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Clasp closer arms, pressicloser
In last and s"ii caressing!
For never morelhat pallid cheek
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Will erinison 'Reath your pressing.
For these vain words and miner tears
•She waited pester even ;
She waits you now—but in the far
Resplendent halls of Heaven. —•
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With patient eyes fixed on the door,
:—She waited, -hoping
Till death's dark wall rose cold betweer
Her gaze and you forelver.
She heard Your footstcpi ni - t - hiS breeze,
And in tho wild bee's humming;
The; last breath that sheishaped to worts
Said softly, "Is he coning 7"
Nov silenced Iles the gentlest heart
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That ever beat 'neath rover,
Saft—never to be wrung . again
By yeti, a fickle lover!
Your wrong to her hue* never end,
Till earth's-last bonds ivere riven ;
Yonr memory.rose cold between
Her parting :soul and Ileaven. .
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Now vain your, false and tardy grief,
Vain you: remorseful weeping '
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'For she, whom Only you deceived,
Lies inshod'in dreamless sleeping.
Go—not beside that peaceilil foam,
Should lying words beypoken I
Go, pray to Cod. lie merciful
As she whose ,heart l'ye broken."
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TUB MELtltillAla
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It was indisputably certain that Giles
Myrick was a mean man} The. fact Was
patent all over Ilighwoodi It,bad passed
into a proverb-r-‘,IAs mean as Giles My
,t
rick . "
Bat Giles came honc4tly by his pro
clivity for meanness. His mother w,as
celebrated; for the same quality.
People said she, skiminedber milk on the
top and then turned it ov,er and skimmed
the bottom; that she skitamed, likewise,
the water in which the parks were washed,
and made. er children go barefoot cal
winter evenings, for fear they would wear
their stockingsout . l Ilut then other
people besides Artenius[ Ward will be
sarkastical," yen know.
Any casual observer would have known
that Giles was mean—only by looking' at
him. The very, cat of his clothes iliTtdi
eated.it. They were alWays as tight'as
his skin to save cloth; aid his coat - Was
usually buttoned up to conceal the ab-I
settee of a vest.' Some evil minded per
sons went so far ^.s to say that Giles wept
without a shirt, and that his collar was
the only linen article he allowed about his
person.
Giles was gOod, looking, and might
have bcch somebody, if he had not been
so mean that he couldn't! afford it. Of
course all the girls avoid4d him. It is', a
current belief that women like best those
men who lead then] with presents, bnt
it's our belief that they like. best thee
men who have Ithe best principles-0—
Whether they are, in the habit of patron
izing jewelers, and bonbon manufacturers
or not. Al true ,woman always shrinks 4
from coming in contact with meanness
and cowardice; and the 'two attributes
commonly go together....
It was a severe trial to Giles to - be
obliged to buy anythie , ,, Not becanee
he lacked the money, but because he en
hated to part with it. He had been
known to stand fOr half a . day in a store.
trying to get a reduction I .ef three cents
on a half dollar straw hat. He made his
own boots, lest the shoemaker might take
advantage of him, and his mother knit
his Sunday gloves, because gloves cost so
much ! He never eat.anything sweet,
unless he was away from home, and drank
no tea nor coffee.; they all cost money . ..!
And besides, he always borrowed a news
paper—which is, about as coficlusivaa
proof of his meanness as can be offered... l ;
At twenty-three the usual fate of hu
manity befell our hero. Kity More came
to Highwood to ! teach school, and Gils
fell in love with her. Kitty was prettY,
mischievous, anti coquettish, and lhati
ar,od so well, that at their second meeting
he was ready to worship her, in his own
mean way.
He had a vague idea that it was cus
tomary for to to make their mistress.ds
presents; but what would be proper he
was quite at a to - conceive. He tholt
of taking his white creeper hen over to
Kitty, bt then the bird was sitting on
twelve eggs, andl would probably hatch
ten chickens, at least; and they would
bring five dollars ,in the fall. That would
never do ! Such ',extravagance would rain
the whole My . rickfamily !! Then he.thiiit
of a string of onions; 4link of sausage;
a piece of spottedlcheeil; some new po
tatoes; but nothing seemed to be just
what 'was wanted.]
• So he asked Sam. Smith what he gave
his girl, Sam: said the last thing was
kiss--the last but one, a belt - ribbon. •i
Giles thought it over, and made up his
mind to a belt ribbon. Ile thought be
could afford to spend a ninepence, when
he went to Dover to sell his wheat ; and
if he could get one for that—why, it was
as good as purchased Ile laid awake
half the night before his jOurney, think
ing about the expense ho' was going to
Debote3 for:ifloileiples of 'No 119 tip QissciiiisAtiort of Yohlily, ifelafuha WWebv.
