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Corner of Main b4 Iron Btrteu. t - ,i . v . - - ; 4oa. lACOBYfc.lKEL.ER. - , .eioomtburf. Co4onin:oiatT, fa,- K3 ; ITT tccEprinFashioaa for 1866 . .: ' ' O'' .' ' ' ' Curls and Puffs, and Padding, 1 ' ' Jr aiae ilana y ane3, And artic?ar-Lizzie. . , , ...7 a; '.'Ako from the niggen ; ? -tiDcnft ia chopping pad, ' -.1 ,1 " ' ' VAid fistly growing bigger. , kr0ht:tfere; fashipnVever V 11 ..EqjiaJ tQ .the present?. Haifa tack oC taters, " -f'VJ ' Three quarters of a pheasant' ' i r t ieads as pi g as cnccet bails, T ; Buttons large as dishes, Hel-J'Srp4i cf mthtjcite,i i .,m..V-43 there'4 a bowl of .fishea., Cawwith two canaries. '. .", i i r. Vlu.ua pcu ' t ' i- o- Kennel with a terrier, ' :i - ' l;'1 B What do pa think of that? ; ", ,"4117611 the leathra cluster?) . c . j .Won'tthe husbands lmggle 4 wWhey they see the things come home, " And won't the ladies giggle? " Brlck?I- Pomroy-to-Bill Arp: BilLfor why do-you. still 'Arp on my daugh- tr-trtpeaii? There nroSt be'jcteething pry,.TrTong ia your., nature. R;kan iyou anugf, hare lostsomethin, or. found 'i horse ho and no horse to hanrj it on.'' We be Ksye yoaaje a very Bad BilLand so we don't .Ei'B.Jd pass Jr6 ih.siIcnce.Cu" You write" as if there was something wrong with you as 'if there, were clouds floating oyer the land of magnolias an-I jthe sunny South generally. lieally, Bill, we are surprised. 1 ' ' ' There nejrer-waa so nngrateful a people as jour. Southern gentlemen are and now after ' iJlJiaalaen Uone for you, to see letters writ " tenbys70Tf 'so 'fdirpf URintiations is' top much. v i.. i". - " " c Thcault ofalUhia lies withyou., Weren't you foUi most doggolieTwickeH before this war? Hohest Indiaa;' cow, JJilU . lidn't joujfet proud,' aiid is not pride a sin? And didn't you own niggers down there, and lar rup tkcm continually to raise cotton for New England nabobs td"BpiaVsugaf ia ' sweeten our coSac; tf&CXS . tal in ! our puddjngs and tobacco to chew and Squirt over oixt meeting to'useoora? -"Answer us, BilL 'rAnddidit you folks Stay down tie"re and Attend to bu siness a little "too "close: ." And didn't you hav-nbetter horse, better clothes, ' better houica, 'nuer grounds, better . -furniture and more land than we liad ? We are all .Christians in the Jorth. We felt that all h?se fine" things were dragging your bouIs down to hell. We didn'twant you to rest in brimstone being in torment, so we,, tried to correl you in Abraham's bosom. Xbraham was a great and good man whb died aorae tune since, as ' we read . of some- Kam vT" ' J .' "' . And then, BUI, you kept your niggers too fiat. Our factory-operatives grew jealous. . And. oargali wcn 2own thereto teach your - girls something, and fell in love with your " fcojs, !iid jforgotlp :,c'dml! 'home.-. , We' felt that yotr' were wicked "We; didn't want jou to go to hell f i All the fine things you . tid were 'leading you Wayfrpw .salvation, ed we'scnt, Butler and Curtis, and Banks, and Washburn, and Steele, and Hovey,and Prehtisai andnurlburt,aiid several, of the elect of our Christian churches down there to wt!l 7ou out cfthe jawsnef hell, by wiUi drawing your, "fine furniturej such as pianos, books pictures rosewood bedsteadii marble tables,- fcilverwarcY' horse!?, cotton " and all icli'plunderj td a place of iafety. n-Yoii Were wrong to engage in war yery wroijttr do that thing. New England ' lone could conquer vera. WhjyJBill, if you Jiadna., bilIion; of millions , ..of dollarsf and . "eno-jh nice fan:; tare to funiih all tlae hour wti in the country, New EnHand could steal iaibur years j and if New England Abo titiiuiti could notT the.'.Kansa, eaitts and wertsra children of' Christian''' Abolitionists OOUid. , ;. i '-... i llavrT ( epraye4 Tor you j n nearly all our cliitheaXl-Ajid havntw told, you.bettcr? aoxj w'arted to get out of the Union'. : Ah, Elll,1 States once La can never get out 1 That h,' what; .Va 'ajwai:4 told ' you, ?AL, those fjerids 6f 'the graarmartyr tell you shf .,Wc Wanted to keep you in. We fought you' at AAtlctaiaea Eidge, .Gettysburg ,! Vicks 'burgr Fredericksburg,-Shiloh, Mobile. Fort Donelson and the Devil tinly tuows where., to keep you ia the 1 Union. And ' then we eit-iIcU-a Eiissionaxies down theiv, Bill, to. r?" yov.r. valuaLTeT and . remove r them llory forWctyyort know. : And wi burnt xlo" 7"' hcu"-' and we took.'w"ha,t food your wives and children hadr ,anl ..we 1 sent I ccr-ctJttcrrto rtirket foT yoTi,yotikncw,BilL to war to - ''rr Ifc'Jtrsiatlihapj Union. good for fire southern men to , say nothing about mules, niegers, cotton and keepsakes. And, Bill, we have stepped Into Borne little debt on your account You see,Bill, cotton waito'o cheap.