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STATE RIGHTS DEMOCRAT. PCBUsnBD RVKftT. SATCRDir, BT BELLINGER & BROWN. C. B. BELLING EH. BKOWX. OFFICE IN HAMNON'S BUILDING, FIRST STREET. TETIMS.tx idVasck: One year, $' Six Months $2; One MotH,50 oti.J Siujlo Copies, 12ts. Correfpon ieiits writin over assume.! ignatures .'',.nv.vj4l'.. tmift mako known their proper names to tha Ulitor, or no attcutwn will ho given ro their communications. All Liters and Communications, whether on tusincss or for publication, should bo addressed to lMiiiger A Crown. BUSINESS CARDS. F. H. RE OS" IF. CD r. w. sriNK. F. M. REDF1EL0 & CO., rlOXSTAXTLl OA u.ami vi.v t iv.j nlrsrj stock of lirocvrics and 1 rvi lOXSTAXTLY OX kiias. Wood and Wi !ow Ware, Tobacco, Cirs, Confectionery, Vank Xotioas, ctc.ctc. Whelesalo rvni Retail. jxrQrr ;te it. c. mil a b;iny. Oregon. - Svn'a Irojr Store, Al oc0v5n$rt J. HANNON, ATTOFlfiEY AND CQ'JN'SELCPi AT LAW, ALTSAXY. ORr.GOX. OEco cn Miu strccf, vpposltc Fost er's Er'uk. v5nlvl J. QVI.W TI5021.V: ATTORNEY AND C2UXSELW Albany, Crcjoa, 'O.V, AT LAW. ILL' PRACTICE IX THK PUPEKIOR and itj.reii r Cuu of ?4aru.u, Liua, Lane. V....,t.m ! l.lk count'?. I n o tk r "?ut caanrca n culKctk n.-', hca Uido w.tliut tuuic. .jiial'Jv4u4tjl. SJEXJ..IIAYD I'.X, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, "Will attenl to all busin gs er.trutcd to Liiu I'J ci'-iientr l'o'.x adjoiaiug cwuutiei. Kola, Ju'j l sT. OFFICE OF CO!' MI SCHOOL srPESIXTEVT, 1 T WATKllf.OO. ?IX MILKS A1IOVK I.KU- sn n. on tha SaL.ti.iia. tCie nd Ires?, n..n. J- V. MACK. v9a451y ' Co. School Superintendent. S. A. JOHNS, ATTORNEY AT Ij A IV, A LB AX Y. or.EGOX. BILIflF.XT j.ttention wid W s'.vvn to all Luii nes in his line. jac23f in2otf. PPLICES GREATLY REDUCED ! -o- DIt. caiFnx Prp3 t make hi rates f r Dental services fir the 'I'-r O.' f't.-w. viz : Full emxr aol larcr set f Art. Teeth, to $10 V.i'l't.n.er or Lwer ' " " ?IjtS2i l'ivut teeth. each ca. ";tr. ' caeh. r'mis? Ltth, from 'o Extraitinz. i ' ectit per tidi. Cl-'ansin,;, 50 ecrt tj 61,50, Other :i;.u.r ! ra ti n ia pr-jp jr:'a. Terms, U. S. co:a ir iti c 'niralt-i.t. X. B. 0ee over Kcntlv-y' ehoe t re. in the ..Id past i.5c Lailduir. opjHwxte i'.ter brivk, Aluanr. Qrzn. IH. K. II. ClIIFFIX. . Dee. Of, ISii vln?'Jtf. cisaxoi:, COL'aSELLOB ATT0S5EV W AT LAW,f Office la Xcrs Erick huild'.iS.uif-staiM, Albany, Ogon, aI JOII J. WSIITXEY, ITTQSIiEr l.D CCD'SEllOS AT a u anl Ilotary Public. Speeial attsQ:iiJii gircn to collections. 0?fics la tiie Court House. Albany, Oregon. T3n33tf. C W. GK.1Y, O. 1. GRADUATt CF CiNClU.'iAT! DENTAL . CCUEGE. ;TJ73L'L&.IXVITi2 ALL PZRsOSS VKSlll Vf ia; ArtiS-ixl te:!. aal Cft-e! Lc-atai 0'ira:i a-. t- rirr liv.s a CkH. "Sieeiajnf -f Va'.ear.iti with geld plate Luia, aid ilher usw utyica of work, may Le -en at hi oiTiee. up stalra in l'arrba i Co.'t Uriek, Albany, Ore-ron. Resilnee, eorner of seond and Raker rtrecta. prll'6Sv3n3itf J. e. POITELL. L ATTORNEYS A SI) COUNSELLORS AT LA W AS'D SOLICITOUS IX CllASCEU. Y, (!. Flinn, Notary Public.) A LBAXY, Oren. C-'dlctiond and convcy- ancc.a promptly tU-ndd to. oc20nl01y ZIIl4TAXSIDX CO., BEALKHS IX GROCERIES AXD PRO VI sioas, Wool and Willow Ware, Confection ery, Tobacco, Cigars, Piti!, Xotions, etc. Store ou ilaiae street, aijoinia t'ac Eipres.s oTice, Al banj, Oregoa. se2Sr3n7tf THE EYES ! DR. T. L. TIIE EARS! GOLD EH, OCULIST AND AURIST, , ALIIAXY, oregox. Dr. Golden (a son of tlie nottd OM Opbtaalraie Doctor, S. C. G jitJea), has bad espirrieace in treat in; ta various dL-eaaes to which the ere and ear arc subject, and Lelj confident of giving entire satiifkiaua to tho.30 who may place tLeaiselves under his cars. : . ; .-. ' aprlO v-tnSltf V. F. BtSSEf.L, Att'y at Law. JAMES CLKIXS, Xotary I'ublic. OiSee ia Parrisli's t Co.'s Dlock. Tirst Street, ; V . ALBANY, OREGOX. Il&viag taken into co-partnership James Elkins, Esq., Lx-Clerk of Linn county, Oregon, we are enabled to add to our practice of law and collec tions, superior fae'Iities for Conveyancing, Examining Eecords, r , asd - .. .. Attending- to Probato Business. Deeds, Bonds, Cor tracts and Mortgages carefully drawn.