The Greensborough patriot [May 7, 1863]

              THE GREENSBOROUGH JPATRIOT. T7
Volume XX~V. GEEENSBOEOUG-H, 1ST. C, M^Y 7, 1863. Number 1,24=8.
v iiuen for the Patriot.
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SOUTHERN -JMEMM.
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V i • lost .i rriebd f
■ s f B 0 D i ' r I o s .
revolution cannot be
in order to the writ.
.... ■. ■ irately, and jusfy, all the
Ifu] and horrific drama inu3t have
r,- of the -irugglc mul
, , rMe Lhe hist man cannot lake
ad philosophic
rid of ilie scenes which have
•iuse.
rent) fa ■ '" individual historic
men and scenes ol
irerei lotion iry movement
[graphically portrayed by those
. . .!.'•• of thei '
:.:. To draw a finished
:• -• m-istno'. on.it the
in rivulet, the
crimson-enter
into and make u|i ilie
ingtaaen for a real
uld be coaside>ed,
: for the true im-ten,
if at all, from the entirt
jtory in its true dignity
. •■ .. the writer must gather and-re
'!. !■†. oi a strong ar.'l compre-
, M well as
:-. Such histo-worthy
of immortality.
I |... do n li ■•• io the merits
llanl young martyrs oi
: , ime facts, which, il
i. will a- least give a
■. ... ore "I this grave and
.: shall be sketched
lluii.i , Gibbon, Arnold,
at. BAHUSL PARK "WEIR.
elf ] are, lovely and
ill to will, ia often not content
■: iii ;i '.1 offerings upon her
rover, bestowed
rti m to the price al
. 1 : and alter her favor ia
i by •• eternal vigi-
Wen j "' ■† |r"~
he neglected, 1 »] ised, con-
. ... l ] A I the history of the
of this declaration.
,.i I triumphing presence
|j ri ilized in the South, still she
led the immolation of BOD ■
. . . v. r consecrated
> . I ■, in. ft*BIB
* ....;. b trough, North Car..
;>tli day of Octo ■ :." I 338. He is the
Igh he was burn
intry e irly in
- . u here he marrii .1
iuli L 11 lie mother of the - ib-tetrh.
Dr, Weir was then engaged in
cam< this place to
iral 3 •■ . . the prin tipal "t' Edge-lie
is an educated and ac
establL hed here a
in and as the man-
! The mother >f young
;.i ars, and bis
il training, for some I
father. Dr. Weir after-
. i "er of the
.- and estimable lady
;.! beautifyi: g
. miabl ■ and promising
ins ■ i red, on hi r part, to
il i to lure him
"■'■•■ Jig.
bis fal her scut
• I where he w as i arefully and
■ n i ur State
ihman class in
,r. BUCh had been
is habits of ir. .
clas
• .- oi which hi was a mem-
... one of his
ne sua writer,
lion r '. him with n
i l:t.ui.ii ■• Universi-
I n i hal po -iii..n, he not only - i
11 tion as ready • n I
Hi graduated there with
. . .. ; ilente I n the sum*
lommencemenl was
ited much praise from
noticed, in a compli-ie
| a '.. ■††lurnalists
University as a
i- Presbj
» place, f M hich he was ever after a
W .,...■ at Chapel Bill, he studied
:, . rar. This, together
lie! and duties,
entire!] to" much, and
he wa 1". Icing thinly at d
y by i .j I
lever indulged
II '.. . . ible and
i nergy and indus
»:' cln . ' ■ • ■ >del of elej
v. I ' ■
better acquainted with
on.
determined to
.. '.. was then w:'.: :-
travel,
int. We Bet out in
.;...., ... Wi.r.
,,. i oi three days, during
Democi Con-
] orely literary
, there, and among the companies which composed
we reached there. < '^Z^^^S- ' it were the Onilford Grays, many of whom were h»
Continental was thronged with the Bac^P amMUtm and whool,clloW. That company
can and Abolition member,, wJo we r, ,nrn,n y ^ ^^^ ^^
their home-. The spirit of fanaticism, Ins** to ^ He joined it as a private
madne. a. Charleston, and g-ore .n^nUdby , ££££asSin it. until theSpringof 1862
before the end of that vear.'hegan to cause the Old
Union to totter and crumble to pie
U the great metropolis of the Federal Govern-ment,
we saw, on the departure of the Japanese, the
7.h end 77th regiments of New Vork volunteers.
wi.b;, were then so renowned throughout the con
on* account of their thorough discipline and drill,
and which have since me' OUI gallant southern sol-diery
on the Held- of carnage and death. Notwith-standing
the national commotion, waich tb»-n pre-vailed,
we little dreamed that those very soldier?,
whose splendid regiments and graceful drilling
wan our admiration, were to take up arms against us.
A; West Point, we jaw other troops, who have since
led our soil, and Lieut, '^en. Scott, the van-quished
Chief of Bull Bun and of the plains of Ms
nassaa. ft would have utterly astounded us, had
we then been told, that one of us would have been
in those brilliant engag nts and that the other
would fall on a different field, the victim of a Yankee
minie-ball. Mr. Weir was captivated with that
lovely, picturesque and beautiful place, and went
into raptures over the quiet, cultivated and cottag" -
dotted hig i line ■• • gracefully the silver
Hudson. He hud just enough of poetic fire in his
mental composition to sec iiwxhaustable charms in
those scenes, whieh Willis* Paulding. Morris and
Irving have immortalized in their writings.
