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GEN. SHERMAN—HIS VIEWS. When a St. Louis reporter can't think of anything else to do, he goes and interviews, Qeneral Sherman. And the General rather likes it, too for he is fond ef talking, and life in St. Louis is monotonous, anyhow. A Globe-Demo-crat reporter is the latest who has put Tecnmsah on the witness stand. We ream in the first place that the General greatly prefers St. Louis to Washington as a residence. He has a cosy home, tfhd can enjoy ease and retirement whereas, In Washington, all was rush and excitement- He is glad to be able to raise his children, of whom he has a half a dosen, away from the dangerous glare of false society. Since the Belknap collapse, he is proatly additionally thankfal that he is away from Waahing-

Beauregard accusing him of cruel practices in requiring prisoners to dig up torpedoes which the Confederates had buried in bis path. Sherman said it was do new thing to require prisoners to remove torpedoes which bad been buried by the enemy. Wellington did it in Spain, and history furnishes a mimber of similar instances. He considered that Confederate prisoners knew more about where those torpedoes were planted than bis own men did, and as no ona was blown up in recovering them, he thinks Beauregard shouldn't blow him up about the matter any further. Regarding his "Memoirs," he said his particular army was that of "The Tennessee," and it is quite probable that he colored things highly in its favor. Boynton, who had attacked his book, belonged to the Army of tb^ Cumberland, and thought It was the finest military organization on the planet, lie thought Boyntow's present ment was garbled, one-sided, and very properly fell flat.

Regarding Confederate Generals, he said Go knew most of them personally, and entertained great respect and lrienashlp for them. He lias recommended Gen. Braxton Bragg for appointment in the Khedive's army. Said the General: I feel very kindly to all the Southern Generals. In fact. I think people everywhere throughout the North and West cherish no bad feeling. Jeff. Davis is the only exception made. I do not know wliy it istbat the Northern people hate him so, but they do, and will never

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it over their feeling in this respect. did no worse than anybody else, but I suppose the people are bound to have somebody 4o hate. For instance, the Southern people hate Gen. Butler about as bad or worse than the Northerners hate Davis, I suppose the two sections, while determined to cultivate friendly leoling among the people at large, roquire something on which to expend the hate that will unavoidably show Itself Kt intervals. So ffcr as the Northern and Southern people are concerned, they are rapidly assimilating, and in a few years they will bo one people in tact as well as in name. Put the Southern and Northern soldiers together and you have the strongest element, in a military sense that could be gotten toither for any National purpose. As fighters, they would be invincible. Tha Southerners are impetuous and will fight quicker and fiercer, but tbev give out sooner the Northerners are slower, but they stay longer they have more endurance, and fight steadier and more stubbornly. In fighting qualities, the South represents France, and the North* England. Put the two together and the devil couldn't whip them."

Tho subject of the Prsldency coming up, Sherman said he meant every word he wrote about not being a candidate in any event, but he didn't suppose it would be published. It was addressed

to "Private Dalzell," but it wasn't kept private. However, those were his views to a T.(Tecumsah.) He contended what the country wants now is a civic President and not a military one. Blaine, he 4 thinks is going to be hard to beat for a nomination. Hayes would make a magnificent run. He is very popular, with much of the real Statesman In him.

Of Morton he says: "he a remarkable man. From his knees down he is physically dead, but from there to the top of his head he is about the liveliest man in the oountrv. I love Morton for bp war record. He was the best war (Jovernor wo had. He never complained that Indiana bad furnished more than its just quota. The demand for more troops had only U) be made to be complied with. Thousands of the Wax ItoraocmU would Vote for him."

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The following statement of a correei. pondont of the Stockton (Cal.) "Herald*' has been going the rounds of the papers.

An e*-CaMfbrnian says he has Seen |t tested with entire success. We reprove dace Jt, therefore, fbr what ll is worth:

I herewith append** recipe which bis bMn used, to jay koowledfe, in bancure are cow-

in -fcnfpaita, w»e worm mt wUiMe rled an avaltuche of fame upon his head but when the most «jSentli!c Mixytknr tftedkrfne In the woHd-*hat of

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4 Instance It barmlaea win taken by swell pnrton. wiU also

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fever, llej-e is the recipe as I bave used 'i It, and cured my children of the ecftritt I fever here Kktml haw* oaedi* to cure

U* smallpox when leeroed ptijwktea* said the patient must die, it cured Sulphate of jdne, one grain Ibxglove (digitalis)^ «n« drain halfs tsftspoottfsl of sugar} u»i* with two Ubleqioonfal* ol water, VThej thoroughly mixed, add water. Tak(T a epoob-

Atlimrjr bottr.M IQUwr dlsaaae wUl dle19 tTW^FRLXMW.

