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-12 A EEAL E0XA5CE OF TO-DAY. Tb Helree Ljkrgm EU la at Hew Terat Tb trass; ItMM Earn Trrejr A atwry That DJaceaata a Diana Kavel "Aad tbe Vlllala Still Pmim4 Me." f'ew York Ctar.j It not often that In real life we meet with a storjr that combines all the elements of the extreuicst romances involving a beautiful heiress, a desperate villain, at tempted abduction, strychnine, arsenic, opium, nitrate of silver and pistol-bullets, masked men with a coach pn a dark night, ana ail the other meio-draiuatic Incidents but the Star presents to ita readers this morning a true story that contains all. Km ma Torrcy resides in the tenement house No. 639 Forty-second street, between Tenth and Eleventh' avenues. She and her lather occupy rooms which ore almost des titute of furniture, and the neighborhood is one in which only the poorer classes live; but site has an appearance and manner far above her surroundings, uses correct lan guage, and is lady-like and graceful in every movement.

She has aristocratically chiseled features, blue eyes and brown hair. and, if seated in a drawing-room instead of the third floor front of a tenement-house, would be one of the belles of society, Ehe tells her own storr as follows: "Lady Seagrave was. a maiden lady, who owned large estates' near iJiowth, County Dublin. Ireland, and also in Derbyshire, hn gland, and was connected with the nobility and the upper lanmies of ine janaea gentry in England and Ireland. She was a very peculiar woman, with strong likes and dislikes.

My mother, Sallie Hughes, was the daughter of her favorite sister, who married a air. Hughes, also a wealthy land-owner. Front my mother's infancy. Lady Seagrave took a groat 'fancy to her, saying that she had the genuine Seagrave face, while my mother's brother and sister were like the Hughes family, and the old lady did not like them. She said that my mower should in herit her property, and, as it was in the old lady's own right, she could bequeath it to my mother it -she wished.

My mother grew op on the estate, being there with Lady bea grave nearly all the time until siie grew up." "But how did your mother happen to eome to this country?" "I don't know that, sir; I believe there was some estrangement and she came away. After her arrival here, I think, she married ray father. Lady Seagrave relented before her death in 1871, and wanted my mother to come back, but mother died in the same year" here her voice choked and the tears came in her eyes "and we never heard any more about Lady Seagrave until about four years ago, when 1 heard that my mother was heir to the estates, and that ray sister Margaret Elisabeth and myself, as my mother's heirs, were entitled to the property, bhortly after that poor Maggie was taken ill. She seemed to fall into a regular decline, and soon afterward died. We have had reason Since then to believe that she was poisoned "What makes you think so?" ''Because ainoe that time several attempts have been made upon my life, and my father hatTbeen poisoned once, "Will you relate the "A year ago last December I was sitting taking my tea.

ltdtd not taste quite right, but I didn't mind it. After drinking it I found something in a hollow tooth I have. I took it out, and it looked just like a little ailver pill. I showed it to a gentleman friend of mine, thinking it was some of the solder off the tea-pot. He took it to a doc tor, who said it was a pill made of nitrate of with a man beneath her station in life.

Mr. Torrey is a good-natured and fairly Intel li- gnfit man, but. looks coarse beside his daughter, who has evidently inherited the Beagrave blood in fulL If possible the eirl will go to Ireland shortly to prosecute her uuuui in person. Hers is a recipe for making Dicnic lemon ade: First get your barrel; then fill it with water. Don't be mean: nut in rlentv of water.

Now throw a pound of 'White sugar into the barrel. Squeeze in a large-sized lemon. Don be mean about Uie lemon. either, but put the whole of it into the barrel. Stir with a lonn Dole, and call the chil dren op immediately.

As fast as they drink. fill the barrel with cold water. The beverage A STIUNUE STOUT. Sbaagnaled Twenty Tear Ago De- erla la Sew fcoalb Wales Taken Lada Beeatwea Mat In Cnlaa an laaawrlal So later A UTs af Eaetttas Ad yea tar. New Yora DUpatch.1 There arrived in this citvon Thursday last.

from New Orleans, a travel-worn man. whose story, if true, would rival many of the fic tions or me present osy. Air. Hugh J. liarker is a man ol about for- ty-tlve years of age.

Twenty years ago he was a farmer in the upper part of this State. but a desire to see something of life tempted him to rut a few dollars in his noeket and come to sew ort. Me stopped at a notei in the lower part of the city, not being able to go to a nrst-ciass one. Here be soon made the acquaintance of a number of seafaring men. Of course drinkinc was the order of the day with these worthies, and Mr.

Barker was soon inducted into the mysteries of cocktails, smashes and punches. His little frolic went on for several days, and when Mr. Barker came to himself he was in the cabin of the berk Seafoum. hull down front New York. He hod been "shanghaied," and by the very men whom he had con aid ered his friends, and who bad helped him to sjtena nis last aoiiar on snore.

Marker was a young man ot too much sense to fight against a fate that held hiin in its iron grip, and, though smarting un der the great wrong that had been done him, he turned to work with the rest of the men, and lent a hand wherever it was needed. The bark was bound for Sydney, New South Wales, where, after a long and tedious passage, siie arrived. Barker, as soon as the chanoe offered it self, obtained some shore money from the Captain, permission for ball a day otr, ami then deserted the bark, as he says he had the extreme pleasure five days after, while looking from his hiding-place, of seeing theSeafoem bend her sails and put to sea. Barker wandered aronnd for over a year in Sydney, and different parts of that strange country, but with poor success pecuniarily. Returning to Sydney, be had the good fortune to be able to do a good turn one day for the first mate of the ship Sultan, bound for London.

In the course of their few days' acquaint ance, Barker related las- history to Ins new friend, who at once promised to see what he could do for him, The next day Barker be- came ono of the crew of the Sultan, wilh the ailver. and that somebody had been trying I understanding that if he was comix: tent and to poison me." I desired to stick by the ship after she arrived bo do yon suppose couid nave done Jtr" ixmuon, ne suouiu ue nuvie seconu mate. fortrot to tell yon about that. 1 or ine young sailor proved an exceiieut nanu some years past a air. has been ac- I ana the captain ana otneers aia wnat they quainted with me.

