WOUNDED. pr PIUIIIII OMIT An night like • coward I moaned, I cried!! in my despair ; My burden of sorrow bath been made Too great for me•to bear ! Too great to bear anehared le Lae bitternes'. of my heart; Yet I eland with my wratohod soul alone. Lim struck from help sport ! But oor bidden griefs are slow, Thu , torture long ere they kill; m And my acn hear hes had its y, Had its c ry a nd it t is still. • Ash know for a wounded man The bravest thing to be done Is to hide It silent and fight Till the victory Is won. There aro sorrows sent to all, That best sire borne alone; • And the world's true heroes are of thus. The world has never known. Stm!Nay comrades bear me off, And break the ranks of the host, When every man on the field of life Ts needed at hts post • ~ And countless women and men, Whom only their Bather seer, Lire on with heavier griefs than mine, And how am I better than these? 0 aim, with wounded souls, 0 woman, with broken hoarts, That hare suffered since ever the world was muds, And nobly borne your parts ; Buffered and born as well A► the Antkyre whom we name, That went rejoicing home, tiriougU Or ringing through the flame; Fe have had of Him reward For your battles fought and won, Who gireth His hislOied rest When the day of their wort is done Ye heel changed foi perfect route The path of the wrap ye trod ; And laid your burden/ softlyslown At the merciful feet,of Ood ! [ For the WATC/INAK The Chronicles of Tettletown. IVY )1111011.11A 11 A T T:4t XXI Another eventful year went by The war wee over. The sacrifice of so many brave lives had not proved acceptable to. the "God of battles." The Confederate banner bad been sadly furled, torn and bloody, never to be again uhlW•l4l, save to future generations, who will look upon its dead, but mot disbustered reverence and love ler those who died so nobly fighting for it "There , it lay furled forever For Its people's hopes were deed Brave Men, who had faced death upon a hundred battle Gelds, crossed their arms upon their .hearts where hope bad ceased to beat, and wept as they tiled upon athe desolate !resent—the more desoffite and hopeless future ; `open the wives, mothers and dough tore whom their arms were powerless to,protect from the coming storm of adversity. and a tyranny worse than death. It was tbt close of • summer's day that we. ) ment, as we did a year ago, at Compton Hall; but the scene is not one, as then, of hope and gladness Time has brought changes here as else: where, and has touched with no gentle fingers the hearts of soma of the group gathered there in an upper chnmber,end around the conch whereon lay dying the friend and playmate of Augusta's child hood. Ellie bad prophesied trill& when she said her life would be • brief one ; yet the sweet, calm face betrays no re gret that it should be so. Ifer father glands beside her couch, and as he gases upon his child and thinks dial a few months the once happy family circle *lll be once more united forever, he feels that "it Is well." Well. that the bright eyes should clone ere oft she loved bad gone befits her. Well, thakhis arms should tionsiga the household darling to those of death more merciful than the bitter present, Use hopeless future, Bat the group. around the couch was not complete, and often would the dim ing eyea brighten and the pale taco gladden with is wan smile, as bar father would reply to her inquiring look. "Yes darling, they will be here soon—very soon ;" while Ilona who watched be side her listened not alone for the voices of loved ones, but for the swift messen ger of death, who even now stood upon the threshold. Ott the opposite side t f the bad stood Charlie Compton wick folded arms and a brow darkened bithe shadow of grief and care.: Ellie's baud held her fathirl,, but her glance was oftenekt for'hint Op' loved with • love that had bees true even Unto death. Ipleke aat M the open window look-, is( out upon the LOMA, where, saunter leg up *IA dawn beneath the linden; s !Unloose - + ihtito beautiful *had of air. months. end 'die ' , arils antis *awe ander the at , 4hieh sat Atirtata, would 011114,ifititi arils to her molter, and seetz,ffitcliblitlase winging baby waya , Ao blvilskasae.the beteg arras- . :4 8Itia tiottra'eltatd arilaund upenthe stilt Itniipttiiron 'ajr, l itidOtt tltoi girl raised ititt 4 9e ld ,atul Metaitedi wbikle ears not lanninitor, ottught the wound of an ar, ) 