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PISTTLLAWOTB.
AFTER ALL!
BY E.MTL.Y J. MACKINTOSH.
lie liad been a bachelor for forty years, (his
same Mr. Ellis Ilarvey, about whom lam
writing a s'ory, anil he was known among
his friends as a " very particular" man, and
" hard to please," which last phrase general
ly means one thing—hard to please in a mat
rimonial way.
lie was sitting before a blazing coal-fire,
thinking how dismally cold it must be out
side; and he was eating very leisurely his
late dinner, and thinking how excessively
comfortable it was in his sanctum, when the
door opened, and a tall, stylish lady, whose
likeness to himself spoke her relationship,
came swei ping in.
" Ellis !" she exclaimed, at dinner ? Why;
it is nine o'clutik; arid I am ready for the ball
at Mrs. Jameson's."
"So I perceive, be said, lazily, looking at
her s ately figure in its rich evening dress.—
" I cannot go for an hour, Ilattie, so sit
down and be comfortable. Ten o'clock is
early enough, just right for a sensation."
" But what makes you dine at this hour ?"
" I was detained, and gave Mrs. Smith di
rections to wait fur me. Let me ofter you
something.
" You savage ! You want a wife, Ellis, to
keep you in order'. If Mrs. Harvey ruled
the house, you would have to come to your
dinner at a civilized hour."
" Let us he thaukfui then that she does
not rule the house ! Where is Lawrence ?"
"In Washington! Went this morning,
which accounts for my calling for you. But,
K!lis, seriously, do yoti never Intend to give
me a sister ? 1 gave you Lawrence for a
brother years ago. and as there are only you
atid 1 left in the family, it is but fair you
should return Ihefavo:. You are getting
old, too. sir !"
" Ain I ? How 7 Hair turning ?"
" No, you conceited fellow, you are as
handsome as ever ; but you grow more fussy
aud bachelory every day. Smith spoils you !"
"Smith gives me all the comforts of a
married man, and none of the bother. 1
will wager that Lawrence himself is not bet
ter cared for than I am."
" But, Ellis, surely yju intend to marry
some time V'
" Oli, yes ! if I ever find anybody to suit
me !"
" There is Fannie Hays, you were very at
tentive to her at one time."
" Ilattie," said Ellis, solemnly, " she paints,
I saw it come off, one warm evening, on her
handkerchief. Don't tell, but it is a fact I
I was so glad 1 had not actually proposed."
" Well, Ellis, I am sure Jane lluuter didn't
paint!"
" But, Ilattie, she was so fearfully ugly.—
I tried in vain to be sensible and prefer mind,
intellect, and talent, to mere beauty ; but
she was so frightfully strong-minded, and
made such terrific speeches about equal rights
and male tyranny, that she fairly Lightened
me away."
" Well, Louise Ilolden was not strong
minded !"
"Milk and water!" said Ellis, contemptu
ously.
Amy Hi 11?"
" Dressed so shockingly. Venus herself
could not look well in an enormous red and
green plaid, with a blue bonnet. Ugh !"
" Mary Willis had exquisite iastfin dress."
" But she had such a voice ! She address
ed you with tender eloquence, and told her
most cherished secrets in the voice of a fish
woman crying shad."
" Well, Ellis, one more. Welhelmina
Lee I"
"Ah ! Ilattie. there I was touched. Beau
ty, talent, feminine graces, every attraction;
but she lived next door to a grocery store."
" Now, Ellis, what Cuuld that have to do
with it ?"
"It was in the summer, and we were at
the open parlor window. I was just on the
point of offering myself, when the wind blew
a strong whiff of salt mackeral between lis.
You know my aversion to mackerel. The
smell made me sick, and I forgot sentiment
I left, and the next day Mooro proposed and
was accepted."
" You had better have a wife made to or
der, Ellis Particular, Lr lam sure the para
gon does not exist who will fill your ideas of
Mrs. Ilarvey. I thouldn't wonder if you
married Smith, after all."
"Not a bit of danger. If I ever marry,
my wife must be refined in manner, lady
like in appearance, pretty enough to escape
the charge of positive ugliness, at least thirty
years of age, and of good birth and position."
