forced to disperse, the blacks were returning in great numbers. Although set at liberty by the generous act of James Burbank, they did not think that all obligation to him was at an end. They would be his servants if they could not be his slaves. They longed to get back on the plantation, to rebuild the barracoons destroyed by Texar's roughs, to set up the factories and refit the workshops, and resume the work which for so many years bad been the welfare and happiness of their families. The routine of the plantation was first taken In hand. Edward Carrol, almost cured of bis wound, resumed his accustomed work. There was olenty of zeal on the part of Perry and his assistant-overseers. Even Pyc bestirred himself, although he did not do much. The poor jreature had rather come down in bis ideas. He called himself free, but he acted like a platonio freedman, much embarrassed to use the liberty which be bad the right to enjoy. When the men bad returned to Camdless bay, and rebuilt the houses that bad suffered, the plantation would soon resume its accustomed aspect Whatever might be the issue of the war, there was every reason to hope that security was aslured to the Florida planters. Order was re established at Jacksonville. The federals did not attempt to interfere with the Municipal administration. They occupied the town for military purposes, and left the civic authority to the magistrates whom the outbreak had for a time suspended. It was enough that the stars and stripes floated over the buildings. If the majority of the inhabitants were not indifferent to the question which divided the States, they at least showed no repugnance at submitting to the victorious party. The unionist cause would meet with no oppo sition. The doctrine cf "State's right," dear

Georgia and the Carolinas, was not held in Florida with anything like the same ardor, nor would it be even if the federals withdrew their troops. The events of the war up to this had been as follows: The confederates, in order to support Beauregard, had sent six gunboats, under Commodore Hollins, who bad taken up his nosition on the Mississippi, between New Madrid and Island Ten. A struggle began, in which he was vigorously withstood by Admiral Foote, with the objeet of holding the upper river. The day that Jaksonville fell to Stevens the federal artillery opened against Hollins's gunboats. The advantage rested with the Northerners, who took Island Ten and New Madrid, and thus occupied the course of the Mississippi for a hundred and twenty-four miles, reckoning the windings of the stream. At this time much hesitation showed itself in the plans of the federal government General McClellan bad to submit his ideas to a council of war, and, although they were approved by the majority of the council. President Lincoln's yieldir to regrettable influences postponed their execution. The Army of the Potomac was divided so as to assure the safety of Washington. Fortunately the victory of the Monitor and the flight of the Virginia bad opened the navigation of the Chesapeake; and the precipitate retreat of the confederates, after the evacuation of Manassas, had allowed the army to go into cantonments in that town. In this way the question of the blockade of the Potomac was sottled. Politics have always a disastrous effect on military affairs, and the interests of tne North now suffered severely from a decision come to for political purposes. General McClellan was deprived of the command-in-chief of the federal armies. His command was reduced to that of the Army of the Potomac, and the other corps, now become independent, passed under the sols direction of President Lincoln. It was a mistake. McClellan keenly resented the affront of his undeserved dismissal. But like a soldier who thought only of his duty, he resigned himself to his fate. The very next day he formed a plan the object of which was to land troops on the beach of Fort Monroe. The plan was adopted by the chiefs of the corps and approved by the President The War Minister sent orders to New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, and vessels of all kinds arrived in the Potomao to take on board General McClellan's army and its baggage. The threats which had so long made Washington tremble would cease, and Richmond, the Southern capital, would in its turn be threatened. Such was the situation of the belligerents when Florida submitted to General Sherman and Commodore Dupont At the same time that their squadron completed the blockade of the Floridan coast, they had become masters of the St John's, and assured themselves of the complete possession of the peninsula. In vain had Gilbert and Mars explored the banks and islands tip to Pieolata. And all that could be done was to deal with Texar. From the day when the doors of the prison shut on bim he had no communication with his accomplices. And it seemed to follow that Dy and Zermah would be found wherever they might have been before the federal occupation. The state of things at Jacksonville was now such that justice could be safely left to take its course against the Spaniard if he refused to give information. But before proceeding to extremes it was hoped he would make certain confessions on condition of being set at liberty. On the 14th it was decided to try what could be done, the military authorities having previously signified their approval. Mrs. Burbank had recovered ber strength. Theretnrn of her son, the hope of soon seeing her child, the peace which had settled down on the country, and the safety now guaranteed to Camdless Bay had all united in restoring to her the energy she had lost. There was no more to fear from the partisans of Texar, who had terrorized over Jacksonville. The militia had retired into the interior of Putnam county. If, later on, the St Augustine militia, after passing the river further up, joined hands with them in attempting an expedition against the federals, the peril would be distant, and need cause no anxiety while Dupont and Sherman remained in Florida. It was agreed that James and Gilbert Burbank should go to Jacksonville this very day, and go alone. Carrol, Stannard and Mars would remain at the plantation; Alice could sot leave Mrs. Burbank. The young officer and his father thought they would be back before night, and with good news. As soon as Texar had told them where he was keeping Dy and Zermah, they would see about their deliverance, which would doubtless be accomplished in a few hours or a day at the outside. Just as they were going away, Alice took the young officer apart "Gilbert," she said, "you are going to see a mau who has done much evil to your family. He is a scoundrel who would have killed both

