Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1879 — Page 2

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THE MDIAKA STAXE SEKT1KEJU WEDNESDAY MOIINXNGK FEBRUARY 19, 1879.

WEDNESDAY FKBUARY 19.

C1IPPISGS. It was a worthy pastor. Who saw with grief and care His congregation go to sleep. Or which was worse elsewhere. He pondered iong and deeply, ; 4 This wise and pious man, , And at last hit on a simple : And most effectual plan. " Next Sunday, of his sermon The text when he had said. He slipped down the pulpit stairs . And stood upon his head. By thousands nocked the people Tha t preacher great to hear, , And the trustees raised his salary To rifty thousand a year. . - Unknown Exchange. Is the midst of life we are in debt. Court Journal. Of no consequence In society dumb belles. Boston Post. "May Myrtle:" No: a base ball is not woman's sphere. Utica Observer. The Mormon question How many wives can 1 afford to starve to death? Baflalo Express. Put a boy in cast-iron boots aud he'd get his feet wet just the same. Ijetroit Free Press. Sekd anything of the chap who prorsi-d ad epeI ken-hew widter? Calskiil Reorder. On knees y lies the young man's head. when it reclines in his girl's lap. New York Express. - Ruth was a good girl, and she had as fine a Boaz could be found m those days. Meriden Recorder. . ' ' Lady Lytton has presented the Viceroy with a son. They have not yet Lylton a name for him. Boston Post. Whes the old folks try to ait out a young fellow and his gkL they get discounted every time. Danieisonville Sentinel. In the alphabet, as not unfrequently In life, the y's are far down in the list; but you will always find them in goodly society. Boston Transcript Cobkoniak to Grant: "If ye're mad about vonr reception in Cork, shure ye're going now where ye kin Asia mind about it." Cincin nati Saturday Night. Tjik reason a young man parts his ha'r In the middle is through fear that the weight of any more than half of it on o w side will crush in his skull. Syracuse Times. Nobody seems to know what becomes of the bumble-cees in winter, but they are ou deck and ready to be sat down on as soon as the first barefooted boy appears. Detroit Free Press. Ptck wants to know it Q,ueen Victoria was e ver a paragrapher. Why, of course she was. Her first issue was a royal joke. You must remember seeing it in the prince. Philadelphia Kron i fcle-Herald. Eli Pebktks says he often rnns over to Erookly n and talks an hour or two to Rev. Mr. Beeccer.' No wonder Mr. Beecher once leel icaly remarked, "I even wish that I were dead." Norristown Herald. Now that a bill restricting the immigration of Chine r has passed the House, the woman who supports her husbana by taking in wash ing can afford to hae twins occasionally. Philadelphia Kronikle-Herald. -We believe it the duty of this journal to en courage Philadelphia enterprise. Why in the thunder dont some of our furniture manufac turers send the Princess Iouie a price list of cradles? Fhlla. Kronikle-Herald. In this country a boy has too much to fight against. First, it is his mother's slipper; next. Fourth of July; then green apples; and, finally, Santa Claus, a rickety pair of skates, aud an air-hole in the ice. N. Y. Express. It is exceedingly gratifying to know that there is f,220,Ci0o,.00 worth of coin in the treasury. It encourages us, you know, and gives us the heart to stave off the milkman and the grocer for another week. Bridgeport Standard. "You flatter me," as the oiange said to Judge Uav.'d Davis, when he sat down upou it. Hawkeye. "You lnjuice me to rise," responded the Judge, a the orange's life blood pene trated the dome of his pantaloons. Rockland 1 Courier. , Speak gently, speak gently; no matter how mnch bigger and how much broader across I the 6houlders than yourself the other man is, ; nor how cross he looks, speak gently. The bigger and broader and crosser the gentler. Hawkeye. One of the brightest little sons residipg on James street bill yesterday saw his father fixing the billiard table with a spirit level. After the old man had finished the job, he remarked, "Now, pa, see if my head's level." Syracuse Standard. Mbs. Walton having patented a plan for stopping the racket of the New York Elevated railroad, an Eastern paper drops the sly remark that "it is a little singular that it should be left to a woman to manufacture silence." Chicago Evening Journal. The day approaches on which the freckled boy will send to the cross-eyed girl over the way a picture of a flat