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NUMBER 709--NEW SERIES,

N ORWALK CONN ., TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 30,1862

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HARDWARE 81. PAINT STORE,

M a i n S t r e e t,
Opposite I_. H. Campell’s Confectionery,

111111111111 & PROWITT,

Wholesale and retail Dealers in Hardware,
Cutlery, Paints, Oils, Glass, Paper Hang-
ings, Window Shades, &.c.

ROOFING SLATE,

Iron) Vermont, V
VERY -CHEAP,
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H. E. WING.

THE ALLIS HOUSE, ’

(formerly Union House,) V
Opposite N. Y. &. N. H. Depot. in Union asp,

NQW Haven. (10))an '
L. P. ALVLIS, Pnornnsron.

JAMES G. BAHOUB,

SURGICAL AND MECHANICAL V

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. Office at Residence, East Avcnue,Norwalk,
" Goduccticut.

, .. 'Architecture. 1
SIDNEY M. STONE,
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bic an private buildings Office In Mar-
l'e D1001), Chapel- Vs-tI, New" Haven, 01.11152

EC. F. BELDEN, Norwalk, Cohn.,Man-

ufacturer of Tin, Copper, and Sheet
Iron Ware; and dealer in Stoves, Ranges,
Furnaces, Cutlery, Brittannia, Wooden and
Willow Ware, Crockery , and a full assort-
meat of House Keeping articles generally.

as issEILII, Authoneer. W111

.? l. l) ['pp'rtV cula'r' attention to sales by
' tion, of Estate, Personal Property and
." Household Furniture. terms low.

WM. 0. STREET )1 co, :

Importers; wholesale and retail dealers in

sasnwsnn. 1119)).
SEES). gutlerVy, Guns, Agricultural IrnplIe-
' Finland, 0115,1’a1nts, Window Glass, &0.

O. 3.1008WOOD,
fashionable Dradper & Tailor,

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S. H.011MSTEAD 6!. 00.,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers 1n

Groceries, Flour, Peed, at,

14 and 16 Main- -a.t., Norwalk, Conn.

i'i'NA- INSURANCE COMPANY,
' 01' Hartford.
Incorporated )1) 1819, Charter Perpetual.
can) Capital $1,000,000

Insure against loss and damage by Fire,
on Terms adapted to the hazard,nnd

consistent with the laws of
compensation.

G£ORGE R. COWLES, Sole Agent
For N orwalk and vicinity.

A. JACKSON a 380.
N o. 1 Gazette Bnilding-

QPIVJIDD respectfiVllly announce to the
he and their old customers, that
they have recently made extensive additions

to their stock of goods. We are -
pd to offer an assortment now prepar

in Fairfield Count
, yyvoul uld call
I stokes,
We have a fine lot of adies’ Swiss Watches
infield cases, at prices varying from $20 1:6
37 which we can recommend as beiu r cor
rect time keepers. Also, Gentlcmcn’s atch-
es, in silver and gold cases, at any price fmm
$5 to $100. We buy of the best importers 1n
New York, and altogether for cash, so t1; 1;
our facilities for selling cheap could not file
eater. Our stock 0 Jet vary; Silv er and
"tea Iarés" was‘ncvér 'bétt'ér thanY at pres-
upland emprijse's all of the latest styles that
fadturcd A. JACKSON do BVBVO

Carts and Wheelbarrows, '
FORC Children, sold by
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,in quality or rice. We
cu 81‘ attention to ur st'ook of

1104 '

I Angelic hi: the
e expenses

not to be surpassed '

file is lar er than ever before. —-.

A Mother’s Story.
Amid the throng that gathers where
The mail dispenses joy and care,
I saw a woeful woman stand—-
A letter falling from her hand ';' "
She spoke no word, she breathed no sigh;
Her bloodless check, her sad, fixed eye, ,
And pallid, quivering lips apart, . .
Showed hopeless grief had seized her heart.

I spoke ;—a word of kindness cheers
The heavy heart, and heaven-sent tears
Refresh the eye, dry sorrow sears.

“Ah, sire, my boy! my brave bright boy!”
In broken voice she said;

“ My only son! my only joy!
My brave, bright boy is dead 1”

“ Sorrow is sacred 1" and the eye .
That looks on grief is seldom dry;

I listened to her piteous moan,

Then followed to her dwelling .lone,
Where, sheltered from the biting cold,
She thus her simple story told .;._

.“ My grandsire, sir, for fecdom died,
0n Eutaw's bloody plain ;

My father left his youthful bride, I
And fell at Luudy’s Lane.”

“ And when my boy, with burning brow, '
- Told of the nation‘s shame,_—
How Sumter fell l—O, ho'w. sir, how

Could blood like mine be tame ?

,“ I blessed him: and I bade him g0,——:—
Bade him Our honor keep ;

He poudly went to meet the foe ;
Left .me to pray and weep.

"‘ In camp—on march—on picket round——
Hc did his equal share ;‘

. And still the call to battle found
My brave boy always there.

