Poe Ms gamma it RECKLESS. ' sr N. N. ON, Oh, what a night this is to me, • The winds are whirling o'er the lawn, bd hl the dark I hoar and see Ten thousand devils, drive - them on, The earth recoil. beneath their tread, The shivering stars comma their light, he pine tree moans, with feiir an& dread, And all is wild this awful night. , t brings no terror unto me, , Nor in ,roul bee fear a part, he who& 84 4 1 0;i 1 d, and fierce, end free, Arenot op reckless as my heart. never knew until this hour The strengthtl4. does on passion wait ; never felt the f sled power • That nature gives to those who hate, /hate him for he stole from me The love with which my life was light, nd left It like the raging sisa All wild with dorms, this fearful night. I he billows heave and swell, and roll, And dash theft waters on the rocks n wit.; dismay,—without control, But I am calm amid their shocks Aye, calm with joy, and light, and glad, oveitiews no yfeasure sue. an .. .fy soul with wild delight is Mad, And laughs amid this wintry storm, No more I care for lore's soft spell, I only feel the force of fate, Impelling me to work no well That I shall tuto the joie of hate. 1; o winds, and tell him am he cower' Beneath the fury of thy blast, A stormy.with all Its awful powers, Shall buret upon his bead at last, rid when my vengeance on him falls Far happier the wretch shall be , 'f hat Ilea within the graveyard walls, Or groans In hell's eternity. oshannon, l'a.Jan. 11, 1888. A Rift in the Clouds A STORY ►OR MARRIIPI) rooim Andrew Lei' came home frOm his shop where he bad worked all day, tired and out of spirits; came home to his wife, who !sells!! tired and out of spirits. "A smiling wife and olieerlul home— s paradise it would be •" said Andrew to himself, RS he turned his eygs from the clouded face of Mrs Lee, and eat down with knitted brows and moody as pect. Not a word -was spoken -by either. Ur*. Lea sea gelling_ _slipper, and abs moped--about - with a weary step. she said at last, with a side glance at her husband. . Andrew arose and weat to the table He vaiveleimpled to 'peak an angry word, ut oorirrolled himitelf and kept anent, He could find no fault with the chop nor he homemade bread, nor the fragrant ea They would have cheered his in• and loan, if there had been any gleam Jf sunshine on the face of his wife. He „noticed she did not eat. 'Are you not well Mary ''” The words were on hie lips, but he did not , utter them, for the fuer of hie wifelook ed 10 repelant, that he feared sn irri tating rep'y. And so in moody silence, the twain mat together until Andrew had finished his supper. As he pushed his chair back, his wife arose and commenced cleiring oil the table, "This is purgatory," said Lee to him self, as he commenced walking the floor of their little breakfast room, with 4 bis hands thrust dowda into his frowners pockets, and, his obin almost touching his breast. After removing ail the dishes and tak ing them into the kitchen, Mrs. 'spread a green cover on the 'table, and placing • fresh trimmed lamp thereon, went out and abut the door after her, leiving ber husband alone with unpleasant fooling,. lie took a long deep breath as she did so, pausing In his walk, stood still for some moments, and then drawing a paper from his pocket, set down by the table, opened the sheet, and commenced read ing Singularly enough,the words upon which Ida eyes rested were "Praise your wife." They rather tended to increase the disturbance of mind front which he was suffering "I should like to find some 000aeien for praising mine." How quickly his thoughts expressed that ill natured senSiment. But bie eyes were on the page before bim,and he read on ; "Praise your wife man ; for pity's sake give her a little encouragement It won't hurt her." Andrew Lee raised his J eyes from the paper and muttered : "Oh, yea that's all trery, well praise is cheap enough. But praise her (or what ? For being sullen ' and mtking her home the most disagreeable place in the world 7" We eyes fell again on The paper. - "She has made your home own foriable your hearth bright and shining, your food agreeable; for pity's sake tell her you thank her,' if nothing more. She deal espedt It ; It will make her eyes open wider than they have for twenty years; but it will do her good for all that, and