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For the Gazette.
The following spirited verses are altered from the
original, and are adapted to the present crisis:
The National Army’s Charge.
Comrades, arise, shake slumber from eyes .
That soon must flash ire on the foe!
Hail the broad sun, for day is begun :
Lo! all the gay East is aglow !
The stars are all fled, the clouds all are fur-led,
The conqueror sun is king in the world.
Morn‘s ruddy light is meetest for light,
When valour and vigour are poured
Fresh from the East, on man and on beast.
Ay, these are the beams that the sword
Ofa hero should flash in, and yond is the flame
Should beacon the brave through light’s tempest to
fame! .
Saddle the steeds! look well that each hccds
To fasten his girths true and tight : .
See, lest ye rue, that your weapons from dew
Be cleared, and your corslets bright.
Stand fast every man by his horse’s head
Till our buglcs be blosvn, and our squadrons sped!
?
Hoard yc the tramp in traitor camp.
And heard ye the trumpet blow '1
Sec ye you gleam glide down by the stream,
Where their foremost footmcn go ‘3
Betimcs they have stirred, but we are not late,
For they who are sure can all'ord to \ 'ait.
Yonder they come 1 their wearisome drum
Torments me ; ’tis time we should ride!
I hate you foul rag they flaunt for allag:
Would I were its bearer beside,
To smite down his arm and strike through his ears,
And tour from its stafl'thc red treason he hears.
Now, gallants, go! let the wild buglcs blow!
Strike, strike your red rowels home!
Flank upon flank sear close every rank;
Loose bridlcs—let bits in white foam
Be cramped! the banner of union and right
In our front! and our God give us favour in light!
Dark o’er the meadow. like thunder-cloud‘s shadow,
More swifty, more deadly, we sweep ;
O’er marsh and dry land, through blaclr pool and
ryeland, ‘
With roar and with splash, till we steep
To,the stirrup our steeds in the river‘s cool flow,
And climb the rough bank, and are dashed on the foe!
Strike for the union! the nation’s domini-m‘!
And flag which each patriot blesses—
Shout when traitors how their rebel necks low,
To catch our keen swords chilly kisses:
They waver—we break them, hurrah! they all fly !—
For union and freedom will conquer or die !
4 C.-. o—
' From ”IE ,Boslon-Jam-nal.
The Young Soldier’s Burial.
Tcarfully, tenderly, lay him to rest-—
Carefully drop the cold earth on his breast,
With a sigh for the loving in homes far army,
Who are waiting for news from their soldier to-da)’,
Watching the post as he passes their door,
Eagerly conning war’s dread message o‘er
In search of a name they would shudder to see
On the roll of the patriot sons of the free,
Who have lcid down their lives on war‘s highway to
bar 3 .
The truth crushing progress of trcason’s wild car.
Peace be with them to-day—to-morrow shall fall
Like a cloud o‘er the homestead, gricf’s gloomiest
pull,
And the waters of bitterness quench all them;
Their true hearts have felt in their brave soldier boy.
God pity his mother! 0h pray that the blow
Bonumb no: he. heart with the palsy oi woe,
When she knows that her cherished, her noble, her
brave, '
By a dark southern river lies cold in his grave,
His weapons forsaken, the garb that he wore
With such pride in her presence all stained with his
gore.
Ilis fair brow disfigured, his manly young form
All'blastcd and broken by battle‘s rude storm—-
Oh-tell her not of it! but say he was true
To his flag and his country, nor fearfulucss know
When his cause was in peril, but manfully stood
Where the balls fell like raindrops, and cannon shot
rode
On the air like death angels; then say that he died
With a thought of his home; for at dim even-tide
When the spent cloud of battle was rolling away,
And the moonlight fell dim on the place where he lay,
We marked a sweet heart-glow of peace on his iueib,
As in life’s latest moments the dread battle scene
Passed out from his vision, and home prospects
gleamed _
Ou.his memory’s horizon, and loving eyes beamed
Was his mother’s dear image, while one cold hand
His Bible, the gift ofa fond sister’s love,
And we felt he had passed to that fair home chore
Where mother and brother and sister may meet.
Nor the tumultof war break a union so sweet.
Our task, boys, is over——we leave him to sleep
Where the strong flowing waters, the winds as they
_ sweep,
Shall sing the glad day when from river to sea
O’er all this {air land, the bright lbs 0! the free
Shall float undishonorcd by treason and wrohg,
The defense of the weak and the pride ofthc strong,
And our nation united, eunobled, and blest~
The world‘s star of hope beaming bright from 1110
west,
Grown wise by error and firm by her lall,
Shall ownlIZs kind band who wroughtgood out ol'all.
Thou gray-headed sires shall cxultingly tcll
Of the fields where their chill‘adps s gullaptly fell, ,
Hear Liberty’s peau ring out o‘er the wave ' I
And his countrymen‘s love bless our young hero‘s
grave.
