Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Volume 7, Number 34, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 February 1876 — Page 2

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THE CROOKED.

How Whiskey is Madfl ami How it Can l)ft Crooked.

THE EXPI'OKFHSURVEYS

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LEKT Willi CHITICAL EYE.

He8pi«s the Mill, R^es Undo Sam's Machinery and Makes lu» Inquiry.

The GAZETTE explorer has taken a furlough on the coal business and one day this week went, prying like a detective among the big cribs and various other buildidKB ol the Fairbanks dis tillery, on Water street, inquiring for Gordon Leo. Being directed to the new boarded ware houses be found the two fruagers, J. O. Lee and T. G. Spangle. With these two polite and accommodating oflicials ho proceeded to inspect the Phoenix distillery lor the purposes of ascertaining how it is and by what processes the various dis tillers throughout the country have been nble so extensively to defraud the revenue ot the "best Government the sun ver shone upon."

THE RESBItVtflRS.

First the trio stepped into the "cisrooms," an apartment between the two bondod ware 1 emos. Formerly the building used for these purposes was the large pork houso south of of the distillery, and tho whisky was conveved to it across the ravine in a pipe." But that building is still the property of Mr, llulmaD, iud was not sold with the distillery. The "cistern room" contains two immense wooden tanks or cisterns, each of 225 barrels capacity. Into thern the whisky is delivered from the distillery, and from them it is passed into barrels. Two barrels are filled at once, from a pipe connecting the two tanks, in which pipe are two corks turned by a wronch.

TUG PROCKS?.

In order to know how "crooked" whisky is made, it would bo well to know lirst how the article is manufactured at al). Climbing through cribs on the brow of the bluff, the explorer was conducted on a high causeway into the upper story ot the main building, and tound himself on the "mash toor." After the corn and rye are ground, they are brought to this floor by means of elevators, where they are mixed, and all pass through •one large hopper swung upon a scale beam. Bv this means the meal, or "mash," as the ground mixture is called, is all weighed carefully by the Government store-keeper, which with the weighing of the corn also, Is his especial business.

From the inasb-fioor the meal goes into a number of large tanks in a shed just outside. In the roof of each is a square hatchway, admitting the air and allowing fermentation. This is hastened by the introduction of hops. The procsss occupies forty-eight hours. After that, the fermented mash flows into three capacious copper-lined vats, and is boiled. In the center of each vat is a cylinder enclosing the shaft of a big "stirring machine," ns we may call it for want of a better name, resembling a great comb, always whirling around in the vat. This place is tilled with steam lrom the boiling mash. But it is "mash" no longer, for after fermentation and boiling, the white stuff is called "beer." The "beer ci9teru" is under ground, and receives the contents of the vats when sufficiently cooked.

THE STIL.

We now come to the actual process of distillation. This is done by steam, by which means also the mash is boiled. There is no fire in the entire establishment except in the six long boilers, three on each side the tall smoke stack, not only propelling the seventy-five horse power engine but supplying steam for boiling and distilling. In the center of the ground floor are three very tall wooden tanks. One contains the still, another »he worm, and tho third holds only iter. The staves of the "still but" are six inches thick and lined with copper, to with Btand the immense pressure|within. So well is it made that not a breath of steam escapes. There it stands, a recep taele thirty feet in heighth and eight feet in diamater, silent, and giving nosign of the terrible commotion within, unlesB it be the quivering of the big pipe curving out from the top and loading to the worm. This is of course merely a coil within a tank of cold waA ter. for condensing the steam.

The pressure of the steam forces the "slop" out through pipes to the cattle pens without. The still is kept about half full of "beer."

In the space between the three tall tanks stands a man who would seem to have the whole immense establishment under bis entire controller with in his resell are Z.T.S ot diff rent levers and valves and gau rs and

handles which he is constantly changing, opening and shutting. Near him, at the base of the tank containing tbe worm, or condenser, isa glasg"brx into it empties a small pipe, the terminus of tbe worm, from that pipe constantly flows a SMALL STBEAM OF TRANSPARENT LIQ­

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at about tbe rate that the water flows from a pump after one has ceased moving the handle. That stream is tbe whisky. All these buildings are erected, all this corn and rye is ground and all these men are employed to keep that little stream running.

