• WE WILL NE VEh LEAVE THE LAND. IT hi. Cliolloll O. ILIUM .111. Commode! you stoodleslde me ^ /- Tn thahottest of the Ogh. ' And you braved the storm of Battle With all . • strong teen's might ! N o w, oomratte, stand up h earer, Grasp me firmly by the hand— A by Ileaven with mo You will never leave the lend! 'Tis the laud our grandmid fillers Won from forest and from foe, hlsde theirs by noble daring, And missy a bloody blow ! Our Rioters here lie buried, And here our metberslie! Our bunee must rest besidetbenis When Clod wills we shall/le. We cannot yield to menials. And to strangers hard and cold— We can not yield the grave yard, And our fathers' mansions old ! And no threat of chain and halter, And no threat or prison oell, Shall drive us weeping eFiles From the land we love lo well ! We hereon( feared the battle, Nor the rain chilling Wind! We shall not 'brink (ruin mullfeting, As shrinks the craven bend And doing well and suffering well Shall pass bony the night, And all its sorrows be forgot In the grory of thellght ! Then trust in my brother! Our Where' Ond and ours, Who him blessed us with such eunehints— Such fruits of glowing flowers, And, comrade, we'll not leave h•r, But bide with her till we die! And in her sacred bosom Shell our wearied bodies, lie! 110/rimore Eposcopai Methodist ' [RUT the WATCNY•II The Chronicles of Tattletown. I= CIIAPI' IS It X It wan quite dark when Mrs Burke and Ellie reached home. Miss Clear moot had learned from the servente of thearrival of troops in the neighborhood and felt extremely mix:tons about ten ; Ler anxiety increasing as the afternoon wore on, and still no signs of their re turn, She had looked into the dinning room where, the ten Wile was spread, and to consideration of their long fest, bad ordered coffee rosined of their cue- - tomary Alp of ten She hod given or dere to that effect, un I was returning to the Bitting room, when the sound of c it nage wheels quickened her stepe, and she hurried out to meet them. She took Lbw wrappings and bonnets horn them, and Mrs Burka and Ellie sat before the bright fire, hungry and tired, but grate fat for their safe return Never home eeemed more welcomed, but as they looked . itrOunirtiin -silting room - they though of those far distant, who had mode those comforts and luxuries only the more appreciated. Aunt Judy had nothlng to complain of as regarded the appreciation of her millinery chlorin, but for the last year the materials, with which she usually' compounded such wonders of her art, had sndly degenera led , but ge'nius had triumphed over these obstacles, and none who chanced to taste the firagrant coffee would hate supposed that paiebed . sweet potatoes lied beau eubst out d for the scanty sup ply of Mocha, Wil Ich she hoarded miser ly for extra ()erasion,. . though, what (hone occasions might be had never been explsiord, os they had not preseute 1 themmelvea as yet , neither would they hove supposed it. sweetened by the homely maple suger,the finer material of white cru+hed, being reserved oleo for eats] important ~ccasi.np. They returned ir the milting rum af ter tea, and Ellie, picking up!. hook hp. gen to read NITI Burke had pleaded a neadenche as au excuse for retiring ear ly, and Mite Llearafout was knitting a constant occupati,n with her' Stu( 'Wait a wonderful knitter, Ind elnee the us ual supply had becu rut all durang the war. the nimble fingers had !supplied the plantation hands with that needful arti cle of dress, mtopl..ngs , Ilse wool fur which 'wan-aspen, under her immediate supervistoli, by Aunt Nancy, who know her office as nurse tu the family had becom e unnecessary, contributed this talent to rbe_general welfare. Ellie was no knitter, a fact her Aunt much be moaned, on much time, Which she eon sidersd thrown away on books, or fancy work, might he bet's: employed Ellie 'ell to, tired to become interested in her book, which had !Alen on her lap, and she sal and watched the flying needles whose rapped was not !be least impeded ha Mine Clearnionts nodding, for her Ahnle usual afternoon !siesta had been inierupted by their absence, and she now sat up until her usual bed hour, for Miss Civet:moat water n nasi.len lady of moat methodical habits, and it wan ,• rare occasion that took her out of hir beaten track 'The monotonous! ticking Of the clock eu the mint's, and the equally monotonous clicking of her Aunts unty ing needles had suede her drowsy, end eke