'4® I, appear 1B For a chilfc •V tmalter dosesw.„ according to **«. Jf counts wowld compel their physicians r-i to tiM thl% tbart would be no ntmi of past bouses Hyou value advios and "h experience, umOa! ••1 dlsws?.

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A MO&TJMI'RJKSSIVE SIGHT. (Norwich Bulletin.] j, correspondent of IbeWtonath J6uTTi«t, w^ngf^mmkH»oean,saks:

it -Cmn there beanytltfug than the totoityof we should si^y, nothing unless it is to

we should say, nowuy walk four miles through t• *«ow storm to see ynnr girl, and :i

MJxm nniking iove to her*

another

N0TIT1&O VnLL lBt DONE.

%i' Srw York Tttbtme.] ^, Each day's session of Ooftgress m^ces •k it mors and more apparent that nothing will be done with reference to the currency questkm. Both parties fight shy of it.

THK FINE FEATHERED BIRDS OF WASHINGTON LIFE. & [Olive Logai« in Qrapbto.] id this gregt crowd q^exofllent, irthy ttBople tbdl are ft few indmaui* no make thitmselVes the^eu^ ^neighboring eyes. Some?are born beautiful, some have a rent-toll as my arm in fertile acres in JkfcnW England- Mr. Yoahida, the Japanese Minister, is of gentle birth and of enormous wealth in his own country he inhabits a palace, wherein 1,000 guests are easily entertained at once Mrs. Yoahida is the iburthlady in Japan in point of rank. What right have your Belknaps to try tn oepe in social magnificence with such screaming swells as these It was individual prTdo and vanity in theni which made them do so it WHS the Belknaps, dot "the women," who made this trou* hie* So, masters of the press, leave unwritten those scat liing essays on the vanity and wickedness of our sex, if you please. The Eve odium is enough for us to bear. We have staggered under the load of that 0,000 years.

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don't want any Belknaps in addition this late date. Eve bit the apple.

From Augusta we journeyed to Charleston, South Carolina, where Mr. Booth gave six performances. The audience hero represented the very best people In greater proportion than ever before known in the stage experience of that city. Tho Booth family were well known here. Mr. Booth's brother, Junius Brutus, having been born in Charleston about the year 1825, and be received many social attontions. The domand for seats was something extraordinary, and there was no lack of enthusiasm in the reception of the great actor as he stepped bofore the footlights. Savannah was tbe next city visited, where a week's performances were given, in which Mr. Booth appeared in his leading characters. Conspicuous among others who attended each performance was General Joseph E. Johnston, who was present each evening. The closing performance was a matinee—"Taming tbe Shrew" and "Cardinal Woolsey"— which were played to a house composed largely of ladies. An interesting feature of Mr. Booth's engagement occurred in this connection. At the close of the performance the ladies formed in line, oxtending from tho theater to his hotel, a distance of about four blocks, through which Mr. Booth was obliged to pass, receiving as he did the smiles of hundreds of ladies who lined tho sidowalk. He Was called upon here by General Johnston and other leading citizens, and received every attention from tbe people of Savannah. Macon, Georgia, was tbe next visited, where a single performance of "Hamlet" was given to a full house. In order to accommodate the people one buudred and fifty extra seats were placed in the theater, which were quickly disposed of at two dollars each.

MRS. BELKNAP.

She tells Her Side of the 1Story—What Prompted Marsh in His Conduct.

