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; VOLUME XV. LANCASTER C. IX., S. C., APRIL 11, 1866. NUMBER 9.
For the Lancaster Ledger.
THE COQUETTE.
Goodly, cruel charmer, farewell, adieu 1
,*.y you ueS r be deceived, as I've been by yoa;
A ('< quette <atinoi long my pleaaure mar,
While I've this remedy?a good Cigar.
Yes, thou art fair, but fickle and Tain,
May1)on ne'er feel what you cauaeothera?/????;
J-'or your false heai ted aei.I de not care.
I'm in love with something bellcr-a good Cigar.
Enjoy your triumph m much as van can,
^Td rather be^jille.u titan an artful woman.
.Know thin, nil the eclat attained by art.
Can't supply the want Of a genuine heart.
IIow often, bath by words and letter,
Jlave I lold thee none could lore tliec better,
At last you said for me you did not care,
Ai much aa you would for a good Cigar 1
f loved you fondly ? but the dream ia past.
The cruel spell, though ationg, ia broken at last
<H. ' free again! thank hit Ouardian Star,
I'm wedded?not to you, but?a good Cigar I
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I toved you fioin the tioie we firat naet.
Rut thou 1 did not think von a Coquette.
Co on 'till a hoet ol o her guilt! you have flayed
.Then many a fool, or die an old maid.
None can tall what 1 hare suffered for vears,
With cruel suspense, douht, hope ami fears?
Rut kind Heaven, I do now invoke :
Let thi'O^end like this?my Cigar?in SM<>KK
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fturn.
From the Field and Fireside.
THE MISERY OF TWO LIVES
oii
HURRYING FOR MOM.
BT "PLUMK COHBBAU."
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Can I think of her as dead, and love her foi
the Jove she hore ? (
To ! she neverlovsd me,truly, lovo i? leve fdr
evermore."
SI must preface with a statement that
this ifc no story. It claims no merit
as a literary product from the over
wrought imagination of a half starred
iilerateur. It is simply an old man's re
cital of an incident, the like of which it
transpiring jn our midst daily. The on
ly merit it claims?the only merit it p?asasses?rie
its truth.
* ' *
Af'.er sn absence of twenty five vear?
T had returned to New Orlesns on this
27th day of June, A. 1) 180?, and
was comfortably seated, cross legged, op
poeite my old friend Tom Alherton, ii
flie "Restaurant de Moreau," on Cans
street. We had partaken of the ooodli
^ " V
cheer furnished by the quiet end nrhain
K?>gers, end were now silently enjoying
the luxury of a fragrant "K1 80!," ami
tipping occasionally our steaming "caft
poir."
Tom Atherton and mvself had beer
schoolmates, neighbors and chume. W<
had quarreled and fought for and agains
emit other, times innumerable. We hat
played truant together, atid together w<
had committed all the mischiefs and ex
Iravagauces, that bova aee:a bound t<
qtnimit. In our growing manhood liti
feeling of companionship had ripened in
to the mora sober but more lasting feel
ing of friendship, in the purest souse o
the word. Tom Atherton baJ baen be
loved by all who knew him. In hiayootl
he had been handsome, generous, an*
01 l"fl ' >corn,l>K alw?\
a nvan action, And shunning as lie wonli
viper every species of deceit. Whil
in bis sixteenth jear be bad loet bia onl;
surviving relative, (an aged grnndmothe
with whom be had lived,) and via thu
a | ^
early thrown upon tbe charity of a pro
verhially uncharitable world. '
When I reached rny twentieth yeai
my father removed with bia family t<
New York nil*, tltd f wnmii.iil.it kim
leaving my friend Tom in a fiouriahinj
bu?ineea, and about to be united to oo<
of Orleana' faireet daughtera. We part
ed with the ueuai promise* of laetin)
friendehip, correspondence, and no on, bn
after one or two letter* received from bin
no more, except through the medium o
an ocrational N. O. acquaintance, ant
tbeo only in a general and unaatiefactor
manner.