you and your father. Gilbert you must promise me to keep your temper when you are with Texar." "Keep my temper!" exclaimed Gilbert, who grew pale with anger at the mere mention of the Spaniard's name. "It is necessary for you to do so. Yon will gain nothing by being angry. Forget all idea of vengeance to secure the safety of your sister, who will soon be mine. For that you must sac rifice everything. You must make Texar feel sure that he has nothing to fear in the future." "Nothing! Do you forget that owing to him my mother might have died, my father might have been shot?" "And so might you, Gilbert; you whom I never thought to see again! Yes, he did all that, and we must not think of it anymore! I tell you, because I am afraid that your father will not control himself, and if you do not do so you will fail. Why did you decide to go to Jacksonville without me? I might have gained by kindness "And if this man refuses to answer?" asked Gilbert, who felt the justice of Alice's advice. "If he refuses, you must leave the magistrates to compel him. He risks his life, and when he sees he can save it by speaking, he will speak. Gilbert, promise me, in the name of our love, promise me " "Yes, my dear Alice; yes! Whatever he may have done, if he gives us back my sister, I will forget it" "Good, Gilbert We have passed through a terrible trial, which will soon be at an end. For these sad days we have been through God will give us years of happiness." Gilbert clasped the hands of his sweetheart, who could not restrain a few tears, and they parted. At 10 o'clock James Burbank and his son took leave of their friends, and entered a boat at the little landing-place. The river was being speedily crossed when, at an observation of Gilbert's, the boat, instead of running straight to Jacksonville, was steered for Captain Stevens's gunboat. Stevens was in military charge of the town. It was therefore best that James Burbank '3 undertaking should be first of all submitted to bim for approval. His communications with,, the authorities were frequent He knew what Texar had done when in power, what was bis share of the responsibility in the events that had laid the plantation waste, and why and bow be had been arrested wLen the militia had begun to retreat He knew of the reaction which had taken place against Texar, and how the whole respectable population of Jacksonville were asking that he should be punished for his crimes. Stevens gave a willing reception to the Burbanks. For the young officer be had particular esteem, having been able to appreciate his character and courage while Gilbert was under bis

orders. After the return of Mars to the flotilla.

when be learnt that Gilbert had fallen into the bands of the enamy, he did his utmost to save htm. But, stopped before the bar of the St John's, how eould he reach him in time? We know under wnat circumstances the safety of the prisoner had been obtained. . In a few words Gilbert told him what had passed, confirming what had already been reported by Mars. There could be no doubt that Texar was personally responsible for the out rege at Marine Creek, and that be alone could say where Dy and Zermah were now detained by his accomplices. That their fate was in the Spaniard's hands was only too evident and Stevens saw this at once. Would he allow the Burbauks to take the matter in hand and act as they thought fit? He approved of all that had been done; and if it was necessary to set Texar free, he would do so, and take the responsibility with tne Jacksonville magistrates. James and Gilbert Burbank, having obtained full permission, thanked the captain, and received from bim a written permission to communicate with the Spaniard. They then resumed their voyage to Jacksonville. There they met Mr. Harvey, by appointment. The three thn went to the court, where they received from the magistrates an order to enter the prison. A physiologist would have been much Interested in Texar's bearing and conduct since bis incarceration. There could be no doubt that be was very angry at the arrival of the federal troops, which put an end to his being first magistrate of the town. Although he had held the power to do what he liked, and had every facility for gratifying his personal hatred, yet a delay of a few hours had prevented him from shooting James and Gilbert Burbank! But his regret went no further. That he was in the bands of his enemies, imprisoned on the most serious charges, responsible for all the violent deeds that could be so justly laid to his charge, seemed to be a matter of perfect indifference to him. His only trouble was that he had not brought to completion his plans against tne Burbanks. He seemed to take no interest whatever in the proceedings against him. Would he now render futile the attempts about to be made to get a word from him? The door of the cell was opened. James and Gilbert Burbank were in the prisoner's presence. , "Ah! the father and the son," said Texar, in the insolent