put aside her book with the intention' of reilring.whetr old :stolen looked in, Ellie Galled to him, am he wis about 'fleeing the door - litmon,tell Beaky she *ow °waist() me soe. r t,bink 1 *halo go) to'ruy room." "l'es Mies, I'll tell her, ' and he left 111 room Kilie 4ruueed hrr Aunt, who folding her knitting — arolulli: Inid It in her work basket, then lighting her own Can die went to her room. Mlle" waited for Beaky, but able did not come, and oon- woo, taiga - P • PI IIII 1 • oluded not to wait for her, ~he **tut out to the hall for her own candle, •nd Will met by Simon. "Hag you sold Beaky off nowhere, Mine ?" "No', why do you ask?" —1 cant fine heiNise, and none ob de kitchen darkies hub Been her since you cum back." "Never mind, I dare say aloe is io my room Perhaps she has fallen asleep before the fire!" "Prape she be Miss. I tole , her to make a•flre in yer room ; but the lazy wagabon haen't no hominess to go and fall aeleep' I'll give her a rare setting down fur it, And he went off to the kitchen, while Ellie went up to her own room Old Simon had fully determined on Becky's setting down, but Aunt Judy's comfortable supper had somewhat mod erated lite anger, and when an hoar la ter the delinquent appeared in the kitch en, he Iwd• forgotten his wrath, and and Becky, and was nodding pleasantly at the fire, accompanying the movement with an unmistakable snore. Aunt Judy bad cleared the kitchen sf its nightly' netlors, tintl was busy setting her buck wheat cakes loi rising. Becky gave the fire a stirring. and tingle Simon awoke, and witlf him awoke hit wrath —liana you gone to had yet, you leoy •ekabond ! %Thar wee you when your young Mtgeua rouged (or you! You'e gut to trapseing of late, And I ',lee want you to remember young, omn &hit Miss Lilen puts up wtd you kerleeeness, 1 wont ! So you trepee off now, die minite —Fee gwine to sleep in niis dressing room!" said the inrulnernble Becky, not stirring “what'a dal fur' What new wrinkle am datt Am Lou to good to sleep wid niggers "No," maid Becky, doggedly, as tho the ezplauation was given grudgingly "She's been eiteer:d of do B u kite r , Bud le a frstd to Bleep by heruell. She told toe to git my bed clothes and come tip' dor " 'Wen you'd better be penrt atiout it, I kin tell you% Fs gwine to shut de Lannon up now die minute," put to Aunt Judy "Default for I kin git 'm to Iwo reconds " "Dan what de debt' you waitiu fur gal' If you apnea to pu in du house alter I locks do door you's 'mistook, I kin tell you "' and Simon sh'ook him. self, and went off, not, however, without promising to leave the tack door open After be bad guns Becky became quite coufiden'tial with the old cook •Aunt Judy. can't you men de firs a bit' W'e'e gwino to bob company Aunt Judy was wrathful •If you spies to bob auy of yodr nigger beaus a satin up here all night, your,eateu your bread without your butter Clar off dar gal, and dour you come front me wid yer lo•eaach nousence! •No taut none ob deem.'' lien I dolr know who it kin be, dont it be Jo debil at di, time of night' elm ull gal, I wants to shut de kitchen up —in a nnuite, you ,lee men de tire a bit '" and she darted out of the kitchen, and in it few moments returned with a person whose hea•y bouts made a mound that caused Aunt Judy to look around, mill drop the ',hovel lobe held in, her hands. .•Do Lord itab mercy: It am Manna Charles or he'll ghost, aide% out• or de odder De Lord'hab l inercy ! wher you drop trout "Not from the mitten Aunty," said Charlie Compton, for it was indeed Ilion. "l i ve 'none through the lint to wee home fonts, but am afraid to go home se the Federal headquarters pre nc near. I'm half pierced, Aunt Judy !" Uo Durd hab maroy on din ole sinner fur tram you ntan dar and me not bo 'limn to get you •otnting to ea ! knows you's mug starred, Who rbber beard of a soldier\lnti mistral. r • 1 •Indeed I am, .%utit Judy. I've had nothing to itat einoe yesterday morning, and tiara: walked thirty miles stone then." -De Lord heb 11141(7 All die cum due cursed war. Now der! I diti'nt mean. tur to eey duet wicked words, but de debit, rot holt ob me den, and shuck it out utanel" and tee old woman went out and got another nrmfurof wood, with which to replenl;ll the Are, and then went about getting something to 04t. -• Sleanwhile Becky bad again disap peared, sod after sodie'tisaii had slartad earns batik. 