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Call niui a?e Samples. JOHN A. HAMILTON, oct tf?3m ? Court. Home Store. [WBlTfKN KOR TlR OB A SO I'.B t'HO H'.V ?: ] \ ? . ^ff?X| A J?XO?Y OK TI1K TIM KS. !-;. 'A''<? JK IH fill ?// ? ?h'fl; knelt, by tho crimson nltur, nnd the light Fronj the paintftl window, fell like n glory radiantly upon her form ; she knelt and prayed in the suu-lifc .'andei like sonic sweet saint ofjsVpry. There in the.grand Cathedral, in the midst of the city'a war, while tlto**world vrua rush ing on with its dizzy hum, Lucille Avc oel h id stepped in from the/street and She felt so pud and despairing that ?morning-. She hud just been disap pointed in getting an expected situation. Yes, a dozen times, had she read, the short, cold noto from her relative, to whom slnrhud applied as the last?la^t resort. The stcry she Tind written had been refused by the publisher of the Magazine, the day previous. What was loft, now, tf.he done ? Nothing. Nothing but to return to the haggard looking old homestead, and suffer, and bear, nnd benr her fath er's?poor old wan-*?fruitless and sad re piuings. These were her thoughts, ns she was returning to her uncle's residence iu tho city, front the post office, where she hud just received that disheartening letter TIiub, sho was thinking, bitterly, us she passed the Cathedral, and bearing the or ganist practising, and seeing tho door open, and persons goiug iu to repeat their prayers, an impulse of religion?of superstition; perhaps, tinned her steps into the church, und sho prayed. 'Twas a scone of expressive significance, yes, an historical emblem. She, the daughter of a haughty house, the descendant of knightly men, and of noble women, after suffering tho keen huuiiljntiops of poverty?aye, of hunger und colli, "i'd seeing her aged father mi Oer and hearing him laincut ;.'ain tlvelv his hitter, cruel fortune?after en during this for a weary year, had resolved to come to ihe eity, and try? try some thing f?r herseil and fur hiui. Alter it \> iek of trying and failure, this was the sad, despairing end. Here she knelt in the Cuthedrul, ainT* the light played upon her in its beauty, ahd the surging* pi' the grand organ vi hraicd ihr? ugli the Bolpu.u stillness, aeon fivblin si sweetli on tho ear. and then pr dbti idi) ionium through t e building, with /t> deep -ralid h.?a. Met-jiiuks, iho organist, was another Tom Pinch, und the sorrows, and meek noises i t his < wn life would ? express themselves in his melody, while a note of human sympathy, Irom a warm heart, would repeal itacll unbidden, .is the hur-I dt-u of the music, It must have been so; for Lucille Avcnel rose from her Iciiees Und lelt happier. How expressive the whole scene ! How typical of the Southern laud ! Brave hearts are resting 'heath her turf, manly arms are prostrate, pale women kneel and weep Gravesure her sjirines j her temples ruins, while a knelling re frain sec ms to pour is pecan music from its forests and its streams Niobc ! Lucille Avcnel returned to her sad I duiicd hoiucuud brought little comfort to her father. "l'apa." said Lucille, after telling of her disappointments', "uncle and every body says, that things, will soon be bet ter. The States will soon be reconstruc ted and restored to their prosperity." "Ah, daughter," said the old gentle man, sadly, ,llhi..k of our losses, our ruins. 1 have been rich, and thought to sec you happy. Will these things be re stored '{ Will thoy reconstruct my for tune, my spirit, my hopes? No, Lu cille," ami the old man looked so sad, and his voice quivered as be added "they can never reconstruct me." Lucille came and laid her beautiful head upon the old man's breast, and tried to cheer him, but ho would repeat, and retired to his rest that night, repeating, "thoy will never reconstruct me." Lucille resinned her pinched and hard life, sewing fur her support, and suffered und bore up like it heroine. At length a bettor iJuy did dawn for her Slid her luther. llcr uncle wrote that sho could gel employment to write in tho govern ment offices in the city. So she und her father moved dpWi.i, und obtained rooms, and Lucille went every day und wroto in I il o g