Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 10, Number 21, Plymouth, Marshall County, 22 December 1864 — Page 1
PLYMOUTH
WEEKLY
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j ii. . . ii HERB LET THE PREÖÖ THE PEOPLE'S RIOHTtf MAINTAIN; una wed' by INFLUENCE AND ÜKBOÜQHT by OAI IT VOLUME 10 PLYMOUTH,- INDIANA, THÜKSDAY, DECEMBER 23 1864. NUMBER 21
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ü ii 1 1 1U Ii I'UUMSH .D EVERY THURSDAY AT PLVM r'TH, INDIANA, BY J S. tJ:lfK. J. F. V NVAl.KKNBlrRGH. TERMS HF SUHCIUPT10X: I f p-uJ in Ji Irmce, r within th ee mouths. $2.00 tf notpiid nithin three months. $'2,50 IT" No nper will be diacniinied until all ifrr arie' ure pid, unless at the option of the i i a s r nt e s s CAim SUtonuus. A- C. CAPliON. AND L?-tn 1 War Chnm Agent. Will attend m U nM'(ioii .1 ImaU'CS placed ... . 1 i i-.r..l ! . in lr hand w.'inTIv :nl nrrniv. P.irficulir i't-?oi..rt -'v -n ro Cii-tr.il in-mp-. nl t?' vlilftn-r tot D-ccd-ti!' E-tite. r. t;. Si mi. R v.iitv link piv ol'itoOf.ui-d and Ui?.i- j blni Soi.ii'-r. procured .t r-' i!f iblc r ltci j ud disaDee N. Mo'tLM an l'th' t wrini-niii'trtiinnf Mt!r :.nd quitklv Jnwu uo and acknow iedtement Nk-n. ' " xy r".,i .-i.. mo. In nn.l iimmntl V rpnittPd. j v,ULi.r " 'Ii, mm i . ... - ( Oifi.e over 11 15 D.cksou i Co' Hard irv i Store, Plymouth Indiana. v0n2J tf ' . j C. H- REVE. tty at Law, Plymouth. In ö. , -t j'ic n F'lUriii, tirk, LiPrtean l K')-ciri- ; x. i h MirViill. Coutit'p-. Collc.-tion sr.miflr an I i,S-icnly aru'tidfd to. C-retuI .: iti on 'i i'en to Prohit hn-tinos.. In;rar.co j Wcte I IJrc- and P..neri v in the t con:pi- j 1 in tue i iiire-i .i.i'ca. i :t -s pi 4. dier- in 1 their lieir at very low diarire. Kcrtiis TO FarweU FiHd & Co., Chicso. Shi Birhf.ur k Co., Cincin"aii. Rocfclr Sheldon Co., S. Y. k.T 3onnett 4 Co., PiUeburg. 4niStr. M. A. O. PACKARD, ÄTT31HEY AM3 COUNSELOR Pymouth, : s Indiana. u!5 S. A. M'CftACKlK, unii ReeorJr. and Attoraf T At Lev StJvrtic County. IndSnim. r:!5 oii'! OVl-'t's-, oiv TiS- , f-raviine fit Mii E-'r4. tt;o .ickr..i-T.!orr.c!.H 5 I. r! Mi n itf-r nt i.irsL'itton :t..J.l Min rirki md. tdioininir Coi'.ltifS. I r !' u. c!1ecr-l. FC-.-nictuce-i proa.ptlv . . ' i U iraY nml foiinsrior nt T ?l7moith. Marshall Cs.. Ind. rOr.'ICR IM WOODWARD'S HLf)CK.Q Tr e-'e' Mir'ii.ll.r'.i'.tm. rulFk:. StarVej . Porter, S:.JorDb, Liporte afl IV-lnin j -i..p. jftn-'iy Hy. llt.irn.i- nml rniltKolnr fit LilW. L - I Sr0fri4Ci( Bamc ntLMro, PLVMOUTH, IND. FAIRBANKS' STANDARD xlLES, OF ALI. KINDS. 