The Brussels Post, 1892-6-3, Page 2ThE BAME OF LLNDY'S LANE,
BY ERNEST CR teia:SHANK,
Apart froj . the specie! looal Worm% which t eenundem Mean the beginning. The
must of you unfit feel, it ie Mit natural theme Inonthee lanonleme, 181e, wasmarked be, the
11 British•Ameriemens shoalt regard the en. Interment of the Atnerleau troops trom their
Moment which took placo on this slim them: a; Port George, whieli they hatl non,
eoine seventy-four years ego with feelingpied since the prenoling elay,unmier oireum-
of More than ordhiary pride antl satisfam eteiren which tended to cover their arms
tiOn. Not only did it form the crisis of with disgtetee. Under the pretext that it
-the last and most formidable attempt at h*. wee nunnery to deprive their advereaeles
-vasion in the come of three yeare of war- of Metter upon that Mullein, the rent:Ming
fare, bal, a very large proportiou of the of. inhabitants of Niagara were driven from
ficers and men en gad in the action, on their homes mid the entire village commit -
the Beitieh side, elthough serving in Dori- tett to the awes. Wit the same intention,
manta of the line, were natives of the pro. meammeimatou was deliberately bombarded with
vinous now forming part of the Dominion of ree•hot shot from the batteries et Lewiston.
Canade, and their cotnniander, Sir Gordon Many isoleted farm houses were destroyed
Drummond, was himself is Canadian by by marauding parties of soldiers, or when
birth. they proved too oubstantial for intent de.
Let me say a word, in the first place, as moIltien, were rendered uninhabitabbe by
to the sources whence I have been enabled lenient of the doors and winclowe. The
Ito drew the material for this narrative, few matte still remaining in the possession of
These may be divided broadly into three the °Gunny people myna mercilessly slaughte
classes :-(1) Booke and pamphlets ; (2) the ered or driven away, and their grain and
newspapers of the period and later dates ; dour removed or destroyed. On the 10th
(3) unpubliched correspondence. I ref December, General McClure wrote exult -
Probably in no country in the evorhl is oo 1 Maly from Fort Niagara to Clov. Tompkins
enueli attention bestowed. upon national and i of :New York : " The village ime new in
local history es in the United State% and damn mid the enemy shut out of hope and
regret to be obliged to add, and, in none, so 1 means of wintering in Fort George. This
little as in Canada. Consequently, althongla etep has not been resolved on without, coun-
the mass of printed matter dealing with sol," he ambled, " tool is in conformity with
this period from an American point oe view the views of the Secretary at War, made
is very great, the number of volumes in hewn to me iu prevents emeninumeations."
which the other site of the qUeSt1011 1,1 Title however, was strenuously denied by
presented is proportionately extremely !he 'letter, " nly orders," 110 assoned,
limited. I have in my hand a list of :141, were to burro it if neeessery to the defense
books and pamphlets, historical, biographi. of Fort George, and not otherwise. But he
cal, and contronesial, tleding directly or does not defend For, George, and then burns
indirectly with the subject oi tire war of Niagaraaly orders were given an the re-
late% and more than four-fifths of these port emf the General that the attack of Fort
were published in the United States. Theee George might be covered by Newark,"
of course vary in ein hewn a bulky volume Almonbeforethe ink waemtry on McClure s
to a pamphlet of a few pages, and vary quite
as much in hieteried value.
In the first iestauce, the published official
letters of the rival commanders formed the 1: oboist John Murray, which already lay at
basis ot tho narrative on either side, and in Twelve elite Creek. Putting his tnen 111
many works are paraphrased without the sleighs, the British communder hurried for -
slightest criticism or examination with wend through a blinding snow storm, and
reference to the statements of their adver- fell upon the ineondiariee before their work
series. The tnain object, of the writer is to of deStilleti011 IO41.3 completed. The village
gracife" national vanity and prejudices, and of Niagara had been already reaucel to ash- actual invasion. Captain William Robinson,
the truth is frequently emcee/ea or remains es, but the barraeks and defencea of Fort
half -told iu the endeavor. of the Stel, was appointed lioutenantoolonel
George were left compantively uninjured, and captain eweee, Korey, of the eneeoh,
Among British writers, the volumes of end the retreating garrison left, the whole of Militia, major of this emps ; the ranke were
William James, entitled, "A narrative of their tents standing in the works they ha41 rapidly filled up with stalwart young re -
the military occurrences of the late war," so precipitately imbaudeeed. The recover?. omits, and it was armed and exercieed as
anA d " narrative of the naval occurrences of the Mit bank of the Niagara by tae 13rites a battalion of light infantry, under the title
of the late war," published in 1817, nowt be was followed by tho surprise of Fort Nia• of the Ineorporated afilitia. Several egp-
still regarded as the chief authority, and gem and the capture of the Americau tared fieldeonis and tumbrile were fitted for
httle has been done in the way of supple- batteries at Lewiston and Schlosser, and, active service, and supplies of grain and
meeting hie statements try more recent finally, by time occupation of Buffalo after a llour were diligently collected in various
British authors. Jamee had lived in the lmardefoneht action near Bleak Reek Be -
United States for several years beeore the fora the end oi the month, the Arnevicans
war, and had 'oecome imbued with an in- were therm:a from every defensive position
tense autipathy towarda the inhabitants of npen their own benk of the stream, severe
that country, new manners and customs, and stern retaliation had been exacted for
which, unfortunately. colors every page their rievagee upon theCoatamliansettlements, American newspapees clamored for the
of hie writings. k1i emppears to Men nearly every habitable buildiug between speedy recovery of Fort Niagara, Late in
resided at Halifax during the period of hos- Buffalo nun Eighteen Mile Creek on Lake January, Black lem eme: was remeoupied by
Unties, and his narrative is evidently based Ontario being laid in ruin, aud the terrified their troops and they began to annoy the
-
upon the published official correspondence , inhabitants had fled beyond the GenessBritish post at Fort bleie by the fire of ar
ee.