-.. Jlomestesui and Pre-emption papers made (ind Clr.ims secare 1. Sales of Real Estate negoti ated, and loans ejected on Collateral securities on reason abl rates. , ;- " All business entrusted to them will be promptly attended to. . RUiiSCLL & ELKIXS. - Oct. 6, 1SCS v2niCtf MASTER J. H. BRENNER WILL UIVE LESSOSS OS THE "piano, violin and organ -AT- HIS OTO 01 PUPIL'S : EE3IDE1T0E. LESSONS GlYiill IM FRENCH LANGUAGE For particulars enquire at corner of Broad Albin and Second streets. - ' flgfllo refers to Prof. Jobs Beiggs. , Albany, Oet. If , 1SG0 m3. ' i is ' VOL. V. THE KTOUY OF A POllTltAlT. n is oiuy an every-day laco. T 1 ' ' - i "Lvcry-day faces havo;' histories. mo two young girls stood before tho portrait the v. had just drawn but front amidst tho inbhibh and confusion of an unseen chamber. ; It was a dull, cfrav afternoon." and they had wandered over tho largo old ..... . o. JUouse. to wluch thev had eomo for a fortnight's visit, Beekin' to while away the lonesomo hours. "How I would like to know some thing about her said Famiy tho eld est. "I wonder if aunt Buriress could tell mo?" "AYhat is that, Jane? Tho door opened unheard in their conversation and an elderly lady stootl coking in on tho threshold. "Oh, Mrs. Burgos:-!, wo were looking at tins picture, lanny is curious to know its history. I told her, most Ikely, tho original had been dead and buried a hundred years. "Not so long, my dear," Raid Mrs. .burgess, shaking her head, a utile :ullv. "Don't 3011 see her dress 1 modern? I knew her myself in my young-days ; I used to visit her; but she was lLicbel Ivichards then, a poor girl, and not Mrs. Rachel Vincent, as sdie afterwards became." "Oh. I am sure there is a storv about it," said Fanny, eagerly ; "do, please tell us Mrs. Burgess !" " "It is hardly a cheerful one, my dear, but open tho window, thost rooms have b' en fchut up so long, and I will try and retrace it." Jar.e thing open tho window, letting in a shower of rain drops which had gathered on the sash, and a current of sweet Juno air, laden with scents of apple blossoms and lilacs. "Mr Vincent, who owned the house, ana tuee lamis, stretching lar as you see on every side, was my undo my uncle by courtesy he was my aunt's husband. "NYhcu I first saw Bachel Bichards, who smiles ko' sorrowfully upon us from that portrait hc was a young lady of twenty, ten whele years my senior. She had no father or mother, was a poor orphan, and had been brought ii! bv inv aunt out of chanty havinjr vr r r nearly a servant's place in the family. She was very prettr; -thU picture here does not do hor justice, though it would have been hard to catch the light and play of those line features ; it miht have been happier for her in the end, if she hadn't been eo hand Home ; it loohs U) but I can't say. My uncle and aunt had only one child, a son ; how very, very fond they were of him ! ther made an idol of him, which we shouldn't do of human be ings. Of cour.-e he disappointed them. Ke was three years older than llaehel, and brought up with her. Arthur went away to finish his ed ucation, and w:i gone two years. The last year was spent in traveling with bin tutor. He came back a very accom plished gentleman, and his fond pa rents doated upon him more than ever. His coming home fell just in the be ginning of my visit ; I was here with an old sister; my aunt had begged of my mother permission for us to come and stay throught the whole summer. After liis greeting from his parents was over, he v. cnt out into the serv ant's hall. Rachel was there ; she was too proud to come with the rest to greet him. I was there, too, having just ran out. I saw her draw bach, and her face Hush, as, after speaking to the others, he eamo towards her; poor thing, sho felt her position, she was very proud; it must have been in tuitive in her, brought up as ehc Had been. Yhv. Rachel, how you have changed,' he said, holding her hand. 'I shouldn't have known tou any where;' and his eyes spoke a very warm admiration, tempered with respect. I noticed it, child a.s I was, and wondered why the color went out of her face, and her look fell. lou can guess what com e3 next. Arthur was a very , honorable . young man; he had no thoughts of deceiving her; he came very soon to -the point. , He must have loved her very dearly to biiiig suclt gri'f to .his parents. '1 think they had rather he would have died his mother, at least tenderly as she loved him. But the discovery did not come for a long time. Rachel had another lover. I believe in heart she loved him best, but he was poor. He was a poor clerk at the chief shop in the Tillage the village was much larger than it is now; 'you don't know hov.r the placs has dwindled since those days and his mother was a poor wid ow, entirely dependent upon him for support.. If she had engaged herself to Robert Leavitt it might have been a weary waiting; to nave married him at once wpuld have been to step into poverty. ' - "But, Mr3. Burgess," ' interposed Fanny, "why do you suppose she had a preference for Mr. Leavitt? Mr, 'Vin cent was more accomplished and agree able, wasn't he?" . . : : rt ' - f. ' ; "I will tell you, my dear, some thing that I saw, a meeting between themr It was a June twili?ht, and I had wandered out alone in the garden. I