Evening Star Newspaper, September 3, 1892, Page 7

iy ——— we THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, “THE IRONY OF FATE.” sto.sped by Birney’s first division of the third corps, \-hich repulsed with great slaughter 0 WRITTEN EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE EVENING STAR BY “MUNRAVE SNILLOCK.” 8, 1892-SIXTEEN PAGES. barr the rocks ad ferns soto the olioe saw the Slided forward like a shadow. There was an- the weird coene tn may other glaring, dazzii brilliance photographed. memory, anda bewildering th t lowed, Bat in thet “momentary ‘light T hed seen the phantom's ey my mind failed me. What hapraned I'do not know, L'ses | astonish a novelist. One of them lives ext on not “unconicioas, but unvilled. Everything | was chaos, mad tumalt, agony. woman, with a pretty turned in my. path and wildly, recklewly | that betrays, ler costeoe plunged and fought my way through the bushes | and between the heediess of the sti | as they whipped against me. “To escape. to escape!” I cried as I rushedon. | But it came after me and ench time I turned to see if I had dodged'it those eyesconfronted me, | Bey yg out at me, Through te, } phantom swept cabal ith ne effort, no oxen. jon. no movement save advancing. eyes always handed hospitality of watching. hand ever outstretched. I was tiring | never knew what cate of owaaty tne ee and felt I must give up. My krftes no longer | “Way back in the days before the war there bore my weight. Imercly staggered for the was a rich Kentucky fami named Montgom- next few paces. It came nearer, closer. Icow-| ery. They lived on @ beautifal plantation near ered down, shielding my face in my arms. That st Joe, Mo. Mrs, Montgomery had over fift | hand almost touched me. I felt ite presence. | glavon.’ One of these ware mite of aeole weke I tried to cry out—my tongue was dry—I could black baby. whose parents were dead not. That hand! * * * © Montgomery had a little danghter just the age The manuscript ended abruptly, as if the | of the roly Roly mite. and as soon ‘as the chi next page bad been lost. When I inid the inst | dren grew old enough the little Diack girl be- | ever saw. When we met be was the only one sheet down there was a silence. Presently | came the maid of the little white girl. Life | spoken of for the place. Iwas chosen to pre- Chester stirred in his chai se ‘was very gay in those old dave; there were lots | side, but Just before taking the chair « dispatch ““Hrh! That all? | Quite # yarn—"and then | of visitors to the beautiful plantation, and lit. | was handed me from Maj. Winn, one of our cit- there was another pause. Lee | tle Miss Montgomery had nothing to do but | izens then in Boston, saving: “Gov. Androwwill When the conversation began again it was ®| grow and be happy. When she was thirteen | not commission Decker under any circum random one and on other topics. Chester told Years old her maid married a likely young fel- stances on account of white feather shown me about his First Church experience and | jow who belonged to a fa yin the neighbor- at front under MeClellan. You must asked who the fair organist could have been. hood. He had only one name then. He was nominate somebody else for colonel.’ T guessed from his description that it was | cated Bristol. He used to come over to the | This wass bad situation. I read the di | Miss farothers, the pastor's daughter, oF | Montgomers plantation once a week to sce his |and all wae instant confusion, I felt thet tt | adopted daughter. She'd yen up in the | wife. Things went on smoothly for the young Was cruelly unjust and said so. we had to | family; lost her parents when a child. Ididn't negroes for a while. Their owners were friends, | act and we took a ballot "I wes astounded whex know the whole. "What's up?” I broke off | and so they eaw ench other quite often, At the | every ballot eave mine war cast for me for calo- the thought with all my power and tried to | suddenly. | end of #ix years the man had borne her bus- | nel. Thad no practical experience and unged drive it from my mind by extra. workin the | Chester had picked the hermit's locket up| band three chines, the chotce Of sontcbedy eles tae they poreited office, but everything went wrong. The day | from the table. He opened it and gave a start. | "Then came the war, The Montgomery family | and I finally. aeeeed ay ete otis Bersisted Was oppressively hot. My head ached and I “Look at it,” he gasped, forgetting his gram- enffered like all the rest of the south. Th: quire into the Decker trouble, We sent to Bos- Was irritated and unwell. mar. “It's her—my organist!” | lost all their property, they were compelled to | ton. Andrew was immovable and then the When I reached home that night Isat down| I snatched the locket from his hand a: | give up their home and finally all the slaves men who had given the information were «till by myself to fight it out alone. [knew what | looked at the miniature. Beneath it was the | were gone. Miss Montgomery's maid and her front. f saw Dec He complained was coming: it was one of those fits. My blood | name—Nell. “Well—I'll be What I said | three children went to St. Joe and the woman bitterly of the injustice; said. that peemed to be getting hotter and hotter each | I'd be, though, doesn’t, signify: but don’t vou | went ont to work by the day. She did notknow | fever drove. bins "tithe "hos moment. Nell came and put her arm around | think that Chester's adventure had something | where hor husband wae, Eorly in the doginning | pital; be he added: ‘IN go my neck and asked me what was wrong. How todo with the rest of the storr? I do. And | cf the great struggle he had been sold toa Col. | show them! Make me vour quartermaster and could I tell her now when I had not done so at | the irony of it all was, that it should have been Wilken’ who wey new not I will go with you, colonel!” I accepted, wrote first? a wedding march that attracted his attention t0 | where,” No. she strangle as best she to the governor in his + tion, and’ nomi- “For heaven's sake,” I cried, ‘leave me!” the Firet Church organ loft that afternoon. | conid, trying to gain a living for her children. | nated kim as mp quartermaster, The governor “But what is the matter? Can't I belp you? | Odd, wasn't it? Finally she afifted westward. She lived for was still dominated br his first notion and. te- Do let me try,” she pleaded. ——._—_ years in Salt Lake City. All the time fused to commission him. 1 was greatl I shook my head and begged her again to go. WITH THE WAGON TRAIN. she was trring *» find out what had become of grieved and surprised. Tfelt that it was near at hand. = . MISTRESS AND MAID. FROM COLONEL TO PRIVATE, A Slaveholder’s Daughter Becomes Seam- An Incident of Military Service During the stress for Her Former Servant. Late Unplenssatness. Gen. H. 8. Greenleaf, a member of Congress from New York, told the following story tow Pittsburg Dispatch man ~ } the fall of 1852, when