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J- I "/i *-*M..%H. TNE DEMOCRAT Js published at St. Cloud. Steam! County. /Minnesota, every Thursday afternoon. 1 Omcw-ti r*n frnn BCILDIIM. WUBMWS '"-, », I ATtmn. I W. MITCHKLL, Editor Proprietor. TERM S I TWO DOLLARS A TEAK, IN ADVANCE. RATE S O ADVERTISING 'One column, one year, $75 00 thie-half column, on* year, 40 00 One?fenrth column, one year, 25 00 ,ne column, six months, 45 00 .One-half column, six months, {JO 00 .One-fourth column, six months, 1$ 00 /'ne square, one year, 10 00 £ne square, six months, 7 00 .. V'winess cards, fire lines or less, $5 per annum six lines, $6 seven lines, $7. Lrgal advertisements at statute rates. en lines of this sixed type constitute a square, and eards will be charted propor tion te to the space they occupy in brevier WW] O W O Of all kinds executed with neatness and di-p teh, and at reasonable rates. Real Estate Agency, ST.« Lofctt I BtiKftfitorA*. EXTENSIVE Explorations *T Land in this District subject V4 WfiVate entry, and 'ong experience in Land Office business, I ITK tho undersigned pectoris* advantages it. the S on df ii&b&} And location of Land Warrants. W a or sale at a small advance on New York I rices. Contested Pre emption cases prosecuted I ofore the Local and General Land Offices. Attention paid to THE PAYMENT OF TAXES In Benton, Sherburne, Morrison and **iearns counties. T.» wnhts for sale in St. Cloud. Ttiul8-tf L. A. EVANS. W A I A N E A.\D LICENSED DEALER IN a^astd IVarraata, Scrip, Vnnnty, anil State Order*. A 8 4 a E I I REAL E8TATE. CoM Ttinns and Remittances promptly made. Tate* paid for Non-residents. Offi je on Washington aTcnue, one door south of the Central llou.se. v6nl8-tf WII, LIAM ^ARSONS, Attsi «ej. and Coonseller at Law, V. S a a Claim and Paten Agent, ST. CLOUD, MINN. PRACTICES in alt Courts, Stale and Fed- eral prosecutes claims before any of tho Dei-artments at Washington. 9 0 Particular attention paid to the col lection of Bounty and Arrearages of PaV of Sol lien. Pensions for Discharged Sol diers or for the heirs of those who have died in the service. Offit-e in 3d story, Broker's Bio k, over J. C. & H. C. Burbank & Co. v«5n23 E W A O A I N Has resumed the A I E O A W IN ST. CLOUD, MINN. ,. Oflst, Five Bens south of H. 0. Wait's Ban QUO. W S W E E ATTK'RNET AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, ILL attend promptly to Collections, and payment of taxes in Stearns and 4teni#a Counties. Special attention given te eases before the Local and General Land OHiees. Oflos ea St. Germain it, over Bro r's Store. St. CLOUD, MINN. A. A E5i W. CLOUD MINN. J. W E N S I I A N A N SURGEON, 19ill practice Medicine in all its branches including midwifery and operative surgery St Cloud, Minn, Dee. 11th, 1862. ^»awaaa»a^aa«»aw»a»»a»iwaaai W N E S I I A N AN SttRGEON, iT. CLOUD MINN. e*T3» J. W E MANUFACTURER OF CABINET WARE. wilting Mud Carpentering attended to. iter the Stearns Haass, Lower Town, gr.CtOPP MINN POM A KIROtl O JOB PRINTING, StND YOCR OXDKBS TO a a a O mmn%mM»^tRMmi$) S*. 6iSub BOOKSTORE If' J. M. ROSENBkkGtek, HOOkSELlER, STAT/ON^/H rf NEWSDEALER .'. 1 .- JJifJ IIu always oIn band a Fine Assortment of THE LATEST i»APERS & MAGAZINES TH E SMMl MoOUOiDti,' And arerything usually found ib a first clasS Bookstore. venljUf PHOTOGRAPH GALLER?. PHOTOGRAPHS. AMBROTYPES, &C, TAK1H AT Opposite the DEMOCRAT Office, Lower town. Hours between 9 AI Ms and 4 p. x. Every variety of Albums, Frames and: Case* kept on hand. v5n52-tf E E [FROM LIVERPOOL.] WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER, SAINT CLOUD, MINN. N. B.—WaVchVs.tjTd'cxs, Time-pieces, Mu slc Boxes, Jewelry, &c, &o. Neatly Fixed and Warranted, Old Verge and Lupine Watches made in to New English Patent Levers at a small cost. Engraving done to order. v3n5l-ly A N O N S I BOOT AND SHOE S O E A full supply 'of Boots tt&d Shoes, MfrFALO OVERSHOES ft MOCCASINS, Kepi always oh hand, and fo sale at fa vorable prices. A good stock of Leather ftttd Shoemaker's Findings. Particular attention paid to Vj'iist ore Work. The highest market price in Cash paid for Hides. ANTON SMITH. Washington av., St. Cloud. v6nl9-ly O N S W A Keeps constantly on hand Saddles, Harness, Carriage Trimmings, $r. St. Germaine street, near Washington ave nue. Saint Cloud. Minn. A. BLAKEMAN, DEALER IX