One thing I learnt to a certainty ; h<
ana not married. Dut why, or where
I
fore his engagement had been broken otF,
I could not discover.
Looking at Liin as he eat quietly emo
king, but apparently unconscious of all
external things, I had leisure to note the
marvelous change that a few years had
' marked upon bis appearance. YVe were
of nearly the same age but as we sat
thus together, an observer would have
credited him with a seniority of at least
> fifteen years. His face was wrinkled to
a degree seldom seen except in very old
men. llis hair hung upon his shoulders
in long gray locks, hard lines were drawn
about the mouth, and his whole court,
tenance indicated an austerity and harsh*
ness. which entirely foreign to Ins
nature ; while the lustre of his pi?rc?uK
1 gray eyes told that this metamorphosis
had not heen wrought by time a one.
Determined to learn something of this
miraculous change and suspecting the
Cause 1 said suddenly.
"Tom, you hare not vst.told me what
has become of your old flame, L:zz!e
Cutter."
[ At the mention of her name he started
suddenly, clutching in his fist the table,
while the veins in his temples and fore
bead swelled to such an extent that I
thought thev must burst, lie recovered
biui'-alf however, ami said tremulons'v :
"You lite only man tliis aide the
grave llm* dares mention that name to
nie with nnpunitv- I can realize lite mo
lire tliat prompted tlie question, and for
the ?ake cf those brighter darn loop
arnce tied, bv the memory of our friend
ship in youth I will ta! 1 von all you seek
to know. But not here, not here, coino
to mv room, and this friendly curiosity
once satisfied, never recall the subject
while you live."
Alter walking in silence a fow miniitea
we reached lbs residence, and after see
ing me seated be leaned upon the back
of an arm chair and commenced immediately
as follows ;
"You knew Lir^s'e Cutter in her youth,
and von knew also of the love between
ns, an-j the glorious realization that our
I voting hearts dreamed of. Mr friend
Van it only * d rf am. a fond, foolish,
i mi?erable, but Mill a bright and gloriotia
dream. Tha *?leaning from it waa to
1 ma worse. infinitely worr.e than death ; to
bar. nothing. I rannnt taM you how I
Jored bar, how *he and aha alone, became
, the one object that I worshipped with an
i almost saeriligious adoration. Ware I to
I attempt to detail my feeling* toward her,
] eon would call ma a rhapsodized fool.?
t [ And so I was. Heaven* and earth ! (he
I cried paring the floor violentlv) what, da
1 vil was it that cozened me thus at hood
? man blind f whv idolatrv tha most corn[
plate, the most hideous that this broad
I earth baa ever known.was pure and tame
i beside the worahtp lj<at I ofTared up to
this woman,
i I had no hope, no ambition, nothonght
, l._ 1 !-L. - 1 - - 1
> i ?>y \imy or n'gni, smvping or WhK'H? t?Ul
t I had its source in her! If mIia ha<l bid me
i , commit (he direst deed that ever black
I ened human annate, I believe I should
! have done it, ay, end gloried in it if but
> ! |l? had smiled upon me. But no such
s thought came to me (hen. To me she
was as gui'eteM, as gentle, as pure as the
white robed angels of innocence?and yet
f ibis woman, giftel by nature with h**l>ty
and intellect, bearing in ever? lineament
i of her face the semblance of truth, whisI
paring to me in honied accents soft words
s of love; this woman I say, good, gentle,
J pure and truthful as I thought her?
e dectived mi ! Kohbed me io one ehort
y moment of haith, Hope and Charity?
r plucked frflifc out my bosom everv hope
s she had implanted tbere, and trampled
i- there tinder her dainty feet with es little
remorse as she would have crushed a leaf,
r, Oh 1 it was a goodly daed.
