Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1869 — Page 1

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THE RENSSELAER UNION.

Vol. 1.

I M. STAOKHOVBB. C. D, BTACXUOtSE BENSSELAER FUBNiSHING AND HARDWARE STORE. TTT.rE'beg leave to invite the attention o T V the people of Jysper and Newton counties, <2.d the rest of mankind, to our ful and complete stock of NAILS, GLASS, SASH, DOORS, PI.'TTY, LOCKS, BUTTS, STRAP HINGES, TABLE »m» fTOCKET eUrI.EBY, WHITE- LEAD, IqN SEED AND COAL OIL. j i- . • | and ivci vthliig elm usually kept in a well . legulateii hardware store. ✓ v hiking and heating STOVES oj ihe latest styles r.ml in cml'rs vmkty. rr'UN\VARI , < Of all kinds; vml every--L thing else ustiaHy kept iii a well ordered K i tuve store. i - A LSO. i 1 I J BEDSTEADS. (HAIRS, TABLES, SAFES CKIIiS, WABH-AJANDB, BUREAUS, Had everything e’se imuntly kept tn a proper! ■conducted Furniture rtoie. V. c keep col.“tautly employed the very l.ort ' of tinners -*»d c.ibiiiecmiUiei s. and nre thc-re-j fore prepared to <lo repairing or job work, in I either department at all 'inics. # . ~aw»s>»ip CA4-»jZ|AtKS-«tfalll-wie» kept con.hintiynn li.iuu or made to cider on abort notice, at tn# lowest possible rules. Air Is make it cm business to furnish —W—everyU-itb" needed ea —Trnrrn on i-rNNisj/ In house. Call nnd see us before purelmeing .elsew here. 11 n STACKHOUSE A I’-KO BLACKSMITH WAGON SHOP! NORMAN WARNER rexpocffully announce ,io Tv the citizejiH of Jasper ami Mir-’ rounding counties, tli.al lie is xt 111 (•iirryWtg on the business of Blacksmithing and Wagontnaking in all their branches, at his old stand on Front street, Keiisselaer, Ind. . He is now prepared to put up the bent of Wagons, Buggies, Plows, out of the best material. He wjll also furnlwli you with a . ’ \ in - WH EEL- BARROW at very low figures, if you want to do your own hauling. > He also keeps on liand, or wiH fitake hr order, one of the . best single double - ) Shovel Plows to be had any where',' and at as .moderate prices. ‘ Repairing of'all kinds done tn good slyle, and on short notice. BLACKSMITHING J WARNER is prepared to do all kinds of blaeksmltliing, on short notice. IT you want a horse shod, it will be dime on scientific principles at ids shop. All kinds of repairing in iron, or steel done iu a durable manner Ho keeps none but'the bAt workmen and uses nothing but the best o matoriai. and can warrant all he sells. Give Norm, a Call at the old stand pajjtl examine his stock and learn his prices. Terms cash. / May 8, 1868. ( l-2t.

RENSSELAER, COUNTY, INDIANA, APRIL 8, 1869.

THE MAIL ROBBER.

And How He Was Caught. Fourteen years ago I drove from Danbury to Littleton,.a distance of forty-two miles and as I had to await the arrival of two or three coaches, and I did not start till after dinner, I very often had a good distance to "drive after dark. It was in thedead of winter, and the season had been a rough one. A great deal of snow had fallen, and the drifts were plenty and deep. The mail that I carried was not due at Littleton by contract until 1 ofidock in die niorn4ug, but that winter the postmaster was obliged to sit up a little later than that hour for me. One day in January, when I drove up my mail at Danbury, the postmaster culled me into his office. “Pete,” said he, with an important, serious look, “there's some I . pretty heavy money packages in that bag,? and he pointed to it as he spoke. Tic soul the money was from Boston to some land agents up_ near the Canada line. Then he i -asked me- if I’d got any- passengers who were’going through to Littleton? 1 tokl him I did not know.— “But suppose I have not?” says L “Why,” said he, “The agent of the lower route came in to-day, and he says that there were two suspicicus characters on tin? stage that came up last night, and he suspects that they havb an eye upon this mail, so that it will stand yon in hand to be a little careful.” lie said the agent had described one of them as a short thick-set fellow, about forty years of age, with 4ong-bmr, and -a thrSkj heavy clump of beard under his chin, blit none on the side of iiis face. He- didn’t know’ anything about the other. I told him 1 guessed there wasn’t much danger.

