Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 24, Number 49, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 July 1875 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, THURSDAY JULY 29 1875

A DREAM.

IIY ELIZABETH AKEKi ALLEN. i. -i. i ,)aitn n rtnvnt delizut! How I hav loused for joa, momma anl üi;hl . WmrhRil yt VOU. Iimeu lor juu, an iu throu;n. Craving no boon ana no Diessms uui j - Li",, . . i . . Prayed for you, p.ead lor you, suus-n vain. ..as HVX I1M iut Oh' I have sorrowed and sufTVred so mnca Since I Unanswered your lips' loving touch Through the night wntchts, in dayli4h. broad tot ftjfi Anguih(d by visions and torturfd by dreams JJretrin so rep'.tte with bewildering paiu. Him It Is throbbing In heart and lu brain; Oh ! for 1 dreamed-keep me close to your side, Darling, O darling-1 dreamed you had died.! Hreanied that I stood by your pillow, and heard From your ple lips loves last half-uttered vir irrt And, by the lizht of the May morula? skies, Watched vour face whiten, and saw your t dear lazing far into the Wonderful LandKelt your :ond fingers grow eo d la my hand ; "Darlinff." you whispered, "my darling, you Faintly, bo faintly-and then you were dad! Oh! the dirk hours when I knelt by your grave, falling njon you to love and to save l'h-adinz In vain for a sin or a word Ooiy to tell me you listened and heard Oaly t sf.v you remembered and kuew Jlow ail my soul was ia augiish for jou: Bitter, despairing, the tears trial I shed, larling. O darling, beeau-e J ou were dead ! Oh! the black days of your absenc, my own! Oil ! to be left in the wide world alone ! . Israg, with our little one clasped to my breast, Wandered I, feekinu lor refuse aud rs-.t : Yet all the world was so careiess and co.d, Vainly 1 rought for a sheltering fold ; Tüere was no roof and no home for my head. Darling, O darling, because you wens dead Yet, iu the midst of darkness and pain. Darlin, I knew I should find you aaiu! Knew, as the roses know, under the t,uow, How the next summer will set them a;tow ; So did I always, tiie dreary days through, Keep my heart single and sacred to you, A on the beautiful day we were wed, Dai ling, O Daning although you Were dead! Oh! the great joy of awaking to Snow I did but dream all that torturing woe! Oh! the clelight that my tearching can trace Nothinz ot coldness or change in your face ! Still is your forehead unfurrowed and fair; None ol '.he old Is lost out of your ba r ; Noiitjo.' :".u 11411t. frjm yofder eyes lied: Darlins, oh! bow could I dream you were dead! Now you are hre, you will always lemaiu. Never, oh! never, to leave me again ; How it has vanished, the anguish ot years! Vanished ! cay, thee are uot sorrowful tearsHappiness only ray cheek fias imprleilThei d is a grieving for me in tins world ; Dark clo ids may threaten, but I have no tear, Darling, O darling, because you are hero! NEWS AND GO&SIP. Tbodiikey in the Cincinnati Zoological gardens thnt whipped tha liou9.s died on Wednesday. The c udsner who hung an old coat out to frizhter bird away, and alterwards found a , .,, .1 i-n r.i ii Af tna ni1 ciie'.-s, another remedy. Among tho latest labor-saving lavaations is a pV.eut pointing machine, to rai G!t) la-Jn of ordinary which is said siia f jr Vonicin binds iu an hour. The proposition that there should bo a "Uureaa of C'.PiiM1. Peccadilloes' taoli-Lod in this city, is rejected with the scora it dom?:v;3. Brooklyn Argus. A few da3 ago it w said tint a Jap. va tho best shot at Wiuibledou. They don't nay so since the members ol the Aaiericad team began firing a; tad rar.qes there. Henry Ward Boocber, as dona in was a: Mice. Tussand'?, L.ondon, u sau to ue uio living linage oi Theodore Tilton. "öueh," says a wriier, "aro the pranks of aven;iii:g taie as evinced ia inanimate objec'a." The ZJjstou school cjannittee hiva naasel au crder e:ablishins lour k;DJergarten schools for caildran three years old, wi-.h a far years' ccurs-e of instructioa, with a tiudergarteu tcsicher and suitihle apparatu3 lor each. Ite Itev. Mr. Bradley, a colored minister of Cairo. 111., has mada strenuous eliorU to have his salary raised ; but his pariahoaerä insist on arresting him for ho stealing, and there doesn't seem to b9 much chance tor him. Emerson says every man is wanted but not tiuch. The .sentence was origically written about himself, the last tbree words beicp; added as he thought ol Sergeant Bates, Priva-e Dalzell, Toiumy Shearuiia and Eli Perkins. Savoy has presented a medal Switzerland lor taking care of Bourbakl's army, in the winter of 1S71, when it had to escape into the mountains of Tell to avoid capt ivity by old MantcaSd. 