you, too.' ' It seemed to Andrew as if this sentence was written just (or him,' and just for the occasion. It was a oomplete answe! to his question—" Praise her for what?" and he f.O it ,also a rebuke. lie read no fUrther, for thought came too busy in a new direction. Maisiory was mimic- nag VOL. 13 ling him of injustice to his wife, She had always male his home as comforta ble for him"as her hands could make it, andlhad he °Fared the light _return of prat or coMmendation ? Had he ever told her Of. the satisfaolion ballad known or the comfart he had experienced 1 He was not able to recall the time or occa sion. As he thought thus, Mrs. Lee came in from _ else kitchen, .and taking her work basket froth the closet, place. it on the table, and sitting down without speaking, began to sew. Mr. Lee glanc ed almost stealthily at the work in he‘r hands, and saw the boltem of a shirt, which she was stitching neatly.' Ile knew Thal it was for him that she was at work. '•Praise your wife " The words were before the eyes of his mind, and he cL.uld notlook away•from them. But he was not ready for this yet. Ile still felt moody and unforgiving. The expres sion of his wife's face he intexpreted to mean ill-nature for which he had no pa tience. Hie eyeer'fell upon the news paper which lay spread out before him, anti iii.:iee7C the `senl ence4 "A kind, cheerful word spoken in a gloomy house is the little rift ik,the cloud that lets the sunshine ihrougNi." Lee struggled with himself a while longer. _t„lie 9.1111 ill-nature had to be conquered first; his moody accusing spirit-bad to be subdued. lie thought of many things to say, yet ho feared to say them lest his wife should meet his address with a cold rebuff:. At last, leahlog towLrd her and taking hold of the shirt bosom upon which she was at work, hasaii ru avoioe carefully made laled with kindness: °You are doing the work beautifully, Mary " Mrs. Lee made no reply , but her hus band dur not fail to nottoe that she loot almost instantly that rigid erectness with which she had bean sitting, nor thau be motion of her needle hmturiped. "My ohms are better made and whiter than those of any other man in the shop," said Lee, encouraged to go on. "Are they !" Mr. Lee's voice was low, and had in it a slight huskiness. Bbe did not turn her face, but her husband haw she lean ed a little toward him. Ile had broken the ice of reserve and all was easy now. His band was among tho clouds and a fee ble ray was already struggling through the rift it had made Yes, Mary," he answeted softly , -and I've heard it more i ban once, what a good wife Andrew Lee must have." Mre Lee turned her face toward her husband There was light In it, and light in her eye But there was something in the expression of the countenance that a little puzzled him "Do you think so "" she asked, quire soberly. "What a question I" ejaculated Au drew Lee starting lop and going round to the Bide of the table 'abate hie wife was sill ing.—"Wliat a quest ion Mary :" he repealed, as he stood beside her 'Do you '" It was all shessae '"Yes, darling," was the warmly spo ken answer, and be stooped down and eased her "How strange that you should ask me such a question!" "If you would on l y tell roe so now nod then, Andrew, it would, do me good " Mrs Lee erode, and leaning her fees against the manly breasr of her hus band, stood and wept What a streng light broke in upon the mind of Andrew Lee Ile had never given his wife even the email reward of praise for the loving interest she bad manifested daily, until doubt of love had entered her soul —No wonder that her face grew clouded, uor what he consid ered moodiness and ill-nature, took poet session c f her * spirit. "You are good and true, Mary, my own dear wife, I am proud of you--I love you, and my first desire.ie for your happineem 1 could always see your race in sunshine, my home would be the-dearest-place. on earth." "How precious to me - are your words of love and praise, Andrew," said Mr.. smiling up through her tears Into his face. "With them in my ears, my heart 'tan never lie in a shadow." How easy had been the work tot An drew Leo. He had swept his band &arose the cloudy horizon, and now the bright suaghine was strutting down, and flooding that ' home with joy and beauty. The weapon that no enemy osa parry is a bold and cheerful spirit. "MATE RZONTIII AND PEDEMAD 'UNION." i BELLEPONTE, FRIDAY JAN. 24, 1868. A Skull that had a Tongue. 