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THE VOICE THAT WINS ITS WAY.
If words could satisfy the heart.
The hearth might find less care ;
.Jut words, like summer birds, depart,
And leave but empty air.
A little said, and truly said,
Can deeper joy impart
Thau hosts of words which reach the head
But never touch the heart.
A voice that wins its sunny way
A Lonely home to cheer,
Hath oft. the fewest words to say,
But, O, those few, how dear '.
A VISIT WITH THE DOCTOS.
How are you to-day, Mrs.Carleton 7" asked
I)r. Farleigh, as he sat down by his patient, who
reclined languidly id a largo cushioned chair
"Miserable," was the faintly spoken reply.
And the word was repeated "Miserable
The doctor took one of the lady's small
white hands, on which the network of veins,
most delicately traced, spread its blue lines
everywhere beneath the transparent skin. It
was a beautiful band a study lor a painter or
sculptor. It was a soft, flexible hand soft,
flexible, and velvety to the touch, as the hand
of a baby, for it was as much a stranger to use
ful work. The doctor laid his finger to the
wrist. Under the pressure lie felt the pulse
heat slowly and evenly. lie took out his
watch and counted the beats seventy in a
runute. There was no fever, nor any unusual
disturbance of the system. Calmly the heart
was doing its appointed work.
"How is your head, Mrs. Carleton 7"
The lady moved her head from side to side
two or three times.
"Anything out of the way there 7"
"My head is well enough, but I feel so mis
erable so weak. I havent the strength of a
child. The least exertion exhausts me."
And the lady shut her eyes, looking the pic
turn of lcebleness.
"Have you taken the tonic, for which I left
a prescription yesterday 7"
"Yes ; but I am no tronger
"How is your appetite ?"
"Bad."
Have you taken the morning walk in the
garden that 1 suggested ?"
"O dear, no! Walk out in the garden?
I'm faiut by the time I get to the breakfast
room ! I can't live at this rate, doctor. What
am I to do 7 Can't you build me up in some
way 7 I'm a burden to myself and every
one else."
And Mrs. Carleton really looked .distressed.
'lou ride out every day 7"
"I did until the carriage was broken, and
that was nearly a week ago. It has been at
tho carriage-maker's ever since."
"You must have the fresh air, Mrs. Carle
ton," sid the doctor, emphatically. "Fresh
air, change ot scene, and exercise, are indis
pensable to your case. You will die if you
remain abut up after this fashion. Come,
tike a ride with me."
"Doctor! how absurd!" exclaimed Mrs.
Carletcn, almost shocked nt the suggestion.
"Hide with yon I What would people think 7"
"A fig for people's thoughts ! Get your
shawl and bonnet, and take a drive with me;
What do you care for meddlesome people's
thoughts 1 Come?"
Tlie doctor knew his patient.
"But you are not in earnest, surely, doc
tor?" There was a half-amused twinkle in
the lady's eyes.
"Never more in earnest. I'm going to see
n patient just out of the city, and tho drive
will be a charming one. Nothing would please
nie better than to have your company."
There was a vein of humor, and a spirit of
"don't care" in Mrs. Carleton, which had once
made her independent, and almost hoydenish.
But faohionable associations, since her woman-life
began, had toned her down into ex
ceeding propriety. Fashion and convention.
ality, however, were losing their influence,
since enfeebled health kept her feet back from
the world's gay places; and the doctor's invi
tation to a ride found lie sufficiently disen
thralled to see in it a pleasing novelty.
"I've hall a mind to go," she said, smiling.
She had not smiled before since the doctor
came in.
"I'll ring for your maid," and Dr. Far
leigh's hand was on the bell-rope before Mrs.
Carleton had space to think twice, and endan
ger a change of thought.
"I'm not sure that I am strong enough for
the eiloit," said Mrs.Carleton, and she laid her
head back upon the cushions in a feeble way.
"Trust me for that," replied the doctor.
The maid came in.
'Bring me a shawl and my bonnet Alice ; I
n;n going to ride out with the doctor." Very
litifcuidly was the sentence spoken.
'I'm afraid, doctor, it will be too much for
we. You don't know how weak I am. The
Very thought of such an effort exhausts me."
"Not a thought of the effort," replied Ir.
Farlit-gh. "It isn't that."
"What is it 7"
"A thoucht of annearanees of what nnnU
"ill say." " 41
"Now, doctor! you don't think me so weak
that direction."