He got acquainted through a mend, and used to take me out occasionally. I found out that he has an un- clein Irelaud who is endeavoring to gain possession of Lady Seagrave' property, and 1 believe that man is going to kill me. Always before any trouble has happened we have seen him around the neighborhood, and though we have moved several times to him he always manages to dis cover us. "iou see how we are situated; we dare not unpack our furniture or lay down a carpet, for fear that man will come around and cause us to move. Why, I recognized him one night sitting on the ash-iiarrel before our door, at No.

583 F.leventh avenue, between Forty-third and Forty-fourth streets. He was disguised, and ha his face stained. Last November, while in that house, and a few days after I had seen inm around, I took a cup of tea, and al most immediately I fell down. One of tlx neighbors called a doctor, who administered entiuoies anu urougm me arouna. tut aoc tor said the symptoms were those of strycl; nine poisoning.

I was sick for four "Did this man have access to four "He came in one day disguised as a beggar, and wanted ten cents, i thought rem em be red the face, but couldn't think who i was until alter he had gone. The next time I was poisoned was at a wake. I was serving the coiiee and cakes to the guests and took mine last Before I took it a girl in the house made some excuse to get me out of the room. When I came back I drank the cof fee, and soon afterward I fell into a stupor, and did not wake up until the next day. While was lying sickt my lather over- heard another girl say to the first one: "loull get yonr money when the work's I learned afterward that the girl met this man the night of tlie wake.

Lust July I was working at dress making for a lady. was at Home one day and a German woman who lived near tu brought me some lard, saying that the lady for whom I worked had sent it to me. I thought it very strange, but thinking that the lady meant it in kindness, I took it. used some to fry potatoes for my father's dinner that day." "Waa be poisoned?" "He took sick almost immediately "Yes," said Mr. Torrey, "and I have never been well since." "Now tell tne abont the abduction." "One nicht, about six weeks aeo.

Louisa Freyborg, a neighbor's little girl, and I went to the Gospel lent services they now bold i -them in a cnurcn in iiiri j-iounn street. As we were coming home I noticed a hack on Eiehth avenue, near orty -second street. A rough kind of a fellow was driving, and fonr pretty hard-looking customers were walking on the sidewalk, keeping up to the back. I got about ball-way between Eighth and Ninth avenues, when -1 was suddenly surronnded by ruffians. Just before the at tack I heard some one say, 'If you're going to do it, now a your chance.

I turned around, but before I could scream one of them came behind me, and clasped his hands over my mouth, while another seized my hands. Two others came to tb.eir assistance. They were dragging me to the hack when a couple of gentlemen came along and they let roe go, jumped into tne veuicie ana arove on. Louise was screaming, and the gentlemen came running up. They escorted me home.

I forgot to say that before we tnrned into Fortv-second street Louise called my attcn tion to the fact that the men on the sidewalk were signaling the hack-driver, and pointing toward us. I said they were only having a little pantomime. Before the Eleventh avenue poisoning took place I waa sitting near the window when I heard the report and saw the flash of a pistol I beard the bullet strike the brick about six inches from the side of the window, and I saw where it had knocked a chip off the brick." "And you suspect this man of all these things?" 1 1" I do, because they always happen just after be has been around, and he has an in terest or bis uncle baa getting roe out the way." The girl mentioned the man's name and gave other particulars -as to his former business, Ac, by which he could be easily identified. She always named persons who hod lived in the same houses with her, who, she believed, had been employed by. him to poison her; but the publication of their i nCoa a 1 1 vwv working np the case.

Mr. William J. Best, an old friend of her has taken up the girl's case, and is sanguine of success in obtaining the property. Mr. DeWitt C.

Sprague, whom she formerly employed, offered her $30,000 for her claim. Miss Torrey tells a straight story, and it has all the appearance of truth. She hinted that the estrangement wun iMf waa caused by ber mother failing la love could to aid him in becoming proficient in his business. When the Sultan reached ker was so well pleased with the officers and the treatment be had received that he con eluded to stay by the ship, and, true to his promise, the Captain made mm second mate. The Sultan, some weeks later, sailed for Canton, China, for a cargo, of tea, and while lyine there, a revolution broke out.

The young New Yorker saw a chance for fame and wealth, and for the second time he became a deserter from his ship, but this time with discredit to himself. Barker joined tlie Imperial party, and by his bravery and tact be soon won a position in the Celestial army that gave him an the fame he desired, and put money in his purse. After three years in the Emperor's service Barker resigned, and in connection with some Americans purchased a trading vessel, and in two years he found himself a comparatively rich man. Selling out his interest in the trader he went to aan francisco, where he opened a saloon, but he did not seem to prosper in that line, and, selling out. be turned mining trader, a business that suited him better, and in which he succeeded in making some money.

The roving life he had been following, however, had unfitted Barker for any thing like commercial pursuits, and so be bought a third interest in a small brig, and once more engaged in coasting. This, however, lasted but a short time, as five weeks after the bri? was lost in a Kale of wind. Barker then went to Mexico, where he engaged in several enterprises, but none oi them seemed to suit him, and he next turned up in Texas as a cattle raiser, having bought out a small cattle ranch. He stuck to this for some time, and finally sold out and purchased a fore-and-aft schooner which he ran in the West India trade. For a while he prospered, but finally lost his schooner off the ceuar Jveys, rionua, sou aiso me greater mnroved dry-plate process, in which brom ide of ammonium and nitrate of silver are the active agents.

Probably the severest test of any of these instantaneous (so-called) methods of photography consists in obtain- ne a picture of falling drops of water; and thi Mr. Bennett has succeeded in accom plishing by photographing tlie drops of water falling from a ing and trickling over a bunch of flowers. His pictures, when ex amined under a magnifying glass, exhibit the drops of broken fluid clearly and unmis takable, and are a complete triumph of the photographer's art. They show that the rip-ile of the waves, the discharee of a gun. and even a flash of lightning are capable of being depicted upon a negative wun accuracy, thus opening np a still wider Held of useiul ness to the camera.

