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If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their papers from the olliee to w hich thev are titrecit-u mcy are ueiu responsible till they have ctlli-d the hill and ordered the paper niseoniiuucu. If subscriber remove to other place without in forming the publisher, and the paper is sent to the former direction, thev are Iieiii responsible. S. The courts have decided that refusing to take a pa per from the ollice, or removing and leaving it uncalled tor, i prima facia evidence of intentional fiaiul. lJUYlNU WIXTKK TlIlN't.S. "Tlie pour ye have always with you." "would you like to go shopping this morn ing r It was Miss Chaloner who asked the question, 4 Gertrude the iiiityjiiilit-ent," us h ;t w rshippers called her, with ni 'fe truth in their epithets than there usually is in the compliments paid t handsome wotileti. Gertrude (.halonor was self poised to it remarkable dearie. No world's judgment, no human opinion, had power to lay onta footpath for her imperious) f'jot. What she wil led to do she did, taid of small import Was any other mortal's nilly. S far this cir cumstance had not hurt her popularity, for she li id. only willed to be the accomplished, the most intellectual, and the best dressed woman of her ef. So never thinking off. sliion, pi r nc, she became a leader of it. A few knew, however, tli.it it wanted on'y the true electric spark to ipi e'ieu that grand nature into something no bier than any of her past dream- Meanwhile Iter powers, unconsciously to herself, waited, as the offerings use I to wait upon the a'ter for the vpark of coles! ial lire which was to make of them H'veet incense for heaven. OI' course not evcy one knew this. Most people suiiosed that she was in her proper tqiherc now, aud would never have thought of iissoeuiiiig lier Willi self dental or soil saenhce. Slio sat .this clci.r, bright autumn morning in Lor own room, which was shared, just then, vitli a gite. t who euino the day before her cousin Nan, from Philadelphia. The pair were a coin plcto contrast, aud therefore polurizjd admirably. Miss Chaloner was tall and stately, with dark liair and gray eyes, out of which the waiting soul looked honest, earnest, trustful. Her lips fxcept when she smiled, were a thought too thin, le-r brow, now that the hair was roiled back, a thought too high. Nan Darrow's brnw was low, her eyes laughed even when her full soft lips did not, and, her soul was all heart a creature pretty and most winsome, hut one whose good deeds would be offshoots of impulse, not prin ciple; none the loss graceful for that, however. She reverenced her cousin Gertrude as a superior being; aud after her own gay fashion, loved her Nearly. She sprang up aud clapped her hands as .Miss Chaloner spoke. "Going to get winter tilings Oh, that is charming ! I always love to see you shop you go at it royally. No shilling counters for you ! It is well that your purse is as long as your ta.-te is lofty." Miss Oalotter smiled. "I fear you will be disappointed, Nan. Iam going to buy practical, useful things this morn ing." "As if I did not know that your most useful gown was a French caehemire, and your most serviceable stocking were fine spun of the silk worms cast off winding sheet." "Well, I am not jjoing to buy caehemire robes this morning, but I shall get a good many winter things nevertheless." Nan put on her dainty velvet cloak and tied her French hat round a face bright with the care less, thoughtless joy of youth. Miss Chaloner made a graver toilet, and soon they were on Washington Street. Their first topi ing place was at a grocer's. Flour and sugar, and butter, were purchased in liberal quantities, and sent to different addresses, which Mis Chaloner read from a card she held in her band. Nan began to wonder, but she maintained a discreet silence. She walked on beside her cousin w ith her tipping footsteps till they turned into Summer Street, the more congenial region of dry goods sh-ps. A half suppressed Mela nation oi delight escaped her as she saw the tempting array of silks in a window on the north side; and when Miss Chaloner entered the door she began to think the true huisness of the day was commencing. Hut they did not go up to the silk counter, or turn aside fr the soft laces filiating out mistily. Half way up the store, srhvre the shelves were pi'e I with tut stinti.il cottons and warm blankets, Gertrude Chaloner stopped, and Nan made a half unwilling pause at her aide. The