Lincoln called for Noe street. She's a refined, well-educated | 390,000 more men, we in Franklin connty, murdering her r's | Mass, buckled in to raise » regiment, I lad | determine confederate attempt to the field ttteries which were coveriag the retreat. While Mead’s division wasadvancing the con- federates made a menacing demonstration on | the extreme left, which Doubleday's division was directed to observe. It drove back the threatening force and secured that flank from further danger. knew Iwasa madman’s son, For a time I went about as one haun’ knowledge I. had wei me, but by degrees ings: and since the fit did not return | TRE LOSSES. These events, with some slight subsequent skirmishing in front of Smith's sixth corps, comprised the essential features of the action in this part of the field. Gen. George D. Bay- rd was killed by a piece of shell at Franklin's headquarters and Brig. Gen. C. Feger Jackson, commanding the third Pennsylvania reserve brigade, was killed while directing a formation of his command during the action. The total loss in this part of the field was 4,864. Of this Meade lost 1,858; Gibbon, 1,267; Birney, 950. The loss of the confederates at this point was about 3,500. Gen. Lee reports that nearly 20,000 of his troops were engaged in the battle. As less than 5, of these were of the force back of the city it appears that the confederate troops engaged on as late ware seariy 15,000, or nearly the same as their assailants. The total Joss of the Army of the Potomac in this battle was 12,653 and of the Army of Northern Vir- ginia, 5,309, On the night of the 15th the Army of the Po- tomac was withdrawn across the river to ita old cantonments, with an intact organization and full of the discipline and spirit which en- abled it to render such heroic service until the | close of the war, notwithstanding the incapable “handling to which it was subjected. Wa. Trane. OME PEOPLE HATE the glare of publicity. That is why I have not given the name of the place which was the scene of this story. It is not vety far from Washington—only a few miles the other side of the river. But the modest inhabitants thereof would feel so conscious if they saw the name in prin. that I dare not be more ¢: plicit. Besides, if I were to give the name there would be a number of inquisitive people who would forthwith invade the quiet of that little country place just to find out if “it was all so"—if my statements were correct, and all that—fhich would be most snnoying to the above mentioned modest and retiring inhabit- ants. For the inquisitive, however, I may add that my friend Chester can vouch for the truth of every word that follows. Who ‘is Chester? Well, never mind, the de- tment people know him. He was spending is vacation with one some weeks ago at this little country place, and it was there that you might have seon him one afternoon standing on the steps of the First Presbyterian Church chuckling! He had just done something nervy— even for hi It was this way. As he was passing the eburch he heard some one inside playing Mendelssohn’s wedding march. Kuowing that the First Church organ was considered a fine one—the gift of a wealthy friend of the pastor— and being musically inclined, as well‘as curious to see who was playing so brilliantly, he passed through the half-open door and gianced up at the organ loft. Aslender figure was seated before the manuals, Here was a veritable situation. A little nerve— or cheek if vou like—might be well repaid, for certainly the figure was a most attractive one. And yet Chester hesitated. ‘There isn't a man in the city but knows that it’s impossible to | tell what a woman's charms are from the cut and at times when I was alone these hideous words throbbed in my ears as if some evil spirit were whispering to “Your | father—madman—raving!” I went into business and was successful. For- tune often is kind to those whom in reality she is mocking. Men cali it the irony of fate. It is the sunlight in life that makes its shadows only the stronger ana blacker. T'met Nell. ‘It was the old . We were married and we bought a cottage in the coun- try, near enough, however, for me to go into town every day. 'I suppose I ought never to have married with my nuree's dying words ringing in my brain. Atany rate I ought to have told Nell all about myself,but I persuaded my conscience that my nerves were only weak; that my new life would build me up; that the new impulses would drive out all the past, and 80 on. Fool that I was! Things went well for a while, and my cup of iness was full when a little girl, her moth- er’s image, came into our household. Ah, yes: those were happy days, too happy to last. I| knew it. The inevitable must come some time. be panies wore neatly full Gor. Andrew acceded to money to Keep | our request that we might select all of our mother, and to | own officere—not only those of the line, but, Manages to make just enough the breath of life in her old was fal! to the minimum. Then we line officers assembied to choose our leader. I had had im mind for colonel one Decker, under whom I bad served when he was colonel of the militia, and who had since been a year at the front ae | Meatenant coloael. Thad! seen him and.bo agreed to accept, resigned his heuten- ant coloneley to do so. He was an admirable man—the most accomplished military officer [ | DERICKSBURG companies of the seventh Michigan, of the sec- | ond division second corps, about's o'clock in the afternoon, who volunteered for that duty, and dislodged the enemy on the right bank in the face of a point blank fire. History relates no military adventure that contained more of the elements of hazard and heroism than were displayed in the execution of that feat. ‘The rest of the seventh Michigan and the nineteenth and twentieth Massachusetts then followed as rapidly as they could be ferried over in the pontoons, and fully cleared the way for the completion of the bridge, after which they were assisted by the forty-second and | fifty-ninth New York and-one hundred and twenty-seventh Pennerlvania in clearing the city of the confederate outposts, who gallantly resisted until nightfall, when they retired. Tho twentieth Massachusetts led the advance throngh the streets with devoted heroism and terrible loss. Another bridge was soon after | built a short distance below, and the army be- ng in force the next morning without er molestation. THE MAIN ARMY OF THE CONFEDERATES was posted ona ridge of hills reaching from VIEW OF FRI FREDERICKSBURG The Famous Battle Described by a Participant in the Engagement. me with redoubled vigor. Something warned me of coming evil. 1 knew ‘as well as I know what I am writing that some- thing terrible waa hanging over me like a Damo- cles” sword. Fate often prepares one for the blow by such premonitions. I struggled against ——____+0+—___ HOW COLUMBUS WAS ‘WRECKED. And How He Wi Treated by the Abo- rigines, From the Century. Guacanagari was eager to see more of the Spaniards, and sent numbers of the light- hearted people to welcome them and bring them gifts of every sort. Their enthusiasm | was unbounded, their generosity unstinted. |The land was gay with festivities, the sea swarmed wjth canoes. On nearing the caravels | the Indians that crowded them stood up, ten- dering them all kinds of offerings,with gestures of devotion, as in idolatrous worship. Beholding all this enthusiasm, Columbus dis- Patched a formal embassy to Guacanagari, and on hearing their report he determined, despite the prevailing land breeze, to weigh anchor and CROSSING THE RIVER.