Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 25, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 February 1876 — Page 7

T.HE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL WEDNESDAY.-FEBRIJAJRY 16 1876.

TRADITION OF CONQUEST. II! Grace of Marlboronsth, lesends say. Though bnltle-ligbtnlngs proved his worth, "Was flatbed like others la bis dar, By fiercer flres at his own hearth. The rat'11 chief, thus sadly tried Si a Jam the Duches was j fair Jn Blenheim's boaors fe:t less pride Thau In the lady's lovely hair. Once (shorn, she had colled it there to wound Her lord when he should pass, 'tis said) Shining across his path he found The giory of the woman's head. Ifo sadden word, no sullen look. In all his afur days, con rested He mused the charm whoe absence took A scar's pale shape within his breast. I think she longed to have him blame, Ami oothe him with imperious t..ars As if tier beauty were the same, lie praised her through her courteous years. Eat when the soldier's arm was dust, Aniont; the dead man's treasures, where XI e laid it as from moth and rust. They found his wayward wife's sweet hair. NEWS AND GOSSIP. Count ShouvalofT, of Alexias suite, would l)e very popular jus: now. A Jewish Rabbi has been preaching in a I?ew Haven Methodist pulpit. Maryland hai 1,848 public schools, which are attended by 113,003 children. Moody, Whittle, Bliss and Earle, the evangelist?, all started out from Chicago in their religious work. Small-pox is ra ;ing so severely at La Paz, Tower California, that the regular steamerä

have ceased stopping there. Norwich, Conn., has subsidized a man to the extent ol $15,000 to enable him to open a sewing machine factory there. The stringency with which the adultera tion of food act Is enforced In London has -caused a larze number ol failures in the milk trade. Every member of the Kansas House of Representatives ia provided with twenty daily newspapers during its session, at the public expense. The Parker Memorial Society of Boston propose to invite Moncure D. Conway to be come pastor of the r :nty-eigtn uongre Rational Church. "Now, George Washington, you jes' cum an' put on your shoes dis mlnlt. De Idea of tou befo' out doors barefoot on the Lord's day. Why, folks will think you're Irish!" Mrs. Mitchell and her daughter are con ducting a revival in Montreal. The girl is about twenty years old, and the newspapers of that city say that many of the con verts are young men. George l Fox. the pantomlmist, accom panied by Dr. J. N. Bites, of Worcester, Mas., was registered at an Augusta (Ga.) hotel last week, en routs for Florida, where his insanity may be more successfully tieated than at the North. "Maria," observed Mr. Halcomb, ai he was putting on his clothes, "there ain't no patch on thsm breeches yet." "I can't fx it now, no way; I'm too busy." " Well, give rue the patch then, an' I'll carry it around with mn. I don't want people to think I can't afford the cloth." Daring the past year there have been 417 murders in France, besides 25 attempts at murder. In connection with these crimes 25 persons were condemned to death, of whom eight were paidoued. Thus, for each execution whici has taken place, there have been 21 persona murdered. Another mammoth caye has been discovered near Columbia, Ky., which rivals in awful grandeur the original Mammoth. In it were found three human skeletons of extraordinary proportions. The cave has plenty of galleries, and many varieties of stalacutes and stalagmites. New York Sun. At a point about nicety miles southeast of Tuscon, near the Sonora line, in Arizona, a silver mine bes been discovered, which is supposed to be the famous Planchas La Plata mentioned in Spanish history 200 years ago as yielding such immense blocks of the pure metal that the crown confiscated it lor its own enrichment. Tall Yankee, just arrived: GueBS your legal fare is just sixpence. Dublin carman : Shure, me lord, we take som chape jacks at that, but I wouldn't disgrace a gintleman av your lordt-hip's quality be drivin' him at a mane pace t'rongh the public shtreats; so I tuk upon meself to give your lordship a shillin's worth both of Btoyle and whipcord. M. Pierre, a French land-owner in the Loiret, has been ordered by the Paris Correctional Tribunal to pay 1,000 francs compensation to M. Tony Dury, an artist, and lormerly painter to Louis Phillippe, lor delamatory expressions written outside of let ters ad J rested to him. The plaintiff received letters directed: "M. Dury, artiste pointre et picspcckett, et Ignoble pickpockett." Mr. Beeler and Miss Bck, of Louisville, have eloped. Their agee are respectively 15 and 13. ' The parents, in tracing tne pair, Lave learned of application to many justices and ministers to marry