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VOL- 50.
Salrof Unseated Lands. •
■ i of ft -warring from under the hand
jal of office of the Commissioners of
. colin tT,.and to mo directed, the
® b ” “tracts and lots of unseated Lands.
in Cumberland county, State of
» lt , will bo exposed to sale by pub
„n Monday the 13 th day or June,
ft die Court House, in the borough of
'll. county aforesaid, and continued by
fnnt from time to time, until they
„n a or as much of each tract or lot,
'■ c sufficient to defray the arrearages
the State, County, Head and School Xax
thereon, g RITTE j t>
County Treasurer
Carlisle April 14. 1804.
Jacs. owners '
SOUTHAMI’TON-.
10 James Bowen’s heirs,
a John & Abr’m lloddy,
T,. John Benmor,
10. IVin. Uankin,
FRANKFORC-.
15, John JI. JVoodburn,
i)). Hollenhncli’s lieirs,
3, James McCulloch^
13, John Dunbar,.
i Samuel Kincr,
jiiffun,
Boyle) 5 70
711
[Barnes) 3 -75
'Wluirton) 9 -23
Marshall) 2 83
(I). J. 51. Woudbnrn,
b: ' “ • t
[i>i. “ ■ <
(Norton) 5 71
(Lake) 1 *l4
(A. Gardner) 285
(Kmc) 2 85
(\V. P. Gardner) ! 27
(S. Parker) 3 53
(L. Parker) 9 23
(W. Parker) 710
Buck) 3 20
(iMc'Clin'tick)
'(Paxton),
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(Hi. “
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50.
m. “
y,o/ “
ilii'l “
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lull. “
|;KI. John A. Ilumriclij
[n,l John Nancy’s hoi
Ki.Diiniol Swoifior,
iM. Rhoads, Long & I*
104. Christian Ebcrly,
Ibcrly,
MI I) I) LI
(). Daniel Coble’s hoi
2. Jacob Stonier,
i. David Cnpp,
DICKINSON,
7. John Bolden,
X Joseph Baker,
. V. Grist,
ft. Henry Kcfler,
7. Adam Lerew-,
1. Lloyd Myers,
ft. Benjamin Malone,
CO. Morrison & McCreary,
5. Peter Miller's heirs,
H Howard Myers, ,
H.Mitclmel Mentor,
C. John Neely’s heirs,
p. Hilbert Searight,
v!’. las. Townsend,
10. Nicholas "Wire man,
8. Jacob Wolf,
-10. David Duncan,
12. Jacob Grove,
2. Abraham Stoner,
11. Win. Forbes, • (Penn)
)"0. Moore it Craighead,
John S. Myers,
10. John Kline,
Samuel Woods' hcitfl,
4. Widow Albert,
4 John BrUgb',
14 Noah Cocklcy',
1 (| . \\ m. Graham,
10. Samuel Gloim,
il’l Daniel Oitt-,
James G reason-,
Cyrus Mt era,
/’-• Henry Myers;
lingers (llaskol Agt.} (t?onn)
Ibichael Wpatherspooni
H-Jacob Beecher,
0. Brown it Crcswoll,
,4. Wesley Bitcman,
12. Francis Corolstort;
A John libert,
.Av(\u llcmminger;
& Win. B. Million,
l| . Moroh Myers,
H. Heetem, Himes «t Co;,
4. Cornelius Myers,
4 Dr, Marsden, '
Daac Montfort,
John & Henry Montfurfe,
A Philip Smyera,
o. Alex. Young,
SOUTH MIDbbETQI^.
!''• ft. Medcaff,'
Pi. John Matebr,
S' iln i e l Wonder! A
** l p' Sheafer & Keller,
*■ Went,
!■ Klizaheth
;■ James Barbour,
• •• Deardorf’s heirs,
• John Nicholson,
L James Nicholson,
"• Jacob Shonfor,
'4' McClure’s son., heirs.
,'^j l Shanefolter’s heirs,
ill* v; b t'annus,
„• Alex. Nnilor,
A. Hichwino,
M V, aco . lj Albright,
’ ei \janiin Lorewj
(Penn)
NEW OCStDEItLAKC.
*• Northorn 0. R. R. Company,
. UPi'EU AELENi
' M. E. Church,
'■ 1 ‘“lip Gusier,
caumbie,
!■ '! ol 'n OulHo,
• Dunbar’s hoirs,
■ G'orgo Wahl,
■ Mi Holcomb,
„ ' SILVER SPRING
r “"nry s. Heck.
j A n , dr<! 'v Miller,
Robert Bryson,
, HOPEWELL
S' Smith, ■
14fj' o av,d McKinney,
Sau >uol Miller,
•n D, rE!^.
12 V ol)ert MoOluno,
Gj‘ J T ' lm ® a McCulloch,
20 Holt/.hoover,
' UcriI 7 Shonk’a heirs,
1n t hec hanicsburq,
' Mnglefield,
< - bower alien.
• S. Iloldcman,
NEWTON.
}• *>us Boon,
J|lM Barnhill’s heirs,
new lot of fino fresh
JVi r^ xIQB J received and for sal tbv
,u ' »njynmi-
BY MISS SUSANNA l\ MOORE.
II Iliad boon his only lovo,
How bloat my lifo would bo;
But ho weeps for her who early diofl,
Though wedded now to mo.
