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TIIE TWO PICTURES .
BL" STELLA.
Two lovers— (l peeped through the key-hole.
Hope 'twas a commenable peep,)
Sat bieatbing sweet nothii gs by moonlight,
44 hen sensible souls were asleep:
They said—hut how can I repeat i
T was whispered you know—nothing more ;
But the round moon laughed in at the window,
And I—through the fc.de in the door.
Two hands were clasped fondly as could be,
Two faces wereradient with joy ;
And I spied inong the frolicsome moonbeams,
A certain sly, mischievous Hoy;
And a fair cheek giew crimson with blushes,
44 hen hinted they sion should be wed :
44 bile the roun 1 moon laughed in at the wiujow,
And I through the door hid my head.
4) ell to make a short tale they were married,
In less than a month after that;
And the groom was as prouJ of his bargain,
. As the bride of her new wedding hat:
For a week—or—perhaps, a day longer,
'Twas "honey" and "darling" and "dear";
When the climax of conjugal blisses
Seemed reached—hut I'll not be severe.
Years, in splendor, h id dawned, and had faded,
White moons had sailed down the dim sky:
When I thought of the rapturous lo.ers,
I peeped through the key-bole to spy;
Were they whispering still in the moonlight,
And bmi ting gay ca.-tlcs in air-
Were the lip, and the eye moist with love-dew,
And the smooth, glassy shine on the hair.
So I waolered one morn till I found tl em
Sitting gluui in a summer day's glare :
And I waited a vain to discover
One loverly look in the pair;
True, no moonlight lay glistening around them,
| Or no magical shadow at play;
\et I scarce could believe mv own senses,
j At the scene of that midsummer's day.
I "Small editions, in calf," ranged the parlor
44 ith knots in their carroty hair—
All their though's bent on divers gymnastics,
0 cr sofa, an 1 table and chair ;
Low-ctadled, a sott-hundled dumpling,
Lay thrashing the flies. fa t asleep;
While the room grew perfumed with boiled callage;
(Oil think of it lovers, and weep !)
I glanced at the tired little figure,
Be.it low o'er s <tne ur.l ni.-Le i seams:
Then, sidelong, the while, at the "master,"
And wondered if these oere the dreams
| That bewitched the Idest ou*s with their romance
In the sweet time ere th". two were we
When the round moon laughed in at the window,
And I—through the key-hole instead.
Select S 1 tori).
Giving Away a Child.
PARENTAL LOVE VS. REASON.
0.1 board tine of the late steamers, bound
for the far West, was an Irish family—hits
hand, wife, and three children. They were
evidently in very destitute circumstances; —
but the exdeedtng beauty of the children, two
girls and a boy, was the admiration <>f their
iellow passengers. A lady, who had 110
children of her own, was desir.us of adopt
ing the little travelers, and nude application
to the fuller, through a friend, who gives
the following touching, and, as we suppose,
truthful ace nint of the Negotiation :
1 proceeded, he says, immediately upon
my delicate diplomacy. Fueling my friend
on deck, I thus opened the affair :
"You are very poor."
His answer was very characteristic.
44 Poor, sir !" said he, 44 ay, if there's a
poorer man than tne troublin' the world,
God pity both of us, for we'd be about
aqua I."
44 Then bow do you manage to' support
your children ?"
41 Is it supporting them, sir ? Why, I don't
support them any way ; they get supported
B"ine way or other. It'll be time enough
6r me to complain when they don't."
" Would it lie a relief to you to part with
one ol them ?"
It was too sudden; he turned sharply
around.
" A what, sir ? he cried, "a relief to part
from my child ? Would it be a relief to have
lite hands chopped from the body, or the
heart torn out of mv breast ? A relief, in
deed ! God be good to us, what do you
inane ?"
" You don't understand me," I replied.—
" If, now, it were in one's power to provide
comfortably for one of your children would
yon stand in the way of its interests ?"
4 * No, sir ?" -aid he, 44 the heavens know
that I would willingly cut the sunshine
away from myself, that they might get all
warmth of it; but tell us what you're driv
ing at."
