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VOLUME 31, NO. 31.
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vTHT NOT EX LI ST.
A S0K0 FOB TSTE BTAY-AT-HOMK FATMOTS
WHO VOTED FOB LINCOLN.
Why don't I enliat? Ah, you see,
I have reasons that answer ut well;
But there is my neighbor young C,
Why he stays no person can tell I
Be hearty and rugied and brave.
And little to do here, we know;
He hasn't a home nora field,
And Uure Uu't a reason to show.
'Tis true, he's a pretty young wifo,
With a sweet little babe in her arms;
But Hholl mun riak the Ration's dear Ufa
Because a frail wctinau hutii ehurm7
Ah, If be comprehend our need,
- Hie wife undhia babe would be kissed,
Bo wo'd tear their white arm from hi neck,
And come promptly up and enlist.
But I have a form and a house,
Aad cattle and sheep on the hills;
low can I turn from proiit and lum
To think of a Bids Nation's ills?
WliRt money I'd lone if i went
What chances of truffle and gain!
Then think of the comforts of home,
And the camp and the carnage and slain.
nt,thore is young TrurnaujLebloss,
Whose mother is widowed and old,
And he has but little to do,
Since their thrm by the Sheriff was sold;
If ho should enlist and gut shot,
As many a one has before,
His mothercould come on the town,
And oak alms at the wealthy man's door.
'Tis shameful such follows as ho,
Should turn a deaf ear to the call;
That someshould bo slain by the tire
Cannot ba the fortune of nil!
If I only stood in his shoes,
With no fortune or kin to protect
If I altered to shoulder my gun,
I ought to be shot for neglect.
I.am ready to cheer the old flag,
And toss up my cup in tho air
So Ions; as it costs not a cent,
By the Union I'm ready to swear!
Let'tho blood of the nation How out
Like a river to vanquish its foe,
Let each father and brother turn out,
(But the doctor says I cannot gol)
Aucnrfnent of the Coittftrtpifon
The Urbana Union is convinced that "an
early and sw eping draft is enevitable." It
therefore favors the amendment of tho con
scripticm Jaw so as to require all drafted men
togointo the army, "unless exempted for
physical disability, , or for some specified
reason of public policy. " It spucifies three
advantages that would result from such re
quirement, chief among which is:
"In the words of Gen. Sherman, in his
letter to the Massachusetts Substitute Agent
it would separate the sheep from the goats,
and. determine who would fisrfit for their
country and who would only talk. It would
shut the mouths of those noisy thv.lks who
are forever howling about loyalty; by which
they mean for some one else to go and fi rht
while they stay at. home aud . vote the te
pnblican ticket."
The amendment, as suggested, wiT be
made sootier or later. The men who v ed
lor the re-elect inn of Lincoln under the im
pression that his re-election would make
Jeff. Davis and his co-Confederates despair
of the success of their enterprise, and hence
eause them to abandon it, we fear, arc
doomed to realize a sore disappointment.
And thai class of credulous individuals who
supposed that Sherman could bring back
Geonria to her duty in the Union, by dimply
marching through it, and proclaiming, as
glad tidings, the re-election of Lincoln, will
before long be awakened to the conviction
that they, too, were mistaken. Statesman.
Decrease of Kevennts.
The Secretary of tho Treasury, in his Re
port, makes the following admission:
"The increase of duties on imports under
tke act of June 30, 1804, has already had
the effect to decrease importations to a con
siderable extent, and the fame effect will be
likely to continue. So that, estimating the
remaining quarters by those of the first, in
the light of former experience, it will not be
safe to calculate upon revenue from customs
much exceeding $70,000,000 tor tho current
voar."
This explodes one of the old High Tariff
dogmas, that very high duties raised great
revenues. It was pressed upon Congress as
a revenue measure; ad k! behold! the re
sult is a falling off of nearly oue-third of the
Custom House revenues.
' Upon this fact, the Secretary, in die real
SDirit of a New England Protectionist, says:
"In the judgmont of the Secretary this
disadvantage in a financial point of view is
more than counterbalanced by the stimulus
afforded to domestic industry and . tho con
sequent increased revenue from thatsource."
. The truth is, the benefit of the stimulus
goes to a few wealthy manufacturers in New
England, and the whole country is taxed to
pay it. Cin. Eng.
Quite a Difference .
The following is from the Washington
City Chronicle, (Rep.):
'"At all elections, national or State, 'for
many years back, it has been customary for
heads of bureau clerks, and other employes
of the Government, to organize, contribute
-money, publi.-h and distribute documents,
' and also to go home and vote at closely con
tested elections. On account of the exis
tence of tho war, tho force of cldrk in de
partments has been more than quadrupled,
and hence the organisation of clerks from
the several States has been a powerful means
, of advancing tho Ilepublican cause in the
' late campaign."
The difference between the clerks under
Lincoln and those under previous Presidents
lies in the fact that the latter p.id their own
' expenses from and back to Washington,
when they went to vote, while, tho former
were paid their transportation out of the
' public treasury. . The Democratic clerks
taxed themselves. The Lincoln clerks taxed
the people. Quite a difference both in pock
et and principle. Cin. Enq.
Democratic Paper In Ashtabula.
