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foratto i VOLUME v. DOWAGIAC, CASS COUNTY, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1862. NUMBER 17. r i i f i f I I Clje Republican, Is Published every Thursday, At Dowagiac, Cass County, Michigan. O WW I C K: la G. C. Janes A Co.'s New Bi ck Block. Terms or Subscription. To o lice and nail utweriber s $ 1 ,00 per annum, IXVABIIBLT IJt AllV.vMCK. W.ie:i left by the Carrier, Fifty Cents additional will be charged on regular rates. Rates of Advertising. Twelve lines or less considered as a Square.) 1 1 w. 1 3 w. 1 4 w. 3 m. fi m. 1 1 vr. One8qnare.. 50 1.0 1.25 8.50 3.50 5.00 yTSiumauJ 21QO I j.5" 3.0i 6.00 8.0O 15.10 XColumn.. 3.0 1 3.75 4.5 j 7.0U j 12.1) j 20.00 Column.. 14.00 I 5.00 j 1'.00 15.0i 25.0(( lCoTumn.... 5.00 1 7.00 1 8.00 j 15.00 j -25.00 j 50. i K The privileges of yearly advertisers will be con fined rigidly to their business, and all other adver ti nenu not pertaining to their regular business, to be paid for extra. All legal advertisements charged at the statute prices. ill transient advertisements to be paid for in advance. Till above Terms will be stbictlt ad- KBC1 TO fS Job Wobk every description neatly exe cuted with promptness," on the most favorable terms. Orders solicited. I $nsmtss prcdon. PROlCSSIONAIi w. 11. ;ac;e, Notary Public, and Agent for Phoenix, Manhnttan and' Irving Fire Insurance Comuanies. Will at tend to all kinds of Conveyancing. Particular attention paid to collections of Soldier's Doimties and Pensions. Charges reasonable and all husi wa attended to prouptly. Office with James Sullivan. nwrlJtvfirl C. T. LEE, Special Agent for the collection of all kinds of War Claims. All kinds of Conveyancing done with dispatch. Will give his immediate attention t the collection of claims throughout the Hints', All business promptly attended to. Office with James Sullivan, second Uoor, Jones' Hrick Block. juueUtJ-lOvl C. M. O'DELL, 31. D. omeopathic Pliyxii -i.-sii. Surgeon and Obttri-i;in, Having bought out Dr. Kaksks and tnfcfag his Practice, feels happy to say to the citiavns of Dowagiac and VMUMtV, that he is prepared to Vractice his I'rofession in all its branches. He alsa keeps Medicines bv the case or single phial for sale and Family Unseat. Oilice over tin Center M irket. Dowagiac, January 23th, 1M1. janOl 41 1 k. PORTER, M. D. PHYSICIAX Sc SUIiGKOV. Office at Alward's Hook Store, benisu'i lllock, F'nt Street. KesiJeoce first door below the M -t.iodist Church, Commercial St., Dowagiac, Mich. BnSftv4y W. n. CAMPBELL Notary Public. Vill attend to all kinds of Con veyauciuif Republican Office. Dowagiac. .Mich. JAMES SULLIVAN, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, and Solicitor in Cii:icery, D-jvragiac, Mich. Office on From Street. sntsHtyl CLIFFORD SHAN All AN, AttArni'V and Counsellor at Law, and Solicitor in C i-aJery, C...ss;ijw;lis, Cass county, Mich. M EC : iCHA NTTa . eos(;e s.mith, Tailor. Shop one duor east of Howard A Corn stock.', tf aWing aaJ .lakiug done to order, aud warranted to lit. july21v2 G. C. JONES Ac CO. Dialers in Dry iJoo.ls, oroceriea, Boots and Shoes, Crockery, utntanrnre. Hats and Caps. Front Street, ilowaiac, Mich. I. LARZELERE 4c CO., Dealers iu irv vioods, uroveriea, Boots aud Shoes, Crockery, llats and Caps, Glassware. Paint., aui Jils, Hardware, Ac, Ac. Front Street, Dovg:ac, Mich. D XIBL I.ARZKLKBB. WlLLlAM LaRZRLERK. A. N . ALWARD, ttsncral Dealer in Books, Stationery, Periodicals, Wall Paper, .Vuidow Shades, Wrapping I'aper, Ptaanat outlery , Ac. Deuuisou Block Dowagiac, Mich. apj5v4 MIsiCKLLANEOUS. P. D. BECKWITII, If aehinist and Engineer. Foundry and Machine Shop at the foot of Front street, near the rail neasf bridge, Dowagiac. Mich. ap25v4 II. B. DENMAN, banking and Exchange Oilice, Dowagiac, Mich, bay and sell Exchange, Gold, Bank Notes, aud Land Warrants. Pay interest on School and S va-np Lands, and raxes in all parts of the State. HUfifiwfi METROPOLITAN HOTEL, Cor.ier Randolph aud Wells Streets, CHICAGO, - - - - - ILL. BOARD 1,50 PER DY. B. H. SKINNER, PROPRIETOR. june;-7m8 TJNION HOTEL. M J. UALDW1N, PROPRIETOR, 4JASSAPOLIS, MW1UOAS. pjf r oi accommodations for man and beast. "foard by the dav and week. CHARLES FRITZ, WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER, WOULD inform the citizens of Dowagiac and the surrounding cuuntrv, that he has loca ted at s V 0 TT.4 GIA t FR ONT STREET, Next door to Huntington's Drug Store. Baring had ten years experience in two of the best shops in the City ot New York, he feels no hesitation in assuring the public that any thing in his line, will r- dt,e ;n a SUPERIOR MAN ER. Particular attention paid to Repeaters, Chronome ters and fine work of all kinds. Work done promptly and Warranted. Dowagiac, February 1st, 1362. febl-41yl MILK. MILK.eXblc HOTEL, fTMIE stihsrrihor .,., 1. 