Tntnn H JACOB? .iKELCR, hnblishflrj. TRUTH AND RIGHT GOD AND OUR COUNTRY- Two Dollars per Annan in Advance. BLOOM S B URG, COLUMBIA CO., P A., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1866. new struts VOL. 1. NO. 16- VOL. XXX- ( Ol CRIE8 0 aid nnw V JiiJi-JZ-LLX AL JIJ. JL-JXV Ji-V A -UL VIAL JJL-.JU- . jl: Jl1. - N u i THE DEiMOCRAT AND STAR ttBLISHED EVERY "WEDNESDAY, IBLOOMSBURG, PA., BY JACOBY &, IKELER. - TEBM3. 1 CO in advance. . If not paid till the Vnit ol the yrar. 56 cent additional will bi charged. XZf Kiapr di.eoirtimied ntl aU arrearages re paid ic pt at the opi ion of luc editors. - SITES OF ADVERTISING. 1U LIKKf COKSTtTCTSa A SO01BC. . . V)n aqnare na or thru. insertion ........... fl SJJ Trv .nhiroueiit insertion let tiian 13 oo l. Sx. 3m. , 6. It. .One square, .Two square, yhree -Toar square, Half rolumn. On column-. S.0 3 CO 3 Oo , I 5o() 5.00 J 7 00 6.1 0" 6.(0 10 . do I 12 00 la.oo - I oo- 4.00 6,10 14 00 2i,00 6 01 8.00 1.0 H.OU la oo 30 00 10 00 14.110 1S.00 23 0 38 00 50 83 Executor' and "Administrator's Notice 3 0 A ad ilor's Notice .. t ..... Other advertisements inserted according to apecial eontra-t. ' business amice, without adTenlteimeBt, twenty, erta per line. i. . . ... Transient advertisements payable m advance. Bill others due alter the Oml lusertien. E7 OKFICE-Ia Ebive's Block, Corner of Main ai Iron 8lrt:et. Addre, . 1AC0BY & IKELCR. Bloomtburg, C'olmei County, Pa. WHEN YOUR'E -DOWN. What legioa of "friend" always bles u. When golden ucc'S liglil our way) How ihey smi'e " they softly aildrean at, Bi cordial, good umnreil. and gay. Put. afa ! Kli 'U tie nn of orpeiit -Hath f et then how quickly they frown And cry ut in tone if vj-iritr. Kick ilia iu! , d jn "1 you a--e he ia down ' What innuf h, when you nw not a aorrow. Your heart w open as day. And -ycr friend" when tliy wanted to borrow. Yob obliged and ne'er aaked (hem to '-pay." . .What though not a tool yu fr ii?ht-d. A you wandered about tlirougb tUe town. Your "friend a" become ery near wjihteU, And don't aeera to a a when you re down. When yon're "up" your are loudly exalted, A nd trader all ainr nut your prane, V hen you'r down" yon liae greatly Heflittd, And they really don't lanry your way." Your atyle wa lip-top" when you'd money, Foaiag eery uckr and clown, Rtit now 'tia oceedincly funny, Thing are alteied "iiecauae you are town " - a ' i Oh. give me the heart that foreer I free from the world' lelfiKh rut. A nd the aoul w hose hic.h Oi.ble endeavor 1 tora'ae fallen man fr.nn ttie iul ; ' And when in a.'Tcrjily'a oceai A Victim ia likely to drown, ' All hail to lae. friad wbo'o'deralioa Wrtl lift a aaa ap wfcen Iij' -'down." . COMM0TiICATiOjg. Abolitionists and Abolitionism . : me. Messhs. Editors : In tins nninber I wi'l proceed to show that after the Raid waa made, and over forty innocent men, all Dem ocrats, from this vicinajre, many of them professors of religion, had been arrested and taken to Fort Mittlin, a fellow, who, 1 think 13 called 4Peer Pump-handle Reinboff" by them.that knor hiiu, carae hereto preach oa Sunday ta the-Soldiers in camp below Benton : and ha u reported us having said ia that speech : "That he rejoiced very much at their coming to this peetion of oar country, because previously it had been dan gerous ior him and other 'ljyal people to J pass up and down the creek. That he hnd been afraid to travel th o road in day-light without a body-g-uard, for fear the Demo crats would kUl him and throw his body be hind some old log, and then his dear family would not be able to find jt, and could not tell whatever become of him. (X dear me I That pistols and guns were cracking contin ually all around, and the ofSeers of the eoun ty from the lowest up to the Treasurer w ere engaged in this dreadful work. O, dear mer . ' But since the soldiers had come it wa5? more quiet, and since so many had been sent off to the Fort he felt more secure, thanks to old Abe, &c. Now I was not out to hear he gentleman (?) on that occasion, but oth ers were, who remember well what he said, and can tell you all about the powerful man ner in which this blood-hound of abolition' aion threw around t he red-hot-rocks of aW.i tion damnation, all over Peter A's planta tion ! O, dear, how" it did thunder ! but there was no good rain. - I know his fears of the Democrats were trafounded, and Only pame from, the teeth out, and he kuors that ia tkiftj -as m most other things, was mere ly acting the hypocrite. The Democrats would not hurt hi3 wooly h.i?ad, they were then,a3 they are now, too wise to waste their munition on "Pump-handles or D. D's." That this Knight of the disunion lensrue was creating a false alarm when he said he was afraid of Democrats along Fishingcreek, i3 Fully established by his bringing a very hand some man with him here last winter, to hold protracted meeting, whose name was Black 'or White, I think. Black would have beep very proper as harmonizing with the princi ples and practice of his employer at that time. But this sneaking leaguer took good care to inform our citizens that "this stranger he had brought with him, was a Democrat" What do you suppose was his object in all this ? ' Doubtless to deceive the people, to get Democrats whom he had misticated and unjustly assisted to send to a filthly Lincoln Bastil?5 to come with their friends to his meeting, when it was announced that a Dem ocrat had come, to help him for a week or ten days. But the bait did not take, the gauze was to thin. . The people however, could not help pay ing, "that this exhibition of cool deplicity Wa3 not consistent with his expressions of fear, that the Democrats would kill him" Ac. At one time it suited him "to. have noth ing to do with Democrats, they were dan gerous, their pistols and guns were poping nd cracking all along the creek, that it was toot safe for him to travel up Or down with out a body-guard'' &c. - - But when this theme run out, and he did Tiqt by. it succeed in gulling the people, it -uit3 him wondrous well to come solitary and Jalone, with no one but a Democrat as his Tjody guard I Thu3 flatly giving the lie to all his declared fears, "that Democrats would Yake his life and throw hi3 body behind an old log" &c.