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T-i'do- clu-apest and host nrticle infhe market for
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f4 Wjiibeixer'a name on the latiel, nnd i put
i,i-i i v, I th orders ..Urii frore, dYL:Lr'h Vladimir and the priest would await thcni.
i'i-Ql rt t or. Ktr sale by Yrwir?r:r'm,l (ihVtvrs. ( i favilij
iteleVt all VIol-it PnrsrntlVV-H. Tlioy
rein the tone of the liowels and weaken the di- I
SfWtion. Tamiiast's Kffkhukscknt Kf.ltzeh
Arv.niKNT Is ii!eil hy rational peopleas a means
)frelie injr nil deruii-rcnientu of the stomach, j
XWr Hint !liletniV:H, 1eV'AYiso it removes !- !
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Sold by "all Drug's' s.
I'ile. ami nothing- else.
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L.O'aiu s MvKitsi In Common Pli-ns of tiim
r.. r t ria County, No. -7, Juno
Rtcn .Tki.i.y. Term, S'l.
On m.'iiin .r .Tnhnston & Peanlan. the Court
appoint Juiui P. huitfvn, Ki.,au Atiil'itorlo rO
Vr 'list i Unit urn oi i he money in the hands of
theSli) ritt ari,in from the sale of defendant's
real estate on ahuve stated writ.
From I'm- llTOir.l. J. K. HlTE. Protl
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Y' - !"' "u motion of Shoemaker &
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July
tv.it ill,trilnltion of tliem.mev in thelmmla tlire, lie
J.wiil attenil to the duties of the hLovh an.
'''.) I . I l Kl I. W II AT, A V Irf'l-lf I "
rHntllic!it at the olfiee of ShnxmnWrr Herri-
ia l.i.i.,,,!,,, (in Wkunksoav, the Hth day of
;J''' t, lu, at o'clock, i m., when and where
b 4 l i ,,!,; interested mav attend if they see
il r: )itlieii-e they will he debarred from
- iiu in ,, fU,jil fund.
J 3'-:t. JtiHX P. I.IXTON, Auditor.
A L'.MINISTUATOUS NOTICE.
- rotate of Wm. Dot.oiiKitTV, dee'd.
Ulrtvln-r i,. eii granted U ttcrsot A.lmiuistra
"'ii mi tlip estate of Williuni Knuhcrty, late
of W iihinjftoij township, Cambria count-, de-Ji-"-'l.
the undersigned hereby notices all per
W'1" iii'li'lit).)l t-ct siil .Htatc that pay incut must
niHde without delay, mid those? having claims
h-inaniis against the same are reqiH-sti'd to
ff' -'-nt tli.. in properl v autheutieiitiHl I'orpettle
?"" JAMKS W. CONDON. AJra'r.
?'snintnit ville, June ii, l.n72.-(;t.
A lXMLNls i UATOIi'S NO HClv
.rj- Kstato of Pat'k DH't3HEltTY, ileeM.
! 1 Ii" ini'lersnrne.l, having hei-n appointed Ad-;i'i-titi,i
,i the estate of l'nt'k Dougherty,
" "t a--hin.. ton township, Cambria county,
i ii-jcil, hereby notities all persons indebted
aid i tate that payment must be made im
"iio lv. anil those havinj? elaiuis will please
i v "l theni duly probated for settlement.
?)m . JAMKS w. CiiNIm)N, Adm'r.
4.""'ilviUe, June li72.-et.
J H KOKl'H ANS' COU I V ok Cam
""r 't.V. ",'-NTv.-Ilvinir been appointed Ait-
in.,,1f u' distribution f the money in the
' f ..a.,.'i V; ,VAN- Ailin'ror Josf.pii A. Toon,
vill til-,.'. ' .!ersous interested in said estate
'f "iv I will atteml to the duties
" I n imi "volee In Kbensbunr,
! V: A,T'VS7, ,VrH- ' 2 o'clock. P. m
r.A.Mloi:MAKi:il,Aii.fitor.
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. From the Aldise for Aua-ust.l
MAIiltlED IX n SXO STORM.
Trns!ntcl from theKnssin of Alexander Fnsfcklu.