1 I ;,.f... m tt.o r-iti A sens of Dowagiac, that he is prepared to furnish MILK to all who will patronize him. Pure flilk is Warrnnted. KUSSEL McKEE. Powagiac, Jan. 2, 1S62. jaajf tf sat OOOD SuoplT of CANDY and NU TS at th I Bskery. 0 TOWSSBKD. MORTGAGE SALE. "TOTICE is hereby given that ou the eighth day J. N of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty, William Scrib ner, made, executed and delivered, to the under signed Leubeu Town, a mortgage bearing date on that day, on the tol lowing described real estate, ly ing and being in the County of Cass, and State of Michigan, to wit : The south half of tl.e south-east quarter of section eight. Also the south half of the south-west fractional quarter of section nine, all in tsntnattu seven south of range fifteen west, which description conforms substantially with that con tained iu the mortgage which mortgage was con ditioned lor the payment of the sum of one hundred and ninety-eight dollars and titty-eight cents, to be paid in six months from the date of said mortgage with interest And that said mortgage contained a power of sale in case of the non-pay inent of the said princi pal or of the interest thereon, or any part thereof at the time limited for the payment thereof. Aud that said mortgage was duly received for record, in the office of the Register of deeds of the County of Cass, in the State of Michigan, on the fifteenth day of August A. D. 18K0, at 3 o'clock, P. M. aud was recorded in liber J of mortgages on pages 6y and 010. And that default in the condi tion of said mortgage has occurred, (by which the said power to . II has become operative) by the non-payment ot the whole of said principal and the interest thereon, which now amounts to the sum of two hundred and tweuty-six dollars and seventy two cents which is the amount claimed to be due by the said Reuben Town at the da'e of this notice : And that no suit or proceeding at law or in equity, has been instituted to recover the said debt, now remaining secured bv the said mortgage, or any part thereof. And further notice is hereby given hat in pursuance of the power of sale con tained in said mortgage ;md of the statute in such case Made and prov ided the said mortgaged prem ises above described will be sold at publ.c vendue Bt the hour of one o'clock in the afternoon of Sat urday, the twenty-fifth day of October, A. D.1802, at the front door of the Court House in the vil lage of Cassapt lis in said county of Cass (the s.iid Court House being the place of holding the circuit court within said county in which said premises to be si ld nre wholly situated) by the Sheriff of said Cot f. to the highest bidder, to saisty the amount hie OB such mortgage at the date of this notice Bith amount and costs al lowed by law, aud taa attorney fee mentioned therein. REUBEN TOWN, Mortgagee. li. T. Tin-nn. Attornev. Dated July 30. 1S62. " juiy31-15wl3 MORTGAGE SALE. DEFAULi having been made in the condition of a certain indenture of Mortgage, executed by Wesley Sweet and Mary Sweet his wife, of Cass County, Michigan, to Daniel Driskel of the same place, on the twenty ninth day of October, A. D. WiU, and recorded US the thirtieth day of October, A. D. 18t0, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of said County of Cass, in Liber K of Mortgages, on pages t'i and b7, on w hich, said Mortgage, there is claimed to he due Bt the date of this notice, the Mini of six hundred and fifteen dollars and seventy eight cents, and no suit at law having been insti tuted to recover the same or attT part thereof. Therefore, notice is hert hy given, that by virtue of a power of sale contained in said Mortgage now become operative, and in pursuance of the statute in tnrll case unide and provided, the premises therein described, to wit : The south half of the north-cast quarter, and the south-., ast quarter ot the BUNtn-eOWl piarter, and the east half of lite Borth-eost snorter ol I be south-east quarter of section two i 2. i iu township nmnbci six, south of range thirteen west, in the County of Cans and St .te of Michigan, will be sold at public vendue at the wN door ot the Court House, iu C BBSS polls in s lit Conntv of Cass, on the twenty-fifth day of Oct her next, at one o'clock iu the afternoon, to siiiisty the amonnt then due on said