Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 13, Number 37, Plymouth, Marshall County, 14 May 1868 — Page 1

PLYMOUTH WEEKLY DEMOCRAT.

VOLUME 13. PLYMOUTH. INDIANA, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1868. NUMBER 37.

THROUGH THE WORLD. Borne heart! go hur.ge ring through the world And never find the lore, they eck ; Some KM with pride or scorn are curled To hid-: thf pain they may not speak. Th- eye Btaj flash, the month may smile, The voire la gladdest antic thrill, And yet beneath tliem fell the while The hungry hert be pining still. Tfcce know their doom, and walk their way With level s'ens and steadfast eyes, Kp.r strive trifft Fate, nor .veep, nor pray While others, not so 9adly wise. Are nr. ckt.t by phnntms evermore. And tared by seeming of delight, j-'nir to their eye. but at their core Holding "but bitter dust and blight. I nee them erae from wistful eyes, I mark their sien on fading cheek ; 1 hear them breathe in smothered sigh. And rote the erief that never speaks ; Fort1 em no might redresses rong, r?fl eye with pity isimpearled. Oh. Eßisi MatTVed and suilVring long! Ohi heart! that hunger through the world i F r vou decs life's dull desert hold No f. jntain bade, no date grove fair, No Rush of waters clear and rold, But Findy reaches wide and bare. The foot may fail, the soul may faint, A nd weigh to earth the weary frame, Yet si ill ye make no weak complaint. And speak no word of grief or blamo. Oh. eager eyes with gaze afar ! Oh, lim which clasp the empty air I Not all unmarked your sorrows are, Not all unpmed your dispair. finale, patient lips so proudly dumb WkCS life's frail te;:t at last is fuiled, Your gtafioM recompense shall come, Oh, hearts that hunger through the world !

Sbarp Personal If ten In onsress Donnelly and K anhfiuriic. UM from the proceed, of Saturday la the house Mr. FhTM of Wisconsin mm i ai xajue, 01 v iston. m, i u noi mtrodueed a resolution whifh Vuji.i,; iu luuuuu a resolution, wnicn wis aaoDtcd. caliimr on Gen Grant to furaivu, v.i.iut, uj wu. uuut iu iurlab the number of votes cast in Arkan eas Ti the aioplioa of the constitution. Tho members tbcu proceeded to the senate. On returning from the senate. Mr. Donnelly, of Minnesota, (union,) obtained leave to make a personal explanation. He then made a statement relative to his prepnt"K n hill Qnmo f i tri n cinnn fm o'iA .. i 1 . road his state, to the construction of Jlr. Donneilj. making certain charges regari'iug ."i"r. Donuello's previous political record and action in this congress. "lr. Donnelly, after csusi?; the letter to he read, said it contained twenty-three falsehoods, in ; continued his vindicatio? gen his fii'y .i-ii.c. The Washb urnsi ar. chronic oilice-jcg; . tud are as misers mm mod noomfotiabTo out of office as u j tlenp-tailed kail is fly-tiu.e. Every malt hon in-) tho Wüsuburno family is horn with M. v.'. stamped upon his beendest a . . m ..-.!... . r i. I nel.V said thai he had ansivsed the ston.ran. -i.'ic:. lumitr r'i iniriio ro r Mom. sch'of the eentktBM ffosji Illinois, "and if

ji hmi vHsravierixiBK .nr. n a-:- , , r Hons uad our ihuqici

f i ir it-- i nnu unties nroniutorv. i;r nrotection to .

herrae'i eotirM in charging him with bang Dl'Da ure" 10 Beca 10 ; hth aa office-beggr as inconsistent, and com! : Lem hlrher Pncea i taxes I WcSS SfuTclttwn

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j;uui iiuui d ut-uiiciuuu u: . ! and h iii'.r .f the n

it vere possible Lrf him. hy his peristaltic : property tn proaeeues laaasyy oi me , rrosccute tte imspeaehsseat bei'ore the senaction In bring up aajthias more loath- country mortjraged in perpetuity to W ; ntc, viz. : Beuj. F.Butler, John A. Luviuc and dttsastiag than he has fomited -DI w-icl representi nothing that can Thaddeus Stevens and John A. Bieg

ovr rcc in th-t letter, iu G jd's naste it cme." The speaker caKed Mr, Donaellv io erQvr tvv; I Mr. Donncilv o-"; mied Lia hour in n j

aissUac strain, and was allowed to proceed j -loo od an oppressed and impoverished j The ettcr wa3 iaj,j before the president by c.mentof the houre, Mr. Weshberne I people. Yet intfiHtry ia to be annaalrt ! a so of Jerre BUek, aa4 Mr. Blank iaUiag in Brgiag that he have pertui.i..-n ' tixed, beyond its profits, to maintain this himseif subsequently called the attention to proceed. ' ieht to make it money ; and its untaxed i uf the pre:1ijenL to the same. Here then, lr. Donnelly concluded by saying that feW exacting holden are "to eat out, tWQ weets aftür impeachment had begun, Mr Washbvrs had lowered the hoejor of oar eahstenc ' withont labor. T;:e boud-. tne jetter of tiese wanagCra was laid beBoagresa. "If," said he, "thara he ta oar boMer say this debt is just heeiase it was I for ajr4 j.nson. When Mr. Nelson,

midst one low, sordid, vulgar soul, one j

barren or audio cr I intelligence; one bean u-f, therefore, be paid, interest and priucalioused to every kindly sentiait-nt. and cipal. in gold. To ave the lift of the ua- - I . a ek 1 ft? 1 ! .

