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E.RAYNEB is now receiTing a nice line of LADIES DRESS GOODS ' Notions, .Clothing, , &c &c. -. Be sure to call and see J him. before going elsewhere and ; GET BARGAINS. ' t 3 r SIXTEEN YEARS MCER? -5 ' - Th&Battle of Gaines TWlll. The TorniDg Voint in M'Clelian's Carter. U'ctH1F A.ltiiic&efl ana was Ke . pulsed. 'Ho JscksoD C&ine up and 1 he Texans Boshed. Six Hoars of the Hottest the War. Ffglitinsr of I spent tbe-whole day riding over the field of New and Old Cold -Harbors.- McUlfcllatt's first great battle with Johnston" brought on his second with Lee. ; He Fought Johnston at. Fair Oaks in the last days of May ' he coufrofited Lee at the Haiboi s in the last days of June It is a coun try of faims and forests, and hills and plains.- Autumn was dropping its ripe apples on the half-It vt led breast works erected twenty years ago, and tbe wild grape vines covered manv a t fecar4eft on the tieesby ball and bul let Htre are the swamps in which l he dead and hvdnnded twere sncked slowly dowrf.by the treaeherona ooze US DUVIt ZlliU PLiCll UCY tlUUID lUCUi here the slopes and fields aeross Shicb, . Death rushed wth bloody tndso 'rtlwrtt big Victims by -" the thousand. At the top of this hill, where Federal cannon thundered de" s traction, a flock of sheep crop at the short., dry herbage.' Down there where the little creek steals softly tinder the green banks and - noisily rashes over the pebbles, the dead lay' in heaps and the wounded crept- to! the stream in such numbers that the waters were dammed back and ed dies of blood went circling round. Here, behind Powhite Creek, where Porter was massed, a school-boy wonld.tell youthat infnntry would havetrriblejiSyajitago. - All along tl is ridge is a grand sweep for can non, and in tbe ratines below a whole division can find safe cover. Here are vscaijslJto make ; yob wonder. Gi e it limbs lopped off trees cut in: ttfQ-t-rncks bfpken .atdTshater,ed-r scar s of bullets on evefy 5 ! trunk' and limb; "which 'was igrq wing here on that J nne day lit is the only other spot in the world resembling the place at Port ; .Republic where the Federal guns rweri maps4J, and jver , which men fought and died like de mons. - There were thickets and jun gits in tbepalh as battle-lines moved that Jda. 1 -f neyaf e: here yefc 5 As i I sit on the old earthworks, along the Gaines' Mill road to smoke a cigar at noonday, down'in those daik swamps Hheowls scold eadi :othef ndhe frogs cull out as if eTenjng had come. J horse could draw a cart over these fields, and,,yet it was here that bat teries came into position at a gallop whole divisions., cbargeel? thpus- ands of men marched, fought', and died. War may seek the reen meadow or the dark j ungfe the hill top or the dense forest. a-4 -j " tnE -WABNfSO ; BELL. ' '' McClellan bad been warned of the approaching hurricane. His cavalry pickets pad fefen driven; n fioni the left batik of thelChickahominy;"Mead ow Bridge had been seized by the enemy; the green grass at Beaver Dam hadrbfctB wet iwitb-blood; Jack.-i son was reaching on fc bejond the Federal flank. The bell ,bad tolled its warning a warning- which, rcse on vtha air above the shrieks of tbe wounded and the roar of musketry and cannon., Tbe warning was: "Fall bick shorten- your Unes-rr masa youjc artillery orT'- tte fidgee- hide your infantryjn the aaymes.'