them, but in every instance ineir youinminess was against them. They have not yet been overtaken, Dot at last accounts were golog toward Mia aouri, and trying hard to get somebody to periorm tne ceremony. Among the applicmts lor relief at the last meeting of the Kingston-on-Thames (England) Board of Guardians was a man of superior education, who said that he was a nephew of a hi shop, and bad formerly held a captaincy In a cavalry regiment. II had run through a fortune of 50 000 or 60,000, and four years ago had made overwhat then remained to elm, amounting to about 1 a week, to bis wite and two children. Mr. S. K. Kidder, proprietor of valuable mining claims on Iowa Hill, California, em ployed a watchman to guard the flumes at night. Having an idea that the man was not vigilant and that he slept on bis post, Mr. Kidder determined to satisfy himself. and creeping down along a flume at midmight to make observations attracted the attention of the watchman, who promptly joagea a Dunet in his Drain, producing In stant death. Trustworthy persons arriving in Vienna from Russia state that on the Orenburg rail way Into the Interior and the lines ' from Moscow in a western direction, there are in cesaant preparations for large ml.Itary transports In the spring. On the line from Moscow tq Polish Lithuania a third line of rails is being laid down. During the frost the workmen encamp on the spot, in quar ters specially provided for them, to en able them to work by night ai well ts by aay. - A New Bedford man and his wife went to a neighboring town to get the body of their dead daughter. They put the confined corpse in their wagon and started for home, where a funeral was to be held, but stopped at the first tavern and drank. Their subsequent stops and drinks exactly equalled the number of other taverns on the route, and five miles from home they were so drunk that they did not notice the fall of the coffin from the wagon. The body was found lying face downward In the road.

TERRE HAUTE IIIGII JINKS.

MRS. STEWART' 3 SINUOUS SPIRITS. The True Inwardness of "Pence's Pandemonium" in the Prairie City, A MATERIAL MEDIUM. A PROMINENT SPIRITUALIST THROWS THE CALCIUM LIGHT OP TRUTH ON MRS. stkwart's skavces at terrb hautb the kksult of ax investigation. Terre Haute has long been noted as a sort of Mecca for modern spiritualistic pilgrims. Of late years, however, there has been trouble in the happy family that has had headquarters at Pence's Hall. A Mrs. Stewart suddenly rose up and said that she was a superior medium, and she succeeded in satisfying some ot the faithful few that she was all she claimed to be in that respect, but others of the family would not be convinced. . The brethren abroad began to take an interest in the trouble, and Borne prominent followers in the laith constituted themselves a committee on Investigation. They went to Terre Haute, and one of the members sends the result of their investigation to a friend in the city, who furnienes the same to the Sentinel for publication. IT IS A SAD STORY OP SPIRIT SINUOSITY. I At your request I send yon a brief descrip tion and result of my investigations of the spiritual phenomena, as manifested by Mrs. Annie Stewart, the celebrated medium, in Terre Haute, Ind., and I might as well begin at the first and tell a plain, straight s'.orj. As you know I have tor years been investigating Spiritualism, and hearing that Mrs. Stewart could materializs the full form of departed friends, bringing them out of the cabinet to shake bands with and caress you; that she was highly rt commended a) being the best materializing and slate writing medium in the world, I re solved to go and see ber, staking mv future faith in the subject upon her truthfulness; if true, to go completely over to the new ."harmonial philosophy," if false, to utterly repudiate the matter both root and brancb. as my previous lnvestiga tions had proven nothing satisfactory. In this state of mind I went to Terre Haute, presented my credentials to Messrs. Dr. Al len Pence. Hook and Connor, who form the committee of arrangements, and who, by the way, I found to be very genial gentlemen, giving me every opportunity to see but Dot investigate, as they will not permit extra conditions aside from those they themselves impose, which are very few. They are fear fully duped or you may draw your own conclusions irom tneuenoaement. i was told it required several sittings to obtain good manifestations, but if would remain five or six days would certainly be converted. Having come v . a a a W so far for the purpose l tnongnt l wouia stay and see the matter through. On Thurs day night we bad our first "eeance," which was conducted in a darkened room, and by means of a cabinet, which is no more than a