and information gleaned from newepapere These succesees pnt the small British force Olney from batteries there. At the same
of the day, or gathered from the lips of employed in poweesion el an einple and sore- time they were reported to be building large
some of the officers who had participated In ly mooed tinnily of provieion, ammunition, bouncers npren Lewiston Heights, several
the campaigns which he describes, Not- and military stores of various Ichele besides mina inland. The sabsequentinoyement of
withstanding his partisan feeling,. few of. furuiehing them with comfortable winter- a largo body of troops from SackeLL's Hu-
hn statements have been suacesstul con- quarters.. Hithern the men had beon un- hflyitt'hat direction was "1°1°86 irrim°111-
troverted, Major Richardson deals only provided with winter elothing of auydeeerfp. ataly revealed to the commandment at
with operations on the Detroit frontier iron, and they were etill svithout a field- Kingston by deserters, and General Riall
prior to the battle of the Thames; Auehin- train, artineers, eugineere, or regularly or- VMS placed on him guard. Severe cold wen -
leek's volunie contains scarcely anything gowned conuffineariat. Darin the /wend- ther, accompanied by heavy falls of snow
thet was not already recorded by James or mg cempaigu, gnautitiesof ammunition heel during the latter pan of March, delayed
Richardson or in the published official des- been spoiled by being conveyed with the the progren of defensive works already
patches; Colonel Coffin's "Chronicle" was army in ordinary open farm evanctons, for commenced by the British, and early in
never finished, and the general histories of lack of regular tumbrils. Drummond at once. April, General Hiatt sallied out ivom Fort
Canada., as a rule, give but a nanty and projected the recluation of Detroit and the laaagara and levelled with the ground the
earthworks which had been erected by the
destruction of the American squadron on
merioans, the premous yettr, along the
Lake link, then lying at Put -in -Bey. He
right bank of the river from its mouth to
pushed his outposts forward to tile forks of
Lewiston, fearing that they might he 00 -
bit
Thames, and his tweets penecratecl ta
oupied by bis adversaries. A deserter, who
the borders of Lake St. Clair, and even yen -
came in a few days later, reported that
tured to cross into Michigan, where they
seven thousand soldiers were already as -
captured the arms of a company of militia.
aembled near Buffalo, The difficult:Me of
The departure of the proposed expedition
wee delayed by the mildness of the weather, the situation daily increased, and the pros-
aluelm kept the roads impassable until pen for the future became more dimming -
two anonymous publintions, Mansfield's March, By that time Om garrison of De- ing: A greet coupon for the Indian of
Life of General W. S. Scott, Scott's Autobi- troit had been beavily reinforced, several Oluo, Inthana, and Michigan, WILS convened
ography, Stone's and Hubbard's Lives of thousand militia were collected at Putminm by Amerioan agents at Dayton and those
present ever° informed that they must take
Bay for the defense of the ships, and the
up arms agaiast the British or be treated as
enemies of the United States. Bach warrior
was promised stipend of sevonty-five cents
a day, and their wives and children would
be retained as hostages. The Delawares,
Senecas, Shawanees, and Wyandots joined
in the war dance and were directed to as-
semble at Detroit. Similar steps were taken
to enlist the trine of Now York and Penn-
sylvania in the movement agmtinet Canada.
Mantic/mg parties from Detroit made fre-
quent inroads into the \Venom District,
carrying off the loyal inhabitionte and de -
staying the settle:moms at Delaware and
Point aux Pill& In the middle of May, eight
hundred Americans conveyed in six ships
of war made a denent upon Port Dover,
ancl burned the 'entire village, turning the
inhabitants out of doors in the midst of a
ohilliug storm nf rain and sleet. They then
proceeded up the lake, deetroying the mills
near the coast, Neith the grain collected for
grinding, as they went. At the stone time
ID became known that another squadron of
eight sail, filled with troops, had passed
itto Luke Huron with the intention of
attacking alackinac, the only post retained
by the British in the west. The availabl
store of grain and flour was much diminish-
ed by these incursions. Fresh mneat was not
to he heel. The Indians daily consumed
twioe as mull fine as the evhole of the
troop% In the smell garrison of Fort Erie
alone, not much exceeding.one hurdled per-
sons, no lees than sixteanine cases of ague
were reported in a single week. The Pro-
vincial Dragroons had become almost
unfit for service from the miser-
able oondition of their ill -feel and
overworked horses. If Commodore Mama.
cey should succeed in gebtina out upon the
la,ke with the formidable frigate he had re-
cently launehed at Sackett's Harbour, the
Americans would obtain as undisputed oola
trol of Lake Ontario as they already possess -
eel of the upper lakes.