m.-x mm 1 mi cvciy geuruus einuuou : oDe lORgue

leproaa with slander ; ooe mouth Ike auto tution Of the United States is a written in- jerre Tuck'H clienis to the island of Alta 0 .en of foul beasts, iiving forth mmm&lj j trameat, a raeorded fundamental law. It yca carrying the dagger of impeachlora; if there be here ooe who, while the hood, sad the oaly hoad, of thi uu- i meo't in oue hauli anU The claim for his bJ tehedaad spotted, yet raves and rants, on of thnae states. It is all that gives s i endorsement in the other Uutlcr indigaud blackguards like a prostitute, if there national character." Is that constitu-j Danty denied the Ictter was gotten up or be oue beid, had, empty, bellowing dem;.- tiou tared '? But who ia to pay this debt j s;(rnej hv hi n after the impeachment bad

j:. rue, it is tne gentleman rrom Illinois. The sneaker, with severitv in his tunes, state! :j Mr. Uonuelly that his remarks were not honorable to the house of rearekwitot, auu mar, aunougn tne nouse tolerated them, the eh.Vr could not con- , sent that they should go on the record, except with hi protest. Mr. Dounelly begged pardon of the nouse, out tne house would acknowlcdgo that iij member had met with so vile ci an a..ault as he. Mr. Washburnc, of Illinois, sa'ni : MDariur my en'ire time of service in this a si r.ouse, i nave never asked leave to make a tersuTiill GTIi'iiinht.n aril f ia.-ir m

to. Ihs parly from Minnesota has had depreciated indebtedness, and therefore the letter which I wrote to a geatlensae in ; liquidated to the extent uf the deprcciatbat atate read to the house, and it has jtion (Tor depreciation was payment; into a guoe jn the record. Every assertion made mortgage debt Ui be paid by the nation's in that letter is true, and whoever says it i industry, dollar for dollar, in gold. Its ia not tru states what is false. If 1 wer.- -pirit is. "let the peot le work tor us--Willed on and I desire to say this if I, j bond-holders and our bonds shall tell ns under any operation of circumstance, were how much work they owe us." called on to make a personal explanation NN hen the p.-oplo understand these in reply to a member, it would Mi he thingi folly, know their righti and their to a member who had eesassitted streajrth, thej will my : ' Let us work for a crime ; it would not be to a member who ourselves, and we will remove the.-o burhad changed his name; it would not be to Ideal ; there shall be no untaxed man a member whose whole record in this among aa J no man shall take our labor, house h covered with corruption and I our gold, an J withhold his own. We will er,n,e' I pa what we hone-tiy owe, not what is dieThe speaker reminded Mr. Wsshbarae honcMly held agaitist H. The bond-hold-that his remarks vere unparliamentary. i crs nm-t accept pajuioat as we propose, Mr. Washburne was sorry the chair and must holp pay the debt, interest and supposed him out of order. "I repeat, ! principal, and iuw-1 be taxed, as we are, ere called on to make a personal ex- lor all other purposes, or the debt can ncvptanation, I should make it with a mem-j er be paid. If our law makers have disber not covered orer crime and infamy; i honestly and unj nstly sought to bind us,

ST ixuse rcc rj is stained with every fraud whi.sky and other frauds, with a mn Sjl who has provci ;aie a!:ke to his fripml lilS Country, big constituent.- Iiij r...i;; .iis r-.:."'.,a and hia Cnti " roiii-a ana his Had" -mm, ' Mr. Wiadom, of Minn otafunion.) gave notice that he should ofer a resolution of cnurt on Mr. Wahhurne. 9 hs house sdjourned, , , A Western paper cruelly SSM 41 Our me:nber of Congress has made a great speech his Ttrj bent It was written for him dlÄ-iaS'' "V.J IilllCS. A lady was urged by lu;r fntnJis to mar-

3 aZ 1 tt Kart foianTUüent,hp?' "'!re the union and the maintenance of eonatioi hi1 two beautiful children ' Children . . . ... . . . .. replied the kdy, "are Irks tootb irdekJ A tut,00l liberty, that the democratic partj 9Tvtu (vabtebst own. with its rsnsrsnon tor ths rights of statei,

THE GREENBACK QUESTION. Leiter fror i Hon. A. V. Edgcrton.

