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P.M. KIMMSIX. I. VV. LINOBNFEI.TF.It
KIMIHELL & LINCENFELTER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, RADFORD, PA.
tt7"Have lormod a partnership in the prarticc of
the Law. Ollice on .luliana street, two doors South
of ttie"Mcngel House."
JOB MANN. • '1- SPANG.
MANN&SP ANG.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.
The undersigned hava associated themselves in
the Practice ot the Law, and will attend promptly
to all business entrusted to their care in JJedlord
and adjoining counties.
[Ty-Ollice on Juliana Street, three doors south
of the "Mengel House," opposite the residence ol
Maj. Tate.
Iledford, Aug. 1, IS6I. __
JOHN CESSNA. <>■ K. SHANNON.
CESSNA &, SHANNON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.,
K7~Have formed a Partnership in the Practice of
the Law. Office nearly opposite the Gazette Ollice,
where o.ie or the other may at all times be found.
Jtedlord, Aug, 1,1801.
JOHN F. REED,
ATTORNEY A'r LAW, BEDFORD, PA.,
Respect fully tenders his services to the rubhe.
K7"ollice second door North of the Mengel
House.
Bedford, Aug, 1, 1861.
VV. M. HAi.r,. JOHN PALMER.
IIALL & PALMER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA
Cr7"Will promptly attend to u!l business entrus
ted to there care. Office on .fulianna Street, (near,
ly opposite the Mengel House.)
Bedford, Aug. 1, 1861.
A. 11. TOFF ROTH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Somerset, Pa.
Will hereafter practice regularly 111 he several
Courts of Bedford county. Business Vntrnsted to
his care will be faithfully attended to.
December 6, 1861.
SAMUEL KETTERMAN,
BEDFORD, FA.,
(T7"Would hereby notify the citizens of Bedford
county, that he has moved ro the Borough of Bed
foid, where he may at all times be found b* persons
wishing to see him, unless übsent upon business
pertaining to bis office.
Bedford, Aug. 1,1801.
JACOB REFO, J- J- SCHET.I,
REED AND SfHELL,
BANKERS it DEALERS IN EXCHANGE,
BEDFORD,PENN'A.
bought and sold, collections made
nud money promptly remitted.
Deposits solicited.
REFERENCES.
Hon. Job Mann, Hon. John Cessna, and John
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liaiguel h Co., Phil. J. iV'att & Co., J. W. Cuiley,
ft Co., Pittsburg.
QT. CHARLES HOTF.L,
CORNER OP WOOD ZND THIRD STREETS
P I T T a B V B. O 11, PA
HARRY SHIRLS PROPRIETOR.
April 12 1861.
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Will attend punctually and carefully to all opera
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I'hey aie. also manufacturing and keep constantly
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tASINETTS, BLANKETS, FLANNELS, 4cc. By
circ and attention to business they hope to merit a
shire of the public patronage. Carding will be done
Iron May I.lth in September 11th, and Fill ling (rom
Sepembcr 15th to December 15th. Wool and goods
will be taken from and returned to the following
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A. t, James', Rainsburg,
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VOLUME SS.
NEW SERIES.
Select Poctvn.
The War-Christian.
Dedicated, without permission, to the /lev. llcnry
Ward Jh-echer, the Rev. Dr. Cheever, and the
Rev. Dr. ftellows.
What say the aisles and chancels,
Of old cathedrals dim?
What say the pealing organs
In chant and solemn hymn ?
Fervor of adoration
And love in sweet accord,
Love for the meanest mortal,
And glory to the Lord!
What sailh the great "War-Christian,"
High perched above the crowd,
With his hands so white and dainty,
And his heart so black and proud?
He draws a little circle,
As narrow as his mind,
And shouts for all beyond it,
God's mercy to mankind.
He rants, he raves, lie blusters,
And from his sensual jaws
Pours vulgar slang, mistaking
Men's laughter for applause.
And when the land is deluged
Willi blood ami widows' tears,
Incites redoubled slaughter
And prates of GUNS and spears.
Forgetful or defiant
That He whose cause lie shames,
Whose teaching he dishonors,
Whose Gospel he disclaims,
Was full of loving kindness,
And taught that war should cease,
That swords should turn to ploughshares,
And nations live in peace.
I'd rather for my preachers
Have wild winds on the shore,
Or breeze amid the branches,
Or birds that sing and soar,
Or silence high and holy
Than " Christian " such as he,
Who dares to counsel bloodshed,
And knows not charity.
