VOLUME 3. Address of Schuyler Colfax. The true Reconstruction Policy, POSITION OF THE PRESIOFNT. Mr. Colfax was serenaded in Washing ton on Saturday evening, and in reply to the compliment made the following f epecch : MY FRIENDS : I thank yon for the pleasant serenade with which you wel 'come mo on my return to the sphere of ipublic doty. Since I left here I have traveled many thousands of miles over the plains and mountains of the Pacific slope, and up that const to the British Possessions, in the extreme North-West; but T will not detain you with any allu sions to the scenery or incident* of my journey, as I have already promised to speak in regard tc them in this city next month. My thoughts more natu rally turn this evening to the auspicious ..condition of our country now as compar ed with the closing of the las* Congress. Then a hostile flag waved over cities and fort* and camps and regiments, and wc went hothc in March to assist in raising the troops called for by the President. Now there is peace over all the land, and the flag of the Republic waves unques tioned over every acre of our national domain. [Cheers] We never knew the value of out institutions until the hour .of their peril. If we had tailed, there would have becD DO resurrection from , the tomb of nation. But, thanks to our heroic defenders, no Gibbon will write the history of America's decline and tall, i [Cheers ] I shall hail the day when all the States shall revolve in appropri ate orbits around the central Government, and when we can behold them "distinct as the billows, but one as the sea." But we cannot forget that history teaches us that it was eight years after the surren der of York town in the Revolutionary War, though our fathers were of one mind as to its necessity, before the Con stitution was adopted and the I nion thus established. It .is auspicious that the ablest Congress 1 have seen during my Tc now ledge of puK : c affairs, meets next month, to settle the momentous ques tions which will be brought before it.— Tt will not be governed by any spirit ol revenge, but solely by duty to the coun try. I have no right to anticipate its action, nor do I bind myself to any in flexible, unalterable policy. But these itieas occur to mo, and I speak of them with the frankness with which we should always express our views. Last March, when Congress adjourned, the States late ly in rebellion were represented in a hos tile Congress and Cabinet, devising ways and means for the destruction of this country. It may not be gonerally known .tut it has been repeated to me, on tlie testimony of members of the so-called Confederate Congress, that Gen. Lee, the military head of the Rebellion, declared last February, in his official character, i that the contest was utterly hopeless, but that their Congress and Cabinet dctcrmi nod to continue the struggle., and 20,- 000 men fell after that time on both sides in the battles around Petersburg, Rich mond and elsewhere. Since the adjourn ment of the United States Congress, not a single rebellions St"ate voluntarily surrendered, not an army laid down its weapons, not a regiment abandoned their falling cause; but the Union armios con quered a peace, not by compromise or .voluutary submission, but by the force of arms. Some of these members of the so-called Confederate Congress, who at our adjournment last March were strug ling to blot this nation from the map of the world, pioposc, I understand, to en ter Congress on the openiug day of its session next month, and resume their former business of governing the coun try they struggled so earnestly to ruin.— They say they have lost so rights. It seems as if the burning of the ships of our commerce on the ocean, starving our prisoners oil the land, and raising armies to destroy the nation, would impair some of these rights until their new govern ments were recognised by Congress, {Cheers ] The Constitution, which setms formed for every emergency, gives to each House the exclusive right to judge of the qualifications of the eleotion returns ,af its members, and I apprehend they will exercise that right. Congress fcav-1 ing passed no law on Reconstruction, President Johnson proscribed certain ac tion for these States, which he dceniied indispensable to their restoration to their former relations to the government. I think this eminently wise and patriotic. Ho declared, first, that their Conventions should declare the various ordinance of Secession null and void—not, as some have done, merely repealing them—but absolutely