Father Abraham. (Reading, Pa.) 1864-1873, November 20, 1868, Image 1

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"(401) SAVE OUR PRESIDENT."
fly FRANCIS HE HAM JANVIEIL
All hail ! Unfurl the stripes and stars !
Tke banner of the free !
Ten times ten thousand patriots greet
The shrine of Liberty !
Come, with one heart, one hope. one aim,
Au undivided band,
To elevate, with solemn rites,
The ruler of our land !
Not to invest a potentate
With robes of majesty :
Not to confer a kingly crown,
Nor bend a subject knee ;
We bow beneath no sceptre)! sway,
I They no royal nod ;
Columbia's sons, erect and free,
Kneel only to their God !
Our ruler boasts no kingly rank ;
No ancient, princely lino ;
No legal right to sovereignty,
Ancestral and divine ;
A patriot, at his country's call,
Responding to her voice ;
One of the people—he becomes
A sovereign by our choice !
And now, before the mighty pile
'\Ve've reared to Liberty,
Ile swears to cherish and defend
The charter of the free !
God of our country ! seal his oath
With thy supreme assent,
God save the Union of the States !
God sore ow* PreAdent
pisceitantouo.
Written for FATHER ABRAHAM.
PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.
About forty years agomy mother needed
a new carpet forthe parlor. According to
time-honored custom, she invited her lady
friends of the village to a carpet rag sew
ing. Ohl coats, pants, jackets, vests, pet
ticoats, et cetera, had been carefully saved
for a year or more to meet such au enter
gency. On the day belbre the sewing,
mother mat le ample preparations, by baking
and cooking, to treat herlady friends with
an abundance of good things. At the ap
pointed hour they came, and a glorious
time they had durin:f the afternoon. The
huge quantity and great variety of old
clothes was soon converted into cut and
sewed carpet rags, ready for the weaver,
and in a few weeks more the family re
joiced over a beautiful new carpet, with
rich stripes of red, green and yellow, giv
in!, our parlor a splendid appearance. The
furniture consisted of the said new carpet,
a dining tattle, settee. half a dozen chairs,
a house clock with a seven feet high case,
a ten-plate wood stove dated 17Sl, fbur or
five eight by ton inch pictures--likenesses
of Washingb in, Jefferson, Adams and
Ilamilton—a bureau, and a four feet Ion! ,
wood-chest behind the stow. The spin
niter-wheel, when not in use, was also
recognized as au article properly belonging
to the parlor.
Forty years ago our sisters were taught
by their mothers to perform regular house
hold duties. They were required to bake
bread, make beds, knit stockings, spin
wool, flax and hemp, wash dishes, milk
cows, gather eggs, churn butter, feed pigs,
peel potatoes, plant corn, cook sour-kraut,
make hay, hoe corn, scrub and sweep
rooms, shake carpets, wash clothes, boil
soap, go to market and rock the baby.
Young ladies now-a-days learn to dress in
the most extravagant and ridiculous style,
read novels, study fashions, attend balls,
spend the old man's earnings, enjoy the
luxury of seeing mother do the work of the
household, and faint at the sight of awash
tub, a scrubbing brush, a piece of country
soav or a crying baby.
orty years ago, boys at the a;gc of four
teen or fifteen were bound out among;
strangers to learn trades, and serve terms
of years as apprentices--generally until
they attained the age of twenty-one vials,
when the young man received, according;
to contract, either an extra suit of clothes,
a set of tools, or in lieu thereof, from thirty
to forty dollars in cash as a •• freedom gift. "
During apprenticeship he was required to
rise very early in the morning, and work
front eleven to thirteen hours a day. Sum ,
apprentices had their daily tasks befbre
them, and received regular pay fin. doing
"over work," which en:doled them to earn
from fifty cents to one thdlar a week, and
lay up money which in .some cases enabled
them to stl) into business at t %veiny-out%
Boys frequently reserved the right during
apprenticeship to spend a few weeks in the
country, every year, to work at haymaking
and in the harvest fields. and earn for
themselves from sixty-two and a-half to
eighty-seven and a-half cents a day.