Ho told mosho was beautiful,
And good as shgwns fair ;
Her smile was sunshine to his heart,
And still was lingering there.
lie said her love was pure and deep,
Her temper sweet and mild;
And that she was all innocence,
And joyous as a child.
taxes Dire.
fere ono short year the vision fled,
That never can return ;
lie weeps for her still—his early bride,
And ne’er will cease to mourn.
•SCO 55
3 82
•3 77
60
7 know ho loved hor more than mo—
He never told mo bo ;
but, in his heart, I feel ho hears
A silent weight of woo.
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10
54
16
To mo he is all tenderness,
Yet when I hear him sigh,
I lenow his thoughts aro wandering
To dtvys that aro gone by.
If I had been his only love,
How blest'my. life would he;
But ho woopa for her who parly died,
Though wedded now to ,mo.
MWhutmm.
[From Harper’s Weekly.
JME FROM THE WAIh
1 There’ll ho-a batin' bla’Ck frost 6n the
hills to-night, I tell ye-!’ Raid Moses Atterly,
as lie threw his armful of oak logs, fringed
with silver gray moss, upon the stone hearth,
and rubbed his hands cheerfully before the
red, roaring blaze, that encircled the rude
iron fire-dog, in drifts of ruby spafks.
Ho was a tall, wiry-looking old man With
mild hazel eyes; and’a akin w'oll-nigh as
brown as the basket of butternuts that stood
in the corner —a man whom you might easily
fancy to have grown up among thosU rock
hound, wind swept wildernesscss, as one of
the grant pines on the steep cliffs above had
grown—stalwart, sturdy, and true to the
very hearts core. The room was very plain,
with no curtains at the narrow paned win
dows, nor carpet, save the old zigzag veins in
the hickory boards that formed the floor.—
Yet there was an air of comfort in the splint
bottomed chairs, with red* moreen cushions,
and the round 'table, neatly spread for the
evening meal. Over the fire a black tca-ket
tlo kept up a dreary song, and /Moses Attcr
ly’s only child sat with folded Imnds,.in the
chimney corner, watching the vaporous
wreath curlin-j* from,the ptetty soft
eyed girl, wrtfF-a late rose in her braids of
glossy chestnut brown hair—and her straight,
clear cut features, now in shadow, and all
irradiated by the capricious torches of flame
that played” at hide-and-seek in and out
among the crevices of the bubbling, singing
lo« s - ■
‘ Have you been to the post-office to-night,
father?' and she, suddenly looking up as
Moses gave the smouldering back log a sort
of remonstrating kick.
* No ; but I met Jim (Graylingdown by ibo
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hemlock hollow, and ho said he was goin’
straight there ; so I told him to .ask if there
was anything for our folks. He’ll be here
directly, 1 calculate, for it must be all of two
hours ago.’
1 1 am sorry/ said Bessie, almost petulant
ly, ‘ Father, I detest the sight of that man 1’
‘My daughter 1’ remonstrated Moses, that
ain’t accordin’ to cither sense or gospUl/
, 4 Well, I can’t lulp it, father’ coaxing Bes
sie, dealing her soft, dimpled hand into the
rough palm that lay on Moses Atterly’o knee.
‘ He always seems to mo like— ’
She stopped suddenly—so suddenly that
the late rose fell out of her hair and lay on
the stone hearth ; for, as she turned her head,'
she saw James Grayling standing beside
them, unfolding a coarse \Hiite and red
worsted comfort from about his nock. Ho
stooped without a word, and picked up the
rose for her. .
70
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80
00
il, 00
20 25
1 02
1 87
2 35
, ‘ Why Jim j' said farmer Atterly, ‘ wherb
on earth did you drop from ? I didn't hear
you .come in.'
‘ Didn't you ? I ani euro I knocked loud
enough/ said Grayling, with a deep scarlet
Hush slowly fading away from his 'cheek.—
‘Pretty well to-night, Bessie?’
‘ I'm well bnough/ pduted Bbssie, without
looking at him; and tossing her recovered
rose in among the glowing cinders. Some
how it had lost its charms, after having laid
in James Grayling’s hand a second.
‘Set down, Jim, set down/ said the far
mer, heartily, * Any mail for us to-night $'
* Nothing/
Whnt n strange smile passed over his face,
as ho saw the sudden downward droop of
Bessie Attcrly's eyelids—the quiver around
her mouth I
‘Nothin'! that's queer. You see oUr Bes
sie’s feelin' kind o’ worried cause she don't
hear nothin’ from Henry Ives/
I got a long letter to-night from ray cous
in, who is in the same company, you know,
lie says—' •
Janies Grayling paused, a little malicious
ly, to note the eager sparkle in Bessie’s eyes
as she leaned forward cheeks
' and intent looks. •
‘ What does ho say V she gasped.
‘Well, I’m afraid you*U feel badly about
it; but he says Harry Ives was captured with
half a dozen others, by a skirmishing party,
about a week before he wrote/
. ‘ Captured I’
‘Yes; and that isn’t all. Ho says they
didn't half believe Harry Ives cared whether
ho was carried down South or not; for be
had taken a great notion to some pretty girl
down in Virginia—a planter's darter —and
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‘ I don’t believe it, Janies Grayling,’ and
Bessie, springing to her feet, with flashing
eyes and passion-crimsoned forehead, I don’t
believe a word of its • You are repeating
some vilo falsehood.’ -
‘I knew you’d feel had,’ said Grayling,
with provoking mildness, ‘but I thought you
ought to know how, things stood. I can
show.you Sam’s letter, if that will be any
more satisfactory. I never had much faith
in Harry -Ives —a careless, dashing fellow
• Hush I I will not listen to another word;’
ejaculated Bessie,'angrily, and with a cer
tain strange , dignity in her girl-face and
slender fornlii! ■ • • ....