8vritz?rlud returntd thanks. Dumas, jr.. is trying his pin on religious sutje-cts, having limsheJ up ilia subject cl women. His critics claim tuat hi is is not lilsely to We a success ia hw new line, and advise him to stick to bii listlike a good shoemaker. Tha Western Union Telegraph is corar.letias a tower of fifty feet in haig 'at, oa the .rast of the lofty Highlands ol Neveraink. Tho operators, who are to have the mos: powerful zlasses. will ba b!e to distinguish sDeameis ami other vessels twenty miles at . sea. The one thing needful: May " it a m:n a, do let us have another wedding noon !'' .Mamma (who does not like parting with her daughter) "Don't talk of feucu a thing, my darline!" May "I mean let a naye an r.thf r weddinsr. and leave out all but the cake, you know!' It is a strange fact that all those who took part In the Mexican expedition came to an evil end. The Emperor Napoleon drained the cup ot humiliation to the dr!; the KmDrefs Eusenle is an exile; Mrrshal Prim wa assassinated; tha Emperor Maxituiiiian was shot; Marshal Bszaine 1 a t uai tive from justice and the Empress Carlotta Is insane. The San Francisco Chronicle raakos this very necsary correction: "In writing our notice of 'London Assurance' yesterday we alluded to 'the dashing Fanny Davenport.' Some printer, whose zeal is greater and whose modesty is less than ouis, male us r thA darling Fannv Davanport.' We trust tha lady will acquit us of any inten tional familiarity." The intelligent juryman hs removed to Cincinnati. This is the latest, as vouched for by the Gazette; "We, the jury, fiod that tho said Louis Fillman came to hte death by af hot accidentally weat otf by himself by killing a cat by shooting the s :ue and when she was no- dead Instantly by w' riking the ;at with tho breach of the gun aa i tu . I a discharged itseir." Tho dedication of M. Quad'" book r as ! .llow-: "To the Pawnee trihjof fi.iU:, wfi'jrt n -U rpri-?, taletit and s!U?iiUüh:r. x-ur lfd with the fact that they nso carlj', P to bed late, and are always around when wanted, and who cheerfully roasted one cf aiy ancestors at the stake, without reward or hope of reward, is this volume respectj&illy dedicated by the author."

Htrivlng fo -ever to find you naia Oiuntiusall anguish as uanght, if I m

Clasp you i.gaia as I clasp you to-night !

A BALLOON

The Perilous Adventure's and Narrow Escape of La Mountain and Haddock in 1859. LOST IN TUE WOODS. TiTE ASCENT FROM WATERIOWX, N. V. ABOVE THE CLOUDS DOWN AO AI JJ LOST SUFFERINGS FKOM HUNGER THE FINAL RESCUE. In connection with the fate of Donaldson and Grimwood, the Chicago Journal is remidedol a famous ascension, the story ol which it tells as follows: One of the most thrilling of all the recorded balloon experiences was that of Prof. John LaMountain and John A. Haddock, in 1S59. LaMountain was an intrepid and successful aeronaut. Haddock was a newspaper editor The ascent was made -frcrn Watertown, N. Y., on the 22d day of September. Mr. Haddock published a graphic account of the hazardous and exciting voyage in the Watertown Reformer, of October 5, 1S53. After mentioning the arrangements, goodbres, and startin?, the narrative proceeds as follows: A3 we rose into the light, fleecy clouls, they looked between us and the earth like patches of enow we Ree lying upon thu landscape in spring time; but when we rose a little higher the clouds completely shut out the earth, and the cold, whito'masses telow us bad precisely the pain? look that a mountainous snow-covered country does, as you look down upon it from a higner mountain. Those who have crossed the Alps or have stood upon ono cf the lofty eummits ot the Sierra Nevada, and gazed down uaon the eternal snows below and around them, will le able to catch the idea I am tryinc: to convey. In six minutes we were far above all the clouds, and the sun and we were face to face. We saw the time after that when his faco looked very fair to us. In eizht minutes after leaving the earth the thermometer showed a lall of two and a half degrefs. It stood at eighty-four when we lef;. The balance rotated a good deal, proving that we w( re ascending with freat rapidity. At 5:43 the thermometer stood at forty two, and falling very fast. At 5:50 we were at least two miles high thermometer thirty-four. At this point a suggestion, made by a friend just before starting, w.ts found to be a very good one. He had advised the taking along of some cotton, with which to fill the ears when at great height?, and my father had procured me some. Iho UNPLEASANT RINGING SENSATION Lai now become painiul, and I filled both ears with cottcn. This made my head feel a good deal as a very large hollow pumpkin may be supposed to, with a humming bird buzzing upon its surface a ccmpariäon with which, doubtles?, many who read thi account will hardly quarrel. At 5:52 wo put on our glov03 and shawls thermoiist?r, 32. The wet sand bags now becsmo still with C 'id they were frozen. Ascent' ir g very rapidly. At 5:54 thermon-ieier 28, and falling. Here we caught our last sight of earth by daylight. I recognized the Sr. Lawrence to the southwest of ua, which showed we were drilling nearly north. At 6 o'clock we thought we were descending a little, and LaMointain directfd me to throw out a'-out 20 pounds of ballast. This shot us up again thermometer iM, and falling vfry slowly. At 6:05 thermometer 22 my feet were very cold. The Atlantic was now full, and presented a uao&t splendid sight. Tho gas began to discharge itself at the mouth, and iuabouiinablo smell, as it came down upon u, made me sick. A moment's vomiting made me feel all right again. La Mountain was suffering a good deal with cold. I passed my thick shawl around h's shoulders and put the blanket over our knees and fe t. At 6:10, thermometer IS. We drifted along until the sua lof; us, and in a short time therealter the balloon began to descend. At 6:30, thermometer 22, rising. Threw over abiutlive pounds ballafet. We must have been, betöre we began to descend fiom this hia;ht, Z miles high. At G:32, thermometer 23; rising. W e were now about stationary. and thought wo were sailing north of ca t. We could, we thought, distinguish water below