St. Cloud Democrat. [volume], August 04, 1864, Image 1

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Town lots for sale in St. Cloud.
v6nl&-tf L. A. -EFA^S
..... H. C. WAIT,
=A. N E
AND LICENSED DEALER
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DE1LEK IN IT E
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Taxes paid Tor Nou-resitlents.
Office on Washington avenue, due door
noiirti'of the Central House. v6nl8-tf
WILLIAM PA*SON&,
AUoraej aid Counsellor at law,
•V. S3. B*«atjrt C'lalaa and Patent Agent,
ST. CLOUD, MINN.
PRACTICES
in all Courts, State and Fed-
eral prosecutes claims before any of
the Departments at Washington.
flQT Particular attention paid to tbeceU
lection of Bount.v. and Arrearages of Pay
of Soldiers, Pensions for Discharged Sol
diers or for the heirs of those who have
died in the service.
Office in 3d story, Broker's Block, over
J. C. & II. C. Burbank ft Co. v6n28
EDWARD O. HAMLIN,
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^A. T. A
8T. CLOUD MINN.
J. V. WREN,
VVall prtetlee Medicine in all its branches,
saMniftry and operative surgery.
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A W. T. TUTTX.E.
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HANVTACrVMER OF CABINET WASJS.
AafMfHMw
MINN
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-twtai TB» 8:' fmwfrmb ESSSIP!
worn. A*ii KIND* om
oi lo"Ro o! ,e?6^
4«B^ PRINTING,
PHOTOGRAPHS, AMB^AfVpife, fcc,
i*xs.f at
I it S A E S W O
I I a #p&trt a N*ew ''SȣclfteV
"Phop, on St. Germain street, where
we luive a complete assortment of everything
connected with our trade, comprising
feX^NKSSS, HORSE-COLLARS,
Sfaddfes, Titihxlzs,
WHIPS BRIDLES S E S
ST. CLOUD BOOK STORE w5K itoT, 01 SMITlHfe **W.
J. A. ftoifiNBEfeQWl,
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lias always on band a fm* Vs'sortmetat of,
a 8 & & 3
THE LATEST PAPERS ft MAGAXlNBS
THE STMMRD SCH0QLB00KS,
.46 00
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18 00
800OPHO*OGrt&P&
And everything ubually fbund in a first
oiaVs Bookstore. vtin18-tf
Opposite the DEMOCRAT Office, Lower town.
Hours between 9 A. M. and 4 p. M.
Every variety of Albums, fcralnty and
Cases kept on hand. v-5n52-tr
F. C. MERCiift,
[FBOM LlVBllPOOL.^
WATCHMAKE AN JEWELER,
SAINT CLOUD, MINN.
N. B.—Watches, Clocks', Time-pieces, Mu
sic Boxes, Jewelry, fte., ftc,
Xeatly Fixed ttJf Warranted.
Old Verge and Lupine Watches made in
to New English Patent Levers at a small
cost.
Engraving done to order. von51-ly
SADDLER AND HARNESS SHOP
AND
Otii-rian-e in
fckHjNfcs, SADDLES, (of every style)
Horse ©Oilers, Whips,
'BRW&StfmbWkpMn,) BRUSHES.
'CVr'rsy -C oth 'b
s'
Cuffy •CitThbt, Spurt, d"c, «^c
This is the only establishment in town where
CARRIAGE TRIMMING
ca« be done properly.
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St.'Cloud, Sept. 9th, 1863. vSn«9-ly
St. Cloud
BOOf A,tfB SSioSj
S I 0 9
JAMES BIGOERSTA*'«,
HAVINGGermaid
opene a Boot and Stio'e Shop
on St. street two dotfrs'atove
Burbank ft Go's store, is prepared to make
boots and shoes, of every style: and qual
ity at ir.*.!
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, Sept. 16th 1663. v6nl8-tf
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BOOT AN E HOE STORE is
... :i full Supply Of .':::
,',V'.. Boots and Shoes, ..
BUFFALO OVERSHOES ft MOCCASINflk
Kept always on hand, and for sale at fa
vorable prices. »Ai »f»«U—
A good stock of Leather and Shoemaker's
Findings.
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ParticularAttentron paidto Custom Work.
The highest market price in^ Cash paid
for Hides ANTOW SMITH.
