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, 1866-03-09

cHEcK-MA1E.-Nr. ". +. Wentworth. the book
keeper Of the lhlgcs uou.e, made the recipient
Of very eubstantial gin yesterday morning, On
the occasion Of his entering into the holy state o
wediock. As eoou rs The Ceremony waa orcf. Nr
Tucker. the proprietor OF the briggs House. prc.
eertcd The happJ BRIDEGROOM With 4 check Ess
book keeper Of the csr1h!ishment- The complI
ment Wns no ees c1cdttzbie to the donor than sgei
n.eii led on the part Of Mr. Wentworth: Some
Lines blcss,n:a u well a. tFoubles do not come
alone.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-05-10
EssSiNIiC1s fCncf

1t is fact that the Democratic party has
always sustained every incumbent Of the
Pres siiential chair who has defended the
Constitution, and the nti-Demccrats have
heartily opposed all such The only three
Presidents ever elected by the anti Dem>
ocrats were Harrison, Taylor aud Lincoln
Each died in the Presidential Office, and
were succeeded by Vice Presidents elected
By the same patty. In each case the anti
Democrats quarreled with the Vice Presi-
dents because they would insist on being
guide by the Constitution-and they each +.
in turn, had to throw themselves for sup
poit on the Democratic party These are
significant historical facts What do they
teach.-Aesc Hars Register.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-05-10
E1Oyssc Cleaning.

THE following poetic efiusiOn is apprOpri-
ate TO the present time, and will be appreci-
ated by hosts of readers who have passed
through the perils of house cleaning:l
The melancholy days have come, the saddest
of the year
Ofcleaning paint, and scrubbing floors and
securing far and near;
Heaped in the corners of the room, the
ancient dirt lay quiet,
And spiders wove their web secure from fear,
and din and riot;
But now the carpets are all up and from the
staircase top
The mistress calls to man and maid to wield
the broom and mop
Where are those rooms, those quiet rooms,
the house hui now presented,
Wherein we dwelt, nor dreamed of dirt, SO
coy and CC2tcnteG?
Alas! theyr re turned all upside down, that
quiet suit of rooms,
With slops and suds, and soap, and sand, and
tubs, and pals ard broOms;
Chairs, tables, stands, are standing round ct
skies aad at seyens,
While wife and hOusemaidS fly about like
meteors in the heavens.
Tie parior and the chamber floor were
cleaned q week ago,
The carpets shook ana windows washed. as
all the neighbOrs know;
But still the sanctum had escaped-the table
piled with books,
Pens, inks and paper all about, peace in its
very looks
Till fell the women on them ALL as falls the
plague on men,
And then they vanished all away-boolls pa
pers ink and pen.
And now. when comes the master home, as
come he must at nights.
tt find that all things are "set to wrongs
that they have set to rights,
Whenthe soundJriying tacksis heard though
he house is far from still,
and the carpet women are on the stairs, that
Earbingcr OF III
He looks for papers booi,s or bills, that al
were there before
And sighs to find them on the desk or in the
draw no more.
And then he grimly thinks of her who sets
this fuss aoat,
And wishes she were out at sea in very
leaky boat
lie meets her AZ the parior door, with hail
and cap away,
With sleeves tucked up and broom in hand
defiance IN her eye;
lie feels quite small, and knows full wei
there's nothing 20 be said,
So holds his tongue, and drinks his tea, and
sneals away to bed.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-05-10

VINO hiLLED ABLE. REV. Mr.. Lind
say told good story at the Sunday School
celebration at the Methodist Church in
Charlottesville, The other day. lie said
that the following occurred at a Sunday
School IT the University Of Virginia re
n.ly, bc;u cen 4 teacher and new schol-
ar ;
:. Ny little boy can you tell who killed
Abel? p
" Yes ma m
" Well now, my little dear, do not be
afrad-who killed Abel ?"
The Yankees
"Oh, no. Johnny-we arc not talking
about that-do you rot know who killed
Abel 2"
Scholar still insisted that it was the
Yankees.
NO, my son; Cain killed Abel; now,
remember, think OF sugar cane, am going
to ask you about it next Sunday. Think
of sugar cane
The next Sunday the boy was attacked
again.
Well. Johnny, you know to-day who
killed Abel?"
"Oh, yes ma'm-must l tell 2"
Yes, my dear who killed Abel -
Sorghum"
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-05-10
IMPEACHMENT.