us, but were unable to recognize it. At 6:3S we threw over a bag or sand, ranknz eiehty pounds of ballast discharged, and leaving about 120 pounds on hand. We distinctly heard a dog bark. Thermometer 28, and rising rapidly. At 6:45 the thermometer stood at 33. At 6.50 it was dark, and I could make no more memoranda. I put up my note-book, pencil acd watch, and setyed dowu in the basket, feeling QUITE CONTENTED. From this point until next morning, I give my experiences from memory only. The figures given wore made at the time indicated, and the thermometric variations can be depended upon as quite accurate. We beard, soon alter dark, a locomotive whistle, and occasionally could hear wagons rum blinz over the ground or a bridge, while the farmers' coirs kept up a continual baylnjr, as if conscious there was something monstrous and unusual in the sky. e sailed aloe g, tontented and chatty, until about half-past 8 o'clock, when we distinctly saw lights bo low us, and heard the roaring oi a mighty waterfall. We descended into a vailev near a very hign mountain, but as the place appoared forbidding, we concluded to go up a-zain. Over with 30 pounds ol bal last, and skvward we sailed. In about twenty minutes we again descended, but this time no friendly lights nor "deepmouthed watchdog's heavy bay" greeted us. We seemed to be over a dense wilderness, and the balloon was setting down just into a small lake. We had our life-preserv ers ready for use, but got up again by throw ing out all our ballast except, perhaps, twenty pounds. LaMountain now declared it was folly to stay up any longer, tbat we were over a great wilderness,and the sooner we descended the better. We concluded to settle down by the side of some tall true, tie up and wait until morning. In a moment we were near ths earth, and as we gently descended, I grasped the extreme top ot a hizh sprue, which stopped the balloon's momentum, and we were Boon lashed to the tree bvour draz-rope. After peering around and making as much ot an examination of our surroundings as the darkness would permit, LaMountain said he feared his balloon was played out; that we were evidently far into the woods, and if we eot out ourselves we ought to De very thankful. This prediction proved to be lar nearer the truth than even the professor suDDOsed. We rolled ourselves up in our blankets, patient! v wailing for the morning. The cold rain spouted down upon us in rivulets from the great balloon that lazily rolled from aide to side above our heads, and we were soon DRENCHED AND UNCOMFORTABLE as men could be. After a night passed in ereat apprehension and unrest, we were right glad to Bee the first faint rays of com ing light. Cold and rainy the moraine at last broke the typical precursor,- we were to learn, of other dismal mornings to be spent in these uninhabited wilds. We waited until 6 o'clock in hopes the rain would cease, and that the rays of th' ir by warnr.ing and tnereoy expanding tno gfs in the Lalloon, would give us ascending power sufficient to ret up again, for the purpose, if no other, of obtaining a view of the country into whi:h we had descended. The rain did not cease, and we concluded to throw over al we had in the balloon, except

coat for each, the life-preservers, the anchor and the compass. Overboard, then, they went good shawls and blankets, bottles o"f ale, and a flask of cordial, ropes ind traps of

an Kinas. iho Atlantic, relieved r this wet load, rose majestically with us, and we were able to behold the country below. It was an unbroken wilderne&s ot lakes and spruce and I began then to fully realize that we bad indeed gone too lar, through a mlscalcu lation of the velocity of the balloon. As the current was still driving us toward the north we dare not stay up, as we were drift ins still further and further Into trouble. LsMountain seized the valve cord and discharged gas and we descended in safety to the solid earth. Making the Atlantic fast by her anchor, we considered what wa3 to be done. We had not a mouthful to eat, no protection at night from the damp ground, were distant we know not how far from any habitation, were hungry to start with, had no possible expectation of raising a fire, and no definite or satisfactory idea as to where we were. We had not even a respectablo pocket-knife, not a pin to make a fish-hook of indeed were about as well equipped lor fore&t life as the babes in the woods were. After a protracted discussion, in which all our ingenuity was brought to bear upon the question f OUR WHF.P.EAB0ÜT3, we settled in our minds (mainly from the character of the timber around us) that we were eithsr in John Brown's tract, or ia that wilderness lyin? between Ottawa City and rcscott, Canada. John isrown's tract Is a well known section of th3 state of New York, extending along the northeastern border, and containing over 4,000 equare miles. The land is poor and cold; the timber 6pruce, pine, and hemlock to a great extent, and with many email lakes acd ssepral largo rivers. Tbe Iludnon rises in John Brown s tract. If this were so, then we knew that a course south by east would take us oat, if we bad strength to travel tbe distance. Acting upon our conclusion, we started through tbe woods to ward the southeast. Alter traveling about a mile, we came to tho bank of a small stream, flowing from tho west, and were greatly surprised to find tbat some human being had been there before