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An unpublished Poem of Shel-
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111 the June number of .lfacmiilan 1 ((25716 :
appears the follow" mg unpublished liltleWem of §
Shelley: 1‘
"She left 1110 at the silent time '
When the moon had ceased to climb
The azure path of Heaven’s steep.
And, like an albatross asleep,
Balanced o‘er wings of light,
llovercd 111 the purple night,
Ere she sought her ocean nest
In the chambers of the West.
She left me, and I stayed alonc,
Thinking over every tone
Which, though now silent to the car,
The enchanted heart could hear,
Like notes which die when born, but still
Haunt the echoes of the hill;
And feeling ever——O too much !—
The soft vibration of her touch,
As if her gentle hand even now.
Lightly trembled on my brow ;
And thus, although she absent were.
Memory gave me all of her
That even Fancy dares to claim.’-’
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The Guide-Post.
‘NIC-GERMA)‘ DIALECT or JonN PETER unset.
D‘ye know the road'to th’ bar’l o" flour?
At break 0‘ day let down the bars.
And plough y’r wheat field hour by hour,
Till sundown, yes, till shade 0’ stars.
You peg away, the livelong day,
Nor loaf about, nor gape around;
And that‘s the road to the thrashin'-floor.
And into the kitchen, I‘ll be bound.
D‘ye know the road where the dollars 153' '3
Follow the red cents here and there,
For ifthe man leaves them. I can guess,
He w 011 't find dollars anywhere.
D’yc know the road to Sunday’s rest?
J ist don’t 0’ week-days be afraid;
In field and workshop do y’r best,
And Sunday comes itself l’ve heard-
On Saturday it's not far ofl‘,
And brings a basketful o’checr,—
A roast, and lots 0‘ garden-stud“,
And, like as not, a jug 0' beer!
D’yc know the road to poverty ?
Tum in at any tavern sign;
Turn in—it’s tempting as can be:
There‘s bran new cards and liquors fine.
In the last tavern there’s a sack,
And, when the cash y’r pocket quits,
Just hang the wallet on yerback,
You vagabondl see 110w it fits !
D‘ye know what road to honor leads,
And good old age ?-a lovely sight!
By way 0’ temperance, honest deeds,
And tryin’ to do y’r duty right.
And when the road forks ary side,
And you’re in doubt which one it is,
Stand still and let your conscience guide :
Thank God, it can‘t lead much amiss.
And now the road to clmrclryhté 21‘”
You needn’t ask! go anywhere 1'
For, whether roundabout or straight,
All roads at last ’11 bring you there.
‘ Go. fearin‘ God, butlovin’ more 2—
I’ve tried to he an honest guide—.—
You’d find the grave has got a door,
And somethin’ for you t‘olher side.
o...»
BY MRS. M. A. DENIS'ON.
The night 11‘ as stormy, dark and cold ,
My way led through the city,
Where wretched buildings, gray and old,
Seemed stained with tears of pity.
Few were the cheerful sounds I heard,
No laughter wild andfrce;
But once the sweet voice of a bird
Piped 11p and plaincd to me.
.1 little bird unblesscd with wings,
Her dark, sad eyes all tearful;
Oh God 1' to see such tender things
Out in such a storm, is fearful.
And thus she plaintigl—“ 0,1}! Stranger hear:
I never begged before;
But mother has been dead a yenl.
And father‘s gone to the war;
“ And yesterday the work gave out
By which I earned a penny:
Last night I had a crust of bread.
To-night I haven’t any. '
“ And I am very hungry. sir."
I bought her bread-to spare—
Then up into the old gray house
Climbed by the broken stair.
A tremulous light threw shadows long
Over the cheerless room;
,0 ’ ch1'dl‘ooc—sh1med 1n deathless song.
‘ .7115 such your spot; 0517100171 ,
I asked he1 name. 1101' tender age.
Intenscst pity won her;
A little maid of seven years
. And all this woe upon her!
" My name is Nelly Grover, sir;
M37 father loved me dearly——
And is it true, as people say,
That war is ended—nearly ?“
’Twas strange, but as she spoke I chanced
To look my paper over,
And there l.read-“ Shot through the heart,
A private, William Grover.”
‘ '7. 1... -.':.-..'.‘11""‘1
01 awfulhourl can I forget.
Her tears, her broken sobbingw
The little heart I pressed to mine
With bitter anguish throbbing.
And as the light grew‘dimmer,
And as the wild cries fainter fcll,
Unto my soul there came a voice,
I marked its cadence well :
“ I sleep beneath the traitor’s sod—
rJ97.1121‘rll for Liberty,
Igivp my 'spiiit runto _1}“o:l.; «
My little 511111} to thee,
“ Teach he: to hold as sacred trust
1101‘ patriot father's doom:
Teach her to pray that from his dust
Freedom’s fair flower may bloom.”
Thus to my home, most tenderly,
With loving words I brought her;
Ah! only death could tear from me
Thatsoldier‘s little (laughter.
u<°>o
Touching Scene.
