Weekly Trinity journal., 1866-06-09


Breathe it gently in a Whisper
Lest bleeding heart be rivcn;
There's but name dearer to us.
And that cherished name is Heaven
FEMALE IxcoSsTANcy.-The following episode
of the rebellion is furnished by Columbia,
South Carolina, correspondent of the New York
Times :-s While here | have heard romantic
story that am assured is true, and which, as 1T
reveals the Inconsistency of woman, and the elas-
tic character Of the feminine heart, am not
disinclined to reject. A young woman, pos
sessed of fine person and property, member
of one of the oldest and most fashionable fam
lilies in the State, became engaged to young
man in her own grade in life, who was Major
in the rebel service, and was to marry him at the
termination of the war, if he survived. If he did
not she being Catholic, had promised to enter
a convent, and become only the bride of Heaven
They were model pair of lovers, and all who
knew them believed they were the embodiments
of poetry, tenderness, and devotion to each
other that they lived what bards have sung,
and romances had described. They were like
two blossoms on one stem-a planet in its ray.
As usually happens, fate frowned on their
felicity, and, jealous of their love, cut the ma
terial cloud Of the sentimental Major beng at
Fort Wagner. Eloisa was mad with grief,
and inconsolable forevermore. Her parents be-
ieved she would not, and could not ive and
that if she did, she mus be reft of reason
Months passed Charleston fell. Columbia
was threatened Elosa remained She was
anxious to be slain by the barbarians who had
murdered her lover. The Union forces arrived
but had something else to do than kill women
and Eloisa survived in spite of herself.
Sac heard the regiment was in town that had
charged upon the battalion led by her best be
loved and she resolved to see the Colonel and
denounce him as the slayer of her prince and
peace. Eloisa him, ard had tremendous
scene The Colonel was handsome and gallant
and when the fair girl Numbered, all her sex
do at first, and then raned, he was touched and
interested in the unknown woman. lie COM
forted and consoed her. realizing the truth OF the
idea that the heart is never so susceptible to n
new attachment as when it is recovering from an
old one.
In four weeks she had learned to love the
Yankee savage. and expressed her willingness
TO he his ; while he resigned, as most men
are, to be worshpped by her if she was bent on
anv such folly.
They were married in spite Of the threatened
anathemas of all her relatives and friends, and
in Europe, no doubt renewing on the
continent the that in America has ceased,
but which in dominions domestic has no end. "
GREELEY AS A WRITER.-The New York World
does Greeley ample justice in the following OBJ
servations upon his style as a writer - We
ietest sincerely enough the Tribunes politics
but we feel reasonable professional pride in its
journalistic success-a success mainly due to
the marked pccularities of character and sinewy
diction of its chief editor. His easily distn-
guishable articles are characterized by fervor,
directness. succinctness aptness, racness, which,
whether he be wrong or right land we think him
oftener wrong than right never fail to enchain
Spc oh journalism like q
well-supported character in tue drama-it enlists
our interest even when we do not admire its
qualities In the discharge of our daily duty to
keep the run of the current radical arguments,
we t.bless our stars and call it luxury that
we can, every morning, get at them, without
fatigue, in the slashing, compendious editorials
of the TriJuns instead of hunting them through
the drearv, cloudy, pontless scrblings of its
radical coadjutors. Whether Greeley fuel hap
pens to be shavings anthracite, his style blazes
up in clear fame, without smoke. He has
also the valuable secret, open to all writers, but
discerned by few, of stopping when he is done
REWARD OF MERIr.-Steve Venard, who recent
" immortalzed himself by capturing the Neva-
da stage robbers with his unerring Henry rifle,
has been appointed Aid upon the Staff of Cover
nor Low, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel
Following is a copy of the letter ::
STATE CALIFORNIA, EXECUTIVE DEgEnIMrST,
SACRAMENTO, May D. 1866.
To LIEUT. COLONEL, STEVE VEyARD-My Dear
Sir Under instructions from his Excellency
the Governor, | have this day transmitted per
Wells, Fargo Co., to your address, commits
sion as Aide-de-Camp the Staff of the Com
mander-in-Chief, with the rank of Lieut.. Colonel
in the National Guard of California.
Governor Low is absent temporarily from Sac
ramento, but be desires me, by letter, to present
to you his personal congratulations, and to say
that this appointment is made for - meritorous
services in the field
Very respectfully, your obd't servt,
". 4. BRowS, Private Sec y.
SLIGHTLY IRRITATED.-The Nashville Tenn J
Banner thus concludes an editorial notice of the
forty-one members Of the House who passed the
Franchise bill SO They are members of no par
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