'W'rshD'ass Trusln. Letter Prtsses &c. FURDAMi. i;ßEGNLG4F k 0, tB ?.rrul toi.uv only the genuine. JZ It'itstcrancJ. D1 J. f . ('ON FRF , l itf Svr-enn of the Iuli ii. i Int'.mrrv. off -r- hU pio'.tnl prvirr f ti e ' pop'.p of M ns' nll r.oiuttv. I T O.Uv-p :in lr-et I'-nce .-t of MU-l.ij;n Ptr . t"i- Voc! N jrtliof the l!Jaidä Iloti-e fir tU Indian. v9n32 J. J VINALL. flOMOPATIIIC T lYIClAN AND SURGEON. pirti'ar Attention pii'l to 0cetrie prictie, and lie.ites f women l .llrn. oTue vr C. P.ilmfr tore, H Mi I i't the Norihwestcorucr ofthp P iSlie En tire. Jfor. rHnll-lr PLYMOUTH, IjSTÜ. CJT ri eri'-e in the prartice of MeJicin and aUend'it branehe, nd from his previous expennccio privat nractice. and Httendance in th If xpitals in Ner York.ltP hopes to render a itisfie ion to thjp fiYnrinshim with their pitronij, AH t't promptly attended to. either dij or night. Crnc er rVrhin:s Dnijr !torc, Re-idii-:e on Center street, first door North C lie church. t;wrf Stotel. EDWARDS HOUSE, n cnun sTRffT. riTMOtrrn, Indiana. W. II. M'JOrTNEL-, Proprietoia () lo ;inl fron all train,. .nnd al?o to jirt if tht tovrn, irhea orlcrs are left at t e II jUc H CLANGER HOUSE, Brid,;, ol within a few m'nutes walk of the Depot, South Plymouth, l!.d. I he pj-ribrh-s:iistopndtlie tbore Hine, J . ltr mif l to ke?p it in minuet eferv irthvif publicp ifronage. i t r s rr a n t. jz will np4liei with tiiebeaithe market affbidf ; btr-'iftwrnvifc, and every exertion used lo i r ii I r i'ie i ty oi quests i reeanie. COVVEXIEXT STAKLES r 1 '- 'h? nrerniscj, and a faithful ostlor al cr-ey i i ituaJince . JOHN C. II ASLANGER. p vth, M-rcb , If61 Bm3
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Ft. V. Ä; C. K. K. Time Tabic WINTER ARRANGEMENT CEPIRTUftr Or TRAINS FROM PLYMOUTH STAT'O WESTWARD BOUND TRAIXS. Xo. 1 Dir Exnrc? 7:52 p.m. No. 3 VL-ht Einrw 9:10 . mN'o. 5 M iil Accommodation 4.45 p.m. No. 7 Nisrht Expr?s 8-43 a. ro E A'TWAPD BOUND TRAINS . No. 2 Hiv Enrc 9:30 s.nv N. 4 Nirhe Express 2:25" Tto. 6 Nicht nxri!H 9:27 p. m No. 6 M.iil Accommod.itien 8:49 a.m. C. I. A C. re. re. Time Table. WINTBR ARRAVGEMENT. K AcTTAr.D. rpATeLfiPrtf. dnl) 7-00 A.M. rnndiv F!xccrtd,) Arrive at Plymouth, 9:00 A M. WESTWARD. 1-00 r r T.MYPPlrm'vt P- M Arn rem Iii uric r . w. fr ,;,, r.,n IV jtX Port r!m.tvh'ch kept nr Arnrpnt Li lrtp -" r. i. yt ',;i4 furrr ato".iri'l 'IS minute1 slower ehan r.,Ft. W. Ac C. R tm. FI R. PRUMNER, Supt. . J A . A' C R . It . Tllltc Tat)lc . ,..,, Trj-n ?