heart stuck through the middle with a barbed stick. " He will call it a - valentine, and the stick shows how he is stuck on the gal. New Orleans Picayune. A Ntw York editor, under the head of "what we drink," enumerates blue clay,beans, and chicory made to imitate coffee bean. His subscribers wonder why he didn't also include beer and whisky. .The blue clay, beans and chicory beverage Is enough to kill him. Norristown Herald. - - : . ; The natural selfishness of mankind is never more strikit gly set forth than in the supreme pleasure with which The eomfortably-housed railway passengersenjoy seeing the train make a farmer's team run away and scrape the troubled agriculturist up against a barbed-wire fence. Hawkeye. ... Tbk hesitating choice and the tell-tale blush of the fair maiden as she select! the daintiest valentine in the stock, shows that she, at least, means business ; while the two-cent ar rangement that he has just mailed to her will open her eyes to the fact that he dont. New Haven Register. ' CC JIBES r TOPICS. In Florida corn is a foot high. Cow pleuro-pneumonia hasinvaded Brook lyn.: 1 English life-insurance companies charge an extra per cent, ou oti oacneiora, Up to the present time over 20,000 silver mines have been located in Arizona. A man in Illinois has lound a way to make good lumber out of compressed straw. , Ten eouDle live In Bridgewater, Mass., who have celebrated their golden wedding since the first of the year. Southern papers talk about reclaiming lands and building up industries. Another evidence that the South is solid. There are now In course of construction five new steam mills along the line of the Wis. A man named Balson. who was recently hanged in a Western State, confessed that be murdered two man, whose cnarrea remains were found in the burning eindewof

a camp ia the town of Trescott, "He., about SO years ago.

In the little town of Patchogue, L. I., diphtheria is raging to an alarming extent, there being fully 100 cases and deaths occurring daily. The total endowment of the public schools of the United States is $3,000,000, and it is estimated that the average daily attendance is 4,500,000. American street cars are now running in nearly every large city In the world, and horses continue to be exported irom this country to Europe. . . Mrs. Horace Broad, a widow, died ia Cambridge, Mass., on 8unday, and her daughter died in Boston at the same moment, as near as can be ascertained. - - - The fifth publication of Behm & Wagner's estimates of the population of the earth, lately published, puts the increase since the last issue at 15,000,000. 1 . - . The widow of Senator Wade has been gradually failing ia health since the death of her husband, and is now very ill. She is more than 70 years old. It is said Kilsson and her husband are about to separate. Kilsson has lost her property and most of her voice, and she can't afford to keep a husband. The returns of the first 11 months ot the year show that 116,04!) immigrants were landed at Castle Garden, of whom 75,117 were aliens and 43,902 citizens. A Philadelphia physician has just made a discovery which will startle every baby in the land. He has learned that baby -carts are very injurious to babies' health. St Louis has 700 lawyers, and this year the law taxes them $35 per head, thus utilizing a class hitherto utterly unprofitable to the finances of the city and Its dwellers. A colony of Englishmen will settle in Plymouth and Cherokee counties, Ia., dur log the coming season, an advance agent having purchased some 15,000 acres of land. Judge Hilton has fitted up a tea room in the basement of the Stewart store ia New York, to which the clerks have access from 2 till 4. They can drink all the tea they want gratis. Aunt Fhillis, an old negro woman living at Biggus Powell's six miles below Yanceyville, N. C , on the Yanceyviile and Milton road, has just had twins. Phillis is 00 years of age. A Waterford, Conn., youth engaged to a South Lyme girl, laconically deserts her with tbe following note: "Money is scarca and girls are plenty. Guess I will give up the contract." Eighty tons of honey were shipped by the Messrs. Thurber in October last, in the City of Berlin, for Liverpool. This is the largest single shipment of honey ever made from America to Europe. A man who sued the Cleveland (0.) Snnday Voice for libel, because it charged htm with being on record as connected with thieves and rings to plunder the city, has secured a verdict of $5.25. There are over 