OLMILE XVIII. --NUDIBER 4
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TIDE
TOTTER.JOURNAL,
roBLISTIED BY
I M. W.•McALARNEY. Proprietor.
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; aqr Devntedlto the came of RePublicanisrs, the in
'erests of Agrideltiire, the advancement of Education,
pod the beat Brio(' 01 Potter county. i owning no guide
i'xcept thnt - of Principle, it will endeavor to aid in the
irtork of more fully Freedomizilig our Country.
1, IliarA.dverti ementa inserted at the following rates,
except where pecial bargai no are madet A "square"
.010110 e of Bevier or 8 of Nonpareil eypen
1 siiiiittre, i i aertion. . . ... ...- 1 _ ..... ........$1 50
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l i square,: o 3 insortion4 ....... ....... ..... 2 00
I F....ActOt.ubge Enna insertion less than 1:L. , . -
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j 1 square,l Year 10 00
7 na ineaa C:tals, 1 year-- —-- —. ....... 500
I Administrafor's. c.;- E'xecatoi's Notices__ 300
1. , 18pec.al and Editorial Notices per line-- - 20
I : .8..-TAII tran i i....t mlve rtiaementa must he paid In
IsdYanee.tool nO notice will be tivke4 of advertise 001110
trout a diet I.lloi 11
..ac , :11eAS titey ale ay.:owl...Me , 1..) the!
. knoney o rsatishtory reference.
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•1 ./.Itiir Job Wor r i:, of all kinds, executed with neatness'
IShd deapatch. '
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43USINLT ESS NOTICES.
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inobt. Ilau4es. -' H. 11. Cuinenin.
[ ' • _AAtorneys-atlLaw ,
NVILLIAMSP()Ii.T, l'ean's,' , Special attention
j 1 V g iv..n o Collection of l'en-doaa. Boum , and
ilJtek Pay, ano All ,claims against the N.ltiotial and
41, tnlb Goverinnento. 1,0.21tf
Free and Accepted Ancient Tork Masons
rL - 1 l'i LAVA.' l IiODI3-E; No. 342, F. A. M. Stated
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'E Meering• on the 24 and 4111 "'mines zap , or each
;month. nail, in the 3d• Story of the I ilmste
11,d Block.
i”.4l.l,ansinEr.,Soc. . WM.. Silk:A W. 51.
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;• •. ; IL A. DItA.M.E. M. 1)..
111Y.SICFAES7 and Slill(ai - O N. Leers his sem:lces
Ito the eitlzena of ;ills place and vicinity Anil desires
if Inform thernlthat he will pronintly raspond to ill
.osila for prof.• l sional s erOcos,..ollice on It .in atredt,
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over liaeeinc's Jewelry Store ; ite.ddence nearly op
Poilfe - the °tine of the r...,x. &Moss Eainte.--;-17.28.
•[ • - 0. T. ELLISON. M. D., •
VOTIACTICiNG I'ItYSICIA.N. Coudersport, Fa.,
•resnectfully informs the cluxviis M the village and
seen - ay:hat lie will la romotly respond to all rail , for
'.professional sit vices. el iiie ou First street, first dobr
I 'Writ of his reaidence.. 1;40
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rrows:by lAN,L) CQUNSEI.I. OII 'AT L'AW.
A. Cothier , liatort, 1.'4., w,-11 Itrend O.:. Fevei . : o Cnurn4
r p .
In Votter, CArrnq RO , l !,1.71;',..3.6 C11131111 , A. ' .
All busi
'ness entrnAter to'hig rrire wri rpo,•ive pi oup.. atti,n
!Mon. , Tic" ~1'111r6.1".t., ,,t , In r,.,1...riet.,.
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fOirr:trit !i. oLmsTED.
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• A 7consk.:l7 AND COUSSELLII:II. AT LASE,
. , 1 Courier port, P. , will atteo.l to : dll,o,lineE. on.
• trusted 1.9 hi, ',re 1,•:•,! , pr 1•11 , , • .1 , ..• • tr , •l fl le:ity. 0 . 11.10.•
In the th-eo ,d storey,of the 01mAted Block.
