Indiana American, Volume 6, Number 16, Brookville, Franklin County, 12 April 1867 — Page 1

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; , PUBLISH ID rviar TRIDAY BT C. H. BINGIIA1I, Proprietor.

Ofle in the ETational Bank Baildinff, (third ttory.) TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION! 12,50 PER YEAR, m abvahce. 13.00 " " " IT KOT PAID I A0VAKCE. No postage on papers delivered within this voanly. GOOD ADVICE FROM ALABAMA. Sensible Letter From Gov. Patton. Several citizens of Alabama having ask61 Got. Patton as to the best coarse to be pursued in relation to the Reconstruction act, be has replied in a long letter. After explaining the provisions of the hw with nach detail, he says: The requirement of this act of Congress should be accepted as conclusive upon ite subject of negro suffrage. To contend against it now is simply to struggle against the inevitable. Such a struggle would be utterly hopeless, and could accomplish no good to any one. At the election of delegates to the State Convention, a portion of our people will be deprived of the privilege of either voting, or of being chosen members. The persons composing this class are those who, is United States officers, or as members bf the Legislature, or executive or judicial officers of the State, took an oath to support the Constitution of the United States, and afterward participated in the war against the Federal Government. This disfranchisement excludes many good men from voting, and will deprive the convention of the services of many whoj for their talents, experience, wisdom, and consistent efforts to uphold the integrity of the national Government, deserve and enjoy the confidence of the people. Hut such is the law, and we need not fear tut what a wise and patriotic convention may bo chosen from those who are eligible. All who will be entitled to vote should unhesitatingly exercise that privilege, and those who are disfranchised, should uso tbeir influence fur the accomplishment of all possiblo good. Let it not bo supposed that they can do nothing because they are unable to vote. The freedtneo are row to Tote the first time. We should cherish against them no ill ftelinir. The elective franchise is conferred upoo thera; let them xercise it freely and in their own way. No effort should be made to control their votes, except such as may tend toenablo them to vote intelligently, and ach as may be necessary to protect thera against mishievoua influences to which, from their want of intelligence, they nay possibly bo subjected Above all things wo should discourage everything which may tend to generafo antagonism between white and olorsd voters. This i an important crisis for us all. We require prudence and moderation, onplcd with decision and firmness. I have every confidence that these sterling juaHtiei will bo so exercised by our poopla as that we will soon have, to far as Alabama is concerned, a definito and effective settlement of the great question of reconstruction. I conGdently anticipate the choice of such delegates to the ConCJltiQüJ wiludveu fl Cno,l constitution, and one that will bo ccptc JTy TTöri-' press. With a constitution recognized by Ilm national legislature, our State would bo relieved from the uncertainties and em barrassments which now hang over us until wo are restored to harmonious relations with the national Union. It is, perhaps, unnecessary, and might be unprofitable, to inquire whether or not tho state of things now upon us, might have been averted by a policy different from that which his been pursued in this Ktate. I may say, however, that for um o time I have been thoroughly convinced that too little coni Jcration has been acord ed to Congress. That body now wields the chief power in the Government. It asserts and exercises tho right to control the whote question of reconstruction. Its power to do so is complete; and time and again it has given evidence of an unylehl log purpose to enforco its policy in this regard. Whilo this has been to mo clearly manifest, I have regretted to find such an unfriendly disposition toward it. It would have been better for us if, before this, in accepting tho national "situation" we had made proper concessions to Congressional requirements. We cannot place ourselves In amicable and harmonious relations with tho general Government while deflanco and denunciations are hurled against It controlling department. The anUvonisni betwean Consresa and the Southern States has already brought mischief upon u; and wo will suffer moro if it docs not cease. Our State should not bo continued in an attitude of hostility to the law-making power of the Government. Upon this vital question our people should profit by experience. The events of the past few months show incontcatibly that persistent opposition and abuso of Congress entail upon us increased exactions. Those who esnnot see this, or will not admit it, are anything but wiso or practical men. I am of tho opinion that it is our true interest to have the State placed in its proper position in the national Union as early as practicable. In view of all that has transpired in the last twelve or eighteen months, it is uttor folly to expect that this can be dono on any terms more favorable than thoso embraced in tho present act. I think that by proper concessions, better feelings might have been secured heretofore; but it is now too late. If we fail to reorganize the Stato in accordance with the re quirementsof this act, we may, and I think will, be subjected to moro onerous exactions. Hence, I think that this reorganization should be perfected just as soon as an opportunity for doing so is presented. The Life of a Washington Clerk. Some clerk at Washington seems to have had a hard time of it. In aketching the lights and shadows, tho trials and tribulations of holding office, ha writes ai follows from the national capital : Washington is the devil-fish described by Victor Hugo. I have been fourteen years struggling in its embraces. It sucks