7,000 Americans studying in German schools and universities. The American consul at Wurtemburg, estimates that over $4,500,000 are thus annually expended by Americans in Germany. . . Law, physic and divinity are well supplied with feminine members in the United States. The lady doctors number 503, and feminine dentists 420, while 63 women are preachers, and five practice as lawyers. General Badeau, the United States consul general at London, lives at . a country seat eight miles out of town. He drives in to his office daily, (there being upon his brougham a coachman and footaan in darkblue liveries, cockaded hats and fur tippets. A nervous policeman of East Providence, 11. 1 , went to shoot a vicious dog, when the brute sprang upon him, causing a premature discharge of tbe pistol. The doe es caped unhurt, but the ball entered the lung of a young man, inflicting a severe wound The amount of policies issued by life in surance companies doing business in New Yok, has fallen off from $2,114,000,000 in 1872, to $1,555,000,000 in 1877. The general depression of business has rendered thousands of policy-holders nnable to keep up their payments. This appears to be a hard winter for thieves, and extraordinary expedients are resorted to to obtain possession of other peo ples property. Within a lew nights past, three churches on Long Island have been entered and robbed of Bibles, cushions, car pets and other property susceptible of con version Into ready money. Eternal Punishment. f Oxenham on Future Retribution. There is something shocking to our nab ural instincts in the "damnation" of unbaptized infants, understood in a coarse and popular sense, as when, e. e Calvin or one of his followers speaks, in perfect consistency with the principles of his horrible the ology, of "babes a span long crawling about the tioors 01 ne.i." uut no such monstrosity is involved in the uatnoiic doctrine. Sarpi saya that the Tridentine fathers hesitated whether they . should - not condemn this Lutheran and Calvinist tenet of the fiery torment of - unchristened 'infants as a formal heresy. St. Benard, who is quoted by Jemerv Tavlor. had said tor centuries betore. Nihil ardet in inferno eisl propria voluntas." UnbaDtised intants, who nave been raised by no sacra ment from the condition 01 original sin, and who, dying before tbe use of reason, have bad no opportunity of corresponding with grace, are Indeed "damned" in a sense tbat tbey can not attain to the beatihc vision, for which their natural capacities do not qualify them. As tbey had not been raised on earth to the state of supernatural grace, they have no aptitude tor the lite or supernatural glory. And this is, ot course, in llsetr, a most momentous "loss" (or damnation) as compared - with the future state of the glorified. But it is no conscious loss to them. Still less does it imply any sunenDg ot ooay or soul, ua the contrary. it is consistent witn the highest enjoyment of natural beatitude, and with a natural knowledge and love of God. They are in what would have been Adam's condition if be had neither fallen into sin nor been en dowed with original justice. Balmez and other Catholic authorities hold that this principle may be extended .. to the case of adults, especially in heathen nations, who die with their moral and intellectual facul ties so imperfectly developed that they may bo regarded as, in responsibility, cnuaren. , How to Cook m Husband. , , Toledo Blade.l , ; The first thing to be done is to catch him Having done so, the mode of cooking him so as to .make a. good dish Is as follows Many good husbands are spoiled in cooking. Some women keep them constantly in hot water, while others freeze them with con iugal coldness: . some another them with hatred and contention, and still others keep tbem in pickle all their lives. Thess women always serve them up with tongue sauce. Now it is not supposed that husbands will be tender and good if treated in this way, out they are, on tne contrary, very deli ctous when managed as follows: Get large lar, called the jar of carefulness (which all good boose wives have on hand) place your husband in it, and set him near the bre ot conjugal love; let the hre be pretty hot, especially let it be clear; above all. let the beat be constant; cover him over with affection aud subjection; gam lsh him with the spice of pleasantry, and, if you add kisses and other confections let them be accompanied with a sufficient portion of fecrecy, mixed with prudence and modera tion.