Upon the prorogation of the Assembly on
the 18th of March, Drummond returned to
Kingston end threw himself with meat vigor
into the labor of moviding for the defence
of the Province. Es ery soklier that eould
be of the slightese use was sot to work in
the shipyard, and two new frigates of the
largest 010,48 wore launched and able to
leave port foe some weeks. Hewing thus
obtained a decided enemy's ships in their
stronghold ab Saakett's Herber, Bub the
Governor•Genetal flatly refused to send
him troops to enable him to undertake tin
expediblon. "It is by every inotsure% end
occasional daring onterpriees, With appar..
wetly dispeoporbionato means," he replied,
" that the war hae ben et:retained, endive=
that polioy I am not disporied to depart."
However, on the 5th May, Drummond
made e suctooseful dash froni Kingston upon
the naval depot at, Oswego, whialt Inc took
and elestreyed, and Sir Jamey Yeo immedi-
ately established a Irwin blockade of Suet -
ether Iterbem. Tbe Wen of these (mention
was to delay tho equipment of the American
TB:B BRUSSELS POST, .T.1.7N111 .1892.
e t ott it most 1
habitml_ lo. allaitinll 10 IliS ti.00101,
several thousand nonwombeetants
and in the destitute condition of Ole coil
this seemed an almost hopeless
Most of the Western Indian thab had
lend General Proctor's defeat, as evi
the whole of the Six 'Amiens' from
Grand leiver, three thoneand poreone
of with) twodairele were helpless we
end ohildron, Mod sought eefuge near
Britieh eantemmente ae Burlington. 1.
depvedatione so harmed and alarmed n
of the inhabitante in the victuity that
abandoned their farms and took elicit
the soldiers' quarter., Mho nem
fugitives front the Niagara were alsc
pendent upon the over -taxed commissa
Thus while hi$ armed force numbered
than two thottoettol, between seven
eight thousand remixes were %seed eltt
Already, in the month of January, it
CAME/ evident that the eupply of meat NO
soon Inc exhausted, and Drummond be
to entertain Emden apprehensions tha
would be compelled to abandon all that ;
of the Province lying mvest of Kingst
from sheer want of food. NOP WaS
situation at the latter post then more
eouraging. Five thousend ration w
consumed there every day, and on the
April there remaiued but sixteen barrel
flour in store. Although a vote of oens
had been justpassed on nis predecessor in
Government by the Legislative Amin
of the Province, for having preelahn
martial law for the purpose of supplying
troops front the county, Drummond
then compelled by claimer of tobaul
nervation to resort to it again, that
with greeb anxiety aud relnotanee, sa the
Imbitants did not appear willing to p
with their prodime aL any price. His ciao
to induce the Western Indians to remove
Lower Canada were unsucceesful, w
as /As endeavors to persuade the Six :Nati(
to return to their deserted farms on t
Grand River. 'rho inefficiency of the ad
letter the flames ot burning.Nitigara had bit froni want of discipline and defective
become the signal for the rapid advance of equipment, us Igen , lade of com etent
a email leritielt corps of observation, under
. •
..anamemfaleereeremeaeattelemaitelemea
teen; equattron forewent weeke, mind 0-010 NM,
"U" ly retard tiltqF 111Va.lon of Mane da lry eV
fee'', of time Niagara frontier. Emirly elity t
MrY troupe intemled for tide purpose bad beg
"01t. to assemble at iltiffiolo, where a Munp ef
elle' uneaten wamx immediately formed tooter
11 a' menu:and of lerietedierafeneeal Wool,
th° Scott, one of tho 'nee% talented anti he
O 011 twilled ollemere in the tinned titatee arm
Inen It AILS prop0,011 that the force employ
,, the 'Mould eeeetnef not low than five Limner
1101e regular hole/Moe mid three thousand milk
01-113' drawn from the Statue of New York tit
th°Y Pennsylvania, The emovaley and Lonnie
ee 1° were re-organieed, and the eolietenent
.,055 three now regiumenta of riflemen authorize
'Xo oncouraio recruiting, a bounty of at
rent. WaS oire1.0.110 melt person enlisting, Mem
loge of the infantry regiments seleeted heel sere
5„nn throughout the pine:ling cempaigue, el
;lea consequently had nen quite as meet) loth
oulml INVylltrofabree aosppn,ized otfot ettilmle ops that Were lik
gall The spring elections had prostrated tl
O le° Federal panty in New York, and the Goo
ernor had at host a free hand, The Sena
00, readily passed a bill, touthorizing 11
Leo enliatnient of 4,000 state temps to eery
011• one year. The general ordee pr
ere aiding for the equipment of tit
all, New York contingent, was issued en 'Mare'
0' and anthorieed the organization ot two in
4.!"?0. 1.1.4414,101...1.141C.:41.30,111Nre,r rtry,r3V,Ilif NilAt
OLtiOCTfaSTANTIAL HVIDENOH. rt the two men liret terreeted until they
" fee we e , . ,„
limi
some etimee enstances 11: a wieder anew, • 'dee
rite
ay
mete:eel, The wunLa io,pAra,
nn :ranted, said the ohl lawyer, !hal nof:
in• ,me man out of a thotemand who Leen dill the killing, and eimat they only wetelled