Young men of to-day are treated much
more tenderly, if not with more \Visdoin.
Instead of directit: their al tenthat to use
ful trades or occupations, they generally
go for situations in 'Hotels, Itestatirants
and ()likes. Ilundrols 0101 thousands
commence the study of Law, Medicine or
Theology without the least re!rard to their
naturallitnesstitrsuch professions. Trades,
requiting actual labia., and calculated to
develop manhood and lead to honor and
usetitiness, are carefully a y(44(101141 shun
ned, as occupations only t ) b followed h
some inferiors. .As a n Itor 11 consequynce
our so_coHNl rcspectable yoang men of to
day spend much of duir time in driving
fast le wses, dritildng fifteen and twenty
livo cent brandies and whiskies, and
smoking cigars costing., not twenty-tiNT
(TiltS her hundred as in oltlyn times, but
from live to hat and twenty-tirecentseach.
It is a lamentable trutil that tlemsands and
tens of thousands of our young molt of the
present time are entering 111:1111u)od as
drunkards and gamblers, and finish them
selves as stwlt at twenty-live and thirty!
S
h malice towards none, with char
firmness in the right, as Cod g,
to see the right, let us stripe on to finish, the
we are in; to bind up the nations wow;
gottrg.
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LANCASTER, PA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2,0, 1865.
'Fills startling truthmust very soon engage
he serious attention of all g4)041 and right
minded people. to the end that the fearful
tide 4)f dissipation may 1w reversed and
the sat'ety of the rising general )littssured.
Forty years ago, spirituous liquor was
considered an article of refreshment, and
those only were licensed to retail it who
were amply provided with house room and
accommodations tbr strangers ;11141 t ra yel
lers. In other words, btverns Only, afford
ing accommodations, such ;Is meals, lod.o•-
in;rs, horse feed and stabling, could receive
license to sell strong drinks. To Permit
tippling and loafing about bar-rooms, forty
years ago, was an indictable olfense, and
punished as such to the Intl extent of the
law. No yours! , man under twenty-one
years of age would think of steppinr up to
a bar and calling tbr a drink, lir if he did,
ill most cases he was promptly ejectel fro II
the premises.
To-day we find our towns and villages
full of mere drinking shops and drunkard
making ilistitutions. The hotel-keepers
who furiUsli the necessary aeconntiodat ions
Il)r strangers and travellers, and who. to
carry on a legitimate, necessary and re
spect;tble public bnsiness, find that they
can no longer depend upon the profits of
the bar to assure success in business, and
to sustain themselves they must increase
their profits on meals, lodging and other
hotel accommodations. The drinking
branch of the hotel busine;:s is rapidly
passing into the hands of mere drinking,
saloon keepers. These are provided with
condOrtable arm-chairs, private rooms for
card-players, and other contrivances cal
culated to attract and entrap the young,
who, night after night, waste their time
and means, and hasten with all possible
speed to their inevitable doom. Strong
drink is no longer I(tokeduponas an article
of refreshment, and to be sold only as such
to strangers and travellers, but it is now
within the molt of all, from youth to old
age, only to demoralize and destroy. The
fearful increase of intemperance isnot the
work of the hotels, but principally of the
thousands of imported drinking shops in
our cities and villages throughout the laud.
The use of eoculus, indigus, strychnine and
other deadly poisons, in making lager beer
and intensifying whiskey, in addition to
the natural tendency of alcohol, is now
carrying inore people to the grave than
war and all other unnatural causes com
bined ever did during the same period of
time.