'Aar,. Cl's!.lip, I 'so told "STATE RIGNTS AND FEDERAL UNION." TE, PA., _FRIDAY. Niles Ellie an she a wait in fur you in de aittin:rodm sir. She's en.) , most. wild to see you, she bo." Now this fast assertion of Becky's we. clearly a breach of confidence, a s reposed in her as lady's maid, but Char lie needed no assurance of her howls desire to see him. Two years had pas sed since they had met, and only one letter had reached him in answer to that last appeal, but it had been sufficient to comfort him for all those long weary months, and gave him bright hopes for the future When Ellie left the elUing room that night, after bidding her Aunt good night, she went to her mother's room to make come inqury as to her headache, but her soft knock wa■ unanswered, and ■he oonoludod not intrude any further and went to her own room Here she expected to find Ilecky, but although the fire burned brightly, there, was no other evidence of her even har ing been there for some time , but Ellie was lenient to her favorite servant's faults, and this was not the first time ehe had made her toilet for the night unassisled. tier sable attendant's short comings load hitherto been accounted for by her haying a folio wea, but that im portant peivonage bud recently repudia ted the claims of love, and was now en joying the beuebts of freedotn . on a Philadelphia work hOun,, where he had been sent by some philanthropic police man who had taken bun up as a vagrant, and undertook to improve his morals by ajittle bard work, and Ellie had ready tly su rmised that the fatthful Uecky, more constant than 'her emancipated lever, had found the eords of true love stronger than those of gratitude and dn ty—and taking edvintage of the protec tion afforded by the presence of Federal troops in the net- hborhood, hid made good Ler escape Ellie felt a keen pang of regret, us slit:came to this conclusion, Toc one to whom she was truly attaohed and accestotued to such treatment as that of a Coro to eervant, would find her search for tret•doin somewhat different to the lazy life she had led at '•llriery Knowe " Ellie eat down, and taking her bible read her usual portion for the day, and then knelt down, as had becn her custom trout childhood, to commend herself and thine she loved into the watchful care, und keeping of a kind Providence, As she rose from her knees she heard soft fouteleps to the ball, the door opened, and Becky walked to Ellie did not reprove her, a. she cer tainly deserved to be, but continued to uudresa, lesving Becky to make her ex cuses, but she caught a look in Becky's eyes, that caused her to mampend the op peratiun of undressing, and alto asked. nri bat is it Becky ? ' got row:: oewii for you,'• wit the other with n•hfond grin. "%That is it, a letter'" No Dliee bei(er'u dot "' '•t me peeky, don't stand 'there' talk• tog tiopseume Ilelp Ina to uudietts I'm both sleepy and tl, and in a hurry to get to bed." *Tee gut new.' let wit nake you open your eyes Net 'nougli Ire kin Who'll you tu4t....when I tells you .larea Charlie Compton IS flown in *min room dts minute'" E flee iiiiele4l ot low cry of delight, nod looked wt the girl unpins-I.lloy, — Becky do not trille with me ! tell mete tt indeed Me Compton ?" jes ne sure no I to here: , and while Ellie *ant dressed, undertook to explain howalte knew "You set, 1 was a corning Iro". _de qua: tern to de house, ithen I heard de carriage oomin tip tie road, when jee as I got right to (tat clumNuf blackberry bushes, aomo body called my name slit, and fust I thought it was de debil, and I started to run, but soniebday °Oohed me, anti when I looked round it was Mattes Charlie Compton lie say, liecky,you mutt not let eyed.) , one kbow I'm here, or Ittgred crate will make me a prisoner 5 ou mus get ma in do ittlohen when all ob dent has gone to bed,.and let young ?distress know NM here, and (et God's sake Beaky get we something to eat, I'm al most starved.' I was afeerd to come nigh you all do evening fur fears should let it out. so I jes kept to de nigger quarters till I knowedebery one was in bed and den I slips bun in de kitchen, and after he bad warmed Weser,' domed miller you." 11 Ellie hurried %lowa to the sitting-room but she' found no one the . re.. Becky had told blot to follow her,but be had waited until a message came from gills herself, ETA ) - . - } l r - et, . ,____. ._ ___ ____.