Connected with the ninin shafting are two double pumps. One forcea the hot beer into the yet hotter still, and the other pumps the crude whisky through a long pipe leading up through the building to the cistern room on the hill.

From the time the ground meal is weighed in the hopper and dropped into the mash-vats, until the whi ky is drawn from the cisterns into barrels, it does not throughout tho whole process come in contact with any other surface than copper. Every pipe and the lining of evory tank, vat, or cistern is of that material.

After seeing all those things th" oxplorer was conducted up several flights of stairs, through musty rooms filled with bins and such apparatus for grii ding and screening as every mill containes. Finally the party stepped out upon tbe wide slate roof and saw tho tall coppcr cylinder surmounting the worm, a recant acquisition, by which the vapor from tbe still is partial lycooled beforo reaching the worm, making the whisky stronger—that is, giving it more alcohol. Standing there on the root, with the whole establishment literally under his eye, with Mr. Spangler on one side and Mr. Lee on bis right, the explorer proceeded to pump those two worthies as to

HOW wniSKY BECOMES CROOKED.

It is easily told, and was all explain ed within a few minutes. Thero are three different ways in which Uncle Samuel was cheated by tho ring men. Our explorer had visited tho Phoenix establinhment under the impression that distilleries operated by the ring had been full of false pipes, concealed doors, underground machinery, hollow floors and secret panels, with perhaps a whole distillery under the ono on the surfac9, and the same big chimney passing up through both. Yet there was but one instance in which the whisky was drawn off secretly after being made, and that was at Milwaukee, where an underground tank containing 25,000 gallons of the crooked was found. But it must have been a long time accumulating, for the Revenue Officers know with such certainty just how much can bo made from each bushel of grain furnished the mill, that there is very little margin lor drawing off tho liquor through secret pipes, without giving alarm. Pointing to a row of five posts, like telegraph poles, supporting planks on which are laid the pipe that conducts the whisky to the cisterns, Mr. Lee indicated how tho dodge had been practiced at Milwaukee, by explaining that one of the poles could be hollow, and contain a smaller pipe leading to an underground reservoir. It was the hollow table leg trick out-done.

This almost unvarying certainty of quantity for quantity has been tho great obstacle to whisky men in illicit distilling. All mash must pass through the still, and therefore, the store-keep-er knows exactly how much is used. An deficit in tho expected amount of whisky would apprise the guager that something was wrong. This obstaclethe detrauders overcame by CRIEING TDI2 SToRK-KEEFZKS AND

GUAGER8.

This is tho sccond of the three methods, and by it, thousands upon thousands of dollars were lost to the revenue. The maeli tubs were made with false bottoms, containing double their apparent capacity.' These secret reservoirs were connected with sewers, so as to carry away at once their contents on the expected arrival cf detectives, visitors, or officials who were not in tho ring. A kind of yeast was used by which the fermentation could be com pleted in twenty hours, instead of for-ty-eight hours, though less alcohol was produced by this method. Thus two "mashes" could ba distilled, and only one would be reported by the store-keeper. Everything would of course seem all clear, for his books would tally with those of the guager, and would correspond to the time allowed for each fermentation, owing to the quick yeast end double mash-tubs. The collector of revenue would be de ceived and all progress swimmingly.

The third method of swindling was *J DOUBLING STAMPED BARRELS, or rather by using the same stamps over again. This could be dotie only when both distiller and rectifier were in tbe game. Tbe head of eacb barrel is in two parts. On one side is placed the bonded warehouse stamp, costing only ten cents, and on tbe other side is the official revenue stamp, tbe price of which is determined by the guager, according to the number of proof gallons it contains. Each stamp is numbered and the number of each is "cold branded" into the wood on the oppesite side of tbe bead. Now, suppose the rectify, er orders tea barrels of whisky. The distiller sonds them to him. He places the stamps on the barrels by means of a very poor quality of paste. Tbe rectifier "lifts" both stamps, sends them back by mail or express, and they are used again. The warehouse stamps need not be "lifted," as tbey cost but ten cents eacb, except that the number on the revenue stamp must correspond.