In a business letter from a friend in Ash
h tabula county, we are informed that there is
t an effort being made, which promises to be
' successful, to start a-Democratic, paper in
that county, and that it will be placed upon
a basis that will enablo it to go ahead. We
are glad to learn this. As J he Journal
I chronicles with infinite satisfaction the sus
pension of evory Democratic paper that
comes to its knowledge, it is not expected
that this enterprise will receive its earnest
, wishes for success. The MoClcllan vote in
' Ashtabula was 1,042. There are only five
" counties in the State that gave a smaller dora-
pcratielvote. The determination exhibited
by the Democrats of Ashtabula to increase
.. . their efforts in behalf of tho cause of De
mocracy should serve m a stimulus to
Democrats in other counties to give to their
. .' urirans a more substantial support tbio it
1 any fanner fftivi.SMtetmtn. t ,
The Democratic Iartjr Never
Surrenders!
Some of the Abolition papers are calling
upon the Democracy to disband their organ
ization and join thein in trampling in the
dust the Constitutioawind striking down the
liberties of the people. They invite us to
jniu their party and are honeying us with
smooth words and soft tongues, in order to
get us to endorse the interests of Abolition
ism and Shoddy. The, Democratic party
can never have any political fellowship with
the men who havei defamed and maligned
them. The opposition by their persistent
abuse of us as"traitors" and "copperheads,"
by hooting at our views, by denouncing our
principles as "treasonable, ' by claiming for
themselves all the "loyalty," have again got
possession ofthe Government for four years.
They have the machine, and they must run
it. The Democracy have no responsibility.'
The, Abolitionists control all the State and
National Governments, they have all the
power, they have command of our purses,
our lives and our, money, but they can not
compel us to sacrifice our principles. The
Democratic organization will be kept up,
looking to time and the teachings of events
for its vindication. The Democratic party
has often been beaten, but IT ne7kr sur
renders: It will fight on, fight ever, for
the glorious Union principles it lias ever ad
vocated, and if the Union is lost if the coun
try is ruiiied, it will not bo responsible.. It
has no power to make Peace or continue
War. I hat rests with the Administration,
and the Democratic party is charged with no
responsibility as all its schemes for saving
the nation have been rejected with morn by
the faction "that holds the reins of Govern
ment. Seneca Advertiser.
A Remarkable Confession ofthe
Secretary of the Treasury.
The Secretary of the Treasury makes the
remarkable confession that, if the people
had only foreseen the vast expenditures of
this war, they rould never, have engaged in
it. He says, in speaking of the war in its
commencement: . .
"Had it been then foreseen that what whs
believed to be a contest for months was to
be continued for years, and that hundreds
of millions of public debt would be swollen
into thousands of millions before the close of
thatcontest, it may well be doubted wheth
er, ignorant as they were of their own im
mense resources, the people might hot have
shrunk appalled from an undertaking which
contemplated a sacrifice so far exceeding all
former experience."
This draws from him the remark that it
was "fortunate" the people were so ignorant.
Hear him :
''Unacco-'tomed for a lonr course of years
to great national efforts, it was fortunate
that their power of endurance should be
tested only by degrees, as the struggle which
Providence had prepared for them develop
ed its vast proportions, and the necessity of
great and long continued effort became ap
parent." , We never before heard of national short
sightedness and ignorance being made a sub
ject of congratulation. Cin. Enq.
Brick Pomeroy, ofthe La Crosse (Wisl
Democrat, urging the adoption of the cash
principle upon his brother editors, gets off
the following:
lie is a poor patron of any place or enter
prise who never nays. Such patronage
wears credit threadbare. If a man is good,
he can pay to-day as well as to-morrow. If
he is w t good, you lose money by trusting
him. It costs more to collect little bills than
they are worth ; men think to themselves,
"It is but little I ow9 to the editor, he sore
ly don't want or need that I ' ' And as men
think about paying such little debts the edi
tor is always in hard luck. Others sar, "Oh,
I. pay for my paper in political influence?"
Who made the political influence but the
very editor they sponge upon? Another
man is a friend of the editor, and thus wants
a paper for nothing. And so he cats up the
proiit of a half dozen papers.
No class of men in the world do as much
work for nothing, as editors. They must
puff this and that must publish weddings
and deaths must call publio meetings
must attend to school and church interests
must give to charity pay taxes be curs
ed more than other people trust more men
have more poor debtsthatt any other busi
ness men in the community.
Changes in the Cabinet.
A meeting was held on Wednesday at the
Hot-Corn Exchange in Philadelphia, which
resolved that Mr. John W. Forney was the
most "fit ajid desertless" man to go into
President Lincoln'scabinet as Secretary eith
er of the Interior or of the Navy. As Sec
retary Stanton "still lives, " this must be ta
keu, for the present, as simply a graceful
compliment from the hot-corn venders of the
City of Brotherly Love to a journalist whom
they delight to honor.
l'rivato telegrams from Colorado mention
thot the friends of W. Cornell Jewett in
that territory engaged in the gum-drop busi
ness held a similar meeting rewntry at lia
coon Hollow, aud nominated that estimable
diplomatist as the successor of Mr. Secreta
ry Seward.
Wo presume that, both appointments will
receive tho most serious consideration from
the President, notwithstanding the malig
nant hostility with which both would be re
ceived by the pumpkin-planters of Massa
chusetts, who arn pressing Mr. Garrison
with great unanimity for the State Depart
ment, and Pratt, the American traveler,
for the Navy. N. Y. World,
Mr. Lincoln's Latest Joke.