Fob This Occasion Oxit." Torture by thumb-screw was revived in Leipzlc the other day, "for this occasion only." In a museum there a specimen of the old instru ment of torture is preserved. A friend of one of tne omciais was looaing at it, ana observed, jesting, that the men of old must have been but feeble to have given way so readily onder -torture, adding, boastinely. that he was sure he could bear it well enongh. His friend immediately proposed wager on the trial, the noasier agreed, uie thumb-screws were orongnt oui, ntted on, and twisted two or three turns. It is said that the humiliation of Bassus, or of Mark Twains bully "Arkansas" was a joke compared with the result of the experiment THE PASITES, A Sketch tlse Ket4 Cnlef.

Orrtn Ww tmr RMkwll-Orifla ef ana Trnturfal Order That Terrible OatJs sa4 Cera-aaaalea Ialtlaliaa. Saa Francises Chrortida.1 After the names of Joseph Smith and Brig-ham Young, the first two great leaders of the Mormon movement, there was no man among the "Saints" so well known to the public as Or rin Porter Rockwell. Hhi notoriety had raised him above the titles of common address, and he was known to every body as "Fort." No book was ever written about the Rocky Mountains and Mormon-ism without some mention of "Port" and thus made is cheep (if the lemon is bought TO. Kl'lZZl at wholesale), and is quite healthy. It contains no pain, and is much sought after by indulgent mothers and young lovers.

Picnic lemonade differs from the Church Fair arti cle by having the water a little fresher. I wv- wivu waa aw mu a acu sa viiv notorions Danite, listened to his squeaking, whining voice, or been startled by his wild. peculiar yen when ne bad on board bis quantum of distillation. To the brethren at home and to the etranirer from abroad. Port" was an institution of Utah.

The Territory was historically incomplete without him. He was in no sense a leader. had no following, but he knew every body. had many friends, yet no associations. Utterly ignorant of books, with difficulty could write his name, vet in his sober mo ments he was not destitute of rood manners and could even be gallant to the fair sex.

He was not a boorish, rough-fistsd murderer; be was only a professional executor ot the Lord's will. As such he viewed himself, and considered that he disgraced no company where he visited, and those who knew him beet looked at him in that light. The intellectual among the Mormons, by a system of lotno peculiar to Utah, worked themselves to the conclusion that he had his mission and was useful, and so to be tolerated the ignorant among them viewed him with admiration for his fidelity to the "Prophets" and envied him for the favor "the Lord" had shown him in being "selected to do His work." Whatever mny have boen the commence- mentof Morinonism dreama, visions, angels and hallucination of the mind, ambition. plan, imposition, fraud or any thimr else it is certain that its founder. Smith, very early cuaixeti out a programme ot which the acquisition of worldly wealth was a dominant feature.

His revelations and in spirational utterances impressed bis fol lowers and himself possibly that he was to "restore the kingdom to Israel." and to that noint. after his fashion of viewing it, he subordinated every mind thatraroe under his influence. O. P. Rockwell was but a few months voumrer than the Prophet, grew up with him.

they as boys working together in the same countr in the State of New York, and, notwithstanding tiie related deniuls of the Mormons of later times, were "money dutirers" together searching for the concealed' treasures of Captain Kidd and other buried valuables, the story of which forever buunted the minds of the adventurous in that part of the States half a century oco. With the assumed dis covery of the golden plates of the Book of Aiornion liocaweii was early familiar, and with the profession of the faith springing therefrom he was one of the first disciiles. being initiated into Smith's new Church on the day of its organization in 1830, and from that time nearly fifty years to the hour of his death last Sunday he was its willing slave. Smith's dream of founding pn Kmpire in the West took him to Missouri, then the Far Acst" of the United States, and there began practical Dunitisin. THE OBlOIJf or TUX DAKITCS.

The citisens of Carroll and Daviesa Coun ties disliked the Mormon predictions that "the Saints shall itousesa the earth." and became restive under the thought that "the Lord was going to sweep them off the face of the earth, in order to leave their rich soil and lovely country of forests and rivers to the young Saints," aud so the "ungodly" soon quarreled with "the Lord's anointed." and guve unmistakable evidence that they were imeuitent listeners to modem revelations. They first took umbrage at words, quarreled, resorted to hostilities, and very soon both classes believers and unbelievers were up in arms, and dealing destruction around Houses were burned, farm were desolated, cattle were stolen, and not a few of both saints and sinners' were suddenly sent from this troublesome world. In that hour of Jeril, when the earth and the heavens were at war, no means could be neglected that gave promise of bringing "tlie Lord" off victorious, and as the fire had to be fought with fire, the Prophet had to select his trustiest friends to lielo him. and with these an organization was effected under the expressive designation of the "Death So ciety." The general character of the duties at first was defensive; but it was soon discovered that it was as necessary to attack, and so, with the usual habits of BiblicUts, a text was sought lor and one was found in Micah 13, which was extremely clear in defining the work to be done: "Arise, and thresh, daughter of Zion; for I will make tby horn iron, and thy hoofs brass; and thou slialt beat in pieces many people; and I will consecrate their gain unto the Lord, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth." This was admirable encouragement, and the brethren of this secret order were thereafter styled the "Daughters of Zion" a rather awkward designation for long-bearded, unshaven faces. This title was soon turned into ridicule; and the "Destroying Angels" was thought to be nearer the mark.

Another attempt was made to find- a better, and the "Bin Fan" was substituted. They were to be threshers that "should thoroughly purge the floors." a thought which no doubt gave to Rock well the expression which he has made so famous: "Wheat all wheat." The "Bie part of his little fortune which was invested I Fan," however, was not destined to Jive in ai I i i in the canto. Barker next joined an enterprising xan- kee. and they tried their hands at orange- raiung, but the work waa rather slow, and after three seasons of hard work and httle profit Barker went to New Orleans, where he obtained the position of second mate of a Liverpool ship. From Liverpool he went back to San rancisco ana once more tnea his hand at coasting, but competition was so great that but little was to be made at it, and so he joined hands with an old acquaintance and opened another saloon.

This time he succeeded better, and after making a few thousand dollars be sold ont his interest in the saloon to his partner. In all these years narker nad never let nis family or mends know oi nis wnereaoouis. and they mourned him as dead. When he sold out his saloon, however, he determined to visit his home once more. Going nrst to New Orleans on some business, be arrived.

as stated above, In thia citvon Thursday last, anu ten at nigm ior uii nuuiv in mo wuu try. A friend of the wanderer stated to a Dispatch reporter that Barker was the heir to a property valued at A very remarkable improvement in in stantaneous photography, says the London Echo, has been recently introduced by Mr. Bennett a discovery wnicn promises to practical history, and so Genesis 17, furnished the name that has since become so famous: "Dan shall be a serpent by the way. an adder in the path, that biteth the horse's heels, so that his rider shall fall backward." Never was a sentiment more expressive of tne wort tne moaern "sons ot wan" had to perform they have been adders in the path to many an apostate and offensive Gentile. THE OATHS.