Axut the year 1811, memorable in Rus
sian history, there lived upon his Estate of
Xeniaraduf, a rich lande! proprietor, 'G'a
brilovitch by name, noted for his afl'ability
and hospitality. His house was always
open to his friends and neighbors, who
used to congregate there every evtennig; !
the older ones to enjoy a game of cards I
with the host and his w ife Petrowna, the '
younger onefi in the hope of winning the
favor of Mario, a beautiful girl of seven
teen, the only daughter and heiress of Ga
brilovitch. Mario road French novels, which natur
ally rondertnl her very sentimental and
romant Under these cii oumstancos love
was not long in coming. The object of li'cr
affection was a Russian cad.t, with rtrarcoly
a x.nny in his pocket, h resided in the
neighborhood, and was then at home on
leave of alienee. As a matter of course ho
returned hcrlovo witli eiptal ardor. Marie's
parents had strictly prohibited her from
thinking of Mich a union, and they treated
th 'over, wherever they met him, with just
as much friendliness us the- would have
shown to an ex-colleetor of taxes. The
amoroVis pair meantime carried on a cor
rcsjKiiidence, and met clandestinely beneath
the shade of the pine grove, or behind the
old chapel. As will readily be supposed,
they hero vowed eternal fidelity to elh
other, complained of the severity of fate,
and devised beautiful plans for the future.
After some time they naturally came to
think that, should their pnrvnt-S persist in
opposing the union, it might in the end be
consummated secretly, and without their
consent. The young gentleman was the
first to propose this, and the young lady
fooii saw the expediency of it.
The approach of winter put an end to
iicreasl in frequency and warmth. In
each of them Vladimir Xikolovitch con
jured his lielovod to leave the paternal roof,
and consent to a clandestine marriage.
'We w ill disappear fr a short while,'- he
wrote, "come bavk, and cast ourselves at
the feet of our paitnts, win's touched by
such constancy, will exclaim, 'Coinetoour
anus, dear children!'" Marie was long
irresolute; at length it was agreed, how
ever, that she should not appear at supper
a day appointed, but should retire to
her room under the pretext of indisposi
tion. Her maid had been let into the se
cret. IWh were to escape by a back door,
in front of which they would find a sleigh
ready to tonvey them a distance of five
worsts, to the thapY.4 of Jadrino, where
rg made her preparations, and writ
ten along apologetical letter to her parents,
Marie retired betimes to her room. Sho
bavl been complaining all day of a head
ache, aird this was certainly no mere pre
text, for the nervous excitement Jtad in
truth iiYdtsjxseVi Vi'cr. liter father nnd
mother nursed her tenderly, asking her
again and again: "How do you feel now, :
Man?? Are younolietter?" This loving
solicitude cut the girl to tVfc hcrt, and with
the approach of evening hor excitement
increased. At supper she ate nothing, but
vose btimcs arid twde her parents gotxl
nigbt. The latter kissed and blessed Iter,
was their wont, while ilarie could
scarcely suppress lie r Having reached
nor room, she threw herself iVito a umir
and wept, aloud. Her maid finally suc
ceeded in comforting and cheering her up.
iAter in the evening a snow-storm arose.
The wind howled alioutthe house, causing
the windows to rattle. The inmates had
hardly gone to fet, wlen Ino young girL
wrapping herself in her clothes and furs-,
ird followed by the servant with a iort
manteau, left the paternal roof. A sleigh
drawn by three horses, received them, and
for the ccrcmonyv and tnen lie went co
lK)k up the required witnesses. The first
acquaintance to whom he applied was an
l V V , , ; y' 1 away they went at a furiotts speed.
liu attiMi't to tii dunes of the ahove np- J J , .. ,. -, .
Toinim.ui :.i iy ... in 1 1. pxaoinrb of Johns- Vladimir had also been active througiiout
lVsV the day. In the morning he had called
w!i'!V,"m e:?,.::;;Vl:V "'M :':hvi-c ie- W the minister atJadnno to arrange
aIZIII! ! officer on half-pay, who expressed himself
quite ready to serve him. Such an adven-
saiu. carried him back to the days
r,..i .. , V1,nil,i!itl,V.r u' ":.'."k from the sale of f i.;s OWn vouth. He determined Vladi
mir to remain with him, taking upon him
self to procure the otlier two witnesses.
There accordingly appeared at dinner sur
veyor Schmidt, with his spurs and mous
tache, and Ispravnik's son, a lad of seven
teen, who had but just enlisted with the
"Lilians Both promised - Vladimir their
assistance and after a cordial embrace the
happy lover parted from his three friends
to complete Ids preparations at home.
Having despatched a trusty servant w ith
a slcitrh for Marie, he got into a one-horse
sleigh himself, and took the road leading
to Jadrino. Scarcely had he set off, when
the storm burst forth with violence, and
soon every trace of the way was gone.
