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THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE.
JAS. A. WRIGHT, AGENT.
THE WASHINGTON SAffim
Tu«l—Three Dollars a year, in advance.
“SECT BY EXPRESS."
BY AMY RARDOI.Pn.
Marian Harlan was alone in the world
—her mother just buried.
She was a beautiful, brown-haired girl
with soft, shy eyes of violet gray, and ro
sy lips compressed to a firmness far be
yond her years. For after ail she was scarce
ly seventeen, and so Deacon Gray was tell
ing her, as be sat by the fire spreading hit
huge bands over the tardy blaze, and
asked:
‘But what are you goin to do to earn
ypur bread and butter, child V
‘l don’t know—l haven't thought.
Mamma had an uncle in New York,
who"
‘Yes, yes—lve heern tell about him—
he was mad ’cause your mother didn't mar
ry just exactly to suit him, wasn't he ?’
Marian was silent. Deacon Gray wait
ed a few minutes, hoping she would admit
him into her secret meditations; but site
did not, and the Deacon went nway borne,
to tell bis wife that “that Harlan gal was
tbe very queerest creetur he ever bad come
across 1’
In the meanwhile. Marian was busy pack
ing her few scanty things into a little car
pet bag, by the weird, flickering light of
tbe dyirq; woodfire.
'I will go to New York,’ she said to
herself, setting her small pearly teeth firm
together,'My mother's uncle s/to// hear
my cause pleaded through my own lips.
Ob, 1 wish my heart would not throb so
wildly I lam no longer meek Minnie
Harlan; I am an orphan all alone in the
world who must fight life's battles with'
her own single bands I’
fops&my tLwmv'doek E.M..U
Whet a Babel of crashing wheels, hurry
ing humanity, and conglomerate noises it;
was 1 Minnie Harlan sat io the corner of
an Express Office, under the flare of gas
lights, surrounded by boxes, and wondered
whether people ever went crazed in this
perpetual dim and tumult. Iler dress was
very plain—gray* pop)in, with a shabby
old-fashioned little straw bonnet tied with
black ribbons, and a blue veil, w hile her
only article of baggage the carpet bag, lay
in her lap. She had sat there two ltours,
and was very, very tired. *
‘Poor little thing,’ thought the dark
haired young clerk nearest her, who inhab
ited a sort of wire cage under a circlet of
gaslights. And then he look up his pen,
and plunged into a perfect Atlantic Ocean
of account*.
•Mr. Evans !*
•Sir!'
The dark-haired clerk emerged from hia
cage with hie pen behind his ear, in obedi
ence to tbe beckoning finger of his supe
rior.
'I have noticed that young woman sit
ting here for some time —how came she
here 1'
‘Expressed on, sir, from Millington,
lowa—arrived this afternoon.’
As though poor Miuuie Harlan were a
box or a paper parcel.
‘Who for 1*
‘Consigned to Walter Harrington, Es
quire.’
1 sent up to Mr. Harrington’s address to;
notify him some time ago; I expect an an
swer every moment.’
‘Very odd,’ said the gray-lreaded gen
tlemen, taking up his newspaper.
‘Yea, sir, rather.’
Some three .quarters of an hour after
wards, Frank Evans came to the pale girl's 1
side with with an indescribable pity in bis
bazel eyes,
‘Miss Harlan, we have sent to Mr. Har
ftogtoo’s residence’
Minnie looked up with a feverish red
upon her cheek, and her hands clasped
tightly on the handle of the laded carpet
btg.
‘—And we regret to, inform yon that
he sailed for Europe at twelve o’clock this
X sodden blur came over Minnie’s eyes
—she trembled like a leaf. In all her
.calculations, she bad made no allowance
fi* aa exigency like this.
WASHINGTON, WILKES COUNTY, GA, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 29,1866.
I ‘Can we do anything further for you !’
questioned tho young clerk, politely.
‘Nothing—no one can do anything
now r
Frank Evans had been turning away',
but something in the piteous tone of her
voice appealed to every manly instinct with
in him.
•Shall I send to any other of your
friends !’
*1 have no friebds.'
'•Perhaps I can have your things sent to
some quiet family hotel!’
Minnie opened her little leather purse and
showed him two ten cents pieces, with a
smile that was almost a tear.
‘This is all the money I have in the world,
sir I’
So young, so beautiful, and so desolate!
Frank Evans bad been a New Yorker all
hia life, but he had never met with an ex
actly parallel case to this. He bit tho end
of his pen in dire perplexity.
‘But what aro you going to do ?’
‘I don’t know, sir. Isn’t there a work
house, or some such place, I could go to,
until I could find something to do!’
•Hardly. Frank Evans could scarcely
help (milling at poor Minnie’s simplic
ity.