Ir'abruary 15, 1562.
Viola.
u‘ . >.
A Hundred Years to Come.
Who‘ll press for gold this crowded street,
A‘ hundred years to some;
Who‘ll tread you church with willing feet,
A hundred years to come?
Pale, trembling age, and fiery youth,
And childhood with its brow of truth,
‘ The rich and poor, on land, on sea,
Where will the mighty millions be,
42, hpngrpd years to come?
We all within our graves shall sleep,
A hundred years to come!
No living soul for us‘will weep,
A hundred years to come!
But other men our lands will till;
And others then our streets will fill ;
And other birds will sing as gay,
As bright the sunshine as toga),
- A hundred years to come.’
—--9 . <.>> o———~——»_.
THE POWER or Snon'r Wonns.—The lute Professor
Addison Alexander, I). D., is the author 01' this re.
markablc composition, which appeared in
Princeton .lfagaflnc .-
Monosyllabies.
Think 2,0,1: that strength lies in the big round word,
Or that the briel’and plain must negds be weak,
To whom can this be true who once has hcni'il ’ '
The cry for help, the tongue that all men speak,
When want, or woe, or fear is in the throat,
So that each-word gasped out is like a shriek
Pressed from the sore heart, or a strange wild note,
Sung by some fay or fiend. There is a strength
Which dies if stretchpil top far, or sppn tog 13mg
Which has more height than brea'dth, more can”,
and length—
Lct but force of thought and speech be mine,
And he that will may take the sleek, fat phrase,
Which glows and burns not, though it gleam and
shine——
Light, but no heat~a flash, but not a blaze!
the
Nor is it 1;;ch- strength that tip; short wow] boasts.
It serves ofmore than fight or storm to top, ' ‘
The roar of waves that clash on rock-bound coasts,
The crash of tall trees when the wild winds swells
The roar ofguns, the groans of men that die ,
On blood-stained fields. It has a voice as well
For them that far ofl‘ on their sick beds lie;
For them that weep, for them that mourn the dead;
for them that laugh, and dance, and clap the hand;
To joy‘s quick stop. as p'pll as griefs slow tread,
’l‘hc sweet, plain words we learnt at first keep 1pm.,
And though the theme be sad, or gay or grand,
With each, with all, these may be made to chime,
In thought, or speech. or song, in prose or i~hym,._
,< .p..————_
anf you are out of money and want
‘ ' will receive )rom tattention.
All ordels I (lpli‘ TDOMTQ
.5 I
fill l.
some one to help you into business, don’t
FIVE BACHELORS ICEEPING
HOUSE.
It was a warm evening in early June,
and in the parlor of a pleasant house in
, street, in the handsome city of Phil-
adelphia, a merry party of young folks
were holding a Will‘m, laughing discussion.
Susy Arnold, ,_the young hostesgwho
kept house for her two brothers, Harry
and George, took one side of the question
while three other gentlemen, beside her
tail brothers, opposed her. Charley Grey
9. blue eyed, curly-headed man, whose fair
round face and boyish air formed an ap-
parent contradiction to the assertion he
made of having live years before attained
his majority; Joe Morris, who, from a
Spanish mother, inherited jetty hair and
eyes, and a pale complexion, and from his
father, a tall, fine figure and a frank
ingenious expression ; and Milton Dacres,
whose small figure and bashful ways ac-
counted fully for his nickname Minnie;
those three, with the masters of the house
waged playful war upon the little brown-
cyed maiden who sat so demurely on the
sofa. .
‘Say .what you please,’ said Susy, ‘you
will never convince me of the superiority
of man in capacity of housekeeper.
“But I maintain, cried J0e, ‘that men
can keep house without women, but that
women comm! do so, unless we shall as-
sist them.
‘For instance,’ said, Harry, ‘wheu your
Biddy was sick last winter, Sue, how
would such a mite as you have brought
up coal, kept up the furnace fire, and lift.- '
ed about wood, unless your brothers had
gnllantly relieved you of your care.
‘Not to mention that the furnace fire
went out three—’
‘A truce !’ said George, laughing.—
"l‘hat was my fault; but accident will
sump-times happen in the best regulated
fumilies,—-as somebody, name forgotten,
once wisely rcmarkcd,‘ .
‘I only wish you could keep house, for
I would accept Aunt Jaue’siuvitutlon to
travel with her this summer, Were it' not
fpr leaving you.’
‘I have an idea,’ here cried Charley
Greym‘nu idea which, if you will agcc to
act upon, shall fully case the women of
the iu'saue notion of theirludispcusabihty
—-—ahem i that word nearly choked'me.’
"l‘hat uugallant sentence should have
quite strangled you,’ said Susy.
‘Prosent company always excepted,’
was the reply.
~"l‘he ideal—let’s have the idou,’
‘Suppose we keep house here,while Miss
Susy travels.’ '
‘Here 1" cried Susy, aghast.