110)1YYhl oarrlige, , :whtott it few oto• !ben.t,nnfter paused 'before tits ditOr. tront,it apron ,Euge4 9 ,lwilll drill 11•81 0: edielandiav tealight then opening, hie Itraw . Dattrir-apirons -Into them, and .roe safely depilated upon the staple of, the portioo, and then he turned to *lnlet VOL. 13 BELLEFONTE, PA., FRIDAY. JULY 24, 1868. NO. 29 Aunt Esther, whose movements were rather guarded and deliberate Jo cones que*q of a mysterious bundle she oar ried in ber_arttia, and whioh Eugene took carefully, while she collected the numerous baskets, shawls and tryikiling base which the carriage oonlottied. Tht bundle in Eugene'earmenstirred and gave forth a ecuord that prooeeded from nothing ittinimate, whereupon Aunt Kettle( dropped the baskets and shawls and resumed the oe. of it. ""Taint to be 'pealed minter der a gammen should know how to hold 'em anyhow, let lone de rust one. • It comes onoatural like you Bee, and de chile can't take to de way all it once," ebe said apologetically, as she hushed the bundle into silence upon her capacious bosom. Eugene picked it the discarded has keti and shawls,ind followed Daisy vind Claudia into the hell, where Mrs, Compton had met them, and where„they divested themselves of bonnets and and wrappings. "I was afraid we would be too late, Jeer mamma," said Daisy, Re mho kissed her mother, and put her arms• around neok in her old way. "The road from Clareville never !seemed longer." "No dear, not too tale, but we cantos hope she will last many minutes longer. Poor Mr. Burke ! ho seems desolate in. deed, so soon 'to loose Ellie after his wife's death"' "She 'seems anxious to sea , you my child," she said to Claudia, as they inti mated their desire to see her immediately • and pererai times I hare heard her ea press aifearnest wish to Charlie that she might lire until she could see um s all onoe more together " Claudia and I) 4 tisy went slowly and softly pp to Ellie's chamber, while Eu gene, who had wailed until they were out of night., took the bUndle f.otu Aunt Esther's arms, and relieving -it of its oo•erings, placed in Mrs Compton's arms, with a prowl smile, her little grandson, and then foled the girl& up eta ire Ci Mrs Compton clasped the beautiful boy to her beart,„and listened with a happy smile to the old nurse's recital of his perfections whioh were au yet but hardly developed, She then carried ii up to Dairy's room, the furniture of which had reoeived the addition of a cradle, wherein the baby slept sweetly half an hour later, with Aunt Esther watching bAittle it, while hire. Compton returned to the sad group in the western chamber. When Daisy and Claudia entered the sick room they felt that a few brief me mento would indeed be all of earth to the young girl whose eyes alone wel comed them. Daisy bent and kissed her with trembling lip, but Claudia stood at the loot of the bed, and gazed silently upon the sad change a year had wrought in one, eho had hoped was yet to see much of life's brighter side. Ellie, as Claudia came towards her, motioned to Charlie to come to her side, and as they stood beside her she placed Clau dia's hand witkin that. of Charlie, and said eagerly : "Love her Charlie—love her as she des to be. It will comfort me to know that in her you will find sU that you will need to make you happy, and I can - trust him I love best to her trite,' strong love. Promise me." br . b_e .. s t. r a d e, hisre woman besideplysys the him, dying and. girl no d h when they knelt beside the (flab she, blessed them, laying the fast sttffendog fingers upon their kitties. Thin as the light of life faded they rose, and' gate plso‘ to the heart-broken tither. "It. will not be for'long, dear fathe:l•H not, long—" she said feebly as she raised her bead and rested it upon heart. "ere we meet again—father—mother— : brother—elstor T all, never more to part,"and the clap et the white fin -411161'"1"111"barr the heart that ever bad been faithfulohe passed away with the summer's day to enter upon ■ brighter and mere heavenly one, wher\thers "is no night--neither As there sorrowi or crying," and where "all tears shall be wiped away." The 'Bummer ',Wed away and the bright leaves of autumn fell upon the Viva of Elliot Burke, and upon another that bad been recently made bash!e it, and those who had wept that she, so bright sad' fair, should fads ore the spring of life had tamed, wept not when they laid beside her la the quiet church. yard the old min who bad welcomed the hour gladly, that reunited the family oirole, where they -'should be forever "togetheiend with the Lord." When spring came again there was .abother wedding at the Hall, a quiet, sad wedding, for among them, they felt, was the loving spirit of her who hallow ed their betrothal. 