WATCHES. CLOCKS AND JEWELRY, Silver a Plate Ware 120 Third Street, St. Pau\ fbur doors Mow Thompton't Bonk. Watches, Clocks and Jewelry carefully re paired by experienced workmen. ST. A HAT STORE. W A S O N WHOLESALE DEALER BY THE Case or'Package, Cornernf 3d and WabMhaw at*., opposite the Bridge S O. CRAWFORD, DEALER & MANUFACTURER or AU kind* of Chair* and Kdiisehold ST. CLOUD, MINN. J. W. fVIETZROTH, MERCHAN A I O WOUJbo invite his friends and the pub- lic call and examine his New Stf/tei to Gentlemen's Furnishing tjtoods. Partic ular attention paid to custom work. St. Cloud O O AJTTTD S O E S O JAMES BIGGERSTAFF HAVINGGermain opened a Boot and Shoe Shop on St. street, two doors above Burbank ft Co's store, is prepared to make boots and shoes, of every style and qua! ity, at REASONABLE RATES. Repairing done with care. He respect fully invites his friends to call and see him at his new stand. JAMES BIGGERSTAFF. St. Cloud, Sent. 16th 1663. v6nl8-tf E N W W E A CARRIAGEMAKER. I A E removed to my new shop near the Bridge, rhere I am. prepared to do, all kinds of work in the Carriagemaking line. Wagons, carriages and sleighs made in a neat-and substantial manner at low rates. Particular attention paid to repair ing. v8-tf. O A S O N E S BLACKSMITH. A kinds of work done in the best O possible manner.. Particular atten tion given to horse and ox-shoeing, plow work, and repairing of: all kinds. Shop in lame building with Henry W. Weary. «OW0»41 .. •,!, u... a The subscriber has a number of pure blooded,'imported \tt'm* •,•••. •.•/• 8 E E RD O I Vhieh he will .dispose of,at fair rates. 5yfcl-t7 TJi A trsfolTIISON, On Clearwater road, mile below 8t Cloud. FKAlfK JnVY DARLING. BY EtEANbft Cf DON NELLY. How heavenly calm the lool looki out From bnby't Mure eycH! .. As pare and fair, as dear and sweet, As thetftreamthiit flows through Hie golden street And watera Wri'disc. And surely the flowers of that bright land, Where deathless V'eruiiro groW Brighten view Tn his dewy lips, In his shuiiug shoulders and linger tips, In his cheek's dclicions rose. And surety those white robed ones who bath9 Heir wings in fadeless light: Those souls of children who perished pure, la their early youth, and were caught secure ferohi the to'uch of coming blight Purely those aftgelcliMilreB fair, Smile as they float afaiw. -.,. To ste 'iu\d these woiid-wceds, dark and dunk, The stainless soul of our baby Frank Shtno out like a sister stir 0 happy darling! I clasp thee close, ••,.: I clasp thee, faint with fear, For looking into thy liquid eyos, 1 hear the rustle of Paradise, And feel the angels near. And I hide thee in my bosom, babe, I kiss thee o'er and o'er. Lest the angels catch thee, as if in play, Out of my arms, in happy play, And beaifthee away—away—away— To bring thee back no more! Many a darling, fair »s thou, From mother's breast as fond, Hasfloatednway with the happy dead, Thro* the golden gates, by the angels led, To swell the ranks beyond. And blessed are they, I know full well, For they.rest and know no sin And the bowers ot Heaven are bright—and thly Maj drink with their innocent lips atway The waters that gush therein. YeV, angels dear, Tead not my hoy Where that fair River rolls! His little sparkling life would be Only a drop in Eternity— A drop in your rich Eternity. Replete with happy souls! You—you can spare him yet awhile— Your court shall lessen never! But I, ah woe P-how could I rest, With empty arms arid yearning breast By night—by day—how could I rest And miss my babe forever —Saturday Evening I\nt. PUSS BIRBANK'8 ENEMY. "How now, Vallance, speculating on to.nioriWs bhnnvjes, eh Captain Dana threw himself lazily down on the grass beside hi? fri'end and begun to whfette softly. "I should not be surprised if to mor row's chances came to-day," said Val lance St Cloud, thoughtfully, '-I sus pect the enemy arc nearer than we think—not a difficult thing fi)t hiin to be hiding away somewhere down there but that was not the subject of my speculations. Did you know. Dana, I *pcnt two years in this vicinity once. Everything looks as natural to me as the book I learned my letters in would. Do you see thai hill yonder, the bluest crested one, lower than the others Dana looked and nodded: "I staid just at the.foot Of that—the other side though—two years. It was the queerest, old-fashioned, big-roomed