[Washington Correspondence Graphic.] Mr. Marsh took charge of the life insurance derived from ber first husband by Mrs. Belknap. He invested that money to her advantage, and requested Mrs. Bowers to procure for him, as hej was out of business and spending his income, a mercantile opportunity under her brother-in-law. Mrs. Bowers importuned her sister, Mrs. Belknap, td assist Marsh in his purpose. The Secret tary, who had the subject under bid control, required two Senators to voucU for Marsh. The Barnes of those Senators have not come out, but two Sena^ tors did indorse his application. He •old the plaoe to Evans, and when h6 received his money insisted on dividing it with Mrs. Bowers, or with herself and sister. The Secretary did not interiere, if he knew of tbe transaction. The social question in Washington is this:. What woman would have refused the money tendered by Marsh under the circumstances He had received the place he requested, and the tender of a present was in acoordance with the suggestions of personal reciprocity. Long after this Belknap, losing his first wife, married tbe sister. He therefore married into the intrigue. His new wife bore blm a child, and this increased his tenderness and obligation to shield her reputation. But Marsh, having pocketed his part of the premium, was incensed at Mrs. Belknap for growing cold upon his wife, and although 'he transaction was past and finished, and no longer stood between the family of the official and his Hire's trustee, yet Marsh bad nt nerve or reoours© wbon it leaked out He sought his lawyer and reoeived thfe congenial advioe to turn informer. He offered to ran away, bat Belknap would not let him leave the country without explaining. It was supposed that circumstances of such delicacy would pass tbe limitations of party subtlety, and the Belknaps relied upon Blaokburn, of Kentucky, to shield tbe women, bh playmates. Blackburn was o» Clymer's oemmittee. He heard the story, saw bis opportunity, and played the rare partofthat Brutus who Slew hischildren tosave his—party!

Alter Marsh told bis tai* to the Blackburn committee Mrs. Belknap visited him*

Madam," said be, with a shopkeeper's brutality, "I have given testimony to day that will ruin you and ruin your husband too." ^.,J

Mrs. Belknap saw tMte Vss nnthldg to expect from fhlsotyset of hardware, and passed out witbeut a word.

This, 1 am told, Is Mrs. Belknarf* story, and further that the original 001 nM between Mrs. MarA and Mii Bowers la Borope was on aecount careless conduct and associations on the part of tbe former, which derided Mr*. bowem to prolong tbe Intimacy after she became Mrs. Belfc ne wuiiw ..it

No person of the Cabinet circle visited tha Belknaps for three days after they closed their doors.- The first to come were Mia. Sharp awl Mm. Dent and next some ol the judicial drol* Belknap will meet tbe «m with aflrmlbut sadTened front, ™dtf^ ah™ story be true, we now know why enter Oynier and Blackburn sent on tbe man Marsh to Canada.

AXOVlTRtt PARTON OASE t*artnn WM not tbe first man who married Ms wlltts daughter. Some fifty yea is si nee Klder Anderson, a well* (Known Baptist preacher in Connecticut, married a widow named Douglass with two children, a boy and gin. When she died be married the daughter, by whom he bad a son, wboee father was his grandfather and wboee mother was his sister.

THOVSANDS are hated, whtMf fiAtMi are loved, without a real cause.

THE GAMBLER'S FATJ&

Davtd Vander^mcen the Orphan—Rer Fi Avenger o» tte

in the Depth^f the

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could stand that much. But Mrs. Belknap has gone into the sutler business. Take us h'out and bury us decent.

THE EXTRA OIiJ)INA It IlECEP TION OF ED WIN BOOTH IN THE SOUTH. [From an Interview lu the Bultimorti Ua»ettc with Mr. Ford, Booth's Manager.]

tragic circumstances of his death, was in connection with some remark compliment to the liberality and "perfect gentility" of popular and good looking Harrv ScAtt, who had generous ly given ?100 to bury the man he had murdered.

Two days after the miner a burial, the arrival of the monthly steamer, bring ing news from the East, excited the nn easy, conglomerate population of the city, and, as was customary on steamer days, the wharf was crowded with heterogeneous multitude, composed representatives of almost all, national!' ties, speakers of nearly all languages, and persons of every social grade and class on the coast. Among this crowd was the gambler, Ilarry Scott, looking with some anxiety apparently for the arrival of some one, and, thanks to rus acquaintance with one oi the petty officers of the steamer, he was among the first persons admitted on board. "Haveyou a Miss Vanderdecken on board he asked of the purser's assist ant, whom he knew..

