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BENIA IN HAYLEY.
Do* Arc, Ark . March 23. 1867— 12in
A WOMAN'S ADVENTI’RI'.
BT ETTA W. PIERCE.
“Who passes by this road so late?”
The first time I ever saw Captair
John Rayburn 1 was stumping abou
an unpainted kitchen floor, in an ah
surd imitation of clog dance, awas
down in Passaquod, a baekwoo Is dis
trict of Maine.
The setting sun was shining, lcve
and low, through a row of dwarfed np
pie trees at the back door; a thin, pur
plish haze powdered the distant pirn
slopes; but I had been blUe-bcrryin;
that afternoon with Ann Maria Peters
and 1 still wore a calico wrapper o
hideous pattern, borrowed for the oc
casiou from Ann Maria’s wardrobe
with my flufly yellow tresses gatherec
up from my forehead, and heaped fo
gethcr in a manner simple, but totall;
unbecoming.
“Cousin Uelle,” said Ann Maria, a
she sat picking over berries for tea
berries abounded at Passaquod, in
doors and out—“jest show me how tin
girls dance at your Iloston parties,
want to learn. Come now! I neve
saw any real dancing in my lifts,”
“Ann Maria,” corrected I, “the Tios
ton girls do not dance. They wea
eye-glasses and attend medical lectures
beyond that all is vanity.”
“L:i, Belle, that s gas! expostulate!
Ann Maria; “only last night you wen
telling Kitty about the German, am
the what-you-eall-it waltz. Conte
Belle, dear! do now ! I'd he glad to sei
what them fancy danr.es be like."
Thus urged, 1 had betaken myself t<
the broad, uneven kitchen floor, and
prompted by some wicked spirit, wai
executing for Ann Maria's benefit tin
Terpsichorean teat mentioned at tin
beginning of the chapter. 1 had mad<
the circuit of the room, and was enter
ing on a second course, when the inad
vertent dropping of a shoe brought m<
to a stand, and, on looking up, i saw
that great broad-shouldered fellow
standing in the door laughing dowi
upon me with his eyes.
“ha.” said Ann Marin, placidly
“here's Captain Bayburn.-’
lie stooped and picked up the shoe.
“And here is another fairy slipper
Allow me—" lie began, advancing, ai
if to replace it on my unlucky fool.
I snatched it from his mind. Half
shod I fled, indignant and ashamed, in
to the buck porch, slamming the dooi
behind me. . There I sat down witl
Kitty Peters, another daughter of tin
house, who was chopping cheese-curt
on the weather-beaten stoop.
“Kitty, who is that man ?” asked I.
“From the sound of his voice. Belle
dear, I should say it's Captain Bay
burn.”
“Go on."
“'Well, lie hails from your Stato, am
lie's camping out in the woods some
where up the river—hunting and fish
ing and sieh like. He rows down, now
and then, and comes here to Passaquoi
for supplies—that's what lie's ufte
now most likely that or our Aim Maria.
“You never mean to my,” cried 1
“that lie's in love with Ann Maria?"
“Oil, nothing particular," said Kitty
“only ma kinder thinks so. Prcciou
good looking, ain’t ho ?”
I hnd not noticed, and for Hint nigh
at least l lmd no further opportunity
of judging. I never returned to tin
kitchen until Captain Havburn had tuk
cu his departure from it.
Hero I may as well mention how t
was that I came to be at Passaquod las
summer. This nest of Peterses, sum I
and great, were cousins of my fattier
who is a Maine man horn and brod.
Papa met with a business reverse in tin
spring, in consequence ol'which we a
home were served with an early notin
to retrench the summer expenses. Sc
it was decided that no one but Louis,
should go with mamma to Newport
1, being younger and far less pretty
was packed off to Passaquod to visi
country cousins.
For three weeks I had now been re
posing in the bosom of the Peters fain
ily. On the morrow I was going ti
Sundown, a place still further on in Hi
backwoods, to visit for a day my oli
nurse, Gerty, who lived there, in he
dotage. Then papa was to meet me a
Bangor and escort me home.
Of this simple programme I sa
thinking in the hack door that night
staring out through those weird crook
ed apple-trees, across the green corn
fields beyond ; but Fate hud a rod ii
pickle for me of which, happily, 1 thei
knew nothing.