-.nz Sontn, pass andtah a roiirw D it Etnre.Jf at ..101 A, M. Nir'if Freight,. .1.5 .s,4:5 GOING NORTH. D v Exprq V -rht P r.fT, A. M 9.40P M CULVER, Furt 1 Dr. W. IT. Davenport, Surgeon Den tist. will visit Plymouth regularly on the second and lat Tuesdays and Wednesdays of each month, making two visits each month, instead of one. as heretofore.. I Teeth set on Gold, Silver, or Rubber; J all work warranted. Iiooms at the Kdwards Hou. v9n36-tf 1 DR. A. O. HORTON, t j Scroiom Dentist, ! Cm be eori'.il'o:l nt '.y'n effioe pvrr rj" OtTrt- over Hill's B.ikerv, P L Y M O U'l II I N DIANA. BANK UF HE ST.UE OF I Mi AM, BRANCH ATFLYMCÜTH. Q;ku fir-rn 10 A.M. to 10 M..ar.l 1 to .'; T. M. Tri;:0. CRFSSNKf;. CV.viir. S- A. FLETCüF.R.Jr Tres;. J. F. J.AXOEXBAUGH, gu.ice :horoglil-, h;i bfn appoi::!oil
X O T A KV MJKJ.B e , T"T T'r r , T . , . A , , , , vou toia at the aitar, belore hod and tuan,! nn.l 1.1 trr.nüte iepnl document from one . J :ar.truti!etothe.,thrronre.isoi,ao!ete!inh. you nre now expiating. Had jou been I He w?M al,o tat Hwi,, f'true to voursclf then and there, vou h-ul ! Pf. -. twc. He mtv oefi'undat the Storp . " ! of J- rvf,tcrvd! i c, vDnl7ti Inever ken false to Mrs. Benedick to-dav."
J.G. OSdORNE. Justice of lie Pence. j i i;!mK :o ;vo;:irac, ttk Acknotr1eup;ment9 ..P! 9.-1 V.-h:r BaLk. rLY MOUTH, I.N Dl A J. ß CCTT. Gonornl Colloctor, Continues ta gire Prompt Attention to the Collection of Claims. 317" n!t of references given wli-n required. Term tooJcrate. v9r15-tf. PETER HALAKER. MEAT AFAlTvFr ON LAPOrcTE STREET, One Poor W'oat of Cleaveland k Worlc Grocery Fresh Meat of the btit qu.ilitv eont.tlT o,i hmi. vOn tf " J S. ALLEMAN &. BRO. B IliUflARQ SAL 0 Ö Rf, On wp-mide .V.f hijr n Street, 1st door south Ot Wo.Mlwnrd' Biick Mock. Pf.Y.'fOUTII INDIANA. Cho-.ce Liquors and Cigars. Oyster served up in the very BestStrle. at all hour. Novemher5. tHiiN. Liverv N. B. KLINGER, Propriptoi' Ruckeye fiverv'oppoeitc "rM wards House , Plymouth, Ind. " n271 JOIIIV NOLL, 33 TJ T OKE jFL ! .Meat Mnrket on Michigan Street, opposite Wheeler's Rank, Ilymoii tli, Indiana. ot, 5 v9nM. FLOURING MILL rrillE above Rimed mill,ix miles south of Plymouth , is now doinpexccllent Custom & .Tic reliant Work. The nroprietorparenopain!lo si vetisf,icon audi ntenls'eeping his mill incondition todo tlio Vi-j- T24 1 of Work. i'ndWcel confidentthathe willnot fail trt.fvU wlinrnay fa vor him with their patrons e . Flour, Mcl,nrftn,r.,keptconstintly on hand tnd willbesoM nt the lowcM livinp pricca. IIer!nectfiilly olici'foatronajfpfi om the eil! nsof ..I:irshalland adioininecoiintios. MICIIAHLZCIINER. Plymouth, AuS.23,lhol. nHltf (Oriental twtj fallf. SALE. FEED G EXCHANGE Hone and Cirriasej always on Jiind o let it reanonnble rates. We lo pay the high put markei rice incinh for Homes. Horte boarded bj day, wok and month on reasonable term MESS & NESSEL I. j -itth Ictfa March 5Cti 1$W
TRÜTH.