I then told him that a lady bad taken a
fancy Jocne of bis children, and if he would
consent to it, it should be educated, and fi
nally settled comfortably in life.
This threw him in a fit ot cogitation. lie
scratched his head, and looked the very pic
ture of bewilderment. The struggle between
a father's love and a child's interest was evi
dent and touching. At length he said:
" Oh, tnurther, wouldn't it be a great
"TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RlGHT."—Thomas Jefferson.
TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, JAN. 28, 1863.
thnie for the baby ? But I must go and
talk with Mary—that's the mother of them ;
an' it wouldn't be right tn bcgivin' away her
children afore her face, and she to know
nothing at all about it."
" Away with you, then," said I, "and
brin uie an answer back as soon as possi
ble "
In about half an hour he returned, leading
two of his children. His eyes were red and
swollen, and his face pale with excitement
and agitation.
'• Well," I inquired, 14 what success ?"
" Bedad, it was a hard struggle, sir," said
be. 44 Bit I've been talking to Mary, and
she says, as 1 's for the child's go< d, maybe
the heavens above will give us strength to
bear it."
"Very well; and which of them is it to
he V
•'Fatx, and I don't know, sir;" and he
ran his hands dubiously over both.
" Here's litile Norah—she's the oldest,
and wont need her mother so much; hut
then—oh, tear an' algers, it's myself that
can't tell whiffi I'd rather part with least ;
so take the first one that comes, with a bless
ing. There, sir " and lie handed over little
Norah ; turning hack, he snatched her up in
his arms and gave her one long, hearty fa
ther's kiss, s tying through his tears :
'• May God be good to him that's good to
you, and them that offers you hurt or harm
may their souls never see St. Peter."
Tien taking his other child by the hand
he walked away leaving Norah with me.
I took her down to the cabin, and we
though the matter settled. It must be con
fessed, to my indignation, however, in about
an hour's tune I saw friend Pat at the win
dow. As soon as It • caiicht rny eye he be
gan making signs for tne to come out. I did
so, and found be had the other child in his
" What's the matter now ?" I asked
" Well, sir," .-aid he, " I ask your pardon
f r troubling you about so fo--lisli a thing as
a child or two. hut were tlmikin' that may
be ii'd make no differ—you see, sir, I've
Leon taikin' to Mary, and sh ; says she can't
part with Norah, because the ceature has a
look ov me, but here's Itttle Biddy, she's
purtyer far, an' av you please sir, will you
swap ?"
'* Certainly ; whenever you like," said I
So he snatched up little Norah, as though
it was .some recovered treasure, an I dart el
away with her, leaving Biddy, who remain
ed all night ; hut lo ! the moment we enter
ed the c thin in the morning, there was P,'
making his mysterious signs again at the
window, and this time he had the youngest
a babv, in his arms.
" W.l it's ivr hit, nov I inq tired.
44 Be the hokey fly, sir, it's myself that'-
almost ashamed to tell ye. Ye see. Fv
been 'alkin' to Mary, and she didn't like t"
part with Norah, because she has a look 1
me, an' be 1110 soul, [ can't pirt with Bd 1\
because she's the model ot her mother; bin
there's little Paudeen, sir. The r e's a lump
of Christian for you, two years old, and not
a day more; he'll never he any trouble to
anyone; fr av he takes after his mother
he'll have the brightest eye, an' av he take
after his father he'd have a fine broad putt
of shoulders topu-h his way through the
world. Will you swap sgatti, sir I"
•' With all my heart," said I, 44 its all the
same to me and so litile Paudeen was
left with me.
44 11a, ha." said I to myself, as I looke '
into Ins leg laughing eyes, 44 so the affair 1-
swttled at last."
But it wasn't ; for ten minutes had scarce
ly elapsed, when Pat rushed into the cabin,
without sign or ceremony, snatched up the
baby, and said :
44 It's no use ; I've been taikin' to Mart,
an' we can't do it. Look at htm, sir; he's
the youngest an' the best of the hatch. YOll
wouldn't keep him from us.