Forty years a!;o, Mr. Brown, the tether
Ora family up country, concluded to wake
his latter haw and youngsters especially
happy by laying in a stock Of substantial
New Year's gifts. He didn't behove in
spending money tbr candies and toys, ex
cept about three to six cents for a tin rat
tile, a jumping .losey or a squealing pig
for the baby. Ile took an inventory of
the wants of the tinnily, and started fin.
toti'n early in the morning - distance of
six in--where Ite rOtild btty to better
advantage. he thought, than at the village
store kept by Smith. llelymght his rool is,
and his bill was substantially a follows:
8 yds. Calico (dress for Wife) 10e..
thread. trimming. &e
4 yds. Casimer (suit for Billy) 45,
3 " do. do. Peter) 40(
5 " Calico, (.lress tier Sally) 10.
:1 " do. do. Kitty) !lc
2 " do. do. Balky) .....
6 " Red Flannel, at 25c
4 " Check fin• aprons, at 12 , .;e
Sundries—thread, needles, tape, &e
1 piece Muslin, 33 yds., at Se ....
SEM
Itere we have the black and white to
prove that a wife, two boys, two girls and
a baby were newly clothed, and thirty-two
yards of muslin bought tar general family
use, all for $lO.OO. And it must be re
membered, too, that the goods bought, were
lit tbr anybody to wear, and quite up to
the then standard of fashion, and muchad
mired by the holy friends and nei!thbors
who came in on the evening of that day to
congratulate the Brown filially upon their
splendid new rigs. They were tumid
namsly of the opinbm that Smith, the Nil
la."l. storekeeper, was no better than lit
ought to be, as he charged a nlevvy for
calico not a bit better than that bought by
Mr. Brown flux ten cents.
Wt. all know, from highly inter.sting
txpf•rience, what ten dollars will pay for
to-day. The amount isbarely sutlieientto
buy a plain b(amet; it takes all of ten th)l
tars to buy a pair of good pantaloons. Teti
dollars is about what it takes to enahle a
thst young man to go on a single "hust."
It will buy a plain dress fin• a holy; it will
Inty two bottles of Jersey Cider, mixed wit It
some drugs to resemble Champagne wins•;
it Will buy tlu•ee or four bottles of whishoy
which cost a shilling a quart forty years
ago; it will Imy two hundred or perhaps
tlu•ee hundred cigars, equal in real value
to the c(atunou kiml which were bought for
twenty-live cents per hundred forty years
ago.
lteapin2. cycle was the usual
way of gztthering ourgrain crops forty years
af , o. A gips" realier could cut about a
third of On acre in one day. About that
time !vrain cradles were introduced.
enahling a III:111 to cut about ttVtt at res in
anti OWillg to the scarcity of labor
ers the cradle was preferred, although
reaping was the most economical, ;is there
was much less wasted by reaping than by
IN;ww cradling wheat or rye, 141 .
grass, is lwhind the age. The inowin,
machine inovts round the field, cutting
a‘Yay and gatliering the crop, from ten t,)
twenty acres a day. And hilswers
to thresh gr;iin—about ten bushels per
day, tbr which they received sixty cents,
three meals and three "jiggers" of whis
key. flog- many bushels are now run
through It machine I am unable:to state.
An industrious and sober day laborer
working on a farm forty years ago, could
care for him who shall have borne /he baffle, and
Ji9r his lyidon , and his orphan, to do all which may
etch/eye and cherish a just and a lasting peace
among ourselves and with all nations."—.4. L.
make, save and lay up money on forty
cents a day. This may now smut hard for
some people to believe, yet it is true. The
laborer, having, a tinnily. entered into a
contract with a farmer tolive in his tenant
house and work for him all the year round
fur forty tents a day, and immrditw. 1 xcept
at haymaking and harvest, when he was
to receive seventy-five cents n day.
the terms of tine contract ho paid from
tifteen'to twenty dollars rent for his dwel
ling, garden, stable, and one acre I gri min 1.
