Litchfield enquirer., 1858-12-02
LITCHFIELD THURSDAY, DECEMBER g. ls5s

been absent from the house ten minutes. l merely came out to take the fresh air But where are you going ?"
 "1 am going home, George. Will you go with me 2"
 Certainly" returned the husband. She took his arm, and they walked home in silence. When Emma had taken off her things, she sat down in her chair, and looked at the clock. The young wife looked up into her husbands face, and, with an expression half smiling and half fearful, she answered, II will confess the truth, George l have given up the experi- 1 ment. l managed to stand it last evening, but l could not bear it through tonight. When 1 thought of you here all alone, want ed to be with you. It didn't seem right. l haven't enjoyed myself at all. have DO home but this."
 "Say you so p cried George, moving his chair to his wifc's side, and taking one of her hands. "Then let me make my confession. l have stood it not whit better. When left the house this evening" could bear it no long CT. found that this was no home for me, while my sweet wife was absent I thought I would walk down by Uncle Johns, and see | your face, if possible 1 had gazed upon your CIupty SHdu liil ny HCdtG aCucu IC hlSSeu her as he spoke, and then added, while she re- clined her head upon his arm, have learned one very good lesson. Your presence here is like the bursting forth of the sun after storm and if you love me as love you--which, of course l cannot doubt-my presence may af- ford some sunlight for you. At all events, our next experiment shall be to that effect. will try and see how much home comfort we can find while we are both here to enjoy it." Emma was too happy to express her joy in words but she expressed it nevertheless, and in manner, too, not to be mistaken.
 The next evening was spent at home by both husband and wife, and it was a season of much enjoyment. In short time George be- gan to realize how much comfort was to be found in quiet and peaceful home and the longer he enjoyed this comfort, the more plain ly did he sec and understand the simple truth, that it takes two to make happy home and that if the wife is one party, the husband must be the other.
 saJohn Bright recently electrified Great Britain by two speeches to his Birmingham constituents, devoted respectively to Englsnds Domestic and ForeigL Policy For the form CT, he prescrbes large measure of Parlia- mentary Reform, as preliminary and essential to more practical reforms for the latter, he has one simyle, comprehensive prescription very old but an excellent one--this, namely, MIND YOUR OwN BUSINESS. It is our own old Washingtonan panacea--tbat which car ried our country so safely and so happily through her period of infantie weakness, but which is equally adapted to her present matu- rity and greatness. In other words, MT. Bright protests energetically against the estab- lshed British policy of poking your nose into every dark and doubtful corner in quest of pos sible and prospective dangers to "t the Balance of Power" the Liberties of Europe" "the Independence of Turkey" or some other plausi- ble excuse for profigate expenditure of money and blood This whole system of continental alliances, continental wars, oppressive arma- ments and enormous navies, Mir. Bright terse- ly characterized as "a gigantic system of out door relief for the aristocracy"-a sentence which will be found engraved on the under standings of the English People after Mir. Bright shall have passed away.
 We advert to these speeches because of their direct bearing on our National Policy. We, too-forgettng the history, the annals and the counsels of Washington-are gradually sliding into the poke-nose policy. We are housing and intriguing for Cuba, when we have great deal more territory now than we can make good use of for the next three centuries. We are snuffing at and lowing over M xico, to de- termine what we could make by protecting her, when we cannot tolerably protect life or prop erty in our own seaboard cities. We are play ing the dictator in Central America and the bully toward Paraguay, when all our interests and traditions should impel us to cultivate the friendship of our Southern neighbors rather than provoke their jealousy and enmity Why are we thus embrong ourselves with our sister Republics of the New World They were and should be our copyists and admir- CTS 1; why do we drive them to hate and fear us? Simply because we, too, have influential classes seeking outdoor relief ;" the relief ad miuistered in Army and Navy jobs, contracts, commissions Take away the fruits and the fruition of profits from these contrivances for living sumptuously at the public expense, and we could live in peace and amity with the whole world. And why net Tribune. The N. Y. Tribune publishes letter from Minnesota, to which the dealers in stocks and bonds will do well to give careful attention. The subject matter is thls briefly stated by the Editor: The State of Minnesota voted to | loan bonds to the amount of five millions to