ISAAC IIItSSON,
(;ou,ler-port, Pa.. will
11 attend t . 30 :13 1,11,11. e., c1,1,1.0,1,ti to butt C are
-s , td prompti, de, Attend, Colicl, 0/
SeC,lld re1.t,11 ,,, the A:Iee,IIIV brinl•zo
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TTORNET AND COCN:Fili:I.1•011. AT LAW
eouieriesport,:l - 'n., w II attend the Ocurte in Pot
tor and the a Ijoinidg counties. •
siii.LLE.it A 3ic.IL.IItNEY, •
AfTOit EIY.-.1"1' LA W. II rzitu+nt7,l.,
Agentm for t':e Co; lection of Claim, aut:tli.bt. the
1. , tinted idaten and ' , tote tloverionente;di •1, na 'eIl&O
13o,unty,Arrezns of Payoko-A.ddreen 130z.1 , 5, nrronorn
it• lITLLE•I, C M'AIp:NRY
• ."1. W. MeAL.t.IiNEY.
REAL ESTA - 1.11: and INST.:
Laud Bought and Sold, 'faxes pak2. mod
investliptterli 1 asaree pr Iprrtv azalmo. ii ein th.- beet
companieelq the Cohntry. and Person, aztimt
. A•an
dents In the ICr.t.velers InAurarr , e Company of li.trt
ford. Bastne.s. transacted promytly 17-29
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A. sTEBILINS tt. , CO ,
MRECIS47CT —Detilers in Dry 000 , 15. Fancy I
God 6ri c e rici..Provis'on.,Fiour.Feed , Po r k ,
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and evcryth nir u u.lly k In. in ii. good ,:toulltry store.
Produce boL :Tilt a d sold —',--- ! 17 :29:
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' ,1 Ci IT. Nl:lino:vs. I
it ArEncrtucrtwELT.:_4l:ll.l.l.: IC. - 171, Whole•;
I n . .nale alid Itt ail Dealer in , Dry Goods, Fancy nod i
8 kapleGooln.C:ut ling,La lies B r e-mi.,0a,...Gr0, , rier•,1
F.lon r., Feed Sec, Retailers supplied on liy i eral term. , '
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f• E. A. .lONF—S. I ' • ,
r F.TterIAXTS Dealers in D-lig, ?dedicifies,"c.ints
Oa,
.IF.tit , , . A rtaileS, 6.l:ttiollry, ibry Ci'oulls,
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Groceries, Sc., Main Str,t, Condcrsport, 'it' 1'
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D. r- OLYIST ED.
" , r EriCii. NT;—Dealer in Dry Goods,,Rleviy-i irlado
j_ Clothing, Crockery, Groceries, Fllmr,Fend,
'orir, Provhdons, dr.e.,11..i10 street, C O UII.I-1:100., Pa
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-. • •''' .- voLLiNs SMITH,
A El tC II :VC—D ealer in Dry GooLls.Grornrie.,
111 Pr!ono, Hord-a - ale, Quem.stvar , . C utiery,
aild'all G ros : usually' found Ina country P tore. - n'til
' 1 li. J. 101.11STE1), 1
"LjARDWARE Mercy:to!, and 'Dealer, in S'ores,
11 Tin aid Sheet Ironld:iin st rilet, t °oder
•purt,. Pent, is.. - rin and Sheet Iron Writ' , made, to
order, to goC l dgt y 1 e , on short ilatie. 1 .
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Cot; DERSPORT IllOirf:E.
F. 01).ASSid IRE, P.nqa , TOß., Corjer et 'Alain
D. -And eircondistrceta.Coo de , spori .I'' tier Co.l'a,
A Livery til l able is also kept in coimecii.al with 'this
Hotel. Dai y Stares m '
nn from ~,,, 1i..-ii" , , ei . ..
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.Paltter Journal Job-onice.
HAvi:• lately added fine NOW a9so-tm , ,t of
Jo B Ty PE to oor merit.
ore are now prepared to do all 'min , lA of rk, cheaply
and with to -t.. Ile3lllV-9.
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WAN-r,..us, 21G E 1 I'B, :115) PElt ss s.ssrsi, TO
sell the iteproe•sl C .li/Mrlll ,i,,,, .r:. is :Zew.
Ing Machine. ' Thie Nitichilie will, iititcli,•hein. fell,
tuck, cord, britiii,l.iiiil,l!:i'hiir,'Tiilt, nen' einiq'ii , ler
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brautirully Pace wily $2). liive , ,y Madhine is wit,
ranted three ye.trs.' For term, A clre.is i i. e ., ti 0 ,, C.
ROWEltsit.. CI). Reception roansNn 2ss S. l.fth
Street, Phi ndrilrailq. P. . :. "In
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... . ' MARBLE WORK!