im convieted by a jury wee iniument, end 1" 8"' 11°1' 11° wee 11"t illtmelPtedm The
Rlett pelted again tbet eireamateutiat eowee,,m Ineweention BOW Mt tosenred teat. it, heal a
itt,4trooger than ditein proof, yet I ven "1/1111 "1", whi11 1 r°1111a°11 'hat Black
y, you of e ease which will titmice yen'. chilli- PI"' Pun Lb° MUM tie In° 111e 111°. IC°01111g
ItVilVe in both juries mid the sort of evidence 1H, "1"""11 nnev° 13,111'n te1,1° 1"4" 2.°11.11tu't°
mel named, It oceurred greed holy year's 1011 1110 ,l411101411 Plod° mere to 'Wein°
la, logo, but no old lawyer hes forgotten the
f‘cvnimmh lien oBIZikt
panictilare;
ry to eay ix word aboat such " coufessions" 01
of 4,000 inhalation, and, being in WOMOrn
111° tOWO a Cane Hill, say, had about
NSITV Mad° 111 this can, Onvo groats
.1. State, Met tot element, of toughen% elute while there rimy be one with nine little
2,4 der ,c1Lti 1/ot 0 rare crime, and robbery and f1Q1'Inlihlia111010t,,, ah:ilatat.h°AmatinomeilltYaaveroaat"eadooakaot1
ell Malinger arrived who gave out thab he lin
at assent', were very common ones. One day it mi
charge Berens enough to send him to Statnml e
tended to establish a priveda latighlotavultamignae al):117$301 ft0 t:ot feYatra'eue,rlialallrmilfdgacni1,1taYx,e411)balteae
'0 WWI capital of about, 813.000, ol
confesa hie own guilt. If he is toabe Ivied
e- he gave Wai Chavies Williams, and it lir?:
understood than he wee front Chicago, for his life he will swear the murder against
le W118 a middle-aged, geuteel nutn and was any party the Sheriff or Chief.,of Police cle-
in him to, It is anything to pull his own
a well received in the tewn. He stopped at
link out of the noose. The Sheriff natural -
to the hotel while making alteretione to the
y wanted eo (mein Black, and when
le building he had secured, and eine a week
e otm so was known by sight et. mune to every- Carnes end Asher were " peened" they
0- body, naked up a very plausible "confession".
inco morning the dead body ef man WAS I heel verified Blank's story, I Lad gone
1, found in the water wheel of the grist mill, to the barn mend found a candle in a box just
where be had told me to look for it. I had
,1tvashicsidl1111dmiwddliLlsiTillaYegh.elndlf4crelfteleamnecelliab themel the journey to aud fro, and found it
liams. The skull had been occupied ehe interval 'Anted. I had found
med on hie boots which had come from a
MACTI'ILBD BY A BLOW,
epot near the barn. I had found people who
and money and jewelry wen gone, At the met him that night and took him for w
inquest as many te twenty different eitirons stranger. However, when the ease wee
Who had met Willimus teetified that it was called in the higher court 1 was appelled at
Ino body, Not eee ef them identified it by the ettmengtli of the evidence against my
any panic:tine e." xe or worlc, but only in a
general way, The idea that they could be town, everybody wan
("lint. As is invariably the ease in a small
ted to appear to know
mistaken never °enured to them. It heel something. Men were put on the stand who
the general appearance of Williams, end swore they saw Black in town at 7 o'clock ;
therefore MIS WilliaMS. °tilt:F:1131M him an hour later; others still
9 murder havii a been committed some ',believed. they saw him have ehe nub
e ottoman be ammeesl'ed foe the crime. Wil- found at his house. 911 this WaS nensense,
limn could be traced link to the °Veiling RS you will diecover, but it told with the
before, but to no certain hour. The ialld• itzry.
lord was sure be saw Mtn at suppee time, 1 emould only prove Lwo things in defence
-
but uot then The clerk eves sure he :maw previous good ohmmeter and hew the over
-
him talking to the hondlotel en hone later. albs mune to be stained with blood. Blaolc
One ohambormaid saw him up stairs at 0 boldly confessed that he had intenJed to
o'clock and another at 8:30, Ono 1110.11 new burn the barn and the accounted foe his
him at the depot. at ff, and rot the same ltour time, but it ouly hurt his ease. Everybody
some ono else saw him a mile away. You, jumped to the conclusion that a man who
who aweigh against the delays atel techni- would commit arson would not sample at
entities at the law end the canning of laW. murder, True, he had boon known for
yen, are asked to note these sido issues of years as a peaceable farmer, but his oppor-
my story. Right in that small town, where thity for making a strike had not come
e1 Anions aonleln't 'neve moved a rod with- until the stranger appeared. lt was shown
ont being recognized and remeorked, he Mitt he ware had up financially: that certain
couldn't be traced after 6 o'clock in the mon wore rather afraid of him. that be had
evening. Men who had talked with hini at heel:seed to make dire thrents, and they
3,4, end 5 o'clock eouldn't be suro, Whalt enni(1 net have peinted bitn blacker had he
called upon, whether it was Gila aftenoon ben ouo of the Younger brothers.
or the previous one. On top of all this came the " confession."