us, for we iour.d the stumps ot several email trees, and the head of a half barrel which had contained pork. I eagorly examined the inspection stamp. It read: "Mess pork. P. M. Montreal." This convinced the wanderers that they were in Canada. " They traveled all day Friday westward, on the banks of the creek, striking a de serted lumber road and log shanty, which they hoped might be forerunners of a settle ment, but were disappointed. To reach the shanty they had to cross the creek. Had dock tell in, swam out with difficulty, and was so chilled as scarcely to be able to stand. Thev found straw in tbe shanty, under which they crawled and tried to warm their bodies with their breaths. The narrative proceeds: I think tbe most revene.ful, stony heart would have pitied our condition then. I will not attempt to describe our thoughts as we lay there; home, children, wife, parents, friends, with their SAD AND ANXIOUS FACES, rose up reproachfully before us as we tried to sleep. But the weary hour3 of night at last wore away, and at daylight we hel l a new council. It was evident, we argued, that the creek we were upon was used by tho lumbermen for "driving" their lo in the spring freshets. If, then, we followed it to its confluence with tha Ott":", er Berne stream which emptied into the Otta wa, we would eventually pet out tbe same way tho timber went out. The roof of the shanty we were in was covered with the halves of hollow log, ee-opei out in a manner familiar to all woodsmen. These were dry and light, and wou'd make an ex cellent raft. Without delay we dragfd the hollow logs down to the cre k, and LsMontain proceeded to tie them together. We at ast got under way ana poiea down the stream about a mile, when we came ab ruptly upon a large pine tree which had fallen across the current, completely Working the passage of the raft. No other course was lelt us but to untie the rait, and push the pieces through under the leg. This was at last accomplished, when we tifd our cralt together again anrt poled down the stream. To-day each of us ate a raw frog (all wo could find), and began to realize that we were hungry. Yet there was no complaining our talk was ot the hopeful future and ot the home and civlization we expected to reach, un thev went, down the creek. Another day and night passed. Thev found the greatest difiaculty in getting their raft past some rapids, and finally their compass was destroyed by t,he case becoming nnglued by the water. They came to a large lake, and found one clam, which Haddock insisted La Mountain should eat, ho being the weaker of the two. Indeed, the latter was used up and sick. rhat night they lay down FAINT AND DISCOURAGED. Their condition at this time, is thus described: I5v this time our clothes were nearly torn off. My pantalor ns were slit up both leg", and the waistbands nearly gone. Mj' boots were mere wrecks, and our mighty wretlim:s in th rapun Marl torn trie stun trom ankles and l.andu. LaMountairi's hat had disappeared; tho first d.ty out he had thrown away his woolen drawers and stockings, as they dragged him down by the weight of the w&tpr they absorbed. And sown coul.1 slnep lat little; it really seemed as though nrin th night we passed through tbe horrors of deatb. But at daylight wo pot uj by decrees, first on one knee and thn on the other, so utiff and weak that we could hardly rtand. Again uron the silent, monotonous lake we went, following around the shore for an outlet. About 10 o'clock wo came to quits a broad northern stream, which we thoucht was the outlet wo were seeking, and we enterfd it with joy, believing it would take us to our long sought Ottawa. Shortly after entering this stream it widened out, and began to appear like a mere lake. We poled up tbe shore for about seven miles, but found ourselves again deceived as to the outlet, the water we were upon proving to be another lake or bayou. We had cone iDto this lake with the highest hopes, but when we found tbat all the weary miles of our morning travel had been in vain, and had to be retraced, my resolution certainly failed me for a moment, and 1 felt like shedding one tear of genuine regret. Yet we felt thAt our duty as Christian men was to press for ward as long as we could stand, and leave the issue with a higher power. It had now been lour fall days since we ste a meal. All we had to eat in the meantime was a frog apiece, four clams, and a lew wild berries, whose acid properties and bitter ta&t- had probably done us more harm than good. Our strength was BEGINNING TO FALL Ttry fast, and our systems were evidently undergoing an extraordinary change. I did not permit myself to think of food the thought of a well filled table would have been too much. My mlrd constantly dwelt upon pool Strain's sun?nngs on the Isthmus of Darien (thn lately published in Harper's Magazine). He, too, was paddling a raft down an unknown stream, half-starved ai d filled with drf adful forebodings, But I did not believe we could .bold out half as long as lorg as he had. Besides, be. was lost iu a tropical country, where all nature is kin to man; he had fire arms and other weapons with which to kill game. We were in a cold, inhospitable land, without arms and utterly unable to build a fire. Strain was upon a stream which he knew would eventually bear him to the sea and to safety, while we were upon waters whose flow we positively knew nothing about, and were as much lost as