vernmcut office At first, it was , 13 strange, and the polite young officer I had to show her a great deal how to copy and fill up blauks. But after a while fcftfc* learned tin; routine of her business perfectly.. She obtained a very good Bamr^forHrer ?evVic'es. and she and-her father wore quite comfortable. Of an evening they would grir'oundHo uncle- Ralph Sinclair's and talk over thC8e?o*ew ?bjes and phases iutheir his tory. . ? Clara Sinclair, Lucille cousin, was highly delighted nud ainus-d at. the' "events of tho day." as she called thoui, und declared that she would like nothing better than to write in tho Yankee's offices. It was ineffably amusing to hear her und her uncle Peyton' Avcuel, Lu cille* 8 father, discussing tho ''issues of j the past," and "the livfiig present." "Uncle Peyton, you will be obliged to 'accept tho Bituntinn' and admit these things to be facts." "Ah! iuy dear^cirl, I huto that ex pression, 'accept the situation,' nnd some things uro facts which are not truths, a combination of accidental circumstances may produce very anomalous results. These results may seem to crush the truth to (he earth, but believe me, its mighty principle will rise and be vindi cated. "Oh ! my dour sir. please spare tue your metaphysics, these things may be untruths but they are certainly facts. If I asked you whether you bcliaccd in negro suffrage n8 a principle, you would tell me, no, but. my dear .un cle, you must believe iu it us a fact. And what, sir, is to change the fact! Nothing iu the world but your metaphy sics, and your hopes for some miraculous intervention, such as we Southerners lookoil tor during the war." "My girl, the negro is a doomed aui mal. and destined soon to leave only fos sil relics of his race, if he insists upon his right to vole in this country." ?" "My Lord, uncle, any one is doomed that attempts to argue with y-iu upon this question. ..-Your ideas and yourself] are fossil relics of tho past." any more of an evening when I come here, for you are getting to be a complete Radical." "Oh, that reminds me, Lucille, do you know that everybody says that Percy Waring, your old s>veethcurt, is a genu ine Radical. What do you think ol that ?" "l have heard, ('Iura, that Percy War ing differed in his political views from most oi hi- tfi nod his ;e>s ?? i.uei?. bot I d<> not tii ..!. so harsh . term us 'Hadieill can in: npplii d him." ?*Oh. my, theta we ha v. it again There is no us< to plu\ up wi ids and hautor names. You know Lucille, that any hi dy in tin- South in w. who differs with tho seocbMiui party is called .1 Undi* cd I uteuti my hod\ wh ? is willing i<< abide by reconstruction, and who thinks that it wili be permanent. In other words anybody who is reconstructed." And so they would chat ; Clara Sin clair iu her rattling style, arguing with her uncle Peyton, and criticising the po litical situation; uncle Peyton, protest ing against the ' f -te that had so vastly changed his circumstances, ami those of| his country. He would ignore the pre sent unnatural state of things, as he. culled tlit-111, and adhering to the past, believed implicitly anil with unswerving faith, that it would be vindicated ami restored in the future. "The glory of the South has depart ed," he would say, "but the evolution of] issues, and the settling of the political and social cquilibruui upon its level, would restore it." One more scene, and all our characters will have been presented. In the huge city, at his desk, in his law office, sat Percy Waring writing. He was a man of about twenty seven, id' medium height, and slight figure, with nil intellectual head, and line distin guished features. He had beet) practising law, little ever one year, ai d his business was slowly in creasing, lie had served with gallantry in the Confederate army, and surrendered the sword of Captain, when Lee's skele ton army, by capitulation, grouped itselt in the last historic tableau, ere the black curtain icll upon the dreadful drama. Ruined 111 Ibrtuuo, Percy Waring, forced to the necessity ol seeking a livelihood, had put sued tlm study of the law, amid disheartening difficulties, and was just beginning to realize the success 01 his