farm house, with the oddest little mai den presiding over it. I should like to know what became of her. She wasn't a sweet-heart, Dana, so you need not laugh I Was only a lad then, too. My mother left me there for the air she fancied 1 was consumptive, I be lieve. I used to be ill sometimes^ I re member, and this little girl took care ot me. Such a demure little puss, you know and, by-thc way, they called her Puss too. It's a fashion they have in these Southern families. There's always a 'Puss' among the children, and I never heard ber called anything else but Puss Burbank." "There's a jrbank a rebel colonel, isn't there interjected Dana. "It can't be Puss's father—no, of course not. He was an old than in those days—broken with drink too treated the child shamefully some times, and petted her ridiculously at others. I'd give a month's pay to see the little thing again, if he hasn't kill ed her in one of his drunken rages. Why she could'I have been—well— not more than eight, I should think, and she used to take care of me like a regulpr grandmother. She liked me wonderfully clung to me as though she would never let me go the morn ing I left and when I finally had to start, I left her in a kind of swoon.— Children have such fancies occasionally you know. I promised to go back and see ber sometime, but I never went." "She's probably, dead or married be fore this time," said Dana. "Possibly/' St. Cloud said, with a half sigh "but it seems to me as though I could find! her right there in the old house, yet, poor, patient little Puss! I don't know why 1 never went to see her I always meant to. There, Dana 1 didn't I tell yon as a shell suddenly came screaming to ward the lines from the plain below. It fell short though, and the two young men sprang up the bank, the long roll sounded, men flew to arms It was a batUo. Puss, she wasn't dead or married,.or gone away fr'dm the very roof that young Si. Clodd had, lain ill. under years before. I dare say she has grown some, but she was a little thing yet and if she. bad looked womanly when she was a- child, she looked strangely childlike now she was a wo man. There is an expression of coun tenance natural to some woman that is always childlike aod, curiously enough it so often accompanies as to almost mean patience and meekness under great calamity. A little earlier thin St. cloud ami Dana were talking of her Puss sat in the low doorway of the farm-house sew ing. Short, low dropping curls clut tering against her falhlly-crimsoned cheek, and deep otlteurling lushes fring ed the blue-veined eyelids. As she now and then east expectantjet shrink ing glances down tie path, her eyes bad the serious brightness of a startled child. Puss wasn't thinking of the impending battle, Living in a Very secluded and by-place, she caught only vague rumors of it. She thought of the war sometimes ol ten perhaps but she was full of ber own troubles, poor Puss! and the conflict off yonder* had not yet deadened with its roar the clamor of this other—a vital ope, tDOj in her own home. Her home a plain and bare enough one, but owing what comfort it had to, her little hands, that never ceased trying to brighten it— never wearied of caring for the o'd man, whose sole housekeeper she had been since her mother died, more thun ten years now. She w»s older than St Cloud thought. He had culled Bnrbank broken with drink when he knew him but there had bcten vitality enough left in him to drag through these years since, getting liiore bro&'ch and worse with drink, and leading Puss such a life as is not easily described. She never murmured though, and when her mother's relatives would have removed her trom his control, she al ways said in her little quiet, unanswer able way, "I promised mother, you know, and he's all I've got besides," and staidi Burbank was afraid of her leaving him and after one of these scenes used to hang abOUt her in a pitiful kind of gratitude, that, half maudlin as it was used to make her heart overflow with loving tenderness toward him. She should never be sorry, that she should not, for staying with her old father She'd get her reward some of these days and one night he told her what it was to be. There was a hold, bad, coarse man with whom Burbank had of late form ed a drunken intimacy. That he led her father into even deeper excesses than