Tho President' message says to the Dem
ocrats of this Conercss : Your rote orevent-
ed the two-thirds majority for the constitu
tional amendment abolishing slavery at the
last session. Now, please lay aside your
constitutional scruples and your devotion to
local self-government, and change your vote.
Make up a two-thirds maioritv of this Con
gress, carry the amendment, because in the
next Congress we shall have a two-thirds
nin'ority, and you can t heto yourselves.
Iking eager to crack a skull or snatch a
purse, scamp A soys to honest B, come help
mo now in this job. I can't do it olone to
day, but have an arrangement which will
make it a "sure thing' to-morrow. But
let's do it now; tho sooner the bettor. Ho
my accomplice, since you cant' prevent the
crime.
Mr. Lincoln's joko lies it is a dismal one
in the assumption that the Democratic
members have no JLemocratio principles.
JV. Y. World.
W are in in possession of an infallible
receipt for making a lady's checks red with
out paint. For their especial benefit we
publish it without charge. Here it is:
"Place her at a washtub, with her sleeve
rolled up, and bands full of dirty clothes.
Then let har beau suddenly enter, and her
cheeks will be a glowing red in an instant."
Snooki iay this receipt has never been
known to fail.
Just try it, ladies, and if it fails,' let ns
tnow, that we may publish Snooks a ti
reliable authority. Will jroaf , . , ' I v
CADIZ, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1864.
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The Richmond Enquirer and
the New York Incendiary Plot.
Th llichraond EitqHi.er of Saturday, the
4th inst.. has an editorial article on the late
fires in New York, ridiculing the affair, and
concluding as follows :
"Of course it was a rebel incendiary plot.
Did not they fire on Fort Sumter wheie
floated the 'Old Fiag?' A morality that
does not restrain violence to the emblem of
the 'best government,' etc., etc, will hrd
ly be proof against the sin of burning Ho
tels. Nothing can be clearer than the proof
ofthe complicity of Mr. Davis in tho burn
ing or attempts to burn some half dozen ho
tels in New York. We have never read
anything more truly 'Yankeeish' than this
whole. We are very glad to see that ail the
Southern refugees are required to register
themselves. If General Dix will hang them
he will do' a service to our canset A set of
cowardly sneaks who have deserted thejr
country are not above burning hotels. We
hope General Dix will hang every mother's
son of them."
A Strike Among the Sewspapers.
c notice that the Cincinnati ,nimrer
and Columbus Xtntmmtii have raised the
price of their weeklies to $2.50. The Chica
go papers have raised to $:,U0. lv.cn at
these nrieos iiewsnaner publishinc is rather
a losing business. The Ahta'oula. Sentinel
says the cost of publishing n country news
paper at present prices of Paper, Labor and
every thing connected with tho business, is
$2. 12 for each subscriber, for which most
publishers receive $2,00, being a dead loss
of 12 cents for every subscriber. While
everything else has raised 300 and 400 per
cent., newspapers have only raised about 33
per cent. A printer may be a chameleon
and live on air which costs nothing, but
he cannot pay out more than he, gets in, as
the suspension of a number of papers ef
fectually proves. Hocleing Sentinel.
Fixing the Respowslbllity.
We used to be told that the only reason
why the rebellion was not suppressed two
, kui tv , ,Tu,tii S3,) in ii,y nvn iyi
it by the "Copperheads. , We are glad to
correct this misapprehension on the authori
ty of J limes W atson Webb, Republican
Minister to' .brazil, who imposes the sole
responsibility on fereign nations, lie says:
it foreign nations had shown the same re
spect for international rights, which they,
have displayed toward rebellion and civil
war, the rebellion would have been suppres
sed more than two years ago, with but a
small portion of the sacrifice which we have
been obliged to make." That lets out the
Copperheads, who ought to be very thankful
that they are not guilty, as heretofore charg
ed, Duvton Empire.
ProSjablj.
Administration iournah are assertlns
that notwithstanding the devastation of the
last four years, wo hilte at present a much
larger population than in 1800, and that this
appears conclusively Jrom a comparison ot
the votes east at the f residential elections
in IfcO t and 1800. It has been suggested
that tills apparent increase of population
arises from the fact that a great many of
those wp.o voted for Lincoln were very care
f'ul to vote often. It is to be 'regretted that
we cannot now have an enumeration of all
tho males over the age of twenty-one. That
would settle the question ss to whether our
voting population is larger now than it was
in I860. St'itsxnmtt:
Caitain Hoff, of the Soldiers' Rest, tit
Alexandria, tells a good storv respecting a
colored man who applied to him a few clays
ago lor employment. He, bfiiig an able
bodied fellow, the Captain asked him why
e did not enlist. "Well, Captain," he re
plied. "I jrV as lif go an' fight as not if dey
would treat us same as dey do white folks."
The Captain assured him that th i Govern
ment was disposed to treat the eel ored troops
with perfect fairness. "Den why don't dey
draff uV" exclaimed he. "Dey don't draff
us in Alexandria. Dey oughter draff us
same as white folks!"
Ohio and the United States.
During the administration of Mr. Buchan
an the total expenses of the Federal Gov
ernment was about $70,000,000. This was
.-collected from a wealthy and flourishing na
tion ot 30.000,000 ot people. The State ot
Ohio, with its 2,500,000 people, is now pay
ing $45,000,(1(10 a year to the same Govern
ment. In other words, this State pays tco
thirds of all that the nation in time of Peace
used to pay. How long can this vast sum,
in addition to our $ir.000,000 of State tax
es, be paid? Cin, Enq.