heard voices,- and came -nearly upon Rachel and Mr. Leavitt close' by the arbor. - They were talking -together. -1 ought to have run away; I feel asham ed to recall it. ' I don't know why '. didn't. He wasreproaching her with her changed wrays towards him, and she at first made him no answer; Then he talked of Vincent ,: and made quick sighted by his passion, seem to catch at tho whole truth. Rachel tried to deny it ; she said Mr.. Vincent was far above her, and hadn't any thoughts of her, but her voice seemed suddenly :to stop t W- If if n ALBANY, You'll bo sorry.. when it's-too lato Rftehei-' sand Sir. Leavitt bitterly I . You aro throvvinsr from vou a true 2 heartvou'li one day know the worth jont.. Vincent will never marry you. you may aepenu upon mat; nos oniy lhrhng with you, or something worse. How daro you talk to mo in this way? sho retorted, l vo borne with you long enough to-night. Don't come near mo again until you can talk to mo with proper respect. : - , - . Sho broke away, from him, and I, to avoid being seen, darted into a by path in. tho shrubberies. I didn't tell my sister when I went in; I wanted to do so; but somhow Komthing witheld me; I knew I had dono wrong to lis ten. : i . "Sho mado up her mind very goon; sho was married privately to Aiucent. It all came out just before my visit closed. I never shall forget that morning. Rachel, I, and my sister were in tho dining room. Kaehel was Hewing. I bee now distinctly tho white and red roses which crowded tho vases on tho mantel; how fresh they were. Rachel had cathered them: it was one of tho allotments of her morn m g work. I said Rachel was no wing; my sister had a book, I was lounging about tho sofa. ' Suddenly mv aunt came in, Hushed and angry; she walked up to Rachel, and shook her violently by tho shoul der. Hie girl dropped her work, and looked up into her face, with a start. 'Come, hus-sy she said or hissed, for the words seemed to coiuo f rom be tween her teeth, 'out of this house you go-not another hour. "Stop, madam. My cousin's figure moved, suddenly from behind a screen tit the other end of the room, whero it sccuim ho had been writing at a table unobserved by us all, and his hand went hurriedly ou the infuriated woman's nrm. "Mother vou arc talking to m v wife." ever shall I forget that moment; the white, ashy face that turned to hi s. Sho stootl perfectly still, as if struck by a spell. Then she threw out her anus, and: the blood gurgled up to her mouth.! Her son caught her in time to break, her fall ou the floor. . A scene of confusion followed. My sinter fainted... I think she loved Vincent; I was too young to suspect it at the time. I thought so afterwards, and I belbve it was my aunt's plan to bring them together ; but Vincent was of another mind. Rachel was very com Her calmness was astonishing attcr the t firht shock. I think sho was 'lad a discovery had taken place. She knew they would have to make the bet of it, when their mortiiication had cooled down. I went awa' with my sister the nest morning, and did not seo what fol lowed. - Mrs. Burgess paused. "I think Rachel was very ungrate ful, "-said Fanny, to marrv Vincent so privately, when his mother brought her up. I don't see how his mother could overlook it. "She never did. I think the mor tification and anger hurried her into the grave. She survived his marriage only one year; his father was killed very shortly after by a fall from his horse; so Rachel was indeed Mrs. Vin cent." , r : "How did she bear her new posi tion ? Did you visit her, Mrs. Jiur gess?" . . Xot then; they came to see us; it was three years after the marriage, or near. Mrs. Vincent had just put off her mourning. . "We were living in C then. - ' My parents gave them a cordial wel come, for Vincent's sake, but they had, of course, their prejudices towards his wife. ' She was greatly , changed more beautiful than ever, with all the new aid.s of dress, and very gay. Oh, hIio was. unlike the still, silent Rachel Richards as possible ! I do not think Vincent had found the happiness he expected in his mar- age. I have wondered if he had not discovered already his wife' indiffer ence to him. . My sister, poor girl, could not re press an emotion of envy. I began to see it then. I think Vincent saw it, too, and that he had already began to rc- X)ent nis nasty matcn. bull, as I have said, Rachel was beautiful and very charming. She had acquired a "great many accomplish ments since her marriage; her hus band had spared no cost in her teach ing, and her manners somehow re minded one of what we read of the grace and ease of tho courts. I don't know how sho came by them. They were with us a week, and then went on a short tour they were making. rThey urged lis to visit them the fol lowing autumn, but my. sister declined. It was fully three years before I saw them again. " I went to them on a vis it to my aunt. She; too, had married into the Vincent family, but was then a WldOW. ';- . -.V : Rachel was now a matured woman. It was about the time this portrait was taken; you see how sorrowful it looks. I think her life had not proved all she expected; she had began to tiro of its hoilowness and splendor. ; She was too gay and charming to be natural. I began to think, young as T was that much of bier gaiety lay upon tho surface. Perhaps an accident which took place one day-helped me in the discover'. We rode out in the green, country --lanes.