" You see, sir, Norah has a look of me, an'
Biddy has a look of Mary ; hut be me soul,
little Paudeen has the mother's eye, an' my
nose, a little of us all over. No, sir ; we can
hear hard fortune, starvation and misery, hut
ww can't part with our children, unloss it he
the will of Heaven to take them from us.
ANECDOTE OF POPE.
One day, as Pope was engaged in translat
ing the 44 Iliad" he came to a passage which
neither he nor his assistant could interpret.
A stranger, who stood by, in his humble
garb, very modestly suggested that, as In
had some little acquaintance with Greek,
perhaps he could assist them.
44 Try it, try it! said Pope, with the air
of a b< y who is encouraging a monkey to
eat red pepper.
" There is an error in the print." said the
stranger, looking at the text. 44 Read as tl
there was no interrogation point at the end
of line, and you have the meaning at once."
Pope's assistant at once improved upon
this hint, and rendered the passage without
difficulty.
Pope was chagrined—he could never en
dure to be surpassed in anything. Turning
to the stranger, he said, in a sarcastic tone.
" Will you please tell me what an interro
gat ion is ?
•'Why, ir," said the stranger, scanning
the ill-shaped poet, "it is a little crooked,
contemptible thing that asks questions."
r'olitioctl.
Dr. OLDS ON ARBITRARY ARRESTS.
GRAND RECEPTION AT LANCASTER, OHIO—DR.
OLDS' ACCOUNT OF HIS ARREST AND IMPRIS
ONMENT—THE HORRORS OF FORT LAFAY
ETTE EXPOSED.
On Christmas day* Dr. Olds had a most en
thusiastic reception, at Lancaster, Ohio, and
addressed over ten thousand persons. YYe
give the portions uf h s remarks relating to
his arrest and imprisonment :
011 the 12th of Augu-t las', after 10 o'clo'k
at night, my h< use was forcibly enttred b\
three government ruffians, who with violence
seized my person, and holding a revolver at
my head demanded rny surrender.
When, after my capture, I demanded to
know by what au'hority they had thus rude
ly broken into my room, and by what author
ity they had thus seized ufion my person,
they very grumhtngly informed me that the)
were acting under authority of the War De
partuient. I then demanded to be shown
tiieir warrant. They informed me that I had
no right to make any such demand—that tt.e
order which they held was for their protec
tion. an.l not for my gratification. They,
however, permitted me t see it. The doc
iitnent was -igned by the Assistant Secretary
ot War—was dated at Washirgton city, Au
.list 2. 1802 It was directed to W. H.Scott,
and commissioned hitn to take with hitn unt
issistawt, and to proceed to Lancaster, Ohio,
and arrest E lson B Olds, and to convey hitn
to New York and deliver hint to the com
manding office: of Fort Lafeyette ; and that
if lie was resisted in the execution 'if the or
der, he was directed to cill upon Governor
Todd, of Ohio, for such assistance as might
be necessary. The order contained no inti
•nation of the " nature and cause" of the ac
1 *
cusa'ton against me ; indeed.it charged me
w 11h the Commission of no offense whatever ;
and when I demanded of my captors to know
what were the chargi-s against me. thev re
plied that tln-y 44 did not know." Thus, m\
friends vva- I dragged ftvin a sick-bed, (or I
■vas at that time, and (>r many long and wea
ry days and nights afterward seriously af
flicttfd Willi an attack of the blood flux. In
Gits condition I was hurried into a cariiatie.