- - Thi3 man, shall I call him ? nay this "crit 'ter," the "Pump-handle, " certainly had no 'fears of Democrats, but evidently had a 'fit,' fcot caused by the "Draft," but by the "De lerium Tremendous." Hcnce he thought he saw snakes coming out of his boots, hence bis groans, the voice of his guilty conscience, the ejaculations, the irregular .movements, the wild gestures, and the thunder of his el oquence against the copperheads, and in fa vor of his "cnlred brethem." From what I understand, his rermon (?) 'to the soldiers mu.-t have been hn extra ef-. fort, sn i it, 1 the remarks of the hearers about Li m zn 1 his discourse, should have tn'Fiire 1 & h rich legacy to. his posterity.- Tins p-im? "Loral Ijamer" would not let T-'i m "i'"n','1riir the lafe war, and when bullets could ; not hurt the child ! ! Well, that is the same kind of patriotism, which it is supposed, led another red-mouthed "Loyalist to get his barn insured, and then burn it and take the insurance money to pay his commutation fee, and then attempt "to insinuate before a loyal military commission," falsely, - "that Democrats had burnt his barn," but was stopped. , This is Abolition Loyalty .for you. : Shall we Democrats, bear all these things and let those pinks of Loyal Toryism pass unrebuk ed ? I think not". The voice of neighbor Robert's grave says no ! The voice of his Eoor widow, and orphan children says no ! Ivery principle of justice Fays no ! ! Then let us speak out by the Press, in the name of this outraged community, tlirough the courts of Justice, and expose those enemies ot our race, the enemies ot our country,anu let us support our true Democratic princi pies and candidates, and save the Constitu tion and the Union by sustaining President Johnson. Jefferson. ' Messrs. Jacobt & Tkeleii: In my in tercourse with my neighbors I am struck with the changed state of feeling which now per vades this community About two years ago, when the agents of the evil one assum ing to take charge of the souls and bodies of our people here, and kidnapped fouty-fouii of them in the darkness of night, things looked black, indeed, for decent, honest men not tho.-e who under the garb of lou- alty were "government robbers" and it seemed that these bad, mean men were bent, not only upon our personal destruction, but the utter annihilation of our civil rights as citizens. How thev Lemeaned themselves in the premises, has become matter of history and will be perused with astonishment by our children's children. The Invasion, of Columbia County,in 1 S64, by the ilespotical tools of the Lincoln ad ministration, is the most damnable feature of all the iniquitous act; of the late "negro war." Over a thousand armed men, with several cannon drawn by six horses each, ambulances, baggage wagons and all the im plements of bloody warfare, were treacher ously and insidiously thrown unsuspectingly upon the peaceful and defenseless citizens of Columbia count-, and for several days,whil.-t enjoying our unbounded hospitality, auiu.se'd themselves in robbing our hen-roosts, corn fields, potato patches and even stole our outs, grain and hay by the wason load ; and not a particle of which plunder has ever been paid for by "the government." 3Ir. Joseph Coleman, as respectable a citizen as lives in our valley, was turned out of his house, with his family, and it was filled with the soldiers, who destroyed his property, and burned all his fences. They also used up all his hay for their horses. Nor was this all. These "insolent hire lings" of a cowardly and treacherous Exec utive, in a midnight raid, kidnapped I'ORTY roTjn of our citizens, not one of whom was a deserter, and by brute force and at the point of the bayynet. ruarcrred them hastily into Fort MiJJUn.. I have said that these men were our most respectable citizens, and in proof of this amnion, 1 need only give a fjw of the names of tho-ie I now remem ber. Rohr Melfenrv. a Oountv Commis. Moner, and Dunnd 3b.-IIonry, the County .treasurer. William Appleman and Mont eromciv Cole, ac-tinar Justices of the Peace. John J. ctilos. now County Ti rea?urer. Jyor Lu Lhapin and James .Meilenrv, mer chants of Luzerne county. Hiram I. Ever-, ett, merchant of Benton; Joseph Hess, Samuel McIIenry, Inn-keeper, Samuel Ap- j pieman. Joseph Coleman;lU;v. A. R. Rutan, i David Lewisj Samuel Kline, JchnYorks, j Henry and W ih'iam Hileman, and William E. RotiEliTS, whom, the blood-hounds mur dered in the Foil. AJo, John Bantu, Scoti. E. Colley, Abraham H?rtman, with raany others, for whose wrongs, it is h'pod the loyal Ln'ncoljii'ifs, here and cLviwhere, will have ti) answer, if not sooner, when they join their disunion friends in the lower re gion?. Perhaps I writg with too much apparent f rce, but if fp, it mnst be attributed to my vehement indignation. The men who per petrated these outrageous nets of military tvanuy upon our unoffending citizen", in cluding Couch, Cadwallader and Stewart, were cowards, knaves and thieves.