Very little crooked whisky can be made without the knowledge of the officers daily employed at tbe distillery. It is very hazardous to try it, and the quantity obtained without their connivance would be so small that it would not compensate for the risk. Everything is doue under the eyes of the representatives of the Government. The cocks on the cisterns, the latches of the hoppers, and the locks on the doors of the cistern-rocm, are all fastened at night, and daring the absence of the officers, by a peculiar brass padlock, called tbe "Miller" lock, from the name of the inventor, furnished by tbe Government. The proprietor himself has nothing whatever to do with actual manufacture. We have now told how "crooked whisky" is made, and if space allowed, would explain tbe difference between whisky and bourbon the use of the hydrometer and thermometer in tbe glass box, the chemical action of the steam as it scalds the beer in the still tbe issuing of stamps tbe inspection of machinery, and many other interesting particulars. This must not close, however, withcut a brief explanation of

THE TROFITS OF DKFRAUDIXG. Readers of the trials of culprits have generally been astonished at the lurae p-iid to preserve the secret, and the f*i. bounty of bribes iraaginink 'hut course immense amounts of liquors must have been made to pro

duce such plunder. But suppose a manufacturer of cloth worth twenty cents per yard as retailed should be taxed fifteen cents or sbppose that of the dollar a farmer receives for a bushel of potatoes, be should be made to pay eighty cents to the Government, would that not be a tremendous revenue? Yet the distiller gets but sixteen cents as receipts for each gallon he produces. If the price ot wbisky is $1.0(5 per gallon, ninety cents of it goe.into tbe Government fund. It a oar rel of whisky is worth $60, the "publican" takes over {50 of it, and on a shin men* of a car load of fifty h«rr«ls, worth say $3,000, the distiller recciveius his gain and for tbe expensi a of his establishment, priee ot corn mm wages of employes, only a few hundred dollars. By tbe evasion of these heavy taxes it will be seen how enormous has been the profit on "nookrd whisky.."

Tbe Phoenix distillery, from whi the above observations wero taken u« assmple, it may bo well to rem irK, i* the third largest in toe Uditwl S'.itec also that not the leat sign of fraud ittatches to either Mr. Hulmao, lie .'turner proprietor, or to Mr. Fairbanks, the present proprietor, (.hough ih ec lives gave it tho most close scruMi'g, and if any crookedness bad oxiMed would have beeu known.

Faniiie's JU*Ue»\

RoCKVU/LK,

Feb. 11,187G.

MY. DKAK LAURA:—Now don't scold me for my seeming indilltMiicp in not answering your very interest in letter of last Saturday sooner, which for the betielit of many frii-nds, in Terre Haute,you had the kindness to have published iu that pious paper the GAZKITB. I was exceedingly gratified to learn that your brother Hal was generous enough it) his good opinions of our Rockville people a? not to attribute the cause of his getting so many "sheets in the wind," when here, on the occasion of the soldier's reuuion, last fall, to any of his pious relatives, hut rather to an appetite cultivated by Terre Haute associations, outside of the influence of the secular press, Of course tlie influence of all "pious papers" ha done a great deal, and will still continue to do more towards reforming tHi evil, and I look lo this one great moral source to perform wonders ye! in your brother Hal's complete reformation, if jou can prevail upon him to heed the teachings of this greit elevating power. The GAZETTK, since it has exposed localise of true holiness and given up so much of its valuable space to the promulgation of such truths as are from time to time furnished in itcolumns from the pens ofsuclt worthy contributors as yourself and the God like "P.," has increased its circulation in our little village, until the Saturday edition has almost doubled the former circulation," hich is, of course, a very gratifying result to the proprietors of the poper, and I hope you will continue the publication of your letters to me in its columns, for I am persuaded it will be the means of doing much towards Hal's reformation.

