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Jfflee in the National Bank Building, (third itory.) TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION; 11,50 PER YEAR, m abvawc. $3.00 M " .If JtOT FAID IV ABVAXCK. No postage on paperi delivered within- this Count. WHAT A PRETTY LITTLE HAND. BT MART . CLARK. I am not a bashful roan. Generally speaking. I am fully as confideot and forward as most of my sex. I dress well. I don't tread on ladies dresses when I make my bow; I have not the trick of coloring to the roots of my hair wben I am spoken to. Yet there was one period of my life when all my merits seemed to my own eyes insignificant, and I felt very modest, not to fay bashful. It was when I was in love. Then, sometimes I did not know where to pat my hands and feet. Did I mention that ir , tho?b tame hands aud fl-et coa-dsts my chief beauty. They are both small.' Three yearn ago I fell in lov. I lü not go into it ; quietly weighing my idol's perfections against her defects. I fell in, head and ears, two seconds after the introduction. Mr. Heyne., Miss Arnold," said a mutual friend, and, lot I was desperately in love. She was a fairy-like figure, with Ijoi', brown curls floating over snowy neck and shoulders, and falling down on tlie waist of an enchanting blue dress. Her large, dark blue eyes were full, of saucy light, et how tender and loving they could look. (This I found out later.) Ut all the provoking, tantalizing little sioquetta that ever teamed the heart of a pour man, Susy Arnold was the roost bewitchiog. I would pus a evening with her and go home enain that one more interview would make me the happiest of men; but the next time I met her, a cool u o J and indifferent glance threw down all ny ci lcs. Site was very cautions. Nev er a word did she drp to make me believe that she loved me, ai.d yet her hand would linger in mine, and her color rise if I locked my feeling, and her eye droop, to be rai.-e 1 again in a moment, full of lauh ing d-S i nee. he declared her intention 1o le an old maid, root-t emphatically, and in the next sett fence would ad 1: I never diJ love, but if I should take a fancy tu anybody 1 should love him like like a heue afire. Though," sh -would say carelely, "I neviT saw anybody yet worth set ing my -thoughts up ou.' I tried a lhouand ways to mike her betray ron.e interest in my elf. Propose -outright I could not do. She had a wny, whenever 1 tiiod it, of looking in my face with an air of grave attention and pro found interest, that was equivolent i:i its effect to knocking me down; it took all the brc ith out ol mo. -Jne rrentttrr. while liiere. 1 wan seiaml with a violent ho iJai he. 1 told her, I wt -Bui ji-ct to mcli attacks, and I ho gipsey, putting on a grave face, jrave tuu a lecture0 i the subject of health, winding up with Thu Lest tMnyf you can 1i in to pet a -wife to take caio of von, and to keep you li u lu over study. I advise you to do it if you ran ir:l any ho-ly to huve." "Indeed," said I, rather piqued. "there are too mtnjt I rc.'nin from u selection fir fear of broking other hearts How fond all tli e?u ladies are of mi!" I added co no i'edly, 'tlio' I can't sie that I am particutaily fascinating." Neither cart I," suid Susy, with in ir of perfoct simplicity. Can't you?" suid I. "I hoped hoped" Oh, that dreadfully attentive fjioo of herst That in. Mi Suy, I lhohghr, perhaps oil my head! my head!' and I buried my face in the cushion. Does it ache no very badly?' and sho rut her cool little hand among my cutU 1 lelt tho thrill her fi iigar gave me all the wsy to tho toe of my boots. My Load be'n-g re illy very painful. I wu" obliged to leave; but all the wny homo, tue soft, cool touch of thoso utile lingered on my brow. linger oon after ihn it beetme necessary for ine to loivc the city on business. An of femf a lucrttivo pirtuorship in tho South in (ha office of a lawyer friend of mine m id c ni decide to extend my trip jind see h iw tho "bod lay.'.' One tiling wan certain, I could not leave homo for month, perhaps for years, without some answer from busy. So. 1 ri-s.-o J in my faultier ctuuie, and full of hope, I wmit to Mr. Arnold's. Susy w.s in tho parlor at the f ijtio alone. .h nodded gaily as I came ii but continued her song. It wtus, i'w something to tell you " At tin word, I lovo you, I sdore you!" Sho gave mo such a glui.ee. 1 wis resdy to pro-trato niys-If; hut, sweep iug buck the curls with a laughing dell ante, sho warbled, "But I'm talking iu uiy sluep." "hen.''l cried "you love uie when you sleep. May 1 think so?'' Ohl yes, if jou choe; for Ilory O'Moore says dreams go by contraries, you know." I sat down hesido her. Ah!" I said, sighing, "liory'e idol dreamed she hated him." Yea," said Susy, that was the difference bctwten his cusc and yours." We chatted away for atiuie. At last I begin Miss Susy, I came up this evening to tell you that I - I " How he was üsteningl A bright thought struck me; I woull tell her of my journey, and in the emotion she was cer tain to betray, it would be easy to declare tay love. Miss Susy," I said, "I am going South to morrow " She swept her hands across the keys of tbo piano iuto a stormy polka. I tried to see her faco but ber curls fell over it. . I was prepared to catch her if she fainted, or comfort her, if she wept. I listened for the sobs I (Wied the uiusio was intended U conceal; but, throwing back hur curU with a sudden tos, sho struck tho last chord of the polka, and said gayly 'Going away?' "Yes. for oiiio months." 'Dear me, how distressing! Just atop at Levy's a you h itn j and order me aomo extra pocket handkerchiefs for this