large wardrobe, being three leet deep, seven ft et wide, and seven and a hall leet in height, placed upon a platform one and halt leet high, and extending in front six feet. I bad previously examined it, and found it honest. We were placed in seats in lront of the platform. I, being a new comer, bad to take a back seat. Dr. Pence, being manager-in-chlef, placed himself at oce side to regulate the lights and music, which is produced by a large musical box, which, as he facetiously remarked, 'made dutch music." Mrs. Stewart now made her sppearance and went into the cabinet, closing the doors after her. I will not attempt to describe her but merely say she has .rather a'preposeess irjg countenance. The lights were turned down and the music began. Any one who has sat in a dark circle knows what it is to me it was a novel sensation, waiting the ap pearance ot the dear ones who have gone before, expecting to fed the familiar clasp and bear their dear voices, and when-the cabinet doors slowly opened and there ap peared the dim outlines ol a figure that moved and came forward the medium be ing in view reclining upon a chair my blooa began to creep, my nerves to tingle. and I thought truly there are more things in heaven and earth than is dreamed of in our philosophy, and when the spirit, com ing lorward, was recognized by a gentle man from Iowa a3 his daughter, carressing and kissing blm, my astonishment was complete, but having Irom early youth been taught to accept nothing as truth until alter "strict trial," I resolved to go slow. Several spirits made their appearance, and were more or less recognized by persons present The conditions not being good and the me dium fatigued, the eeance was not prolonged I engaged a sitting for slate writing next morning, and retired to dream of the won ders I had seen. The next morning at 10 o'clock I was promptly on hand and the sit ting began. I wrote a message to father, asking him to come, and, as a test, give me his name. Alter sitting about fifteen minutes and getting nothing, I addressed a friend who passed away three years since, Charles tun. iu a lew minutes a reply came, say ing "father was there" and they would both write as soon as they obtained pertect control. Aow, the manner of communlca ting is this: You write the message upon slips oi paper ana loia them, ana place them upon a slate which the medium puts beneath the table, and the spirits are supposed to write the answer on the slai. I noticed that my sups naa Deen opened, but said nothing. now addressed a cousin in spirit land, and while waiting the reply the medium kept wnting with her leit hand the name How She asked me If I ever knew a person of mat name, saying tnere was a spirit or that name claiming to know me. I replied In the affirmative, and asked the gives name, She immediately wrote Charles How. asked if it was not Hall she meant, but, after listening awnue, saia no, it was now; IHk 5IVtB MADE MISTAKES IX NAMES. I looked at my foftner message and found the address indistinctly written and would easily be mistaken for How Thinks I, my lady, yon have put your foot in it this time, and immediately indited message to my wile, who, you know, is still in tne nesn, ana was as follows, well calcu lated to deceive: "My Dear Wile. Eva aak for you last, not but what I know you are ever Dear me, but I wanted to bear from the others, knowing you would keep the control when once you got it; but come now." The reply soon came: "Dear lias bana I will write now. We are happy, Will manifest for you." This was consoling to know she was happy and I should see her I said nothing In regard to- the fraud, being oesirous to see now iar tney would go, and took In everything for gospel truth. This closed the sitting. After engaging an other for the next moraine I retired That night the medium being exhausted, it was tnoognt best she should go sleigh name, which she did. and I lost that eeance While waiting I went to see a child medium who materialized hands, but as I fonnd her to bean unmitigated fraud, I will say noth ing further about her. Saturday morning came ana A was up to time lor my sitting. number of slates were upon the table and Mrs. Stewart, taking up one, asked me to hold it with her and Bee if any spirits were present. We put It beneath the table and

waited. I should say here I had neglected