IN VAIN.
COUDERSPORT, POTTER COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 18E4.
incur, and the next morning he was so
excited and red in the face; tha his moth
er insisted on his drinking some pepper
mint tea to calm his nerves before he
started. .
He sold his wheat for . se7enty-five dol
lars—tied bis horses, to a tree, and gave
them the baiting of hay he had brought
from home ; and then turned his steps
toward a milliner's shop. He went in
feeling very magnanimous, and fingering
the ten cent piece he was so soon to be rid.
of. His request to look at some belt rib
bons was speedily complied with, and the
counter was. strewn !with the glistening
moire antique.
He selected a gorgeous affair of red and
yellow, with spots of green, and ordered
three.quarters of a yard cut off, and wrap
ped up. It was done.
"What be the pricb of that gimcrack?"
he inquired, pulling ;out his wallet.
"Fifty cents—and cheap at that," re•
plied the glib tongued milliner.
"Fifty cents I" cried Giles, slapping
his hands en his knees, "why it aint
worth a sixpence T. Ketch me giving
fifty cents for it I"
He started for the, door in utter indig
'
nation.
"Stop, str," said the milliner, "it is cut
off, and done up. You'll have to take it.
We don't make children's bargains here."
"I won't take it ! ; I won't be cheated
out of half a dollar that way ! No sir !
not by a long chalk !'
"But you must take it, sir I"
"I can't give Fifty Cents, why it's aw
ful ! I sot out to give it to a gal, if I
could have got it for cinepence, or there
abouts I ,he's .a, smart one, add When
we're married, I could git t niuppenee
worth out of her in odd jobs, raking' hay /
and situ—but fifty cents I'd see her
dunned fast:"
And again Giles made for the door.—
lie was excited and took the wrong apert
ure, and instead of finding himself in the
streets as he had expected, be Was in the
work room, surrounded by pretty girls
and crinoline,
"Stop him, there, girls !" cried , the
milliner, appearing at the door with a vard
stick, "lie's tried to cheat me, out or fifty
cents ! Don't let him; go ! Corner him !"
Giles leaped frantically over, and into,
band boxes, and bonnet frames, but the
girls were is for the joke.;.and all egress,
except by the windoW, was cut off. He
caseone glance back at the irate face of
the milliner—she was coming with the
yardstick I it was sufficient to decide him.
He dashed out the sash with one blow of
his fist, and jumped through ! As bad
luck would have it, lie alighted exactly
in the arms, and in the basket, of a street
market voman who was crying her tur
nips and squashes about the streets; and
the consequence wax, her very best
squashef, and the fair proportions of her
Shakerbonnet were knocked into a cocked
hat ! -Of course .the woman was mad.
It must be an angelic tempered female
who can keen cool when her bonnet is
smashed.
She called on Giles to settle the dam
ages or take the consequences. He pre
ferred taking to giving, and took to his
heels. The woman followed—a huge
beet brandished in one band, and a mam
moth turnip in the other—ready to an
nihilate him as soon as she got near
enough.
Giles had little flesh to encumber him;
and he ran more easily than his pursuer,
wile was, slightly enboupo ; but fortune
favored her, and Giles slipped down on a
curbstone. In a moment she was upon
him, lelaboring him with the beet—but
only for a moment. He was upon his
feet and off again before her wrath was
half spent. -She took aim with the tur
nip at his head, but she had not practiced
much in projectiles, and the vegetable,
instead of hitting the mark, went crash
through Higgins' grocery window—
sihashing two kerosene lamps, and a glass
jar of patent cough candy ! And amid
the uproar consequent thereon, Giles
leaped over several small boys, some fences
and gutters, heaps of coal and terrified
women, and escaped !, But he had split
his best coat entirely down the back, and
lost his straw hat, that was new the fore
going summer. His mother boxed his
ears soundly, and sent him to bed supper
less, and he dreamed, of the prison all
night.
The next day he was arrested' at the
snit of the milliner, the market woman,
and Higgins of the
,grocery ; and was
obliged to pay ten dollars to save himself
from jail. Yon may well guess that it
was like parting soul and body. His
mother kept him on half allowance for
sir. weeks afterward, and he got so thin
that one would have required a spy *glass
to see his shadow, unless ,the sun had
been remarkably brilliant.
As for Kitty, he never desired to set
eyes on her again.
It was a long time -before he dared. to
look at another woman, but at length
Patty Jenks tame to Highwooci on a visit.