________, _ _ 4 adfmat , J ME MNii who. stood with beating heart awaiting him cowing. Cautinusly the back door opened, and manly footsteps otos° near er and nearer, and in another moment she was in hie arms, There was no need of words to welcome him, and the long monthe orpstient 'retching, waiting,and hoping, was repaid its that tone blileful meeting. She dieengafied herself from him, and sad down betside iiinther hand in his; while softly murmured words of endear ment fell from his-lips, each one answer ed by a happy trr from her— flow she worshipped h tut, travel-stsined, care worp and weary, yet the same glorious image of his Maker that had captivated his girlish fancy, and won her_ woman's heart lfe caught her glance, nod an swered "I'm a Confederate soldier, darling, which tntivt he my excise for my ragged appearance We lost all our baggage two weeks ago, and my boots, n one , of the best, could not stand the wear, and, tear of thirty miles travel " "There's no need to apologize, dear Charlie for your appearance. Were you bike •irieitt stranger, there could be no need of it, then of course you need mike none: but how selfish I am to forget you are .1u hungry and fired' I will ring the bell d itnd order supper '' Her hand had hardly left the bell han dle when the dour opened, and Simon en tered, and placed wine on the table, and and Ellie pouring out a glans full banded it to Charlie ••••Vou kuow,' she said smilingly, -it Is ;sot customary for me to offer genie mei-, wine, but piu must take this as a knodtcfne. After 90 ISM& fast, aft wilt do you more good than to eat your sup per first ' Charlie eat sipping the delicate wine tn, drop, strin.th and comfort In a few moments tdimon returned, bearing a tea tray upon which Aunt Judy had placed a supper fit for a king, and now wee the first on . caniou in which the hoarded Mocha mode its ap pearance, indicating its destiny,that had remained a mystery to the family for so long While Charlie wan *enjoying it with a zest that would hare repaid Aunt Judy for her trouble. Ellie /Opt out, and returned with her mother, who was as much delighted as surprised to find him there Ile bad a . letter from Willie to hie mother, and to Ellie innumerable 111 P M lag e ••lt was something antique' (or ue to retire en early,•' said Mrs Burke, ••but I had a headache from my tong fasting to day, end retired early," and she gave .11111 n deeoriptidn of their ride home,•tnd their niaziety while they remained iiithe neighborhood sorry," said Charlie, ••that Kllie disturbed you "Not at all I should sever have for given her if she had permitted you to leave without seeing me She tells , me you must leave early to morrow morn tog' Do you think you will have re covered from your fatigue sufficiently mu., I bad hoped to see them all' at houre, but the risk is althoet too great Eugene Mason is with me, or rather warCand I could not persuade kiln to come here Ile his rashly een toted to the Ilall, and I fear he will be made prisoner, yerhapit taken, and hung as u spy. I however, emit Alfred along with him, to watch him, and we have promised to meet again ■t the old church. We erre on our way to Rich t:mit:l With dispatches The lines Wave been cot, so we cannot Bend them other wise than by ROMIG of the command " —Pour little Daisy!" maid Ellie. “I hope nothing gill happen to leim,if only for her sake ! She will be delighted to see him !" Cborite ebook his head "I fear he ie too imprudent. fie thick. of nothing but nosing her again Mrs Burke lett them after a while, and it was late in the night ere they separated. Simon was nodding in a chair by the fire in the chamber, to whioh Charlie wet show, and on the bed was a complete change of linen, belong• the to, Willie, also boots and soaks.— The old 'negro waked up at his entrance and politely informed Charlie that the bath mom was pr epared for him, and led the way. On bin return from hi e bath Charlie dientissed him with some_ think 'more substantial than thanks and rhfreakepod by the delightful bath,. •n.l the luxury, -of- fresh linen, throw. tilmseff on the bed end was Soon - wrip ped in a slumber too' -profound for dream , . . pro Dr ouitisust).l' MAY 1 1868. Speech Which Is a Speech In the Virginia •'Reoonetruolion" Con vention en Friday, when the autileol. of appointing three commissioners to nego tiate a loan to pay the expenses of the At. Convention was under ditoussion ; Lewis I,.indsey became very much ex cited on the miry question, and raising his voice to a very _high pitch, said Mister President, I is here, eah,ae