to examine the slate before putting under the table, so yon will readily understand what follows. In a few minutes she said some one had written. I took the slate out ana found one side written full in a beautiful hand, and very straight lines, commencing "My dear husband," and ending "your loving spirit wife executrix." It contained some very beautiful sentiments and rood 1 advice. I seemed very much overcome and asked permission to keep the slate for fram ing. This pleased the medium and ended the Bitting. Now, right here most persons would have been satisnedlwith the fraud ana have lelt dlpgusted, but not so with me. I knew the theory advanced by the eplritualsts that if we attempt deception Wl OURSELVES ARE DECEIVED, so thinking this might do a "D aKKa" i kept mum. During the day there were several new arrivals, among others the celebrated lecturer Mr. Thos. Gales Foster, and wl'e, and fovr gentleman from Pans, Illinois. As we all stopped at the same boarding house, we soon fraternized and agreed to compare notes. Sat urday nlgbt came and another seance in which the spirits of a friend and my cousin cams out so natural and llle-Iike I was dumbfounded. . The figures were very simi lar and even the movements were familiar. he light being too dim to discern the leaures, l could not identl'y tnem positively. hey came foi ward and severaly shook Danas with me, and I will just remark here, the lUht Is always too dim to swear to the identity of any one. You must understand they came out separately and at different times; other spirits came out and we were all mystified. This seance was much better than the former one. ueiore leaving, tne gentlemen from Pana made arrangements tor a private seance on Sunday morning, l asked and obtained permission to make one of tho number. Sunday morning came, bright and beautiful, and we repaired to the Beance room, from which the light of day is perfectly excluded. .There being very lew of us, we were able to sit very near she cabinet. Almost the first spirit to appear was my wife. She came forward and shook hands. I asked her if Bhe would not embrace me. After re turning to the cabinet for more power, Bhe came forward, put her arms about my neck and kissed me, and I felt her warm breath fanning my cheek. "Tell it not in uatn." f my wife should find it out I Oh!! I I was very much affected and sbed tears copiously (?), which greatly endeared me to the medium and general manager, who ever alter figuratively took me to their bosoms. Other spirits appeared, but were not recog nized. After the seance the others privately expressed themselves dissatisfied, and I sug gested, as the medium had all ot the condi tions on her Bide, we stoald secretly Impose conditions of our own, so then we T. H. McCoy, Opt. S. P. Mooney, D. F. Overboil, Dr. L. D. Uiggins, of Pana, and myself entered into a conspiracy to detect the medium. We repaired to a drug store and Durchased some lampblack. At night we severally put a small package in our pockets ana repaired to the seance hal.l weich was now in an upper room to accommodate the larg6 audience that had assembled. I, as al most one of the elect, was given A PROMINENT BEAT IN FRONT, and the others were seated near. Our object in procuring the lamp black was to well blacken our fingers, and as the spirits were good, sociable souls, fond of hand-shaking, they would necessarily take a portion of tbe black, and we should easily tell who was personating or playing spirits. We determined, if, after the show, the medium could show "white and unspotted" hands, to then and there avow our belief in spiritualism, and humbly ask the spirits pardon. It va a very fine night for mani testations, so they said, and it was not long before "Belle," one of tie medium's con trols, came out and perambulated the stage, snaking hands with the old chie.'s. 1 solicited the honor of a shake; I was honored, and gave her the best I had in the box, and sat down quiking iu my boots at the great crime 1 had done. Others soon came out, and, at each hand snake, I gave them a renewed dose, so soon as the lights were turned up I mounted the platform and approached the medium, who I found rub bing her eve, tbe transition Irom darkness to light being too great for her. I asked her to please show me her hand. She mechanically put it forth, and I found it as black as the ace of spades. Great heavens! how that woman looked I I sincerely pitied her, and told her she had better hide her hands and make a hasty exit. Before she could act on the suggestion others had seen her bands, and it was too late. There was the greatest IXCTTTMENT AMONG THE FAITH FC L. Some of the jealous ones even tried to explain how tbe spirits being materialized from tbe medium's organism would neces sarily impart to her what they receive; but to my mind this was too transparent. It soon became . too warm, so we, tne gumy cnes, left, nor stood upon the order cf our going, but quietly slipped out of tbe door. When we conspirators cad gathered together in the boarding house there was an uproarious time. Mr. Foster, coming in, even had the hardihood to say tbe medium was not guilty, that