> And for what was this dons, you ask f
, ay, for what I for that which makes most
I man end women deyils incarnate?for
e that which haa exalted treachery, robbery,
, ey, and even murder to be commendable
I ^irtuee?filthly gold I
t flhe had be?n moved with "traitorous
S gifts." aud for this nsftfV sarlhv linul
- - r? ;? "* "/
if ehe
t "Pluelced off the reee from the fair ferebead
r Of eo ioDoeeat lore, and Ml a blister there."
**1 can tun noer recall bar worde of die*
? miual, I would not if I coat J. It wu
i br??elf dot-b, no summering, no ahnnk*
/
ing, no hesitation; the words came from
her in the slow measured tones that she
would have given her milliner. I lis*
tened a: one in a trance to the sound*
that came from her lips. I was stupefied
?deadened. One only truth come to j
me, knocking its way to the brain that
had shutout all else. She that had been
my-Lizzie, was ruine no more. Hence !
forth and forever she was dead to me.
Would to 0?(i the had died 'era she had
so deceived med
"I cannot tell you what I suffered,i
though it is through no fear of being
called unmanly, that I shun the racital.
There are sufferings and Borrows that
ccme to men's hearts, that shua exposure
e?ec. to the nearest and dearest; and ?
' There where we have garnered up our hearts,
Where either we must lire or hare no life?
to meet with deceit theia?is the bitterest
grief that ever fell to lot of man.
Well, she was wedded soon after to
her golden calf and, mockery of mockeries,
insult upon injury, I w>?s invited to he
present at the sale. I went, the invitation
was her triumph, .the acceptance was
ntine. A greater waa still to come.
/.
I Smothering the fires that raged within
me, I arrayed mvaelf wi'.h scrupulous
care and mingled with the gay throng
that had met to do her homage. I knew
that I should n<n he expscted, and fotthis
reason I attended.
"The words had ,been uttered that
made her Mr*. Marmaduke Glenn, and
tlie parasitical crowd had thronged about
ber to offer their meanincleas congratula,
tiona. I waited patiently until this silly
palaver bad ended, then stepping from
tbe shadow of the curtain where I had
been standing, I traced inv steps towards
ber. Almost all within tbe room had
known of our engagement, and as I ad*
vanced towards the newly made bride,
the crowd gave war upon each side and
afforded me a clear passage, while they
listened eagerly for what I might say. I
took the dainty jewel laden band within
tnr own, and having by nn almost superhum*n
effort mattered myself, I said in
measured, decisive end audible accents,
"May you meet all the happiness you so
richly destrvAs I released her hand
and turned from her, she nhuddered, but
littered not a word. Another morsel
of triumph was mine."
"Let me hurry to a conclusion.
Maddened to an extent almost bevond
t t
conception I sought relief in the excite
ment cf speculation, heedless where it
carried me, if only it would crush out the
one miserable thought within me. j(
gambled in commerce to a fearful extent,
hut here Fortune, as if to make amends
| for'former failures crowned iny ventures
with Success. Every rashly calculated
speculation, every wild scheme, returned
me profits almost fabulous, until in a few
I rears I counted mv col.l be lmndr?rU nf
thousands. JJut what availed it! aha
for whom I could have striven, and at
whose feel I should have gloried to l*y
. this treasure, had sold hergeli heart, body
and soul for a paltrier sum than this.
| ''Meanwhile her lord and master, a
I silly, shallow brained animal, had wearied
of his bargain and then came the old
j story."
"He held her when his passion had spent its
novel ferce,
A something better then his dog, s little dearer
than his horse."
"He began by spending hie da^s from
tiome, and gradually the nighta came to
L. ? - - ? - * *
i o? p?">i at ma uay*, in oar rooms and
gambling he'ls. Ha gamed and drank
' heavily, often ramaining from homa for
, several darn, until carriad ibara in a state
of beastly intoxication.
I lit ladv deprived of hit companion hip,
and for bar tin, denied by Heaven
tlia blasting of children, rushed into the
giddv round of plaaaura and fashion, and
for a few years reigned as "Queen of the
Toilet," which meant a painted, white'
washed, bedizened imitation of God's
work?woman.
