Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-08-03
tHIRlbCr 20.

Smiths for nothing else than to hear the music"
{" can play and sing better than Miss smith,
said Lizzie, halt pouting
But you always say you are out OF practice
when ask you
81 had the piano tuned this morning. Now
open it, aud we will hear how it sounds"
William obeyed her ioyfully, aud tossing aside
her sewing, Lizzie took the piano stool. She had
u very sweet voice, not powerful but most musi-
cal, and she was very fair performer on the
piano.
Ballads, Liazie'
"Oh, yes! know you dislike operate music
in the parlor.'
The little mantel clock struck eleven
"Eleveu | thought it was about nine. J
ought to apologize, Lizzie, as l used to do, for
staying SO long; aud can truly say, as | did
then, that the time has passed so pleasantly |
can scarcely believe it is so late
The piano was closed. Lizzie's work put in
the basket and William was ready to SO up
stairs, but glancing back he saw his little wife
near the fire place, her hands clOsped her head
bent, and large tears fell from her eyes. lie was
beside her in an instant.
Lizzie, darling, are you i'll? What is the
matter?'
"Oh, William | have been such bad wife
heard YOU tell Mr.. Moore last evening how |
had disappointed you; but | will try to make
your home pleasant, indeed | will, II you will
only forgive and love me-
&" Love you! oh, Lizzie you cannot guess how
dearly love youl'
As the little wife lay down that night, sho
thought: " have won him back again. Better
than that, have learned to keep him y
Tun VALLEY or VmdlNn,- Tho Valley Of
Virginia, having long reposed in quictudc and
about II hundred years behind the age, is likely
to become celebrated as the scene OF disastrous
conflicts Several miserable little places have
a..I,1 ,1,Yff Et,lI WntaTe
theater of recent fight contains dwelling
house, Il gristmill with "hippcd" roof aud
hiph old tavern of the oldcn time. There is also
II schoolhouse near 10y exactly twenty by twenty
three feet, and built of unhewn logs OF this
fact we are positive having once essayed to in
struct Young Nirginans in that imposing struc-
turc. The old mill wheel had hung there until
nearly petrfed, and the ancient dome having
resisted the floods of fifty years was the head
quarters of the most gigantic bull frogs in all
! DiNie's Land. llainesvlle, the scene OF auolher
battle, is hardly moro important. 1t Is generally
called the &" Cross Roads, contains II store,
posto0icc nearly obsolete, aud n few scattering
tcnements. Murtnsburgh, the cOunty-sc of
Berhlev is old aud weather beaten, dingy look
ing, very generally out of repair but ncverthe-
less u locality Of considerable wealth. Here Is
the residence of the Hon. Charles James Faulk-
nor, who lives in considerable splendor, and sur
rounded by scores Of little darkeys, OF all shades
Of color, who used to have nothing in the world
to do but whoop round the mansion. This por-
tion of the Valley of Virginia is one OF the most
beautiful places in the State the land has been
exceedingly fertile, but from oVerworking has
become comparatively poor. Very few farmers
have barns the grain is threshed in the field,
and no attention is paid to manuring the lmpo
vershcd fields There are not many slaves ia
This region not more than from five to twenty
belonging to one property. We were frequently
told by farmers that including doctors btlls.
clothing and provisions in winter, when lhey had
little or nothing to do, each slave cost moro
nearly double The hire Of white hand. Except
in the abstract and when their Virginia preiudices
arc touched, the residents Of BGrkcy county care
very little about the institution Of slavery. San
francisco Jou1,H
TnG Augusta (Ga) Chronicle thinks that Rus
sells letters do not exhibit any considerable abiIi-
ty, brllianoy, or interest. It, however, gives
him credit for honesty.
Gro. D. PnGvrIcG.-The New York Commercial
1dreytjser says: "If Andrew johnson, Of Ten
ncsssec deserves public honors for his manly aud
patriotic course, not less does George d. Prem
tcc, of the Louisville JoHrRai How manfully
aud cllecuaiy he advocates the cause of the
Union, those know who read day after day his
vigorous editorials. II Kentucky be kept faith
ful to the Union, it will be not so much because
OF her politicians, as because OF Prentlce's un-
yielding lOYdlY ana MS kenslJlNe appreciation
Of the popular pulse Of the best portion Of Ken
tuckys cilizon8. 1t does the soul good to hear
his clarion notes and to follow the vigorous and
graceful language in which Prentice invests his
thought. Not merely by the hard logic Of facts
does he convince, but he uses the keen edge Of
his raIlery and the bright play of his wit to put
down objectors and silence doubters The Lou
isviIle JoHrnai deserves host OF subscribers at
the North. The South is surely closed against
it. In Tennessee, the timid rebels pronounced it
contrablnd.N
The Richmond why says that, whatever
shame and humiliation may be involved in the
confession the fact cannot be denied, that the
Virginia forces behaved shamelully at Fairfax
Court House, and still more shameiully at Phil
ppi.
A GmL ~ THE HousE.-Some rght-thinkng
author says: A home without girl in il, is
only half blessed it is an orchard without bios
SONS, and Il spring without a song. a house full
of sons is like Lebanon with its cedars but
daughters by the dreside are like roses Of
Sharon"
The Boston zfaueier states that m Any Of the
shirts made by the ladies' Of Boston for the vol
unteer5 are from four to six inches too short
Like man without wife,
Like II ship without a sail