‘They are putting out the lights, and pre
paring to close tho office, said Minnie,
starting nervously to her feet. .‘I must go
—somewhere.
‘Miss Harlan,’ said Frank, quietly, ‘my
home it a very poor one—l am only a
five hundred dollar clerk—but I am sure
my mother will receive you under her
roof for a day or two, if you can trust
me.’
•Trust you!’ Minnie looked at him
through violet eyes obscured in tears.
*Qb, air, 1 should be so thankful!'
‘Mow late you are Frank I Here, give
with snow^nd’— —*'^
But Frank .interrupted his basiling,
oberry-cheGced little mother, as she stood
on tip toe to take pjf his outer wrsp
pings.
‘llusli, ipotfier ■! there is a yoking lady:
down stairs.’
‘A young lady, Frank ?’
‘Yes, mother; expressed pn from lowa
to old Harrington, the rich merchant.
He sailed for Europe this morning, and she
is left entirely alone. Mother, '.she looks
like poor Blanche, and I knew you
wouldu’t refuse her a corner here until she
could find something io do;’
Mrs. Evans went to tke|daor and called
ch#xily out:
'Come up stairs, my dear—you're as
welcome aa flowers in May I Frank, you
did quite right; you always do.’
?li6 days asd weeks passed on, and still
Minnie Ilalan remained an inmate of Mrs,
Evans’* humble dwelling. ‘lt seem 9 just
as though she had taken our dead Blanche’s
place,’ said the cosy little widow; ‘and she
is so useful about tbe house. I don’t
jcaow bow I ever managed without
her*
‘Now, Minnie, you are not in earnest
about leaving us to-morrow V
‘I must dear Mrs. Evans only think—l
have been here two months to-morrow;
and the situation of governess is vary ad*
vantageous.’ -
‘Very well. I shall teff Frank‘liow ob
stinate you are;’ >'
‘Dearest Mrs.' Evans, please don't !
Please keep my secret.’'
•What secret isit to be so religiously
kept?’ asked Mr. Frank Evans, coolly
walking into the midst of the discussion,
with bis dark hair tossed about by the
wind, and his hazel-browJU eyes sparkling
archly.
* ‘Secret 4’.repeated Mrs. Evans energetic
ally wiping her dim spectacle glasses.
‘Why Marian is determined to leave us to
morrow.’
‘Minnie V
‘I must jFrank. I have no right further
to trespass on your kiudnes*.’
‘No right, eh?. Minnie, do von know
that the old house has been a different
bouse since you came into it! Do you
suppose we want to lose our little sun
beam V
Minnie smiled sadly, but her hand .felt
very cold and passive in Frank’s wa,rm
grasp.
‘You’ll stay, Minnie?’
‘No.* She shook her bead determined
ly-
‘Then you must be made to slay,’ said
Frank. Tro missed something of great
value latejy, and I hereby arrest you on
suspicion of the theft!’
‘Missed something ?’ Miuuie rose, turn
ing red and white. *Ob, Frank, yon never
can suspect me!’ .
‘But Ido suspect you. In fact I am
quite sure that the article is in your posos
sion.’
•ts jlielo 1*
‘My heart, Miss Minnie! Now look
here: J know I am very*yot»g and tory
poor, but I love you, Minnie Harlan, and I
will be a good and true husband to you.
Stay and he my little wife 1’
So Minnie Hariao, instead of going out
as a governess, according to the program
me, married the <Buk-haired young clerk
in Ellison’s Express Office.
They were very quietly married, early
in the morning, and Frank took Minnie
home to his mother, aad then went calmly
about his business in the wire cage, under
the circlet of gas lights.
‘Evans T
‘Yes, air.’
Frank, with his pen behind his ear m of
yore, quietly obeyed the behest of the grey
headed official. .
‘Do you remember the youßg, woman
who was expressed on from Millington,
lowa, two months sioce!’
•Yes, sir—l remember her.*
A tall, silver-haired gentleman here in
terposed with eager quickness:
‘Whose is she! lam her uncle, Walter
Harrington. I have just returned (rom
Paris, when the news of her arrval reached
me. I want her; she Is the only ,ljving
relative left me j* ’* i
, ‘Ah UMfejtad. -**»- VaaM*u» can's,
have her.’ fa
‘Can’t have her I Wliat do you mean ?
Hat any thing happened T
‘Yes, sir something has happened:
Miss Ua/lan was married to me this morn
ing.’ -x
Waller Harrington stared.
‘Take me to her,’ he said, hoarsely. ‘I
can’t be parted from my only living relative
for a mere whim.’