MARSHAL NEY.

'he Duke of ElcMngen and Prince of Moskva. the Strange Theories Advanced as to His Pinal Pate. Was the Bravest of tu. Brave Bboi, or Bid He Ble ! Hortb. Carolina? From the New York Herald. . Ti-rsersbi-bo, Iredell Co., N. C , Feb. 5. From time to time, within the past few years, there have appeared in brief state ments, seeming to contradict the account given in history of the ignominious death of Marshal Michel Key, the leading hero of the Napoleonic era. History records as a fact that Marshal Ney was publicly shot for treason. The belief which is general-iere, that he was not executed, but that ho es caped to America and taught school ia the then backwoods of Virginia and North Car olina, and finally died in Rowan county, of this State, is based upon the rather mysterious history of a refined and cultivated Frenchman, who, in -his sober moments, called himself Peter Stuart Ney. In order to thoroughly investigate this matter, and determine, if posible, if the history of that strange man can be identified with that of the renowned French soldier, a Herald rep resantative has made a pilgrimage to this region the old tramping ground of Peter Stuart Ney and, having spent a week collecting facts bearing upon the subject, and in interviewing aged persons who knew him well, some of whom were his pupils, will now give tbe results of his inquiries for what they are worth. HISTORY. But let me first revert to history and in corporate here a synopsis of what has been accepted as the true record of the life and death of the great marshal. Michel Ney was born, January 10, 1769, in Sarra Louis, Lor raine, 25 miles northeast of Metz, now Prussian territory. He was of Scotch extraction on his mother's side, her maiden nans hav ing been Stuart His parents were in hum ble circumstances in life. At the age of IS Ney entered the army, in 1787, as a hussar, and here began one of the most brilliant military careers which history records, not excepting even that of the great head of the French army. He fought his way from tbe ranks to the grade of general of division when only 30 years of age (1709), and at the age of 35 he was made a marshal (1804). His many hair-breadth escapes, his coolness in battle, his innate bravery, are matters of tory, and it is not necessary to dwell upon them here. While a brig idier general he distinguished himself at Dierdorf, Altenkirchen and Montabour. With 100 cavalry he took 2,0'X) prisoners and obtained posses sion of Wurzburg. At the battle, of Neuweid he had command of the cavalry and in a furious charge passed through the Austrian lines. Here he was wounded in the head, and becoming entangled under his horse (both having fallen), he was trampled over by retreating horsemen and was mangled in a manner which made hiar escape from death a mystery. At Worms, Frankenthal, Frankfort, Stuttgard and Zurich, he maintained the bright reputation he had gained, and, after rising to the rank of marshal, his career was even more 1 brilliant. His services at llohenlinden, at Elchingen, at Austerlitz-, at Jena, at Magdeburg, his campaign in Spain in 1809, his conduct at Friedland, at Borodino and at Moskva, his command of the rear guard during the famous retreat from Moscow, his victories at Lutzen, Bautzen and Dresden, hundreds of battles on the soil of France, and his charge at the head of the famous Old Guard," at Waterloo, all stamp him the greatest soldier of his age, and strengthen tbe verdict ot tbat grand army of heroes who named him "the bravest of the brave." key's supposed execttiox. After the abdication of Napoleon, Ney re mained in Paris in almost entire seclusion, finding companionship in books and in quiet dissipation. He gave in a formal adhesion to the Bourbon dynasty, bui after Bonaparte returned to France from Elba the "bravest , of the brave" joined again his old master and followed bis eagles until the star of the empire forever set at Waterloo. The allies, after they assembled in Paris, demanded some victim to appease their anger. Ney was a prominent example, and be was ac cordingly arraigned before the Chamber of Peers, of which ne was a member, on a charge of treason, pronounced guilty and there comes the part which the people of this section, at least, believe to , be false) on the 7th day of December, 1815, was publicly shot in the garden of Luxembourg, his last words being addressed to the plat 00 a of soldiers drawn up