VOL. (5. NO. 41. melancholly occasion, will you?'" Yon do seem to require them,' I said rather piqued. 'I shall stay some months.' 'Well, write to pa, woji't you? And if you get married, or die, or anything let us know? I have an offer to be a partner in a law office, in Kentucky.' I ssid, determined to try her, 'and if I accept as I have some thoughts of doing, I shall never return.' Her face did not change. The old, saucy look was there, but I noticed that one little band cUsed convulsively over her watch chain, and the other fell upon the keys, making, for the first time a discord. 'Going away foiem?'' ehe said, with a aad tone that made mj heart throb. 'Mise Susy, L. hoped you, at least, would mist me, and sorrow - in my absence." She opened her eves with an expression of profound amazement. i?' "e; it might change all my plans, if my absence would grieve you.' Change your plant?' YVs, I hoped -thought " Oh, that earnest, grave face! My cheeks burned, my .bards-snd feet seemed to swell, and I felt cold chills all over me. I could not go oo. I broke down tho thrrd time. There wsa an -awkward silence. I glanced at Susy. Her eyes were resting cn my hand, which lav on the arm of the sofa. The contrast between the black horse hair and the flesh seemed to strike her. What a pretty little hsndl" she sai l A brilliaut idea passed through my brain. You may have it if you will!' I said, offering it. She took it between her own, and toying with the fin crs, said May I?' Yes, if you will jiive me this one;" and 1 ruied her Oeautilul hand to my lips. She lo ked into my face. What she read there I cannot say; but if ever eyes tried to talk mine dfd then. Her color rose, the whito lids fell over the glorious eyes, and tho tiny baud struggled to free itself. Was I fool enough to release it? What I suid I know not; but I dare av my wife cau tell you. Five minutes later, my arm encircled the brown dress tho brown cujls fell upon my bre:it and my lips wero in couuet with another pair. AN EX-REBEL ON THE SITUATION. Letter from Roger A. Pryor. Hoger A. Pryor, of Virginia, lato a general iu the rebel army, has written a Ictier to a fiieuJ in New York iu regard to the statement of a Virginia pnper that he was a 'Itadical.' He authorizes the 'mUiguatit denial' of this a latum en f.. mul ia) that liO has no politics, having given up all poiiiieul aspirations with the downlull of the Confederacy, but claims that he has iu good i'jilh relumed to his allegiance to the Uovermeut of the (Jutted States.und is sincerely desirous of re-establishing harmony and good feelings between all octioti. Tho following is tho latter portion of the letter. With this cotivn tion, while I pretend to no part iu politics, I have not hesitated iu private discourse to advise uiy friends in the South frankly to 'accept the silua, lieu;' to adjust their ideas to tho altered state of uffairc; to rcogVizo md respect the rights of the colored race; to cultitate relations of confidence and good will to wards the people of the North; 1 1 o! s ain from the profitless agitations of political debate, and to employ their et orgies in the far and uiuro exigent and useful work ol material reparation and development. Si riving, out of reg ird to tho South, to inculcate thia lessou of prudent conduct. 1 have urged such arguments as these: That tho negro is in no son so responsible for the culaauities wo endure; that toward us he has ever coudueted himself with kind ness and subordination; that ho is mti tied to our cotiipusniun, and to tho assut a eo of ou superior iutelligonco in the effort to attain a lnghir state of moral and intellectual development; that to assume he was p'sci'd on this theatro as a re p roach to humanity and a stuiubling-M.jek in the pi ogress of civilization, would bo to impoucu the wisdom slid goodness of pioV idoocu that, considering iho comptrati ve number ot the two races iu the South, it would bo the merest madness to provoko a collision ol caste; in word, that it is absolutely essctiti.il to the peace, repose, and the prvsperi'y of the South, that Hie emailcipalud i L should be uudisturbvd In the ei'joymctit of their rights under the law, and should ha enlightened to understand the da les and interests ot social ordor and wcll-bjing. Hut tt has appeared to mo thai the chief otisUele to a coinp'eto and eoidial reunion between the North and ihe South is found in tho suspicion and rescntmuut with which the people bfthce sections regard each other. Ilunce, while on the one hand assuring the Northern people of tho good futli with which the South resumes its obligations in tho Union 1 have thought it not auiiss on the other to protest to my Southern Irieuds that the ma of the Northern community are ani mated by far more jut and liberal seutl munts toward us than we aro apt to auspect. And thus, leaving to others the ostensible ptri in the work of recount! uo ion, at.u abstaiuing studiously from all political connection and activity, I have hoped iu some measure, and in a auiot wsy, to re pir the evil 1 contributed to Iriugupou the South, by availing myself of every appropriate privute opportunity to suggest these counsels of moderation and magnanimity Passion, to which in truth wo had abun dant provocation, precipitated us into secession; reason must conduct us baok iuto the path of peace and prosperity. Hard it may purgo our hearts of the rosentmonts and prejudice engendered by civil war, but until our mind to enlijhtsncJ by a philosophio comprehension

THE UNION, THE CONSTITUTION, )tHE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.