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A , \ ‘,,. , ' Monuments and Tomb-Stones
I AL, a ral kinds, will he furni,:ho on reAsona
- , mar -.1-,., ble terms and di bnert nozirt. 41 li
14 ' '''. Reflidence , Enl.nlh - t . I.. C. n! l q i . r, n e l i f U orit e l . rif
"'"'"';'`, CouilerFport, Po . , 111 . .
Ihe ' Sillit.m - tilio:n ; nz
Bond, or lelocti your,oreler , a zho Post 0 Ile's. foie,'
• DAN ,BAliElt.
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TENSION, BOI;NTV and WAR CIA . I It AGF.NCY
' - -Pension tt
s Procred (Or- :Soldiers of the present
ar who ere disabled by reason iit NV,otillds rec,ived
or disease tntractied while in the nerVieci.d t:.e Unite:.
Staten ;An pensions, bounty, rind arriTs of pay ob-
laitriett for 'widows 4 - heirs of those who hare tll4l or I
been killed ,while in eerv , ce. Al I. tiers )f inquiry
promptly enswere 1, and ot i wet iii by 'hail of a state
ment of t
ti t
e e tee of elaiii-ant, I will forward the ire
cegitaxy p per* ter their e.gn...ture.• Fe. in Pensi on.
eines as fie 4.1 by law. Refer:, to lice... Ina., Benson.
A, G. Oldiated, John S. I.laan. and F. tV . K.,,,,, Ei q
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PAN BAKER, r,
~.SyineB Claim ,Agent, Coudersport. IM. I,
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1 . 00 Per Tear! We , want azed,te
. everywhere to sell ouri IMPROVED
isewit 1 4 Machines. Iliree new kinds. - ruder a . ,i•
upper fe d. Warranted five years.. Above ~s 1 y
or hllitif - .ririiiiii464 pald.,ll). ONLY mrichinvs sold
in the Un ted States for lees than:it-V.4 which are in lv
, lieu:Lab:l fiy Howe, Wheeler 3 Wilson, Grover &r.. ba.
ker,Binoollk.P94.4.l34ehelder.- .6it.,:lOor,ohettji ma.
igianse.S.l^oi.nfriogements icrid, 'ilia seller Or ricer, 4r.
LENA' tAt. tine, and : imerlsonnient. Cireril*r.
Illrep.r. - Aeree4 , iirr Gall upon Shave &I Oitirk,Bie4.
Ik ril,litstike, or Chicago, lII.Dos. 26, 1864. !awl'?
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I Gone in her 'childlike purity
'Out, from: the golden day :
Failing away in the light so sweet,
Where theiih : er stars and the sunbeams meet l
.;; Over the silent way.
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Over Übe bosom' tenderly
Tbelpearl-whte hinds are pressed ;
The lashes l lie on her cheeks so thin—
Where the softst blugh of the rose bath been— T
Shutting the blue of her eyes within
'The pure lids' closed to rest.
Over the sweet brow lovingly
Twtoeth her sunny hair';
She was sOI fragile that Love sent down
FrOm his Itgai-enly gems thatsoft bright crown,
Tolsbade her brow with its waves so brown,
Light as the dimpling air.
Gone to sleep with ; the tender smile
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I Froze ml her silent lips
By the fArMvell hiss of her dewy breath,
Cold iu the claSp of the. angel! Death,
Like the la's*. bud of a faded:wreath,
Whose bloom the White frost nips.
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I. Robini-hdsbed in your downy bed
Ov,er the-swinging hough—
Du), you miss her voice from your glad duet:
When the deWin the - heart of the rose is set,
Till its veliet lips, wits the essence wet
1 • In orient crimson glow.
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Illose-oud—under your shady lea
Ifidlfrorn.the sunny day—
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Dci yoa miss the glance of the eye so brigliti•
Whose bluls was heaven to,yOurtimid sight '1
It is bloording now in a world of light
User the starry way.
licarts.where the darling head bath lain,
'Lehi by Llve's shining ray—
Dc you knoW 014 the touch of her gentle hand
DUt - b brighten the harp in the unknown land?
shie waits fur uslwith the angel band
I ther the istarry way I
BORN A DRUNKARD.
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..I td i as ten years old when my father
died; and," remember that before that,fdr
a ,yearthere were very sad times, I re.
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seeing m 3 mother, as she
menibsat
hatcheling flax, cry, mid cry. I was a shy
child slyat the 'sight of arief, and afraid
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t incr ' t. do upon it; but by•and-by I could
bear it no longer, and I said—,
"What, does' ail you, mother ? Mother,
what is the matter ?" . .
1 '),Tour,father- 1 " she ba'r>an ) and broke
dhsyn.