In your last letter y^u said something about the news papers attack ing Mr. Howe, and said it was all ba cause he had written some article* for the Mail a long time ago, ami more especially on account of a letter he (Mr. Howe) had written about Dr. Bigblow and the Express said it was all wrong to write i:. and that the letter was Intended to ridicule a good Dr. and lots of other news which you said you had not the time to write me but promised lint the Gazette would give it all last Saturday, and would also reproduce t'ne Dr. Bigblow article so every body could see what the fusT had originated from and from their own conclusions as to whether tbe Express was right in saying so many hard things about Mr. Howe. But you were mistaken,or there were two kinds of Gazette printed, for the one I bouaht did have the articles in at all I looked it all over and then went over and borrowed Mr, Magills at the Repub lie office and it did not have it iu. Fow I think you wese real mean to impose upon me in this way for I only had five cents and if I had known the GAZETTE did not have the Bigblow article iu it, I could have bought ehewing gum enough to have done me all day Sunday with the money. And this is not all either I told lots of my "friends about the GAZETTE" going to publish the article, and a number of them sent down to Terre Haute by the express messenger on the train to bring them a paper, and there were a great many bought papers and none of them had a word in it about the Dr. Bigblow article and they all say that you were lid for writing to me that the GAZEI,TE would publish this thing just to make the GAZETTE sell. But I repel with indignation all such insinuations, for I know you would not do sucn a thing.

Now Dear Laura I hope you wiil do something to try and settle this trouble between those persons whom you strive to think so much of. I know you can do a great deal when you exert your influeuce in the right direction, and with tbe iuttueDC® of sjcb a model of perfection as he says your Brother Hal is, and the moral persuasion of tho Gazette on your side, I am satisfied you will be able to stop this cruel warfare which is completely upheaving the very foundation of Christianity in Terre Haute. I do hops you will not forget the great responsibilty that rests on your sholders in this matter a"d bring to bear every influence which may lead towards the accomplishment of 9o great a purpose. I don't know your brother, bat my intimate friend Purdy Jones says he is just too good to live. Prudv says she knows that you are borrowing trouble about this matter, and that it is not half so bad as you imagine. She says that your cousin Interviewed one of the parties, and it was not so bad as he expected to find it. That the doctor who was interviewed, said even your cousin, tbe editor was alarmed,unnecessarily, after he bad interviewed him. Now do let this matter drop dear Laura and come up and see me do, aDd bring your brother with you. Prudy says be is such good company and i« as handsome as he is good—but don'tell him. Oh, I would give ever so much to get acquainted with him! Wouldn't it be nice if you and I should yet become

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wouldn't it! Who knows bu your humble Fannie may yet be Mrs 0 i. do come up and bring your trot er Hal with you. It makes me reu nervous to write his name. I k' 1 should fall in love with him on fir.-1 sight. And Pa, oh! he would belelighted for me to live in a great city like Terre Haute, and belong to the aristocracy and go ub (lances. But 1 am too happy is ell ties in the air.

Now don't wait, dear Laura, but answer riuf^ away. (»iv. my love to all the youi pet pie and let me KNOW who Fred T» to the c»lico hop at the Terre ^ule Hi u-d tell him not to drink any more for my ake. Yours as evtr,

FANNIE.

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'•Hawthorn Blos-tom*," by E'lvly Tioruton Chubs. (Emily HMV Lorne 12 mo. P. P. 100 Philadelphia,.]. I. Li[.piiiivitt & Co.