efforts. Possessed of a rare and commanding ! ebullience, und distinguished taleut, the I eyes of tho politiciuus wcro turned to him. In several of his forensic ud dresses, an expression of conservatism of political opinion, which suggested a com promise by which.the gontleinen of the South could bow with dignity and grace to the stroke that, had impoverished them, nnd changed the entire fabric ol their politics, and iho condition of their laborers, nod yet itttintuiu the unsullied purity of theirtpAl economy, and even sec a hope for^hV1 restoration*;.!' their ruined wealth^-u^. expression of such eonsovvativo and striking sentiments, had rather expo^c^higjflo the censure of his associates, wjme^tjtho same time it hnd brought bim.l*fr_ the notice of the.more liberal*<)I^bqPjBp>^f^j'' that ruled the Southeri3^^nn*y.^ | t At tho^rr^^^'^if his introduction to you. reader, he iaJtWriting a reply to a coiniuutiic.ition, hcfhnd just received from u pMitienl organization, whose per fect* 'discipline ^jnH|#tidroit manipulation ol' the colored p.:ome by their secret so cieties, and sensation suggestions and promises, placed if* their hands the su preme govcrnmch&iDf the .State. Percy Waring Was ambitious, lie bad long differed withstand objected to the supine policy of'inactivity, that bad characterized the Southern people since the shock of their "fbdent, mi l the stii-s?; lying effect of thcijfriinlooked for change Ho had often thought, and had even grown warm in conversation with friends, saying that he longed for an opportunity to utter bis sentiiifctits to his country men. Suffice it to say,.he accepted the invi tation to address the political meeting to bo called b}- and under the auspices of the hated party that rule I the country. The time was appointed, and its an nouncement made to the public. Poroy Waring's friends generally cut his acquaintance, some without further formality, others aftet hearing from his own lips, I \"is really his intent im to didder the address. All of his iriipiJrt did this cxcepA -U 4\ W&i?lf*le;e+~4* ..-....,.,,? 1 o i : ? ? friend from childhood, llalph Kutlcdgd culled at his office the morning after the announcement sipoe ired iu :">ut. lie found Percy Wtiring sitting at his desk. "lidod niorntOg, I '.re.," he saluted him as of yore, and the t o&s of trank and unaltered friendship, istdirislmd, and to say the truth, almost iilimanncd I'ercy Waring, tu the fever of his ambition, and i.lto ehthuMt.s .1 his supposed sonso oi dut_ h b.i boon [iicpaivd for the coolness ol ois friends .. .1 had c\< 11 .111 t eip tto.d 1 hem m* h ir "cuts lint recovering himself lie rose an 1 lit t d his friend warmly. "Take a it, Ralph " "Yes, 1 wanted to sue you a moment, Percy, al> ui tins [nib ie.il harangue you are deliver to-morrow night to the Radi cal party." "Not to the Radical party, Kalph, but to any of my fellow-citizens who will hear me." ??.My dear fellow, are you demented? Is it a practical joke ' !??> y?>u suppose that any of your bomt Jitlc fellow-citizens will come to hear you under such au spices. Look here. INrey, 1 have come to put a .-top to this thing. Kcmember, I'ercy. your lather sleeps in a soldier's grave, which he gained lighting lor prin ciples, ugainst which you are about to raise your Voice, and which you are about to recant. Kcnn-mbcr. sir, you are a gentleman ! llomeiubcr Lucille Avcnel ! You know you lose caste by this madness. Uo member your profes sion, which is surely nnd stundily in creasing your honors ami rewards! Do you expect to practice law for tho ne groes and to settle their estates V ? lleally. Italph, you arc oloqooiit?" '?] am in earnest I'ercy. For *???<! sake, toll nie. what kind of speech do you intend to innko." "I intend to express tllOSQ sentiments which you have heard me utter so fre quently in conversation." "Look here, I'ercy Waring, 1 have done my duty. I cannot divine your motive nor your object in this madness. Hr.t if it is all in vain, my dear sir. I can but char the gang-Way and let )ou go. Von know the consequences l" "I suppose one of them will be the K.ss of your friendship and acquain tance" "No, sir, I shall not cut you when we meet, but 1 uovor expect to meet you in socioty ! You, of course, know this." "Those, who caring nut to uudeustand my motives und my heart iu this matter, uro worthless friends. 