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Mvtlioppcn, Scjt. 13.1361.
Corner.
The War, who Pays the Cost!
Who pays the cost'? Ask the sister,
Sorrowful she sits and sighs—
Mourning for an only brother,
" The cost is mine," the maiden cries.
Who pays the cost 1 Ask the father,
Grieved, l ut silent, quelling grief,
That swells his bosom for his boy,
"I ve dearly paid" his answer brief.
Who pays the cost ? Ask the mother,
Bent with sorrow as with tears ;
She weeps a son, in battle fallen
" The cost is mine, I pay with tears."
Who pays the cost 1 Ask the orphan,
Sad and friendless now his life;
liis father in the conflict tell—
"' Tie mine, the eost of this fell strife."
Who pays the cost 1 Ask the widow,
Broken hearted, lone and poor —
Iler husband slain, she doth bewail,
" Tve paid my all, 1 hate no more."
What is the cost ? Bank bills and gold!
The dross that misers hoard and hide 1
Those tears of grief, a thousand fold,
Outweigh all other cost beside.
[Columbus (O.) Crisis.
Sclctt stoni.
From the San Francisco Golden Era.
A Truthful Story of to-day.
Mrs. Smith !—of course you know her.—
Her husband, Mr. Smith, is a wholesale deal
or in codfish, gimlets, molasses, cotton goods
and patent medicines. Mr. and Mrs. Smith
are of the real ban lon,the recherche of socie
ty, beau mov.de considered Mrs. Smith the
belle of their peculiar element. You meet
Mrs. Smith upon the street and politely raise
your hat, or more properly duck your head !
in a bow, in token of, " I would cut it off if it j
would render you any pleasure." Now you
would hardly believe Mrs. Smith, that richly ;
dressed and fashionable lady, with proud j
step and a continuous curl at servant girls!
upon her beautiful and haughty lip, was once
a servant—ah, twice—once a servant and
factory hand, in the l'ankee land of Lowell.
That's to her honor ; for have not kings mar
ried commoners, and dukes made duchesses
ol peasant girls ? She was haughty a few
months ago, but those who thought her all
arrogance now find in her amiability, and '
those who thought her haughty, now love j
her for lier sympathy and kindness. There-!
by begins our story.
Mrs. Smith was the most unpleasant mis
tress servant girls ever tried to please, and
if by dint of perseverance any one of them
remained in her employ two weeks Mr.
Smith's astonishment was plainly visible.
Well, Smith puts on airs, as well as Mrs.
Smith.—lt was by a lucky accident he go*
started and followed up his fortunes until lie
obtained his present importance. Tell Smith
he worked at common labor a few years ago,
or how he learned the art of buying or sell
ing for profit by graduating from boarding
house stewardship, and there learned his
first idea of' trade,' he will probably reply—
" Ah, them was old times." Old times, true
enough! Just a decade gone siuce ' them
old, old times.'
The man at the intelligence office had sfint
•five different girls to Mrs. Smith's employ in
two weeks, and on this particular morning
Mrs. Smith wanted a new servant.
" Mrs. Smith," said the lady, addressing
her senior partner, iu a tone that said plainer
than her words—" I have an order for you
this morning." Mr. Smith, the steamer has
arrived. I see by this morning's paper, there
were three hundred women on board, and I
should think that you might get me a real
good servant woman. I Want no more girls
about this house. I bel'ove that if 1 have as
much trouble another six months, with ser
vant girls, as I have within the past six, I
shall go distraeted, die, or he .obliged to do
my own house work."
" Well, dear," Smith replied, in a banter
ing tone of voice—(bantering with Mrs.
Smith was like little boys venturing upon
thin ice ;) —" well, dear, if you do the first
act, I 6hall take good care of you—in the asy
lum ) if the second, I will see you decently
entombed; if you do your own housework, 1
will pay you servant's wages. There!"
For a moment Mrs. Smith held her breath,
then came low murmuring®. Smith began
to move. Then the first sharp drops from
between her pearl like teeth and rosy lips—
Smith was in the hall. Then, with the thun
dering majesty of Zantippe Junior she spoke
—aud Smith was making for the street.
A boy and a girl came running towards
the breakfast room while yet the clouds hung
over tie atmosphere of that cozy place. Mrs.
Smith smiles—and the sunshine breaks thro'.
•'Not yet dressed, my darlings?"—and the
full tide of tho noonday brightness shines re
splendent all through, mellowed by the tone
of a mother's voice.
" I would like a situation," said a mild face
at the intelligence office. The face was not
actually what is called pretty, but there was
"TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RlGHT."—Thomas Jefleraou.
TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEB. 18, 1863.
' a charm about the whole person that was
I rather prepossessing. The intelligencer look
| ed at the woman—as only men in that sta
tion can—to see if the women would 6uit the
place, and the place suit the woman.
• " I have only one place," he replied, " Mrs.
Smith's and she is the hardest women to suit
with help in this city. But if you have a
mind to, you can try the place, and if you
stay with her a mouth I'll charge you the
usual fee ; if not I'll get you another place."
The woman was sat isfied to try, and a boy
was sent to show her the lady's residence.
" Mrs. Smith," soliloquized the woman as
she walked up towards the mountain. " Mrs.
Smith." A paleness overspread her face as
she caught a glimpse of the features of Mrs.
Smith through the window when she turned
into the basement of the house, but with an
effort she gathered courage ; and her cheek
grew red with the returning flush.
"Mr sent this woman," said the boy
to Mrs. Smith as they entered the large
breakfast room, where the children were
making boats out of egg shells and floating
them in ponds of coffee.
" Another woman," cried Ed, running up
to her and catching hold of her gown, "an
cther wom'n,' lisped little Kate as she follow
ed her brother's example.
" Woman, never mind them," said Mrs,
Smith. "Ed and Kate go and be dressed—
go this instant, or I'll whip you."
The children did not heed the mother, and
the woman was hardly conscious of eithe r .—
She seemed ail attention to other thoughts—
perhaps about her own children or these she
loved and left behind. The office boy, the
while, was saying, " And Mr. 6ays he
hopes she will suit you—and since there has
been so much said about girl's wages in the
papers they are all going off in the country—
and thi.i one came on the steamer, yesterday,
from the States."
The boy's errand done, he left the mis
tress with the woman. Mrs. Smith seated
herself upon the lounge, wlii'e the woman
stood gazing with apparent astonishment
around her.
" What countrywoman are you 7" Mrs.
Smith inquired, as she began the formula of
her accustomed c/nH-echism.
" American," the woman articulated, in
reply, as if half afraid to speak.
" llow old are you ?"
" Twenty-two."
" Maid or widow V
" Widow."
" Can you take good care of children. Ed
and Kate are two dear sweet children, and if
you are any ways cross, I fear you will not
suit me."
" I am very fond of children, madam," and
the woman fairly shuddered as she spoke the
word " Madam."
" Can you wash for the family ; there are
only four of us."
" I can try."
" Can you cook a good dinner if our ser
vant man helps yon—for sometimes we have
company, at other times we are not particu
lar?"
" I believe T can. My sister used to praise
me for being a good cook."
" Your sister 1 Poor soul, perhaps she was
not a judge." The woman bit her lips until
the biood f.ii'ly started from their trembling
veins. " Well I want you to do chamber
work besides, and make yourself generally
useful about the house. Now what wages
do you expect V
" Thirty-live dollars a month, I was told
was the usual wages."
•' Thirty five dollars," and Mrs. Smith
raised her eyes in surprise. " Why you must
mean twenty-five dollars—that is the high
est wages I ever paid," she exclaimed. And
Mrs. Smith smiled for she had heard the boy
say that the woman had just arrived, and she
was one of those women opposed to high
wages for servants.
" I suppose it must be twenty-five," said
the woman timidly. " I do not know what
wages are paid here for help—l only arrived
yesterday."
" I can assure you, Bridget, that twenty
five dollars a month is very good wages, and
if that will do you, why—l will try you."
Bridget, Mr. Smith had called her-—and as
Mrs. Smith had called every girl and woman
°f the fifty she had. Bridget's first duty
was to wash and dress little Ed and Kate—
and somehow or other the children were
made to look unusually neat that morning,
and Bridget's eyes were red as if from weep
ing—and Ed and Ivate each had a remarka
ablc story, " the new woman kissed them
most to pieces."
When Mr. Smith returned to supper that
evening he was agreeably surprised to find
the house in unusual good order. Mrs. Smith
was in cheerful spirits, for she had found less
to do that day than she had for a long time
before. Bridget seemed to be ahead of her
in everything and to anticipate her wants, —
The children minded her by instinct, and Mr
Smith declared that if Bridget was as good
every day in producing comfort in the house
hold as she was on the first of her introduc
tion, ho would not part with her for thrice
her wages,
Two months rolled around and Mrs. Smith
began to become very uneasy in ber new sit
uation, for she had no occasion to direct or
superintend affairs—she became irritable and
nervous, One day there had been quite a
number of visitors, and whatever went wrong
in the parlor that raised Mrs. Smith's ire, was
visited on the head of the uuoffending Bridg
et.
