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VOL. 49.
HUNT^GDON, PA., WEDNESDAY,  MAY 18, 1871.
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A Dream.
nv J. \v. TVELcn.
The last faint beams of day Had laded from the distant hills, And twilijrbt her soft mantle Threw o'er the silent vale.    Ere Ihe ebon form Of night sat enthroned upon
Their highest peaks, I hied me to my lowly pallet In Morpheus' arms my .sorrows to forget. Ere that my tired form had long The trivial'comfort known. I sank Unconscious in the drowsy god's embrace.
I slept.
.And lo ! I dreamed that time's unceasing wheel,
llevcrscd, revolved amid the mystic scenes
Which gleam from history's ponderous page;
Back, back, until the dial stood
With finger pointing to the eventful hour
When freedom"s first faint ravs illumed
The hearts of fair Columbia's sons.
When dread oppression stalked in hideous
Form across this goodly land, and crushed,
^Vilh iri>n bed, the first uprising
Of her power.
Jletbought I saw. Convened upon a sunny slope, lighted By the golden hues transmitted From the morning sun a patriotic band: From out their faces shone Ihe scintillations Of a .soul aglow with love of home And home's endearments.    Fierce determination Sat upon each swarthy brow and ruled Each lion heart.   Thev spoke of countless insults. Heaped upou their writhing souls, by Britian's Haughty  King.    -And   as  the  surging  of   their
quenchless Wrath, vied with Jove's convulsive thunders, Rethought there came a rush in gas of a mighty wind, And from Ihe sympathizing Heavens came a mighty Angel, bearing in his hand a banner striped Vi'itb varied hues.    ?Iy trembling: soul a draught Of joy imbibed, ns to tho morning breeze He flung the banner dear that erst o'er fair Columbia's battlements did proudly float; And jiointing to its undulating folds The messenger of God's high favor Thus its colors did explain :
The red, symbolic Of the crimson tide which yet shall lave The valleys of this infant continent. Preeminence assume on this insuperable
Standard.    The white, of purity unsullied.
Speaks, and tells a nation, struggling
In oppression's grasp, that long as she her voice
Shall raise against despotism's power,
The dauntless son of God sh.all lead
Her army's van.
The blue declares
That long ns trno fidelity shall grace the hearts
01 those who baltle in hor righteous cause.
No power on earth shall ever wrest
This glorious banner from its place upon the dome,
Of freedom's citadel.
No miscreant hand shall dare defile
Its sacred folds.    No humid gale,
From death's unfathomable chambers,
Shall ever blur ils matchless tints,
Or hurl it from ils regal throne,
To lot amid the niistv vapors
Of dark oblivion.    A'nd now, this ensign.
Born whore life's pure fount unceasing pours
Its waters down the ever-verdant vales,
Giving sustenance to flowers whose fragrance
Fill elysinn uir with sweet perfumes
Unknown to earth, I thus present lo you:
Brave defenders of a princiidc
Fraught with jiower; and destined
Ere the earth a thousand revolutions
Make, to bear upon its scarred breast
The nations of the world.
Then one, whose heart As Ftnel was Irne, advanced, And bowing low, until his lips The emerald carpet pressed. Received the banner from the banil of him Who bore it from the skies ; .And, gathering 'neath its beauteous folds, Thev vowed that ere it kiss tho dust Their blood, like mountain rivulets. Should flow.
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LOVE m mm.
V.i   T.   S.   ARTHUR.
''Did you hoar me, sir?"
'¦I aui not deaf," muttered tho boy in an undertone, net meant ior the car of his father, but reachiusj; it, nevertheless.
Red aiiuer burned instantly on tlic face of Mr. Soiuei's; his eyes flashed with a cruel purpose; his arui moved ivith .an impulse to strike.
"Take care, sir!" Mr. Soniors advanced toward Ihe lad in a ihreateiiiug way, but restrained the hand half raised for a blow.
'•Off with you, this instant'" he said, in a passionate way' "and don't let the f;r»fs grow under your feet. If you're not back in thirty minutes by the watch, I'll flog you within an inch of your life."
Aiid Mr. Somers dsew out his watch to note the lime; then turned from the boy, actually trembling with excitement.
Richard—that was the lad's name— manifested neither fear nor alacrity; but, instead, a kind of dogged in)passivenpss. He made no response whatever. The stormy utterance of his father did not seem to afl'ect him any more than if it had been the murmur of wind in the trees overhead. Rising from the ground whore he !iad been sitting, with a ]]iece of wood in his hand, whiuh he was modeling into the form of a boat, he moved awii}' with a loitering step. Net a sign beyond this was there that he heard, understood, or intended to obey his father.