lb. was also entitled to one load of hay,
and pasture for a cow during, the summer
season. The laborer kept a (.ow, a lot of
chickens and several pigs. I lis at raised
all the potatoes he needed, and from thirty
to fifty bushels of corn. His poultry fur
nished an abundance of e" . ! , s, mut his cow
enough of butter—even at I 3 Or 1. e,aits
pound and the ogu:s at (*rift and ten cents
a dozen.— tohnyall the , roceri..s heneeded
for his finally. His wife—an economical,
plain. tidy and industrious housekeeper
earned enough with the spinnite , wheel
and needle loch ithe herself:lnd yt amgsters,
and at the end of the year this huttilile la
borer'
out of his forty cents a day, actually
saved from thirty to fifty dollars, which
he put 011 interest, and :It thO Vila or the
second year of such industry and economy
he had a hundred dollars, and in the course
of six or seven to ten years he had mitney
enough to pay an instalment on a farm
which he bought, and which was entirely
lriid off ill six, eight or ten years lon, , er.
There : u rn plenty of independent and intel
li!rent farmers in Pennsylvania to-day, who,
with wives :Is help-mates, commenced life
by earning flirty cents a day in the matmer
stated. We all know what forty cents a
day will do now. It is the least amottnt
with which a hard-working mechanic will
tholishly enter a lager beer saloon to pay
for the luxury of getting himself over
loaded for the night, with a feverish thirst
for more in the morning, and a sever(
head-ache I)(':,ides.
[TI) DE CONTINUED.]
THE LOVE SECRET.
111" KATE st"niERLAND
Eow.tico is to be in London next
week,'" said Mrs. Ravensworth ; "and I
trust, Edith, that you will meet lii
with the frankness he is entitled to re-
Edith Hamilton, who stood behind th
chair or her aunt, did not make any an
r.
Mrs. Ha vensworth continued---" Ed
ward's father was your father's own bro
ther. A man of nobler spirit never moved
on English soil ; and 1 hear that Edward
is the worthy son of a worthy sire."
"If he were as pure and perfect as an
angel, aunt," replied Edith, "it would be
all the same to me. I have never seen
him, and cannot. therefore, meet hint as
one who has a right to claim my hatol."
" Your father gave you away when you
wero a child, Edith ; and Edward comes
now to claim you 1)y virtue of this be
trothal."
$ 80
" While I love the memory of my latlter,
and honor him as.a child should honor a
parent," said Edith, with much serious
ncss, "I do not admit his right to give me
awav in marriage while E was y e t a c hild.
And, moreover, I do tia)t, think the man
who would seek to consummate suel► a
marria , e contract ,:worthy of any maiden's
love. Only the heart tliat yields a free
consent is worth having, and the man who
would take any other is utterly unworthy
of any woman's regard. By this rule I
judge Edward to be unworthy, no matter
what his tltther may have been."
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$10.03
" Then you mean," said Mrs. Ravens
worth, "delilwraMy t violate the solemn
contract made by your lather with the la
ther of Edward'?"
" I cannot receive. Edward as anythin,!2:
but a stranger," replied Edith. "It will
not mend tl'e ern)r of my titther for we to
commit a still greater ime."
" commit a still greater one ?'' in
quired MN. ItaVellSWOrtil.
best r‘iy the very foundation of a true
inarriugc—free(b an of choice and consent.
There would he no freedom of choi ce ()11
Isis Ir•trt. and no lu•ivilege of eonseut o n
mine. Happiness could not follow sau•h a
union, and to enter into it would be doing
;t great wrong. No, aunt, 1 cannot re
ceive Edward in any other way than as a
st ran ..4er--ihr Stich he
Ther,• is a clause in your (Miter's will
that you unto• have for.4ottvn, said
her aunt.
That which makes me pelinyles:i if' I
do aut. marry Edward
" 1.. t“,
'. \u---1 hav' not forrotti.ii it,
" volt moan to bray(' that con se-
quolivt. ?"
In a choice of evils we always take
the least. — Edith's voice trembled.