" And with sufficient good taste to appre
ciate your condescension and say, ' Yes, if
you will be good enough to have me,' when
you propose. Come, you have finished your
dinner. Go dress yourself."
Six hours later Ellis was a doomed man.—
How it came about he never knew. After
all *his his resolutions never to marry in
haste, to weigh well all her perfections and
imperfections befo e addressing any lady ; in
fact, to walk slowly and deliberately into a
"TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RlGHT.*'—Thomas Jefferson.
TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 3, 1862.
cool, sensible state of affection, he suddenly
found himself deeply in love. One look; one
word, and he w&s gone.
" Miss Loifi Jones, (he hated the name of
Jones,) let me introduce Mr. Harvey. He
bowed to Miss Jones, and looked at her.
A little delicate figure, a pair of soft blue
eyes, a maze of white lace, and a tinny, deli
cately gloved hand. These were the first
imptessions. A voice, low and sweet, mod
ulated like music, well chosen phrases, and
a modest yet self-possessed manner, and a
graceful deportment finished the fascination.
In a sort of misty pleasure, Ellis waltzed
with this wee fair}' who had somehow come
right into his heart, whose door he fancied
so strongly fortified. He called, and found
his fascinator in a neat wrapper, teaching
two little sisters graminer. He learned that
her father was a wholesale grocer, and found
she had three strong-minded sisters. He
spent a week with her married brother on a
country farm, and breakfasted every day on
salt mackerel, because she sat opposite to
him and did the same. He helped her over
a stile when her wrapper was green and her
sun-bonnet blue, while a red shawl of her
sister's hung over her arm. He heard her
scream with terror over her little nephew
who fell into the horse pond, and dragged
her out, with the boy in her arms, when she
fi antically sprang in after him. He never
noticed that a shriek is not melodious. lie
saw her lovely face covered with musquito
bites, and he knew that the whiteness over
them was powder, and yet—and yet—he
never knew how, he proposed, was accepted,
and, as Ilattie said, " Married a darling lit
tle chit of sixteen AFTER AI.I. !"
GETTER FttOM MAJOR JACK DOWN
ING.
"WASHINGTON, June 18th, 18G2.
To the Editors ol the Caiccashin :
Sens :—I expect \ ou'll be struck all atack
to git another letter from me, dated Washing
ton. and I'm kinder surprised myself, for I
expected to be in Downingville long afore
this. But you'll see, by the time you git
through this letter, that, it was impossibul
for me to leave. I got mv trunks all packed
up and ready to start, when lo ! and behold,
my hickery that Ginneral Jackson give me
was missin ! Now, I couldn't no more trav
ll without my hickery cane than I could sod
der up this broken Union with skim milk.
I told Linkin I was ali ready, but that mv
hickery was inissin. Ro he called the feller
in pllrty had close; who does chores around
the \V bite House, and asked hiin efht'd
sen it? He said he hadn't. Then T reck
ollected that there had been a Cabbynct
meetin the night before, and it struck me
that some of the members had walked oft
with it. So Linkin sent the feller around to
see. After he'd gone, I told Linkin ef any
of'em had it that I'd bet it was Stantin, for
ses I, " Kernel, ever sence he tried to get on
your trowsers down to Fort Monrow, he's
acted jest as of he wanted to play Ginneral
Jackson, and cfhc can git a piece of hickery
thai the old Ginneral has handled, he'd think
that he was on the way to glory. Sure euuf
he had it, hut pretended it was all a mistake,
jest as he did when I caught him in the Ker
nel's trowsers. D-pend upon it, Stantin
needs watchin, for he is one of them kind of
lellers who's got it into ther head that they
are for-ordained for scmethin, and they don't
know what.
The loss of iny hickery kept me over one
day longer, and the next morning I got the
bottle of Borebon whiskey which you sent to
me. A feller by the name of Adams fetched
it, and he wouldn't take any pay for his
trubble either. I asked him if he was eny
relashin to Phil Adams, who used to keep a
tan yard in Downingsville, as he was a very
clever man and used to do enything for his
naybors for nothin. The chap laughed rite
out loud at this, and sed "he didn't see it.