- So are the sneaks and spies who hissed them on. It is not denied, that Gen. Cadwallader, admitted in a conversation with Messi s. Buek alew, Elwell and Tate, that he had made military examinations of all that (this) coun try, to discover the alleged forts, fortifica tions, armies, combinations of resistance to the government and pronounced the thing a "grand farce." This wa.s candid, but the paper Gmcral failed to discharge the balance of his duty as either an honest or brave man. He should have so informed the government, dtmandinr the immediate rtleaxe of his prisoners, and in case of fail ure, to resign nis commission. More anon. The f-tore of John J. McIIenry was en tered last Spring, by burglars, and robbed of a large amount of clothing. It turns out that "the burglars were all three "loyal theives." Shoddyism is synonymous with robbery. A Benton Democrat. Abraham Lincoln Indirectly hi own Destroyer. "What would have been the effect of McClellan's election to the Presidency in 1864?" was lately asked of a Southern gen tleman. "It would have ended the war, on almost any terms the North could have ask ed," said he. "For a year before the war closed, all hope of success unless by some thing little short of a miracle was abandon ed. The election of McClellan would have given the Southern leaders an excuse for making peace without an absolute loss of ail self-respect. The North would, by his elec tion, have receded, in part, from its extreme position, and we would have receded from UThis proves bevond a doubt that if Mc Clfxlan had been elected, hostilities would have ceased in November, 1864, and the war ended several months before it did. And this would have saved hundreds of valuable lives, and millions of treasure. But, says one, "what has this to do with the death of Mr. Lincoln?" Hold your temper, and I will tell you. If Mr. Lincoln and the Abolition party had conducted the election of 1864 honestly, fairly, justly and legally, we are sure McClellan would have been elected. But we know, that by the most dishonest, unjust and illegal frauds, and corruptions of all the Departments of the Government, the Army Officers, the Soldiers' vote, the Mails, the Provost Mar shals and their eave.sniropper3, the uncon stitutional arrests and imprisonment of many Democrats, the fcupr.resaon of their papers, were the base and foul means used to effect his re-election! " '.' ' Had 3Ir. Lincoln and his idolatrous wot- ; ejor Pntifpd with a l.iwfnl admin- i would have sent him back to EJieois, where he ought always to have been kept, leing utterly unfit for the position of President. Hence he would have left Washington soou after the 4th of March, 1865? and therefore could not have been at Ford s theater, and disgraced himself and the President's office in April of that year. Had he been a wise and good manj he would have been at home attending to his proper business, as a Chris tian gentleman would have done, then an as sassin could not have harmed him. - But being given to theatrical entertainments, he hired a Box in a corrupt place, sot a bad ex ample by often resorting there, and thus, for his previous illegal, corrupt and numerous violations of the Constitution, the laws, and legal rights of other mm, and of the States, exposed himself to violence, and thus his corruptions indirectly turn "honest Mr. Lincoln" FJodcsc. If he - has not, some of his fawning sycophants 'may learn, that, "Honesty is the best policy." "Boots for Stationert." Jacobt & Ikeler : Gentlemen Pleased with the indepen dent mariner and bold style of conducting your Journal, we withheld the public ex pression of our opinion until a time might arrive when words of c ncouragement should be oflered in defense of the cau.se so near our hearts. But the prospect brightens with the steady march of events, and words of cheer were useless. Truth and right icill triumph. Already the ominous tide is setting in which threatens to engulph the dark forms of a party whose groa.t ambition ha? been, and still is, to ruin, desolate and divide our country. Did we need proof of this? It is found in the slimy, nauseous track of Aboli tionism. Every foot of ground over which they have passed is proof positive of the damning work of desolation pursued by the dominant party. They gloat grimly over their work of destruction. Savagelj', they strike treacherous blows at the charter of our liberties by introducing a vast numlier of amendments to the Constitution of the United States. They would so distort and deform that instrument by their sacrilegious work as to rob it of its dignity and force, fivinsr to our posterity a mass of folly, in ieu of the wisdom and purity left us by our fathers. But their tiir.e for rule and riot is already coming to a cloe. Soon the vile, disgusting creature will drag its black, reek ing carcass of corruption from the places of power, and Abolitionism shall be known only by "the ruin it has wrought." Everybody talks and thinks, now, of Cly mer as our next Governor. He is so frank and open in his expressions of opinion and declaration of principle:-" and withal possessed of such eminent qualifications of mind and heart that no one can doubt the result cf an issue with him and Geary. The latter strives most industriously to conceal his political principle, if he advocates any. He may be claased among tho neutral. "The (.ohi mlif 10" f ' An "Independent Journal" !J Well, what next? But Dem ocrats are not so easily caught, now. The paper certainly possesses the merit of being well and hap.cfsomely executed, but it has no principles, w we class it with Geary. The editor, under the caption, "Explana tory" 'oe3 off with a declination of princi ples, and stops just where he begun, com mitting himself to no md line of policy and asserting no independent course for his "In dependent (?) J ournaL ' ' We would recom mend that ho Fubstirutc some other word instead of "ividepcndcrtf' aud.eall the thing by its prrrper name. Else hoist your colors and go into the contest manfully. Place at the mast-Lead the name of the Hon. IJies TEBCLYi!EU, or throw the Link flag to the breeze and support Geary. 