'When autumn owns again Augusta's husband, Dr. flt. Clare,, took her to her own bonne, while Daisy and Eugene took poereesion again, of heir home in Richmond. Judge Grayson deoltoed to accompany them,deelaring himself too old to be moving about, and settling down at "Loafers Retreat," which be bad quite determined ,should be Daisy's future summer 'residence, and which he had settled upon the boy of Eugene and Dai sy, now his hope and pride. Charlie put his law books- aside, and figuratively turning his sword into a plow-share, entered himself upon the roll of the County Agricultural Club ; whereon the name of Randolph Reeves was written as one of its most active members. The sobolltriaster returned, anti' once more wields the ferule and birch ore• the •illiage children, who were fast re lapsing int) a half civilized state Be side the parsonage stands& modest three roomed cottage. and there, when not surrounded by Ilia subjects, the soli ol master may be found ; while in the llu•,l pretty housewife we recognize Miss Young, that was, Mrs. Ould, that is, though not so old th t you may uol dis cover some remains of her young days in the fair, sweet, womanly (ace There is no sign above the-millinery shop of lilies Peek, that war, Mrs.,Luru minim that is?, for scorning such an humble calling, she recognizes her f9r4,0 an that of "leaching the young ideas h3ll' to shoot': and is now the mistress of n frer.ruen's school, established and sustained by the energetic effluent of that portion of thle "Freedman's Bureau" situated in Tatdoton, and an object of dreal to the young "errepresibles." The old church mutt wait some years ere Mr. Osrdner's wish be-cionsumated, and le feels that he may not lire to see it, but he can place the sacred trurt in the care of those who, like himself, have hoped it, and yet whose meant now ad mit only of supplying their funilice with the necessaries of life Among the time etained tombs in the old church yard rises four marble columns, sad Judge Orayenn, whose generoeity Rod friendship ban done thin, feels that the tribute had been but half paid to those whose sad history would remain a last iog monument of their patriotism and lota for the c a use for which they 'seri feed all Thu ISND I What a Working Man Thinks We tied .the following communication in the Philadelphia Sunday elerrury. It wag cent to the editor of the Press, but refused an insertion in that paper. It carries with it its own comment : lobo W. Forney.. • For years past I have worked, given my money, and fought at the polls for yoar RepNlican party. I have earned $6 600 by cart driviag and cellar digging. I had my money in United States bonds—the 6-20 s of 1867. 'Before the attack on President Johnson. I read - almost daily in .the Press short articles like this : "Bondholders will take notice, that if that great criminal Andrew Isreddelon a acquitted, Government boas will be worthless ! The hard work ing men--the men who build our eats: will be twined!" NS Now, I read the Press every day, and I read nothing else. I believed the Sumfay Mercury, uad all Demotratio pa pers, were—for you told me so—"dis loyal sheets," and I dared not bring one of them Into my htufee. Well Johnson was acquitted,and / woe friyhtelud, and .sold my bonds, which were then 108 j, and bought a row of,old followed the. soquittal of that "peat °Halfwit I" Why bonds rose in two weeks to Hai 1 I find that I have lost nearly a year, Interest by taking your ad, los ;. the 'loyal" man who *DUI to me the houses cheated me ; and my etipper bent! neighbors milled me a fool. 