to do the bloody work, as follows: "Fire, my comrades!" Ten balls," says history, "entered him. and he feU dead.". The last assertion Is the one which is now denied, and the objtctof this article is to show the grounds for that denial. ' ' HIS HABITS. ".' It is proper, however, first to revert to history, and mention some of the characteristics of Marshal Ney. It is to be Tegretted that his biographer is not more elaborate in regard to the old soldier's private life, his habits and his personal traits. It is admitted that Marshal Ney was kind and gentle to a fault. - There was a kind ot magnetism about tbe man which drew to him the hearts of all who knew him. . Indeed, Napoleon - is quoted as follows: "The love which the men bear to Ney wins as many battles for him as does his ammunition," He was fond of books, was a mathematicion of no mean pretensions, and an expert penman. While he was not a dissipated man, he drank wine to excess, and sometimes lost his equilibrium. Such, in brief, is a sketch of the public career of Michel 1 Ney, marshal of France under Napoleon. PETER 8TCART KEY. I will now give a full description and his tory of tbe French school teacher, Peter H'.nart Ney, as obtained from ksv. Mr. Aibea, an aged clergyman of Winston, N. C. ; Mr. Wilfred Turner, of this place, and Mrs. Mary C. Dalton, of Eagle Mills, near here, all of whom were puples of this man. I also have letters from various other persons wbo knew air. Ney well, from wblcn 1 will subsequently quote. According to my in formation Peter Stuart Ney landed at Charleston, S. (J., oa the :wtn ot January, 1816. He lived in South Carolina awhile, but moved to Virginia, in various parts of which State be resided until 1824,. when he came to this (Iredell) county, and was engaged by Colonel Francis Young to teach the languages to his sons at Oak Hill Academv. . He continued to teach in this neigh borhood at Intervals until 1838, being able to secure a school whenever be wished. During most of this time he boarded with Mr. P. Huston, the father ot Mrs. Dalton, the lady from whom most ot the information upon which this sketch is based was obtained. He was a man a little under six feet in height, not very fleshy, bat quite muscular, and weighed

about 200 pounds. His head was nearly bald, and showed a scar on one side, which he said was a sword wound received in battie, and his face was slightly marked with Email pox. Mr. Ney was a good scholar, and possessing the rare iaculty of easily imparting knowledge to the young, he was regarded as a first rate teacher. He was a splendid mathematician, and seemed to take great pride in working out difficult problems. His handwriting, (many ' specimens ot which

have been shown me by Mrs. Dalton) was simply magnificent, abounding in all kinds of grand and difficult nourishes. Mr., Ney was an expert fencer, and taught his male pupils the art, and after school duties were over he would fence with them for hours. seeming never to tire of the sport: As a teacher he was very strict, and was regarded by his patron as tbe best disciplinarian of hii day, bat at the came time he was very popular with his students, all of whom loved and revered him, and, to use the language of one of them, "would have fought far him and died for him if it had been necessary." . He spent his leisure hours in reading and writing, and would occasionally furnish articles for the press. He took a large number of leading newspapers, and read them most attentively. It wai his custom to sit up quite late at night, only sleeping four to six hours in the 24. . V hen questioned by his rural friends in regard to this (to them) strange habit, he said he acquired it in camp wniie in the army. He was always reticent when with strangers, and rart-.ly. if ever. spoke of his connection with the French army, even to his intimate friends, unless (as was often the case) the hinges of his tongue were loosened by an extra glass of wine or brandy, when his characteristic re serve would be thrown on; but even then he manifested no boastful disposition, merely speaking sometimes ot the grand army and the part he had borne in its campaigns. . ANOTHER VERSION OF THE EXECUTION. On one occasion, when he had become very much intoxicated, he narrated to Colonel Thomas F. Huston, a brother of Mrs. Dalton, all about the famous retreat from Moscow, amid the snows and across the riv ers upon ice; how the ice bridge