| How the Army of the Burnside Endeavored Without Success to | Oceupy the Town—The Losses on Both Sides—Deadly Fire. Written for The Fvenine Star ; HE BATTLE OF Fred burg was a political necessity. Decker acted like @ | anil ak a The fit was | her husband. She knew that be called himself | man about it. He held the ixpatch in his Falmouth dam, about one mile above Freder- | Stil to the dominions of his friends, which were | of her back and a rear view of her hat; while | coming surely; it was almost on me. How ® Corporal Got Promoted to @ Ser- | Wilson, Bristol Wileon, after his new master, band minuteand then said. “cebenel, Pan poe MM .-, successful battle of | Fal ae iver, to | #Me five leaguos distant. He set ouv at day- | her hair, which is usually called her glors Wildly I cried—no, screamed: “If you love YEA = some kind was de- | icksburg. where the ridge reaches the river. to | break on December 24. Little progress ‘was geantcy. From the New York Sun. Twenty army wagons and their drivers—fifty cavalrymen from troop E—a pull of ninety miles [and she knew that Col. Wilson came to the | ing with » downright siren too often in the way it lures one on and ruthlessly dashes expectant hopes on rocks of disappointment when the face on | the other side comes into view. Therefore when my friend Chester noted the trim wai me, Nell, Tilgoas aprivate. Give me the ‘o! Go, I implore you, ere it be and he enlisted as a private #ol- too—"’ The sentence remained unfinished. | The red mist rose; deepened until it seemed like a blood clot before me. I saw not; I know b GALLS ccnnded to revive , drooping hopes of ose party at the north iussaponax river. a tributary of the Rap- ek, about four miles below the city. nthe midge where ar used was occupied by J of the ridge is parallel with the river made during all that day. The night came, Christmas Eve, and Columbus determined to celebrate it as best befitted his own health and | the comfort of his own crew, by enjoying a coast, Ove day she heard that he was ii She wrote to him. He was de of bis wife and fan muster roll an Pran- | dier. chied to? “I was much moved. ly and at once bad been mv e ) ‘This was the man who | four to one. even if we counted in the team- sters. Col, Blank at the new were bound had written to was tocommand the train: “My wife is to come out with you. See that my previous instructions are carried out. She knows what they are.” | And we lad riot marched an hour whem Capt. | bad bee | White sent for me and eaid: Wilson nev “Corporal, you will act as a special guard! About tro but | over the third wagon.” i . y 1 jonel when I was « lieutenant w it not whatI did. There wasa timid cry. The | #¢ross the Indian country. Yes, wo shall be her. When she ai d she found and who had been at the front fur more thane ww? and improve the fading sound sleep. He retired, worn out by three | and even saw the thick coil of dark hair nestling | red m: t passed. Nell, the woman I loved, lay attacked by the bosti! They would not let A had prospered in California. mands of a regiment <_? prestige of the United ps fromit varying from three-quarters | nightsof vigil following three days of herculean | close beneath the upturned brim of straw. he | onthe floor, One hand clawed the hard, pol-| such an opportunity pass. They can muster r his master ect hhias fres agun fired in danger ) im the European (7,7 10 8 tile ands half, with e compare: | Iabor. Sweet must have becn his rest! Hisdis- | hesitated with a sort of “timeo-Danaos-et-done- | shed’ wood, and’ then all weet oti Tae if i | i 2 States in the Europe: ely a surface between. It is intersected | covery of that new world whose very existence fereutes feeling,” as he put it. Not long, how- ev Only eft to do—to vindicate Decker. went to one of our principal lawvers and told him the story and got him to 0 to the Army of the Potomac at my expense And get the affidavits of the offi f the fir * condnet. were mous th aghast, unmanned, trembling from head to foot. Whose fault was it that she had fallen ‘an’t most always tell! may get left, but | backward and struck her head—that pretty here goes!” he muttered. And with that he | head—against the iron fender? What red climbed the circular stone steps up to the loft | marks were those on her smooth, white throat? while the tinal crashing chords of the wedding | Who had dared to hurt my Nell? Why did she march thundered out on the deadened, pew- | ie so still? Was she dead? Nell, my Nell, scented air. Then, before he realized it, he had | dead! Ab, no, it could not be! No, no! introduced himself to & girl—yes, a pretty girl | [knelt on the bare floor and took her hand. with the loveliest eyes; had apologetically asked | I késsed her forehead, her cheeks, her lips, her numerous questions about the orgar:; had | she did not move. How long I knelt there I “Very well, sir.” |Fequested her to play a little for him—vhe | cannot say. The summer twilight deepened | “The colonels’ wife is in that wagon, as you loved music so: had complimented her on her | into darkness and through the unshuttered sore ——— , courts. | about two-thirds of the way from Falmouth | had been denied, the endlese uj The Army of the Po- | dam by Deep Run, another tributary of the | Eden isles, the sitaple races bound t tomac was expected to | Rappahannock. ‘The aa right under | such mysterious ties and soon to be brought into “ella onstrated | 5¢ Jackson oceapied the position from | the fold of civilization and Christianity, must perform that task. McClellan had demonstrated tothe. Maseaponst Cad. tho eft [hive dliea hae any, mast either that his relations with the “powers that James Longstreet the | ge be-) on this the first restful Christmas Eve he be” were such as to preclude the attainment of a Deep Ran and Falmouth dam. The | had passed in thirty years of titanic contest the best results with the army, or that he was and its foot hulls in front of Jackson | with all the world, and at times even with > 3% largely covered with forest, and the open | his own self. It was midnight, when the echoes not the kind of military man the occasion re t d ravers “dzea, . , quired. The dwastrous campaign the suidinbhe hedges, swamps, small | of childhood and of times ong pnst fill the | Jemes, and the failure to co-ope: Bull Run, and the indecisive a pringing of to nature by oat to which