and during the remainder of the night driven
to Columbus, and just at da) light placed up
the cars and taken in my sick and ex
hanstcd condition, wt bout a moment's delay
0 Fori Lilavette. After t In- Degrading op
•ration had been performed, and before con
ducting tne from the Commandant's room to
tiy dungeon, all the other prisoners about
the fort were I -eked into the'r rooms, tha' I
nielil not he seen an 1 r -cognized, lest per ad
venture information might he given to the
vorld and m> friends of mv whereabouts
nuTllie cruelties to he practiced upon tne.—
One of the prisoners having learned a few
1 t\s afterwards, through the medium of tin
newspapers, who the mysterious stranger
was. wrote to a friend of his 44 that Dr. Olds,
•f Ohio, had lie-n brought to Fort Lalayette
and placed in solitary confinement." Ilts
Letter was returned to him by the command
ant, requiring him to str.ke out so much ot
Has referred to the case of Dr Olds. M)
iungeon was tin the ground, with a brick
l>avemet <>r floor over about the one-half ol
n ; and >■• great was the dampness that in a
verv short tune a mould w<>uld cather upon
any article left upon the floor. My bed was
hi iron stretcher, with a very thin hu-k mat
ess upon it—so thin, indeed, that you could
feel every iron slat in it the moment you lay
down upon it. The brick floor, with all its
lampness, Would have been far more com
fortable than I his iron and hu-k bed, had it
not been for the rats and the vermin that in
iested the room. I had also in my room a
t>r ken table and a chair; a chunk of gov
eminent bread, with an old stinking ru*ii
tin of Lincoln coffee, with a slice of boiled
<a|ted poik, was tny fare. My only druik
othtr than their nasty coffee, was rain-water
I was furnished with no towel, neither could
any entreaty procure one for me. Neither
c uild I inudce my jailors to let me have a
candle during my long, tedious, sick nights.
No entreaty could procure for inc the return
of tie medicine which had been taken from
me when I was searched. Again and again
I begged for the little bit of opium to relieve
in) suffering, which had been taken out of
tny pocket with my other medicine, but all
m vain. After ten days of such treat me m
and such suff ring, late one night the ser
geant of the guard brought me some medi
cine which, he informed me, the surgeon of
Fort Hamilton had sent ttie. This surgeon
knew nothing about my case, having never
seen me or been intornied by me of my con
dition. With no light in my cell, with no
■me to give me even a drink of my rain wa
ter, you can well imagine that I would not
take ttie medicine. Ido not know but that
my jailors designed to poi-on me. 1 heir pre
vious treatment justified such an opinion 1
made up my mind that it t died in Fort La
layette, 1 would die a natural death, u .less
indeed Lincoln ordered me to be tried by a
drumhead Cem t martial and shot, winch 1
felt he had as much right to do as he had to
arrest and imprison me in the manner he had
done. Under such treatment, and by this
tune, you may well imagine that 1 had got a
" big mad" on me ; and thia,\ think, helped
to save my life, for the truth is, I had got to
be too mad to die, and no thanks to Lincoln
but under a kind Providence I began to get
better from that time on. If anything could
add to the cruelty inflicted upon me during
these long days and nights of my sickness
and suffering, it was trie refusal of the com
mandant to allow me the use of a Bible.—
Day after day I begged of the sergeant to
procure one for me. His constant answer
was, '• the commanding officer says you
shan't have one." I begged him to remind
the commanding officer thai we lived in a
Chiistian, and not in a heathen land—that I
was an American citizen, and not a condemn
ed fi lon. Still the answer was "the com
manding officer says you shan't have one,
and you need riot ask any more and it
was not until af er sixteen days of such more
than heathenish treatment that Col. Burke,
ol Fort Hamilton, upon the importunity of
my son, sent an order to the cotiiman "ant of
Fort Lafayette to let me have a Bible. It
was upon the sixteenth day of rny lonely im
prisonment, that my son, upon an order from
the Secretary of War, was permitted to see
me, not in my lonely cell but in the com
mandant's room ana presence. It was with
much difficulty chat, even at. that time, I wa
able to walk Irom my cell to the command
ant s room. Ibis was the first time during
my imprisonment that I was able to obtain
an interview with the commandant In bis