Wahl«»ton.»T.. 8t. OlofltfJ ^i#6t1%£Iy
E N^ir' w. WEARY,
CAKRIAGEVl AKfiB. A3L0.
A E removed to my new shop near
the Bridge, There I am prepared to do
Mute nt w*Ht M^BW Cnrriagemaking
line, Wagons, i^rUgrs^nd sleighflmade.
in a a a a at low
rattjfc.- Pan^Urait^tronpaidtorecair
in* v8-tfJ
BL5A€KSMBr«. .ol
ii klbda of work dotte In\ the b«Pt
V«5«euTkr
igWeh toho«M'«J»de««l»eeingiiplow
work, and repairitag of all kinds. Shop in
O S
VI70ULD iUvtM Ma ftiirnds itt the pnbj pEi4k^6|yr
ftliteailen ^aid ^e^fctdirwar*, -tt
A O A STOR'T.
itvijjfi .-. .. ..
"I never ean belief Yt," %a1d the War
chioneas de la B.
'It's as true," said the Count Yon Bounta
etellen, "as that I love you more dear than
irbWnne, than fame."
"And than truth,. you odious man," in
terrupted the Marchioness, (smilingly rap
prr% her old admirer's knuckles with her
fan),
4¥oV
4«L6Ve,
S lp'fry's
1
coaapHste
tftfflJi, "kept cdhsthntly on tiand.
.,. Wtek »ia Side Harare* made to orweV
on snort ndtide.
Carriatdh^'firMimed jw &&6rtA mtjU,
., JOFIN SCHWARTZ.
^St.'ciofed, Aug. Gtb i«63. vVrVl
mhdafm! Vhy, in good truth,
love IraTs Ae cause of It aft: but you ehaH
to.
"It was a dark and tempestuous night in
the November of 1662, and the wind howl
ed frightfully about the casement of a mel
ancholy-loolting chamW on the topmost
story'o'f a singularly tall, narrow, and di
lapidated looking wetting, sUnding at the
corner of the market-place of the little town
it GoftbeiSr, which, as every traveler
knows, lies at tlie foot of We lofty chain of
the Harts mountains. Midnight waVfapt
approaehtng-, an'* fte frgn't cf sotiury
lamp glimmered arid%icWred and cast ugly
shadows, sometimes on the wiftfs, kUd.
sometimes on the person Of the sole occu
pant of the apartment, the hapless stmfenr,
SpitibnTen, wnb sa't'oieretri, tn an VtfflHU
of the most determined melancholy that
is to say, he had his legs forced tight into
hit boots, hie chin
Hans, speaking aloud as he warmed with
the subject, 'let the black fiend get me out
of it, say I for may the deuce 'take ifre—"
'Hush!' said a voice at his elbow that sent
his marrow down to a freezing point,
fftisli, Hans'! one at a time, if you please.'
Attire same moment a'h'bderot the most
sulphurous and unpleasant description
'(Jio'hS'e'wIiat 1ft* thrft 6T 'rtmty Vraih
when they first put on the brake) diffused
itself around, and before he had entirely re
tfoVeted from its effects, a shape of'ghasfly
hoVroVs s'toocl heVoTe Vim. *I shall not shoe's
your delicate susceptibilities, my dear Mar.
Vhietiess, by describing "?u"
Oh pray do, Count. I should tike
know what the fiend of the Hartzwald was
Vike."
"Confound the womatt'!" mntteVed Vh'e
Cnunt. '^Well, then, madam, you must
take this as a sort of sketch of him. In the
first place,,it would have been difficult to
paint him blacker than he was in reality
and his eyes—yes! let me see! his eyes
were on the revolving principle, sometimes
green, then red, then deadly white, then
red again, which gave his countenance
rather an unprepossessing character. As
for his teeth, imagine something between a
shark and a hand-saw, and a mouth look
ing as if it might havejust crunched up one
baby, and was ready for another. His
dress—"
"Ah4 that's .« dear- Cefent—ltd tell fte
Exactly how he Waadresaed."