'Husband,' was Mrs. Smith's ejaculation of
complaint as soon as Mr. Smith entered that
evening, 'to-morrow morning, when you go
down town, leave a note at the intelligence
office, and tell them to send me another wo
man. Bridget was quite impudent and saucy
to-day, and I will not put up with a servant's
impudence,'
'But wife,' was Smith's remonstrance. I
thought that Bridget was the chief par excel
lence of house maids, 1 think y. u said '
'Mr- Smith I know what a servant should
be,' she exclaimed, 'and I do not want you to
tell me.'
'Yes, yes I have no doubt you do and
Smith balanced a plate upon his fingers, as if
in the act of washing ib, and Mrs. Smith's
face blushed as red as a scarlet.
'Mr. Smith' sh exclaimed—and shrank
back unable to articulate more—and just
then Bridget entered and cut short her accu
mulating words.
The twilight of evening had come, and the
sitting-room was lighted. Mr. Smith took
out his portfolio, rang the bell, and Bridget
entered the room.
'Bridget,' said Mr. Smith, "I am sorry but
Mrs. Smith says she will dispense with your
services after two months—l wish I could say
two years—and lam sorry to pkrt with you-
Sign this receipt and hero is a bonus with
your wages.' And he placed a package of
coin by the side of the paper.
Bridget took up the pen, and in a neat
hand wrote 'Frances Depue.'
Mr. Smith took up the receipt and glanced
at the name, and then walked across the
room and held the paper before his wife.—
Mrs. Smith,' said he, 'her name is Frances—
not Bridget.' A blush suffused Mrs. Smith's
face.
'Frances, what State are you from V inqui
red Mrs. Smith, as the woman was leaving
the room.
" Massachusetts,' she replied.
'What part Frances V
'Lowell.'
'Was you accquainted with Mr. Robert De
pue's family, they have the same name as
yourself?' she eageily inquired.
'Yes quite well, she answered very quietly.
'And is the old gentleman still living V Mis
Smith earnestly asked, and continued: 'I
have not heard from there iu a long time.'
'No, he is dead,' she replied with a sigh.—
'lie has been dead about a year.
'Dead! Poor old man !' Mrs Smith ex
claimed, and she bru shed a tear from her
cheek, 'Tell me, Frances, all you know about
him and his death, and I will bo thankful to
you for it.'
'I suppose his death was like that of many
other poor old men,' she began—and contin
ued, as a sad expression stole over her face;
'The old gentleman had two daughters. The
youngest got married and emigrated to St.
Louis with her husband, leaving the oldest
at home with her father. Finally she too
got married, and like her sister emigrated
West with her husband, leaving the old gen
tleman alone, and 1 believe he never heard
from her afterwards, only through strangers.
I know that they came to California, and it
is said that her husband Mr. Smith, is rich.'
'Frances, hasten your recital,' exclaimed
Mrs. Smith excitedly, and tell me about Mr.
Depue's death.'
The tale is a short one, madam,' Frances
replied—and she gave Mrs. Smith a look that
tnado her tremble, "The old gentleman,' she
continued, 'was left alone to the tender mer
cies of strangers. A long sickness followed,
and exhausted his once competent means, for
in the absence of those who should have been
at his bedside, there was no one to take care
of his affairs. After all was gone they mer
cifully sent the old gentleman to the alms
house."
"Oh my God ! and he died there ?" ex
claimed Mrs. Smith, between the choking
sobs that escaped from her lips. 0^
" Oh, no, he did not die there," Frances re
plied, " for his youngest daughter returned.
She had buried her husband at St. Louis, and
after gathering her estate together, she turn
ed her attention to her father's house."
The misfortune of her only parent and
friend was a sad blow to her ; but she soon
provided a home for him, and lor nearly a
year she nursed and watched over liiin, and on
his death-bed received his last blessing in re
ward for her dutiful conduct, lie is buried
beside his wife iu the old burying ground."
" She remained in Lowell for some time af
ter her father's death," Frances continued,
" expecting to hear from her sister Elizabeth,
to whom she had often written without re
ceiving a reply. She finally concluded to
corao to California. She arrived here two
months ago, and by a strange fatal.ty was in
troduced into her sister's house as a servant,
where she remained ever 6ince."
Iler words were so calmly spoken that
Mrs. Smith was startled. " llow could this
be ?" exclaimed Mrs. Smith, as she sprang
towards Frances, " and 1 know jou ?" Ah !