The Interest on the Debt.
The whole expenses of the lato Adminis
tration of Mr., Buchanan were paid by custom-house
duties. It now requires nil that
revenue, so called, to pay the interest on
the national debt, without paying a dollar
of our expenditures. Tho debt and the in
terest are yearly increasing Wlt" iriglitlul ra
pidity. Cin. Enq.
Br.Kssi.vas or War, In Nashville two
thousands dissolute women are licensed to
pursue their vocation. They pay a govern
ment tax of two dollars per Week and take
out "licenses" by the quarter. The money
so paid goes into tho hands of the General
commanding tho post and the provost mar
shal as perquisites. JliUmet County xttr
ruer.
Is the city of Dayton alone, we have been
advised by excellent authority, there are five
hundred families. The husbands and fa
thers being in the military service who are
in need of relief during tho winter. Yet
Lincoln says: "We mav, if need be, main
tain the war indefinitely-" Dayton Em
pire.
The Washington correspondent of the
Indianapolis Journal, Governor Morton's
organ, speaks of the indelicate and violent
manner in which Mr. Chase's friends pre
sented his claims to the President for the
Chief Justiceship.,
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A Moli killer, of Mo.ithey, Switcerlsnd,
was lately arrested for fraud; he was paid so
much a mole, the tails being his vouchers.
Being enterprising, also ingenious, he man
ufactured his tails out of Skin and wiro and
delivered over 2.00S before discovery. Then
he was fined 300 francs.
"Tad" Lincoln, a , son of (he President,
mado his appearance in Philadelphia on tho
2d inst. lie drove around the city in an
open barouche, and, of course attracted a
good deal of attention. He was en route
for the Naval School at, Portland, to, which
he has recuiaed an appointment as Midship
man. :
It is singular that the two great travelers
and discoverers, in Africa should both dio
from paltry accident, Bruce was killed by
falling down stairs, bis foot having slipped;
jailing uiiwu ewun, uia joiib uavury euppuu,
and poor Swte .hs fallen by . tee careless
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The Demand for Horses.
The King was doubtless sorely pushed
when he exdaimed, "A horse, a horse, my
kingdom for a horse," and another king
only paid a just tribute to this noble animal,
when he exclaimed -' ':J
"And I only won the battle '.' ,
By forflo of my good steed." '
The war in this country has created an
extraordinary demand for horses. Every
where the scarcity as well as high price nf
horseflesh is appreciated. It behooves the
farmers everywhere to turn their attention
to the raising of hon-es. A writer in the
Xeto Nation, from a large number of ita
tistics, deduces the following; " f
Agriculture, the sole producer, wdl there
fore liave to furnish
Civil Consumption ',..,
Horses, 73,1 (Jy; niares, 72,105 144.216
Military Cmi.-umption
Horses, 72,52; mares, 30,261 103,742
A-n! ' - - 262.810
That is a&out the fourth part of the Bale
able stock. "
Wo have estimated the total .
number of foals from one
Aay to four years to be 1,114,17.)
But it will be conceded to us
that nobody can raitfw 10
foals from oiio day to four
year ivithnut at least one
(lyinj, or becoming oth
erwise unfit for the market
a deduction say of. 27,854
leaving an annual Increase of 240,090
Tho collective wants, civil
and m litarv, being 252,i66
And the annual stock being 250,0'JO
There Is a deficit every year,
between its product ion and
consumption, of.
2,079
Sorghum for Dyeing.
The many us js that sorghum can be turn
ed to, are, it would seem, yet comparatively
unknown.' It has proved itself already to bo
one of the most valuable plants ever brought
to this country. In various ways it answers
for food for man and beast. In various ways
it answers for food for both man and beast.
Its stalk makes excellent fodder; the seed
has valuable fattening properties, affording
excellent food for horses, hogs, chickens,
and other animals. When ground the flour
from the seed makes a good kind of cake.
Its value for syrup is beyond estimate; and
though experiments have not yet fully test
ed its value for making sugar, sufficient is
known to warrant the belief that the day is
not distant when overy farmer will be able to
make his own sugar from sorghum at a much
less cost than he has been compelled to pay
for it when raised from the sugar cane. It
seems from recent experiments, that this
valuable plant is to be of much use in dying.
Prof. Ertii, in some recent experiments in
this line, says: ''Having found upoll an
upper shelf in the laboratory, boiiio cane of
hist vear' s erowth. sent here for tho purpose
of analysis, and which , had become almost
entirely destroyed by insects. I selected a
few stalks the outside of which Were more
particularly exposed to the atmospheric air,
and had become deeply red. With two
ounces of the cut cane, a great number of
tain pies of cloth were colored , a portion of
which were those accompanying this report.
The same coloring material found in the
stalk is evideutly contained in the seed. It
may be proper for me to add that it is not
important that the canes should be fully ma
tured. As far as tested, I find the colors
te resist the action of sunlight and water in
a most satisfactory manner."