The author oi the volume before i- vtell W:»wn iu Indiana nnd tin Wes', a* :tn accompl'.-hed nev^M]' corrfsp-ndent. Her nnmu lyis within lis as' iVvv „\ea I ft appendui to seme ihe spiele^l res|" ud.: ce, and b?st spe i..!ii.\ ne\rspa -,(-r w..rk, ever sen' out of, or dne iu l.n» Statu. Tui.s volume ot pcemsis, we presume, :lic r-.- ul of leisure n:on:. n(s devo'e-1 a-.ii.li..us wooing of the muse. It. is a "u ditn hie production. 'Ihe pieces are all short, and thero i*, therefore, noue of that interest about, them whiHi attaches to longer poems. But e!i one is a gem, ami in an eveningreading of Huwtho.'tie Blossom*, r, found not a f.'w which c.-n rank witn the best work of Mrs. Nortui or Mrs Hcmau.

THE MAGAZftfFS.

Littell's Living Age. The uum bers of The Living Age f,,r the week* ending Feb, 5th and 12t.li have tne following interesting and v*iu.-hle content.-: Moutenegro- by Edward A. Freeman, fnmi wniill tn: A UMU hie in S.vraeu.-e, Fortnightly Review Wesleyan Methodism, in \Ve*lt s'.Lifetiuie and After, by J. Iih-wellyn Davtes, Contemporary Review TIM English Jews, Spectator Sum- As* pects of Science in Rel tion to R-hg ion, Church Quarterly Review In M.\ Study Chair, ackwood Conversation with Napoleun at Lougwood, St. James German Home Life, oy a Lady. conelud-'d, Kra-er and instalments of The Cursite in Charge," by Mrs. Oliphau "Her Dearest, Foe," by Mrs. Aledanier, author of ''T.ie Wooing O't,'1 and ihe admirable story of "The D:letnma." The usual choice pop rv and miscellany complete the numbers. For fifty-two such tmmbets of sixty-four pages *ach, (or more than 3,000 pages A yeai) the subscription price (58) is low, or still better, for $10.50 any one of the American $4 monthlies or weeklies is sent with The Living Age for a year, botli p-s'paid. L'ttel! & Gay, *B ton, are the publishers. From the Chicago F.ve-diiL'Jon na", Match

L'Otb.

A WELL INKOKMED MAN. "A prominent and cultivated citizMi of Chicago narrates this hidden!: He was lattdy traveling for me days through tbe northern forrests of Michigan, iu company with a man who had passed tho most ot his life in tha region, away from the opportunities of culture thtr. arcsuppiscd to l.e pjy,-d in greater decree i:i our clues and oldo.- mmuuitifs. H'j was vi-rv soon astonished wiih the easa wfPi which his compauion conversed on aiiiio-a every subject whicti presented itself, and with ttie great extent and accuracy of his information. The longer lie conversed with him the greater his wonder grew, and finally he concluded that his backwoods friend was, perhaps, the be-t informed man he had ever known.

Reaching at last his friend's re-d deuce, he looked curiously for the fine and well-stocked library wljich mil be Hie origiu of all tbi-t culture. He could not ge'e it and fiually inquiring, he was shown tho treasurehouse in an odd corner. It contained but very law books, but, promiuent and overshadowing all the others was the "Encycloped.a Britannica,' witn its twenty-one massive volume?, and here, his friend said, was the fountain of nearly all his information

We are remitded of the incident by the fact that the first volume of the new and ninth edition of this maguificeut work is just issued in Edm burg and received in this country Nearly every article is rewritten generally by tbe scholar suppesed to be the best authority on the subject treated of, and they are usually exhaustive of the topic. Nearly all the ablest scnolars and scientists of Engaud are repre-entsd by contributions, to its pages.

To this day of facts and figures the public are learning the value of fiue books of reference, and among those f.»r general use noue stand eo hign as ths Encyclopedia Britanica. We learn that the Chicago agent*, Janseb, McClurg & Co., whose name we generally find connected with the best books, are rapidly enrolling subscribers, and have already a large list. For those who wish to be well and thoroughly informed there is no hook so valuable as the Euelyiopedia Britannica."