Ella Frances, my sister ; and Mrs. Smith ex
tended her arms to embrace her. But Frances
quietly prevented her from doing so, as she
replied;
" No, Elizabeth. I came here as your ser
vant ; as such you have treated me, and as
such I will leave you."
And she left the room. Not the prayers of
her sister nor the entreaties of her brother
in-law, could change her resolve.
It was a terrible lesson to Mrs. Smith, and
she will never forget it. Ella Frances Depue
\\ was soon afterwards married to a
merchant who knew her at St. Louis and ap
preciated her and she is now mistress of a
home equal in wealth to her sister's, and
more replete with happiness.
With the exception of names, this " Story
of lo day" is true ; and the actors need not
blush at its recital, for this is but one of the
many that are stranger than fiction.
ifiliscellantous.
THE SOLDIER'S FATE.
BY PEAKL DE VERS.
Missing ! That was all the paper said ; but
upon the heart of the mourning mother, who
sat there, with the yellow sunlight drifting
slowly over her folded hands, it fell like a
note of doom; and in that one word was con
centrated the agony of a lifetime.
The apple-trees were all white with their
pink-tinted blossoms when, at his country's
call her fairhaired boy, her only one, had
said :
" Good-bye, mother!"
And as, with a blending of pride and ten
derness, she watched his receding form until
it grew dim and indistinct in the distance
a murmured prayer went up before the throne
of Ilim who "doeth ail things well," that He
would guide her boy, and keep him from all
harm. And Hope with magic hand had paint
ed many a fair picture, woven many a golden
day-dream, which now lay broken and
shattered before the terrible reality contained
in the one word "Missing".
And oh ! well might the hope fade from
the mother's heart! Many time shall the pink
tintcd apple buds burst into blossoms, and be
drifted in white clouds at her feet ; Many
times shall spring merge in to summer, and
summer, into autumn, but he will never
come again.
Far down in a quiet valley, where a few
days before silence reigned, and the grass
grew fresh and green untrodden by the foot
of man, the harvest-moon shone upon the life
less form of the widow's child, as he lay
sleeping calmly the last still sleep of death.
The light wind sighed mournfully through the
tall trees which waved above him, and lifted
the bright hair stained with life's crimson
current from his fair forehead ; the blue eyes
were closed forever, and the white hinds,
which had never defrauded another, were
crossed over the stilled heart, which once
beat so high with hope and happiness, but
now never would know joy or Borrow again
The moonbeams glinted down through the
trembling leaves, and cast unearthly shadows
over the still face of the sleeper, and the cold
stars looked down pityingly upon the beauti
ful dust of one who was cot permitted to rest
near His home, or sleep beside his kindred.
And as the moonbeams also crept into the
happy home which had once been his, but
over which the dark shadow of grief now
rested like a pall, tho mother clasped her
hands, and prayed—prayed that God would
give her strength to say " Thy will be done,''
and prayed that among the redeemed In hea
ven her fair-haired boy might not bo "miss
ing."
THE JAIL HOSTAGES.
Mr. Greeley recently threatened in his
over-bearing way another New York editor
that the newspaper press should be bent to
the support of the Lincoln dynasty, or the
editors be sent to Jail, We copy below the
spirited reply of the Express :
BROOKS vs. GREELEY— Now Mr. Greeley
and the Express and the public may just as
well understand one another. If a Mr. B. is
kidnapped and taken to a Washington pris
on, as many others have been, from this city
and State, 25,(XX) men will band together tj
kidnap Mr. G. and te keep him as a hostage
for the safe return of the Washington victim.
Fort Lafayette now is not strong enough to
hold a State prisoner imprisoned for politics.
No soldier of Democratic or Whig antecedents,
or of Republican conservative antecedents
will guard such a prisoner. Or if they did, a
posse comitatus, under a sheriff, 100,000
strong, can be summoned to bring him out.
A thorough understanding of all these things
may save the city and the State a world of
trouble, because the Ecpress intends here"
after, very fearlessly, to discuss the perverted
issue# of this war, and to dare the consequen
ces. When and Where a free press, amena
ble "only to the laws, cannot be published, life
is not worth having.
The political skies in this section
are looking brightly. From all parts of the
country, we hear of men forsaking the Re
publicans aud coming over to the side of the
Constitution and truth,
TEnMS ■- ai-QO 3?EH annvk
THE IRISIf OLOOD Stu/i 1 ,
How many Irishmen have bean mutilated
in this war ? How many of them h*r e
killed in it ? How much Irish blood s'ed in
all our battle-fields ? How many Irish vid
ows and orphans has it made? These M-Q.
melancholy questions. Who can solve them i
W* cannot but rejoice that our people have
enlisted freely in support of the Constitution.