“ And when the fleet was all prepared
V To sail upon the main,
He all his comrades' feelings shared,
Butfecer scorched his brain I . ‘

“ He told the General 110 would ne'er
From toil or'danger shrink,
'Bnt, though the waves he did not fear,
It chilled his heart to think

' " How drear the flowerless grave must be
' Beneath the ocean s foam,
And that he knew ‘twould comfort me
To have him die at home.

“ They tell me that the General’s cyc
With tears did overflow .

God bless the brave man I—with a sigh,
He gave him leave to go.

“ Quick down the vessel’s side came he;
Joy seemed to kill his pain;
* ‘ Comrades 1’ he cried, ‘1 yet shall see -V
My mother‘s face again!’

“ The boat came bounding o‘er the tide ,

' He sprang upon the strand° .

God’s will be done l—my bright boy died,
Hisfurlough in his hand. I"

Ye who this artless story read,
If pity in your bosoms plead,—
' And “ Heaven has blessed your store,"—
If broken-hearted women, meek,
Can win your sympathy—Go, seek
That childless widow's door!

M«.»*————

Dying,

11‘ this be dying —to {ode away,

Like a flower that fades' in the sweet spring air,
Its crimson scarce fainter from day to day, -
Till we look, and lo! ‘tis no longer there.

If it be dying—from day to day

To brighten as brightens the sunset ray,

In beauty each moment more rich and rare,

Till its rose-tints melt in twilight gray.

 

If this be dying—this strange rest——

All cares forgot, all labors past;

Each pain-throb lulled on Vlovc‘s soft Willis); ‘3
A lifetime's tenderness comprcst V i

Into these hours, the best and last.

And even pain becomes delight,

So wondrous is love’ 5 ministry;

And all things beautiful and bright,

Bathed in life’s rich departing light,

Seem yet more beautiful to thee.

If this be dying—to waste away

11') gaunt unbcautiful decay,

From whichV—now coldly l'—tur.us the eye,
Even wliVeInV tne bands they need supply.

I If this be dying—this weary fight,
II No strength, no hope, yet still no rest;
Still toiling ”mid the shades of night, . 1
' By the grim wolf of hunger prest—
Fleeing—but driven in thy flight,

Still faster onward to the hon):

What death 80an reel.) to 11910112

1.92.138 be dying-411,115 to lit:
Unheedcd us the beast that creeps
Into some thicket‘s shade to die—
No hand that smooths, no eye that weeps. V
H<Q>

Popular Opinion and Official
Policy.

Cautious men tell us, with many so!-
emn shakes of the head, that amidst the
convulsions of this rebellion we are drift-
ing by all the landmarks of the‘Constitu-
tion towards a despotism. If this be so,
it is the business of the Government to
reassure the timid and the wavering by a
decent deference to the opinion of that
constituency which elected and WhICh 03“
decline to re-elect it to office. Unless we
are ready to abandon all our theories,
there is no reason why the President and
his advisers should be'deaf to the appeals
of a sufi'ering nation, which is seeking by
an infallible instinct I0: the natural solu-
tion of a portcntous problem. The peo-
mm .119 instants
the army? From the people! Whence
comes the taxes? From the peoplel, Who
made the President and the Cabinet?
The people), What isthe House of Rep-
resehtatives and what the Senate? The
people! Respect, then, Mr. President
and gentlemen of the Cabinet, the voice
of the people! You are not high enough
yet to be ashamed of your benefactors.
Creatures should never despise their cre-
atorsl

No State assisted with a more hearty
zeal in the elevation to power 0" the Ad-
ministration than Massdchusctts, No
State has contributed to the suppression
of the rebellion with a greater alacrity
than she has. She has earned the right
to have her opinion respected. She has
been charged with being over theoreti-
cal; but there is no theory in the bones
of her sons new bleaching upon the plains
of VI. rginia; she has been accused of fa-
naticism, but the country has acquitted
of undue zeal the masses of men which,
column after column, she has pushed to,-
wards Washington; there nus been goin-
plaint of gel} tendency to abstractions,
not all have admitted that there was
something at least approximating to the
caucretc in the millions of money which
she has absolutely given to- the United
States. Her Iiberulity and her devotion
have proved her sincerity, while her rep-
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been questioned except by the ignorant.

V V,‘ The views of a State; Convention repre-
. -V seating 111))" only organized political paIty,
' - are not beneath the notice of any man, I

whatever may be the powers which pub- '
lic indulgence has conferred upon him.‘
What were these news? They are to
.be found in this resolution, which was
adopted, after a full debate, at the last
Worcester Convention; ' -

Resolved, That the most decisive measures

' for the complete and permanent suppression

of this Rebellion are the most prudent, and
that as the institution of Slavery )s a princi-
pal support of it, that institution shall be

' exterminated.