we pt. White, who | little and found themselves They bought a pretty Guerrero street and there often wondered what came at his favor. commissioned ‘for that place will test bis he said. It did test it severely, and failed or wavered. Decker waa, Ib best ndjntant in the whole army. He was an in ung mistress. go Mrs. Wilson wanted some har road cut. slumbering ear. The heavens smiled and the THE CONFEDERATE POSITION- sea was calm. The sailors slept soundly, sure in front of the city was an abrupt bill called | of their beari: Her old nswered the advertisement. probably kno She was no longer the protty, light-hearted | encyclopedia of knowledge, a miracle of active i a th Binqeenin a on popes Lynease dat management of the instrument, and — | Windows the moon peered, and its light fell on |" “Yes, sir,” Miss Montgomery. She was married. Her name | ity and industry. Be wes indispensable; an had weakened the p i Heigl i | ceded by the little fleet of skiff and canoes sent | while the novelty of the situation was still alter- | the pretty head, and on ‘the dark stain, too, c capacity to lead the tation Marye's Heights, along the bese of which for | FY Cotutabus to the Indian king. A ship's bey y pretts In¢ Gea. him in command. the Potoi of the Bi ige. and was well in hand in the vicinity of Warrenton ‘The confederate army of northern Virginia was seattered all the way from Winchester to the B LEP, MCLELLAN AND BURNSIDE. Lee was uncertain as to the movements and | intentions of McClellan, and had onls followed is advance with Jackson scorps. street's mand all along the way chester as a corps of obser days march bebind Jackson. @ the Indians are too strong for us they must not find her alive. That's ail!” Trode batk to the third wagon and placed my horse at the nigh fore wheel and lifted m E. Burnside was A was Mr was wan and paie from overwork and anxiety and the two women did not recognize exch other. Y was surprised to find that the | as a colore: . bat he lily away and said nothing. One day Mrs. Wilson was ina chatty mood, and the days before the war. gomerre the war, and ther had eome nd ‘recruit their ehattered for- . They failed miserably. Mother and ter clung together and fought fate with | failing courage nately flushing and paling her cheeks, had bowed himself out. gone down stairs, passed through the half-open doors once more, and there on the wooden steps outside of the church | blow, and I dropped the white clammy fingers | cap to the Indy, who had been ps i 4 u he stood—chuckiing. with a shudder. “Then the reaction eet in. I | comfortable neat by herself, that side of the road from falling in. | vined his peril and burried on deck. Tne First Church. externally, wasn't much on | rose from my knees a changed man. I had Jost | pit of a woman, no? oc aor ak grail war nearly the entire dis- | lightning rapidity he gave orders to cut away | looks, but the girl—well, she was a stunner. | my self-control, my eames Thed te keen and married to the col tance ona line dush with the surface of the | the mast and throw the cargo overboard. But | She had been rattled, he could see that by her | mo uartown hae hone myself with fear, or | fore. She looked at m Piain wich reached from this road toward the | the remedy was futile: it was no mere strand- | changing color and the way het fingora trembied | whatever it wan for T caw’ fed oe cantaan, eves and «miled, but sb ty. The confederate force here thns found | ing, it wasa wreck. With the desertion of the | whon she played, but to tell the truth he had | word. How was Pto explain the affair? They voice an sho leaned forward a F repared for them a fortification with- | Pinta and the loss of the Santa Maria only the | heon almost as rattled himself. It wax a nervy | would say that T had satdver Nene I Bel | sGsrpoens aot Se reer tatty defense. | The | smallest and frailest of the threo caravels that | thing to do! But he had been extremely polite, | not: no, before Heaven L bed cy Hee ent wae round falls off from this wail to.an almost level | bad set sail from Palos rem. He went on | and it had proved fully worth while. He won- | to explain it? Need it be explained? My qui “Quite likely, ma‘am, but we may squeeze | . which extends about 150 yards, where board the Nina and sent a fresh embassy to! dered whut she thought of him, any ‘hen | thonghts halted at that question. Ab, the-e th: ough.” at least two | it ix interrupted by an abrupt but slight full ri, giving an account of the disaster, was the way of escape. I must hide the body, MeCiellan wasen- | and then is level for about 200 yards more to a | while he stood off and on till day broke. « " admirable drill officer. isciplinarian and Vigilant in the serv f the regiment. Al- though he had often commanded me he never once forgot onr changed relations He treated tue like a brother, and I shall never cease to be grateful to him. ———_+2+—___ Written for The Evening Star. Red Mare. What means the slery signal ung Each nigbt upon the sky, As of a daming banner hung By some red hand on high? "Mid all the crowding splendors thera, 1,000 sarda ran a road nearly twenty-five | held the helm, so assured were they all of the been cut out of the bottom | fairness of the weather and the safety of their 4d walled about four fect high with | course—when the tagship suddenly struck | stone on the side nearest the city to keep the | upon.a sunken reef. Columbus instantly di- under it. While I knelt the hand in mine grew cold and beay All ut once the truth flashed on me like a this time the two years be- her big blue 1 inquired ou think we shall be as the organ struck up again he strolled off ris sewing by the day for When | down the shudy, irregnlar road, epeculating. | and I believe I emiled as I thought of Pte ee ee ce eek goer r mimiaan t en | down the shady, or road, 5 eve [ smile ought of a spor s off, he work by the man w a deavoring to get between these two separate | wide ravine at | the chief learned the misfortune he songht in | ““ite waid afterward that he in ented to ack me | hat bend eta’ opi wine cueoner | an esis tf fists oihere eax aukesa OS As if some captain of the host, portiotis of Lee's army. and for that purpose | ran a ea t of the plains was com-| every way to alleviate it. spariag neither means | abont the girl at supper, bat it slipped. hie | worth be well cigh samen te eee, eeeeers | AE ey . Hisplame now full in view, was concentrating Me abil to | cele eaiaee Bees OF the various stations | nor sacrifice. Disustrous indeed it wasto face | memory, for something startling had happened ae thoaght Of it ued hoon ttegersed meet | ake Gott ondiahooa.. 