Four Wayne, Ind., April 23, 1SG8. G f.ntlemen : I have received your favor of the 21st instant. I caunot be iu your county on the 30th of May, as I have an engagement for another couuty on that day. My intention is to commence the canvass at the earliest day possible, consistent with my business duties and obligations, and to keen it up until the election. There is work to be done everywhere ; and it should be timely and judicious work. I certaiuly will be with you during the summer; and if 1 can do any good, perhaps more than onoe. The position of the democratic party of the uorth-west is now true and strong enough to enable it to carry every state whose people are not given up to believe a lie eternally. The man who believes that the radicals, "by the experiment of war," hare saved the country and the coo--titution, is certainly one of that class I'l - ! u . - !!! 1 f i ne war, as a war .u a im.miry poiui m, ; View, was a success, ana has enaea ; dui Um union is neither restored nor reconstructed. Thousands of lives and millions ., i i .i i ol mmtj have been lost, but the eouo.ry : li in a transition st:te to consolidation and j , . l i i I uespousm. uu on,, ponvuogv ptestrved to tinsleaa he credulous and confiding ot the radical party ; but con - . ". Bi i i i u "i stitotiooa! nsbts aud liberties have no ex - I in ten ce, I iear, but in a c i 11.. iree uauot u;i ;i fair conti out at the next election. The; ... ,. i it liberties of a neoDic are not irenerallv vio i j j f ü -j . r! ifi I , gteaith. as ours TC new being usurped. i t 1 i i n the Roman territory absolute monarchy i . 1 1- l i i i. u r. lh rfi p-sfnhbshrd oh be ore rennh bean ! , , v r i i t. Ti i ! . T w 1 1 i 1 i i I T TT Yl -f. . . I I Will I I Uli ; pin WW VIVJM n us - i v - - i.' w here if we do not watch and work. It is wonderful ifctt tho man who raises who produces who owns anything j doef not see that he has been laboring lor, rowethipg he has not obta:ued. There is , no war. yet peace has no victories no tai . r. it.. I. u..... I uuipu.t tum mm. mmw v uu.3 8Xe,n?tio? from labor' no 1niote toul no more machiuery, no more landa, nothing increased, but taxes and they come to him in every oi:eeivable form which the ingenuity ol the untaxed can vT invent ' iaxei utrcot. taxes iodieet taxes i&ei- j li. i , . i I deutai, to encourage domestic munsirT . Wei may tho tninkin m m ask, are these tales nerer to eesse 1 Must they I continue to racrease r hy not? Is not ; ;'ie radical decree that we must be a nation not in the United State- and natiousj most tax vigorously, for their strength is i: . . 1 ! 1 ..I in si.iuoiiiif aru'i? an i ,t:v weircu iiasac. i aoi eqnslle taxed sun eontented people. And then, is not t' ! I. ei'.rn :i uoi.ar . 1 1 . s iic.nivi .n - i " . " 'T-c oran ua, a puw m a ot-, .1 . f : laud, 01 tne Dare sec 1 wnicn ansii - T I 1 1 1 II iDiinemnggnia. it 1 a v.ar i u Bnnvno, , . u-; incurred to sere tbe life of the nation, and I Ii., f I 1 mw.l VI .llilur LT 1 til I llA OiMlutl. "Tfu . 1'ouiu wwmmmw -W A "w vv,,i" 4 ' ine consnnmcn iww maaea waamm in nverj luim

necessary : nie Domiwiwni xneJlsni

V -V'!.-" J . ... ) 'I'l I say they are exempt by the law, by the , eoatraet Who Ssade S contract to ex-

np ", w iuu iimj w utc wunuui j wjja, the state department had repeatedly labor, from taxation ? Such a contrac' baaeided a-ainst,and which involved over void, in every element, from the begin-j((Iie m;o0 ot dolUars, that Mr. Brooks, of niag. It is igaiast pablic policy, an out- i Ncw York, oflfered a resolution for a cornraj. tp oa equal and exact Justice, and is j m,ttee 0f investi gation.

B lor any people. J ne greatest goon A o ereatesl number demands that there i hi id be no such law. There is no bind-1 inr "orcc in an aajait law upon a people who. r constitution is not inviolate. But l.i li iiviii ine moner lenaers, tne üonü-.oiJert tnnii lK! IriW Itl rt tliom In nnvrf we will not be parties If) the unjust con S iraeft. skit shall il be aaforekl aaaiaal us. i e I I f what w:n dnnp because of an imagined . nr..ifv mmA ml rlio tiiriA fipontd bv the - - I ... mn-fv lon.ier-. ih nnw to ho reionliatea Dv 1 mm iominr im nnw f n hf eaesaslisJsMi bv them, because we, in good faith, teuler to 'them what they contracted to receive, we 5;y stop the supplier, and let our labor M I for ourselves only." I It is thus the people think, and when ! -neS ott they, will be free again. ' With a declaration of principles, by or national convention, iu favor cf the whole people, our . - .. eer.uin - it i, Ä 1,- . , fa nf Ihn ii ii ii. I. X U. lieve it is as essential to the restoration of liCUW.I ) I'J HIV UIC J ..ju .ii niu. yc-

should be restored to power, as I do that food is essential to animal life. Thanking you for the kind expressions in your letter of invitation to me, I am yours, A. P. Edgerton. To Messrs. A. B. Carlton, A. J. Hosteller, Bedford, Indiana.