One who claims to have been familiar with the Order of Danitism furnishes the follow ing as the text that bound the Avengers to gether: in the name of Jesus Christ, the son of God, I do covenant and agree to support the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in all things, right or wrong; 1 will taitniuuy guard them and re- Tn nnrftiM tna fntiMrinff rmth or I his courage well tiD but In the revolution anlsmnlT xlmirufiirMl ta him I irr Work that has been ing OH there for by the Grand Master or his representative: I the last ten years men like Porter Rockwell In the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of had gaod reasons lor apprenenaing wie nnw nrnmiiu mnA swear tmtv th- I in ttt a rlnv of indarnen ven i this mnn- fully, and without reserve, that I will serve jdane sphere. There is every evidence that the Lord with a perfect heart and a willing he realized that his life was in jeopardy from xuiiia. aeuicauuK lujseii wnuny ana unru ine evidence wu. ic iWvv- aervedly, in my person and effects, to the upbuilding of His kingdom on earth, according to His revealed wilh. I further more promise and swear that I will regard the first President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, as the supreme bead of the Church on earth, and obey ntm the same as We Supreme God in all written revelations, given under the solemnities of a 'Thus saith the and that I will al ways uphold the Presidency, right or wrong.

I furthermore promise and swear that I will never touch a daughter of Adam unless she is given me ol tne jxra. lurtner- more promise end swear that no Gentile shall ever be to the secrets of this tuticai. or participate in Its blessings. I fur thermore promise and swear that I will assist the Daughter of Zion in the utter destruction of apostates, and that I will assist in setting up the kingdom of Daniel in these last days, by the power of the Highest and tne sword ot ins might, furthermore promise and swear that I will never communicate the secrets of this degree to any person in the known world, except it be to a true and lawful brother, binding myself under no less a penalty than that of having melted lead poured into my ear. So help me uod, and Keep me laitntui.

THE DAK1TX CHIEF. The head of the first secret Order in Missouri was David Patten, one of the Twelve Apostles, a men who was very much esteemed by his coreligionists. He was killed in one of the first conflicts in Missouri, and it was many years afterward that the subject of this sketch was to that distinguished position. for the reader must bear in mind that such an office is not to be conferred upon com mon clay. To men only who hare been tried, "summered and wintered" and found true, even to death, is such an honor ottered The first step to "Port's" elevation was the attempt to assassinate Governor Tilburn W.

Bonus, of Missouri, in 1841. The Mormons had been driven from that State in 1838-3'J. and had suffered the loss of every thing they possessed, and many men, women and chil dren perished from sheer want and exposure. On one occasion about a score of the Mor mons were literally butchered in a smithy. where they had ned for salety from a pur suing raob.

it was no nght, it was a mas sacre, from the infant babe to the totterinc. white-haired, feeble old patriarch. It em bittered every soul that escaped with a deadly hate against Missouri and her Gov' ernor. Smith and his friends were captured. tried by Court-martial, and ordered to be shot in the presonee of their families.

One of the cnief officers, command ing a division of the militia, dissented from the judgment of the Court and withdrew his command, and that incident saved the Prophet's life. He was afterward sent to priwin, escaped, fonnd shelter in Illinois, and, burning with revenge, he, there can be little doubt of it, planned the assassination of the Governor of Missouri, and Porter that occasion. "Port was a iiiHniticeut shot with cither rifle or revolver. He made an excellent "angel" of death; but between the end of his rifle and the Governor's head some common twisted window-glass inter vened, and so the point of sight was inaccu rate, instead of reaching the center of tlie head, the shot went scattering toward the base of the skull, and, though seriously wounded, His Excellency so far recovered as to cross the plains in after years and make his residence in the southern part of this State, where some years ago he died. "Port" was, a year or so after that, arrested with his Prophet on this charge, but he was able to prove an alibi, as he was seven miles distant from the place, thanks to a good relay of i.

i.1 uumo, niKi du ug I rum tuab lljllt; to the death of the Prophet, in 1844, "Port1 was his bosom friend, shield and buckler, ana, to mam in tho highest degree his appreciation of his service, the Prophet dubbed him his Samson," snd promised him if no Delilah's scissors should get to his waving locks from that time the deadly ball or knife of his enemies should pass turn bv and he would escape untouched. "Fort" obeyed the instruction, plaited his hair and twisted it round his head, something after the fash ion of a Chinaman's cue, and the Prophet of course, kept his promise, and "Port" went to his grave "without a hole in his gar ments. HIS MrHPF.KS OS TUB PLA1XS. There ia no use in trying to figure and sum up the whole of the victims who fell before this distinguished Danite. He was a "swift messenger of destruction," and no one ever fled before him who did not realize tiiat death was certain.

Bitterness seldom or never entered into his business; it was sim ply duty, and he saw no impropriety in eating or drinking with the doomed a minute before his kecu eye sighted his deadly re volver or rifle such is the vile creed of Danitism. No mattter what his relations might be with any doomed man or woman, "the Lord's will" expVesscd through a su perior is all that is necessary to be known, and there is no escape, more could be no witness to the detd; but it is as morally cer tain as ever unseen deed was sure that in the summer of 1857 Almon W. Babbitt, tlie Federal Secretary of tlie Territory, and his traveling companion and teamster were killed by Rockwell and his aids between Fort Kearney and Ash Hollow as they were proceeding to Utah, and on the same day. or the following day, the same party under Rockwell killed Elders Margctts una coway, tneir wives ana cowdy child They hail done nothing to hurt or even of fend Rockwell probably he was personally friendly witu mem; out that changed in nothing his duty. A high Church diimitarv was on the plains who had the right to coun sel Port, and as Babbitt was in spirit and in actions at that tune opposed to Brigham.