The repurt before us says that this

I V resolution was received and adopted with
enthusiastic applause, the opposition to-
‘ it, though respectable in charac'tergbeingi

nothing in point of numbers. ' We do not‘
quote the resolution, either' to approve or
to disapprove of it; With that, at: pre-
sent, we have nothing to do. It shows

troduction and passage showI something:
more. The terms of its. expression may
be distasteful to the conservative mind.

There may be m it a savor of braggado-,
cio. But the trouble' )3, O conservative'
friends! that you cannot hold a popular

I convention anywhere at the North to-day
. that will. not, maugre managemeutland
.theIprettiest packing, pass precisely just

such a resolution! If there-be error in it,
then it )s an error so widely diffused that-

V' no probable teaching can eradicate it. V
V The timid may shake, the indignant may,

protest, the prudent may caution; but
there is your popular opinion—there'ls'
your dose, gentlemen of the government,
and if you do not swallow it, there is a

= predestinate chasm which gapes to swalé

low you! Remember that this is Detour
warning—it is the warning of a fact!
You may shut your eyes, but the fact
remains,’ just as surely as the earth re-
volves while you are sleeping! And what
reason is there to believe that there will
be any change of this opinion? Has it
been the habit» of the world to "go back-
ward? Not upon moral questions, must
surely! MenV may alter their vievts or
their votes upon minor matters of thrills
or of subttreasurlesi but upon this point
of hostility to or acquiescence in a bad
and barbarous system'of labor, there can

never be an abandonment of the duties

whiCh reason and humanity dictate.

Upon what terms would the most consist-I
vative gentleman in Wall street, eager for
a profitable contract, undertake to tho,-

roughly exterminate the Christian Tell-
giou in the United States? ' This exam:
you must do—tho most simple and easy
work—beforeyOu can begin to crush the
Anti-slavery opinion of the free North;
and when you have done. this, you have
done nothing. The Greeks figured Folly
as a woman twisting busily at one end Vof
a rope of show, while an ass industrious-

ly munched at the other. "It )s so with
slavery. Although it should escape the

exist without being a perpetual protest.
agalnst it It wouldVVstlll b exposed to

Church did for slavery, political economy

. would hasten to undo; and, in melting ..
run, dollars would outbid a mock devo. .
' tion.

If slavery were merely a' political
wrong, we should despair of its extinc-
tion; fortunately it happeus'to be both a
crime and a blunder—and its fate is
sealed.

But, finally, what shall be done with
the traditions of this momentous period?
Hostilities may cease and differences be
temporarily adjusted, but with the mem-
ory of the last will abide the memory of
the cause; in which they'fell. n There is
mauya family at the North, heretofore.

rooted and unmanageable grief, has been
taught that slavery is a system of vio-
leuce and wickedness. Will a few years
of' deceitful and temporiziug peace bribe
those to an acquiescence in a wrong, who
have so much cause to hate it? The day
of makeshift and apology has gone by

M1: pm", piatrorms dedicated
to “Uniou”-—uo stale saluta' non of slave-
holdersa as “brethreu”-—- h—no schemes of
adjustment hatched in the autumn of
elections to perish 1n the winter of politi-
cal reality, will again cheat one citizen
who has wept over the flesh grave of his

0'. .— rvn

that poor privilege denied him. The re-

but what we must have, which new con-
cerns us

For our own part, we urge at present
no scheme, and we propose no policy.
Our duty as observers of society and as
recoldels 0f facts, ceases here. It' is for
those who have undertaken to manage
public affairs, and who have, by oath
or affirmation, and in God’s presence,

show themselves mentally and morally
competent

theu?— Tribune,
WEI—$3.".--
thought it was to at
VDailn: Fradulm ’s beagon the postage stam‘bs.
'd o1:g'3_':n fiater 1111:,i like the stam he was

evo e 0 name urin his e r

he certainly stuck to (emf). a eu- years
«0».
“FA correspondent of the Winsted Her
ominates the Rev. Hiram Eddy, for-
merly Chaplain of the 2dC. V., and fora

 

 

 

didate for Congress 1)) the 4th CongressiOnal
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WJohnM. Botts has been 1: cased on.
parole from prison at Richmond, a ter three

 

 

months confinement

the opinion of Massachusetts, butIItsV 'Vin- .I

MRS. PASSABLE TROT'VI‘V.

BY. N. P. WILLIS.