"Just so weak," was the free-spoken an
swer. "You fashionable people are all afraid
afeach other. You haven't a spark of indi
viduality or true independence. No, not a
spark ! You are quite strong enough to ride
ut in your own elegant carriage but with the
doctor ! oh, dear, no ! If you were certain
of not meeting Mrs. McFlimsey, perhaps tbe
"peritnent might be adventured. But she is
always out on fine days.".
iClor' kf shame ! How can you say that V
And a ghost of color crept into the face of
, Carleton, while her eyes grew brighter
a most flashed. The maid came in with the
shawl and bonnet. Dr. Farleigh, as we have
in Vated understood his patient, and said
J two or three words more, ia a tone half
contemptuous. '
"Afraid of Mrs. McFlimsey !
l ! nor of forty Mrs. McFIimseys !"
Mrs i not t,ie Eost of color that warmed
? Larl-'ton'8 face now, but the crimson of a
Huicuer and stronger heart-beat. She actual
ly.6. ,from ner chair without reaching for
sL 8 . nd and 8,ood firmly while the
fein u ouu iuoiv mo iuusc
with ' nrticed that she sat up ercctly.and
few n arCey a siSn f the languor that but a
r. .utes before had so oppressed her.
cirri, c when yu ee Mrs. M'Flim
rtV.. i nQ araw yur yen closely. She'll
, dream that it's yon."
..." j auu lhc uwuiiufc-aii il kji lieu
d,,,, "d nave a charming ride," said tho
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"I'll get angry if you play on that string
much longer!" exclaimed Mrs. Carleton;
"what do I care for Mrs. McFlimsey ?"
How charmingly the rose-tints flushed her
cheeksl How the light rippled in her dark
sweet eyes, that were leaden a liftle while be
fore. Away lroni the noisy streets, out upon
the smoothly-beaten road, and amid green
fields and woodlands, gardens and flower-decked
orchards, the doctor bore his patient, hold
ing her all the while in pleasant talk. How
different, this, from the listless, companion
less drives taken by the lady in her own car
riage a kind of easy, vibrating machine, that
quickened the sluggish blood no more than a
cushioned rocking-chair. Closely the doctor
observed his putient. He saw bow erectly she
continued to sit ; how the color deepened in
her face, which actually seemed rounder and
fuller , how the sense of enjoj'ment fairly
danced in her eyes. Returning to the city by
a different road, the doctor, after driving thro'
streets entirely unfamiliar to his companion,
drew up bis horse before a row of mean-looking
dwellings, and dropping the reins, threw
open the carriage-door and stepped upon the
pavement at the same time reaching out his
hand to Mrs. Carleton. But she drew back,
saying
"What is the meaning of this, doctor ?"
"I have a patient here, and I want you to
see her."
"O no ; excuse me, doctor. I've no taste
for such things," answered the lady.
"Come I can't leave you alone in the car
riage. Ned might take a fancy to walk off
with you.'-
Mrs. Carleton glanced at the patient old
horse whom the doctor was slauderiug, with a
slightly alarmed manner.
"Don't you think he'll stand, doctor 7" she
asked, uneasily.
"He likes to get home like others of bis
tribe. Come," and the doctor held out his
hand in a persistent way.
Mrs. Carleton locked at the poor tenements
before which the doctor's carriage bad stop
ped, with something of disgust aud something
of apprehension.
"I can never go in there, doetor."
"Why not ?"
"I might take some disease."
"Never fear. More likely to find a pana
cca there."
The last sentence was in an under-tone.
Mrs. Carleton left the carriage, and crossing
the pavement, entered one of the houses, and
passed up with the doctor to the second story
To his light tap at a chamber door a woman's
voice said "Come in."
The door was pushed open, and the doctor
arid Mrs. Carleton went in. The room was
small, and furnished in the humblest manner,
but the air was pure, and everything looked
clean and tidy. In a chair, with a pillow pres
sed in at her back for a support, sat a pale, e-
maciated woman, whose large, bright eyes
looked up eagerly, and in a kind of hopeful
surprise, at so unexpected a visitor as the la
dy who came In with the doctor. On her lap
a baby was sleeping, as sweet and beautiful a
baby as Mrs. Carleton had looked upon. The
first impulse of her true woman's heart, had
she yielded to it, would have prompted her to
take it in her arms and cover it with kisses.
