The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-03-06
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| Special Correspondence of the Chicago Times.
HELENA, Ark, February 16.
| There was a queer fix in town yesterday
one of life's episodes, constantly occur
ring in this world of wickedness and mis-
matches. The facts of the case, shOrn Of
romance, are in brief as follows We sup
press names out of respect to the officer:
In May last young merchant of Toledo,
| Ohio, enlisted, was raised in a short time to
the rank of First Lieutenant, and ordered
to Washington on special or detached SER
vice. In September ne was disabled and
| sent to a private hospital, but recovered so
far as to go on temporary duty as Aid-de-
Camp at one of the headquarters. His
regiment was first sent to Virginia, then to
Nashville, thence to Memphis, and from
| Owing to recent changes at Washington,
or in the Army of the Potomac, he lost his
situation as Aid, and was ordered to rejoin
his regiment, which he understood to be at
this post He came here, arriving on Sat-
urday morning on the mail-boat Benton,
| but his regiment was below. AS no boat
was going below for two days, he con-
cluded to visit college chum in the 9th
Illinois Cavalry. While on the way from
the river to the camp of the 9th, who
should he meet but his wife, standing on
the steps OF Cooledge's store, waiting a
moment for a speculatOr here, with whom
she had eloped few weeks since! This
is very funny world, and the meeting
corresponded with it in all respects
"Well, Maggie."
4 E tta
! After Il few words between the sur
prised trio, they adjourned to the boarding
house of the wife and lover. Haitian hour
closed the interview. Like Il sensible man
the officer did not get drunk,-dd not
blow his brains out,-did not run dress
| parade sword through his vitals, or "vic-
Ituals, did not let his blood out of a flat
'Nhole with rusty sabre. He did no such
foolish thing; but told the woman who,
tor five years, had professed to love him,
to go her way forever. Nor did he shoot
the speculator, nor feed him saugagss
made from poisoned dog meat. With a
firm voice, compressed lip, and cool polite
ness, he bade the new-lnated couple very
pleasant ''Good day." walked to the
steamer Imperial, bought half dozen ci
gars, anchored himself in cane bottomed
chair, elevated his feet on a level with his
Wristbands, and, like philosopher, puffed
his grief Off with the clouds OF smoke into
the clouds Of vapor over head!
His wife, supposing that he would re-
main with the eastern army, merely came
down here on a pleasure trip, and, to save
expense, the speculator and she travelled
as man and wife. Only this and nothing
more. The couple have gone to st. Louis,
the male party having finished his business
here! The Lieutenant has gone to his
regiment, and the world moves on, no one
caring fig whether the woman marries
her lover, or whether she does not. So it
goes.
Dr. CLAIMING AND THE SoEP11C.-A
sceptic visited the late DR.. Charming, and
told him that be could not reconcile the
terrible denunciations in the twenty-third
chapter of Mathew, with the meekness and
compassion of the Saviour. s'Let me
know" said the great preacher, "what it
| is in particular that troubles you; and
! taking up the New Testament, he began
to read the passages, with the sweet solem-
nifty of his voice. He had not proceeded
far before the critic said: "Ah, if the Sa-
viour denounced in tone like that, have
nothing more to say"