1. bal been sped Wie Pas Signalled of battle won ot lost Gen. Burnside brgphrssrntheg| Relloerd tbe spp peers esi pr wre rekerititions races, wo confided in the | that day which engrowed every one’s attention | remembering that haunted ravine with it | dowdled cc kittie tt thant ad been sPecia ESTHETIC BIRDS. Tpon those flcids of biue— manage such a ant maneuver. | placed ind th s wall, ba: before the action | prosperity and success of th» supernatural atid eat all tongnes wagging. stagnant pool. In feverish haste I procured a | Phe thou o dl 7 <2 = And the deep stillness of the night, and when he succeeded to the command aban- | commenced was relieved by that of Gen. T. R. | the slender remnants of suche wreck, whi ‘Aberanit hha been found in the woods un- | bstber a: yell the ‘body ig 1 How| ct hereon” eee reer 22% Some of Them Butld Playhouses and Adorn ‘Tho coben banwo er since shsitawe doned it and moved the army with the inten-| It. Cobb, which was subsequentle reinforced by | showed how the rea overcomes all created | eonecigus, fornd too lave feo hehe One dane ig it 0 aay shoals Tne Sonor ter ee ott eee Them. of advancing directly for Kichmond by | that of Gen. J. B. Kershaw, so that during the | things and bows us all to its sovere n power. | was the ‘nearest. and they brought the ody | croxsed the hall ou tip-toe, opened the door | jousl¥ sen “Thad mg orders | From Chember's Jonrnal. Is it the portent red afar of Fredericksburg. When his nee | greater part of the engagement the force behind | But the sentiment of happitality was uppermost | there, Who he was and whence he came and | noiselecsly and stole out into the nizht, | and was there “but could I é under Gen. Sumner arrived at Fred g | the wall was four deep. in that faithful tribo and in their kindly hon- | Burnside neglecte The most remarkable instance of estheticism it? Of some dread scene below, : why he was a hermit and all the other partiea-| Tecan see to th! to oceupy Spoheiah s above ASSAULT AFTER ASSAULT TILL DARK. arch. All the succor needed in that sad ho Iv have done so i the gate | ing manot that train, coud [| among birds is that exhibited by the Australian ‘Where mortals meet tn strife and wa, Jars people want to know about hermits no one | through it, the shadiug treea and the stars oer- the eity, elthough he could ea | raise my carbine and Leconte her marlerer vs ayaa ileri , And carnage red to flow? | The action of the thirteenth in front of the | andull requisite provision for the future. were | could tell. He was known to haunt the woods | ead, and the very fragrance of the fower beds | eee Po clock on the ate en OTe er ona | Dower birds, who build long galleries in which As late before our wondering eye, Tag the rennet oP res cand notwithetand- | city was commencéd by the advancd of the | Site tothe sufferers wittr ailaatiable erileri-| fn that locality, but bo wat as selon tesurae te | Peaeaoe ae ek ee Hee ee T think | day out westw a doven mounted Indians LPisr, adorning them with shells, feathers, | js anasehy qouhd ate 80 sine ing the request of Gen. Sumner that he be | Ct ? id jRess. The salvage of the wreck was piled on | was mysterious. They had found sume closely | of that night. Iwas not aire ridge to the right and closed up the train. leaves, bones or any otheweolored or glittering allowed to secure the posi ighth and fourth Obio and first Delaware of | shore and, under the chief's orders, wer written papers and some odds and ends, such | one, it was ao late: and besides, our cottage was | the left were « ion of object which come: in their was. Capt. Stokes But soon yon taming orb on high, « les army reached Falmouth, less | third division, second corps, as skirmishers. | lonly guarded by the natives as thou as a locket and a knife, on him, but absolutely | almost outside of the lit‘le vi \ eben skesot bonus described one of these bower binds os taking a Red Mars upon his path, thana north of Fredericksburg, on the | These ments were met before they could de | theirown, The cargo was rapid} no clne as to his identity. Those papers ex-| Sua s I passed the last house I thought | den behind them. The colonel ol = i. ‘Will wane upon the midnight sky, Withof November. Lee did not arrive at ‘arful fire of cannon and’ musketry, | and stored in a place of safety, without the loss | cited my curiosity, and I proposed that after | I saw some ng move. Acold chill ran over | of the firm. to discover he shell alternately from each ride of the bower Fredericksburg in force until the 2i<t. Barn- atingly kept forward and com-| of a pin's point. | per we examine them. Chester was only too | me und the hair on mv Ig side never sati-factorily accounted for his fail- | pleted their depl ‘ment and the development of the confede position. They were soon followed by the remainder of the division in ne of battle, and from that time until dark temples stiffened, ively over my shoulder, Nothin ¥ shado the shadow of lack sithoucite drove me wild. Nor sigual more of wrath— And even now, in freedoms land, ‘The spirit dread withdraws ite hand, 1| and carrying it through in its beak. Lamholtz de several of these play | houses of the bower birds. He says they are She was looking at me as . “We shull be attacked?” she : | Within ten minut . ure to cross the Rappahannock and occupy the willing—anything that hasaspice of the ad-/ heights south of the city at once. venturous is just to his taste, and a queer man- useript was a particularly aweet morsel So I Written for The Eveniag 3 Delitescent. no one. her, Thai It } “4 “Well, | always to be found “in small brashwood, never ‘But see! those captatns all in ne, egg went around to the barn where they were go- | appeared to be a living Nemesis as it glided be-| “Yeeig bent them off. ue . “ ‘Thelr hosts that come aecanlt afte aseault as made to Tout the force Lao — ing to hold the inquest next day and got the | side me, and it seemed to whisper tho: e awful] The on on the right now a. toride ™ evs meee rae clemenerreigc yn eiterper tog ser neng ' the wall. Each of these, charges re- eaeAr esata gence ethos odd: and ends and the bundle of papers. | "rls, “Your father—madman—raving!* | toan fro.and whoop and yell and eeck to draw rd collects a mas of different kinds of ‘Tho qpecteum grand touhen— fulted in terrible discomfiture, and in leaving fiesta pavried cree aalea: The writing was fair and the sheets in good | 1 came to the woods, and finding the little | our attention and toe to halt. ail shells, which are laid in| orm the bright canopy 1s apreaa, | Jeritable winrowe of dead and drieg to attest pre ervation, and I’had little trouble im making | path entered the gloom, half ranning. Sar- | der had ben y before to keep at cach entrance —the one being | Where angel fostanape lightly wwead a = = = ‘Tne timia ower, frail and fair— ont their contents. ae the way, elo sug- | rounded as { was by the trees I could not help in case of attack. In closing up the vger than the other. There are levcleat avak® aaadt against the well pro- A kiss of nature born,— [eeredle Pee etl ai) Lirtorretad MAP OF FREDERICKSETRG. The army was organized by Burnside into three grand divisions. ‘The second and ninth corps formed the right grand division: the first and sixth corps formed the left