Sheldon & Company have published a second series of "Our Poetical Favorites." by* Prof. A. C. Kendrick, of Rochester University.

Ttiis volume contains selections of louger English poems. The remarkable success of the first series proved that Dr. Kendrick, with his fine poetic taste, had made a selection of un. usual excellence and this new sereis will doubtless find a ready sale.

T. B. Peterson & Bros., Philadelphia, have in press and will soon issue anew work by Mrs. C. A. War* field, author of The Household of Bouverif," entitled "Monfort Hall," which will be followed by another by the same author entitled "Mirams Memoirs." They will be issued iu uniform style .with "Tbe Household of Bouverie," published by tbe tame firm.aud will no doubt prove to be immensely popular.

Op :i of Kaliimorsan. I bav.* nset* 1J. Ball's Coai?h Syrun t«'r ttm«» In my .ii.y, fit tlie !i»cttr-!' «ty f'r roi ls, ougti-', At-. I ev.-r tr Louis Br j.ni.tg -i Caroline Street.

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Ku- Partv f* ft I poit b\ .ViH.sk* ed bb rs Nfiir {ill '. Ai».

Who Mist ml- Tlu !r TheM aHi.

K.r

Tl»» following letter, ri ived at. 11 is "flli-e, rontrtins i-ee of hews whirl! bni.nl vOtten inLfi the di»(.:«» 'S It is from 1'rof. H. S. I! l-i-i-ii k'town in mi- ei y, plains itself:

PIEKCK Crrv, Mo., FV-b. 9, 187 ill tin-: E I Of fie 'AZ 'I Tr At last I have a pieefl of news O.-i S iWiriiH 1 isi \vr ielr Bu or li. .s.is, lor lin. Mi-, i*' lv« mil.** by sing*. J»| lin is ui eity t.roii^b tnio xisi«'iH'e by liie lead mines 'n:n ..ri' 1-i'Mig d-vehiptd. It. tins a ftipul*let! ft N'ti or iwtlvti thiiUS'iiid. bll. I.as ii-i i..i! nr 'eletr sphic .iiitnuiii'-.i'ine, er sp. in .s u-ii.„\ tlio neaie^' r»• llru it Hit: loll. 1: the utni- tbe tusU ir itUjJ. S tll«j .lull tilt) de» rl' i:s ford e. l'i mcrt'i'.'g w« to Joj.lin tlx. sUg4 is full, so hired ii dn sia^M w.ig ami carted h'OIIL'. Five sii" n.ilts ol the road .vr timber, no house ini! a, am' is very lonely nJ dvsol.it".

Our party enn!i:ined four eu|i'.c, M." Lc.cko,* Managwr ol the Kansas t'i Operations.-!, wbo is ie»noi'.ri my tmnngc-r, be paying me a In.-, iry for my services, lr LiJroirn, ol T: rre llaute, my wifo and ir-jy 1\ Ah.nit live miles irom Bixter j"v.r:e overtaken by four masked nun, all heavily armed. TLu.y rule up. ami pre.sf uting thf'ir ri" volveis. cause. us to IIHU. AS our vfiii'Mi was vernj, tin mistook it for the in il, ami ileudeil thfl surrender of t! in -i! pouc es. Wo informed thoui th it. the mail was in the f.t:igs that liail pissed alic id half an hour before. Tli"y then demanded our pocket bo ks and mor-

Mr. Ij-'cki liari paid me fSOOjust.tlie the evening betoie but I hud banked it nd received dr.ut on N»iw York. I ha $05 in moii"V I bat they K"t. 1 ff iroion's pocket book contaii»°d $17 or §1S mis they also got. Tin als«. gi.t Mr. Locke's book, with nhout f-10 i:d a draft torfCOO. My wife had $230 in a small pocket diary concealed in her underclothing this they did mt ger,. Tbey seemeit in great hasie and did not take our watches or welry. They seemed much disappointed a? not gelling ihe mail, and away rapidly to overtake the st »ge, but did not get it, at least it arrive I .SHIH.V in Jop:in. None of us were ar.• ed, and had we been, it would have- b.-en fie greatest nonsense to attem pr. any resist mce. Most of the people seem to think it was two of ihe Junes brothers. A correspondent ot the Globe Delimit, of S... Louis, is writing this up, tint I guess you will get It. first, as Ibis letter will got the start of Mi».