1 feel that I am right, and 1 dread uot these silly conse quences." "Well,sit, I havesaid what I intended to, you know tho rest." ' Aud I shall ?ay what 1 intend to, to morrow uight, and ?bull bo happy to have you hear me." "I shall no/ be there. Good morn ing." And ho left the office. Another historic, emblematic scene! Oh ! ho-, this proud, brave, dowu-trod den people have clung to the brightness and glory of their past. Their glory forever departed, and they mouru so pa thetically at its memorial. Scorning the fuels forced upon them, those facts subverting their entire civili zutiou und forming the bases upon which a uew and entirely different one is to be xtiperstruetcd, they cling with wild, fond devotion to the memories of the ir revocable past, and hope, romantically, madly, that the future will restore them. History but repeats itself. Its course Is not retrogressive. Perhaps in the widen ing circle of its cycles it may reach the correlative and parallel point, at which it stood before, but it widens, complicates progresses. Percy Waring delivered bis oration, and he was cut. Instinct jrith eloquence, burying the glorious past, with stately eulogy, and gleaning from it lessons for the future, it pointed to that iuture, picturing the brightness of its now" era, and pointing out the practical duties of the different classes at the Smith. In his advice to the colored people, the eloquent speaker seriously disappoint ed those who had invited him to speuk. He advised them to Beoro their secret or guttizuti >tis, by which they mechanically obeyed the will of the clique into whose hands its springs were intrusted. 11 e bade tllCUl think for themselves. Their rights were guaranteed now irrevocably. I They should now consult only the common interest of the country?the interests of the employer, the hind owners, as well as of those of the laborer. tv?r^ivtomp?r?*B* maun .?? tauutrn to interrupt him, but he had touched the right chord in the colored man's nature, aud they would hear him. '1 he effect of his address was thrilling, iiTCsistnhle. "fwas the only ways to reach the colored people, and they felt the truth ol the advice. His addre.-.- was published in all the city newspapers, and all classes inwardly felt that the positioD Percy Waring had assumed promised much good to all classes. Still he lo>t caste. His friends cut his acquaintance, and he was denounced, "Radical." "fwas an evening or two niter the speech time Lucille Avetiel and her fath er were lit Palph Sinclair's .-pending the evening as usual. Clara Sinclair was, of course, brim lull of chat for uncle Peyton and Lu cille. "Well, uncle Peyton," she said, ' have you read Mr. Percy Waring's speech to the iindicals V "No, my girl, I have not certainly Mj Heavens, what can that boy mean! His father's bones must havn stirred in their grave. What would he say? What would he say '(" "15?'illy. sir. you might have read his speech. l>ut. ? Lucille, what do you think of your beau ideal now ? Arc you disenchanted ?" "The views of Mr. Waring are cer tainly very new and striking to us. I am not enough of a politician to know whether he is altogether right or not, but I do sympathize with him in the ostra cism which appears to be the cousequence of it. 1 do think that these questions i.light to be discussed, calmly and serious j ly, and that one ought to have a right to differ with the majority iu his opinion." "Uncle Peyton, do you hear all that. Lucille i.