- and stopped our horses before a cottage to get a drink of water. ; : It wa3 one of tho loveliest land OllEGON, ElilJDAY, NOYBMB Ell 20, -18C9. scapes I ever looked upon -hills, vales; ami groves, and a silver river thread ing close between tho green baulks. The farmer h wife or such I thought her cama out with a gla;s and tutchcr of sparJamg. water in her hands. Yc quenched our thirst. ' - , Mrs. ineent; whoso eyes had been fixed intentl y.on tho little child toddling at her feet, bent forward suddenly tvi sho turned away to make some remark on the iK auty of tho scenery, and clott ed by asking the fitranger's immo. ? "Leavitt, ma'am," ud tho woman. looking rather surprised at tho .question,- 'Leavitt." I turned struck by a curiosity, to glance at the woman as she disappear ed. I saw a fair graceful figuio, a coun tenance le:ts ctnkiugly beautiful than Rachel s but fme and winning in its expression. -'This, then, I know at once, was Robert Leavitt's wife, Rach el's old lover. Jleiift 1 reconciled him self to his disappointment. I stole a look at her. I saw her hand tremb'e as it held a cluster of water lillies on her hip, and her faeo growing whits; under her veil. No 0110 clso noticed her emotion. There were two other ladies with us, and soon she w as chat ting away gayly as usual; but wo never came that way again. I think Rachcd and her husband did not live very happily together. He had something of hu mother's imoerious temper, ami I think, a I have raid beforo, that ho began early to doubt he wisdom of Lis choice. "Tho next few vears were very im portant ones in our home. My sifter marrh'd, my father died, and our little household xi completely broken up. L heard nlsmt that time suddenly of a separation between Mr. and Mrs. Vin- reut, and that tho former had sued for a uivoreo. ui course evtrvlxKiv took the gentleman's side. He had friends aud means the wife had not a rela tive in the world. Ho fOt ins cane, ow, I do not know; but I suppose bv some quibble of the lav.. 1 cannot hmk Ra"hel wan criminal. Sho did not go away from lu re : if she had lone so, people would have said she Wits with her alleged lover. Captain Lessiugtou ; but. on the contrary, she tired a room in tho village and took in sewing to support herself. Sho hr.d a rave lu art. -Most women would have suraiiK irons su n a course, out him chose to live scandal down, and took'hl eaw. Her dark hair now thicklv the only wav slie could to uphold her, innocence, hae Itad xrt n generous in;ly back, and lier even wore a Joo nor days ox prosjienty ; no ono lata a word or act of pride aidant her, and! i-o there wcro very few to rejoice in j her downfall, fche h;ub taken her old - name of Jucnel ltauaidH again, ljiui ijo:. wonder if she did not widt she could Very plainly Rachel's doclinln go back to tlmuo dear old day. lsaprs- . .r.i . i ...... 1 . .f.v i? er with all their petty moruflcaiiumiav ni.i-r iivr i!iu t;au swell. and frrmfs than tho gloomy ytars of himself of her f in, and, though she had erred,- he must havo known Unit he, too, was in fault. They met some times in tho village 'streets,' tho pale ticamstres.4 ou foot, the rich country gentleman in hi carriage These were bitter meetings, but 1 think the husband lore tho keenest pain. , You look surprised. ' I know that Rachel was poor, and poverty and labor are no light things when one lias no object but the common bread they must eat to strive for ; still, you for get that, even iu the beginning, the chains of her married life were woven out of a very different' material from wreaths of roses, and that, when harsh words came, as no doubt they soon did, tho bondago might well grow ihr tolerable. As for Vincent, ho had what hij wife had not -recollection of family honor, and the consciousness, too, that he had acted. hastily, both in his marriage itself, and in its late repudi ation." "What became of her?" asked Fan ny. ' 'Did they come together again ?" "No, a stranger thing ? canio about. After more than twelve years of this life,' when; Rachel's , dark ; locks wcro thickly woven - with silver and tho bloom of, j'outh had quite passed away, Leavitt, then a widower,: camo and renewed hia suit to her 1" "Why, ;Mrs. Rurgeast. how could ho?"