tLough in the mountains of tL3 luoon. Yet we could not give it up bo. and tried to sum

mon up iresn courage as troubles appeared to thlc'icdi around us. $ we turned the raft around, " polM in silence back toward tho oiace whsre wo had entered this last lake. Wo Lad goco about a mile when wa Ltard tho fcund of a gu:i, quickly followed by a second report. No round was ever so sweet to me as that. We halloed ai loud as we c ul J a good many times, but could get no response. We kept our pole- going quite lively, and had gone about hilt a mile when I called attention to what I thought was smoke curling up among the trees by the tide of a hill. My own eyesight began to fail very much, and I felt afraid to tru-t my dull senses in a matter so vitally important. La-Mountain Bcrutiniz-id the shore very closely, and Bald bethought it was emoke, and that he believed there was also a birch canoe on the shore below. Ia a few minutes the blue smoke roiled unmistakably above the treetop", and we lelt that we were saved! With tbe ends of poles we paddled tbe rait across tbe arm of the lake, hre, perhap, threefourths cf a mile wide, steering for ihe canoe. It proved to brj a large one, evidently an Iudian's. I halloed A NOISE WAS HEARD inside and a noble looking Indian caie to the door. I eagerly aski-d Lim if be could pek Fri.c-h, I trHsptd his out stretched hand. 'Yes," he replied, "and JSoglUh, too!'' IIa drew me into tho. cabin, and there I saw tLe head of thg i.rty, a nobl hearted Scotchman, name i Angus Camsrou. I immediately told my ftory; that we had come in there with a balloon, were lost, and had bon over our tiaj s wUhout sood eagerly demanding to know vrLcra we were. Imagine my Hurprisi when he raid we were 150 inllos due noith of Ottawa, near 2(rt) miles from Watertown, to rtach which would require more than 4G0 miles of travel, following the streams atid rotds. We wer in a wilderness as lare as thre'.-j states like Penmylv.auiH, extending trom Like Superior ou the west to the St. Lawrence oa tue east, and Jrotu Oitawa on the south, to the Arc'-ic Circl. Thus, aHi-r lour days wandering in the wildcrstg they were diweovtred. When Haddock removed his boots', nearly tha whole outer skin peeled off witn the stockings. His lee.t had become parboiled by the coutinued feoakirg of four days and nights, and were not cured for tbree month3. Iudue time they reached Lome. Haddock had been given up by all except his wile. He felt cheap and ftolish about the whole thing, thinking he had teen foolish, but the people regarded him as a hero. The account thus closes: "When we first descended to noar the earth, and saw ligbts and heard tbe dogs barking (P. 6), we should have lauded. But we were unwilling tt land at idhr. in a doe p wood, even though we knov.-thit inhabitants were near by, and we thought it best to pick out a better placu. This was cur error, and it came near being a fatal one to us it was oe.-t-iii.ly o to the bsllooo. In trying to Lu our 'ooiter piace' to land, we were up loLger than we supposed, and as we were traveling iu a current that bore us oil to the northward at tho rate ot 100 milts an hour, we soon reached a point byocd the con fines of civilization." MARK TWAIN". ARKESTrD FTP. MURDER A BOY AND A BOX bOMfcll JDY'S rr.ACTICAIj JOKE. Ti e following dispatches pretty fully explain tha receut sensation in Jlartlord: FIRST DISd'ATCH. . Hartford, Conn , 10 a. m. Samuel L. Clemens, (JIark Twain), the well known author aud humorist, has jast now been arrested lor murder. Tha tity is intensely excited. Many ruui jr ?. SECOND MSPATCM. 11:30 a. m. The murdered person is an unknown child, a )ov, apparently ten or twelve years old. Clemens" was caught in the act oi puttiug the body in a box, evidently intending to bury it, or ship it to sooie other place, and thus conceal the fatal evidence oi his crime. The body was still, as if the victim had been dtad for some hours. All toe clothes had been destroyed, and even the child's hair and eyebrows were shaved ofl, to m?ke anything like identification impossible. Clemens, who was exceedingly agitated at first, h&s regained his equanimity. He even j Dkes about his situation. He'is surrounded by his friends, and he and tney say everything will be satisfactorily explained. THIRD DISPATCH. 12:10 P. M. The Clemens affair is the universal topic. It is certainly a mysterious affair, but the account which the accused and his friends gave of it is plausible, to say the east. By this morning's mail Clemens received a note postmarked Boston, ssying: "1 send you tbe body by express. I will call lor the reward iu two days. It is to your interest to keep the secret, lor jou are as deep in the mud as I am in the mire. Abraham Taylor." At 9 o'clock an Adams Express wagon drove up and dclltered a box at Clemens' door, for which he receipted. This box, when opened, was found to contain thecorpseof a child. Tt was in the act of opening tfce box that Clemens was arrested, and hence his surprise and consternation. This account of the aflair ia corrobor ated bv the expressman's ttimonv. the postman and Clemens' servants. Some person aro -ow of the opinion that there has been .o tuiirder at ail, but only an unjustifiable practical joke played upon Clem ens. Most think, however, tbat there lias been a murder actually committed by some Impecunious rufliao, too obtuso and imbrutsd to see the point of Clemens' own joke. It will be remembered tbat some weeks ago Clemens put 'n tneaiewspaper an advertisement offerirg $203 reward lor the return of his umbrella, t-tolen cy a boy, and for the body of tbe thief, not alive. One possible theory of the matter is that some school boy of the Jesse Pomeroy crder has murdered his companion in order to secure therewArd. If these conjectures have any basis, Mr. Clement's situation is a grave one, for it a murder has been com mitted, bis advertisement undoubtedly makes him acce&sory before the fact. FOURTH DISPATCH. 