WHAT KETCHUM is DOING. "A New
York correspondent writes thus of young
Ketchum
For the satisfaction Of those who wish
special information concerning this un-
fortunate young man, we state that he is
serving as book keeper in the shoe shop at
Sing Sing State Prison; that his behavior
has won the good will of all about him
that he breakfasts in his cell; but is allowed
to eat dinner aud supper in the worhroom
with the foreman and outside helpers, who
bring their dinners with them, at which
meals he has the best of fare; that his
parents and wife cpme often to see him
that he receives anG answers many letters;
and that the prospect is that ne will con Q
out better fitted for business than ever, and
then have his revenge on Wall street. Hc
is not confined to the rule of silence gen
orally maintained in prison, but is allowed
every possible privilege, being looked upon
| as the victim Of circumstances rather than
as atudied mslsfaotor.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-05-10

EQUAL TO TIE OCCASION An Amer
lean gentleman travelling iii Ireland, hired
a pure native as servant, who he tho't
could give him information about the
country Observing a beautiful residence
az some distance, the following colloqy en-
sued:
" Patrick: who lives here p
It's Mr. Fitzgerald, that's dead SIR"
What did he die of ?"
q lie died of Thursday sir"
How long has he been dead, Pat
rick ?"
"If he had lived till next Thursday, sir,
he d be dead year"
Have you taken anything to drink to-
day, Patrick Z"
{" will, sir"
"Well, what shall it be? Will you
take raw liquor, or will you take grog, or
shall mix you toddy?''
" IF your honor please. will take raw
liquor first, then | can be drinking the
grog while you are mixing the brandy
toddy."
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-05-10

dying in the last ditch" is supposed
usually TO be of rebel origin. So it is. 1t
originated in that rebellious old reprobate,
parson Brownlow, in one of his character
istic documents issued i'll 1856 He said
In eur southern states, where negroes
have been set at liberty, IN nine cases out
af tor .h.:r ...c:r conditions nave been made
worse while the most wietched lazy and
dishonest class of persons to be found in
the southern states are free persous of col
or. l. therefore, so against the emancpa'
ton Of slavery altogether, unless they can
DO sent to Liberia st once. l take my
stand with the friends of the institution o'
slavery in the south. Connected with this
question, | will go as far as the next man
even to dying in the last ditch
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-05-10
EgOn,e and Abroad.

The eight hour bill failed in the radical
Legislature of Massachusetts, That body
was professedly overflowing with sympathy
for the negroes of the south, but it was
careful not to pass any bill thatwas intends
ed for the relief Of its own half-paid and
overworked operatives in its factories and
machine-shops. They work twelve or
fourteen hours day in many of the Mas
sachusetts factories But they are white,
and are at home. and the mock humanity
does not see them.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-05-10

The RUMP CONGRESS- John Van
Rurcn entertains the same opinion of the
illegalliiy of the Rump Congress that we
have expressed in the Enquirer. In late
speaoh he says:
Such body as that. | say, is an ille-
cal, unconstitutional assemblage 1t is, in
point of law, mob, and, in my Judgment,
the Mayor of Washington neglects his
duty every day in not dispensing them as
such"
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-05-10

COLLIDE. josh Billings says:
q could'never find the meaning of the
word collide in Worcester or Webster
Bat, riding the other day iu the New York
Central Railroad, saw il all 1t is The
attempt OF trains to pass each other on a
single track. If remsmber CORRECTLY. i.
wss a signal failure"
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-05-10