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' .1 My fathcr was r i justice of the peace—
algi'eat thing I t ought—but now Ire
membered that in t o mother's tears had bp
ghtY aim* Fith this honors. , I retnew
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60 I, ,uddeilly things I had heard about
.oili6,r justictis, and I looked up with a
vkaine'que, st °rung in my face: :
1i A rush of tears 3linded both our eyes.
111 cuald tot see my mother for the watery
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flood, as he said, putting her two hand-
ioa my sloulders, and dropping her head
b 'd - thew-
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,esi es :iew—
-1 .1 "Yes child, your father Its drinking 1
1 hliniselfl to deqruction ; and I think it
lill kill eue."l,
t , My fatherldied a few umnths after, io
consequence of an accident . ; and while he
lay in hiis coffin, my brother Geoffrey was
liornl
fi 1
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My 4:lier bad said that she thought
I.la.t.grielr about my father would kill her
and Ibe ley° it did. I believe- it :was
OA whi h made itgo so hard with tier;
fjr she my liven ei , hours after her ba
By was horn. It shall never fOrgo.tl the
vi-ild ago l ny of her look when she knew she
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11;as not to ng to live, to take care of him.
She b i rde me coiii to her 2 —l was only
ten, hut I remember every word She said,
is tlieugp it were yesterday—looking at
ili e licw'dringly, pressing her lips passion.
• tely A !any — hands in the pain of her sup=
licatio
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"I hi •j boy' will need yon, Salina;
he'll
eed all:the prayers and tears and love
tihat thel most devote of sisters can. give
litia. He's r,oz, a bitt r, bitter lot before
him. poir lad. Goal wive those who are
o answerabU for the hard way Ite . y got
o walk n I Retriember, child, thatif all
bthers.tiarn against bial, if God seeing tol
have gi 41 him over, tliou'rt to 1 standby j
sin, .as hem honest to meet am above, as
thou chonsest time toyleep in a quiet grave.
Thou'rtlo!ver young; child, to have such
zare piq upon i thee; but there's no one
....;se, and God l•etrards, if not here, here
after. rfliou'lt . know what I mean soon
enoughr-wheti thou'rt older."
I bare never :been sorry that, chili as I
was, I promised her; but she died )with:
that slildovv in her eyes, almost to thei
last, aslong, as she(could see the baby'sl
face, acid
then, I hope, God's joy i took i
away. c:fen.that. Prom that day, - I
!took;
almost the entire charge ,of my hi-Other!
Geoffrey, even ia. his tenderest years lie'
was a 'good lad and . a smart one, and
tender.bearted. I loved him as 'my mother
desired! I should, but I never uoder . stood
what 51: meant bylhis bitter lot in life,
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till 1w as nine years old an' I was al
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most twenty. lie iwas so prelmisiog, so
handSqme, so beloved, that I did no see
how his ; life could well be other than
happy.
But w r ben h 3 was nine years old, la.
;some spirits in the house for alrtend that
was ita .en suddenly ill there. None had
, ever b,}
'en in the house before since my
fatherl led To me the very sceotl of it
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;, was kite, a .chaznel house, and 'made me
see, a: lola vision those two dead --
faces
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ile(ote6 to lig ?Ericipies of Ir ye DiiirpeNcg, grp) the Disset)ifiglioq of 31101-4111 p, Titet.4ll4l-e ot►i Ifetos.
OVIEdlt TUE WAY.
OUDERSPORT, POTTER COUNTY, PA., TUESDAY. NAY 8, 1866.
my father's and my,motnees—l loathed
it with a deep and terrible animosity that
I can give you no idea of. Ah me ;twee
woe to the day I ever suffered it to cross
our happy threshold again. -
It was-a busy time,• and I bad one of
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the neighbors girls to help me. Charlotte
came to me one morning with a strang
e
face.
Woitld I come Y Something ailed Geof
frey. ,
Sometlaing ailed Geoffeey. I sprung.
He was la industrious lad, and cut all the
wood we burned that winter, though he
was so young. I had heard his as a mo
ment before, I thought. '
When I went out, my little boy lay
upon a bench that was out there, as still i
as though he were dead almost, and my
eldest brother, Joseph, was bendint , over
him, and gave such a look when r came
to the,deor. I don't know how I came
to think of such a thine, butl turned
without a word,and went to the cupboard'
in which I had left. the bottle of \sritrits.
It was empty !
I knew what my Myther meant at last;
at last I knew, and it I always seemed to
me that my heart stood still with fright
many minutes.