week I v inspection of the prisoners he bad
carefully avoided my dungeon. No kindlv
message of inquiry as to my wants and con
dition had ever reached me from him. I
seized upon this opportunity to let him know
that I was a humrn being, and as such, enti
tled to humane tr atment ; that such ■ thine
as refusing a prisoner a Bible was unknown
in any civilized community. Xlts answer
was, that he was not permitted, under his
••rders, to let nte have one. I had great rea
son to be thankful that my son's visit gave
me an opportunity to see the commandant,
for from that time, although kept in solitary
my co 1 lition was made more
coti.f. l iable. A better matress was put up
on rny bed, occasionally a raw onion or a to
matoe was added to my dinner, and twice, I
believe, some pickled beets were sent uie
from the cook room. My son was compelled
to vi-it Washington city and obtain from
the Secretary of War an order to that effect,
before he could see me As soon as he learn
ed how I had been treated, he returned im
ined'aielj to Washington, and with the as
sistance of a very kind friend, pr-.cured an
order from Secretary Stanton fir my re
lease from solitary confinement, and that 1
should have all the privileges accorded to
the other prisoners. And that after twentv
tvo days of this loathsome and worse than
heathenish treatment, my dungeon door wa
unlocked, and I was permitted to hold inter
roure with mv fellow prisoners. Such my
friends, is a plain statement of tire manner ol
my arrest, and the treatment 1 received dur
ing the twenty-two days of tn> solitary con
finement.
If it affords any gratification to those Re
publicans who caused rny arrest, they a'e
welcome to it. Their time will come some
day. 44 The end is not yet." Af er my re
lease from solitary confinement, 1 was put
into a casemate with eleven others, making
twelve of us in a room measuring 15 by 25;t.
In this room wt slept, cooked and eat In it
were our beds, chairs, tables, trunks, cooking
utensils, table furniture, &c. We were lock
ed into our room at sundown, and unlocked
again at sunrise. Through the day we were
permitted to stand or sit in front of our cell
mside of the fort. We had, morning ami
evening, what was called a 44 walking hour."
This hour was sometimes ten, and sometimes
thirty minutes long, just as suited the caprice
or whim of the sergeant. Our walking round
was inside the fort. We were permitted to
walk backwards and forwards across the area
of the fort, which was perhaps a little larger
than youi City Hall. We were permitted
through the Commanding officer, to supply
and cook our own food. We were compelled
to u-e rain-water for ail purposes—cooking
washing and drinking. Each ami every tune
that we drew any water frein the cistern we
were required first to obtain permission from
the sergeant of the guard. This, like all os
tern water, was sometimes quite usable and
sometimes quite offensive. Mr. Ghilds, one
of my mess, informed me that atone time
during the latter part of last winter, 111 cun-
sequence of the accumulation of ice in the
gutters, all the washings and scourings from
the soldiers' quarters run into the cistern out
of which the prjsoners were compelled to
draw the water which they used—that the
wat r became so filthv that they had to boil
it and skim off the filth before using it; and
that notwithstanding they had three other
cisterns inside the fort, full of comparatively
clean water, yet the Commanding officer com
pelled them to use these fillhy washings
Iroin the soldiers' quarters. I will, with
your permission, my friends, telate anothea
incident connected with Fort Lafayette, so
monstrous, so hoathcnish as almost to chai
lenge belief—giving the incident as related to
me by n eye witness, himself one of the pris
oners referred to. There was at one time
confined in one of the rooms of what is called
the ba'tery, so accurately described in Gov
ernor Mooiehead'a narrative—tomo thirty
I TERMS: 01.50 PER ATUTtfrm^
prisoners. One of these poor fellows wu
prostrated with sickness and near unto death
Night came on and it was thought that tha
pool fellow could not lire till morning. Tha
prisoners confined in the with the dy
ing man, bogged that for one nfght, at least,
they might be permitted to have alight iir
their prison ; and, monstrous as it may seem,
this request was refused ; and in this boasted
land of liberty, civilization and Christianity,
these prisoners were locked up in their dark
prison house with the dying man. During
that long, dark night they could bear his dy