purchase wit n iv -- vrrnl piecs of cotton l alf a dozen pairs of soft, warn blankets, in these days when cotton aud blankets are at premium. Nan's wonder increased. But the articles were to bo sent home this time, laud she began to think her cousin was secretly contemplating matrimony aud housekeeping. "We will cross the street now," Miss Chal oner said, as they went out. "I saw over there some nice, servieerule winter dress goods, cheap." "When, in the name of wonder, did you begin to care for cheapness ?" muttered Nun, as the little door boy let them in. The dresses were purchased a few remnants for children, some dark calicoes and strong wool en goodssiu larger patterns. Then a dozen or two of coarse, warm stockings, and tho list was complete. "Now, to pay yon for being good, you shall look ut some pictures a lit! 1 o," Miss Chaloner said, as she led the way toward Everett's. They looked over soiiu choice engravings for half an hour, and finally Miss Chaloner purchased one small, but a gem of the most exquisite art, a Madonna, with the Holy Child smiling in her arms, and the attendant angels looking out from the clouds around, with tlie brightness of auoth er world upon the brows. She gave directions for it to be framed simply, and said that she would call tor it on the morrow. With unusual reticence Natl refrained fron any questions until they had reached home, and sat itow in lier cousin s pleasant room to rest a while. Then, when tho bundles began to come in, she asked : "Are those blankets and oottons for yourself Cousin Gertrude ?" "No." "And of course the calicoes, and stockinss. and remnants are not. Who, in the name of common sense, are they for? and how much money do you think you have spei.t this morn ing on this rubbish ?" "As to whom they are for, you shall see that tomorrow; and as to the money 1 have spent it is less than halt' my usual winter allowance." "And you expect to dress on this other half?" cried Nan, with wide open wotiderirg eyes. "No, tho other half goes for coal aud house rents. "And you are to dress on what?" "What 1 have. Except boots aud gloves, 1 do not mean to have a single new article this winter," ".Except, of course you bonnet oiio could hardly imagine Miss Chaloner in a last year's ehopcau." "Not even excepting my bonnet. My last winter's one was black velvet. It will alter over irreproachably. 1 don't mean that the world shall know these things, Nan. 1 am not going to turn hermit, or even to give up the society in which I have been accustomed to move. I had more new finery l ist winter than half my ftiends had sight of. 1 shall not be conspicuously shabby if 1 wear them again. 1 only let you iiito my secrets be cause you are my little cousin, who loves me, and 1 think my example may have some weight with you. You are rich enough to do a great deal of good ill the same way. It is going to be a terrible winter. Taxes are such as our country never knew before, aud goods are selling at pri ees we should have thought fabulous a year i go. With my wardrobe tuil of last year's handsome dresses, 1 could not think it right to buy new ones, when the cry of the poor aud the wail of the destitute are piercing the air on every side." "But there have been poor people always, Gertie, and you have never felt like this before." "No, I have Hot realized the fact of suffering as I realize it now. It is the hour of darkness over all the land. The resurrection morning will come by-and-by, but now the night is murk and the stars are dim. I will tell you all, Nan. I have given more to my country than gold could buy. One 1 loved, and who loved mo, went, in August, with the three year's men. lie came to me with the light of eager courage and self-de votion in his eyes, and asked me to bid him God speed and send him on his mission." "And you did it ?" "Yes, I did it. It was a hard struggle ; but what was I that 1 should stay at home and keep my own, and let oth. r women's lovers and hus bands march, and bleed, and die, that I and niiue might shelter on.' selves in a smiling home, and and look out through plate-glass aud from be tween soft draperies at tho winter f I es, I gave him up. He is gone. He will come again, per haps; but I can never forget that oilier perhaps that the mouth which kissed mine at parting may never kiss again, and that the ev es, at w hose courage 1 lit the fire of my own resolve, may look their last on the smoky sky of some South ern battleground. When 1 had given him up, I longed to do something myself. Beside the one great sacri fice, nil lesser ones seemed easy, and almost his last words had marked out my path. 