Tkit could oot however laat. The gold
eo idly squandered by him and her, mutt
sometime have an er.d, and the end came
full aoon. Piece by piece bis property
was told, until at last the house they
lived In followed suit, ted of this at of al|
other* I became the purchaser. Now
came her trial. Her summer friends, the
gay, fashionable and weeitby, dropped
off one by one like autumn leaves, nod
s
left her solitary and ilone.
"Her husband became more dissipated,
exacting and cruel, and I have beard be
beat her.''
"JU.aving kept up a show of acquaintanceship
with me, lie now turned it to
advantage and came to me to borrow
money. Av ! the man whose lucre had |
been weighed in the balances against my I
heart, came to me again, again and a gain,
for tponey to live on. Oh ! it was a
luxury of revenge to know ^at iJ;h hand
! otic* scorned bv this woman, was the only
one now stretched forth to aid her ia her
distress. Thus have I done foi months,
anil this has been tny triumph."
"Now comes the end."
"Today a woman poorlv clad, pale,
wan and haggard, from dissipation and
care ; carrying in her heart the misery of
remorse for a broken faith and misspent
life, who in the time to come can know
no happiness, in whose future there is no
single ray of light, aits night and day by
the bedside of lier "golden husband,"
whose lamp of life flickers in its socket,
lie i.o a wild, raving maniac, the vietim
of disease and "mania potu." Her task
of conjugal duty is almost done, it ceases
with Ins lite, which must end in a few
hours, but tier misery must endure so
long as God shall vouchsafe to her existence.
"What mv misery has been tnti must
he. you may judg? from the wreck that
stands before you."
"And this is niarrting for money."
I left him shortly after, and as I went
down the stairs caught myself quoting
:
"Oil if I were a God and had the world
to make, I'd make no woman."
The Mute Detective.
"No d"g* admitted, sir," said the porler
to a gay assemblage, as a voting man and
liis dog appeared at the entrance : "you
must leave him behind if you go in."
"Very well" said the young man, "stay
about here, Prince, till I come hack !"?
and he joined the crowd within. Byi
and'by the young man wished to refer to
his watch, when behold! the chain had
been snapped ir> two, and the valuable
(iiue peace was gone, lie considered the
case a moment, and then a sudden thought
flashed through his mind. So stepping
out, he whispered the fact to the porter,
and gained permission to take his do? in
for a minute or two. "Look here, Prince,"
said he, "you knowing dog, my watch is
stolen and he showed him the emp'y
pocket and the cut ch ain. "Do you un
derstand, old fellow ? In there, sir, is the
j thief. You find it, my go<>d doggie, and
j I'll get you a famous treat. V'ou untjeri
| stand, do yoi} 1" Prince wagged liis
head and tail, and gave his master a
wonderfully knowing took, and then the
two stole quietly into the place again.
Quietly this dumb defective glided
aroQnd among the people, smelling away
at this one's coat and at thai one's chin,
until at last he set his teeth fismly into
the coat skirt of a genteel looking man,
and could not he shaken otf. The young
laau quietly made known the case ;o the
bystanders who gathered around him,
and had the thiel's pockets duly rearched,
Six other watches were found upon bim
which lie bad gathered up in the courts
of (lie morning, and which their rightfu
owner* war* vary 'dad to get their handi
on again. IVince (elected out Lie aias
ter's property in a twinkling, at (hat wai
all lie cared for, and gave it to liirn joy
fully. It would have taken a very keer
policeman to do the work >o neatly anc
quickly, and all agreed that he merited
at good a dinner an a dxg could have
A good beef hone and a bowl of milk
however, abundantly satisfied all bii
want*, and then lie was juit ae ready t<
1 do tbe same favor over again.
A gentleman by lb# name of Peppei
bad been thrown several times from i
spirited horse, and was relating the cir
cum stances to a friend the same linn
' | observing be bad never given bis hors<
It DIII1IV* ?