2 P. 31. The authorities have concluded to release Mr. Clemens upon his parole. Ths mystery is t,till not cleared up. Mr. Clem ens, acting under tho advice oi his friends, has onered a rewaid of ?l:00 'or tho epprebension and conviction ol the parties who practiced such a joke unon him. The police have been ming tbe telegraph with vigor, and tbe box containing tue body has been dtnioieiy trared to the express c.dhee at camoridiie, Mass. it was leu there bv a colored man, who is now being hunted for. FIFTH DISPATCH. Boston, 4:30 p. m. The Clemens mystery has now been pretty lully cleared up. Last night the body of a boy, in every way ;u.8vi-rhg tv. description ot the onu sent to Mark Twain, was stolen out of the dis sectiug room ol the Medical Faculty, Cam bridge. The supposition is tbat the theft was perpetrated by some medical students with the object of practicing a joke upon Mr. Clemens. wboe advertisement lor the bov and umbrella Las been widely pubiivxiAd. if this be so. It is to be hoped that Mr. Clemens will have more prudence in tbe future. There are too many Jesse Pomeroys in our midst for these sort of thiogs to by safely practiced. The medical laculty beos at Cbinbricge look wise, but say nothing Tbe perpetrators of the act will scarcely be iounu. SIXTH DISPATCH. Härtford, 5 p. m. The body of the boy supposed to have been murdered has been claimed by the janitor of the Cambridge jueaicai uoiiege.

TO THE DEAD. BT J. G. C BRAINABD.

IIow many now are de-! to me. That live to others yet ! How many are a'.ive to rue. Who crumble In their graves, nor Bee That sickening, binning look, which we, Till dead, can ne'er forget. it. Beyond the blue teas, far away. Most wretchedly alone. One died in prison, far awav. Where stone on tone shot ont the day. And never hope or comfort's ray In his lone dungeon ehone. III. Dead to the world, alive to me. Though months and years have passed; In a lone hour, blsbigh to me Cornea like the hura of some will bee, And then his form anu face 1 Bee, As when I w&s him last. IV. And one with fairest lip and cheek, And eye. is dead to ni e. How pale the gloom or his smooth cheek! His lip was cold it woald not tpeak ; His heart was dead for it did not break. And his eye, for it did not see. Then for the living be the torah And lor the dead, the smile; Engrave rbllvloa on the tomb Of pulseless life and deadly bloom; Dim Is snch glare, but bright the gloom Around the lui.eral pile. SOXU. BY G. B. if From the French by Victor Hugo If yon have never a thing to say. Why do yon come so npar me? Why do j ou smile at roe In a way To conquer a king? L)ott hear ine? If you have never a thiEg to say. Why do you come so near me? If there Is nothing you'd have me know Why do you press my hand When in a dream, we wander slow Over the aarkening land ? If there is nothing you'd have me kuow, Why do you press my heart? If you are wishing me oat of your dght, Why in my path do 1 meet you? You are my trouble and you my delight! In sweet confusion I gieet you. If you are wishing me oat of your sight, Why in my path do I meet you? THE GREENSBURG MURDER. PBE LI MIN AR Y E X A MI NATION. SHOOTING OF JOHN A. CAMPEELL BY BEN RUBLE AU AFFRAY AT A HOUSE OF ILL KEPUTE TESTIMONY IN THE CASE MOLLIK AND BEN KUELK BOUND OVER FOR MANSLAUGHTER DESCRIPTION OF THE PARTIES. A special to the Cincinnati Gazette, dated Greensburg, the 233, says: A shocking tragedy occurred in this city last nisht, which involved the life of one John A. Campbell, a fireman on the pay train ot the I , C. & L. Railroad Company. The train reached this city in the evening and laid over till morn ing. About 11 o'clock last night the engineer of the train, Lewis Anderson, his fireman, John A. Campbell, and William Clark, his brakeman, and a party residing Lere by the name of Roszell, started out on a bumming expedition. Alter filling themselves with beer the party proceeded to tbe house of Mrs. Rebecca Ruble, a house ol ill repute. Here they knocked at the door and woke up the inmates, but were refused admittance. a daughter or Mrs. Ruble, and a son. seventeen years old, tot up aud weut to the door, and, after tome parleying, the party were ordered awav, swearing auu indulging iu any thing but becoming language. From here thev proceeded to. another establish ment, and were, as at Ruble's, refused adrnittauco. The party started back, and, as tney came in front of Mr. Ruble's, saw the daughter and eon sitting in the door, and they halted, and Campbell turned into the gate and proceeded two or three steps toward the door. Miss Ruble ordered him back and fired a shot from a pistol, but it did not take effect. Then tbe party threw a few stents at the house, some of them lodgng inside the house. The son, when the throwing began, fired at the crowd with a shot gun, and hit aud instantly killed Camp bell, and the balance of the