1 When Dr, John Doane, the famous poet and divino of the reign of James 1:, attained possession Ohio first living, he took a walk into the chuiehyard, where the sexton war at the time ,dig ging a grave, Sod in the course of his labor threw up a skull. This skull the the dootor took into hib handb and found errivity - , -- nendiess naii - Vicking in- t temple of it,'wh holt he drew out secretly, and wrapped it in the cornerof his hand kerchief, lie demanded of the grave -digger whether he knew whose skull that was. Ile said it was a man's who kept a brandy-shop—an honest, drunk en fellow, who one night having taken two quarts, was found dead in Ws bed next morning. • "had he a wife?" • "What character does mho bear "A very good one : only the neighbors reflect on her because she married the day after her husband was buried." Thin was enough for the doe tor ,who, inUtSrlsrittents' 751"wiliitIng era, went to see the woman. HO asked her several quest ions,and among others what sickness her husband died of—she giving the same account ho had heirs received. Ile sudden ly opened the handkerchief, and cried in an autboratative "Woman do you know this nail 1" , She was struck with horror at the un expected demand, inetantly owned the fact, and woe brought to I* and . exe cuted. Truly might one say, with even more point thin Hamlet, that tbo ./kuil had a longue in it. AN UNDEHOILOUND RIVIIN la OHIC,A GRUA? NATIONAL IN not generally known that there exists about a mile west of Fremont, a remarkable underground stream, with a swift our rent2_ and no outlet above - the aortaee of the ground this side of Lake Erie. It was discovered several years ago on a farm North of the Four Mile House now owned by Mr. Sheffer, by a man who was returning from a day's chopping in the woods In walking over a slightly sunken place, he noticed a hollow sound and turning, &truck the ground with his axe The axe broke through and disap• peered and never has been heard from since. Further investigations showed a rook about six feet below the surface, with a crevice a foot or mote wide, in which water could be ere*: several feet below By tracing :its course further down and breaking through the cruet. the same phenomenon appeared again, and by dropping a piece of wood or other floating substance in the upper apetture, it RAM soon seen to pass the lower one, showing a strong current. A lead and line, let down to the depth of seventy feet, found no bottom,-The supply of water is only slightly effected by drouth, and a pump set up in one of the places above mentioned has furnished the pur est water to the neighborhood during the late dry season It is certainly quite a remarkable streitn.--F;x -- —A lady who went out shopping. promised to gel her little son a cocoanut She procured one with the husk on, in which state he had never seen one. On arriving.at borne she gavo it to the boy, who look at it curiously, smiled, suit laid it down ': Presently he said. "[do th6r, where's my cocoanut" just gave it to you, ' she replied. Taking it up again, he viewed it oontempltiously for a moment and exclaimed, —That thing a cocoanut '— I thought it was a watelfall '" --AHeoleil young lady, seated in a rocking-choir, reading the Bible, ex ev, here is a' grammati cal error in the Bible!" Mother, low ering her speck'', and approaching Ne reader in a very scrutinising attitude, eays,"Kill it! kill it !! It's the very thin, that has been eating the leaves and book-marks." —When sprung gentleman in Cana da wishes to pay , attention to a young it be winter, he undertakes to kill her with kindness—by taking her out and aleightng her. "I wonder what amulet my eyes to be co weak ?" Bald a fop' to a gentleman. "They are In a weak place." replied the latter, Week & Southern savings blalkestabliched by usgroes, collapsed because the depoiltore withdrew all the Nods to attend a draw. The New Reconstruction Bill Tluilump Congress, It would appear has passed another, a third, prormnoii, mento against the lives and liberties o the Southern people, end wall it "A New Reconstruction Bill." It is infamous cowardly and damnable, in all its part and bearings. The New York Times thoroughly underelaTidini