■
Speech of Senator Trumbull.
The following speech, growing out of Burn
side's order for the suppression of the Chi
cago Times was delivered at an Abolition
meeting in that city on Thursday evening,
June 4th. Senator Trumbull lias long stood
at the bead of that party in Illinois, and
ranks among the ablest men now in the Sen
ate —but it appears that lie is too conserv
ative and truthful for the times, and is no
longer appreciated by his brother woolly
heads. The ignorance and animus of t lie
administration party may be inferred from
the manner in which Senator Trumbull's
remarks were received by the audience to
whom they were addressed:
Mr. Trumbull said:—lt was rather em
barrassing to attempt to speak to an audi
ence which insisted on hearing some one else;
but solemn convictions of duty compelled
him to speak, when, under ordinary circum
stances, he would have remained silent.
lie did not come to inflame. their pas
sions, already too much aroused. Their
country was in danger, and they must look
t lie peril in the face. No adjectives he could
pile up, no vile names he could apply to
those who do not agree with him, calling
them copperheads and traitors, would assist
in arresting the rebellion, or asserting the
supremacy of the Constitution and the laws.
I have lived long enough to know that I
am not infallible, perhaps you are; I have
some respect for the opinion of others. One
of our mistakes is that we have allowed
our opponents to make false issues. Hut
this is not the worst. The great charge,
the charge that has damaged the adminis
tration above all ofhers, is that we are in
favor of the exercise of arbitrary power,
that we are opposed to the freedom of speech
and opinion, to the freedom of the press,
in favor of curtailing personal liberty, and
in favor of a despotism. Now we should
not allow these things.
lie did not desire to inspire them with
hurrahs; but he wished to talk to their judg
ments, and inspire them through appeals to
their reasons.
The times, he said, are grave! A major
ity of the people of our State are taking
ground against the administration, and why?
In the name of heaven, why is this? I will
tell you why; I will point out to you some
of our mistakes that they may be corrected
in the future. The reason is we have not
adhered to David Crockett's motto, "He
sure you're RIGHT, and then go ahead!"
[A voice—"We are always right!"
We have been the advocates of free speech
for the last forty years, and should not al 1
low the party which during the whole time
has advocated the gag to usurp our place.
Freedom of Thought and Opinion.
BEDFORD,PA., FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 17,1863.
We are lighting for the restoration of the
Union and tiie preservation of the Consti
tution. and all the liberties it guarantees to
every citizen. And it makes me feel had
when I hear some honest friend, brimming
full with patriotism, say he does not care
for the Constitution, and does not want to
have it forced into his way or thrust in his
face until the war is over. The rebels can
not thrust it in his face, for they have no
rights under it save the right to be tried
and hung for treason. [Continued applause.]
In certain districts the military law is su
preme. Gen. Grant is in command of an
army in the State of Mississippi, which is
in revolt. Will any one deny his right to
make arrests, his right to suppress newspa
pers, and to level trees like those around
you to-night, in order to get a range for Iris
guns ? No. And yet these arc all arbitra
ry powers. But those exercises of it are
not the troublesome cases. The great diffi
culty is in those districts where rightful
civil government is in operation, where the
judicial tribunals are open and the. laws re
spected—the laws which afford a remedy
for every wrong.
As a rule we must remember that the civil
law is superior to the military law, and the
cases are rare, very rare, where the rule can
be reversed. It then resolves itself into
the plain naked question whether the Pres
ident and his generals, by the simple click
| ing of a telegraph instrument, can cause the
imprisonment of A, B, or C. If one gen
eral can do it, another can do it, and where
is the end? who will fix the limit? [Great
sensation and murmurs.]
Do you propose to interfere with the bal
lot-box? [Criesof 'No! No!' 'Never! Nev
er!' from all parts ef the meeting.] I ain
glad to hear you say that, and glad you are
so unanimous. Did it ever occur to you
that the next election may put an entirely
different face affairs? The next elec
tion may bring great and deplorable chan
ges, when Yallandigham and men of his
class may determine who arc to be arrested.
[Cries of "No! that can never be."
er, never," from all parts of the crowd.]