- yiUcvieujiH i: uau uwjtu.; nvusuu t had atrAek-himriike .'thom1erboTty60ri ,mu pu uet.wun jaw ariwzuy i--v iiir- grjiu cqyjueBB jib H)Buen;.miioiHem wfaicirmassed meriand8nnon where hey6al4ot be flanked. r ownthis winding, road i leading pass- ipe yunjnuo f euerai pieitck boiled lheirgQJeaBd mnnclied their hard-tack at noon on the 27th of A XL r-.T r.,. M , 1.1. J '- 1 -1111.1 Juhe, with the" birds singiDg in the trees and the air filled with the lazy hum xf i perfects peace, i Jackson's cannon Founded in the distance, but heiftiall wa' -quietness -and peace. The noonday meal is just finished when-straDge figures appear in ,the road -in the fields -in the woods. It is tbe advance of A. P. Hill. In tbh,fyecon ia th peace is broken by the pop of musketry and tbe cheers of men The Federal picket gives 'way, fighting at 'every tep, and founding the alarm the Confederates push on with a nBdnficfence vvhich proves that battle fines are fbllowint. From the- LMoGheetioose -to . -Powhite swamp the alarm runs up and down tbe Fed eral lines Lee is attacking! THE FEDERAL POSITION. Here on this ridge was the artil lery. The Federal line ran to the right to that farm house half-hidden among the cherry trees to the left to that bluff covered with trees and under-growtb, while cavalry were massed on either flank. Alng the base of the ridge is a ravine the bed j of a creek now. dry. A division of i infantry occupied the ravine. Half ! way np the ridge I can still trace an old breast work of logs. Behind this defense was a second line of in fantry. On the crest of tbe lidge I can find the old rifle-pits and the breastworks thrown up for artillery. On that June day the ground in front of this ridge was mostly clear. Here j and there was a thicket here a glade there a swamp here a few acres of forest tbere five acres of open ground. To reach the ridge every Confederate must make a fair target of himself. He must meet the terri ble fire of three lines of infantry ris ing one above the other, and tbe can-- non beyond will use nothing but grape and cannister. It is a strong er position than Lee had at Freder- Independent in ; JSEW BERNE, N. ic'isburg-than Meade bad at Gettys- oi dtr came they rushed, forward with burg than McClellan bad elsewhere heads down, as if the shower of death in his campaigns'.: ,Civil engineers was a snow storm. Over' the . open have said it was tbe stiongest posi- j gronnd across tbe bit of marsh-i-tion of the wbole war. i ; j bnt no farther. Death met them the fiest onslaught. ? ; there. 1 1 tore off legs and arms it A. P Uiil had tbe dash of Jackson j left headless bodies it mangled hu' in striking a swift blow. ; i Hardly j mn brings beyond recognition it waiting to foim a line of battle, be j blotted bodies off the face of the pushed his troops to tlio front in as- ) earth, leaving only a horrible smirch sault. There was no spirit of reek- j of bloody atoms to tell that they had lessness in that move. He knew life j bef n there. Again and again theso Federal position J and its Terrible i charges were made, but they only strength. It could not be flanked. I added to the awful siehts in the ODen Could it be. carried by direct assanll The way to answer that query vras to advance. There was t no halting, to parry and thrust and lock for a week link in the chain. Gathering his di vision in hand Hill flung it square at the ridg. Twelve thousand Confed erates, 2,000 of whom had never t eeri a Federal soldier, moved, as one man moved us the tornado which levels forests and blots out landmarks. I'he moment that grayvjsaMei&gs into view 20,000 muskets open fire fifty pieces of cianncn shake the earih and-send tbeichoes into litchniond and bpyond; K ' Can flesh and blood stand such a fire? t The air screani3 with its bur dens of death, and the i awful I fear sways the tree-tops as in an autumn gale. There is a rushof-feet-UaJieer and out from under tbe snicke cloud that gray division. dashes into. th3 ravine dashes up the ridge and over the logs springs to the 'very crest and is among the f,uns. Neith er storms of bullets nor walls of bay onets had checked :t It was only when the living wave had reached the crest and .actually captured some of the guns that the surprised Federals rallied. Tbe recklessnes the cold-blooded abandon of that rush had.se timazed the defense ;tbat many men sfood without firing a shot. . f. - s THE REPULSE. Cheers of vieoryj riil f shouts of defiance rose above the trees and floated down to Lonffstrelefcjsiffen in preserve, but the .