he Would seek himself Pliss was very sure, and aside from his natural repul siveness, that made him hateful to her. She shuddered at his very presence, but endured till her father commauded her to receive him its her future hus band. This she utterly refused to do but, emboldened by the old man's cm couragement, and the girl's helpless ness, the ruffian continued to persecute her with his loathesome suit. Por Puss! Her mother's friends had gone' away from that part of the cUUntry she and her father lived very isolated lives, and she had nobody but God and herself to look to for protection from this danger—this outrage, which Bur bank in his drunken dotage was capa ble of perpetrating. Suddenly, as she sat sewing, she heard the approaching voices of her father and this man, who was always with him now, and shrank within the house. The two sat down to the meal tbat waited them, and Puss, after wait ing upon them, retreated to the window and resumed her sewing, betraying no consciousness ot having heard Mallory's coarse flattery... While they were eat ing the first sullen boom of the attack ing cannon tounded, and the two men started up. "That means business, and sooner*n I reckoned on," said Mallory, and while Burbank lingered in the doorway he Went and stood near Pass. *X^£ ST CLOUD. MINNESOTA, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER \I. 1864 NO. 17. She drew back trom his too neat vi-. cinity, not speaking, however. "See ycr now, my girl," said he, "1 $as goin' to fix this yer m'siher of ours to-day, ef it hadn't a been for tins fight c'dmW on. I'm goin' to bev a hand in that now, but when I come back I shan't stand no more triflin'." Puss only shrank a li't'tle til! ne touched her round white chin familiar ly with his hand, adding1 some meaht t» be conciliatory words. She rose trembling then, calling "Father!" in an agony. Burbank «*id not hear. He was al ready noddfjng in. the doorway aiyl with a brutal chuckle the ruffian bent toward her again. tguick as a flash Puss struck him with her little hand dhe. two, three, sharp stinging blows across the eyes and as he recoiled involuntarily, blind ed by the Smart, she leaped through the door, like some scared animal, and bounded up the hillside with such fran tically swift feet that the fellow, after the first rush, gave up the chWe. Puss never paused ti!! she stood at the top of the hill which commanded the far-away battle field, whose din by this time was shaking the very earih. In a fascination that swallowed every other feeling she stood watching the lurid flash and rolling smoke clouds, nor turned away till she saw by the fly ing squadrons that Northern bayonets bad, won the day. Then she crept fearful and stealthily back to the house But no one was there, nor seemed to have been all day. Her sewing lay just as she had dropped it, and the door was wide xfo one came near the house all night, though she sat and watched not oven her old father abd in the morning she Went Out, white and scar ed, to look for him. Not stopping, as on s'.Uiilar occasions before, to look for' him, arfcep perhaps among the fastnesses of the hills, she went straight on running sometimes, to yesterday's battle-field. A little way out upon the plain ptlst sights that left her lips bloodless, though here had not been the heat of the fight, some one called her name. It was a young officer Who lay near, half crushed under the body of his horse. With a strangely throbbing heart the girl approached him. He had recognized her, and not much wonder, she had changed so little but it was somewhat singular that she knew him through the blood and dust, and after the years since she had seen him. Some women hold some faces in their hearts forever though, and defy time or aught to put the memory past recog nition. "Oh Vally 1" she said, clasping her hands. It was what she used to call him. He smile! faintly. "I'm not much littrt, if only some one would lift this carcass off mc. I've got something in my shoulder that won't let me help my self." Tears blinding her, Puss tried with her own little hands, but of course in vain. An ambulahcc cahie Up Soon, how ever, and released St. Cloud from that inevbus. As they lifted him in he held his well hand toWard her. ''Collie and see me, Puss, won't you I" With ii gasping sob the girl turned toward the officer