“Oh! no, not if you have got passengers way through; but I only toll! you of this so that you might look out for vour iiirul, and alsoloolt out sharp, when y.m change horses.” I answered that I should do soi and then tool; the bag under my arfu'" and left the office. I stowed the mail tjiider my seat a little more carefully than usual, placing it so That Tcould keep my feet agaiiist it, but, beyond that 1 did not feel any eorn’ern. It Was past one when we started, and 1 had four passengers, two of whom rode only Jo my first stopping-place. 1 reached Gowan’s Mills nt dark, when we slopped for supper, and where my. other two passengers -concluded to stop for the night. p bmtl six e-eloek in the evening I left Gowan’s .Mills alone, having two horses and a pirng. 1 had seventeen miles to go, end it night was quite clear, - but the wind was sharp and cold, the loose snow Hying ni all directions, while the drifts wore deep and closely packed. It was slow,-tedivus work, and my h’orscs soon became leg-weary and restive. At the distance of six miles I came to a little settlement called Bull’s Corner, where I took fresh horses. I'd been two hours going tb.at distance. As 1 was going to start, a man came up and asked me if I was going through to Littleton. I told him 1 should go through if the thing could possibly be done.— lie said he was very anxious to go, at)d as he had no baggage, I told Vnu to jump in and make’himself as eomfortable as possible. J was gathering up my lines, when the hostler came up nnd asked me if I Imew that one of my horses had cut himself badly. I jumped out and went with hiin,jj).d found that one of the ftnhnals had a dee]) cork cut on the ofl' fore foot. I gaye such directions ns I considered necessary, and was about to turn away, when the hostler remarked that he thought I came alone. 1 told him I did.— “Then where did you get that passenger?” said fie. “He just got in,” I answered. “I don’t know.” “Well, now,” said the hostler, “that’s kind of curiops. Thcrei ain't been no such inapai any pf the neighbors.” ” “Let’s have a look at his face,” said I. “We can get th>t much at any rate. Do you go back with mo and when I into the pung, just hold your lantern so the light will shine into his face.” He did $s 1 wished, and as. I

OUR COUNTRY AND OUR UNION.