'Thirty minutes!" muttered Richard, as he walUed along as leisurely as if he luid the day before him. "He knows I can't go ia thirty minutes, without run¬ ning every step of the way thsrcand back; and I'm not going to do it for him nor anybody else, aud he may flog me if ho will.    I won't stand it long."
Quick footsteps would have taken Rich- afil to the end of his short journey to a neighbor's house and back, in less than twenty-live uiiniites ; but anger awakened his anger, and harshly applied force, a feeling of resistance.
'I'm not a dog to be kicked I" so he talked with himself, '-or a mule to be driven. That's not the w;iy to treat a boy, flog me within an inch of my life! I wish he would kill me one of these days. Then he'd be—"
Richard could not utter the words that commenced forming on his tongue. A good impulse restrained him. He felt a little shocked at the wickedness of his thought. After Jhis he walked on more briskly, as if to atone by obedience, for the evil desire cherished for a moment iu his heart. But his feet soon lingered again. There was no feeling mind iu the boy.— I'ropulsion, not attraction, moved him on¬ ward, and his was a nature to resist. On his way many things presented them.selves, and he slupped, here and there—sumetiraes iu forgetlulness of his errmd, and somc- t.mes in wilful disregard of his father's command, wasting the time and rendering punishuient the next thing to certain.
Fully thirty minutes had expired when the b(iy reached hiss destination.
"Wun't you step down to the postofiice and mail this letter for me '! that's a good boy !" said the gentleman, to whom he had been sent with a message. The request was made in such a kind voice, and with such a pleasant smile that Richard felt that he could go through fire and water, as the saying is, to oblige him.
"Certainly, sir," he replied in the most complacent manner, reaching out his hand for the letter. "I'll do it with the great¬ est pleasure."
"As well to be killed for a sheep as a lamb," said the boy, as he took his way to the postofiice. '''i'lic half hour's up, and the flogging  earned.    He  can only  take
the other inch of my life at the worst, and then there'll be an end of it."
And ho tried to whistle up a .'¦tato of in¬ difference, but the notes hcsiint out on tho listening air were not light and thought- free, as the robin's warble, nor sweet and tender as the little yellow bird's song. The boy's mind was not at ease.
After depositing the letter, Richard sauntered av.-;iy in a listle.-s manner. Going home was not in his mind There was an angry father (here ; and punishuient await¬ ed his return. Ho did not feel in the least inclined to meet tho flogging within an inch of his life at au earlier moment than was absolutely necessary. A sight of the river which ran a short distance from the town, g.ave direction to hi.-i w.ivering thought; and off he started for the stream, on whose bosom he loved to glide, bending to the light springing oar."
You don't e.>;pect to see him in half an hour, of course," said the gentleman, who had boon a witness to the contest between tho boy and his father, and who had not failed to notice the excited and baffled .state of Mr. Somer's mind. Age, eiiaitic- ter. and relation gave him warrant for this free .speech. It was not received as an intrusion, but in somo deforenco of mat¬ ter.
'¦lie knows the penalty." 3Ir. Somers knit his brows Ecvorely. Cruel purposes drew his lips firmly together. "Which you mean to inflict T' '¦As surely as there is strength in this right arm ' ' ii.nd ha stretched out the vigorous member.
'•Even to within an inch of the boy's lii"tf?' A pair of calm eyes looked into the face of the angry father; a mild, re¬ buking voice was in his oar.
¦'I will bend or bre:ik him, sir. That is my duty. What hope is there for a wilful and disobedient child."
"Smidl hope, I i'ear," said the other. "Then, is not my duty plain V '¦'J'here is no question as to your duty in tho abstract, being plain—the duty of securing submission fre>m your child—but it is barely possible that you are uot using the right means. 51 is. Ilowitt has ex¬ pressed beautifully, in a single line, a truth that may help you to see .some bet¬ ter w.ny to reach the case. Do you n- member it';"'
"Mr. Somers shook his head.
'•For love hatli readier will than fear." "Love!" There was a spirit of rejection in the voice of Mr. Somers.
¦'We need not bo unkind, austere, For love hath readier will than fear." The neighbor repeated the couplet in a low emphatic voice, his tones lingering on the words that -needed expression, so as to bring out tho full meaning they had power to convey. The eyes of Mr. Somers fel' away from his face. His stern couii- teniiuce relaxed something of its stern¬ ness.