‘ch, why not ?’
‘But, I am sure Jenny would not stay,’
.
said Susy.
‘YVc don’t want her ; we want m wo-_-
meu.’
Visions of muddy boots on her parlor
solas, cigars in the flowcruvascs, pipes on
the center tables, spitoons in the best bed-
room, and fryng pans in the library, flit.
ted through the foam; iad’s mind; but
before she could remoustrate Harry said--
‘So be ill Hurra for bachelor’s hall.
Pack up you trunk, Susy.’
‘But, Harry—’
‘Glorious!’ cried Charley, ‘pot a petti-
coat within doors for2 a month.‘
‘But,’-—again-said poor Susy.
‘No l'usscs about tobacco smoke in the
,curtains,’ chimed in George.
‘But, brother—J
‘Won’t it be gay?’
“Guy l’ groanod the little housekeeper.
‘Lay in a supply of cigars, George,’
suggested Joe. ‘When do you go, Miss
Susy ?”
“Monday! Aunt Jane’s letter says
Mouday,’ said Barry.
‘Monday, then. We come hug and
baggage, on Monday morning.’
‘On an express stipulation that not a
woman performs a stroke of work for us
for a month.’
With many a flourish, amidst the
gayest jests, George wrote a solemn con-
tract, by which they bound themselves to
ask no service of any kind at woman’s
hand for one month from the date of the
following Monday, June —, 1800, and all
put their signatures to the important doo-
umeut.
Susy, seeing that her brothers were
really in earnest, tried to think she was
glad to go, and added hcr laughing direc-
tion to the schemes proposed. At a later
hour the cons-law brake up, and SW re-
tired with her head full (if sore misgiv-
ings. .
Monday morning rose fair and clear.
. Six o’clock saw Susy drive away from the
I door in the carriage, the trunk strapped
behind, the lady’s pretty traveling dress,
and the shawl of her cousin and cavalier,
all bespcuking travel Seven saw the
servant depart to Spend smooth with her
mother in the country.
Nine a’clacl: “mussel the nesting of
the merry young bachelors.
‘Now then,’ said George, after the first
will take the charge today. As Susy
says, when are you going down town?’
‘I have nothing to do today, so I’ll
.- fly to assist you, said Minnie.
"l‘hauk youl’ -
‘What’s for dinner?’ said Joe, trying to
look like the head of a respectable family
and failing most dcplorably in the. at-
tempt.
‘You’ll see at three o’clock.
get drunk. That’s not the right way to
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ll"
.. lgtsimloktmllmdiw
greeting were over, ‘I, as the eldest host _.
jaswmraik'fifinl :' ‘-‘
‘Yes.’
‘Remember, said George, ‘I wait for
no one. Punctnality is the soul of dia-
ner, as somebody once said before I men-
tioned the fact.
Having seen the others ofi'. George/and
Minnie went into the library for a smoke
to prepare them for the Herculean task
before them.
“See, said Guil‘gc, l..l'utiut:iilg fl cook-
book, ‘we are safe.’
‘Mrs. Hale—'-that’s a w‘omanl’ cried
Minnie. ,
‘Whew’l never once thought of that.—
We will stick to the contract. My dear
madam, I tum-sorry to appear rude, but I
must show you back to the book-case.’
‘What’s for dinner, said Minnie.
‘Roast lamb, potatoes, green
asparagus, and strawberries.’
‘That’ll do. Don’t you have to shell
peas or something.
Yes, that’s easy enough.’
‘It’s awfully hot,’ said Minnie, after a_
short silence.
‘Horrid!’
‘Suppose we shell the peas up here.—
It’s cooler here than in the kitchen. I
suppose there’s a fire there?’
‘Of course.’
‘I’ll go bring them up.’
‘They’re in a basket on the table.——,
Just leave the rest of the things down
there.’ _
Shelling peas was rapid work even for
unaccustomed fingers, but it is amatter
of taste whether the thorough smoking
they had from two activelyvpuffed cigars
improved their flavor.
‘Now, what do you do with them?’ said
Minnie. There ain’t man ',’ he added, as
he looked at the little green balls rolling'
about at the bottom of the htiapnnarket
basket, and then eyed the large pile of
shells. on. the flour,
‘li‘r'ou boil them, olicourse, was George’s
answer, .
‘Ohl Suppose we go dorm.l
‘VVc-ll, come along,’ said George,takiug
up the basket.
The fire burned brightly; Jennie had
left all in good order, and the prospect
was not bad for the amateur cooks.
‘Wliut do you boil them in, George?”
‘Oh, anything!’
‘But where is it?’
‘In some of the closets, I guess?’
Susy would certainly have fainted
could she have seen the over hauling of
her neatly arranged closets that followed.
“his? Minnie dragged fgrth a pot
large WOW“ to bail abonttweuty pounds
0f meat in.
‘Yes.’
In they went, unwashed.
