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It is, 2 o'clock ia the afternoon or the. 7th of Apnl, 1863.- v v An Auril day in 18G1 betrau one f of the bloodiest vara of the century. ;Xfli AprxLaay two years latter ia to witness a sight in Jwar jwhich f no nation has ever seen before. . . . . ; ; The Tederal jroQtcl4d4,are joiiig jto attack Fort Somtor! c That means more than you dream of. It meaua u revolution all over the; world in t he manner of building and arming ships of war; and' it means that Jort, Sumter 'will be the last brkik fort ; ereeted on the American contiment to withstand a bombardment from the water. : It is a great epoch: in the history of war. When the 8im roec - down thii evening the wooden -navies of Enrope-will be. worthless and stone torts or luglaua and r ranee win be WHAT WE SEE. ve stand on the , walla , of Fort &umter and look seaward. ' Off the bar. are the bloekaders wooden vessels armed with ; "from three , to six and eight - guns, eacb.1. Inside the bar is the iron -clad fleet; named as follows; s - : Weehawken. Pasaic, Montauk, l'ataico, ironsides. (Jatskill, Nantucket, .;yahanl.'jKeoknkv - These faille irou-elada have a re serve of five vessels wbicli can throw their projectiles into the Confeder ate batteries en Morris and .Sulli van's T'itv1.: : -.- Tr'-ii. The chaiiiiels have been obstructV ed by piles and rafts and tilled with net-s and tori)eloe8, and-'iron-dads will find them.selves under the fire of Samter, Jlonltrie, BeauregartL'. the Iledan, and within v long-- range . of Castle Pinckney. . Theu;.there is the Creek Batteryv: Fort Johnson, Fort liipley, Battery . Bee, Fort 'Wafcner," the .Star.!and the Sand Batteries. More than serenty heavy guas wiiriie traiued on', the nine iron-clads. - -; ...z , It Li two years since ilaj Ander son was bombarded out of Sumter. For twoyearsi tbe Confederates have been adding to its strength and ' armament, and J. England's whole .wooden naty would be" no match for 'it cfttjthiai.JiOur. Fork 2IoaItrie has also been strengthened in fnaay ways, and the newer forts and batteries 1 are - terribly : strong and provided, hry? i. tMOVIXQ .TO.TBX ArTACK -t V '-. Every commissioned ofScet bat Uma ia Foriv Samter i at diimer.'i That one is on the ramparts with a spy -glass to - bis 'eye;' iH sees the iroa-clads fall into line, and begin the. advancer and he-reports the movement to the-postoommandant. ii'ot an oH2er leaves the dinner ta ble,the meal is coolly and deliLera-tel-. fluished, and tbetf the longroll is beaten, and every , human , being within those "Vulls Amoves to tthe pbice assigned hiin without excjte-, ment or confusion. : It is the , 6aane iu every f her fprtjand bittery io demons-ations, ,110 excitement. In a fart every tnan is one of tbe pie ces ot grea machine. v-When f" tie tba chine moves every piece knows it place and falls into 'v-Mg r-i ) ' It was a strange sight tirsee th'ose grim'iron-tlads fall into line and advance. 1 War had never witnessed such a sxectacle' before. "When it was seeu that the , long-anticipated attack was about to be made, -Fort Sumter threw oab the tlag of South Carolina and salutel it with ; thir-t t een majv white the nnsir tjf the band aa the ramparts vas heard in every Confelerate fort and battery aboard. tbeiiron-elads--beyond the bar where .the bloekaders. were lying and rocking on the swells. The iron-elads' 'will be nnderthe fire of the Star and Sand batteries and Fort"': Wagner i "before Moultrie or Snmter can lirre a. gun.: After .- the salute of Samter there is silence.-. In the Confederate; Works men whisper. On the esplanade.:, iu f Charleston scarcely a foot moves on the gravel ed walks.'., Aboard tbe.v iron-elads orders are given in low, stern tones full of. terrible..earnestness.i;.The hundreds, or men ' looking, on Ifrom the reserve fleet and the bfockaders fairly hold tbdr1rentb.V? C ', The whole world might well look on and. tremble with .excitement. The mighUest problgm ofr war" about to be solved. 3 ? - ? r I IS U "ow, tlietjdsidiBgj fronflad is in raugej ot tne, nrst jonieuerate wort. Twtaat j thousand pairs of eyes ;look forV 'fiuddea. puft of smoke and rtiaaie, but it 'does not come. The VVWhovben stAama alrtwlv on. and iwieotnerscomeupinturn, out mat gruD.. spleace is unbroken. Straight on until within easv range' of, the next, and yet that same f Tim silence. What does it meanf Have the Confederates desert ed their works on Morris Is land! ' An. 5nowv tle. Weehawkert is withia'ranccof a third Confederate f wotki Its flag is flying, but no t a man is visible. That same pro found aQeiiceMMt stillness which tries a brave mau's nerves far m ore thanLthe fennlaslon of battle. One bygone the other eight creep up and grpj)jast,i and ten thousand imen whisper to each other: Wat does it mean? Why don't they fire!". -7 . .) A VAIB FIOHT. Am haa beea 'Written before, the attack had been anticipated for rdaytfatal provided for. Instuction had been sent to every Confederate wot k - prwridm g -for -the smallest details. The Confederates wanted a fan fight. They wanted to give the iron-clads a fair chance to test their strength.", The-, building of tbeae monsters had frightened tbe Sooth. If thev could whin the forts rand batteries in a, fair fight tbe iears wouiu oe weu jonuaea. xi they could be beaten off they would no longer be a bugaboo. The in structions wera to let the ironclads fudraut-e 'as neW tn4 they desired without seeking to obstruct them. . . THE FIKST GITJf. The head of the advancing line is full within the harbor of Charles ton and within range of every work on Sullivan's Island "before the