‘I wonder if he .calls the marriage sec
vice and wedding ring were turns,’
thought honest Frank; but he/jlieyed iu si
lence. ,
‘Minnie;’ said the old man, in faltering ac
cents, ‘you will come to me and bo the
tlie daughter of my old age! lam rich,
Minnie, find you are all I havo in the
world,’
But M*nnio stole her hand through her
husband's arm. s',
‘Dearest uncle, he was kind to roe when
I was desolate and alone. I cannot
leave my husband, Uncle Walter—l love
him!’ •"
‘Then you must both of you come and
be my children,’ said the old nun, dogged
ly. ‘And you must come near, for the
great house is as lonely as a throb.’
Frank Evans is an express clerk no km
ger, and pretty Minnie movSa jn velvet
and diamonds ; bot they are quite as hap
py as they were in tbe old time and that
is saying enough. Uncle Walter
grows older and feebler every day, and bis
two children are tbe sunshine of his decli
ning life.
Iloyr to Dktect Counterfeit Notes
—Counterfeit United States Legal Tender
Greenbacks. —s’a, anew issue And very well
done. The only prominent defect is
heavier shading around the words “United
States” in the title. The counterfeit is
about one eighth of an inch shorter than
the genuine. Counterfeit SnugU Jfoles.—
Fifty-cent ootee, new issue. Op the top of
the hill, the words “Furnished only by the
Assistant Treasurer and Designated Depo
sitaries of tbe Uuited States.” Observe the
two words “of the.’ On the genuine!, there
js a Jiule space between tbqw; not so on
the imitation.
Other Counterfeit Fifty-Cent. The
engraving the gilt frame around
tbe head is very bad. The paper has,
however, the appear ance of common paper,
aod is very whitish, The whole of it ip a
little smaller than tbe genuine. Six barrels
on right end of Washintgon are very indis
tinct.
Twenty-five cent notes, new issue; very
dark, poorly engraved.
Other twenty-five cent notes, poorly
engraved, on poor paper, and the gilt frame
around the bead don’t show any gill.
Ten-cent-notes, very coarsely done and
the green ink very pale.
United States-Compound-interest Notes.
—GO'a ? imitation—vignette (on left end)
female erect, holding sword in left hand
her right hand resting on Bible —male bust
50 ou die above on right end. Well done
and likely, to deceivo good judges.
JOO’s counterfeit, are in circulation. —
A sac simile efthu genuine bill, but the
engraving is not so fine. They are dated
May 15, 1805; letter B- The green ink
in the back on the counterfeit fs jjf.ler than
that in the genuine. Be careful and ex
amine well before taking them, as they have
deceived sotno of our best judges.
Mb. Lincoln's Own Account of His
Famous Flight to Washington.—A
recent Piotorinl History of the Civil War
in America has the following acoount from
the last President of his famous flight to
Washington; *
While in Washington City, early in De
cember, 1884, the writer called on the
President, with Isaac N. Arnold, member
of Congress from Chicago, one of Mr.
Lincoln’s most trusted personal friends.
Wp found him alone in the room wherein
the Cabinet meetings are held in the White
House, whose windows overlook the l’oto
mao and Washington Monument At the
request of the writer, the President related
the circumstance of his clandestine journey
between Philadelphia and Washington.—
The narrative-is here given Substantially in
his own wordings follows ;
1 >n<«al at e 1... J
agreed to Mop otrei I. „, .xju'on tbe fol
lowing morning hoist the flag over Indepen
dence Hail. In the evening there was a
great crowd where I received my friends,
at tbe Continental Hotel. Mr. Judd, a
warm personal friend from Chicago, sent
for me to come to his room, and feoMsreW
Mr. Pinkerton, a skillful police detective,
also from Chicago, who had been employ
ed for some days in Baltimore, watching or
searching for suspicious persons there.—
Pinkerton informed me that a plan had
been laid for my assassination, the exact
lime when I expected to go through Balti
more being publicly known. He was well
informed as to the plan, but did not know
that the conspirators would have pluck
enough to execute it. lie urged me to go
right through with him to Washington that
night. I did’nt like that. I had made en
gagements to: visit Harrisburg, and go
from there to Baltimore, and I resolved, to
do so. | could not bejiove there was a
plot to murder roe. I made arrangements,
however, with Mr. Judd for rpy return to
Philadelphia the next night, if 1 should be
cooviucednhat there was danger in going
through /Baltimore. I told him that I
should meet ajHarrisburg, as 1 had at
other places, a"ilelegation to go with me to
the next place, (then Baltimore,) I should
feel safe and go on.
When I was making my way back to
my room, through crowds of people, I met
Frederick Seward. We went together to
my rpotn, when he told me that he had
.been sent, at the instance of his father and
General Scott, to inform mo that their de
tectives in Baltimore had discovered a
plot there to assassinate me. They knew
nothing of Pilkertoir’a movements. I
now believed such a pfof. to be in. exist
ence.