Well, gentlemen, there is no use in clos
ing your eyes to the facts which exist a
round you on every side. I told you 1 came
here to address myself to your reason, and
not to your passions, and in view of that
light I ask you who are being elected Gov
ernors of loyal States, who compose a ma
jority of the Legislature of the loyal State
of Illinois, and who was recently elected
Mayor of her principal and most loyal city,
and in view of these facts what may the fu
fure not have in store? [Cries of "Jenni
son." "Music." "We don't want to hear
yon." "You sent a telegram to the Presi
dent."]
You are wrong—it is your greatest and
gravest mistake—in allowing your adversa
ries to place you in the position of being op
posed to the Constitution. [Cries for "Jcn
nison," and "Give us somebody else."] I
sec that I am distasteful, but I cannot help
it, and will not detain you long. Who is
there amoug you who docs not believe in
adhering strictly to the Constitution in these
times, and extending to every citizen of the
loyal States its guarantee ? Who among you
is prepared to acknowledge our government
is a failure ?
Who among you is prepared to say the
Constitution is a fine thing for peace—good
enough—but when war comes it must be
rolled up and laid away? Or in other words
—for it means the same—who among you
is ready to substitute the will and opinion of
one man, who may be another Yallandigham,
in place of the Constitution as the supreme
law of the land? [Cries of "We don't want
any more of that." "What's that band
for?"] Well, hear me through, for I will
not be long, and the questions before you
are of so much importance and gravity that
you should listen patiently, and not only
that, decide dispassionately. The Consti
tution is broad. It grants all powers ne
cessary, even for the suppression of treason
in the North. [Applause.]
Yes, gentlemen, it is just as legal and
binding upon the general in the field, and
the civil officers of the nation, as it is upon
the humblest citizen in the land. Has it
coine to this, that you will deny in the free
city of Chicago the right of a citizen to dis
cuss the acts of the President ? [Cries of
"We won't allow it," and "none but cop
{>erhcads do that, and we will stop them.'J
s there a man in this audience who has not
expressed to-day his dissatisfaction with
some act of the President? [Cries of "Yes,
Yes," "We have none of us expressed any
dissatisfaction. "J
Ah, do all of you, then, think the Pres
ident's revocation of Gen. Burnside's order,
suppressing the Chicago Times was right ?
[Cries of "No!" "No!" "It was wrong!"
"He ought to have enforced the order!")
Then you all deserve to be taken in hand
by the military power and sent beyond the
lines. You will be much stronger with the
law on your side. Show that Mr. Storey
has counseled resistance to the draft, or en
couraged desertion; these arc penitentiary
offences. Then arrest him and take him
before the coutts. Where would you get
your mob to rtiscue liiin ? Why there would
not be a corporal's guard in the city that
would go into it. Try liiin in the courts.
[A voice, "Nd, this would take too much
time; it would take two years."] Too much
time! Cannot you wait for the execution of
the law? It will not fake two months. Do
you know whit the laws are? I will read
some of thenv
He then reid front a law of the late Con
gress forbidding correspondence with the
rebels and affording them aid and comfort.
[A single voiip on the stand, "That's just
what Wilber F. Storey does every day."]
Then go, he said, you are a citizen, and
inake complaint to the grand jury yourself.
It is your duty.
MRS. DR. JOHN'S STORY.
j I was tired, worried and overheated.—Cross,
as a natural consequence, and, of course, it was
just then Dr. John took it into his head to come
into the kitchen, although he had been to the
bouse for five consecutive days to see i.is patient,
as I knew, without onee inquiring for me.—
The knowledge of this only deepened my vexa
tion, and darkened the frown on my brow.
I dropped the sheet I was wringing out of
the hot suds, and set him a chair.
'Good morning,' he said, pleasantly;'anything
new the matter!'
'No,' I answered, shortly: 'Why do you
ask V
'I thought I saw a new wrinkle in your face,' I
he replied, smiling.
•Oh ! it isn't new troubles that bring them,
so much as it is the old worries over and often
repeated. Besides, I'm growing old !'
1 then went back to my washing.
In spite of the sigh which unconsciously
accompanied my last remark, my tones repelled
sympathy, and so the doctor understood it, for,
taking a daily paper from his pocket, he lenneil
back in his chair and read, or pretended to.
Alter watching him a little from the corners of
my eyes, I was satisfied it was mere pretence
and, as I finished the last article, I said, with
out preface—
' Dr. John, I urn sorry I didn't take yonr
advice.'
'About tlx: millinery interest*?' he asked,
without raisilg his eyes, for ho was a man of
infinite tact, or rather discretion.
'Yes,' I sail!, wearily ; 'l'm a perfect slave
here!'