Tbc Alfa Vela flatter. We publish this morning a sketch of the debate in the house of congress, in which 6orae of the impeachment managers Beast Butler, particularly were rather roughly handled by Brooks, Eldridge and Marshall. We call the attention of the reader to the debate and to certain explanations we present for the proper understanding cf the subject. Certain American citizens claim the guano island of Alta Vela, estimated to be worth not less than a million of dollars. They are not. however, in possession of the island, which is held by a foreign power. The claim of these citizens has been tor years before the state department, which has more than onec decided the : claim to be unfounded. Mr. Jerre Black Qno pf claiinants' attornevs. He wa also the principal of the president's counsel in the impeachment trial. Mr. 1 !' . .1 . C- fl... J,,,, o-,..l- ,,..,rf l.-,,l rwnt A ß 1 ttL l , i. in i ii.'. iiiiiiiiiviiuiviiv ' iyj faj d fc , . , - m r a IZ to disregard the decision ot Secretary bew- , . q er order to sugtain the Mm ;, . j mi .i i : j he rerresented. lhe president declined. 1 , r, m i its j l- lBoa Jir. jDiacK u :uuou mm mat ne iiu- , P i j r i ij i r.iar Irnin hi J Hi. unco 1 11 H TV nil In n .1 Inn. , , , ' ' i cer oe regaraea as one or nis counsel. v ..... . . . ? t Wai Ooes nor yet to, on e nnpc icnnient managers, nor exDlain the cause or . , , . 9 ' r ..r , 'he debate in congress. We uow come to . w iS i- n. - that branch ot the subject. I he house . . . J. resolutions, impeaching the president, were i adopted February 2-4. The nrticles of im- ' neaehment were made un March 2. The PC.rvi(ie upou tne predideut was made Mar. ? He was required to appear on the 13. While the impeachment wee thee pending, the f0lloirrVg ictter wa.s KOtten up 0(i. dressed to Col J. W. Shaffer, formerly of .... . . i(ien Sutler ? staff, and one ot the attornrys for the Alta Vela claimants: Washington. March 9, 1SCS. Col J. W. ybaff.-r, Wsahfafloe, 1, C. : "Dear Sir lu answer t row ouesllon relaHas to tnL" va'idlt)' ,h" claim ofth- V. a. to the jurisdiction entloa of the urnect. I am clearlj of opiaioa that, d-r claim of the Viiitt'd SUtrs, its citizt-us b:ive Ik . ' . . U . i.ltllt V'. . IV ' ., It.'' II 1 I I - I I V V . " " uni i-r claim oi inn i ntieu .mho-, 11- ciuz.-uk inive iuo exelusive ri-r'it to take "uano th-re. turn s cleany lndi-putahlc, both by the law or napal law. I ton never SMS abltr txvcutive did not long uoce ItlimOt and -iustaii: ;he ri. hti to the DOMeMion of the island manner OOttrUteat with the dignity ntioo 1 am. vours. truly, BTN.i. F. BUTLER I concur in the opinion expressed above hr den. Hut-t-r. JOH2I A. LOGAN. And we concur. J. A. GARFIELD, W. H. KOONTZ, W. MOORJIEAD, TliADDBUS STEVENS, J. (.. BLAINE. It will be seen tbat four bt the signers 0f tiiat letter are of (he hi 096 managers to Ami innthar nt tho RitrnArn wn . 1 1 . , t - uiiuvuv v v v ' - congressman Moor head, df IVunsvlvanm. U he VD0 fj,j the untuauly part oi' hidiug bimsetf eoarvnieotly to bear tae eeaeerea- . between Stanton and Uenera. 1 nomas the president's counsel raferred in his 9peech to this natter, and charged liutler . & Co. with an attempt to coerce tne presi- . . A V dent into ustaiuui" trie claim oi .nr. an. Nelson produced the document. ?'4un. C-1 and put Butler to shame. $o elarins and ÜU, ous wag this atto,upt 0f the mana " coerce the pre.-ident iuto doin Tha firmes and honestv of the nresia.nt UQdcr the circumstances must elicit Ä...,.i,: ,.p,. twmm Uftnl i LI1C VJ'iHIIIUUVJrtllUIi Vi v l T vauvr ! vui v-- vi man. His own friend and legal counselor was urgent, and four ot the managers of j !llllc n t were pressing for a favorable i n i tn . t decision from him. But his convictions of dufy were not so easily to be overcome. l!o was willing to lose his most powerful advocate and brave tho malignity uf the impeaehers sharpened, rather than do what he considered a public wrong. Cin. fjiuparer. Daring an afternoon nap two days before he was assassinated, D'Arcy Mc(jlce had a dream, which he afterwards told, as follows : m I dreamt I was standing at the falls of Niagara, and saw a boat containing two men sailing down the rapids, approachiug th brink of the cataract. Seeing their danger and apparent ignorance of it. I rushed forward to warn them. The boat turned round and proceeded up the rapids, and I weot over into the gulf beneath. " .Insu ßii.T.isr.a on IIknb. Josh talks learnedly as follows : The best time tew sett a hen is when she J wmmmmm-i i i j . i i . ir n III ' 1 I if. hnt t hm fthanahai la the mwnni.nt lr b,..i na 17. iM .uly. 1 kaii. tell whnttLe best hrecu iz I much le board one aa It doaastSM lioss. and m..mm ... . a a nmli.plnbn . . I . f f ........ , - . - "f""" null by running oats thru it. Ihefe tun I po profit in keepine a hen for Iii SSaji Utbs Ihc lese than one a day. liens are very long lived, iftha tlori't contract the thro it disease ; tin-re is a grat many goes to pot hy this inelankolly diseaze. 1 kant tell exactly how tew pick out a good hen, but sz a general t hint; the lon-earcd ones, are tho least apt la cratch up the garden. Eggs packed in equal norts of salt and lime-water, with the other end down, will keep from 30 to 40 years, if they are not disturbed. Fresh beef stcitk iz good fir hens ; I serp.sc 4 Or 5 pounds a day wmfld be awl a hen would need, at first along. 1 shall be happy to advise with you, at enny time, oa ths heu question and take it in egg