without any force Add effect. .Second, that their Legislatures should &Vj the Constitutional Amendment AMERICAN CITIZEN. abolishing Slavery, l) »t this cause of dis sension and rebellioi. night be utterly extirpated. Third, that they shall for mally repudiate the Kelel debt, though by its terms, it will b >■ l°ng while be fore it falls due, as it was payable six months after the recog tion of the Con federacy by the United States. [Cheers.] This reminda me of an old friend in In diana. who said he like I to give his notes payable 10 days after convenience [Laughter, and cries of 11 Good," "Good. ] But there are other terms on which I think there is no division among the loy al men of the I uion. l"rst that the Declaration of Independ. e must be rec ognized as to the law oft "re land, and every man, alien and nn »e, white and black, protracted in the inalienable and God-given rights of "life liberty and the pursuit of happiness." M Linco n, in that emancipation procla ion which is the proudest wreath in 1 ehaplet of fame [cheers], hot only (. ve freedom to the slave, but declared t the Govern ment he would mainta inthit freedom.[ap plause.] We cannot obanlon them and leave them defenseless at the mercy of their owners. They must be protected in their rights of person and property, and these freemen must have tic right to sue in courts of justice for al just claims, and to testify that they lave security against outrage and wrong. I call them freemen, not freed men. The last phrase might have answered befor* their free dom was fully secured ; bo' they should be regarded now as fYeenui of the He publie. and eathu .istic cheers.] Second—The amendment their State Constitutions, which have t'en adopted by many, of their Convent ns so reluct antly, under the pre-sure dispatches from the President and Sec; tary of State, should be ratified by a maj ity of their people. Wc all know that but a very small portion of their v tc participated in the election of the Icing;:to those Conventions, and net ely, ifnot all, the Conventions have de d on: in force j without any ratificati l>y c people.— When this crisis has ed an they not turn around and say t lies, were adopt ed under duress by d itee elected by a meagre vote under visii lal Gover nors and millitary auth. Ie( and never ratified by a popular \" ! ' \nd could tlicy not turn over the ant licrompton argument against us ai nsi aswedid, that a Constitution n utili by the people may have effect it n oral effect whatever. Third—Tl. Fr- lent can on all occasions insist ' it t y should elect Congressmen who could take the oath prescribed by the act of 862 ; but, in defiance of this, atd the Pres ident and the country, they hve, in a large majority of instances, vted down mercilessly Union men who ould take the oath, and eleeted those wlo boasted that they could not take the oath, and would feel disgraced if tho; could.— Without mentioning names, oie gentle man elected in Alabama by a Urge ma jority declared in his address t) tho peo ple, before the election, that the iron pen of history would record the enan ipation act as the most monstrous detd of cruel ty that ever darkened the anials of any nation, and ajaotber Avowed hat le gave till possible aid and comfort U the Rebel lion, and denounced the Congress 1862 for enaating such an oath. (A v. ce— "Put them on probation.") Tha -outh is filled with men who cantot tal. the oath. It declares. "I have not vol i tari ly taken part in the Rebellion." Kverv conscript in the Southern army c«.. take that o UhWcause lie was forced into the ranks by conscription, and every nan who stayed at home and refused to a ;pt a civil or military office could take Uat oath; but these were not the choit of the States lately in Rebellion. Fou 11 While it must be expected that a t ,r --ity of these States will cherish for perhaps, their feelings of loyaltj the country has a right to expect that I '..TO their members are admitted to a sh: > i n the govornment of this country, a «-or ity of the people of each State shotld give «vid»ftce ot their earnest and chesr ful loyalty, not by such speeches as ire so conuoctt gaat they submitted the ittic to the arbitrament of war, but that tb>y are willing to stand by and light for tie flag of the country against all itscnemcs at home or abroad. The danger now is in too much precipitation. Let us Tati er make haste slowly, and we oan ti n hope that the foundation of our goveri mcut. when thus reconstructed on tie basis of indisputable loyalty, will be n eternal as ihe stars. (Applause.) !