Year: 1867

meeting. with look that he never got over. She was one of the few without gifts of speech, whose bearing and looks are full equivalent for speech. A farm CTS daughter-she was well practised i'll work But New England woman, she was of deep moral nature and reflective lv intelligent. One who looked for in structive manners would pass her by un- seen. Like & geode, the exterior was l homely, the crystals were dark -chambered within.

 i Upon her rested the thoughts of Abiah Cathcart She went but little from home, except on Sunday to church, and to the singing school. But twice had Cathcart visited her fathers house, and yet, for a year, when they met. both hid or strove to hide sensibility of which neither were ashamed, but which each was ashamed to feel without some sign that the other felt it too. Our finer feelings are like the even- ing primrose, all the sunlight but shuts them closer And yet when evening comes and dews are falling, if you will watch, you shall see the twilight with gentle influence unrol them one by one, with visible mo- tion, each blossom throwing forth, as it opens, it's offering of delicate odor

 "They were walking silently and gravely home one Sunday afternoon, under the tall elms that lined the street for half mile Neither had spoken. There had been some ] little parish quarrel, and on that afternoon the text was, A new commandment I write unto you, that ye love one another " But, after the sermon was done, the text was the best part of it. Some one said that Parson Marsh's sermons were like the meeting -house-the steeple was the only thing that folks could see after they got home"

 A simple love scene follows, and

 "Not another word was spoken. They walked home hand in hand. He neither smiled nor exulted. He saw neither the trees, nor the long level rays of sunlight that were slantlng across the fields His soul was overshadowed with cloud as if God was drawing near. He had never felt so solemn. This woman s life had been en- trusted to him

 Long years--fhe whole length of life-the eternal years beyond, seemed in an indis- tinct way to rise mp in his imagination All that he could say, as he left her at the door was:

 Rachel, this is foreyer-forever

 ''She again said nothing, but turned to him with clear and open face, in which joy and trust wrought beauty. It seemed 1 eyes. There was look that descended and covered him as with an atmosphere and all the way home he was as one walking in 8 lumininous cloud. He had never felt such personal dignity as now. He that wins such love is crowned. and may call himself king He did not feel the earth under his feet As he drew near luis lodgings, the sun went down. The children began to pour forth, no longer restrained. Abiah turned to his evening chores. No animal that night but had reason to bless him. The children found him unusually good and teuder- And Aunt Keziah said to her sister:

 'Abiah's been going to meetin' very reg ular for some weeks. and l shouldn t won- der by the way he looks, if he had got 8 hope. I trust he ain't deceivin' himself" "He had 8 hope and he was not deceived; for in few months at the close of the ser vice one Sunday morning, the minister read from the pulpit Marriage is intended between Abiah Csthcart and Rachel Lis comb, both of this town, and this is the first publishing of the banns. '--Cowont. REPUBLICANISM NATIONAL.

 One of the most unjust, but nevertheless one of the most effective charges ever brought against the Republican party was that of sectionalism-thati 1t only had an or ganization and an existence in one section of our country. With those who urged this objection the fact had little weight that the organization and existence of the party in the other section of the country was an i'm possibility, because of the mob violence that prevailed there and the determination that ruled the minds of the leaders of the South as we'll as the minds of their agents to prevent the organization of the Republi- can party at all hazards, whether by fair or by foul means if 1t could not be done by appeals to the logic of thought, then by the logic of force and violence. To this very spirit of violence the Democratic managers ty, gave all the support and encouragement they possibly could. They thus helped to confne the operations of the Republican party by force within the limits of the free states, and yet they dishonesty and like tricky demagogues loudly denounced the party as sectional and as unworthy of sup port because it cas thus made sectional This is like dishonest debtor who is deter mined not to pay the just claims of his cred itor, and who says to him: e. can't pay unless you will call at my office" but who then straightway proceeded to his office and locks and bars the door and keeps his office closed expressly to exclude the just claim ant This is Q perfect illustration of the course of the Democratic dervishes who for years have howled around our ears the un- reasonable din about the sectionalism" of the Republican party.

 That day is now passed and we hope for ever. The party has now an existence in the south and should in every possible way be fostered and sustained there by the north. The following appeal, which is ta- ken from the Raleigh Standard, cannot go unheeded

 " To the Republicans nt hte Noa2h;

 "Our friends in the northern states are rich, powerful. and possess many great ora tors and statesmen. The Republican party here has been weak and poor, hitherto, but is now fighting itself into a commanding position ;; yet we do appeal for aid to our northern friends. Our platform is that of the Republican party of the nation, and we are the loyal element in the south-the only learen there is in the loaf. From this time forward it is our intention to press the CO., horts of secession on every side, and to make another open and desperate fight for the Union. In our ranks are found the color ed voting population. They should be visi- ted and necessarily taught their duty and