- 1 Tobacco was too ! cheap. Rice was too cheap5. -: Sugar wai too' cheap. Happiness was too cheap Our' national debt wasa. too small..; It. was . costing too inuch to keep that negro : boarding-house pf yours, -so we remedied that by killing your "nigger or giving them the benefit of liberty razs. old bones and Abolitionism. And we made your cotton more valuable. ; And, Bill, we enhanced the price of everything for you and made a demand sor carpenters and house builders down there. You forget how we have benefitted your wicked country, Bill,or you would not Arp. so continually on imagi nary evils.' . ..' ' ; ; . , . ; r And we did all this to keep -you in the Union. We sent old John Brown, peace to his ashes ! fresh from stealing horses in Kansas, to atone for his sins by rescuing ne groes from your grasp in .Virginia!. '.-And didn' t we throw some few iron into Charles ton harbor? . The watera of the Pool will be a good tonic for years, Bill ! ' And didn't Curtis Eave your cotton ? ' Didn t Butler save vour cold and protect your women? And didn't Banks save your -Red River property? ' And didn't two hundred and eighteen generals get rich as itnud from find ing things you folks had lost? And is , not there houseful after houseful of keepsakes up North, picked up in the woods and on woodpiles by our army chaplains and our moral boysj whila you were trying to kill those of our folks who wanted to visit you to keep your souls from Hell? "BillTyou arc "ungrateful ! 'And "then didn't we keep this, war Up, till tlie States were all back in the Union ? , And didn't we go. to war and keep on going to warto keep your dog goned States from going qutjof.the Union? And didn't you want to get out of the Union? And'didnt we act magnani mous, and as soon as the war wasover.unite in saying you were out of the Union T Re ally, Bill, it seems as if you had it all your own way. This war has proved a ' success ! We were bound to push it through in nine ty days, and we should but for your stub borness. All we wanted was your niggers, and your cotton, mules, furniture, silver, ware, and such odd tricks which yott folks could buy better than we could, for you had more money! It was wrong to keep slaves,. Bill, but it was not wrong to steal : This.war.wju to preserve-the-Union. -Everybody said so. Tho Union has been preserved so much for us. Abie, brethren, let iii pray.' . f '..'i lH . Your States are kept out of the Union which is still preserved ! You want recon struction. We'll reconstruct you I You folks-are very wicked, Bill. God '.punishes wickedness.. God's agents live in the North exclusively, "Bill! . And we'll let you back in the Union, which has been preserved, .when we get ready. First, you must hunt up the balance of your property and give it to some of our great and good agents or generals. Then you must move out of your houses, thai is, what are left, and let the niggers in. And you must give the nigger your planta tions. And, Bill, 'you must give them all your property, and support the innocent cause of the late war by manual labor. And you must let the niggers vote, for they are wanted for Republican Congressmen, Sena tors and such. And you must ignore all your personal or war debtsand not pay them even upon the basis of honor. And you must help us for licking 'you. And ere you do this, you mast have all your property taken from you, so it will be easy. ,We arc a just and magnanimous people in the North! Wc are liberal and brotherly ! We want peace and harmony. - We don't want you fulks to go to hell, nor, do we want you to dress better than we do. ; 's - Personally, .we know but little of your country.'. : In eighteen hundred and sixty three we left your, country immediately in advance of a bayonet, for saying that some of our folks were stealing from some of your folks, and for writing naughty letiers td the La Crosse Democrat, charging some-; of our generals with robbing and cowardice. And we have had a very, pleasant time ofit at home for thinking" much as you' thinky but now we are convinced that the war for the preservation of the Union was a splendid snecess-p-that the countryNs belter off that negroes are a happicr--that people ' are in better circumstances, especially the thieves and robbers who have fattened upon blood and stolen their enemies poor that the way to make one section of - the country .1 love another section-13 to fight, rob steal and