TO LET-INQUIRE WITHIN. There it was most unquestionably au appeal, in fai black letters, wound up by a huge exclamation point, to the attention of all house hunting sufferers. M This house to let and no mistake about it either," mused Mr. Briggs, stirring his cup of cold coffee, p.nd looking dis

tastefully at the one boiled egg that 1 iy ; before him. " The fact is, I'm sick of keeping house; coal always out taxes always dut carpets always wearing in their places gvocers's bills enough to make a man's hair stand on end; and house-keeper always striking for higher wages ! I won't stand it any longer I'll be boiled alive if I do I n As Mr. Nahura Briggs was a little, fat, fussy man, and a tout ensemble not unlike a comfortably sized lobster, the u boiling " part of the business was not at all inappropriate. And as If to carry ouc the simile, he turned a lively scarlet as the door slowly swung open, and his housekeeper stalked majestically in. In truth and in fact, Mr. Briggs was a little afraid ot Mrs. Parley, but Mr. Briggs was resolved to break the hateful bpell, and stood boldly to his guns. ' Mr. Briggs ! " began the lady, solemnly. M cau I believe my eyes ? " " Well ma'am," eaid the old bachelor, u I never heard that anything was amiss with your eyesight." li Is it possible that you have posted a bill on tbe trout cf this house without consulting me ? 9 ' Quite so ma'am," responded Nahum. " And you intended " M To shut up shop to close my establishment to break up housekeeping, ma'am' said Nahum. " That's exactly my intention." M Very well, sir," said Mrs. Parley, grimly, 41 if you will settle the trifliug question of salery between us, I will take my departure." 11 V hat, now? " ejaculated Mr. Briggs, taken somewhat by surprise. M Immediately," responded tho lady frigidly. " And who's to keep house for me until the first of May, and who's to show the premises to all inquirers?" demanded Nahum, a little apprehensively. u That is your own business, sir," said Mrs. Parley. 4k I, for ooe, cannot consent to remain in a house where I have been so markedly excluded from the confidence of its owner." "Just so, ma'am, exactly," said Mr. Briggs counting out several bank notes M There's your money, aud now oblige me by clearing out as quick as you couven ieotljf can." Mrs. Parky withdrew and Nahum was left to his own meditations. Singular to relate, they took the shape of a species of war dauce, executed ill the n'A'Sji,Li'-1'eisoor- to tne musical snap"Bravo! bravo! three cheers uuu a nLrer at tho end of em ! " chuckled our her . u If ever there was a miserable slave, I've been one that hatchet faced woman, aud uow I'm free. Who would have supposed " lie stopped abruptly; there was a ring at the door bell. M And nobody to answer it," mused Mr. Briggs, a little depressed from his high spirits. M Well, I'll go myself." A spectacled old lady stood on the door steps in a shabby bomhaziue and furs thai looked as if they might have grown on the back of some dissipated cat. This 'ere house to let? " Yes, ma'am." " Can I 1-ok at it?" M Certainly ma'am." " Water pipes in order? naint new ? furnace work cellar dry F rood ? roof the house F souna: cnannciicra so wim a a i !aL possession right off ? neighborhood good ' Methodist cliurch anywhere near 7 auy oojection to children ? veutilators in the room F cheery closets off the dining room V Ma'am F " ejaculated poor Nahum, fairly stunned by the torrent of questions. 14 Servants issodull sighed the eld lady. M Can 1 see your master? " k I'm uiy owu master ma'am," said Mr. BrigL'8, irritably. M Oh, I thought you was the porter," said the old lady scornfully. M What's the rent ? " 'Twelve hundred dollars." " Twelve hundred fiddlesticks ! " shrieked the old lady, holding up both her hands. M Who on earth do you s'pose is going to pay twelve hundred dollars for such an old tumble down rat hole as this Why, you must be crazy ! Say nine hundred and I'll look at the rooms." " I won't say anything of the sort," said Nahum, turning red and feeling apopletic. "If you don t like tho rentot my house, nia'am, you're not obliged to pay it, and I wish you a very good uinrniug, ma am. So saying Nahum Briggs closed the loor in the face of the old lady with the aacj fur.", who immediately commenced rapping on the panels with her umbrella handle, and calling out anusive messages through the key hole. Scarcely had the old lady got safely round the corner, and Mr. Briggs recovered his ruffled faculties, when there came another sharp tiutiunabulatiou bo the bell wires a languid young lady this time, with a stiff looking gentleman who appeared to be engaged iu holding on to his mustach. With this couple Mr. Nahum trotted to the very top of tbe house and down again. Adolphoj, my dear," said the lady. Well,' my dear F " 4i Don't you think these ceiling arc very low ! " M Well, 1 don't know." " And then the back yard ts ro very mall." " Well, I doa't kuow." n And the dining room is flo inconvenient." " Well, on my soul. I don't know." " And, I'm really afraid there are obuoxioui insects in the bed moms." Really, ma'am," said Nahum, bristling Up, " is thero any other fault to find F Because, if there isn't there's the fiont door open, and I really dont think it's too narrow for you to walk out of." " Adolphus, my dear," said the lady,

" We won't remain any longer in the society of this exceedingly abrupt person," M No, my dear." And Adolphus and his wile departed. " Well," quotk Mr. Briggs to himself.