‘ Mr. Attorly,’ said Grayling, with still
aggravating moderation and calmness, ‘ how
-long is it since your daughter received a let
ter ftom Harry Ives ?’
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■ 28
20
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putital.
THE REGRET.
"OUR COUNTRY—MAY XT ALWAYS BE RIGHT— BUT RIGHT OR WRONG OUR COUNTRY.”
‘Well, it’s a pretty considerable spell/
said the old fanner ; but letters do take time
to reach us, you knpw.’
‘Yes,, particularly when tlioy r ro never
sent/ sneered Grayling.
‘ Father, don’t listen to him/ sobbed Bes
sie, passionately. ‘lf the -whole world wore
to toll mo Harry Ives was untrue, I would
not believe them.’
And Bessie fainted quietly away, with her
chestnut braids of hair drooping over her
father’s knee.
Poor child I Could she have seen the wea
ry months of waiting for the letter which
never came from the far off Southern hills,
the hope deferred which makoth the heart
sick, that were in store for her, she might
have been sorry that she had not died, then
and there, holding fast to that firm faith in
Ilarvy, Ives’ fidelity.
James "Grayling, a 'crafty, patient man,
hided.his time. IfCame surely atlnst, when
the tender green of the hill-sides shriveled
and grow brown under the starry, silent
frost oftho bitter December nights, and the
keen wind rushed with thunderous swell
through the lonely pine forests in those wild
solitudes.
‘ Daughter, it’s the dearest wish of my
heart, said farmer Atterly, solemnly, as .ho
sat with Bessie in the bid silent room. “Pm
gettin’ on in the years; and if I could but
See ybn married to some good and true man
before I nm taken oway, I should rest easier
in my grave. James Grayling has been al
most a son to mo these months of trial and
trouble. Ho is coming for his final answer
to-night. Let it be yes !’
Bessie shuddered. That year of sick,
wistful grief had changed her into a pale,
fragile girl, with large, frightened eyes, over
roving from side to side, as if vainly seeking
something whicl.i never came.
1 Wait, father/ she murmured eagerly, as
if pleading for sweet life itself; ‘ wait a little
longer—only a little longer !’
‘I have waited, Bessie. It is a ycar and
over since Harry Ives has sent 3 r »u either
word or message. He may bo dead—bettor
dead than a scoundrel! —hut James Grayling
has been as true as steel to me all this time.
Ho deserves you, Bessie; and when once
married you’ll learn to love him. Shall we
say this day a month for your wedding,
daughter?’
That night Bessie laid her cold hand in
James Grayling’s eager palm, and said ‘yes,’
dreamily, to whatever ho proposed. What
had life loft for hor? As well James Gray
ling’s wife as anything else, since God willed
that she should live and "suffer on, and the
dreary path of years lay spread out before
her listless fcctl
The old smoko stained walls wore wreathed
with’feathery garlands of cedar and pine,
with the scarlet berries of the mountain ash
glowing here and there ; the great fire roared
up the chimney with festive sound ; and all
the neighbors were gathered around farmer
Atterly’s hearthstone ; for pretty Bessie was
to be married that night.
‘ She don't look as a bride ought to, some-
how,’ whispered Mrs. Deacon Jennings, to
her companion, Mahala Bird. 4 She seems
to mo jest like one o’ them white snow
'wreathes down in the hollow yonder.’
.1 May be it’s that white dress,’said Maha
la; * but she does look like a corpse. Land
o’Goshen! what bo I sayin’ ? It ain’t good
luck to talk about corpses on a weddin’
night.’ , ls ‘ .
For the pretty bridesmaids had Just led
Bessie in, robed in pure sheeny silk, with
snowy geraniums in her hair, and not a ves
tige of color on her checks.
‘ There 1 don’t she look sweet ?’ said Susy
Jennings. *ls it time to go into the parlor
yet?’
‘ Massy, no, child,’ said Mrs. Jennings,
* not fbr an hour. Why, Jim Grayling hasn’t
come yet.’
So Bessie sat JoWn in the midst of the as
sembled maidens and matrons, and played
with the white flowers in her bouquet, think
ing, who knows what? Perhaps ti lonely
grave under the cruel Southern stars I—perhaps 1 —per-
haps the fair face of the woman who had
wiled her lover’s heart away.
Somebody spoke to her ; she looked up and
all of a sudden her frightened eyes traced a
figure beyond the opened door to
which she sat —a figure hurriedly pressing
through the dirowd.
* Where is\shc? I will see Bessie, wed
ding or no wedohig ! Who has a better right
than t ?”
The -next monjent the pale, white robed
bride lay like a fair, still statute, in Henry
Ives’ arms.
* Stand off, I say 1 he cried fiercely. ‘ Let
no one come between rho and the woman I
love. I have earned her to bo my wife—
earned her by the long months of pain and
suffering—earned her by the wounds received
on the battlefield of the country she loved !
Do you sav’sheis to be married to James
Grayling? ” What has James Grayling done
with the letters I sent to his care—with all
the messages I entrusted to him? She had
better be in her grave than married to James
Grayling. Mr. Atterly, you are a just and
good man—'judge between me and the trea
cherous fox I fancied was my friend/-
* Harry, Harry I’ faltered the old man, I
never dreamed o' this; Toll mo auout it, ray
boy, for my old head swims."