"A homelier. b\;t more strongly ex- prcs'sed form of the same sentiment is given in the old proverb, made when lan¬ guage wont to its meaning b3' llio sliorlcst w.ay : 'Honey catches more flies than vinegar.' Now; friend Somers, having tried the vinegar for a good while, aud wiili most discouraging results, lot me suggest you resort to honey. In other words, change your whole mode of disoip. line. Speak kindly, and in a low, firm voice to Richard, instead of in   tho   bluft".
imperative, querulous, angry manner in which you almost a!w:iys address him.— ]jet him feel that you really love him; that there is a soft, warm, attachable side to your character ; my word for it he will move to your bidding with winged feet.— I have studied the boy, and see in him good and noble qualities. But he has in¬ herited from his father a. certain impa¬ tience of control, and will ever boon the alert to resist undulj- applied force. You may lead him, by love, anywhere; but under the rule of fear, you will drive him certainly beyond your influence. For¬ give my plain speech. I have wished to say this, before, but, until now, saw no good opportunity."
The whole aspect of Mr. Somers under¬ went a change. Conviction struck to his heart. lie saw that he had been unjust to the boy, unloving, and unkiad. Back to his own early days his thoughts went with a bound, and there came vivid re¬ membrances of states into which he had been thrown by harsh treatment, states from which no punishment, h-iwcvor se verc, could move him. Kindness h;id al¬ ways been to his hoiirt like melting sun¬ shine; sternness like an icy wind. Ai^d Richard was like him. How strange that ho had never thought of that before.
A long sigh quivered up from tho op¬ pressed heart of Mr. Somers.
'¦If I could only think so," he said.— "But the ob.^tinate self-will of the boy is so firmly inrooted."
"Th;it you can never tear it up by force," spoke out his friend "The only way is to weaken its vital currents, to cut o8 the flow uf life, and let it wither for laek of sustenance, and die."
"Perhaps you arc right," said Mr. S'om- ers, in a troubled, unca.-y way. "But what fiiu 1 to do now? I gave him h;ilf an hohr in which to do an errand, laid my commpnds on him, and enforced them by threats cjf punishment. Is my word to go for nought ? Shall a boy defy me '!
A flas|h of anger gleamed over the fath¬ er's fiicej
"Gentlly, patiently, forgivingly ileal with the^offeiider," replied the neighbor, as he laid his hand on the arm of Mr. Somers. "Let love rule, not anger. Is he all to bitune '! No. Does not the oriyin ofthe wrong lio most with yourself? Has not it grown out of your unwise discip¬ line ? Begin correction at the source.— First, got in a right attitude yourself, and then bring him right. As j'ou provoked disobedience in the present case, restrain the punishing arm."
"But I shall forfeit my word."
"You will do that, even if you puni:-h him."
"How so."
"You will hardly go to within an inch of the boy's life. You were angry, and went beyond y(mraelf. Take counsel of reason, now. Passion and pride arc blind impulses, and are sure to le;id us from the right path. Think away from your pres¬ ent unhappy relatious to your unhappy boy, and let love fsr him prompt you 'o seek only his good, lie is afar off from you now; draw him near, even within the circle of a tenderly embracing arm. That is your duty, my friend. Enter into it, and all will be well."
The neighbor after saying this retired, leaving Mr. Somers to the companionship of his thoughts. There was a weight of eouceru on the father's he;irt. Anger had given place to a troubled feeling. Ho drew out his watch as the half hour period advanced to a close, looked at the time.and then from the window anxiously. If Richard had appeared in the distance, what a sense of relief it would have  pro¬
duced.    But tl«>re was no sign of the  re¬ turning boy.
"Wilfully disobedient! Defiant I'' Tho indignant man said this as hot blood began to burn hi.s face. "Perverse, unhappy, wrongly governed boy! This was tho father speaking in reply, and struggling to hold anger in check.
The h-df hour expired. Richai'd was still away. Another half hour elapsed, and yet he was absent.
"lie shall be punished for this," said Mr. Somers as indignation gained the mastery. Then a remembrance of the words spoken by liis neighbor, pressed back the tide of indignation, and ho let pity nmvc over the troubled surface of his feelings and calm them like oil.