party fled, shortly atterward Mollie and Benjamin Ruble, who did tbe shooting, were arrested and lodgeck in jail. A letter of the same date to tbe Cincinnati Enquirer, gives tbe following account ot the PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION. William Clark, a railroad man living in Cincinnati, testified: Know John A. Camp bell; saw him last last nigbt lying down iu the road near a gate in the southern part of the town. Campbell came to towu last night on the pay train; Anderson, Campbell and myself came to town together, and with Jas. Russell went to Rubles; Campbell and 1 went in the yard; Campbell asked the girl to go iu the house, but Bhe refused; we then went eff to a place on the hill; after a while Campbell and I returned to Ruble'd ; he went in the y ard; I stood off; some one shot; Campbell then started to leave, and opened the gate, when they shot again, hitting biin; this was about twelve o'clock ; there seemed to be a man and woman; they told Campbell twice to leave; dcu't know what Campt ell said ; I was just outside the gate, and Campbell inside at the first shot; 1 was in the road and Campbell just outside at the second shot; there were no stones thrown at tbe house ULtll alter the firing was doue; Campbell waa a stranger here; don't know whether be knew the Rubles or not ; I suppose Camp bell said something, but don't know what it was: don't know that Campbell was armed; he didn't eay anything about being armed : the first time we went Campbell knocked on the door; a woman opened it and told him to go away; Campbell stepped iu the door; the woman pushed him out and shut the door; don't recollect any talk or threats by Campbell; when we re urned Campbell went ahead; they ordered hiui out three or four times, telling him to nay away and go out or he would get hurt; then they fared a shot; following tbat I threw one stone out; I think one or two more were thrown. Mrs. Corwin Live whear Mrs. Ruble lives; saw Campbell alter he was killed; I think I saw him alive last night, between 12 and 1 o'clock; he and another came to my doer and knocked; BEFUSED TO OPEN ; tbe one with tbe cap talked insulting; they started off, one taking a chair from the porch; I called them to bring tbe chair back; a man, Anderson, a railroad man, brought it back; a man with a cap was with him; when tbe men returned to the street they started toward Mrs. Ruble's and two ttood in the street; I heard no talking, but heard a shot jnst as they reached Mrs. Rube's gate; alter the shot l heard rocks thrown; almost immediately a second shot was fired; 1 saw the flish of both: they were tired from toe house ;I went immediately to Mrs. Ruble's the back way; saw Geo. McKraner juscoming out of the door; met Mrs. Ruble tt the kitchen door, who said they have beth rocked; I started to go home, when Mollie Ruble came to the door and said there was a man shot or killed at the gate. She said she fired the tcvolver and her brother the shot-gun. She aimed at the one with the cap on. All that I saw in the house were Mrs. Ruble Mollie. Sallie and Ben. I went and looked at the dead maür I think Ben bad the gun in his hand. The dead man was lying with bis feet to the gate and about two steps from It, his head to the

street. He was wounded in tbe right side of his face. The one with the cap on (Clark) was not orderly; bo was cursing and blackg iardirg L. is Anden ol LUyu known John A. C'upbtll near n yc?;h j In bet. tiring with mean the 1.,'C.AL We g hera ixfrt nigtit at 0:53. We were together until 12 o'clock, four of us Clark, Cauiptti: my

self, and another I didn't know. We Herted cpn the lull at 10 minntesto 11. After we ctlJid at the eecond bouse and were refused admittance, I told the boys to let ;o and not be looling around; I started totbedepot; was n? ar the bridge when the stots were fired; think there were about ore slo onefourth second betweeu the f-hots; didn't know Campbell was fehot until 3 this morning; Lewis Anderson is not uiy real ratr.e, but the one I travel on; had traveled o.i it since be waa ten years old, and expected to while be lived. Tne party had been DRINKING SOME BEZK; were unarmed excef ting with pocket knives; C'a:npi)eil end Clerk went to tbe door at Ruble; a woman opened the door; told them to excuse her, and ordered them to leave; then we went to the other Louse; Chirk and I went in; a woman came to the door, asked who we were, and told us to leave; we left, and I came right on to town; Campbell and Clark went toward the first house; I heard the shotsr but did not stop; was fifty yards' distant; looked arontd and saw two of them coming up tbe street. Mrs. Ruble Lived in the county of Decatur Greensburg. My house has two windows ana one aoor in lront. The gate is right Id front of the door, about twenty feet. I saw John A. Campbell at my door, wila Clark, alter 12 o'clock. They didn't come In. Went away and came back in five er ten micutes. They knocked at the door, Mollis went to it. He asked, "Have you any girl here She told him no. He asked, "Have you any company?" She said no. lie asked, "Don't you want company?'1 She said no. It was Campbell who was talking. He put his foot in tbe door aud she pushed the door to. He resisted, and I and Ben went and helped her lorce the ooor shut. Th6n they went off. I didn't hear the first shot. I heard stones thrown against the front of the house. I was in the kitchen, and