the objects and t igerversatious of the " Radical Rump Rebels" in Congress. minutely explains its provinior.s when it says : The Reconstruoti:on Commateehas not quite got up to the standlird of the Southean Convent i JD. They, or some of them, have modestly asked that the civil offmett of their respective States be de clared vacant, and that they he filled by appointees of the Conventions. This seems to have been a little too much for the ()committee But, though the new meaauretthieh it has prepared does pro videlfilra great deal of confusion and for a central military dictatolxhip by wiiy Ofteniedy. • - It will not be easy, by : and by, to de fine the civil Government of the ten ex• eluded States, or to-say how or for what tbsy exist. Provisional they , have al ready been declared to be. Under the proposed measure they will be several shades less than Provisional, if it be possible to comprehend en orrinization which halt an exiistance and still has none. The notion is paradoxioal, but so will be the law. The 'State Govern meat will go on at present, but the Fed eral Elect:Sive sad- Jtillfebtry are forbtd den to recognize their validity, or the validity of anything thiy do. If Hun nloutt or Bradley were to organize a rev olutionary junta apd call it a Govern ment, it would have the same title to recognition at Washington that the pees sent Provisional Government of Vir ginia or Georgia will have under the law. The only authority that will be 'idea ble or recognized, as between the South and the Union, if this project hie+ law, will be the military authori alt will be a central military •uthorit , boo, The discretionary poweb now wielded by the District Comthanders is to cease; and the General-i9-chief, sitting in his office at Washington is to-lor the abso lute 'master of the South Ile is to he dictator The administration of the Re construction law, and of all laws will be under his exclusive supervision His nod will appoint or remove Ile may knock down Governer, Judges, Sheriffs and every civil tuna , ionary in a State, as un ceremoniously as he would knock down ninepins, and may play mischief gener ally, with none to call him to account. Provided only, the States prove, them selves reconstructed by adopting consti tutions filled with " loyal safeguards,' , and by sending to Washington Senators and Reprentatives with the mark of the Radical Cain sport their brows, the Getter abin Chief may do or undo, obey the law or break it, respect white men's rights or dieragard them, according to his sovereign will bud irleaeure. If Congress insists upon having a dic tator, Gen. Grant is certainly the best man for the office Cool, clear-headed, free from partisanship, and inclined to be magnanimous, he is tie best man on whom Congress can confer these enor mous powers. But there can be no mis take about the main fact Conyrrsa now proposes to operate by and through a dicta torship A moldier is to do the work which the Radicals are unable otherwise to do The sword is to take the place of statesmanship in the business of Recoil struotton. To Ibis complexion has the jugglery of the Reconstruction Commit tee finally COlllO Itihst signals° the oonatitutional das Ignstion of the Preaident Couttuantkr in-Chief I Ile in!ty oommand,but the new bill enjoins indifference to Me orders. In relation to the army and the South, be will be laid upon the (their until the dimatorehip make room for constitu tional goventatank—if that ever happen. 'To call this Reconstruction, is a per. vertion of the - terme. To imagine that it - will promote peace at ihe Huuth, or in any detree contribute to the restoratOn of the Union, were transparaet folly.— What it really amounts to is ar confession that Congress has sunk soteep into dif floultiee of its own making that It sees ho lawful methodleir . dellvermaos ; add like all such •bodies, in similar dilemma., Ayes to "miliwy &votive for relief. InoßiAsixa,—Ottr subiskiption list •-- 111 1 r 4 Tr / 7* -7k9 LONG YEARS AGO All for • pretty ghtlish taco, TwoAeolis of ropy Two laughing lips of Yerrnll tint And tyee of beaven'n blue. All for a• little dimpled chin, '1 A round throat snowy fair, A darling mouth to dream upon, ' And glorious golden hair. All fora tender cooing voice. 