Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-12-09
[From the Democratic Banner, !
A Bridal and a Burial.

Economy is virtue worthy OF comm enda-
tion; and when practiced In high places. 10 il
especially worthy Of praise. Aud We take
pleasure In holding up to public admiration yhs
elf.sscrifice Of Mr.. Secretary Chase, dning
the period ne has presided over the vast paper
money machine at Washington. Tbrse years
ago, Mr.. Chase was poor individual, depend
Ing upon o limited practice as the bar. for d
livelihood; so restricted, Indeed, were bis or.
cumstances, that he was compelled to sell hla
only property to enable him to make his grand
entry into Washington, as tho Aladdin Of the
Treasury. We do not refer to Mr.. Chsse's
former poverty as O matter OF reproach, for
many man, probably as honest as was Mr.
Chase, is, and was, poorer than himself. Bus
We refer to Il TO show that Mr.. Chase is not
only Secretary Of State, and has been Gov
ernor, and Senator, but he ie now Magician .
His salary, az member of Mr.. Liucoh's Cab
met, is eight thousand dollars per annum; and
upon that Income, by his economy and 6nancier.
ing, he has not only been able to live In style
which no other man could maintain with less
than fifty thousand year, but on the marriage
Of his daughter, he has been able TO give her,
out Of his hard saved earnings, the outfit OF Q
princess. Tiataed like an empress, in diamonds
and pearls, and robed 10 white velvet, che stood
Uu utE Ukluhi uikutt phO poloS VI Eokhl
beauty and puriIyt ~ e
Some pereoos have had the bad staste 70 con
trass the condition of two families. both identi
fed In the bloody drama which has continent
for a stage. The head Of one family they tell
US, was the master spirit in getting up the
fearful tragedy which has clothed q nation in
mourning, and drenched our land with frstern-
al blood. This man, they cay, Is one Of for
tunes favored song; be lives in costly luxury
and case, and whets his morning appetite by
readiDg the latest paragraph, announcing that
thirty Thousand more Americans had slaugh-
tered each other, and thus made ten thousand
more widows, and added forty thousand orphans
10 the list of woe. IL was night Of joy and
reyelsy In the great mans prlncely house; fair
women and brave men had gathered there, In
all the panoply OF beauty and Of war, to hon
or the nuptias Of the daughter Of the Cabinet
Minister, with a national Senator. Atno great
dista nce-in email and oheerless building,
there lived, or rather staid, the other family.
The father had been holdler, and while bear
ing aloft our nation 9 hig, was pierced through
the heart by arebel bullet That shotmade one
widow and elk orphans. They were poor and des-
ttute, AND therefore In the great and gay capital
they we're iriendlees. On the day Of that tes-
tive night, one of Che children OF the dead
soldier started to the house Of the great minis
Ter TO ask for charity for the dying mother and
starving children; but Of the stsps she heard
the Joyous dance within and 90 she tried 10 en-.
ter, she encountered o throng Of liveried ser.
vsntu, laden with oostly gifts, for the fair young
girl, who that night was to take high rank
among the matrons Of the nation. The poor
child, regardless Of the dsxEling scene, and
deaf to Che voluptuous music which echoed
from within, thought only Of her death strck
on mother, and the little ones famishing BY hel
side; again and again she pressed forward I,
gather the crumbs which fell from the rici
mans table; but she was cruelty spuEned away
for what had rags and misery 10 do amid sucl