Octi ITeceift for '!u"ino Meat. To
one gallon of water, take one and one-half
pounds of salt, one third pound of sugar,
ouo half ounce of saltpetre, one half ounce
of potash. In this ratio the pickle to be
increased to any quantity desired. Let
these be boiled together, until nil the dirt
from the sugar rises to the top and is skim
med off. Then throw it into a tub to cool,
and when cold, pour it over your beet or
pork, to remain the usual tjme, say four or
five weeks. Tho meat must be well covered
with pickle, and should not be put down for
at least for two days alter killing, during
which time it should be slightly sprinkled
with powered saltpetre, which remove all
the surface blood. &e., leaving the meat
fresh and clear. Some omit boiling the
pickle, and find it to answer well; though
the operation of boiling purifies tho pickle
by throwing off the dirt always to be found
iu salt and sucar.
If this receipt is properly tried, it will nev
er bo abandoned. There is none that sur
passes it, if so good. GermantowH le.lt
graph. - "18
Agriculture iufhe Old Countries.
Crowded as England is with a hungry
population, five per cent, of her soil is not
under cultivation. Yet the proportion of
the cultivated to the uncultivated hind is
higher in England than in any other coun
try in Europe. In Russia, less than one
filth of the soil is under cultivation; in Swe
den onc-soventh; in Austria and Holland,
one-fifth; in Switzerland, one-fourth; in
France fifty-four hundredths. There is re'
ally no need of emigration. In England as
appears by a Parliamentary report, there
are sixteen millions of acres, wholly unpro
ductive, that might easily be made produc
tive. The reason why these acres are per
mitted to be unimproved is that as soon as
they are enclosed, and before they can bo
sufficiently reclaimed to produce a paying
crop, they become subject to tithe and tax.
Hence, only men of largo capital dare un
dertake tho task, and they prefer to invest
the capital where the return is more speedy
and more certaiif.
. How to Keep Winter Apples.
An Ohio correspondent communicates
the following; A neighbor of mine, one year
ago, packed eight barrels of winter apples
with dry sawdust, and left them headed up,
exposed to all tho rigors of our last unusu
ally cold winter. The result was, they were
taken out in the spring sound, and had re
tained their flavor better than if buried in
the ground, or kept in cellar. Query could
not grapes be kept in the same way? The
same enterprising neighbor preserves his
cabbages through . the winter by packing
among refuse or leaves, head downward, in
boxes, each layer of heads with tho stoma
cut off near the head, and covered with loose
leaves of cabbage. Freezing will not injure
thein when thus covered.
' Foueion papers say that nothing can be
more magnificent than the vintage this
year in all parts of France. In the wine
districts there in asuperabundanceof grapes.
The proprietors of vineyards are actually
puzzled to know what to do, their usual
supply of casks have lobg been used. -
I i'iLt"iw"',i iwipi iu iiiuv.i uimi,
t has made a cool million and ik quarter out of
' h'n invntka.
Capital tatg.
MY PUNISHMENT.
"Isn't it beautiful, George?"
"Well, it ft rather pretty," I said, with a
half suppressed yawn.
"Now, George," she said, indignantly,
"that is too bad. Do bo generous lor once.
Isn't it perfeotly lore?!?"
"Well, I suppose it is if you say so, my
dear;" and I leaned back in my chair, and
with closed eyes placodly emitted a deuse
volume of smoke from my lips.
It was six o'clock in the evening, dinner
was over, and I had subsided into the com
fortable tranquility of my dressing-gown,
flippers, and cigar. Alice bad boon out
shopping that afternoon, as several pletho
ric looking bundles on t he side table testified;
and now I must witness and share in the in
vestigation of their contents.
So 1 listened while my wife commented
on the texture of the lineu intended for the
bosoms -of my new shuts.
Sho then produced a very mysterious
looking package, which when divested of its
paper covering, proved to be a very hand
some black silk pattern. Sho looked so
pretty a3 she stood before me the bl ight
fire-liaht shining on her sweet face and it
was all in a glow; and she was enthusiastic
in the nraise of her last purchase, which
she was holding up before my unappreeia
ting eyes. She was not at all satisfied with
the limited praise I bestowed upon it,
"How provoking you are! George War
den, do you hear? Do take that cigar out
of your mouth and come out of your smoke
clouds a little while! I never can get a word
out of you when you onee get to smoking.
Now how much do you suppose I gave for
this piece of silk?"
Mrs. Warden's husband opened liis eyes
and declared he "hadn't the slights idea!
how should he know?" Mrs. W. was
well aware that he knew little and cared
less about the paraphernalia of a lady's
toilet.
"Only fifty dollars for the patern not a
cent more! It's well worth fifty-six; , I've
saved that much any how. And it's so
rich and thick it'll wear well, I am sure.
Now don't you think it cheap?"
"Well, rather," and I knocked the ashes
from the tip of my cigar and prepared to
resume my train of thoughts when Lor voice
aroused me again.
" But it isn t paid for yet,
she was say
ing hesitatingly, "I hadn't enough money
with me, and I was afraid if I waited till to
morrow I should lose the chance, and was
sure you wouldn't care just this onocc," she
said timidly, as if she wasn't so sure I
wouldn't care after all.
1 sat upright all awake in a moment,
If there is any thing I abhor it is the credit
system I mean where women are conceern
e"d. Positively the idea that m:j wife was
going in debt for things, and getting into
the habit of running up long bills at, the
dry goods stores, was more than I could bear.
My prophetic eye saw in the future visions
of temptation, deception, anxiety, unhappi
poss, and, perhaps, ruin all resulting from
those terrible bills! , 1 had labored so hard
to press upon her mind this one lesson, "Pay
as you go." And the thought that she had
disobeyed me on the first temptation made
me very wrathful. The storm burst over
her unconscious liefld.
