The Xenia sentinel. [volume] (Xenia [Ohio]) 1863-186?, 1863-09-08

distant and cold 70 nv mother. and kind an,
anectionate 70 Clma. gathered from theil
CONVERSATION that Clara H0uld write to him.
bad 10 inYitatoR, ard when he extended bis hant
bis look was Gverted he held 8 low conversa
ton with my mother apart from Us. tried L
be honest aud not strain ny euFieusesar index
faithfully / did; but say that he was pleading
Tor something earnestly, and that it was EitE
great difficulty my mother so firmly denied him
her face was full Of strange agitation when she
Joined us, and her hand tFsmblsd 50 nervousiy
that took the key from her hand, lest she b
subjected 70 .Clara's notice. I heard that light
swift football down the stairs and along the
hall, and a laughing reioi1dsr to the porter, arc
then the door closed. Il never closed with that
peculiar sound sfterWaEd: And there vas never
again such 2 momentary stiffness. or rather
hush, through the house, even although heard
the porter's heavy step in the hail, and distant
laughter and HAtthngO Of dishes through the open
door of the dining room. I was won't . long
while after to listen for. the step loved Most
ly at twilight, when the hrelight made grotesque
shadoWy pictures upon ths Wail. s- @ a
a4 Ire BEsOoNFnFUEB. -1er q
TEE World pas Cineinnad lettsz. boasting
of YallPDdighan's prospects the vast numerie-
a superiority Of the meetings Of bis supporters
% those Of the friends Of Brough, &C., cOnaiud-
ing a, follows;
s'By 2 lay Of our Legislature, ths soldiers are
permitted 70 vote. This Usfe igIf Be some,6hat
againSt rs; but Of the 90, 900 soldier votes. If
there be not moTa than $4,000 Of them Repub-
hean, Kallandigham will have majority iR5 the
State, But every indication points to a daily
Increasing number Of Democratic adherents in
the army, If they are allowed in Rosecran's
army the same liberty Of choice (electiOn)
which Gen. Grant wiz peemit. you need haYe no
doabt Of Yallandighamis success" st
BetEeen the Var Democrat, John BTough,
and the early, stssdfsst, implaeabls senepF of
the War, at every stage C. L YalIandighams,
Forty Thousand Ohio. .EOlunteers in the armies
Of the Union ara TO vote. That Fallandigham
wiz receive the all but unanimous vote of the
dessTtsEs from those armies, is quite probable;
but can any one who has the least aequaintance
with human nature believe that be vii have
Ten Thousand or even Five Thousand, of the
Forty Thousand votes to be cast by the soldiers
in the field Z Suppose The Massachusetts, voi+
unteers in the War. Of Isl2lhad voted for Gov
eTpOr in 1873 what proportion Of them would
hare voted for Caleb Strong Suppose Thorn
as CoFwin had been candidate for Governor
Of Ohio in ls47, and the volunteers from that
State then engaged in the Mexican War had
voted, Whist PrOportion Of them would have
voted for COr#ini These questions touch the
marrow. Of the case and any sensible man can
answer them. Yallandigham's friends must
know that he viii not receive one-tsnth Of the
army vote.
Nov look at she returns of thelast Election
in Ohio held October last. when the prospect of
Union success in the war was very dark and
distant compared Eish the present. Yet this
was the total pOll-no soldiers in the field YOt-
IHg;- s.-3-5 s rs
democratic ,..,--,..-,. .1st592
hspu Lean Uhion. l7S75S
Democratic majority s 677-
Now add 10000 soldiers votes to the Union
poll and 10000 to the Democratic. and you see
where Vallaudigham is likely to come ont, ae-
eording to the data of TIE World
Blythe way; Mr.. s. 8. Cox, in bis COppsrhead
peFegriPatiOns through Ohio has habit of
quoting very spirited lyric evoked BY the des-
ecrstiop of our National flag to the base Uses
Of the slayeluntsrs, beginning 'AH hail the
launtiHg liel' and stating that they were written
By Horace. Greeley The said Greeley would
gladly be able to write 80 good lyric as that,
but never was-Verse-W writing being an achieve
msnt foFwhieh he hasa very Indifferent apti.
.ude. The excellent stanzas which Mr. Cox
ialssly attributes to him were, written BY
young Irish DsmOcrat Of this city, then and
nov, member Of the iTammany Society, and
! most ardent, effective ooWorker with Cox in
he support for the Presidency Of Buchanan in
Sc and of Douglas in '6O And now if GoK
viii, write as spirited and vigorous "a poem on
any other subjeet--te be chosen by hiaselE-
Eel will pay him 500 for it, and stpulate
has be shall tell whatever falsshoods he pleases
s0r the hsxtsix months without Febuke or expo.
sure. We ask the Cincinnati Enquirer; Ohio
Statesman and Cleveland Plaindsaler to say
whether this is or is not fair offer .1-