3Iore anon. OeservlTu Rohrslurg, May 21, 1S65. The Freedmen's Bureau Bitt. The Evening Post, a Republican paper, published in the city of New York, in speak ing of the legislation for the Ngro, says: "The Freedmen's Bureau Bill passed yes terday by the House makes it the duty of the government, for two years after it becomes a law, to supply provisions, medicines and transportation to destitute and suffering white refugees and frce-dmen. Now, unless it is certain that for two years to come society and industry will continue, in the South, to be so disorganized as to make it impossible for many industrious persons to gain a liv ing, does not this extension of charity seem unnecessary? And if unnecessary, is it not mischievous? So long as men can get their living without work, many will do so ; and if the government should promise to support destitute and suffering people, inthe bouth, for ten years, no doubt it would during the whole ierid have demands upon its stores. "The Southern States are underpopulat ed; there is more work there than there are. hands to do it: it is a reeion, like the West, in which no one who will work needs to beg or starve. Is there not a danger that we may create a class of inveterate idlers, both amongst the whites anr I blacks ? "The number of destitute frcedmcn ap pears to le rapidly decreasing indeed it cannot help but do so, for work is abundant, and most of the States, -have enacted laws obliging the colored people to tike care of their poor. According to a despatch from Washington, the Assistant Commissioner for North Carolina reports that "the number of destitute freedmeu dependent upon gov ernment has been gradually reduced, and it is hoped that by the end of another quarter the necessity for the ciatuitoua issue of ra tions and clothing wilt ha ve ceased entirely. The demand for labor continues unabated, and is far greater than the supply. Many planters in the Southern Stateshave applied to him for help, and some have engaged persons in North Carolina to return with .them. The inquiry is no longer heard, 'What can be done w't 1 the negroes ?' but the question is often asked, 'Where can la borers be found?"' "We have the Freedmen's Bureau for nearly a year yet. Congress will meet again, and will have been in session for several months before the present law runs out. If next winter it shall apear to be necessary to continue the Bureau for another year, it can easily be done. But would it not lie well to wait until then, when the first peace crop will be gathered, and affairs will be bet ter settled in the Southern States? Wc tuist the Senate will consider these matters. Let us do all that is right, but let as not hold out hopes of such support as may en courage idleness and pauperism. It ia bet ter to give the freedmen and refugees a chance to help themselves, than for us to help them." V, , ' JEST Daniel Webster used to ray that the word "would", in Rufus Choate's handwriting resembled a gridiron , slruck by lightning. THE MISER'3 STORY. I wasborn in England. I remember noth ing but poverty stalking crime and abso lute want The houses where I lived were all in various stages of filth and decay. Whether the old blear-eyed man who kicked and commanded me was my father, I never knew. Whether the old woman who some times fed and oftner beat me, was my mother, I cannot say. All that I know is that I had a miserable drag-aboutlife of it, going round after cold victuals knocking smaller boys down to get the contents of their broken basket", and hunting for rags in the gutter. I suppose I was a rather good-looking boy: they call me good-looking now, for an old man. I know I was smart, comparing my self with children as I see them. Of course. I was like the rest of my class. I could fight a little, and swear a little, steal a little, and cat a good deal that is, when I got the chance, which was seldom. I was ignorant didn't know one letter from another, and didn't want to. What did .I care about education I, who never saw a book froui one year's end to another. And love gratitude hope I could of course understand neither. Nolody loved me, therefore I loved nobody. Nobody had ever made me grateful had ever held out hope to me. Some strange impulse was given me one day. I waked up, sprang from my bun dle of -traw, and involuntarily the words came from my lips "I'm going todo some thing to-day. " What tliat something was I had not the remotest idea, but I put on my apologies for clothes, and sallied out in my vagabond way, whistling, caring for nobody. It was oboutnoon. and I had not yet tasted a mouthful of food. I was hungry, and skulked about grocery shops, hoping I could get an apple or something that would stay my appctite; till I felt in the humor for beg ging. Passing round the corner of a public street, I saw a genteel-looking man standing at his horse's head, gazing about him some what perplexed. "Boy,' he cried out, "won't you take care of my horse for half an hour?' "Yes sir," said I. I think it Ws the first time I had ever put on the sir. - - "There's a man!" he exclaimed. "I've got considerable fruit, and you must guard it well. Here's acouple of peaches for you ; just stand here quitly I guess nobody'il dis turb you." He went away, and I stood for awhile, till J was tired. Then, thinks T, I'll get a hand ful of the fruit and run. But for the first time I felt an instinct of shame at the sug gestion. He trusted me he haw I was a mean looking fellow, too, but he trusted me, and I won't abuse his kindness. Something like this reasoning ran in my head, and I squatted down on the cm ?v ton-?, feeling the importance of an honorable tri:.