"Alice, is it possible? when I have told
you repeatedly never, under any circumstan
ces, to get any thing on credit, it you can
possibly avoid it. i must say "
"It imist be the last! 1 hope I am not
nigeanllv. I am willing to let you have all
the money you need; but, I will not content
to your running up lon.'t bills at the stores.
I could tell you how many men of my, ac
quaintance have been ruined by their wives
doing so. 1 tell you, Alice, you have no
idea how a bill will rtih up before you know
it. Those little debts seetii very insignifi
cant until you put them together. Then,
the aggregate is enormous. I did not think
wt u-ife Would act in such direct opposition
to my known wishes,"
"Jluti George ;" And , tears came into
the brown eyes raised to mine.
What a wretch 1 was? Why couldn't I
speak kindly to the poor darling, if 1 must
tell her of her fault? But no, my heart was
full of bitterness because she had disobeyed
me, and then it always put me out of humor
to' see a woman cry.
"I don't want to hear any more about it.
Take your dross away; I don't wish to look
at it! I hope you will enjoy it, and the re
collection that in buying it you disregarded
my wishes will doubtless add much to your
pleasure in it."
; I think this last cruel speech hurt her
more than all tho rest. It makes me furi
ous against myself now when I think of it.
But I had opened my heart to a venemous,
satiriical demon, and ho sat there securely
throned, defying all efforts to expel him,
grinning with malicious glee while he point
ed the barbeil Words which foil like pois
on drolis from my tongue. 1 had never
spoken so to my wife before. I hated my
self for it!
I watched her nstlie crossed the room and
sat down, away from mei in the recess of a
window, with tears dropping fust over her
pule cheeks. J low i longed to go ami Dnng
tier back, nnd kiss away the remembrance
of my harshiiessi But I did not. 1 doiVt
know how long tre sat thus, and I kon't
know what I was reading; I was only con
scious of being very remorseful and very un
happy, when a timid, faltering voice startled
me out of my abstraction, and caused me to
look up. She was standing before me, with
the tears not yet dry on her pale face, and
the grieved look plainar than ever in her
soft eyes.
"I don't care about having the dress,
Qeorgo. I'll take it back to morrow. I
know they will allow me to return it; only
pjease do notjlook so. I can bear anything
but seeing yon so displeased!"
Did I fling down that hateful paper, and
seat the trembling pleader on my knee, and
kiss the poor pule face till it bloomed again?
Alas! the demon whispered, "Forgiveness
easily obtained is not. much valued. , Hold
out onlv a little longer." And I did; and
lost the opportunity which the wealth of
world can not buy now!
I steeled my heart against those pleading
tones. I met the prayerful glance with one
so cold that it froze down the upspringing
tears, and then I said, coldly, '
' "No, you shall not do that. If there is
any thing I hate it is carrying a thing back
after it has been taken. ' Now you've got it,
keep it. ' 111 pay the bill when I go down in
the morning." ' And that was all. Then I
turned to the other aide of the paper and
appeared engrossed in a telegram from
Washington. I could have cursed myself as
I watched her, move wearily back to the
window, and sit down with her forehead
pressed against the pane so despairingly;
and when one or two convulsive sebs, but
half stifled, reached me I fairly started, and
rustled the paper nervously.
Seven o'clock. Alio arose and moved
across the room. She stopped a fow m
jaee before tbs flan, and I watrbed ber
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unseen. I remember now exactly how she
looked and was dresed. I never cn forget
it, 1 knew not then, as I gazed at her to
intently that it was the. Init timel should ev
er see her with the current of life warming
her veins and flushing her face! Sho wore
a black dress. Black was always t!tj Mte;
and it set off her pure complexion beautiful
ly; high and plain, with no ornaments but
the delicate lace about the throat and arms.
One thick braid of hair passed across her
head, nnd it suited her letter than any coro
net. And as she raised her hand to smooth
the brown ripples about her forehead the
sleeve fell back, and the prettiest round rfrtn
von ever saw gleamed out so bewitchiugly!
1 knew very well why she had dressed with
so much taste on this paitieular evening.
We were going out together to a, birthday
party given by a young cousin of hers; for
Nora thought that nothing could go right
without "Cousin Alice" to superintend.
She got her hood and cloak, mating a
noise purpo-cly to attract my attention; but
I heard noting. Then she came and stood
hefore-me while she w-w tying on her hood;
and waited some lime for .me to speak; but
I would not; and at last she said, timidly:
"We are going to Uncle William's to
night."
"Well?"
That was all I said. Then bhe went away
looking very sad. Presently a dusky face
peered in at the doori
"Carriage am ready, misses."
"George, are you going with me to
night?"
"No."
"I am very sorrry," she said, meekly; but
Nora will be so disappointed if I do aot go,
so I must go."
"Very well." -
I did not look tin till I heard the door
close after her. Then I flung the paper
aside with a muttered curse, and strotle
fiercely to the window., I watched her enter
the carriage, and saw it drive off; and then
came back to the fire, kicked over d stool
and kicked it again where it fell; flung the
paper into the, fire, when I punched savage
ly for want of something more substantial
on which to vent my fury, and then sat down
with my face buried in my hands and groan
ed bitterly through my clenched teeth.