T , . . . ' l wonacr it people leave their manners ai uome wnen iney go nouse-nunting. Ub - a I, - 1 a 1 l i . At

noxious insects in my bed rooms, indeed I j bara we were young fools once, but that is ! cisco, to try your hand upon a memorial Well, I wonder who's coming next ! I wish : no reason why we should be old fools now. 1 praying that the city's right to the waterthe confounded house was let and off my 1 1 like you as well as I ever did, and I'll lots upon the city front might be estabhandS. domv best to bp. a rrnnrl bnsbnn lr waii ' liuhrl Kit Inm nf rnnaraac T tnlfl vnn rliia

lhe next arrival was a tall, stylish lady who promptly fell in love with the house . LI i'. 11 : I . 1 . , , and all its belongings. 14 Such a delightfully convenient mansion ! And if Mr. " M Brigcs, ma'am." u Mr. Briggs," with a charming bow, would consent to take the rent out in board ? " " Oh ah you keep a boarding house?" "Not exactly a boarding house; my family consists of seventeen select friends, five servants and six children." "Seventeen, plus six, plus five, plus ono twenty-uine people." hurriedly ejaculated Nahum, " I really think ma'am, couldn't consent to let the house to you." m . m m m - m Aud the lady flounced out in a rage Two young damsels acd a spkster aunt followed, and after a lengthy inspection of the premises, came to a state council in the patlors. " I like the house very much," said the spinster aunt solemnly, " and with a few slight alterations, I will engage it for my brother's family M Very good, ma'am," said Nahum, rubbing his hands, and scenting a speedy termination to his trials. M Name 'em." " The door handle3 must all be gilded, and I should like the house ncw papered in velvet and gold, and repainted, and the partition between the parlors taken down and replaced by an arch, and an extension dining room built out behind, and a bay window thrown out of the parlor, and a new style of range in the kitchen, and a dumb waiter put in, and ncw bronze chandcliers throughout, and another furnace In the sub-cellar, and " Hold on, ma'am just hold on one minute," said Nahum, feebly gasping for breath. " Wouldn't you like to have the old house carted away aud a new one put m its place? I thiuk it would be rather less trouble than to make the trih:ng alterations you suggest." " Sir!" said the spinster, loftly. u I dou't think we can agree, ma'am." " Very well very well come girls." With prim dignity the lady marshalled her two charges out, muttering about the extortionate ideas of laudlords now-a ITS. While Nahum wildly rambling his iron Sfray hair with both hands, quietly soliloquized : M Well, if Job had been alive, and had a house to let, there never would have of Job written Thpro been any book pe$ that everlasting bell again ; I'll haul n.nch Inn'mmr T'11 tonr dotvn thVhi'l asul put the place up at auction." Another lady, but quite different from the other a slender, little cast down laday, with a head that drooped like a lilly of 'the valley, and a dress of brown silk that had been mended and darned and rn-trim.ned until even Nahum Brie. man and bachelor though he was. could , - - nn-i see how very shabby it was. Yet she was and shining pretty-, with big blue eyes brown hair, and cheeks tinged with a faint,

fleeting color, where tbe velvety roses of ao Poou- ir nv lcue came u ere, you vouth had once bloomed in vivid carmine. I cou,,d,u 1 reac them you know ; and, besides And the golden-haired little lassies who i such ers as ought to pass through with clung to her dress were as like her as tin- W "V1". für otbeLr localities, would oy lilly buds to a full bloomed chime ofinotb! llke,v to get through you must flower bells. j perceive at once ; and that would make , ,T , ,, . , , , . . . trouble for us all. No, don t bother about As Nahum Bngtrs stood looking at her a toffice iu j have your there came back to hiss the sunny days of bcfgt interests at heart; and fecl that U h.s youth-a field of blooming clover would be only an ornamental fully. What crimson in the June light like waves of want b J nic ej;ii, knoa nice, blood;and a blue-eye i girl leaning oyer the , su5stautjai jaU aQ(iJ a freo ßcbooK Xhese lence.with her bright hair barred with lev-, M be a ,agti beuefit tQ vou Thesc el sun-set gold, and he knew that he was wU luake u reaI,v contented and happy.

Biaawiiw iacc io lace w.u. vmivmim jml-. tho girl he bad quarreled with years and years ago, and whose blue eyes had kept him an old bachelor all his life long. M This house is to let, I believe F " she asked timidly, with a little quiver in her mouth. M I believe it is, Barbara Wylie." She looked up, starting with a sudden blush of recognition. " Nahum Briggs ! " And then Barbara turned very pale, and began to cry, with the little goldenhaired giris clinging to her skirts, and wailiag, " Mama, mama what's the matter, mama ? " " Nothiug, now, said Barbara, resolutely brushing away the tears, "If you please, Mr. Briggs, I will look at the hou. I am a widow now, and very poor and-and I think of keeping a board- , ,i . .. iti t , no rn fn ir fluilir hi DIM I M ,ini IUL, UUUei; ii' v it is i ii vacatijr a. jv the rent is not very high T" M We'll talk about the rent afterwards, said Nahum, fiercely swallowing down big lump in his throat that threatened to choke him. H Come here, little girls, and kiss mo ; I used to know your mamma when she wasn't much bigger than you arc Barbara with her blue eyeaahl drooping, went an over me uouse wnnoui uuuing a word of fault, and Nahum Briggs walked at her side, wondering if it really was fifteen jsars since the June suushine lay 30 brightly cu the clover field. M I think the house is beautitul," said mook Barbara. 4 Will you rent it to mc. Nahum ? " " Well, yes,' said Nahum, thoughtfully. 14 I'll let you have in- house if you want it Barbara." 14 With the privilege of keep!ng a few boarders? " " No, ma'am ! " Barbara stopped and looked wistfully at him. " But I don't thiuk you understand how very poor 1 am, Mr. Briggs." " Yes do." " And that I cannot afford to take tho house without the privilege of boarders." " I'm tell yu what, Harham," said Mr. Briffoa dictatorily. I'll cive vou the nrivn i i !! .lege of keeping just one boarder, end hint OCT w j m youve got to keep all your life long, if you ! once take him. I "I don't thiuk I quite understand you,