7And gentle Buttering 'All for the promise made to me, By story, telling eyes. AI for the pretty girlish face, For a band as wh ite'as snow, dreamed a foolish dream ill' love, Long, long years ago. THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER. —Beecher now orator from a 4lpit i ltl made of wood from the Mount of 011 a. —fn ritting for hie portrait Gira will not probably take apolitical attitude. --Christmas dish most prevalent in England—Fenian broils. --Sumner's political and social rerun. Biro c tion—pertnan en t separation. --"Thersia . a man in Danville, Va., who ate apidera ! -=—lklisiachusetta makes $21,000 out td its State prison annually. —The latest political caritture tepre Bents Grants platform.. Ile is tending on nothing. . —A man recently died of hydrophobia in New Orletmarota a bite received two JO/T8 lip —A. T. Stewart has given State &mail Creamer asBo,ooo house and lot for making a spleeh fur him. —lt cost $400,000 to find whether the lisug.tteky nunniktra were o r not. An expensive piece of information. , —lf the war was prosecuted fur the pre AAAAA tiun of the Iln lon, why are ten States kept out of it. —Brigham Ycung has -just married ble severity.thiroi-wife, and there was a big Jubilee over the nuptials. --A Chicago paper asks whetter Gen' Grant is in favor of purehasing territory. It of course wants to know whether he is a land Grant. • —The Mobile Advertiser suggeses that Dickens' reason for not attending church here is because be Is not interested in Amer ican politics. —The marks °lova( 11 wasting may be made indellible by passing the tongue over tt. liven breathing slow over the lines pro tect• them from erasure. rich old lady has recently died in flomersetshire, England, who for years could only sleep when riding in her carriage. Did she ever try a stupid preacher 7 —Pringle one of the Georgi.l registers, was defeated by a negro for the MSc. of Ser geant at Arms of the Reconstruction Con vention, and bung himself in disgust. "Nancy," said of girl to her companion, "which railroad train do you likethe but " 'That one," replied Nancy, "which furnlih et a 'park catcher." e--Morels are improving about the "Huh." The Boston Poet says "No bank was robbod in this o ity—so far as known to the public—yesterday, and no teller ran away.' —Many of the coffins of soldiers, buried by contract in St• Louis have - been found filled with sticks and stones. The bodies weredoubtlessxold by the contractors for anatomical purposes. —A Ie w days ago, wear loaded with barrels of elder ream thrown from a track at West Cornwall, Cl. The weather waa so sold that the eider became frusen, and wee taken away in paper hags by the people.. —A statiotican eatimatee that every married couple may calculate up 4,181,304 deicentlento in about 400 yeara• Let young [mop!, 111110 C end reflect upon the dreadful ooneciuencos of matrimony. .—George Franck Train has declared Oatmeal Grant to be the moat gigmatie sell ever put upon A Christian people, and com pared him to the Irishman's owl, that kept up a "devil of a thinking." —A man in Connecticut had ono of hie oyes put out by a piece of chip striking it while chopping wood, soma time since, and last week he was thrown from a sleigh, and will probably lute the other eye from the in juries received. _ --A large bundle, which wis tumbled about °tithe ((round in the hurry of extri• cating the aulferern at Angoli, last emit ted a wail, and on 'being opened was found to contain a six months old - baby, without a imolai upon ite body. T.lse uipther was deid. —Judge Clark or the Supreme court of New York, has decided that gold and silver &rano longer lawful money of the irountry, but merchantable oommoditlee, and Promis sory notes made payable- in gold mast be paid in gobror surretiey of an egniva!ent value. ~Rocesiblourrr, Mecklenburg Co., Vs., Jan. 6th. 1868. f MR. 1;: G. hismr—Deefr Sir: _ Christmas and New Year's Days. are both gone. And if the New Year, (which has $n reality begun) ii fraught with new pleasures, brighter hopes, or " bet ter times," they are rather stow in mak ing their appearance, for things in gen eral wear the same ;spool thy did a month previous, tilt this exeeption, vi.: very few of the freedmen have be gan work. Around the stores, groceries, and "pop-shops," may be seen plenty of negroes idling away time, and drinking the whiskey, bought