‘Hot water, or cold ?’
‘Either,’
“ii-Alll'iglli; that’s done?-
‘Now the asparagus. How do you fix
7.‘
peas.
I wonder if you roast mutton into this
thing?’ said George, holding up a large
pudding-dish.
‘I guess so.
don’t you?’
‘Y-e-s.’ George determined to find a
book on cookery, written by a man, the
very next day.
‘ You boil asparagus, don‘t you.
George ?’
‘Yes, here’s a tin thing that’s long and
shallow; I guess that’s for such 'thing.’
And a dripping-pan came forth from the
closet’ ,
The asparagus fitted in like a charm.
as both men declared, and water was ad-
ded, and all set on the range.
’l‘he mutton next went, on the pudding
dish, into the oven. “
‘Come, let’s go up stairs again; it’s
fearfully hot, here,’ said George.
‘But' the dinner!”
‘Oh, that’s got nothing to do but cook
till three o’clock.’ ~
‘Oh, George, here’s the potatoes l’
Another pot was produced, illlll the
potatoes, with about two gallons of wa-
ter to the half peek of murphies, put on
the fire.
Smoking, chatting, reading, and-a little
practice on the violin filled up the morn-
ing, though Georgefideclared it was horrid
slow, and Minnie wondered what on earth
women did with themselves.’
Half-past two brought home three
hungry men to dinner.
‘G eorgc’mMiuuie’s voice was doleful.
‘What?’
‘The fil‘e’s outl’
‘uut’j’
l
‘I wonder if anything’s cooked?’
Put it on in the oven,
‘The asparagus is burnt fast to the pan.’
‘So is the meatl’
"rte illlliliiles'i‘
‘BI-olgen all to pieces, and floating
aboutiu the water.’
"l’hesc peas are all mushy, Minuie!’
‘Punctuality‘, is the soul of dinner,’ cried
Joe, from the ‘parlor; ‘it’s ten minutes
past liars-7"
‘Go set the table,’ growled George.
It was unique inits arrangements, that
table, as the gentlemen sat down to din-
ner. The meat figured on an enormous
dish, with an ocean of white china sur-
rounding its shrunken prOportions. . The
potatoes, in little lumps, unskluned, were
piled in a fruit dish; the green mass which
Minnie had With infinite difficulty fished
from the big meat-pot. was served on a
red earthen plate, and the stalks of aspar-
agus were in the salad bowl. The table-
cloth was awry, andpthd napkins were
NORWALK, court, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1862.
‘Where’s the gravy?’ asked Joe.
‘There wasn’t any.’ .
“The meat’s burned.’
‘It’s stone cold,’ cried one voice.
‘What’s this?’ said a third, digging
into a pile of peas.
‘Faughl’ followed a daring attempt to
eat some asparagus.
'N ever mind,’ said Joe. ‘Rome wasn’t
made in a day. Give us some bread and
butter, and pickles. George.’
‘No, not pickles, preserws,’ said Char-
ley. -
"Susy locked both up,’ cried Harry,
laughing. ‘She declared a woman put
them up, and if we wanted them we must
prepare them onrselves.’
Minnie produced the strawberries, and
some sugar, and the gentlemen declared
they had dined superbly. ,
‘You fellows clear away,’ said Minnie
’we’re tired.’ ,
‘You wash up don’t you?’ queried Joe.
‘Yes.’
‘Where’s the water?’
‘In the hydraut.’
‘What do you wash ’em in?’
‘Pau, I guess.’
Away went Joe on a voyage of inves-
tigation and returned soon with a dish
full of cold water. The ‘leavings,’ as
Harry termed the remains of their sump-
tuous repast, were thrown from the Win-
dow into Susy_’s flower-bed. and, armed
with a bar of hoap and a fine damask
napkin, Joe began to wash up,
‘How the greasosticksl‘ o ,
Pcrspir-ation streaming from every pore
be robbed maufully at the greasy plates
and dishes, and if the water was cold, he
certainly was not.
‘I’ie wet my shirt l'ront!’ Splash No.1,
‘Gdod for white parjtsl’ Splash No. 2.
‘Tiai went into my eyes; somebody
wipe them; my hands are wet. Don’t
rub them out, Hall’
‘Come, some of you, wipe upl’
The table was cleared at last. Five
damp, greasy napkins, thrown into a. cor-
ner of the room, testified that the dishes
werewashed and wiped. The water fol
lowed the ‘leavings,’ turd the quintette sat
dgwu to ‘cool off.‘ (Do cigars assist that
Operation?) »
Spitgof the superb dinner, five ‘iuuer
men’ called, like Oliver Twist, for more,
at about seven o’clock.
‘What’s for tea?’ Somebody started »
the question. ’
‘What’s for tea ‘51“ Four- voices echoed
it.
‘Iiet’s have coffee; I can make cofi'ee,’
said George.
‘Aud a steak; I can cook it,’ said Joe.