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of the exigencies of our situation, we shall never recover the repose after which the wearied spirit of the South so eagerly pants. . At whatever risk of personal obloquy, and at whatever sacrifice of personal interest and you know it involves both obloquy and sacrifice to talk as I do I am resolved to employ all of energy and intellect I may command itwihe incessant endeavor to promote peaco and good will among the people of tha lately belligerent States. What the country needs, what in a most especial manner the South Deeds, is repose; freedom from the throes of po litii-al agitation and leisure to reeruit its exhausted energies. 'Ihe experienco of the past six years should have impressed on tho mind of the American nation this mast ealutary lesson, a lesson Eooner or later learnt by every nation in tho development of its own history that civil war is the sum and consummation of all human woe. Protesting solemnly the integrity of motive by which I was then nctuated, yet I never recall the names of the noble men who foil in our cooQict; I never look abroad upon our wasted fields, and desolated homes; 1 never contemplate the all-embracing ruin in which we are in volved, the sad eclipse of our liberties, and the sinister aspect of the future, without inwardly resolving to dedicate all I possess of ability for the public service .a I rm a to tne taste ot averting another such catastrophe, and to that end of cultivating a spirit of forbearance -and ttood feclinfr among all classes and all sections of thf country, These my dear sir, ore the opinions very briefly and dogmatically delivered, which 1 entertain touching the actual condition of ihe Southern States, and the policy proper lor them to pursue in the present juncture. They are ihe result of anxious and conscientious rt flection, of much observation on the popular temper of the North, and ot extrcmo and unabated ai 1 citU'io for the welfare of the community to which I am attached by the strongest ties of filial devotion. With tho utmost sincerity of conviction, I believe that by a system of conduct in conformity to thetui suggestions, tho Southern people may achieve a prosperity and hsppinets equal to any they have enjoyed, whil-?, on the contrary, 1 am as firmly pcrsuoded tha! by u vain and impatient resistance to an order of things they cannot change, and to a destiny they cannot escape, they will iufiuitoly aggravate tho miseries of their present condition, end besides. brb'g down upou themselves calamities appalling to contemplate. I am not acquainted with the rlassifi cstion of parties, but if these opinions tunke tne a "Jlidical.' t lion am a llidi eal, for they are deliberately tho opinions of Very truly )ours, KooKn A. Paron. Hops. "A n old hop growi r wri e j to tho Chicugo Tribune as follows: 'While the pen and press have been near ly silent upon tho cultivation of hops, iu oraeuge, ose and valuo has been rapidly increasing. Whereas, as yet, very little has been said and but few columns, if any, have been written in regard to tho best variety to bo cuttivatod. From this neglect, nearly all tho inexperienced suppose there is but one variety. t o such this is a sdd and fatal mistake. There aro as many different kinds of hops as of fruit or grapes, nnd as liable to the ottaok of diseases. At tho present time the hop crop stands No. 1 among the most salable and best paying products ol the country; and as the vermin aro making their attacks upon (hit noble plant, the future success, of the grower will depend entirely upon the selection of tho variety that is most formidable against tho attacks of its enemies. In many of tho oldest hop-growing districts experiments have been inado on the different varieties, nido by side, and results have ratisfuctorily proven' the Knglish cluster to be fur superior in every respect, i'hey are the earliest, rich, hardy, pro ductive and salable varleJy known. The averago yield ot the Knglish Cluster is from 1.HU0 to 'J.5U0 pounds per acre, while the aversge of others is but from 1,000 to 1.400 pounds per acre, and of an interior quality. 1 have frequently known whoto vineyards of the inferior grades totally destroyed by insects, while the Knglish Cluster stood side by side, without receiv ing scarcely any perceptible injury. Mr, Dighy ssys he has nno of the most obedient boys iu the world. He tells him to do us he pleases, and ho does it without murmuring. A little fellow not more th in fivo years of ngo, hearing some gentlemen at his father's table discussing the faiinliur line, An honest tnun'a tho noblest work ol (iod,' suid be knew it wasn't true; his mother wui bettor than any man that was ever made. A younglady being requested by an old bachelor to take a sc.it upon his kneo in a crowded car, made the following reply. 'No, thank you-, I'm afraid such an old treat would break down with mo,' Why do you set your cup of coflco on tho chair, Mr. Jones?' said a worthy landlady one morning at breakfast. 'It is so very weak tuu'uui I thought I would let it rest. Squeeboh, jr., an old bachelor, shows his stockings, which ho lus just tlarued, to a tuaiduu lady, who contemptuously re marked: Pretty good f r a man-darner.' Whereupon, Sjueebob retorted: Good enough tor a woman, darn-hcrl' Ilase-ball is on the fly South as well as !Nortü. a