"I think," obnsrvad the friend, "yot
I should call him Pap par castar."
i "Shorgu, why is ths Jamas rirar lika i
I ksg of lagar bear!" "liaoauas tbsy boll
! flow into tba Dutch Gap Canal.
i TUB SECOND VETO
:o:
itiie civil incurs bill.
:o:
The following ia % synopsis of the President'*
message, vetoing the ' Civil Ilighl't*
Bill
it .' r* . -
oy me urst section or tlie bill, all peri
tone born iu the United States, and not
subject to any foreign power, excluding
Indians not taxed, are declared to be
citizens cf the United States.
This provision comprehends the Chinese
of the Pacific States, Indiana subject to
taxation, and the peep!# called Gypsies,
as well as the etv'ire race designated as
blacks, people of color, negroes, inulattoes,
and persons of African blood. Every individual
of these races born in the United
States is, by the bill, made a citizen of the
United States. It does not purport to
declare 01 confer any othsr right of ciib
zenship, and does not purport to give
these classes of persons any status as
citizens of States, except that which may
result fiom their status as citizens of the
United Statea. *
The power to confer the right of State
citizenship, is just as exclusively with the
several States as the power to confer the
right of f ederal citizenship is with Con
gress. The right of Federal citizenship
thus to be conferred ou the several excepted
races before mentioned, is now, for
the first time, proposed to bo given by
law Tlta Kill in nriinnoaj a /lt?. I
? " ? ? ? ?
crimination againi large numbers of
foreigner*, and in favor of the negro, to
whom, after long Vjjsrs of bondage, tbe
avenue* to freeJoiu and intelligence have
now been suddenly opened. IIo must of
necessity, from bis previous unfortunate
condition of servitude, be less informed
as to the nature and character of our in
stitulions than be who, coming from
abroad, has to some extent, at least,
familiarized himself with the principles of
government to which be voluntaiilv en,
truated life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness. Yet, it is now proposed by a
single legislative enactment to confer the
rights of citizons upon all persons of
African descent born witliin the extended
limits of the United States, while persons
I of foreign birth who make our land tiieir
I homes must undergo a probation of fiVe
1 years, and can onlv then become citizens
upon proof that tliey art of good moral
character, attached to the principles of
the institutions of tue United States, and
well disposed to the good order aud hap.
pint-st of the sama.
In reviewing these section? of the l<ill,
| he says: If it he granted that Congress
j can repeal all Slate laws discriminating
| between whites and blacks on the sub.
' jects covered by this bill, why, it may he
asked, may not Congress repeal in the
same way all State laws discriminating
between tha two races on the subjects of
suffrage and office I If Congress can tie
clare by law who shall hold lands, who
, shall testify, who shall have capacity to
m ake a contract in a State, then Con.
,' grets can by law also declare who, with'
, out regard to color or race, ?hail have the
right to act as a juror or as a judge, or to
hold any other office, and, finally, tovote
( i in every Stale and Territory of the United
( | Slates.
I j reaped* the Territories, they com*
, i within the power of Congress, for as tc
, 1 tiieru the law-making power is the Keder
t al power; hot as to the Statee, nosimilai
, I provision exists resting in Congress the
, 1 power to make rules end regulations foi
I them. The P/esident says, in conclusion
I in all our history?in all our experiene<
as e people living under Federal anc
State law?no such system as that con
, lemplatcd by the details of this hill hai
,, ever before been proposed or adopted
I They establish tor the security ol tin
' colored race safeguards which go infinite
r Iv beyond any that the General Govern
i ment lias ever provided for the white race
, They interfere with the municipal legie
i lation of the Statea, wiih the relations ex
e istinj exclusively between a Stale am
its citizens, or between the inhabitant
d of th e same State, in the absorption an
assumption of power by the Genera
Ooveruiueut, which, if acquiesced it
a must aap and destroy our federative sri
b tern of limited powers, and break dow
the barriers which preserve the rights <
the Rule*. It it another step, or rather
stride, towards centralization and the
concentration of all legislative power* iu
the National Government. The tendency
of the hill must he to resuscitate the
spirit of rebellion, and to arrest the pro*
grtes of those influences which are more
clo?ely drawing around the State* the
bonds ef union and peace. My I amented
.1 _ t I i!-_ > t lUa
predecessor, in uis proclamation ui tup
1st of January, 1803, ordered ami declared
that all persona held as slaves within
certain States and parts of States therein
designated,were and thenceforward should
he free; and fur her, that the Executive
Government of the United States, l'nclu.