4 VOL. C. NO. 1CJ your blood with its myriad paralyzing mouths of landlord, grocers, bakers, audi butchers its wood venders and coal deal-1 crs. When I came here first fresh from j the Miami Valley, I had blood in my veins; ' 1 was young, sir, and felt the impulses of; youth. 31y coming here was a first yielding to temptation. My purpose, as I held it then, was to get a little pecuniary cspital to bczin life. Ah, as Ilurna has said. "the one fale step is never retrieved." j The sap is gone out of me, sir; I am noj longer young, I am in the gnpo of tho terrible vice, and tlie iron has entered my soul and it is net a tonic. Come to Washington fur clerkship? Go to the devil, sir, at once I I have been here, sir, as I said before, for fourteen years I am forty years old. The heats of youth cooled off on the anxieties of a small salray ; the strength of manhood has ebbed in the pinching trials of caring for a largo family. Never the cheerful warmth of competency in doors always the chill wind of poverty, prophesying starvation, out of doors. For tho fact that there comes a day when the mourners (moaning for tho loss of their offices) go about tho streets, is always in waking your first thought, and always in your last consciousness before sleeping. Thero is wind in Dante's Hell that by fits and starts, sweeps certain lovers away they can not paute and rest. That dreadful wind blows in Washington, sir; and look at these Treasury clerks, men and women reduce; how soon they will feel that breath wither. From ths Pot her's Frltcd. SOLDIERS' LEFT-HAND VVITI ' V r ' To the Left-Armed Corp3 Qf.hocfl. The Editor of the SolpjerVPV jt, in Compliance with urgent .rcqiWs-' i.i members of tho Left-Armed Coq.k, rerc-J by announces that he will distribute a second series of prizes amounting to FlVE Hundred Dollars in premiums for the ten best specimens of Left-Hand Penmanship, by soldiers and sailors of the Union who lost their IllGHT A rot by disability or amputation iu the lute war fur the Union. There will be ten equal prizes of FIFTY Dollars each, tho award of the Prizes to bo made by distinguished officers of the Army and Navy, who will furnish an Autogruph Letter to the successful competitors. Tho Premiums will bear the name of the officer making the award, aud will be known as f Hows The Grant Premium; tho Farragut Preluiu'i; tin KL ii i'uMiiuiii) i!.t 1. dan Premium; th j Howard Premium; tho Meado Premium; tho Hancock Premium; the Hooker Premium; the Geary Premium; the Logau Premium. The Manuscripts will all bo sent to the Editor of The Soldi ch Friknd, to bo reyiottrad, numbered, aid prepared for inspection, aud when so prepared the awards will bo nude. DIRECTIONS! The writers must furnish a sketch of their military history, from tho dato ol their enlistment tu tbt-ir discharge, including company, regiment, rank, a list of battle, data and placo where- wounded, etc. Original essays, poems, talcs, incidents, and anecdotes of the wur may bo added, and aro earnestly dcrircd. The paper must bo wide ruled white letter popcr, about eight by ten inches to the page, and leaving an inch margin at J the top, bottom, and hides. The sheets must not bo gummed or fastened together, but correctly numbcicd at tho top. Write on only ono side of tho paper. Write in black ink. Pencil writing will not bo admitted on tho catalogue. No one is entitled to compete who can uso his right arm, or who bus learned to wrilo with his Ift hand jm !ui to the dote of hi wound. Thune unit aro entitled who havo learned to write time tho date of their disability in tho service. A proper allidavit must be mado to the facti, to prevent imposition and injustice. Photographs aio requested in aviry cuso where it is practicable Ij ftiriiMi ono. Writers are SPECIALLY CAUTIONED guttiHt sending manuscripts or cor respondence to the Headuaitcrs of any of the oRicers who aro to award tho prices, as it will not rcrvo their purpose in the leant, and will only make unnccenMry expense and delay. All unnriit vtuit it n ut to thf. "ffice of JA SoUur't Vir, to bet rcijittertl ami chiuijirtl. HiT Nono of thofo who drew prizes on tho first competition will bo- entitled to compete for tho present prizes. Hut they are invited to contribu'e new specimens to tho collection. Manuscripts should b.i sent wrapped around a wooden roll jr, or in a pasteboard or card cylinder, to prcsmo them in the best order. They should bo rolled Itngth' tcif, and not across tho pago. The lists will remain open to competition till the ßrtt Joy of JULY next. The manuscripts are to bo collected in permanent form for preservation, and to remain in the possession of the editor of The Soldier's Friend for publication. Circulars and full directions will be sen on arplicatior. Address M. ÜLAND Uourne. Editor of The &ofJicr'$ Friend, No. 12 Centre Street, N. Y. Oftentimes, a girl says"uo" to an offer, when it is plain as the nose on her lace that she means 'yes.'1 Tho best way to judge whether she is in earnest or not, is to look straightin her eyes, and never mind her nose. Now do you like tho character of St. Paul?" asked a parson of his landlady one day during a conversation about tho old Saints and the A dos ties. Eh!" he was a good, clever old soul. I know, for ho once said, you know, that wo must eat what was set before us, and ask no questions for conscience' sake, I always thought I should like him fur a boarder.