A whole hour heyond the limit of timo had passed. I\Ir. Somers was growing uneasy. It flashed across his mind that Richard, in a fit of anger, rebellion and discouragement, might have been templed to run oir. lie remembered very distinct¬ ly how once in his boyi.sh troubles at home, he had meditated the same thing, and actually commenced preparations to .abandon father and mother, and try Lis fortunes in tho world.
At the end of tho second hour, Mr. Scalerswas ill :i very anxious state; and he was about making preparations to go in search of Richard, when, on glancing from the window, he saw him pass in a hurried, stealthy way. He stood listen¬ ing to hear him cuter. The door opened silently. Tip-too steps sounded faintly along the pa-s;igc. Somers followed them with his ears, but lost them on the stairs. ''AVhat .shall I do?" That was the difii- cult question for Mr. Somers. Ho stocd for several minutes, trying to got his thoughts clear and his feelings calm.— Thus far harsh methods liad proved wholly fruitless. Threats and punishment wrought no salutary reform ; the boy grew worse instead of better. Whj" this was so, clearer perception now tokl him.
'•Poor boy !" he said, with a sigh ; and this very utterance of a sentiment of pity helped him to a more pitying state of mind. An image of fear and suffering, instead of hard de&ince and reckless dis¬ obedience, took disti::ct form in his thoughts.
'¦Now is the lime to reach him with gentleness and I'lve." As Mr. Somcr: thus spoke with himself, he opened the door and went out into the passage.
"Did you see Richard !" heasked,speak- ing lo ;i  domestic  who   happened  to  be there at that moment. "No. sir;" she replied. "I tiioiight he came in just uow." '•I did not notice him, sir." Mr. Somers  went   to   the  font  nf the stairway  aud   called:    "Richard'."    Not harshly, hut kindly. No answer came.
"Richard!" 11 is voice went up louder through tho stairways antl passages'. But no sound, save echo, was returned. '¦I am sure ho came in." "It might U.ivc been a^me one else," suggested the domestic. "I haven't seen anything of him for two or three hours-" Mr. Somerj went up stairs to tho lad's room. The door v.-as shut. He opened it and went in. Richard w:is lying on the bed. He did not stir, but lay crouching and motionless, like one exhausted by pain. His face was of ashen hue. Jlr. Somers noticed an cxprecsion of fear to sweep over it, as the boy's large, strangely bright eyes turned upon him. As he ad¬ vanced across tho room, tho fear snd shrinking changed to something like the anguish of terror.
'•O father!" ho said imploringly, "don't —don't do it nov,' !' and ho lifted one arm as if to protect himself.
Mr. Somers understood him. The ap¬ peal and movement touched his feelings deeply.
"What ails you, my son ?" Tho father's voice wa.s low, pitying and full tif tender¬ ness.
Instantly the lines of fear died out of the boy's face. His lips quivered—tears came brimming to his eye.
"?Iy arm's broke!'' he sobbed, and then the tears came raining over his cheeks.
"Oh Richard !" ejaculated Mr. Somers, as he ,.i.iecd his hand softly on the boy's lbrehe:id.    ''How did this happen?"
"I couldn't get back in half an hour, father, without running all the way ; and I felt ugly here"—laying his hand on his brcast'»"and didn't try to go quickly. I went over the river, because I v;as afraid to como home; and fell from a pile of boards."
"Have you seen a doctor?" .Mr. Somers inquired anxiously.
"Yes, sir. They look mo to the doc tor's, and he set my arm."
Mr. Somers bent over l;is child, with his hand tenderly on his Ibrehead for some moments in silence; then as his full heart overran iu a current of emotion, he stoop¬ ed and kissed him, murmuring, "My poor boy."
Richard did not understand all his fath¬ er meant hy the exclamaiion, but he felt that pity, forgiveness, and love were in his heart; and these were more to him than his sufi'eriugs, for iu their warmth and consolation ho forgot his pain.
'O father!" ho said, a light falling on his p:de countenanci;—"love me and I wiJI be good."
Oh, the power of love ! Auger, rebuke, remonstrance, punishment—these are but elements of weakness in comparison. How like a sharp thrust from the sword of con¬ viction was this cry of love sent up to Mr. Soaiers from the heart of his wayward, seU'-wilied, stubborn, resistant and defiant son!
'¦Richard!" It w.is a month from the day on which the arm had been broken, 'liichard, I want you to go down to Mr. Baird's for me right ijuiekly."