Their patriotism and their valor honor their
race and their adopted country forever. But
what has their blood, their valor, their patri
otism achieved ? Certainly not that which
was expected.
, For this bad result we are to blame the
inability and dishonesty of the politicians,"
statesmen, and county-attorney warriors at
\V ashington. It is not an unfair calculation
that thirty thousand Irish lives have been
lost in this war—that it has made ten thous
and Irish widows; that it has made orphans
of forty thousand Irish children ; and that it
has rendered desolate forever, thousands of
Irish parents and brothers and sisters. Ver
ily, the Irish have an interest in seeing this
war ended ! Ihere were once ample reasons
for holding that they did not enlist in vain ;
that the splendid sacrifice they made would
be followed by the triumph of the Republic.
Those reasons exist now only in the shadow ;
and in addition to their substantial disper
sion, their solid places are occupied by rea
sons of another kind. THIS ABOLITION JAC
TION IS THE GREAT CUIISE OF THE COUNTRY.
Justly m3y we all go on our knees and in
voke the God of nations to destroy it for all
time. It merits the Irish malediction in a
most particular manner, only for its heart
rending desolation had not entered tens of
thousands of our happy Irish homes !
WINDS DAGEROUS TO THE HEALTH.
The dread of the east wind is universal.-
Every one has seen and experienced its
effects. Man and beast turn from it as from
an enemy; and vegetation shrinks from its.
blasting influence. Rising in the dry arid
plain of Asia, and passing over the great
northern plateau of Europe, it is deprived
of all moisture, imparting to everything it
touches a dry, chilled, parched feeling,
verifying the well known adage, "when the
wind is in the east, it is neither good for
man or beast" The Mistral, too, in the south
of France, is destructive to health and life.
The Sirocco, prevailing in the Mediterranean
Italy, and Sicily, is a hot, south east wind
enervating the body -and destroying th©
energies of the mind. Its heat; like a blast
from an oven, is insupportable. Under ita
influence every fibre is relaxed, every pore is
opened, all nature languishes, and life itself
is burdensome. In Spain, the Solona and
Gallego—the one a cold and the other a hot
wind—are pernicious in their effect; this .
dreaded for its keeness, that reduces those
with whom it comes in contact to a peculiar
state of inactivity. The air of Madrid is
exceedingly insalubrious, rendering the Capi
tol of Spain one of the most unhealthy cities
in Europe. Nor are Spaniards unaware of
this, for they have a proverb, that u the air of
Madrid isjio subtle that if will not put out a
candle, yet it will extinguish a man's life."
£2£T The Tribune informs the nation that.
"Simon Cameron, true to this policy and to
"the manhood of his report of 1862, propose# .
"to lead a brigade of colored Unionists into .
"the heart of the rebellion." The Tribune is
hard upon its chromatic patriots. Simon.
Cameron may be very happy to lead a brigade
of "colored Unionists" into the heart of the •
rebellion (wherever that may be) or any
where else out of I he reach of Dr. Boyer and .
senatorial committees. But what will the
"colored Unionists" say to the matter?
"Wendell Philips," said a certain Boston.law--
yer of dubious fame to an acquaintance, calP v
ed me Judas Iscariot in a speech to-night, but
I don't mind it." "1 dare say not," replied
his acquaintance; "but how do you suppose
Judas would like it 1"
HAPPY WOMAN— Is sho not the
very sparkle and sunshine of life 1 A woman
#o is happy because she can't help
—whose smiles even the coldest sprinkle of.
misfortune cannot dampen. Men make £
terrible mistakes when 4 then they marry fpr
beauty, for talents or style. The sweetest
wives are those who possess the magic secret
of contented under any circumstances. Rich
or poor, high or low, it makes no difference
—the bright little fountains of joy bubbles up
just as musically in their hearts. Do they
live in a log cabin, the first that leaps up on
its humble hearts become brighter than the
gilded chandeliers in Aladdin's palace.
Were the stream of life so dark and unprop
itious that the sunshinq,of a happy face
falling on the turbid tide wonld not awake an
answering gleam. Why, these joyoua
tempered people don't know half the good
they do. *
JGSTTake care of your neighbor; dunH
let them stir without watching—they may do
wrong if you do. To be sure, you never
knew them to be anything very bad, but it
may be on your account thoy have not—
perhaps if it had not been for your kind of
care, they might have disgraced themselves
a long timo ago, Therefore don't relax any
effort to keep them where they ought to be.
Never mind your own business— that will take
oare of itself ! .;
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