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., fJday. j tor tho American. Lfne';5. Br AMt. Oh bow ws eling to tbs wr Though fills ! with dseei TV ars soareel walcm! Ars left alons oa lifVi ' i ws live In, nJ bleak and cbil'j rt until ws -eithill. If ws fall, the world only " I scorn. And points to the reeklt' 'track ws'vs made; If we iucceoJ, sy tbsy.'wWh thoughtless tnlea, Ws bars dons well, lot tha track wts laid. And each token It gives, ws beruh At if It hoand som maxü rcI'i Wben rrienddbip's tried, the bauble breaks, And IeTc bat a iop In tho well. ahq leirei lot ocsn mruuoivg, Feelings tbs tongas has not to tell; Bat heart a mirrcr there, reflecting On tbs drop dotra deep ia tbo wellOne drop to apeak of floodt thatf araed, And one that ne'er con iweli sgatn; Oh tbs sorrow of loved onei vsniibed It not a tweet, but chilling psin. In some demf ibearei will bs gathered, Beosuse toins one bat labored there; Though ws tee not the harve it ripen, Ia dark boars wo need not derp sir. This why ws lovo the world to well, . Each one Its mission bai alone; And in the darin at, friendleat hour, . 1 . The bctt, inoit precious seeds are town. Oifork, Okl. s ,The Principal of the Public Debt. From thefJew York World, October 7. p Wa liar riprntufrtrA dironfpil nnr arfrn. - - -!- merits rather against General Duller thau Mr. Pendleton, alluding but sdightty to the latter because wo regictted to find him in such company. 13ut as Mr. Pendleton has, in a public speech, replied to oao of the arguments we used, we do not pco how wu ean very well stand our ground it wo continue our foibesranco. In a recent speech Mr. Pend'eton suid: l!ut an able, active and influential newspaper, whoso exertions in behalf of. and whoso influence in tlo Democratic party are very ycreat, whose editor always writes ns a gentleman and rcaous as a statesman I mean the World admitted that I was right, as far as I had gone, but asserted that I had overlooked an important ecciott of the act of February 25 ISO'J. That section provides that the du ties shall be puiJ in coin, and that the coin shall be applied as follows: "First To the payment in coin of the interest on tha bonds ot the. United States. .'Second To tho purchase or payment of one per centum of the cptire debt of the United States, (o bti matte wlfhh sch fiscal Par alter the first day of July, ISO!, which is to bo set apart as a sinking fund, and tho interest of which shall bo in like manner nppitMil to tho purchase or payment of I he public debt, us the Secretary ot tho lieusury shall irutu time totiu.c direct. Third The residue thereof shall bo paid iuto tho Treasury of the Ui.ited btslos. 'The World claims that this language in the second cluuso constitutes a ptoenis lo pay tho principle in coin. I differ with tho World. Mark the language: 'To the )iircluite ot juttmmt of ono per cent, of the entire debt.' The purchaso or payment was to commenco during Iho year between July J. 1802. and July 1, lSGJ This law is the first one authorizing the is-uo of five-twenties. They were not re deemable by tho (lovcrnuient before five years. Not one of them, therefore, could be redeemed until after the Üoih of ich . a ttS ruary, ipoi. lue compound inteiesi notes nnd the seven thirties wcto not yet luo, indeed, had not yet been issued to any extent, one of the publio debt ho caiuo duo i i tint year nor tbe next, and i here lore could not bo rttwmrd. My the t'.'Mns of tho law, then, tho atn uut ot one per centum must po jtnTclvwd. Puring the first yoir gold weirt s'cadily upward reaching. I believe, ncurly L'OO per tent premium. In a few mouths tho b n 1 were prepsrod. You iciiiMinbor that Jay Cooko ws employed to doll thotn; that he made extraordinary efforts t do s, and that ho wits well paid by tho (lovct limctn for getting them off nt eighty cents in greenbacks. Now, tlion, if tho interprets lion of tho law put upon it by tho World is correct, the extraordinary spectacle wt presented that tho Uovertimont was. by law, paying its o;;ents to sell its bonds at eighty cents in