tone that was habitual to him. I ought to be much obliged to the federals! Without them I should not have had the honor of this visit The mercy you no longer ask for yourselves you have doubtless come to offer me." The tone was so provoking that James Burbank would have exploded had not his son restrained him. "Father, let me speak. Texar would like to meet us on ground where we cannot follow him that of recrimination. It is useless to talk about the past. It is with the present we are concerned the present alone." "The present!" exclaimed Texar; "or rather the present situacion! It seems to me that is clear enough! Three days ago you were in the cell, which vou would never have left but to meet your death. To-day I am in your place, and I feel much more comfortable than you think." The reply was disconcerting, for the Burbanks had come to offer him his freedom in exchange for his secret "Texar," said Gilbert, "listen to me. We will act frankly with you. What you have done at Camdless Bay, we are willing to forget We are interested in only one thing. My sister and Zermah disappeared the night your partisans invaded the plantation and laid siege to Castle House. It is certain that both were carried off" "Carried off?" answered Texar mechanically, "I am delighted to hear it." "To hear it!" exclaimed James Burbank. "Do you deny, you scoundrel, dare you deny " "Father," said the lieutenant, "keep cool you must Yes, Texar. they were carried off during the attack on the plantation. Do you admit that you did it?" "I have nothing to answer." "Do yon refuse to tell us where my sister and Zermah have been taken under your orders?" "I repeat, I have nothing to answer." "Not even if by speaking we could set you free?" "I do not want to be free." "And who will open the gates of this prison for vou! exclaimed James Burbank, whom so much impudence had completely astounded. "The judgss 1 ask for." - "The judges ! They will condemn you without mercy." "Then I shall see what is to be done. " "So you definitely refuse to reply?" asked Gilbert for the last time. "I refuse." "Even at the price of the liberty I offer?" 'I do not want vour libertv" 'Even at the price of the fortune I offer you 1"J "I do not want your fortune. And now, gen tlemen, leave me alone." It must be admitted that the Burbanks were completely bewildered at such assurance. On what could it rest T How dare Texar expose himself to a trial which could only have one result f Neither liberty nor all the gold they had offered could tempt him to answeri Was his inextinguishable hatred forcing him to act against his own interests? "Come, father, come!" said the young officer; and he led James Burbank out of the prison. At the door they rejoined Mr. Harvey, and the three went off to Captain Stevens to report their want of success. Meanwhile a proclamation from Commodore Dupont had arrived on board the flotilla. It was addressed to the inhabitants of Jacksonville, and stated that no notice would be taken of political opinions, nor of what happened in Florida since the outbreak of the civil war. Submission to the flag covered all responsibilities in public point of view. Evidently this measure, a very wise one in itself, and in accordance with President Lincoln's policy in all similar circumstances, could not apply to private affairs aa in Texar's case. He had usurped the powers of the regular authorities, and used them to organize resistance. Be it so! That was a question between Southerners and Southerners in which the federals did not wish to be concerned. But attempts on persons, the invasion of Camdless Bay directed against a Northerner, the destruction of James Burbank's property, the capture of his daughter and a woman in his service, were crimes against ordinary law, and for them redress could be had in the regular course of justice. Such was the advice of Commandant Stevens. Such was the advice of Commodore Dupont. as soon as the complaint was made to him, and permission asked to proceed against the Spaniard. In the morning of the loth of March an order was issued to Texar to appear before the military tribunal on the double charge of pillage and abduction. It was before the court-martial sitting at St. Augustine that the accused would have to answer for his crimes. CHAPTER XX. ST. AUGUSTINE. St Augustine is one of the eldest towns in North America, and dates from the fifteenth century. It is the capital of St John's county, wbich.large as it is, contains less than 3,000 inhabitants. Spanish in origin, St Augustine remains very much as it was. It rises near the end of one of the islands on the coast Its harbor is a safe refuge for ships of war or commerce; it is well protected aeainst the winds which unceasingly sweep in from the sea'along the dangerous shore. But to enter it vessels have to cross the bar which the eddies of the Gulf Stream heap back at its mouth. The streets of St. Augustine are narrow, like those of all cities beneath the direct rays of the sun. Owing to their position, and the seabreezes which night and morning freshen the atmosphere, the ciimate is a mild one, and the town is to the United States what Nice and Mentone are to Provence. The population is thickest about the harbor and the neighboring streets. The suburbs, with their few huts covered with palm leaves, would be completely deserted were it not for the does, pigs and cow3 allowed to wander where they please. The city, properly so-called, has a very Spanish look. The houses have strongly-barred windows, and in the interior they have the traditional patio, or central court, surrounded by slender colonnades, fantastic gables, and carved balconies. Sometimes, on Sundays or holidays, the houses pour forth their inhabitants into the town. Then there is the strangest mixture of senoras, negresses, mulattoes, half-breeds, Indians, thoroughbred