Mottgage, together uith t ie costs of ftwecJoftitig the same. DANIEL DUISKEL. Unrtgngen, Am i:kw J. Smith. Attorney t';r MortgBgen. Dtited, this -'1st day of Julv, A. 1). IM& ulyM-14wll PROBATE ORDER. CTATK OF MHTliCAN County of Cass. ss. O At a session of the Probate Court for the County of Cass, holdefl at the Probate Office, in Cas:i(:olis, on Tuesday the twenty-second dav of July, iu the year one liiousand eight hundred aud sixty-two. Present Clifford Shai.ahan, Judge of Pwhato. In the matter of the estate of Sylvester Oltnted, deceased. On reading and filing the petition duly verified, of Kellogg Alleu, praying for proof of will of said deceased. Tnerenpufl it is ordered, that Saturday, the iaieenth da? of August next, at ten o'clock, in the forenoon, be assigned for the bearing of said petition, and that the heirs al law of said deceased, and all other persons interested in said estate, are required to appear at a session of said court, then to be holden at the Probate Oilice, in Cass apolis, and show cause, if any there be, why the prayer of the petitioner should not be granted. ' Aud it is further ordered, that said petitioner ghrc notice to the persons interested in said estate, of the pendency of .-.aid petition and the hearing thereof, by causing a copv of this order to be pub lished in the Cass County Republican, a newspaper printed and circulating in said County of Cass, for three successive weeks previous to said dav of hearing. C. SUA N AHA N. A true copv. Judge rf Probate. July S3, 1362. ji Iy24-14w3 PROBATE ORDER. O TATE OF MICHIGAN County of Cass. a. 0 At a session of the Probate Court for the County of Cass, holden at the Probate Office, in Cassnpolis, on Mondav the fourth day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty -two. Present Clifford Shanahan. Judge of Probate. In the matter of the estate of Martin P. Ornisby deceased. On reading and filing the.eti tion duly verified, i Henry M. Forrestall praying for letters of Administration, on the estate of said deceased Thereupon it is ordered, that Saturday, the thirtieth day of August instant, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, be assigned for the hearing of said petition, and that the heirs at law of said deceased, aud all other persons interested in said estate, are required to appear at a session of said Court, then to be holden at the Pr. bate Office, in Cassapnlis, and show cause, if any there be, whv the pl ayer of the petitioner should not be granted. And it is further ordered, that said petitioner give notice to the persons interested in said estate. 01 the pendency of said petition, and the hearing thereof, by causing a copy of this order to be pub lished in the Cass County Repnbflenn, n newspaper printed and circulating in said County of Cass, for' pre hearing. A true copv. August 4, iMn, C. SHANAHAN, Judc,e of Probate. aut:7-16w3 D r MORTGAGE SALE. EFAUL'l baring been made in the pavment ol three huudr d aud ightv one dollars and blty; cents, claimed to be due at the date or this notice, on a Hitrlsnga d..ted Januarv fourteenth, tttfl, execute i Ut J cvb J. Tallman and Electa J.. his wife, to J ' llowen, and recorded Jauimrv fifteenth, 1SC in the office of the Register of Deeds of Ca-s Comity, Michigan, in Liber K of Ifotlnara, on pages two hundred and five and two hundred and si x. Therefore notice is hereby given, that the premises described therein, to wit: The south-east quarter of the north-west quarter of section twenty-six, in town six, south of range foi r.een west, in the Countv of (ass and State aforesaid, will be sold at the Court House in CaSSUHolis. ill uit AmU mi lh. ui.rkt.unlh Aav iicai, iii one o ciock in me atternoon. I , JOSEPH BOWEN. Mortgagee. Chas. W. Clisbek. Attorney for Mortgagee. Dated, Cassaiolis, Hty A, 1S1. mayjH-Swl2 OL1 A RDIAN SALE. NOTICE is hereby given, that by virtue of a license granted by Clifford Shanahan, Judge of the Probate Court for the County of Cass and I State of Michigan, I shall offer for sale nt public j auction: The west half of the north-west quarter I of section nine, in township seven, souih of range fourteen west, in Cass Couutv, Michigan, contain ing eighty acres of land, on Saturday, the thirtieth day of August next, between the hour of nine ' o'clock, A. M., and the setting of the sun, on the Bet mises above d scribed, as the property of Maxwell Zane, a minor. , , ISAIAH ZANE, Guardian. " 11. 18.',-2. iul17-13w6 V-ssArOLls, - - MICH. THE undersigned baa just opened this house for the accommodation of the public. It has been tborougl.lv repaired und Zv lurnished from parlor to kitchen. Mr. Custard intends to keep a first c'ass hotel, and will use every endeavor to please. Prices to suit the times. 