-t, as I had never felt such a thing before. Presently some of my fellows camealon invl-j nailed me. 1 told them to go on. Amy peered about the cart, and saw the sunny laces ot the peaches. "We'll have some of thorn," tiny said. "No. you won't," savs I. "I'm put in charge here, and 1 won't scj the first thing stole." With that they began a rumpus They reached over the cut. I stur.k them, and used such efforts that they all came r cb-niell upon me, and we fought till the blood came, but I vanquished them. Just then out came the proprietor. "What's the matter?" said he. "Oh. nothing, only 1 had to fight for your stuff there," said L "You did, eh? You've got a black eye f r it." "No matter,"' ays I. "I meant tbc-i bovs shouldn't steal a peach, and they didn't neither." "Well, you've got good pluck, my boy ; here's a dollar for you but don't swear." My ees stood out. "A whole dollar?" says I. "Yes, do what you please with it, but I'd advi-e you to buy a pair of shoes." "Thank you," says I, with a beating heart ; "it pays to be good, don't it?" lie smiled a curious sinile, asked me sev eral questions, and ended by taking me home wi th hi 11m in his wagon. Home! I thought. I was in heaven, albeit t I had seldom, heard of such a placo. My : heart beat heavily even- time 1 dared to put ! my leet upon those rich carpets, lhe mir rors were something new to me. The next day there came a man to see me. I was washed clean and had a good suit of clothes. Says he "Youngster, I'm coingin where you live, and prolably I shall make a bargain with your people. I want a boy just such a b U clever toy as j'ou are, and if you behave yourself I promise you that you .-hall have as pleasant a hoir.o a3 you desire." Well, that was Ood. I hardly dared to speak, to breathe, for fear of breaking the illusion. I never was so happy clcarthrough a3 I was that day. They gave me some light tasks to do I wished the were more impor tant. From that dav I was treated as one of the household. The man was a widower and had no children, consequently I became to him as a son. He educated me handsome ly, and when I was twenty-one he died, ami left me seventeen thousand dollars. Well. I considered myself a rich man. I gloated ovenny wealth, it became an idol to me. How to increase it was my first desire. I consulted competent men, and under their counsel I put my money out at interest bought stock and mortgages. I grew weal thier, my business (my bencfactorhad stock ed me a fancy store) prospered, and I was in a fair way, I thought, to marry Lucy Manning. Sweet Lucy 3Ianning I the most artless, winning maiden in all the world to me. I loved her deeply.dearly. She was blue-eyed, auburn-haired her disposition was that of an angel. and I had plighted my vows tg her. One nigrit I was invited to the house r.f a prosperous merchant, and there I met a siren in the person of his niece, a black-eyed girl, whose charms and whose fortune were equal ly splendid. She was an heiress in her own nght beautiful and accomplished. Heav ens! what a voice was hers pure, clear, sweet ravishing. I was charmed and she was pleased with me. Alas ! I met her too often. In her presence I forgot my gentle Lucy; she magnetized, thrilled me. ltwa a tiiumphto feci that so beautiful, giftedand wealthy a woman loved me me, who had been brought up in the pulieus of a city who had known misery and corruption all the first years of my life. Gradually I broke off. my intimacy with Lucy. I received no token from her she was too proud. But that checkgrew pale that heavenly eye languid and though I seldom met her, I knew in my heart that she was suffering, and branded! myself a villian. At last she knew with certainty that I was to marry MissBellair. She sent me a letter, a touching letter, not one word of npbraid- I wounded ! And she could calmly wished me joy, although the effort made her heart bleed. I knew it did. I tried, however, to forget her, but I could not. Even at the time of my magnificent wedding, when my bride stood before me ra diant in rich fabrics and glittering diamonds, the white face of poor Lucy glided in be tween, and made my heart throb guntily. Oh, how rich I grew ! Year after year added to my gold. My miserly disposition began to manifest itself soon after my mar riage. I carried my gold first to banks, and then to my own safes. I put constraint on my wife "for very generously she had made over her whole fortune to me and began to grumble at expenses. I made our living so frugal that she remonstrated, and finally ran up large bills where and when she pleased. Agajnst this I protested, and we had open quarrels more than once. My clothes grew shabby; I coultLnot afford to buy new ones, although the interest of ray investments was more than I could possibly spend for ration al living. I finally grew dissatisfied with everything but my money. I neglected my wife, and grew careless about her society. Several gentleman came to my housre, among them a would-be-author and celibrity. He came, I thought, too often for my good name, and 1 ordered my wife to discontinue his company. She refused and I locked her up in her room. How she managed to get herself free I never knew ; but in the evening when I returned, she was gone from the house. That caused me some unea.-iness, not much, for I was soon absorbed in taking account of my gains. It was perhaps nine in the evening. I had ust managed to take up a paper for,a mo ment, to read out its business details, when the door opened and in came my wife, dress ed bewitchingly, followed by that moustaehed celibrit'. "Good cvening,my dear," she said, in the coolest way imaginable, and placed a chair for her friend. "Stop!" I cried, my jealousy aroused; " that man sits not down in my house' "That man a gentleman and my friend shall sit here, sir, if you please," said my wife firmly. My passion was excited then as it never was before and I collared the scoundrel. He vas my match, and? God of heaven, my wife coolyput a dirk-kmfe into his hand, and he stabbed me. I fainted and remembered nothing more, till I found myrelf 011 a bed in my own chamber, watched over by my housekeeper. "W here are they?" I gasped. "Gone," w; all she said. I I occurred to me then like a flash