> President Johnson I have unshaken con fidence. I cannot forget that in th< jit opening «112 the Rebellion ha was tho .only Southern member whi denounced it and its originators, am that hjs was faithful among the faithless "Let us have Faith that Right makes Might} and in that Faith let us, to the end,dare to do our duty as we understand it"— A - Lincoln BUTLER, BUTLER COUNTY, PA M WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1865. [Applause.] Nor do I forget that when on his way from the capital to his homo, insulted though he was at many railway stations, he never faltered in his devo tion to the Union. Nor can I forget his speech when Military Governor of Ten nessee to a mass meeting of the colored men at Nashville, in which he declared that all men should have a fair start and an equal chance in the rae« of life, and let him succeed who has the most merit. You all remember his speech to the color ed regiment of the District of Columbia, where he repudiated tl.nt storeoyped dec laration that this "is a white man's eouu try alone," and insisted that it was theits also. You remember also his remarks to the South Carolina delegation, tliat the only right system was to protect "all men white and black," and if they got gener al principles right, details and collaterals would follow. We all remember, too. his earnest dispatches to these Southern Con ventions in settling the Richmond elec tions, when a disloyal Mayor and Com mon Council were chosen, and that he has signed the death warrant of every one who has been convicted of conspiracy. The great Unioo organisation of the country carried the nation successfully, aided by o'jr heroic defenders, through the perilous crisis ol the past four years. Our beloved martyr President leaned up on it in the darkest hours. It stood by the national cause unfalteringly. It vo ted down the Chicago platform, which declared the war a failure, and demand ed a cessation of hostilities. The people have the whole power of the Government in its hands, executive, legislative and judicial, and reassured it by the brilliant victories of this Fall. Let us emulate the example of its friends in all the States. Let us study unity in light of duty, and I believe the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Govern ment, when the compare views together, will cordially eo-operatein the great work before us all, and so act that the founaa tions of our Union, wisely and patrioti cally reconstructed, shi.ll be eternal as the ages, with a hearty acceptance by the South of the new situation. I rejoice to believe that under a system of paid free labor and respecting the rights of free men the South will go forward in a career of prosperity, wealth and progress unpar alleled in its previous history. It has a more genial clime than we have in the colder North; a wider range of produc tion, for it has cotton, tobacco, ric.c and sugar, which command such high prices now iu the markets of the world, with boundless water-power, almost entirely unimproved. Rid now of the shift less system of slave labor, it will, with its loins girded anew, rival us in the race of prosperity. In conclusion. I can but echo the words of our departed President: <: With malice toward none, with charity for all, but with firmness do the right as God gives us fa> sec the right, and all will be well." Power of Music. .One stormy a few week's since,wc were wending our way homeward near midnight. The storm raged violently, and the very streets were almost deserted. Occupied with our thoughts we plodded on when the sound of music from a bril liantly illuminated mansion, tor a moment arrested our footsteps. A voice of sur passing sweetness commenced a well known air. We listened to a few strains and were turning away when a roagfaly dressed, miserable looking man brushed rudely past us. But, as the innsic reach ed his ears, he stopped and listened in tently. as the last sound died away, burst into tears. "For a moment, emotion forbade utter ance when be said: "Thirty veau ago my mother sang me to sleep with that song; sho has long been dead, sod I, once innocent and hap py, am an outcast drunkard—' "I know it is unmanly," he continued, after a pause, in which he endeavored to wipe with his sleeve the fastly gathering tears. "I know it is unmanly thus to give' wsy, but that sweet tone brought vividly £be thought of childhood. Her form seemed once more before me I—l can't stand it— And before we could stop him, he rush ed out and entered a tavern near by, to drown rememberance in the intoxicating bowl. While filled with sorrow for the poor man we coyjd not help reflecting vpon (the wonderftfi power of music That sim ple strain perchance from some gay, thouehtless girl, and sung to other* equal ly as thoughtless, still had .its gentle mis sion, for it stirred up dear feelings in an outcast's heart, bringing baok happy hours long gono by.