The temerity with which I hovered.
on the brink of matrimony when a very
young man could only be appreciated by
a fatuitous .credulity. The number of
very fat mothers 'of' very. plain families
who can point me out to their respective
ofi's'priug as their'oue 11111111013111. papa, is 11.-
dicrously improbable The truth was
that I had a powerful imagination in my
early youth and no “realizing sense”

, A coral necklace, warm from the wearer
'-—a shoe with a little stain in the solo,

anything flannela—Va bitten rose-bud with
a mark of. 0V truth upon it—.—a rose, 'a glove

.eestac'y! To anything pith curls and
Skirts, and especially If encircled with a.
skysblue sa‘sh, my heart was as a CVrthouV
hydrant. AI) mcl » 1

But, of all (my short eternal thtaCh-'
meats, Fidella VBalch (since Mrs. 'P..
Trott) was the kindest and fairest. —
Faithless of course she was, since my
name does not begin with T. -—-l)ut if she
did not continue to love mIe—V'V-P. Trott or
no P.".Tr0_tt—she was shockingly fore-
sworn, ascan be proved" by [by several
stars, usually censidered very attentive
listeners. I rather Vpitied poor Trott—
for I know .

a ‘-.‘Her heart—it was mother‘s, ” ,
and Vte was rich and forty-odd; But
they seemed to live very harmoniously,
and HI availed myself of such little cou-
solution as fell in my way, it was there-I
salt of philosophy. I never forgot the
'faithless Fidelia I

This 11) to be a disembowellsd narra-
tive, dear reader—skipping hour the
maidenhead of my heroine to her widow-
hood, fifteen years—yet I would have
you supply here and there a betweenity.
My own sufi'erings at seeing my adored
Fidelia go daily into another name house
and shut the door after her, you can eas-
inI conceive. Though not in. the habit of
rebelling agalust human institutions, it
did seem to [no that the marriage cere-
mony had no business to give old Trott
quite so much for his money. But the
aggravating part of‘ it was to‘co'mzew—
Mrs. P. Trott grew prettier. every day,
and Vof courSe three hundred and sixty-
five noticeable degrees prettier every
{yenrl :She seemed incapable of Or not
liable to, wear and tear; and probably
_old Trott was a man, in- doors, of very
even behavior. And it should be said,
too, in explanation, that as Miss BaVlcl),
Fidelia was'a ashadc toofot for her mddcl.
She embellished as herdimples grew 11...).
lower. Trifle by trifle like the progress
of a status, the superflulty. fell away from
nature’s original Mia's Belch, (as deslgVnI-V'
V'ed' 1n Heaven.) and when 01d Passkble

 

hostility of the Chuer, which ”cannot;

the hostility of the market. What a Vales}

indifferent, which, .in the school of a"

soldier-sou. or who has mourned eveVn'

cord' 18 made up. It' )s not what we want, '

consecrated themselves to that work, to

If they do, they will win an
enduring glory; but, if they fail—what-

long time a prisoner at the South, as a can- ,

died, (and no one knew what that P.

stood for, till it was betrayed by the in-

‘ discreet plate on his coffin, (Mrs. Trott

thirty- -fhrVeVe years old, was at her mllxi»
i mum of beauty Plump, tapering, truss

3 pareutly fair, will) an are) like- a high-
conditioned IYéubs, and a neck set on
' like the swell of a French horn, she was
consumedly good- :Iookiug. When I saw
in the paper, “Died Mr. P. "Croft,” I
went out and walked past the house,
with overpowering emotions. Thanks
to a great many refusals, I had been
faitbillll IV could bring her the some
heart, unused and I undamaged which I
shad ofi‘cred her before) II Could gener-
Vously- overlook Mr. Trott's temporary
occupation, since behad left us his mon-
eyl and when herj;mourniugIshould be
over-Abe very day—the very hour—her
first love should beready for her, good as
new!

I have said nothing of any evidences of
continued attachment on the part of Mrs
Trott. She was a discreet person and
not likely to compromise Mr. P. Trott
till she knew the strength of his causti-
tution But there was one evidence of
lingering preference which I built 1)
like a rock. I had not visited her (In
rugs muse fifteen years.. '1‘rott‘liked1ne
not—I-you can 3V11ess why! But I had A
nephew five years old when Mrs. Belch
was my “prism-tel) encased." and as like
me, Ill,“ boy, as could be copied by na-
ture. ; He was our. unsuspected messen-
ger of lave, going to play in old Balch’s
garden when I was forbidden the house,
unconcious of tlle billet doux 1n the pock-
et of his piaufore; and to this boy, after
our separation, seemed Fidelis to cling.
He grewup to a youth of mind and
manners, and still she cherished him. __
He all but Nyed at old Trott’s patted and
made much of——her constant companion
«reading, walking, riding-indeed when
home from college, her solo society. 41-9
you surprised that, in all this, there was
a, tenderness of Iréminisence that touched
and: amnrred me?

I thought it delicate, and best to let.
silence do its work during that year. of
mourning. I did not whisper even to my
V nephew Bob the secret of my happiness.
I I left cue. card of- condolence after old

ing the hours. The slowest kind of Voter-I
nity it appeared.

The morning never seemed to ma. Ito
break with so much dific any and reluct-
auVVce as on the anniversary of tin) demise
of Mr! Payable Trait—Jane 2,1850. -i
Time is a comparative thing, I well
know, but the minutes seemed to stick
on interminable morning. I began to
dress for breakfast at four—but details

 

.a thimble—eithe'r of these was agony, V

threw'. all her faded roses

Trott’s funer'al, and lived private, count- ' '

are tiresome. Let me assure, you that
12 o’cloCk 11), did arrive! the clocks
struck it and the shadows verified it.