"Well, somethlfiip'UJtsV.fc wild jagar of the
Hartz—long beetajr alosi. cfcrak, leather
and a singularly flat oap and feather,
under wlneb-peeped forth ^wo of the
sharpest horns that' imagination can con
ceive and to give him a finish, be carried
his tail curled three times around his body
with the end of it dangling from, under his
left arm in the most easy and degage style
possible, at he spoke .these words: 'Hans
Spitzbuben, eu bare called upon my name
I.ajnlberelV nvx.-hv. "-it bloif
v^Now, Hans was usually rsthor a devil
may care sort of a fellow, and he dtarted
from his chair to deny it but the eyes of
kia visitor were rather too mupb.fbr his
eiervW, iDM he fell back again, half sense
less, es 'Ihe fiend proceeded'J 'Yes, Haas,
py master, but, *jiyouiiV(a^^liw«
eriee, here I ami Now liaten, hn\ speak
-ttoil' You »ov*Gr*t«5h«iMhe d»utho* of
tnatoWnsorttf
th..,.....y
Notar,
^m^mm^j^^m^^ ._
W ^BWrwwWjf *$&«$
L"?1'8
as 1 said before, I can never
credit ao marvelous a tale."
"Well, I allow that it happened many,
many years ago, out of the facta, as I have
heard them,.I entertain
la'e
ut™±i?l*
ftrt
doubt indeed,
the hern was a sort Ofrelation of mine: but
perhaps you will aBow me to tell you the
entire,sury as heard it myself from old
ttei'tfke, Vh'e tni'gcfmaster of Gotsberg."
"Oh, all means, Count. Pray do! but
toil me, Is 'tn'cVe a'hy loVe In ii t"
i8ryty ^U^.^jbtr
breast, and hishands thrust' into the ex
treme recesses of his pockets 1 But alas!
an empty pocket only the more reminded
him of bis misfortunes and it waSwttfca
feeling akin to despair that he muttered "be
tween bis teeth something like the follow
ing soliloquy:
'What in the foul fiend's name could
'huVe ftiduced my nncle to leave this world
in sock a confounded hurry He was al
Iflftne^day^oir-^
thdtrght, eVeVyljody aid, nay, everybody
'knew, that be must have hoarded up some
where, for 3iy benefit, a must amazing for
"Ttine Wheh, lo! at five minutes' notice,
forsooth, he departs, whhout the shndow
of a will, leaving tbt "stfto 1iefr to nothing
but the miserable furniture of this most
miserable garret* whilrt i, wpon the
strength of fnTs precious 'inheritance, lia've
Jet trie «p«rfnVJ* «f swindlers, Captain
'Schwarrk, derfn the -oVit of all—^y, more
than all—I ever pouesseh'' but,' 'safo'
Sch^bsstein^
8(!'(K092 :J-L '!'jf.)3 toil. •'.£* J.'V- »U
forber«ltt%ry«u^v^W^ail*^-^«tJth
ME»0HAJfJLJMJ.ndE ^oWwWbdViett tkra. .ou#ht: bealdew this.
Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods. Partic- p^»ate«'df &• W WWffl |ftw»o WWt^"
morrow yon .beoi the inmate-of* |attl'
.ni*to »-iitt iin
la rich, and you are
wortx
,. "As the stodent mentioned the name of
Heaven, a shudder passed through the
wljele frame of Ihefcen'o". so that even the
t|M«*!»^i«|*»4«d with^ itrrAgemo
tion but Hans unluckily 'remarked it not,
and with a voiaeJT tiVppreaaed anger the
Tempter proeeiled:
"'Littte asshitanoe do you deserve a't my
hands, foryou hnve just pronounced a word
that does not agree wifK my constitytion,
and I giveyOn at once fair warning thiitYf
you repeat the oWefrfce I fchill ie^aveyou to
your fute forever. Now raise the hearth
stone at- your feet you will do it easily
by preying down an Von ^pjring^ that lies
concealed between two stones in the wall,
even where I now place my harii.'