She was a girl after his own heart, he
1 fondly believed—for if ho was mean she , was meaner. 11
Immediately he began Ito be attentive
to Patty, and she being ithout a home
had na objections to steping into the
i
"comfortable living" of th Myricks. So
she , played her cards accordingly, and
flattered Giles' weakness 'With the utmost
,
I skill. . .
9ii Christmas night there was to be a
party at Hooker's Hotel lin Greenburg,
twelve miles off—and all, the Highwood
beaux and belles were d i n the qui ofpe.
Giles felt as if he ought Ito take Patty,
but4le'dreaded the expens . •Many sleep
iis
le.s nights he passed in n nsequence, and
at last decided that it co - . d be managed.
He could carry their/ supper in his
pocket, and same oats fofr the horse in a
bag, and go in the old sleigh to save wear
ing, out the runners of the new one. The
night was fine and cold, e4ceedingly bold,
but; Giles did not take tie -buflalees, for
fear the snow might fly o them and wet
'a
the fur. .So they kept themselves as
comfortable as they could with the horse
blanket. ,
The party party was pleasant, all enjoyed
themselves, even Giles. i When supper
was announced he spok to Patty, and
they vent out in the wodshed, where,
by the light of the moo , they ate the
.
salt fish, doughnuts an cheese, that
Giles had brought in his;pocket.
A little after midnight, they started for
borne, but had proceeded l i only about two
miles, when the old sleigh parted—the
top remaining behind, aud the bottom
going on hoMe with the horse, at a 2-40
pace. • I
,
Patty and Giles were !deposited in a
snow drift, from which
• they , were fished
out by the rest of the, play, and Patty
was taken on board by some of her ac
quaintances. Giles was lbft behind, and
had the melancholy satisfhetion of walk
ing ten miles in his, thin hoots, and freez
ing., both• great toes neartvl,off. '
L Towardspring, he and Pattyconcluded
to: be married. The young lady's friends
warned her of tile • pecuniary. disposition
of her intended, but Path smiled know
ingly, and said she'd risk at. After she
once got him fast, they might hang her,
if s_he didn't maosge him!
And as she had a red )lead, they said
perhaps she would get the,' upper hand of
him: They hoped so, anY way.
The happy couple went o the house of
Parson Palmer to be married. It was
abolit three miles, but they walked, be
cause the frozen ground Ore out horses
• ,
shoes so.
Giles had something dotie up in a bun
dle Under hisurna; and Patty carried her
wedding dress in a band box, so that it
might not be soiled.
It, was just dinner tim l e when They
reached the Parson's, andlof course, he ,
could not avoid asking them to partake.
,
Mrs. Palmer said they eat!, tremendously
for people just about to change their con-
dition. -i
AS soon as dinner was o I
yer, they stood
up, and the parson pedal-ed the cere
mony in his best style.
"Well, now, parson, tell us the dam
age," said Giles, brating himself for the'
shock. 1
."One dollar is the legal, fee," blandly
replied the parson; "but tie always take I
just what our friends are !pleased to be- i
stow." I 1
"Well, that's clever,", returned Giles,
undding his bundle and diSplaying three
link of sausage to the amazed minister,
"I h l epe you'll accept thein ere. Times
is hard, and it's pretty hard work totgit
money, you know. And Pm obleeged to
ye, besides, and so is Patti; good after
noom"
The parson stood aghast, bet his wife
was it. reman of spirit; minister's wives
always should be. They'ke sufficiently
"put; upon" even then, pooi...souls.
"Take your rubbish !" 84 cried, throw
ing the bridal fee after tkem into the
street. "You're the meanest man on'the
footstool, and your sausaas are meaner
than; you arc, if such a think is possible I"
"Thank you," said Giles, "I'm real
fond of sassingers. and here's enuff to
cook three times."
He sprang forward to iecover them,
but the parson's dog forcstglied him, and
made off with the plunder.l
To this day ,Giles mourns ;about his loss.
Patty kept her word. She did man
age her husband. He is just as com
pletely under her thumb as the worldas
under the moon. She speeds his money
recklessly; is the best dressed woman in
town, and carries it with! a high hand,
generally.
Poor Giles! he is often heard to declare
thatlhe wishes he was dead-,only coffins
cost'eo much money !
Thal:Peace Men who say they aro oppo
sed to the war, and yet support 'a. candi
date whose only recommendation is that
he has helped to conduit it, occupy a
strange position, and arenearer
. insanity
than they are independen4
Voto the Is-14010 Union Tieicet
Supaniary of Domestic Event
in August.