“it strikes me,” said the materna
Peters, as we sat nt tea in the unpaint
ed kitchen, with all the doors and win
dows standing open—“it strikes mt
Belle, that it’s n great undertaking fo
you to start alone for Sundown to
morrow ”
“Oh no,” said I.
“But it is, though,” put in Ann Mu
ria; “ten miles by stage and ten nim
by open wagou. Then Sundown i
the darudest place—worse than Passu
quod! You’ll be glad to gel back,"Belli
dear.”
I ruminated awhile.
“Nevertheless T shall go. Do yo
think I would miss seeing dear oi
nurse; and she so fond of me? Not fo
the world! Papa would approve of i
1 am sure, if he knew. '
“I’m afraid not,” said tlie Uniterm
Peters, shaking her head at me.
“Well,’’quoth Ann Maria. “Captai
Rayburn is going don n iu the stage U
! morrow. I’ll nsk him to look out for)
you."
“Thnnk you,” said T, stiffly; “but I'd
rather you would not mention, me to
! Captain Rayburn.’’ I arose and went
to the window, Ann Maria following.
“I^n, Belle,” said she, presently,
‘•there’s a new moon.’’ She was Icnit
iug over the brown sill. The thin
white crescent hung like a broken ring
1 of fire against the smoldering red of
the low horizon, I leaned out to look
i also, “Over your left shoulder I”
! screamed Ann Maria, dragging me ab
ruptly back. “That’s the very worst of
luck! Now, Belle, I’d never, uever
start to Sundown after that.”
I laughed outright. “Bah! Bad luck,
indeed! Not if I find dear old nurse
’ hale and hearty—not if the weather is
' fine to-morrow.”
It was tine—remarkably so. I arose
parly, for the lumbering old stage left
1’assaqnod at stvveti. I dressed with
1 care, putting on a plain traveling suit i
of dark thick cloth, with a plain bat and
black gloves. I tucked the little gold
' hunting-watch which papa had given
me at Christmas into a sly pocket un
der my belt, and buttoned the shining
chnin out of sight. My purse was in
' the leather traveling-bag which I car
ried in my hand.
• “Mere comes the stage, Belle !" cried
Kitty from the porch, and directly there
was a rumble and a grumble, and the
1 nomldiniT tflimilo liml SltitlVlmd fit till
gate.
Ann Maria rushed to the door.
“Dear me I that French Canadian is
: driving to-day,” site said, under Iter
1 ; breath.
! Kitty hitched up her shoulders.
“ltoquc! so he is. That's too had.
Pa. l>u sure to tell him particular who
Hello is, and where she's going. He's
mortal stupid. There's Captain Hay
hunt. Good-morning. Captain,*'
On the outside of the stage two or.
three men were sitting, in red flannel ;
shirts and glazed hats. The driver,
Hoquc, a slender, black-browed fellow,
was standing near his horses, curling
about his hand a sinuous length of |
whip-end, like a snake. As I rattle j
; down the path he lifted his sloe-black
eyes, and gave me a look which 1 had
reason to remember afterward.
Inside the stage. Captain Uayburn
was the only passenger.
The paternal Peters lifted me in and
shut the door. 1 took the seat taring
the horses, opposite my one companion,
spread out my skirts languidly, kissed
the tip of my glove to the group iu the
porch, after which there was a cracking
! of whiplash over the heads of the lead
ers, and the lumbering vehicle rolled
off up the gray, sunshiny hill.
‘■Good-morning,’’said Captain Hay
: burn, politely, from his place on the !
front seat.
1 looked at him with duedeiiberation.
Altogether he was a somewhat strik
ing person, with bis great deep chested
figure and bravo, brown face, and taw
' tty mustaches, and handsome bands.
••Good-morning," 1 echoed, with
some hesitancy.
lie smiled under that huge mustache.
‘•May I ask. Miss Stacey, if you are
traveling far ?"
•T nut going to Sundown."
| “Alone?”
i “Yes, sir.”
1 “Pardon me, 1 could not retrain from ;
, addressing yon, you are so like votir
.'sister, Miss Louise. She is an old;
friend of mine.”