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m ti t t t i r m I r r r t nr d m A Ji Ii U Is 1 u M , 1 11 Ii 1 U It O 1 1 The Southern Press on Reconstruction. The Auguata (Ga) Cunttitutionalist says the South must of necessity obey the Military bill so long as it has authority, but no opportunity should be abandoned to contest its validity before the law. The Jackson (Mississippi) Clarion says: We would not have tho people of the South deluded into tho belief that they can adopt any line of policy by which to ward bff the scheme of negro suffrage. The Griffin (Ga.) Union says: We understand that ex-IIon. Howell Cobb passed through Giiftiu a few days ago, and while the cars stopped for an exchange of mail bags and to take on water, he delivered to our pcoplo the news that a genera confiscation of Southern property is certain. We suppose from this that Mr. Cobb and his rebel friends intend to array themselves against the Sherman bill, so as ta make further legislation by Congress necessary. If confiscation does come, the people may justly blame Mr. Cobb and his rebel friends for it. They set out to "rule or ruin'' the country, and as they cannot rule, they may be determined to ruin, and now oppose the Sherman bill that confiscation may come. It adds : The Constitutional Amendment excluding the leaders from office it was believed at first would be sufficient to conrjucr them; but as that failed to make them give up, the Sherman bill disfranchising some and enfranchisinj negroes has been passed. If this conquers thetn, no more radical 4egil?tioo need be expected. Hut if the pcop!4 will ftill listen to the syren song, overpowered but not conquered," 03 sung by-some" editors' even Low, a sweeping disfranchisement of the rebels and a tolcrabio xtensivVconfiscatijn of rebel property will be very apt to teach them that the diflerent e between. "overpowcrei ana "conquered" is alSout the same as betwean tweedledum aud tweedledee. If thotebfls are not ejnquercd now they will be before Cocjrrv is dono with them. They .may be sure cf that. . The Austin (Texas) lnte'ljgtncrr ''aaysij We suppose the provisional gov-nmcn't created-by this bill will Vf 'an'jd promptly. andDceed with; tint) of votcrclccti of H'$n'Uo Sfato conventions. ri.vf. J-ntlfi cation of h'tato couslitu "-lectiou rf State Legislature v; r.-jrs to, Conv press, with the disjVtrh v.hie'i the tjterts uf the country and the political 'c5g:acics of the times require. Of couro this bill Jill not prove fatfcCtctory m,"nc of its ctai:i to Hj4.iV or j)v ..r!.'I'vnT" tt"Ti' simply impossible, in the present condition of the country, that any mcarureof reconduction should meet tho approbation of all. The Charleston Mercury says : The military law is tho law for us; and, until the law is repealed or modified it is tho law which tho pcoplo of the South must ohcy. Nothing but additional trouble and additional mUfortuuo can result from resistance or factious agitation. Prudence, good sense, and our every interest slike condemn a course which could only aggravate our evils and make our position tuoie uncndurab!c. What else, then, is left but obedience to tho law and an acceptance of tho obligations which it imposes upon us? Tho Lynchburg Virginlm fays ! Unjust as tho terms imposed upon us arc, and impossible as it may be for us to swear "attachment" to tho men who innko "might right," there is no alternative la ft us but that of a choice of evils. We can only counteract in part tho evils that were intended for us by tho majority of Congicss. by putting forth all tho means in our power to control them. The Prcsident U powerless, tho Supremo Court is a nullity, and Congress is omnipotent. What, then, shall wo do but make tho best of our situation? The Fort Smith (Arkansas) Xcw Era snjs : It it about titno for the loyal Arknnsinni t) look about them, and prcparo to tako their legitimate- position as a part and parcel of tho governing power of our glorious Union, from which through the, machinations of traitorous leaders wo havo been so long withheld. Tho Wiliuiugtou (North Carolina) Juurnasajs: 'Thero is nothing left to th Southern whites but to vote with their former ilavcs. who, upheld and strengthened by their exsmplo, will bj encouraged to pursue tho rignt couro ana act in conformity with the dictates of reason. To leave tho color cd race to the merer of dosi-min? and mercenary mon would bo unjuat, and will atlVct us in no little deurco." Tho Wilmington (N. C.) Despatch advises its readers to "icfuo any participation in the conventions to bo called in tho different States, quietly yielding tho insignificant politiealprivilcgcs that they propoeo to grant us, by letting the negroes and albinocs tako entire chargo of tho reconstruction business, and