Ses I, " what don't you see ?" " Well," sed
he, " never mind, old feller, about telling
stories, but jest put your name rite [down
there," and he handed out a big book full of
writin. Bes 1, " Mr. Adams, I never put my
naina to enything that I don't understand."
" Ses I, that may be secesh docyment for all
I know." Ses the feller, ses he, " Git, out !
this is only a receipt for that bottle."
" Wall," ses I, " ef that's all, then here goes."
So I got my spectacles and a quill pen. fir I
never rite with eny of the new fangled kinds,
and I jest rote out " Major Jack Downing"
in a stile that made the feller stare. Ses I
"Mr. Adams, you have some awful poor
rlters among the fellers you deal with, but
I ain't ashamed of that ritin eny where."
The chap he. looked at it a moment and then
he looked at me, and finally says he " Bully
for you," and in ft jiffy he was off, without
even shakin hands or sayin good by.
After he was gone I took the bottle into
Linkin's room and opened it. " Now," ses I,
" Kernel, let's try this licker." " Wall," ses
he, " Majer, I'm a good judge of Borebon,
for it comes from my old State of Kentuck."
Wen Linkin saw the name on the bottle,
" Mr. Cotton, 306 Washington 6treet, N. Y.,
ses he, "Major do you think that this is loy
al wiskey ?" " Why," ses T, " Kernel, what
makes you ask that tfnestshin?" "Wall,"
ses he, " don't you see the man's name is
Cotton /" " Novr," ses I " Kernel, what an
idee that is ! Don't you suppose it would be
dangerous for him to lire down in Secesh
where they are burning cotton as fast as
they kin ?" " \Yal, never mind the name,
Major, let us taste of the whiskey. I can
soon tell whether it's loyal or not." So I
opened the bottle and poured out some, and
the Kernel took a good swig. I also took a
snifter, and wo both pronounced it a No. 1
licker, and loyal too.
" Now," ses I, Kernel, can you tell me
why this whiskey is like the Constitution of
the United States ?" " No," ses he, " I don't
see eny siniularity." " \Val," ses I, " Koi
ne!, this whiskey was made for White Men
jest as the Constitushin was." Ses he, " Ma
jor, how do you know it was made for white
men ?" " Wal," ses I," it is jest as plain to
nte as daylight. You see, Kernel, the licker
agrees with you. It tastes good. It won't
hurt you; in a word, it corresponds with na
tur. That's a sign it was made for you.—
Jest so it was with the Constitushin. It ap
plies to white men exactly, and they've al
ways got along together with it fust rate.—
Now you give this whiskey to the niggers,
and they get drunk on it, and cut up all sorts
of scrapes, but white men, whom it was made
for, know jest how to use it, and it don't do
them eny hurt. Jest so with the Constitu
shin ; you apply it to niggers and it is jest
as bad for 'em as whiskey. They don't know
how to use it. an they'll destroy everything,
an make themselves an everybody else ten
times worse off."
" Wal," ses the Kernel, ses he, "Major, I
wish I could see how it is that the Constitu
shin don't apply to niggers jest as much as
to white men." Ses I, " Kernel, you don't
look at the Constitnshun thru constitiisl.un
al spectacles. That Chicago Platform both
ers you. " Now," ses I, " Kernel, ef I'll
make you a Constitulishunal Teliskope will
you promise me to use it ? If you will, it
will he about as good a guide to you as ef I
staid here all summer myself." Ses I, "it
will show ' the Consti'iishin as it is, an the
Union as it was.' " When I spoke of this,
Linkin sed he'd be tickled ecnamost to ileth
ef I would make hltri ori'G. So I told him I
could do it in one day, an that although I
was very anxus to get hum, yet I'd fix this
tip before I started. So I jest went up to
my room and began to plan. I had a pair
of old spectacles which Gineral Jackson
give me, an I knew that the glasses were
jest as sound constitushunal glasses as were
ever looked thru. So I took 'em out of the
cases, and got a magnify in glass and put be
tween em an fixed 'em in a long narrer box-
It took me about all day before I got it fin
ished.