1 was angry with my suffering, unoffend
ing wife because she had gone out without
me. I thought sho ought to have staid at
home and broken her engagement to humor
my absurd caprice, when she did not even
know that I wished her to do so. I was al
so angry with myself for treating her in such
a manner. Never before in all my lite had
I felt so. Altogether, I was perfectly mis
erable. While I sat there I unconsciously drew
from my finger the ring I wore there. I
held it up, as I was often in the habit of
doing, to read the inscription within; and
the words "(Jrici t not the heart that loves
tlice" flashed before my gaze flashed into
my heart with Mich painful vividness that 1
started and looked around to see who had
uttered them. There was no one there. I
was alone, and conquered by the talisman of
tho ring. "Grieve not the heart that loves
thee." It was her gift. These were the
words she was wont to murmur, lying with
closed eyos and whiteiiandj nestled in mine
and the dear head pillowed on my hearti
Such tho sweet refrain, breaking ever and
anon from the fresh lips, till I hushed their
music into eilence by tho pressure of my
own.
"Grieve not the heart loves thee." It
was her voice that spoke to me in the still
ness of that lonely room. Oh! no other
could have tho power to so thrill icy, soul
with feelings such as I had then! Where
wa,s she then? Moving amidst the glare
and gutter ot the crowded bail-roomr Uii
no! I know her spirit came to me in that
lonely hour to take a last farewell ( tobrcuthe
a parting benedictiou on hi' unworthy
headl
Tiiiit ring was her gift. She placed it on
my finger this tl'iy after we were married;
and I promised her soleuily; with her earn
est brown eyes looking, into mine, that I
would never part with it in life or in death.
As 1 sat there holding it in my hand sweet
memories of old times Hashed across my
mind, like sudden sun-bursts over a dark
ened landscape. I thought of the time
when I first aked her to be my wife child
as she was. It was not long only two years;
and they had been such pleasant ones! She
was very young, was Alice, when I first
brought her to my home only seventeen;
and 1 was her senior in years. But I whs
older in experience even than in years. Ac
customed from very early life to act and
think for myself, I had acquired tho habit
of domination unconsciously; and Alice,
with her tiny figure and fair young face; and
clinging, caressing ways, 1 never could think
of but as a beautiful child, to be spoiled,
and petted, and loved and governed. Heav
en knows how I loved and cared for her!
But she had never before disobeyed me.
Never before had she so wounded not my
love for her, but my love of authority.
But my heart was softened now, I thought
of 11 her caressing, pretty ways how she
liikl nursed me during a long illness in the
past fall how she would bound into uiy
arms when I came homo every evening; and
then I thought how dreary my homo would
be without her, and ail the repressed tender
ness of.my nature welled up.
, "Poor child!" I , murmured regretfully,
how I have made her suffer! I was harsh.
God forgive mo! , Oh, that uhtj were here
now that I might take her to my heart, nnd
soothe her into forgetfuliiess, my poor dar
ling.
I looked at the clock. The hands point
ed to ten. She never staid out later.
"She will soon be here," I naid trustfully;
and then I rang tho bell, and had the fire
replenished aim the room arranged against
her coming. I drew her favoi ite chair up
into the bright blaze, aud placed my own
beside it; then I went to the windiw and
looked impatiently down the moonlit avenue.
Not coming yet! I walked up the floor
once or twice; and then to beguile the tedi
ous moments, entered into an investigation
of tho contents of her little work basket
which stood on a table. But I dropped it
quickly, for I heard the carriage coming up
the avenue. I was at the door as soou as if
stopped, and opened it eagerly. My wife
sat with her face turned from me, and quite
hidden by the large woolen hood.
"Are you not very cold aud tired, dear?"
I raid, my voice trembling with impatient
tenderness as I extended my hand to assist
her to rise; but there was no answer, and
sha remained quite still. , '
"Alice, love, speak to mef Do" yds not
hear?"
Silent still! Then I thought ehe had fal
len asleep, and took her hand to awakeit ber.
It was so cold that I started back chilled.
"How cold you are, dear Alicel Are you
ill?" And I leaned forward and pushed the
hood from her face so motionless it might
have boen. carved in stone. The moonlight
ihown full upon it, and on the precious blue
eyes, wide open, but dimmed and filmed.
Dead! O God! Not L
I would not allow myself to think of it.-4
"She has fainted," I said; and carried her
swiftly into the Housaatii laid her on. the
Kf, I knew nothing of tbe grtl sn
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crowd of terror-stricken semits around me
saw nothing, heard nothing, felt nothing for -a
time. Every thought, every faculty was
concentrated in my anxiety for her. I knelt '
beside her, and chafed the dead hands and
temples, and pressed my warm,, lii)g lips
tl the beautiful cold mouth, as if seeking to -breStbe
into them the breath of life. Vain!'
rain! She never looked on me or spoke to
me again.
A hand was laid on my shoulder; a quiet,
kindly voice bade me move aside a inomint, .,
and our grave, gray-haired family physician
laid his fingers on the white wrist, and then
placed them on the still heart, and then,
shaking his head tadly, turned away. - I .
heard the words "Duease of. the heart.". '
That was all.
They left me alone with my dead Kt last.