'I *0 $l,OOO out of pocket. W,lllnot Wm. B. hlann pay my IMO. ? JON, 8A.11117, No. 1814 Alder et --Eltyamor • sad Disir—tbici't the Ciotti... .4.4tat-olait statist/au clad a first-oltis soldlor, "Rally 'rotted Lb* flag, boys." —L•Retrlettagtbe ettoiter on Wedoer day /min`. Your drat Sweetheart. You never can forget her. She was BO •ory young and Innocent, and pretty. She hnd suis,a way of looking at yeti over her hymn Book In Cburoh. She Alone, of all the world, did not think you a hoy tit eighteen, but wondered at year size and your learning, and your taint foershadowing of It sandy mustache end believed you every inch a man When at those stupid evening pieties, when boys should have been in the our eery, and the girls, who should have eaten supper of bread end milk, and gone to, sleep hours before, waltzed end Ilirted, and made themselves ill over oysters end champagne, you were favored by a glance of her eye ore *lope? from her lips, you ascended to lie seventh henven immediately. When once, upon is curtain memorable eve, she yolked with the druggiet's clerk, and never even looked at you, how miserable you were. It is ftiony to think of it now, but it was not funny then, for you were awfully in o eernest Oncrott a pill MO oho wore a while dress and had roses twilled in her golden hair and she looked so like a bride that you fairly trembled. Soniet ime you t hought'in Jest such snowy costume, with just such blossoms in her hair, she might stand beside the Alter, nod you, most biased of all mortals, might place a golden ring upon her finger,. cud when you were left alone with her for a moment, some of your thoughts would force themselves tote words, and though she blushed and ran away, and would'nt let you kiss her she did not seem angry. And then you were somehow parted for a little while, and when you met again she was walk tog with Knottier gent man, a large• well-whiskered men of twenty- eight or thirty, and bed-neither word nor mile for you ; and some well-meaning gossip informed you shortly after that she was "engaged" to the ta'l gentleman with rollick whiskers sod that "it west splendid match " It was terrible news to you then, and sent you off to the great city, far from ' , lair native pl)tce, w here. afters good deal of youthful grief, and many resolutions to die and haunt her, yeti re covered your equanimity, and began to make money and to call love stuff and =QM You have a rich wife of your own and grown up children—ayo, even two or three gran dobildran, about your hearth , y nun hair is gray, and you lock your hear in the fire-proof safe at your counting house when you go . borne at night. And you' thought ~ t hat you bad forgotten that little episode of your nineteenth year, until the other day, when you read of her death in the paper. You know she was a rtout lady; who wore glasses., and had daughters older than she was in tlmt olden time, but yourbeart went bank and you saw her smiling and blushutg, with her golden hair about her face, and yourself a boy again, dreaming of wedding robotte and rings, and you laid your gray old head upon your °Moe desk and wept for the memory of your first sweetheart. "Suffrage by the Wagon Load." A planter residing a few miles from hiontgemery, Ala., relates an incident 'whioh entirely portrays the fitness of the negro, as a class, for the exercise of suffrage While ,in the very sot of gath ering his last Cotton crop. whioh was in a crindition urging Immediate picking, a committee representing his bands one day informed him that they must all go to Montgomery the following. and that at the same time they desired the use - 14 a mule trim and 'wagon.—Alarmed at prospective chance of suffering great loss by thus losing a day in the gatherint of his orop, he anxiously inquired why they must be absent, and for what pur pose they needed the wagon, to which the chairman or epeaker of .the dardey delegation replied: ..W.ll, boas, de truf is din: We's been defozn_titd that de suf frage is to be lesnt. to-morrow, an; at ws most all be der to get our share, and Tie Wart de wagon to fetch It over." Knowing fttli , woll to,objeet was useless, resorted to • ruse, to' JAVA his °raft, and to pretreat a *Wagon load of ',suf frage" lying , d loose An his planta tion. fle took out of his pocket a let- - ter, and told the delegation. Abet It was sent him is be rod to them, 'from the Buyerintepileht of the railroad &moan eingtharthe trainteitainint their sue rageliOtifriell:dOsit cit the tints, and would n•t;be is gon4spagirgy for se week from that date. By. •Ible deception he !Era Bie crop, se 160' deckles retunted to work. NEVER RAY FAR. •—•— Keep poshing—lis wises Than eating aside, And dreaming and sighing, And waiting the tide, In Ita's earnest battle They only prevail Who daily marsh onward, And never say fall I With an - she ever open, And a tongue that's not