"‘he, ‘7 llarlclplua 153,127 7' gi‘zies phe lol-
lowing as or. ineldeut occurring at For.
tress Monroe on the arrival of the woun-
ded from the late Richmond battles:
uniting those brought to the W hite
‘ rt '-
House wcs. a (rebel colonel who had been
shot thread: the 113,133.. As he l2“.)3‘1peaied
to be dying. Mr. B'aiclay asked him if 1113
w‘shéd anything done. He said "Y/es’
.apd gave 'lhe commis'sion'er the name's and
address of his wife and children. ' "And
“ask God to forgive me
193 to do with this
for 11ch having any“.‘
’wicked labelliou.” MI‘ 1‘ 1111611117 ASA-ed ‘
he desired him to pray villi 111111. He
answered in the alli1mativc, )cllllfillllllg
the forgiveness of Almighty God for his
sins. His fatherly interposition on behalf
,of the soon-to-be widowed wife and or-
.its practice, unsolicited, careless of tan
' at a girlsf school in Berlin, where thirty-
Fl'om (716 Atlantic lllonfltly. ‘
The Health ol'our Girls.
(Concluded)
lu. vie-1v of this distaste for pedestrian
exercise, it seems strange that the pres-
sent revival of athletic exercises has not
yet. reached to horsemanship, the tradi-
tional t1 pe of all noble training, theiralcrie
chivalry. Certainly it is notfor the Want
of horse-flesh, for neverpcrhaps was so
much of that valuable commodity owned
in this community ; yet in New England
you shall find private individuals who
keep a'hali‘dozeu horses each, and livery-
stables, possessing fifty, and never a prop-
er saddle-horse among them. In some
countries, riding does half the work of
physical training, for both sexes; Sir “Tal-
ter Scott, when at Abbofsford, never
omitted his daily ride, and took his little
daughter with him,f1'0m the time she could
sit on horseback; but what New England
man, in purchasing a steed, selects with
a view to a side-saddle ?, This seems a
si'ltl result of the wheelmaker’s trade, and
one grudges St. Willcgis the wheel on
his coat-of-urms, if it has thus served to
tame down frccboru men and women to
the slouchiug and indolent practice of
driving—a practice in which the human
figure appears at such disadvantage. that
she can hardly wonder at Horace Wal~
polc’s coachman, who had laid 11p a small
fortune by driving the maids-of—houor,
for his 'wife.
An exercise to which girls tn’ke almost
as naturally as dancing, is that of rowing
an accomplishment thoroughly feminine,
learned with great facility, and on the
whole safer than most other sports. Yet
untilfi‘wilhin a few years no one thought
of it in connection with women, unless
will; semi-mythical beings, like Ellen
Dopglas or Grill-'9 Darling. Even now it
is chiefly a city accomplishment, and you
rarely find at rural or sea-side places a
village dumsel who has ever handled 1111
our. But once having acquired the art,
girls will readily fatigue themselves with
and freckles At Dove Harbor it is far
easier at any time to induce the young
ladies to 10w for two hours than to wall;
the beautiful Wood-paths for fifteen
minutes;——thc walking tires them. No
matter; for a special exercise the rowing
is the most valuable of the two, and fur-
uishcs just what the dancing-school omits.
Unfortunatel3, the clepieut of palm-'11;
not quite amniversal possession, and no
one can train Nniads 011 dry land.
One of the merits of boating is that it
suggests indirectly the attendant accoin'
plishmcut of swimming, 911121 111121 is some
thing of such priceless importance that no
trouble can be too great for its acquisition
Parents are uneasy until their children
are vaccinated, and yet leave them to in-
cur a risk as great and almost as easily
averted. The barbarian mother, who
lowering hey baby into the water by her
girdle, teaches it'to swim ere it can walk,
is before us in this duty.§11wnnning,
mo1eover, is not one of these alts in which
a little learning is a dangerous thing; 011
the contrary, little may be as useful in
an emergency as a great deal, if it gives
these few moments of self-passession amid
danger which will commonly keep a per-
son from drowning until assistance comes.
Women are uutmally as well fitted for
swimminn‘ as ;pc11,siuce specific buoyancy
is more than a match for strength; but
ell’ort is often needed to secure for them
those opportunities of instructlou and
practice which the unrestrained wander-
ings of boys secured for them so easily.—
For this purpose, swimming-schools for
ladies are now established inmany places
at home and abroad; and the newspapers
have lately chronicled a swimming-m 4th;
'uu-ee coiupetlmls M736 entered for the
prize,,—am01hcr among .titled ladies in
Polls, where each fashionable swimmer
was allowed the use of the left hand only
the right hand sustaining an open parasol.