the spirit's bad blacked her hands. Wtea I related my previous exFerience with ber be visibly weakened, and doubt not he now marks her down a fraud. So ends my investigation ot the phenomena of spiritualism. I am thoroughly disguattd with the whole subject. You know my previous experience " with Mrs. Kegwln, Mrs. Hollis and others, and I now unhesitatingly denounce the whole thing as a cheat and a fraud of the darkest dye, and cling to the only true philosophy of "One God and the universal brotherhood of man." This is my creed from this time henceforth and forever. I hope you will profit by my experience, which has been obtained after years of patient investigation and a considerable outlay ol time and money. As to what should be done with such characters I do not say, certainly something, as they are leading many souls astray and ruining them for time and eternity, .bver yours with respect. G. B. W. Clarxsvillk, Tenn. One May day, between ninety and one hundred years ago. John, tenth earl of Westmoreland, while dining with Mr. Child, the banker, said: 'Glve me your opinion In this case. Suppose you were in love with a girl, aud had no hope of getting her father's consent to your marrying her, what would you do?" To which the unsuspecting banker replied, "Do! why, run away with her, to be sure." A night or two atterward Ixrd Westmoreland eloped with Miss Sarah Anne Child in a post-cbalse and four. Tbe post-chaise took Miss Sarah Anne on board some-vhere near Berkeley Square House. An alarm was given by tbe watch man, who found the hall door open. Mr Child at once posted in pursuit, on the North Road, and managed to gain on tbe ruDaways. It was not, however, until Northumberland was reached and entered that the second poet-chaise came within sight ol the first, and then Lord Westmore land, Btanding up in his carriage, shot one oi the leading horses of Mr. Child's vehicle. which was capsized In consequence. This bold proceeding gave the lover's time to cross tbe border and get married by the Gretna Green blacksmith. During the short Interval between this match and the death of Robert Child, he never forgave Lord and j-Aay W estmoreland,

HESTER'S HISTORY.

Adventures of one cf Gen. Grant's Friends and Cronies. A CRIMINAL CAREER. A BRIEP BIOGRAPHY OP THE MAX WHO MANU FACTURED OUTRAGES FOR LANDAULET WILLIAMS THE DESERTER, SWINDLER AND MURDERER. The New York Sun sheds a few of its most vertical rays on the dark doings of an outrage manufacturer: The career of the adventurer Thomas, or Thomassen, now known as the "dynamite demon," has its parallel in the life of Joseph G. Hester, who acquired notoriety as a special agent of tbe attorney general's office, and the principal cog-wheel ia Landaulet William's once busy outrage mill. When last heard of bv the general public Hester was declaiming Milton to the lounz Men's Christian Asso ciation of Washington, a circumstance which may derive interest from tbe sequel. u ester was born about 40 years aero in Green ville county. North Carolina, where he still baa many highly respectable family connections. Almost from the cradle be manifested the rascally, roving disposition of a born reprobate. When a mere boy he one day, in the absence of bis father, want only shot and killei a colt. His elder brother attempted to chastise him for thl9. whereupon Joseph snatched up a sun and only escaped being a fratricide by the snap ping of a tap. He then avoided further complications by running away from home. Alter some months of wandering he enlisted as a cabin boy on tbe United States frigate Congress, famous afterward for its encounter with the Merrimao at Hampton Roads. The Congress was commanded by Capt. L. M. GoiUHborough, and was bound lor the Brazil station. Arriving out, Hester de serted, and joined one or tbe other of the bel ligerent parties In tbe Argentine war. After numerous adventures he again PLATED THE PART OP A DESERTER, and fled the country on a merchant vessel. Hester next appears in the Bervice of his country as a soldier in the Seminole war, either a regular or a volunteer. During his military career In Florida, he received a wound in an ignoble part of his person, indicating that, at the moment of its recep tion, be was "facing backward." Hester still displays his scar with a pride which it is difficult to understand. After the Indians had been sent out ot the state Hester joined the "Regulators," and participated in many lawless acts. Soon after the breaking out of tbe civil war this adventurer, who had previously transferred his ephere of usefulness to tbe other side of the ocean, boarded the rebel privateer Sumter, then lying at Gibraltar, and asked employment of Capt. Raphael Semmes, afterward.of tbe Alabama. He professed ardent