Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1868-08-22

hardship-and he knew not how to give
his darling its nourishment. AS he
made effort after effort to stifie the cries
and check the tears of his motherless
babe, how he must have missed her who
in his life of labor and privation had
been his solace and comfort An un.
bidden tear started to his eye, but he
brushed it away. All who saw him pit
led him. At length a woman, richly
appareled, with an infant resting on the
lap of the nurse beside her--she had
been watching the man-said in gem
tie tone, "Give me the child" The
poor fellow looked at her with look of
gratitude, for there was mothers ten
derness in her voice. With humble
resignation, as though it were pain to
part with him, even for moment, he
gave her his boy. The woman took it;
its soiled clothes rested on her costly
silk its tiny head was soon beneath
her shawl, and in a moment all was
STILL Like the Grecian daughter who,
through iron bars fed her starving faith
er, so did this high born lady from her
breast feed the hungry child, and when,
on her gentle bosom the little one lay
in calm and unvexed sleep, she put
aside the shawl. The fathers heart
swelled with gratitude. He said, as
tear welled in his eye, and his voice
was quick with emotion, "Thank you,
I'll take him now" Then the woman's
nature spoke forth, as she gently an
swered "Not yet; you will wake him."
and for mile after mile that noble-heart.
ed woman held that poor mans child,
and it was not until her own babe re-
quired such nourishment as. only
mother can give, she gently rose and
placed the stranger boy with its father.
they Learn Nothing.
-Four years ago people were greatly
amused by finding the Democratic plat
form-which declared the war failure,
and demanded an immediate cessation
of hostilities-printed in many of the
country papers on the same page with
reports of the capture of Atlanta by
Sherman. The year before that Mr..
Seymour, of this State, distinguished
himself by dolorous Fourth of July
oration in this city, in which he warned
his hearers that we could not afford to
carry on the war any longer, that we
could never beat the rebels. But
while he was speaking Vicksburg was
surrendered to Grant, and Lee was be-
ginning to fly from Meade at Gettys-
burg; and Seymour's speech was ac-
companied in the next days papers with
gloss most unwelcome to him and
those who thought with him.
A number of experiences of this kind
ought to have warned the Democratic
leaders not to attempt prophecy. TEeir
strength does not lie in that direction
events appear to have spite aginst them.
1t would be difficult to imagine any
thing more inappropriate than General
Sherman's capture of Atlanta just af-
ter the Democratic Convention had SOL
emily declared the war a failure, and
demanded immediate cessation of hos
tilities; but the circumstances under
which the Democratic platforme appear
ed this morning are mot more fortu-
nate s'4
The platform denounces the Freed
mems Bureau, and demands itsabolitiou,
but Congress had already passed an
Act discontinuinff the Bureau, which
become a law yesterday; and General
Howard gives notice in the same
papers in which the Democratic plat
form is printed that the Bureau has
ceased in South Carolina, and that
he is rapidly winding up its affairs in
the other States.
We read in the platform a demand
for the immediate restoration of all the
States and turning from this passage
to another column of the paper,
that while all are restored but four,
South Carolina, Virginia, Mississippi
and Texas, South Carolina has just
adopted the amendment, and will doubt
less be represened in Congress within
the week. But we read also in the
platform that the Acts of reconstruction
are "void," which means that the Dem
ocrats, if they succeed, will at, once de-
stroy all that has been done, and put
us back again to 1865. This is prom
ise whish will hardly delight people
who have grown tired of the long Re
construction squabble. To reopen this
question, now settled in all but three
States, would be calamity to the coun-
try-but that is what the platform
threatens.
There are two points in the Democrat
ic platform which events have not fore
stalled; the clause favoriDg the taxa
tion Of bonds and their payment in
greenbacks and the clause demanding
"protection to American Industry