stopped into the pung, I got a fhir view of such portions of my passenger’s face as was not muffled up. I saw a short thick frame, full, hard i features, and I could almost see that there was a heavy beard under the chin. I thouglst of the man whom the I’ostmaster had described to me; but I did not think seriously upon it until I bad started Perhaps I had gone half a mile, when I noticed the mail bag wasn’t in its place under my feet. “Halloo!” says I, holding up my horses a little, “where’s my mail?” Jly passenger sat on aseatbefifnd me, and I turned towards him. “Here is a bag of some kind slipped back under my feet,” he said, giving it a kick, as though he would shove it forward. Just at this moment my horses lumbered into a deep snow drift, nnd I was forced to get out and tread down the snow in front of them, and lead them through it. This took me all of fifteen minutps; and when I got in again I pulled the mail bag forward and got my feet upon it. As I was doing this, I saw tlie man taking something from bis hip, beneath the buffalo, and put it into his breast pocket. This, I thought, was a pistol.— I had caught a gleam of the barrel in the starlight, and when I had time to reflect, I knew I could not be mistaketv— About this lime I began to think somewhat seriously. From what 1 had heard and seen, I soon nmde up my mind that the individual behind me not only meant to rob me of my mail, but he was prepared to rob me of my life. If I resisted him he would shoot me, and perhaps he meant to perform that delectable operation at any rate. While I was pondering, the horses plunged into anothef deep snow drift, iuid I was again forced to get out and tread od the snow before them.- I asked my passenger if he would help me, but lie didn’t feel very well, and wouldn’t try; so I worked all alone, and was all of a quarter of an hour getting my team through the drifts. When I got into the sleigh again, I began to fuel for the mail bag with my feet. I found it where I had left it; but when I attempted to withdfaW”myTy6T~ i~~dis^overfed, it hii.it become entangled in something—l thought it was the buffalo, and I tried to kick it clear; but the more 1 kicked the more closely was it held. Trcaclied HowTi my Land, ainTTounS my hand in atiurng the packages of let ters and‘papers! I ran niy fingers over the edges of the opening nnd became assured that the stout leather had been cut with a knife. Here was a discovery! I began to wish that I had.taken a little more foretltoitght before leaving Danbury; but as I knew that making such wishes was only a waste of time, I quickly gave it up and began to consider what I had best to do under existing circumstances. I wasn’t long in making up my mind upon a few essential points. First, tile man behind me was a villain; second, he had cut open the mail bag and robbed it of some valuable matter —be must have known the money letters by their size and shape; third he meant to leave the stage on the first opportunity, and fourthly, he was prepared to shoot m« if I attempted to arrest or detain him. I revolved these things over in my mind, and pretty soon thought of a course to pursue. 1 knew that to get my hands safely upon the rases! I must take him wholly unawares, and thß I could not do whila he w as behind me, for his eyes were upon me all the time—so I must resort to stratagem. Only a litl#s distance ahead was a house, and an old farmer named Longee lived there; and directly before it a huge snow bank stretched-across the rohd, through which a track had been cleared with shovels. . ■ '( As we approached the .cot, I saw a light in the front room, as I felt o^ffilent.l / shouJd» for th® old man generally sat up until the stage went by. I drove on and when pearly opposite the dwelling stood up, as I had ftequently done when approaching difficult places. I aaw the anow bank ahead, and could .distinguish the deep cut which had been shovelled through it. I Urged my horses to a good speed, and when near the bank forced them into it. One of the runners tnounted the edge of the buck, after whi«h the ether ran into

• the cut, thus throwing the sleigh 1 over about as quick as though light-' ‘ nhig had struck it. My passenger had not calculated on any such movement, and wasn’t prepared for it; but I had calculated, and was prepared. He lolled out into the deep snow- with a heavy buffalo robe about him, while I lighted on iny feet directly on top of him. I punched his head in the snow, and sung out for old Longee. I did not have to call a second time, for the farmer had come to the window to see me pass, and as soon as he saw my sleigh overturned, he had lighted his lantern and hurried out. "What’s to .pay?” asked tlio old man, as he c;mie up.

“Lead the horse into the track, and then come here,” said IAs I spoke, I partially loosened my hold upon the villain’s throat, and he drew a piatgl from hi» bbsom; but I saw it in season, and jammed his head into the snow again, and got it away from him. By this'time Lougee had led the horses out and came back, and I explained to him in as few words as possible. We hauled the rascal out into the roatl, and upon examination, we found about twenty packages of letters which he had stolen from the mailbag and stowed away in his pockets. lie sw'ore, and threatend, and prayed; but we paid no attention to his blarney; —Longee got some stout cord, and when we had securely bound the villain we tumbled him into the pung. I asked the old man if Be would accompany me to Littleton, and “Of course.” So he got his overcoat and muffler, and ere long we started on. IJreaehed of my route with my mail all safe, though not as snug as it might have been, and my mail bags a little the worse for the game that; hadAeeiF played upon them. However, the mail robben.jt.as secure, and within a week he was identified by some officers from Concord ns an old oflender, and I am - rat her to the opinion that ..he is in the State prison at the present time. At any rate, he was there the lait I heard of him. any mail trouble; and I think that under all the circumstances, I came out of it pretty well.

Anecdote of Thomas F. Marshall.