and Cowdy and Margetts were leaving the Church, and would do it injury abroad, it was better that they should be "attacked by Indians" and "full by the way." Soon after his return to Utah, and the Territory was put under martial law, the crime was committed, for which he was indicted by the Grand Jnry, and for which he would have been tried at the next session of the District port to them the acts of all men, as far as in I Court in September next. So recently has my power lies; I will assist in executing all the decrees of the First President, Patriarch or President of the Twelve; and that I will cause all who speak evil of the Presidency or beads ot the Church to die the death of dis senters or apo6tates, unless they speedily confess and repent, for pestilence, persecu tion and death shall follow the enemies of Zion. I will be a swift herald of salvation and messenger of. peace to the saints, and I will never make known the secret purposes of this Society, called the Destroying Angels, my life being the forfeiture in a fire of vastly increase the capabilities of the art of I burning tar and brimstone. So help me God the camera, it is, as mignt De expected, an i the recital of themnrderof the Aitken broth ers been given to the public that it need only be said in passing that the Aitkens were ou their way from California to meet the United States army in 1858 on its way to Utah.

Trumped up charges were made against them four men in all; they were arrested and then ordered to return to California by the southern route; Porter started to escort them out of the Territory. For deception, treachery and cold-blooded murder there is nothing in bad Western life to compare with that vile deed; and the only thing now regretable is that Rockwell and keep me steadfast' I died too soon, for there is no question that The same authority relates tnat tne cere-1 his guilt could nave Been fully established, monies ot initiation were in perfect keeping I and such on example aa the public execu- with the general absurdity of the new dis pensation, and with the mission of Smith for the "restoration" of the "ancient order of things." The lodge-room is carefully prepared and consecrated, and from twelve to twenty-four sprigs of cassia, olive branches, cedar boughs or other evergreens, were tastefully arranged about it. These were intended to represent the eternal life and un-mincled bliss which, in the celestial king dom, will be enjoyed by all who continue in full fellowship Lodge." The aspiring candidate for "holy oders" obtains admission into this sanctified body in the following manner: He is stripped naked and blindfolded is then brought into the lodge-room, and in that state is conducted round so that all the members of the lodge may be satisfied by personal inspection that be is a fit subject for their au gust association, and that he possesses the qualifications required in Deuterono my, twenty-third chapter and nrst verse. bile the candidate is passing round the room in thia ridiculous and degrading condition, the roost excellent Grand Master is repeating: "I will bring the blind by a way that they know not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them." When the candidate has passed satisfactorily this queer examination, he is brought to the altar, before which he is made to kneel tion of Porter Rockwell, soon after the exe cution of John D.

Lee, would have been a salutary lesson to the Danites who still hold sway in Utah. Besides the officially ordered assassinations there are many others that could be named put, singular as it may seem, among all bis vicious life and the deeds of blood with which his name has been associated, there is only one crime cnargeabie to ms own per sonal account the shooting of a teamster whom he alleged attacked him first at a roadside drinking-place, and later in the day refused to let him pass on the publio road. Court: hut another and worse fear probably haunted him he had reasons for fearing his brethren. So lonir as Brisham protected Lee, the leader in the Mountain Meadows massacre, Lee was safe, but as soon as it was policy to sacrifice Lee he was Bhot. Porter fully realised that his day of usefulness was over, and that there was no wisn on tue yan of theChoxch authorities to have another batch of confessions from him.

such as Lee had given to the world. At his death Rockwell was seventy-two years of age. He never had been a polyga- mist, hut was thrice a widower, and leaves auite a nnmber of chil- admitted I dren. on whom unfortunately a blemished holy insti- I name must fall. As a citizen, apart from his Danitism and later intemperance, ne was well liked bv the "b'hovs." He was honest and truthful in business, and could be trusted with (iiit nnmnnt.

nf Trnnrtv. lie lived a great portion of his time on horseback, and was the possessor of large herds of horses. He lived and died a fanatic, and exhibited in his peculiar life to what dangers the human mind is subicct when the restraining in fluences of the world's morality are trampled in the dust. From the information imparted to us from one who admits that he was familiar with Bock well, knew much of his private thoughts within the last few years, and who, we have reason for thinking, was himself a Danite, we are told that the suc-cessorship to Bockwell was disposed of some years ago, and that it rests on the shoulders of a distinguished member of the police force of Salt Lake. Among the members of the Order there are civil as well ns ecclesiastical dignitaries, who are little suspected of that association.

These "gentlemen," of course, do not sou their haniU with gore, but they are there to giTe direction to the machinery that still is efficient and ready to do service to the Kingdom. A DAJffJEKOL'S DUCHESS. Tha neaatlfal CaallIi the ImiH-rial palace. 1 aaa Jtapa lean HI. financed Opinion.

A Corsican, the Chief of the late Emperor Napoleon's Secret Guard, relates the following episode: Shortly after the marriage of Nujiolt'on III. and tlie Countess Lugcnie cle Moutijo the papers announced the arrival in Paris of nn Italian lady of wondrous beaiity. The "tilded youth" of the Capital with impetuous haste to leave their cards at the Hotel Beauvau. the residence of the magnificent DuclveKse Castiglinni, for that was the incoiutmrabie creature's name. For a single word thev were prepared to ruin themselves; for one touch of her tajer fingers they were ready to kill themsclve or each other.

The Director of the opera. the managers of theaters, placed their most luxurious boxes nt the service of la UUe Cas- tiglioni; Ministers and great dignitaries of fered her their salons; the Court sent her a tabouret, and this compliment was the only one the superb Duchesse deigned to accept I. Her entrance into the ball-room made a tremendous sensation. The dancers stopped dancing, the orchestra forgot to pluy. The Kcntlemen stared ami the ladies pretended not to look, lhe JCni press alone Kept her presence of mind.

Oracclully risimr she gave theDuchesse her hand, and, leading her toward the throne, signed to her charming guest to be seateil on the tabouret, which hud been specialty placed for her. Then the band struck up a waltz, and the Emperor. who could not keep his eyes oil l.a astig- lioni, begging the Grand Duke Ernst of Saxe- Cohurg, to step a measure with the Empress, gallantly ollered his hand to the fair Italian, and the next moment they were minglini; with the whirling throng. After a few turns N)oleoii proposed a promenade, and the pair walked slowly round the room, gayly conversing, while tne others waltzed lhe next dav, as we returned from the Bois do. Boulogne, General Fleury told me to be in wailing in the Salon de Service that evening at eight clock.