The woman was too weak to rise from her
chair, but she asked Mrs. Carleton to be seat
ed, in atone of ladylike self-possession that
did not escape the visitor's observation.
"How did you pass tho night, Mrs. Leslie?'
asked the doctor.
"About as usual," was answered, in a calm,
patient way ; and she even smiled as she spoke.
"How about that pain through your side
and shoulder ?"
"It may have been a little easier."
"You slept ?"
"Y'es, sir."
"What of the night sweats ?"
"I don't think they have diminished any."
The doctor bent bis eyes to the floor, and
sat in silence for some time. Tho heart ol
Mrs. Carleton was opening toward the baby ;
and it was a baby to make its way into any
heart. She bad forgotten her own weakness
forgotten, in the presence of this wan and
wasted mother, with a sleeping cherub on her
lap, all about her own invalid state.
"I will send you a medicine," said the doc
tor, looking up; then speaking to Mrs. Carlo
ton, he added
"Will you sit here until I visit two or three
patients in the block?"
"Ob, certainly," and she reached out her
arms for the baby, and removed it so gently
from its mother's lap that its soft slumber was
not broken. When the doctor returned he no
ticed that there had been tears in Mrs. Carlo
ton's eyes. She was still holding the baby,
but now resigned the quiet sleeper to its mo
ther, kissing t: as she did so. lie saw her look
with a tender, meaning interest at the white,
patient face ol the sick woman, and heard her
say, as she spoke a word or two in parting
"I shall not forget you."
'That's a sad case, doctor," remarked the
lady, as she took her place in the carriage.
"It is. ' But she is sweet and patient,"
"I saw that, and it failed me with surprise.
She tells me that her husband died a year ago.'
"Yes."
"And that she has supported herself by
shirt-making."
"Yes."
"But that she has become too feeble for
worn, and is dependant on a younger sister,
who earns a few dollars, weekly, at book
folding." "The simple story, I believe," said the
doctor.
Mrs.Carleton was silent for most of the way
home ; but thought was busy. She had seeu
a phase of life that touched her deeply.
" You are better for this ride," remarked the
doctor, as he hauded her from the carriage.
"I think so," replied Mrs. Carleton.
There has not been so fine a color on your
face for months."
They had entered Mrs. Carleton's elegant
residence, and were sitting iu one of her lux
urious parlors.
"Shall I tell you why i" added the doctor.
Mrs. Carleton bowed.
"You have some healthy heart-beats."
She d'd not answer.
"And I pray you dear madam, let the strokes
go on!" continued Dr. Farleigh. "Let your
mind become interested in some good work,
and ypur hands obey your thoughts, and you
wilj be a healthy woman,' in bouy am
Your disease is mental inaction."
Mrs. Carleton looked steadily at the doctor.
"You arc i) earnest," she said, in a calm,
firm way.
"W holly in earnest, ma'am. I found yon,
an hour ago, in so weak a state, that to lift
your band was an exhausting effort. You are
sitting Jerect now, with every muscle tautly
strung. When will your carriage be home ?"
He asked the closing question abruptly.
"To-morrow," was replied.
"Then I will not cll for you, but"
He hesitated.
"Say on, doctor."
"Will you take my prescription 7"
"Y'es." There was no hesitation.
"Y'ou must give that sick woman a ride in
to the country. The fresh, pure, blossom
sweet air will do her good msy, indeed, turn
the balance of health in her lavor. Don't be
'afraid of Mrs. McFlimsey."
"For shame, doctor ! But you are too late
in your suggestion. I'm quite ahead of you.'
"Ah ! in what respect 1"
"That drive into the country is already a
settled thing. Do you know, I'm in love with
that baby ?"
"Othello's occupation's gone, I see!" re
turned the doctor, rising. "But I mav
visit
you occasionally, as a friend,
not as a medical adviser ?"
I presume, if
'As my best friend, always," said Mrs.
Carleton, with feeling. "You have led me out
of myself, and showed me the way to health
and happiness ; and I have settled the question
as to 1113' future. It shall not be as the past."
And it was not.
Mvstehiocs and Horrible Affair.