And Harry Ives, still holding Bessie to his
heart, revealed the story of his own truth and
James Grayling's duplicity. When ho had
finished the impassionato recital, Moses At
torly clasped the brown, strong hand, be
tween his own horny palms, and said aol
boy, I ask your pardon for every doubt
that evor crossed my mind, and X thank the
merciful Providence that has spared Bessie
from being Jim Grayling’s wife. Wo arc
calculatin' to have a weddin’ hero-to-night,
and it isn’t too late yet, if Harry has no ob
jection to bein’ married in Ins soldier clothes I
‘ Father I’ interrupted Bessie, rosy as a
whole bouquet of carnations blended into
one; but Harry took her hands into liis,
whispering: T
‘ Love I I shall not fool secure until I can
call you wife* and the remonstrance died
away upon her lips,
‘ Are you all ready, Elder Wilkins? said
Moses, ‘ ’cause I believe the young couple is.
Ah 1 she looked like a bride 71010, with the
hazel light burning in soft fires under her
long curled lashes, and the carmine dyes
coming and going upon her ohook r like a
proud and blushing brido.
Tho ceremony was scarcely over betore the
silver chimes of sleigh bolls sounded at the
door, and Grayling’s voice was board ex
°H'rra S afraid l a m a littlo lato: but tho
horse sprained his log, and X hod to change
him at ’Squire Warrenton’s. However—’
‘ Yes, Jim Grayling, you are a littlo late,’
said Moses Atterly, taking a prodigious
pinch of snuff,' ‘ for my darter’s married al
ready.’
1 Marriedl’ ejaculated Grayling, as if un
certain whether his intended father-in-law
was not o fit candidate for a lunatic asylum.
CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 2
‘.Yea—to ITarry Jvos !’ 5 7 • ,
As James Grayling’s Bewildered eye caught
sight, in the brilliantly lighted rooms beyond
of the young soldier, bending hia tall head
to listen to some whispered \vord from Bessie,
ho turned a dull, dead yellow, ami a chill dew
broke out around his iji'ibth. .»
‘ What does it irocnnV’ he* naked.
* It means, Jim Grayling, that you arc A
scoundrel 1’ said the old man, with sudden
fine flashing in his eyes. ‘There’s the open
door—leave this house before Harry Ives sots
eyes on you, for he’s a spirited lad, and mis
chief might come of it I And hark yo—nev
er lot mo see your villainous face again I’
Silently, and like a wounded snake,.James
Grayling crept out into the chill darkness of
the tempestuous night, a detected,disappoint
ed man. And so effectually did ho take Mo
ses Attorly’s advice, that the little village in
.the hollow know his name and presence no
more.
And Bessie Ives, the happiest little wife in
tho world sings softly ovoV her work, coun
ting tho until ‘ when this cruel war is
over,’
\ Confidence Woman.
Our Western exchanges cpntain lengthy
accounts of-a young married womim-memed
Mrs. Van Vlect/who has been swindling the
people of Michigan and Illinois. The annals
-of female crime and fraud during the last
quarter of a century scarcely present a par
allel case. Her operations have been distin
guished by aboldncss, a dash of romance, and
until recently, b)7 an unvarying success-at
once surprising ‘and evincing talent of a high
order, worthy of a better use. She is descri
bed as younginapptarance-, hetover .'in years
of agc, ? of handsome ar.d peculiarly attractive
manners. She dresses with exquisit taste,
and moves in good society with - all the case
and sclf-posession of a travellin g wort an of
the world. Sho has resided from childhood
in Monroe county, and, until her recent ar
rest, has moved in good circles, where her re
spectability has been undoubted. It is said
that sho has realized untold sums from her
swindling operations, during the’past seven
or eight, years. During this period she has
absented herself from homo frequently weeks
at a time returning qstfi'ystoriously nsfeho dis
appeared'. "While at home, she lived in a stylo
of- luxury and. magnificence that has been the
envy of her friends and acquaintances. Du
ring some of those periodic excursions Mrs.
Van Vleot played the literary role, and
claimed tb kb authoress of “ Rutledge” she
made her aflvfcnt in the quiet' Eastern city
of . Hero she sought out a prortinent
real estate agent, and confided with him the
important information that sho was a woman
of moans, and desired to purchase a residence
in tho vicinity. Tho confiding man of real
estate was flattered by the pnlspect of sel
ling property to theauthoressof“ Hutledgo,”
and in doffercnce to her literary fame, invi
ted her to a home in his family. Her blan
dishments secured her an introduction to fi
nancial men, and sho was enabled to got a
check for two thousand five hundred dollars
on a Boston bank cashed. It was altered
from twenty-five dollars to two .thousand five
hundred dollars. This fraud Was soon dis
covered, hut not before the fair anindlor had
escapdd. She ig'said to have operated exten
sively in minor swindles in the East, many
of which transactions will probably never see
the light. She has at different times person
ated Mrs. General Van Vlect, and it is sta
ted that not long since she put on a Enga
dier’s;uniform“and wont to Chicago, where she
had the audacity to personate General Van
Vloethimself. Sometimes she, made her hus
band put on the uniform, and the pair trav
elled as General Van Vleet find kdy.
The arrest of this woman at Dundee, Mich
igan, has Caused considerable excitement and
gossip in the neighborhood Where she is known
and all kinds of stories are afloat. One is to
the effect that she donned the uniform of a
lieutenant, and by her dashing and brilliant
appearance, won the affections of a young
lady, married, and then cruelly deserted her.