-sound cliedf away in a wail, s t he; ederalavin .up lifted it swept through the air, and almost in a moment that gray divis ion was hurled back to its start ing ; point shattered, limping blood-stained and a fifth of its num ber lying dead behind it. It was one of the most gallant dashes of any war-Mt was a repulse sd !bldody that mep shuddered at the sight. It was the'men under Gregg who led that assault it was the men under Morell arid Sykes who hurled them back J f 1. " The repulse was not enough As the Confederates retired they were followed by the Federals with a rush which nothing could cheek for nearlv halfafmile.- Back, back, back, and for a time-It looked as if Hill would W;;ali$bllaf- .It seemed beyond human" power (o reorganize, those shattered regiments, but it was ac complished, and Hill stood up and took .hi pounding like, the brave man land tnfborQ huter j f . At Giovetoi,, Pope hurled Kearn ey at-acKson to pierce Ihh armor, i Kearney eonld fall back and endan - ffer nothing- Ill-ill had hnrled him self at the center of the Federal posi tion and been, repulsed. Jt driven too far Longstreet would be taken in flink Jackson's advance checked. Thu- it was that tivhen the great wave of bluO'liad rolletl over swamps and thickets and woo?!p . and lields untjl-its'imo'etrra was i weaken C(l. it -leqrjdenly fcfand HillgairHn batt h Lne.witn Aeet nrmiy. planted. ior an defons, btfciuu-.wonKt not budgo a tOOt: iY tWOS--DT'ilves-y dozens hia ; Viifin xvent. jlnwrvwhp.rfi ffiev nttiod lnl thoShiirtfellnbej?:iiaes f: . WdsffeBT attack. n -. .: M . rJ . .4 jthei Confederata armyaifafraftfng for tha aiTural of Jackson, who Tiad Deenre2a!lelr6Sn a move on the Federal flaDk, He was coming, but his advance found a foe at every step. Hill worild be wip'ed out in' another hour unless relieved. ..: ongsfppe-t was ready to relieve him, not" 'w Kb fresh troops, bnt by making ;in . at tack on the Federal position higher up squarely against Mr-rell's divis ion, lie swept forward like a mighty wind, coming eo suddenly against tbe Federal position that the nctnc of Hill's assault was reenact'-d. At tbe first rush, Anderson's and Pick ett's brigades were -carried owr the lines of blue and right among the smoking cannon. For ten minutes that rocky crest was a scene of dread ful carnage. Men used tbe bayonet they clinched with lire hands gunners wielded their rammers -cannon were discharged with the foe touching the muzzles. The mights wind had struck a stone wall. The wall stood firm. Ten minutes of that awful fighting was enough for the Confederates, and a strong volley lifted them off their feet and hurled thein back. SOME PliEADTTI. ft'OItK. Warren's troops faced to the north west, its lett flank near the road run ning down across Powhite Creek to Gaines' Mill, and connecting wi!h Griffin's right. A part of f ong street's men advanced on this high way as the light opened, bnt never a man lived to reach it. A Federal battery, with infantry supports lying in the dry roadside ditches, checked every dash. It might well have been said of the regiments pushed at this battery that every man had lost all consciousness of fear. As they swung out of a belt of forest they dressed their lines in the face of grape, canister and bullets, which cumbered the ground with dead be fore a man had advanced. When the all Things. C, MARCH 30, held over which the rederal torrent of death swept unchecked. For an hour Longstreet thundered at Mo rell and Hill at Sykes, and then al of a sudden there came A DREAD SILENCE. As if the voice of some man rising above tbe crashof 50,000 muskets and tbe roar of fifty cannon had com manded it, there was almost absolute silence. It was a lime for the ' brav est to tremble. Nothing is so 'grim in war as a sudden silence falling up on a field of battle. Death is gath ering it: bloody robes clear of "the 1 gronnij to shike a new blow. Men re-fill their cartridge-boxes lines are