blacks, English ladies, gentlemen, clergymen, monks and Catholic priests, all with a cigarette in their lips, even when they are going to the Calvary, which is the parish church of St. Augustine, whose bells have rung their peal almost without interruption since the middle of the seventeenth century. We must not forget the markets, richly stored with vegetables, fish, poultry, pigs, lambs slaughtered as required by the buyers eggs, rice, boiled bananas, fnjoles a sort of small cooked bean in short, all the trophical fruits, pineapples, dates, olives, pomegranates, oranges, gnaves, peaches, figs, maranons all in the best condition to make life agreeable and easy in this part of Florida. The highways are not cleansed by paid scavengers, but by flocks of vultures which the law protects, and forbids being killed under very Btrong penalties. The birds eat everything, even snakes, which are in considerable numbers, notwithstanding the voracity. of the feathered Scavengers, There ia no want of green among the chief bouses of the town. Where the roads cross a glance will show many a group of trees with its branches above the roofs of the houses, and alive with its noisy crowd of wild parrots. Often

there are huge palms waving their foliage in the air like huge fans or Indian punkahs. Here and theve are large oaks garlanded with lianas and glycenas, and boquets of gigantic cactuses, which at their base form an impenetrable hedge. Everything is cheering and attractive, and would be more so if the vultures only did their work more conscientiously. Decidedly they are not as good as mechanical sweepers. At St Angustine there are but one or two steam saw-miils, a cigar factory and a turpentine distillery. The town is more commercial than industrial, and exports or imports molasses, cereals, cotton, indigo, gums, timber, fish and salt. At ordinary times the harbor is busy enough with the arrival or departure of steamers employed in the trade and passeneer service to the different parts of the ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. St. Augustine is the seat of one of the six courts of justice existing in Florida. Its only means of defence are a solitary fort Fort Marion, or St. Mark built in ihe Castilian stvleof the seventeenth century. Vaubon or Cormontaigne would doubtless have made very little of it, but it is admired by archaeologists and antiquaries for its towers and bastions, and demilune and machicolations, and its old guns and mortars, which would be more dangerous for those that fire them than those they are fired against It was this fort which the confederate garrison had hurriedly abandoned at the approach of the federal flotilla, although the government, a few years before the war, had improved its means of defence. After the militia had left the inhabitants of St Augustine had voluntarily submitted to Commodore Dupont, who occupied the town without a blow. The proceedings against the Spaniard, Texar. had made much noise in the county. It seemed as though there was at last to be an end to the strife between this suspicious individual and the Burbank family. The abduction of the little girl and Zermah was calculated to intensify the public opinion, which had pronounced emphatically in favor of the planter of Camdless Bay. There could be no doubt that Texar was the author of the crime. But it would be curious to see how he would get out of the charge, and whether he would get off, as he had always done before. Excitement threatened to be great at St.

Augustine. The proprietors of the neighboring plantations crowded in. The matter was of great interest to them personally, as one of the charges referred to the overrunning and pillage of Camdless Bay. Other plantations had also been ravaged by the Southerners, and it was important to know how tne federal government would look upon such crimes against the common welfare, though perpetrated tinder cover of politics. Thechif hotel in St. Augustine, the City, had accommodated a goodly number of visitors whose sympathy was entirely with the Burbank family, and it could accommodate a great many more. And, for a hotel, there could be no more appropriate building than this huge sixteenthcentury house, the old home of the corregidor, with its puerta, or principal door, covered with carvings, its sola or room of honor, its interior court with the columns garlanded with passionflowers, its verandah, on to which opened the most comfortable rooms with their wainscoting hidden nnder the brightest colors of emerald and golden yellow, its miradors on the walls in Spanish fashion, its leaping fountains and smiling grass plats, all in a vast inclosure, the highwalled patio. There it was that James and Gilbert Burbank, and Mr. Stannard and his daughter, accompanied by Mars, had taken up their abode the evenin e before. After their fruitless journey to the prison at Jacksonville, James Burbank and bis son returned to Castle House. When they learnt that Texar refused to answer any question about Dy or Zermah, the family felt their last hope vanish, although the news that Texar would have to answer to military justice for his doings at Camdless Bay was some consolation. In view of a sentence which he could not escape, the Spaniard would doubtless break silence when it was necessary for him to treat for his liberty or his life. In thismatter Alice Stannard would be the principal witness. She bad been at Marine Creek when Zermah had shouted Texar's name, and she had recognized the scoundrel in the boat which bore him away. She had come to St. Augustine, and her father and his friends had accompanied her. After dinner, on the 16th, they bad bidden farewell to Mrs. Burbank and Edward CarroL One of the steamboats had embarked them at Camdless Bay, and landed them at Pieolata, and thence a stage-coach had brought them