The father spoke kindly, yet iu a firm voice. Richard, who was reading, shut his book instantly, and earning to his father's side, with a cheerful—"Yes, sir!"—stood looking at him awaiting his message.
¦"Take this note to Mr. Baird, and bring me an answer."
'•Yes, sir." And Richard took the note, and, turning from his father, left his office Willi light ;ind willing footsteps. "Love hath readier will than fear." "Ah, good morning," said Mr. Somers, turning at tho sound of a well-known voice and smiling a pleasant welcome.
'¦I see you havo found the better way," remarked the neighbor.
"Yes, thanks, to your timely uttered .adaionition," was replied. "The better and the easier way. A harsh word seems to make leaden that boy's feet, while a kind word gives them the wind's light, ncss."
"If parents would only take this to heart," said the neighbor, "what a change would pass over thousands and thousands of troubled homes iu our land ! How easy would the  government of    children   be
of itself, electrically ; but anger, sternness, and appeal to fear, rule only by the law governing where iiffco is opposed to fjrce. The stronger subdues the weaker, and then folloVf- perpetual reactions, rebellions, and discord."
SMer of tlie HsiMtFamily!
PEESOWNEL OP THE BUTCHER.
HE IS AN I-SC.1PED JIl'RDEREB FROM GERMiM-
[From tho Fittsburgh Chronicle, .S.iturday.]
Our readers have been fully apprised of the details of tho horrible murder by which the entire Hamnctt famlij' was swept out of existence, and their bodies reduced to ashes by the burning of their dwelling. The murder was one of the most fiendish ever committed in this coun¬ ty, and has created an excitement rarely witnessed iu this city and vicinity. As soon as it became evident that a wholesale butchery had been committed, suspicion rested on a German farm hand, w lo had been employed on the farm. The detec¬ tives at once institued a vigorous search for traces of the supposed murderer, nnd it is a source of gratification to'announce this afternoon that the fiend is now in custody, having been arrested in Allegheny last evening.
TUB FIRST TRACE.
'The first trace that was obtained of the murderer was on Thursday morning. --Vt about a quarter past six o'clock in the morning a man went into Fred, llollen- beck's store, at No. 266 Ohio street, Al¬ legheny, who, it was afterwards ascertain¬ ed, was the murderer of the Hamnett family. Tho proper name of this man is Ernest ?Iintzing, by which name we shall designate him. Love is an assumed name. He there purchased a pair of gaiters, and left a valise containing a bundle of clothes and an old pair of boots.
niS NEXT MOVEME.N'TS.
He next called at Smith's store, also on Ohio street,where he made the purchase of a neck tie. At ten o'clock he called on Wilh6lm Baior, who works for Adolph Mueh!stein,ou Sixteenth street, rear Penn Avenue I'ittsburgh. Baicr and himself were acquaintances in Germany, and there attended school together. Mintzing stated to Baier that ho had left his em¬ ployer for the reason that his employer got mad with him because he fed the horses a good deal and wanted them to look nice. lie took dinner ot Baler's and after¬ wards went to a saloon on Sixteenth street, where ho drank pretty freely.
SrEN'DINfi HARD .MONE'T.
The next place to which he was traced was Mark Adams' saloon, where he again indulged freely in drink, and paid for it in silver money. He displayed considera¬ ble silver coin, which tended to raise sus¬ picion in the minds of those to whom he exhibited it. He then went to Baler's house, on Hope street, near Gist, and there remained until Friday mo.-ning. susricio.v AKorSED.
Yesterday morning Mr. Baicr and Mr. Adams lead an account of the murder in Frciheist Frcnnd, an(i suspicion at once attached to Mintzing ns being tfce perpe¬ trator of the crime. They communicated their suspicions to oflicar McChcsncy, of the Pittsburgh police force, and yesterday evening, in company with Detective Long, they set out in search of Mintzing. TUE ARREST.
Where the murderer kept himself du¬ ring yesterday is not known, but about six o'clock last night he made his appearance at Wachter's saloon, on Troy Hill, Alle¬ gheny. In the saloon were a number of men discussng the murder ofthe Hamnett family. Mintzing joined in the conver¬ sation, aud said that he had v/orked for Hamnett, and that he was a very nice m^n. As soon as he had made this state- ineut he turned around and hurriedly left the saloon. Ofileer John W. Quirk, of tho Allegheny police force, and who, by the way, is a very efSeient ofiicer, came up as the man got outside of the door, imme¬ diately took him info custody, and convey¬ ed him to the City Hall lock-up iu Alle¬ gheny
THE MUUUERER's  CARPET-SACK.