"Hans rushed to the wall, and eagerly
pressed his fingers upon the spring, but he
could not repress the pain, for the iron that
'the fiend had just touched was ne irly red
hot. Nevertheless, the hearthstone slipped
aaide, and he forgot the pain in astonish
ment at what ho beheld for there were at
least fifty bags brimful of gold pieces, and
besides that a parchment deed closely writ
ten in a very legal sort of hand—I hat is to
say, nearly illegible, 'i'frst of all,' said
the fiend, 'read that doeiim'ent.' Hans with
difliculty obeyed, bu*wn& was his bewil
derment to find a regular deed of acknowl
edgment from the ttotary it nis deceased
uncle for toe snm of twenVy thousand dol
tars, deposited with him at interest*
'Now,* said the Tempter, 'when the
Notary Schlosst ein presents hts little bill
to-morrow, unfold this attested deed before
him, and my word upon it, before the month
passes over, the pretty rettchea wilt Y&
comeyour loving and affectionate wife, as
the price of its cancellation.' 'And is all
this treasure mine?" cried Spitzbuben.—
•Oh, Hea—' 'What again sail the fiend,
aid. straightway unwinding his tail from
his body with the rapidity cf tightcirig, he
gave poor H**3 such tremendous lashes
ever his 'nghVariu *fcH shoulder that there
remained a sort of a nevSUi cross, or a
pair otinSettote bmlcs'b^a^eB on bis back,
which I am told no .washing 'could after
etrrde vii\A»} ~J'^.-wV^^^ara». i.»aar
'It was but half pronoiinceu,' skid "t'h'e
Evil One, but beware of lhenext offence.
Know, then, that the who^ of these treas
ures may be thine, but oh one 'condition.
You must win ii!' 'Win it?' cried Huns
'but how?' 'Thesimplest thing in the
world we will play at crihbage for it!'
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ST. CLOUft. MINNESOi^ fHTJftSDAfr AUGUST 4. 1864
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S.pi,,*
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rtjjpttiftid n#t|eialojfrifl^ of irihW p'recioua soiS
"Now recollect that Hans, when he was
ti't Gottingen, in years gone by, had been
taught thisi very game by a rollicking Eng
lisb student, and to such good purpose
that it was imagined by many, and espec
ially by himself, that the fiend himself was
no match for him. 'But I have no board
%aid he. jl have,' said the fiend. So say
ing, he placed upon the table a cribbage
board of the most enormous dimensions,
the like of which Hans had never set eyes
on before but the more he looked at it,
the less he liked it the ornaments were
not at all in good taste—the divisions being
formei of leg and thig*. bones, and theserving
holes strongly resembling the eye sockets
of a ak dl. I* ift'OTt, fle %nished cy disli
king it altogether, and turned somewhat
palish and repentant of the whole affair.
"•Idiot!' said the nericl, who read 'his
VuoVgh'fst, do yo\i waVer now? Think of
the lovely Grettchen wedded lo another.
Your accomplished friend, Capt. Schwartz,
jmky iWcce'efl ftlayltrgY&t-your own tholrey
in matrimonial arrangements with.the old
usurer. And what do you wager against
'these ricnea Have 1 asked you to Flake
anything Ah! I am too good. Quick,
quick, Or I change my mind.' Now Hans
could not help seeing these words were true
enough, and that he really could run no
great risk if he staked nothing at all on the
game so down he sat. 'But we have no
pegs,' said he. 'Excuse me,' said his com
panion, 'I have updn which, graciously
extracting one. of the hoins from his fore
head, he placed ii in the spare hole or sock
et of the board, And then politely handed
the other to Sfitzbuben. 'With good play
ers, one' peg is auflioient. Produce the
cards.' Hans did aor and won the deal,
and a flourishing hand and srlb he Mid.
"But when it came to his opponent's
turn, 'Stop, atopV cried Hans 'there's
sonYtthihg wrong here. I'll take my oath
that two of my best cards have vanished,
and those which I put out have $4t bafek
into my hand again.' 'Come, come. Mas
ter Hena»-jro attempt at cheating,' said the
fiend, and his eye glowed fearfully aa he
spoke. 'Either discontinue the game, or
cut Jhe cards aWd on.' Our hero felt
cowed by the fierce bearing of his adVerta
ry—hejitated, but obeyed^ and a five was
turned up. Hans had a good hand, 'And
played, as hethought, consummately Well
at last throwing down his -oairderrrfl ntt
out, oat t' he cried exultingly. 'All butnow-a-daya
one holet' said the sable .one. And sure
enough Hans had: miaoaleulated for. his
opponent showed three, fives and a knave
oil theeuJ^tUlrnlld up,by *:single point,,
"The heanhBtOhe closedttp with*noise
like thunder, the ooard disappeared and as
the demon tranquiUy replaeed his hrb ll
hm forehead ^Yeu'veioaimy good.friend,'
aneered he. 'I am really sorry for yeu^-
fareweU!' «Oh, help me, help met' sobbed
Spitsbnben. 'The fUd! the gbldl—' 'la
7^T»9n^amm?n}.' 'MercV, oh. E
",,e? deed, bah Jfy oondition is simply this,
that you permit me, Jo grant you your first
wish upon your wedding day.' «5jhe fiend's
shallow fiend after all,' thought
htort ...