The entire horizon was covered with thickj
yellow clouds, discharging not flakes, but
masses of snow; at last it became impossi
ble to distinguish letween earth and sky
In vain Vladimir beat about for the way;
his horse went on at random, now leaping
over banks of snow, now sinking into
ditches, and threatening every moment to
overturn the sleigh. The insupportable
thought of having lost the road had become
a certainty. The forest of Jadrino was
nowhere to be discovered, and after tvto
hours the jadexi 'animal seemed ready to
drop to the ground. At length a kind of I
dark line became visible in the distance. ' with an interestingly pale face, and deco
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Vladimir urged his horse forward, and
reached the skirt of a forest. He now 1
nojiea to reacu ins clestmation soon, as it
, -
was easier to pursue ins way in tne loresr, aujoim?tl Marie's present abode. The young
into wbich the snow had not yet penetrated, j girl received him w ith far more favor than
Vladimir took fresh courage; however ( she had hitherto shown to any of her visit
there were no signs of Jadrino. ly decrees ors. Thev resembled .k1i other in man v
the storm abated, anl the moon shone
brijrhtly. He finallv reached the ormosito
.- '
skirt of the foresV. Still no Jadrino; but a
group of four or five houses met his view.
His knock at tho door of the nearest was
auswivd by an old man.
"What do you want?" he said.
"Where lies Jadrino?" asked Vladimir.
"About ten worsts distant."
At this reply Vladimir felt as if his sen
tence of death were being announced to
him.
"Can you procure mo a horse to take me
thither'.'" he asked.
"We have no horse.'
"Or at least a guide. I will pay any
price."
"Very well. My son can accompany tho
gentleman."
After a little while, which seemed a?i
eternity to Vladimir, a young fellow made
his appearance, holding a thick staff in his
hand, and they took their way across tho
snow-covered plain.
"What o'clock is it?' akod Vladimir.
"It is already past midnight."
And in very truth the sun began to gild
tho east, when thfey filially arrived at Jad
rino. The church door was locked. Via"
Mimir paid aritl dismissed his guide, and
then instantly hastened to the minister's
dwelling. "What he there learncU will ap
pear from the sequel.
At Nemara'dof tho iiiglA had passed
quietly. In the morning the muster of the
house and his Wife arose as usual, and pro
ceeded to the dining-room, Gabriel Gabri
lovitch in his woolen jacket anVl nightcap;
Petrowna in her morning-gown. After
they had breakfasted, Gabriel sent up one
of the girls to inquire how Marie was; Shtj
returned with tho message that her youlig
mistress had had a sleepless night, but that
she was feeling better now, and would
come down presently. Mario soon after
entered the room, looking exceedingly
pale, yet w ithout the least perceptible agi
tation.
"How do you fool this morning, love?"
inquired her father.
"Better," was the answer.
The 'day passed by as usual; but, instead
of the looked-for improvement, a serious
change for the worse took place in Marie's
condition. The family physician was sum
moned from the nearest tow n, who found
her in a state of most violent fever. For
fourteen days sho lay at the point of death.
Nothing transpired of tho nocturnal
flight; for the maid took good care to keep
silence on her own account, and the others
who knew of it never betrayed themselves
with a syllable, even when under the in
lluence of brandy, so greatly did they dread
Gabriel's anger.
Marie, however, spoke so incessantly of
Vladimir w hen delirious, that her mother
could not remain in doubt as to the cause
of her illness. Having advised with a few
friend, her parents resolved to let Marie
marry the young soldier, seeing that one
cannot escape one's fate, and, besides, that
riclies do not always lead to happiness-.
The patient recovered. During lier ill
ness Vladimir had not once showed his face
in the house, and it was resolved toappriso
him of his unexpected good fortune. But
to the astonishment of the proud proprietor
of Nomaradof, the cadet declared that he
should never again crows the threshold of
his house, begging them at the same tiihe
to forget utterly so wretched a creature as
he, to whom death alone would give repose.
A few days afterward, they learned that
Vladimir had again returned to the army.
It was in the year 1812. No one uttered
his name in Marie's presence, and she
herself never made mention of him in any
way. Two or three months had elapsed,
when one dAy she found his name among
the list of the officers who had distinguished
themselves at the battle of Borodino, and
had been mortally wounded. She fainted
away and had a relapse, from which she re
covered but slowly
Not long after her father died, bequeath
ing his whole property to her. But riches
were not able to comfort her; she wept
with her mother and promised never to
leave her. They sold Nemaratlof, and re
moved to another estate Suitors thronged
round the wealthy and amiable heiress;
but none of them received the slightest
encouragement from her. Often did her
mother press her to choose a husband she
would merely shake her head in silence.
Vladimir was no more; he died at Moscow,
on the evening before the entrance of the
French. Marie seemed to hold his memory
srtcred; she carefully 'preserved the books
they had read together, his sketches, the
letters he had written to her in brief
everything that could serve to keep alive
tho remembrance of the ill-fated youth
About this time tho war, fraught with
such glory to the allies, of whom Russia
was also one, camo to an end. The victo
rious regiments returned home, and large
crowds of people flocked together to greet
them. Officers who had gone forth as
beardless youths, came back with the grave
faces of warriors, their gallant breasts
covered with badges'.