An impatient boy, waiting for the grist.
said to the miller:
g could eat the meal as fast as the mill
grinds it.
How long could you do SO ?" inquired
the miller
"Tiil | starved to DEATH" was the sar-
castle reply.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-05-10
1e. H. Time Tables.
Pittsburgh Et. Wayne & Chica 60
Railway,

On and after Nov. 10, 1865, Trains will leave
Stations daily, Sab5aths excepted. as follows:-
Train leaving Chicago at $3.50 P, N, Leaves daily.
TRAINS GOING WEST.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-05-10
No. SOS no N mos. 3 nlos year

Lea advertisements 81 per square Tor each
insertion, charged 10 parties publishing them'
COMMUNICATIONS to promote pirate interests
must be paid Ior ~ the regular advcrtiseu rates
M,grl.srs and DEATHS ere published as news.
A,~-,r,<rvrxrs unless the number Of inser-
tions desired is specified, viii be continued 'iii
ordered out. and charged ut regular rates
Locsl notices 20 cents Tor each line
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-05-10
W gODnlaIxinG.

G. HkSLANGES g. BROS,
Observation-Disclosures carriages etc. Black
sn,ithing, painting and graining done to orde
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-05-10
4,MelS.
PARKER HOUSE,
(roRMzRLY TEE EDWARDS HOUSE

(FoRMERLY TIE EDWARDS HoUsE,)
Michigan Street. Plymouth Indiana.
JOEL PARKER, Proprietor.
This large and capacious Hotel has been recent
" re6tted and repaired, and unie- It's present
proprietorship. will be kept a First Class House.
An excellent Livery Stable is connected with
the House. 1l-46 tt.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-05-10
NEW LIVERY STABLE.

POTTE2 & WEIGH, PRoPREToRs,
Goa. LA PORTE & WALNUT Srs., PLYMorTEi. 1ND.
4 splendid lot OF Horses Carriages. Buggies,
&C., to be hire, at all Il mes.
Passengers conveyed 10 any par; of the country
on reasonable terms. Ill-35-tf.l
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-05-10
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The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-05-10

The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Post draws the following pen>pic,
lures of Senators Johnson, Trumbull and
Gowop.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1866-03-30
From the Brattleboro Phoenix
Advice to a Daughter.

PLEASANT VALLEY, Jan. 90, 1866.
Mr. DARLING DAUGHTER AS you
have often expressed an anxious desire to
have me write you on the question " How
can secure the best influence over my
husband ?" ] regard the question as a
reasonable one, and am gratifed at this
evidence Of your ingennousness, and laud-
able desire to do all you can TO make your
two young lives success. 1t is but a
short time since " you twain became one
flesh since YOU entered upon rela-
ton the most important in its bearings up
on human happiness Of any earthly rela-
lion. You did not thoughtlessly enter up
on it; you considered it well, and long, be-
fore deciding TO be married and now that
the die is cast and you have taken each
other for better or for worse" YOU look to
your old f,ther for counsel relative to your
future course. Now my darling dear, you
know love you as my own life and have
AZ UeaIl soui otot "Sh-oo'ts ohu "ooi"
no., for the world, say anything that would
do injury, when would only do you good.
Ne lire in our children !; and when they
are happy, we are happy and when they
are unhappy we are unhappy. ] have
then double motive to write the best
things In order to be clearly understood,
as the ministers say. will
lst, Tell you what you need not do. IN
order to gain the best Influence over your
husband.
And 1st. You NEED NOT pot on his
pantaloons. Some women think or seem
10 think that if they can only get on theiI
husbands pantaloons, they can govern hin
at will. But your mother has governed
me for my good, in many things; but she
never sna,ched after my pantaloons no
nor do | think she would wear them If OF
fered to her. My good aunt Nichols uses
to say, +" 1t was no matter if a wife di'
wear pantaloons, if she took care net L
have them come down in sight, Bs
your mother often said that .. she coul
not respee; me if | was no, capable of be
ing the head of the family" This is true
you cannot respect your husband if
would iamely submit TO be henpecked
and snubbed and made TO feel that you n
garded him as an interior person.
2. You should always be careful not
seem to know more than your husband
You may know more than he about som
things; but be careful not TO seem to kno
more. We Lords of creation" have
native. Unborn feeling that we are the M
ural " head Of the woman rs Christ is {
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1866-03-30
Poetry.
Labor.