s'Jenee is broken. Then a puff, of smoke shoots straight out from the ramparts of Moultrie, followed by a second, third and fourth, and the mightiest fight of the century , has opened.. It is iron-clad and turret and ironside against brick and stone and sand. - Let the whole world look on,there is a lesson to be learned. ' ' Vthb obstructions. I - Rumors had reached the Federals of obstructions in the channel, but, if credited, no one knew what they were nor how placed. The instruc tions from Dupont expected at least half the fleet to pass Fort Sumpter and fire upon it? from the rear It was only when the Weehawken steamed ahead for this purpose that the piles. and, nets and torpedoes were discovered. Indeed, the iron clad, had picked up a seine with her wheel and was deprived of all motive power before the character of the obstructions were fully known. - Thus fouled and unman ageable, the iron monster drifts with the current, and the fire of her guns as she drifts seem like signals of distress. The Ironsides comes up and tries the other channel, followed by two others, and in seeking to evade the obstructions there ia a collision and an . entanglement, and for twenty minutes the whole three are under a hot fire, without opportunity to answer it. .When disentangled and in position to open fire the real fight begins..'. - Dopont hvs discovered that it is to be a square' fight, and he accepts. .VHere, then, , are the nine iron-clads within the circle of Confederate fire.: They are supposed to be impregnable. -. They .have ordnance warranted - to knock a brick -j fort to pieces. Watch -the fight we shall see. v ..,..,.:';, ' ' SHAJSINO THB WOMJi.i . .jThe heaviest .old-fashioned ord nance of the world is mounted upon the Confederate forts and batteries. The most effective guns of modern date are in the . turrets of. the iron clads. pearly eighty? Confederate cannon are belching their fire into the circle in which .the nine iron elads move slowly about like bewil dered monsters of the ; deepthe iren-clads answer with : thirty-two guns. . It is a roar which; sways the tree-tops ; in Charleston; it is an earthquake which raises bobbles of air alongside the bloekaders seven miles away. It . is a ; sound which rolls along; the sea for fifty miles. . THE THTJN DEEJJOLTS. ., ' Ou the iron-clads theQhave cool ly settled down to. their work. Thirty-five . pounds ;of 4 powder is placed in one of .the monster guns, a shot weighing 450" pounds goes down - after it, and the discharge seems to drive the "vessel ! ten z feet. Think , of 450 pounds of iron, tipped with steely driven: square asrainst Sumter by such a weight of powder at a distance of 1,000 yards ! r Such a bolt would pass through ten ordi nary brick walls as easily as a stone flies through a sheet of paper. Tbe force of that Wow is at least 15.000 tons, and it is being' repeated, once in 100 ' seconds from every one of those thirty-two gunsv , v- . .ft J . -rs i. n . .. ... r . - uere 111 r uri oumir( as m mom trie, Beauregard and other worksj they are using great bolts with tbe Brooke guns solid shot and. great shells, with 4 the. eleven-inch cannon -rifled; shot and bolts witlt the English cung which nave run- the blockade. As the action continues, 8umter brings seven - ten-inch mor tars into play, and Moultrie; two, and now the crash is terrific bey on d description l-? .2 ' h -. . THE IBOKSIDES. 5?(rhe fire from the Confederates was at . first by battery. At the end of ten minutes orders were given to fire at will and thenVmiA I of tne closest sbootmg ever record- r 1. - -. 1 . . u was iuaue.r xc seemeu almost impossible 'for-' a Federal shot to t anis8 tne . forts. . but on the other Iiand the iron-clads sat low in the water, were kept on the move, and appeared to offer no chance to the Ijest artillerists.' The Ironsides was under the guns of Sumter at close range about fifteen minutes, and at long range for three-quarters of an Lour, moving levery . minute, and jet she was hit ten or twelve times jn five minutes. One of the iron, shutters - over her gun port was struck and Bent flying through, the .air, a part of her stern was shot away, and three shells entered her bows and tore her in a frightful manner; J She divided her fire be tween Sumter and Moultrie, : but owing-to some disarrangement of machinery fired less than a dozen rounds. Ilad she remained ten minutes longer in the position first taken she would have been sent to the bottom. She was hit upwards of sixty times, or once for every fifty seconds of the engagement. The shot she fired would have dis abled any two wooden ships afloat. One of her shot cracked the para pet wall of Fort Sumter for a dis tance of twenty-eight feet, and anotner struct and demolished a colnmbiad and its carriage. THE NAHANT. The Xahant did not advance nearer than 1,000 yards, and yet she was hit eighty times. She pre sented no more of a tarsret to the big guns at that distance than a floating hogshead, and yet certain pieces trained upon her from Sum ter and Moultrie did not miss more than one shot out of six. Her crew went into action believing her im pregnable, but the second shot re ceived cracked one of her plates wide open. In ten minutes three plates had been fractured, and she was leaking. In twenty minutes it was seen that she could le pounded to pieces even at that distance. One of the last shots received was an enormous solid bolt from a Brooks gun. Tnis bolt struck the pilot-house square and fair, driving in a dozen bolts and cracking the iron plates as a stone cracks a pane of glass. She had six of her crew wounded one fatally by flying