Ang. I—Defeat of the rebel invading'
force at. Cumborland, Md.
4—National Fast Day. General susj
pension of business.
s—Passage, of Admiral Farragut's'fleet
into Mobile. Bay. Evacuation of Port
Powell and destruction of the rebel fleet.i .
6—lneffectual—explosion of a 1
mine at Petersburg. • '
7—Hagerstown evacuated by the eney,
my and occupied by the Union troops.
B—Surrender of Fort Gaines and Forte
Powell, Mobile, to Admiral Farragut.
9—Explosion of an ammunition boat,
with great loss of life at City Point,;,
James river.
11-12—Capture and destruotion
vesselg off Sad Hook; by the rebel
steamer Tallahasse, escaped from Wil
mington.
12—Advance of the Union forces un
der Gen. Sheridan to Strasburg. Va.
—Continued depredations ()tale rebel
privateer Tallahassee. ;
14--Capture of a rebel redoubt with
guns and prisoners north of the 'James
by Gen. Hancock's corps.
15-16—Retrograde movements of the
forces in Shenandoah Valley.
18—Seizure of the Welden Railroad,
south of Petersburg, by the Fifth Corps,
by Gen. Warren.
19—Ineffectual attempt of the rebels
to repossess the Welden Railroad.
10.—Sailinr , of the rebel cruiser from
Halifax, N. S., after a stay of two days.
21—Second unsuccessful rebel attack
on the Federal lines at the Weldon Rail ,
road.
--RUbel raid into Memphis.
25---A third desperate and fruitless
rebel effort to recover the Welden Road.
26—probable date.] Surrender of
Fort 3lorgan_and its garrison to Admiral
Farragut.
—The rebel forces repulsed in attempt
in= to cross the Potomac into Maryland.
' 7 27 —2B—New'flark. movement begun
by Gen. Sherman at Atlanta.
29—Assembling of the Democratic
National Cnvention at Chicago.
31—Nomination of Gen.. McClellan
for the Presidency 'by the Chicago Con
vention. • '
Gooil.Reading tor Erery4ol:lr.
The following pithy and forcible pan
agraphs, richly deserving every man's
reading, are from the Albany Journal:
There are but two parties that can
make peace. The party headed by Val
landigham and T. U. Seythour, because
they will give the rebels what they ask,
independence; and the party headed by
Grant end Sherman, because they will
compel them to grant what we ask, Union.
Democracy says peace can only be ob
tained by an armistice. The South say
they will not accept an armistice. But
the Democracy, nevertheless, insist on an
armistice: What do they mean ?
The rebels say they will not have peace
except on the basis of independence.—
Democracy says peace is attainable, and
blame Lincoln formot obtaining it. There
fore they blame him for not letting the
South go,
Democricy says the Union cannot be
restored by war. The South says it can•
hot be restored through peace. • Both are
wrong. Peace and Union can only be
restored through v.v.
The Democracy blame Lincoln icy hot
negotiating. The rebels will not aegoti•
ate until the right of secession is acknowl
edged. Therefore the Democracy blame
Lincoln for not acknowledging the right
of secession..
The Democracy says the South was
driven out of the Union. Vice Presi
dent Stephens says they were not. They
had their ow 'n way in everything, and did
notsecede on account of aggressions. AVe
think he knows beet.•
The South say they want inde - pend-I
once. Democracy says they do not they
want olavery. We think the South Inowl
what they want.
The South say they . will return to the
Union when forced to, and not before.
War, therefore, becomes the road to
Peace an ctU nio n.
The rebels will not necotiate until the I
right of secession is ackowiedged. The i
Democracy say we must negotiate any
how. Their_meaniog is plain.
GEN. 'FREMONT has withdrawn from
the field as a Presidential candidate. We
have always - regarded him as being too
little of a demagogue and too much of a l
patriot to , endanger the success of the!
Government in this fearful struzgl i e for
ezistence, by a faetious,opposition to the
will of the majority. The field is now
clear, and the people have but two can
didates offered for their support. The
issue is sharply defined; 'is Lincoln,
and an united republic—or McClellan,
and a country hurried into the vortex of
the- terrible 'fate which has.made Mexico
and the South American republics the
theatres of incessant war. These are the
alternatives. Choose between them.
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Rebels of '76 and Copperheads
of '64. •
Mr:Lorenzo Sabine lias just published
a work entitled "The Loyalists of the
American Revolution ;' • a fitter title
would-have - been "The Tories nflthe Rev
olution?' The preliminary 1 historiciii
essay is full, of facts which afford striking
historic parallels to some of the.piritum,
stances of the present tling. ; . ; The 0-7 irif.
iian. Register says :
It teaches that not, a,sinile,wrong
ists now ,but existed then to a,g.reater
extent. Do men now plot in - seeret against
the governmedt 7 Thirty. thortsat4 ioy r
alists ) according to the lower t cobiptittition i
then took up arms againo tho govern
ment; and South Carolina forced Gov.