relinquish all political aspirations and desires for commercial independenco so long as our con ncction with tho Federal Government shall continue." But it significantly adds ; We aro not unawaro that we aro in tho minority while entertaining these views. Indeed wo have been mado to feel that we fight tho battle for Southern honor and interest almost single-handed, so generally has our position been assailed. The Mobile Advertiser is alarmed at a meeting held in Sclma, at which it was resolved to ''accept the situation," and uphold the Union party known as tho Kcpublican Congress, and to further its success by all Icgitimato means. It says: "Let not a radical party bo licked into shape in a flourishing town in the heart of Alabama without an indignant protest irora me iruo men una women wno lonao it it."

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BROOKVILLE, IND., FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1807.

The Mobile Trilunt e "Alas, demoralization -Spreading in tho ranks. They whq'bVle defiance to Dagon aro preparing to lick the cloven foot of Satan. They j who opposed the amendment bill are bainini incense to that of Shcrpian standing on the end of a spring-board, prc;iug to turn a summersault with the fgolish expectation of throwing sand thereby i the eyes of Radicalism; or with thereprhcneiblc purpose of lapping the Bwill that the coirupt rump has set out in their bark ard in tLe fchape of Government prin'.ii';: a robbery committed on the people asw'se avowed object of fohtcriug ltadicnl tewspopers in the South. "The persistent efforts the papers are making in different quarters Oget up conventions, we regard as nothj; more nor loss than the planting e,py3 Lonrds. The calling of those convi-p.ions at ptcsent can accomplish but one object that of eudorsiug the provision c7 tlie military bill betraying the hoi:('r-- the South even before thirty pieces of silver ere offered as ?tcompcnse. Wo look forward to a complete chißtn in the Southern press at no distant day. Panicand the hope of getting 'Government patronage will itiduce 6o:oe tthat opposed the costitutionat amemdmeer to lUk the feet of Congress out of bTal'tUllc for il military bill. 4 There has been a specimen cenvention at Seiraa, tho procccdinsf which arc published in the Tinm ofthat place, with panic-stricken comments In gjod keeping with thera. The meeting v m composed in part of men who have been troubled with palsy in the knees r!T""!everal years past, and in part of men shorn wc expected to see behave with moro coolness amidst dangers they can not avctt. '-. The Columbus (Ga.) ruircr eayi : Let tho Southern people no-r await orders from the hcaJuartcrs pjT iho generals comma'. 1'in.g. re 'ndnr mililtary law anirsno' been initcj or "enabled ' aut HKetl'-act ai jet. It will ' bet;.!n ci4uh ta move when we receive iuiial it,",4j not ke"7 quiet until "tieopt,Triunity is oircicJ," let them kruo to their heart's content, but we type that they will not attempt to create "disturbance by breaking in upon the regular order of exercises. . Tho Savannah (Ocorj:i ) 'JirjtuhHcan, of the. 13th, m)s : Appalliitg and revolting as pccra the provisions of this bill, wo ovo ao reasonable hope fur any uiodifc: qn cr repeal of it. It has become the law ol mo mnii, " l tu yr-li rtivt bo hl l uuio no a.i?ruJli iwf j v obeyed, j and wo have tio cboico savo to ' decide whether our courso shall bo such as will avert filill han-hci termj .or bring down upon us moro exacting conditions. Wisdom would seem to dictate a quiet acqnicctcnco and our lurking f necessity a virtue. Lotus leiucmÄr that, "In t'llt winh'n Tool a ijilnaly Uy j lis ILois a will and Wim End a why." Tho Wilmington (North Carolina) Journal, of tho 13th, says . Then, if we aro to havo a convention, and wo cc no crcapo from it, let it bo called by tho military power of tho Gov eminent, and in obeying pcnecabJy and quietly, mandates which we havo no power to resist, let our submission, now aud in the future, bo an earnest ond honorable proient against tho injustice and tyranny of tho Government. Tho New Orleans Pi-tymtc fays 5 One of tho most insidiuous and sinister peculiarities of tho prcrcnt reconstruction Programme of Congas is its I enden 7 to creato in this and other Southern States a Congressional party; that is to fay, a party distinctively in favor of accepting tho terms and anticitatinir tht wishes ol' Congros, on tho plen that poverty, and not will, consents, and antagonistic to another parly tomposcd of those who thould nut concudo so much to tho argument of necessity, bocsuso not so greatly despairing of tho situation. Such a division of tho conservative ranks in the South could not but precipitate a rcor.rsniintion of tho Southern States