BT CKOAOE ARM0LÜ. 'this is not a story. My name lias been associated with stories for so long a time, in these columns, that I wish to announce beforehand, that this little effort is not in my customary direction, so that the reader who otherwise might be looking in vain for a plot or a narative, may not be disappointed. It would be manifestly improper, indeed, for is to commence writing in praise of Truth, and then to go right on and "tell a story." Let me progress, then, with this fiuilItton an excellent French name for nil sorts of light literature, comprehending all sorts of subjects. I mean to say a few true and palatable things about Truth. There is an adage that says the ''Truth ! i 11 A ..1 -frisk of offending the author of this thrilling asservation, I mean to pay, that when it is not to be spoken, nothing eke can be. rni 1 t . fruth? or ", the only aitcrfratites j I can justify, though I shall presently re fer to the agreeable light in which a certain kiud of falsehood may be seen. If we were always true to ourselves, we i should never be false to each other. 'What ':" cries Benedick, reading this statement, "would you have u:e tell Mrs. Benedick that I no longer love her ? That she is growing old and ugly? That I see every day a woman whom I love twenty times as much ? You talk about the truth very glibly, young gentleman, but suppose I were to teli it ? Not only should I poison my own life and that of Arabella, but Mrs. Benedick's alsD ? Three people made wretched by one truth? Xo, sir, happine3 is the end of life " 'I agree vithyou, poor Benedick!" say I; "cut vou should not love Arabella better! ,.,,, j thnn vour wne. , . "Ah, ha ! ion vourselt hare vnttcn , , , , , elsewhere, that tue human heart canuot . ! , , . , . i I forth as they will, cr as OuJ ir;lis cwolcsii of an our ioor weak rule.1", and promu-cs 1 4 i luV 1 . , , I "I agree wita yoa, unhappy man, ?ay ' r J 1 1 1 J . I: "but vou did not love 3Irs. Benedick - , , , ; Oh, cf course, if wc started right ' begins Benedick. -.Mi. vcs. ir we srartcu ricrnti inat .i what I mean by being 'always true to ours.dves.' If my tailor besrun uiy coat by cutting the cloth into little circles, w.-uld his apology to mc, that he had done as Well as could be expected, considering what a fool he was at first, have much weight!'' You, with your misery, and deceit, and crime, endeavor to patch and piece out the texture of your lifu with just such an apology. Go thy way, Rcncdick, and haug tl-self. The horror of the beginning deserves a horrible end." Yet, everywhere and every d ly I Fee hosts of jut such men as Benedick going to the altar with a lie upon their lips, yet with a vague hope that it will conic out all right. "I respect her, adruirr her, and the marriage will be advantageous," Kay they. Is that the sentiment that makes "'twain one flesh ?" Will respect, admi ration, and worldly advantage keep the
man always true and tender, and the j "? The friends of Nelson say that Dawomau always beautiful and beloved? vis was pertinacious, meddlesome, jealous, No. It is a lie, and ten thousand other land that the act was the cold-blooded
lies will arise from it. The wonder to me is that this world is not a great deal more wicked than I find it. Between lovers, and between husbands and wives, there-should be no deception of any sort or kind. When my friend X was betrothed he said to his lady love : "Do you want to know anything about MC ? I hare lived in a gay circle in a gay city. I have dabbled in ail sorts of folly, and some pin. I don't know any young men who haven't. I don't pretend to be a saint, or ever, a deacon. What I have done has bcn done carelessly, recklessly, before I ever dreamed of marrying you. Now if there is anything that I hive j done that would grieve you if reveiled after our marriage, let me tell you all about it now. I had rather lose your esteem while you are my betrothed, than when you are my wife " "I take you :i3 you arc," she said; "if I Larn anything of your pa.t when I am your wife, I fh.ill think it was not my husband that did it." And ninety-nine out of a hundred sensible gi! if you can find ?o many would have said the same. X. had th'j soul of a gentleman," Uy "Centleman," I mean amah person whqis truthful, clonn, and courageous. lie scorn cd to obtain matrimonial goods under false