An Hewn was speedily =de. A euspi- Carnes and Fisher had occupied the stone
dons oh tometeentomed aohn Carnes got. drunk cell for days, and therefore agreed in all
and displayed a roll of money, and when the donne. They Mere to meeting Black
deemed with the murder tie exhibited what just outede the village. They entered the
is termed town to look for Willimmans aud found him
" EVIMY SIO1,T OF (I VILT," on tee street. Fisher swore that he au -
The Sheriff was congratulated, Carees was costed him and directedhim to the millrace,
locked up, end everybody was sameelied On telling him that the owner of the mill wont -
the preliminary examination it turned out ed to en him.
that Carnes had only $45, Being a murder- ArTan Tun Nit'ann.
em, he ought to havo fled, but so far from
taking any steps in that direction he had
hired out to work for a livery stable keeper
for throe months. Sifted down, the case
against him was thin. The only bad thing
against him was the fact, that he could not
account for his whereabouts between 7 and
10 o'clock of the evening of the murder. In
fact, he didn't try to, and I may as well tell
you the reason right here. He was engag-
ed in robbing a house in the town, a house
where the family was temporarily absent.
He got about fifty dollen in cash, but ouly
after a two hours' search. To acknowledge
this was to go to State prison ; to keep
silent WU to be suspected of the holler.
He pursued elm latter course, knowing his
innocence and doubting if he could be con-
victed.
While Carnes WELS held to the higher
court and many believed him guilty, the
Sheriff stumbled upon another good thing.
A mem who wee suspected of being non ex -
convict, and who wits known to be hard ep,
suddenly became flush. He also talked a
good deal about the murder, and seemed
very anxious that Carnes should be convict-
ed. When he was gathered in the sum of
thirty dollars was found in his wallet, Ask-
ed to ea. -plain where he got it ho became
confused and emberrassed end told lies.
Asked toaccount Melds Lime on the evening
of the murder he mixed him:tell all up, end
enally relapsed Otto a dogged silence. It
was believed that Inc and Carnes Ivere
pertnera in the crime, and again the en-
terprising Sheriff AV0S duly complimented.
Thom name of the Met man SWIM Joel basher.
When the second prisoner was examined
me vigorously denied the murder, bub like
:ernes, be failed to acne= for his time
fter fi o'cloek. He tried to, and when it
41LS seen that, he we.s lyiug the nubile mind
ettled epon him as
•
,elt
Ileme fanny regiments of ten companies, each
coneisting Ilme pincers and men, and DM il1.
e'Y depeudent battalion, composed of one com•
sti pany of rifles, two of light infientry, and
111e one of mounted ribs, forming a brigade of
vale 2,502 of all /mike, under Major General
Igh from the Niagara District of New York
ate peter B. Porter, recently a congreesmen,
In. and one ef tha chief prentoters of the war,
arb new two menthe and a half bet 11 regulars and
1110 m ilitia were contently exercised in battelion
to and brigade drill from seven to ten
ell hours a day, until they were considered. to
Ile have attained a remaritable degree of &hi
ele nom. The Froneh smeratem tmf field enrols
o cen, beeome manifest, he c wean
od the enlistment of a bathalion of four hun-
dred men from among them, to serve dur-
ing the war, with the intention of permit-
ting the remainder to bestow their undividm
ed attention upon their ordinary pursuit ex-
cept in the event, of a levy en 'name to repel
parte of the country for the forces in the
field,
It seemed evident that a fresh atttemp
at invasion -would not long be delayed.
vague outline of the principal °vents of this
period. Some information he been gleaned
from the "Historical record of the Royal
Scots," the "Histedeal record of tho Stut
Foot," Browneem "England's Artillerymen,"
Duncian's "History of the Royal Artillery,"
and Hon. W. EL Merritt's "Journal." The
American histories oi Armstrong, Bracken-
ridge, Davis, Gilleland, Hum, Ingersoll,
Low, Perkins, Russel, J. le Thomson end
Red Jacket, the rare pamphlets of Ripley,
Treat, and White, beeicles numeroue articles
in magazines and reviewe, have been con-
sulted.
Newspapers of that date evere not the
repositories of Current information Oita
they have sine become, and the de,ta to be
gleaned from chain is cemparatively scanty,
although sometimes of cardinal value.
Weekly newspapers had been published be.
fore the war at Newark, Kingston, and
York, but all of them seem to have perished
during the contest, A file of the York
Gazette for the year 1812 is preserved in the
Arehivee Library at Ottawa, but it contains
little informatiou. However, files of the
Montreal Hereld, Quebec Gazette, Buffalo
Gazette, Albany Argus, Gazette, and
Register, Baltimore Patriot. Boeton Conti-
nel, Nun's Register, and Poulson's American
have been referred to, not without profit.