bolts alone. She went out of the fight half a wreck, having fired about two dozen shots. THE PASSAIC. The Passaic was hit over fifty times. One gun in Sumpter struck her six times in succession. Had she been lying alongside of a three decker she would have driven her shot clean through her every time, and every one would have made a hole like a barrel, but of the nine or ten shots she fired at Sumpter only two struck and those with no dam age. There were a dozen places where the Confederate shot had plowed furrows in her iron plates as a plow leaves its mark on the soil. One plunging shot which struck the top of her pilot-house left a cavity ia the solid iron which would have held two quarts of water. She had nine plates cracked by one single shot, and such was the jar when the heavy snot struck her that men were knocked down. . She showed three spots where the iron plates were forced inwards until huge cones apiteared on the inside, and she went out of the fight with her big gun disabled and her turret out 01 order. THE NANTUCKET. , This monitor fired fifteen shots, nine of which were well . planted, and was hit over fifty times. Three of tbe guLS in Sumter fired only at her port shutters, ana lor seven or eight minutes eighteen guns were trained upon her at fair range. At the end of t hirty minutes her large guns could no longer be worked, her turret was out of order, and she had received such wounds as proved that her destruction. would be only a question of time under that fire. THE CATSKILL. This craft fired twenty-five shots and was. hit fifty-one times. Three of the best shots planted in Fort Sumter were fired from her guns. She was scarred and furrowed from end to end, her plates cracked and broken, and one txlt went square through the iron deck, leav ing a hole as large as a man's head. THE WEEHAWKEN. Despite her misfortune at the openingof the fight, the Weehawken fired twenty-six shots, twenty of which hit. In turn she was struck about sixty times, having several plates cracked, and limping out of the fight with her pumps going. THE PATAP8CO. ; This vessel fired eighteen shots, and was hit forty-five times, but most of the shot glanced off. She had three or four plates cracked, was ''bulged" in three or four spots, and one Confederate bolt peeled a furrow through solid iron three inches deep. - " THE MONT AUK. Until just before the . signal to drop out of the fight, none of the iron-clads were nearer than a mile to Sumter. .-All of a sudden the Keokuk, provided with, double turrets, steamed ahead until within rifle range. She was one of the gtbptest, if not the very best of the fleet and her guns' were served ' in a manner to elicit the admiration of the Confederates. . She , was hit ninety -times nsixty ef the ' shot striking her in the space of ten minutes. - When - she ; steamed ahead,, thirty-eight , guns . ( con centrated their fire upon her and the sound of the projectiles striking the iron was plainly heard in Sum ter and Moultrie. Here -was the rea test of the fight. Solid iron plating six inches thick had to give way before the Confederate shot. Before she could back out of the position in which she had vol untarily: placed herself she had twelve men wounded, her turrets pierced in five or six . places and twenty holes in her iron hull. As she moved off down tbe bay the sea washed iuto her in a dozen places.1 Her pumps kept her afloat through tbejnight, but at daylight she went down like a stone. THE FLEET. The idea was that none of the nine iron-clads could be pierced by any projectile in the hands of the Confederates. They, therefore, went into action with perfect confi dence. They were permitted to pass several batteries which could have at least greatly annoyed them, and to take up such positions as suited them best. After that it was give and take,' and tbey were fairly whipped. . THE FOETS. Federal history has asserted that the fleet was oposed by at least 300 guns. The number was exactly sexenty-six, and not one of them was the equal of the new ordnance on the iron-clads. Fort Sumter was struck about sixty times, and had four men wounded. The damages were repaired in a single day. Fort Moultrie had one man killed, and an hour's work would repair all damage. Wagner had three men killed and three wounded, but the loss of life was the result of an accident in the fort. .None of the other Confederate works re ceived damage or suffered loss among the garrison. The total number of shots fired by the Con federates was 2,200. THE LESSONS. If Dupont could have run a part of his fleet past Sumter and attacked its weak side the result might have been different. The first lesson learned was that no wideawake fort would permit such a maneuver. ! If again attacked a square fight against its sea front must be ex pected. The second lesson learnetl was that no iron-clal could be made impregnable. None of the European iron-clads said to be impervious to projectiles of any sort have ever been tested as Dupont tested that fleet. All irou.clads must have port shutters. Make them as they will, and a shot striking square and fair will jam them so as to render the gun behind useless. A turret, cau be jammed by a shot, and a projectile from a fii'teeii-inch gun striking the pilot house will crack the plates or start the bolts. Sumter likewise learned a lesson. Though not badly damaged, it was easy to see that brick and stone could not resist shot and shell at such close range. Let such an at tack be repeated often enough and the fort must be knocked to pieces. The sand forts were undamaged. For years and years war had sought for the best material to construct forts, and lo! a conflict of two hours had proved that it was the despised sand over which massive stone had been laboriously hauled. No other day in the world's his tory had learned the world so much Of War. M. QTAl). 