gave way under his men, and drowned many of them; how they perished from hunger and cold; how the Cossacks hung upon his rear and flanks, cutting oil his men and slaughtering those wbo, lroni cold and exhaustion, strag gled away and lay down in the snow to die; how he marched on foot with his brave men, and finally brought up the famous rear guard with only a few hundred, and how Napoleon embraced him and called him "Ihe bravest of tha brave." At another time, when he was lyiDg on a bed under the influence of liquor, he mumbled to himself the cir cumstances of his supposed execution. Ha said it was not true that he was executed. It was true, however, that he was sen tenced and was taken out to be shot, but the men who had been detailed to do the bloody work were soldiers ot his command, and they bad been secretly told to "aim high. He reiused to have bis eyes bandaged and took his position in front of the platoon and ga e the command to' 'Fire!" himself. Tney nrea aDove mm, out ne tell, and was pro nounced dead by tbe attendant physicians, who were in the conspiracy, when his body was at once turned over to his .friends and secretly conveyed to Bordeaux, from whence he sailed to America, landing at Charleston on the Z!in 01 January, 1310. C0RRR0HOEATIVK TESTIMONY. A few years since Colonel Huston, who neard the above, met in the West, where he now lives, a frenchman, wbo related to him tne following strange story : baid the ranch man, "I once belonged to Marshal Nev's command, and after the fall of Napoleon and caoture of Ney I deserted the French army, and, making my way to Bordeaux in December, 1815. shipped as a seaman on board a vessel bound lor Charleston. When several days out I noticed a man on board whose appearance struck me forcibly, and thougbt I knew him. I tried for several days to determine who it could be, and at last it tlahed across my mind that it was my old commander, Marshal Nty. I sought the first opportunity to satisfy myself, aud the next time the mysterious personage came on deck 1 accosted mm aud told 01m I thougbt 1 knew him. He replied, 'Whom do you Mnk I m?' I said .'My old commander. Marsbel Ney.' In a very gruH tone be reopuuueu, 'Mar-tiel Ney was 6hot at Paris, Mr,' and then, abruptly turning upon his heel, he went to bis caoin and I saw him no mote, though we were 35 days reaching Charleston." This Frenchman's name was Philip Petrie, and he was living two years ago. It he is still living, which is probable, be Is an inmate ot tbe Haldiere' Home either at Evar.stoo. 111., Detroit, Mich., or Mil waukee, Wis. KEY'S SUPI-09ED WRITINGS. Mr. Ney was a stenographer, and it is be lieved tbat the many letters which he wrote to Frame were penned in shorthand. Cer tain itjsa large quantity 01 manuscript thus writt n was found among his effects when he died, most of which, unfortunately, bave been lost without having been translated. He bad a large correspondence with persons in France, receiving many letters from there. all of which, it appears, were remailed to him from some point in New Jersey, the name of which place my informant has for gotten. The lot lowing verse, written in Key's hand, was found among his effects: Oblivion is the common lot Of common men they die forgot; He wbo wonld live in memory warm Mast do mnch good, or do much harm. Fame lilts her voice alone on high For those who fill the public eye; ' Down in the brief ephemeral tide, 81116s every manikin beside. , - Immediately beneath the above lines is tbe following note, also in his bold handwriting: . . , .1 As written in a letter to J. K. Foellinte, 8th May, from Abbeville, Va, . VISIT OF A MYSTERIOUS 8TRAKGEB. ' Mrs. Dalton has related to the Herald representative an account of the visit of a mysterious young man to her father's house, where Ney boarded. It was at a time when the housj was filled with company, and every room was occupied. Near twilight a young man rode up to the gate and hallooed. When Mr. Huston (Mrs. Dalton's father) went ont the young man asked the privilege of staying all night He was told that, the house being crowded, he could not be accommodated, but he insisted, and said he was willing to sleep on the floor, and that, his horse being tired and completely worn out, h could not possibly proceed farther. Mr. Huston then told him if he would suit himself to circumstances he might stay. Tne stranger thanked him and went in. When the stranger was