of light ning that nobody was near me at the time I was wounded, that my keys were about my person, and that I had been robbed perhaps, of ail my available property. The thought tiiiC.v im int j an agony of fear. I ordered m' clothes to broust to me. The keys were there. Taking them out I told Mrs. Hale, my housekeeper, to go to my safe and bring n o the r-apers that were there. She return ed, l..":r Ukm white with terror, to say there was nothing there, and all the little doors wen. Opetl. "Robbed! robbed!" I veiled with curses and iniprcaitijns, and again my senses de icrtod me. , Brain f .ver en-rued. For we :k3 I lay de privd of rea-'on. literally trcadingthc verge ( ;f the grave. One morning I was conscious only of a sinking, deathly feeling as I open ed my cye. Was it an angel 1 saw stand ing i cfoi e me, her soft eyes veiled with pity, lOoLhic down upon me with the most com- 11, ;m at:n;r rreutlencss Again 1 opened my dim eyes. The vision seemed wavering now, but oh. did it r!-r wear the sainted br-anty of -v.(H't I.R-y Manning? A quiet unutterable peace took possession of my entire being. I forgot wealth, health, everything. My past life seemed blotted out, and I was onceagain innocent, untouched by the griping hand of avarice, true, lovins and loved and Lucy Manning was my idol. But 1 recovered slowly, and at last, as my strength surely returned, I missed her. As soon as she saw I could bo left with safety she had left me, and oh, the blank the dreadful blank. I wandered around my room, now so deso- 1 i t .-1 Qnsl tow flirt Tnonv riT-?iLnroa rtf Tnv ml. ct.ri.. i,.,i,;ra 1 i-nnw'nr.r !,v. l.nt fnwnnk mvVife niv foclinss seemed to have und.-r- nc a reTllls;( n. I fear I hated her. She had nearly beggared me, and deceived me, shattered my health, destroyed all my hopes. Months passed before I was able to estimate the damage that had been done to me. Ev ery means that could be put forth wore usocT for the discovery of my money, but all in vain. One night I sat by the fire a cheerless, disappointed and lonely man. I had been thinking thoughts that only burned my brain, but did not purify my heart. "If I had onh' married sweet Lucy." I said asain and acain, "all this had not been so." M3 housekeeper came in with a letter an unusually large package it was and a it bore a foreign postmark 1 ojcncd it with a trembling hand. What was that? A rust ling, crumpled bank-note! Another and another came forth, until there laid upon my knees twenty bills of the largest denom ination. A few trembling lines accompanied them: "My husband I am dying: my disease there is no need to toll you. Forgive me and accept this enclosed as a fuint effort toward restitution. It is not much over half that we took from the safe. The rest is I know not where. I am deserted. Farewell, forever." An icy chill thrilled me. It seenied as if her spectral presence was near me. I shud dered as I rolled the bills together, and threw them across the rtKini. "Lie there, cursed of my soul," I cried. "Lie there till I have conquered myself ay. if the victory is not won till you are rotten." I shut the door and sealed it, and for six months I toiled like a enniless man, till I partially redeemed myself. By managing cautiously, I placed my business on a suc cessful footing, and began life again as a new man. It took manv a year to wear off my o!d habits of parsimony, but every effort gave me a new and agreeable pleasure. Meantime Lucy Manning became dearer to me than she had ever been in the flush of youth. I entreated her forgiveness, hum bled myself in all ways, and convinced her at last that I wa- as worthy now as once I was in seeming. On the day of my wedding, I opened the sealed door. The bank-notes lay whore I had flung them. I took them up with the pride of a conoureror, and plac inc them in her hands, exclaimed : "They are no longer my masters ; use them a3 vnu will." . "Now I am a man I redeemed from the thraldom of covetousness. I have three .blooming children. Lucy is an angel of good ness, and I, "By the grace of God, I am Horrible Death-Bed Scene. Confession ani Death . CflAPLAIN. of an Army 31. 31. Fomeroy, the able editor of the La Crosse Democrat. irive3 the following death-bed scene, which he was called to wit ness on his recent visit to Chicago : The Rev. Henry Clannard, an ex-army chaplain, who left off expounding the Bible and recruiting for the Saviour, and by en dorsing the nigger and abolitionists became an army chaplain in one of the Wisconsin regiments, passed from life to a home beyond a blessed immortality the other day,and thus shuffled off his mortal coil. A physician had called upon him two or three times a day for a month, doctoring him for an ague brought on while stealing cotton in Arkansas while with General Curtis. On learning that the ex-minister and ex-chaplain would not live the night out we called with the physi cian. In a little wooden-looking room not over ten feet square, in an obscure boarding house in Chicago we found the invalid. The room was bare of furniture except a poor bed, a little dirty washstand, two wood-bottom chairs, an old .trunk, a pine table on which -was spread a newspajter, on which lay an old Bible, a pair of old snuffers, some pill boxes and such staff. The dying man was propped up in Led, while a faithful ne gro woman sat on the bed. As we entered he rallied a little and asked the doctor who he had brought with him. On being told that it was "Brick" Pomeroy, he sank back, closed his eyes, rallied a little and said, 'Per haps it is as well. He might as well know it as any one.' And he proceeded to make his dying state ment which was in these words, as we took them down in our memorandum book, as the physician requsted. 