'How shall I bear it ?' I faltered, clinging to him with a woman's weakness. 'By being always busy, Gertrude,' and I remember the pity in 'his eyes as he said it : 'There are so many suffering ones to comfort so many wounds to heal.' Since he went away I hsve been living a new life. 1 have been among a class of people 1 had never understood before the good and hon est poor. I have seen there, sights to make a wo nan's heartache, and, s far as 1 could. I have carried lonsolalion w ith me. It is a small sacri lice, Nan, to go without a new cloak, or wear a last year's dress for Ihe sake of vivinit shelter to the shelterless." But I liever thounht you were benevolent. Gertrude, and you always seemed to in e very fond of dres, in a dignilied, high and mighty fashion of your own." "ao I was, and so I suppose 1 am still ; but that was not all of me. Nan. 1 needed rousinir. and I mnmi tiiwl.rt.r:kn.l iL. ..nt ul.t. il.,.u ..( ....I .1 . .1 .: I - - otfu. . uivu tin:n un , v,i uium .iu uaiij.-i, im-sc units oi parting anu rr."vi2. would not ouii-Lpn in r.w lift. " Nan Harrow looked at her cousin. Mis dial oner's face shone as if she were inspired. Into her great, gray eyes, a Hood of light had broken her pale fiiee was (lushed, her head was erect, her chest heaved. Even Nan's uiipeuettatinjj ga.e could nut fail to see that for that soul its hour had come. They did not talk much more. Narrs nature was impulsive, demonstrative, outspoken, but she dared not express to Gertrude the admira tion which she felt as profound as any senti ment of hers could bo. "Go thou aud do like wise," was the only tribute Miss Chaloner would have welcomed. Tho next morning they took the carriage, packed with tho purchases of the day before, and started to convey them to their destinations. On the way they slopped at Everett' and took in the 'Madonna. Sure. y this is not for one of yotr pension ers V Nan asked. "1 think one would hardly food the hungry with pictures." "There is more than one kind of hunger, child Nan. You shall see whether my gift will be ap preciated." They had stopped at three houses, leaving a pair of blankets here, a dress there, and at an other a piece of cotton, as need was. At the next pause Miss Chaloner took the picture in her hand, and turned with a smiling face for Nan to follow her. They went up two flights of stairs, and then a flint, sweet voice, answered "come in" to Miss Chalouer's tap on the door. They entered a large and not uncomfortable room. Everything was scrupulously neat. In one of the windows stood a tea rose, a geranium, and a heliotrope. Nan knew they were her cousin's favorite flowers and guessed how they came there. In the bed, bolstered up by pillows, and knitting busily, was a young girl. She was not beautiful and yet Nan thought she had never seen face so sweet. It was a delicate, thin face ; so pale that the tracery of tho blue veins shown through. The eyes were dark and full of mournful tenderness. The hair was cut short, like a child's, and lay about the brow in sunny rings. How the pale visage brightened into smiles as she saw who was her visitor. Miss Chaloner took a chair near the bed, and gave otto to Nan, as if she were at home. Then she asked : "llow do you do to-day Martha? Did you nave a oau nigut s I nave brought my cousin Mi Den iow, io see you." "Thank you. I am pretty well ; no more pain than usual. 1 slept several hours last night and it did me so much good. Mother has gone out to take homo some work, and 1 was quite cheerlul iltiii here olone." ' lou always are. It reproaches me some, times to think of it," Miss Chaloner said, kindly. "How long is it since you have been able to stand on your feet?" "Five years this month, ma'am." "Five years of lying here in this one place, aud looking at tho blank wall and suffering!" Miss Chaloners eyes grew misty, but she went on in a tone of encouragement : I have brought something to hang in front of yon, on tlie wall, Martha, and perhaps it will comfort you sometimes when you are lonely." one unfolded tho wrappings from the picture and held it bell. re the L'irl. Martha did not speak. Her ecstasy was worldless, but it shone in her eyes and transfigured her taeo as she looked. By and by her tears boiian to fall. "Oh, Miss Chaloner, do you mean that that is my own. I never saw anything half so beautiful. hall never be lonesome again. "Do you think my picture