—E r i —General Cox's majority for Governor jif Ohio fooU up about 30,000. AUTUMN SUNSHINE. Mild aa Che glance of augcl eyes. Soft a* tbe kisses of first-born lore, Down through the haze of thme autumn skies, Comoa the the gladsome sunshine from above. Beautiful pictures it sketcheth now. Touched with the glowing hues of old, Painting the valle> and mountain'a brow Over with purple, and red, and gold. Whispers of beauty the spirit fills. Tales of a land that fadcth nerer, Snnshinu that gildeth tne beautiful bills, Just over the banks of a crystal river. Beautiful rest for tbe weary soul, Karth hath no beauty akin to this; Anthems of gladness forever roll Over those halcyon plains of biles. Down the steeps of life's western hill. Beautiful snnshine of hope and light, Bvery shadow and hope dispel, Lift my spirit from the realm of night. goft as the l-eams of the autumn sun, Sweet as the death of ttu< summer flowers, Gather thy jewels one by one. Take my soul to thoee fadeiea bowera witanpwispom, —He that swells in prosperity, will be sure to shrink in adversity. —Why do you drive such a pitiful looking carcass as that ? Why don't you put a heavier coat of flesh on him ?" said a traveler to an Irish cart driver. "A heavier coat of flesh! By the powers the poor creature can hardly carry what little there is on him now I" —Who is the shortest man mentioned in the Bible ? Elihu of Shuhite. Who was the fastest women of the BP ble ? Herodias' daughter, because she got ahead of Johu the Baptist on a char ger. What is the worst insect mentioned in the Bible ? "The Wicked Flee." FOOL PROVERBS.—Get drunk yourself and say that your neighbor staggers. Stand on your head and say the world is upside down. Spend your time working in cesspools, and wonder that you get yourself dir ty. Mind everybody business and wonder &t their ingratitude. Act like Satan through the week, and wonder that you don't feel good on Sun day. TO-MORROW.-On the Little Miami Rail road is a station called Morrow. Anew brakeman ou the road, who did not know the names of the stations, was approach ed by a stranger the other day, while standing by his train at the depot, who inquired:— "Does this train goto Morrow, today?" "No," said the brakemaa, who thought the stranger was making game of him, "it goesjto-day,yesterday,week after next." "You don't understand me", persisted the stranger; "I want togo to Morrow." "Well, why in thuuder oon't you wail until to-morrow, then, and not come both ering around to-day. You can go to-mor row, or any other day you please." "Won't you answer a civil question civilly? Will this train go to-day to Morrow?" "Nat exactly. It will go to-day and come back to morrow." As the stranger who wanted togo to Morrow was about to leave in disgust, another employee who knew tho station alluded to, camo along and gave him the required information. —A lady in a city, a few days since, having purchased some t>ausa> ges, of a couple of lads, overheard them disputing about tke money— •'Give me half on't" said one. "No I won't; I'm bound to have it all," said the other. "Now' taint fair, Joe, you know it aint; half the pup vras mine." It is needless to. say that the lady not relishing the notion of eating puppy sausages, threw her bargain to the dogs. —l'he following is a verdict on a negro jury: "We, the under signed, being a korner's jury to sit on de body of de nigger Bambo, now dead and gone afore us, bad been sit in' on the said nigger aforesaid, and he did on the night of de fusteenth of November come to def byj fallin' from de bridge ober de ribber in de said ribber, whar we find he was subsequently drown, and a'terwards washed on de riber side whar we spose he was froze to def." A CHAI.LENOE. —A little fop, con ceiving himself insulted by a gentle man, who yentured to give him some wholesale »4bice, strutted up to him with an air of importance, and said; "Sir, you are no gentleman! Here is my card—consider yourself chal lenged. Should I be from home, when you honor me with a call, I shall leave word with a friend to settle all the preliminaries to your satisfaction." To which the other replied, "Sir,you are a