‘There’s bread and better, said Harry.
George went fgr the steak; Minnie un-
dartoo}; to make the fire ; Harry cut the
bread; Joe sat the table ; while Charley
‘clcared the kitchen’ by sweeping the pots
and pans used at the dinner into a closet,
washing being omitted in the operation.
Minnie, blowing- and pulling making
the fire, was saluted with——
‘How it smokes!’
‘What ails the fire, Miul’
Harry discovered the cause, pulled out
the damper, and a, merry blaae repaid
him, The coffee boiled, the steak sput-
tered in the pan and the men panted,
pcrspired, whistled, and used improper
words over the heat.
It was a good supper, and,piling up the
dishes which it was ‘too, hot to wash,’ the
bachel 1'3 returned to the parlor.
It was involuntary, but each pair of
eyes rested for a moment on the seat Su-
sy was wont to occupy. A little music,
more talk, and still more smoking filled
the time till midnight. when each one
yawucd himself of? to bed. Harry, who
was always the one to ‘lock up,’ staid
the latest The kitchen looked dreary;
no fire. greasy frying-pan placed as a
helmet over the collee-pot, bits of bread
lying about loose, dirty pots here and
dirty dishes there. The parlor was in
disorder]; chairs stood in forlorn confu-
sion ; smoke hung over all. The dining-
room, with its piles of dirty cups, saucers
and plates, its unswept floor, greasy nap.
kins, smoky atmosphere, was worst of all
and Harry inwardly admitted that some
how, the house didn’t look as usual.’
There was fun the next morning mak-
ing up beds. The milkinan and baker
hadlvainly knocked for admittance, and
finally ‘retired in disgust,’ and the back:
elors bl'eakfasted 03‘ the stale bread left
from the nights fast, and cofi'ee black and
sweet. 1
Every man clear up his own room}
The order given, each started to obey.
Joe pulled ofl’ all the clothes from his bed,
and, having laid the bolster and pillow on
proceeded to put on first a blanket, next
a spread, and finally the two sheets, fin-
ishing oil the whole by putting himselfou
top to rest from his toils. Minnie, after
pulling all the clothes off one side in try-
ing to tuck them in on the other, and
then correcting the mistake by tuck-
iug them in on the other, and
pulling them (ill the first, put his bol-
ster on over the pillow, and concluded it
‘would dg.’ Charley merely smoothed
his down, sugely observing that if he pull-
ed the things olf, he never could put them
on again. _ Harry and George, who
shared the same room, having followed
Charley’S’plau, put on an extra touch by
sweeping their room, and leaving the pile
of dust in the entry. Excelsiorl’
ltion. Steaks and coffee for breakfas
from a restaurant.
tract,’ was his final observation.
by unanimous vote.
By this time every dish, plate, napkin,
pot and pan in the house was dirty, and,
want them any more, the gentlemen piled
them up in the kitchen sink, on the floor
and tables, and left them.
‘Harry’—it was George’s voicc—‘I
have not a clean shirt.’
‘Nor I.’
‘Nor I.’
‘Nor I.’
,‘I’ve got one.’
‘Nor a handkerchief, nor a collar, nor
a pair of stockings no—~’ '
‘Stop l Two weeeks since Susy went
and no washing-day.’ '
There was a dead silence.
‘Who knows how to wash?’
No ailswer.
‘I—I’vc seen it done,’ said one faint
voice, owned by Charley. ‘You soap the
things and rub them on a board.’
‘Can anybody irou?’
They all thought they could manage
that part, '
The kitchen was opened for the first
time for ten days. One cry burst from five
lips. Tables, chairs floor, dresser, sink,
were one mass of roaches, collected by
the piles of greasy dishes, They overrun
every place.
‘Shut the door.
Now for it l’ cried
George, and dashed the invaders. Bed-
lam seemed to have broken loose. In
reaching after one of the ‘crittcrs’ Char-
ley upset tho table. Crash went the
crockery. Screams of laughter, cries of
disgust, blows thick as hail, comments
on the heat, jokes, warnings flew about
for an hour, and then the panting party
ceased from their- labors, and viewed
steruly the ‘cold corpuses’ of their foes.—
A scream from Minnie—l
‘There’s one down my back 1’
‘George cried—'Joe, there's one on
your hair 1’
‘Don’t mention it.
on your shirt-sleeve l’
A. general stampvdc for the bathroom
followed.
‘Let’s wash up here,’
No sooner said than done. The soiled
clothes were collected from all the rooms
and the boards and soap broughtup from
the kitchen. . .
Joe and Harry washed,blistcring hands
and streaming foreheads testifying to their
efforts. Cold water required a great deal
of rubbing, and somehow the things had
a. yellow tinge after all, as George re-
marked as be wrong them out. Minnie,
objecting to going ~into the yard, hung
them over chairs in the dining-room and
the banistcrs in the entry as: fast as
George and Charlie wrung them out.—
Diuuer time came, and found them still
at work. Dinner eaten, the dishes car-
ried off by the waiter from the restaurant
they changed places, and the washers
wrung and hung up while the others
washed.