If broke upon me, then and there,
like a revelation—the memory of Lou
I iso’s last season in New York, ami of
! sundry letters written to nut from;
thence besprinkled with the name of
a Captain Kaybnrn, always termed by
her the most elegant man other set.—
Very stupid of me not to have remcm
i bered before. Very odd that 1 should
meet the hero here, in this obscure cor
ner of Maine.
“Oh,” said I, “1 am not like Louise.
J I am not half so pretty.”
I This was a silly thing to say, and I
! turned quickly amt looked out of the
stage window.
It was a wild road over which we
’ were going, washed ragged by recent
rains. Like a thread, it wound up und j
' down an endless chain of hills, through
gorges and ravines, past aromatic pine
1 ; woods and lonely farm-houses sitting
. forlorn iu lonelier fields,
t i The clumsy vehicle creaked and
• groaned down the sharp descents; it
■ dragged wearily up the rocky spurs.— I
• Now and then 1 heard the voices of the
1 men outside talking as they rode; the
1 brawling of water in still places; birds
chirping from wild, wet thickets.
1 Lonely and monotonous all.
I Captain Kaybnrn was courteous, even
kind. But one cannot talk alone. He!
soon grew tired. Then we jolted ou
iu utter silence.
At a fork In the roads the stage halt
ed. The three men iu red shirts scram
bled down from the top and went away |
- together.
s| “Good-bye,” they shouted back to
• the driver.
“Good-bye," lie answered from over-'
head.
It was the first time I had heard his
voice. It was smooth, with a faint me
j i talie ring and an accent. It thrilled
1 me oddly. Then the heavy wheels rut
r tied oil again.
The sun was fervid and high when
| wo readied the terminus of the stage
1 route. This place was but a shabby
farm-house whose rear roof sloped al
ii most to the ground, and gave it the ap»
- pcarance of some creature squatting ou
its hind legs. There was a clump of
slablcs anil outbuildings adjoining, and
i slip-shod woman came staring to the
door as we drove up. Captain Ray
burn sprang out, and held forth both
hands to me.
“Miss Stacey, can T he of any service
to you in this place?” he asked, earn
estly.
"No, thank von.”
He raised his cap.
“Then we part here. Allow me to
bid you good-day.”
Roque was standing a few yards dis
tant., hauling some baggage from (lie
stage.
“Going back to camp, Captain i” lie
said.
“Ye*i”
“How do things look up the river?’’
“Very well.”
1 turned and went into the house.
1 had though! to find an inn, Wit I
was mistaken. The place made no pre
tensions for the accommodation ofj
guests. People in that region, gener-.
ally speaking, roughed it. In a great
barrack of a room, all sooty and smoke
begrimed, where the slip-shod woman
was frying potatoes and pork at. a cav
ernous fire-place, i succeeded in find
ing an empty chair, and, throwing off j
my hat, sat down to wait.
Presently a shadow darkened the:
window. I looked up to see Iioque]
lolling on the sill, gazing in al me
aslant with his seulthy eyes.
1 ou ran i, go now ior an Hour or
two,’’ said flip smooth, metallic voice.
Why?” 1 asked, quickly,
“The team won't he ready, but I've
sent word to the woman, Uerty, that
you're here."
I drew out my watch and opened it:
it wanted but a lew minutes to noon.
“ L am sorry,I said, “for I wished
to proceed at once.’’
He watched me with black, unflinch
ing eyes.
“ 1 can drive you to the house in two I
hours' time,” he answered. "You've
never been in those parts before, I take I
it?’’
“No," I responded, briefly..
The shadow slipped out of the win-1
dow. lie went off, whistling softly. •
across the yard,
“ You re mighty young to he travelin"
alone," said the woman, as she spread
the deal table jtisl at my elbow. “ My
son John's the rcg'l ir driver on this
route, hut lie went to t'alars yesterday.” |
I really loved Nurse Uerty; I was’
really anxious to see her again. Other- j
wise I should have taken the same
stage directly back to Hassnquod, so !
nervous anil disquieted 1 was, waiting
— waiting in that barrack ofa room.