0. S CUSTARD '':cs;ipol!? Angus.' l?t. 1562. Imperishable. The pure, the bright, the beautiful, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth. The longing after something lost, The spit it's yearning cry ; The strivings after better hopes, These things can never die. The timid hand stretched forth to aid A brother in bis need, The kindly wot d in griefs dark hour That proves the friend indeed. The plea for mercy, softly breathed, When justice threatens high ; The sorrow of a contrite heart, These things shall never die. The memory of a clasping hand, The pressure of a kiss, And all the trifles, sweet and frail, That makes up love's first bliss. If with firm, unchanging faith, Aud holy trust and high, Those hands have clasped, those lips have met, These things shall never die. The cruel and the bitter word That wounded as it fell ; The chilling waut of sympathy, We feel but never tell. The hard repulse that chills the heart, Whose hopes were bouuded high, In an unfading record kept, These thiugs shall never die. Let nothing pass, for every hand Must fiud some work to do ; Lose not a chance to waken love Be firm and just aud true. So shall a light that cannot fade, Beam ou thee from on high, And augel voices say to thee, These things shall never die. The .My story of the Library. No searching eye can pierce the veil That o'er my secret life is thrown; No outward sign reveal its tale. But to my bosom known. Thus like the spark whose livid light In the dark flint is hid from sight, It dwells within, alone. yir. Hemans. u What have yon conepaltMl there ?" T;s:ii(l, Inking ImUl of the heavy silk ilrnpery attached to a mse-worn! er nice, and falling iu graeefftl folds to lite floor. M Lilian ! Lilian ! don't raise is !M ex claimed Mrs. Thornton, itrtnini trotn tlte easy chair, in which she had been rwtitiilig with the listh-ssness of a tlrVatninj! child, ami darting to my side she ressd so heavily It gamut the veil thai I could plainly discern lite outlines f a pieltire frame. "A (sietaWvP I exclaimed." "Oh, I must see it, for I can never rest where there is anything mysterious." " Hut this you cannot must not see. I did not reply, for having been an inmate of the house only ve k, ami this being my first visit to the library, I did not give utterance to the thought which rushed throimh my mind. Per haps Mrs. Thornton divined my Unit's, for she said : " You are to have access to this li brary at all times, every book is at your service and you are at liberty, even to niinra:t!.M' the drawers and pigeon holes of the desk, if your curiosity demand it ; nt you must not In k hcin-ath that veil that hides this picture;" and her pale lips trembled, herdaik, expressive eyes were fixed upon mine. Just one glance," I suid pleading ly ; but she moved her head negatively, ami I went on . " How can I study with that nustery ever before me, and then too, I hhall never sleep soundly again, but dream the livelong night of this mystical veil, aud that it hides Rome strange, weird image; or wotse, become a somnambulist and frighten -very servant who happens to fear ghosts, from the premises, by my mid night explorations and wanderings." "No eye but mine ever looks upon this Veiled picture. It U sacred, lor it is the only relic I have preserved of my past life ; all that I have to remind me of happy days too bright to last iir a brief period when life's pathway was strewn with flowers, and I dreamed not that beneath those fair, perfumed flow ers, petals, sharp, piercing thorns were hidden. Her fane was pnle as death, and those deep dark eyes moist with tears. I saw that her heart was pained ; that welling from memory's fount came painful remembrance, and truly peni tent, I said : Forgive my thoughtless words, and I promise never to raise the veil from tl is picture, nor pain you by my questions." An intense smile stole over her pale features, and kissing my cheek, she murmured, " Dear eliild, perhaps some day I may lilt the veil and tell you all." Then turning away to hide her tears, left me standing before the picture. It was rather curious how I eame to be a dweller in the hnoneuf Mr!J- Thorn ton. Two years before, when but four teen years old, I came to New Haven to alb-mi school, and soon after my father leaving home for Europe, where he expected to remain three years, in trusted me to the guardianship of Mr. Howe, an old friend of his college days. It was at lie house of Mr. Howe