des olate them ' into happiness that our taxes are lighter that republican retrenchment and reform is a good thing for poor people and taxpayers that the sure way to nation al greatness is to quarrel ;with sections con tinually that a people are apt to love per secutors that it is honorable and an evi dence of manly Christianity to hammor a man after he is down-that it is-a blessing for poor nien to pay . interest on bonds the rich hold not taxable that the negroes are beheroff in rags, sickness" and shallow graves than at contented labor that it is unchris tian to resent insults, l.ahd' that you folks down South, and especially you," Bill Arp, so called, ere an- ungrateful -people not to adiaire- the, present ftatsj 0 cSairs, m.;the Union, so called. -- . II 'o ' Lidignaatly yoarav ! 1 1 '" OrVjO f ; j Tub eastern papera are publishing aphren blogical chirt of Butler. V ,We have exafnia- "ed it, but fee no', account of the bumps Could'nt ""tell by his Dress, i $ome years ago a wealthy carriage maker residing in Philadelphia, was very much an noyed by calls of hackmen, cabmen, omni bus drivers, ' etc., who under pretence of wishing to purchase would put him to ' con siderable trouble, in showing them, all the various vehicles ho had on hand and telling them the' difference, the very lowest price pf each ; ,and would leave with : the , consol ing idea that they would "think on it" , and if they concluded ta purchase, "why they'd call again-td-morrotr."-: But it so happened that they never called again the second .time. This daily inquiry,, we . say, had become so annoying that the owner, in. self-defense, had resolved on not paying any attention to a customer, unless , he. came well dressed. About ' this time the owner was one day standing in his door, when up came a rough looking man, well bundled in. his overcoat, wearing coarse, unpolished boots, and carry ing in his hand a whip, who thus accosted him: ,. , . "Good day sir. ArC.yott the owner of this establishment?": i . ' ! "Well, I am," repUed the other, with a look which seemed . to . say." '.'Now you want to try it, don't you ?" , ''Have you any fine carriages for sale?" inquired the stranger, apparently not heed ing the boorishness of the other. . " "Wen, I have." ' , ' . j. "At what price?' " "Different prices cf course." "Ahl yes. Cant look at them?" l., ""You can do as you please, stranger. They are in there." The stranger bowed politely, passed in, examined the vehicles for a few moments, returned and said "There is one 1 thiBt will answer my pur pose," pointing toward one. "What is the price r ' - ' ".';" "', ' "Two hundred dollars, sir." : . , "Is that the lowest?" ' "That is the lowest." 1 ' ' '" ,, " "Well, sir, I will call and give you my de csion to-morrow ;" a ad the stranger walked away, i-.' . . - ': "Yes, you'll call to-morrow! O, yes cer tainly," replied the owner in a tone of irony, not so low but that the stranger heard him; but he kept on his way, taking no outward notice of it - The next day came, and with it came the stranger also. "I have come according to promise," said he. ; ' . ' "I see you have, sir ;" replied the owner; a little abashed. ' "I will take that carriage, sir," and to the astonishment of the other, he pulled out an old wallet well stuffed with bills, and delib erately counted out two hundred dollars. The owner was completely staggered. Here was something new, a cabman with so much money I He took the money, look ed at it, and then at the stranger, eyed him from head too foot and examined his boots attentively. Then he counted his . money over and held up each bill to the light to see if it was, counterfeit . No 1 all were good. A thought struck him. He would find out his name 1 " . "I suppose you wotld like a receipt?" said he at length to the stranger. "It may be as well." . . "Yes sir. ; What name?'! . "Washington Irving." ! "Sir," said the other, actually starting back with amazement, "did I understand your name was '! "Washington Irving," replied the other, an almost ; imperceptible smile hovering around his niouth. "Washington Irving sir my dear sir," stammered the owner, confusedly, "I I I really, sir, beg ten thousand pardons, sir, but pardon me ! I mistook ou for a cab man tdr 1 I did indeed 1". . , . "No excuse, my friend," replied Irving. "I am no better than you took me for. You acted perfectly right," and having at length succeeded in getting hia receipt,,amid a host of apologies, he politely bade the humble carriage maker Vgood day," and left him to the chagrin that he had mistaken for a