A lieutenant of hussars. HVurVaiiiVv name.
rated with the cross oif St. George, having
obtained leave of absence for several months
s. vv a.KB V V M w ik. v 1 1 1 V
took up his residence upon his estate, which
v . .
respects; both were handsome, intelligent,
taciturn, and reserved. There was some
thing mysterious about Wumiin,, which
roused the curiosity and interest of Marie.
His affection for her was soon unmistaka
ble; he showed her every conceivable at
tention; but why 'did he never speak of
love-, though his dark, ardent eyes would
rest upon her's.half dreamily, half with
an expression that seemed to announce
an early anil positive declaration? Al
ready the neighbors spoke of their mar
riage as a settled matter;, and mother
Petrowna was more than happy at tho
thought of her daughter's finding a worthy
husband at last.
One morning, when the latter was sitting
in the parlor, Wurmin entered and asked
for Marie.
"She is in tho garden," answoi'ed her
mother. "You w ill find my daughter there,
if you would like to see her.
The young officer hastily walked out into
the garden.
Petrowna crossed herself, murmuring :
God be praised! To-day, I trust his visit
will havo some result."
Wurmin found his beloved, clad in white,
sitting under a tree by the side of the pond,
a book upon her lap, like a heroine of ro
mance. The usual salutations over, Wur
min, who was strangely agitated, toM her
how he had long j'carned to pour out his
heart lieforo her, and begged that she would
listen to him a few moments. She closed
her b6o!r, and nodded in token of "assent.
"I love you," said Wurmin, "I love you
bn ssion atel-y. "
Marie cast down her eyes".
"I have been imprudent enough to see
you; to hertr youlaily. It is now too late
to escape my fate: The thought of your
lovely face, of your sweet voice, will hence
forth constitute the joy and the anguish of
my existence. Uut I have a duty to per
form towards you, I must reveal to j-ou a
secret, which has placed an insurmounta
ble barrier lietwern us-."
"That barrier," murmered Marie, "ex
isted always I could never have become
yours."
"I know," replied Wurmin, in a sup
pressed voice, "that you have loved before;
but death three long years of mourning
dearest Marie," do not deprive me of my
last comfort, if the blissful thought that
you might become mine, if "
"Cease, I conjure you! You rend my
heart!"
"Yes, you will grant me the comfort of
knowing that you would have become mine;
but, most wretched of men that I am I
am already married!"
Marie gazed up at him with a look of as
tonishment. "Yes, married for four years," continued
the iieiiUshantj "and I do not know either
tr ho my wife is Hckere she is, or whether I
shall ever meet her.'
"Explain yourself more clearly," said
the girl.
"I love you, Marie, and will confide in
you. You shall know all, and yOu will not
jndgo too Bcvcrfcly In an act of youthful
levity. It was in the year 1812. I hap
pened to be on my way to Wilna, with the
intention of joining my regiment. Late
in the evening I reached a station, and had
already ordered that horses should instant
ly be put to again, when a fierce snow
storm suddenly arose. My landlord and
the postillion urgently advised me to post
pone my departure; but I was determined
to go in spite of the rough weather. Tho
postillion had got it into his head that, by
crossing a small river, the. banks of which
were perfectly well known to him, he should
find a shorter route. He missed the right
crossing, however, and got into a region to
which he was an entire stranger. The
storm continued to rage; at length We des
cried a light at a distance. We made for
it, and stopped before a church, from the
brightly illuminated windows of which the
light shone. . The door was open, three
sleighs were in front of it, and I saw sever
al persons in the vestibule: One of them
called to me: "This way! this way!" I
got out and walked toward the vestibule-.
The person who had called advanced
towaid me.
" HSreat , Heavens!' he said Tiow late
you come! Your intended has faintedj and
we were on the very point of driving homo
again.'.
"Half-bewildered and lialf-amuseu'j I
resolved to let the adventure take its courso.
And, indeed, I had Uttle time for reflection.
My friends tugged me into the interior of
the church, which was poorly lighted by
two or three lamps. A fehiaie was sitting
upon a bench in. tho shadow, while another
Stood beside her and chafed her temples.
. "'At -last r cried tho latter. 'God be
praised that you have come! My poor
mistress liked to have died.'
"An aged priest emerged from behind
the altar, and asked: Can we begin ?'
"Begin, reverend father!" I cried, un
advisedly. - "T7 a ssisted the half-unconscious girl
i
prehensible, levity, I readily stepped with
her to the altar. ITer mairl nt.fl fl,
gentlemen present were so much busied
i with her as sereW tn tLmw , U'mi
Besides, the light in this part of the church
was dim, and my head was muffled in the
hood of my cloak.
"In a few minutes the nuptial ceremony
was over, and the priest, according to cus
tom, desired the newly-married pair to
embrace.