moved the artillery wheeled about bloodshot eyes peer into the woOds and ever the fields. What meant that dreadful silence there W" "JACKSON is here!" Y A shout rose on Hill's left and ran along the lines to Longstreet's right Jackson had come np from Old Cold Harbor, D. H. Hill on his left, Ewell on his right. Each line ' was now almost a half circle, but Jackson. had scarcely, got into position on tbe,, left before Slocnm came up to strengthen the Federal, right. Midafternoon had passed. The thick spots of for est began to cast dark shadows The whole Confederate army ' was "up- McClellan could not give.- Porter another man. . If he could not hold his ground with what he had, : good by to tbe entire Federal position be fore Kichmond which had been reached at such a cost of blood and treasure. The cheers for Jackson subsided and then the woods were so still that men looked at each other in wonder. Jackson's advance. From the Gaines' Mill road clear around to Old Cold Harbar a wave suddenly rises up and sweeps for ward. The Federals hear it as it starts. .It is. a roar in which the voices of men -the. tramp of feet the rumbie of "wheels and the gallop of horses are '. combined. Jackson s whole corps, with 1 the exception of the Stonewall Brigade, is advancing. The roar increases tho tramp comes nearer, and almost at the same in stant 30,000 muskets crash into the same echo. r. Hood's Texans rush for ward like a thunderbolt, but they are checked by a fire, so rapid and de structive, that men fall flat to es cape it Hill Seeks to overlap Bu chanan's right flank, but a swamp blocks his path, and in ten minutes he is not even able to hold his gronnd. Hood, too, ; is being pressed slowly back, when up thun ders a score of Confederate guns to 1 his relief, and now it is a death grap pie all along the line, l he roar of a dozen Niagaras would have been drowned in that crash of battle. Men j do not hear; if they see the line mov ing to the right or letr, they move with it. They advance fall back- load and fire. The Confederate shot and shell cut oft whole tree tops sever trunks of trees send great rocks whirling through the air. Logs and limbs are torn out of the breastworks, and become .agents of destruction. A shell bursts where a score of men are crowded together, and when the j smoke lifts, the spot is bare of life. A RUSH OF DEVILS i Hill's rush when first attacking I was to be outdone. After the terri ; ble cannonade had lasted half an I hour, the Stonewall Brigade was ad- vanced to reinforce D fl. Hill on tbe ; left. In half an hour more the sun would be down. If the Federals ; could hold the lino an hour more i they could hold it forever. The ! roar of cannon died away all at once, and the whole Confederate army ad ; vanced. Hood's brigade of Texans ' formed behin I a thicket, through which shot and shell from the Fed eral guns were moving swaths four feet wide. As they moved out they lushed. Grape and canLter were exchanged for shot and shell, Vut still the lines advanced, over ground into which men tank to the kaees over ;t deep ravine over rocks and through thickets death mowing 'hem down at every step, and then they rushed. It was not a rush of men, but of devils. Their screams rose above the crash of musketry, and even as they rushed they fixed baj'onets. Not a Federal moved out of the path of that advance. It struck the blue lines and melted them as liquid iron would melt snow. It cut a swath into the Federal position inst its own width, reaching from ra vine to the parrot guns on the crest. It was just at sundown. Already the sombre shadows of approaching niirht were settling down upon lull and valley. The flash of every mua-! ket could now he seen the red flames I from the cannon made the whole field hlaze. Slocum had been put in across the highway which led to (iaines' Mill in one direction and towards Old Cold Harbor in the oth er. It was between Warren and Lovell that the Texans rushed. It seemed as if 110 body of men could live through such a hurricane of death. The fire of at least eight thousand muskets and twenty pieces of artillery was concentrated on that 1882. I1 one brigade leiding the rush, buUit came on and on and on, and it. wedged itself in the Union Jjqes and remained there. ; For ten minutes a, mob of ten thousand men whirled round and round in that eddy of death, and then the Federals gave wayslowljr foot by foot, and fighting so ' desperately and. 