fool! Here is my card—consider your note pulled. And should I not be at home when {'ou call <on me, you w;ll find I have eft orders with my servant jto .show or kick you into the street for your impudecce." —One thousand head of hogs were slaughtered at the yards in Covington, Ky., I»st week k DANGEROUS CURE. "Tom, my dear Tom, you are mistaken —indeed you are," said Harry, with a forced laugh. "I— "Mistaken !" interrupted Tom ; "not I, indeed. When did you ever find me mistaken ? No, no; I'm a great deal too clo«T-S!ghtei for that. I never in my life beheld such a change as I see iu you since—since—well, it's no good mincing the matter—since you were insane enough to marry. There, that's the truth. Why, my good fellow, you are no longer the jolly, merry, good-tempered, easy-going fellow you were, but a miserable, wretch ed, dejected, surly—" "Tom, for goodness' sake, stop !" ex claimed Harry, excitedly. "I shall go distracted, mad, if you continue in this jocose strain. I've been annoyed and worried lately. I'm not in a fit state to stand chaff. But, as regards my mar riage, 1 believe I'm as happy as most mar ried men; in fact, my happiness would be complete, but—" "Bat—ah ! that's it, Harry; we are com ing to the point now. That little word 'but' tells a long tale. Chaffing aside, Harry, old friend, there is a change in you, a lamentable change. Come, now, you had better unburden your mind; whatever you tell me, reet assured, will be kept strictly private. Harry remained thoughtful some time. He certainly was in a very awkward posi tion. To confess that his wife was get ting very self-willed, and almost unman ageable, was not at all pleasant; and yet it was evident Tom guessed something was wrong; he was such a sharp, shrewd follow; it would be perfectly ridiculous attempting to disguise the truth any lon ger. So in a hurried manner he related his domestic grievances, how he was al most wearied out with the continual erup tions which disturbed his domestic hap piness. The slightest opposition on the most trivial subject would send his wife iuto violeut hysterics, till at last ho was obliged to givo in for the sake of peace and quiet; in fact, be might say his life was becoming a burden to him. "Yes, and so it will be," said Tom, "un less something desperate is done." "Desperate !" reiterated Harry, in an alarmed voice. "Yes, desperate," answered Tom; ' but don't alarm yourself unnecessarily. What I mean is this is a desperate case, and therefore requires desperate means to effect a cure. Now, take my advice, the next time your wife creates any disturb ance, or you see any signs of a coming storm, instead of 'giving in,' apd bathing her head with EaU-de-Oologne, and call ing her by every endearing epithet under thesun, and terming yourself a brute of a husband for causing your own darling lit tle wife such unhappiness, and kissicg away her tears, promising that in the fu ture she shall reign supreme, and all kind of absurdities— speak in a hmd eoicc ; say your patience is worn out with such non sense; you'l stand it no longer; something must be done; it will be impossible togo on living in that wretched state. You might, in an undertone, but audible en ough for her to hear, suggest such a thing as a separation; then wind up by putting on your hat togo out, but take care be fore you goto dash a jug of cold water over her face; it has a marvelous effect of bringing hysterical peoplo to their senses particularly if nature has not beneficent ly bestowed a becoming wave to the hair, and art supplies its place. Rng the be'l in a deoided manner, anil place her under the maid's care, with strict orders not to spare cold water. But bo sure, my dear fellow, to bang the street-door loudly af tcr you. so as to leave the impression that your ten. per is tcrioiuly ajoustd, and that it would take some time and great altera tions in her conduct to bring you around again. The great object to be achieved is to make her fear tbe conscquonces of exciting you into a passion. Ouce do that and you'll have very little trouble with her afterward." "Impossible, Xom I could never do it. Indeed I could not. Lilian ta so fragile such harsh treatment would kill her." "Kill her, nonsense! Women are not so easily killed as that. But I'll tell you what, Harry; if you don't take my advice you'll repeqt." ******* "Lilian, dear?" Lilian[wah buried ia the luxurious cush ions of the sofa, reading, and did not, or would not, hear her husband. "Lilian ?" he repeated, in a louder tone. "Good gracious, —arry, how