I could not have borne an accidental
“not at‘homVe, ” and I resolved not to run
risk of it... , I

Lovers, besides, are not tied to knock-1
ers and ceremony. I bribed Vthe. gard-

Fidelia’s boudoi'rg I knew, opened
upon the lawn, and it. seemed more like
love to walk” 11'). ‘ :She kne‘VwI—J-II knew—V-
Fate and Circumstances knew and had
ordained—that that morning was to be
shoved up, joined on and dovetailed to
our last separation, The time between
m tube blank,- 01' Course she expected
.me_ ' .

The garden door ajsr—-as paid for. I
traversed the vegetable beds, tripped
through the flower walk, and—oh bliss!
the window was open! I could just see
the E gypttau um 01) its pedestal of sphinx‘
es,i-1)Vto which I knew (per Bob) she
I glided near.

I looked m at the window '

AN, that picture! She sat with her
back to [us—her arm—that arm of rosy

alaha'ster—thrown carelessly over her
chair—her egg shell chin resting carless-
ly on her other thumb and forefinger-—
her eye-lids sweeping her cheek—41nd a
white—yes! a white bow“ 1n her hair.—
Aud her dress was of snowy lawn—white
bridal. unite! VAdie'uV, old; VlV’aVssable
Troll!

I wiped my eyes and I looked again.

IOId Trott’s portrait hung on the iwa-II,

but that was nothing. Her guitar lay

5.011 the table, and—did I see arigh'tl—a

miniature just beside _it! Perhaps old
Trott—taken out. for the last time.—
Well—well! He was a very respectable

most likely
“Eben?” soul I, stepping over this sill,
“Fidelia?”
certainly looked surprised:
“Mr. G —-— I” said she
.“It' is long since we parted!" I said,
helping myself to a chair.
“Quite long!” said Fidelia.
“So long that you have forgotten the
name of G‘——‘?” I asked tremulousIVy.
“01) no!" she replied, covering up: the
miniature on the table by a careless -
movement of her scarf.
““And" may {VI hope that that name has
not grown distasteful to you?” I tum-
moncd courage to any. E , '
“qu0, I do not know that It twill).
an!” I
V The blend returned to my “biting
heart. - I felt; as in days of yore.
“Fiddle!” said I, “let me not ma the
precious moments. You loved .))V) at
lwenty'A—I'na'yV I hope that I may s and
to you in a nearer relation? May I wen-
VtuVre to think that on)». family? [sI notion-VV
Viworth'y a {union with the Balch’sé— hat
)1st G—’—-, you could be happyl”
l Fidelia looked—hes1tated—took 1 up
the miniature, an clasped it to {her
breast.‘
“Do I understand you rightly, l'.'
G—?” she tremuIVouslVVy excla) ed.
But I think I do! I remember ell
vhat you were at twentyI- This picmge
it like what" you Were then—with differ.
class, it is true, but still like! Dear
pcture!” she exclaimed again, kissing, it
wth rapture.

(HOW could she have got my midis
two 7—but no matter—taken by st b,
I presume. Sweet and eager auticiVa-
tion I)

“And Robert has returned from 00!-
loge, than?” she said, inquiriugly. , i
' “Not that I ku'ew of, ” said I. ;

I‘Indeed lf—then he has written {to

yo) I”

“Not recently i”

V‘Ah, poor boy! he anticipated ll;—
Wsll, Mr. G-—! I will not afiect' g-to
becoy where my heart has been so lohg
int'l'ested. "

I stood ready to clasp her to my
soul) .

‘l‘ell Robert my mourning is overl-
tellhin) his name” (the name of Gj:
of oVurse) “is the music of my life 11
the! I will marry whenever he pleases

IL horrid suspicion crossed my mind.

{Pardon me I” said I "am lite
palm, did you say 2 Why particularly,
lem he poem. 7"

ILa I his not being of Iago is no imped.
imlut I hope I” said Mrs. Trott, in
acne surprise. “Look at his miniature,
M‘. G-'—'—! It has a boyish IlIook,) itV’s
talc—but so had you—at twenty I” - i

Hope sank within me I I would hate
Elle!) worlds to be away. The truth
wrs Iapparent to rue—perfectly apparent.
SID loved that boy Bob—that chi!d-;—.
tlnt mete child—41nd meant to. marry
bin 1 Yet how could it be possible !—-;-
I might be—yes-I me be mistaken:—
Filelia Belch—who was a Woman when
hewas an urchin 1))-patients) She
think of marrying that boy ! I wronged
he) I
was) no harm 1n having it perfectly under-I
stmd. .