but a
Hans. 'I agree to terms,' said he aloud
No sooner had the words passed from his
lips, than the hearth flew open, the treas
ure again appeared, but the ghastly vision
Was nolonger to be seen, and Hans sat
down once more
alone—no..
a wilut
rieas to 'come.
,r
P«fepines8', like gold, usually contains
a cerWn portxo'i of atlojr, and ft J» hot,
therefore, to be wondered at if the felicity
ofHana Spitzbcben was occasionally dis
turbed by reflections of. rather a dispiriting
description. First of all, he knew full
well, tho'ngh "he Wa!4 never owned it to his
most intimate acquaintance, Vhk't tie wiis
thirty-five years of age, or thereabouts, and
Grettchen was, alas! but sixteen 2 and he
could not help sueperiti^ %iit, although
Grettchen Wis not at all too young for him,
he might possibly be a trifle too old
torthe
Grettchen and thereupon he began to pon
der whether in years to come, a buxom
y'6'ing wife of thirty might infallibly love a
hus'fcktid of fifty quite as Wfc iu—fcs—as—.
be8if, the wedding wish rattier $'erp\ei».
ed aria 'annoyed him. He felt that
would rather not give sVfcVa'a kanta|c:
He might make some confounded mistake
in the matter. *Hang the wish,' said
Hans 'but there is one why kt least toes
cape it. and if I wish for anything'cri that
day may I be-— and here he nearly
brotrght some form of speech of a rather
powerful nature, but that tie thought n'e
heard a aoit nf sniiegering laugh all aronnd
him, which Tiic&ly stopped him in good
time.
"Well, \o go ok wfft'my story, every
thing fell ontexhctly 'tame HIick Fiend of
thjEartawamnad pre^cte^. Tne notary
nearly threw a somersault when 'the fatal
bond was produced, and made no objection
to
eh*»*ge his 'daughter for this terrible
proot of'his rascality. FoVonce/too', the
course of true lave mekn'o'ere'a-on thirty
loved tier snito TTSS3 wfio7 »y-ine^Dy
Well, it wis a joy'ons daV, 'to be surej
4
W but my
•Your, precioue soul, in-
but as the happy couple walked from the
church door Grettchen could not help ob
that a slight shade of melancholy
dwelt upon the features of her handsome
husband. 'My darling Spits,' said she,
affectionately, 'surely, nothing now should
damp our happiness, and yet methinks,
aearegt, some trace of care seems to lin
ger even in your kindest look.' 'Ah!'
said Hafts, with a sigh that might have ag
itated a windmill 'is not love-life but
fleeting, aa the poet says?' 'Who cares
about poets 'quoth Gret'tchen. "clrue love
endureth forever!' 'True, Grettchen,'
Itafd Hans, •and, truly, do you love me
now but in future years, when you are
atill young, and.I am so no longer, will
you aiill love me then-as you do now?'—
'Pooh poohl' said Grettchen, with a
roguish smile, 'What, stuff arid nonsense
you are talking, Hans. Why, I vow andanniversary
declare that to me you seem to grow young
er every day 'Ah, I wish I did,' said
Hans. 'Granted,' muttered a voice at his
elbow, and at the same tfltte a hollow, un
earthly laugh rang in his ears in fact, it
was not altogether a laugh, there was
satt'ethftg like a sfedaer miie'd kith it, so
that Hans shuddered too, and felt so faint
that he literally leant for support on his
bride, MM1, dear Iittle^affectionate creature,
exerted herself to the utmost to recover
him1, attributing his sudden indisposition
the awful rature of the: ceremony he had
jnat gone through, which sometimes
"eltioilghl8ofhappi- was only after aome miserable years of
a
forgot to mention, was in good truth a per
sonable fellow enough, and just the sort of
man to captivate the affections and dazzle
the romance of a young and confiding
maiden of sixteen for, btsictes-a dashioej
ngute arid a handsome face, he rejoiced in
a curling pair of jet-black moUstachea, and
and a beard that—tWt—sufiice to )wtyV !was
the euv.y of all the towu so that he fairly
took little Grettchen by storm, and the wed
ding day was fixed precisely one month af
ter the Black Fiend's visit to Han's solitary
chamber the said chamber being speedily
exchanged for a splendid mansion in
the.was
best quarter of the town, for&ahs was now
very rich, and of course was Very 'much
respected.