According to Harry's story to the weeping girl, tbe assassin or her father bad not been discovered. She was of a timid, sensitive and confiding nature. Knowing no one, and frightened by the rough looking men about who gazed so inquisitively at her, sho accepted readily, as entire truth, all that Harry Scett told ber, and resigned herself implicitly to bis direction. That evening, by his advice, the was domiciled In a little frame house on tbo outekirte of tbe town, near the old Mission road, not more than a blook from where Market street now ends. Here, with an old Mexican woman as ber M)le resident companion, she lived nearly a fortnight, frequently receiving the visits of Scott, the gammer, who was apparently 'very kind to her, and of whose social statu* she WM happily ignorant. At the end of this time his attentions became motto direct and pressing than mere friendship would have prompted, and. in repulsing his advances, she felt herself compelled to inform blm that she lovod young man In the Bast, and was enaged to be married to him aa soon as ,je could Join her in California. So for from this seeming an insurmountable obstacle to Mr. Harry Scott, it appeared to stimulate him to press his suit more ardently, and. to her greet agitation, 1 herself persecuted Madge found frerself persecuted by his attentions almost constantly.

One afternoon, having written along letter—doubtlees to her lover "in the Statee," conjuring him \o hasten to ber —she went out to poet it with ber own band, and while out was eaught In one of the violent rain storms which come so suddenly and overwhelming in tbe rainy season on tbe Pacific

TERRE TTAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

Betraydl—An ow4 qf Agt

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In the early autumn of 1851 a miner named David Vanderdecken was shot and instantly killed in a gambling den in San Francisco, by a professional blackleg who galled- himself Harry Soott. Not mrich fttsa or'inquiry v«as made about the affair, for fatal affrays over gambling-tables were st the time common occurrences, and to those who were witnesses of this particular murder it seemed that the gambler had simply killed Vanderdpckeu in self-defense, the latter having been first to draw a revolver. So, in a few hours after the deadly shot had been fired, the corpse of the unfortunate miner had been thrust into a shallow grave in the sand, and, if anybody remembered at all the

Yfs cabin passenger coming ont to join her l'atner. A devilish pretty girl she is, tou, I tell you," was the re-

Introduce me, then," said Scott, have a sad duty to perform. Her father is dead. Beforo dving he commissioned me to receive her.*1 »,

Dead Yes killed at a faro (able. In fact, to tell you tho truth, I killed him! but she needn't know that. He was a friend of mine, but one night when ho was as full as a goat, he tried to kill me, and in self-defense I had to you understand. I couldn't do anything else than I did, but I'm sorrv for him, and I want to make good to his daughter as far as I can." "You are a good felldw!" exclaimed the young assistant purser, shaking his hand warmly "that is what I call coming to the front squarely, and I honor you for it."

Only fair, old boy," replied the gam bier. "I buried the old man in style, and now I'll take care of his girl—all in good form, vou see. I had

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against him.'' Under the impulse of his admiration for a man who managed so gracefully and delicately the sequel to his little incidental murders, the purser's assistant was particularly enconiumistic when he presented Mr. Scott to the fatherless girl, and although tenderly sympathetic over her bereavement, did not allow a hint to escape him as to its cause being the very man now before her. Madge Vanderdecken was overwhelmed with grief.

Not only did she dearly love her father, but she was entirely dependent upon him. The few dollars in her purse would not have maintained her a week, and in that rude community she bad no means of winning a livelihood for herself. In the East she bad been a music teacher, but no talent was more useless then in San Francisco.

Harry Soott spoke sympathizingly to her, gave into her possession ber father's watch, some letters taken lrom his pockets, and a few gold pieces, which be said was all that he had left when he died all tbe balance of the handsome sum which be had saved, and upon which he bad ventured to send for bis child, hav ing been lost at fero and roulette.

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When

ebe returned borne her clothing WM saturated with water, and the old Mexican woman persuaded her to drink a bowl of warm wine, to avert a possible cold as tha consequence of ber exposure. Alter drinking tbe wine she lapsed into a state of unconsciousness, from wbloh she did not recover for several hours. When she did awake It WM to find that she tad been drugged and outraged by Harry Soott, while helpless and senselees. The poor girl was at first almost erased by sbame and grief. Now, sbe felt, she could never again look upon her lover, never show her fkee again among respectable people. Her ravisherargued toe situation with her. in what no do«bt seetned to blm a philosophic, conclusive and satisfactory manner. He said:

You were obstinate in your refusal, and I love you too much to renign you anybody else. If yen had consented marry me, there would have been oe necessity for such extreme measures but, under the circumstances, this was the only course left for me. }fake tbe best now of what Is past aud can not be helped, and will marry and care for en as lovingly as any husbahd ever did .or a wife—continue to make a tight for it, and see what vou will come to?'