Our own waters have, it may be, exhibit-
ed spectacles as graceful though less
known to fame. Never may I forget the
111313 of bright maidens, who, anger my
pilotugo, buffettcd 011 15111137 a summer’s
day the surges of Cape Ann, learning a
-wholly new delight in trusting the buoy-
ancy or the kind old occeuu and the vigor
of their own fair arms. All, my pupils,
some of you have since been a prince’s
partner in the bull-room; but in those
days anion. the dancing waves, it was
King A‘eptuue who plécad on you his
Clown.
Other out~door habits depend upon the
personal tastes of the individual, in cer-
tain directions, and are best cultivated
by educating-these. If a young girl is
baf“ a '11} first! pith a love of any branch
of uatuml history '01' hoitlcultme, hop 5;
is she; for" the mere 'uuconsclous' inter st
of the pursuit is an added lease of life to
her. It is the same with all binuchcs of
Art whose pursuit leads into the open air.
goon l’ouhcur with her wanderings
among the 150111114511 $1.113 pasmrcs, aller-
acting with the 1177070115 walk of the
studlo, needed, no other appliances for
health.- The same advantage comes to
many, in spite of delinquent mothers, in
phoned Minolta. then the poultcutCai'oli-
n inn iniscil his ITBKHbllllgplfilo _. ..:l 11111371117
them about the neck of Mr. ,Balcluy,‘1uul
kissed him again and again.
'The bystanders Were all in tears as
they turned from the affecting scene and'
walked silently away.
lhc bracing habits of household labor, at
least where mechanical improvements
l
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l have iio'treudcrcd it 199151“! {fppld'ied
l
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rimony.
c'obkiug- stoves and Mrs Cornelius have
.made the culinary flit such a path- of»
N ORVVA LK, CONN,
Yet bread-making in well ven-
tilated kitchen and sweeping in open win-
dowed rooms are calistheuics so bracing
that one grudges them to the. Irish mai-
dens, whose round and comely arms be-
tray so much less need of their tonic in-
fluence than the shrunken muscles exhib-
ited so freely by our short-sleeved belles.
Perhaps even well-developed arms are
not so essential to female beauty as erkct-
ness'of figurc, a 111,111. on which our low
school desks have made sad havoc. The
only sure panacea for round shoulders in
boys apt-111's to be the military drill, and
Miss Mitford records that in her youth it
was the custom in girl’s schools to apply
the same remedy. Dr. Lewis relies
greatly 011 the carrying of moderate
weights upon a padded wooden cap which
he has devised for this purpose; und'ccr.
taiuly the straighest female figure with
which I am acquainted—aged seventy—
four—is sold to have been formed by the
youthful habit of pacing the floor for half
an hour daily, with a book upon the head
under rigid maternal discipline. Another
traditional method is to insist that the
damsel shall sit erect without leaning
against the chair, for a certain number of
hours daily; and Sir Walter Scott says
that his mother, in her eightieth yenr,took
as muchcare to avoid giving any support to
her back as if she had been still under the
stern eye of Mrs. Ogilvie, her early teach-
er. Such simple methods may not be
enough to check diseased pui‘vatpres or
inequalities when already formed; these
are best met by Ling’s system of medical
gymnastics, or “movement cure,” applied
by Dr. Lewis, Br. Taylor, and others.
The ordinary gymnastic apparatus has
also been employed extensively by w0men
and that very successfully, where the ex-
ercises have been systematically organized
with agreeable classes and competent
teachers l'fthe gymnasium often fails
to interest girls as 11111511 115 111155.115?
probably from deficiency in these respects,
—and also because the female pupils, be-
ginning 011 a lower plane of strength, do
not command so great a variety of exer-
elves and so tire of the affair more 1'eadil 7
Butlipndteils, it not LllOdSpnrlS of Amer
icun women have pr'aeticed 111 these insti-
tutions during the last ten yum—single
establishments in large c es having
sometimes several hundred pupils,—-and
many have attained a high degree of skill
,1: climbing, vaultmm spipgmw 59.1 13..