L. li:lNVllMvorth did not reply for some
moments. IN'hile she sat silent, the half
closed door near which Edith stothl, and
toy ttrdswhich her aunt's bark was turned,
softly opened. and a handsoine vi/tall,
Is
t(ceell whom and Edith glances or intelli
,renee instantly passed, presented the star
tled maiden with a beautiful white rose,
and then noiselessly rot ired.
It was nearly a bethre Mi's. Ha
vcitswitrth resumed tha light employment
she Was engaged, and as she did
she said--
- Many a foolish young girl gets her
Iliad turned NVitil th , :w gay gallants at our
f,isllionable %vat:Ting-places, and imagines
that she has won a heart when the. object
or her vain reganl never felt thy Hind) of
a truly unselfish and noble impulse."
The crimson deepened on Edith's cheeks
and brow, and as she lifted her eyes, she
saw herself in a lane mirror opposite,
with her aunt's calm eyes steadily fixed
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upon her. TO turn her fice partly acv::}',
s() that it could no lotiovr he rellec th hi 1 . 11/111
the 111lITO1', IVaS the \VI/I'k Or an instant.
In a few nnatients she, f:aid--
'• Let ynting t'oolisli girls I;et their
heads turned if they Mit I trust I
am in no danger: ,
I ant not so suro of that. Those who
think thvinselves most si•vtire, :ire gener
ally in the greatest (lati!ver. %Vito is the
yinith Nvith Vail last
I don't remember to irtve seen him
here liehire."'
•• Ilis name is Evelyn
slight trtanor in Edith's voice
Irow canoe you to know hint
`• I met hint here lost season."
" You tlitl ?''
" nnt'ant. I dancol with hint
last nh_2:lo. Was thyrt• any harm in dust?"
The niohltat's voio• haul Toronto! its firm-
•• I didn't say the was," returned
Ilaven•wiirth, tylin again relapsed into si
lence. 'o t long:tiler, she will—" I think
NVO W ill return to I I Ilan nit Tlwirsilay."
Nn soon Edith spoke in a disap
pointed Voice.
" 1)o you find it so very pleasant here
said the aunt, a little ironically.
" I have not complained of its 1s iun
dull, aunt," replied Edith. " But if you
wish to return on Thursday, 1 will he
ready to accompany you."
Soon after this, Edith Hamilton left ber
aunt's room, and went, to one of the draW
ing-n)(alls of the hotel at which they were
staying, where she sat down near a recess
window that overlooked a beautiful prome
nade. She had been here only a few min
utes, when she was joined by a handsome
youth, to whom Edith said--
"Ilow could you venture to the door of
my aunt's parlor ? I'n► half afraid she
detected your presence, for she said, im
mediately afterwards, that we would re
turn to London on the day after to-nior
row.''
"So soon ? I'll be there next
Iveek, and it will be strange if, with your
consent, we don't meet often.•'
" Edward If:linden is expected in a few
days," replied Edith, her voice slightly
taltering.
ller companion looktal at her searchin,r
ly fire a few moments, and then said--
You have never 11111 him ?"
" NVVVr. "
" Bllt \viten you do meet him, the ro
pugnanee you lIJ)%V feel may intitautly
ish."
A shadow imssed over Edith's toy. and
she answered in a voice that showed the
remark—the tone of which conveyed more
than the words themselves—to have been
felt as a question of her etmstaney.
Can one whose heart is all unknown
to ;no, One who must think of nie with a
foeling of dislike because of howls and
pledges, prove a nearer or a dearer friend
than"—
Edith did not finish the sentence. But
that Wati not 11(551(51. The !r1:111C(' of re
buking tenderness east upon her compan
expressed 011 that her lips had failed
to utter.
But you do not know Inc, Edith,
the young limo.
" My heart says dilrerently,” was Ed
ith's lowly spoken reply.
Evelyn pressed the maiden's hand, and
looked into her thee with an earliest, lov
ing expression.
llavensworth, to whose care Edith
had been consigned, on the death of her
father, had never been pleased with the
unwise contract made by the parents of
her niece and Edward llanulen. The lat
ter had been 14 ten years in Paris and
Italy. traveling and pursuing his studies.