Joseph had known any mother's fears
and recoeyiged its realization. But far
more keenly than any gone else could, Il
knew now what was my bov's bitter lot I
in life. He had been baptized in my
mother's agcthy and my father's sin before
he was born. I bade thew bring hint in
—my dear, little lad—and lay him upon
my bed ; and then I shut them all out of
the room, and prayed and wept, and
Watched by him till he knew tub. My
ooy and I grew nearer than ever Ito each
other afterward.' I tried to do my duty
by him, to shelter him from TIIAT and I
die like of what, I have just told never
happened agaid till hp was too old .to stay ]
by his sister's apron String any longer.
itcpt him as long as I could, and when he'
went out into the world,l. cried such tears
' because I was a woman instead of a man
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and so could not go out with him.
Joseph was kind and thoughtful in
those days. Temptations were plenty,aud
when that terrible thirst came and utas-.
tered Geoffrey,he kept it from me as.long'
as itwas possible. 'He used to to take his
brother out intO the gelds and woodf,and
walk with him 'tilt the f - og passed from his
brain; and he was able to elude with a'
fair seeming even nay keen eyes.
But they had to tell me at last, for I
began to suspect; and Geoffrey cried at
my knee, as he had done when he was
little lad. Ile had not the will, the stuff
in him of which martyrs were made. He
was only a generous, frank, brilliant, af
!catenate fellow; the charm and center
of every circle lie entered-.:-beloved and
admired too much, perhaps, for his good;
for such things enervate. It is the hard
knocks that are good for us—the tug up..
hill that invigorates He used, try,aud
promise to let drink alone ; but, in spite
of all, the habit' grew upon him. •
Weil, by-and-by my brother Geoffrey
married, but he had fallen into drink- so
badly that Na nuy'sfather objected eat irely
and, when the yodng people married in
spite of hin, he never forgave them, and
they had no, where else to go-so they
came to me.!
I tray glad to hare Otero come.
The boys'had ceded aII their right in
the home stead to me, and I was glad to
have Goeffrey come and head the farm for
Nanny was a dear child. I loved her
almost as much as he.; and he had prom.
iced her faithfully that ho would stop; his
had ways. lie ltatin't any but the & l ink
--I don't mean that he had ; but that vsaS
worse than I can make you know, if 'you
don't know already. None but those Who
have felt its awful hand. among their
heattstrings can know how possessed +ith
a deumn a man is who drinks.
Geoffrevr meant to keep his
. promise ;
he did awhile, so long that I even hOped
—but, thank.God,lnever quite lost hope.
It didn't last,hoWever; ' didn'tseeniSTl3C.
how that it, could. I have seen Geoffrey,
when that terrible Cairst was on him,writne
like a strong man in the grasp of a Devil;l
I have seen him weep tears that were I
wrungnut of his heartlike drops of blood.l
lie. would go sometimes for months
without tasting a drop. and than some-,
thing-,the merest mile, of an i
old cork, the broken neck of a jag, or a j
waft of fermented, air from the eorn-bin,l
would start the rage of the old craving in
I him. and,he was all gone again - .
13y-and 2 by he coaxed to to sell the farm'
and move to another state. • I
was willing
enough, for I thought, perhaps, new asso
ciations:' would be good for him •
We put, part of- tlba money at interest,
land - bought a house in the. village with
the rest ; and .Geoffrey,. who bad a fancy
for the law, went to studying as, though
I hemeant to do something.
.You see I never lost faith-; I couldn't
when I thought of my, mother. Besides
, 'the lad was like the heart of me. I loved
bitu, I believe, ihnost more than mothers
love their ohildren. My life was b--)und
in him. - I never thought bf marrying bat
once, and I never regretted giving up the
thought then.
Ah, well!lthat brightness was briefer
than those before it. 'When there sud
deoly came a need for the money we had
put at interest it. aas.gone. Geoffrey had
drank it up. That is what drink sakes a
noble, generous. unselfish man do.
And there we vvere,'aud so it went on
—worse, always worse—till God did seem
to have forsaken my poor lad; but I never
lost faith.
I took a school, then to support us.—
Poor little Nanny l they.had 'three chil
dren' by thin tinae ; and when Nanby wept
over theinj us:d to hold her to me some
times and kiss her; poor child ! and say :
'•Thank God, Nanny, They're all girls I"
I believe she did. Girls ain't so apt
to fall to drink, you know. Oh, those
days oh, the shifts we made l the sacri
fices we resorted to ! the small expedients
to allure Geoffrey to stay with us,instead
of going to the dreadful town,froa3 whiell
he ahnoA always cante—nokhituself I. Oh,'
the long nights when we walked and,
watched—we two—and walked the floor;
Mid prayed. and listened, and got fur ' l our
first sign of coming the thick sound
of his voice. He always came talking to
himself when he was not right, and oh I
,
the awful voice in which - a drunkard
speaks!