She has a youngohild about a year old which
gossip says she ha's abducted in some of her
wanderings. .
Iter.husband la aitid to an inoffensive man,
and has boon used as the tool of this artful
and designing woman. She took her arrest
with the utmost sangfroid , and raid to a fe
male acquaintance as she was about to leave
with tho officers for Chicago, that she'had
escaped front a good many worse scrapes
than this.” Her arrest and exposure will
probably close a career of crime that has been
as romantic; as successful and remarkable, as
any thing of the kind wo have ever been call
ed upon to roord.
TraoePt Ik Aleentown.— A bloody trag
edy was enacted in Allentown, Lehigh coun-.
ty, on the 2d inst. There had been some
difficulty,.growing out of domestic relations
between Mr. David Sqom, of Emails, and Mr.
Win. Keck, of Allentown. Seem, it_ ap
pears', had married a Mrs.,Shoemaker; widow
of Capt. Shoemaker, who died in the army,
and Keek had made some observations on.
tho subject which Seem did not like. He
had, some time before the -occurrence which
We are about to relate,asked Keck to retract
his-assertion, which tho latter refused to do.
On Saturday Kook visited Emails for the
purpose of summoning witnesses in a trial
pending in court, and while there went into
the store of Tool & Sonj wlicre Seem hap
pened to be at the time. Tho two mbn
did not speak to each other, and pretty soon
Keck left by one daor, going, as he said, to
summon a Mr. Laubauoh. .Seem followed
by another door and tho,two men met in
front of, the store. ,A few words passed be
tween them, when Keck drew a pistol and
shot Seem through the heart, killing him in
stantly. Keck was immediately apprehend
ed, and is now in Allentown jail.
A Neglected Boy.—'‘Father/ said a little
fellow, having apparently reflected intently,
on something, ‘ I shan't send you any of my
wedding cake when I. got married.'
«Why not my son ?' was the fond father s
inquiry. f .„ , t
said tho young hopeful, you
didn't send me any of yours.'
jpQy A citizen of New Hartford tolls that
tho first time he attended church, ho, a little,
four year old was seated in a pevv. Upon his
going home ho was .asked what lie did in chuch
■when ho replied/ I wont into a cupboard, and
took a seat on a shelf.'
A Senator And His Umiirsi.la.— “Why
is it, Senator, after wo had so many weeks
of fair weather, that you have brought your
umbrella to the Capitol ?” asked a gqntlo
man tho other day of bhiff Ben Wade.
was tho reply., they say that
the Army of tho Potomac is in motion, and
of course it will storm within twelve hours.’'
K 7” Black swans and prudent lovers are
groat rarities in this world.
i
1864.
[From Chambers' Journal.
Divorces in Poland.
At tlio early breakfast the Princess ap
peared in a Cashmere morning dress, wear
ing a pearl necklace fastened with a rich
diamond clasp, ear-rings and bracelets to
match. She afterwards proposed showing ns
her dresses; so all her finery and that of her
itvccc was displayed. She also produced her
jewelry; of which she possessed enough to
adofil the whole country. A quiet individu
al who appeared at dinner was, I believe,
her present husband ; she had been married
several tirOca, as is common in Poland, al
though the Poles are Catholics, and divorce
is not allowed in that church. I know not
how they contrive it, but nothing is more
common than to niect/a gentleman having
two or three wives all alive, or *a lady the
same number of husbands ; ’and what is most
strange, the parties thus married and unmar
ried ihect on the friendliest terms.
for and facility of divorcing leads touri.icftrd
complications of relationship. I saw vnrionb
examples of these intricate connections dur
ing my sojourn in Poland. - .
One day n* cousin of Count S--—-{ipjdvod.
lie and his wife were hardly seated whenttns
other - couple., were, announced., _Thoy all
sccmttd to be on the most friendly terms. -In
the evening one of the gentlemen played at
cards with two ladies and a third who was
Maj'ing at Ostrowski. When he arrived the
Countess S said to mo, ‘ Is it not curious
to s r cc rny ’cousin Alexander playing cards
with his .three wives?’ * Jlis throe wives!’
I exclaimed, ‘ surely you jest.’ ‘ Not at all,'
she answered, ‘ nothing is more common
hero. lie now regrets his divorcement from
the first; ho liked hor best; but she has also
married again. They arc all very friendly’
and agreeable, to One another.’ Countess
S—continued :
‘ You will hardly moot a person in the
country who lias not been married more
than once. The Russians reproach us on
our facility for divorcement, as they marry
for life, wc, for as long as we please. It is
bcttcr-than living together on ill terrts.” —
This seemed very startling to me, hut it was
a fact of which I was convinced by personal
observation;
One bitterly cold clay, when life Very as
pect out doors was enough to make one shud
der, Countess S , Franlcin Mullen and
myself, were making artificial flowers* An
na, who braved I knbw not hb»v rhguy de
grees of cold, was gone bn a sledging excur
sion with her father;, As we were seated by
a window, wo bAw a slcdgo drawn by horses
coming up the avenue. "We were wondering
who the courageous visitors could be, when
the beautiful Countess Z , a near neigh
bor was announced. On entering sho said
to Countess S , ‘ I have not a moment to
stay, and have something important to.. Bay
ray husband intends proposing for your
daughter; ho is an excellent man, so I bog
of you not to let any delicacy of sentiment
on my account bo an obstacle to their union.