When it was all done. I looked thru it, an
you never see such a glorious site. I could
see jest as ef it was the hull Union layin out
before me. There was the Stars and Stripes,
an the eagle, and thirty millions of white
people, all happy and contented, an joy an
prosperity smilin everywhere. An the sky
seemed to be bendin down so as to almost
tech the arth. an away up in the clouds I could
see rais of light streemin forth, and I thought
I could even see the angil robes of Washing
ton, an Jefferson, an Maddison, an the old
Gineral ioukin down, an rite over the hull
was the words, " Glory and Peace," in grate
big letters. It was raley beautiful. I got a
lookin at it an forgot all about myself, in a
sort of reveree, and wen I cum to, I found I'd
been crvin, because you see, that was the
Union as it was , an not as it is now. Tn fact,
wen I got awake I found it was eenamosl
pitch dark, an so Linkin couldn't look thru
the Teliskope that nite. Then I got a piece
of chalk, an marked in " Linkin Teliscope,"
and took it to him.
" There," ses I, " Kernel , that Teliskope is
dene an tcmorrow you kin take a look at the
Union as it was, and the Constitution as it is."
Ses I, " the scene is a glorious one."—So I,
left the Teliskope in Linkins room that nite
an went to bed.
The next mornin, after T got my breakfast,
I went in, "and now," ses I," Kernel, we
we must try the Teliskope." So I thought
I'd look thru fust to See if the glasses were
set all rite, wen I never was took aback so in
my life. Instead of the joy and happiness,
and the sniilin faces, and the thirty millions
of white people, the rais of light in the sky
with " GLOKY and PKACE" on em, all was
dark and dismal. All I could see was some
4,000,000 of niggers, and war, and bloodshed,
and misery, camps full of sick sojers and
bFoken waggins, wiminin and children cryin,
and the sky was black, and away up on a
black cloud, in letters still blacker, I could
6ee the' words " NEGRO FREEDOM and WAR."
I jumped back as ef I was hit wen I saw,
it. Ses Linkin, "What's the matter, Majer ?'
Ses I "Kernel that Teliskope is all out of or
der. It ain't rite." But Linkin 6ed he
hadn't teched it, so I was puzzled. So alter
thinkin awhile, ses I, "Kernel, was there
enybody here last nite after 1 went away V
" Yes," ses he. Boss Seward cum for a
while an talked over matters." Ses I," Did
he tech this ?,' "Wal he was lookin kinder
inquirin at it , and I tolled him what is was,
and he seemed to be greatly strck, and ex
amined it very clus."
" Now," ses I, that ackounts for it. The
pesky critrer has been playin one of his oun
nin tricks on me ; but my name ain't Jack
Downing ef I dont expose him. No true
Constitutional Teliskope will give such a
View as that of the Union." So I sot down
and took out my jack knife and went to fake
it all apart. I found the box all rite; there
warn't enything in the tube, and I was puzzltn
myself what could be the matter, when I
slipped up the inagifying glass and rite hack
of it was a lit tie bit of pape*• nigger , black as
the ace of spade*, that that fetter Seward had
cunnify slipped in there I You see, that at
once ackounted for the hull trubbel, for the
magnifin glass reflected the nigger instead of
what it would naterally, the white man. Af
ter I- took the nigger out, it was all rite agin,
and wen Linkin looked thru it he was per
fectly astonished.
"Now," ses I, "Kernel, you see that it is
tryin to put the nigger where he don't belo- g
that is the cause of all our troubbel He
don't belong in the Constitution, and wen we
undertake to put him there he won't work.
This trick of Seward's jist shows you what
he's up to. Now, Kernel, I'm going to start
for Downingville arly to morrow uiornin, and
111 leave you this Teliskope so you can take
a look at the Union as it teas, and don't you
let Seward or Sumner, or eny of them fellers,
get hold of it. Wen you get puzzled, jest go
and look thru that, and you may depend upon
it it will lead you strate. El you get inter
eny deep troubel, write me and I'll give you
advice, or ef you can't get along without me.