These being completed, in obedience to the
will of at deceased parent, he was about
returning to London to meet his future
wife. No correspondence had taken place
between the parties to this unnatural con
tract ; and from the time of' Edward's let
ter, when he :41111(11111(141 to MN. Havens
worth his proposed visit, it was plain that
his tivlin!rs were as little interested in his
future partner as were hers in him.
During the two or three days that Mrs.
Ila vensw( th and her niece rem nained ut the
watering-place, Edith and young Evelyn
nut ; hut, :is fire as possible, at
times when they supposed the particular
attention of the 011111 would not be drawn
towards them in such at manner as to pene
trate their love secret. When, at leterth,
they parted, it teas with an understanding
that they were to meet in Loudon.
On returning to the city, the thotudits
(It. Edith reverted more directly to the fact
of Edward Ilainden•s approaehing visit,
and, ill spite of all her eilill'iS ht reuutiu
untlistUthetl in her feelings, the near ap
proach of this Airs.
lavensivorth fregnently allutletl 14) the
suhject, and earnestly pressed upon FAIR!'
the consideration other duty to her pa
rent, :ts as the vonselpienees that must
follow her disregard of the contraet which
hail liven made. But the tunre Silt'
011 this subject, the 111111 V tirnt was Edith
in eXill'eSSillg her deb rntiuntion 1101 in (10
yioltnce 1.0 her ti.elings in a inatterso vital
to !wt. happiness.
The day at length come upon m Idyll Ed
ward was to aiTiVt . . Edith all
'Wang!, in the With a Ili , tlWhed
tir. ft was plain to the closely oli se rvi n .t
eyes of her aunt, that she had not pas-: , •Al
a night of refreshing sleep.
'• I trust, my dear niece,' she said, after
they had retired front the !weal:fast table,
where but little food had heel' taken, that
you will not exhibit to wards Edward, I )11
tucetiug hint, any of the proeiniveived and
tutiust antiliathy you entertain. Let your
feelings, at least, remain uncommitted fin•
or against hint.”
".Aunt Helen, it is useless to talk to me
in this way," Edith replied, with more
than her usual warmth. The simple
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with neatness uud de,,patch.
of an “bli, , ratiou to, Livo puts a gulf
loptwepn us. heart turns from him as
fro an eilemy. I will tuevf him with po
liteness ; hut it must lip cold awl lhrmal.
asl: of na niorp. Is to ask what I can
not ;dye. I only wish that hi pOSSI'SSed.
till' •S I WOW(' hay.'
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he IWO by ilk !ICI, wit my 11%111."
Seeing . that nil she tire(l but tuning the
frelin L rs ()I' Edith oppose thonscives more
strontily to the yowl! , wan, :\ri.s. itavens-
Nv(.1.111 ceased to .peal( tillint the subject,
awl the Penner was loft to brow )I with a
110(14 (6111111(41 liCa 1 . 1 over the approach
inr with one who bad come to
claim a hand that she resolutely letcrinin
ell not to yield.
.\trout twelve o'clock. Havens
wort II carnet) Edith's room antlanniaineed
the arrival of Eillvard Jlanulen. 'l'he
maiden's face bream , . pale and her lilts
quivered.
If I (1)111(1 bul 1 simnalan interview,"
she " llut titat is More
1 can ask.—
Thcrc was a
" ltu v ‘N - Pak pal are F,llitli". rpplivd
Ilia. aunt, in a tont. 4)1 . repropt:
I will join you in tlw drawing-room
in half ;in hour. — said Edith. speaking
move calmly.
Mrs. Ilavensmtrth retired and loft Ed
ith main to her own thoughts. She sat
for nearly the whole of the time she had
menthawd. Then rising hurriedly, she
Hunk a few ehan!res in her attire ; after
which she deseended to the drawittg-room
with a step that was titr from being lirm.