a rep resentatlve man, and I dtket.l.hank no holly but de Commonwealth and my con stilitents of 'Ttiohmond. lam exposed, salt, to be ais lenient as anybody else on de levy question; but, Rah, I suppose dat it is an abpurd idea to tie down his body so ridickilie on the account of Gen Schofield or anybody else, when Con- Steam is the legal power of the appeal I don't abdicate de Idee of placing col ored men on die committee to go off der to Washington to git money, and I is pleased tt see dey has obstained from going on de records, and I hope dey will obstnin from wotin for negroes for office at de election when dey is onable to go on a emall*ahnamittee to combine at de medium at de Treasury -Dey my we 'tint got no right to move. We has, and we'll claim em to It is a ritliokilis itlee dat a legal body like die, founded upon de word of Congress, hos not de power of de appeal lode vupreme body because Gineral Schofield say not. Congress is de body of de appeal for anything, and everything, and I don't car of Gineral Schofield nor anybody elle, because lie atilt got nothing to say about it, As to die question of de screw loose in the treasury, I amt got nothing to say. he case I don't won't to desiorellie any man's character The question is not to git de money, but to resort to de su preme power We are de diem ire power for n 9 Who objects to scientific men bolo placed on - des records , Lewis voice had reached a ,i'afetting pitch Mr Babcock arose to an inquiry wished to know if there was any deaf members present, that the member should speak nu loudly! Lewis. "I is very much obliged to my Almighty God for de power of epeakin he has given me, ant I em pleased in de itire dat he don't cons It any member on die floor how high my voice is raised ,kII I Its•jo say is, hat I don't &sire to enter into the "question of de 'crew bootie in de Treasury, liekone Idoesn't desire o cerimintze de character of any man 'Tie my duty not i o eoriminize men's character hut attend to my own busi ness.'" [Laughter Kt/MICKY BY A YOUNII Wulf hap py newly married couple mopped in (NEI cinnati on their wedding trip, from 130orgetown, Kentucky, putting up at the Merchant's llotel,o day or two since —While 9tey were there, the husband, a ,jovial, gintletnarily young man, in the happiness of his heart indulged in such good liourSon, as he could find at the first class liars In POMO way or other he became so confused, that in awaking the day after his frolic, he could not account cot -the mysterious disnppearanoe of the email trifle of about $1,001) that he had with him the night before lie told the landlord of the loss, and land lord gent for the police, who immediately interrogated the gentleman as to where he had been . the night before, Ile frank ly !Wiled that the whiskey had knocked hie memory, and he oould not inform them While they were thus talking, the young wife wan listening, and think ing her little joke had got far "enough, and tho desired warning had proved sufficient, site Dame forward and 'fated that she hid taken it-:--had taken it from her husband's pocket, simply to chow hula hove easily the same thing could be done by anybody else w y K. K.—The guklux Klan ate kall ed up o to kastigate or l, kill any 'mitered k ea who may a pprove lip konstilu lion being kookokted by the kontempti- Lhie karpet- baggers at the kapitol. Knob Kiln in kommanded by • karniverou. kernel who ' kollektvitie- itomeadea with Imre and Inautioo kommettentste with the magnitude of the kaose. Wit konvened,they must korrekt!, give (oar kountereigon -..--Theee are; Kill the kullered knee; kiss • out the karpetobsg ger.; krueb the konvention; karry ken seArat ism ; koaiulion to konvelle; kon: federates will kooker. .01 konree tire krestae kimettierable koaetreastlea among tad images sod their Wiling koadyktorr, who kalkulata that their. karser may be kut abort byirateetrophiee Kure. therkan't komplain. • • • • • Bishop Coxe's Opinion of American Women. In w recubl pastoral pr. Arthur WeT.-, 4.n4 Cass. rays *he, I tot the tawdry fashion. the costly vulgarity end the wicked extrava gance of the timee,l feel sore that thous ands of American women are strangirs to the 6ral law of refinement—sinspicity in'tnennors and attire. When I Nee t hat thousand so TAmerleas !omen read the most ehameful romances end •the most destSeditsg nawlipapare ; frequent the:vilest dramatic ,entertaia- Meets and join lb dances to shocking be owned among Christians; I feel that Christian nations are becoming: too 0. 