-. "It wag very natural,, my dear, though such romantic cventi seldom come around. Mr. Vincent was dead, and Mr. Leavitt, knowing her as well as he onco did, never could havo be lieved the aspersions on her character. Her life, too, by that timo, , had lived them down." - ... "But sho refused to marry Mr. Lea vitt?",:? ;..,. -Tr. ' - :: " ;",Yes, and no doubt he felt it keenly enough, but his own marriage had fol lowed afterwards; and ho had had an ample timo to loso the freshness of hi mortification and anger. , ; She had suf fered enough to atono for her error, lie knew that." i ; , : "How vvondet ful it was they should come together at last. ; I don t thinl she deserved so much happiness." f , ."God knows best, my dear. She had some excuses for her faults. She never had any mother, poor thing, to remember and as I have told you her lot with my aunt, could . not have been, a very happy ? one. ...If Mr. , - Vin cent had been moro patient, more to! erant with her faults, though sho never couhbhayo loved him, she might have mado a better wife." ; "Did you see her after her second marriage, Mrs. JJurgess. t . "Yes, once ; that was not long after my brothor-m-Iaw had purchased this property, and just after my husband's death. ... My health waa much broken, ' and weann ami nonor.. . t.trtea nom iter, aau saw uur :utitautg rrrm' for bint and fwr lie iake cf justiec. -bout Fara;mg:o:i to beware how they Mr. Vincent was not happy. He jin the door .where the had received And t , even theu, I bore iheio aeeu-ltrvai mv wile and childien, aa I hear had won hw case, but how eould ho. our tuankftd mhens. cumulated outrage- without lifting a hand j they have had them under arrest by r- be ? I think there waa a lingerfng Cophl her lortrait have Itoen taken t(J iVcliu iuy broiher. and j-Utcr' blood. ! dcr ef the drunken Rowen. and I will say tendcrueKj ia hw heart toward hu nt toat moment to a-tnd side by side Loviniry darin-wife aLd little children! to lh,h Hill and Jue MeGVuau to walk t . I 9 i - I T r. . t . . f . . . 1 1 s wtie, it iter ait.- lie count not convince hh t-u wouki ?5ee tue iruit in - r m i ia t t m - ai .. . a i r . - t w i ' ' w - my sister-in-law persuaded me to come here to try tho benefit .of tho fresh country air. "YYo drove out often together, and oueo we came upon one of tho:;o fresh, green Janes where tho incident I have described took place, s sThat, said my sbter-in-law, an I looked out at the cottage, 'is tho resi dence of Mr. Leavitt. Quito a roman tic history is connected with his second marriago oh, I forgot !' Sho stopped in confusion. .'Tho lato Mr. Vincent was your cous in?' 'But how said 1, wondcringly, 'did Mr. Leavitt purchase this farm? I understood ho was a poor clerk. I supposed he remained in that position u ways i of his firnt marriage and left him tbii place, lvj was a hard, avaneiuusman. L believe, and had never taken any no tice of hi i relatives in his lifetime.' If Rachel had only waited I thought. I felt curious to see her ; but did not know how to gratify my interest. An odd chance helped me. I choso this direction for our drives often. This was not singular, for, as I have' told you, tho landscapes about there were very beautiful. One day an accident happened to-our carriage in this very spotono of the wheels gave way; the fa:4cning, I think, had got loosened, ami wu were compelled to alight. Forttnmtely, wo were at that mo ment walking our horses, and they did not mko fright. A light spring show er v.xi.i beginning to full, ami our con dition was not very agreeable. Mrs. Leavitt t-nmo out of her eot tiga, r.nd with grateful hospitality in vited mo to enter. She did not tseem to remember me ; perhaps timo and rorrov.' Itul changed mv face, or. most likely, she did not desire to renew ourfUieni of the lVirai old ac f unin tin ce. It was a homely farmhouse , but I couni not out noiieo tne ex '.fStlihti, or- d r and symmetry which itcrvaded its humble appuiiitra lit ;. A of white and red roses ou tho table, evi dently fresh ctillcd frota the little gar den lm ath the windows, brought up the strange morning of tlie discovery of her lr..t marriago with startling dLs tinctneHi. ' I looked, at her as she sat entertain ing her gu d, with very much of her threaded wit Is gray, was parted smooth- o: sere content, snen as i uaa never teen in them in the old dsys. A slight, pretty girl, evidently a step-daughter, came iu ; her fact, too, wore a cheer- rycars vvere neue-r, xaucit truer, nappier, iisan - il 