like; nor can I find flint any undue pro
portiff of accidents five occu1‘ed.—-
Wherever Dr. Lewis’ methods have been
introduced, important adumtuges have
followed. Ila 1153 love}, ted an 515101111111-
ing variety of games and well studied
movements,—wi1h the lightest and cheap
est apphratus, balls, bags. rings, wands,
wooden dumb-be lls, small clubs, and other
instrumpntal1t1-s,———wlucli are gracefuly
and effectually used by his classes, to the
sound of music, and in a 111137 to spare the
weakest when lightly administered, 01‘ to
fatigue the stipngcst when applied la
101125. Being adapted ior united use by
both se'xes, they make more thorough 11p
pool to the social element than the ordi-
nary gymnastics; aud evening classes, to
meet several evenings in a week, have
proved exceedingly popular in some of our
towns. These exercises do not require
fixed apparatus or a special hall. Roy
this and other reasons they are peculiarly
adapted for use in schools, and it would
be well if they could be' regularly taught
in our normal institutions. Dr. Lewis
himself is new training regular teachers to
carry on the some good, work and his
movement is undoubtedly the most impor-
tant single step yet taken for the physical
education of American women
There IS withal a variety of agnecable
minor eggercises, dating back i‘nr her than
glulnastic professors, which must not be
omitted.Arcl1ery,still in fashion inEnglnnd
has never fairly taken root among us, and
seems almost hopeless: the clubs formed
for is promotion die out almost as speedi-
ly as cricket-clubs, and leave no trace be-
hind; though this may not always be—
Bowling and billiards are however. prac
used by lady amateurs. just so fa'r 11's they
find oppoituuity, which is not very far;
desirable public 01‘ private facilities being
obtainable by few only, except at the
summer watering-places. Battle-and-
shuttlecock seems likely to come again
into favor, and that under eminent auspi-
ces: Dr. Winship holdiugit in high esteem
as occupying to mind while employing
51571 pait of the body, harmonizing the
muscular system, giving quickness to eye
and hand, and improving the balamcing
power. The English, who systematize all
amusements so much more than we, have
developed this simple entertainment into
several dillercnt games arduous and com-
plicated as their games of poll The ineve
multiplicat on of the lulssels also lends an
additional stimulus, and the statistics of
success in this way appear almost fabu~
lens. A zealous English battle-domain-
forms me that the highest scores yet
lecprtled 'p the, game as follows: {156
thousand strokes for 5 single sliuttlecock
five hundred W-hllll employing 1110,0115
hundred and fifty ’Wllll three, and fifty-
two when four airy messengers are kept
flying simultaneously.
It may 'seem trivial to urge upon ra-
lional belmrs the' use of a sliutllecpcl; no
5' 1113; lull this is solely lictt'e'l llum' that
0611'; health should become a thing as
perishable, and fly nwa y as easily. There
roses that it is hardly now included Ill
1 only training, but deferred till after mot-
ii no danger that our education system
TLlESDAV,lUVLl,186‘2.
will soon grow
and too careful of health.
whether in physiology orin smaller things
move slowly, when prejudice or habit
bars the way. Paris is the bead quarters
of medical science; yet in Paris, to this
day, the poor babies in the great hospital
of LaMaternite are so tortured in tight
swathings that not a limb can move.—
Progress is not in proportion to the
amount of scientific knowledge on deposit
in any country, but to the eytent of its
diffusion. 'No nation in, the world grap-
ples with is own evils so promptly as ours.
It is but a few years since there was a
general croakiug about the physicalde-
terioration of ouug men in our cities,—
and 11657 'ulreaLIy‘ the cities and the col-
lege's are beginning to lead the rural dis-
tricts in this respect. The guaranty of
reform in American female health is to
be found in the growing popular convic-
tion that reform is needed. The commu-
nity is tired of the reproaches of foreign-
ers, and of the more serious evils of home
desolated by disease, and lives turned to
tragedies. Morbid anatomy has long
enough served as a type of feminine love;
liness; our polite society has long enough
been” a series of soirces of lucurobles.—-
Health is coming into fashion. A mer-
cantile parent lately told me that already
in his town, if a girl could vault a five-bar-
rel gate, her prospects for a husband were
considered to be improved, tep per cent;
and every one knows that there is no
metre of public sentiment so infalliable as
the stock- market. Now that the coun-
17117 11177111111115 81111. 1171-. 55st 558.111.1515.
our attention to the health of our girls.
Unless they are healthy, the country is
not safe. Nowhere can their physical
condition be so important as in a republic.
The utmost attention was paid to the
begli l'7 training of I iclquu, because she
was to he .‘1 queen and the mother of
kings. By the theory of our government
however imperfectly applied as yet, this is
the precise position of every American
girl. Voltarie said that the fate of na-
tions had often depended on the goat o), a
prime “uncle" arid the fate of our insti
minus may hang on the precise temperw
ment which our next President shall have
inherited from his mother.
.-.-.
m, The Philadelphia Press: pavq ,he
follonin fist compliment to {he secretary
of the 115173:
Mr. Welles—all the time depreciated,
attacked, leviled, and ridiculed—has pur-
sued the quiet tenor of his qgj' , and may
119W point with Just pride to the results
of the labors of himself and the
gentlemen associated with him. He
has had her eulauenn tasks to per-
form Contendiug with {acme in the
oountry and in Congress ; the doubts of
many of the most experienced officers of
the navy, and beset by profi‘ers from
every class of inventors, he and his assis-
tants have succeeded in putting afloat the
most powerful fleets, and'in cousummating;
the most perfect blockade ever known in
histor y.
too careless of intellect‘
a.-.
A PHILOSOPHIC NEGRO. -—A correspon-
dent of the Cincinnati Gazette, writing
from the Cumberland river, gives a 1111-
m010us account of a colloquy with a, phi-
losopbic African. He says:
‘-I noticed upon the hurricane deck to.
day 1111 elderly (turkey, with a philosophi-
cal and retrOSpective cast of countenance
squatted upon his bundle, toasting him-
self against the chimney. and apparently
plunged into a profound state of medita-
tion. Finding upon inquiry that he be-
longed to the 9th Illinois, one of the most
gallantly behaved, heavy losing regiments
at the Fort Donelson battle, and part of
which was aboard, I began to interrogate
him on the subject. His philosophy was
so much in the Falstaflian vein, that I
will give his views in his own words as
near as my memory serves me:
‘Were you in the fight?’