Tbe apathy or despair sealed down

upon

Madge Vanderdecken. Sbestnig-

led no more againat what seemed to be ier fate, and resigned herself to becoming tbe niaper'alnlatnNM.

But ahe agpght one mitigation of her degradatl sought hiB| to make an upon one fptoui refused, -ffter her to sol fallen still

and again she her.

..fill his promise. Md wife of her but this, or another, he always while he introduced women—creatures than herself. She

breathed an atmosphere of moral pollution, and sank lower and lower very npi(llyr

Harry Scott east bar off, having first made carter of her beauty, snd she became the ipmate of notorious bagnio.*

Nothing now did she so much dread meeting the man to whom she had written before her ruin. Rather than permit his loving and pitying gaze to rest upon the thing she had become, she would have preferred to die. Hence sbe sul.toru went upon the street, and never in the daytime.

But atonce, at night, with a stern purpose in her heat, she went forth. She meant to kill Harry Scott,

By chance she iiad learned, from a cyprian who was one of her compan ions, that he was the murderer of her father. This knowledge, added to the bitter consciousness of this foul wrong to her,so lar embittered the feelingsof the now sadly changed girl, that she waylaid and tried to shoot him but her pistol missed fire, and he simply knocked ber eenseless with a blow of his fist.

Again she tried—this time with a knife—but only succeeded in giving him a trifling woundj wheii he again struck her down, and might have beaten and kicked her to death, but for tho interference of others.

Unsuccessful as they were, these two attempts set Harrv Scott to thinking very seriously. He read her settled purpose in tho fierce light of her blue eyes and in the silent vindictiveness of her pursuit, and it occurred to him that he might just as well travel a little while for the good of his health. lie acted promptly upon that good idea.

Two days after her attempts upon him with the knife, ho was in Sacramento, and thence ho went to the Stanislaus diggings, and up on the American river, and away to the camps on the Reese river, and so about, dealing faro, wherever ho went, and seemingly enjoying to the utmost a free and happy life upon which fortuno uniformly smilei.

Meanwhile that which Madgo Vanderdecken—or Belle Yorlse, as she now called lierself— most dreaded had come upon her. When half drunk one night all her senses seemed frozen into a stony horror at sight of Hugh Starring, her old time Eastern lover, standing before her. The wine glass dropped from her hand, and with a slow, sobbing moan, she reeled and fell upon the floor. A fragment of the glass cut her brow.

Hugh raised her in his arms, carried her into the room, and looked with an aching heart upon this wreck of the being he had loved. Bloated by drink, her countenance inflamed, blood dabbling her brow, her breast and arms exposed by her tawdry and indecent dress, she was but a hideous mockery of the pure, fair girl who had bidden him such tender adieus but a few short months before, and before whom life then bad seemed so full of joyous promise.

When she could speak, she told him without reserve all that had befallen her. and her story but corroborated and added some details to what he bad learned already while seeking her. He knew what she did not, that under a false guise of friendship Scott had in duced her father to drink and gamble away his money, and that the old man having once, in an outburst of foolish paternal affection, shown him a portrait of the fair daughter who was coming to him, the gambler bad coldly and deliberated planned to murder him, invented some sudden quarrel as aR excuse, that he might more easily make her his prey.

Before be left Madge that night, Hugh Starring swore to Avenge both her father and her. He would have rescued her from her life of shame, but she said: "No. For me there is no turning back. Leave me,and tho greatest kindness you can do mo is never to let me know that you look on me again. Before long the bay will bide all my sbame and despair, "then vou may think that death has purified the wretched girl who was once your darling."

Hugh Starring bad little difficulty in getting upon Harry Scott's traces, but a great deal In finding blm, so rapidly had the latter journeyed, to such a number ofplaees and by such tortuous routes, often, too, cutting off bis trail by liaise statements as to where he was going, or by "jumping" a camp iu the night time, after a suspiciously good run of luck.

It so happened at length that the gambler, traveling in a circuit, returned to some dlga^nga on the American river, where he had been a month beforo, and there learned that a man was following and inquiring after him. He had a presentment of who It was.