1. - f.r ... l i , jl loouci UAvlz at her when wo hrul the leoti she was only learning when: tho paiatr made it." "And she never had any regrets for her old fortunes ?" said Jane. '"Well, i I am glad t he was hapjy at last. Nowl I copte to look clearer at this jjaintin r,! I think it h not an everyday face ; the even have a world of tltought. Poor Rachel ; how much the must have suf fered! but how fortunate to be able to retrieve her mistake at last." "Ye," kuM Mrs. Burgess, "it 'was a good fortune, which fails to very few in this world. We generally have to bear the penalties of so great a mis take as this through the rest of our lives." The torn broko suddenly from tho clouds, still dripping with rain, and shone m the chamber. mmTing a mournful glory around tho portrait. lite tlartc eves seemed to kindle, tho sorrowful lips to curve into a smile un der its rayn. -Tho littlo group gazed upon it with deep interest, the same thought stirring silently in the hearts of each "Every human life has a his tory." ' - - " ii m "i " r -i . . ! Awrrn Sma-rr. 'Idcrk " said a tall Kentuckiau to a hotel olhcial, "this young woman and iae have eloped. Have vou any' marrying facilities around hero?" The cleric replied in the .affirmative-. and tho two wero spliced in. less , than an hour. , The' bridegroom was evi dently not yeif Katisfied, and lingered around the hotel book. . "Clerk," said ho, confidentially, at length, "hadn't ye better change, the register, and give us i ono room, now we're married V" ' ' "It's already done " replied tho clerk, "you'ro marked for tho same room." , - ' . . ''Well, clerk," replied tho Kentuck ian, quickly, "won't you just show mo up, then, for I'm mful xleqy !" ; On ' DanssiNO.- -A friend in South Carolina' writes of a littlo favorite, Helen, who lately being much interested in her doll s wardrobe, wished her to tell some stones about dressing. "l lutena my littlo doll fihall'bo a nico young lady like vou."-sho said, Which meant among other things that dolly was to bo prettily dress ed. Tho teacher prececdcdf to tell the story of mother Ev6s costume. , and of its being unnecessary for her to wear any clothing until after the fall by sin. ; Hel en looked in ; utter astonishment at tho new. dies she was- arranging for dolly, as the teacher, gave, tue narrative, ana at last dropping tho tiny garment she held, at tho thought that it might have been no Use had A-dam not disobeyed, she said 'I'm real glad ho sinned, ain't you, Miss Sarah T - v.;; i .. . , . ' A hat manufacturer claims for himself thq title of. "Universal Sympathizer" be cause, ho says, ho has felt for every one. NO; Iff 'Front tho ft. Lou l Time. I1II.IS:US:SAD. An Authentb Letter from Him Own Ctfclemctt of Affairs fwan.tto Beginning ; , of tha fur to the; Present Tin:?. , - Mkmpijis, Tknm.,' Oct. 17, 1800. As "fitir nliy" U one of (ho icsveh of Amerieaa character, and u it i consiiler cJ right niil proj er to'givo even the dtuil "hit due," I hoj.e you will nt refun; u, giye to the putiit, through .yjur iiely read paper, li.tm. IliMcrhraud's ovm utafo iscnt of his history sirsco tho bcintiiug of the htto terrible vrur ; to the el that taie minded io umy judge whether there were not souio goe-1 itasuns uud fctrung j-rovucalioiis ier the depcritc . dctfd-rf charsetl nain.Ht L:e. V'hc the war hc'Uii T Visa h:s !;?!'' n quiet, j-caecahlc lilV, trying tu f rvvilc fer my family in an honest though hnmhle flAiera of lifj. In thy condition ofafLir. in my part of Mhewuri. I had made wj luy inm i to keep cut of the trouhlca and take no part in the war. In IK my brother, 1 rank lldderhrand the fttatc (juard under Jeff. i tnjUjiv-ion. On Frank's icturn to ce uur mother and family, he was captured hy a mob he.idel hy young McHIvsmc. Ry MeKivane's oraer, 1 rank was kulad afnr Uix capture ; Ms head was mashed, hi holy mandvd ad cut to pieces m nu-U u manner that the 'most 1 1 would hare hhihed to have 1 cm guibv of the deed, into a miner, to rut. Tho nest I lis body wan theu thrown d hole 50 feet cten. and ht;! outrage committed on my kiuurc'i nn'i laiony v.ai u.c lunrucr or my hrutlier, ore WaAhiogton. st;d a Cana dian named Ru.it.iche Landosky, 'who was cugaged to he married Ut my abler Marv. j litse l;H murJers were trnetrated h mcu iu IJiiion unifirui, and who wtra so -.-1 Two weeks afier iUvv tragedies my thttr Mary died ol troulle and a broken heart. Two w eek- later theic men came to tay mother's 1. u c and loaded several wagons with ocr p.'eptrry, drove of all cur cattle, anu ft.-t dwellin- ire tu J.cr lou;y, tct KIOLC ia lha settlement. ly poor, r, troe i hearted mother, s-eeinir the! hou-e btirmrg, sent usy httle brother Henry to lhoo hearties wretches and aked for the f:m!ly Rih'e as a relic t Aelwhih' they kept firing at me. - I was kept when all e!