1)11 iilingr Experiences. (Detroit Frea Presa.) ' In M. Quad's story of the skill and darinir of the "blockade run ners" nothing api-ears of the ex periences of the bloekaders, who for months and years spent tlieir nights and days off the Southern coasts, all the time on the edge of treaen erous shoals, frequently under the hre 01 the batteries on snore, iaitu fullv guarding their posts in such vessels as were provided for the purpose, riding out the most terrif ic gales and enduring every priva tion without complaint, constantly striviug for the accomplishment of the dnty before them of sealing up the enemy's ports. And the facts yon present, to your readers of the escape ff the blockade runners iu such numbers does not intimate how unequal the vessels were in point of speed. No mention is made of the cutting out expeditions which destroyed many of these f 'runners" when they were deemed to be in safety, nor of the almost daily duels with the rebel flying batteries behind ther sand hill works. ' Buc many and many an incident occurs to my mind suggested by the reading of your list which M. Quad's facile peu could fittingly sketch with interest, could he listen to the recitals of the participants in them. How readable, for instance, could he make the account of the boat expeditions made at night up the Cape Fear River on two occa sions by the gallant Gushing, recon uoitering to get information as to the blockade runners in the river ready to sail out, or of that daring trip into an inlet on the North Car olina coast in the steamer Ellis, wherein he lost his . steamer under the fire of tbe batteries, but after destroying a schooner loaded with cotton cut out another . and sailed out with his whole crew in safety ! What a neat description could you not give of the night expedi tion irom the United States to Fort Jackson for the destruction of the enemy's extensive salt works, a few miles from Wilmington, which was entirely successful and returned with a large number of rebel con scripts captured at the works. I would that yon had been with us on some of our chases of block ade runners., The names and the hulls of those in your list were fa miliar to us oft' Cape Fear River, and many a time we closed a vain chase after some of them with deep complaints at the slowness of our own vessels and loud praises of the skill of the captains of those "run ners.77 After a long chase, when we felt sure of overhauling them, we would drive into one of those heavy rain squalls, so prevalent on the edge of the Gulf Stream, and when the sky cleared on tbe vessel chased would haye , disappeared, haviug changed her course and be ing hull down ; when; we emerged from our curtain 01 ram ! . But you would have echoed fit tingly our - expressions of delight when we "brought to" the "Little Ada" (which I saw not many months ago tied-up to the Lake Survey dock at Detroit in govern ment service) and found her loaded down with drugs and small stores, wines, etc, our vessel, the "Gettys burg," once that "A. D. Vance" you uame in your list, serving her captors well in catching her old consorts. You would have enjoyed the beautiful chase we made after the "LiUian," another name you have not on your list, one of the fastest of all the steamers designed lor that dangerous trade. How delighted I was when a shot fired by myself from the Gettys burg's thirty pounder Parrott drove through the chase's side at the wa ter line and sent a stream of salt water pouring in after it, which soon put her by the head, so that we were quickly alongside and in possession, when to save our prize one Of our men slung himself in a bowline, over the side, found the hole with his foot and running his leg in up to his thigh, kept it. there until the steam pump, dealing the hold of water, ielieved him from the dangerous position he was iu. Besides the names of the "Ada" and "Lillian," I do not find the "Jupiter" or the "Falcon" on your Wilmington lists. They both es caped from us, but the latter had to disgorge, her whole deck load of cotton before she could show us her heels, a disagreeable fact to be acknowledged as finally occurring, and scarcely compensated lor by the twenty-five bales picked up the next day Pardon my running on this way. I only put pen to paper to express the pleasure your articles give me, and did not inteud to bore you with such a raft of stuff as this. F. P. B. Sands, late U. S. Navy. 1222 Conn, av., Washington J). C. A Receipt to Make Pretty Women. A celebrated beauty, whose com-! fiexiou at sixty was fresher than ! that of our women at thirty, told ' me her secret this summer, aud it ! was divided into two parts: First She never used washrag or towel -on her face, but washed it with her : hands, rinisiiig it oft' with a soft sponge. She used clear water in the morning, but white casteel soap : or very warm water at night, and ! after drying it ou a soft towel she' would take a flesh brush and rub her cheeks, chin and forehead. Second If she was goiug to be up late at night she always slept as . many hours in the day as she ex-; petted to be awake beyond her usual time. She finished her little i sermon 011 beauty preservation by saving: "Soft water and sound sleep keep oft' wrinkles and and girls should give more tion to this than they tlo, for "With the coming of the crow spots, atten- s feet Is the K'ri of the beaux feet. " Xew York Letter in the W iugtou Critic, a.