dumb • And & heart that will never TJ sorrow'sueeumb, You will battle and oonquer, Though thousands wall, How strong and how mighty Who never say fall! • Ahead then—keep pushing And elbow your•waj, Unheeding the enviou■ That would you betray. All obstacles vanish All anemias quail, At the might of their wisdom • Who never ■ay fail I In life's rosy morning, In mambo ,d's firm. pride, Let this be 'our motto Your footsteps tog Gide ; In storm end In sunshino, Whatcver assail, We'll onward and conquer, And never Pay fail! THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER —"The Ley of the Last lien," a new poem by the author of the foul deed. —lt colt a million end a half a year to do the printing ar the National (tavern- I= --Why is the tread mill like w true convert? Boo►uee its turning in the result of the men's conviction --The fish in Lake Chaubungognego gotnang are 'aid to choke in trying to tell where they live. —Au enterprising western papal bee adopted a noq plan of publishing mer-lagee in prospect." —John Bright Bays that "considering what it now costs a man to get into Parlia ment', M. P. must mean money power." --A tailor who, while dieting, fell through the ice, declared that ho would never again leave his hot knot. for • cold duck. --The height of puliteneu is pensin.' around upon the opposite side ofiniady,when walking with her, in order dot to step upon her shady*, --Ban Butler Las not yet been arrketed for stealing. That will be attended to after the next Preen timbal election, unless he should in the meantime lease fur parts en kix, ern ----A New England h •roe show will be held at New Haven neat September. Gen. Grant should be invited, and it in hoped the Mare of the city will be present. —The burglars of Illinois steal the car- Hosts off the floors of ohurchea. There were lOW ratrioto who went further than that, and who stole tho sacred vessels of silver. --A Radios/ member of Congress has gut off a first alms conundrum by inquiring if free trade is good for Maine, why is it not good for the whole country ? —There is a young lady to Brooklyn so maned in her linguage that she never uses the word "blackguard," but substitutes "African sentinel." —Ben Wade has lost the power of speech mince the impeachment B;sled out. It fe said that bo'a iaraq, and al though he can't talk he thinks "damn" all the time. - —A Western paper thus bite off the popular (ashion: "The attention of the pp• Ike should be diremeff to Pant A Loon. He is tight on the street daily ; awful tight." —A photographer in Oloooester, Ham, was astonished by a young woman who to ask, meekly and innocently : "How long does It take to get II photograph after you leave your measure ?" —A Good atop ie told of a bootblack whose energies were taxed by the tpite shoes of a private jolt returned from the war. The little fellow, kneeling down look ed overbill shoulder to r comrade and ex claimed. "Lend ma a !pit, Jim, rye got an arniy cent:Lot." Gooo.—Aboat se' neat as any thing lb the line of pave o we have seen la tently is the following,lehieb will be appre ciated ity Manx a poor 'eight : Loads the poor fellow bat s sorry 1V Return's, late eons 014 sod wintry sight, Qs** Bolos,yon brute you're UAL" My /0144" br• raid, " only .hsags of at wompliero, A gust i aold outside, An (gut-ii 1101.111 A hero I" —ThO respectability and aesthete of the LtereocraTio SoWiese and Con. ' , wake which net to Now York, 'eentpared i with that which net at SiWow ktrs, .is • tke In the desk' or Mr Greeley, and the Mei— greh generally. It plainly shows tAtei t Grant menet get any thin like. the rum fable portion of the soldiers' vote. 84.34 manederers as filSkles, and wel. knema eawi ards as Jobe Gashrene, ire the type of sot.: 'dire who have followed Grant Into the De l KS nut. Is H. G. Grant A Drunkard? • is Pi ir 'Ml:Tileel 13 rick a drunkard 7 Tie question Would be. rinite"nnimpor tant. if he were au obeoure tanner in in interior town in Illinois,'" or Ma If be 'Werp the Geniral of the Army in time of profound peace, and hie Milos closanded little more than the maintenance of snob state as an orderly at his door and' an. Other orderly in y the rear of his ohildren on the way, to 'Moot. , But Orstrt- is more. Radicalism has made him the Commender-in-Chief of five military Sa trapies, -whioh rale millions of white citizens by means of the bayonet, and in this command be is