that I first met Mrs. Thornton. She went but little into society, and my guardi an's was one of the few families she visiited. Her pale, expressive fact at tracted me, and then, too, there was an indefinable something in her dark, liquid eyes, now so sad, and glowing with an intense smile, that woke an an swering echo in my young heart. She always called me to her side to ask me about my studies, ami when a new bonk was announced which she tho't would be suitable for me to read, she placed it iu my hand with my name engraved on the fly leaf in her own bund writing. Was it strange that my heart warmed toward her ; that her coming was looked forward to with pleasure, or that I often begged for the privilege of visiting her, iu her quiet, pleasant home. My visits were not very frequent ; and when there, we sat in her boudoir, which was fitted up with artistic taste, and having never been admitted to the lihrarv I had never seen the veiled picture. I had a pleasant home with Mr. Howe's people, yet it was a glad sur prise when he said that I could board wilh Mrs. Thornton, if I wished ami thought I eouhl be happy there. Mrs. Thornton had proposed it, as Mr. Howe's folks had anticipated being ab sent from the city most of the summer, and the next Sunday I removed to her home. It was my first holiday in my new home, ami I had gone to the library wilh Mrs. Thornton to select a book when on passing around, my eyes fell upon the silk drapery lining the walls in the furtherest corner, and was about to draw it aside, when her exclamation prevented. I had promised not to look beneath the mysterios folds of the silk en veil, yet I was not satifi d, euriosi ty piomplcd me to try to catch a hasty glimpse when Mrs. Thornton was oc cupied, but honor forbade. Summer and autumn passed, and the long winter ecnings were spent iu the cosy, cheerful library; and though I cast many a furtive glance toward the veiled picture I dared nt question Mrs. Thornton, and begun to despair of the d.iwning of that day when she would relate the history of that picture. It was a mild evening in Miring, and we Were sitting before the grate in the li brary. I watched the first dimming coals that had burned low, while Mrs. Thornton with closed eyes, sat near iu the easy chair. My reverie was broken by I he tremulous tones of her voice. " Lilian do you remember your mother?" Then I answered that, though I turned leaf after leaf of memory's book, yet I could leave no record of a mother's love. She died when 1 was about two years aid yet my father had been kind and as far as possible filled the place of both father and mother. My childhood has passed happily: my father wtis friend and instructor, and my first great grief had been when I was sent to school and my father sailed to Europe. M Was your mother's name Lilian ?" and here was something in the tone of her viee that startled me. " lift name was Flora Flora May. Was it not a sweet name ?" " Very pretty," and the glowing in tensity of her eye, as I met its gaze, made my very heart throb with a strange Sensation. . " I can't tell were she was buried. Once when I asked my father, he said it was far awav, and we would go to the plnce of my birth when I was older. My father was go lonely after mother's death that he sold his home in New York and removed to Ohio. I have no recollection of my first home, but shall ask my dear father to take me there before we return to Ohio." ' And your father loved his wife?" " What a strange question." I said. Yet she appeared to have spoken without thought. "If he had not loved her, her do yon think he would have remained true to her memory fif teen years ?" " I have the headache and shall re tire," Mrs. Thornton said, lising; and coming to my side, she kissed me ten- iderly, and with a flushed cheek, quick ly left the library. For a long time I sat gazing into the dyinr-coals. Were her questions the music key that bail unlocked the casket where the memories of m childhood I ( ' ; J were stored ? I could not tell. Yet there came a dim remembrance al a ttU)B when I was playiiir alone in the garden and a strange face peered into mine, as some one clasping me into her arms kissed me again and again, while my faco was wet with tears. I never' knew whence she came or whither she went, nud it seemed strange that dim memory should come back then. It passed, and a bright dream flitted be fore my waking vision my father wotdd return in a few mouths; he would meet Mrs. Thornton ; she was so gentle and winning he would not fail to be pleased with her, and I might be permitted to call