'dying eo .gallantly .f that every Confederate historian ! has lifted his hat to the dead and spoken in: braise 01 me living. SJ ;: UYLNCf-QAME. . tit -ii.-- When the Union lines began to fall back the Secnnd New X Jeraey.. and Eleventh Pennsylvania: refused to move. They were fighting -desper ately on - flankn and ' front with McXiaw'ti Tex a is, and though exposed lo a ine'rcileas fire -: their Mipes1 could not . be. broken. ..Unable., to. break their front,, the Confederates flanked them, aod yet they fought on. Aye! and it is Confederates who tell it, too, those gallant nieo continued the fighU After they; were entirely surrounded, and their arms were only laid down when the Confederates, awed at' such bravery, ceased 'firing. J ' . ' . ' " ' TOO LATE, i- - When it. was seen that the 'Federal lines were breaking some one ordered a charge of cavalry on D. --'HiJ Hill's flank. Five hundred of the regular cavalry massed and charged into ; the jaws ot death, , lhejlwere swallowed up as a drop of water .sinks, intothe dry earth a. useless sacrifice, and yet a forlorn hope.' ;v---;- --- NIGHT CAMS DO,Wir.. 'C. To still the, boom of cannon and tbe crash of musketry -to - hide the blood-stained trees and stones j'aftd grass-to give. brief rest to men t with blood-shot eyes and hoarse voices and exhausted bodies. Then,1 from - hill side and - ravine from : field : and swamp from thicket and open, came the wails ami groans of the .wounded. Men crawled here;. and there men struggled tip to fall and W scream 'out with new agoiiy they dragged them selves over the .bloody ground to .lap the red waters of the creek and? gain strength for another ; shoot for - suc cor. - '--'.' ": And there were ' thousands : who neither cried ; out nor moved. . As they fell and died so they . lay, the soft dew of a summer's night' falling upon white faces which war's iIory would lighten no more.. ?v " . McCIellau's right was beaten. -He must fall back he must have more than the sagaeityxif a1 Napoleon, to oring mat army to the James as a body. "UNDER THE GEEEN TRES." ' In these sketches Stonewall Jack son's battles have been taken in re verse. We found him first on the blood-stained field of Antietam al most at t he close of his career, instead of at the beginning. The -world knows bow he fought there." '-We found li i 111 ut Kernstown fighting one to four fighting, falling back- grim ly giving way to fight again. . We saw him strike the Federal armies right and left iu the valley and "fill Washington'' with white- faces. We found hiro at Fredericksburg on Lee's right at: Chancellor8ville in Hooker's rear at Manassas behind Pope on his flank in his front. We have found him at ' Gaines "Mill. Fate waited for him before striking a last blow. It was tbe hammer in his grasp which shattered the Federal position. Without him Longstreet and Hill would Ifave been pressed backi-i-routetl--annihiIated . jT ' A Christian in "his faith a child in his sympathies a General who cared not for the world's admiration so much as for the comfort of any single man w ho followed him in his wonderful marches. He had- the courage of a lion and the heart of a woman. The pomp and glitter1 of war were not for him'.' His banners grew- old ami faded .and shot-torn. His legions grew ragged and footsere and we.iry. No matter who faltered Jackson had faith. -No matter wh hesitated Jackson advanced. Fierce in the heat ot battle, because it-was his duty to kill, when