‘Had a. little taste of it, so.’
‘Stood your ground did you?’
ulo 5%. I WAS
‘Run at the first fire, did you?’
‘Yes, so; and would have run sooun,
had I known it war comin.’
“Why, that was not very creditable to
your courage,’
‘Dat isn’t in my line, sa—cookin’s my
perfeshun. ’
Well, but have you no regard for your
reputation
“Reputations 111111111 to me by de side
ob life.’
‘Do you consider your life worth more
than other people’s?’
‘It’s worth more to me, sa.’
“Then you must value it very highly?’
‘Ves, sa,l £199§—W9feffl‘ill all dis whirl
7-31.19?“ (11111 a million of dollars, 1111; for
what would that be worth to a man wid
bref out of him? Self-preserbashuu 11m
de fust law wid me’
i hen patriotism and honor are nothing
to youll‘
‘Nnfiiu, whatever, so; I regard dem as
among 118 vanities.’
It is safe to say that the dusty corpse
of the African‘will never darken the field
of onrnage.’
CC...»
W" While many are amused at seeing no
gross carry parcels on 111111;) he do we yester-
dh' saw something that uitd‘? bclipsed‘that
pi' olico. A'large gest‘rapp' 11g wencb passed
our office window, and on her head a shin-
gle, and on the shingle a pair of shoes. We
concluded that this was the laziest specimen
of humanity that ‘71"ng had yet come across.
WW 0.)Protrm.
Reforms, ‘
,counteractcd.
l Serious Snbiect.
Some one stmtles us with the informa-
ition that there .ue eighty thousand un-
married womeuiu Connecticut. We have
no access to the last Census, and the
number may be exaggerated, and may be
too smalll. Nor is it possible to know
how many of the number are, to speak
after the manner of merchants, unmar-
riageable; we mean in respect of age, not
taking into consideration those who are
set againt the institution. The prepor-
tion of unmarried men, we presume, is not
so large, but that does not add to the
hopefnlness of the prospect. The war
will further decrease the number of mar-
riages in the next three years.
It requires little computation to make
it apparent that if Connecticut maintains
its number of representatives in Congress
something must be done. Marriage,
which has not hitherto been regarded as
a hardship, becomes now an important
duty-
'l‘hree causes just now operate to de-
crease marriages, and fill all the villages
and farm-houses in the state with the best
candidates for matrimony the world ever
saw. The New England girl is intelli-
gent, well educated, sensible, practical.
She can keep house teach, imagine a life
romance which she may 'never act, lit
out an army, and urge on all the. benevo-
lent enterprises ,l'ne no other. And she is
equally at home On the floutiers and 1n
the civilized cities of her nativity. There
is no reason, in themselves, why the;
should be any singly blessed. But the
emigration of young men, and the war
are two causes of the evil of which we
speak. apparent, and which cannot be
The third cause is more
serious and can be remedied. We refer
to the false noting-,3 prevalent as to the 1161
cessary expense of matrimony.
A young man of cultivation, great ex-
pectations and limited means, can now no
more afford to marry than he could afford
to keep an elephant if some too generous
friend should press;I t aim one. He might
well take a princess out of the Arabian
Eights and expect to keep her in fine
leather and spirits without a magic lamp
as to satisfy the false requirements of :o-
ciety regarding his wife. 35.111 11 a good
fellow, and falls' ,u love as he ought to,1 it
may chance to be with some daughter of
affluence, to support whom in the. style
she is accustomed to, would require an
Interest in the mines of Marziposa or the
profits of bob" 5 dozen Asylum street
houses in 11 good season. Of course we
suppose 111111 independent enough not to
desire to live like a pauper, 1011115,; round
his wife’s sun-umbrella and poodle-dog for
lns board. 5311310111611
it is hardly creditable that 111 this yet
unsettled countrymnd democratic besides,
the expense of mutiimony should begin to'
be as seriously considered as it is in Paris-
lnstend of marrying as our ancestors used
10,111 help unless a fortune, the young
folks regard marriage only as the means
of spending it. Instead of being willing
to begin life as their fathers and mothers
begun it, they, must begin as they end it,
in wealth and splendor. In a few gene-
rations more, if the race still exists, young
couples will find nothing. on this planet
magnificent enough for daily life.
If any one knows any remedy for this
state of things which people will regard
(though the difficulty could be easily
solved if common Sense were a member of
all matrimonial partnerships), he will re
alize a fortune by taking out a patent
for it. Such an invention would require
young married people to live, and seeiety
would permit 1,111 a plain and economi~
= cal fashion, with no more extravagance of
dress or display than their income would
warrant. ‘ Many thousands, let us not
doubt, would marry in a week, who now
look beyond Jordan with hopeless eyes,
if the world did not require them to as-
sume a certain and unneccessary style of
living at the outset of married, 13,51?-
Hmtford Press.