her mother. My hand was on the knob to open the door, but I hesitated. It was late, aud the house was still. How easy it would be to solve the mystery, and Mrs. Thornton never know it. For months that veiled picture had haunted my waking and sleeping visions, why should I longer perplex my mind with vain conjecture ; and crossing the li brary, I placed the lamp so its light would fall directly upon the picture. Was it I h rustling of the silk or the feint (cho of gentle footsteps that startled me; but listening intently, I found all silent within and without. ! Ah ! it was the whispering of the still, small voice, and should I heed is prompt ings ? She would not know it, euriosi ty whispered, so I raised the veil ; but, as my eye caught a glimpse of the guilded frame the drapery fell from my hand ! I remembered the promise never to raise that veil, and I turned away wondering why so costly a frame was hidden under those dark folds. From that night the mystery of the library deepened. I had a nervous dread of being left alone wilh that veiled picture and my imaginative mind pictured a scene of horror that would thrill every nerve iu me and freeze my very heat t's blood ! My father returned, and when I told him how kind Mrs. Thornton had been, he called to thank her iu person, hut she was ill ami could not leave her room. Wondering what could agitate her so, I returned to my father, saying she would be btter in a day or two, and he must not leave the city until he bail seen her. But he was firm iu his decis ion to leave the next day, and I must accompany him. Then I expressed a wish to visit my mother's grave. He drew me to his side, and with his arm encircling me, and my head resting upon his bosom, told me of my mother. To him the memory of the past was painful, and I mingled my tears with those of my falher, wdtile again I seemed to hear that strange voice and see those strange eyes peering into mine. In two hours I would leave my kind friend, and I was going without the mystery of the library being solved ; so I ventured to hint that, when I came to visit her the next year, I hoped to see the veiled picture unveiled. She lid not reply, but taking my hand, led me to the library. She would tell me nil she said, for, perhaps, we might never meet again. Mrs. Thornton told her story briefly. She was the only child of weallhv pa rents, and married at the age of nine teen. For three years she was happy iu the pleasant home to which her bus baud took her; then a cloud of mid night darkness overshadowed that home. Some one envying her, circula ted reports injurious to her reputation, and these comini; to her husband's ear, he, being naturally of a jealous dispo sition, believed them. The wife loved her husband devotedly, and being inno. uent, how could she bear patiently his taunts and uncalled for survilance? So she proposed returning to her pa rental home, and the husband said go, only she must leave her child. She did go, and three years after, her pa rents being dead, she went to Europe, where she remained eight years. He turning to America, she came to New Haven, where, under the assumed name of Thornton, she had since resided. Once she visited the home of her hus band during his absence, and bribing the housekeeper by the present of a well filled purse, procured his portrait ; and in all her wanderings it had been her companion, though closely veiled, lest some one should recognize it, and thus her early history be food for idle gossip. Then, too, she had seen her child, and for a brief moment pressed it to her bosom, but words could not express the agony of her breakit g heart as she turned away from her child. "Your husband's name," I said, sink ing at her feet and gazing wonderiugly into her pale face and the dark, liquid eyes, bent so lovingly upon me, for a new strange hope made my heartthrob wildly. " I cannot repeat his name, but you may look upon his counterpart," he I "t'dng. Slowly, almost reverently, she put back the folds uf that silken veil, while I stood half breathless before her. Was it a dream, or was it reality? There was no mistaking that likeness; and involuntarily the words, " My father 1" burst from my lips. Then, like a swiftly moving panorama, it all passed before my mind and throwing my arms around her neck, I said : " My mother my long lost mother ! My father told me all yesterday," aid I, when I had become more calm. " He learned the reports were without found ation, and hearing you had gone to Europe, for three years he has sought yon there, and now his heart is very sad because he