-h- Tlio next River and Harbor bill will not run over f?(i,000,000. The country has riddled so many of the Congressmen who voted for the last bill. Punishing the SH einal.e -Dean Swift was not a model man himself, but he expected other peo ple to do the correct thing at least by him. The story of how he once administered a grim lesson on punc tuality is thus told: iv snoemnKer 01 uuolm Had a great desire lo work for Dean Swift, He was recommended by Mr. James Swing, the banker, and Mr. Siecan, a merchant. The dean gave him an Order for a pair of boots, ad ding, "When shall I have them?" "On Saturday next," said the shoemaker. "I have no appointments,'' said the dean, "nor would I have you disappoint others; set your, own time, and keep to it." "I thank your Reverence," said Bamerick (for that. was. his name). "I desire no "longer than Saturday e'en, when yon will be sure to have them without fail." They parted. The boots were finished at the time; but, through the hurry of business, Mr. Bamerick forgot to carry I Item home till Mon day evening. When the dean lrew the boots on, ami found them to his mind, he said, "Mr. Bamerick, you have ans wered pit the commands of yonr friends, but you have disappointed me, for I was to ha ve been at Sir Arthur Axhoson's, in the county of Armagh, on this day " "Indeed, and indeed, sir," said Bamerick, "the bots were finished at the time, but I forgot to bring them home." The dean gave him one of his stem looks, and, after a pause, asked him if he. understood gard ening as well as boot-making. Bamerick answered. "No, sir; but 1 have seeu some very fine gardens in England." "Come," said the dean, iu a good-humored tone, "I will show you some improvements! have made in the deanery garden." They walked thKongh the garden to t he further end, when the dean started as if - recollecting some thing. "I must step iu," said he; "stay here till I come back." Then he ran ont of the garden, locked the door, and put the key in his pocket. Bamerick walked about till it grew dark, aud not seeing the dean, he at last ventured to follow him, but found the door locked. He knocked and called several times to n$ purpose; he. perceived himself confined between high walls, the night dark and cold, in the month of March. However, ho had not the least suspicion of his being in tionally eonhued. The deanery servants went to bed at the usual hour, aud the dean remained iu his study until- two o'clock in the morning. He then went into the hall and drew the charge out of a blunderbuss aud other firearms, t hen returned and rang his bell. He was immediate ly attended by one of his servants. "Robert," said he, "I have been much disturbed with a noise in the garden; I fear some robbers have entered. Get me a lantern, aud call up Saunders.". Then the. dean took the lantern and stayed by the arms until the men came. "Arm yourself," said he, "and follow me." He led them into the garden, where the light soon attracted poor Bamerick, who came running up to them. Upon hi.s approach, the dean roared out. "There is the robber! Shoot him!" Saunders presented, and Bame rick, terrified to death, fell on his knees and begged his life. The dean held the lantern up to the man's face aud gravely said, "Mercy on us, Mr. Bamerick! how came yon here f" "Sir," said Bamerick, "don't you remember you left me here last evening f" "Oho, friend!" says the dean. "1 see. 1 neglected you as you did my boots." After some refreshment, the poor shomaker w as sent home, with a lesson on the prompt keeping of promises which he, never forgot. Currency. A Xew York female pickpocket is so pretty that one of her victims refused to make complaint. De Lesseps denies that he told Arabi that he carried Europe in his vest pocket. Perhaps he said coat-tail pocket. New Orleans has tried a John Chinaman on the jury, and he was a success. He agreed with the other eleven. The Philadelphia Chronicle will keep poking at the Mayor and Chief of Police until they do their duty or are poked out of ollice. Adam Kirpen, of Chicago, has a beard twelve feet long. That's all. Nothing said as to whether he has any brains or not. A Detroit girl drew a door-mat with crayon on the front steps, and it was sonatural that several callers tried to give it a wipe. The Boston Post speaks of an Ohio miss as volatile because she ate thirteen boiled eggs at a meal. Now you know how to do it. An Indian boy 14 years old was held up and kissed by seven school girls, and he was so broken up over it that he tried to hang himself. If there are two proper wavs of spelling Iiujuirer then there should be at least two ways ol spelling .Journal or (lazelte. Let's Kmpiirc into it. A St. Lou in negro ate a pint of oysters which had soured in a res taurant, and he says he shell prefer to be shot from a. cannon iu future. A whale can store up enough w ind to last him two hours under w ater. If you have anything 'lse ou hand don't wait for him to conic up. That bong Lranch hoicl-kccpcr who charged a typhoid fever patient 1,:.5()0 for three weeks' board is now in court to answer lo the charge of robbery. The Mayor of Chicago impressed English people as a man who would have brought over more check if there had been room for it on the steamer. Eccentric Bullet ;v The strange freaks and antics recorded of these leaden messengers of death ou the field of battle seem almost like the demon sport of de stroyers possessed of intelligence and self-direction. The allusion to 'bayonets that think" is a familiar one, and Gen. Desaix's inetaphor of bullets that seemed controlled by fate, is quite