Pause not to dream of the future efore Us;
Pause not TO weep the wild cares that come er US
lIark how creations deep musical chorus,
Unintermittng goes up into heaven!
Never the ocean-waye filters IN fiowngi
Never the little seed stops In lis growing;
More and richly the rose-heart keeps glowing,
Till from its nourishipg stem it Is riyen.
4" Labor Is worship l'--the robin Il singing
" Labor is worship 1.-THE wild bee Is ringing
Listen that eloquent whisper npsPrugiug
Speaks to thy soul from out Natures great heart.
Prom the dark cloud flows the ife-gving shower
From the rough sod blows this ft-breathiug flower
From the small insect, the rich coral bower
Only mani in the plan, shrinks FROM his part.
Labor is life Ills the stil water hAileth
Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth
Keep the watch wound. for the dark rust assaileth
Flowers drcop aud die in the stiffness Of
Labor ls glory .-the hying cloud lightens
Only the waving wing changes and brghtens;
Idle hearts only the dark future frighens
Play the sweet keys would st thou keep them in tune
Labor is rest from the sorroNs that greet us ,
Rest from all petty yexati MS that meet US
Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat US,
Rest from world sirens that lure Us to III.
Work k-aud pure slumbers sha wait on thy pillow,
Work-thou shalt ride cares coming billow
Lie not down wearied heath woes weeping willow
Work with stout heart and resolute viii
Labor Is health lot the husbandman reaping
How through his veins goes the lecurrent leaping,
Hos his strong 10 its sialwart pride sweeping,
True a sunbean the swift sickle guides
Labor is wealth in the the pearl groweth
Rich the queens robe from the fra cocoon howeth
From the hne the strong forest bloweth;
Temple aud statue the marble block hides.
Droop not though shame sin aud anguish are round thee
Rravey fling of the cold chain that hath bound Thea.
Look to yon pure heaven smiling beyond thss;
Rest not co intent IN thy dsrkness--a elod
Work--for some good belt ever 50 SLOWLY
Cherish some flower, be it so lowly:
labor !-ai labor ls noble an holy
Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1866-03-30

tonight, Rose, for letting Jerry get away;
but prudence forbade.
Luce died in the course Of the following
week, " Dressing the Lor' dat her ole msn
was safe, do"
Not so long after broke forth the civil
war, and upon battlefield of its later car
mage Jerry and his sometime master met,
the latter bleeding from many wounds,
his sword arm dsabled-helpless, at Jer-
ry's mercy, as Jerry had once been at his
Tor years. jerry had seemed to have
shaken age from his old shoulders--seem-
ed to have quafed at fountain of youth
since he had seen Massa Kendall stood
up straighter than he ever had, with a
soldiers cap on his head. They were IN
a little belt of woodland, apart from the
main strife, whittier Kendall had crawled
to hide from the heat and the bullets and
Jerry had blundered upon him there.
Just as he thought himself safe, the
wounded man turned and saw--Jerry -
Jerry's was not a benign appearing lace
at that moment He was thinking OF
Lrce. who died almost under stripes OF
old days, when, in literal and terrible
sense, his soul was not bis own. Never
mind all he thought as he stood there. stall
part and strong, freedoms blood in his
veins, and the man to whom he owed
those accursed days at his feet his lie
held in the PAIN OF his hand. We Of the
white race are not 50 very iorgiving. We
treasure wrongs as much whittier than his
as we hold ourselves whittier than he
Would il have been strange if the angel
of vengeance had Whispered deadly sug-
gestions in the black mans ear Stand.
| ing his gun against tree, the negro spread
out his hands, the palms upward, alter
nately addressing each in bali soliloquy
thus
@Dis we're for my ole woman, fur LITTLE
Joe, dat Msssa sold furm us to de trader
fur de bran on my shoulder, de whip oil
my back. Dis yere for Miss Rose da
hide ole Jerry when Massa Slocum com
in" He looked at his left hand contem
pla,ively, and then at lis right. His dar
face cleared at once Of perplrxity. "Bres
de Lor' dis yere goa fader, Miss Rose
Ole Jerry do de very best he can 70
him"
Shouldering his gun again. he assiste
the wounded man TO rise, and conducte
him TO yet safer refuge in the woods
brought him water, dressed his wound
with bandages torn from his own shirt
and not till he had made him as comfort
able as possible under the circumstance
did be leave him. Kendall was speeches
through il all perhaps from amazement-
1t doesn't matter the deed will speai
for itself on the day WHEN both are judg
z al
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1866-03-30