As he spoke to me had sucli a rush ot blood to the eyes that 1 was forced to close them for a moment with my hand, (lhe amiable Corsican was sir IM-rstitious, had presentiments, believed in talismans, and whenever murder was in the air he never foiled to be apprised of the fact bv this omtdous warning). According to the Emperor's orders, I presented myself in the salon, but a little ociore the time fixed. His Majesty seeing me so early, asked if there was any thing new'. ro, hire, 1 only wished to know whither we are no if, 'And why, asked the Liuperor, curiously eyeing me. 'Because this night something will hap pen.

As 1 made this remarK 1- lenry came, and we set off Napoleon. Fieury and myself. As we went into the Hotel Beauvau, and just as 1 put my loot on the hrst step ot tlie stair case, 1 sihko these words to Al. leury: "Look out, General, we are in the house of an Italian I was the last, and as we came on the 1 und ine I stepped aside into the shade, while a woman servant showed the Emperor and his aid-de-camp into the salon. When the ser vant had done this she closed the door, and.

after walking a few paces across the corridor. clapped her hands three times, lhe same instant a man emerged, I know not from where, and advanced softly toward the salon. He carried something in bis hand. Before he reached the door he was a dead man a dagger stroke, dealt from behind had pierced his heart. The shock oftthe body falling uion the floor and the cries of the domestic brought General Fleury to the spot.

He saw at a glunce what had happened, and. while he locked the servant up in the house maid closet, 1 dragged the corpse into an adjacent room. Making a sign to me to remain, the Emperor and tho Aid-de-Carap hurried from the honse. Directly afterward the former returned, bringing with him two carriages and the secret agent Zambo. Into one of the vehicles were thrust the dead body ami the servant, and intrusted to the care of the agent.

The General and taking with us the cmchesse, entered tho other. A few minutes later 1 was summoned to the Tuileries. I found "Napoleon in his cabinet, leaning heavily on a table, his head between bis liands. He regarded me gravely. saying in a tone of reproach What I more uiooa i now do you know that the poor devil whom you have iust tinea was not the servant sweethearts Servants' sweethearts do not generally carry such recommendations as these," I re- Elied, laying on the table before him a four-nrreled revolver and a poinard with a poisoned blade.

His Majesty examined the weapons attent ively, especially the poisoned dagger, and. after making me a present of francs, told me to inform Pictri of all that had hap pened. The Ducbesse de Castiglioni was es corted to tne Italian frontier, and betook herself immediately to Milan. From this city she wrote angrily to the Emperor, pjesent. -Bird According to the dictum uttered, or sup posed to have been Uttered, bv one at our Pnri" Hiw his nistol and soon msda room I leading ornithologists: 'The worst use you 1 j.

for his horse to pass by without interference. Whether from remorse or from any other cause, soon after the murder of this teamster Rockwell betook to drinking intemperately i i i i ana inatuging in a recaiesa, urawiiug me. Of late years he became a perfect nuisance to the public in Salt Lake, and when in his cups his yells up and down the streets were perfectly wild and hideous. For a long time lie was tenderly handled by the police, but they were forced by public sentiment to deal sternly with him, notwithstanding the very valuable services he had rendered in past years, and on several occasions the Danite chief adorned the epartmenta of the Civ Prisom- HIS FKAB OT SKATH. The excitement under which a man of this stamp most have lived in the first years of his crime no doubt contributed to keep can make ot a bird is to stun it," and in I nineteen cases out of twenty this saying is true, for, from a real naturalist's point of view, comparatively little can be got from I the staffed and mounted specimen, not only of a bird, bnt of almost any other animal.

Nevertheless, there is a very large class of persons who are not real naturalists, and to them the skin of a beast, bird, reptile or fish, duly prepared and embellished with glass eyes, stack up with wire through its legs, in a glazed box, and surrounded by imitation foliage, dried and dyed herbage, is a joy forever, though, perhaps, not even to them a thing of beauty. Sib Hejtbt Thompson has shown how, by a careful use of the microphone, diseased bone, ballets or other foreign substances can be de tected In the human body. THE HTSTEEIOrS BAREIAGE. A Strange Story of tae Elgfeteeatk Cea- tarr. One nicht In the early part of the eigh- sat in his solitary chamber, lost in devotional meditation.

The hour was nenr midnight. His house was situated at the furthest extremity of the village, and the sim- Sle inhabitants knew so little of mistrust or ishonesty, thatbolts and locks were alike strangers to them, and every door remained either opened or without fastening. The pastor's lamp burned dim, the solemn stillness of the hour was only interrupted by the murmuring of the waves, and the pale moonbeams were reflected on the surface of the ocean, when he suddenly heard his house door open, and heavy steps ascend his stairs, and he naturally expected a call to the Bick bed of some of his parishioners to afford the last spiritual consolations, when two strange men entered his apartments, their faces concealed in lanje white clonks. One of them advanced and said to him very courteously: "Reverend sir, be good enough to follow us immediately. We want you to perform a marriage ceremony, ana me nnuai iair already await you in thechurch.

This sum," continued hp, taking a purse from his breast, will reward you tor yonr trouble ana ior disturbing you at this unseasonable hour. Silent and frightened the oia man re garded his visitors, who seemed to him to have something strange and even unearthly in their appearance. The stranger repeated his invitation in a commanding and threat ening tone. When the old man had recovered himself a little, he began in a mild manner to remonstrate, and told bun that his sacred office did not allow him to perform the solemn ceremony of marriage without knowledge of the individuals themselves, and complying with such other formalities as the law directed. "Reverend sir," said the other man, stepping forward in a threatening manner, "you have the choice to follow us and take the sum of money offered to you, or remain here with a pistol-bulletin your brain." With that he held a pistol to the old man's head and waited his answer.

The old pastor grew pale, rose up silent and trembling, ana hastily clothing himself in his robes, said: "I am ready, gentlemen. The strangers had spoken in Danish, tmt with such a foreitrn accent as could not le the church the bewildered old man. with fear and astonishment, saw it brilliantly lighted up, and his companions hastened across the low sandy flats which intervened between it and the village, still concealed in theirwhite mantles, wlule, with his limhs palsied with axe and fright, he with difficulty strove to keep up with them. When they reached the church they blindfolded his eyes. The (to the pastor) well-known side door opened at their approach, grating on its hinges, and he found himself then thrust forward into the church, which appeared filled with a great multitude.