-On the
28th ult., the wife of B. B. Cooley,
living in
Frederick county, Va., was missed from home,
and discovered under the most extraordinary
circumstances. A letter to the Alexandria
Gazelle says : "Darkness approaching, and the
lady continuing to be absent, caused consider
able alarm, and the bands who had then come
in from the field, instituted a search. On ap
proaching the meat house, groans were heard
emanating therefrom, and as the key could not
be lound attempts to break down the door
were begun ; but while these were in progress
the key was lound in the dwelling house, the
door opened, and the ladj, in a complete state
of nudity, was found sitting on the floor, with
her hands covering her face, and perfectly iin-
conscious, borne of her clothes were hang-
Kinr f mm t h n mpnt-hnib- a in t J i n riftArfi o ml
some were strewd about the floor. A salting
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tray was almost filled with blood, apparently
fresh spilled. Marks, resembling those made
by the pressure of fingers were upon her arms,
ana tier head, neck and sides were horribly
mutilated by what appeared to be a punctur
ing instrument. Her shoes and .stockings
were lound under her bed, in her chamber,
saturated with blood. Medical aid was prompt
ly proourtd, and everything done for the un
fortunate lady that science and skill could
suggest, but all was of no avail. She lingered
in the same helpless condition in which she
was found until Saturday last, when death
came to her relief. Her husband, who had
started from his home on the freight train of
the Manassas Gap Railroad, with cattle for the
city, on the same day his wife met with this
terriblo calamity, was telegraphed to return
instantly, but returned just in '.inie to see his
estimable lady expire. No clue has yet been
obtained for the solution of this most extraor
dinaTy occurrence.
Will thf Tope Remove the Papal Skat to
Jerusalem? A cot respondent of the Liver
pool Mercury, writing from Rome, states that
French officers have latterly been very busy
in obtaining information respecting Jeiusalem
and the state of things in that quarter. He
adds that they had been taking measurements
in several localities, particularly the ground
that lies about the Mosque of Omar on Mount
Moriah. From Jerusalem they bad gone on to
Hebron, Gaza and other points, for the like
purpose. Jt was also currently reported that
a body of French troops wa? shortly to come
to Jerusalem while another would be stationed
at Jaffa,, and a third on Mount Carmel. At
Beyrout, he says, the French officers openly
affirm that their government had no intention
of withdrawing the force sent out, but wrere
about to employ them shortly on a new and
very different errand to that for which they
ostensibly came. The French were also ac
tively employed in makiDg a road from the
Holy City to Damascus, along which they
were erecting houses at certain intervals. It
is said that suchja scheme as this intelligence
shows to be in course of development, points
to the realizing ofl'io Nono's favorite plan of
removing the seal of the Papacy to Jerusalem.
PtnLic Lands. In a commendatory notice
of the report of tbe Commissioner of the Gen
eral Land Office, the National Intelligencer
remarks: "It is not perhaps generally known
that the public lands of the United States em
brace an area of nearly three times their ex
tent at the ratification of the definitive treaty
ot peace in 1e.J with Great Britain, and more
than two-thuds the geographical extent of
whole country. Tho Department which mana
ges this immense territory, with the multitu
dinous interest it involves, is one of the most
important in the Government, and requires
tbe highest executive abilities. What an in
calculable labor is the mere survey of a billion
of acres of land, extending over every vanety
of surface of hill, swamp, plain, and valley
constituting our present wide spread public
domain, and which, with all our industry, is
only as yet partly completed. A forcoof not
less than six hundred men is now engaged,
day after day, and through every season of the
year, in carrying forward to its completion
this indispensable part of the public service ;
and that these officials prosecute their task
with energy is evident from the fact that dur-
ng the last year alone nearly ten million acres
were surveyed and prepared for market."
The two great fortifiications of Florida, Fort
Pickens and Fort Taylor, aio nqw in regular
seige trim," and could hold out for eight
months, wero all the soldiers in the South sur
rounding them. The sixty tremendous guns
added to the Utter and the reinforcements of
artillery added to the first named, have rend
ered them, ic the estimation of able engin
eers, perfectly impregnable to all probable
laeausp,? attack. The garrison are fed on the
usual barrack allowance, b,qt waste is prohib
ited, tort Jetierqn will sqon be on a war
fqot(ng. There are about one hundred and
ten men in Fort Taylor.
A White House has been hired at Mont
gomery, Ala., for the use of the President of
Jhe Southern Confederacy, at $5000 year.
THE NEW CABINET.
The new Cabinet, appointed by Prsident
i.incoiu ana conurmea by the beuate, seems
to give general satisfaction. The gentlemen
composing it are all men of distinguished a
bility, undoubted patriotism, sterling integri
ty, and well fitted for the respective positions
to which they have been called. We subjoin
brief sketches of the lives and public services
of the President's assistants in the administra
tion of public affairs, which will be read with
moro thau ordinary interest at this time :
WM. II. SEWARD, SECRETARY OF STATE.