There is that room where I had seen bet.
alive for the )at time where I had o -wounded
the dear heart whose last throb ,
was for hie! The fire glowed as brightly as
ever. There stood her piano, itil! open,
with a f'avorate song upon it. There was
her work table, with her little basket upon
it, and the book the had been reading, with
a utue ribbon to marirtue placet Ah tre on
a table were the things the had bought that
evening, together with ' the piece of silk
which hud caused bt) much grief! Tbe
apron she had worn was thrown carelessly .
eves the chair which 1 had drawn up to the ,
tire to be in readiness when she returned.
She -had corne back to me. But it seemed
as if she had come in some terrible dreamt,
from which lean never awake. ".
. WAstosSroN, Deo. 12. "
Senate. The Senute was called to order
by Mr. Ciark, President pro tern. , .
Sir. Johnson presented tho memorial of,
William Cornell Jewett, praying for the fa-,
vor of Cougress to an international and jctsi,
tribunal, to doeide upon the points at issue
in the present War. ,. :.,
Mr. Sumner moved tbf.t it lie oa the table
and it was so ordered.
Mr. Wilson presented the petition of Ma
jor General Weittel and 470 other officers of
the IBth Army Corps, praying Congress to
increase the pay proper of army officers $20,
per month, and fix the commutation price
oi the rations at oo cents instead ot iJ cents
as at present, and allow $16 per mouth.
Mr. Doolittle offered the following which,
on his motion, was referred to the Finance
Committee: . .- .. .,
ltesohed, That the Committee on Finance
be instructed to inquire into the propriety
Ofthe immediate passage of. an act to iu
crease the revenue: .
First, that an additional tax of one per
cent, be laid upon all sales of real and per
lional property, including, also, all bargains
for tho saie of merchandise., produce, gold
and silver coin, and stock of every "desCrip-l
tion. ,
Second, by an addition! tax of 25 p$f
cent, on the gross receipts (to be added, M
the present rates) of all railroad fares, in
cluding street railroads, steamboats and ferr
ries, to bo collecttd by the companies or per
sons running the bsme, for the use oi tb
GoveriiJiiei.t. , . , , .
And that said committee bS further in
structed to inquire into the propriety cf the
past-age of a law to prevent the further ex
pansion of the currency by the organization
of any new banking associations, except
where they niy take the placea of some ex
isting State Bank..
And that said committee be further In
structed to inquire into the propriety of re
deeming the outstanding interest-bearing
legal tender notes, by issuing in their stead
other notes tff denominations not less than
$50 each, bearing a uniform interest from
the 1st of January in each year of 36 S 100
per cent, tier annum, with coupons attached,
to be paid out, and to be made legal tenders
for their face, with interest added. . -,
Mr. Davis, according to previous notice;
introduced a series or resolutio'ffs for the
restoration of peace, Union, &c.
The resolutions propose a convention of
all the Stases as the agency by which these
ends are to be attained, and they then pro
pose to refer to the consideration of such
convention as a basis of a settlement of all
difficulties among the States, die numerous
amendments to the Constitution arranged in
eleven separate paragraphs. The first par
agraph proposes to, form the States of
Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont into
one State; the States of Massachusetts,
Khode Island and Connecticut into one
State; the States of Maryland and Delaware
and thce25tcrtf shore of Virginia into otie
State.
The second provides that the President
and Vice President be chosen alternately'
from the free and slave States, but both
never at the tamo time either from the free .
Or slave States, tor the term of four years,
and that any person who may have filled the
office of President shall be forever ineligible
to it;. ;:, ;
The third provides that all tho States, in
the month of January next, before the ex
piration of the Presidential term, shall pre
sent candidates for the Presidency and Vioo
Presidency, the free States for the ono office
and slave States for the other, as they may
be respectively entitled, and shall certify
to the two Houses of Congress and the Su
preme Court the names of the persons so
chosen: and off tbe firstMendavin Februarv
following, the Supreme Court, in the pres
ence of the two Houses of Congress) shall
peieet lrom the persons whose name have
been certified for the Presidency a President;
then a Vice President from the names that
have been certified for that offioe, the Jus
tices of the Supreme Court to be uneJigible
to any nthor office; , ; ... ,.;
J he 4th provides tliat the President shall
have the povrcr to appoint State, Treasury;
iavy, war ana interior departments, the
Attorney General, all Dinlomitio offirs
and Secretaries of Legation;', all other civil
officers,' except those who hold office during
good behavior, whom be la required tonom-
their offices; - -, -.-.p-i
The fifth asserts tn absolute, .right to the
writ of habeas corpus in all places and under
all circumstances, to trial by. jury. according'
to the mode prescribed by tbe Gonstitutioti,
the freedom of religious opinion and wor
ship, of the press, and of speech, exemp
tion from arbitrary arre'sf; arid the right to
hold and bear witness lor their owu defense.
The sixth 'provides that each State shall
have the exclusive right and power w es
tablish within its 6wn borders on whatsuh-
ject there shall be property, and all it local
and tiomestio institutions, and -to, maks all
laws and regulations concerning thsm. , :t
The 7th provides that private property
snail not bfe taken for the public uo, except
to subserve some Constitutional operation
ofthe Government; ttor until the owner
shall have received ot secured front the Gov.
eminent, according to law, t, full and fair'
compensation. : ;:.! : ,
9 The 8th, that necessity sLall.not originate
or confer any power, except within the ac
tual lines, and to supply , tbe ordinary mili
tary want of each military foros, unites ea
featiol to the jmblie ervio, uunisdnrtw
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