—;.—.—-Q“‘.>'
How To Get Along.
have some suggestions to offer
which will enable our readers to get
through life in the most easy manner. If
a bee has the audacity to sheathe its sting
into your cuticle justice demands that
you should instantly upset the hive where-
in the offender has his headquarters, and
exterminate ever-y bee therein. If a dog
should bite you in the calf of the leg
steru justice demands that you should
bite the dog in the calf of his leg. 011
the same sublime principle, if an irritated
donkey rudely elevates his extremities
against your person, the true 111137 is to
kick back. If a horse fall, 1110.3) you the
some piiuciple of I'm; taliom's requires that
you should fall upon the horse. Il Joggs
calls you a liar, the treatment is to call
him a liar and a thiel‘into the' I)argaiu.'-—
If you are a farmer, and a neighbor’s.
cow happens to got into your; young coru
30",,3' instant mode of satisfaction is to turn
all of your cows, hogs, etc., into his own.
By following out these sublime ideas of
justice and self-respect, your daily life will
be full of sweet peace, and you will evi-
dently become as docile as a kitten.
'Wc
'I
07".93 :- I-" _.._. .___
———The gallant Commodore Foote reached
fins 1111111811: New Haven, Tuesday afternoon.
IS health is improving.
-———The Charleston .lIm'cury has sent its
Hoe press to Columbia. 130 miles inland, be.-
yond the reach of Hunter’s guns, and prints
its little half sheet on a handprcss. Its edi-
tor don’t mean to die in defense of Charles—
ton at all erents.
'.'£'4
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Ui.[7\fl. XLVWNUII liBiER 26.
1 12th Regiment Conv'espomlence
member of our waalk Company, .in the
12th regiment, C. V. -—thejournal from Ship
Island to New Orleans 111111111; been antici-
patcd by another cmr'espondent, we omit it,
and commence at New Orleans. —Eos. G 1
2mm]
New ORLEANS, 1
Sunday, May 4, 1862. 5
Like a Sabbath, for the first time since
leaving Hartford, this day has opened and
thus far progressed. The omnibusscs and
7 cars, news boys, and peddlers or vendors of
milk, are seen and heard, similar to that of
penis of the tolling Church bells are heard,
and Church-going people are directing their
steps toward their respective Churches, it is
then a thought passes through the mind, of
recollections of similar sounds, which once
called him to similar places. As the day
advances, promenadcrs become more fre-
quent, and greater numbers come? to gaze
through the gratings of the fence at the so-
called Yankee soldiers, who have caused
them to be made prisoners; for this reason
they feel bad, and express their grief in.
curses.
As evening scts 111, the setting sun reminds
me of that much liked and pleasantly spout
hour of the day at home. But we are all
happy and cheerful, 011 account of our suc-
cess, and can but think of shortly returning
to 0111‘ friends and homes should a few more
such blows be given to the 'RchI Govern-
ment.
Morms'r, May 5.—The Stores, which have
been closed ever since we passed the Forts,
are to-day beginning to open, one by one.—
Many fear to re-opeu, and prefer staying in
their houses, 0r roaming the streets. To-day
can be seen, in part, the wanton destruction
ofproperty by owners and the lower class
of people. commonly called rowdies. The
cotton, which was'lieaped 11p to the roof of
the numerous presses, was taien by this class
of people, and b111‘nezlon the Government
Docks and Levee. The sugar and molasses
in the Warehouses we 5 dealt out by the bar
ml and hogshead to those who wished to
cart it off. A great deal of both were cmp-
tied into the river. This was done the very
hour when we passed the Ports, in order, as
they said, to hinder the cursed Yankees from
deriving may benefit from their use. The
amount destroyed by them is uncertain, but
it is rcporled by the papers to be alone suf-
flcicntin value to pay their portion of the
debt which would be contracted were the
war to cease at this present time. Never
coulda 011. y appear more panic stricken.—
Iluc‘ ess men bewildered, unable to. account
for anything. They depended on the
strength of their Forts, and so far depended
as not to have any fears for what mighthap-
pen ; and now that we have passed them,
and are in the city, not a man can be found
that can explain how it was done. ' They
enquire of us, and give 11s the 'eredit due, for
the strength of our fleet and forces. One
thing they hang ore-wee never: could take
the city by military or land forces but 11:15
obliged to use a powerfull Navy in 051101 to
sfieet the purpose. It' is not very likely that
we would attempt to take. .placc situated as
this city is, by land forces alone. The peo-
ple are growing 1', little more reconciled to
us One after, another dares to step forth
from the. inhu'iatcd crowd and shake hands,
acknowledge their loyalty and enquire of or
about their Northern friends; one after an-
other requests our protection, but compared
with those of the opposite party, they are
scarce. This evening we have orders to
march at 8 A. M. to-morrow, and embark on
the “Mississippi." '
TUESan, May 6,—Mnkiug pure-furnlious
to start as ordered last evening at dress pa-
rade. One day‘s rations to be taken with us.