you start led me! What?" "I was thinking, .dear, we ought togo and see my mother; it ia so long since we were t&eie X am afraid she will think something is tho waMer." Harry spoke nervously, having a vague idea that hie suggestion would not be received kindly. "My dear Harry, what is the matter with you to-day ? Why can't you read the paper and bo quiet, and let me hare a little peace ? I shall never finish this book if you keep interrupting me. Oh dear 1 what unsettled mortals men are ! they never seem contented. The idea of going out this cold day to see your moth er ! No, I can't go." "Hut, my dear LII, it is really a duty we owe her : I should not like her to thiuk she is neglected." - "Oh ! well, then, Harry, if you consid er it such an irojiorative duty, pray don't let me pievent your discharging it; but I do not consider it mine to spend a long tedious evening with an old lady who al ways totments me by asking if I know the last new stitch in knitting, and giv ing me rcceiptcß for some extraordinary puddings. Harry was astounded. Was it possi ble that was Lilian—his wife—speaking in that disrespectful, light mannor of his saint-like mother I It was more than he could put up with. "Madam," he exclaimed, passionately, '•you strangely forget of whom you are speaking; for the future, if you can not speak in a different strain, I leg you will be tilent," and he looked defiantly toward the sofa. Wtiat a change he bolicld in his wife's fair young face! The closed eyes, and spasmodic workings of the mouth and throat, he knew too well fore told a coining storm, and it was not long before it burst forth in all its violence.— Lilian was in hysterics stronger than he had ever witnessed before. What was to be done ? Suddenly flashed across his mind Tom's remedy; it had succeeded, Tom had assured hiu positively it had, why not now ? any how he would hazard it. No time was to be lost in hesitation ; he must act at onco. 80 110 commenced by walking hurriedly tip and down the room, with his arms folded in a dotcrmed manner. He told her it was useless car rying ou those ridiculous sceues any lon ger, that they had ceased to alarm him ; and if they continued he had made up his mind what course to puisue, aud hinted in i'X> undertone, as Tom suggested the probability of a separation. So, after dashing a glass of cold water over her aud placing her under the maid's care, uiadc his timely exit, with a tremendous bang of the street-door. "Oh ! Jane," she oricd, in a despair ing voice to the maid, who was soon bus ily employed in bathing her temples with cold water, "I foci ill—so wretch ed !" "Yes, ma'am, dessay ycr docs. My last young mistress used to feel just in the same kind o' way, so low, and sinking like after one of her—let mo seo —'at- tacks,' J think she called 'em." "Did—did she suffer like me ?" aslted Lilian, plaintively. "Lor bless yer foul! she was afflicted awful bad with 'storicks. I never see the like of 'em. Poor master had a hard time of it with her." "But I suppose he was very kind and gentle, Jane ?" "Well, ma'am, he was for a tiuvc ; but gentlemen ain't got much patience : they don't seem to understand them kind o' things. 0 lor! i shall never fo/get one day if I live tob.e.a hundred yeais old.— Mistress was in awful 'sterUu, I bathed her head, and gave her sal volatile, and sich like, but nothing seemed to do her no good, she went on a screeching lewder than ey&r. When all of a sudden np jumped master, like a madman, and gave her, O lor! sich a shaking : it was a mer cy ho didn't shake the very life out of net." "Oh, how dreadful! did she die?" ask ed Lilian, in a frightened voice. '■Die! bless ycr soul, no. 'Sterics don't kill." ''No, no. But the Shaking, didn't that hill her, Jane t" "Lor, no, ma'am; it seemed to do her a world o' good; she never had 'em after tho shaking." '•But, June, he must hav,e beee a yery passionate man." "Well, no, nia'am, ho was generally looked upoti as a very kind, peace gen tleman ; but yer see he had a great deal to worriy him, and it was more than ho could,ebcar." "]Lt was a very sad case indeed," sigh, ed Lilian: "Poor thing, how I pity her; it would have killed me, I'm sure. Oh yes, I never, ncaw could have survived that. But, Jane, you don't think that— that jo,ur master would ever—shnjco me, do fan ?" "Well, really, ma'am, I shouldn't like to say; but wheua gentlemen get* into pas sions, Jhejp's no knowing what they won't do. Passion is a awful thing. Pleas me.! I rememher my grandmother tell ing me of a main in a ft of passion, whj*-?