Tbev described the man to him. and told him whither he'had gone. Harry Scott went ou tho trail of the Inquiring stranger to a second and a third ramp, and at each learned that the stranger was steadily and rapidly following him up, only flopping in any one place long euough to obtain whatever Information he could glean about the object of bie pursuit. The gambler felt very uncomfortable at tbe idea of being hunttd by an unknown man who certainly, he opined, meant him no good. He WM not a cowa: d. and at any time in hie life before would have sought out bia enemy and fought bini without hesitation but now eome strange influence unman-

ned him not mere physical fear, but something stronger, which made him only anuooe to escape,

In tbia emergency be took what WM for him a strange course. From a camp he obtained nearly a month's rations, aud a plentiful stock of ammunition, and thus supplied rode oft 1' to the wlldeet Ikstness of the mountains, determined to secrete himself for a while in tome rocky canyon, until perchance Ids enemy might think he had left that section of toe country and resign I be pursuit,

Three days'Journey from this camp he came serosa a deserted shaft, with *0 untenanted log cabin near It, and took session of its shelter. The shaft had sunk by some adventurous miners who were among the first to prospect for quarts lodes as more reliable and better pay than the uncertain chances of placer diggings. Tbelr surface indications had been good, but at the depth of about one hundred and twenty -five Hxt they had discovered that their promising lode had turned into a "frozen ledge." which is tbe technical local name for a lode undermined by walla of "conntnr rock," the ore is too difficult of separation to pay for working. They had consequently left their "claim" In disgust, and gone off to prospect elsewhere, leaving In their cabin—m about said a plaee for convenient storage they oould have had in that wild conn tryl-a lot of ropes, a rude hoisting apparatus, seme squared timbers, a pile of fire wood, and a big iron can containing flllv or sixty pounds of nitro-glycerlne|right!"'

—too dangerous an explosive to be eat* ried around at random by a .party o* "proepecton."

Here Hairy Soott passed In utter and moat diainal had nothing to Mad, were in sight toaboolTand If th he would ecarcely have given any wanderer the^chance of finding him through tbe accident of hearing the report of hi* gun. He had a pack of cards in bia pocket, and for a few daya tried to amuse himself with playing "solitaire,** of tba

but me monotony ot tnat most dismal of games soon sickened bim of it. Then he took to Bleeping, and would lie for hours, wrapped in bis blankets, in the warm sunshine upon the abort grass.

Oue afternoon he bad a rude awakening. A powerful hund grasped his throat, violent blows upon bis bead stunned bim, and when be recovered consciousness be found himseif bound, hand and foot, lying captive at tbe feet of a large, stalwart man, who Btood regarding him with a ferocious clare. "You do not know me," said the stranger.

No, I do not. Why do you attack me in such a cowardly way Let me up, and give me a chance for my lifr,r' returned Scott.

I do not propose to give you a cbanco for your life, Harry Scott. I simply mean to kill you. I have tracked you for weeks, and at length have you in my power. My name is Hugh Starring. You murdered the old man who had been a second father tome— killed him in cold blood, that he might not protect his child, my affianced wife, from your foul outrage. Now do you think, Harry Soott, that I'll give you much chance for your life? Oh II wish you bad hundred lives, that I might take them all, one after another, slowly, d—n you."

I didn't kill the old man in cold blood. It was done in self-defense. And it wasn't I who seduced bis daughter," screamed the prostrate gambler.

Liar!" ejaculated his judge and executioner, rolling him over with his foot, and tightening anew the lariat which already cut into the flesh on his wrists and ankles.

Now that tho hunted wretch was his captive, Hugh Starring seemed to hesitate over how to slay him that his agonies might in some measure be commensurate with his crimes. Moodily and silently he wandered about tbe place, all the afternoon and evening, leaving the gambler still bound upon the earth.

The night was also thus passed, Scott meanwhile undoubtedly suffering more than de ith in tbe agony of expectancy, for be read a merciless purpose in the stern face guarding him.

Thirst parched his tongue and he begged for water. It was denied him. He pleaded for mercy uutil he was hearse, and only elicited a grim smile from the a\enger. Then, in his agony, he begged for a speedy deatb, and even that was refused him.

With the morning light, however, a resolution seemed to nave come to Hugh Starring. In his prowling about ne found an empty water cask, dry and leaky. This he laid in a pool of tbe little stream in the bottom of tbe canyon until its wood had swollen and closed Its seams. Then be filled it, and, with great labor, carried it up beside the deserted shaft, where be busied himself some time with the pieces of timber lying about, and finally, with infinite toil, put in place tbe rude wludlass over tbe mouth of the deep shaft.