the roar of can non had died away, the groans of the wounded reached a heart which had a throb for every groan. Partisans may keep their bitterness of heart, but the world has spoken. The man whom they hate died forgiv ing all. Struck down at Chancellors- ville, amidst the roar of battle, he was removed to die amidst the softest peace. Strongmen wept like chil dren when they saw that his, last hour had come, but if they had a feeling of revenge down under their sorrow, he had none. With malice towards -none with forgiveness for all, his life went out as his pale lips whis pered: "Let us cross over and rest under the green trees!" And may he ever rest! Detroit Free Fr ess. , M. Quad. While we are willing to admit that the habit of economy is a useful, practical, and most desirable one, few would think of attributing to it anything of beauty or attractiveness. Yet the economy of money, or its best use for they are synonymous has in it this very element. Those who live fully up to or beyond their mcome, m the wearisome effort to buiId nP or to keeP nP a certain style 1 01 appearances, reauy, inougn un- consciously, sacrifice the very.attrac- tiveness which they seek to produce. r it a1 1 The difficult and painful effort which it costs they fully realize; bat they imagine it to be hidden from all but themselves and here lies their great mistake. Cheerfulness is an excellent wear ing quality, and has been called the bright weather of the heart 9B.OO Xezr Tiro.r. . r NO. 1. -ASTORY OF THE WAR VThe world, somebody says," is very small; so small that if we meet a per son once, we are sure to run against him again, at some time in the f uture. Aran illustration of this, let me tell vou a little incident in my own histo ry. vLvv;f p:'M ' 5 : - i f My father's plantation was iu the Shenandoah valley of Virginia. We were all kinsfolk." Pages, Marshalls, Lees, etc.i"etc l and we kept up a con stant round of visiting year in and out.;.','" ., . : n'.jvr ''..; My; father having been in Congress, had also ' formed, many ..friendships With Northern ' gentlemen, who fre quently, - with their wives, wereour guests during the summers. Among these, h iff especial friend was a West Point officer,' vhbni I call here Capb Armitt. . . . :-y;.". V:.i'-r--";:i'' - He waaa tall, lllin, austere-looking man, of whom I,, as a noisy, - spoi!cl child was much in; awe. ' I think now that he Was fond of children, Imt his attempts to please thenr were awk ward, and his jokes heavy.;" v sj ; J. '' For instance, after he haJ been in the house for. a week, I remember coming into the:: library one 'morning with my basket -'.of.; eggs. - My last bobby was poultry,'' and my father had bought me some 'fancy breeds' high-stepping Shanehais. soft-colored Japanese hensi dove-tinted pullets. ; pulling me up , to his knee: 'Your skirt is torn and your head is as full of straw as Ophelia's.' 'Tbeyve all 'laid!'. I burst ouL 'Here's tbe Shanghai egg'g atop, . and TtavA'a it.. DaU.J -...) . . -. ' Which jtm.I. to have for my break fast?' demanded Capk Armitt grufly. Give me the basket , He. carried it to the desk, remained there a' few moments with Lis - back tnrned to wards me, and seemed ; to be turning theeggrovev.;--- j : 'I couldn't spare any of these, sir. Aunt Judy has 'plenty - of common egg'rrl began timidly, for he looked to me very much like Capt. Murderer in the story, who thought nothing of making a pie, and chopping, up a lit tle girl well-peppered, to go into it' Common eggs? V: I don't eaf com mon eggs." I think your hens are too polite for that, "That Poland hen, I suspect, would be delighted to famish me with an egg every morning.' '-' ' , ,1 took ont the wee white ball which my little Topknot had just laid, and lookedrat jL t Hospitality, I had beeo taught,; was the first doty; ; but this was too much. . ; . t - , 'Lay it on the rug here,' said ; the captain,--while we see what Mrs. Po land meant to do in the matter.', j "- There was a brisk wood-fire burn ihe on the hearth. 