cab man a man whose lofty genius had com manded the admiration of the whole world. The friend who related this anecdote as serted that it was a fact, and told to him by the veritable owner hiraself. It doubtless proved a lesson to him Eot to judge men by their dress. : -;' . , Yora Motiieo. Speik kindly to your "mother, and ever courteously, tender of her. But a little time and you shall see her ho more forever: Her eye is dim, her form is bent, and her shadow falls grave ward. 0 th ers. may love you when she is past away, a kind-hearted sister, perhaps a" kind-hearted brother or one whom, of all the world, you may choose for a partner,, may love fondly ; but never again, while time is - yours, shall the love of one be to you as that of your old trembling mother has bee n. . . In agony she bore you ; through puling helpless infancy, her throbbing breast has been your safe protection and support; in your wayward child cod she bore patiently with your thoughtless rudeness, and nursed you through a legion of ills and maladies. Her hand it was that bathed your burning brow or moistened yourparched lips, her eye thatlightedup the darkness of wasting night ly vigils, watching always in your fretful sleep. Oh, speak not her name lightly, for you cannot live as many years as would suffice to thank her fully. , Speak . gently, then to your mother ; and you too, shall be old, it shall in. some degree lighten ' the' re morse which will be' yours tor otner sins, Why Mrs. Swisshelm was Re- .. i :.- : - ." moved.-; . Some of the radical journals are complain ing bitterly that Mrs. Swisshelm, who held a clerkship in the Quartermaster's Depart ment at Washington, was removed by order of Secretary Stanton: .Mrs;. Swisshelm' is the editress and proprietor of a journal en titled the ' ' Reconstructionui, and thb1 article on account of which the' Secretary of War dismissed her is as follows. If such a pro duction had been published in a Richmond paper General Grant would have ordered its seizure. ' ' '''' From Mm. Switibelra'a Reconstruclioniit. "' ' THE ASSASSINATION' PLOT. " -'L Wlien President Lincoln was 'murdered, nearly all loyal people believed that the South had made a serious mistake. A very few thought otherwise. Of those, two said to us, "You are mistaken. They know what they are about. ' Andy J ohnson is their tool." ' " : 'The thought was too horrible to be enter tained. It was too dreadful tQ believe that the man who had just received such marks of confidence from the loyal millions was simply a skillful actor playing patriot the better to serve the cause of treason. But these shrewd prophets shook th;ir heads and said, "You will see." . . ' One thing was certain. The morning of the inauguration he was drinking freely with blatant copperheads. His appeuranca on that occasion is matter of history ; and the deep disgrace of it wa3 ' never exaggerated by any published account. His intempe rance was excused on the ground that they had drugged his brandy, and it is possible they may have done so, but certainly not with the view of doing him a fatal injury ; for since the beginning of the second month of his pr esidency they have been his visitors and apparently confidential friends. That class of Washingtonians who never went to the White House while President Lincoln lived, but always refused to recognize him as President," and spoke of him with' scorn, began at once to visit Johnson, and were graciously received. . - Can it be possible that it was part of the assassination plot to get rid of one thus in secret bonds of friendship with northern leaders of tha secession ranks, or was that stupid, miserable wretch, Atzercth, duped into the belief that they wished him to com mit a crime they knew he had not the cour age to perpetrate, and which he should find no . opportunity to commit ? That they in tended to get rid of President Lincoln and Mr. Seward there can be no doubt The at tempt on Mr. Stanton's life was likewise in good faith, but the chain links of the evi dence were not closely followed on he trial, and the necessity for his death was not im minent, for he could be removed. The business was to get the Prcsidentand they got him. That it was the South which nominated Mr. Johnson, through indirect influence; that Mr. Johnson labored cun ningly for that nomination by boisterous professions of loyalty, and the thrusting for ward of ultra pledges designed to be broken, there is no longer any doubt. That he was prepared beforehand to serve the purpose of treason there can be no doubt ; that his ad ministration