ding the military And naval authorities
thereof, would recognize and maintain
the freedom of such persons. This guar'
antee has been rendered especially obligatory
and sacred by the amendment of
the Constitution abolishing slavery throughout
the United States. I therefore fuh
ly recognize the obligation to protect and
defend that class of our people phenever
and wherever it shall become necessa*
' ry, and to the full extent compatible with
the Constitution of the United States.
Entertaining these sentiments, it only
remains for tne to say that I will oheerr .
fully co operate in any measure that may
be necessary for the protection of the civii
rights of the froedrnen, as well as those
of all other classes of persons throughout
the United Stales, by judicial process under
equal and impartial laws, in conforr
_:.i. .i.- t ,i._ P.J t
' I 11Y vtiwji uir piuYjaiuua ui iuo rcUQrHl
Court.
! now return the bill to the Senate,
anil regret that, in considering the bills
and joint resolutions?forty two in member?which
have been thue far submitted
for my approval. I ain compelled to withhold
my assent from a measure that has
received the sanction of both Houses of
Congress.
We find the following in the Raleigh
Sentinel and copy it because it suits this
section as well as any other. Newspaper
atealing is carried on pretty extensively,
and in that way subscribers who pay for
their papers are deprived of them :
A Grisvaxch ?Messrs. Editors : Will
vou do t our subscribers thejustiee to giva
free newspaper readers the benefit of a
prominent editorial, in which take the
hula oil' without mercy. I am bored,
beyond endurance, by those who can't
"find anything worth reading in papers"
when asked to suLscribe, aud yet make a
resiviilur Knainaee r\f OMminrv anJ innnieinee
V,. s '"i "B
for my papers, as though they subscribed
ami pai?l for ibem. It is such a nuisance
to me, that, unless it can be stopped, I
shall have to slop taking papers myself.
Any body nlio lakes papers himself i?
welcome to read mine, but when a man
ia too stingy to take a paper hngeelf he
ought to have decency enough to let
other people read their's before they call
for them.
All who read other people's papers
without paying for on# of their own, "will
talc# due nonce nnd govern themselves
accordingly." Some of our subscriber*
complain that they hardly ever have an
opportunity to read the paper for wbiek
they pay, because it is stolen or borrowed
from them.?Charlotte Democrat.
A Schnk ix a Printiho OfFioa.-?
A patron or a village newspaper ooce said
to the publisher :
| "Mr. Printer, how is it you have never
^ called on me for the pay for your paper !'*
"Obsaid the man of types, "we never
ask a gentleman for money."
"Indeed," replied hie patron,"then how
do you manago to get along wban they
don't pay !"
| "Why," said the aditor, "after a certain,
time we conclude that a man who fails to.
pay for hi* paper ia not a gentleman, and
, then si ask him I"
"Oh, ah, yes ! I see, Mr. Printer, pleasn
s give ma a receipt (hands him two dollar*}
and pleasa make my nam* all right on
the book#."
' A drunken chap, blundering through
the darkened hall of hie boarding house
. was accoeted by hie landlady to know if
j he would not have a candle.
I "Thunder, no 1" "it ia eo euteed dark
"J out here, I couldn't tee if I bad a light t*
kl "Se here my friend, you are drunk,*
( "Drunk, to be aure I am, and have been
\ for the laet throe yeara. You eee mj
1 brother and I are on the temperance
n miaeion. He locturea whilo I eeta fright*
>f ful example."
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