Wo aro alt well, and have lmghod heartily over our little adventure. S. 8. MAI.DWIN*.

NPISOII Cross'ey. Fiom ttie Evening Ouz ltP, 10. stetday's issue contained an ac not of the expected trial of P.n-wer and Shorter at Clinton in which Nelson Crosslv, the convictd scoundrel, who, among Ins oibrr crimes, is guilty of having attacked K-v. CJreem—The I'iUeky I'arson—WHH expected to testify, navimi been brought all tho way from JelJ'ersonville for that purpose. Ho was brought, here under custody ol D-'puly W.«rdec P'fc". a thorough oflicittl a il a groat —. .v iv. among :he po'iee aud ialt fo Newport. Shortly after rtai i:ig tbcre teh'grum was iceeivod from tho war den at Jetferjonvilu-, stating that il ha'l byen discovToil h.it. ','ross.l had gone off with a small steel li^e. He was searched and the little instrument found on his per.-mn. In private i-u-vers'ition with •.tatiou hntt.-n l«?ep» Nott last ni^ht, he stated 'hit if he could have i.ept that ti'o two houis longer, he would have

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GIVE 'KM TIIK SLIP."

It se^ms that hi consent to testify was only a ruro to get a cha ice to come back hoping that an opportnnitv might be atl'oided for escnp:i. He is contined in the iron coil at ihe station house which ho says a tre,t hinder escape from tban the jail at Newport. He will be taken ick to prison -iH ion as issible.

From the Evening (Jazjttf, 10

ISO BERT IX.4E5K. The jury, in the case of Robert Clark after remaining out for over six hours, brought in a verdict of manslaughter, a messing the penalty as twenty *one years in tbe penitentiary.

Ou the first ballot the jury stood two for acquittal, thrce for murder in the first degree, and the remaining seven voted for intermediate degrees. Clark will he sentenced ton morrow.

Fio the Evening Gazette, li.

AS tXFORTliVATK MIX,

He Gel*

HIH

Ptmolttd

Twice Within Fift Minutes. Herman Lin* had raiher a "hard run of iuck" last evening. Jmt as he had finished his supper at his boarding house, he became involved In a quarrel wilh George Smith, who bandied him quke roughly. Lang started toward Wall street where he intended to have the matter settled, as be was puffing along Fourth street about half way between Main and Ohio, bis umbrella, which was thrown across bis shoulder,happened to knock off the bat of a passer by. The owner of the hat, Alexander Greininger, imagining himself in« suited, dealt Lang terrifflc blow between the eyes and landed him in tbe gutter. Lang gave utterauce to one agonized cpy ot "Police!" as he fell. The cry was heard for several squares in every direction, and in less than a minute a large crowd was assembled on the 8pot.

Officers Hogan and Gibson took both men in charge aod marched them to the station house. Lang was soon after released and went before Esq. Wolfe with his complaint against Gee. Smith, who had assaulted him at the boarding house. Smith was finAd 11.45. Greininger was fined $7.55 in the Mayor's court tbis morning.

"BASTf Jl»

Th' Actmil Hero ol On* of John Hikr'n'm«Uin7 HalliwU." Krorn the l^nlncy Whig. "Banty Tim," a dialect poem by Colonel John Hay, which flr«t made its appearance in Harper's Weekly, HAS doubtless b.:Pn read and enj yed by mauy who would be pleased to learn its history. The b?ro of the poem, whom Colonel Hay saw fit, for

^4

b'sown purjKise, to call Tiliman Joy, resides iu this place, and I nm her. fore in a situation tn^ivc tbe

to

the

in

formation Colonel Hsy "wasraised'' list is HIP colloquial of it- in thie vicinity, and on a visit Piiuileld— '.-spunky Point," ns he puts it in the bdUd—he heard the xtorv which took ttie form of "Bamy Jim" from his hand and was pnbti'-i ed in hook form by On od & Co., tn ]£,71. along Willi "Jim Hludso," "Lit-.l^ Beech-e-,"aiid several otheis, imder the same litie ,t "PikeOou,,tr Biliuds."