and its programme were part and parcel of the assassination plot we have no longer the shadow of a doubt. This does not make it necessary that he should have known of the intended assassi nation. We do not think cither Tyler or Fillmore Inew that the men who used them intended murdering- Harrison and Taylor, but in all thesecascs the assassins knewtheir men, and these three Presidents, made Presidents by assassination, are each with their administrations as much incidents of the rebellion emanations from the brain of the'arch-fiends and wholesale murderers who plotted that rebellion as was the starvation of our men at Andersonville, or the poison ing of our armies. Whether known or un known to Mr.. Johnson, his veto message is the further unfolding of the assaination plot That assassination was a change of base in the traitor war for the destruction of the Union. The veto is the Sum ptcr guns of this second era of the war, and it will prob ably be followed by a Bull Run and Ball's Bluff by disaster and apparent defeat to the loyal millions whose weapons are on?o more turned upon them by their tru-tf t agents. Andrew Johnson has his plans ina tured. " lie is in full sympathy with the South, and will follow up his present advan tage to the bitter end. Let the people nerve themselves to do what they can. They can and will save ihe government ; but there is great danger of a repetition of the mis takes and delays and dreadful disasters of the first stage of this war. There is great danger of a kid-glove campaign under some political McCleDan. Could the people be made to feel that the assassins of President Lincoln are now the honored guests of the White House, that this veto is part of the murderous pro gramme, northern copperheads would not insult a loyal people by their insolent rejoic ings, and traitors of the South would stand aghast before their indignation. , A Radical Crowd. A Republican in Maine, who had served out his time of 30 days in the Augusta jail, was asked when he came out how ho liked it JM had a bully time," said he. "There ' were 76 .inmates of the jail, and not ad d Democrat amongt thciot" ;- ". ' ;' . . r Many a woman thinks she can do nothing Sights from our Sanctum. Sometimes.we sit musing ' upon the out look from our sanctum windows, and build phantom lives to fit the forms and faces that pass in the, streets '. below. Just now came -a wagon nothing strange in tnat, certainly. And a man driving the team, and a woman seated behind him, and "a child throned in the woman's lap nothing remarkable -in that either. . And it required no particular shrewdness to determine that the woman was the better half of the man, and that the round fiiccd baby was joint heir of both so much wc saw so much we suppose everybody saw who looked. It is a fair, in ference to suppose that the wife came to town to help her husband "trade out" the proceeds of eggs and butter that were stored in the pans and pots half hidden under the seat. . The pair were this side ani its a fine point of observation, too this side of forty, and it is presumptive, if blessed like other folks they have left two or three chil dren at home "to keep house while they come to town perhaps two girls and a boy, or, as it is immaterial to us, two boys and one girl." " . . - . Let us follow this pair as they dispose of their product and purchase their supplies. They enter a store which is advertised, of course, and the egjrs are all counted, the butter weighed and the clerks put down the t:JTy. The baby is shifted from one shoul der to the other, or placed down on the floor, while calicoes are priced, tea tested and plates "'rung." The good wife looks askance at a large mirror which would be just the thing for the best room but it won't do; they must just wait till next year. Ah! there are symphonies in those "next years" that charm away all the vexations of the present. And so they look and price and purchase their supples, the husband the while keeping count lest the bill shall exceed the balance due. Then comes an aside con ference, particularly confidential. She takes him affectionately by the button,' and looks up in his fiice -.she has fine eyes, too with an expression eloquent of "do now, it will please them so!". And what do you think they talk of? Toys for the children ; John wants a drum, and Jane a doll, and Nellie a book, all pictures, "just like Susy So-and so's."' The father's looks say "nonsense," but his heart says yes, and his hand gives out slowly, to be sure the requisite cur rency, and the happy mother