Saxton once told me of a friend of his who had hardly stich a soul. He had been verj wild, ts a yotfng man a regular 'sad do" such as we see in tho old English comedies. One day however, he fell in love with a pretty girl. She was pious, a moralist, and geucraly well-behaved. Her family were of the fame order. Poor scrapegrace had ut t the courage to mike a full confession. He became sanctimonious, dropped his wild ways aud loose companions, professed to hare beeu born a sucking Christain, and never to have sirred from the straight and rigid path of the most virtuous New England propriety. I aih sorry to say he married the girl. She discovered, in time, that she had been deceived, and as she could not tell how much, she conceived tho most terrible suspicions of her husband's character. They were unjust: for he really loved her, and in marrying her, he had lost all tast'i for his old ray id' life. Well, she died, one tine evening. Scape
grace felt sure that she was killed by somo new revelation that she had happened upoü some uncomfortable secret that he had beeu working Ilcrcuieany to supprefes. Had he shot her through tT:c heart with a pistol, be could not felt more like a murderer. He married under false pre - tences, and this v;as his atonement: a life of eternal and terrifying concealment while she lived, and a horrible self - con - demnation as a murderer forever after ? Do you think it "paid" 1 I don't. The truth is singular by cay to tell, when ! ihe habit is o:;Ce acquired, and really, it doesn't make much difference in a fellow's c tmfort, Gee night, a party of my friends were engaged in gosiping about my wickedness. Of course, I was absent. Duiing the talk, twj of them stood up for me, more nobly than reasonably, A r':tTf lw wIiaIo. V.'lllill" llck. ()llG Of ,. , ., them tola in' aLeiwavos, at;a said: . , , , M i , " e defended vou as well as e could- , ,. Arc-n t vou irratetul : . ,.n.i r , . "1 es my dear child, said I: "but you migiit have been better employed. hi.t. . , , t .. ., , ; . said about me, teil Iat i.ort ov ti.e truin. If I had been present, 1 voiili have tdd , , , , . thcui a good dea.1 more tiian they were ... , . . i .... .. . hkelv to repeat; and all oi it quite true, at tfeS.." V ; 1, vv A,,. ,. i.,,,.,... .,va .,11 l -t h ) bhiüA td.dcr tie Mrc,li ac an-els! Kmeou said rather a gwa thing ,rl V,, r,,l,.rt,; i.V. - .1,. ft.... .T.!, ,"iea he a,hlJ,cd u do th,t lhlLh vou would not bs known to do." I ueod uot say that I except ( as. no doubt, he did) , those sacred works of charity where the receiver know. not who is his beucfactor. Rut the truth i3 terribly hard to get at, withal. Illuitiation: Take any battle of the present war The correspondent of! the Richmond Examiner says: Confederate loss 0 Federal loss . . 50,000 The New York Rugle, on the contrary. has a much more "reliable'' newsmonge r lie says : m Federal los 50 Confederate loss 50,000 How, in Ileaveu's name, is a man to know any thing about the war when it is all over Or, take a simpler matter. Take the h-hootingof (len. Nelson by Gen. Davis, in the Cult House, hou sville, Ky. The fricml.s of Davis say that Nelson was arrogant, blasphemous, insulting to the last degree, and that the act was a public kindmurder of a Chritain gentleman. What is the intelligent reader to belive ? Colonel Miles was killed on Maryland Heights, and Harper's Ferrv was lost to us for a time. Everybody howls at Colonel Tom Ford for surrendering. "It was Colonel Miles' fault," gay Col. Ford's friends. "No; it wasn't," say Miles' friends. "You slander the dead. His last orders were, to hold on till the cow's taih dropped ofF. It was Ford's cowardice." "It was Miles' !' "It was Ford's !" And so they go. The friends of both partisans prolong the question indefinitely, i-ntil it has become wearisome, the public loses interest, and a court-martial hushes up or slurs over the gravest act of villainy, perhaps. Can anybody tell mc anything about the Hull's HlufT slaughter? What had (loiieral Stone to Jo with it? What had Colonel Uaker to do with it? I don't want a discussion between their friends, I want the truth. Ami everybody has some friends to take sideseven the poor picket-guard who came near being disgraced by execution, found a friend in ihe person of our excellent but highly eccentric President. I must tell you that little incident, though it has nothi.ig to do with tho subject. Did yvi nve.r obfrrre o- dehnMin