greenback on the lull tr. tud l y the simc law was compelled 1 1 b 1 thctn back, at tho same time, at psr in gold, which wsa fhen worth two hundred cents in greenbacks. It seems to tu-) that I tieod only stite this result to show that the interpretation ia wrong. Tho coin wis to bo laid nside, und when tho time for purchuso or redemption cume, it was to bo co.iverted into lentil tender notes nno then the purchuso to bo tuado at tho mar kot r.th's.'' We find nMliing in this rcisoning to complain of cither in point of courtesy or argumentative candor. The distinction between 'purchaso" sfd payment" 0 which Mr. Pcodlcton rt.lica is not r.cw to us, its we recently uiuJJ; use of the snme distinction to explode ono of tho most plausible of (Jencrul Dutlur's arguments Hut Mr. Pendleton docs not keep the dis tinction clear in his own mind throughout, and thereby contuses and invalidates hirousoning. Tho idea that in jmrclminj the publio debt tho Government wss bound iu good faith to pay dollar lor dol lar, could never be entertained by any body conversant wUh this class of subjects. Secretary Cobb, in Mr. Buchanan's administration, purchased a portion of the publio debt at a very high premium. Had the bonds been selling in the market below par, he might with equal propriety huve bought them in at a discount. Gold was ut that time the only curreuoy used in the transseiions of the Government; but the varying price which the Govern ment might havo paid in the purchuso of its bonds, in no way affected the sum due at their payment. 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lar was doe for dollar, neither more nor less. None of tho bonds then in existence, and none ever issued before, mode any mention of coin; and yet Mr. Pendleton will cobcedo that they were due in coin which proves hat tho omission of the words is no valid argument against payability in tho precious metals. It is not the omission of tho words -tn coin, but tho operation of the legal tender act, that casts any doubt on the point. .We must concede that the law is grossly inconsistent with itself, and that Messrs. Peodletoj) and Butler reason with great cogency from admitted premises when they argue that tho legal tender act makc tbe principal cf the public debt payable in greenbacks. If there- we:e nothing else in tho law, their argument would be conclusive. But as Thaddcus Stereos said of it when it was on the point of its final passage, the law bears on itj face tbe inconsistent linenmcr.ts of many progenitors; or as he said with more emphasis in an earlier stage, it is "grossly in congruous." It became such a bundle of contradictions from the moment that the Senate engrafted its amendment making iotcrcst payable in coin, that .its oiiginal introducers would have flung out bill, amendment and all, if the Treasury- Department had not been in distress, and within three days of bankruptcy. That the Senate amendment exempted the interest of tho bonds from the operation of the legal tender clansc is' on all bauds admitted. Uut the exemption of tbs interest exempted also the principal. The principal and interest of the public debt hold a certain fixed arithmetical re lation to each other; the six per cent, anii . i . . uuai mietest Dein-? crecisciv six onchundredths of tho auiouot ultimately due as the principal of the debt. If either iiiterect or principal fluctuates ia vuluc, they tiecc.-sarily fluctuate together, tbcif ratio to euch other being constantly as mx is to one hundred, whatsoever may be tue absolute value ol cither. If I borrow ed last year a thousand dollars in greenbucks, and theunriual interest is duo touay,ihc sixty dollars which I pay to day is worth precisely six ono-huudredths ot the value of the principal to day; and this wouu uo equally true whether the depre ciation weie thirtv rcr cent, or ihn-p hundred; so fixed is the proportion lotween interest at any given rate and the principal on which it is paid. ben, therelore, the Government engages to pay the interest on a certain debt in coin, und declares ut the sumo time, that tho rate is bix per ceut. it thereby engages that the principal shall be ulso paid in coin; for otherwise the interest would not be six one-hffiidredihs of the principal, and the rate per cent, would be some other than six. We therefore hold that Congress, in exempting tho interest of tic five twenties Iroiu the operation of tho legul tender act', ueicftpurily exempted also tho principal. Thu Senate uuicndn.cnt lopectit g coin was unJeiS'ood at the time, and has been uuiioruily construed by the Treasury Department, to exempt the principal of the public dobt as well as tho interest from the operation of tho legal tcudcr uct. We offer no