At 9, o‘clock we fall in at the long roll, and
by ‘10 o’clock marched to the boat, on which
was the 9th Conn. lVe are ordered to sail
8 miles above for the purpose of holding the
place lately occupied by the Confederate ar-
my, under Gen. Lovell, who will probably
retreat when Gen. Hallcck comes down the
river. At 12 1-2 P. M. we started onward,
accompanied with the cnliveniug music of
the 911) Conn. regiment band, amid the cheers
of troops on shipboard and on shore. We
take withus a few citizens who came for
protection. We arrived at anchor at 3 1-2
P. M.
WEDNESDAY, May "1‘ .—Last night some-
thing ran into us and caused us to drag a11-
chor until we came near running on the Le-
vee. It was some time before we were able
to regain our former position. he “Diana"
which accompanied us yesterday, bringing a
part of our regiment and a battery, came
along side and unloaded us, We were hap-
py to find- a green spot once more. I had
not been long lauded before I went off and
picked some greens, which tasted better than
ever before, after living so long on salt junk,
salthorse and pork; thcsc greens, with a few
sweet potatoes, were refreshing. ‘
As before stated, this ground was formerly
occupied by Gen. Lovell‘s forces. It will
probably be remembered that this some Gen.
Lovell, only a short time ago, was appointed
and acted as Dc mty Street Commissioner in
New York City ;» be, together with General
Smith, now in command of forces in Vir-
' ginia, left and joined the Southern Confeder—
acy, taking the positions they now hold.—
Therc is one thing certain, the first mention-
cd is regarded as a coward by even his own
party and men under him. The manner in
which he acted, upon the demand for the
surrender of New Orleans, by Com. Farra-
gut,as may be seen by the report to the N.
Y. papers, alone brings reproach upon him
' by the citizens of that city.
This place is well fortified, and we named
it Camp Parapet,afterthe iutrcnchmenls and
breastworks made and thrown up by the
rebel forces; it extends from the Mississippi
on the left to Lake Ponchartraiu 011 the
right, crossing the Jackson R, R , a distance
of three miles. This is now held by the fol-
lowing regiments; 12111 Conn, 7111 and 8th
Vermont, 9th Conn, 15111 Maine, Vermont
and Massachusetts bdtteries, and a number
of heavy siege guns. With this force we
feel confident of holding. it against three
times our number's. It is reported that :1
number of Rebels above are laying down
‘their arms and passing downward to the
city, in citizen‘s clothing; two 01' thri-c who
claim to have been stationed on 1111:: soun-
ground in rebel encampment, have declared
their allegiance to our government, and 11 re
7riving important in ‘brl‘iolinn. Coulraliauds
daily .1r1','1ve 111111.111. agree; nuisance c.1111-
ing hungry, and 11,0.11ly naked.
Tnunsoar, May 8.-—Col. Colburn went 10
[Below we give notes from the dis? 3' of a ‘
the city of New York. But when the solemn ,
entire family, old and young.
~to get nu.- again 7?"
l the C11 3 1h! 3 morning. To- -Llny wounded 5s
1. _._bai‘.rcl ofl 107:1 ands; ~'unr. hard blend, for
- some. Coufulv r- 111- 11101111,, which was used
in buy 1117 1111:: 11 'l he Colonel
brour71 it back $111111: he. .ivy 7 un- carriages to
mount the 1211770 guns which were overthrow u
and burned by the labels. After unspikilg
them we proceeded to mount them. The
higate Portsmouth lays opposite us, con:
mending the front of our lines the entire dis-
tance across to the lake.
SUNDAY, May 11. —It 1.9 v 01 y hot 10-day —
At 1 P. M. we had Divine service; Dr-s
Parade at 6 P. M. By order of Court Mar-
tial which has lately adjourned, the list of
Comt Martials were announced on Drm
Parade. The punishments, in .111393,’ cases,
was sev cr,e taking 1111.137 their pay, ‘7in'd long
confinement.