“Pardon me I” said I, putting on a
look as. if I expécted a about of laughter-
fort the‘ mere supposition, “I should gatherI
—(categor1cally, mind you l—ouly ente-
geneally) I should gather from what you
said just now—(had I been a third per-
son listening, that is to day—with 'no
knowledge of the parties)-—I should
really have gathered that Bob—little
Bob—was the happy man, and not I !—

P’VV

 

 

V Now don’t laugh at me I"

She started and turned, and .

But, worst Come to worse, thefe ’

 

 

 

 

 

MI," tlI'eI floppy [nan II—Oh, Mr.
(fact) [no if I liVaVve nomtsnh'onally misled
you—but if I marry agtiu, Mr. G—~,
it will be a young-I M11." ! ! In short, not
to mince the matter, Mr. G—. 30'"
‘nVepheer' )s to' become my ghasband (noth-
iIlig unferscen turning up) in the course
of the next week I We shall have the
pleasure of seeing you at the wedding
'of course! OI), no ! You! II should
fancy that no woman would make two
unequal marriages, Mr. G—‘—-. Good
morning, Mr. G— I” I was left alone,
and to return Hss I pleased, by the vegeta-
Ihle garden or the front door I chose
the latter,Vb1V)ingV semewhat piqued as well
at) inexpressibly grieved and disappointed.
But philosophy came to my aid, and I
spot) fell into a mood of speculation. : - '
“Fidelia‘ is constant !” Vsa‘id II to my-
self—Coustant, one: all! She made up
her mind fer me Vat twenty. But I did
not stay twenty. ' Oh, no! I unadvis-
edly and without preparative'ly cultivat-
Iing her taste for thirty-five, bonnie thirty-
five. And now' W111 was V1) to do f-V-V
"Her taste was not at all embarked' 11V)
VPassableV Trott-I—and it .had stayed just

as it was-«waiting to be called up and

used. She locks it up decently till old'
Trott dies, and then reprnducek—whatf
VW-h'y, just what IVVshV'e has locked up—a‘
taste for a young man at twenty-—aud
just such a young man as she 10de when
she was twenty! Bob of coarse ! Bob
is like [he—at twenty—Bob is twenty I
1131) Bob her husband I ' I

But I cannot say I quite like Such
constancy! ,

Cards Ipiritualized.
[Giving an account of Richard Lee,o

 

 

-mcu,_1')ud had been very kind Vto her private soldier, who. had been taken be- United State's, and whiclf States may

this the magistrate of the Itown of Glas-
g0w for playing cards daring divine ser-
viceV.']V . I, .

Thc’ser'geant commanded the soldiers
at the church, and when the person had
read the prayers he _took the text. Those
who had a Bible took it out;th this sol-
dier had neither Bible nor Common
Prayer B0011 but pulling out a pack of
cards, he spread them out before him.
He first. looked at one card and then at
another. The sergeant of the company
saw him and said: I.

"Riots-11,93 up, the cards; this is no
place for them. ” .

“Never mind that, ” said Richard.
When the service was over, the con
stable took Richard , a prisoner, and
brought him before the Mayor. "
"Well,” says the Mayor, “what have
you brought the soldier here for?”

“For playing cards In church. ”. . 3
“Well, soldier, what have you to say
for yourself?” ,

“Much, sir, I hope. " '\

“Very good, if not, I will punish you
“fibfe third evol- man Was puniéhed.”

“I have been, ” said the soldier, “about
six weeks on the march. I have neither
Bible nor Common Prayer Book. I have
nothing but a pack of cards, and I hope
to: be able' to satisfy your VWomhip of the
purity of my intentions. ” ' '

Then spreading the cards before the
Mayor, he began with the ace: . I
"When I see the ace, it reminds Eme
that there is but one God.

“When I see the deuce, it reminds me
of Father and Son.

“When I see the tray, it reminds me
Of Father, 'Son, and Holy Ghost.
“When I- see'the four, it reminds me
of the four Evangelists that preached—
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
“When. I see the five, it reminds me of
the five wise virgins that trimmed their
lamps. There were ten, but five were
wise, and five were foolish, and. were

shut out.
“When I see the six, it reminds me

that in six days the Lord made heaven
and earth.

“When I see the seven, it reminds me
that on the seventh day God rested from
the great work he had made, and hill-
‘lowed it. " ‘

“When I see the eight, it reminds me
of the eight“ righteous persons. that were
saved when God destroyed 'the world,
via: Noah and his wife, his three sons,
and their wives.