-e wh gone. Notdrtam-J'd:e:t ar.iu'-ed Jo tee my old aunt Wil ing ed harm to the little tender boy, whatH-aiJi dod-htg the tails a they cats ia can express her horror and agony when j through ih.; trail. They fiic i the house, the-se deaiuus shct my little Irothtr, not !-, z I bad Gn;le l my supper, I aban 12 year old, ihrou-u the botfcls, and a! done J my burning fertititutsoo. As I ficud then pu: lit foot on hi head ami eut hi throat. Thus were these atrochus deeds of blood and cruelty and rtbt try committed on my kiudre i and family. Let auy man put th.2 fltl!Vtih'.n tO Kttl tt !ilirr f.ur-): i ii r .... j wouM not havs srou-ed him to de.-perate jre'.aliatiaa, at the lime when the law no iJtt..6r nf , o;rcr la avc!, a mf 9 i I .1 . I ?. t .1 T uei.i'r u.u.i auywj.uz ti-e ea cariu. l; forced my heart to bear on in silence. Though eruhcd like a worm, 1 refused to t ng the foot that crushed me. Buring all thee outrages 1 had resolv ed to not go iu the Southern army, nor to meddle iu the trouble iu any way. I remuved from Rig River to Flat Wocdi, distant -5 milts, ho injr that no harm would befall me cr my vtife and children, if 1 would gwt out of the immediate neigh borhood of thasM who had murdered and outraged my lamuy. - Rut to my surprise, about the middle of May, just when my crop was looking well, aud hopo v.oS fctrong that I would be left iu peace, about tun rise one morn ing my house was surrounded by McRl- vaue and his crew of bomo l0 or -10 men, all well armed. I remembered the fate of my brothers and friends, slaughtered iu cjhl blood. like sheep, after their capture, aud 1 knew there was no hope of mercy er jus tice. Irons such uciuodsj no help except in the courage and strength that God had given mo. Ihe die with me wa3 cast. I had sought peace and quiet, but tho blood- liouuds iiau trailed me. 1 was at Lay. The conflict that I had fled from was forced upon uic. The alternative was l-fo or death. I met my pursuets at the door. I shot down two of them in their tracks, made a rush for tho woods aud escaped. Imd iug it impossible to live at cr near home, I weu t to Arkansas, aud afterward got my wile and four children. Tho two men 1 killed iu ray door was the first blood ever shed by me. Then, when a price was sot on my head, I de termined to reveuge the death of my brothers. I rode poven limes from Ar kana.4 before I could get to shoot McEl vauo, the infamous butcher, who had murdered my brothers nud sought my life. Then I meant to harm no one eke, if they would leave mo undisturbed, but some of the soldiers, piloted by Jiai Craig, a very, meddlesome spy, undertook to have mo killed. r - In self-defense I turned looso on them and made mauy of those who sought my lifo bite the dust. 1 I often met them in tho woods. They all knew rue, aud would offer to assist me. .They would make an appointment to bring me provisions to my hidiog places, and then vvould pilot sol diers there to try to have mo captured. I always killed that kind of men. I have captured many Union soldiers, but I nev er hurt or treated them , unkindly unless it was one Who had brutally treated Southern prisoners, and I know it. 5 ; T have had hundreds of hair-breadth escapes for my life; but I know there is a nierciful Gcd that knows and does all t h i n gs i i gh t a n a 1 1 - p o w e r f ul h a n d h as protected me. I havo twenty times been suddenly vraked, aud fled from my bed, when a shower, of Yankee balls would riddlo the bed I had sprang out of. 1 havo had my clothes torn, from my body 11ATL3 OF AUVKlvriSlZUt Vkh Ykar Oao Column, f 2CD ; HM ColtiKsu, $W Quarter TriUiHw-nt A&vcrtifrrnentg fer fqtiaro of ten !i;i(.f r lcf of thU sbxtl type, tint insertion, $3; tnch aut.jisu-nt itif.rtion',. I.". ' "r. " A p'jBsirii U ono itch in pnco down tie eofamn eouitfitig cv.ts, (iiqI,ijf lh.c, Llank?, Ac, at tolid mathr. fe.Ivrrii.-:K.eftt to bv cpjifhlertxl lc tlian a tunt, in all fr&ctiosa countod a fall '!re. AH &'.lyert:wtnerl iDscrk'l for les pertoj tLbu Uirte tu r;t;:s to to rcgArd&l af transient. with Yankee bullets, hut two only crer drev hi oid lr..j)i me. I mU in tuy that I Saw a Ihpvllican of June lait, vhieh confaius tn.me charge against me that frc not true, r It peak of many cruelties coujuinud ty Jliider hrand in Callovy county which are ut terly untrue. 