under ltadical policy, and more or Ichs conformity with KaJicul icws and sentiment. Somewhat Vahuk. A few years rgo, in Ohio, thero li.cd on a Mimll stream called 'Duck Crcok' a local preacher of the Methodist Church, by the name of Jacob Smith, His rdncutional advantages had been somewhat slender; so that oil on in his rreuehin ho 'murdered tho King's DnglisV by wholesale. On ono occasion tio was prcact ing iu his own neighborhood, in 'Smith's meeting house During tho sermon soiuo of tho young Smiths indulged in bn 1 behavior. He paused, drew himself up to his full height, and pointing tits long nmi nugcr at them exclaimed, 'What! will you cut up hero in Smith's old tucutiti'-houso when there lies your grandmother (pointing through the window to tho gravc-jard,) what is tho offspring cf us all?" m 1 - Tho man on tho river who declares that tho water is now os high as at any timo tlii vcar. becauso it standi at the mark be inn Jo upon l'ie struck tho level of about oning of tho world. (Ist-hoat, has half the rcasNr. Knew Him. "Como here, my littlo follow," snid a gentleman to a youngster of five years, while Kitting in a parlor where a large company was acuibled. "Do you know me?" "Vith thir." "Who am It Let me hear?'' "You ith the man who kithed mamma wren papa wath in New York." Sidney Smith, on one occasion, went to Brighton to uso baths, hoping thereby to reduce his corpulency. After awhile an acquaintance met him, and said: "You are certainly thinner than when I saw you last." "Yes," was the reply, "I have been only ten days hero, hot they have scraped enough off mc already to make a curate.''

!) f r It f V T n t TUP f I 17 Q it w ü if! uiii u I i u w u a. fi From th SprlngfieU lUpobUcau. MARY OF THE HEATH. It is by no means an uncommon observation, that, did any one note down the remarkable occurrences of his own life, those of his friends with whom he is well acquainted, or such as become known to him on good authority, in the course of a few years, how curious a collection it would form. The following is an example: It must now bo nearly half a century ago, when ono fino summer's day, abont tho hour of noon, a little girl who could not have been more than ten or elcvon years old, was seen on a particular part of -Common or lleatt Lh in Kent nt (not very far from the house of a wenlthy baro net) suspendiug a pot on three sticks set upright in the ground after the manner of gipsies, over a firo which shehad kindled beneath it. She was dressed iit ngs and seemed miserably poor and forlorn. The child was alono. The singularity of the cireumatonce excited the eurprvV of ladies, who were taking their morning walk on that airy and agreeable common. They looked around, expecting to tee a party of gipsies, to whom they conjectured the child must belong; but, though Tvide and open, not a living creature, save the little girl boiling her pot, was to be seen fur or near. Their curiosity was raised and much increased when on a nearer approach, as she turned her head towards them, though burnt and browned with the sun and wind, they saw at a glanco that the face which looked out from beneath a bonnet worn out of all color and shape, and the arms, which were but partially covered by an old tattered cloak, were neither of tho gipy character or complexion. The features were small and round, and the eyes and hair of true Saxon origin, blue and light brown. There was alto an expression of artlcssncsa in the countenance, which, it must be confessed, is not very generally the distinguishing mark of the daughters of Egypt. Thoro as pomething o singular in tho solitariness of the child, it was impossible that two ladies of good heart and benevolent i-.tcntious could other than feel interested for her. They proceeded, therefore, at once to question her, beginning with the kindly and encouraging expression of "My dear,' as they asked her what she was doing there. Holling my pot for breakfast," was her reply. "And what have you got in it ?" "Two turnips that I took out of tho field." "Is that all vou have got for your breakfast r "All- except some bits of bread." whom do you belong? ' "To tiolrody." "To nobody! and you so young! How did you come here, and where are you going?" "I don't know." You neither know how yoa came hero nor whero you arc going? .What a strange story I What is your name, and whero did you come from? You must havo come from sonio place." "My namo is Mary; I came a long way off; but I can't tell where." "How did you get here ?" 1 walked ; I havo been many days going." "I never heard so strange an account as you giro of yourself. Where did you get that pot?" "1 brought It ewa V with me." "Then ou must have cou o from some persons with whom you havo boon living. Tilt us now tho truth. Havo you not bceu with gipsies ?" A blush rcso in her checks as sho replied: uVcs, I have been with gipsies." 