13T?ver shall t for get my terror as blac? lines suddenly appeared on the ' white 'shell; and I tead, 'Joha . C. AArmit, ,r d istinctly written "Ihere." i"1v,V.'?.'; U 'V..- 'NpW.yoa . oeel'J' said V royj father, who was in the room. . :? v - ' ; .Capt Armitt h.ad , his Poland egg every . morning . after , that;, But J kept. aloof from him., I -I thought if he was not the Evil One himself, he had dealings with him. ... ..; Years passed. . ; My- father t wae dead. I was a grown, woman. .The war had -broken out bringing, with it utter estrangement between us .and our. "old friends in the. North. "? - W-i - When the blockade was deckred, my'-mother and I were visiting some friends in Georgetown, D. C i.I nad but one brother, Aleck, a gallant boy of about twenty, whom we had .'left oil. the plantation. ..; Wre . received - a letter from him smuggled across tbe lines, saying, that he had gone into the 'Southern army, and begging us to remain where we were, as .'this lit tie difficulty would not last more than a month or two.' t . , - Every bodyp thought or hoped so then. But month crept into month and year into year, and . still the war raged. : We remained iu Georgetown. Aleck was in a regiment in Louisiana. Our plantation had been . trampled down again and again by both arm' ies. Why should we go home? But one night, late iu the Jail' of '63, there was a low knock at our door, and the next moment, old Dan, the ols'er whom we had left on the plantation, staggered into the room. He was so faint from hunger and fatigue that he could scarcely speak. My. mother, brought him some hot coffee. He took her skirt between his fingers and fumbled it with oh! what dumb affection in the touch! 'I've done walked from de ole place,' he said, at last What lor? demanded my mother. who was pale and trembling. 'You had Borne purpose, Dan?' 'JSuflin but to see you, Miss Maria, an' de chile hyar. I cross de lines! Dey cyant keep ole Dan in wid dem lines!' avoiding her eye. Why did you comer Tough t you'd like to hear ob de ole place. Twicet dem Yanks had me. But I slipped from dere fingers like an eel in de mud!' 'Do you ask him, Janev,' snid my mother, sinking on a chair. Dan went straight up to her. 'It's Mars' Aleck, Miss Maria. De hoy's shot! I bin wif him dese two years. I eotcbed him when be fell, an' tore d coat an' shirt off au' dere unr de red hole in d white skjn of him! Dat little fellow dat I missed onir yesterday! I got bim back to de ole place, and de Yankee doctors am takin' good care ob him.' . 'Will he die?' I asked, for my mother sat like a stone and did not speak. Dan did not answer me, but talked in aloud, high key to drown my voice. 'De Yankee doctor in Winchester' am takin' de bes" ob care ob him. But he says, 'Dan, go for my mother.' On Inch fc vro. U "''.'"i MP auM b .'.'..'-. ".: Ur" juiiuHi QnttrW column one wr. i, .1" 1" r,,.,.1.illi V" . ' " on j 'r Half column one vi '! "j ( "; oof lilontll .. - " one yrnr On coin mu ono yrrek ' . ' . one tiiomli. .;....., .. M. Cie yrar . : Conlrar(! f.ir ndi irti.iti: or Uitia wt ln nmilf nt th 1,1 ..f i; ... I. Dkunic Jort!r, in tl(( J'.rnV Strfri, Ni'W Itrn. , th (;,,. .!,,, God Id you, 'I: A! pays, 6I1C cyant ci 1 want my n io'i ; 'SLc'd come." ' 'llow.long sg( w n j 1 -i ree week''!, vita .1 . look. 'Yo' sec, I 1.;, 1 1 ) . twicet I was tuknn' l in ,;, . Passing by ino he Mid. in whimper, 'lle'Jl ho , nc l,,i, . now. I otiy come to break it b. I hear yon.' hho, said, lif ir he 18 not dead. Ho will Wil -j , his mother. Couic, J.in.ey, I, t , Oh, why did I ever leave Wi terf ! , . 1. Then with a wild crv. 1. ! down am lay likoone d". ad mad break. ' But, with morning In r ti,, came and.. she mailed on i-i ,.1 once to him. i llie attempt was abseluti !v less. . INo.ra8es were i-Mii,l a lime, even when a j lieu i. 1-1 backed by influential Fed, i.,h ity." We were friendless. J w, Washington, hesiecd tlio ..' secretaries and o;iTi- inri and came back despaii in ". 