ing moans deeper and still deeper grew the
death-rattles until near morning, when all be
came still and hushed ; and when morning
broke in upon that loathesome dungeon;
death bad done his work. This poor victim
of Lincoln's despotism had ceased to live;
his released spirit had gone to that world
where the " weary are at rest, and the wick
ed cease from troubling." There is to-day
confined in one of the Cells of Fort Lafayette,
a poor prisoner, said to be partially deranged
since last February he has been in solitary
confinement. llis cell is darkened ; a seutry
marches night and day before his prison door
he is permitted no interconrse, not even to
see the other prisoners. You can well imag
ine how strict his confinement is when I tell
you that his aged and widowed mother, who
for months' had been seeking to obtain an in
terview with her son, at last having obtained
the long sought for permit, came one Sab
bath day to visit hitn. Before tho prisoner
was taken from his dungeon to the command
ant's room, in which his mother was permit
ted to see him, the other prisoners, myself
among them, were all locked into their rooms,
a file of soldiers was detailed toguard him
Irom his cell—a double guard placed in the
sally p< rt. And what suppose you was this
man's offense, that for so many months he
had been thus inhumanly t?eaited7 Why
simply this ? On one dark, stormy night,
with a ljjp preserver made out of oyster cans,
he jumped into the sea and attempted to es
cape.
And in conclusion, my friends, permit me
to say. that although I would not " take the
oath," attempted again and again to be forced
upon rue by Mr. Lincoln, as a condition to
my release, yet when in two weeks from this
time, I take iny seat as your representative
in the Legslature, I shall most cheerfully
take the oath of allegiance to both the Con
stitution of the United States and the Consti
tution of the State of Ohio. That oath, not
i withstanding the examples of both Lincoln
; ami Todd to the contrary, I shall maintain
inviolate. All those sacred guarantees which
b>th these constitutions throw around you,
in your inalienable right-, I will endeavor to
enforce to the utmost of my ability, in de
lianceef the despotism of both the President
and the Governor, although by ao doing I
may be again returned to my lonely oell in
Fort Lafayette. Again, my friends, for this
extraordinary reception—for this most cor
dial greeting, I tender you my heartfelt
thanks.
HOME AFTER BUSINESS HOURS.
The road along which the man of business
travels in pursuit of competence of wealth is
not a macadamized one, nor does it ordinarily
lead through pleasant scenes and by the Well
springs of iehght.
On the contrary, it is a rough and rugged
path, beset with ''waif a bit " thorns, and
pitfalls which can only be evaded by the
watchful care of circumspection. After every
da\'s journey over this worse than rough
turnpike road, the wayfarer needs something
more than rest; he requires solace ; and he
deserves it. lie is weary of the dull prose of
life, and athirst fore she poetry, Happy ia
the business man who can find that solaoe
and that poetry at home. Warm greetings
from loviug hearts, fond glances from bright
eyes, the welcome shouts from children, the
many thousand little arrangements for our
Comfort ami enjoyment that silently tell of
thoughtful and expectant love, the gentle
ministrations that disencumber us into an old
and easy feat before we are aware of it, these,
and like tokens of affection and sympathy,
constitute the poetry which reconciles us to
•he prose of life. Think of this, ye wive*
and daughters of business men !—think of
the toils, the anxieties,the mortifications and
wear that fathers undergo to secure for you
comfortable homes, and compensate them for
their trials by making them happy by their
own fi.'eside.
JC2ST -Among the conditions of tale by an'
Irish auctioneer, aas the following: '• The
highest bidder to be the purchaser, unless
some gentleman bids more." -
This snow-storm the boys regard
as a joke," said one to Dr. S, during a late
storui. " Yes," replied the doctor, "and it
is a juke that any one can see the drift of."
" Biddy," said a lady, "I wish you would
step over and see how old Mrs. Jones is thia
morning." In a few minutes Biddy returned
*ilh the infumation that Mrs. Jones fru*
just seveuty two years, sevfen months and two
days old.
i
An empty purse and a new house
makes a man wise but too Ist*
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