(is
known to affect the aterh nerves 'of the
male sex more than it does.the elastic sens
ibilities of thp .gentler portion of oreatWn.
"Well! bless my: BOUI," said the Mar
chioness, "what bfc earth, had the man to
complain of? Pray, Count, does, any one
know the address of that politest of all de-
mona T"
$ tvtuoaa w«,ka -JH,JC. vol to gmiaow
"1 darer say tliere are vary few ladies
who would faint at the grant
ing offiuWi. a wish„''aaid the Count, .t'bufc
wait the re*ult, madam. The agent of the
Evil One knew full well what he W*s about^
aa you aooa,shall hear. True it was that
everything went on swimmingly at first,
for Hana did indeed gtow younger every
day, to thi great! astonishment of the e*^
Gretuheai,grew older at the same time
arid wieri he-had grown down and she had SUte to the. Ut of September, and quails
to the lat of October, by Ihe^of E5 for
each bird kil'ed or had in pbaseaBion
grownrito the age of twentyfive,Hens
di&ii tip:-/ HiuoZ :d'- b»:
(k^oha^
fovihg an'ac^eriV'ofn'is good little wtfe,
andhavin| d'u^up'the whole of'the wild
oWsthaVhe had sown when he^as young
before, what with gambling, drinking, smbk
tng, and I am sorry (6 say far worse 'tain
all rfcty, a'salS life he began to •ead poor
Grettchen
"Oh, the villain slid the Mnrchmness.
"Well, a Wrirse of oYssVtibn cannot
last firever^ rhovigVt o'r a tt'me Hans Spifz
buben, who tho'nght he had outwitted the
•end & wood eare^es'f, a'hd so in 'truth at
1 ...- fiwt aignt it appeare'd. But if thie ways of
however as be
f°rf» crushed and despondirig spirit, but tfekVen are mys^erfo'ds, Ike designs of 'g
wtldly exulting Kihu present good fortune tan are absolutely Wa'thoma'ole,- and it
Vide'attd debauchery, that flank 'discovered
tha't l.'e ha'a again 'iniscatcnla^ed, ks he had
6ft'a former clc'caslb'h 'in hfs%r3t enconn'ter
with the tempter' and his silly triumph
changed rapidly Vd'fteVpair,. as, enfeebled
in health, shattered in lnteHect. damageJ
in reputation, and distracted by remorse,
k« tregalSa fo loathe the wretched fuYure to
which his fatal compact must consign him,
Ttwduia be too painful to dweB yeaVby
year upon his agonies if regret, as repent
ance shadowed out to him, as: in a mirror,
the image of what was still tc come': But
fact was, by the time Grettchen. had
tive'd on 'to be a, 'fine, neatthy and engaging
woman of thirty-^ve, Hans had gradually
dwindled down to kn awkward, long-shank
ed hooMedehoy of fifteen. All his n'anty
boauty had faded. away1 his fine flowing
t'eard had long africe disappeared, hia
moustaches had crumbled off his whis
kers had evaporated his voice suddenly
jumped up an octave!"
"Ob! my goodness gracijus said the
Marchioness.
"Ah! you may say so, indeed!" said the
Count' "but this was nothing to what hap
pened afterwards. All Germany was in an
uproar about it. It was in vain that the
most eminent physicians were called in
Hans battled ihefji all. The whole faculty
ha'd hitne'rto oeen engaged in preventing
people from growing older, but to stopthe
progress of a patient that did nothing but
grow younger every day, was clean beyond'
their skill. It was a lueu* natures—a case,from
extra arttm medicdm, and, as old Dr. Slan
kenfuxel acutely observed, it was impossi
tne/tap'it Mature on its legs, when It was
knew what he was about, if the doctors
did not."