immediately tbe last shot was fired, I went right in the front room; there was nobodv but Ben and Mollie there. Den had a gun in bi9 band; Mollie bad nothing, Mollie has a revolver; she keeps it in the stand drawer; it must have been loaded. The gun did uot belong to us; Ben brought it there; has had it four or five weeks. Mollie and Ben said there was a man lying out there; then I wen cut and saw him; it was the man who had at first come to the door, Campbell; he showed no signs ol lile. This was about five minutes alter th6 shot was fired. It was a double barre!od gun; one barrel was discbargMi. Campbell ued language r.ot fit to be published. Three or four stones vre throw i ; we have three of them now. Miss Saihe Ruble Saw Campbell first lying by the gate, about ten minutes after he was shot. TWO SHOTS WERE FIRED. I was sleeping iu the ted-room adjoining tho room from where the shots; were fired. Tho first shot was from a revolver. Just after the last I got up and went into the other room. Ben had a gun in his hands a shot-gun. Ben first discovered the dead man. He went to the gate and came back and said there was a man there killed or wounded.Then we all went cut. There were stones thrown. It was after the first shot, and before the last. Jlr. Wright, a physician and surgeon . practicing in Greensburg Have seen the body of John A. Campball. Can't tell exactly, dut think it was twenty micutG3 after twelve when I first saw bim. He was then dead. Had been dead but a iow minutes. His death was caused by a uumber ot shot, which struck him on the right side of the head aud ccck, principally above the ear. A gun-&hot wound produced his death, two ol tho phot passing through his jugular vein. Some of the shot were NO. 6. The hat was a black felt ; some of the shot passed thiough it and fractured the skull. I think be made an effort toget away after he waat-hol; think, he had taken two or three steps. He was lying on his right side. Aided in the examination of the body; found no arms. George McKraner: Never saw Campbell, dead or alive; I was in the north back room at the time of the trouble; Was talking with Mrs. Ruble about our trouble; I heard a noise; Thought I heard stones thrown and two J-ho's fired a pistol and a shot-gun; Didn't see a soul but the widow; Told her not to let tbe children know I was there; The shots and rocks were all pretty much at once. Moliie Ruble, one of the defendants: One shot was fired be 'ore any stones were thrown; I did it with a revolver; shot to scare; didn't shoot at them; then they threw the rocks; four were thrown, two came in at the door and two at the window; one went clear through the lront room into the kitchen; then the ether shot was fired from a shot-gun; I didn't fire it: this was half-past twelve a. m ; this was the sec ond time; there was about ten or fiJteen minutes between their ca':? ; I sat in the door during the time with my pistol beside me; it was a six-shooter, loaded: Btu v. as sitting beside me; he had no gun; it was in the corner of the room; thev came back tho second time Campbell and Clark; I ordered them NOT TO COME IN, but Campbell opened the gate and took two or three steps in. Clarkstood leaning against the fence ; when I first shot ho (Campbell) turned and said, "Shoot we can shoot, too," and they threw the rocks; Clark threw the first one; the fourth was thrown just as Ben shot; Ben shot through tfce window; Campbell was standing in the gate; I naiht have said last night that I shot to kill. O. B. Scoby, circuit prosecutor, assisted bv Judge Samuel Bon mer, conducted the prose cution, judge W. A. Moore and J.R. Ewing, t&q., ior the aeiense. The case occupied the greater part of the day, was ably prosecuted and defended and resulted in the par ties ueinz ue.u to answer io me cnarge ot manslaughter. Bond, rl,Q00. Campbell leaves a wife and one child. Witness Geo. McKraner is the brevet-fcusband of Mrs. Buble; he was present In the bouse during the aflair, but was too drunk to-day to give evidence. Mrs. Rebecca Ruble, the mother of tbe mother of the family, is a widow ofabout fifty years, not unprepossessing in appearance, with enough natural intellect, but not much that has been acquired. Mollie, one of the defendants, la a woman perhaps thirty years, not calculated to attract, but giving evidence in her presence of uerve and spirit. Ben, who fixed be latal shot, is a boy ot seventeen, who, judging from appearance, will average Id good and ba.1 qualities with other uncontrolled town boys. Sallie is about nineteen, asd rather attractive in appearance. Mrs. Corwin, tie witness at whose house tbe partv called after the first effort at Rablo's, is a fine looking, middle aged weman, 6ald to be of the same, class as the RubVes. Tho parties reentioned as being intimately connected with tbe affair are known to ba loose and pronigaift characters. Young Rotzell ha-i evidently been engaged by the railroaders to pilot them. Mrs. Ruble and McKraner have been batorethe public befor iu an unenviable iitht. The two girls, while net conside.ed j u'olie prostitutes, aro understood to b6 engaged iu that line in a private way. The four men evidently did not understand matters fully, and while endeavoring to force their presence upon the women one of them met bis death. The fair name of our little city suffers from such things, but we can not see from the evidence much of a case against the defendants,