hastens away, baby and all, for the toys. Her anxiety re veals her mother's heart, and she is happy all the way home not for the bargain she has made, nor for the bus life she has seen, but for the pleasant surprise; only half promised the has ia store for her precious little lambs at home. And we can sit here and imagine the joys of that family group, as the drum, the doll and the book are pro duced wasn't it a great house ! Happiness is so cheap, what a wonder there is not more of it in the world. From the Washington Cmrespondror of the Naih Robert Lincoln Gossip in High Life. You remember Robert Lincoln, son of the late President? He was generally liked here, as an amiable and intelligent young gentleman, not quite equal to his father in ability, but of superior culture. A story is just now current in which his name is so freely bandied, and so universally that, see ing that all the parties are of public notorie ty, there may be no impropriety in alluding to it. Nearly two years ago, so the story runs, Robert fell in love with a joung lady, whose father was at the time out of office and out of money. To be in this condition at Washington is next to being convicted of forging a Go'seraiuenl bond or murder In the first degree, and the idea of marrying the lady in that condition was not to be thought of. So the amiable Robert set about mend ing the matter, and made a desperate effort to secure the proposed father-in-law a seat in the lower House of Congress. He failed in thi, however, and was at a dead halt, when luckily a member of the Cabinet died. Here was a vacancy, and the lover speeding ing on the wings of passion, amorous, flew to the President and stated the whole case to him with great frankness. "I like j our way of doing things, Bob," said Mr. Lin coln, "and, if possible I will work the thing :b.- you." To cut a long tale short, he 'did "work it" the broken down politician beoaniO a" member of the Cabinet ; the young :Jlntc':Vii$ suddenly converted into a leader of faJiion; and all went sweetly as a mar riage bell toward the wedding day. But the adage nover fails to hold its own, and in this, as in ' every other case, the course of true love did not run smooth. The hand of the assassin interposed. The young gentleman found himself bereft of father, of fortune and of place at one fell swoop. On the other hand, the Cabinet member created by his interposition, had experienced a change of fortune ; for, having shuffled his cards skillfully, he was just returned a Senator i.i Congress. The lady wavered ; the nuptials were postponed; and, finally, as visions of a gay career and better match began to flit across her beautiful blue eyes, she resolved that she was not so much in love as she had been, and she broke off the engagement al together. I tell you the tale as it was told to me. It is just now the gossip cf the hour ; and as I have no doubt it will appear in print such secrets being too valuable and too notorious for a poor devil of a le'tter writer to keep I give you the benefit of.it It is an apt illustration of the world and the fickleness of womankind. , . Thc Second Book of Chronicles. , ACCORDING TO DIXIT, f, . - ; CHAPTER IV. 1 . 1. At that time, the people, of the South sent messengers to the King, saying : ' 2. "Behold, we have been beaten and broughtlow, our elders, andyoung men have fallen by the edge of the sword ; we have become mourners with no one to show us Pity-" "., .'.': :. 3. "An dye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, . have been ta ken from us."-. 4. "Burning for burning, . wound for wound, stripe for stripe, have been dealt out unto us." ; . : -.':.. - ?l , 5. "The bondman . and the bondwoman have been set free, our vineyards have been laid desolate, our fields have become a prey to the destroyer. -- ' 6. "The lowing of our kin is heard no more in the pleasant valleys ; nor the bleat ing of our sheep from the hill tops." 7. "Our homes have been' made food for the flames, our treasures have vanished as the mists of the morning." 8. "Our fine linens, and purple, and prec ious stones, and vessels of gold and of silver, yea, even the toys of our little ones, are known no more with us." 9.. "For, behold, they do now gladden the eyes of the godly roundhead, the burner of witches is delighted therewith." 10. "The bean-eater, now suppeth from the spoons of our childran; he sin gcth psalms from stolen bibles." 11. "Without raiment hath he clad the daughters of his household ; he drinketh his rum from our cups." 12. "We have bowed down our heads and have become obedient to the laws ; let thy hand be raised that we perish not from the face of the earth." 