Thn llon. Thomas E.—MarahalU.. of Kentucky, once a prince of good fellows, was defending a man charged wilh murder in Jassamine county, Judge Lusk presiding.- 4 - The testimony against the prisoner was strong, and Tom struggled liard on the cross-examination, but to little purpose, for the old Judge was inflexible in his determination to rule out ail the improper testimony offered on the part of the defence —At last Tom worked himself into a high state’ of excitemtnb“ and remarked “Jesus Christ was convicted upon just such rulings of the court, that tried him.” “Clerk,” said the Judge, “enter a fine of ten dollars against Mr. Marshall.” “Well this is the first time I ever heard of anybody being fined for abusing Pontius Pilate,” was the quick response of Tom. Here the Judge became very indignant, and ordered the clerx to enter Another fine of twenty dollars., ' -.y-”. 'J’.ont with inirth-provpkm» expression can imitate and addressed the court with as much gravity as the.circumstances would permit as follows; “If your honorple'nses’as a good citizen-1 am bound to obey the ordcrs.®f the court, an,d intend to do so in this instancey-but as I don't happen to have thirty dollars about me, 1 shall be compelled to borrow it of some friend, and, as I see no one present whose confidence and friendship as ydur honor’;*, I make no hesitation in asking the small favor of a loan for a few days, to square up the amount of the fines that you have caused the clerk to outer against me.” TJiis was a stunner. The Judge looked at Tom, then nt the olfrk, and finally said: “Clerk, remit Mr. Marshall’s finesjrthe State is, better able to 'loscthirty dollars thaw I UH.’*

Turning the Tablea.

“Halt! Your money or your life! Throw up your hands!” exclaimed a stranger, stepping out from the shadow, while accompanying the words might plainly be heard the sharp click of a pistol. The person addressed was a weary newspaper man, winding his lonely way homeward in the outskirts of the city at about tiiree.p’clock in the morning: “Oh, yes,. certainly. I'm in no hurry. Only walking for exercise. Just as soon hold up my hands as not. I’m not armed. Please turn that pistol a little one side. It makes me nervous.” “Hand over your cash!” “Haven’t nary rod with me. You see they took all that away from me when they entered my name on the books.” “When did they take your money from you?”

“Oh, yes; why, at the pest-house. You see, I’m a small-pox patient, juSVout for exercise. They would not let me walk about in day-light, with my* face in this condition, so I had to go it after dark and late at night When thestreets are empty!—. By the way, ’stranger, the wind is rather in your direction, and unless you ain’t particular about it, it might be as well to stand on the other side, I’ve got my old silver watch, though. If you like it, come and take it. You’re at perfect liberty to search me if you like, only don’t point that pistol- this way, its uncomfortable. D’ye want the watch?’’ “No, thank you,” said the robber, backing away and around toward the other side. “I couldn’t take anything from annan so unfortunate as you arc. Here. There’s half a dollar for you, poor fellow. Go and get something to drink,” and he threw the Coin toward him, and backing off. “Now!” said he, “you turn batik and go round the block the other way. As you’re only walking for exercise it won't incommode you—” “Oh, not a particle; I’d just as soon walk with you if you desire it Either way, though, its all the same to mo. Thank you for the half.— Won’t you join me and drink to my recovery?” “Well, you go round the block the other way, and as I haven’t hurt you, say nothing about having met me. I guess I’H go this way,” and then watching until the supposed small-pox patient turned the corner, lle StaTted bfl' on a full fuh in the opposite direction. “Mr. Newspaper man proceeded on homeward undisturbed, and slept the sleep of one who enjoys the consciousness of having done a good thing, and four bits better offfor having met a highwayman. — Golden Era. .......

Chinese Jugglers.

The Chinese jugglers and their curious tricks are often a matter of great interest to the stranger. Un--1 ike the' modern:; prestidigitator, ho has no apparatus, no tables with drawers, no baskets and boxes, with false bottoms, therefore his trick seems all the more wonderful. One trick I remember that I was never tired of seeing, it was so curious and at the same time so beautiful. The juggler is furnished with a square tile of white porcelain, apparently no different from any other piece of white ware, lie asks you what flower he shall make appear on the surface. Perhaps you say a red rose. He waves a brush over tKeplaTe’arfew'tTfilWftire brnsh h as apparently no color in it and ho has no color near him, and in a moment the flower appears on the fade of the tile, with its appropriate leaves as if painted by a most skillful hand. When you have admired it sufficiently he passes his hand across the picture, and it is gone. You ask to see a water-lily next, and with a few’ waves of the samp brush he produces it, without a moment’s hesitation,. and wipes it away in the same manner. No matter wlift ’fioWdrycru ask fur, no lung a» it is one the juggler is acquainted with, he will paint it for you. The growth, blossoming and fruit bearing of a seed planted before your eyes, in a little mound of earth on the pavement beneath your window is another of the inexplicable tricks of,their jugglery, and it becomes peculiarly difficult of explanation, when the fruit you see grow and are afterwards allowed to eat is not in season and therefore not to bo ptocijned In the market.