Mr. Brigps," said Barbara, but she blush-j M That luminous epistle finishes me with ed very becomingly, and we are rather in-1 the religious element among my consiituclined to think that she told a naughty ents. But tbat my political murder slight litttle fib. i be made sure, some evil instinct prompted

" W hat do you say to me for a boarder, I t J J ! Barbara t sain tho nlrl WhnW taking M BarIi . : both the widow's hands in his. land a good father to your little girls, if. .... - w . you 11 be my wife. Barbara blushed again, and hesitated. but Nahum was not to be eluded thus. " Shall I take down the 'To Let Barbara ? " " Yes," sue murmured almost under her breath." So Nahum went deliberately out, and tore down the bill, to the great astonishment and disappointment of a party of rabid house hunters who were just ascending the steps. " And when shall we be married, Barbara ? " he next demanded. " In the summer, perhaps," said Mrs. Barbara, shyly. To-morrow, said Nahum, decisively, j and to-morrow it was. Upon my word, Barbara," said Nahum, on the first day of May, as he watch - edhis wife's blooming face behind the cof - fPA lirn TT A Ii nonnnf f i - L- Kiln? -.n..l. wl fee urn, "you cannot think how much jol lier it is with you for a housekeeper than i that ha i. Mrs. Parley." Barbara only laughed and said he was a dear, good old stupid." So the probabilities are that neither Mr, Nahum Briggs nor his browu stone house will be in the market again as " To Let Iuquire within." MARK TWAIN'S SECRETARYSHIP. I am not private secretary to a senator any more, now. I held the birth two I months iu security aud ereat cheerfulness j of spirit, but my bread began to return I from over the waters, then that is to say, my works came back and repealed themJ selves. I judged it best to resign. The i way of it was this. My employer sent for 'nie one morning tolerably early, and, as ! soon as I had finished insertiucr some conumdrums clandestinely into his last great speech upon finance, I entered his presence. There was something portentous iu his appearance. His cravat was untied, his hair was in a state of disorder, aud bis countenance bore about it the siges of I suppressad storm. He held a package of letters iu his tense grasp, and I know that the dreaded Pacific mail was iu. He said : " I thought you were worthy of confidence." I said : " Yes sir." He said : " 1 save you a letter from lcerlulu or uiy constituents in the state ot I Nevada, asking the establishmeut of a 1 poatoffice at Baldwin's Ranch, and told wIlhattMBWIltt KWOmmk VASHM them that there was no real Lecessity for at .that ace- . . ff" c,f ier- " 0b lf that 13 "i sir 1 did that. " Yes, JOH, did. I wi 1 read your answer, lor your own humiliation : WASHINGTON, Nov. 24, 18b7. I . i r c tmM. r. j . ii . j.utn'srs. omw, uvnrs ana, uinmi. Gentlemen : What the mischief do you suppose you want with a postofEcc at ll T 1" Ti J .uw.n incn: ic wou.uu oo you t ; . Very truly, etc., Mark Twain, For James W. Nye, U. S. Senator ft ar " That is tho way you answered that letter. Those people say they will hang me if I ever enter that district again ; and 1 am perfectly satisfied they iciU, too." " Well, sir, I did not know I was doing any harm. I only wanted to convince them." u Ah. Well, you did convince them, T make no mauncr of doubt. Now, here is another specimen. I gave you a petition from certain gentlemon of Nevada, prtiying I would get a bill through cougrcss incorporating the Methodist Episcopal rthttvwh nf Mr.irla 1 fold vnn to in v. a... ,la (-.i, 0innil , y withiu the province of the 1 tcUw'.md to endeavor to show 1 - 7 ... them that in the present feebleness of the religious elenieut in that new commonwealth, the expediency of incorporating the church was questionable. What did you write F ' Washington, Nov. 14, 18G7. ' Rev. John Halifax and others: "Genti.kmf.n : You will have to go to f 1 .1 C t 1 I A loilulkf IICA olkt1 f tliif Vitt 1. anofvi of vourscon?re:j;, don.t kouW any. ... , - . .... u. Al,n... mmm ur I II i 1 1 LI .IWVMH ItJILlUUt J U V t . L iuu as U 4 ry to go there, either ; because this thing you propose to do out in that new country isu't expedient in fact, it is simply ridiculous. Your religious people there ;ir too feeble, io intellect, in morality, in piety in everything, pretty much You had better drop this you can't make it work. You can't issue stock on an incorporation like that or if you could, it won a on v keen vou in troii h'o a tho - i i i ii ii . i time. The other denominations HaM abuse it, aud 'bear' it, aud 'sell it. short,' and break it down. They would do with it just as vou would with one ef vour silver mines out there thev would m . m try to make all the world believe it was 1 wildcat.' Vou ought not do anything that is calculated to bring a sacred thinp into disrepute. lrou ought to be ashamed oft vourselves that is what T think about it. You close your petition with the words: A iwl mwr tili near ' 1 tKttttr i , . 1 1 i nuv wear win -sva t r " 7 a tiuua i via j,. beU .on üeJ 'do rf Very truly, etc., Mark Twain,