While I was dining alone at the deal
table, the man. Tloque, lay curled up on •
a mat of braided rags in the doorway,
sunning himself, like a snake, in the
hot suit. I did not notice him, except
Iosco that his eyes were half closed,
his arms flung above bis head. The !
shadow ofa beecli-tree growing out-|
side trembled along the smoky wall j
and fell upon ldtn broad and dark.
Suddenly, with a thrill almost like
terror. 1 lifted my eyes. The ('iinadian
had raised himself silently to his elbow,
and was looking at me.
It was a look, subtle, intense, sharp j
ns lightning, shot through his fallen
htsht'R. If imnn mo for
one breathless instant, then hastily j
withdrawn. 1 sprang up from my j
chair, lie arose also from the mat, I
and muttering to himself, walked
qnleklv away.
A full hour after this the wagon
came to the door. As l was dooming
my hat 1 said to the woman :
•'Is there no one but this ltoque who.
can drive me to-day?”
She looked surprised.
• Well, no. We’ve got a hostler, but
he drinks some—lie ain’t to lie trusted.
You needn't fear witli ltoque, he’s a
master-hand at driving.”
“ When does your sou return from
Calais?”
And she made answer: “To-night.”
‘•Then,” said I, “be sure that lie
comes for me to-morrow. 1 wish to
take the noon stage for 1’nssaquod.”
•‘ Yes,” answered the woman.
I mounted into the wagon; ltoque
followed. Ho gathered up the ruins,
and we set oil'.
Some one had called the man stupid ;
I should sooner have thought him a
scoundrel. Nevertheless, my inward
uneasiness began to subside; he did
not notice my presence by word or
look the entire way. He whistled to
his horse : lie swore soft French oaths
when the beast stumbled along the
detestable road; lie whipped olf the
heads of the little flowers in the thickets
as we passed : lie hummed^suutehes of
song to himself, hut Unit was all.
So we went on, over a track that
grew wilder and lon-lier with every
mile; so the afternoon began to wane
away.
“Have wo much further to go?" I
asked at last, for I was growing weary
and impatient. We hail entered upon
a wilderness. I had not seen a farm
house for a long time.
“Yonder's the place,” answered the
Canadian, pointing with his whip
straight before us.
A low, black house, silting alone in
a lield of coru. On three sides the tall
blades, pennoned out with emerald
silk, tossed and whispered in the west
wlud. Beyond the licit, stretched the
pine wood, black with shadow. There
was an old well with a sweep and a
bucket before the door, and a flork Of
fowls peeking about it. No other hu-1
man habitation was anywhere in sight.
“It isn't possible,” said I, aghast,
“that dear old nurse lives here!”
“This is the place, mademoiselle,”
replied ItoquoMguietly.
I went up to the honse through the
brood of fowls, that fled at may ap
proach, screaming, in all directions. !
Nurse Gerty herself opened the door, !
and clasped me in her arms.
“Is it all right,” called out Itoque
from the wagon.
“All right,” respoded Nurse Gerty,
cheerfully.
The Canadian turned his horse and
drove away.
Nurse Gerty drew me over the thres
hold and shut the door.
“My pretty dear!" she cried, embrac
ing me; “ so you've come all this way
to see an old woman I I got word yo11
wore at the station. Ah, what a sweet
girl it is, to he sure.”
bbe kissed me again with fervor.
I had not seen Nurse Gerty for
years. It struck me that she had grown
old. and greasy, and shriveled. The
skin lay on Iqjr neck and bosom in
tough, leathery*folds. She was tooth,
less and blear-eyed. I was ashamed of
jnvself ‘for shrinking involuntarily
from her caresses, and did penance in
stantly by caressing her in turn.
“Nurse, I am afraid I never should
have known you.” I said.
“Dear child, how long is it since you
saw me last ? asked nurse.
“ Almost ten years."
“ Well, I'm getting old."
“ Hut surely vou don’t live in this
dismal ]>lace all alone?" I said.
She was pulling my outer garments
from me be main force. She paused
and nodded toward the hearth,
“ Xo; Terese is my granddaughter;
she lives with me."