I'll coine back after the Fourth is over and
stay with you till you get out of this scrape
with the rebils. I told you I would stick to
you, and I will." So I bid good bye to tbe
Kernel and bis wife, that uite, reddy to start
in the morning.
I intend to give you a full ack'ount of the
celebrashun of the Fourth at Downingville
Insine Stebbins, of the Downingsvitlc Insen
sibles, who writ the piece of poetry on Mrs
Linkin's ball and who was wounded at
Chickenhominy ami cum hum with a furlong,
is to be orator of the occashin. Jeru
sha Matilda Jenkins, the darter of Deacon
Jenkins, and who went down to Port Roile lo
tech the Contrary bands their primers, will
also be there. The Insine is a very eman
chap, ef he is a niggerite. and I eXpeck he'll
do himself creditable.
Excuse this long letter, and believe me
Yours till dc;h,
MAJER JACK DOWNING.
SLANDERING TIIF. ILLUSTRIOUS
DEAD.
The Kepublican Convention, held in this
city on Monday, passed the following resolu
tion, as a bait to catch gudgeons :
Resolced, That we resognize not only the
loyalty of the organization known as the
"People's Party," but that of all Democratic
citizens who, like the late Senator Douglas,
give their ordial and unqualified support to
the Government in its efforts to put down re
hellion, and desire that they also be toll}
represented on any ticket this Conventii ii
may adopt.
This affectionate reference to Douglas by
men who. for ten years previous to his death,
spent their days and nights in reviling him,
would be amusing if it were not infamous!}
hypocritical. But in one respect this resolu
tion assumes a more serious character. I
implies that, iflivng, Douglas would join the
Black Republicans, an 1 subscribe to then
plan of " supporting the Government in its
efforts to put down the rebellion." This is.
virtually, charging that lamented state-men
with art inclination to plunder the treasury,
arm the Southern slaves, annihilate a dozen
or more State Governments, and ruin tin
country.—We regard this as a vile slander
upon the illustrious dead, unwarranted by
anything ever said or done by Douglas. II s
whole record attests his bitter hatred of the
principles of this party, which after traducing
him as a traitor for years, now, that he is
dead is, claiming him as its own.
Even at the very threshold of the world t<-
which his spirit has departed, he desired thai
his children should be taught to lore the Con
slitution which these Republicans repudia>e
and which some of their leaders declare to b(
"a covenant with death and a league with
hell;" and, in his last publie speech, he de
nounced the policy of the Republican party in
respect to arming the slaves. He was for tin
preservation of the Union, but declared that
" savages must not be let loose" upon the
women and children of the South. On the
3d of January, 1861, Mr. Douglas, in the U.
S. Senate declared and proved tl.e Republi
cans to be responsible for the failure of Crit
tenden's Compromise. He said:—
" I believe this to be a fair basis of amicable
adjustments. If you of the Republican side
are not willing to accept this, nor the propo
sition of the Senator from Kentucky, [Mr
Crittenden,] pray tell us what you are will
ing to do ?
" I address the inquiry to Republicans
alone, for the reason that in the Committee o
Thirteen, a few days ago, every member from
the South, including those from Cotton States
[Messrs. Davis and Toombs,] expressed their
readiness to accept I he prop >sition of my ven
erable friend from Kentucky, [Mr. Critten
den,] as a final settlement of the controversy,
if tendered and sustained by tbe Republican
members.
" Ilence the sole responsibility," (mark
the language,) "of our disagreement, and the
only difficulty in the way of amicable adjust
ment, is with the Republican party.-"
But, notwithstanding those well-known
facts at to the sentiments of Mr, Douglas
L TERMS: SI.SO PEH AN93TJM
throughout his life, up to the very hoUr of
his death, we find the ultra wing of the
Black Republican party of Philadelphia pasa
ing a resolution implying that if Douglas
were alive, he would now be acting with that
ultra portion of that ultra party ! , We know
not how a greater reproach could have been
cast upon the dead prfriot. It is placing him,
in the same category with Forney !— Evening
\ Journal
At the meetiog of the Democratic .State
Central Committee, held the 29th ult the fol
lowing resolution was adopted:
Itesolved, That the Chairman call upon
the lotai men of Pennsylvania, through the
Democratic Standing Committees of the sev
eral counties, to meet in the several cities
and counties of the Slate, at such places as
shall be designated by the said standing
Committees respectively, on the 17th of Sep
tember neXtj to celebrate that day as the
anniversary of the day of the adoption of tho
Constitution of the United States.