"But pray,'' interrupted the Marchion
ess, 'how did Grettchen support this re
markable dispensation
"Oh! much better than her unfortunate:
husband deserved. Wie h'egan to consider
k'eraeif as a widow imagined Hans was in
some way or other his own child, and be
gan to love him over again, because lie was
so like his father. 'She had once been an
n'fiVctionate wife she now became an,
equally affectionate mother and lucky it
for Hans that she was kindly disposed,
for from tnts time to the tenth year of his
Apparent age, he rapidly sank through the
graduating scale of a boy's affection for
marbles, peg-tops, hoops, lollypops, and
etecampane*. TWr'e^was iadsaying after
tins period how rapidly his form diminish
ed, and his "clothes grew too big, as he.
again sank dowhwards irbta 'th^e o'oy 'to tlie,
child,' when, just as poor Grettchen bVgan
to think—but I don't know, madam, wheth
er I ought to go on."
"And I, Count, cannot understand why
you should stop."
"Welt, madam. I was only going to ob
serve that just as poor Gaettchen began to
think that the milk of human kindness,
With which sk'e hadhitherto supported liinf,
might not be nourishing enough for his
constitution,fctidbad "actually cast her eyes
upon a fine, healthy young person, an
event took place which relieved Ler from
any further anxiety ou this score, for sud
denly—unexpectedly—in the second year
of his second childhood, and on the veWstep
of his first interview with the
black fiend of the HarUWatft, ttans '"spYtz
buben died with the measles'.
"Well," said the MarVsntyn'essi "1 told
you at first that I did WoV believe a word of
TT."
"And 'now I assure you again, madam,
that its as true—as true as—"
But the reader mustriotbe'detaine'd while
the Count finds his simile and when he is
informed that the skeleton of Hans is still
to be seen in a glass case at the museum of
GottberwJ with a certificate of the burgo
master'attesting the truth of the story, no
reasonable doubt can or ought to remain
in the mind of any one.
TBS GAME LAW.—According to the game
law as amended fiat winter,by the Legisla
ture, in the counties of Daootah, Hennepin,
and counties east of thb Mjesissippir prair
ie fowl may bo killed after the 1st of
August,, arid tfrc law intends 4 fine off
for each bird, killed, .or had in posseeaion
before that time.. lu other louutiesof the
State, 1 it would eeeia from reading of the
law, that prairie chickens may killed at
anx season of (he yeejf,, Dy^tiie ,t^ia,law
apenalty of *lft,ia fixed for the offence or
e»Mif|»g .anyjeW of growing erops, or
permitting dogs to hubt in, aucn,l!«reps.—«
Prosecutions musjt be. commenced within
one-mouth »ft«r the eommiaaion of: the pf
fonce. The law »hw preaervea partridges,
phejHu^ts,^,!i,^u^,jilrwser) |H.«Ji.,the
.1 inorr
-P. -^r._ A -'-^s^g^BajBg
A. YEAR AMTU AJfD
.. The well known awmy ^orreaffondeni:*
the Boston Journt, "Carletoif," Irko hS
acted in rhat'e*^aeity fromJthe outbreal
of the present war. thus writes in regan
to the present posture and aspects of 'thi
contest, dating', "^ear Tete'rsburg, iulj
2d."
-1 ?., i'li -t-
I find now and then men who have tan
blues—more out of the army than in it—
who look, at our losses in thu *»rrpa|gf
and "become' faint hearted. They forge:
that there is another aide—that the losset
of the rebels are nearly if not quite equa
to ours We werit fntO this Wat"to coriqus'l
if it took the last man, woman and eMU
do it. The questions to be settled, th«
foundations to be laid arid secured art foi
all time—not for a year or a generation
The cancer ia be eaten, out had almort lack
en the life of the victim. It hid p'erie'tra^
ed the entire system—State, Church, aoci
ety high and low We are 'eating it en?
rapidty. There are no slaves in tn'e tt*
trict of Columbia, or the territories. Nt
slaves in Maryland. No more a fugitive
slave bill Only here and there a sieve it
Muaoari. Kentucky is sending hers, volt
the Union,army by thoasands. Churcnei
and ecclesiastical bodies are purified:
emancipation is decreed.