1 3. "Let thy hand protect the helpless who cry too thee ; defend us from the hungry Yankee the horse-leech of the East who crieth, give! give !" 14. And the King answering said"; "I am moved by compassion for you,' and have sworn that the laws find the covenant shall be held sacred." 15. "Behold, ye have thrown -down the sword, and Peace again blesseth the land." 1 G. "I shall therefore break the bands with which you have been bound, the scourge with which ye have been afflicted shall be taken away." 17. "Go ye, therefore, into your fields and vineyards, plant ye and till the earth, and in seed time and harvest shall ye again be blessed." 18. "The hand of the destroyer will I stay; I sdiall hold you harmless at the hands of the Heavenly Hyena." 10. "The howlings of the Parsons shall be as empty wind ; they shall be aa toothless dogs." 20. "They arc devils and not men; their hearts are full of cruelty and corruption." 21. "With the Hate with which they pro voked war, are they filled; they are not glut ted with the shedding of much blood." 22. "They have despised the Covenant ; they have trodden under their feet the law." 23. "As they of old have scoffed at the word of God,so have they hated charity,and loved contention and strife.' 24. "They have desired to see the land a desert, that power and dominion might re main to them." 25. "They, and their Harlots and Preach ers, shall be brought low, because they have hated J usticc and Mercy in the hour of their rule." 26. "And behold the sound of Cany voices went forth to praise the wisdom of the King." 27. And the people said, "Let the memory of the radicals be held accarsed take away from us the sons of BeliaL" 2S. "Behold these are they who now cry for blood, they would snatch riches from the pit of Hell." . . 29. "The craft of Thaddeus, and of Sum ner, and of Forney hath been made mani fest, let their desires perish with them." 30. ."Asa stunk from its tail sendethforth perfume, so hath Forney scattered his spite over the land." 31. "He rageth that he hath become pow erless, and is despised by the people." 32. "Of his own poison, hath his blood be come corrupt as a drad JucJche stinketh." 33. And Thaddeus, hearing these things, going forth shook the dust from his hoof, as a testimony against the King and the peo ple. 34. Saying, "Howl! Howl! ye my friends, for the end approachc th ; and earthquakes encompass our footsteps." 35. "I tremble with exceeding great fear ; the Spring-Garden butchers have appeared unto me." Daniel Webster on Paper Mon ey. "The very man," said Daniel Webster, "of all others who has the deepest- interest in a sound currency, and who suffers most by mischievous legislation in money matters, is the man who earns his daily bread by his daily toil. A depreciated currency, changes of price, paper money falling between morn ing and noon, and falling still lower between noon-and night these things constitute the very harvest-time of speculators, and of the whole race of those who are at once idle and crafty; and of that other race, too, the Cat alines of all time, marked so as to be known forever by one stroke of the historian's pen, men greedy of other men's property and prodigal of their own. . Capitalists may out live such time. They may either prey on the earning of labor by their cent per cent, f,r tVrrTvinr 1mwf, " Butf hejaborin cr , roan he becom.es the prey . of all , His property is in, his hands. "' : ilisVrejiancfi,. jus' iund his " productive freehold, his allj in'kia febdiv4- Whether he work, on his own small capital or another's, his living is stifi earned by his industry J.and when' thd money.of the coun try - becomes depreciated and debased, whether, it, be , adulterated coin or . paper, without credit,, that industry is. robbed of its reward. He then labors for a ppiintry whose laws cheat him of his. breads - - ;j. The above should be inscribed in letters of gold upon an immortal tablet ; They, ar? words of wisdom, that the clas3 to whom they are addressed are prone to forgegreat ly to their disadvantage and to their Borrow. The whole financial system of this country ' is now based upon an irresponsible .paper currency more vicious and worthless in its relation to gold than any Mr. Webster saw during his political career. The laboring men have been foolish enough to sustain, by their votes this policy, which is consuminj their email resources and . rendering thp maintenance of the most frugal existence almost