Six o’clock saw thalast shirt hanging
in damp limpness over the parlor chaudel
icr; the hnudkerchiels waved from the
mantelpiece, and the stockings dangled
from the bars of the Can terhury.
‘Thcy always iron the next day, so
they can dry in the night,’ said Harry.
After another slaughter of roaches in
the morning, the fire was lighted, the
irons put on, and the clothes collected,
rough dry, for the final touches. Every
man had visions of smooth, clean linen to
repay him for his unaccustomed efforts.
Such is hope i
Charley took the first step. Planting
his iron on the front of a shirt a smell
greeted his nostrils, and he lifted it again
to behold a large brown mark, the pre-
cise shape of the flat-iroh, burned on the
bosom of his ‘go-to-meeting’ shirt. Min-
nie’s ir'ou being almost cold, was traveling
briskly up and'down his sliirt, but produ-
cing no visible effect. .
It was humiliating, but true, that Joe
took an order to, a, gentleman’s furnishing
store that morning for a. supply of linen,
and the ‘washed clothes’ were consigned
to the ‘pot closet’ to await Susy’s return-
Susy’s return! How can I describe it!
Every man on that day found he had an
imperative engagement abroad, and the
little maiden found an empty house
She went first to the parlor. Dust lay
in piles. One curtain was torn fromphe
cornice, and lay in limp-folds against the
window. Cigars lay about loose, some
half smoked, some reduced to a mere
stump; spittoous were in every corner;
the chairs were, promiscusly deranged ;'
on the Centre-table three bottles, to dem-
ijohns, a pack of cards, and about a dozen
tumblers replaced her pretty book. The
piano here two pairs of boots, deposited
there when the owners were too tired to
go up stairs, and forgotten afterwards;
the Canterbury had a dish of chicken
salad reposing peacefully upon it; one ot-
toman supported a hat and cans, another
a coat; every'chuir carried some relic of
the departed guests, .here a handkerchief,
there a cigar ones, on, one a pocket comb
op another a tooth-pick. Susy was dis-
Look at the fellow
were followed by coffee and steaks for din-
ner, and both for tea. Charley suggested
that they should have their meals sent
‘All men cooks, so We stick to the con-
he motion was seconded, and carried
joyfully concluding that they wouldn’t
i:
log everywhere.
in order, and it was the counterpart 0
The librar' vas nox
3
ditto ; bed-rooms to match.
brary,thc parlor-chairs in the kitchen, (it
was nearest, Joe said when he brought
out); the frying-pan in the best bed-room
(Charlie broke his basin); the bread-pan
in the best bed room, (for dirty writer,
Joe said); the dish-cloths in the bed-rooms
(towels all dirty). She contemplated
the floors, unswept for a month; marked
the dust, the accumulation of a. similar
time; and then went to her own room, the
only orderly because undisturbed place in
the house. A little note lay on the table:
“We own boat!
IVe beg pardon !
more i
not.”
It takes a woman!
We’ll never do so no
Clear up, and invite us to diu-
FIVE PENITENT BACHELORS;
Gorley’s Lady’s Bonita
Pal-son Browzllow Forever.
This sturdy old martyr for opinion’s
sake by the taking of Nashville by
the loyal army has been released from a
rebel prison. After his release, crowds
passed forward to congratulate him, to
whom he delivered the following speech :
"GENTLEMEN : I am in a sad plight to
say much of interest—too thoroughly in.
capacitated to do justice to you or my-
self. My throat has been disordered for
the past three years, and I have been
compelled to almost abandon public
speaking, Last December I was thrust
into an uncomfortable and disagreeable
jail—for what?
'I'caxon .’ Treason to
the bogus confederacy ; the proofs of
that treason were articles which appear-
ed in the Knoxville I'Wzig in‘ May last,
when the State of Tennessee W115 a. mem-
bcrof the imperishable Union. At the
expiration of four weeks i become
victim of the typhoid fever, and was re-
moved to a room in a decent dwelling,
and a guard oi-‘seven ’men kept are com-
pany. l subsequently became so weak
that I could not turn over in my, bml,:uid
the guard was increased to Itwelvc i‘ucn,
further that I should suddenly recover
and run away to Kentucky. Becoming
convalescent, in a measured was removed
to my former place of confinement. One
day I was visited by some confederate
Officers, who remarked, “Brownlow, you
should not be here. Take he oath of
allegiance to the confederate government
which will not only entitle you to a speedy
release, but insure your protection.”--
“Sir i” said I, “before I would take the
oath to support such a hell-tbrsaken in-
stitution, I would suffer myself to rot-
and die with old age.” W'hynny friends,
these dcmagogucs actually boast that the
Lord is upon their side, and declare that
God Almighty is assisting them in the
furtherance of their nefarious project'—
Iu Knoxville and surrounding localities,
a short time since, daily prayer meetings
were held, wherein the Almighty was
beseeched to raise Lincoln’s blockade,
and to hurl destruction against the Born-
side expedition. Their prayers were
partly answered—the blockade at Roan-
oke Island was most effectually raised ;
a reciprocal of their sacrilege divinely
tendered.”