The chief and most authentic source of
informabion respecting elle period nmst
energetio Governor of Now a met had been
enabled to gather it large force of State
troops at Batavia.
The British General WM at the same time
obliged to proceed to York to open the
annual seeeion of the Legiabeture of Upper
Catania, for ho united the function of
admixdstrator of the civil government with
those of commander of the forces, and
during his absence, the Americans began to
contemplate the recovery of Von Niagara.
With this view, three thousand .regular
troops wore rapidly moved across the
State of New 'York irom Sackett's Herber
tee the encampment at Batavia. It had
been ascertained from deserters that great
diecontent existed in the battalion of the
8th or learg's regiment, which garrisoned
that poet, and that the same cause evhioh
had prevented the tolvence of an expedition
against Detroit had delayed the reinforce.
ment, of the division guarding the lamina
ever e the offunel correspondence, which, , by troops from Lower Canada. In fact,
however, has been inaccessible to persons en- Drummond had beau obliged to weaken it
gaged in historical inquiry until very reeent- u,y netting a detachment; of the Nemylound-
1Y, and consequently has remained almost land regiment and artillery to relieve
unconsulted. In 1873, tho Canadian military Mackinac, aud withdrawing the battalion
correspondence mantling over a period of the 41st from York for the defence of
of nearly a century, lay sawed at Helifax, Kingston. The number of desertions frotn
packed in cases for transportation to Eng- the garrison of Foreh Niagara had beanie
land. Owing to the efforts of Mr. Douglas so groat and the discontent of the men so
Brymner, thievastoolleotiou of deaumentary pronounced, that tho battalion WU enally
evidenee of inestimable historical value in withdrawn and replaoed by the 1000h.
compiling the annals of this country WAS Senrcely had this been accomplished than
seemed for the Canadian ArchiveS and by they, too, began to desert in such numbers
the unflagging industry of that able publie that General Riall,who had been left income
servant has Since been classffied, thronolog• mand of the division, was forced in sheer
°ally arranged, and bound in volumes, eleepair to recommend the abandonment of
Some idea may be formed of the mere bulk "that cursed fort," as he forcibly designa-
of the eorrespondence thus enquired, when led it. At that time the British army
I mention that 10 weighed eight tons, 001T1. was largely recruited feom the pauper and
prising more them two hundred thousand criminal olassee, and many foreigners were
documents of ell forms, shapeo, and sizes, enlisted even inte regiments of the line.
and 'DOW cotnposes 1,384 bulky volumes, Thus, five men deserting in e body from
upon the shelves of the Archives Library. the Royal Seen at this tune were deseeib., Here is to be found, almost entire, the oer- ed as being all foreigners. Besides being
espondance of General Riall with Sir imperfectly <dolled and often hershly treat -
Gordon Drummond, and that of the latter era they had received no pay for upwards
. with Sir George Prevost, during the pre- of nix months, and their disentent at the
gross of the campaign, linidos numeron irksome and monotonous roand of duty in
letters from subordinate officers, official re. Fort Niagara, ie not surprising.
turns, depositions of deeertere, and the eon. Drummond, however, resolutely refused his
. ' ganged communications of spies and se• comment to the evanation of a post so im.
net agents. portant, and, as fine weather returned, de -
8 still greater quantity of similar meter- seetions diminished. tic Was unremitting
lals is Understood to exist in the depart- In hie preperations for the teeming mom
mental aloes at Washington, but up to the peep Through the amorat of weather and
prommt remains inaccessible to the inquirer execrable rote& ho hurried from York to
11 from the traditional secretive policy of tho Kingeton, and from Kingestort to Delawere,
United. Steno Government and tho clutobio making inquiries into the resources of the
eondieion of the papers, The correspon- country and the condition of the inhabit-
denee °Mr. 11, D. Tompkins, at thet time ants, Moortaining that the Wheat crop
Governor of the State of Now York, has neae the freaky .vm likely to any° den.
race:wetly been acquired by the Stet :, emm el cleat, he promptly prohibited the distilla•
may be ornoatod to throw SOrne ii;71,1., ,,P011 Lion of grain, and Wetted orders for the for -
the subject, but, I re/Tot to say 1 b,,...e not mftion of inegazirmee in the vicinity of Long
yet found an opportunity of ow/minim' it, oinl, n part O1 th° conntry which had
To obtabk a correct understanding Id tun hitherto one ped the ravages of the itivaden,
position of the emitanding forcen, it will be whe tate" moween chipime.a me
neceesary to briefly review Otto progromme of lore gele Lei beer hO CMTIOtely had
,
wns adopted, and, to n. proof of their rapid
ity manwerring, 3.1 is stated that 8c6tt's
brigade of aim full batlaliens Was able to
execute all onuttro change of front to either
flank in three minutee ancl a half.
(mo t,a coNTISUED. )
Siberia.
" Dense swarms of mosquitoes attack the
inhabitants Miring Summee night and day,
and cleeths have penned from their bites."