impossible. .Will they never awaka to their true interests, and demand that thi public swindling and robbery shall cease ? ri Happy at Home. ; - A little straw of every day habit, floating slowly and silently down the Btream of life, shows very plainly which way the tide fccta: And when Mrs. Purple says with a groan', "My husband never spends hi3 evenings at home," it is natural to inquire within one self why it is that Mr. Purple finds , other resorts so much moro attractivo than thd household altar ! , "I don't see why he can't bea little moro domestic," says Mrs. Purple. Well, why, is it ? There is a reason for everything ia the world, say philosophers and there must be a reason for this. , . In the first place. ' Mrs. Purple is one 'of those unfortunate housekeeper whose work is never done. There is always something dragging a room to be swept, lamps to be trimmed frctfid babies to be put to sleep, while one eye is on the broiling meat and tho other on the muddy foot-print unwittingly left by Mr. Purple, on the doorstep.' "There, Purple, I knew just how it would be. ' I wonder if you know the use of a scraper on a door mat I should after all the time I've spent in cleaning up ." And Mrs. Purple goes off into a monoto nous recapitulation of her troubles arid trials that has the effect of a lullaby upon the ba by, however trying it may be td the feeling! of the baby's father. " . . ' Moreover, Mrs. Purple, with all her clean ing up,' does not understand the elementa ry principles of keeping a house neat Things arc always "round in the way ;" ta ble covers put on awry ; dust as hes under the grate curtains torn away from their fastened and pinned up until Mrs. Purple can "find time" to readjust them." Somer how it looks forlorn and desolate and un homelike when the master of the . house comes in at night Mr. Purple, manlike, can't tell where the the defection lies--he don't analyze the chill that comes over his heart as he crosses the threshold he only knows that "things don't look ship-shape !' And so he takes his last wheuhis wife'sbact is turned and sneaks ignqminioasly off, glad to get away from the dead-alive fire, the dusty room, and Mrs. Purple's tongue., Whb can blame the man ? Mr. Purple may bi "lazy," and "careles," and "selfish," very likely he is most men have a tendency that way but nevertheless he don't like to bo told of it over and over and over- again, in. that persistent, illogical sort of way that re minds you of an old hen running from side to side in her coop, and poking her head through the bars in the same place every seven seconds ! Mr. Purple naturally won ders why his wife don't teca.sionally allude to the few good qualities he happens to pos sess ! Mr. Purple has every inclination to be happy at home, if his better half would only give him a chaucc. Of all the sweet tinted pictures of domes tic happiness that we find in the pages of Holy Writ, there Is none that suggests more comfort than Abraham sitting in his lent door "in the heat of the day',' under tho shadow of the palm trees of Manire. De pend upon it, the good old patriarch never spent his evenings away from homo. ' Hb didn't believe in "just running across the plains to Lot's houst," or going over to Sod om to hear the news." No, Abraham liked to sit quietly by his tent door, and very, like ly Mrs. Sarah would come and lean over his shoulder and chat with him after the Orien tal fashion ! We have the very best of tes timony for knowing that she wa3 very amii blc under the ordeal of "unexpected com pany," when "the calf tender and good'4 was dressed, and the three measures of . fine meal baken on the earth ! . , , , . ; The idea of looking beyound the sphere of home for enjoyment is at the root of -our modern evils. . Home should be the very centre and sanctury of happiness ; and when it is not, there is some screw loose in the do mestic machinery ! Hyou want to surround a young man with the best possible safer guard, don't overwhelm him with maxims and homilies as tn what he is and is not to do, but make his home happy in the even ings. Let him learn that however hsrd and cruel the outside world may be, he is always sure of svmpathy and coasideration in one place ! Woe betide the man, whatever his tot or position, who hasin his heart of hearti no memory of a home where the sunshine never faded out and the. voices were always sweet Where he as Rothschild, he U poor man. . a a a ...,... Some say the quickest way to destroy Veedsi9 to marry a widow. It is no doubt , v.
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