The carpet-sack left bv Mintzing at Fred. Ilollenbeek's store. No. 260 Ohio street, Allegheny, was last night brought to the Mayor's oflSce in Pittsburgh. It is a large old fashioned carpet-saek, and con¬ tains a man's suit of old clothes, a clean shirt, a pair of uluddy boots, a new pair of suspenders, an old hat, a pair of dirty BOcks, and four razors. Tho boots here had new heels put on them since they were worn. On the hat. which is a soft wool one, there is a spot near the edge of the brim which resembles blood. One of the razors alsj appears stained with blood. In the carpet-sack there was also found a vest, in the pockets of which were an as¬ sessor's notification of valuation, a piece of paper on which are pencil figures, a ten cent scrip, and a railroad ticket over the PItt.sburgh, Virginia and Ci;arleston Railroad. The assessment paper is signed by A. Behl, Assessor, and is directed to John Hamnett, giving the valuation of his property at 012,720. The piece of paper with figures evidently contains Mr. Hamnett's estimate of the value of his property, being found, in connection with the assessor's valuation. The vest was doubtless one worn by Mr. Hamnett. The arlicles contained in the carpet-srick iiave been taken charge of by the Coroner, and will bo exhibited for identification at the inquest on Tuesday.
INTERVIEWING TIIE MURDERER.
take, ho spelled it, sounding each letter distinctly. He then stated that he was a native of Studtgart, Wirtemborg, and that he had been in this country about eighteen months. Knowing that Mintzing had been talking to Mr. Ph. Ilolderman, the well-known upholsterer of Allegheny, our representative proceeded at once to ques¬ tion him about the murder. At first he declined to talk, aud said he wanted to be left quiet. The interpreter, however, as¬ sured him that as he had already admitted that he was the guilty man, he should give a detailed statement of the frightful trag¬ edy. After a few moments of silence, Mintzing said he would tell all he knew, or rather that ho would answer any ques¬ tions that might be put to him. A con¬ versation thou commenced which was pro¬ tracted for nearly an honr. During that time Mintzing gave in substance the fol¬ lowing
DETAILS  OF  TIIE   DAMNING  CRIME,
answering the questions without the slight¬ est hesitation. Ho started out with the assertion that the murder had been entire¬ ly unpremeditated. He then proceeded: I left Hamnett's house just after supper on tho evening of the murder, and went di¬ rectly to Ho'Jiestead ; I called at a saloon and drank twoghisses of beer; that was all I h.ad that night; after leaving the saloon I went to a grocery store kept by a Ger¬ man, and purchased some cigars and five cents' worth of candy for the children; I don't kno'T the name of the storekeeper, but I had been there several times; think I was at the store about nine o'clock in the evening. Just as I was leaving, it came into my head that
I .MUST HAVE hamnett's mo.ney ! I thought he had a great deal of money in the house, and as I felt so queer all at onee in my head I thought I must get it. I went directly to the house, but don't know how I got there. I suppose I must have been out of my mind. After getting into the house I found Mr. and Mrs. Ham¬ nctt had not returned.
At an early hour this morning a Chroni- ele reporter, accompanied by an excellent interpreter, obtained permission to visit the murderer in his celUin the lock-up. The prisoner was sitting with his back to the grating, and was eiuietlj' munching at his breakfast which consisted of dry bread and meat of some kind. -\t that time a number of persons were in the cor¬ ridor and taking every opportunity to catch a glimpse of Mintzing's face. Not¬ withstanding tho excitement he continued eating very composedly, and it was only when our reporter addressed him that he changed his position so as to face the cor¬ ridor. Our representative opened the in¬ terview, through the interpreter, with some commonplace remarks, and then bis real name was asked. The prisoner re¬ plied without hesitation.
ERNEST MINTZING,
come.    Love moves by a sweet transfusion | and iu order that there might be no  m'bs.
THE  WEAPON OF SLAUOHTEK.
It occurred to me that f o get the money I must kill the children. I found the axe in the kitchen, and taking that with me I went up into the room over the kitchen where Robert Smith and myself slept.— The bed was in the corner of the room, and I saw that Robert was sleeping sound¬ ly, with his face towards me.
TOE   FIRST VICTIM.
I took a po-ition at the front ofthe bed, and withone blow killed the boy. He nev¬ er moved, I can't say how it was that the boy's throat was cut; I may have struck hira'twice, but he never groaned.