sympathy with the Southern cause, and bis good address gained him a position. In a private letter Semmes speaks ot Heater as follows: "While I was lying at Gibraltar in the Sumter, Hester came on board Heeklng service, stating that be had recently arrived in a merchant ship of one ol tbe Northern states, but bad lett ber because of tbe war, and his ardent desire to bsot some benefit for the defence of his section and people. Pleased with his appearance and conversation, I appointed him a master's mate, a warrant ofilcer of subordinate grade, and when I left the vessel I left him assistant of the lieutenant in charge. The latter sought active service and wa? relieved by a master's mate named Andrews. Hester killed Andrews. I tai no personal knowledge of the homicide, but the current reports represented it to be a coM-biooded murder. The rea-.cn Hes'.er was not tried by tbe British government wzs that I bad Claimed for the Sumter upon my arrival at Gibralter (aud the claim could not bo denied under tbe international code), that she was ship of war of a de facto government, maintaining successfully, up to that time. Its independence, and ai such exempt from British jurisdiction. MURDERING A SHIPMATE. Hester was never tried for the murder al uded to by Mr. Semmes. The facts were as follows: Discontented with tbe inactivity of bis position at Gibraltar the lieutenant, who succeeded Semmes in the command of the Sumter, applied lor relief to Mr. Maeon, conlederate commissioner at tbe court ol St. James. Hester, aware of the application, as pired to the command, and when, finally, Mr. Mason s nt Manor's Mate Andrews to take command of the Sumter, Hester's chagrin and disappointment were all that might be expected of a morose, sullen, des perate scoundrel. Andrews was a naval de partment appointee, a Norwegian by birth, rough, confident sailor, who had been master or mate in tbe merchant marine. He was cautioned against Hester, but seems to have taken no precautions to guard himself irom possible harm at the hands of a man whose evil disposition was now very manifest One day. when Andrews was asleep in his cabin, llester walked coolly in, placed a pistol at the head of bis unconscious victim, and ecattered his brains over tho pillow. As an excuse for this deliberate and cowardly act; tbe murderer alleged that Andrews was In collusion with the federals, then lying at Algeciras, and had arranged to deliver up the ship. To prevent bucq a consumma tion he murdered him I The next day the British admiral sent off an ofilcer and boats crew, and, after considerable difficulty, ar rested Hester. lie was placed in Irons and sent to Bermuda by order of the British government, there to be delivered to some officer of the confederate states. By some means Heater obtained a release, and, strangely enough, made hi way into con federacy. Mr. ßiauory, the conreaerata secretary of the navy, acted in a very singular manner. Instead ot patting Hester on trial for murder, he allowed him to depart, and even to TAKE COMMAND OF A BLOCKADE RUNNER A eea captain who knows the Hesters well states that when Joseph Hester ran tbe blockade in this schooner (of course she was betrayed and captured), be took with him a younger brother who has never been heard of Blnce. There are those who do not Bcruple to say that be was not accidentally lost. Hester's blockade running speculations deserve a chapter by themselves. We have only space to Bay that be swindled a laree number of his own countrymen by ob taining orders for goods, medicines, talt.etc, and taking out cargoes oi cotton, wmcn somehow fell into the hands of tbe letf erals with relreshlug regularity. Many were impelled to believe that at this time he had relations with both sides. It was at this period (1SG3 Co) that Hester became acquainted with the villain Thomo&sen, who was likewise speculating upon tbe necessities of a miserable people. After the war Hester turned up In Raleigh, N. C. and soon became noted lor his violent democracy, and nltra-Soutbem denunciations ot Yankees, carpet-baggers and "niggers." But not long alter we find the Yankee hater seeking favor among the notorious carpet-baggers of tbe legislature of 1SS3, and obtaining of them a coaiter fo a "Grand Gilt Real Estate Enterprise," whereby for the small sum of 2 50, a large fortune ruieht be won by a mere twist of the wrist. As many citizens of North Carv olina found themselves penniless, although with lrrge plantations, Hester had little difficulty in getting thousands upon thousand. of dollars' worth of land intrusted to his care as prizes in his lottery. Tho enterprise was given strength with the public by

a long list of respectable names as vice-