along tha winding road, through the oaks, and cypresses, and plantains, which here abound. Before midnight comfortable hospitalitv had received them in the apartments of the City Hotel Texar had been abandoned by his friends as might be imagined. His partisans were chiefly among the smaller planters, all of them embittered slave holders. Knowing that thev would not have to answer for any of the troubles at Jacksonville, his companions resolved to rally round their old chief. Many of them had come to St. Augustine. It is true that it was not in the patio of the City Hotel that one would look for them; but there were many of them in the inns in the town, in the tiendas where the halfbred Spaniards and Greeks sell everything that can be eaten, drunk of smoked. There these individuals of low origin and equivocal reputation lost no opportunity of protesting in Texar's favor. Commodore Dupont was not at St Augustine. He was away on the blockade. But the troops landed after the surrender of Fort Marion were in firm possession of the city. There was no movement to be feared on the part of the Southerners of the militia, who were retreating on the other side of the river. If the partisans of Texar attempted any rescue, they would be immediately put down. One of the gunboats had brought the Spaniard to Pieolata. and thence he bad been brought under a strong escort, and placed in one of the cells in the fort, from which escape was impossible. As he bad demanded a trial, be was not likely to attempt an escape. His partisans were aware of this. If he were condemned this time, they would see what they could do to help him, but till then they would be quiet. In the absence of the Commodore, Colonel Gardner was in military command. He was the president of the court-martial appointed to try Texar in one of the rooms of Fort Marion. This was the Colonel who had assisted at the capture of Fernandina, aud it was at his orders that the prisoners captured from the train by the Ottawa had been detained for forty-eight hours, a fact which is here important to notice. The court-martial opened at 11 o'clock in the morning. A numerous public filled the room. Amongst the noisiest of the crowd were the friends and partisans of the accused. James and Gilbert Burbank, Mr. Stannard, his daughter, and Mars occupied the place reserved for the witnesses. There seemed to be no defense. No witnesses were apparently to be called. Did the Spaniard scorn all evidence. or had he found it impossible to bring any to his help? It would soon be known. Anyhow, there seemed to be no doubt as to the issue of the affair. An indefinable presentiment had seized upon James Burbank. Was it not in this very town that he had before prosecuted Texar? Had not he, tbn, by an incontestable alibi, .-escaped from justice? As soon as tne court-martial was seated lexar was brought in. He sat down coolly and quietly. Nothing seemed to be able to disturb bis natural impudence. A smile of disdain for bis judges, a look full of assurance for the friends he recognized in the room, a look of hatred for James Burbank, and then he settled himself and waited for Colonel Gardner to begin. The interrogatories began in the usual way. "Your name?" asked Colonel Gardner. "Txar." "Your age?" "Thirty-five." "Where do you live?" "At Jacksonville: at Torillo's tienda." " I want to know your usual abode." "I have r one." James Burbank felt his heart beat as he heard this reply, given in a tone which plainly denoted a firm resolve to keep secret the real place of residence. The president again tried to get at the facts, but Texar persisted that he had no fixed abode. He gave himself out to be a nomad, a back woodsman, a hunter in the vast forests, a dwel ler in the cypress-groves, living by his rifle and bis decoys. That was all that could be got from him. "Be it so, said Colonel Gardner. "It does not matter much." "It does not matter much," said Texar, im prudently. "Put down, if you like. Colonel, that my domicu is now Fort Marion, in fet Augustine, where I am detained contrary to all justice. Jt wnat am l accused, if you pieasef he asked, as 11 be wisnea to take tne manage ment of his own trial. "You are not called upon to answer for any thing that took place at Jacksonville. A proc lamation from Commodore Dupont has been issued Renouncing that the government will not interfere 1n the local revolution which substituted for the regular authorities of the county several new magistrates, whoever they may have been. Florida is now nnder the federal nag, and the government of Washington will soon proceed with its reorganization. "If lam not cnarged with the change in tne municipality of Jacksonville, and that with the Bupport of the majority of the people, why am I brought petore tnis court-martiau ' "I will tell you what you pretend not to know. Crimes against the common welfare have been committed wniie you were exercising tne func tions of chief magistrate of that town. Yon are accused of having excited the violent part of the population to commit them." "W hat aro these ciiiuesf '

