The Placer herald., 1862-09-06

emu, look. ne Whispers, huH i"H"y 00V0
with astonishment that her husband is fast
asleep, and who hoI Is in one hand the tun-
die of old love letters.
Setting down his candle, Mark unlocks
the front Of his large and well filed book
case, and begins deliberately taking down
one 10y one, the handsomely bound volumes
Of the History Of England, which grace
the highest shelf-then he draws ont mum
Der of loose magazines, hidden there be-
canse Of their untjdy appearance; lays the old
love letters quite at The back of all, replaces
the old numbers returns the volumes to
their shelf, carefully putting them even, locks
the lass doors, and is stalking away, when
Fanny; with a cry which awakens him,
sna'ches the KEY from his hand, Rubbing
his eyes and wondering, he sees her eager
fingers dragging Hume and Smolet from
their proud position To assume an ingIonous
one on the hearth rug and in the fer der; the
once treasured Belle Assemhlee" are scat
tered in all directions; the highly priced love
letters receive similar usage. and then, from
behind all the rest. Fanny triumphanty
takes out the small brown paper parcel, tied
with pink tape, and sealed with the official
seal. Crying and laughing in one breath,
the happy litile wifi. is lhe next moment in
her husbands arms, kissing aud being kissed
dd Hbitum.
Little explanation was needed. The
young mans brain. excited bv extreme anxi-
ely regarding his trust, had led to his cauti'
ousy rising in the night. aud unconsciously V
transferring the packet to what he afterwards
remembered as his first hiding place which
bad presen ed itself to his mind on bringing
it home on the preceding evening.
How many times he las asked forgiveness
is not recorded; hut Fanny is true woman,
quick to resent, but easily appeased; aud
Mark has taken George and Georges affairs
in hand so heartily, that the young scape
grace is actually improving, and there is
even some hope of Fanny's belief in his total
reformation being realized.
The NEGRo ALL IN ALL.-The Washing.
ton correspondent of the Chicago Times
writes as follows:
NIGRITuDINoUs.
Such charcoal Sanhedrim as the Repub-
lican side of the House of Representatives
cannot be found elsewhere, except in the
Legislative councils of Liberia and Ilay,i.
Negro hobia has seized the entire party of
the Administration; they have nigger on
the brain, ngger in the bowels niger in
the eyes, ngger. Niger, nigger, everywhere.
Steam power is surpassed, caloric engines
obsolete; water power. law power. Consli
iutonaI power, and all the powers, physical
moral and political, have found their superior
in the great negro power that moves the
huge. unwieIdy, reeking masa of roitsnness
which makes up this Administration and its
party.
White soldiers, sick and wounded, ives
and children Of those soldiers, white men
any and everywhere, may suffer agony desr
pair, famine, anything, aud no humanitarian
doctrines are preached for them by these
nigger charmed saints of Repnblicanism
no governmental disbursements for their
support. But for twenty five thousand fat.
shiny, greasy, fragant niggers, the Govern
nent is giving perennial entertainment.
This number of sable aristrocrats, without
labor. without care, without the asking, even,
are fed clothed, and house by the Admin
stration of Abraham Lincoln at Hilton Head
alone. There are at least thirty thousand
more negroes supported in the same way at
Fort Monroe, Wa ,hington, and throughout
the army of the West The Constitutional
Government of the United States is keeping
a grand national "ngger dance house," at a
cost of $4,000 per day. And every grain
of wheat, every kernel Of corn, every potato
raised in the great North West must be tax
ell to pay tor this phio niggerous expert
ment Of the Abotionists of New England.