as vivid and signifi cant when applied to men like Washington, whom the deadi.y missiles always seemed to shun. Desaix had carried the same "charmed life" in battle, but when he came to fight at Marengo he had but lately returned from the cam paign in Egypt. "It is so long," said he, "since I fought a battle in Europe that the bullets will not know me. Something will happen." And, sure enough, he was killed. The Newnan (Ga.) Herald gives the following instances of the eccentric course of bullets on the battle-field: At the battle of Peach Orchard, when McClellan was making his change of base, a Michigan infant ryman fell to the ground as if shot stone dead, and was left lying in a heap as the regiment changed po sition. The ball which had hit hiui first struck the barrel of his gun, glanced and struck a button off his coat; tore the watch out of his vest pocket, and then struck the man just over the heart, and was stop- pea there oy a song-book in his shirt pocket. He was unconscious for tluee-quarters of an hour, and it was a full month before the black aud bine sjiot disappeared. ' V At Pittsburg Landing' a member of the Twelfth Michigan Infantry stooped to give a wouuded man a drink from his canteen. While in this act, a bullet aimed at his breast struck the canteen, turned aside, passed through the body of a man and buried itself in the leg of a horse. The canteen was split open and dropped to the ground in halves. At the second battle of Bull Run, a New York infantryman was pass ing tobacco to a comrade ; a bullet struck the plug, glanced off and buried itself in a knapsack. The tobacco was rolled up like a ball of shavings, and carried a hundred feet away. Directly in the line of the bullet was the. head of a lieu tenant, and had not the bullet beeu deflected, he would certainly have received it. As it was, he had both eyes filled with tobacco dust, and had to be led to the rear.' At Brandy Station, one of Cus ter's troopers had1 his left stirrup strap cut away by a grapeshot. which passed between his leg ana the horse, blistering his skin as if a red-hot iron had beeu used. He dismounted to ascertain the extent of his injuries, and as he bent over a bullet knocked bis hat off and killed his horse. A Short Reckoning. The position of a teacher who takes charge of a bad school where every predecessor has failed - is a critical one. He win hardly be equal to it unless he is ready and able to punish insolence and insub ordination promptly and with a rough hand. . . , A tolerably athletic young man took a certain school to teach years ago iu western New York after a number of pedagogues had tried it and given it up in despair. The "big boys" had driven the teachers away invariably, and the discour agement was so complete the first day that they never undertook a second editiou. This young inau took hold with a lull knowledge of the difficulty, and with a hope that he could succeed. He was mild-mannered, and he opened the schoolthe first day with a pleading smile on his lips that made even the small boys reckless. He was taking the names of the children, and progressed without difficulty till he came to John Tar box, the ring-leader of the unruly ones, and the boy who always gave the signal for trouncing the "mas ter." The new teacher approached him with a sweet smile on his face, aud said, "Now, will you tell me your name please ?" The boy leaned back in his seat, put his feet over the top of the desk, and looked cross-eyed at the new teacher, while all the school roared. 'Please tell me your name," re peated the teacher, pleadingly, aud without noticing this rudeness. "Wall," drawled the fellow, ".sometimes they call me Bob, ami sometimes they call me Pete, and .sometimes they call me somcthiu' else, but you better not call me anything!" The mild-looking teacher had been expecting all this; there he had the advantage, lie had pre pared himself for a light, not a tight for a minute, but for an hour or a day, if need be; he had beeu iu a manner trained for it, and so just as the last words were out of the boy s mouth lie ueait tne uig lubber a blow between the eyes that stunned him, and then, grasping him by the collar dragged him headlong over the seats, stood him up on the floor with a jam, and thundered out, '-What's your name!" ".lohn Tarbox!" exclaimed the boy, promptly, aud with his eyes fairly bulging from his head. "Very well." said the teacher. "Take your seat, John,'' and John took it. I There was no more difficulty, and ' at the end of the session that school I was said to be the best in the coun- ty. Kxchatiijc. I An IO;i.i-thiiiiik; ill the Far West i Lakamik City, Nov. 7. An I earthquake shock was felt here at j IU o'clock this evening. It was felt ; plainly all along the line of the j Cnion Pacific Railway west as far j as Kvanston. The plastering fell 'in buildings at Rawlins, Point of ; Rocks, and other points. Trains I will be sent west with givat care, as the bridges may have been t hiown out of place. DKNVKIi, Nov. 7. A slight shoe'., of cart hqiiukc was felt in this cit. and vicinity at li:l'(l p. in. to-day . The occupants of high buildings were greatly alarmed, and ran out iuto si reels. t Heading tli e. "-' According to a fanciful American phrenologist round-eyed persons see much, live much In tbe senses, but .think the less. Narrow-eyetl persons, on the other haudee leas, but think and feel more intensely. It will be observed that the eyes of children are. open and round. Their whole life is to receive lin'iresHlous. It is only when childhood is lnatur iug toward manhood and woman hood that thought comes if it