Lincoln to surrender her Capital to the
enemy in 178 g.
Are there men now : to be found who
sell to the enemies of "their ciOuntry ?
Washington, while his army ids is rags
and starving at Valley Forge, writes to
Colonel Stewart, "I am amazed_at, the-re
port you make of the quantity of provis
ions that goes daily into Philadelphir!
(then occupied by the British army) frOm
the county. of Bucks."
Po officers, through personal jealoOsies
or s desiro to shirk, now throw up, their;
commissions? John Adams in 1777,
writes: _
.
"I am worried *to death with the ;wran
gles between military officers, high and
low. They quarrel like oats and ?dogs.
They worry one another like mastiffs,
scrambling for rank and pay like apes
after nuts."
.Are surgeons no* dismissed for ineem
-1 petene c t or peculation ? "Many of the
surgeons," says Washington, are very
'great rascals, countenancing the men to
'sham complaints to exempt them froni
!duty, and often receiving bribes, to cer
tify indispositions, with a view to procure
discharges cr furloughs_ They also draw
medicines - and stores in the most profuse
land extravagant manner for private pur
-I,poses." Have 'we "bounty jumpers?"
[So had our fathers. Men enlisted tally to
l'—et their thousand dellars,and then desert.
'A thousand men after they had volutatily
'enlisted. perjured themselves, in order to
! escape the service. Many deserters
'colleted under new recruiting officers.-".
It was no uncommon thing for them t-.)
I[desert by tha twenty and thirty at a time.
I Have we now- shoddy contractors who
fatten on fraud, and demagogues who fo
ment; etrife ? Read Washinf , ton's
tures of his life time. "i should.in•enek
'word say that idleness, _dissipation, and
ler.travaganee, seem to have laid • fast held
of nap ; that speculation, peeulation,and
'ha insatiable thirst for riches, seem' to
have got the better of every order of men,
and that party disputes and personal quar
rels are the great busine,ss of the day."
There is, in fact, no possible discour
figment •now encountered by AM ericsis
Patriots, but existed in a greater degree
during the Revolution, and yet our ath
ers triumphed over all of them,
We de. not press this subject on our
tev.clers to CE:C.T.F,Ci say rascality or treason,
but to show that our fathers 'oad tm deal
'With the same difficulties which• confront
us. And we would warn those men who
now plot against
.the government, 1 that
their names, in com-prany with their Com
panions of the Revolution, will go Clowia
to posterity covered- with infamy:•
We . hope thMse who are inclined toter
••aggerate the present evils by false t 114 ,7
traste with the past, will read the al,iag
chapter of Mr. - §abine's Historical -4 .say,
or, to use his own language, it may Zo
-omething to correct the exaggeratediacd
loomy views which are often taken -of
.1
t the dennerate-spirit of the present times,
founded on erroneous, because on a 'par
tial estimate of the virtues of a by•ppo
-. • -
The venerable:Lewis CaSs,Democrutic
Oundidr.to for President in IS4B, eud
Member of Buchanan's cabinet until he
fcsigas:d because the latter would not
inforceiNlajor Anderson at Fort Suuoter
has come: out against -the Chicago „1-lat
form. The old_ patriot declares that the
arinistice plank: is infamous, and tinit:„ . uo
true citizen can support it. We lave
also to note the ,attitude of Beim 4 7ohn
'Cessna, who was Speaker of thc last
democratic Assembly of this Sant. Tn
;Philadelphia, recently, this eloctueut and
fearless man came out squarely ,fur
i coln, Johnson, and 'the Union:
I VirGeneral McClellan, in his :let ter of
acceptance, completely ;evaded ;;; ; tio dead-
Iling issue made '.y the Chicago:reselu bons
whiclOCexplicitlY declare" for an itit.nte
cliatc cessation, of hostilities. :Gen t
t eral says that he is for the Union at all.
I hazards ; the Convention declares, that it
is for Peace upon any terms. Ilf;w to,
reconcile this conflicting point of policy
is a problem -which patriotic xn,l em,sei
entious Democrats will iolvE• fur them,
selves. I,Vh„ , .n the party P14::;)rm de
clares for one thing, and the A :a: ty ,c.tn
didate for another, there is a- ni
peat that solua•ody will be