"My young wife turned her pale, charm
ing littTe face toward me, and was about to
rest her head upon my shoulder with a
sweet smile when, suddenly, she stared at
me as if turned into stone, tottered, and
with the cry of 'It is not he!' fell to the
floor.
"All the furies of hell lashed tne out of
the church. Before anyone could think of
staying me I had jumped into my sleigh,
seized the reins, and w as soon beyond the
reach of pursuit."
Tho lieutenant was silent. Marie also,
gazed in silence to the ground.
. "And have you never discovered what
became of the poor girl?" she finally
asked.
, 'Ne.er." t know Neither the name of
the village where I was married, nor do I
recollect the station where I stopped. At
the time, my culpably frivolous prank
seemeVl to roe a matter of so little moment
that as soon as there was ho long?r any
pursuit to fear, I went to sleep llj the sleigh,
and did not awake till we arrived at another J
station. The servant whom I had with me
was killed in battle; all my efforts to find
out the postillion who drove us proved un
availing; and so every clue seems indeed
lost by which I might again find the scene
of that folly, for which I have now to suffer
so heavily."
Marie turned her pale face toward him,
and took both his hands. The lieutenant
gazed thunder-struck into her eyes; a dim
foreboding awoke in his breast, a veil sud
denly dropped from his eyes.
"Marie! God of Heaven, how can I have
been so blind! Marie, was it indeed you ?'
"I am your wife!"' was the only answer
of the girl, w ho sank fainting lhto his arms.
Thk Belfry at Tori?xY. At Toiir
bay in Belgium, there is a famous old liel
fry. It dates from the twelfth century,
and is said to be built on a Roman base. It
iiow possesses forty bells: It commands
the town and the country round, and from
its summit is obtained a clear view of the
i ( ,
largest and finest cathedral in Belgium,
with its five .magniQ'cbht towers. Four
brothel's guard the summit of the belfry &
Tournay, and relieve each other day and
night, at Intervals of ten noiirs. All thro'
the night a light is s'e'en burning in the
topmost gallery, and when a fire breaks
out, the tocsin, or big bell, is tolled up aloft
by the watchman. He is never allowed to
sleep indeed, as he informell the writer,
showing us his scanty accomodation, it
would be difficult to sleep up there;
On stormy nights a whirlwind seems to
select that watchman and his tower for its
most violent attacks; tho darkness is "so
great that nothing of tho town below can
be seen. The tower rocks to and fro, and
startled birds dash themselves upon the
shaking light, like sea birds upon a light
house lantern. Such seasons are not with
out real danger more than once the light
ning has melted and twisted the iron hasps
about the tower; and within the memory
of man the masonry itself has been struck.
During the long peals of thunder that come
rolling with the black clouds over the level
plains of Belgium, the belfry begins to vi
brate like a huge musical instrument, as it
is; the bells peal out, and sceni to claim af
finity with the deep bass of the thunder,
while the shrill wind shrieks a demoniac
treble to the wild and stormy music.
All through the still summer night the
belfry lamp burns like a star. It is the
only point of yellow light that can bo seen
up so high, and when thS moon is bright,
it looks almost red in the. silvery atmos
phere. Then it is that tho music of tho
bells floats farthest, over the plains; and
the postillion hears the sound as ho hurries
along the high road from Brussels or Lille,
and, smacking his whip loudly, ho shouts
to his weary steed as he sees the light or
the old tower of Tournay come in sight.
Dids't Like Mcttox. A good story is
told of the recent excellent performance of
Handel's "Messiah" at the Broadway Bap
tist church. A farmer took his wife to
hear the grand music so spleudidly rendered
on that occasion, and, after listening with
apparent enjoyment, the pair became sud
denly interested in one of the grand cho
ruses: , "We alh like sheep, havo gone
astray."
First a sharp soprano voice exclaimed,
''Wc alL like sheep--'; " r i";." ! ' . ' .
Next a deep bass voice uttered iii tho
most earnest tones: ."
, ,rWe all, like shecp--"
; Then all tu'c singers at once asserted:
:- "We alh like sheep" f
"Darn'd if I do!" exclaimed old rusticus
to his partner. "I like beef and bacon, but
I can't bear sheep meat!"
. There was an audible titter in that vicinity
but the splendcil music attracted attention
from the pair, and they quiotly slipped out.
Tin: Andes are sinking one inch a year.
to rise; slie appeared to be very pretty. In
a fit of unpardonable, and now quite incom
Horace Greelci's Letter of JSG7
-G04M.I Heading in lSi'2.
Greelry'a Plea for Amnrtjr--Thej-Stop His Paper
Kef one to Elect Him senator he be ties Them,
and l' Tonuses to Fipht to the Knl.
. IFrom New York Tribune, May 20, lSfiT-1
"By these present greeting. To Messri.
