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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