“Gentlemen, I am not an abolitionist- ;
and I applaud no sectional doctrines ; I
am a. Southern man, and all my interests
and relatives are thoroughly identified
with the South and Southern institutions,
I was born in the Old Dominion, my pa-
rents were born in Virginiamnd they and
their ancestors were all slavelrohlérs—
:3
Lo! me assure you, that [/13 801le I‘m; sztf
fared no infringements upon [her mm".-
lions ; l/w slarerg/ question was uction/l!) no
pretext/hr [Iris int/20731, ~1mrig/'I./eou..v war,
T welt-e vendors from tho. «g-otton states, .
who had swuru to preserve inviolate the
Constitution framed by their t'-.»:-el'atlicrs,
plnllcil (reason at big/M, a lit time for such
crime. and telegraphed to their states
pass
dispatches advising them to ordi-
'Ji secession. Yes, geilllztlnt'n,
twelve senators swore :llcgiancc in the
(lag; time, and unsworc it A
short time since I was called upon by a.
littlech, who, I l')(‘llevl!,lS the Sw-rctary
of War ol'the bogus twinfederacy. lie
threatened to hang me, and I Ufiipt’gifitk
no more mercy from him than was known,
by his illustrious pl'ct‘lecessors iowurnl' l’éi
sus Christ.
.pondencc with this specimen of expiring
"(Ill "CBS
., ‘ I
u. rug/1..
l entered into a long corres-
humanity, but from mercy or forgetful-
ness on their part, I was permitted to de-
part with all my damanu-uts in my little
'valise, which I hope to publish at no dis-
tant day. Gentlemen, when i started
on my pcrilousjourm-y l “was sore dis-
tressed in mind,. and exceedingly so in
body. But the moment my eyes encoun-
tered tho pickets of the federal n 'my, my
depression decreascdptnd returning health
seemed sndden!y to invigorate my physi.
cal constitution.
“Gentlemen, secession is played mat——
the dog is dead—the child is born, and
its name is Jcfi'. Davis, Jr. My throat
distresses me to such an extent that I
must decline further remarks this evening
h‘gt shall make myself heard upon the
next convenient occasion, which will
probably be ere the termination of the
present week.”
.._____........
g poo gltwrpapu, granted to good giant and antenna, (central panama, filtration, goblin, guillotine, alumnus, tau-cranium in Him].
The kitchen came next. As we have de-
scribed it on the eventful ironing day, so
it remained, roaches inclusive, meander-
the parlor, only more so; dining-room
Susy looked at the washboards iu the
bath-room, the market-basket in the li-
PER ANNUM, IN ADVA
From Me Walla/ml Intelligence} .
U. S. Consul General at Havana
:lI ..
mans Eoirons: Will you permit
me, through your column, to invite at-
tention to the necessity of making some
additional provision for the support of
the above important Consulate. The
present incumbent is 1-1. W. Shufeldt,
Esq., formerly an accomplisned officer in
the United States Navy, who was ap-
pointed by the present adminis tratioa
with a. reference to peculiar qualifications '
to talccpn effective part in suppressing
the participation of our flag in the slave
trade. But the pending civil war has
devolved on him other duties. of a very
onerous character. which he has dis-
charged with singular ability and success:
thcu he arrived in Havana. he found-
thc piratical flag of scccss'ou flying at ,.
the masthead of sundry vessels. which be
suppressed right speedily, and, by his vigs:
ilaucc, activity and firmness, has render-
ed most important services to the coun-
try, under circumstances of great'difiicul-
ty and embarrassment. 'If any honora-
ble member of the Senate or House tie.-
siros to know the character and value of
his services, let him call for his correspon- .
deuce with the honorable Secretary of
State, and he will find therein an exhibi-
tion of one of the most patriotic hearts-
aud one of the best minds of the country.
It is believed that our representatidn
at the vice-regal Court of Havana is as
expensive that of any , Ocurt .
of Europe, with the exception of those of
London and Paris. The salary of the
Consul General is 512.": thousand dollars
per alumni, which, if it could he appro-
printed exclusively to compensate'tleih-
cumlnsnt for his services, and to pay his
personal, expenses, (to say nothing of
hi4 family) would scarcely be adequate.
But it is not and cannot be so appropri-
ated. In the first place, he is obliged
top-1y one-third of the amount,or twa
thousand dollars. I I
t
f
nw
u)
the services
or ‘i’ico Consul—agen-
tlcmau of the name of Satvngc, who; has
told that situation under several succes-
sive Consul: Clencrnl.-=, and has uniformly
to secure
of his :1.<»:i.~:tun‘
‘ v
rt-ccivczl the some mi:- of vmzxpeusation.