Mr. Seward was born in Orange county, in
the State of New York, on the 16th of May,
1801. He was educated at Union College, iu
that State, and took tbe degree of Bachelor
of Arts in 1K20, and of Master of Arts in 1824.
At the age of twenty-one he established him
self at Auburn in the profession of law, and
soon acquired a lucrative and extending prac
tice. Early in his public and professional
life he traveled in the Southern slave States,
and is supposed to have formed at that time
the opinions and principles hostile to slavery
to which he has since given expression. To
a greater degree than is known of any other
American Statesman Mr. Sumner, perhaps,
excepted the object of his life seems to have
been, to counteract the extension of slavery.
Upon other questions Mr. Seward's policy
may be described as humanitarian. He is in
favor of the education of the people, of the
amelioration of the laws and of the develop
ment of the material resources of the United
States. In these respects be has ever been a
mong the foremost of the American states
men, and may justly claim the praise bestow
ed upon him by his friends, and scarcely de
nied by his opponents, of being "the best and
clearest bead in America." Iu 1830 he had
acquired such influence and character that he
was elected a member of the Senate of the
State of New Y'ork, then the highest judicial
tribunal of the State, as well as a legislative
body. In 1834, at tho close of his term of
four year?, he was nominated a candidate for
the Governorship or the State of New York,
in opposition , to Mr. William L. Marcy, the
then Governor and, later, the distinguished
Secretary of State of the United States. On
n-- r - t
mis occasion .nr. aewaru was aetcatea ov a
majority of 10,000. Iu 1839, bis party becom
ing bolder and stronger, he was triumphantly
elected, iu opposition to Mr. Marcy, tho ma
jority being greater than his previous minori
ty. Without having passed through the low
er stratum of the House of Representatives,
he was in 1819 elected to the Senate of the
United States for six years. Ho gave so
much satisfaction that be was re-elected.
S. P. CHASE, SECRETARY OF TREASURY.
v- Salmon Portland Chase- was bora at CornJ&hr
JN. II. on the opposite bank of the Connecti
cut river from Windsor, Vt., in the year 1808.
When nine years of age his father died, and
three years after this bereavement, in 1820,
young Chase was found at the seminary iu
Wortbington, Ohio, then conducted by the
venerable Bishop Philander Chase, his uncle.
IIro he remained until Bishop Chase accept
ed the presidency of Cincinnati College, en
tering w hich, our student soon became a chief
among his peers. After a year's residence at
Cincinnati, he returned to his maternal home
in New Hampshire, and shortly after resumed
his studies in Dartmouth College, Hanover,
where he graduated in 1S28. He shortlj' after
commenced the study of law in the city of
Washington, under the guidance of the cele
brated William Wirt, then Attorney General
of tlie United States. He sustained himself
during the years of his professional studies by
imparting instruction to a select school for
boys, composed in part of the sons of the
most distinguished men of the nation. He
was admitted to tho bar at Washington in 18
20, and entered upon the practice of his pro
fession, in which he soon rose to eminence,
and in which he was distinguished lor indus
try and patient investigation. He was subse
quently elected a member of the United States
Senate, and upon the expiration of bis Sena
torial term, he was put in nomination for Gov
ernor ol Ohio, and elected. He was again
elected to that position.
SIMON CAMERON, SECRETARY OF WAR.
Gen. Simon Cameron was born in Lancas
ter county, Pennsylvania. Reverses and mis
fortunes in his father's family cast him very
early in life on tho world to shape and carve
out his own lortune. After having removed
to Sunbury, in Northumberland county, his
father died while yet a boy. In 1817 became
to Harrisburg and bound himself as an ap
prentice to the printing business to James
Peacock, who is still a resident of Harrisburg,
and one of its most worthy and respected ci
tizen. During this time ho won the regard
and esteem of Mr. Peacock and all his fellow
workmen by his correct deportment, his in
dustry, intelligence, and faithfulluess. His
days were devoted to labor and bis nights to
study. Having completed his apprenticeship,
he went to Washington city, and was employ
ed as a journeyman printer. In 1821, though
scarcely of competent age, be had attained
such a position and influence that his party
then in tbe ascendancy in the Congressional
district proposed to nominate him for Con
gress, an honor which he promptly declined,
as interfering with the enterprise in which ho
was then engaged. He was appointed Adju
tant General of the State in 1828, an office
which he filled creditably and acceptably du
ring Gov. Shultz's term : and in 1831, unso
licited, he was appointed by General Jackson
as a visitor to West Point, a compliment, at
that time tendered only to the most promi
nent citizens. To no single man within her
borders is Pennsylvania more indebted for her
great systems of public improvement and
public instructions. Nor did he hesitate to
invest bis own means, when prosperity and
fortune dawned upon Sim, in enterprises of
great public importance. In 1834 be origin
ated and carried to successful completion tbe
Harrisburg, Sount Joy and Lancaster Rail
road, surmounting difficulties and prejudices
which would have 8ppalled and paralyzed a
man of ordinary energy and determination.