'Where aro they, and where ilid you leave them?" Sho paused a moment, looked down and then suid, "I got away from thvm, for 1 did not like their way of lilo." "And when wus it, and how have you lived since you left them?' "Very hard," said tho child. "I begged my way along tho roads, and with tho lew hall' pence I got I bought a little bread to ravo mo from starving. 1 have nowhere to po. I have no homo." Hie burst into tears and thero was something so forlorn, both in her voice und countenance, as she poko these words, it was impossiblo to doubt their truth. Thero wns nothing In it of the whlno of a ii)iil o up tulo to excite compassion, and ho rather sought to wipe away her tenrs unobscrsed, as she turned asiJo her head, than to mako a p unfile or them, "I am sure," said Miss G , the daughter of a neighboring llaronct, there is something very uncommon in I hi child's story. Poor creature, sho is really in very great distress. Let us tako her home, aud malum will know better than wc can what would bo tho best to do tor tier." Her friend assented and Mus G turned to tho child and told her that if ho would come along with her sho would give her somo good advice. Tho littlo gill followed gUdly enough, but she would not Icavo the pot behind her, for that and tho miserablo attiro on her back, wan all tho property fho possessed iu the world. Lady G nns a woman of known benevolence, but she was not one who exerted it without duo caution and juJgmont. Sho did not. by hasty or indiscriminate chanty, encourage vice and low cuniuncr Tho truly afflicted sought her doors, and the idle vagabond inscd on. certain that inquiry would precede relief. Yet, with all this, Lady G did not carry cau tion to that cold and extreme extent which rendered her suspicious where thero ap pearcd marks of want and sorrow, that enrried with them their own evidence of sincerity. This was such a case. "That child," said Lady G , after hearing her daughter's account of tho meeting on tho common, "is indeed iu need of food aud rest. I can soo it in her looks. I can seo that her distress is real in every lino of her faco, which is a very pleasing one; and in the few words she has rpoken there is euch a touching tone,

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WIIOLE NO. 277. very; different from hypocrisy. She shall have something to relievo her hunger, and then we will question her.' The little creature's tears were seen to start in her eyes at the sisht of the food, for she was famishing with want.' The meal ended, once more she was conducted to tho presence of the ladies. Lady G , with much gentleness, commenced ber interrogatories. After having Mtidly, but in a way suited to the capacity of the poor, untaught girl, endeavored to impress on her mind the duty as well as the importance to herself of speaking the truth. The following particulars were artlessly narrated: The child began by saying that she was born in Bath. Her father was in business in that city; twofold his trade. Her mother in-law treated. her so harshly aud unkindly that on somo gipsies coming into the neighborhood, as the was allowed to run neglected about, und glad to be out of fiight.cf ber severe rip-inotber, ho pot acquainted with them, aud wus finally induced by their persuasions to run away and join them. With these gips:cs she had lived two or three years, going obout the country with them. She did not know if her father had made any inquiry concerning her or not. At length, not liking the way of the people among whom the she had fallen, the determins to leave them on the first opportunity. Sho had stofen away from them, taking nothing with her but one of their old pots, with a view to cook for herself a turnip, or anything she could get to support her, so that she might not die for want of food.-She bad wandered about the roads and waysides, begging, ever since she quit the gipsey camp, and with the very few half pence the had picked up in this manner had bought a penny loaf at a village she might pass in her rambles. She did not at all know where she had been wandering, but at last she had reached the common where the young ladies fouud her that morning. Lady O had littlo or no doubt that the child's talc was true; and thinking that to cast out so young and so unfriended a creature again on the wide world would bo to give her tip to destruction, she resolved to afford her present heiter, at least until ehe could ascertain by inquiry that nil bhe had stated wus correct. Having obtained from the child the name aud address of her father, ehe determined at once to write to Hath, begging an immediate reply. In tho interval, the poor litlle