The natives do not sieughter oat Ile and me
exceedingly poor, " the staple food being a
sort of cake made of fir tree bark powdered
very fiue." Blocke of solid ice are used as
window panes in the houses during Winter.
" An idea of Lhe lowness of Oh temperature
maybe gai [toothy the fact thationvithstand-
Mg the heat inside tlie hut, theso seldom
melt till the rerun of exprem,"
Now among these natives who have noth-
ing to sell, and in these not very warm hub,
political eeiles ere living under einem
-
stances which make thin existeme harder
then that of a native. In Sredne-Kolyins1,
for example, a place whioh is hundreds of
milee further mirth than tho Tewn of
Yakoutsk, there were, in ell, only eixty
" houses," in some of which two families of
natives, together with their doge and cattle,
were already crowded, when about twenty.
five " politieals " were sent there This
was (mite an invasion, and one can easily
understand the anxietiesand miseries oeused
by the scarcity of dwellings. Itnagine now
these male and female seudents of different
universities, young doctors profenional
nurses, technical engineers, literary men,
and even schoolboys of sixteen to soveuteen,
on a frosty day, barehanded, patching up
tbeir huts with clay and snow or cutting
ice blocks, 200 pounds in weight each, for
their windows, or fishieg in icy water. Jit
Smuttier, when n greet deal of other \eerie
is done, they are obliged to carry every-
thing on their shoulders, es Sredno-Kolynisk
does not possess even a whoelbarrow. Again
consider the food question. A native cen
easily live on putrid fish for months, but a
F,uropean needs bread itud nolo variety in
food. Now let me quote a letter received
some time ago from one of the political
exiles in Sredne-Kolymsk, Ile thns de-
scribes his daily menu. during two months' :
"During March and April our tood con-
sisted exalusively of ration of bad meat,
The meat was boiled hi wane, and taken
withoub any vegetables, sauce or anything
else to make it eatable, The miscroseopie
slice of bacl rye bread given per mau only
awoke au inaupportablo longing for more.
Afber having eaten such a would-be dinner
in our common dining room, every one of
us took home a small piece of the same
nieat, wrapped in a little rag, aud another
shoe ot bread. „Coat sons ior supper mend
breekfast next morning. But, ee we were
nwfully hungry, the meat and bread were 1
ei
eaten up iinmediately after reaching home,
anti then we had for our sole forme, " mot"
drink, in Cm eveninn arld. 11eNt moreing,
the detestable cake -tea, without anythilig
elso to fill onr stomachs.
Women Fihould.eat Often.
More women sin through undereating than
through overeating, avel all women sin in
not distributing rightly the amen t of food
taken through tile twenty-four. hours. An
empty stomach is as bad as an empty head,
Digestion is the proper function of the
stomach, and it oan be made more nearly
continuous than people think. Tito eOmmon
practioes of putting into the stomach three
times in twenty -font hours just as much
food as it can hold, and then of giving it
nothing winttever for twelve hours more, is
abed as illegical au arrangement as anybody
ever devised'. To the credit of the human
race be it said that this is a Imbitm than not
now universal.
The French eab four times it clay, the
English four and sotnethnes five, the Ger-
mans four also. A woman who breakfaets
at 8 should oat again between 11 and 12,
Luncheon at 1 again and tea and e biscuit
et 5, when dinner ia at 6:30 or 7. Before
going to bed at 11 she should eat a little
more -a biscuit again and something hot.
Thie will insure remote and resting sleep, be-
came it niece the blood from hi:loin:ad, where
attld,doesn't belong, down to the stomach,
vhero it does beloog.-e0malue World -Her'
The Only Good Hair Tonio,
flair washes ate generally more harmful
then good. There is only one sithstancte on
the Moe of the earth that has any virtue as
O tonio and that is rosemary oil, An 00-
s0000 made from rosemary oil greatly dilu-
ted in water ie an excellent wash for hair
that i8 becoming Win or falling ona Is
seems to revive and sthengthen the soalp
rend stimulate the hair bulbs to renewed
aotivity. All the other windiest more par.
eiculterly those applioations which count
grease of aty kmd, are far more hurtful
then beneficial, since they olog up the scalp
and provenb the natural nourishment being
eupplied to the hair,
A thankful man owes itt courtesy ever ;
the unthankful but when he neetle
Jenson,
1
ml
ti
13
ca
eo
01
Itt
le
T
o
to
01
ni
ed
on
ke
Sto
mol
et
en.
80
10
On
itt
ho
in
131
Id
all
lef
alo
for
lie
sot
10
Bit
01t
bar
ha
die
I?
fire
not.
inn
A
the
Tun 0111E1, mnantnEn..
w1/1 also toll yea why lie couldn't tell a
treight story. From Lo 10 o'cicok he was
ngaged in robbing a freight car the
spot yard, Ho lied two accomplices, end
le goods were tekeu aWny 111 a wagon.
sing innoecia of elm murder, be didn't
repose to give himself away on a lessor
mime. He was also hold to the higher
urt, and the man who doubted his goat
ould have been Lhoughb an ass or a Jun -
lc.