was a good invest melit ?" Gertrude asked, smilingly, as they went down stairs. "The best of all," Nan cried with eaor tones. "Oh, Gertrude, isn't she lovely ? So refined, so "en tie " "And so patient," Gertrude added. "What she suffers no one dreams nights and days of racking agony and yet busy every moment when the -sharp torture leaves her a respite. If 1 had made ten times more sacrifice for the sake of doing good, to have known that girl and learned the lesson of unfaltering trust, oi patient submission she has taught me, would have been worth it all." Nan staid in Boston three weeks longer. She went with Miss Chaloner to buy the rest of her winter things ; and when sho left at last, it was with a new purpose in her ea"cr, impulsive but kindly h-art. Last week she wrote to Ger trude Chaloner : ", too, have been shopping since ( saw you. HiLherto 1 had sl.o.ipcd o i It fur na. Now I am shopping for many, and the reward is propor- tionately larger. I do uil I can yes, Gertrude, I do believe I am doing all I can for those whose sufferings you taught me to discover. Sometime perhaps I shall be good enough to he called your friend. I, too, have sent one away to fight for me, whom hitherto my selfish love had held back. My offering, like yours, is on tho altar. Come to nie.'.n l teach me how to wait." How long will these women, and many more besides them, have in which to learn that long, slow lesson ? With what grand results to them, to all, will the wailing be crowned at length ? Gxl ki.ows. An Eastern lady writing to her son at col leg-, makes the follow'n g statement: Dr. Mun ly is giving a series of sermons on the different kinds of wood used in building Solomon's temple. They sre very interesting and he has such a flow of beautiful words, and such wavy gestures, and he looks so gentle manly, that I have no doubt he does a great deal of g'od. The church is always full. List year th IZichmond Dupath called the Northern people" swinish groundlings." They are certainly ifoin the whole ho in the war f r'w-tlt'g ''Ut StCesaion. DK.nOCU.lTlC LOYALTY. Under this caption tho New Y'ork Tribune closes a leading editorial article as follows : But "the South" that is tho slave power rose against this policy of impropriating the prospective Territories to free labor, and soon the souls of the Northern Democrats slunk into their boot-heels. Scores who themselves voted in Congress for the Wilmot Proviso, and pledged themselves to unwavering devotion to tho prin ciple, are now its venomous opponents, reviling those who simply hold tho ground whence they have retreated as "radicals" and "fanatics." In 1S18, tho slave power tried repea'edly to compromise tho Territorial question by running the slave line west to the Pacific on the parallel 3(5 deg. Mr. Buchanan favored this ; so did Mi. Douglas ; but the Democratic masses resisted it. Twice was a vote taken on it in the House dur i' g that year, and barely three or four of the fifty or sixty Democrats from tho free Stales could bo induced to sustain it. Yet now the whole party would seem to havo caved again ; for we Republicans are actually reproach ed with having provoked this atrocious war, be cause we did not in IStil, with a rebel pistol at our head, consent to that very compromise line which the Democrats in calmer times had repeat edly and utterly rejected, and which they had never before favored, (hough they might have adopted it if the)' had chosen. Is it possible not to see that it is the rule with the Northern Democracy to hold out against any demand of the slave power, no matter how out rageous, only until it is pressed with menace, and then to give way to it ? Hence wc favored in the infancy of secession, tho policy of lotting the cotton States im, if jt should appear that their people really desired to cut loose from tho Union. Wo felt then that the Northern Democrats would, pursuant to their inveterate habit, really tako tho part of the slave power in any contest that it miuht inaui'U- rato or provoke with the Union that the combi nation would probably prove too powerful to be conquered and that it would be better to let the cotton States elope, leaving no more enemies on hand than we could successfully deal with. We believed then, as we realize now, that events votild fully justify our recommendation. What is tho present attitudo of the Demo cratic party with regard to the life and death otruglo of Uio itcpuvjliu mill llie rebel slave power ? That there are loyal Democrats, is most true. They