All around him lie heard a muttering and sound Kockwell was to be the destroying angel of i. of many voices in a tongue unknown to him. id the i the And as lie stood amid multitude with blind folded eyes, puzzled, and not knowing what was about to happen, he felt his hand seized, and was pulled with considerable violence through the crowd. At last, as well as he could judge, the throng was thrust aside. They loosed the bandage from his eyes, and he recognized by his side one of his former companions, and found himself standing before the altar, which was lit up by a row of wax lights, burning in splendid silver candlesticks, aud the.

church itself was so completely illuminated by -'numerous lights, that the most distant object could be plainly discerned; and as, when he was thrust blindfolded amid the crowd, the noise had terri fied him. so now his soul was struck with as tonishment and horror at the dead silence that prevailed. Although the side aisles and benches of the church were densely crowded, yet the center ai.slo was quite empty, and the pastor perceived oiiened in it a ncwi v-inade trave. The stone which had covered it was placed leaning against one of the icws. The pastor saw none aliout him but men, but he thought ic could distinguish one female form in one of tlie most distant pews.

The stillness lasted some minutes without any one attempting to break it, just as in the human soul a still, gloomy brooding of the thoughts generally precedes some deed of crime. At last a man rose up whose noble appear ance distinguished him from the rest of the assemblage, and betrayed his hiirh rank. He stepped quickly through the empty aisle, while the multitude silently gazed at him as his steps resounded through the church. This man was of middle height, and stoutly built, ot a most proud ana naughty car riage, his complexion was very dark, raven black hair and a high aqui line nose gave a very commanding expression to his couuier.ance; while long and bushy eyelashes overshadowed his small black eyes, which appeared to gleam with wild passions. He ivas dressed In a magnificent green suit, richly embroidered with gold, and on his breast glittered a star.

lhe bride who knelt near him was most carefully and even sumptuously attired. A dress of sky blue satin, embroidered with sil ver, enveloped her slender form, and hung in large folds of drapery over her eraceful limbs. A diadem, blading with magnificent diamonds, adorned her golden hair. The highest grace and beauty could be traced in her face, disfigured as it wai by terror. Her bloodless features seemed immovably fixed: her pale lips appearing death-like her eyes nan eiosea and ner powerless arms droo(ed helpless on her halt-sinking body.

So she knelt, a picture of death, an indescribable fear and paralyzing horror appearing to freeze both life and consciousness into the semblance of deep sleep. ino pastor men, tor the nrst lime, per ceived a nateiui-iooking oia woman, dressed answer him, to bis great astonishment the latter spoke out "ies" in an almost scream ing tone, which resounded through the church. Deep sobs bursting out simulta neously from the crowd accompanied this exclamation, and a visible emotion, transient as the distant lightning flash, appeared to pass over the almost emotionless features of the bride. The old man then turned himself, speaking louder, to the bride, as if he wished to wake ber from her deathlike lethargy, wlule. he said, "Wilt thou, Feodora, take that man kneel ing beside thee lor thy husband, and honor him as such? If so, answer me in the affirmative." Then the lifeless bride appeared to waken up, a deep and awful shudder appeared to move her pale features, her bloodless lips moved, and a quick transient tire sparkled in ber eyes, her bosom heaved, while a plentiful flood of tears ex tinguished tfce momentary sparkle of her eyes, and the word "i'es" was heard like the last word ot a dying Boul.

and appeared tn find an echo in tbe-unrepressed cry of sorrow which simultaneously burst from all present. The bride sank exhausted into the arms of the old woman behind her, and relapsed into her former state of insensibility, and so the ceremony ended. The the old woman and the gigantic man followed them. The pastor's tint conductors then appeared agnfn and blindfolded hie eyes as before, and led him, not -without some trouble, through tne cmwa, mni having pushed him rudely through the aide bng pushed aim rtweiy ti.rou.. teenth century the old and respected rtor oTthe "nag? ofXo in land, on the Here he remained for some time l-ewil-dered and confused, uncertain whether all he had iust witnessed was not a dream.

But when he had torn the Imndnge off his eyes, and he saw the church before him, etill lighted np, and heard the noise of the jx-ople within it continue, he felt convinced of the reality of the mysterious event he had beeti an actor in. In order to observe as much aa possible the conclusion of the strange scene, he concealed himself in a corner of the porch, and anxiously listened, as every mo-inpnt tlio nnlso within became louder and louder. It seemed as if a warm strife had arisen; he thought he could distinguish tha rough voice of the bridegroom, who load! commanded silence. Then followed a Ions Iunc, which was succeeded by the piercing scream of a feni lie voice. After thnt another silence, and then a voice of loud lamentations, which lasted nearly a quarter of ae.

hour. The lights wore then suddenly extin guished, the confused noise of the crowd again heard, and the whole multitude ramii streaming out of the church, and hastened noisily down to the sea-shore. After a little while the pastor crept out ol his hiding-place, ami hnstened to the village. He then awoke his friends and neighbors. and.

still laboring under the effect of hi. fright, related to them all that had occurredaall. But so peaceful, still and monotonous. wbK a the usual course of events in the community, that on alurm of quite a different nattm taa seised, on them. They lelieved their respected pastor hud lost his senses, and it not without some trouble that he at Inst VT t0m.

suaded some of them toacconipany him with(ei pickaxes and shovels, and follow him to th jj church. B(j. In the mean time the night had away and the sun had apiwared; and as th'mn. pastor and his companions ascended the hili on which the church stood they saw a ship in full sail leave the shore and steer in a northerly direction. Such an unusual sighs in such a solitary neighlorhood made them a little more inclined to credit the old man's story, and it was fully confirmed when they found the church door had been forcibly broken open.

Full of curiosity, they entered the church, and tha mistaken. The mysterious men went silently pastor pointed out to theni lie grave which through the village, buried as it was in slum- be had seen open during the night. It wan ber. and tlie pastor followed them. It was a Pived that the storto had Wen dark night in autumn, and the moon had already irone down.