even irresponsible to the superior officer 'whom the Consti tution of the United States ptitstrev his ead. With such absolute pan*, the people would like to know Mbomou 'Lie wields this power has at all times absolute' control 'et so comparatively inslteninellit matter" as his Mtn senses. Still further, now that a party hasp ' tad Gimbal as e, candidate for the highest Ales in the country, the people have the, right to know and they demand to know, if this man le a drunkard. As yet, the bulk of the testimony which has been made pub lie is from prominent Radicals and Radi cal sheets like the Independent and the Anti-Slavery Standard, [ While the Tribune • has given eirouletion to more or less of the reports about Grant's habits. Wen dell Phillips repeals the rumors, "fruit, different and trustworty source*, that Generil Grant has been unmistakably drunk" in the streets of Washington. Tilton telegraphs to his piper that "oc• oasionally a Presidential candidate je een fuddled in the streets." The Revs ... elution declares that "General Grant is drunk half the time." Wendell Phillips, in the Commuters' Convention, in Bos ton, alludes to Grant Re a man "who cannot stand up before a glass of liquor Aithout falling down ;" and the Presi dent °film United States tells the Wash ing correspondent of the Cincinati Commer clot that Grant has been in the Executive Mansion "so drunk that he muld'tstand straight on his lege." „New ,stakipatt„ . like these, if they are slanders. should be shown to be slanders The testimony is too strong, too direct, to be thrust aside, and the present position of Gen oral Grant as en applicant for a very high position warrants, demands the strictest inveetigetion into his privet', habits i n i . respect of ebriety. 6 - noimere is Hire Ulysses Grant a drunkard? If he is, hl is unfit for even his present position If he is not, Me friends should expose as slanders the statements which Phillips, Tilton, end others have made —World -I,:rchange The Southern States All but s few of the Southern Slates are Dow becoming reconstructed upon the negro and radical buds. They bare radical Governors, rtdieal Legislatures and Radical State and county officers They are also, or soon will be, repre sented in Congress by radii:lsla. Full scope is now given to radicalism in those Staten There can be no exoule for any expenses there by the general govern ment. Yet notwithebtriling all ibis bay ing been accomplished, the Freedmen's Buread has been renewed for another year, whereby millions upon millions will be exhausted from the pockets of Northern laborers. The expenditure of this vast sum mould be profitably 'dis pensed with, as the greater part goes to the benefit of plundering °frit:dais, of whom nine out of every ten are from New England, male and female, of the meanest stamp; and the balance goes for the support and political organisation of vagabond negroes, who are too lazy to work. In a few words, this Bureau is nothing but a political machine for mak ing negro voters, and for maintaining an army of Yankee of holders.! Neith er Is there tn.) , excuse for retaining an immense standing army in those Stater, equally as expensive as the Freedmen'• Bureau. The military satraps with their attendants, ought at once to be re oallod, and save the tax-payers many million, more. The "loyal" negro and the "loyal" Yankee have it all to them *tiles now. Why not curtail thee:peo nes at once t ; • —The '.B. Fe." The Radical lint of •Beojemia Franklin') adorning the Bennie ip &hoe embellished : -.Benjamin F. Butler, thief manager in the impeaehmeni.plot. Rs stole spoons and:bullied women in Nei Orleans." "Benjamin P. Rios, carpet-bag SOUS tor from Arkansas. lie stole $5,009 of aolleol'e mosey io ffenfuoky, gambled it off sad tan sway in the eight." "Benjamis F. Wade; President of the :ooao, MINOT 6rtilrfartqrina— sands& if sited to make himself Preoldest of the United States." What's ins mama 1 Little Mary eras discussing the set hireafter with her mamma, when the following ensued : "Manama. will ;tau go to Beacon when yew die I" "Yes I hope Ito child." ' , Well, .1 hope 11l go tdp,,ir'pOu'll be 10ossome." "Oh, yes, your papa will go too." "Oh, 40. MM *Wei p, he 'Goal leove the store." r .- pour pramok trail exlitence unspbstandal basis upon wsleb too many Iziblildieg a Dist &pea tiscwavft.
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