I have already obtained my divorce, and am
on the eve of contracting another marriage.
I leave for Varsovie this evening. Adieu
my dear friend.’ So saying,, she disappear
ed as quickly as she had entered. I own
that if a thunderbolt had fallen at my feet, I
could not have been more surprised. Franlein
Mullen and I, who had stood" up to leave tho
room had not time to gain the door ere the
communication was made. Counters S—“
begged of us to remain, and a‘s her
friend loft, observed, without seeming tho
least amazed at what she had heard that
Count A was too old for Anna. Un
doubtedly, he has a very largo fortune, but,
added she, wo have almost given our word
to another person.’ She was evidently no
wise shocked at the strange announcement.
Accordingly, Count A did come the next
day, made formal demand and was refused
—Anna’s opinion coinciding with that of her
parents.
A Bi.essed Dav. —What a hleseed day is
Sunday to a man who necessarily catches but
brief glimpses of home during the toiling
week ; who is off in,the morning while little
eyes are closed in slumber, nor back at night
till they are again sealed in sleep. What
would ho know of the very children for whom
he toils woro it not for the. blessed breathing
rerpito of Sunday. What honest working
man’s child will oyer forget this, when, clean
and neat, it is his privilege to climb papa's
knee, and hang abofit his nbek, and tell him
all the nows that goes to make up his narrow
little world. “Narrow,” did we say ? We
recall tho word ; for it widens out into the
ocean of eternity. Sunday for the working
man’s children 1 So we would have it—a day
hallowed by sweet, pure, homo influences,
when tho little hand, quite complete, shall
rest from labor, and Love shall write it down
the blessed day of all tho seven.
Ahe Lincoi.n a Pigmy. —The Philadelphia
j Press —tho “ loyal” Press calls Lincoln a
pigmv. Think of it. “ War,” it says, can
not bo saddled and bridled and ridden by a
pigmy. Bucephalus can be governed by Al
exander alono.” The Press wants Fremont
to take the comifiaud away from tbo pigmy.
DC?” President Lincoln made a speech at
(ho opening of tho Patent Office Fair, on the
night of Feb. 22; the most striking feature of
which was his statement that “ it is very
difficult to say a sensible, thing.”
O' A story is related of an enterprising
editor in an interior town, who, finding tho
holy of aman hanging to lampqiost one night,
after his own paper had gono to press, cut it
down and carried it homo, to. prevent his ri
val from publishing tho nows, and was him
self indicted for the ihurdor;
jgy-A Northern English rector used to
think Itpolito not to begin service before the
arrival of the squire. A little while ago ho
forgot liis manners, and began. “ When the
wicked man ” “ Stop, sir,” called out the
dork, “ ho ain’t comq.yet,”
DC?" It has been decided that a blind black
man, in a dark collar, with a dark lantern,
looking for o blind black cat, constitutes a
very dark transaction.
[CT* A littld follow ono day non-pliisaed
his mother by making tho following inquiry
“ Mother', if a pian is a mister, ain’t a wom
an <t mistecy ?”
' k 35“ Why is a ship.s crew like si bomb
shell 7 Because, When discharged, they go
on a bust.
[C?-There is many a slip between tlio Clip
and the lip, hut there are many more slips
after tho cup has boon drained by tho lips;
Bgy Marriageable ladies should make a,
point of frequenting tho opera, where they
are sure to have overtures<
fditiml.
A YEARXIXG I’OR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
There is a rapidly growing feeling among
all classes not given over to cant and parasi
tism that the Democratic party is the party
of vigor, of executive ability, of administra
tive energy. It has never boon a party of
negation, and it has accordingly been al
ways in harmony with the condition and cir
cumstances of a country marked by rapid de
velopemont. Every important affirmative
measure which has taken root, has been the
work of that party. Every square mile that
has been added to the national domain sinco
the organization ot the Government, is the
fruit of Democratic boldness of'couception.—
Democratic vigor of execution, and Democrat}
ic power to load public opinion. In the face
of violent but impotent opposition it waged
tlm only two glorious and,successful wars in
which the country has been engaged since
the origin of parties. It ’established the
Monroe doctrine; it nursed,intostrength the
sentiment of “ manifest destiny;” it estab-
hard-money doctrine,'as embodied
"ih the Independent Treasury; it made ag-
grcssiye war upon great monopolies and top
pled them into the- dust; it boldy gave the
elective franchise to the foreigners seeking a
home among us; it has always keen the jeal
ous guardian of the national honor and dig
nity against foreign nations. ,
In the great political qualities of "boldness,
vigor, and efficiency, it lias always stood pre
eminent, because it has been quick to under
stand and courageous to follow the instincts
of the masses. Whether right or wrong its
course has never been timid and vacillating.
It has been accused of recklessness, of an ar
rogant and defiant bearing toward foreign
powers, of a greedy and aggressive territori
al policy on this continent, but never of fee-
bleness or pusillanimity. The experience
which the country has bad of Mr. Lincoln's
halting imbecility heightens the contrast
which has always prevailed between the un
hesitating boldness of the Democratic party
and the comparative feebleness always char
acteristic of the transient parties which have
successfully bccnoppuscd to it. Even among
the supporters of the Administration almost'
every positive, self-determined character is
an importation from the Democratic ranks.
We are speaking now of the single quality
of boldness and executive energy; and wc
may say without contradiction that General
Butler, with his low moral instincts, is pre
eminent in vigor of character among all the
supporters of the Administration. Qcn.