comes at all. But what most lead to re flection! Exjierience. Our errors, our shortcomings, our failures -these teach us to think before we act, to consider each step, to weigh every motive. Whenjherefore. the upper eyelid for it is that which has the greatest amount of inobilitf -droops over the eye, it indicates nwu inririj reueeMiHl, uut' some thing 1 lain ful to reflect about. Hence the length or drooplag of the upper eyelid betokens confession and peniteuce. The drooping of half of the. . eye lids from 'the. outer angle to the center indicates the disposition, to confess one's faults to parents or seniors, to a "father confessor.' . The drooping of half of the eye lids from the inner angle to the center betokens the disposition to repent and to "do works meet for repentance." Closely filled to those signs are those of prayerfulness aud humility, The former is indicated by tbe muscle which turns the eye directly downward, as represented in the pictures of . the. Madonna. Prayerfulaess " is, usually large iu connection with that of penitence, the reason of which is that betweeu the faculties of iienitence and ' hu mility there is the same dose con nection as between confession and prayer., One who has habitually more prayer than humility has the eye turned somewhat upward, so that the upward part of tbe iris Is a little covered by the -upper eyelid and so as to leave a slight space between the iris and the lower lid, The reverse is true of one who has more humility than prayer.' ' ' The faculty of truth that is, the love of it is indicated by tbe mus cle which surrounds the eye, 1 caus ing folds and wrinkless. Justice is indicated by the muscle . which causes lpe'rpendicnlat wrinkles be tween the eyebrows. Fullness and wrinkles . under the eye for which some persons are remarkable, imli cate love for mathematical ao-ura cy; and curving-- upward from . the outer angle of the eye and eyebrow indicate probity or fiersonal truth fulness. There are three degrees of the faculty of justice.. The first is a kind of exactness, or strict honesty in .small money , matter, which some people would call close ness, and is indicated by ' a singlar perpendicular wrinkle or line lie twee 11 the . eyebrows. The second is a disposition to require justice iu others, and is indicated, by two perpendicular lines or wrinkles, one on each side of the center a very common sign. " Tbe third degree" Is con scientiousuess, or tho d isposi tion to apply tbe rule of justice jo one's self, and is indicated by three or. more wrinkles or lines, especially extending above tbe eyebrow when the muscle is iu action The love of commanders, in mas tors .: and teachers, and in those generally who are fond of excercisiug au thority. In those who are wanting in the power to command and have no desire for responsibilty, this sig nal is also absent. .The faculty, of command frequently acts with that part of justice which reprimands or requires others to do right,and both together produce that frowning and lowering brow which is so terrible to evil-doers or to those who love to be approved rather than condemn? ed. Phrenological. Magazine. Soi-c Eyes ond Schoel Children. ( Youth ' Companion.) A child may have sore eyes from various causes, and the ailment is simply painful and troublesome. But there is a form that concerns the commuuity an inflammation of the mucous uieiubranee which lines the inside of tbe lids aud the front of the eyes. . The membrane is called the con junction, aud disease conjunctivitis; i.e., inflammation of tbe conjunc tiva. The inflammation may soon become severe, and the secretions abundant and of a yellow tinge. This is pus, and is so virulent that the smallest particle carried to the eye of auother child will communi cate the disease to him, aud he to others indefinitely. The disease, however may origi nate without the contagious parti cle. It may liegiu with the indi vidual; but wheu once started, the first case may liecome a centre of a most fearful epidemic. It generally origiutes among ill fed scrofulous children; and those most liable to take it are of this same class. But the scixilulous are apt to be ill nourished, however abundant their food. School chil dren, therefore, cannot be too care fully guarded against the infection, .and those who are obviously affect ed should, if -sjssible, be kept apart. Says the eminent Lionel Beale. "Now if many children in weak health, who for some time previous ly have been badly managed as re gards food, air, exercise aud clean liness, are allowed to congregate, and especially if the are confined in close, ill-ventilated rooms, the dis ease may not only sris1, but soon acquire an extraordinary legree of virulence. 1 "It may spread so quickly in such a cominuiiitv of children, thatiu short time, out of four or five bun- ( ! dred, one-third, or even a larger i ' proportion, may lie suffering from! the disease. )f the niimlier affect , ed many will Miner severely, structural ehanires will result. "The iranspaient part of the eye in f ront, known as t la. cornea, may ulcerate, and when, after a time, it j lieaN, will be so altered that the' trauspiirant tissue will leciiie i opaque, or the eye itself may lie destroyed, blindness, of course, re- ; siitiu-; iu both cases."' Kal.inia00 is a great celery-raising town. What the young men of this country want to find, however, is a r. il.irx i n iug community. I Wills That Ild N-t Will WIUs have been a fruitful soource of litigation, When lawyers d!n 1 together - fn England, a Luminal years ago, the first toast was "the schoolmasters." In those days thev drew op wills and