Where John Morgan wm KUM. (Corr«ipond.i>e« Ctnolnnall Ootnm. ratal. | As yon leave the depot, and walk down toward the main portion of Greenville, immediately to your left, after you have walked some two hundred yards, thoreis a large red brick houae, standing upon a little rise of ground, hack some thirty yard# frotirihe street. Th* house is surrounded on alleidosby trees and shrubbery, which wakca it onq oi the most picturesque residences ip that place. In the front of this house, ami reaching the sidewalk, there ia about half an acre in grape-vines, aud here and there among them apple-trees.— This is called a garden, and near the center of this garden, John Morgan, the famous rebel raider, wits killed. At the time, he and a portion of his command occupied the town, and he was asleep in the house, which I have just described. Morgan bad been in town several days,’ but was intending to leave the following day, as the Federal* were advancing in force. It was a dark, rainy, cloudy night iu October, when a spy silently stole out of Greenville, and rode with all speed a distance of ten miler, where the Federal* were encamped. He communicated to them that John Morgan was in Greenville, wit’n only a few of his men, and that with proper diligence he might be caught. *

No. 228.

Ont into the ’darkness two hundred Federal cavalrymen rode, and a little before day they arrived in the edge of the town. They surrounded the place, and dashed iu from all points of the compass at, once, with a terrible yell, that sent terror to the hearts of all that heard it. The rebels were taken completely by surprise, and made but a feeble resistance. Morgan was suddenly awakened by the tumult, and for a moment seemed bewildered. He knew not which way to fly. “Go to the garden! hide in the hushes and vines! quick! quick!’* cried some of the negro servants. Morgan stood for a moment as if undetermined what to do, and then rushed out at the front door into the garden. He was barefooted,, bareheaded, and had nothing on but his shirt and drawers, which were white and easily seen in the distanced, but it happened that none of tiie soldiers saw him.— There was one person who did. However, and that was a young lady, who lived near by, and being awakened by the firing and shouting, looked out and saw Morgan run in among the shrubbery in the garden. She ran down the street *to where four or five Federal soldiers were, and said to them, “John Morgan’s hid in that garden, shoot him!” The soldiers saw a white object, ami all of them but on® fired, but they only wounded, and did not kill him. Morgan remained perfectly motionless, a* to have moved was as certain death as to remain still. The soldier who had not fired now advanced nearer, took deliberate aim and fired, The ball pierced the body of John Morgan, and in a few hours he was no more. The garden was surrounded by a paling fence. Three or four of the palings were removed to drag his body but, and their places are now Supplied by others. But the spot is marked by a small pleeß*wf; plank, which is nailed on at the top of the fence, and all who choose can see the spot where he fell, and the place where he was dragged out. The young lady who betrayed him still lives near Greenville, and when Morgan was laid out she placed some in his coffin, and with her own hands wiped the clots of gore from his face. At that time there was a lady here, yhosr" had been killed in the rebel army. Having consider abl e g ift o f gab, shewent North and represented herself as the woman who had betrayed John Morgan, and gave “lectures.” Of course, every body turned out to see the woman who had been so instrumental in ending the career of the famous raider, and th® result was she became rich and quite a famous lecturess. She first lectured, I believe, in Ohio, and little did the good people who gave a dollar a head to hear her imqgiqe that the one who stood before them detailing the story of the death of John Morgan was none other than a rebel lady, who never saw John Morgan, dead or alive. She used to say that the “Yankees wouldn't know the difference,” and they didn’t Doubtless, those who heard her were just as well satisfied with her lectures as if ..she had been the identical wopiatpwho bfl* trayed the famous raided