Fremont with greater moral elevation and
dignity of character, has a will almost equal
ly energetic; and he, too, was an.oldTimo
Democrat, , General Dix, whoso “ shoot him
on the spot; order is historical, although in
the Democratic ranks he was regarded as a
man of moderate temper, is conspicuous for
his energy among the men now prominent.
Lieutenant-General Grant, who has just been
indorsed as the most energetic of our soldiers
in. active service, was a bred Democrat.—
Dickinson, the most plucky of the Adminis
tration stump-orators, got his vigor from long
Democratic associations. Postmaster-Gen
eral Blair, who has more vigor of character
than all the rest of the cabinet together, is
also a man of Democratic antecedents.—
Whether force of character and political
-courage aie good or bad qualities, depends
upon the utility of the objects they, seek to
accomplish ; but the fact is notorious that
they have been exhibited in this country by
few men that had not the advantage of Dem
ocratic training and associations.
Even the nicknames and calumnies heaped
upon the Democratic party by its adversaries,
bear implied testimony to its vigor and cour
age. The opprobrious term “copperhead”
implies venom, to be sdre, but vigor as well.
It insinuates anything but d negation.
The country has been brought to feci, by
painful and. Costly experience, that in great’
emergencies almost anything, is better than
tameness and imbecility. . Wo accordingly
meet almost dally, rintong thoughtful men in
the Republican party, openly expressed
wishes that the government might once
more" be administered with the old .Democrat
ic energy. Republicans sigh, not for the tal
ents of Webster, but for the rc-appoaranco
' of some man of the type of Andrew Jackson,
the very embodiment of Democratic boldness
and political courage. If we had a positive,
intrepid Douglas, instead of a feeble, vacil
lating Lincoln, at the bead of the government
during this struggle, how different would
have been the fortunes of the country Af
ter this long reign of feebleness and impo
tence the people turning tlieir eyes to the
Democratic party for; relief; and even the
Republican publicists arc fain to confess that
if the Democratic party would only adopt
their crotchet about slavery it would be in
vincible,
Doctor Orestes A. Brownaon, the April
number of whoso Review is j list out, has three
vigorous political articles, in two of yrlitch,
out and out Republican and Abolitionist as
he is, he expresses the opinion that nothing
but the slavery question stands between the
Democratic party and a signal triumph in
the Presidential election. Wb rbgrot that
wo can quote only ti sentence or t\vo just to
indicate the thrift of his ideas-. “It is there
fore, clear to us,” ho says, “ that if the Dem
ocrats have tho wisdom and virtue, to put up
a wav Democrat, .Wild is willing to let slavery
die and bo buried, a man whom loyal Union
men can Vole, for without betraying their
government rf endangering Hie national
cause: Mr. Lincoln withstand a poor chance
of a re-election, if ho leaves the election free,
and docs not undertake to control it by the
military. Hundreds and thojjjands of loyal
Republicans would abstain front voting, and
some, most likely, would even bolt their par
ty.” In another article he suggests lire pos
sibility of the Democratic party, having put
upon tho administration tho odium of killing
slavery, taking to itself “the glory of bury
ing slavery, putting.an end to the war, and
saying tho nation.” Ho save that if the
Democratic party should “ take ground that
slavery is dead and no longer in question,”
and put in nomination “ a strong man, a man
of character; capacity-, untainted with coppor
headism, possessing eminent ability lind high
moral and civil courage ; who doubts they
would carry tho next election with n rush,
redeem their owp political character, and
gain a lease of powot for another half centu
ry ?”
Tho Democratic pfirty will steadily refuse
to mount the hobby; it leaves slavery to its
fate, whatever that fate may bo. It will nei
ther make nor meddle in tho matter, oneway
of tho other. But tho widely diffused feeling
that tho Democratic party alone has tho en
ergy and capacity, to cope successfully with
the rebellion, and restore the Union, narrows
the Presidential question down to this;—
Whether tho. people attach more import
ance to an imptttont attempt to destroy
slavefy than to a successful attempt to restore
tho Union 1 If tho Union is lost slavery Hycs,
of course, until on independent Southern con
federacy sees fit to abolish it. But if the
Union is. restored, that is a blessing so para
mount, that patriotism may console itself un
der some disappointment of anti-slavery or
pro-slavery wishes, as the oa'si may happen
to be.
If what wc have quoted wore li solitary ’rec
ognition of the energy and vitality o’f the
Democratic party,should regard it as true 1 ,
indeed, but as of no great significance. Bu£
it crops out every whore. 17c meet frequent
traces of it oven in the Tribune. The now.
Fremont organ recognizes the possibility of
national salvation coming from this decried
political Nazareth. “Unless wo are much,
deceived,” it says, “ men , of this stamp”
[Democrats] “ will bo the first to take prom
inent places in the new party. This will ex
plain bow wo may now and then,happen to
agree with certain Democratic organs, and
wc will add, that if the Democratic party had
sufficient intoligenco and patriotism to break
away, entirely from slavery, it certainly pos
sesses instincts that are really more liberal'
than the llopuhlioau party.”
These tributes, to the Democratic party
from quarters so unexpected are a significant
sign of the ,times. Thcy,nro the forerunner
of a’migbfy reaction against the party in pow
er. -
[From tli# Pittsburg Post.
WHO CAUSED THE AVAR !