grand division, acd froope, the debris of previa - online an entrance to hell itself, “Corporal!” | ary, withered Ieaves was sing close by. r = anges. the tale of Fredericksburg might have | battle and bore the heat and burden of siege and | were so cold, so heartless. All the dark tales I had heard about the place | There was fightii it d | seems that the bird scrapes away the mold Giviion. The right woo, Commaniel by Gefee | Bad different sequel. With all the hindrances | march. “They carried thelr guns snd knegeacks | "Weihice ohne aes rred during all this | rushed through my mind with a thousand other | both cides aed’me Ledllons oon gent, Tene am division. The right was coms VS MSOF | in the way of Humphrey's onset his charge was Gen. E. V. Sumner, the left b: B. Franklin and the center by M Hooker. After waiting in fr burg for nearly four weeks B: ded to assail the confederate position at two poi First at the heii and second P that city. The arrangements © made foran advance to begin December. Earthworks were constr the left bank of the lery, and on the r r Gen. W. nected alon he artil- tday the army tiver to pr hada "s surface, ite diameter and circumference : membered it later—it bore a different meaning | fore the noise of its plunge had died away it bt there was no confusion—no halt-| pers nespeetvele alan okeecy ene bent Eeon Pree ' at d The | the latter were doubtless among the anrecog- | Chickamauga, ith Sheridan in the Shenandoah, | atterward. pies _ | rose again to the surface and I saw that the Whenever they gathered as if to charge | PCs Tespectivels : resent for duty equipped of the Arme of the pag chee Pics Scivukeneiee with Sherman in his march to the sea, with For one day something did which | blanket had slipped off the face and that the otomac on the day of the cavalry, 5.5% from These forces w. battle was 104, Founders. day of the battle as folic Vision of third corps. division, consisting of the the first and second disisic the first division of the ni Mision of cavalry under Gen. The aggregate confederate force duty equipped on December 10, 1 the crossing was made, was abou bracing 64,567 infantry, 9,146 tillery and 113 guns, from 1 and this ix pre= the day of the battle. THE UNION BATTERIES om the bluffs on the north bank all day of De eember 11 maintained a terrific fire on the and the plain in the rear’ of it to prevent ¢ concentration in the town of a force of confederates to offer forn le op sition to the construedon of pontoon brig and the crowing of the Rappahannock. 30-poand at notwithstanding this rain of iron which was Poured into the city, causing much destruction @f property and hardly leaving # building u scathed, the construction of the upper bridge at the Lacy House was delayed from 5:90 a. m Until 4 p.m. by the gallant and persistent resist- nce of the confederate force of Mississippi and Florida troops intrurted with that daty, under command of General William Barksdale. Between 180 aud 160 cannon: on the jeft bank of the Rappahannock commanled the town and pre- eluded any chance of rhelter to the troops which eccupied it. Many of the troops in the town who were not deployed along the river fron ‘were directed to li> in the near gutters runzi: Parallel to the river as the only place offering Protection from the rain of shot end shell in- eessantly showered upon the city. CMOSSIXG IX FONTUUS BOATS. The completion of the bridge was assured by the famous crossing in pontoon boats, by foar umably about what it was ou | | tected and defended line. Notwithstanding Conceals beneath its blushes rare though he didn't tell me to prefix. his little | ing from side to side with a vague feeling that behind each gnarled, moss-grown trunk wagom had doubicd the line, moving’ two abreast. quently Landreds of shelis, bout 300 in one And while thelr glorious colors shine— ‘The horsemen fell into their places athe other. There is usually ‘The painting to the eye. = affair. [think you will admit, however, that | some one lurked, watching me. Here and there | at once—twenty on - side. five in front and five n berries ly inside and ‘orbs the Its were seconded by a storm of shot The unknown, deadiy thorn; his little affair is'@ part of the whole story when | a moonbeam came through the thick motionless | in rear. Some of the teamsters led eaten Bg Sheen tie ov tne rolling orks combing and shell from more than two hundred eannon ‘The happy smile, the cheerful word, Fou've read the hermit’s share. I offer no fur- | foliage and only added to my fear, for then T | while ail hnd revolvers, Half @ tale bend resting book, “Among Cannibals.” | reetergtoneary 5 bee ie heed erent = faraeet toa thasaa eens ther explanafi me. could see that shadow at my side and those | where we had seen the first I the attack describesa playground of what would music spheres afar Pavol sedge ir reas Aer nacie irr uraan ouanacs oie antes is is what I re | words would come humming back. of thie cannonade was more destritive Of life's illusive stream. Maybe I was nad. Teannot tell. At any rate | Tpansed at length for breath, drenched with | was made, and 1: wae a bold on As we came | to bea different «pecies of this bird, ‘That sounds from each revolving star. opposite a valley running back into the ridges even a greater esthetic taste. He says: 1 think {had sutlieient cause. Read and see for | perspiration; but now that my stumbling foot- | no Ppetcligpanebactee ye Ai—min pe arging the top of the mountain I heard in the ‘Wemortals watch the Milky Way, troops than to those for whom | September 3, 1392. PCurronp Howard. | yourself. Let me begin from the very begin- | steps no longer broke the silence not a ‘sound | down on us. The valley was just about as wide dense scrubs the loud and unceasing voice of Where worlds forever sail, . Inevidence of the character See ee ning of the sweet childhood recollections that | reached my ear, and ull the while those hideous | as the train was long, and therefore the twenty a bird. I carefully approached it, eat on the Like white-winged ships that may not stay of the fire against which the as-aulting force The Private Soldier. poetic people talk about. I have none. My | words rang in my brain. I could not stand it. | of us on that side hadachance at the reds as adand shot it. It was one of the bower Before the favoring gale— tend n. Kershaw says that the fire of | prom the Union Veteran. mother I never knew. and as for my father, [| And blindly in that, dim broken light I dashed | the men behind the wall was the most rapidand | continuous he ever witnessed, and Gen. Long- | street reports that the confederate artillery fire as very destrnetiv The private sol dier deserves some public rec- ognition at the hands of the e@untry, saved by | have only dim, dream-like memories of a big, | dreary-looking’ house where my nurse said he lived. And I used to wonder in a child’s simple on down the stony path. The scene grew wilder and wilder until at