thereby fufnULti he lawyers' with employment. A toast still popular with the 1 refu sion is: "the lawyer's best friend the rnurt who makes Lis own whjm. .... . . . ' Strang as it insyseem, there ar many, instances extant of great lawyers committing such grave blunders In drawing up their own wills that the oonrts were coni-tefled 1 to set them aside, - - Sir Joseph Tekyll 'aorumnlatd a large fortune by the pract ice of the law. lie lelt tbe whole of it to psv It'1 national . debt. The will wiw contested by his relatives, and the court set it aside on the crtiund of the testator's imlMV-ility. ' Doubtless thejndgftNNyuipat hired with Lord Mansfield's remark: ' ; r Joseph was a good man and a g K lawyer, but his bequest -arm a very foolish one. JIemighta well have attempted to stop the middle nr h of Blackfriar's Bridge with his f ull bottomed wlg.n A noted black-lettered lawyer of ' the reign of William III., Serjeant Maynard, left a will pnrj.os.-ly wordod , in olisenre terms. lls object wasto cause litigation ho that tbe courts might m-itle certain joints which had often vexed him in his practice. The learned, law.' yer , evidently: felt Unit be imiKl; sumething.to his profession, tin. I was willit that his estate hlx.i I 1 pay the debt. . A French lawyer, wheu h nimr to die, was troubleil about hi obli gations to . his clients, lie 1. :t twenty thousand dollars to an in sane .asylum. , : "I have acquired this money," Said lie, in his will, "among !!:...,. who spend their lives in litiMtion. It is, then, only a rent Hut ion." , Lord Chief-Justice ManU M !.-.-posed of property, valued nt two million five hundred thousand ! l ' lars by a will so short that it un written on half a sheet of jmp r. It was distinguished by the lei! e ol the customary verbiage mnl y the neglect of the current forms ! legal practice.'' Tbe ' wiseacres of the l.iw, Mir prised that the great lawyer nhouM have drawn up a will in ' r, idiomatic and even elegant 1 asserted that - it - would not k. ..I. But it did, uineh to the dissHti .-.taction of those who thought t hat u will should he written ia wiml wi intelligible that a jilain man cu!J understand it without ilii'icuity. i.T ' TobueCit Oh the You u e. : We have referred to the set ion of some foreign authorities in l..i ! id ding the use of tobacco bv t ! young the prohibit ion being based 011 the fact that tobacco lessen tlieir future ' capacity of sen ice to the State, :esiHiaJIy in iini.taty lil'ei. ' In foil accord with this is the re-silt of Dr. Gihon. Medical, 1". S. . In 'retiring feoiu I he iimtitr.tioti he desired - to leave it aa his l.tt utterance that "bejoiul all othr thing, the future health siid ne fulnessof the lads educated at Ihii school require the sbsolute infer- diction of. tobacco," ' ' . ' In this opinion be is, he km'. sustained by his colleagues; by nil other sauitariaua in military snd Civil life whose views he had Is en Hble to . learn; and by the known belief of the officer who was to sue-' ceed him. ' i . ' . ' ' -The fact that so many sdnlts ran use tobacco with -apparent impu nity is, in bis vjew, no argument in ; avorof its use by growing Ih1s, for while it arrests waste of tissue in the former," this very srret of waste in the young i counoctod with a retarding ot .their normal development. ' ( He add, ;. "An agent, which, through its sedative effect on the circulation, creates a thirst for mI cobolic stimulation; which, by' it depressing and dist urbiugcft'iMt on , tbe ' nerve. oeutres, incream's bad passious ; which determines fane-' tioual diseases of the heart ; which Impairs vision, blunts the im-niis-y, and interferes with incut al edit aud application, ought, iu my opin ion as a salutary o(U'-r. at what ever cost of vigilance,- to lie rigor ously iutei-dicted.n' ! Am Awkard Situation.' .-.. Ministers who mind little; things . in hireling are sure to have their. k haadsfull. In most eases of trifling annoysiicejroiuchildreuorfrom sny " iutioceut cause,' - some one In the ' congregation will notice, and attend 1 to It wltUJes oiwH-rvai ion . man ,a ; calj from , the pulpit would , cite ..11. . . ..... s The llev. Mr.'O -was troubled with : very exol table nerves. " 1U s an incurable old bacliehir, i oi bap this was ;iot so surprising. ,For ex. ample,' he could not sit quiet, and. see a cat's back stroked the Wrong' way; while the sight of a spider dis turbed Lis equanimity. A .. J i I' -One Sunday, while absent on . sn exchange, he heard from a pew.. near the pulpit aboy snuffling, as if , he were troubled with a serverr cold and did not bare- a 'handkerchief. His brother sat. beside' Uiau Mr. . C hajqtcned to know .be , boy 1 name. . , -, - . - , , , He Wo with this irritation as long as his nerves would perm it, bn I ' ' it became so aggravated that - be ; ' paused in the midst of a hymn wbiok 1 ..j he was reading, aud bending over. nnlnit. said. jin why lon't you use your iandkerchieiT' - " ' ' jhu, abashed by this unexpected" ddross. nud bv the tact thut ths .! ""''eyes of the congregation ;Wero ( niuk.i I.I... u- n. ....I 4.. the genersl amusement. ' ', "Please, sir. I haven't got none." ' "Then why don't you borrow J our hrothcr'sf" resumed the minister f "liecuuse, sir, he hasn't got ,nuy w . cit her, "pursued the frighten! Isjy. ' , . The audience was conTtilsol., 't:'" "Will some cliarltHble-disiosel r' f lersou," remarked the elegy man, ha ; ,:l a solemn tone, "provide that 11 with a handkerchiefr' ' , () This was done, and the aervtoa t' " proceeded. ..' . (I l.t ilt
New Berne Weekly Journal (New Bern, N.C.)
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