-, as much of a Radical as I am. and ought to be deprived of the boon of kissing you, as well as [. Rut 1 Heard to-day that Percy Wariug is the Radical candidate for Congress. That is his aim I suppose. Suceoss shall be his crite rion." And so she rattled on. Percy Waring was the candidate lor Congress. The colored people broke through all tho routine of their party or ganization, and would have him to be their candidate. A large und respectable portion of the white voters rallied on him, appreciating hi- manly, iudepcudcut and promising course, and he was elected. The State was reconstructed, and re presented in Congress by one of her own citizens, "to tho manor born," aud elect od by the consent and aid of the eolorcd people, who thus properly appealed to responded generously and well. The State was reconstructed and rc stored to Jior sons ! > . Percy Wariug distinguished himself in Congress by his bold and Tearless de fence of the rights of his; State, ns re-' constructed. All classes felt that he was right. When he returned home, ovution after'ovation awaited him. The colored people invited him to address.them, and as he told them plainly and truthfully their rights and their duties, they gath ered nrouud him as around one wbnm they could trust. Some of his friends were 'magnani mous enough to come forward and renew their acquaintance with him, frankly acknowledging their error aud prejudice ; others still kept him uudor the bau of social ostracism. Anipug those who still treated him with coolness were Ralph Sinclair's fam ily. None condemned him more vio lently than Peyton Avcnel. Years passed, and with their slow rev olution, reconstruction upon a sure foun dation, was gradually being accomplish ed. The gentlemen of the South were either passing away or their bit|er an-, fagonistu to these changes was relenting. While these changes were working out their fulfilment, aud Percy was vin dicating his sentiments by the criterion of their success and extension, let us for a Uionient look at the relations that ex isted between him and Lucille Avcnel. Porn of kindred ancestry, both inheri tors of goodly patrimony, reared on neighboring plantations in tho country, aud meeting often in the same soc'ul cir cles in tVo city, their intimacy had ripened into love. , - * Their love had been mutually confessed in the sunny hours of childhood, hud ripened with their years, and* been 1 eogSiizcd aud approved by their parcuts. "tt.?V father loved tho boy as he said like his own s: rtyred -on, who had fallen in an early stage of the war. ??lie has lost a gallant father," he would jay, "I a nuble boy. I will be his father, and he shall fill the place of my i'alleu son." Their engagement thus hallowed by the golden memories of youth, thus con tinued aud sanctioned by her father's blessing, had been interrupted in its con summation, only by the ruins and poverty, consequent to the war, and since by her lather's disapproval and anger at his political course. Percy Waring knew Lucille Avenel. too well, to fear that sho. would misunder stand or mistrust hint, but he knew bar father's allegiance to the "principles iu abeyance," as he called those issues for which the Sonth had so gloriously but so vainly struggled, and he knew Lu eille's allegiance to her father. His pre judice or himself must pus<i away before lie could claim his Lucille. Years passed away, and Percy War ing had reaped high honors and rich re ward. His sentiments has been adopted by a large and influential class of tho South, aud under their influence, peace, I in its truest sense, aud prosperity un dreamed of at the South, were allaying all differences, settling all conflicts of classes, and pouring untold wealth into ibe country. All opposition, all prejudice to him seemed giving away. At this period be thought of his Lu- ; t cille, thought of her girlish beauty and freshness, in the budding of her charms and the development of her disposition. He res >lved to make an effort to win her. He had never called at hor father's since they had been in the city, und it had been a long time since lie bud spcut au evening at Ralph Linclair's. This evening he resolved to call at the honst; of tho latter. They hud deter mined to relent. Ho wus invited in. Lucille Avenel and hor father wero there. At first the old man did not wish ta recog nize him, but his feelings gave way when he heard bis manly voice, and saw hi? bold, high-toned manner and carriage. "1 forgivo you, boy, I forgive you. For your father's sukw aud for Lucillo's, I forgive you. Ah, boy, you aro recon structed I suppose. They could novor havo reconstructed your lather, bravo follow, and thay will never reconstruct me. I will have to go to the grave like him, 'unreconstructed.' " Wo pass over tho evening's chat. I'ercy Waring's high words speaking from a "mind conscious to itaolf of right'" Clara's chatting aud witticism.