INrLUENeE.-Every man is mission
airy, now and forever, whether he intends
or designs it or not. He may be a blot,
radiating his dark influences outward to
the very confines Of society, or he may be
blessing, spreading benedictionover the
length and breadth of the world but q
blank be cannot be. There are no neutral
characters. We are either the sower that
sows and cOrruPts, or the light tha, splen-
didly Eliminates. and salt that silently op-
crates but dead or alive every man
speaks.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1866-03-30
Miscellany.
JERRYs LOGIC.

1t was Rose KendalI's birthday. The
little witch herself was putting on all the
airs imaginable, as being the parsonage
for whom all this fuss and hutter MAS
made. She had on new dresa, flmy
and vaporous as sunset cloud her arms
and dimpied shoulders were bare and her
dark curis floating. Her restless bright
eyes danced and sparkIed, Ike stars from
brook, and her roguish red lips would
break into smiling, in spite of all her eff
forts TO maintain dignfed gravity.
Fitting about like a butterfly, she came
suddenly upon her governess, Miss Mer-
lin, standing in window recess, and look
ing SO very grave that the child noticed it,
and creeping close TO her, asked
/" What is the matter, Miss Merlin p
Miss Merlin looked down at her, and
then away into the gathering darkness
again, with a scarcely depressed shudder.
The child seemed to feel it, and pressed
her question an, iously Is anything
the matter, Miss Merlin p
The governess wrung her slender hands
together with that vague shives again.
"Il's such a sad world, child,' she said
evasively.
aH is? / like it, Miss Merlin. l
think lis nice"
Nice Yes here ; plenty of sorrow
and srfering otherwheres, though
Something like a shadow fell upon lit
tie Roses face. She was very sympa-
the,ic child.
81 am sorry" ,he said. wish ev-
cry body was just as happy as | am to-
nigh"
The half stern lines about the govern
esses mouth softened, and ,remor, as Of
tears. struggled in her voice.
" You would make them so if you could
wouldn', you, dear Even Jerry ?'--
The last two words slipped out almost un-
awares. Miss Merlin looked about ap.
prehensiyely, TO see if any one else had
heard. No one was near them, how.
ever.
Jerry ?" repeated Rose. " Yes, o
course but Jerry has run away. Didn'
you know that, Miss Merlin ?"
Some one called the.child just then, ant
she ran away without waiting for reply
Miss Merlin was New England girl
governessing in Southern State, she hat
some experiences that were not pleasan
to her. Just now, lingering in the hall
she heard the few low spoken words tha
had put this gravity in her face. 1t wa
the overseer, Slocum, speaking to Mr.
Kendall.
"Yas, sir Jrrry's been back TO Sc
Luce. That young cub o his'n had t
own up to seein' daddy an reckon, {
we're sly enough, wen nab him to-nigh
Lord Lord what fool he is to com
hangin' round here eff he don't want l.
get took"
Jerry was mulatto boy, pretty we
along in years, that had run away unde
peculiarly aggravating circumstances
: few DAYS before and Massa Kendall hs
promised very emphatically tina, if he e.
er got hold OF him again he'd settle him.
Miss Merlin had known vaguely OF OF
> settling on the plantation, and had
shuddering dread Of another. If Jerl
could only be warned Bot he couldn'