For Jtnies W, Nye, U. 8

Senator "

me to band you this memorial from tho

grave company of elders composiug the board of aldermen of the city of San Franwas a danccn.us matter to move in. I : w I IV1J W Till II U V I i U W 14 LU II I II 1 ILilVI IV 1 I 1: 1 , i w , , ri i An .ml - .ii ti. i . . I I w n ! t.il.l inn t. r i- i f A t . . . - . l i , 1 1 i f 1 lallAr .i .ne fli'jci lutij u ii nuj'jiuiiua lcuci letter that should avoid, as far as possible, all real consideration and discussion of the water lot question. If there is any feeling left in you any shame surely this letter you wrote, in obedience to that order, ought to evoke it, when its words fall upon your ears : 41 Washington, Nov. 27, 1867. To the Bam. Board of Alkrmtn. etc.: Gentlemen : George Washington, the revered father of his country, is dead. Ilia long and brilliant career is closed, alas ! forever. He was greatly respected in this section of the country, and bis untimely decease cast a gloom over the whole community. He died on the 14th day of De cember, 179'.). He passed peacefully ! ,flr frm tho chp nf LkWai nnd biq 1 great achievements, the most lamented la . a . hero aud the most beloved that ever earth had yielded unto death. At such a time as this, you speak of water-Io's ! what a lot was his. W:hat is fame ? Fame is an accident. Sir Isaac Newton discovered an apple falling to the ground a trivial discovery, truly, and one which a million Been had made before him but his parents wero influential, and so they tortured that little circumstance into something wonderful, and, Io I the simple world took up the shout, and, in almost the twinkling of an eye, tho man was famous. Treasure these thoughts. Poesy, sweet poey, who shall estimate what the world owes to thee ! Mary had a little lamb, It's fleece was white as snow. And every where that Mary went. The lamb was sure to go. Jack and Gill went up the hill To draw a pail of water ; Jack fell down and broke his crown. And Gill came tumbling after. For simplicity, elegance of diction, and freedom from immoral tendencies. I regard these two poems in the light of gems. They are suited to all grades of intelligence, to every sphere of life to the field, to the nursery, to the guild. Especially shouid no board of aldermen be without them. Venerable fossils! write again. Nothing improves one so much as friendly correnpoudeuce. Write again aad if there ia anything in this memorial of yours that ! relers to anything in particular, do not bj backward abua explaining it. We shall always be happy to hear you chirp. Very truly, etc., For James W . -Nye"i . .."eiiaioi . " That is an atrocious, a ruinous epistle 1 Distraction ! " M Well, sir, I am really sorry if there in anything wrong about it. but but it appears to me to dodge the water lot question." 14 Dodge the mischief! Oh! but never mind. As long as destruction must come now, let it be complete. Let this last of your performances, which I am about to read, make a finality of it. I am a ruined mau. I had my misgivings when 1 gae you the letter from Humboldt, asking that the post route from Indian Gulch to Shakspeare Gap and intermediate points be changed partly to the old Mormon trail. But I told you it was a delicate question, and warned vou to deal with it deftlv to answer it dubiously and leave them a little in tbe dark. Andyour fatal imbecility impelled you to make this disastrous reply. 1 should think you would stop your ears, if you arc not dead to all shame : "Washington, Nov. 80, 1807. Messrs. Perkins, Yipmr ti al. : Gentlemen : It is a delecate question about this Indian trail, but handled with proper dubiousness, I doubt not we shall succeed in some measure or otherwise, because where the route leaves the Laaseu Meadows, over beyond where those two Swftnec chiefs. Dilapidated-Vengeance and Biter-of-the-Clouds, wer scalped last winter, this being the favorite direction to some, but others preferring something else in consequence of things, tho Mormon trail leaviug Noeby s at three in the morning, and passing through Jawbone Fiat to Blucher, and thence down to Jug-Handle, the road passing to the right of it, and naturally leaving it on the right too. and Dawson's on the left of the trail where it passes to the left of said Dawson's, and onward thence to Tomahawk, thus making the route cheaper, easier of accefs to all who can get at it, anJ compassing all tbe desirable objects so considered by others, acd therefore, conferring the most good upon the greatest number, and consequently, I am encouraged to hope we shall. However, I shall be ready, and happy, to afford you still further information upon the subject, from time to time, as you may desire it and the post offive department be enabled to furnish it to me. Very truly, etc.; M-frKK Twain. "For James V Ne, D. 8. Scuator.' ( ' TLere now, what do you think of that?" 44 Well. I don't know, sir. It well, it appears to nie to be dubious enough.'' Du leave the house '! lama ruined man. Those Humboldt sav.ies nover will forgive me f-r taupling their brains un ; with this inhuman letter I have lost tho of the Methodist Church, the lioartl Aluermen " ' Well. I haven't anythiup to say about n,at btCau?c 1 have missed it a little & Ötesa, but I was too many for the Baidwin'e Kanch people, General !" " Leave the house ! Leave it forever snd fjrever, too !' I regarded that I sort or covert fhtl maiion rnai inv services c-or.a e oi- rpa with, and So l roign 1. I ntver will be a private "secretary to a Senator again. Yi can't rdeaFc that kind of reouh! Thev don't know anything. They can't apprem. m - - - - ij . . tiaie party d lumn, Mauk Twain