in charge. "Where are you going to take them she asked. "Is it far?'' "About three miles." Puss glanced at the ambulance, con taining now as many of the poor wound ed fellows as it could accommodate, and the thought of the long way before thej could be at rest almost otifled her utterance. "I live up there," she said, eagerly, "hot Hear it mile. I'll take care of them all, if you'll let me, and as many more as you ehoose to bring." The officer hesitated, glancing at the young pale face perhaps some red tape sbruplb vexed him but if so, he risked it, ordering the ambulance in the direction indicated. "In going over the field have ybu seen an old, quite an old man Puss asked, in a low and stricken voice, as they were moving off. The officer understood her. "Poor child! yes," he said gently. "He lies over there, just beyond that rise of ground." And as Puss, catching her breath, turned away, he spoke in a low £s L. voice to two of the men, who followed her. The poor old man was dead. A little whiter faeed. but 'quist, Pu«p followed dreamily after the men as they lifted and bore the body between them. The day's happening was not yet done. Taking a little different route, than that by which she had come, they found a mftn frightfully torn With wounds, and howling in agdny. Puss knew him—it was Jlalhiry—and stop ped- he ambulance ha\! gone on. When the. man saw her he entreated piteoUsly that she would call it back that she Would bring him water that site Would not.'leave him there to die alone*. Fear and shuddering lost ib pity, Puss promised to stay by him in his mad terror and agony till oilier Help came. She brought hi'tn water, and kiielt beside him, holding it to' his lips. He knew, but he liked to hear her t'ehder, timid whisper, "Yes." A E E FROM MRS. S WISSH&L.M She Relate* an Incident at the Whit House to Illustrate the Fac that the President Is adopting a atearn fcir Policy Towards Pnblle Enemies WAsniiteTo.lv dft.. Sis! !§t$4. DfeAii PEMOCRAT.—Your readers doubtless like to hear from our tall President, and although they are not generally of the stamp called ''radical," they must rejoice in every evidence of his increasing rathettness in the sup pression of the rebellion. The War Pepartiheht has recently been very active in terrbtihg out and arresting the aiders and abettors of treason Ahiongst others, a wealthy German Jew nlotlrng dealer, of Balti more, has been arrested and imprison ed to wait his trial for furnishing goods to blockade ruhhers. This arrest has created quite a commotion in the Mon umental City, and the President is lit erally beseiged" by deputations, delega tions and petitions for his arolc. The Mayor of Baltimore has bpen fibre—a deputation of Baltimore merchants, and influential persons not a few. On the 29th a delegation of Jew tailors tiied their Irtek with an eloquent German as spokesman A round dozen of them, in shiny new coats, and thoroughly po liiallimcd hair, were marshaled into thfe presence, aiid ranged themselves in a abmi-circle, looking "meek as Moses, whilo their spokesman harangued his "Excellency" bn the impolicy of keep ing a ood Union man" in prison, away from his business, his wife and his children. The thing was likely to affect his election. Uncle Abraham ran his long fingers through his hair, thrust his hands into his pockets, twist ed his long limbs intoall the awkward po sitions imaginable, as he walked back wards and forwards, or stood and lis tened, and Stepping suddenly in front of the speaker, assured him he "could n't help it. They couldn't put down the rebellion if the practice of furnish ing goods to rebels was not broken up," and he added "Nd (flatter whether I am re-elected or not, I shall want the rebellion put down all the same" One orator persisted. Our President told him that thebusiness belonged to the War Department. "But vour Excellency can do it." "Yes, I know 1 eon. 1 can stop (be 7 Her enemy! WoK}? 'cannot tell how she had feared him but he could not hurt her how .and with her hand up- help the case," urged Mr. Lincoln he died on him, pitifdl '.nn*d.forgivih there. Puss,made a capital nurse Her pa tients thrived as no others did. Vallance suspected from stray g!cah. ings soihetbibg of what her life had been all those years but she never liked to talk of it, and he never knew that it .Was her enemy whoSe dying mo ments Ptiss hdd s'bbthcd that day.