In 1838 he was nominated for Congress, but
declined. . He was engaged in public enter
prises from which he would not permit him
self to be drawn aside by any consideration of
office or personal elevation. In 1851 he was
mainly instrumental in the formation of the Sus
quehanna Railroad Company, now consolida
ted with the Northern Central Railway, by
which the upper valleys of the Susquehanna
are connected with tbe capital of the state.
There was still another link wanting to form
a direct and continuous railroad to New Y'ork
city, tbe great comtnercial metropolis of tbe
Union. General Cameron's practical mind
soon suggested the mode and manner of sup
plying this want; and the Lebanon Valley
Railroad Company was organized, and that
road built, and now consolidated with the
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. In 1832
General Cameron was elected cashier of the
Middletown Bank a position he held for
twenty-seven consecutive years. So that a
bout the year 1854, he was at the same time
president of the Lebanon Valley Railroad
Company, president of the Commonwealth
Insurance Company, and cashier of tho Mid
dletown Bank, besides being director and man
ager in several other institutions, and having
a large private business of his own to manage
and superintend. Y'et, notwithstanding the
vast labor and responsibility of these positions
be performed the duties of them all satisfac
torily and successfully.
MONTGOMERY IILAIR, TOSTMASTER GENERAL.
The State of Maryland will be represente'd
in the Lincoln Cabinet by Judge Montgomery
Blair, who resides at Montgomery Castle, near
Silver Spring, Montgomery co., Md. Judge
Blair is the son of Francis P. Blair, well known
in General Jackson's time. He graduated at
West Point, went to the State of Missonri,
practised law in St. Louis, was made Judge,
and was appointed by President Pierce one of
tbe Judges of the Court of Claims, from which
place be was removed by President Buchanan.
Judge Blair is now in the prime of life and
mental vigor, and there is no man south of
Pennsylvania who is more devoted to Repub
licanism, or who is more popular among the
radical Republicans all over the North and
West. Ho is son-in-law of the late Hon. Levi
Woodbury, of New Hampshire, and brother of
Frank P. Blair, Jr., Congressman elect from
the St. Louis district.
C. B. SMTTII, SECRETARY Or THE INTERIOR.
Mr. Smith is well known in Indiana, and is
reputed to be possessed of a vigorous intellect,
and considerable administrative tact and abil
ity. He has been in Congress, and was Com
missioner on Mexican cUims. In regard to
his political faith, it is not certain that be has
made any decisive declaration, but it is very
generally presumed that he is a moderate Re
publican.
GIDEON WELLES, SECRETARY OF TUE NAVY.
Mr. Gideon Welles, of Connecticut, is the
Northern Postmaster-General. Mr. Welles
has bean for upwards of thirty years a leading
politician in Connecticut, and for much ol
that time has been connected, directly and
indirectly, with the public press, wielding a
partizan pen, and always exhibiting evidences
of unquestionable hostility to his opponents,
in the advocacy of his opinions, political or
otherwise. He for some time held the office
l.of postmaster of Hartford, under Mr. Van Bu-
ren's administration, and left the office soon
alter tbe election of Mr. Harrison, in 1840.
During a part of Mr. Polk's administration he
occupied an important position in the Navy
Department. Like many other prominent
Northern Democrats, Mr. Welles disagreed
with his party on the subject of the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise, which breach was
still further increased by tbe Kansas policy of
the Pierce and Buchanan Administrations.