•It Is best "tor any one, a woman especially,
to consider candidly before she gives up one sit
uation for another, whether she. is really about
to benefit herself. You made as great a sacri
fice of your freedom, selling out your millinery
stock and coming to five here, as you would
have done had you married a perfect tyrant.'
A sunset llush passed over his face. I
busied myself about the basket. I wondered
if I had been right —if lie really did know of
the otter I had rejected when I made the dispo
sal and sacrifice, as he termed it. Ah! he
little know how true it was.
[ 'Y'es,' I said, 'my life in my establishment
was freedom compared with this drudgery. 1
liked my work—l was strong and healthy.
Now my waist iaspanable almost with my two
bands, and see how thin my arm is! Don't I
look like washing V
' I (Hard the sound of the treadmill,' he said,
indicating the washboard with a nod. ' I have
listened to your weary footsteps day after (lay,
and pitied you without seeing how I could help
—at least, in any way that you would consent
to.'
Unmistakable commiseration of my desolate
condition rested in the glance of his kind eyes
on me. Soft pity smoothed out the lines in
his face. The kind true man! llow I had
misjudged him!
'I will consent to anything you can propose—
anything you think fit anil proper,' said 1, with
a sudden return to the old time trust in Dr.
John, if you will wait till I hang up these
clothes.'
'Let Mrs. Myson hang up her own clothes*'
he said, indignantly. 'You were up all night
watching, weren't you ? Wasn't that enough
without putting you to washing this morning ?
Sit down and listen to inc.'
I wiped my'hands and sat down, waiting pa
tiently one, two, three minutes; but still the
doctor was silent. He twisted his watch chain
; into an incomprehensible knot, and then set him
j self slowly and deliberately to undo it. And
| when this manoeuvcr wa executed, he looked
I at his watch and compared it with the gossiping
j little clock on the mantle.
'After all, i don't know,' ho said, looking
| up, 'but it might be as well for yon to hang up
the clothes. It isn't as late as 1 thought—only
half-past eight. You have been expeditious in
spite of your weariness.'
I took up tho basket sadly, and went out.
'No,' I said, energetically, 'it is impossible to
suggest anything that will alleviate my forlorn
condition.'
My hopes, excited for an instant, foil into
Arctic water, and froze immediately. I could
not work vory fast, I was so utterly wretched,
so it was some time before I returned to the
house. There I found the doctor had set all
the chairs in order, stiff and angular against the
wall, and was just commencing operations with
the broom.
'I thought I would help you,' ho said, in an
swer to my surprised exclamation.-—'Part ot
my project consists in your leaving this place
immediately, and I knew every thing would
have to bo arranged in perfect order before you
would consent to this necessary and initiatory
step.'
'Leave this place!'
Where was it to go? To the poorhouse!
My amazed look asked and obtained a partial
answer.
'You arc to go to see a patient of mine—
WHOEE NUMBER, 3066
VOL. 6, NO 50.
with me. I have arranged it with Mrs. Myson. |
So get your bonnet and shawl, as I want to!
be off immediately.'
I went without farther question.
The capacious two-wheeled vehicle—none of
the little pill boxes country doctors so much
affect—held ample space for two, and whirled
us miles away into the open country licfore I
had recovered from my delight and amaze at
the beauty of the October morning; tor in the
town the sun had dried up the rain of the night
previous, and the streets were dry and dusty as
ever. Out here the drops still glittered in by
plnces, and a cool breeze swept up the road as
Or. John slightly drew rein at the entrance to
a grove of pines.
The eye was satiated with light and color,
for the sun shone broadly, and the forest trees
which lined the country road with their dark
green frontage, lit up here and there with vivid
llaines, looked like the victims of an auto-da-fe
going to their burning. The pines were a con
trast, with their uniform color and dense shade.
'Heaven's peace over all!' said the Doctor,
breaking silence. 'How tranquil the still seren
ity of these pines after the riotous bacchanal
orgies of those walnuts and maples. It is like
coming from soma h%h carnival masquerade,
and sitting down to read godly John Fletcher
in the brooding firelight of home.'
It was a pieture of peace. The road was
seldom traveled but by laden farm-wagons; the
silence of centuries dwelt in the tree tops,
j and moved down the endless opening and clo
sing vistas, a falling cone or nimble step of
i wood squirrel, making by contrast the silence
more still, the stillness more profound.