is the outrage where a horde at of thieves was set loose." "And a detachment of soldiers, commanded by an officer of the militia." added the Spaniard, quickly. "Be it so. But there was robbery, incendiarism, and armed attack against a house, which it was right to repel as was done." "Right?'' answered Texar. "Right was not one the side of him who refused to ober the orders of a properly constituted committee. James Burbank for he it was had given his slaves their freedom in defiance of public opinion, which, in Florida, as in most of the Southern States of the Union, is in favor of slavery. That act might have been the cause of much disaster on the neighboring plantations by exciting the blacks to revolt. "The committee of Jacksonville decided that nnder the circumstances it was their duty to interfere. They did not annul the act of enfranchisement, but they thought fit to expel the newly-freed slaves from the district James Burbank refused to obey the order, and the committee had to use force. That is why the militia, accompanied by some of the inhabitants, proceeded to disperse the former slaves at Camdless Bay." "Texar," replied Colonel Gardner, "the courtmartial cannot admit that the view you take of the outrage is the correct one. James Burbank is a Northerner by birth, and was quite within his rights in freeing his slaves. Nothing can excuse the excess which took place on bis plantation." "I consider that I am losing time in discussing matters of opinion with the court-martial. The committee! of Jacksonville considered it their duty to act as they did. Am I accused as president of that committee? Is it your intention to make me alone responsible for this act?" "Yes. You were not only the president of the committee, but you in person led the thieves." "Prove it," said Texar, coolly. "Have you a single witness who saw me among either the citizens or the soldiers of the militia who carried out the committee's orders?" At this reply Colonel Gardner called on James Burbank to give his evidence. TO BE CONTINUED NEXT" SUNDAY. AN AMERICAN GIKIS TRIUMPH. Miss Bradley, of New York, Carries Off the Honors in a Paris College. Pittsburg Dispatch. The ceremony of defending a thesis is the final exercise which is exacted of a Parisian medical student preparatory to receiving the collage diploma. The occasion always draws together the friends of the student, and is generally fringed and variegated with fun and frolic, with gifts of flowers, and with a complimentary dinner to the new-made doctor of medicine. But the chief feature of this day is a severe examination of the candidates by the college bigwigs, who sit in solemn state, arrayed in red silk gowns and wearing scarlet caps. The candidate, whether male or female, is dressed in a black gown with a white fichu. And when Miss Bradley stepped into the arena, clad in this traditional garb, the general comment of the audienca was: "How like Portia in the trial scene of the 'Merchant of Venice.'" It was known to Miss Bradley's college-mates and other friends that ber thesis would be on "lodism," and that she bad taken a year to write an elaborate book on the subject, which will soon be republished in English from the original French. For an hour and a half she was questioned with great shrewdness and ability by four of the leading professors of the Ecole de Medecine Drs. Fournier, Gautier, Porchet and Robin. Each of these gentlemen had previously received a copy -of Miss Bradley's bold book and they bad bought their copies at the examining room, with muititudinious interrogation marks on the margins, showing that the uew treatise bad not only been carefully read, but bad excited much curiosity and attention. Miss Bradley had the great advantage of an unhackneyed theme, which she skillfully illustrated by a numerous array of unfamiliar facts. Her triumph was of a peculiar character. Her four examiners said to her with admiring frankness: "You have been working a new field; we cannot agree with many of your conclusions; further investigation may lead either yourself or us to different views; but meanwhile you have presentedkto the college a thesis which you uncommon honor and for which we unanimously award you the maximum mark of merit" After the announcement of the award, Miss Bradley was entertained at dinner by Miss Augusta Klumpke, the first female physician who has ever been admitted to practice in the hospitals of Paris. Both these ladies are Americans Miss Klumpke from San Francisco, and Miss Bradley from New York. The grandfather of the latter, Henry Bradley, was once a candidate for the governorship of the Empire State; her father, Ocden Bradley, is a banker, and Right Rev. Bishop Nealy, of Maine, is her uncle. A CHARGE FOR THE "KNOW HOW." It Is Not Always Necessary to Cat a Bins from a Swollen Finger. New York Mail and Express. "Will you please saw tais ring off my finger?" It was an old woman who made this request of a Broadway jeweler, and as the the worker in gold and silver took the wrinkled, though fat and shapely, band in his it trembled violently, and a tear dropped upon the counter. "Excuse me," continued the old lady, "but it is my wedding ring. I have never had it off since I was married forty-five years ago. I have refrained from having it cut, hoping that my finger might get thinner and that I could take it off without breaking it" "And what if I can remove it without cutting" inquired the jeweler. "But can you?" said she, looking up in a half credulous way. "If you can, do it by all means." Tben the jeweller took the swollen finger and wound it round from the top downwards in a length of flat rubber braid. The elastic cord exerted its force upon the tissue of the fingers geatly and gradually until the flesh seemed to be pushed down almost to the bone. The old woman's hand was then held above her head for a brief interval. Then the bandage was quickly uncorded and rewound about the member. This was repeated three times, and finally it was found upon uncovering the finger that it was small enough to admit of the ring's being removed with ease. "I have never failed but once." said the jeweller, "and I have removed many rings from fingers even more swollen than yours. Do I charge for it? Oh, yes. I ask the same amount that I would get if the ring were left to be mended after being cut. One dollar. Thank you?" and as he turned to his bench and the old woman left the store be added, "But after all she might have done the same thing herself. It's not the work, however, I charge for, it's the know how." The Flrt Circular Saw. Brunswick (Me.) Te.earaph. The