proof of this, because it is u matter of general notoriety. The fuel that when Mr. Pendleton first announced his view, it startled tbo country as a novelty, may stand, for the present, in tho place ol proof. It is true that Mr. Stephens, in ItiOl, expressed the sume view; but to settled wus tho public mind in a contrary opinion, that Mi. Stevens was regarded as huving uttered ono of his crotchets, and it wus imtuediutely forgotten. .What the publio thmnjht on this subject accorded wnli what tne Secretary of the Treasury ((; and on the pluiuet principles ol pubjic obligation his action bound the Government, even if he mit interpreted the Wo trust to tnako this very clear; but wo must puss lor illustration from tho tinuiicml or arithmetical relation of principal snd interest, whilt we huvo been dis cussing, to the legal relation of principal aiidugent. Tl.C law on this subject rests on solid grounds of naturul justice, nnü borrows nothing either froth trunstenden tul ethics or a chivalrous and fastidious sense of honor. The law tho law, us Mr. Pendleton well ki.ows, ulikc of ancient Home, all the Suites of modern Europe, and of this country ia that the act of u recognized agent binds his principal, it, when it homes to his knowledge he docs not di-cbtim it. ScMrr qui nun i o hilU jro c infervenire, vutiidire cndinnr. t he prinoiplo is mi old us tho science ol jurisprudence; and although tho govern meut is oot umciidublo to a court it is unquestionably bound by the obligation ol universal justice on which the principle re-ts. Couuvfse ki.ow tbstthe Secretary of the Treasury interpreted tho l iw as exempting the principal us well us interest nf the publio debt, tiotu tho operation ol the legul tender uct. and their ucquics conco ciuilly bound tho trover it in c u t whether iho interpictiitiuii w;is uceording lo iho original itt'.cntion of Congress or not. Tho Eleo.ions And Tho South Naturally, tho success of th copperheads in tho rcent Northern elections has emboldened tho rcbul element of tht South, beyond anyevent which has trutisirsiuco the surrender of Jho, at Appomuttox Advices from Richmond and olsewhcru represent the rebels to bo in a s'ato of cx ti io delight, and they flatter thenis!e.i that the work of reconstructing under the ucts of Congress will stop, or that they will be able to control the coining elections in the Iuto rebel Mate, which woull amoaut to the samt thing. It will be prudent for them not to dis count the Democratic victories at the North at tiiur thun their value. TheuaelectionH have not materially changed tho strength of parties in Congress, and Southern coprurhend.t may rost ussured that uutil after Ma roh 4, 1SG9. it will bo impossible to ohango the basis of reconstruction'. The fiiimiitiiiitiii which lnt rnrn.l thidr Ktntn governments by rebellion, aud Yoluntatily

WHOLE NO. 301. withdrew their Senators and Representatives from congress will bo restored to tbe political status in the Union, on the terms alrendy provided by Congress, or not at allat leaft not until a majority -of tho people of all the represented States shall so determine by tho election of a Congress willing to surrender tbe fruits of tbo victories won by the Union armies. If they wish to make a trial of tbe people on this question, and prefer to remain as they are until puch an impudent appeal can be tnado and acted upon by the loyal States, they have the privilego of doing so. The South inado one piievons blunder when it spumed the geneious offer cf resto ration contained in the Constitutional Amendment. It will repeat the mistake if it voles down tie present recons rut t on project, in the expectation that a changeof a few thousand vote in favor of tkc Democratic party, on other questions than reconstruction, will frighten the Republican Congress into a surrender of the position it has taken touching tho reiteration oftho revolted Sou;h. Ti c o is another cIsfs of people in the South which receive the news from the iorui with iceiings ot prolound endr.o-s-the negroes, faithful friends of the Uuion, wherf the rebels who are now rejoicing were in arum for the "destruction of our Government and tbo permanent disruption of Union, it is sot surprising that they are filled with consternation After. furnishing two hundred thousand soldiers to the army of tho nation, and giving all assistance within thcirpower to tho national cause, they can uot comprehend tbe action of the peoplo of the North in elevating a party which is their bitter and unrelentioc enemy . They feel that tho ascendancy of tbo Democratic party is full of peril to them. They know it means thes'r tcduo tion to a ftrm if reifdom, little' if any, tetter than the conditiou cf slavery i'tom wl.i.