The Territorial question "being the chief one
at issue, ho became indentified with the Re
publican party soon after its organization, and
has since been one of its leaders, taking a
prominent part in its Conventions, State and
National. He was a delegate from the State
at large to the Chicago Convention, and con
stituted one of tho committee to Springfield
with the official uotice ot Mr. Lincoln's nomi
nation. He was also one of the Presidential
electors. Nor was his visit to Springfield the
first time he had met that distinguished gen
tleman. While in Hartford, a year or more
since, they formed a somewhat intimate ac
quaintance, which resulted in the warmest
mutual friendship and confidence ; so that Mr.
Lincoln has, in tbe selection, no doubt acted
as fnuch upon his personal know ledge and esti
mation of tbe man as upon anj solicitation of
prominent New England Republicans.
EDWARD BATES, ATTORNEY GENERAL.
Edward Bates was born on the 4th of Sep
tember, 1793, on the banks of the James river,
in tho county of Goochland, Virginia, about
thirty miles above Richmond, lie was the
seventh son and youngest child of a family of
twelve children, all of whom lived to a mature
age, of Thomas Bates and Caroline M. Wood
son. Both of his parents were decendants of
the plain old Quaker families which had lived
for some generations in the lower counties of
the peninsula between James and Y'ork rivers.
They were married in the Quaker meeting, ac
cording to the forms of that simple and virtu
ous people, in the year 1771 ; but in 1781 the
father lost his membership in tbe Society of
Friends by bearing arms at the siege of York
town a volunteer private soldier under Gen
eral Lafayette. In 1805, Thomas F., the fath
er, died, leaving a very small estate and a
large family. Left at an early age an orphan,
and poor, the son was forfunatu in what ivas
better than a patrimony, a heart and a will to
labor diligently for promotion. Besides, sev
eral of his brothers were industrious and pros
perous men, and treated the helpless with gen
erous affection. One of them, Fleming Bates,
of Northumberland, Virginia, took him into
his family as a son, and did a father's part to
him. He had not the benefit of a collegiate
education, beipg prevented by an accident
tho breaking of a leg which stopped him in
the middle of his course of study, and confi
ned him at home for nearly two years. In
childhood ho was taught by tbe father, and af
terwards had the benefit of two years' instruc
tions of his kinsman, Benjamin Bates, of llaa
over, Virginia, a most excellent man, who,
y'ng 'eft behind him none more virtuous and
few more intelligent. In 1812, having re
nounced service iu the navy, and with no plan
of life settled, his brother Frederick (who was
Secretary of the Territory of Missouri from
1807 to 1820, when the State was formed, by
successive appointments under Jefferson, Madi
son and Monroe, and was second Governor of
the State, invited him to come out to St.
Louis, and follow the law, offering to see him
safely through his course of study. He accep
ted the invitation and was to have started in
the Spring of 1813, but an unlooked for event
detained him for a j'ear. Being in his native
county of Goochland, a sudden call was made
for volunteers to march to Norfolk, to repel an
apprehended attack by tho British fleet, and
ho joined a company in February, marched to
Norfolk, and served till October of that year,
as private, corporal and sergeant successively.
The next spring he set out for St. Louis, and
crossed tho Mississippi for the first time on
the 20tb of April, J8 J4. Her be studied very
diligently in the office of Rufus Easton, a Con
necticut man, a good lawyer, regularly educa
ted at Litchfield, tmd once a delegate in Con
gress from Missouri Territory, lie came to
the bar in the winter of 1SIG.17, and practiced
with fair success as a beginner. InlS53he
was elected judge of the Land Court of St.
Louis county, and after serving in the office
about three years he resigned, and returned
again to the practice of the law. He acted as
President of the River and Harbor Improve
ment Convention which sat at Chicago, and in
1852 acted as President of the Whig National
Convention which met at Baltimore. In 1850
he was appointed by President Fillmore, and
confirmed by the Senate Secretary of War,
but declined tbe appointment for personal and
domestic reasons. Mr. Bates was complimen
ted with the honorary degree of LL D, in 1858,
by Harvard College. Sopio years befote ha
had been honored with tho same degree by
Shurtleff College, Illinois.
DTJCXS IN SUMMER.
There is no doubt of its being true, and it's
a good one, if I can bit on tho right way of
telling it.
Aaron was a tall, strapping fellow, near
seventeen. Y'ou never saw a more susceptible)
youth. Being good ltoking, the girls were
all easily smitten with him. They used to
flock out to the country on Friday evenings.