I looked around. The room in whicli
l stood comprised the whole ground
floor of (lie house. The rafters were
grimy and here, hung with hunches of
herbs, and ropes of onions in their yel
low-bronze jackets. There was a yaw
ning gulf of a fireplace, black with
smoke and red with flume, and on a
stool in the chimney comer, where the
glare of the fire flickered over her
gipsy face, a girl sat, w itli her elbows
on her knees, staring at me sullenly
from under licr black brows. This
was Terese.
‘Terese, yon hussy, don't look at her
like that!” cried nurse, placing a second
stool for me. “There, sit down, my
dear; you're tired I'm sure. Have you
had a pleasant ride?’
“ No.' 1 answered, shivering. “ I hnve
not. That driver, ltoque, Is horrible.
Thank heaven I have seen the last of
him."
“Dear me!’’ exclaimed nurse, with
out any apparent desire to hear more
of my grievance, “dear me! And did
your papa know that you was coming
all the way to Sundown to see me,
Miss llolle!”
“ Xo," I replied, “it was my own
idea. Vou remember how very fond 1
always was of you. nurse—I and Louise.
Why, yon do not ask anything of
LouDo."
•‘Louise—oh, yes!" said nurse; “is
she quite well ?"
“She is at Xcwport—a great belle,
wun scores ot lovers.
Nurse rubbed her skinny hands and
laughed.
“ And you—you have lovers, too,
you pretty dear?”
“Oh, no,” said I, “not one.”
Hero (lie black-browed girl in the
corner rose sullenly up, overturning
her stool. Hhe passed me with a shrug,
and went out, banging tho door behind
kcr.
“ You mustn’t mind Terese,” said
nurse, clawing tho air with her fingers,
as if’it was her granddaughter’s hair,
“ she's a jealous jade V’
Affairs having taken this unpleasant
turn, I sought to enliven them a little
by producing my traveling-bag, tilled
with some choico gifts lor my old
friend. Sho watched me unclasp it
eagerly.
“All,” site said, “what handsome
rings you wear, my love, and what
charming white hands you have I”
Then she began to gather my offer
ings with childish delight to herself.
As she sat thus, with her back to the
tire, its smoke and flame making an
old background for her bent figure, 1
was trying in vain to recall old mem
ories with Nurse (forty; the persons
and the pleasant and familiar things
that we had known together I as a
child, she as my faithful guardian, liut
inline was badly broken, old age had
changed tier vastly she really did not
understand half of what 1 was saving,
ami presently Terese came gloomily
back, her bare feet making a stealthy
sound along the floor, and gave me
another of her black looks as she pass
ed.
I had never known before that Nurse
Gertv iiad a granddaughter. I took a
bank-note from my purse, half-tremb
ling as I did so,
"This is for Terese," i ventured.
The girl turned sharply. In a breath
she had caught the note from Nurse
Gertv's Augers and flung it passionate
ly into the tire.
“Terese, you fool!” screamed nurse,
starting lip angrily.
(The girl looked her full in the face
with her sullen black eyes.
“ Don't let lur give anything to mo,”
site said, walking straight back to her
stool in tho corner, and dropping down
there again in tlie old position, with her
elbows on her knees. Nurse Gerty
glared at ber across (lie hearth, thcuj
arose and began to prepare for supper.
I withdrew to the window out of the .
roach of that girl's eyes, nml amused
myself with gazing out into the corn *
which grew almost up to the Very silh 1
1 was tired and dejected, ami it must I
be confessed, terribly homesick. I,
wished with all my heart that I was 1
safely back in Passaynod. ! i
Twilight garlic red, desolate, cloudy, ,
threatening rain. Like a pall it settled j,
down on the pine wood beyond the ,
cornfield. The green blades clashed,,
together with melancholy, mysterious
whispers. From luy scat I could hear
Nurse Gerty wrangling with Terese !
over the tire, and the girl s sharp 1
answers falling like shots in the.pauses.
After that came supper. ,:
1 could not cat. The air of the place .
had begun to affect me oddly. Put
Tcrcse's bowl of black bread and soup
had the effect of keeping her eyes oil
my face for the time. 1 sat watching
the shadows chase each otherin strange
fantastic shapes along tlic low rafters,
the crimson flame creeping and curling
about the smoky black log, the sad
night falling beyond the windows.