-h they huvo-been emancipated. They know it means merciless apprentice codes, like those jasscd by socio cf Andrew Johnson's rcbtfl Lcgislatures.by means of which their children may be taken from them and coiurcllcd to work for white masters without compensation. It means labor laws, such as Jhc to pajscJ by the bogus Legislature of Mississippi, making tho colored man, whi!o nominally free, in fact a slave, disqualify ing him from purcbas or teasing land, and, under the guise of cunningly devised vagront laws, selling tho whole raco iuto servitude, Thero ia no question that four fifths of the Democratic party in tho Northern States would vote this day to remand all the blacks into slavery, if their votes could sctomplUh it and the whole of them would give a ready function to any oppressive laws that the southern Democracy might enact iu eu-e they could become posoessed of tho political power of the late slave States. Tbo fate, however, of the colore ! people of the South ta in their own hands. I'lioy- now have tho protection of tho bai lot, and it will bo their own fault if Ihey Iopo it. All that is needed to make their liberty secure is. that they ahull all vote at ihj el etions lo be held en Jer tho ret d siructiou luws. In some Slates they compose an actual majority of voters, and in the others there are enough whito Republicans who will voto wi'.li them, to carry tho elections against the reactionary, rebel Democracy. The Peunsy Ivunia and Uhio elections pronto iho danger that threatens the colored men ot the South, and that danger sliDuld, and we predict it will, cause them to turn out.ru mauc at the elections and cast their votes as a unit in favor ol icconrtruetion cn the Congressional plan. If they do this their future is secure Tf they fail, their fate must be decided, not by themselves, but by tho votes of the people of the North in tho PiociJt ntiul und Congressional elections of lbOb. Let them and the white Unionists of the South hut b truo to iher.Hel vc-:, and reconstruction will l o a fact accomplished beloio Copt crl.cndi-ni can by any possi oility control the ( vrrumiMnt. Journal. Greenbacks Now York vs. Ohio. Much of the Copperheads guin in Ohio is undoubtedly owing to the avidity with which a great many knaves and some honest but iiii.ded luuti hivo seized upon tho Vullanditigham propo;-itou lo coufi-cato tho public debt, and therby avoid tho pay. incut rf both principal nnd interest. Wo have heretofore called uttention to tho rsdieul difference between tho a ti it u Jo of the nomocracy of New Yoik and Uhiouron this question, and we publjsh elsewhere an editorial from the cw York WrM. Thö leading Did3oeralic newspaper of New York, in which it tukes the position that the principal of tho five twenty bonds, as well as the intciist.il psysblo in gold, and that It would bo a violation of public faith to forco their redemption in currency. So, while tho Copperheads of tho Vt are attracting voters to their standard by thtir advocacy of rcpa-l t!on. tho New lork I'cmooiacy rc-olu'eiy oppose them. In the riecnt Democratic Stute Convention of New York, a rCsoluticti was offered in fivorohtho Stuto t.ixulioti of Govern mcnt bonds, but it was sutiiiiur.ly luid up on tho tublc; nnd on tho proposition to sponge out tlio notiotiHl debt, the Now oik Denit crjcy nru at direct issue with their Western, allies. Weak-kneeJ ltepublicanswho have suf fcrcd lhcm?rdvc to bo seduced into tho support of Copperheads, by (ho tM'Wion ol paying iho national debt without luxation ,may comfort themselves es best they on n with the consciousness ihut they huvo been cheaply so'd.JouruiI. Russia rends to the 100,000 Ucrden rifles. - ii w United States for Snow fell in the western part of Massa chusett last week. Style is everything, A New York livery table ivtinga u eica. "Hotel de Horse." Cash business is the word for thia fall It will bo better for all.

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ed in, advertiaementa will k fiabliabed atil aereti oat snd cbaifed accordingly. The Shcwmm's Courtship. By artkvus iVAnn. Tbe following is an "cU cue," buf, liki. rum, improves on age: There was msny sffectin tics which made me hanker arter Betsy Jane. Her father's farm jintd mir'n; their cowa and our'u squenched. their thirst at tbe ssrrtr spring;. our old mures Oi.th had stars iu :hcir forrerds; the measles broke out in both fatterlits at nearly the same pciiod. our parents (Betsy's and mine) slept rcg-. ularly every Cudy iu thu tame u cetin boasc, and tho tubcrj u.u-J to obserre. how thick the v srds and the Penslev are!" It was a scibliete site, u the f ring of the year, to fe onr several mothers fLetsy h and mine) wiUi thtir gowns pinM up so they cunldu't sile tieru, aflVcshuoately brlia ope tigetbtr & tlootin the n ubcrs. Altho I hankered infen?e!f arfer tho objeck of my e tT.