conducted in to supper he took a seat at the table opposite Ney, who was occupying his usual saat They glancad at each other, and though not a word was spoken, it was evident to all present that it was a - glance ot recognition. Immediately after tea these two, taking their hats, left the house together, and were not seen by any of the company any more that night. An old negro man, a servant of Mrs. Huston, reported tbat he saw tbe two, nearmidnight, sitting behind a straw stack in tbe field, near the house, in close conversation, and though nuobserved by them, he could hear them distinctly, but conld not understand a word they said. The stranger ordered his horsa early tbe next morning and left. Mr. Ney remained in bis room all that day reading and writing. HOW THE DEATH OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL ATFECTKO IUM. Key's conduct when be heard of tbe death of Napoleon's son, the Duke of Keichstadt (June, 1832), was, to say tbe least of it, curious. He first received tbe intelligence through a private letter from New Jersey, which was handed to him one afternoon during school hours. He read the letter and at once arose from his seat, threw the letter on the floor, stamped upon it, took other papers from hu pocket, tore them in shreds,

strode violently np and down the floor and otherwise acted almost as a maniac This

conduct of course frightened the school children, and Mrs. Dalton. then a schoolgirl, went 10 mm ana assea what was tbe matter. Placing his right hand on his forehead and gazing into vacancy he said, in a dramatical ly melancholy tone, "Ihe prince imperial is dead, and my hopes are blasted." He dismissed the school, saying there would be no session until the following week. He then went to bis room and destroyed a large numDer 01 private papers, ana for several days his conduct was such tbat his friends feared he wonld commit suicide. Three years later he wrote tbe following lines in Mrs. Dalton's album, which I have been permitted to copy: "SON WITH THE GLORIES, G3HK." . Though I of the chosen the choicest, To lame gave her lolliettt tone: Though I 'mong the brave was the bravest, My plume and my baton are gone! - My eagle tbat mounted to conquest Hatu stooped from his altitnue high, A prey to a vulture the foulest, No more to revisit the sky. One sigh to the hopes that have perished, One tear to the wreck of the past, One look upon all I have cherished, One lingering look 'lis the lust. And now from remembrance I banish The glories which abona In my train; Oh ! vanish, fond memories, vanish; Return not to stiag me again. P. K. Ney. Jlay 6, 1K)5. . P. 8. KEY'S DEATH. Although previous to the death of Na poleon s son he frequently sioke of return ing to France, he was never after that event beard to express either intention or desire to do so. Ney left this section in 183 and went to Kowan county, in dillerent parts of which he taught school until his death in October, 1840. He died at the residence of Mr. Oiborne G. Ford, ia Kowan, and was buried in the graveyard near a country church called Third Creek Meeting House. A rear or two after his death some of his former pupils had erected at tne neaa ot his grave a neat mar ble slab bearing this inscription: To the Memory or PETER 8. NEY, A French Hero. Died Oct. 14, lblti. Mr. Ford was appointed , by the county court administrator of Key's estate. This was a mere matter 01 lorm, as he was possessea 01 no estate, in il an unknown f renchman visited Mr. Ford and tried to get possession 01 the shorthand manuscript reterrea to aoove, out Mr. t ord reiused to give it up. He afterwards, however, turned it over to a man who called himself Pliny Myers, a member of the New York Histo rical society, with the understanding that he (Myers) would have the documents trans lated ana the mystery enveloped therein cleared up. Nothing more has ever been beard from it. It is not the purpose of your corresponaent to discuss tne question which is here raised. It is my business to merely give the facts and -let tbe reader draaw his own conclusions ; bat I deem it proper to incorporate here the language and opinions of some of the persons with whom I have talked on the subject. VISWS OF OLD PVFILS OF KEY. Mr. Wilfred Turner, an aged gentleman. than whom no man in North Carolina stands higher, nor is more respected, says: "I went to school to Peter S.uart Ney in 1825 and 182U, and knew him well. I have