Everything seemed strange and unus
ual. like the things in a dream.
When it was fairly dark in the room,
Nurse Gerty thrust a tallow candle in
to a dingy brass candlestick, and ligh
lo.l ita at.ii 11....{nn> Mri.-L at fl.« tl.... a..
tlie hearth.
“ 1 sposc you're pretty well tired out,
my dear?’ she said to me.
“ Yes,” I answered.
“ Well, you can go to bed any time,"
said Nurse Gerty. •
I arose at onee.
Terese was standing in the open
door, her brown forehead leaning
against it. her brown arms wreathed
listlessly over her head. At this move
ment of mine she turned hastily, came
in, and took up the sputtering candle.
“Go back, you jade 1” said Nurse
Gerty snatching it from her hand.
“Let me go up with her?” said
Terese.
“You’d better not.” answered nurse;
i “you’d better not try that, my girl.”
Terese slunk sullenly back. She was
beating the floor with her bare foot as J
t pasM'd, and she did not look up.
“Come, my love,” called Nurse!
Gerty. standing on the stair, and beck-1
; oiling to me in the candlelight, like—I
very like some wrinkled old Witch. 1
followed her up the rickety flight.
The room where I was to sleep was
provided with a bed, a table, and a I
chair. There was one window looking
out upon the road. Nurse Gerty
placed llie candle on the table, embrac
ed mo tenderly, and went away, closing
the creaking old door behind her. 1
noticed that it had no lock.
Black night in the cornfleid now, the
blackness of darkness in the pine wood
beyond ! What a strange, weird whisp
ering the green blades kept up 1'Ever I
since that night the rustling of corn
lias tilled mo with a horror that no j
; words can describe. As 1 stood look-1
iug from window, my check wet with
I tears, tlio clouds passed suddenly to
| westward, and the silver tip of the
! young moon glimmered through.
I Alas! it was the moon that had forebo
ded ill-luck to this Journev of mine.
I Was danger earning, loo? My good
I sense told me no, it was impossible;
j blit my heart, all alone there in the
shadow and silence, answered yes.
For a moment that silver how hung,
palo and frightened, above the tree
tops, blankly* peering in til me through
the narrow pane, when the clouds, like
I a great night-moth, spread themselves
j above it again and blotted it out.
I I wound up my watch and laid it
| witli my purse under the pillow of the
i bed. Then J knelt down and said my
I prayers again and again. After that I
blew out the candle, and having
i thought once ek mamma and Lo i o far
j away in the gay, bright parlors at i
Newport, and of papa, sitting lonely
over his evening paper at home, think
ing perhaps of his poor silly little Belle.
I threw myself, all dressed as [ was,
down on the bed, and quite worn with !
the day's journey, fell fast asleep.
I slept and I dreamed. Then I
awoke, and found that somo one was
standing in the darkness at my bed
side.
I neither moved nor spoke. For my
life 1 could have done neither. I lay par- |
alyzed from head to feet. 1 think, for j
| the moment, my very heart stood still.
; Slowly, softly a hand was thrust under
j the pillow. 1 heard the soft clashing of
] my watch and chain and purse, as they I
j were drawn out together. M v own j
j hands were lying clasped at my side.1
I On the left one I wore two rings, one a
j diamond solitaire which mamma had
| givcu me, tho other,a ruby set in Etrus
| ran gold—a gift from I.oui e Gently
I this hand was disengaged from the
| other, and the rings were drawn off'.
. Evidently the person did not design fo j
; wake me; hut the agony of terror]
i which thrilled me as that dreadful hand
touched mine was unendurable. By
the lull'd broad palm, by the strong
i grasp, 1 knew it to be tho baud of a
inan.
[TO BE CONT1KI ED.]
-Near Seottville, Illinois, when
well-diggers reach a depjji of live or
six feet the ground takes tire spontane
: ously and burns rontinously. I'heelt
e/ens are puzzled mid alarmed.
The True Doctrine.