Th.- "Tillman Joy or tb. poem Is apt. lit s, of tilts life, who •erved nin»« nionshs in 2d Illinois i-avjiiiy. »nd afterward filtered the rejinhr -ervice in the 13 ti United St,-.if

Imaiitry On the li of May,

lfcC3. he was 'Aotibdeii at Vieksburg, "•I's'aticittlly us Miitd in h- poem, and after lyiiiit in belples Muii- for ^oiue time, neglo came to him il carried him ofl (he lielii. Tkii regro appeared to have no nunie htii llose, and wjts as black as the acu of ipude.s. ('aplain IUM retained his M.Tvice, and, hein« fuMou^hed, hj came home «o ivc.iver from his wounds, hiingii linn.' wi him us a servant. I lit re it ppenr.i to have been a \v citizens here who \vvii deeply impressed with tho belief that this is it wi ite mini's Government, and l.u huvo wailaliiii the C«r/ »in to ecgjf.st the propiiety of eein.'iiiy Rose awry. The poem puts tlie plain's reply

tUi gehtioii

in the torm of

"remarks of Tillman Joy to the Wiite '.u"? Committee 3 :unky Point,II!.'' 1 reckon I !t

your

ilr'.it. ne.i's-

Yo 'low the boy lin-. 'i, sia. I li 1^ a white man's count Hi'.i' Dlraocrnts, you sa An' whe-uns, a.'r'seel-.'ati' v.-lit., f.ra.

The llines heln'

all

out o'j'l:

t,

The tmrer Ii-s ol to mo From the litniiso'S .e.nicy V'ii.t.

But not to be arrogant r, blind, and iinreaMiuable, the Cajifaiti stated to litem his position, ia political pretereiices, and the weighty- bhg itions under which he was phtccd to Rose

Let's reason the thin

t"r irifr.n

I'm it'i ole-f shlom i! l)i nterit. tuo, 'l tiougn I Iui I my poiitii n'n th*r way for ler keep tilt tliur \f. is tr.roujh. I?n11 hum liici litnrniio In1

To vote »n wed to ThouKh It gravels me l.tie tlio devil to train

Atoiijj

o'slch lochia* 3

in.

After reasoning th-. n:ntter over "in the spirit of love," osihii Raver, end Mr. Chaiihatid wi idd say, the Captain came down tithe practical point of stating what I would do if any oue attempted run Rose ofl". The poem has it thus—a somewhat exaggerated form of I is largnage: 8o, tnv trent'e miz^lies, .ir'.s my answei, «n' here Kt.ayK Be'ity Tioi

Hetru ped J^eni,t.'ii.« 'j f,n me that day, ,An' I'm no jjohi' :ar' on him. Yni- may rcsoioot i.il t'ler cows come

horur,

Iutel 'ne

o' yer "i'i-»» Uitirtviy,

He'll wrasth' Ins unfih 'o ni»ht in hell, Or my nanit's nut'rhiu.au Jo

Captain Bates may be

seen

any day

on the street, carrying an empty sleeve about with him, Lut not Willi a rib cavtd

lu,

a:.d a

leg oti

a strike.

He lias retired from the army on tlio pay of a captain, ami thus finds life comparatively eas-y. He still has hopts that the IOPS of an arm may not totally unfit him for service when the Government sees lit to give liitn orders, aud would, doubtless, in the discharge of his duty, he as likely as hereto/ore to become the hero of ballad that would prove a source of ami:3ccj?ut to 'boii'-amK

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