When they apprtmched lately and the tools they had brought with theui soon enabled them again to remove it, and in the open grave was found a new and richly decorated coffin. With almost youthful impatience the old man descended into the grave others fol lowed him and the pus tor soon found his horrible fore 1 Hidings confirmed. In the coffin lay the form of the murdered bride. The magnificent diadem was gone, and a pistol bullet had apparently been discharged through her heart. The traces of grief ami horror were vanished from her features, which now wore a placid smile of almost heavenly expression, and she lay there an angel.

Tiie old man threw himself down weeping beside the colli and deep wonder, horror and astonishment seized all tlie beholders. The pastor found himself in duty com pelJed to report this strange occurrence ti the Bishop of Zealand, and before he went for the purpose to Copenhagen, be requested his parishioners on no account to mention what had occurred. The grave was again covered up, and no one ventured again to speak of tiie matter. A short time afterward a man of high rank arrived at the village from the seat of Government, desired them to show him the grave, and commended the pastor's prudence in preserving silence about the matter; he ordered the whole affair to be. kept as private as odsible, and threatened any one who dared to speak on the subject with the highest displeasure of the authorities.

After the death of his pastor, among hit Iapers was found a detailed account of the transaction attached to the church records. Home believed that it was in some way connected with events which occurred in Russia, in the period between the death of Peter the Great and that of the Emprets Catharine. It is hard, and, indeed, impox- sible, to satisfactorily explain this dark and mysterious occurrence; but the very rongh and brutal manner of the Russian nobility of the highest rank, and even of the Ini. erial family of that period, render it probable thut some of them were concerned in this tragedy, of which the victim is supposed to have been a Princess of Cotirlnnd, and the principal uctor a grandson of Peter tlie Great. A.

Monkey try. One of the best monkey stories we have seen is contained in London Nature. A brave, active, intelligent terrier, belc'eg to a lady, one day discovered a monkev be longing to an itinerant organ-grinder, seated upon a bank within the grounds, and at onco made a dash for him. The monkey, who was attired in jacket and hat, awaited the onset with such undisturbed tranquillity that the dog halted within a few feet of him to reconnoitcr. Both animals took a long, steady stare at each other, but the dog evidently was recovering from his surprise, and about to make a spring for the intruder.

At this critical'junct ure tlie monkey, who had remained perfectly quiet hitherto, raided hit paw and gracefully saluted by lifting his hat. The effect was magical the dog's head and tail dropped, and he siieaked oil and entered the house, refusing to leave it until he was satisfied that his polite but mysterious guest had departed. Ills whole demeanor ehowet' plainly that he felt the monkey was sometlii thing1 With. uncanny," and not to be meddled Aa AUIgnter's Mwl, ILake City Fla.) Kepotter.) On the 31st ult, while some of the hand( were going to their work In the Held of Col onel McLeod. adjoining town, they discov- in a fantastical costume, and her head cov- a verv lBrKe alligator making its way to ered with a red turban, who grimly and even I Hamburg Lake.

Colonel McLeod fired butU scornfully regarded tlie kneeling pair. Be hind the bridegroom, a man of gigantic stature and dark, forbidding countenance. had placed himself, who, standins there immovable as a statue, glanced round him in a fixed and earnest manner. The pastor, paralyzed with fright, remained for some time as if struck dumb, until a savage glance from the bridegroom woke Id in from his trance. What now puzzled him was the uncertainty whether the bridal pair could understand his language.

This appeared to him improbable: however, com posing himself, he ventured to ask the names of tlie bride and bridegroom. "Neander, Feodora," answe red the latte in a rough voice. The pastor now begins to read the form of the marriage ceremony, and as his voice faltered and be made many blunders in the reading, which the bridal pair did not seem to remark, his suspicion was confirmed that they did not understand his language. But when he asked: "Neander, wi it thou take Feodora, now kneeling beside thee, for thy weauea wiier- sua ne aouutea whether the threatening that if she were not allowed to I bridegroom, ignorant of his language, could return to Paris she would make revelations. A fortnight after the.

receipt of this letter at the Tuileries, the beautiful Dachesse gave a splendid entertainment at the Hotel Beau- vau, at which all tne elite ot the capital were barrels ol a shot-gun, loaded with buckshot. Tt into his neck. Then a field hoe was brought up, but the first blow shivered the stout Pine helve. An ax was then brought, with hich he was killed. An examination showed that It had feastod upon a hog's head, a turtle, and about a peck of blackberries.

Though but fifteen feet in length, it was the largest ever killed in this part of Florida, in, the lakes or fresh water streams. The buckshot did not penetrate the skin. No one that we have met ever knew before that alii-gators were fond of blackberries, and how one can manage to pick the berries is still a mystery. An Eeeentrle Partner. New Britaina Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, contains an eccentric old farmer by the name of Elias Black, who believes in keeping every thing on his piece.

-He has not sold any thing for yeun, never thrashes more grain than he can use. and tha' rest is allowed to stand in the steaks for mic4 and vermin to feed on. One field of about four acres is literally covered with stacks, some of them fully fifteen years old. Over two hundred stacks may be counted on the place. It is the most novel sight ever witnessed on a farm to see hundreds of stacks all closely huddled together, reminding one of the pictures of an Indian loage or an African araaj.

Thx Chinese have a habit of carrying alcoholic drinks about with them in the form of powder, called Kiu-tsu, for the preparation of which certain manufacturers have obtained great celebrity. The powder is made from wheat or barley, with or without certain aromatic herbs, which has been mb- i'ected to fermentation and then pulverized, ticeisalso used to make a liquor after a similar process. A spoonful of the powder mixed with water gives a drink which ii i greatly in request in the Flowery Land. Good brandy in thia form would be invaluable in a campaign. Th first piano manufactured in the United States is believed to have been made bv John Belmont, of Philadelphia, in 1770.

'( 'Lie leering was established here in 1820, and Stein-way's house dates from lis.53. Up to most pianofortes in New York bore on their plates the name of J. J. Astor, having been im ported by the original John Jacob Aktot pnuifeeTooiii rose ud ana nan th ir ug (mm T.o,i..-rt.i i- i from Broad wood 'J mm. AVMAWVlA Vi VIVlULUkl.

Ul fnm jif Mia KnH A il ll AW frm nm 1 ill' vuici (late, auj ouiur Qj uuua axe yet in oiu house a. -A i.