the sense of abandon is, with which you resign yourself to sleep, after a struggle against it for a length of time when you have been listening to a good long sermon in hot weather, for instance and finally, still knowing that you ought not, let your head sink slowly back against the pewcorner, and relax all your muscles into the delightful suppleness of sleep. Or, when you have been visiting a maiden aunt who is rich aud garrulous, and for whom you entertain as Evans cleverly said abou Grcely "sentiuientä of re?pect, net uumingkd with fatigue." How gladly you lie down on her sofa, pleading that rest, after dinner, is a gastrie necessity with 3ou! and how sweetly your manly form softens, droops, relaxes, while the cracked old
voice hums afid purs away in the corner, iwMuuruy. iwuknowiueicei iug, of course. Well, so did a poor devil of a dust-beater a privatein the Third Vermont Volunteers. He was on picket duty, last spring, at Chain Bridge, and found the warm, tland, Virginia morning too much lor him, after a chilly and drizzly night, lie had been forced to walk about, biskly, hour after hour, to keep warm, so that at sunrise he felt wofully tired. He sat down j at the foot of a tree, upon his folded j Ldankot, and leaned his poor aching baCi J against the sturdy trunk. A south wind, J that had lingered over bed 3 of iolsts and gardens of roses, came and kissed his eyelids, and gently played with his hair; touching it p.s tenderly as his old mother's tremulous fingers once did. Tha't ff-ds years ago. The .sunshine came slanting down between the tre-tops, with all sorts of shimmering, flickering shadows of leaves and twigs dancing about in it.. It dried hi.s clothes, and warmed him, and a tranquil, vacant state of mind began to take possession of him. I mustn't go to sleep," thought he. "I won't go to sleep I shan't go to sleep and off he went, st aight to the land of fine unrealities, to meet his old mother, and bo happier than either you er I am at this moment. The relief jM'ard come along directly, and scut him to the guard-house uuder arrest, chargo. "Steeping on his post," was the His dreams were not so pleasant! that night. In due time, this poor boy was properly ourt-martialcd. The offence he had committed was one of those simple ones that need no litigation. All tho presiding officer wans to know is, "Did he sleep on his post?" If he did, the penalty is Death! That's all. There wasn't much question about this case. The sergeant and a dozen ni3n could swear to having seen the prisoner asleep. They awakened him, indeed, with difficulty. So he was to die, disgracefully. To be shot by Federal rirlos a hard death for a Federal soldier. The uaj- for the execution was fixed. A platoou was ordered out. A cofHn was placed for the poor wretch, to fall into. He was led out, handcuffed, and A full pardon from President Abraham Lincoln was brought up in hot haste; just in time to stay proceedings. The prisoner went nearly insane with joy. It was liko being recalled to life from death. Very well. At Lee's Mills during the seige of Yorktown, there was a recounoi sance to be made among some rifle-pits that the enemy had established on the banks of a stream. The Third Vermont was ordered across to reconnoitre. Part went across a dam successfully, and part, trying to ford, found the water deep, and took a terrible fecathing. When the wounded were brought iu, there was this same poor boy who slept on his post. A Minie bullet had gone through both his thighs, severing the famoral artery. They carried him to the hospital, and in a little time he called the sunrcons aud others near him. "Cod bless President Lincoln !" eaid he; "I've shown him that he didn't save my life for nothing. 1 can die as an American soldier should." And with that he died. I wish that all the men who find friends to work for them might turn out as pluckily and well as that, at the end. It strikes mc that I am Using up my space pretty fast, but I promised to say a word about the attractive side of falsehood; and as I am the champion of Truth just now, I must keep my promise. Why not show this in a little episode? Paul and Leonore were together in the sitting-room. The family were nobody knows where, and the young folks could not resist the opportunity to each oth er somo pretty little thing3 enrdi as all of us like to learn, whether told by the hands, tho eyes, or tho lips. They stood very close together. His cheek almost touched hers; his right hand held r loft; hi li rffarl upon hr
shoulder.