can find no trace of you. Will you see him ?" She did not reply, but I read her an swer in the beaming eye, and hastily donning bonnet aud mantle, ran to the hotel. I surprised my father by run ning breathlessly into the room. " Come with me; Mrs. Thornton will see you now," 1 said nervously clutch ing his arm, aud pulling him toward the door ; but he, resisting, asked what had occurred to excite me so. It was not there that I would explain, so he followed my rapid footsteps along the streets and up the shaded walk ; but when I threw open the door leading to the libiary, she had risen ; how loving ly she looked then her pale brow, her bright eye, aud a crimson spot burning on either cheek. One moment my father stood as though chained to the spot, then advancing, he exclaimed: " Flora, my wife!" "Herbert!" was the soft reply, and she was clasped in his arms. "Forgive and forget the past," I heard a manly voice murmur and then my name was repeated iu soft accents. I went to mother's side, and the happy husband and father pressed his wife ami child to his heart, as, in the rever ent tones he implored God to bless this our reunion. The veiled picture was unveiled, the mystery of the library solved ; and re turning to our Western home, once more a happy family groupe dwelt be neath its roof. A gentle, loving wife and mother was the guiding star of that western home. Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette. The Assassjuatiou of General JUcCook. Retaliation by his men Guerrilla Work in Itnnessee. Nashville, Auist 7. The remains of (ien. Robert McCook arrived bv the Murfreesboro train, aud are lying at the St. Cloud Hotel. He was mur dered near Selma, Ala. He was sick, and was riding in an ambulance in ad vance of Ids brigade, with a small es cort. He inquired at a house for a good place to camp. The inmates gave directions w hich he followed, and was surrounded by a guerrilla band, one of whom reached a pistol into the ambu lance ami shot him in the side. The guerrillas then captured several of his escort and escaped. Those of the escort u ho were not taken, gave the alarm to the brigade as soon as possi ble, which came up and burned the house. The inmates had fled. It is reported that some persons were hung iu the neighborhood by our soldiers. The guerrillas fired on a train going south on the Decatur road to-day be tween Spring Hill and Columbia, and wounded several persona. It is sup posed there were 200 or 300 of guerril la", They bad placed cross ties on the rails, but tne engineer run on pushing the obstructions (.fjf. An Invaluable Medicine. To the Editors of the Boston Traveler. ReV. Dr. Hamblin, of Constantinople, Saved hundreds of lives by the follow ing simple preparation during the ter rible raging of cholera in that city a few years since. In no case did the remedy fail w here the patient could be reurhed in season. It is no less effec tive in cholera morhus and ordinary diarrhce:!. A remedy so easily pro cured and so vitally efficacious should be always at hand. An ordinary vial of it can be had for 25 cents or so, and no man should be without it over night. The writer of this received the recipe a few days since, and having been ser iously attacked wilh the cholera mor bus the past week, can attest for its al most manic, influence in affording relief from cxcruciatinir pain. He ardently hopes that every one whose eyes trace these lines will cut this article from the paper and procure the medicine w ithout delay. Its prompt application will relieve pain and presumptively save life. Take One part laudanum, One part camphorated spirit, Two parts tincture of ginger, Two parts of capsicum. Dose One teaspoouful iu a wine glass of water. If the case bo obstinate, repeat the dose in three or four hour-. Henkt IIott. A Cincinnati Gazette corres pondent says that General Ilindman, the rebel commander iu Atkansas, is too ruflinnly even fur the half savatre community over which he presides. He was shot and severely wounded, not ling since by a Texan Ranger, who had watched, until forbearance ceased to be a virtue, his brutal conduct. Speech f President Lincoln at tne Waahington Meeting Fellow-Citizens: I believe there is no precedent for my appearing be fore you ou this occasion, applause, but it is also true that there is no pre cedent for your being here yourselves, applause and laughter ; and I offer, in justification of myself aud of you, that, upon examination, I have found nothing in tiie Constitution against it. Renewed applause. I, however, have an impression that there are younger gentlemen