George Y. liluut, John A. Kennedy, Joliu
O. Stone, Stephen Hyatt, and thirty ot hers,
members of tne Union League Club.
Gentlemen: I was favored on the K.th inst.
hy an otlicial note from our ever courteous
'resident, John Jay, notifying me that a re
quisition had Ix-eii preseiiteu to him for a
"sjiecial meeting of the club, at an early day, !
for the puryio.se of takinu into consideration
the conduct of Horace (ireetcy, a meiulier of
the club, who has tx-conie ixiiutsman for Jef
ferson Davis, late chief ollicer of the rebel
government." Mr. Jay continues: "As 1
have reason to tK-lieve that the signers, or
some of them, disapprove of the conduct
which they propose the club shall consider,
it is clearly due, both to the club and to your
self, that you should have the opportnnity
of lieing heard on the subject ; I ieg, there
fore, to ask on what evemut it will lie run.
Vement for you that 1 call the meeting,"" etc.
In my prompt reply 1 requested the Pres
ident to give you reasonable time for rellce
tion, but assured him that I wanted none,
since I should not atteml the meeting nor
ask any friend to do so. ami should mane no
defense nor otler aught in tho way of self
vindication. 1 am sure my friends in the
club will not construe this as implying disre
spect; but it is not my habit to take part iu
any discussions which may arise among other
gentlemen sis to my fitness to enjoy their so
ciety. That is their affair altogether, and to
them I leave it.
The second point whereon I have any oc
casion or wish to address you is your virtual
implication that there is something novel,
unexpected, astounding, in my conduct iu
the matter suggested by you as the basis of
your action, i choose not to rest under this
assumption, but to prove that, being persons
of ordinary intelligence, you must know let
ter. On this ioint., 1 cite you to a scrutiny
of the record :
The surrender of General Lee was made
known iu this city at 11 p. m. of Sunday,
April 1X05, sunt fitly announced in the
S'ribune the next morning, April 10th. On
lat Very day I wrote; and next morning
had printed in these columns, a leader enti
tled "Magnanimity in Triumph," wherein I
said: "We hear men say: 'Yes, forgive the
great mass of those who have been misled
into rebellion, but punish the leaders as they
deserve. I5ttt who can accurately draw the
line between the leaders and the followers in
the premises? I5y what test shall they le
discriminated? We know Of hone; Nor can
we agree with those who would punish the
original plotters of secession, yet spare their
ultimate and senrcely willing converts. On
the contrary, while we would revive or in
flame resentment against none of them, we
feel far less antipathy to the original uphold
ers of 'the resolutions of 'its' to the discioles
of Calhoun and McDuti'ee to the nullitiers
of 18.'?, and the 'State Uights' men of 18.50
than to the John Hells, Humphrey Marshal's
ami Alex. II. If. Stuarts-, who were, schooled
in the national faith, and who, in lieooming
disunionists and reln-ls, trampled on the pro
fessions of a life-time, and spurned the logic
wherewith they had so often unanswerably
demonstrated that secession was treason.
We consider Jefferson vis
this day a less culpable traitor than John
15ell. liut we cannot believe it wise or well
to take the life of any man who shall have
submitted to the. national authority. The
execution of even one such would Ik; felt as
a personal stigma by every one who had ever
aided the relel cause. Kach would say ttf
himself, 'I am as culpithle as he; we differ
in that I am only iteemed of comparatively
little consequence. A single confederate led
put to execution would be evermore en
shrined in a million hearts as a conspicuous
hero and martyr; We cannot realize that it
would be wholesome or safe we are sure it
would not le magnanimous to give the over
powered disloyalty of the South such a
shrine. Wquld the throne of the house of
Hanover stand mure firmly If Charles .f
Ward had been caught and executed after
Culloden? Is Austrian domination in Hun
gary more stable to-ddy for the hanging of
Jsngy Sandor and his twelve compatriots of
the surrender of Vilagos? We plead against
passions certain to be at this moment tierce
and intolerant ; but on our side are tho ages
and the voice of history. We plead for the
restoration of the Union, against a policy
which would afford a momentary gratifica
tion at the expense of years of perilous hate
ami bittcrfeess. Those who invoke
military execution for the vanquished, or
even their loaders, we suspectwill not, be
generally found among the few who httve
been long exposed to unjust odium as haters
of the South, because they abhorred slavery.
And as to the lonjj-oppressed and degraded
blacks so lately the slaves, destined still to
be the neighbors rind, (we trust) at no dis
tant day the fellow-citizens of the Southern
whites we are sure that their voice, could
it be authentically uttered, would ring out
decidedly, sonorously, on the side of clem
ency, of humanity."