Talk of a colt ! There is no such romp as a
town girl turued loose in the country. Sho
races, she jumps, sho climbs the trees, shak
ing tbe wild berries down upon the timcrous
beaux beneath her. Oh, she is the most beau
tiful, winning, delightful creature in tho
world. Mose was much younger than bis
cousin ; he knew Aaron was taking on about
that haughty lass, May Stelton. And May
was in love with Aaron. May, and Ttoup,
and Sue and Bate, all came out on Friday e
vening, with Mose's sister, Angeline. Mose
got off early Saturday to lot Aaron know. A
aron was for running over to his aunt's.
No, says Mose, 'bring the gun ; the woods
are full of squirrels. We might kilt a dozen
walking the two miles.'
The road led along the creek bank. Aaron
was in a brown 6tudy thinking of May. Mose
was looking up in tho tree tops and among the
bushes, anxious for a pop at something. It
was the shadiest and quietest of places. So
far and no game.
Let's leave the road a hit, and go to the
head of tho creek,' said Mose. It's so out of
the way nobody ever disturbs it,'
We'll see something there !'
And they did. Let it be July 21.
What is it t asked Aaron, aroused a little.
Mose put his band to bis ear ;
. 'Ducks th.e biggest kiud !'
This time of year 7'
'I see 'em.'
Give me the gun.'
No couldn't think of it.'
Klick, Klack.
'Well, blaze away'; they'll flv if you go near
er.' The bushes are in the way,' said Mose,
bringing the piece down to his shoulder.
'Shoot anyhow !' insisted Aaron running up.
'Ifs the girls in a su-immiu' !'
They sat down liKc snow-flakes. They
were white as the petticoats strewn on the
pebbly beach. Their teeth chattered. Along
silence. At last Aaron looked slowly around
at Mose with the meanest sort of countenance.
Mose's face, as be returned the glance, was a
regular sheep looking one.
Can they find it out !'
I reckon not, if we are sly.'
Let's climb up the tree ; it leans right over
them.'
They crt pt along like snakes. They reach
ed the tree. Mose being the lightest, gave
the gnu to Aaron, climbed far out on a tree
over the creek, and got into a squirrel's nest.
Aaron wasn't so high.
It was a pretty sight of course. You've
read of nymphs, syrens, etc. They wouldn't
compare. Hair loose, and floating on the wa
ter arms etc. ? glistening in the water. Kate
was as white as snow. Sue was as plump as a
partridge in pea time, and sat in the waves
like a bird in its nest. Troup was slim all o
ver, with a few exceptions.
Aaron promised not to look at Angelina if
Mose wouldn't wink-at May. Impossible!
Angeline sported gracefully like a native of
the clement, and May was a black-eyed houri,
coleur de rose, from top toe. They splashed
and paddled, and chatted like mad.
The tree began to shake. Aaron had a ter
rible back ague, and Mose began to smoko
and burn, commenced at the ears.
There was a louder noise than usual among
the unconsious bathing beauties. Aaron
stretched his elongated week, at the same time
bitching the gun forward. Unfortunately the
trigger caught in a vine, and it went oil with
a deafening report. Ii was the climax of the
adventure. Mose tumbled, from excitement,
Into the creek, plum right between Sue and
Kate. The gals they dove badly, strangled,
ran up the bank, their whito retreating forms
gazed at by the eyes of the fish haw k that bad
pounced amoung them. They arc robed in a
twinkling, but not one with her right dressn.
Aaron dashed into the woods. There was a
terriblo scream as he ran right into their
midst. All ran in different directions, and
came dropping in ono after another at Mose's
mother's.
The boys took a long turn into the woods,
and did not get back before night. They said
they had been deer hunting, and hadn't seen
the creek.
The girls appeared to believe them.
A Jersey Woman an Inventor. A lady of
Burlington has patented a device for throwing
reaping and mowing niachienes out of gear by
means of the driver's seat. When the driver
takes his seat, his weight throws the mechino
into gear ; when he leaves his seat, it is thrown
out of gear. Many accidents have occurred
from reaping and mowing machines when be
ing diven to and from the field ; this is inten
ded to render these machines safe.
A San Francisco paper reports the arrival
at that city of a Japanese merchant who came
to purchase goods to be sold in his own country.
The Pennsylvania Legislatnre has appro
priated thirty thousand dollars to the relief of
tbe Kansas sufferers. This is commendable.
It is computed that 500 copies of Dixie'
Land" aro sold every day by mueic publish
ers throughout the Uiiited States.
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