^ and Lucille Averiel'B high and holy, iap piness. ( ? j.,tiL Their engagement was reconst^ed They 'are married and happy., So^4* out stricken coubtiy. Agricultural Items. .i ? T ' ? ' '. "' * I ? .1 - .::.-5/?'jdt<it Hnmmontou, N. J., seat a milling quarts of strawberries to market tMr season. The best corn crop on prairie eod yet reported is 724 bushels by weight fnw> ^oven acres. A Pembroke, (N. H.t) farmer ho* i pig which has gained a pound and a h:?H* each day since he was big enough to weigh sixty-eight pounds. . John Johnson, the father of upland tile draining in this country, lives to set within the State of New York fifty tw?? factories of tile drains. A dairyman informs the Maine Far mcr that having tried various things fur sore teats on cows, ho finds lard be>;, the most healing aud softening. The Stock Journal advises a bighor rt for regular farm work, and one thatdoc? uot, without great pushing, trot mo: ? thin six miles an hour with a lig'.. buggy. Cooked meal is nearly double the bul'c of uncooked, yet quart for quart it goes a* j fur. The difference is, that much of tb i I food is undigested unless cooked I Half a dozen eggs beat up with two ounces ot salt, is recommended as a sum j relief of cattle choked with a potato or an apple, by a correspondent of the Country Geutletnao. Every farmer should have a compost heap.?Collect every kind of fertilize-. and to prevent any frcm liberating th gasscs, keep the whole covered wUh ear U -c_u ur uiuv &. The Journal of Agriculture recor mends the application of a top dressing of manure to meadows immediately after haying, especially on dry patches where,. the grass roots arc often parched, und killed tu wet weather. From six stations on the Chicago and Northwestern railroad 577 eight .gall. :t cans of milk arc sent daily to the Chicog >. market. The largest amount sent fr i one station is 254 cans or 3,032 galh-o from Dundee. The Journal of Agriculture thin1 -< present Western prices for wool will I.m maintained, but sees no reason for imi. -t advauce, and doubts whether those wh' have their last clip on hand will gain much by keeping it over, j Mr. A. S. Fuller offers a prizeof $10f? to any person who will furnish him I cheap and effectual plan of externiinatin - j moles from his grounds. He will I . satisfied with a trap or a poison, provided ? the required work is done. Mr. J. Harris thinks steam threshing | machine* will soon take tho place of the horse machines. This, he thinks, will he of great advantage iu the way of allow ing grain to be threshed as it is taken . from the field, and the straw to be pu. in the bnro. Hiram Woodruff says in hia WJ; about trotting horses, that a pull on bot!, reins will not bring up a horse when h.i bus broken from a trot. A firm, qui.-u. pull should be given on one rein, letting the other give <i iittlo, as much as y<-'<? want the horse's head thrown oat o*' lit-i. A vory practical agricultural oast was given to the examinations at the olose ??J* the second year of the MassaehuscttH Agricultural College by a novel opening exercise. Fiom the Sophomore class Hi siudonts wero sdocted by lot, and go?-.i an exhibition of their skill in mowi.. o with hand scythes. Dr. McCIuro, of Philadelphia, a Veterinary surgeon who has the care of several hundred horses, informs tho Practical Fanner that ho has nev . known tho following prescription to fid I of curing colic in horses : "Aronsat" spirits of ammonia, half an ounce; Land iiuiu, one and a half ounces; mu wii ono pint of water, and administer, t( not relieved, repeat the dose. Dr. Randall says it is not expod^V'* to feed valuable ewes unhullcd ooro, L.r says it is not usually thought to yay t., grind oorn for store sheep. Ho als recommends bran slops and roots to in crease the milk of yeaning owes. It is estimated that there are ov 12,000,000 head of cattle in Texas alom but prior to tbo war that State onl coutaincd 3,000,000 head The demat; t ceased and the cattle throve dnricg tho eon Hi et, until they have increased out * inou8lyv