I told you ba the beginning that it was a
ueer one, and you will not be surprised to
own that a third arrest was soon made.
his turned out to be the most hnporbant
'ell. Two farmers living in the edge of
wu had quarrelled over a lite fence, and
'me of them called on bile Sheriff at mid.
gat and gave him a tip. Tide WAS follow -
by an arrest and a enroll of the pHs-
er's premises, He was a single man and
pt house for himself. They foand a false
nand false whiskers hidden away. They
BO foUnd ptoir of overalls with blood
bins on them ; also a hickory club, the
d of which had. evidently been freshly
raped. leeeile tnoney wart foetid, it
as argued that he had buried the sum se -
red froin Williams, and for three daye
ore than 1 00 people were ranneking his
use and barn end every foot of him land
hopes to unearth the treasure.
The name of Om third party arrested was
wk. Ile employed 010 to defend him.
y first idea naturally 1,7041 to prove an
bi. claimed to me that he had not
this house during the ovoning„ Living
ne we had only Ids unsupported word
this, and by accident ascortainea that
was lying to me. Three different per-
ks had naiad at his house between 7 and
an
o'clock d found him absent. Then
ok made a onfestion tome. The f item -
with whom ho bed quarromled had largo
n on me &ern three milee away, and Black
d ems there to burn it. Ile had gone in
guise, and he told me the Mune of the
pie ha had seen whilo dodging about..
s intentions wore bad enough, but the
Inc kindled went out and the barn did
born, To Weer himself of the one he
st own no to the other,
re if tho moo Was 1101, complicated enough
Sheriff took another stop. Ibo worked
all went to Macke] home, where thu money
was to be divided. Ho had niece' Cronies
end Fisher fifty dollar:, vice-) and pue off
the division for to week. While neither
saw tho blow nor the body iluitg into the
the water, both agreed in Black
said on the way home. He hate reel them
thin Williams seemed suspicion fuel n as
about to run away when atomic deem.
1 lost my can, of Quern. The jury vreut
out simply forappearenee min, and In
seven minions retuned with a verdict et
" guilty." Yon mey ask what,
done to trace Williams I Very little, Ho
had said he NOELS ir0111 Chime:go. No one
knew hie full addrees. The [their had boon
published in the Chicago pupae, but no
ono had identified Williams as Williams.
He seemed to have ueither relatives nor ac-
quaintances.
Black wes to be sentenced to death, and
Carnes arid Fisher were to get off with a
term in State meson. They bed not yet
boon sentenced whenWilliame, the man who
heel been murdered and but Goa returned to
town as quieely as any other traveller !
ou can imagine the public annteement I
He left town on the night of the murder at
9 o'olook, going to alilwankee to see about
te bank safe and other things, Ile was taken
ill en roues and left the train at a small
village where he had relatives. Ire had .
been siek:with fever for weeks and nothing
whatever wee known of the ease, At the
depot, he conversed with two citizens and
the ticket agent and all SIM him board the
train. Bob one of them came forward to
testify to these facts. They had " fergobten
all about it I" In ail such eases the average
mow is either over-anxious to go on the
stand or he obstinately refuses to remember
anything iu favor of the prisoner.
el y case was won by the reappeavanee of
Williams. It was for his murder thet Black
had bet tried.
50n0 WAS 011111,10Ta1
Thee. WAS never found out, though it was
generally believed that he was one of a pair
of bend men who had 00(115 10 Cane Hill
with some evil intent, and had .guarrelled
with and been done up by his pal. Carnes
and :Risher at, ouce went bank on their " con-
feseion " and accounted for their time on
thet evening, This gave them away on the
robberies, and they were duly Weed and
landed behind the bare. Black had confess-
ed to an attempt at arson, he while the
0055 5005 dragging along he committed suicide
inn aerl, and thus disposed of it.
I have given you the cese just ae record-
ed. I havon't complieated it Inc order to
poinb a moral or adorn a tide- There was
no need of that. There is smereely a dey in
the week that your daily paper does not
complain of the law's delay and give in-
staller* of how ibis juggled with. Lawyers
and courts are referred to as almost devoid
of honoi and integrity, and here and there
it is demanded that Judge Lynch open
court, Take Any ease you will, follow it
deeply, and the explanation will be ample.
The ignorance, stupidity, and midterm of the
public oalled to take tlie withese box on
either aide it the real foundation of nine -
tenth of the oompleints egainst the law,
ewe mare
Poisoned by Pleasure.
A peauliar cue of poisoning is reported
from the Bristle Ridge neighborhood, norbh
of Crawfordsville, Ind. At te large peaty
rm new-fangled kissing game was inbeo-
dune', winch proved very popular, The
young men on arriving drew strings of
variegated melon from 11 1/0:,{ ItIld then sa-
inted girlie whose dresses matched the
stein, The yout?g granger then toolc one
end of the ening in his month and the girl
itttaehod her fan in a shine way to Oho
other. Both then chowod up the ening
until they were mouth to mouth, NOI1011 sav-
ant kines wore exchanged.. At the party
In queetion the penmen coloring the striegs
ha used dyes which woo not fast and the
that,
man. ;•Aevern,1 woro poisoned very
seriously cind it is feared that one 01 1500
cases may result fatally,
American railroads get titi..2.0.10,00010 year
01 carrying the