Ile was always my brother Geoffrey.
though, my dear, dear brother, crazy with
the drink, but even then kind, and in
widest freuzie.s it would calm him quicker
than anything else to put the younges i t,
tenderest little child io his arms. Ile
never hurt it. I • ,
Never mind,T can't make you see those
days as I do. I cant make you under
stand how,every iiinelhecatne home so,even
when:it had become so common,onr hearts
sank as though it had been the first. I
can liken the long pain of those days to
nothing and I believe soletunly,before my
Heaienly Father,that, terrible as valour
agony for hitt], we loved him so, beside
his.our suffering was as a drop to the ocean.
Reeder, I believe in prayer; I prayed
often, -but one day, somehow, a conviction
seemed to come to me that I groped too
Much.that I did not give my prayer wings
and send it up even to the Mercy Seat.
It.seemed to the suddenly that I had been
praying to an earthily spirit, instead' of
the great I Am—the Almighty, the,,Tle
hovah, awful, upon his throne; and I I
kneait right there,and reachi i ng up in that,
strange new strength,it seemed to me that
I took hold of the very harps of the altar
and that the greatand tender heart oftlie
Divinet Saviotir was reached at last.
I am telling you a Lead experience,4-
That: was how it seemed to me. , !
'But I trembled while I clung. An
awful awe an oppression seemed ;to crush
me earthward still, but still I would, not
let go.
Geoffrey had been away all day, and
night did not b ing hi n hdme. Nanny,
poor child stole away tlo the town to look
for him, aad I Walked the floor intim:2r
ing prayer. L tvould have given my
life fur him that night.
Perhaps I mingled too much of earthly
idolatry with .nty appeals to lleaVen. My
prayers were destined to an Awful response
I saw Mercy cleseend•that night, not gar
bed in angel's white, but bearing the two
edged sword of wrath and recompense.
As I paced the flo or,l heard voices and
the sound of many feet outside, and then
an uncertain knock, and the door opening
some then came is bearing upon a litter
the form of a man: It was. Geoffrey.
I thought he was dead at first, but he
'was not. Sotnething terriblethad happened
to Itim,but it was not death,and he was so
ber. He gave rue a ghastly smile, and
sanest look out of his eye I had seen there
in a long titne,as I bent over him ia ;wild
affright. Nobody could answer when I
asked what had hapeoed. They ail gitrunk
from my look except him. lie put up
his hands and drew me to Mei
"I went to hely the thrashers at'N.im-1
ball's" he said, "and I, got caught in the'
machine. I can't ever go near a rtiat
hole again, Salina, without you take me,
there."
I took the covering from his limbs at
that—l saw two bandaged atumps, I saw
tite-”lorious creature which Gud had tuade
transformed into the most herrible of crip-I
pies, and I did not scream or faint at the
sight. I think My heart must have stop
ped beating, though,for existence seemed
suspended by the awfulness of the blood
Geoffrey held me yet.
"Ain't you glad, Salina!?" he asked.'
";You ought to be. All the devils in hell
can't get me s unless you gig o Me up to
them."
I shuddered, but I covered, those,poor
limbs again, and kissed Geoffrey, and
thought , of my prayers. Was there no
other way to answer them ?
I was wrong to : _question God's mercy
in even so terrible a dispensation as that.
For out of tha . t awful , chistiseMent joy
has tome. I\lictarO a happy family now,
t,bougil you ifpubt Geoffrey learned
to make ibqes;•Tbeipatiloi,
keeps bouge. We have plenty to' do, We
make'mouy, and Geoffrey never touched
a drop singe that'day. It was God's mer
cy that crippled . him so, for so strong yet
is that demon's appetite with him, that
to-day, if he had his feet• again, they
wOulff take him back to his cups and de•
struction. As it is, be l ls a man again L
- little lad, mv •nme,her's gift to me,
saved Go's grace.