1-7.
A \ am- tbnsul at Havam i3 indispensa-
(Seawall cannot, unless
..\-..~'n.n.t-.-;l:', remain at his 1' '-~:t after the; it?
t is true, Mr.
opt last year, but
he 'u-.-..--. :itr.;x.:-'s-;o=il_iy the _\'el fever in
rely' saved
‘In
addiiion, he has to pay for clerk hireand-
nut about. 31,850 more, leaving theplt-i '
lance m“ 3,315!) for compensation and
it is not? proposed,
if I do not. misconstmc the revenue bill-
rcccntlv reported to the House) to‘ tax’
not on ,this small
gross amount of his
, sitimtion inveStcd'
withsemi-diplomatic powers, and of the: s A
first conscqitmicc to the country, is to be
cut down to thug ‘adc cl :1 'clcrkship of
the second class.
lam sensible that economy and re-
trenchment of a rigid character are, in
the existing condition of our national ex-
chcqner, indispensable, butgitliat species
of economy and retrenchment which have
no reference to the circumstances of the
case sometimes constitute not only injus?
lice, bubtho worst species ofprodigality.
f will only add that I make this com-'
nmnicnlion withontgthe knowledge Of
Mr. Shul'eltlt, and unsolicited by him.
TRUMAN SMITH.
\Vasmxu’rox, il'lancu 5, 1362.
bit, {ES tiw UtiliSill
h...‘
sk‘kly Samson 3953 in.
Shell‘ldt mad-'- lhc aziiei
let
its preliminary at: 9‘6, and. v.1
iis lii'u by escaping from the island.
personal cxpi-ucca
him three per cent,
balm‘mc, but on the
salary - and thus a.
«was». __
IIow Mou’rans ARE Loauun AND FIRED.
The following description of mortar practice
is by the correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial :—
"I took a position on shore, near the point
and alongside the mortar, to witness the
practice. The firing ot‘a mortar is the very
poetry ofn battle. A bag of powder weigh—
ing from eighteen to tvuuty pounds is drop-
ped into the bore of the huge monster._ The
derrick drops the shell in; the angle is cal—
culatml; a long- cold is attached to the pri- "
‘llllji‘; the gunner steps outupou the platform
and the balance of the crew upon shore.-
The captain gives the word, the gunner gives: _
his cord a sudden jerk; a crash like a thous-
and thuudcrs follow, a tongue of flame leaps
irom the mouth of the mortar, and a column
ol'suiokc l'I)ii\' up in beautiful tleecy syirals,
doveloping into rings of exquisite psopor-
thins. (me can :-:-. the shell asitleav=s the
noitar, flying through the air, :ipparen’ly no
larger than a marble. The next you see of‘
the shell, a bcauiilul cloud of smoke "iursts
into sight, caused by the explosion. imag-
iuc ten of those monsters thundering at once,
the air filled with smoke ciouds,thc gunbbats
"ranching out destruction and completely hid-
:dcn'sfcom sight in whirls 0i'smoke,and shells
screaming through the air with an unearthly__
"souud',’a‘ud the distant guns of the enemy
sending their solid shot and shell above and
around us, dashing the water up in glisten-
ing columns and jets of spray, and you have
the sublime poetry of war. An incident,
however, will show how completely the bat— ' ‘
tie may lose its poetry and (luvclope into a
stern and suggestive reality. Impatient of
being at a dishuzce, and wishing to witness.
the cii'ect of our shells, which vcre playing
upon the head ol'the island, in company
with one or two others i strolled around the
point, until we came in full view of the ene-
my‘s lower torts. We kept ale-rig the bank
until we passed our pickets. and then took
to the cornficids and behind fences, until we
reached an old deserted mill, where We- .'
emerged in plain sight of the iloatipg bat-
tery. No sooner had our party come in sight
than a flash oi light shot trcin its sides, and
a shell came screaming over our heads like
— a fiend, bursting a short distance behind us.
The poetry of shells suddenly changed with
a double-quick retrograde into prose.
<<Q>~o.———————
BS§"A letter dated at a town in Virginie.
on February 28th, says :— , , ‘
“I begin to think that the Bankers are go.
ing to whip us, and alpipst everyone up here
thinks theyr will, at __you.,all might as wen~
come home They‘ have whipped us entiréi ‘
ly in Tennessee.” .
___.«QW
Three days’ cookery convirrced them
mayed; b“i,ll'§£..‘t.b’.‘.‘_j;‘3““'° woman,
,..u I... .1 ..
‘l L . -- . Luz: - "-"‘r".‘i“\v"r':x worn,
AL ”11..
——The Liberian government has sent. Mr.
um I:
o ' “O, ‘
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