presidents and directors, headed by that of tbe Hod. a. H. Rogers, formerly attorneygeneral of the state, and a man of high character. These gentlemen, duped by Hester's plausible tongue, awoke one fine morniog to find themselves holding the bag, wniie HESTER WALTZED A WAT with the major part of tbe deposits. To cover his retreat, this audacious rogue caused a notice to be put in the papers, which was widely copied, stating that his Grandmother Lawrence, a noble daughter of England, had just died, leaving him the trifle of 170,000,000, to take possession of which he must temporarily absent himself from tbe scene of his recent labors. When Governor Holden organized bis cutthroat militia, locally termed "Kirk's lambs," for whose atrocities and ontragea on innocent citizens Holden was afterward impeached and expelled from the state,. Hester came from bis retirement and appeared in tbe role of a Ka-Klux detective. He traveled abont in th garb of a countrvman. n-lvlne! signs and passwords to all who would recognize him, and instigating reckless young men, whom be plied with mean whisky, to deeds of violence, which, when he saw fit to uncloak his villainy, caused their ruin. On one occasion, having found a bundle of Ku-Klux gowns in the woods, be dressed up half dozen of his cronies and had the party photographed in a "group, whereof he, the central figure, stood with a rope around his neck, ready to be strung up. The picture subsequently appeared in harper's Weekly, labelled "HangtDg of a Respectable Republican of North Carolina by Ku-Klux Desperadoes." Later, when Grant began to develop his plan of intimidation of tbe South for tbe campaign ol 1872, and when swarms of spies and detectives were Bent South with instructions to "riSD OUTRAOESOR MAKE THEM," Hester became a power in his native land, and right boldly did he use his carte blanche. Says tbe leading daily paper at Raleigh, N. C, in a recent number: At Joe Hester's door lies the ruin of more than one Innocent man. By means of corrupt United States commissioners, suborned witnesses and his own matchless villainy he amassed a considerable fortune of black mail money. Tbe government paid him ?6 per aay and expenses. It was Hester's per dition-fired imagination that originated countless oatcnes of the atrocious raw-bead-and-bloody-bones Ku-Klux lies which over flowed the Northern pres3. He is a shrewd. fiausioie, unblushing scoundrel, who only acks brute courage to make him a first-class monster. The files of the Sun - could furnish many par ticulars or tne in Jam v here spoken of. Among other outrages, it was Hester who knocked down, drugged and kidnapped Dr. Rutus liratton at Hamilton; Canada, and carried him forcibly to South Carolina. Bratton, H will be remembered, was subsequently restored on demand ot tbe Canadian government. His exploits in tbe Carolinas so endeared Hester to his masters, Williams and Grant, that when it became necessary to save Alabama for Ananias Hays and tbe mongrel party by a little wholesome intim idation,he was again sent forth with a ream of blank warrants, and authority to arrest, bind and cast into prison. Asm North Caro Una, the game was begun by an attempt to INCITE SIOT AND MURDER. Hester and Beach, a confederate, disguised as mountaineers, made their appearance driving a wagon leaded with whisky and tobacco, both of which they gave away freely seeking to entrap their companions into admissions of disloyalty while drunk. They also endeavored to excite a war of races by pretending to whites and blacks that they knew of plots one to murder the other, f inally, wben a rero riot actually occurred and tbe sheriff of Sumpter county gathered a posse of fifty men to suppress it, Hester arrested every man of them and issued eight hundred warrants besides for the arrest of honorable citizens, moat of whom were carried one hundred and 6lxty miles to Mobile to bring them beiore one of Williams' negro tools, because the United States commissioners of the rural counties were too honest fer the intimidation ot innocent men. Tbis is tbe man who was one of Grant's chosen tools in the work of Intimi Jatin the South. This is the man who now disclaims Milton to the Young Christians at Washington. Although'he has almost sunk out of notice it is well that the story of Hester's instructive career should be put on record. A MYSTERIOUS MURDER. AS EFFORT TO DISPEL THE MISTERY. THE TOST MURDER THE TRAGEDY IN THE JOHNSTOWN BANK PREPARING FOR THE TRIAL IMPORTANT EVIDENCE JUST DISCOVERED. The New York Sun of Wednesday says The deep and absorbing interest wfiich at tached to the murder of Edward Yost, at Johnstown, nearly one year ago has been revived in view of the approaching trial of his alleged murderer, the preliminaries of which commence in that village to morrow. Ab