"When I see the nice, it reminds me
of the nine lepers that were cleansed by
our Savior." There were nine out of ten
who never returned thanks.’
“When I see the ten, it reminds me of
the Ten Commandments which God)
handed down Vto Moses on the tables of
am

of the Great King of Heaven, which is

of the Queen of Sheba, who visited solo

'1") ' boys and fifty girls, all dressed in boyS’

apparel, for King Soldmou',‘ to tell which
were boys and which were girIsI- King.
seleniou sent for water for them t? w‘aVSh';
the girls washed to the elbows, and the
boys to the wrists, VVso King Solomon VtollVin
by that.” '

given a description of all the cards )1) Vchc'
pack except one. ” - ..
“What 1)) that?” _ _ I I ‘I.
“The knave,” said the Mayor.
“I will give your honor a description
of that, too, if you will not be angry.”
“I will not, ” said the Mayor, “if you
do not term me to be the know; ”

 

you are Joklng! Oh, no! par-

I to the free acceptance-or Ejection of all

“When I see the king, it reminds me '

God Almighty. ' . IV - A
“When I see the queen, it reminds me .

man, for she; was as wise a woman as he
was s; man. She brought with her fiVf'tiyV ‘-

Aicrument of the United States, orwho

'0 - “Well, ”. said the Mayor, “you have):

I . States; and all. slaves of such persons
1 - found on (or being within) any place 0d-

} “Well, ” said the soldier, “the greatest
kuave that I know Vof1s the constalule who
brought me here.”

“I do not know, ” said the Mayor, “if
he is the greatest kuave, but I know he
is the greatest fOOI. ” ‘ ‘-‘A' .

“When I count how many spots in a
pack of cards, I find 365—as many days
as them are in a year.

“When I count. the number of Cards )n
a pack, I find there are 52—111.; number
of weeks in a year; and I find'four suits
—-the number of weeks 1n 1). month.

“I find there are twelve picture cards
in a pack. representing the number of
months 1n the year; and on counting the
tricks, I- find thirteen—the number of
weeks' 10 a quarter.

"So you see, sir, I). pack of cards serves
for a Bible, Almanac, and Common
Prayer Book." .

——,°v‘.>¢.O—-—-'- f
A PROCLAHATION
By the President of the United

‘ ' States. V

‘ I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN” President of the
VUuitedIVStates I of America, and Com-
mander-in-Chiefof the-Army and Navy
thereof, do hereby PROCLAIM and
DECLARE that hereafter, as hereto;
fore, the war will be prosecuted for the
object of practically restoring the Consti-

tutionsl relation between the. United
States and the people thereof,1 in which
States that-relationis, or may be, ans-
pended or disturbed; that it‘ is my pur—
pose upon the next'meeting of I'Congress,
to again recommend the adoption of a
practical measure tendering pecuniary aid

the Slave States so called, the whereof
may not then be m rebellion against the

then have voluntarily adopted or there-
after may voluntarily adopt the immedi-
ate or gradual abolishmeut of Slavery
within their rcspectivelimits; and that the
effort to colonize persons of African do:
scent with their consent upon this centi-
neut or elsewhere with the previously
obtained consent of the. Governments ex-
istiug there, will be continued; that on-
the first day of January, in the year of '
-our lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-three, all persons held as slaves
within any State, or any designated part
of a State, the people whereof shall then
be )h rebellion against the United States,
shall be thenceforward and forever free,
and the Executive Government of- the
United States, includiug the military and
naval authority thereof, will recognize
and maintain the freedom of such persons,
and will do no not or acts to repress such
persons, or any of them, in any efforts
they may make for their actual freedom ;
that the Executive will, on the first day
of January aforesaid, by proclamation,
designate the States and parts of States,
if any, in which the people thereof respec-
tively shall then be in rebellion against
the United States, and the fact that any
State, or the people thereof shall on that
day be in good faith represented in Con-
gress of the United States by ' members
chosen thereto at elections wherein a ma-
jority of the qualified voters of such
State shall have palticipated, shall,

the absence of stfroug countervailing testi-
mony, be deemed conclusive evidence
that such State and the people thereof
have not been in rebellion against the
United States.

The attention is hereby called to an
act of Congress entitled “An act to make
an additional article of war,” apprOved
March 13, 1862, and which act is in the
words and figures following:

Be it enacted by the Senate and house
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled. That
hereafter the following shall be promul-
gated as an additional article of war, for
the government of the army of the Unit-
ed States, aud shall be obeyed and ob-
served as such:

Article. All officers or persons in» the
military or. naval service of the United
States are prohibited from employing any
of the forces under their respective con)-
mands for the purpose of returning fugi-
tives from service or labor, who may
have escaped from any persons to whom
such labor is claimed to be due, and any
Chicer who shall be found guilty by a.
court-martial of violating this article
shall be dismissed from the service.

Sec, 2 And be it fort/m enacted,
That this act shall take effect from and
after its passage.