31y name is Henry Clannard. I arn forty one years old. I am a Methodist Minister at least I was one. I was once happy and contented, and loved Christ, my .Master, with all the . zeal a Christian ever had. At least I grew cold in religion, selfish and en vious of the good fortunes of others. I wanted to make money and fo have some fun. I had no particular education,, so I thought 1 would be a Republican politician. I began by preaching politics ia the pulpit, and praying for the negro. It paid me in money, butJ lo.rt my influence at the Throne of Grace. But I did not care for that, if I could only have influence with the Republi can party. I forgot Christ, and became in terested in the negro. I had influence with a fow memrtcrs of my church, and talked politics to them. I was paid by office-seekers to influence Christians. Sometimes I made as high as fifteen dollars at an election for my influence with Christians. At last I found politics to pay better than religion. and I worked for the chaplaincy of a regiment and got it. Then I let religion go and went to war. There I wrote letters home denounc ing Democrats ami Copperhead. And I stole cotton, silver ware and pictures, and iM toksand dresses for my wife and sisters,apd horses and mules for my brothers, and a pi ano for the Governor who gave methe com mission, and a gold watch for my captain, and a lot of household furniture to send home to my colonel. And I roblied the poMicrs of jelly and such stuff seut down t3 them to use while in hospital, and I had a share of the goods stolen from the sanitary fairs and made lots of money. Please give me a little piece of that pounded ice ? The physician gave it to him, when he continued : But 1 was not happy. I drank whiskey with the beys when away from home, and indulged in some excesses uot worth men tioning, and laid up quite a pile of money. And I was taken sick while out stealing cot ton from a plantation where a widow lady lived. I had coaxed her niggers to run away, and they are all dead now. When the war. was ended I came home to Wisconsin, but could not stay there. So I came to Chi cago." And I grew sick. And I have got to die. I have called on Christ I have prayed to God, but somehow I cannot get relief for my soul. The door of mercy; seems shut against me. I forsook religion for pol itics, and now God has forsaken me. I pray to my Saviour, but he don't hear me. I talk to this faithful negro wonan she says "yes massa !" and that is all I can get out of her. I know I can't live long. I feci that I am dying. I feel certain that I am going to hell. Please give me a piece more of ice before I go. I want these things written down as a warning to others who forget Christ for pol itics. 1 feci that the negro can't save that Christ won't save me. I was unfaithful to my rciicoon. ?.na am lorrruuen. x a 1 was faith ful to the negro, but alas ! the negro can t j hcl p me wncre 1 wane neip ue t-ui teasv mv 1. I am coin? to hell, and 1 know it. 1 , 1 . 1 1- 1. . ..... sou expect to meet many persons there who for got religion for politics. I do not expect to see vou'again in this world or the next, but 1 w.int this rontvsion rrinteu. lie ve me a small small piece of f of -11 And thus died the Rev. Henry Clannard. How Coal "was Discovered in Pennsylvania. A writer in the New York Observer asserts that Col. George Shoemaker, a gentleman cf Teautor.ic origion, was the discoverer of Pennsylvania coal. He lived on the Schuyl kill, and owned extensive tracts. The writer goes on to say : "It chanced one day that in constructing a lime kiln be used some of the black stones that were lying alxnt the plae. '31 ine Got ! mine Got ! dersthones be all on fire!' ex claimed the astonished Dutchman, when the rich glow of the ignited anthareite met liisgazc. The neighbor?, who, of course, were few and far between, were, after much ado, assembled to witness the marvel. This hai .pencd in 1 81 2. Shortly after, mine host loaded a Pennsjlvania team with the black stones, and journeyed slowly to Philadelphia, a distance of 90 miles. There unforeseen difficulties were presented. The grates and stoves then in ue were not constructed to facilitate the combustion of anthamte, and burn it would not ! After many ineffectual efforts to ignite the product, in was thrown aside as worthless, and our disconifitted Ger man, who had beguiled his toilsome way to the metroiwlis with dreams of ingots, return ed to digest his disappointment in his moun tain solitude. A BLIND beggar was one day accosted by a clergyman, at whose request he detailed the circumstances under which Le had lost his si rrht accidental exposure to the blast ing of a rock by gunpowder. The reverend querist, after listening, said, very feelingly, "Well, my poor man, I pity you, and could drop a tear over your misfortune, the same time offering him nothing. lhant you, sir," replied the beggar, "but I d rather Have we ndt gone far Enough ? - If one were to judge by the tone of the Democratic press and speakers throughout the North, he would be led to believe, that that good old party had resolved itself into an organization, for the siwple purpose of praising and supporting President Johnson. V hue we have no objection to editors and shakers the political teachers of the great mass of voters applauding, and approving of whatever acts may seem to them to be right, no matter by whom performed, yet -we have an utter repugnance to arrything that Jocks like sycophantic laudations of '; men, simply because position gives them power. And for the Democratic party, be- ; cause President Johnson has done a few praiseworthy acts, to set him up as their . particular star to guide by, and go blun- ' dering on out of the beaten track, ia the unsteady and flickering light it may : give, is not only wrong, but is fraught with . innumerable dangers. No one can read the grcat secrets that are liid by the thin veil of " futurity; neither can any tell what changes