then, the details of the crime are sgaln the chief topic of conversation, and the speculations indulged in as to the guilt or innocence of Charles Frederick Smith, now under arrest ss the Twrn,tratnr of the crime, are manv and vari ous. The murdered man, Edward Yost, was a brother-in-law of David Hays, member of tbe banking firm of Hays dc Wells, whose bankinz house stood on tbe main street of the village, while Immediately adjoining was tbe meat market kept by Yostwho was a butcher. Yost was a bachelor, a man about thfrty-five years oi age, and at nlgbt slept in the bank, in a small room immediately in the rear of the bank, which had but one wavol Id cress or egress., through a door opening from the banking room. TOST HAD A. LABQK IKM , who stayed in the bank with him at night. On the evening of Friday,. March 5, J 875,. Yost was last seen alive by his brother,. John J. Yost, and David Aiken, ot Sara toga. ' That evening, in their company, he bad visited a theatrical performance, stopped in Beveral places afterward finally bringing up at the Sir William Johnson House. Atter a short time soest in conversation. Edward Yost, at five minutes to 12 o'clock , took his leave, his broths and Aiken remaining at the hotel that nicht. About 6 o'clock the next morning a man passing along the main street noticed smoke issuing from the bankinz heuse. and ss such a sign was un sual be made a closer examination, ana became convinced that A TIRE WAS IN PROGRESS. ki the interior. The alarm was given and a large crowd was speedily attracted to the scene. As the door was found locked and everything seemed secure, David Hays, senior member of the bank, was sent for and soon arrived on the spot. A window was. then opened to allow the smoke to oansna anA f r TT a vu nrvt Van n c an V kftV tJVi AU... -m.J w, aww .- J J to the Yale lock on tbe door, entered by the window and then opened tbe door. Tbe fire was found to be located in tbe little sleeping room off tbe bank, the door of which was drawn to. On opening it an odor of burning flesh and clothing was emitted so powerful as to sicken those who were making the Investigation. Burninz clothing was scat I burned tered about, and the floor was through In one or two places. The anxious

inquiry of the crowd while the search progressed was "Where's El?" who was well known and a general favorite throughout the village. Ihe inquiry was soon answered, for on gropiDg about on the floor Mr. Hays seized a human limb, and drawing it fortn be exclaimed, "ül OOD, THIS IS ED !" It was indeed Yost, but so horribly seared and disfigured by the fire as to be almost unrecognizable. A singular fact in connection with the discovery of tbe fire is, that Hays on going booae-to change his clothing;

after extinguishing the fire, on returning found tbe key of tbe Yale lock in his packet.. It is Buppcted that it wa slipped in there by the perpetrator of the crime or a confederate, but whoever tbe oce was he reraains undiscovered to this day. Coroner Cameron proceeded to hold an inrraest on tbe remains a few hours after the diesovery. and one week later eight of the Jury rendered a verdict that Edward Yost came to his death at the bands of C. Fred. Smith and others unknown," while tbe remainder signed a verdict to tbe effect that death was caused by some person or persons unkaown tothejiiiy. DISCO YX RIES CONNECTED WITH THE TOST MVRDKR. Johnstown Feb. 8. There is great ex citement here over the finding of tbe watch belonging to the late murdered Eiward Yost in a large tank in the i3 house thiaafternoon, together with the pistol used, nodoubt, by the murderer. Two chambers-of the pistol were discharged, and the remain ing balls correspond in size to tho?e found n Yost's head. How the pistol got tbere. and the reasons for searching the tank, will no doubt be explained on the trial, whichs commences to-morrow morning. The dia mond pin has also been found. A CONTRAST WORTHY PUBLIC ATTENTiOI What is the effect of a-drastic Dureatlra upon the constipated bowel and a dyspeptlo stom ach? The Intestine Is emptied so violently a to weaken and render it still more Inactive, and' tbe gastric Juices vltlaUd by contact with an Indigestible medicine, 1 ae the chemical qualities which constitute tnem ue only tiue sol venta or the food. Keiulta aggravated oonstipa lou and, chronic indigestion. What, on the other hand,, are the effects of Hostet ter'S Stomach Bitters oa the same organs? The bowels are moved, but witnoat violence, and at the same time ac quire heal thiol tone; the gastric secretions are sumu ated and improved, and amy perrorm their part in the piocesses which eventuate in tbe nutrition of every part of the human structure. 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