TUESD 11', May 13,—0111 company and the
police guard under command of Capt. Byx-
bee, were ordeied out on a scouting or for-
aging expedition. lVe marched up to a
large house owned by a wealthy plant:
naipccl [alum-c, fbrmerly a rebel soldier.—
Here, we learned before starting, could be
found husks in sufficient quantity to fill the
beds in the hospital; also, a large lot of
wheelbarrows, useful to 11s, whiCh he had
used to throw up a fortification in front of
his place; intending to use call his endeavors
to keep the Y ankces" II'ODJ. coming down in
river; in this he worked in vain, as they
came another way, unhappily for him. We
halted a short distance away, and I was mt
with the Colonel and Quartermaster to lie
the gentleman, and make arrangements :00-
essaiy to taking the husks. On arriving at
the door of the 110115 c, we were met by the
The Colonel
being spokesman,inqni1‘cd of the man if he
owned the place, and was answered in he
affirmative. He then asked if he had fly
linsks to sell or give away. The man re-
plied no, none at'all ;711e once had a few, but
they were all. used 11p. Knowing he hall
some, we asked if he owned such and sub
buildings, pointing them out. He stated
that they belonged to his cousin. We how-
ever, found out he was his own cousin,‘u'd
so caught him in a lie; so taking our force
we demanded the doors to be unlocked, then
taking the barrows and a cart, two mules,
and two of his twenty slaves, drove to camp,
emptied the load, returned and sent another
load, and returned the cart, mules and lo-
grocs. He refused pay for fear J eff would
caich 111111 at it; The wheelbarrows are of
great huporlance to us, and lhcrefOre we
held 011 to them. From this date 1115‘ to fie
time of writing, them has been no further
transactions of any import. We have cars
and a boat running daily to New Orleans.—
The cars start every hour from Carrollmu.
two miles below new The river is‘ very
high, and' in many places b1eaking through
the. Lovcc.Cm'1ollton_at the present time
is flooded with water. We luwe received 3
mails lately; I have received your paper for
nearly every publication as late as themiddle
of April; it would do you good to see the
eagerness with which they are pe1usche
are 1‘). pcclinrr amove up the river as far as
and milk.
\7 icksbm'gh , the 9111 (‘ mm. have already
gone. ".'c all thank you for sending papers.
.l1111c.l,l.\31'"3. Yours; H.
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13111 Registrant Correspondence
NEW 0111.11 1Vs,lunc '0.
Muss as. EDS. :—-AlthouI-h lmvin:7 nothing
of very gloat importance to connnunicato, I
cannot let the steamer leave without sending
you a line to let you know we still live.
W‘c have been doing nothing of impor-
1111101; for the past week but attend to contra—
bands. Gen. Butler has turned “nigger
catcher for the benefit of se'Ccsh owucrs
in the city, and has been endeavoring to
force 0111' Regiment into the same business.
“’0 had some 150 or more who had sought
refuge within 0111' lines. Either the ' should
have been refused admittance, or, once ad-
mitted and set to work for the United States,
they should have been retained; not given
up to the vengeance sure to await their cap-
two
But the General sent an order bidding all
not absolutely necessary for the use of the
regiment to drive them info the street. It
was a hard scene for a “ Yankee” to witnoss.
The p ' negroes who thought the star: and
stripesfieltercd the helpless, were drawn up
in lines, and all whom the officers could not
retain were forced by Northern (007171503115)
bayonets into the clutches of waiting lus-
ters. There was weeping and wailing and
begging—but the order was peremptory and
must be obeyed. So our officers thought.—
Thc—re was one poor woman from whose
neck in the morning I had taken a huvy
iron collar with two horns, one running up
on each side oi'her head. She had worn it
since before Christmas. Iler mastertold her
when he put it on it was 11 Lincoln collar.
She w. .s 51:11 uling among the damned
looking anxiously aiound. Finally she law
me among the lockers on. She came to me,
and with quivering lips asked me ifI did
not take that collar from her neck. I assen-
ted, and she 11sked—“ Are you going to let
them turn me out after that, for my master
i told her I was unable
lo‘prcvcuf. i1,1nneh as I wanted to. She
turned " twav with a tlcs‘iali'in'r look and join-
ed the 1' .‘=1n's of those 11 11011010 being driven
out.
I might tell you other incidents connected
wilh the scene, but it is not a. pleasant sub—
ject to dwell upon. One bright eyed lit-
tle contraband I have confiscated for my
own benefit, and have kept him so for
through great tribulation. I have to hide
him from his master who has been searching
for him and from the officials of'Butlcr who
hnnl. st: '11 more curries llv. I hope to get him
Neill: and think I shall, unlcss‘ Uncle 8am
in the service of slavery is much smarter
than I on the other side.
Seven rclicls for violating their paro;e were
sentenced. to be shot yesterday. A great r1151.
was 111:111c—lal7.iug them to the place of emu
cation and planing them on their coffins and
drawing up the soldiers 111 front, reading ihc
sentence of death and then leading reprieves
for al.‘ of them. Perhaps the farce strength-
ened Butler‘s authority, bul it is diificut to
see it in tlmzlilrht. Yours as ever. P.
———._.—.“Q:-
—-—An insuiancc wmth $11,001) 1 xistcd on
the life of the lion. George l). Wadhams, at
the time of his deems:
“n.9,“, .....
WThe “Cb .A." have Cllthi n the very
name to 11 hich [lit-v .1ro JllSll entitled.—
Thcy me in fact , the “Ci-hue: Skates of'
America!“ T111 11 secession and humorous
warfare have prnvi d flu: in 111‘ 1 1 the “Coward
Slates of Ameiir‘i and so in thcx will be the
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