18 few, and that civilised heathenism a re turning to the fields we have wrested from the Indians. When I read, daily, of the molt un godly divorces and of Mores against Boatel purity and against human life it- , self, wbroh are toolross to be mentioned more particularly, I feel that too many, of bur country-women are without God in the world, and radical reforms are necessary in the ',Teems. of eolmsation on which the young women of America are dependant for their ,training. • When I see thousands of households io which young girls are reared for a life of pleasure, without reference to duty, I cannot wonder at these results, nor at the misery in which they involve families and communitiev. Sow the wind and reap the whlrlmlnd I AN a ( Christian bishop, therefore, I make my appeal to you, Christian wo man, and I ask you to begin the refor mation, by faithfully bearing your testi• mony against all that tends to the degra dation of our sea, and the more so,wheri such came is not only winked' at, but receive countenance in oiroles which ought ta be exemplary." Once ahe was ,NEther, and it was Mother, I'm hungry, Mother mend my j ticket, Mother get my dinner, and Mo ther, with her loving hands would spread the bread and butter, and stow away the luncheon, and new on the greet web, her heart brimming ,with affection for the imperious little curly pate that made her en many etept and distracted het with bin bojeterous mirth. Now she in the old woman : bill etT4i4 not think It Italia. ATM, Some -La_ that. She looked do itleotigli the Ware yearn and 1.111/ her boy to manhood grown,and he eto*d transfigured in the light of her own beautiful love. Never wan thole • world and the etall of her declining ECM Aye, he was her support even then, but she did not know it. She never reta iled that it was her little boy that gave her strength for daily toil—that his slender form was all that upheld her over the brink of a dark despair.—She only knew bow she loved the child and felt that amid the mists of ages his love would bear her gently through ite in firmities to the dark ballleadingthrougb to the life beyond. But he has forgotten the mother's tender ministrations nor Adrift from the moorings of home, he is cold, selfish, heartless, and Mother has co sacred meaning to the prodigal. She is the old woman, wrinkled, grey, lame and blind,, Pity her, 0 grave and dry those 'Asa that roll down her furrowed cheeks! lla've-eompaesion on her set4itive heart, and offer it thy quite rest, that it may forget how much it longed through a careless childhood but in return Tor al this wealth of tenderness, has only given bank reproach. Tuts END Or A "MAN AND linotu►a." Itomeroy disposes of an an cient darkey in tbe following style: An unpretending els& of on hitinble bass wood, at one end of the square, a portion in the sand, where the emanci pated duet of the •eterais reposes, tells the passing traveller in this simple Ma nner the tragic etory : N native of Yazoo County, hliasizeippi Horn • •lave • Bred s slave. aria starred to death a free American citizen. Hie was a • brief ciieer, an eseeflent ReW hand and a loyal aoldler,and partiol tie eitlaen, who voted often and , earnestly, and finally,dled o( too touch liberlyand.ten little grub Ctintous.—The New York Tones (lied publican) in alluding to the rejtfotylon of negro suffrage In Michigan by 80,000 majority, asy; it Is a little singular that in spite of the veil strong det ermicatien of the Northern States to impose univer sal negro suffrage upon ate South, not one of them has voted as yet to accept It themselves. That they may be eduoated to do so in time Is quite likely, ,but Ile clear that considerable training Will be required Meantime.' It Is still more singular that, despite the Net that every State in the Union, North or South, East or West. Is opposed to Der° suffrage. J . :digress should en deavor to force upon all iherpeople' thts odious measure. —finiteslatt's wife discovered her old hen Mtge; In thit 'bawl( hard,. httd bust tali her Sent. Boon letter tire poor wife eetod lh mash (melted, and NO: My dear Irtutralatt,' I took the 'e from Browne, and she hair gone and lid onto an old meet az. Let her let, until the htlictus old fellow, It she XXIX ' on X lie rosy be he'll hatabet: The old Woman. MEI
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