Waterville Mail claims that Capt William Kendall, who came to that place in 1820 and erected a sawmill, subsequently invented and put in operation the first circular saw for the manufacture of lumber. Tbe Mail must be assuming airs when it makes that claim for Waterville. The circular saw was in operation for sawing lumber on our falls some years previous to 1S20. The inventors of the circular saw were Messrs. Jacquith & Eastman, who carried on the manufacture of lumber in tbe Cove, their mill ocsupying the site where the pulp mill now stands. I well remember seeing this saw in operation previous to 1820, cutting out clapboards. The logs were sawed into focr feet lengths, and placed on a machine propelled by water power and somewhat similar to a turning lathe, where the bark and sap wood were taken off. They were then fastened on the clapboard machine, the log turning on its center and a row of clapboards cut off by a circular saw around the log, and if the log was of sufficient dimensions a second row was taken off. The log was propelled back and forward and turned by machinery, giving the thickness of a clapboard by an index without the aid of a mill-man. The machine was considered a great invention at tbe time and attracted much attention from strangers visiting the town. ,A Boom for the Cheap Watch. New York Mail and Express. It is estimated that in a single night during the recent damp weather three thousand mainsprings in as many watches in this city alone were broken. Tbe watches themselves were fine sensitive time-pieces, and yet they were effected bv the electrical atmospheric disturbances. Speaking of the matter recently with a well-known borologer, a reporter who is the owner of a $3.50 nickel watch, was surprised to learn that his time-piece was probably as good a one as though it bad cost one hundred times as much. "Watches, like women, said the manufacturer, "have their caprices. They are never entirely trustworthy. Especially is this true during the months of June, July and August In this season there are probably more mainsprings broken than during all the remaining months of the year. They break in a variety of ways, sometimes snapping into a score of pieces. Since the electric light has been so widely used manv watches, and some of tbem very fine ones, hnvu become so magnetized as to be useless. This defect seems to be incurable, and because of it many watebes have been cast aside. The cheaper grade of watches, however, seem to be proof against electrical influences, and for that reason 1 always carry ono."

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FEMININE GOSSIP. Women as Editors and Doctors Nellie Grant' Danjrhter.

8peclat to the Indianapolis Journal. New York, Sept. 10. It would make a long list simply to enumerate the names of women who sit in the editorial chairs of magazines. Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge went from a successful literary career to the office of St Nicholas, Ella Farraan Pratt takes an occasional part in making up Wide Awake. Of the fashion periodicals, there is no better edited publication of any kind in the country than Harper's Bazar, of which Mrs. Mary L. Booth, and in her absence Mrs. S. S. Conant has full control. Jennie June has a half ownership in Godey's Lady Book and is supreme In the editorial-room. Mme. Dernorest has but just retired from the business control of tbe magazine bearing her name. Tbe widow of Peterson, the Philadelphia publisher, has taken Peterson's Magazine into her own hands, both editorially and financially. The Ladies' World pays the woman at its head $3,000 a year, and the new dress reform magazine. Dress, if Mrs. Jenness Miller will allow it to be classed with fashion publications, is in part owned and wholly managed by its editor, who is putting a good deal of fresh talent into its early issues. Mrs. Laura Holloway edits the Home Library Magazine and the Woman's Argosy, new Chicago ventures, which promise large success. Mrs. Josephine Redding edits two decorative art magazines very ably, and the housekeeping magazines are in swarms. Mrs. Frank Leslie has made a fortune in four yearn. Of a more 6erions class of publications, Mrs. Martha J. Lamb has increased tbe circulation and made the reputation of the Magazine of American History, and Miss Jeannette Gilder commands unlimited respect for her work on the Critic. Philanthropic publications of all sorts are in feminine bands. Ed? ward Everett Hale's Lend a Hand is largely directed by a woman, and the list, not of women who supply matter for departments, but who are in editorial or business control, or both, of periodicals of some size and standing could be prolonged at some length. Many of the large publishing houses say that women make the best readers of manuscript, and the same qualities that make feminine talent available there together with some tact and business judgment make good editors of them also. Their periodi. cals almost invariably are good business properties, and are nicely adjusted to tbe exact clientage they are meant to reach. Jennie June says women like editorial work, and editorial work thus far seems to like them also. The address of Prof. Elliot Coues at the annual commencement of tbe National Medical College, Washington, just published in pamphlet form, makes interesting reading. The medical department of Columbian University graduated its first women students at the end of the last school year. Professor Coues's address was inspired by this fact and its advocacy of the equal claims of women to all the fruits of modern civilization was so pronounced that the faculty, unwilling to print it, resolved to omit the customary publication of the annual addresses. Professor Coues at once resigned his position and placed his words on record before the publio. Characteristic sentences are his advice to women: "Think.be and do for yourselves and take the consequences. A woman says to herself. 