by the proceeds Of a night's plunder. A great, many bring forward as an eicuse for idledess, the unsettled state of the times, or id other words, "waltia' to see what's.gwitte to happen." "0.4 I am unable•to say what this toaypor tend,quit am inclined to think it relates to some of the many rumors that have been afloat for the last few years ; such as the confisoation of land; •laud• - mllz nopoly ; social equality, riegiO suprem acy or sonie Gulch " thundering,— m tug," of the Rs. teal party. At this season .of the year plan ters are buoy preparing for a crop ; but numbers of the negroes are unwilling to enter into any contract for this year ; or for a year at a time. Now, if a planter does not engage laborers for the entire year, he is, ten to one. left'ina bad pre dicament; for if he were to engage hands by the month, the unprincipled negroes would leave him at the very busiest season of the yeal-, which comes ih August and September ; when the broiling nun opens the pores on a niggers book, and mouses him to emit a very savory odor. Soch an one as would be - relished in a Radical par lor; a most delightful scent it is, and doubtless this sweet perfume—in com parison with which Phalott's extract of night blooming cereus, sinks into utter insignificance—was, what first attracted the admiration of the Rads, and of courre one cannot but respect the ohoioe of lunettes, however ridiculous that —E4 rharop choice may appear "So I will e'en leave them to, enjoy, The goods the gods provide." •A very striking seine occurred a few days ago at a hog killing ;" (no very romantic plage for a scene) for the sake of mystery I shell omit mimes. and give pert feelers est they oessurred --- A t four o'clock, a. m„ the line funer al pile was lit, and the negroes began to assemble for the bloody work of death. And as the gentlemen were * liberal, the negroes were drunk of course. Then began a dance round the "scalding tub" that resembled the 'tidiest war (knee.— When, le! all of a sudden was heard a trrible noise, by one of the Etbeopian performers, who was found in the centre of about forty gallons of hot water.— Another in the attempt to rescue him from Siloam's pool, divested the top of his creek= of enough " curl hair" to stuff a medium sized sofa. Another of the colored chivalry seized hirrhande full of clotted blood, and holding it up, esclaime‘with the voice of a Stealer. "So I is gwine to wash my hands in white folks; blood, some of dese days before long." And the few white men that were superintending, becoming al armed at this turn of affairs, armed themselves with knives, for their mutual protection ; and it was well they dl.d— For a plot was formed for their assassin *Ulm, but was luckily discovered. The sight of the kniles, and s little summa ry chastisement Inflicted on the ring leaders, had the good effete-et tranquil izing the murderous crew, who however, continue t 6 vow Vaseline:a on tie whites. Whether they will parry their threats in to effect or not, remains to be seen. I am-convinced of the fact that they should like to do so, but I do not think they possess the courage to carry their threats into execution. I may say more on the subject another time, for the present adieu EbIANUEL NOLL. - —We were amused the other, even ing at three little girls playing among the sage brush in a back yard. Two of them were "making believe keep Louse" a few yards distance from each other—neighbors as it were. One cf them Bays to the third -little girl: -There now, Nelly, you- go to Sarah's house, amt stop A little while and talk, and then ytu come back and tell what she says about. me : and then I Will talk a bout her, then you go and toll her all I say, and then we'll get mad atld don't opeilciiretich other, just like our mothers do, you know. 0! thee/I-be such fun," —A per , 'it'll, girl boasted to one of her little ft tends that her - father kept • earrings. "Alt, but," Was the trium phant reply, "my father dries SU om nibus." —An enraged, bookend in Omaha eought to fake the life of wife by loading a stick of firewood with gun powder. Hs. managed to blow the house up, but the wife still lives to punish him. Two lowans waded the ?dials,lppt in rubber ,boots, at Seek* the other dy.• LOW from Virginkt.
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