A year ago to day a hundVe^l thonsanrj
rebels were concentrated at Gettysburg.
That Army baa been destroyed. A second
—the best appointed—the largest Lee has
ever commanded—has been forced from the •_
Bapidan to Petersburg. A year ago, EJch
mend was fed by the arterlea of commerce.
The rebel capital had all her railroads in
running order—to Chattanooga and the
Mississippi, to Lynchburg, up the Shenan
doah, to Danville, to Weldon and the Sooth,
to Fredericksburg. To-day, the Central
road is destroyed. The roads to. Lynch
burg and Danville are ruins. Chattanooga
is ours. The East Tennessee roadla grown
over with grass that ts Fredericksburg is
broken up that to Weldon Is Vat here and
tri North 'Carolina. Posmkly Lee has the 1
James river canal. He also has the line
Petersburg to Richmond, but he cast"
not bring a pound of flour or bacon or am
munitior from his Southern depots. We
are pegging away at him day and night.—
The country is full of refugees. Hia
The men and wJinen who have heretofore
harvested the corn and wheat in the north
ern half of the Oil Dominion, and in the
Shenandoah are gone from ih» plantations.
Some of them carried these heights el
Petersburg lac ot^^ay. Tneyare shoul
dering the musket, driving the teams, dig
ging the ditcfaeV *oTbg k'ospital work fox
Vhetfnion.
To-monow it will be one year since the
rebellion was at high tide. I remember how
'it dastied upon that wall of living hearts nt
Gettysburg at half past three in the after
noon—how near it came to flowing over the
barriers and sweeping them away—how.
crawled up to the muzzles of th'e grins curl
ed round the Cemetery Kidge, then melted
a'Way, it's 'force gone, its powerbroken.
Compare theft and now, and see if then
is a reason for being despondent. I set
noke. CARLETON.
TO.B PEACE COHHI8SIO
W A THE O W E
Tucker, Sanders and Thompson, the pre-,
tended rebel Peace Commissioners, are al
heavy defaulters to the Union Government
Sanders is, behind some $39,000 as Navy
Agent under Buchanau at New York.—
Tucker defrauded the government ont 0:
about $80,000 through the Liverpool Con
sulate, given him by Buchannan anc
Thompson, as Buchannan's Secretary o:
the Interior, engineered the great Induu
Bond fraud, of $800,000. Now them
wor'hies are near by, hadn't they bettei
ever and settle?
—An English married lady has consultet
her lawyer on the question whether-, kav.
ing married her husband for his money
and that money being all spent, she is not
a widow and at liberty to marry again.—
Decisioh feserWl. •••-•-'-t
—Harriet Martineau's sister destroyed
herself on
thee
Derby day
W"
byn
.throwing her-
self under th wheels of a approachini
railway train, as it was entering a station
which literally tore her' to pieces.' 8h
free about tnirty years olu, in good.circum:
stances and the wife of a barrister.
Ia ^U
—Rev. Dr. Kennard, of 1 the Tenth Baf
Visi Church in Boston, has preached tec.
thousand.sermons, baptized two tty
and thirty-three persons, mai
thousand AY»d eighty inJae couples, arid
tended three thousand nine hundred fun
rale in forty-sizjrenra. ...
iT
—An e.fccentric old man in New Haveat
relatea with pride that bis brothers', si*
teewVafcd feia own oldest none were ail
lary 20, and conaequently
lay only once in four years.
—Ab^rding to Ihe.New York A«r#,
rebels, in their late raid into Mary
"obtained several thousand reeriifte."
cording to this, the prospect of the Demo
crats earrytng Maryland at the xeceaT
election is dimiuiahed by the number of the
recruits, i-,.... •••..:. „.-.jt .,.. -,,!
t,fl
-aim eia puTrSTS? 156^1 .'i:.K.TrTrucrt.jtl
BavwN's BaoxeaiAi,Taocaaav—A depot ia opaaad fi
Loodonfiirthe »T« of thr^ iowii^, «*& a»rl'
beaaaoloB^la UM In Artwrfea fur reli«vh« kitimtil
DWMhlth, OonahajBawat 4tm*Ur%*»4 aa^tMaraf
th« Ui»fi.-Unrpo.A fitf. ,«b^'
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