Wo clip the following from a letter by
n cx-Fedcral officer to the Iuka Gazette,
n which We imagine we sec the stylo of
'apt. Avery, a gentleman who served
hrough the whole war against us. llis
etter closes as follows:
Thad. Stevens, the infamous, said in
da speech: “The President had p'ersever
d in his lawless course through a long
eries of unjustifiable acts. \\ hen the
o called Confederate States of America
rere conquered and had laid down their
.rms and surrendered their territory to the
iclorious Union Government, the dispo
ition of the conquered country belonged
o Congress alone. No power but Con
tress had any right to say whether they
ihould be admitted into the Union as
■States, and entitled to the privileges of
lie Constitution of the United States.”
The reasonable inference from the above
s that Thad. Stevens has reached and ac
cepted the doctrine that the ten States
ire now and were at the surrender, out
side the Union. Then they wcSVe actually,
ind not “so-called,” the Confederate Statics
if America. Their Government was the
me chosen by the people, in their own
way, and they owed no allegiance to the
Government of the United States- If
Thad. Stevens is Correct, then I and every
ither Federal soldier must share the igiin
miny, the infamy which must ever attach
[o the name of Maxamtlian and other ty
rants who would force a government up
in a people against their will. Eithee
they were out of the Union from the pas
mgeof the ordinances of secession, or they
were never out and are not now out. IT
not out they are entitled to equal rights
with the other States. If ever out, then
every man killed in the attempt, to get
them back, was murdered, and we Federal
soldiers are a set of miscreants, deserving
a thousand deaths for our unnumbered
crimes. There is no shirking this issue.
The supposed good to be gained is no ex
cuse for our actions. The end, whatet er
it may be, never justifies means in them
selves bad, or criminal. IVe can only re
lieve our skirts of oceans of blood by sup
porting the true doctrine that the Federal
compact was not broken for one moment
Any other view of this question makes us
robbers of the tights and property of in
dependent people, and murderers of those
people in the pursuit of gain. Neither
Congress or any other power had any right
to say whether they should be admitted us
States. They had already been admitted
as States, and were entitled to all the priv
ileges under the Constitution of the United
States. Thad. Stevens and his infamous
coadjutors used us for an end. That gain
ed they abandon the position under which
wo bore arms, nnd tell us that Congress is
the only power having a right to dispose
of the “ conquered country.” In the name
of every Union soldier l deny that there
is any conquered country on this continent
In terms as indignant as can he used, I
deny for all of us the character of mer
cenary wretches which these fellows would
fasten upon us, when they say that for
eleven, thirteen or sixteen dollars a tuonth,
we would have helped the Government to
murder a people and oonquer a country
that Congress might tyr&nize over it. May
the foul slander blister the tongue of Thad.
Ntevcns or any other wretch who gives it
utterance. Anon.
-- A lioorn hiinrlar
a female college in Oxford, Ohio, was
surprised by the female occupants,
chased up and down stairs, and finally
shot dead.
-The total loss by llic lire at Jef
ferson, Texas, on the night of the 27th
tilt., foots up over a million dollars.
The Phoenix amt fKtna insurance com
panies are the principal losers.
-The Supplemental Uoconstruc
tion law passed, and now the law, al
lows State Constitutions to be ratified
by a majority—this blocks the non
voting system.
-A corps of artists connected with
the principal illustrated weeklies aro
en route to Washington, tophotograph
the scene in the high court of impeach*
ment. A special artist from the Lon
don Illustrated News is said to be a
mong them.
-We have good accounts fYotn
last year’s tobacco crop in South Indi
ana. The farmers are now getting
their tobacco ready for market, and the
crop of 1st;" is the greatest ever raised
iu the State.
-The amount proceeding from tho
stiles of the captured and confiscated
cotton paid into the treasury is nearly
$30,000,000.
-The election in Iiridgeton Now
Jersey on Wednesday, was carried by
the Democrats, w ho gained 112 from
last spring.
-Twenty-four rings were taken
from the lingers ot a young woman
w hose body was dug out of the land
slide on Vesuvius.
-The Pittsfield, Mass, paper mill,
which consumes wood for its stock in
stead of rags, is manufacturing rapidly.
Some three hundred cords of soft pop
lar are now at the mill.
--The liiehntoud Whig is of opin
ion that the grape culture anil wine
manufacture will become, at no distant
day. a leading interest in Virginia.