-'' NUMBEft 1 Lilian was in despair. Good gracious! was Jane going to relate any more atroc ities ? She should go frantio, she felt convinced, if she had to listen. She hod better put an end to the conversation at once by pleading fatigue. "Jane," she said, wearily, closing her eyes, "I feel very tired; I think if I were alone I might try and sleep a little." When Lilian was alone, instead of sleeping, as she had led Jane to believe she should do, she began seriously to re flect on the past The more she thought of Harry s conduct, the more extraordi nary it seemed. She felt sure he would return home penitent; he would see thtt he had acted wrongly and rashly, and would beg and implore her forgiveness in such touching, heart-rending language that it would be impossible not to forgive him. Hut of course she should impress upon him the heinonsness of his doings, and that if such things aver happened again he must net look to her for mercy. Hut listen—yes ! that waa his step; the culprit was in the hall- Lilian's heart beat wildly. YY hat a long time he waa hanging up lji? hat! flow different to what she had expected: she thought he would have rushed in frantically, thrown himself on his knees, and vehemently besought her pardon. What could it mean ? Hut there waa no time for fur ther meditation. Harry was now coming into the room; she raised her eyes to bia face; that one look was enough ; it tofd her plainer than words could have ex pressed that penitence was not there.— * Then it was not momentary passion that had caused him to act in the way he had. No. no ! he must have meant all he said and did ; or why would he not speak now? Why look so cold and stern? Oh, that she could die ! yes, that very minute— What had she now to live for ? what would the future be to her ?—all dark an<} dreary. Diuuor passed over in gloomy silence, and the evening commenced in the samo wny. Harry sat in the easy-chair, read' ing the paper, as if unconscious of hi* wiles prcscpce. Lilian watched anxious ly. expeetlng every minute that he would show some symptoms of contrition > but no, hour after hoar passed by, and still Harry's heart remained hardened; at last she bogan to doubt if it ever would sof. ten. But she would wait no longer; it was hopeless to think tie would be tl>c first to speak, and togo on living in that wretched state, she couldn't do it. Sti« would appeal to bis feelings. She felt sure, if she told him how much she had suffered, the wretched suspense she bad endured, he would relent. And she would beseech him to nev»,r treat her so again. "Harry," she said, ut 4 low, quivering voice. No answer. "Oh! Ilarry, dear Harry 1 Do speak to me; I'm so very, very miserable." Ilarry rose slowly from his chair, and sat down by her side 00 the sofa. "Well, Lilian," he said, gravely. "Oh, Harry! if you only know all I have suffered, bow wretched I have been I'm sure you would feel for me. Prom ise me yon will never behave to me again as you did to-day." "Lilian, I shall only promise on on* > condition, that is—remember—that ydli never give mo cause to do s*«V "I will try, indeed I wUJ," answered Lilian, earnestly. "Well, my darling, if you really try, I'm sure you will succeed." And Lilian did succeed in overcoming her little weakness. Whether it was her determination to conquer, or the fear ofa good sound shaking, still remains a mys tery. But suffice to say, Harry is never troubled with any more "scenes/' and his home now is a perfect elysiam. SPIRITUAL FACTS.— That whiskey is tho key by which many gain an entrance into our prisons and alms-houses. That brandy brands the eose of all thoso who cannot govern their appetites. That wine causes many to take a wind* ing way home. That punch is the cause of many un? friendly punches That ale pauses many «iiwigs: while beer brings WAny to the bier. That Champagne is the cause of many real pains. That gin-slings have "slewed" more than sling of old. —A lady came across the fronw icr, from Waterloo. Canada West, on a ferry boat, the other nigbt, decked in her robes for the bridal ceremony, and bringing with her certain indis? pensable articles for the occasion.—r Instead of throwing herself into tho arms of her affianced as she expected nn touching tie eastern shore of the Niagara, she fov#d herself embraced by a revenue inspector, who ooufcea* ted all her trousseau as lawful plun der for Government. The. Collector of Buffalo took pity on her, and finally let hee with a warning.
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