So noiselessly did she enter the apart
ment where Ilamden awaited her, that
neither her Inuit nor the young man per
evived h er p resence fin• stane linanents ;
and she hail time to examine his appear
ance, and to read the lineaments of his
half-averted face. While she stood thus
observing hint, her countenance suddenly
flushed. :Ind she bent forward with a look
of surprise and eagerness. At this mo
ment the young man became aware that
she had entered, and rising up quickly,
advanced to meet her.
Evelyn !" exclaimed Edith, striking
her hands togetlwr. the moment he turned
towards her.
•• Edith ! my own Edith !" returned the
paing man, as he grasped her hand, and
ventured It warm kiss on her beautiful
lips. Not Evelyn, hit Hamden. Our
parents 1s troll us while we were yet
too young to give or withhold consent.
Both, Its NVI` grew older. felt this pletk.k• as
a heart-siekening constraint. But we met
as stran!rers, and I saw that you were all
my soul could desire. I souit your re
gard and won it. No oblit , ation hut I,ve
now hinds us."
The young man then tnrned to MN
Itavensworth, and
stran! , ers
Instead or lookin:r surprised, Mrs. Ila-
VVIISWIwth smiled calmly, and answered—
" No—it would be sin,!rular if you were.
Love-tokens don't generally pass, nor fa
miliar meetings take place between strait-
EBII
•• Love-tokens, Aunt Helen ?" fell from
the lips of Edith, as she turned partly
away float Hamden, and looked
at her relative.
•• Yes. dear." returned _Mrs. Ravens.
worth. White roses, for insffunee. You
saw your own blushing thee in ttie mirror,
did you not ?"-
The mirror ! Then you saw Edward.
present the rose ?•'
- And did you know in ?" inquired the
younv
— One who knew your father as well as
11 did, could not fail to know the son. I
penetrated your love secret as soon aS it
\vas known to yourselvcs. —
“Atint Helen !” exclaimed Edith, hid
ing her thee (01 the 11l `ek of lter kind rela
tive, — ln /IV I heett alTei !"
— Happily, 1 trw•t, lop\ - o.•• returned
Itaven.tvowtli, tenderly.
Jost happily ! My heart swells IN ith
!I;tailess almost to bursting," came mur
muring from the lips of the joyful untillen.
A i..kt tinAilt.y. yet historical incident
°oeuvre)! on Wednesday a week, at the
Treasury Dept., in IVashineton. Anotheer
or the War Ihpartment called for the pur
pose of obtaining a special dep.)sit which
had been left in a box ill the Treasurer's
vaults. The suppo , :ed box w as f oun d,
learin , Adjutant (;ei n 'Townsend's
mark and sal, and a Iml:smith sent fur.
After a 'Teat (h.:11 or trouble the box was
opened, and the special deposit was found
to consist of an old scarf and water-pr4,of
cloak, with a letter from ;in (dicer of Kit
son's cavalry division, certifying that they
were the articles vornipi!..ing the female
costume of .1e11: _Davis when 'captured.
For over three years they have oecupied
a sail. meta: r among 'Treasurer Spinner's
I.rold coupons and greenbacks.
Sot - rut:EN leaders, we are told, proross
vittiro satistitetion with tho election or
Grant. 'fills is unquestionably wiso, but
the query prompts itself; Will not these
mor. he equally satisfied with any course
resolved on hy the A liter ica n people with
&termination tend decision ?
THERE are twelve New fork city clor
gymen OV(.l* ien thollSaild
a year for their cl..rical services, and a
hundred ministers in the sanie city who
ill) not receive over one-tenth that fllllollnt
Ca(*ll.
ONE of General Grant's first acts upon
arriving; at his headquarters in Washing
ton was to order the destruction of several
bushels of letters which have been sent to
him in relation to officers, &c., which had
been opened and briefed by his staff., No
record of them was kept.
IN LATHER ABRAHAM.
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