'Your medical college does not suit me, therefore I will make it over.' And the thing is done. She Bays to society, I tt1riAi1 j mnlr vnn wliftk vrtn ata T will Vi r to make you over again if you do not sutt me. ' No one can foretell the result or presume to limit tbe power of this splendid spirit of individual right to individual opinion, to individual character, to individual conduct What next' If ws would be wise let us prophesy after the event Whatever the case may be there will ba a woman in the ease. God bless her." New York Buddhists are growing in numbers, and include in their ranks men and women who are never named with or suspected of belonging to the mystics. New York is not like Boston; ic never loses its head sufficiently to neglect pre cautions against being laughed at by tbe skeptical, and the circle of believers are shy of getting before tbe public. Nevertheless there is money subscribed for a Buddhist temple, and tbe building itself may materialize before long. New York Buddhists accept the doctrines of reincarnation and Nirvana, and I could mention several who keep themselves in constant communication with the high priest of Ceylon. There are converts among them well known as writers who carry on something of a propaganda through "newspapers and magazines, always using a nom de plume or suppressing the signature, lest the knowledge of their connection with the mystics hurt their reputation for common sense and literary sanity in other lines. Mr 3. Laura Hoiloway's Buddhistic Cookbook indicated her interest in the Oriental religions some years ago, ana toe topic is a frequent subject or discussion at the Sunday evening conversazione at her Brooklyn home. Mrs. Holloway is a vegetarian, and has not used meat for years. Nellie Grant's daughter, little Vivian Sartoris, is a beautiful child. Playing on the beach at Long Branch with her maid the other day, she was a picture of attractive childhood, delicate, quick and intelligently American rather than robustly English. She is not in the least like her father, but inherits ber mother's eyes, brunette complexion and shapely hands, with ahint of General Grant about the forehead and rather prominent ears. Mrs. Sartcris dresses her with great taste, and the child is an unaffected, happy looking creature. I saw a pretty incident by the way, before I took my eyes off ber. A. lady with two children a little younger than Vivian, chubby creatures both, passed near the child and said something to her little people which evidently interested them very much. The tois looked at each other a minute, then ran up to General Grant's grandaughter and emptied the treasured stones and shells they bad picked up in their walk into a dainty straw basket that she carried. They trotted away again without saying a word. There is a Brooklyn woman who has been to the races a good deal this summer and has uniformly bet on the wrong horse. When the man to whom she had mortgaged her furniture for $400 tried to foreclose, he found that there were twenty-five other mortgages in existence. The woman had raised $4,000 on $400 worth of goods, and sunk it all "hsproving the breed of horses." She was zealous in the cause. The yellow to be used this fall is a deen orange, so vivid that it is employed in small quantities. A black velvet bat, for instance, low-crowned and wide-brimmed, baa as its piagle touch of color a tiny bunch of these orange aigrettes. There are half a dozen new green, none of them pretty. Absinthe and pale blue is going to be a leading combination. Iled, now as always, will be daringly, dashingly employed till heavy frosts have killed off nature's carnival and checked tho recklessness whieh always, after the latitude of summer dressing, characterizes autumn toilets. An odd fancy of the autumn is to wear gold and silver sleeve-clasps set with a big jewel. They are like those used in the days of lownecked and short sleeved afternoon gowns and very decorative, but serve no other toilet purpose. Low-crowned bonnets have appeared, but it will take two years, at least, to make them general. E. P. 11. Royal Manners. Youth's Companion. When Frederick William I. was King of Prussia, good manners seem to have been at a discount in bis court His daughter, the Margravine of Baireuth, describes the following scene between her husband, then hereditary Prince of Baireuth,' and the King. They bad been dining together, with a number of noblemen, and the Prince went home from tbe festivity almost ill with rage. Says his wife: "He bad had a fearful scene with the King. My father had. on this occasion, coutrary to bis usual habit, not asked the Prince, my husband, to sit next bim, but had placed Count Seckendorf between tbem. The King then said, in quite a loud voice, so that tbe Prince could not help hearing it: "I can not bear my son-in-law; he is a complete fool. I have give myself endless trouble to put some 6ense into bis head, but ail in vain. He is not even clever enough to drink a trlass of wine, and nothing pleases or amuses him." Mv husband, who could scarcely contain hut anger, turned to Seckendorf and said, "I wiah th King were not my father-in-law, for then I won: i soon show him that tbe fool is able to stop 1 mouth." He then took up h.a glass, and, pi tting it to bis mouth, said. "In tbe devils name?" ' The King became scarlet with iage, but said nothing, and all the others looked down. That particular quarrel was afterwards composed, but the King and Prince always growled at each other whenever they met. Canned goods should never be left in the tta after being once opened. The action of the air favors the development of an acid so poisonous as to endanger life. This is especially tha case in tomatoes and salmon.