What Odneral Sheridan - Thinks 7'
General t 4 herfclan, whnsomilhary :divi
sion includes Teas, Florida. and Louisi
ana, as General Thomas' does Tenoessee,
and the adjoining country,lis Of the same
opinion as General Thomas, that it 'would
not be well to Withdraw troops from the
southern states yet, that there is consid
erable kritterness of 'feeling still among the
people of the states where he commands,
that special i llegislation I for or about the
negro is unwise.and of no use, that they
ought to be secured in property and per
-son—which the Civil Rights act aceoin•
pliihes - -and that "the negro'ssta
tusll will be worked out, by the logic of the
necessity foe his ldbor, it is the only labor
that can he Obtained in the south forsoeue
time to come."
The troopslare needed he sags, " to
oive security to northern.capital. and to
the Union people, and to give an actual
and moral su 'von to the freedmen. until
they.have time to work out their social
status; I also believe their presence ne
icesSary to prevent quarreling among the
southern people themselves.
Southern Country Life.
The byersto7n {Texas,) &ate Guzetfe,
in a recent issue has the subjoined,:,
"The other day we saW from our office
windjw one plough, two mules, one white
man,one negro and a child, - : manfully
ploughing up a garden. The mules were
puHing the.plough, the negro leading the
mules, the child holding the reins and the
white I man the plough! We thought
ploughing in thtit garden would be pretty
Well done." • ' •
No .Pan
ft is a gra:ifying , evidence of the pre
vailing common' sense . (that there is no
cholera panic in the city. Men meet nod
talk of the cholera as they discuss the
price of stbcks or, the news from Europe,
but there is far le:ss rival alarm than in
1819. Itlis understood that the doctors
can master the cholera. even should it
break out as an epidemic, provided their
.offorts are aided by cleanly .people—and
the tendency to cleaeltness is universal.
Panics breed pestileriecH, therefore let ns
be cheerful, clean, and attend to our work
in the usual way, fearing no disease, bet
prepared to meet if it! cones. 2 —/Tetc.YOrk
Post. 1 - ! • --'
Attempted Assassination.
he man who attempted to : kill the
Emperor of Russia is said to be a Russian
landowner of small means, who considered
himself injured by the emancipation of
the serfs. He, diScliartzed the Pistol +milli
in a few feet of the EMPerer, and the shot
would prob Ably have taken' effect had not
a peasant turned aside the assassin's arm.
This peaSant had been ennobled. •It is
said that l ihe 'Einpror, With perfect pre
cnets. of Mind,' himself seized the culprit,
asking hi.n quietly, -"lyilat have I O'er
done to you that you should seek - my
life ri -
."'-• —The New York Ifribun'e mentions
a report that . t he Presid6nt has instructed
Mr. Jlutlty. our', Minister at Vienna, tb
demand, his ,pasmirts and come home, in
case rlustria persists in allowing Maxi
miliptf to raise recruits fur his 'armies . to
his dunitaion.4. l This
,is fair and legiti
mate proc ,, cdinc,, which will he received
with favor by all true ; Awed an citiiens.
12181.,;1. D. Rieldird.on, his letter'
trotn*t he plains, tells us of one of the dri-1
vent of the overland Poach whose idea of
heaven is to 'drive a c,}aeli-load - of passon
gers, six in hand, at twelve Miles an hour
alum: a natural emb:inb;tnent:known :as
the Hog-Back, where on •each side
,one
can look down. precipitous banks for one
or twothOusand feet, and where a dona
tion of tun inches l from' the .track would
tend the load to the bottom, io the condi.
tion.mf bushel of apples after going dire"
a cider mill.
fewj•Zdays since a wedding break
fast was givenl - by a substantial farmer,
blessed with five'daughters, the eldest be
ing the bride., whet a neighbor, a young
farmer, who was honored with en invita
lion, thinking no doubt ho ought to say
something smart and cornplitncntary on
the event, addressing the bridef. , ,room,
said: W
"ell; you have got the pick of
the batch :"I The countenances of the
four unmarried Ones as may be imagined,
were awful. I
M.A. Church Committee iu a neigh
boring town; when a very influential but
irreli , >ious atiVied for nse:nbers . hip,
tteotkr4 ;;"4c
full, ,
TERNS.-=sl:so PER'ANt.I.IOI,,
TATS GRFAT;LAW:OF HAW.
Thu Montgomery (AI dbatn a)' Itagrr
ponderously - inquires ,
"Now let us - ask upon what , ground it
can belsnpposed that the riegio, Ifhis
emigration (7) to the land-of the white
man, has been excepted from the treak
law of flaw ?"
We 'ourselves are suffering for
answer ; and while pro-slavery thiolOgi
aos, like the Rev..Nehetniah Adams, ind
the Right Rev... Bishop ITOpkit3s, of Vol.-
,
moot, are Prepariiic , a proper response,
we would solicit information. en the
lowing points:
Wherein dues the great laat of gam ,
differ, in Provision, froth that of roast
beef ?