stand out conspicuously amid the general recreancy. But tho Democratic party, a a par ty, is not loyal. It docs not heartily sustain the Federal Government wo do not speak of the Administration in its terrific struggle with malignant, formidable, slavohoiding treason. In support of this position, we appeal to facts of the widest notoriety. The Middle and Western States have recently been agitated by political canvasses in view of pending elections. Tho Democratic party lias been heard through its ablest champions. If the harangues of those champions havo been calcu lated to invigorate and inspirit tho loyal millions for the. terrible -ordeal which has befallen them if they have been calculated to excite enthusi asm for the National cause, confidence in its justice, and faith in its success then tho public is aware of the fact, aud will give credit accord ingly. But if tho direct contrary is tho caso if those orators havo given to tho National causo but a Cold, heartless, grudging, caviiing lip-service ; if they have uttered ten words of criticism or reproach for those chargud with tho direction of the National effort for every ono of support ami encouragement then that also will stand forth in inellaceable characters. V e fearlessly await the judgment of history. Democrats have nobly stood by their Govern ment through the fearful trials of the last eighteen months ; but tho Democratic parly has not. On the contrary, it has acted a if its own best hopes were identified with our National ruin. Nealy every Democratic speech implies that the present Administration somehow provoked or incited this horrible war. Yet iho war was begun on the rebels' sido weeks before this Ad ministration came into p wer. By force and treachery, they had seized a Very larg proportion of tho fortresses, arsenals, armories, sub treasn ries, etc., etc., of the Union aud had captured and paroled tho prrcipal army of the United Stales-that stationed in Texas for the protection of her Northern and Western frontier. If there had been no actual fighting bef ire Mr. Lincoln had been inaugurated, it was simply because the traitors were allowed by Mr. Buchanan to work their will utterly unresisted. There was war ; but it consisted solely of an easy capture on their side and tame surrender on ours. The Democratic orators constantly assume that the election of Lincoln was an offense, a provocation, or at least a challenge to the slave holders to rebel. The fact that the pioneers of the rebellion themselves did their utmost, by dividing the Democratic party and running a bolters' ticket, to secure that election is studious ly ignored by them. Yet how can a section or cla-inlerest be sail to have been provoked to rebellion by an election which it plotted and la bored to accouq li-h ? Tho Democratic orators habitually protest that they are invincibly hostile to disunion ; yet some of them assert and the rest imply that if Ihnj were in power they would stop the war. Yet the rebels steadfastly assert that they will never be reconciled to the Union that they will consent to no peace that is not based on dis iiiioii. That they are thoroughly n t artiest ij known by the fact that Henry May, who went to Richmond as a Democratic envoy, was assured by them that if he were to present them a blank sheet of paper, with full permission to write thereon' their own terms of reconciliation to the Union, they would utterly reject it. And even now, the leading S.,nth rn journal are di ussing the probability of a Democratic restoration to pow er in the Union, with a consequent off r to estab lish slavery universally as a condition of reunion; but they all agree in rejecting it. Are we uncharitable, in view of these grave facts, in maintaining that the position of the Democratic party wilh referenca to our great war is neither loyal nor honest ? that it studi ously ignores the most important truths as well as tho gravest National perils ? We appeal to the law and the testimony, aud ask but a candid verdict. Effect of the Republican party. It is scarce eight years since tho Republican party, as a separate organization, has had its existence. It lias met and vanquished the co horts of a corrupt and demoralized Democracy. It has overcome tho prestige of eighty years. It has torn from slavery its flimsy drapery with which its partisans sought to conceal its hideous deformity. It has rescued the Government from tho control of a slave oligarchy. It stands now before tho world and before posterity tho