may take place, between May 1866, and ' May 1807. And who is there willing to guarantee, that the' Democratic party will ' not be the loser by the unmeasured confi dence it is placing 111 Andrew Johnson ? It must be recollected that it was the Demo cratic party that brought him into political existence and nursed him into political great- 1 ness; and yet after all it had done for him, ; that he turned round and basely betrayed and deserted it, in its hbur of greatest need and sorest trial. Neither should it be for gotten that he has in ono year denounced abolitionism, as the worst of all evils that could befail our country, and in the;-very next, becomes its special advocate and cham pion. It may be well enough for us to applaud President Johnson, when he denounces the fanatical majority in Congress; 'it maybe -in place for us to approve, when he thwarts the schemes of the lunatics who are at tem ptir.g to degrade the white race to a level with the black, and it is but right in us to endcrse him when his acts are in perfect consistency with our principles but for ua to assist in building up a party for Andrew Johson to follow him wherever he may lead is as wrorg as it is suicidal, and can end in no ether way but ia the disruption and defeat of the Democratic party, and the . success and ascendancy of a class of men, who would have no fixed political principles to guide them, and who would be controlled in every movement, bv the shifting winds of political opinion. We have ever-living principles underlying our political organiza tion, to which wc should cling, with as much tenacity, as does the mariner to his compass. In their success alone rests the only hope of our country. They will be as truthful, as -necessary to the existence of a Republican form of government and as leneficial to the cause of civil liberty, when Johnson is dead and forgotten as thejT are now. It is to them that the great masses of the pebpld should be joirited ; around them that w6 shoiftd rally the hosts that are battling for self-government and the supremacy of the white race, and by showing how much the future prosperity of our country depends upon their success, gather from our oppo nents strength to make them triumphant. We must remember that President John son has not yet determined to act with the Democratic party. We must recollect that he attained his present position by advocat ing doctrines entirely the reverse of ours; and that at this time it is Only "upon a few particular issues tirat his policy is consist ent with our principles, while upon others he differs as widely Jrom us, as does Sum ner, Greely or Stevens. It is Aw policy that he is pursuing, not ours, his notion that leads him not our principles; and it is to carry out some peculiar idea of his own ierhaps to build himself up a party of which he shall be the acknowledged head that in duces him to pursue tire course he does. And are we. as a political organization ready to be come the followers of any indicidttal f Are we ready to play "second fiddle" to any other party that may spring up in opposi tion to puritan abolitionism? if not, let us stand by the traditions of Democracy and strengthen our party, thfonjh the advrcaey of right prinnpte, rather than n the ground that we are the endorsers of President John son. Democratic Watchman. How to be Happyv Every person of a sxne mind desires to be happy. But alas 1 how few, compara tively, ever learn the secret of being truly and constantly happy ! I have thought much 1 anil rend mneVi nmin tliiu pvprv-rlnv Knriret 1 hrve rr,,i,,avor0(i to look into mvnwn heart su,x to pcan t m c)rt.selv to if I could not arrive at the real solution cf the problem. The more I see and understand of human nature, the plainer become my convictions that st lfLshness lie at the very foundation of all or Dearly all of our unhap piness. My business f "r many years being that of a teacher of pub-lie schools, gave me great advantages for studying the spirit and prac tice of life in many households. Almost in variably I discovered this hydra-headed monster S'lfidincss to be "the skeleton in everv woman's nay. and man's closet," too ! If I found one family in the district where love and tender regard Were manifest ed by the husband toward his toiling, faith ful wife, O what an oasis in the desert of life it seemed to my poor hungering spirit ! I saw so much cold calculating as to the hno to get rich, regardless of the health or hap piness of the inmates of every household,so little thourrht bestowed upon the cultivation of the higher and nobler faculties of the soul, or to the developing of the intellectual pow ers which so. elevate and orrnoble our race, that my heart was often filled with sorrow and grief. Is not this really the sin of u3 all as a peo ple ? this eternal grasping after the "al mighty dollar," without regard to the little home comforts which are really and truly all there is of happiness I () how much a kind word,, spoken with feeling and affection, to a child, or a wife whose life year after year is circumscribed by the four walls of a kitchen, would do toward lifting the cloud from the spirit and sending rajs of sunshine into the very soul 1 But, no, these little acts and highly prized tokens are kept for the outside world, which cares litUo and thinks less of the bestower, while the poor wife, like a beast of burden, plods on, uncheered by aught save her own approving conscience and the hope of a brighter life in the spirit's home above. n. j. a. A Ladt of a certain age says the reason and old man is generally so devote 1 to her cat is that, not having a husband, she natu rally takes to the next motst treacherous animal. I6r The Johnson Republicans of Phila delphia have taken the field against Radical- r - - r a 4
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