'How much time vou 1kih w she said, 'when every inei. i ;.i 1 life and death. Cuinc. wc will the nextlratn.' . " What could I do? I k, , should be turned back at tl.o thirty -, "tntles inside of the N', border, where the . lines f 1',. 1 ade weroT drawn. But I e, r! oppose her. . We Karted in am, hour. Dm with us. It was morning 1, f reached the station, bey or d v : knew, we could not goK We 1 train. - The Federal camp whs a one. ' At this point tents wet. .-r on ; tho hillside. Sentries 5 and fro. 1 ,- A party of officers ttn d t gether not far from the whom I knew br his u- : -I M ! nign rant. .. 'Go lo them, Jancy.' taid 1.; v : er, feeblv; I cannot I left ber in Dan's can . ed the Jitfle village Hro i. '. tioo gave me strength. A I . yet be living watchirg, 1 us to come... God knows 1. , J ed to Him to touch the hen !,-:. men."..'-'. ,- ; . '-) ' Iwent directly, np ti t! , then slopped, my mouth pan ' still. It seemed asifl i. , speak : n word. They all 1... ; me; on! or two raised their I, .a.-. .,'Did yon wish to pcak to mr' i a 6tern voice. - It was that of tho . manding officer. '. ; ljoumi vierui -at lam.. ii lady yonder is my mother. We ih to cross" the lines.'. . 1. is impossible.' r - f ; , 'My brother is dying at Winches ter,"., Let us' see him befnre' -1 wrung my hands and could nt go ou. . One of the, inferior officers poke. You must have known ynu cou! 1 not cross, when ya lelt Washington, Your brother id a Vircinian?' 1 r" "Yet."... ' , 'HS lx-en" io; tho CoiifeJerte Army?'.-.' ',.V- "."--. "- -- 'Yes. . Bnt he is dying.' ; .'You cannot "have a iwrmit You may be sj)ies for "all' I know. Men are dying by' the thousand it way from their friends. Do not aiuiyy the gen--eral.;-':...?r- ';, -j I turned nay, hut as I turned J caught the profiled outline of the gen eral' face. Safely I - knew' that Hu man nrse, sfcrit moutfi, and meeting brows! - I went to hirn quickly. .; 0 Ge. -At'lliilt,' 1 tried, " 'you dM uot use to be Si rtern villi me! Jlav you forgotten tho trick 3- . n ' i me and my poor littl 'l'e lei ; '! He was utterly Uuo i nd 1 1 u monient. Then his '- toutitt 1 . nc cleared. :.V-. ' X, 'A Poland, bent Are yon jHiieyT Wh nere is youc bit heir Jie is ueail. , lie died bet.' ft' war.' - '. -; "' :' 'DeadV- Charier". dad! And ; is your niolhei? -.Pardon, gem leu, i this lady's fathec Was.a'.'Uear fiici, I mint-. She U no spy,' ; . He offered ma In nriii'snd . I 1 to my mother. ! He was im.fi I and gentle whh o. -'In half sn ! he had sent lis with a flag of m side the Confederate lines, hi i passed on without delay to V.'i ter. " " ""T-' :-'V-V " There, thank God,' we found A i. . still alive. It' needed ' long and -..i ful nursing; to bring him . hack health again, , . v - ". Gen. Armitt was killed iu t the latr' battles of the war, bi t 1 before he had'sent matiy kindly n;. sages showing that he held Km friends in- iwaroif remrmbnii Youth's CompanioH The grandest and strongest na' are ever tho calmest but wi! earnestness no one is 'ever trn ; a t does really great things. ' The noblest part 4, f a friend 1 honest boldness in the notifyi: errors. lie that tells mo of f . I aiming at my good, I inof thir.k I I wise and faiiLiful wis in raying .1 1 I which 1 co not; faithfal in plain 1 I mouiabment not tainted with flatter; j Man himself is, be author of to., 1 of his inlir mitis, . ord of , couth the greater number 01 iginalo portly in mental or moral cauRes, Ii would Le absurd to SupjoHO- that many diHeus es, and deaths, lot, ahonld nofy Htisn from cauws lnyoml,..lhn control of -man, bnt his own . pursuits and Lsb its in life lay th foundation of by far the greater portion' ' V ' '' Beyond the river of Hroe walk Ihe brave men and the beam if nl women of our arcoslry, grouped Jn twilight upon tho shore. Distance, rmotl,i away defects, and, with gentle dark nesff,' rounds every foiTn intograco. 'r