The Pittsburg Gazette , yesterday, in reply to
our statement that the leading Abolitionists/
and leading lirc-eatera were alike guilty of
producing uur present troubles, quotes an ex
tract from a speech of Alexander P. Ste
phens, in which he implores his State not to
withdraw from the Union, This may Appear
to the Cazt/ee d triumphant answer to our
statement, but with all due respect to our
uoigbor's profundity, wc canricl see it. Wo
never justified the South in resorting to re
bellion. We never took italic with Mr. Ste
phens in his efforts to keep his State in tho
Union, and’tho l Gazette quoting his speech to
weaken our argument, is about as rcvilent
as if it had quoted a passage from scriptur#.
As regards the Peace Convention which,
assembled in Washington in 18GI, It is noto
rious that the leading AbolitionUtfe transfer
red to it their tactics from the U. S. Senate,
u\ ordpr to defeat any measure likely t 6 dVprl:
rebellion. -The bloody and brutal Senator
Chandler, of Michigan, exposed tho .AbolL
t"dn programme, when hedeclared that*‘blood
letting would do us good.” lie and wc now
have had blood to our hearts content. Not
desiring to mistify tho reader, by garbling
extracts from tho proceedings of cither the
Peace Convention dr of Congress, wo desire
to sum up the cbnduct of tho Abolition mem
bers of the Senate, in tho briefest manner.
Senator Douglass, after exhausting his great
powers, in laboring to effect somq compromise
at last, on tho 3d of March, 1861, remarked.
We quote these brief passages 5n order to give
tho lie, the loud lie to tho impudent assertion
of the Gazette that its party since Lincoln's
election was ever in favor of anything b‘iu
civil war. Said Mr. Douglass*. , }
“ If you of the Repdbiibab side dte ital
willing to accept this riu.r the proposition of
the Senator from Kentucky, pray tell us What
you will do? ,1 address the inquiry to the
Republicans alone;-for the reason that in the
Committee of thirteen, ft few days hgo ; eve;
ry member from the South; inMddmfi those
from tho Cotton states, (Messrs. Davis and
Toombs) expressed their readiness to accept
the proposition of iny venerable friend from
Kentucky as a final settlement of the contro
versy; if tendered and sustained bjr the Re
publican members. Hence the sole responf
sibility of our disagreement, and the only
difficulty ih the way of an aniibablp
ment, is with the Republican party.”
Senator Pl'gh hero observed ; ■ ,
“Before-the Spnator3 o from the State of Mis
sissippi (Jclf Davis being ortd of them*) left
this Chamber I hoard.one of theni. who as
sumes, at least; to be President of the Soijtti
ern Confederacy, propose to accept it; find to
maintain the Duiori, it that proposition could
receive the vote it ought to receive from (ho
other side of this Chamber.”
Mr. DoudhAs, at the same tliiic, said in re
ply
“ 1 o'r.ii confirm the Senator’s declaration
that Sendtor Davis himself, wlien on the
Committee of Thirteen, was ready at all
times to compromise on the Crittenden prop
osition. I will go further and say that Mr:
Toombs was also ready to do so.”
Parso:; Browxlow. —That ’’hoary-Headed
blackguard and impious blasphemer. Parson
Browhlow, wild was made so much of ih Uiis
section of country a year or two agd, ftftec
lilling his pockets and providing himself
with printing materials, at Hid of
our Christian and ‘loyal* people; htvs return
ed to Knoxville, where lio is uoW printing a
“ paper de-votcd_to billingsgate, .blasphemy
and Abolition, Wo give a couple of para
graphs as fair specimens of his stylo. In
reference I'd the Southern military, he says:
“ Had we our wish, wo would throw hell
wide open, and .place all such boast-like offi
cevs and men upon tin inclined plane, at an
angle of forty-jivo degrees, grease the planS
with hog’s lard six inches thick, with a wick
et at the bottom,’'and send them, as oho
stream of traitors, robbers and assassins, in
to the hottest part of the infernal regions.*'
Again, iu reference to the Confederated
generally; .
“ There is now no equal extent of territory
on earth that has so large a*delogation in hell
as-the Southern Confederacy can
Rebels have gone to hell from the South
since this at a foarfhl rate;
and the cry is sTUHlicy come !■"
Upon this the ■ Mciripcliian Rccdrct re-
marks
11 Wo do riot know whether to be sorry dr
glad at tliis intelligence from the Pious par
son: It is, however, the first direct intelli
gence that wo have had from that quarter
since the Devil left there to enter Paradise
and ruin the human race.”
NEaRdSuFFRAcn.—-Iho reader will observe
by our report of the proceedings had in the
Senate on Thursday last, that a majority oi
that body has decided not to' restrict the
right of suffrage, and, ns wo understand, oi
holding office in the new Territory of Monta
no to while male citizens, as has been -the
custom in organizing now Territories. The
vote on the amendment thus making the ne
gro and white citizens “bqual before the
law” was a follows;
Yeas —Messrs. Brown, Chandler, Foot,'
Clark, Collamor, Conness, Dixon, Fessenden,
Foster, Grimes, Halo, Harlan, Harris, How
ard, Howo, Morgan, Morrill, Pomeroy, Suw
nor, Wade, Wilkinson add Wilson—22.
Nays —Messrs. Buokalew, Carlilo, Cowan;
Davis, Harding, Henderson, Johnson, Dane;
of Indiana, Nesmith, Powell, Riddle, Saula
bury, Sherman, Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Yah
Winkle and Willey—l 7.
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