On the next day I had some more in this
spirit, and on the i:uh an elaborate leader
entitled "Peace Puuishruent," in the course
of which I said: "The New York Times, do
ing injustice to its own sagacity, in a char
acteristic attempt to sail between wind and
water, says: 'Let us hang Jetf Davis and
spare the rest. We do not woiicur in the ad
vise. Davis did not devise or instigate the
rebellion; on the contrary, he was one of the
latest and most reluctant of the notables of
the cotton States to renounce definitely the
Union. His prominence in' purely official
and representative; the only reason for h.mj
ing him i that you therein condemn and
stigmatize more f icrsous than in hanging any
one else. . There is not an ex-rebel in the
world no matter now penitent who will
not havo unpleaptiut sensations alout the
neck on the day when the confederate presi
dent is to lie hung ? And to what good end?
We insist that t his matter must not lie re
garded iri any narrow aspect; We are most
anxions to secure the assent of the South to
emancipation not that assent which the con
demned gives to being hung when he shakes
hands with the jailor and thanks liitli for
past acts of kindness but that hearty assent
which can only lie won by magnanimity.
Perhaps the rebels, as a. body, -would have
given, even one year ago, as large and as
hearty a vote for hanging the w riter of this
article as any other man living ; lichee it
more especially seems to him important to
prove that the civilization based on free la
bor is of a higher and hnmaner'type than
that based on slavery. Wo cannot realize
that the gratification to innre to our friends
from the hanging of any one man, or fifty
men, should be allowed to outweigh this con
sideration." On the followiug day 1 wrote
again : "We entreat the President promptly
Id do and dare in tho cause of m:ignai'iif.v.
The Southern mind is now opeti to kindness
and may le magnetically affected by gener
osity. Iet assurance at once be given that
there is to lie a general amnesty and no gen
eral confiscation. This is none the less the
dictate of wisdoih, liecause it is also the die,
tAte of mercy. What wo ask is, thattUe.
President say in effect, 'Slavery having thro
roliellion, committed, suicide, let the North
and the South unite to bury the carcass, and
then clasp hands across the grave.'"
The evening of that day witnessed that
Most appalling calamity, t he murder of Pre.
ident TJnoohi, whirl, seined i .- instant
to curdle tbrt milk of human kindness in
twenty millions of American breasts. At.
once, insidious efforts were set on foot to
turn the fury thus engendered against me,
lec5use of my pertinacious advocacy of merl
cy to the vanquished. Chancing to enter tho
olul-houe the next (Saturday) evening, I
received a full broadside of your scowls, ero
we listened to h clerical harangue intended
to prove that Mr. Lincoln had leen pro i
dent ially removed, liocauso of his notorious
leanings toward clemency, in order to mako
way for a successor who would give the rel
els a full measure of .-.tern justice. J was
soon made to comprehend that I had nosym-pathizerst-Vor
none who dared seem such in
your crowded assemblage. Anil some mal
adroit admirer having, a few days afterward,
made the dub a present of my portrait, its
bare reception was resisted in a speech front
the chair by yonr then President a simm-oIi
whese vigorous invective was justiued solely
by my pleadings for lenity to the reliels.. At
once. a concerted how I of denuncition and
rage was sent up from every side against mo
by the little creatures whom Cod," for some
inscrutable purpose, permits to edit a ma jor
ity of the minor journals, echoed bv a yell of
"Stop my paper!" from thousaiids'of imper
fectly ins! rooted readers of the Trihtme. Onn
impertinent puppy wrote, me loanswi r cate
gori a!ly whether I was or was not in favor
of hanging, Jeff Davis, adding that I must
stop his paper if I wm not. Scores volun
teered assurances thrtt T was defying public,
opinion that most 'of ruy renders wee against
me. as if I could .'. ijuluce.l to write what
they wished said rather than what tliey need
ed to l.e told. 'I never before, realized so
vividly the baseners of the editorial vocation
according to the vulgar conception of it.
The din raised about my cars now is nolhing
to that I then endured arid despised. I am
h umiliated by the reflect ion that it is (or was)
in tin power of such insect's to annoy me,
even by pretending to discover with sur
prise something that I have for years been
publicly, emphatically proclaiming.
I must hurry over mu h that deserves a
paragraph, to call yortr attention distinctly
to occurrences ia Isovmber last. Upon tho
Republicans having-, by a desperate etl'orr,
handsomely carried our State against a for
midable looking combination of recent and
venomous apostates with pur natural adver
saries, a cry arose from several quarters that
I ought to lie chosen United States Senator.