— She kept that memory, so connected with her dead father, to herself. No body should blame him for that. But something "b't her long pain broke into her voice when one dav alter Vallance Baltimore has vouched for him. wag aliiio£. Well, and had been talking in low, check-fl'tisliing words to her, she crept into his arms, crying", "I wahtcd you so long, Vally—I Wantedyou so!" "I knew it, my darling! God for give me for not coming sooner! But how I watit somebody. Can I have her?" a a a .„ war and let Jeff. Da» h»f« hut," an^ife tithed hia TUm/ogtjbm side with h^^ecolii^iool: "i'tnY J»0 goin£ ta da'tt/^is. This called out. applausje from '•hi feif preseW^ alt ^except ,mi aqiomatoB delegation who persisted in holding their sleek heads forward with the ail of humble reverence they Kid ait' first assumed: v,See 4 8 here," broke in Father Abra ham, "it tRis'nian is inh^cTSftt: a -ye* say, why does he not patiently iwaii his trial, and make his innocence ap pear Why do bis friends presume ii taking up my time urging his release If as arrested for a crime, I shouU siwait my trial, look for justice, and a«l I no man for nercj." .\ Orator then gave a statement of tin amount of money the prisoner had gi en to the Union cause. "If he gave a few hundred to th Union cause, as a cover to the thou •, sands he has contributed to the rebel lion, by furnishing supplies, it does no I "But he has not done this "Make it appear on his trial. I te you What it is, my friend* we have I big fob oh nand, putting down this bellion. The War Department says me plainly, we.will not support you plank, if, every time we batch a rases yon retsSsb hiin "But. my friend, Mr. is not rascal!" "Beg your pardon, but I think U* 11 'Our u.brchants have vouched f« him, your Excellency. The Mayor vouched for him. m8n. We all voted for him. He is a good Unioi We to vote for you again. Here is a letU to show that I am a Union man." No, no, I do not want to see the lei'» ter. I can trust you as well writer." th "I nave spent thousands in the Unj ion cause, your Excellency. I on paid three hundred dollars for knoc ing a man down." Ttie President started back with mock look of alarm, exclaiming: "I hope you will not try that me!" After the laugh had subsided, th orator persisted. "Even your enemys, your excellenc say you have a kind heart.'' "Now not another word. I have time for this, "and I tell you, once f« The pleader theb begged a permit visit the prisoner. This was grante and on taking leave, he said "I will come again your Excellen and show you—" "No. Yon mwrt not eome again, have no time for this, and will not yod"—and the professed Union who hid spent ilibiisahds and would a a rogue to escape, was forced to yie space to the petitioner, for the wife a negro soldier who lay dangerously il was that day to be turned out of poor dwelling tor non-payment of ren His firmness in resisting petiti regarding the late arrests of rebel syi pcthizers, ha* given new hope to thai class of his friends who have lament the ii.fhicnbc whch these Border Stai pseudo Unionists have hertofore had him, and his disposal of the case star* which 1 have from an eye and an witness, is one of the hopeful signs a sterner and ttitirc effective policy. JANE.G. SWISSHELM S I E SHOPKEEPER'S EMBARRASS MENT.—The following anecdote rest ting the famous Eau de Cologne Jeau Marie Farina has appeared in French journal: "There are many Fa rinas at Cologne, all of whom, course, claim to be the real Simon pure. A French gentleman who wa recently in that city, being- anxious obtain a few bottles, entered the haodl somest of three fine shops, ail pretend-! ing to sell the genuine perfume. Af ter making a purchase, he conjured1 tin master of the establishment to* SaV whether he was indeed the real FafhW The shopkeeper seemed greatly embar rassed, but at last confessed tbijt be Wai not, and that the real Farina- kept .hi shop on the other side ot. the siftet The gentleman thanked hint for hi candor, and immediately made fttirtue?' purchase at the shop' indicated.. Th next day the Frenchman, hsppehihg pass through the street with a hat74\ of Cologne, related his adVetftnre, an was not a Tittle astonished when hi friend exclaimed,: he rascal"! wh* trie shop which he recommended y© is a branch establishment of bit of »n