cham pion of progress and civilization. Such has been its vise, and we hope its rinciples will find uni son with all lovers of our country, as a true Union basis. We know tho dangers it encoun tered, and tho difficulties it overcame. Difficul ties besi t the path of all reformers, and they are peculiarly tho lot of political reformers in a conn, try like ours. Tho people are apt to forget, in the grievaucies of the present, the glory and the benefits of the future and for a time to swerve from principle and follow demagogues. But their return is certain. They find they have been led astray by imaginary evils, and with new ardor return to the right path. Such has been, and will be, tho result where men like Fernando Wood have been elected. The griev ances which nffoct them are great. They were exaggerated by eloquent and designing dema gogues ; in tho insane effirt to alleviate the pres. ent by forgtting tho future. But tho sober second thought will come, and none but tho pa triots receive tho sanction of the people. YVheu tho result of tho hito elections at tho East was madu known, it was rctvivd with hostimias by tho opponents of the Government. Those Demo cratic victories foretell not our disolution, but in tones not to bo mistaken, they warn us of the necessity for exertion. They warn us that we aro to win the great tight. The victory must be purchased by vigilance and unoiu. True Demo, cracy should teach us this. Lot it also teach us that in tho greatness of tho Union cause, all con siderations of the man, or even party, should Im lost, in preference to our country and its destiny tho living principle. Yrela Journal. From the Halle Mouiitainoer. Letter from the I'lut-head Country. We are permitted to copy tho following letter, addressed to Messrs. Herfron ifc Pitts. Jocko' W. T., Doc. w, 1802. Ge ntlkmen : According to promise, I write you concerning tho upper country. On my arri val here I agreed to winter-with Mr. Hutehius, at tho Flathead Agency, but i think 1 should havo done better had I gone to tho Beaver Head mines. Th ;re has been a grei.t many people in here from tho mines for provision, etc., and they uniformly give glowing accounts of their rich ness, iliey state that there is about six hundred miners in the Beaver Head District, and three hundred claims are already opened. Additions are constantly being madu to tho mining popula tion. Tho prospect now is that tho upper coun try will sou lively times next summer. All tho counts agree that tho mines yield from 5 to $-00 to tho man tho average is from $30 to $ 10, using rockers. Outsido tho Beuvcr Head U.s'rict, there is a great many places where good dijgings are known to exist, but tho miners aro apprehending Indian violence, they are afraid to scatter. This on wrl bei.r in mind, is the country of tho Bannocks and Sn ike, and prudent men are careful aliout placing themselves at tho mercy of these savages. I shall endeavor to se. cure a claim before the spring rush. These mines aro of ready access for Salt Lake, and we may look lor an influx of .Mormons with the early : v w it prill". lours, vyx. jioLMKS. i . JaxrsT. Brady, a first- class lawyer of New York.and a pr. mi n nt S ymour Democrat, said in a late speech there: "While I look npon war as the most unfortu nate calamiiity that can befall a nation, what a spectacle is presented now, whented divisions of the American family have each their armies in tho field, numbering hundreds of thousands, and though there is sullering in the South, yet in ih.! North, with all our expenditure of blood and treasure, have you seen any more beggars than before, and the only apparent increase of poverty growing out of tho war is in Fngland, where three hundred thousand operatives are suffering in Lancashire alone." During tho late canvass in Michigan a stir geon dentist was making an ixcellent smbcIi in one of the interior towns, a low fellow bo longing to tho other party, interrupted him with tho question: " What do you ti-k to pull a tooth, doctor? " " I will pull ail your teeth f r a shilling, and your nose gratis," replied the speaker. A young lady studying Frencli, and finding that " belle" lilcnt " fine" told somebody, in a letter, that "We have had a great deal of halloweuthcr lately." Tin Westminister A'rvirw for October, in a review ot the works of Cairucs and DeGasparin on America, asserts that a decided change of sen tiuient is rapidly taking place in England, and asumes throughout that no intervention in our nff.ir is povii,e.