no doubt but tbat he was Marshal Ney. Certain it wa?, be was a soldier, and it was evident he was no ordinary soldier, but a man of rank and genius." Key. Mr. Albea, a Methodist minister. says: "I was one of Ney'a pupils when he taught at oak Hill academy, and rememoer him well. He was a noble looking man. and showed his military training in his every step and movement. He was a great ad ruirer of NapoUon Bonaparte always spoke of him in terms of the highest admiration; and up to the time of the death of the prince imperial he spoke of returning to France when the Bonaparte dynasty should ba re stored, which event he anticipated would soon occur. He was not an ordinary man in any sense, and I to not hesitate to say tbat in my opinion ne was none other than the great marshal ot the empire." Mrs. M. C. Ddlton, an aged lady of marked intelligence and of unusual information. says: "I am as thoroughly convinced of the fact that be was Marshal Ney as I am of my own existence, ivow, assuming," says she, "that he was Marshal Ney, how could he give expression to the disappointment of bis heart in more forcible and pointed language than is contained in these verses, written in my album not long after he beard of the death of Napoleon's son?" Recorded above. "I saw him once," continues Mrs. Dalton, "when he had been drinking, perhaps, taken up from tbe road in a stupor and laii "cross a horse to be carried to the house. This aroused him, and his involuntary expression, as I well remember, was: 'What! put the Duke of Klcbingenon a hone like a sack) Let me down" " Dr. J. R. B. Adams, of this county, rays: "I have been entirely satisfied in my own mind since 1842 that P. S. Key, who taught school within a few hundred yards of my residence for two years or more, and is now baried in Third Creek church-yard, wes the veritable Marshal Ney." Mr. O. G. Ford, at whose house Ney died, believes he was the great marshal and none other. He says when Ney was on his deathbed he several times in fits of delirium exclaimed: "Oh, France! France, my country: why could I not, like Bessieres, die for thee?" ' His last words were these: "Bessieres has fallen, and the Old Guard is defeated now let me die." With these words on his lips this mysterious French school teacher gave op the ghost. Was he Marshal Ney? Licensed Slavery. Russia appears to be the most barbarous country in Europe in its treatment of the marriage relation. The nuptial ceremonies, all and singular, are bssed upon the idea cf the degradation of the female. When the parents have agreed upon tbe match, the bride is examined by a number of women to see if she has any bxlily defects. On her wedding day she is crowned with a garland of wormwood, to denote the bitterness ot tbe married state. She is exhorted to be obedient to her husband, and it is a custom in some districts for the newly-married wife to present the bridegroom with a whip, in token of submission, and with this he seldom fails to show his authority. In tbat cold, cruel country, husbands are sometimes known to torture their wives to death, without any punishment for the murder. If a woman proves barren, the husband generally prevails on her to retire into a convent and leave him at liberty. If be fails in his perauationa he is permitted to whip her into obedience. Such is the slavery in which the Muscovites are kept by their parents and guardians, tbat they are not allowed to dispute any anion agreed upon by their elders, however odious or 1 ncom patible it may be. This extends so far tbat officers in the army are not permitted to marry without tbe consent of the sovereign, and wives they do not want ara sometimes forced upon them. Whether it ba tbe result of tbis system of oppression, or of tbeir savage climate, or 'of the unnatural hot air of their stave-heated apartments, it is certain that a more unlovely set of women than the ItussiaDB would be difficult to find. "They want," says an English traveler, "the genuine flavor which only nature can give. Tbat charming firmness and elasticity of flesh so inditputably requisite to constitute beauty, and so delicious to the touch, exists not among the Russian females, or in very few of them." Why take those immense does of nauseating mixtures sold as "Cough Syrups" when a few small doses of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup Will cure your cold.

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