The carriage rolled slowly over the path,
where scant grasses grew; the trees clasped
hands above our heads, and dropped the gloom
of night about us. I was growing forgetful of
surroundings, inhaling the eternal perfume dis
tilled from the pine's green trees, 'the garnered
balm of incense-breathing morns.' I grew in
toxicated—it always affects ine so; I can not
explain how, any more than I can why 1
should wake up crazed and almost gibliering
when the moon shines full upon me slumbering.
t thought it was having its effect upon the
doctor, too; he lapsed into silenco —looked
dumb, and, lest we should both turn maniacs
together, I ventured to waken him from his
trance. The horse just then caught a glimpse
of a sunshiny ro;ul discernible at the end of the
grove, pricked up his ears and moved faster.
'Doctor,' said I, 'your patient will die before
you get there!'
He looked down at me and smiled, glanced
at the trees 011 either side, shook himself free
from fancies, mid replied—
'No; he is lietter. I came out to minister
to a mind diseased, but I recollected the old
adage, 'Physician heal thyself!' and have been
trying to get rid of a morbid growth of
melaneholy, which has weighed upon my spirit
this 'yc:ir and many a clay.' lletrospcction is
not in general good for heart complaints, but it
has cured mo, I think.'
lie smiled down on ine again, cracked the
whip at the horse's sense of hearing rather than
at his hide, and we were whirled at our old
pace out of the forest.
The sun shone down on the stubblcd fields,
sentineled hero and there with maples in zouave
uniforms of red and yellow, a gray old rock,
plumed and bearded with moss, lifted Ills he.ad
like a tall grenadier in a distant meadow. This
tle down, silver-winged and buoyant, floated a
way in the still air, and some lazy winged swal
lows chirped and gossiped tlio opinions about
their southern flight under the broken eaves of
red fartn houses. In the. distanco stood Morton,
the village we had left, asleep in the sun, its
walks and streets lined and guarded by the ma
ples in their red array.
It looked so like tranquillity, repose aliko for
mind and body; I sighed, thinking of the home
which awaited me there. There was no help
for it, but out of the very depths of despair
seemed born a sort of courage which nerved me
to take my fate into my own hands—to turn a
destiny of quiet suffering hy the alchemy of the
will into the strength of hopeful endurance.—
But 1 would try first if there was a chance for
daylight, down here in the shadows. "Deeds
are born of resistance," thought I; "passivity
i corrodes nerve like canker." So I spoke—
'Dr. John, two years ago you obtruded your
advice, I thought. I resented the interference.
But 1 see my error now. I wish I had followed
a part of your counsels. If you have a plan
for me, will you tell it me V
'But you scorned my advice then, and called
me a perfect tyrant! What guarantee have lof
better treatment now V
'lf I have hewed out, cisterns, broken cisterns
that have held no water, do not mock me, nor
withhold a draught if you have it. Don't you
see I am dying with the thirst ol expectancy;'
1 clasped my hands nervously. 'Oh! Dr. John,
you do not know how much I need sympathy!'
'Poor child!'he said. 'Jennie, lam going
to do what I have always said no man with a
proper self respect would do. Nothing except
the torture of seeing the woman I love under
go such treatment as you do would ever have
opened my lips again, llavo your changed cir
cumstances made you repent the decision ot two
years ago!'
'Selling my establshmcnt ? es.'
'That was not what I meant,' he said.
'As for the other part,' I replied, 'rather pov
erty, starvation and suflering of any kind than
a marriage with one whom I cannot love, nor
even esteem!'
He looked as if I had said enough, and I did
speak strongly, for 1 was grieved and hurt.--
Did he not intimate in one breath that he loved
me, and the next offer mo that man as a relief
from my self imposed servitude? .
'Jennie,' he returned, in a subdued voice, 'I
wish you conld find some one you considered
worthy of your love. 1 was rash to arrogate
so much to myself; but I hardly thought I had
fallen so entirely from your respect.'
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cold a word. There is no earthly friend whom
I reverence and value so highly; hut not even
my trust in you could make me love Everit*
Ward.'
'Everitt Ward! What has lie to do with tis V
'I am sure I don't know,' I replied. 'When
you advised me to marry him. two years ago.
I told you it would be impossible for me to think
of marrying Ruch a perfect tyrant. I called him
so, not you—and now this return to the chare :
is Ossa on l'elion piled.'
'You are the most difficult ease I have loce
yet to manage,' the doctor said, subduing some
strong emotion. 'You are laboring under a
strange hallucination.'