DISP.VTCIIING   THE   CHILDREN
After the boy was dead, I went into the adjoining room, where Ida and little Em¬ mie were sleeping. There were two beds in the room—one in the corner, and the other, the one occupied by the children, near the centre. Both ofthe girls were sleeping.
I  STRUCK  IDA FIRST and she never moved.    I then   raised the axe and  struck at  Emmie; she uttered a cry, and I hit her a second time; she did not groan again.
WAITING  FOR  TIIE   PARENTS.
After this I wont down stairs and took a position just inside the door ofthe room adjoining the kitchen, and waited for Mr. and Mrs. Hamnett to como home. They came between ten and eleven o'clock. Mr. Hamnett came into the room first; I was standing so that he could not see me, and I struck him from behind, using the same axe; he fell to the floor ; Mrs. Hamnett then came rushiag into the room, and as she passed through the door I struck her but did not kill her; she shrieked once or twice,
"ou GOn, JOHN;"
and then I struck a second blow, which killed her instantly ; Mrs. Hamnett and the baby were fhe only ones I hit twice ; the others were killed with one blow; I used the axe all the time.
SEARCHING FOR  PLUNDER.
I committed the deed to get Mr. Ham¬ nett's money. I searched Mr. Hamnett's pockets and obtained his pocket book. It contained only fifteen dollars in' paper money. I found Mrs. Hamnett's pocket- book on Ihe sewing machine; there was only fifty eenis in it. I look**} over the house, but all the money I got
WAS FIFTEEM DOLLARS !
The silver money I spent yesterday I brought with me from Germany. I did not pet it from tho house. My only motive for doing this deed was to got tho money.    I
NEVER   HjVD   ill    FEELING
towards any of the Hamnctts; I always liked tho children, and always bought them candy when I went to Homestead. The boy Smith and I were good friends, and I always liked Mr. and Mrs. Hamnctt. I DID NOT FIRE THE HOUSE, and it was not a part of the plan te cover up the murder. When searching the house I put an oil lamp in the sitting-room, and when rushing away from the building it was overturned. I thought it would go out; I did uot think the house would burn.
ESCAPING   FROM   THE   SCENE.
As soon as I left the building I proceed¬ ed at once to the railroad, and walked di¬ rect to Pittsburgh ; I stopped at several places, but don't know the names ofthe places ; came over to Pittsburgh and went to see my friend Baier, on Penn street, I think; don't know the locations very well; was ijevor in Pittsburgh more than three times; after leaving Baler's I crossed over the river to -\llegheny ; crossed a covered bridge [Mechanic's street] and went to several breweries to get work ; purchased a now suit of clothes yesterday morning.— (He then detailed the circumstances of his arrest which are given elsewhere.)
HISTORY OF THE MURDERER.
Mintzing gave the following sketch of himself: My name is Ernest Mintzing ; I was born in Studtgardt, Wirtemberg, and am twenty-eightyearsof age. My mother and father .are both dead, hut I have two brothers and three sisters living near Studt¬ gardt. I was in the Bavarian army, and served in an iufantry regiment. I partici¬ pated in the battles of Wurth, Leichten- berg, and participitedin the siege of Paris. I served out my timo in that army, and escaped without a wound. My father and mother died in 1870. I came to this country about eighteen months ago, and worked with Peter Ramsey, at Oakdale, New Jersey, as a farm hand, which was my occupation in Germany. I came to Pittsburgh in January last, and obtained employment at Mr. Hamnett's, whore I have been ever since.
PERSONNEL OP THE MURDEEEK.
Looking casually at the author of this terrible crime, one would not take him to be capable of performing such an atrocious j 000.
deed. The peculiarities of the German fea¬ tures are very strongly marked. Ho is about five feet fire inches in height, stoutly built, and weighs about one hundred and sixty-five pounds. He has brown hair, light moustache and light blue eyes. He was dressed this morning in the new sait of black clothes which he had purchased yesterday.
ANOTHER CHARGE OF MURDER.
Before the taking of the prisoner from the Allegheny lock-up ou Saturday after¬ noon, a German residing in Birmingham visited him. The visitor recognised Mint¬ zing as a man who worked for him some time ago in Birmingham, and said that while he was there he had stolen some money from him and also the wife's jewel¬ ry. The breastpin was shown him, and he recognized it as his wife's property. It seems that his wife knew the prisoner in Germany. About two weeks ago she re¬ ceived a letter from there, stating he had committed a murder there, and on that account had left the country.