windW' er was attired in better clothes, and placed under the especial caro of a steady female servant, with a charge to keep a strict eye upon her. In a few days an answer came rioin Path confirming ihe'girrs ktory. and expressing an earnest wish for her to return home to live with her father. Put little Mary evinced so much terror at -the thought of going back to her mother-in-law, that Lady (J . forbore to urge her to return home. &ho hud been greatly interested by the simplicity of her young charge, and the servant to whose mote especial care the hud been committed spoke very favorably of her. Lady (J-- proposed, therefore, to keep her in the family and try to mako a servant of her, beginning with some humblo duties in tho household. Tho child's cratitude was one of tho liveliest kind; there was nothing bad in her; indeed her natural disposition seemed docilo and amiable. Uut she had received no instruction; all hvr good qualities nuat, therefore bo inherent. Sho was very promising, and her bciiel'aetrcs!, alter a low weeks moro of probation, finding that she might be trudelt among tho other chiMien, scut littlo Mary to tho village school. There tho child showed so much aptitude for learning, reading, writing, etc., that sho soon becutno the head of the class, and much such orozress thuf, on Icaiinz the school, two or thrco years alter, sho was promoted in tho household, and become lady's maid to Iter bendnctrtrs. In this situation sho had continued for seveisl years, repaying tio kindness und tendosily of LmlyG by tho most assiduous luiuiimeiii oi iter uuues, ana ino wutmcM attachment to htr person. iinally and low theories cf romance coiicIjJo so rutisiuetoiily us this tulo of real lilo the tiustworlhy and rrsrectablo house steward cf the family took her to bo his wife. Lady G , with an uuwearied interest in her well being, fur nished tho huufO fur the good people very handsomely, and made iho bride the mis. tiets ol the viliiigo school, where sl had been fostered and educated. J rcatly was that excellent lady pleased to fee that when her iuvoiite attained the height ti her good fortune cherished by b'-r superiors, beloved by tho poor and roirected by every one the full blown woman in her proi-peiiiy proseyr6d tho old pot as a precious relio o tho Lwly und ÜWeted state from whic,'it, by a good i'lovidetec, ho had been so mercilully rescued, when, as tho forlorn littlo Mary, she prepared to boil her turnip on a heath in Kent, on the most eventful morning of her lifo. Milk Sickness. Mr. William Jerry, of Madison County, Illinois, claims to have discovered that the dreadful malady above named is caused by a Fpccifio weed. Tho following is a description of the dangerous herb: It comes up in April or early in May, with a stem about tho siie of a wild nettle say one fourth to half an inch in diameter. When from one to two feet high it throws out brunches three to four inches apart, and minor branches in tho sumo way from each branch, till near tho tup, when they all brunch cut with from six to twelve more small fibres In branches, aud c-ch of these has n simll white blossom that usually appear in July, and blooms on till frost in the fall. The plant grows from two to lour feet high, aud whe. in rull bloom presents a pretty white color. The manner in which the r mall branches leave tho main stem is sufficient to distinguish it. The biari'.hcs oa this wcci

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TraasleatadrarttttmtBU ibaaU la all itsti t paid for In adfaoea. UbIcii a particular tin It spc!2d iaa'l td in, advartiiciDcnti will bt pablifltd aatll r deredeat and cbarxed aeeordiaxl. come out directlv ooosile each other on 1 1 - - - .1 . : . a. l . ll t iuc uiaiu eicm, u Bimusfc uuiTersauy nai two branches at the same place, and soma stalks have three, the leaves come front the main stem under each branch, and are from two to four inches in lenirth. in eluding the stem. It may be well to mention in cofifiee-' tion with the description of this weed thai there is in many Dlaces where tl.i miik sick weed is foand growing, another ed that has at first sight, when in full bloom, verv nearly the aorearance. and erowa en w m as C out and vacant lands; but its main branch es and leaves are diCerent. ao alaa iL taste and smell Mr. Jerrv's residence fa fonr milea south west of Kdwardsville, Madison Couim ty, Illinois. From tfre Indi.