The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1864-12-22
PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 49, 1864.

SaxtOn once told me OF friend OF hl:
who had hardly stich soul. He had beer
very wild, as o young man-a regular
"sad 6og"--such as We see in the ole
English comedies. One day however, he
fell in love with pretty girl. She wa'
pious, a moralist, and generally well-beha
we'd. Her family were of the same order
Poor scrapegrace had not the courage t,
make full confession. He became
sanctimonious, dropped his wild ways and
loose companions, prOfessed to have been
born sucking Christian, aud never tc
have stfa5ed from the straight and rigiC
path of the most virtuous New England pro
priety. ain sorry to say he married the
girl. She discovered, in time, that she
had been deceived, and as she could moi
tell how much, she conceived the m ost
terrible suspicious Of her husbands char
acter- They were unjust: for he really
loved her. and in marrying her, he had
lost all taste sot his old way Of life.
Well, she died, one fine evening. Scape
grace felt sure that she was killed by some
new revelation that she had happened
upot-some uncomfortable secret that ne
had been working Herculeany to sup
press. Had he shot her through tie heart
with pistol, be could not felt more like a
murderer. He married under false pre-
tences, and this was his atonement: life
of eternal and terrifying corcealrnent
while she lived, and horrible self-con-
demnation as 2 murderer forever after
Do you think it paid ? ! don't
The truth is' singular by easy to tell, when
she habit is oiice acquired, and really, 1t
comfort, Ore night, party of my friends
were engaged in gossiping about my
wick edness. OF course, / was absent
During the talk, two OF them stood up
Cor me, more nobly than reasonably,
ganst the whole yelping pack. One cf
them told me afterwards, aud said:
I'VE defended you as we'll as We could
Aren't you grateful -
"Ycs nay dear child, said I; but you
might have been better employed. What
ever those ladies and gentlemen may have
said about me, fell far short of the truth.
If | had been present, | could have tcld
them = good deal more than they were
likely to repeat; and all Of it quite true, at
that"
Yet how shocking tender ve are, ali We
when he advised Us Never do that which
YOU would not be known to G1." | need
not say that except jas, no doubt, he did
those sacred works of charity where the
receiver knows no. who is his bencfactor.
But the truth is terribly hard to get at,
wthal Illustration: Take any battle Of
the present war The correspondent Of
the Richmond Examiner says:
Confederate loss. s............. 50
Federal loss s.............. :. 80, 900
The New York Bugle, on the contrary
has much more reliable newsmonger
lie says:
Federal loss. 90
Confederate loss ss....,..........50 80 900
How, in Heavens name, is "A man to
know any thing about the war when it is
all over?
Or, take simpler matter. Take the
of Gen. Nelson by Gen. Davis,
in the Gait House, Lou sville, Ky. The
friends Of Davis say that Nelson was AFRO
giant, blasphemous, insulting to the last
degree, and that the act was a public kind
ness The friends of Nelson say that Da-
Wis was per,nacious, mcddlesome, jealous,
and that the act was the cold blooded
murder Of Christian gentleman. What
is the intelligent reader to bclive
Colonel Miles was killed on Maryland
Heights and Harper's Ferry was lost to
us for a time. Everybody howls at Colonel
Tom Ford for surrendering.
1T was Colonel Niles fault" say Col.
Ford's friends
"No; it wasn't" say Miles friends.
"You SANDER the dead His last orders
were to hold on till the cows tails dror
ped off 1t was Ford's cowardice."
at was Miles ~
"It was Ford's ~
And SO they GO. The friends of both
partisans prolcng the question indefinitely.
"ntil it has become wearisome, the public
loses interest, and court martial bushes
up or slurs over the gravest act of villainy
perhaps.
Can anybody tell me anything about
the Bulls Bluff slaughter? What had
General Stone to do with it? What
had Colonel Baker to do with it? don't
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