She bent her face towards him There was a paust. The door opened und a little girl, Leo-' nore's fainter, suddenly bounced into the
room a very unpleasant way that chil-ihad no intention to say it; or "if"" in dren have sometimes. j saying it, the application was meant 'for Lconore uttered ä little shriek, and the j Tom, Dick, or iWfv, anl not James, roses faded from her eheeks? where they Nchemiah, then all's right: and so CD, hsd been so profuse the moment before. I At ! the rafre of words in ill delicate ca-ei The child must have seen 11! I is immeasurable. He who always'uttcrs "By Jove, what a monger !" eaiu &iul,j what he thinks, in dire! language, may with infinite address and coolness. "Did j be an honest man, but hi cannot be i I kill him?" j vrise one; for, ahhoü'ga we do Dot agreo Leonore looked blank. j wilh the diplomat who insisted that word. "Kill who ?" asked the child. -vr only riv-n to us to conceal idea- we "The spider," replied Paul, as quietly j d that they were bestowed upon us to as possible; "on Miss Leonore's neck. It j use with an offensive frankne. Thrr i
j didn't bite you, did it ? Come, there's no - .üarm doner And there wasn't. But you must consider that Leonore and Paul were tcry, very truthtul to each CEXEKAL. LLC. Letter fro in that Gentleman to XI s Sen The original of the following letter from Gen. Lee to his son, was found at Arlington House, and is interesting aa illustrating a phase in' fris character : "Arlington House, April 5, 1852. "My Dear Sox I am just iu the act ; of leaving home for Xew Mcrico. My fine old regiment has been ordered to that distant region. a:nd I must hasten to sic that they are properly ta'ren care of. I luve but little to add in reply to your letters of March G, 27, and 28. Your letters breathe a true spirit of franknes; they have given myself and your mother great pleasure. You must study to be frank with the world; frankness is the j child of honesty and courage. Say w hat! I 70u mcan to do on every occasion, and take it for granted you mean to do right. 3 friend a.-ks a favor, you should grant j it, if it is reasonable; if not, tell him plain ly why you cannot; you will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind. Xevcr do a Troug thing to make a friend of keep one; the man who requires Jou to do so is dearly purchased at a.acnnce. Uoal kindly' but nrmly with your classmates; you will find it the policy that wears b;st. Above all do not appear to others what you are not. If you have any fault to find with any one, tell him, hot others, of what you complain; there is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back. We should live, act, aud say cothiug to the injury of any one. It is not only best j as a matter of principle, but it is the p: th to peace aud honor. In regard to duty, let me, in conclusion of this hasty letter, inform you that nearly a hundred years ago there was a day of remarkable gloom aud darkness still known as the dark day a day when ihe light of the sun was slowly cxtinguisbed, as if by an eclipse. The legislature ol Connecticut was in session, and, as its I members saw the unexpected and unac countable darkness coming on, they shared in the general awe and terror. It was supposed by many that the last day the day of judgment had come. Some one in the consternation ot the hour, moved an adjournment. Then there arose an old puritat. legislator, Davenport, cf Stamford, who said, that, if the last day had come, he desired to be found at his place, doing his duty, and, therefore moved that candles be brought in, jo that the house could proceed with its duty There was quietness in that man's mind the quietness of heavenly wisdom an inflexible willingness to obey present da ty. Duty, then, is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things like the oM puritan. You cannot do more: you should never wish to do less. Never let me aud your mother wear one gray hair for any lack of duty on your part. "Your affectionate father, lt. E. Lee. "To G. W. Cüstis Lee." Brevity the Soul of wit. The commandant of Libby prison issued a stringent order that Union prisoners must limit there letters to six lines. The following U a specimen. Mv Dear Wife : Yours received no hope of exchange Ednd corn starch want socks no money rheumatism in left shoulder pickles very good send sausages God bless you Kiss tho baby Hail Columbia? Your devcted husband. .tewltnr'iGia. Mr. Liricon's projcot of making a New Year's gift of a gunboat from our government to the negro State cf Liberia, indi catos that the Administration is determined to take care of th-? negroee abroad as we!. m at home.