mob, shooti ingly determined to ride over us. “Corporal!” g, shouting and | birds, with a gray and very modest plumage J and of the size of a thrush. As I picked ay the bird my attention was drawn toa frech And all their hosts now signal back— All's well! across the midnight black. i x last L stood on the edge of the ravine. Grim | . it was the voice of the colonel’s wife. just as covering of green leaves on the black sell ‘Yes, one—the universe around— and demoralizing, and | his loyalty and courage. The parks and public y why I never saw him and why he never | trees with knotted and lank spectre-like limbs | we were patience re saat | This was the bird’s place of amusement, which, ‘One hand to paint yon sky— | ada ie Seemice faPs So the enemy's ranks that | squares of our city bear tho names of distin- | came to me. There vou have the associations | fringed the steep slope snl chat thee ghostly | “Yes'm, I remember,” I replied as [lowered beneath the dense scrubs, formed a square (One touch to wake each magic sound could be seen at the distance of a mile. guished leaders of the army and navy and elab- | which the words father and mother call up in | shadows over the bare gray rocks that guuntly | my earbine tolook up at her. yard each way, the ground having been cleared ‘That oats forever by— | HUMPHREY'S GALLANT CHARGE. orate statues in bronze and marble will carry | ™Y !nind—the one bare brick walls of the house | jutted out from the beds of drooping fern. and | "We poured the fire of our carbines into the | Of leaves and rubbi=h. ‘The eye that sees—the stars above— | , The action in front of the city closed be-| their name and fame down to future ages, |e lived in: the other—nothing, a myth! | rank vegetation. Down below in the dark oozy | charging mass and checked its rush. The In-| ‘On this neatly cleared spot the bird had| One mind in all—and Godis love, | tween 5 and 6 o'clock with the heroic but fruit- | tyero ie glamor sarroending salitary eee Pleasant childhood recollections, forsooth! My | soil, where here and there a fallen trunk lay | dians then passed to our front and rear eo 2 | laid lange, fresh leaves, one b less charge of Humphrey's third division of the fifth cops. which that accomplished and led in person. By this time the te artiliery bad become perceptibly weakened. If the colamn which made this charge had not been impeded by the masses of sorganized troops, the debris of 2 perceptible improvement on all that before. Gen. Kershaw says that a harging column reeched in thirty yards of his line. With the failure of this charge night closed in and the contest was re- ito «kirmish of outposts and desultory shelling, which continued with more or less severity until the Army of the Potomac re- ato the left bank of the river with a loss in this part of the field of 756 killed, 6.075 wounded and {58 missing. The greater part of gone it TME ACTION ON THE LEFT. The pontoon bridges below the city for the of the left grand division were com- at 11 o'clock in the morning without nd with the loss of only six wounded, the crossing of the left grand division made on the 12th. It was determined at uaneil of battle on the ‘tack should be made on the ¢ Franklin, while the force in front of the town under Sumner was only to make an assault in case of Franklin's eubstantial suc- But Burnside seems to have changed his for on the morning of the 13th Franklin 1 the following order: “Yon will send out at once a division at least, taking care to keep it weil supported and its line of retreat ope ‘This order was interpreted by Frank- | lin to mean ‘hat the plan of attack in force on | the left had been abandoned and that he was merely to make a diversion with one division. this view bis corps commanders, Reynolds aud Smith, concurred. THE ADVANCE. He accordingly ordered Gen. Meade’s third division of the first corps to ,advance, sup- ported by Gibbon’s second division of the first corps, with Doubleday’s first division of the first corps in reserve. Meade accordingly began the advance between 8 and 9 o'clock on the morning of the 13th. So soon as his column started it was assailed with a severe fire of shell from the confederat cavalry artillery on Port ery vgs to — all the available artillery of t grand division Meade first excountered Hill's division of previous | ortion of | vening of the 12th | | who wear etars and gold Iace on their uniforms | that is wanting in the plain private soldier in | the regulation blue blouse. | little dis | indebi | ing the four years of war for the Union the rank and file bravely withstood the shock of ate as to whom the country is most | on campaigns, in rain and sleet and mud, and t night they slept on the damp ground with the me for a covering. They formed the skir- mish line and the advance guard, and with sword or bayonet charged the enemy in the fiercest conflicts, while their comrades were falling about like autumn leaves, cut down by the | leaden hail from rifle pit and battery. Their conrage was attested in every engagement from the beginning to the close of the rebellion. With McClelland in the Peninsula, with Stecle at Little Rock and Camden, with Thomas at Meade and Hancock at Gettysburg and with Grant at Donaldson, Shiloh, Vicksburg and Appomattox—through all, the private soldiers | performed their part as bravely and nobly as equa! recognition? By the memories of thei | hardships in camp and field and prison pen. | those who fell in battle and those who still live | to join the reunion this yeur at the national | capital let us do an act of justice by erecting here a monnment to their valor and loyalty. | Let the G. A. R.and the U. V. U. orders call | for a subscription for the purpose. The re- sponse would be liberal and a fund could soon be raised to build a suitable testimonial to per- tuate their service and gallantr: we Be'ess grateful to our defenders. than ancient Hellas? “Greece was saved by the brave 300 under Leonidas at Thermopolea, and above the bones of those who fell at this fatal mountain pass was erected a monument with the inscrip- tion, ‘We lie here in obedience to our country.” More than a hundred thousand equally brave in the war for the Union gave their lives for the same purpose. They were the very flower of the land. They did not leave farm and shop and college for pay or for a commission. An unselfish patriotism has set ite seal upon theit motives and embulmed their memory in tho hearts of their countrymen forever. 