The next morning I raised tbe flag over
Independence Hall, and then went on to
Harrisburg yitb Mr. Summer, Major (now
General) Hunter, Mr. Judd,, Mr. Lamon,
and others—There I met tbe Legislature
and people, dined, and waited until the
time appointed for me to leave. In the
meantime Mr, Judd had also secured tbe
telegraph, that no communication could
pass to Baltimore and give tbe AojUpira(ots
knowledge of a change io my plana.
In New ybrk some friertj h®<! given
me anew beaver bat in a £ox, and in it
ha<j placed a soft wooj bat. I bad never
votfl one 9f the latter in tnf life.
VOL 1.-NO.IO.
this box in my room. Having informed
very few friends of the secret of my new
movements, and the cense, I put on au old
overcoat I had with me, and putting the
soft hat in my pocket, I walked out of the
house at a back door, bareheaded, without
exciting any special curiosity. Then put
ou the soft hat and joined my friends wit- 1
out being recognized by strangers, for I wae
not tbe same man. Summer and Hunter
wished to accompany me. I said no; you
are known, and your presence might betray
me. I will only take Lamon (now mar
shall of this district); whom nobody knew,
and Mr. Judd. Summer and Hunter folt
liuft.
We went back to Philadelphia, and
formd there a message from Pinker
ton (who had returned to Baltimore)! that
the conspirators had held their final meet
ing that evening, and it was doubtful'
wu£'her they had the nerve to attempt
the execution and {heir purpose. I went on,
howover, as the arrftng^. ea
made, in especial train. We WefC a * on S
lime fit the station at Baltimore. I Loan,
.people talking around; but no one partic-*
ularly observed me. At an early hour on
Saturday morning; at about the time I was
expected to leave Harrisburg, I nrrived iu
Washington.
BISMABK’S POLICY FORESHADOWED BY
HIMSELF.
Count Bismark, the Prussian Prime
Minister, has been one of the chief instru
ment in bringing on the war between
Prussia and Austria. He baa long been
jealous of the preponderating influence of
the latter power in tbe counoils of the
Federal Diet. long ago as May, 185 ft,
when he was Prussian Minister to Russia,
he wrote a leUer to a friend, in which ho
gave it as the result of eight years’ ser
vice aa Prussian dolegato to the Diet, that
Austria was too muoh favored there, at
U»* expense of /Prussia. He continues »■ *
To develop the confederation with Aus
tria for its head is the natural object of the
policy of the'German Princes and their
Ministers. This, in their view, can be
achieved only at the cost of Prussia, aud is
necessarily aimed against Prussia, so long
NtWErttssia will not confine .herself to the
usefuflask of securing her confederates
agaiuit too great an extension of Austria’s
influence, and to bear, with never tiring
pleasantness and submission to the majori
ty, tbe disproportion of her duties to her
rights in the confederation. The tendency
of the policy of the middle States will re*
our with tbq activity of the magnetic nee
dle after temporal disturbance, because it
is not the willful produot of singlo circum
stances or persons, fcjrt the natural and
necessary results of the Federal relation of
the smaller States. We have no means
within the given Federal compacts to ar
range ourselves with it permanently and
satisfactorily.
*■'»*«* 0 H- *
I may, perhaps, go too far, if I express
the opinion that vre ought to use every
legitimate opportunity, offered us by our
confederates, to obtain such a revision of
our mutual relatioas as Prussia needs, that
sbe may permanently live in regular in
tercourse with the smaller German States.
We-should take up the glove at oneo, aod
not view it a misfortune, but as the pro
gress to the crisis of improvement, if a ma
jority at Frankfort adopts a resolve which
we consider unauthorized, a willful change
of the object of confederation, and a
breach of the compacts. The more mark-,
ed this breach would be the better. In
Austria, France, Russia, We may nofqgain
meet with conditions so favorable to aftpW
us an amelioration of our condition fa
Germany, and our. confederates are on the
LesJ. way to give irs just cause for it, with
out .our helping them on.
¥t ¥e *» %
I see in our Federal relations a sore for
Prussia, which sooner or later we will have
to remedy ferra el igni (with iron and
blood,) unless we proceed to an easy euro
betimes and in favorable season. If to-day
the Confederation were to be simply abol
ished, without putting anything elso in
its place, I believe that on the basis of this
negative achievement better and more nat
ural relations of Prussia to her. German
neighbors would develop themselves.
ft wilt he seen from the above that seven
years ago Bismark was anxious for an op
portunity to humble Austria, and bring the
smaller German powers into closer subsers
vience to Prussia. For this be is willing to
destroy thousand* of lives and desolate
GermauVj -life may light the fire hut who
it f