At dice, ki'iid, discreet friends swarmed
almtit me, whisjiering, "Only keep still alxmt
universal amnesty, and your election is ccr
Niin. Just lie quiet a few weeks, and you
can say what you please thereafter. You
have no occasiou to speak now." I slept on
the well-meant suggestion, and delilxTatdy
concluded that 1 could not, injustice to my
self, defer to it. I rouht tint purrhii.tt' by
rem v7V'v, urn-ttire 'I 'r-ixi initiation. No m;m
should le enabled to say to me, in truth, "If
I had supposed yon would persist in your
rejected, condemned am nest 3 hohlw, I would
not have given you my vote." So I wrote
and published, on the"27th of that mouth,
my mauifrsto entitled "The true basis of re
construction," wherein, repelling the idea
that I projHisod a dicker with the ex-rebels,
I expli itly said: "I am for universal amnes
ty so far an immunity from fear of punish-jm-ut
or confiscation is concerned even
thougn impartial suffrage should, for tho
present, he defeated. I did not think it de
sirable that Jefferson Davis should be ar.
ragiued and tried for treason; and rt still
seems to me that this might property havo
been -done many months ago. Uut "it was
not done then, and now I lieliove it would
result in far more evil than good. It would
rekindle passions that have nearly burned
out or leeii hushed to sleep; it Would fear
fully convulse and agitate the South; it
would arrest the progress of reconciliation,
and kindly feeling t here ; it would east
large sum direct I3- ami a far larger indirect
ly; and unless the jtri-y were scandalously
paeUe'd- it. wouVd result in a non-agreement,
or no verdict. 1 can imarine 110 .good end to
be subserved by such atrial; and, holding
Davr neither letter nor worse than several
others, would have him treated as they are."
Is it conceivable thatuien who can road, and
who were luade aware of this declaration '
for most of j-ou were present and shouted
approval of Mr. Fessenden's condemnation
of my views at the club, two or three even
ings thereafter can. now pretend that my
aiding to have Davis bailed, is something
novel and unexpected?
Gentlemen, I shall not attend your meet
ing this evening. I have an engagement out
of town, and shall keep it. I do not rccog-nizo.3-ou
as capable of judging, or even fully
apprehending mo. You tr'ulcutly rcjanl inn
ox a jreofc senlhnentftlint, misled by a nuturitia
philosophy. I arrnirjn yon m narroir-niin(Tid
blockhead, Kho tcould like to be lawful to a
(treat and rood caus", but don't know how.
1 our atteinjtt to baxe a great, enduring party
on the luite and vcnith necessarily enfjemlered by
a bloody civil tear, is as though you tjiould pl'iiit
a colony on an iceberg which had somehow
drifted into a tropieul ocean. I tell you hero
that, out of a life earnestly devoted to tho
good of human-kind, your children will
select my going to liichmoud and signing
that bail bond as the wisest act, and will f-e1
that it did more for freedom and humanity
than all of 3-011 wore competent to do, thou git
you had lived to the ago of Mcthusaleb. I
ask nothing of 3 011, then, but that you pro
ceed to your end by a direct, frank, manly
wa3". Don't sidle off into a mild resolution
of censure, but move the expulsion which
3-011 purposed, and which I deserve if I
deserve any reproach whatever. All I
care for is, that 3-011 make this a square,
stand-up fight-, and record your Judgment by
yeas and hays. I care not how few voto
with me, nor how ntany vote against me ; for
I know that tho lattr will repent ;t in dust
and ashes before three years have passed.
Understand, once for all, that dare andd'fy
you, and that I propose tofght il out on thelitis
that I hare held from the day of Lee's surrender.
So long as an3" man was seeking to overthrow
our government, he was ray enemy ; front
tho hour in which ho laid down his arms,
ho was 1113- former- erring count ryman. So
long as aii3' is at heart opposed to tb
natioual unit3 the federal authorit,v, or to
that assertion of the equal rights of "all men
which has ticcomepraotioalK-identified with
lo3-alt3' and nationa,lit.y, 1 shall do my best
tl deprive him of power; but, whenever
he ceases to le thus, I demand his restora
tion to all the privileg.isof American citizen
ship. 1 give you fair notice that I shall urge tho
re-enfranchisement of those now prescrilie.l
for roliellion as soon as I shall feel confident
that this course is consistent with tho free
dom of th blacks and the unity, of the re
public, and that f shall demand a recall of
all now in exile only for participating in tho
rebellion, whenever the country shall havo
been SO thoroughly pacified that its safety
will not thereby lie endangered. And .
gentlemen, hoping that yon will henceforth
comprehend me somewhat better than you
have done, I remain, yours;
Horace Gulelf.y.
Kew York, May 2."., ls;7.
Nearly three miliums of Utter
sent to the dead letler rotten U.f
wer
Of
ineso, ioux lutuored thousand had 110 stamps,
and three thousand had io address. They
contained $l',UOO in cash, $:i,OlH,ooo in irai"
and checks, and over three thimsaid
graphs. People should le niorj; e
stampiug and direct ho? ..(,-' '
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it 1 in
tho-.e that contain idoiib-' ; esp.ci.i