Pursuant to these resolutions, I call upon
the Democratic Standing Committees re
spectively in the several cities and countiea of
Pennsylvania to request the Democrats and
all other loyal citizens to convene in mass
meetings at 6Uch places and at such hours as
they respectively may designate, on the 17th
of September next, to commemorate the
adoption of the Constitution of the United
States of America.
Since the 17th of September, 1787, there
has been no period in the history of America
when it was so eminently fitting and import
ant as the present to bring" to the attention of
the American people great fundamental prin
ciples, which must underlie any Government,
where civil and religious liberty exist, and
especially those that underlie the Government
of this Union—a Union which rests for its
foundation upon that Constitution which
a (firms and proposes to make sacred and per
petual those principles. That Constitution
and that Union one and inseparable
availed by f.es throughout the whole land,
by Secessionists in the South and Abolition
ists in the North. The former by a bold or
ganized armed movement, strike directly and
avowedly at the whole sovereignty and exist
ence of our Constitutional Government. The
latter by equally direct efforts hut from un
der the cloak of recently declared friendship
an.l patriotism, are seeking to thrust their
traitorous B'illettoes into the heart's blood of
the nation.
The people cf this land are the. . poffi-ee of
all pnwet\ They made Constitutions, and
they can, and, (unless they would become the
victims of despotism or anarchy) must uphold,
them. Th great fundamental principles of
civil and religious liberty asserted in the
American Constitution are essential to securei
us in tlie enjoyment of life and propel ty, and
II the pursuit of happiness. Among these are
! he freedom of speech and of the Press, tha
right of the people peactbly to assemble, the
rmht of the people to be secure :n their per
sons. houses, paper* and effects againt un
reasonable searches aud seizures, that no
warrant shall issue but upon probable cause
supported by oath or that no
person shall be held to an.*wer for a capital or
other infamous crime unless on a presentment
or indictment of a Grand Jury exempt in cases
arising in the land and naval forces, or in tha
militia when in actual service in time of tvgr
>r public danger, that no citizen shall be de
prived of life, liberty or property Without due
process of law that in all criminal prosecu
i n, the accursed 4 shall enjoy the fight to a
speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury
f the State or District where the crime shall
nave teen committed, which District shall,
nave been previously ascertained by law, and
to be informed of the nature and cause of the
accusation to be confronted with the witnesses
against him, to have .compulsory process for
obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have
the assictance of counsellor his defence ;
Thai the powers not delegated to the Untied
States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited
b\ it to the States, are reserved to the States
respectively, or to the people.
Among the powers not delegated to the
United States,but reserved to the States re
ap. etively or to the people, as the right to
hold elections and to determine upon and fix
the qualtlications of vot rs. With the people
of Pennsylvania this great right is fixed bj
the Constitution, of the State, and no power
hut that Constitution", had laws enacted in
pursuance thereof can prohibit the exercise
of; or limit or restrain that righta rigot
most inestimable to our people, and formida
ble to tyrants only.
Fellow countrymen, on the coming anni
versary of the day of the adoption of the
American Cohstitution, in the exercise of
' the right of the people peaceably to assem
ble,''let us all solemnly and reverently, in
the face of ail men and before Heaven, declare
our fit ui determination " to pledge our lives,"
our fortunes, and our sacred, honors," M to
preserve protect and defend the Constitution
of the United States " Let us afford to Presi
dent Lincoln the most indubitable evidence,
that in the observance of his oath of office to
do the -ante thing, we will uphold and sup
port Into, just, as readily as we have already
shown him tha in filling up from our fankt
the great bulk of the army, now and hereto
fore in the field, we have always been ready
at whatever sacrifice to striae down open and
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