-obuii. 1 daieeut lell her of the fires that wns n jin in my manly ousium. i d try to d) it, but my tung; would kerwhollup up agin the ruf "of my mowih and stick thair like deuth to a deseast African, or i country postmaster ts his cflids,-' while iy heart huiiged agiiV my ribs like an old fashioned wheat flale agin a bum floor. Twas a eariri etrll nite in Joon. AU oater wns huht and nary jeffer disturbed the screen silens. I sot with Betsy Janw on the fens of her fuller's pi.stur. WeM bin rortpin threw the woods, kullin flo-jrs and diiviii the Woodehuck from hisNaii Lair (so to fpeek) with long slicks. Wal , we sot thar.on the tense, a swiugin one Met two and fro, blushiu as red as Bald winsville school houe when it Was j.uim cd, end lookin very simple,. I make nr doubt. My left arm was okepied Iti ba!. cofiu myself on tUttfvnse, while mi rite - was wouuueu luxitiiy roumi tier waste. 1 cleared my throat end trembiictlv ied: Bcty, you're a Gszolle." I thot that air Whs putty fine. I waited to sea what effeck it wculd m photi her. It evidently, didu'l Jetvh cpou" Lcr. fef she tip and Kcd: 1 ou re a sheep! Sri I, Betsy, I (Link my muchly cf you. I uon t belceve a word vou 6sv to there now, cum!" with which oUervushuu she suddenly hitched away from me. 1 wish thcr wuz winders in my sole. scd I, "so that you could see some of my ivcnus. a ncru s uro cnuu in iiere. tea I, , strikin my burzum with my fi-t, to bile all the corn, tief and tmoips in the naWelrnttUV Aziiini'is and the Cii;ter ain't a circuniManco. She bowd her krd down and fomoTeriSt chawin the strings to her sun bonnet. "Or, could un know th Icepless uitc I worry threw with on your nccuunt, bow vittles has seived to be attrsclive to me, A. how mj litMS has all shrunk up, you wouldn't dont tne. (iazo on this vtastiu form nnd these 'ere sunken chrek" I sl'.ould have continued on ia this stratie for some lime, but unlortunately I lost my ballunso nnd fell over into tbe pastur kcrsitutsh, tesiiu my cloe and severely datnugin tnyfelf gci.ml'y. Betsy June sprung to my u-t-istans indouble quick time and dnigid n.c hh. Then druwin herself op to her full Lite, e scd: I won't listen to your tioncents no longer. Jes say rito struto out what yoit'ro drivin ct. If you mean gittiu hiubcu I'm it.!" I considered that air cnuff f.r all pruetickle purpusres, and wo piocttded iuime jitly to the paiaun's and wu2 Luide 1 that very nite. For the American. Our Early Home. The word Home is a sweet word. Whi'o others writo und spcuk id' iho boti.c plensurcs of tbeir ehibihnt d with syvh tspture, I have nolbirg to say of thorn pleasures. Before I wus (.Id enough tospprciisto those endearments, I became trpfiursJ, und so wss e:tst umm.g strangers. 'J here fore I knew but lew hxne p! hsiiics. Sill I bud some pl'uu ti nt I called home for tho lime being, at which I Maid and woil' cd, yet it dt I noti rio what I thought home slioul 1 be. WI i!e eontiaatii. il.o utlcntioii puid to IllO, with tl.rirO paid Iff tho (hüdieii of iho lit inu w hcie 1 stuid, something like ibis would olicu ccuic iuij my nii'; l'ro no parents' 1 1 pn Ite'l ins, Noenif ella ius love i.r fil.ti.t; Tlmse wlih wbutu I lire iteftt hi, ;' When will my sorrom bsM su nJf Thus I grew to manhood without tia'y reuliting what home was, r nd tittfr did until with the companion öf. hiy joth I moved intC u Ik. tne of our own. Where now is thuf loved one, lufipsint-o gone to i rst? And althvtigh 1 have a habitation whore n.y boyhood and youth was spent, yet it is not home, lor 1 find inysc'f alone, morning, noon nt.d night, md niy hubitutioii is icallf io dreuiy to likVi ti e inmost codi rting uj plied to it. 1 frequently psis ihu.e spots i.f my boyhood's luvurito rport but tl ey Sio ro chui.gcd tho hill upon whose summit with luy pleyft'lloWS I Used to tni-rt 10 loll huge SloiiCs down the Heep sides, to sco tbciu wl.iil, bound, and eish through the Liuh Uthe bust Jut iheso secnua have no sttruciio:i for me now. I look round fox I ine of thoso co ii. pun io ns, bi t find nono of them, not one. I ak, where :ire they? Leho answers when? Most of them i-t-the spiiit wm!d. I try tu lernet the pait,. boCuuse of the sul thoughla it induces. I once hud a home wUetriu 1 dwelt with my beloved couipsn.Yiis and my children, with plcusures uualU-ycd tavo by the vexations nccaiM:cd by contact with, the stern realities cf life. But home plena uros and muelf ovo Mrunger m.w, L fiudiuysclf but a pilgrim and a aj furifg: man. Cut why write of tlote tliups? Youm truly, . . n. C. v A mad do,; t as killed at NoitU, Vcraon.'