1 never w.is in Calloway cwuty Ut my tfe. It abo charge too with cruelty to a little hoy. faho. I never harmed a w J hat also woman or child iij my lifa, I Wiisu-d only v,lU men Xfhcr ha-i inade war on me. I waa ulo accused of taking oek'of Jim MeLmo to tho amount of S0,0i0. Tho nothbors ll know th'jt Jim 'Mcha:ic always lived from hand to' mouth, and never hid uaythio tu he Mttdea or taken from hiui. 1 vriidi to add ;t fwe rcmat ks to esplaio my hite t roubles. After the excitement 'about the war ana u x rrounies eclI'i to die out: bad u.in foe nit i 'Ji-t 4 r 'j;-;c-'i m heal over past itii ?tvu)'' ot lab j. l came Lack V Hf. Francois count v.- n and talked to wsiJT or si.0 "eo cf nurrniug thj propriety of letaruing tu my d I hoi.ic. . A II I fcpoke to of ail par-tie.- fcai J, "ai;i, c'jme hoaie." I cania hack in good faith. I moved to my mother' o! I p!;;cc and lived thero zlx uwa'. ?. I then moved to Hill.-horo and flayed there until h;t fall. Finding: ii hard to tyakc a livieir there. I moved khoeklugpO" thu Mkfeippi'rirer, ncarRadi Tow- 4 M afta cliupre J v.-cou ail ;at winter. I t l''cn t''ed hack to lhe'i hreo Rivers, ou I1''' - . ram. item 9 ;hce to ra;tc a crop. - 1" I bved end walked until tlwj fouri'i ot Jane la. ?, v.hi'ii I was wajlaid a rid fchot by Jim. Mel r J. vans an l two other?, that I -or mv 4 friend.- n"ay yet Cull to aeeount. t n. Mei.ane. 31cOina aud others :' vlaul my xiwunj-e tu m murder mo iu At r"d ! t t f'i.r cay. On tho tho fourth cf June I wan fchOt through thub at my hot. L went to ty uncle Willi am i whero they jttfscU d me ix days cfier. They ? hot all day at taa there. I ."e!ec!el Jim MeLane, vthem I Lneir ouly by reputa tion, sni ftlt.it him from the house. Bher iff Rreckaar'.Jirc and ihe Lakoea cf his P-ir'y KJ earc of their fcealps after 31 c tr It v.ai theu threo t!o as I Lad c-iteu no breakfast ;er dinner, I cookc I r.iy foipj er aud ate it went out I Cuutitel tn.rty-uve men that lag ihe Lursac hou&. I saw were irnar Oeo. JiiclKcn, Jo. 31c- jGahan, an jgot too ho! ! k 1 Wii a inn s ooy. . i:e me nouso ,i if . n t fr eoudvrt, I left it, and t walked u it hi u six feet of socie of the ;guar J. Th;y teemed Lund, (they did nut ti!cr to shoot m cr at least e. 1 wiU to say to the Radical in and smoothly and cot let my family " gaffer, j They helped to kill mjfetroihei s, but they they havo not yet uiue i tue. Jim MeLane was a tool ia tho hands of that iu famous creature aud coward, Gust. St. Gtia, of St. Geaevicve, who will soma day, no matter where he may hide hiai elf, have to tnswer for many crimes ho planned, and was too cowardly to execute, but Ct others to do for him. McLaaa murdered J u ! e Burk, of St. Genevieve, Poik, over ei'uty-threo and prcacoer years f ag. ;:.."."' I wUh to pay to Gov. McClarg that I could have easily lafed him while I was in Fatmington, if 1 had watt ted to do so, but 1 look upon hiia tts a gentleman, and that ha is misled by latching to iioi from bad man, who are Radicals. All I havo wrhtm is every word true, I do not want to be killed yet awhilo; neither do I wish to kill any one if they will let imj: ahme." My enemies havo charged mo with being a thief during tho war. I was not. Ail that I fairly captured I gave away to the widows and orphans who had be2n robot d aad ware suSer- ig. - . . ; '::, - : 1 will refer to t.ny honest man who kuew me, whether I was not an- honest man. In the latter part of August tho Radical Govern mesit of Missouri had four or five hundred arswed men huntio mo down, and declared martial law. What a tempest one poor hunted man cau rise! It is because of'gn'lty consciences. They know tho wrongs they 'did, and kuowthat vengeance should fall upon the guilty. . I have had two bushel of Radical, bul lets shot at me, but only two ever drew blood. The old Indian v.heh he fired fourteen 'shoU at Gen. ' Washtngtmi, aud missed him cvery'thot, said that the Great Spirit had turued-tho bat!s aaJo. God has turned away the bullets aimed at my life, and I put my tru-4 in Him, r nd be lieve the balance of my days' will be spent more happily. -.' ;i - I a;a iu as Cue sp "rits and good health as" I, ever was uy wound is entirely healed, and I am guo l for mauy years of . life if my foes allow ma to live ia peace; and if they do not, on them bo tho eon seoueuces. . ? Let spies and informers keep at a safe distauco from me. I do not think I can. be easily trailed, but it is the pafest for any person that haV a de?irc to hunt up Hilderbraud to let that alone. Remem ber the greenhorn that started out to hunt grizzly bears in California. - In order that those who know rae and my family may know that tho writer of, this is ;'4Saui" Hilderbrandi and not a Setitious person," 1 will here gio tho names of my wife and children. My wife, Margaret ; child re'a,'-Henry, Rebecca, Mary, Elizabeth. Nancy, Catharine, Mar garet Ann, Georgo Wiishiugtou. : Yours, SAM. HlLT3ERBItANl. : l: 'r - . ' Tha. London pap;rs ore dbeussing the question as to whether it. would be prop-, tr to kill incurable lunatics.