&pHi Jourta'.t Singular Case of Hydrophobia A PessiMe Kecovery. Some eight weeks ago Miss FrIIna l lcr, an intelligent yount lady of twenty two year, daughter of Mr. Harvey .hi lcr, r?sid:n at Deck's station on th I'eru railroad, in Hamilton cadnty, soma fifteen miles north of this city, was bitten by a rabid dog, while she was endeavoring to drive him out of the houe. The wound was on the finger, und so very slight that it excited no alarm, although the dop was known to be mad. As usual in cases of hydrophobia, she thought nothing? more about the matter until th roorninir or Monday, the 2."jth ult., when on going to wash her face the touch of the water 'n.ad her shudder," as she described it. Tha fearful truth Hashed ou her instantly, but being a lady of great lelf-command. she simply said to her sister, "I aru going to go mad; I can't live, adding that she would, however, ' finish spinning the roll'' she was encaged upon. Mie worked on during the day, with some increase of the' horrible symptoms, but nothing visible to others; and the next morning, on sitting down to tho table, she remarked to the family, 4,Y ou must take that water from the table or I can't eat anytime." She ate but little, and got up ss inr she would go to work again. She cornintitd through that day as before, but with a deeidcd strengthening of her repugnance to watr, of which, she said, "the very sight font a tingling feeling all through her." Fhe al.-o complained that the plistcnine face of the clock affected her in tho aree way On Wednesday sho waa loo far overcoma to woik, and while standing in the floor speaking to some of her family she began grinding her teeth, and directly after fell down in a fit, the foam working out of her mouth, ber teeth cnaahmir, and her body frightfully convulsed. Some of the younger children who we.ro will hr at th lima' ran out in great alarm, and the neighbors hurrying in fonnd her on the floor near the fire, in the same terrible condition, but she bit so furiously at every one whe touched her that it wrs impossible to do anything with her. The fire was removed so that she might not injure herself by ' it and she was lift lying till the spafm had Eassed off. She was then place i upon the) cd, and Dr. Uooker called in. When bt arrived she was axiiin convulsed, and senseless, uttering short barking sounds, and snapping at evcrythingthat approach' cd hrr. A bloody lioth was constantly issuing from her mouth, which she tried In spit at those around her. He cause) her lo be tied down in the bed,- and pro ceedod to administer morphine to relieve htr agony. In a lucid intertsl she re monstrated saying "1 must die, 1 know it, and I wsutto dio in my senses, so don't stupify mo with medicine." After anoth er fit, tho Doctor proposed another dose of morphine, and at last she contented, but added: "Vou mut not givo it to me with water." 15ut this remedy produced little uilect. Tbs awful parosysrrs eon tinned, with the same frightful suggestions of dovish sound and the sume Irantie ilTorta to bite. Mic bit hrr hands terribly and bit pieces out of the pillow and bed clothe. lr. Ai G. ltuddlo miIo till' ed in, but his assistanro was ss unavailing us that of Dr. Kookcr. This, wo believe, wn tho next day, ThuipJay, but at all events on that day Dr. i'ooker determined to try tho c fleet uf "bromide of j otiium," which baa breti recommended by some Koropcan physician in rar of hydro- ) hulls. Dr. huddle happening tohea mall quantity with him, it at fii-e mI ini . istci cl, and the ite.itnent ha been steadily kept up in?e, till yesterday atari iwo on nevt bad been jjhen. The symp torn cotiiitiut'd with litlle or no apparent abut' icnt till Sunday or yestciday, when tl.cy were considerably less maiVcd. The fit occurred less fifquently, and with loss seseiity, '1 he unfortunate lady had rra-rd biiing hrrrelf.ntid hsd snllcient kimwledu of lor situniH'ti to ursp htr arms.np tightly in the hid chth rt, len sho felt the spasm coming on, to keep ibrni oat of danger. 1 hough very far from being out of dunrcr, the abatement of the symptom hus been o decided hs to errate sun o hoj t of her ireovtry, wlnih, if Halited, will make this one of the u o.'t temurkable cases on iceord. A great many phslcian and hundred of tic pep'o of tic uinl ty have visited her, und oii o of our ctV i physicians, wo understand, will visilbef to-duy. The ie ha, m ini.v well be sojpsJ, created a pet feet crusaJc gähnt the dgt in all the legion round about. The c i i -tens of Noblesvillc, stn.e seven or ci;:ht miles north, muJo a ptneral att:iek on their do; populjtion a few days sine, and killed all they could find. Tho prevalence of hydrophobia all over this State this winter, is singular. Wo hear f mad dogs everywhere, I'asf Wct, North and South. And the alarm is no idle oue, a at lcat a eoro f lie bonibly 1 j r , attest. Can it be thut iL: unujuully severe winter has hd anything to do vuth this strange , drvchipmot. Whateur may be the eausci lio ' Vonrfucnces are so awful that it i the Juiy .f those whose position and knowledge ciu' ble them to inuke nn invctf;.;iticu of lh matter, to do k'.