Also, to the ninth and tenth sections
of an not entitled “An act to suppress
insurrection, to punish treason and rebel-
lion, to seize and confiscate the property
0f Rebels, and for other purposes,” ap-
proved July 17, 1862, and which sections
are in the words and figures following:
SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That
'all slaves of persons who 'SbslIV.Ihereafter
be engaged in rebellion against the Gov-

I shall in any-way givcaid or comfort there-
to escaping from such persons and 1 taking

all Islaves captured from such persons or
'coutrol of the Government of the United
copied by rebel forces and afterward oc-
cupied by the forces of the United States,

shall be deemed captures of war, and
shall be forever free of their servitude and

Irefuge within the Iiues of the army , and '

deserted by them and coming under the '

 

SEC.10.Aml be It further enacted,
That no slave escaping into any State,
Territory, or the District of Columbia,
from any of the States shall be delivered
up, or in’ any way impeded or hindered
of h1s l1berty, except for crime or some
offense against the laws, unless the per-
son Claiming said fugitive shall first make
both that the person to whom the labor
or service of such fugitive' )s alleged to be
due, is his lawnt owner, and has not been
in arms against the United States' 1)) the
present Rebellion, nor in any way given
aid and comfort thereto; and no person .
engaged' In the military or naval service
of the United States shall, under any
pretense whatever, assume to decide on .
the validity of the claim of any person to
the service or labor of any other person,
to the claimant, on pain of being dismiss-
ed from the service. _
And I do hereby enjoin upon and or-
der all persons engaged in the military
and naval service of the United States to
observe, obey,- and enforce, within their
respective spheres of service, the act and
. sections ab0ve recited.

And the Executive ‘ will in due time
recommend that all citizens of the United
States who shall have remained loyal
thereto throughout. the Rebellion, shall
( upon the restoration of the constitution-
al relution between the United States,
and their respective States and people, if
the relation shall have been suspended or
disturbed) be compensated for all losses
by acts of the United States, including
the loss of slaves.

In witness whereof I have hereunto
set my haudand'caused‘ the seal of the
United States to be affixed.

Done at the City ‘of Washington this
.tweuty-second day of September, in the
year of our Lord, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-two, and of the lads-
pendence of the United States the eighty
seventh. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

By the PRESIDENT,
WM. H. SE WARD, Sec’ t of State.
ANOTHER PROCLAMATION.
”By the resident of the United
3";th of America- .
Where 3 It has bec31n’e necessary to

call into service, not only volunteers, but

aléo portions of the militia of the States
by draft, in order tp suppress the insur-
recti0n existing in the United States,
and disloyal persons are not adequately
restrainedby the ordinary processes of
law from hindering this measure, and
from giving aid and comfort in various
ways to the insurrection ;

Now, therefore, be it ordered :
First—That during the existing insur-
rection, and. as a necessary measure for
suppnessiugtbe same, all rebels and in

Isurgents,,their alderannd abettors, with-

in the United States, and all persons dis-
couraging volunteer enlistments, resisting

militia drafts, or guilty of any disloyal

practice affording aid and comfort to the
rebels against the authorityof the United '
States, shall be subject to martial law,
and liable to ~‘tr‘ial and punishment by
courts-martial or military commissions.
SecondI' That the writ of habeas corpus
is'suspended in respect to all persons ar-
rested, or who are now, or hereafter dur-
ing the rebellion shall be, imprisoned in
any fort, camp, ars'enal, military prison
or other place of confinement, by any
military authority, or by the sentence of
any court-martial or military commission.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set
my hand, and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington.
twenty-feurth day of September, in the
year of our Lord'one thousand eight hun~
dred and sixty-two, and of the Indepen-
dence of the United States the eighty-

seventh.
Signed,

ABRAHAM‘ LINCOLN.
By the President.
WILLIAM H. stmu, Sec’ty of State.

“OH

We gladly publish the followiug letter,
says the N.' Y. Tribune, believing that,
in its hearty response to the Proclama-
tion of the President, it speaks the senti,
ments of thousands of loyal Democrats
withwhom its author has hitherto acted:
To the Editor of the N'. Y. Tribune—_Snz;

“God bless Abraham Lincoln l”— [TRI-
BUNE Editorial, Sept. 23, 1862.
Amen, with all my heart. “And let

all the people say Amen, ” while humanity
and religion take up the invocation and
join in the supplicated good. God bless
the Tribune, too, for its persistent and
fearless denunciation of the monstrous
wrong which has sapped the vitality and
virtue of the Nation. Slat-cry is dead,
and the Republic lives. ' Lives 1). new life,
graduated by the principles of God’s
eternal justice. The footfalls of advanc-
ing Freedom throw their forward echoes
nponV the gladdened ears of liberty- -loving
men, 'audp soon the imprints 0 her mighty
trend will be dlscernible over and upon
the prostrate and moxtal remains of the
naughty but doomed slave power. The
American Republic henceforWard is free
in fact and' 11) name. “God bless Abra-
ham Lincoln I’V’ I
‘ ' Yours for liberty,
RICHARD BUS'I‘EED.

New York, Sept. 23, 1862.
.»o———

H'Col. J. R. HawleyV of the 711), C. V.,
writes to the Hartford Press from Hilton
Head, S. 0., confirming the repo that or-
ders had been received there to it 5,000
negroes for miltary service, andr a large num-
berm addition for other duties. He thinks

 

that were he a black Touissant the induce.
meat now offered by our Government would
not be sufficient to cause him to fight on
our side, and he therefore doubts whether

 

 

not again held asslaves;

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the negro will at present aid the Union

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