THE FCNE11.4.L OF THE  VICTIMS.
The funeral ofthe Hamnett family took place on Saturday. The remains were placed in two coffins, and were followed to the grave at the Franklin church, one mile from Homestead, by a large crowd.
Tit-Bits Taken on tho Fly.
Harrisburg has applied for one hundred aud twenty-eight licenses.
General Sickles is in Paris negotiating a loan for an American railway.
Thurlow Weed says 8250 is the average price of an Albany Legislator's vote.
Dr. Schmidt ofthe University of Athens, has spent thirty-four years on a map of the mooD.
Charles T. Stewart, son of the lato Ad¬ miral Stewart, died on April 8, of typhoid fever, at Rome.
Judge William McKennan, of Pennsyl¬ vania, is living at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York.
The New York Senate has passed a bill providing for the compulsory edacation of children.
Dr. J. G. Holland writes to the London Athencenm in earnest advocacy of an inter¬ national copyright.
Crop accounts from the State of Georgia at large are discouraging, owing to the continued rain and overiSows.
Minister Motley has written a book en¬ titled "John of Barneveld," which will shortly be issued by the Harpers.
This will be the last week of the New York Legislature, and its constituents are beginning to breathe free again.
The suggestive Springfield Republican proposes that the President appoint Gen¬ eral Hawley Secretary of the Treasury.
The crii.sarlp.r.ti niaHp a strong fifj^t against license being granted to saloonists in Oil City. They were partially success¬ ful.
Hon. William M. Evarts will deliver a eulogy of Chief Justice Chase at the next commencement of Dartmouth College.
Prof. George F. Miller, D. D., of Muh- lenberg College, celebrated his fiftieth birthday at Allentown on Monday evening.
The New York Senate has rejected the bill increasing the head money on emmi- grants from one dollar and a half to two dollars.
A woman of Indiana claims a divorce on the ground that her husband's mother beats her, and her husband is afraid to interfere.
Lincoln's monument at Springfield, Il¬ linois, will be dedicated next October.— President Grant will be asked to deliver the oration.
A German writer says that thieves are 60 scarce in this country that the authori¬ ties arc often compelled to offer a reward for them.
Upwards of seventy .one thousand per¬ sons in New York city were afforded relief by the Bennett soup kitchens during Feb¬ ruary and March.
The Detroit Poit says that every paper dollar in tbe country has gained a cent and a-half in value since the veto and be- cau.se of the veto.
Massachusetts' women suffragists are re¬ joicing over the fact that the aew Gover¬ nor of that* State—Mr. Talbot—favors their theories
Augusta Bradley, agent of the Indian¬ apolis, Bloomington and Western Railroad, at Bloomington, II]., committed suicide by shooting himself
Scarlet fever has broken out at Farmiog- haui, Massachusetts, children being takea down suddenly at school and dying in two or three days.
A citizen of Washington has commenced suit against a clergyman for expelliog him from the membership of the church. Dam¬ ages are laid at 85,000.
The Treasurer of the Evangelical Al¬ liance acknowledges the receipt of nearly seven thousand dollars for the relief of the family of the lato Emile Cook, of Paris.
The funeral of Mrs. Miller, principal of the female department of the Waynesburg College, took place on Wednesday after¬ noon. Business was almost entirely sus¬ pended.
Sower's kerosene oil refinery in Jersey City, was burned on Wednesday. Six tanks containing five hundred barrels each, were destroyed besides one hundred fdled bar¬ rels.
A Plattsburg paper speaks of a gentla- mau of that vicinity who recently sold his wife and children to one of his neighbors for a coat, a pair of sedbnd-hand pants, and $5 in cash.
At Shelby, in Ocean county, Mich., there is a pigeon roost at which birds arc snared in large numbers, and in three days last week one hundred barrels of pigeons were shipped from there.
Ferdinand I., the ex-Emperor of Austria is now eighty-one years old. Some mem¬ bers of the Imperial family stay at Prague, where he resides, in almost daily expecta¬ tion of his death.
Parties in St. Louis in a position to know the facts in the case, say that the report that Senator Schuri will take editorial charge of a German newspaper in Ne'W York after the expiration of his term ii not true.
The Jubilee Singers who have been in Great Britain for a year or more, have fin¬ ished up their tour and will sail forborne next month. They have realized from concerts given in Great Britain over $50)»