'I think the same might be said of you,' I
retorted.
'l'erhaps so: And it is that which prompts
me to undertake your restoration. Like cures
like, you know.'
'Rut,' persisted I, 'I will hear nothing of Lv
critt Ward.'
'You shall not from me. lam delegate for
no man. What can you mean, Jennie?'
'That I rejected him two years ago. That
I still more decidedly resent such interference
now. If I could only have got away. How
hateful they all appeared to me !'
'I don't understand yet, Jennie,' the doctor
said. 'When your father died, and left you
penniless, every one admired the strength of
mind with which you threw scruples aside, and
set earnestly and resolutely to work. I don't
know which was the strongest feeling with mo,
admiration, love or pity; for I saw the motive,
dear, anil felt how useless your labor would be,
for 1 knew Eb's extravagant habits pretty thor
oughly. When he married, and I heard from
his own lips that you thought of selling out and
going to live with him, I could no longer keep
silent. You know how I tried to dissuade you
from it. It was tiicn I asked you to come and
live by my fireside—to be my cherished darling,
as you had been my hope, my star. I rcmem
lter I was a little exalted—rhapsodical, perhaps
—hut it seems you totally misunderstood me,
and thought I was proposing for Everitt Ward.'
'Then you were ignorant that he had worried
me for a year with his suit; that Eb had tor
mented me with entreaties and expostulations;
that morning, noon and night, I was subjected
to the same ]>ersecutions, if not in words, in
contemptuous silence. Then you joined with
them, as 1 thought; for when you offered me a
place, at some one's fireside, my thoughts went
in the accustomed channel.'
'Very ambiguous I must have been,' said the
doctor, leaning back and drawing a long breath.
'I will be explicit for once. Dear Jennie, if
you had then understood me, would your an
swer have beon different? Is it different now?'
He dropped the reins, took both my hands,
and looked at mo with eyes which would not
be denied.
I had prayed for sunlight. Here was heaven
eoine down to eartli again in a broad sweep of
glory. It lit up the darkness, and opened the
doors on the hidden secret of my heart. For
since when had I not loved Dr. John* He
read the secret, I am sure before I gave back
glance for glance, heart answering to heart.
'I love you, Dr. John! I always have loved
you! will that do?'
llow he answered I shall not tell you. The
interest subsides when the battle is over, the
victory complete. Besides, thero was no room
for heroics. The main street in Merton sud
denly o[>oned. before us, and we were lost in the
whirl and sweep of other vehicles. One little
explanation I attempted.
'My property —'
! 'ls all swallowed up in Eb's speculation—l
know, dear. Don't think about it.'
Didn't I tell you he was kind and true? We
both came to the conclusion that it would be
better for me to return to my brother's house,
though the doctor, in his indignation at the sel
fishness, which, not content, with absorbing my
property, had made mc—if not a hewer of
wood—a drawer of water, would have had mo
proceed immediately to a clergyman's house,
and he married thence. But he yielded to my
plea for having all things done decently and in
order. In the evening, the marriage ceremony
was performed in the front parlor, Eb sitting
bolstered up to witness it. and bis wife looking
on with what feelings it is impossible to judge.
They gave us good wishes and kind hopes for
the future, which were reiterated by the whole
of Merton, when tliey came to see u.% next day,
in our own house.
'And now,' said Mrs. Dr. John, rising, 'you
wished to know how I cnmc to marry tho doc
tor, and I have told my story. You asked too,
if I had ever repented tho step. You must
look to the doctor himself for answer to that
question. Tnere he comes, through the trees.
Ask him.'
What is Free Government?
William H. Seward, Secretary of State, in
the Lincoln Cabinet, speaking of our Govern
ment, said to Lord Lyons :
"My Lord, I ran touch a bell on my right
hand, and order tho arrest of a citizen of Ohio;
I can touch the bell again, and order the impris
onment of a citizen of New York, and no pow
er on earth, except that of the President, can
release them. Can the Queen of England do
as much ?" . .
Lord Chatham, speaking of the British Gov
ernment, said: ,
"The poorest man in his cottage may bid de
fiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may
be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may
blow through it; the storm may enter; the ram
may enter, but the King of England cannot en
ter it. AH his power dare not cross the thresh
old of that ruined tenement."
A Down East editor says that he has seen
the contrivance that lawyers use to "warm tq>
with the subject." He says it is a glass concern,
and holds about a pint.