TIic use orwordf. There is much virtnfe ia ra "if, we are assured by Shakcgpe&re. It U a preat peace-maUr. "If" you said to fcnd so
then expect mischief. But "if" vou ! nothing like oualifvin- their brLncu with an "if", in orderte maintain thLimomtu nf c.;l mva -i.--t j courtesies. For, however obligatory it is ! upon us to speak the truth, at ' all times, tor clothing it m language more disareeaJ b"e than the occ islou demands. The proper us i of words, considered iu t its sense, is an art of which every man tfhould triake himself master who desires to go through the world with peace and le considered at all amiable. It is not only the virtue in an "if", but the virtue in every other word calculated to soothe or to mollify that should be taken into account in our association with each other; for politeness of speech is, half the time, merely the employment of unmeaning terms tf compliment; an J yet, without that politeness, social life would almost retrogade to' toe rudeness of the barbaric ages. Flattery is politeness exaggerated, cr run to excess, and flattery is a thing to b arcidcl as oue of the worst spe.ics of hypocrisy. But, in avoiding oue extreme, we shouldn't rua into the opposite. IIencer iu sedulously eschew-ng flxttery. let us just as earefully eschew that plainnesg of spei?: which so!ie vulgar people justify as be?jig :-Jaek Ehint," but which common euse kno va to be little more thin a cowardly desire to outrage tho feelirgi of others from behirAl u masked Laitery of unusual candor. 'I cm pur focf!. A hasty temper is cn expeusive thing sometimes. Few men or wemen are rich enough to keep sd'ch' a luxury, if they may call it one. It is like keeping a vicbus dog. You may like it very veil yourself, r.nd you may only r-lisrr it th more, if you are illnaturc J. :ecau55 it annoy other people; you may feel sort of surly independence iu doing c but, when that dog bites a neighbor, a suit at law is the consequence, and you are mulcted in demages just as a man of means, a little while ago, was mulcted in 55,009, in one of our courts, for throwing overboard, in & fit ol passion a person with wheu: hs had an altercation. An' uuruly dog ad an unrulytemper are nuisaiises, therefore; and all nuisances should be abated. Sometimes the public t re apt to think that they whom a nuisance annoys have a right to abate it, and they shoot yo ir dog, perhaps, and chastise yourself, a, la Mendoia. This iJea, when it prevails, makes the dog and the temper still more co tly possessions; and he roust be rich indeed who can af. lord to Maintain either under the exacting circumstances. Hut why should a man or woman, as & social being, wish to cultivate a .pecics of tjniper which makes them unhappy who are about them ? Vhat kind of independ, enee is that which lools at nothing but the selfish gratification of its own feelingi at the expense of the feelings of others? It is not independence at all. It is merely a malignant egotism. And instinct teaches this truth to all who came in con. tact with such pseudo independence, its would-be victims, therefore, hate it, and despise its owuer. Social life is, iu fact, buta bundle of compromises between one self-love arrd tue respect due to the self1 vc of other people. It is baod entirely n the "bear and forbear" principle; and he who exercises that principle most in his daily conduct his the most friends, while he who docs otherwise is cont.nned for his intense selfishness (even if ho does christen it independence.) and it detested by evciybody ehe just in ropcrtion to he exhibit he makes of his inordinate love for biaielf. Fhccion, a celebrated Aiheritn general and statesmen, distinguished among hit countrymen for his love of peace, bein iuquircd of by tome of his war-loving friends, if be would never go to war, reponded in the affirmative, and said that he would consent to a war, if thote in fiver of i would, 1st, do the fighting; 2d, pay the expenses; and 3rd refrain frota stealing when entrustfrd ith management. We are inclined to the cpinion that if no wirs were waged until thaso condi tions were, implied with, tt millennium uU 6.on he at hand.
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