2 ai ites jut there can be | for its victories on land and sea. Dur- | their commanders, Shall we not give them | servant, looked after me. I was sent to boarding school and thence to col- lege. Everything seemed to be arranged and managed for me, though how I don’t know, for Tnever was acquainted with any relatives. No One was intimate with me. They used to look at me curiously sometimes. and that made me bitter asI grew older. I hated them all, they period of my life in spite of my bitter feelings nd my frequent outburts of temper. for I to which I was subjected. Did they think they were better than I that they should treat me #0 distantly and shun me as if my presence bore contagion? When my temper was excited I was nearly crazy. Sometimes I think that it was this treatment of me that caused the rest, or at least went far to cause it. My temper did not worry mo then. I re- — marked a turning point in my lite. It was during a stay at the seashore. I had been irritated beyond degree by some slight I had received, and was walking along the beach trying to shake off the passion, when my dog— | one I loved dearly—leapt up at me trying to lick my hand. His persistence was maddening. I can recollect the strange, indescribable feeling that suddenly came over me as he continued his frolicking. I was seized with some irresistible worse than any passion I bad hitherto perienced. A red mist surged up before 1m: eyes; the blood rushed to my brain, and for a moment all was blurred and crimson. The dog was beside me. I picked up a great stone and dashed it down at his head. He fell lifeless, with scarce a sound, and I stood by with clenched hand and shut teeth watching his quivering form until it stiffened. Then a Temorseful disgust or fear, I know not which, took possession of my being. I looked up and down the beach. No one was in sight, and I hastily dug a hole in the sand, thrust the warm mangled carcas in and as_hastily covered it BR It was all over ina breath. I was myself again. Scarce five minutes ago the dog had been trotting by | used to chafe under the species of ostracism | fpat slowly rotting in the mud, with the fungus and withered creepers clinging to it, the black | pool gleamed in the greenish-silver moonlight. | he sickening air and the loathsome weirdness | of the place chilied me to the marrow. Thad never been there before. I ehivered as I looked. No wonder, ‘twas haunted, It might have been fearful fancies. I was frightened now at the | sound of my own footsteps. Isought the little tches of moss and grass that lay between the Stones, and trod as lightly as possible, so that the stillness might not be broken. Fearing to look behind or on either side, I hurried down to the edge of the pool, ang, pausing only long enongh for a breath, with an effort I tossed my burden into its very midst. A dull splash—a violent rocking of the slimy water and the body disappeared, but even be- eyes were open. The sickly moonlight fell fall on the beautiful upturned features. Those dark brown exes were looking at me and I thought reproachfully. The wavy hair curling on that white forehead glistened in the light. Those lips peared to mor ‘Then slowly the body sank into the black depths, growing darker and dimmer as it went, but the moonlight seemed to follow that face, and I stood spellbound as I at thoee open eyes. Down, slowly down they sank, but till I eeemed to see them. Down, down, then suddenly a hoarse echoing croak came from the pond. It sounded like a fiend’s laugh. I started, turned and ran. ‘ Numberless demons were at my heels; in front of me I saw those eyes; all round me I henrd that , on Iran until I tripped, and there was a blank. Icame to myself my senses were whirl; my temples felt as if they would Tt was late in the afternoon, I knew by the slant of thesunbeams. The air had that closeness that tells one a storm is brewing; indeed. as I sat there pressing my head between my hands there were muttering rumbles of thunder and tter of rain in the leaves. to assail us on all sides. There were ful 300 of them. and had ihe train halted but for a minute they would bave had us yy out. A part of them had been ordered to fire only at the mules attached to the wagor As ther were kept moving only three or four wei struck and none disabled. both sides and the bullets were flyin, ina spiteful way. Five had passed cover of the wagon beside me. It was the colonel’s wife calling to me. I looked up into her white face and she gasped: ‘Corporal, are you going to—to——”" ot yet—we are holding our own!” I replied as I turned to open fire again. We were gradually getting out of the trap. Further on the ground was open and to our ad- vantage. The Indian always does his best fight- ing at the start. Here and there rough the we opened fire on the spot and scattered them. | Our fire was rapid and well sustained and at the end of a cpa of an hour we had them beaten. We wore just drawing clear of the ridge when a bullet struck the third wagon teamster in the shoulder, and he fell forward on his saddle, It bape ned right under the ‘es of the colonel’s wife, and «he called to me: “Corporal, obey your orders!” She bad her hands over her face so that she might not see me as Iraised my gun. The next few seconds must have been terribie. “Beg pardon, ma’am, but the reds are draw- ing off and the victory is ours.” She dropped her hands and stared at me for ‘a minute as if she could not comy Then it was = long about us | | near each oth The Inner Moon of From the Scientific American. Phobos, the inner moon of ference. Let us suy the earth to would be only necessary to di dimensions of any earthly obj ite dimensions as modeled ona she fell back in dend faint, a sunshine pguin:, Awwsk bdeeeas fen eo'pene ou in. at the new Col. Blank called me in and asked: “Corporal, weren't you ordered to shoot Mrs, “Then rhy didn't do it?” he sternly de- “ oa y . you “I—I was to, but—” Ponape ‘It was gross disobedience of orders, are no longer a corporal.” But that was. tho old martinet way of pro- ‘The question came unformed to my lips: ‘What did it mean? Its suddenness bewildered me. What did it mean? Then as I thought about it, somehow, and for a certain reaton, a fafut light apd mind, and I deter- mined to immediat my nurse something. me, for I knew.np one else came 6a) ¢ and limped. patatally back down arose 3 overhead it was growing gloomier. ee } f i ay Aly ; i H Be it Bia i # A i z F i morbid | moting me to asergeantcy. The Dude's Leap Year Device. Judge. every time it changes the leaves, 80.8 to have adark background, against which the green Jeaves make a better appearance. Can any one doubt that this bird has the sense of beauty?” + e+ ___. diameter of about eight miles, is of a size easily comparable with the earth and objects upon the sandth of the earth's diameter and circum- everything on the surface of reproduced on the surface of Phobos, as men, trees, «hips, mountains, rivers, &c., all reduced in size proportionately. It the side of the other, with considerable regularity, and close by he sat singing, apparently extremely over his work. As soon as the leaves decay they are replaced by new ones. On this excur- | sion I'saw three such places of amusement all and ail had fresh leaves from | the same kind of trees, while a of Mars. Mars, having a Dy 1,000 the to ascertain i a # ' pls ihe, fies a J. B. Cormerne. Shelter Island Heights, L. 1, Aug. 80, iss. He : rE al Hf ig a “tf aerial