who will entertain yon better, voices, "No, no ; none can do better than yourself! Go ou !" aud better address your understanding, than I will or could ; and therefore I propose hut to detain you a moment longer. Cries of "Go on ! Tar and feather the rebels!" I am very little inclined on any oc casion to say anything unless 1 hope to nrodnce pome good by it. A voioo pu do that ; go on." The only thing I think of just now not likely to be better said by some one else, is a matter in which tee have heard some other persons blamed for what I did myself. Voices "What is it?" Tliere has been a very wide spread at tempt to have a quarrel between GeiK McClellau and the Secretary of War. Note, I occupy a position that enable me to observe, at least, these two gentle men are not nearly so deep in the quar rel as some pretending to be their friends. Cries of "Good." Gen. McClellan's attitude is such that, in the very selfishness of his nature, he can not but wish to be successful, and I hope he will and the Secretary of War is in precisely the same situation. If the military commanders in the field, cannot be successful, not only the Secretary of War, but myself, for the time being the master of them both, cannot be but failures. Laughter and applause. I know Gen. McClellau wishes to be successful, and I know he does not wish it any more than the Secretary of War for him, and both of them together no more than I wish it. Applause and cries "Good." Some times we have a dispute about how many men Gen. McClellau has had, and those who would disparage him say that he has hail a very large num ber, and those who would disparage the Secretary of War insi?t that Gen. MeClellan has had a very small iiuna her. The basis for this is, there is al ways a wide difference, and on this occasion, perhaps, a wider one, be tween the grand total on McClelland rolls and the men actually fit tor duty ; and those who would disparage him talk of the grand total on paper, and those who would disparage the Secre tary of War talk of those at present fit for duty. Gen. MeClellan has some times asked for things that the Secre tary of War did not give him. Gen. MeClellan is not to blame for asking for what he wanted and needed, and the Secretary of War is not to blame for not giving when he had none to give. Applause, laughter, aud cries of "Good, good." And I say here, as far as I know, the Secretary of War has withheld no one thing at any time in my power to give him. Wild ap plause, and a voice--"Give him enough now !" I have no accusation against him, I believe he is a brave and noble man, applause, and I stand here, as justice require nie to do, to take upon myself what has been charged on the Secretary of War as withholding from him. I have talked longer than I expected to do, cries of "No, no go on," and now I avail myself of my privilege of saying no more. 53PWe have tried " concilation for fifteen mouths, aud with no good general results, though it may have proved efficacious in individual cases1 " Conciliation," as a means of putting an end to the rebellion, is a failure. What next? Bulwer defines the aller native iu his drama of Richelieu: Richelieu Remember my grand nmxims ; First : Employ all methods to conciliate. Joseph Failing, these?- Richelieu All means to crusil u Without Dkess. The Glovers ville Standard thus speaks of a military wedding that recently occurred : " The soldier appeared in his plain uniform, and the bride stepped for ward, and was pretty enough without drees j and immediately parted." What business has the editor of tho Standard to know anything about the bride " being pretty enough without dressV Reckon that young "soger" will attend to him when he returns. C3f"Dried cherr'u s, raspberries, cur rants, peaehes and apples, in fact de siaccaled fruit of every description, would be gladly received by the sick and wounded soldiers. Our people throughout the country should take ad vantage of the superabundance of fruit and prepare an extra quantity of dried fruit to be sent to the soldiers through i he medium of tho Ladies' Soldiers Aid Societies. Ax Impobtant Coxfkssiox. K writer to the Grenada Appeal, who has recently traveled through Missis-: sippi, makes the following con'ession : "To my sorrow, I found numbers of men, and even some of our noble Southern women, were discouraged, disheartened, saving: "We'er whipped, we'er w hipped ;" and some going to far as to intimate that it would be beet, upon the whole, to submit to the Yant kee rule. This class of croakers" eon tinned the writer, "it rapidly en the increase."