Then, for tbe first time in eighteen hours, he spoke, having first dragged the gambler near the field of his preparations.

See," he said, "I will now put an end to this, and you shall see how, first, I will lower you carefnlly into the bottom of this shaft, taking care not to hurt yon. Then I will drop down after you the lino by which I lower you."

Mercy, mcrcy! Kill me at once. Do not leave me to die of hunger and thirst," begged the doomed man.

No, I win not leave you to die that way some one might come along in time to pull you out, and I mean to make sure. But observe these two beams across the mouth of the shaft, and these two short pieces of timber. One of the latter, as you see, is lashed firmly to the full water cask: to the other I have attached the can of nitroglvcerine which I found in tbe cabin. When you are at tbe bottom, I shall place the former over tbe timber nearest us, and that timber will act a fulcrum, the water cask will be tbe power, and the end of the other short stick— from which tbe nitro-glycerlne will de-

have whittled in the end of tbe cask a small hole, from which tbe water will slowly leak. As the water drips out, drop "by drop, the weight of tho cask will decrease, and tbe weight of the bar on the short end of tbe lever, will grad

ually depress it. This will go on until the balance Is destroyed, the stick supporting the nitro-gfyoenne will slip From its support, "tbe can will fall, ana you will go where you belong—to the devil

Scott shrieked, wept and prayed for mercy, but in vain. He wm raised from tbe eartb, tbe windlam line fastened to bia wrists, and tbe yells of terror were quickly lost In the depths of tbe shaft. Then Hugh Starring cut the line, letting it drop into tbe abaft, moved away the windlass, and deliberately proceeded to arrange his terribly Ingenious but simple death-trap.

AH be had said* tbe water dripped slowly from the ouk. Up from the deptlie floated faintly the unceasing and hopeless cries of tbe victim.

Hour after hour went by. The sun sank to the tops of tbe Western hills, lurid and threatening. All WM silent, save tbe hoarse and muffled voice from tbeabvsa. Stolidly Hugh Starring sat a little distance away, smoked Ida pipe, and waited. The evening shadows wore to thicken fast when be saw tbe CMk tremble and rise a little.

Who can imagine what must have been the agony ot dread in tbe soul of the wretch who lay so for beneath, awaiting all this long while his inevitable fete? More and more tbe cask tipped.

Itorknef* settled upon the scene. Tbere WM a dull rattle of the disarranged lever* sliding from tbe places— an instant's pause—and then tbe thunderous roar of an explosion seemed to shake tbe mountain to its base, tbe timber* at the mouth of the shaft, flew high In air, and a thick,

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:Saturday Evening1

MAIL,

FOR THE YEAR 1875-6.

A MODEL WEEKLY PAPER I 1 FOR THE HOME.

TERMS:

One year, (with chromo) 12 Six months (without cbrorno) tl GC Three months, (without chromo) .6b cm.

Mall an«l oflWv* Hubscrlptiouu will, lnvarl-" ably, be discontinued at expiration ef time paid for.

Encouraged by tbe extraordinary success which has attended the publication of THE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, the publisher has perfected arrangements by which it will henceforth be one of the most popuiar papers in the West. '*•.

THE CHOICE OF

Two BeautiM Chromos

Presented to each yearly subscriber, from and after this date. These beautiful pictures Just from the liands of the French chrom artists, are faithful ooplesof oil paintings by the artist W, H. Bajter.gf Brooklyn. 0«e, entitled

"Cherry Time"

Represents a bright faced boy, coining frond the orchard, bountifully laden with the redripe fruit, Ths other, entitled

I "Lily of the Field"

Is a beautiful little girl, with ®ne of the sweetest of faces, gathering lilies In the field. One Is a wood scene, the other has an open meadow in the back ground. Tluy are of striking beauty.

For one dollar ektra (98.00 in all,) we wit) send The Mall one year and both chreruos mounted ready for framing. These pictures are catalogued and sold 1m the art stores at FOUR DOLLARS EACH.

FRAMES.

We have mode arrangements with an extensive manufactoiy of frames by which we can furnish for One Dollar a frame usually sold for 11.50 and $1.75. These frames are of the best polished walnut and gilt. Here Is the

BILL OF PRICES.