Is the Irani referred to of a kind- that
can be 'Looked or dried, broiled :or
fried ?
Does the great law of Ham develop
in its Operation the principle. of- "toot
hog, or, die 7" .. , •
Does- the gie4law of Ham include
Baenn if so. is it strong enough to' . cOn•
trol the "rasber"_ of the two?
Was' Elam bred under 'the great laA
or only mustered r
Is the great law founded upon the
natural relation lbettreen Ham and EDO
But more seriously speaking, and le
applied to the negro, was the great law`il
Ham properly enforced, iu Nay init,(nitie
the Records of the Alentgontery, Hill
Hospital, Surgeon Phipps in eha!,, ,, ),
upon a party of thirty uegroes whci.bad
followed Wilson'sraiders, and returning
I were surprised thirty miles east of. Mont.
gomety, when asleep, and set upon by Ewe
Ferguson, or Foster, an overseer.'.Did
he execute the great law of ilium. prop
lerly upon—
" Jacob Steele—both ears out off
"Amanda Steele--both:CarA Ca)Ofir
"Nancy Steele—both ears, cut MTV:
Is that 91e1 ' Ham iaslice.l. mudet
the big 114 ia Alabama ?
Does the great Jaw provide that Haul
shall be carved (see same hospital record)
thus.:
"Mary Steele—scalped ; whole side of
head carved clean away; died,!":
Does the great law preserib,e, that Zatu
shall be cured after this faslii(in ? ,
"Luther dones=beard and chin cut
off?"
Or, that tram shotild "be,peppir - ed. in
this manner
"Washihg,ton Booth—shot.in
with a load of buckiliot guile reitiruinig
peaceably froM ills work 'P.',
D'oeo . the great last direct ,that
shall be prepared for p icicle (see same
Hospital tepoti) in this style
"fl pert, servant of Colonel Hough,..tif
General - Smith's . stiff--StalA4 on , tkce
Steps of a hotel by a Confederate sOldier,
IdYing Six days after, on the 9th cifJul7.l
"hales Taylor—stibbedene half niflti
Ifrom town, seven times in the
twice in the arms
' grazed by two shots,
m
.one ar cut two thirdslnff.?
"James Mobroe—Ont across the thie!af,
while saddling a horse,ll by 'a white aid,
i
Au , . 18 ?"
We begin to see What "she great law
of Ham" tneauS in Alabama ; and if we
'did not, the record of the FreedarareS
Hospital, at Montgomery,' furnishes it
`complete exposition.
'rhe great 1.. v of Ilam has been on•
forced in this wanner since the 22d of
July.
"William Drown, shot in the left hand,
near this city."
"Williaist Matthews, about the 11th
of August shot• in his arms, on Maitbews'
plantation, near town, at the request of
Mr.lMattliews." - •
~ A mos Whetstone, shot through
_the
neck, August 18th,by the soo.in.law of
his mast( r, Jelin A. Houser."
On the whole, we have made mp.our
minds nut to wait for an answer, trom Rear-
Neheintati Adams, or anybody. else.. We
are of the opinion that the nag.ro, by erns.
igration to the land of the white man, has
nut escaped the great law of. Ham. lie
has been roasted under it, boiA under
it, sliced under it, pickled unider tt, pp
pered under• it, and pretty 'effeciumily
cured under it. He has had s rair share
of "the great Law of Ham" in • Aisemua;
and we are freb to 'say that we are not
sorry that the ereat law has • been: set
aside. We have had enough of it on this
continent fluitanity,demaneis that Bias
shall hereafter be served up under ; this
same general laws that apply to the treat
ment of other human flesh:: Letms hallo
done with the "GmEAT LAW or •
•
CIVANVE9RD COO,SXY;BANS. , —rTherit
fitsvill i e _Herald of the 1 .,2th, nit,,..easejt
has been informed by a gentlectianat Mead
trille,tbat the Crawford County Bankliad
l `at the time of suspension .an outstanding
circulation eU:33_,000, which
. has been
reduced by eichatisgs to aboetV4, oo ; o :4.
It ii,iiated that if the bank laic all t r ey'
had with Cul - ver, Venn dui Cc., they-rill
noed'to raise but $7,5,000 to t:deetn:i:l
thoir . cirealetioti, -and, pay!, all Oeix,-
itor . We wtteld atitriso:nwper:. -
ford eO - 4.„Elty b1113 . 1:1 ' ot to eiclfie.s.