The Mall one year and choice of Chrome W The Mall one year and Beth Chromos mounted S 00 The Mail one year and Both Chromos

FRAMED 5 00

THE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL is an Independent Weekly Newspaper, elegantly printed on eight pages of book paper, ami alms to be, In every sense, a Family Paptr. With this aim in view, nothing will appear in its columns that cannot be rend aloud in the most refined fireside circle.

CLUBBING WITH OTHER PERIODICALS. We are enabled to offer extraordinary inducements In the way of clubbing with other periodicals. We will furnitsh THE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, PRICE *2.00 PER YEAR, and elthei'of the above Chromos with any of the periodicals enumerated below at greatly reduced rates. These periodicals will be sent direct from the offices of publication. Here is the list:

SEMI-WEEKLY. vs *V*

Semi-Weekhu New York Tribune, price $8.00, The Mall and Chromo 114 50

WEEKLY PAPERS.

IndianapoU$ Journal, price $2.00, Tlie Mall and Chramo mdianmpoUs Sentinel, price 92.00, The

Chromo

smoke curled

slowly up from tbe half-filled chwm In the earth. .. The noise of the explosion brought a party of prospectors to the scene Mrly the ne*t mon5ng, and they found 8tarrins who wMjust about taking his deiwtii folly htaMdr that his vengeance WM complete.

He dll not hesitate to tell them all that had transpired in minutest detail, and his reasons for hie action, which being verifiett,fortonaiely.by the knowledge one of tbem bad of David anderdecken*s murder and his daughter** fete, only elicited from them the verdiet

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98 60 8 5l

Mail and Chromo If. Y. Tribune, price 92.00, The Mall and Chromo JWedo Blade, price $2.00, The Mall and

Chromo N. Y. Sun, The Mail and Chromo Prairie Farmer, price 92.00, The Mall and Chromo. Weetern Rural, price $2JO, The Mall and ffcfcxHfo1Advance, price $&00, The Mali and Chromo Chicago Interior, price 92.50, The Mall and Chromo Chicago Inter-Ocean, price 91.50, The

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Mall and Chromo Appleton't Jqwrnal, price $4.00, Tbe Mall and Chromo Rural Neu Yorker, price 98.00, The Mall and Chromo Hearth and Home, price 93.00, The Mall and Chromo Method**, price 92.50, The Mall and

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4 25 4 50 8 50 50

Chromo Btiirper't Weekly, price 9UW, The Mall and Chromo HarperU Bator, price 9440, The Mall abdChromo Frank LenUnt lUuttrated Newpaper, •nice 94.00, The Mall snd Chromo..-.. Lmlie* Chimney Corner, price 94-00, The

Mall and Chremo Soy*' and Girlt' Weekly, price 92.50, the Mall aud Chromo

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MONTHLIES.

Arihur Ifotne Magazine, price 92.50, The Mall and Chromo 94 W Dttermm't Magatine, price 92,00, The

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Mall and Chromo.— American AgriculturUi, price 91M. The Mail and Chromo Jfewwrwrt'f Monthly, price 98,00, 1 year,

Tbe Mail and Chromo 4 35 Oodey'i Ladu't Book, price 9S.00, The Mall and Chromo 4 JO Uttle Corporal, price U^O.TheMall and

SerMmer't Monthly, prloe 94-00, The Mail end Chromo 0 20 Atlantic Monthly, price 94.80, The Mall and Chromo. —...... 5 20 Old and New, price 94.00, The Mall and

Chremo. 00 Overland Monthly, prioe 9440, The Mall and Cliromo 6 ft) Harper'* Mayawtne, prioe 9440, The Mall and Chromo «... 6 50 iJmirlener'i Monthly, price 92J)0, The Mall and Chromo S Voting Folk* Rural, The Mall and Chromo« 2 76 The Nurmry, price 91.50, The Mail and

Chromo. S 10 St. yicholaM, price 9340, The Mall and Chromo .... 4 40

All the premium* offered by the above pob licaUons are Included In this clubbing arrangement.

CLUBBING WITH COUNTY PAPERS.. We have made arrangements to Airman THE MAIL, with Chrome, and any one of the Newspapers In the neighborhood ef Terre Haute all for 9340.

JUST LOOK AT NT

The Sfall, price 12

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Your County paper, price. 2 006 Tbe Chromo, worth 4 00

Total oc

All tbeae—(W40)—for 9840. Address P. B. WEftTPALL, Publisher Saturday Evening Mall, I

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