Ai the Saratoga Springs, we met a number of
Southern people, ladies and gentlemen, which was
ev dence of the generous and magnanimous manner
in which tnc Southernerspatronisedand encouraged
every thing at the North. But soru;, that were visit-ing
th ■ had a presentiment, that it was for the
last time as rembers of the old government; for it
was talked there even then, that Northern madness
and tyranny were determined ul imately to drive tbe
Co:Lon States al least out ot the Union, noUntt*
Thence we visited Niagara. We arrived there oh
the morning of the last Fourth ol July, whic wi
celebrated by the people ol a then great and unbrok-en
Union. It was a charmingday, though the sun of
Heaven, like the stars in our political firmament, was
occasionally obscured by n rain threatening cloud.
Lord Morpeth, while standing and listening to the
awfully sublime dashing ol the waters over the Fails,
w.ai inspired with this glorious prayer:
"Oh, maythewars ;. .at madden on these dee]
There spend then * climb the encircling
steeps :
And till the conflict of the
The nations on thy I ok re] se in peace!"
Not less fervently, not less hopefully, notless
earnestly, did we, on reading thes noble lin -. pray,
ht '■ repose in
■e,'" till the conflict ol their mrgpa cease!"—
But on that memorable day, the day of our ancient
liberty and independence, we Ba1 down and dined
: - of i'ankee I> He and
Hail Columbia. Everywhere we went, inside of the
Union, we beheld on the wall the handwriting of onr
country's destruction.
IB( ■ rsion i stcn le I into the I anadas.
As the boat passed out ol Lake Ontario into the
: i IslesT" which so ,charmii
■ ! ihe St. Ls .'■>• ici . Mr. Weir's admirati n
f) tin
beautiful wa the scene as the light fog, all be-with
Bun-beams, lifted itsell gracefully
from the bright water and green teles and islets.—
All down that n tream, his mind was richly
feasted by the great variety of bcantifnl and gorge
ous scenery, of which he often spoke to the bystand-ers
in the very din ' 0 poetry itsell. At the
.,. city of Que ded the heights ol-
■ •„ .i... vej rn Montgomery
fell; and*hi si i on the plains oi Abraham, in
The Pope at Home. bum A Cor.crsEi_—Tdero is an innate
A resilient at Rome furnishes the follow-.) spirit ol reckless devilment amongst our
ing information relative to the domestic "soldier boys" t'.iat ia often nmusingly il-habits
of the Pope ■ lustratcd, and, not unfret|ucntir, at the ex-uns.
ii i- • u e tl m L pense of the officer*; of which the follow-
• His Holiness rises about 6. At * he ing is a pretty fair sample. But re will
says mass in a room adjoining hisj bed- j let lhe fictXm Col c tV tell it hi. pwa
room. Almost all the cardinals and the
in hand, and passed unharmed through that unfor-tunate
and disastrous engagement. His regiment is
Said to have behaved with great coolness and gal-lantry.
On the organization of the 16th Regiment >. t,.
Troops, Mr Weir was elected to the second lieuten-antcv
in the company of Car.t. MeAluter from Ran-dolph,
county. His regiment was sent from Camp
Mangum to Goldsboro', where they drilled for a few
weeks and, thence, they were ordered to the vicinity
ofUrury's Bluff.. They reached there only a short
time before the commencement of the succession of
dreadl.il but brilliant engagements before the Con-federate
Capital, fcieut. Weirs regiment was or-dered
across, the river alter the battle- commenced,
and was kept in the reserve corps during the fights.
They underwent some long and severe marches,
end were under some terrific cannonades, but were
not at any time in a close musket engagement.
As the glorious army ol the South moved on to-ward
Maryland, over" Slaughter Mountain, across
the Rappahannock, and to the far-f-med plains of
Manassaa, his regiment, marching in the rear, was
not in any engagemm:, until Harper's Ferry was
reached. There his regiment had the honor of par-ticipating
in the reduction of that stronghold of the
foe and in causing the large forces there to capitu-late
That was truly.glory enough for the brave
besiegers!
The 17th .lay of September, that saddest day in
the annals of this unnatural and cruel war, Had
not yet come. But it was close at hand, and-with
its dawn, Lieut. Weir, with thousands of others
who are now no moro, was standiug in line of bat-tle
oT the crimsoned field of Sharp3burg. For five
long, slow-dragging hours, he was in the midst of
the hottest of the tight. The air was lifcraBy rent
with the whistling minie and musket-balls, and the
sense of hearing had almost been destroyed by the
deafening, crashing, stunning roar of the red artil-lery.
The blood of his brave a«sociotfS in arms
:! ring beneath his feet, and Death was filling
the air with the piteous groans of his victims. But
ind and about him was the shield of a merciful
God. At one time during the engagement, he was
touched by a piec of a shell, but it caused only a
slighl bluen' -- on his leg. To one, who came out
he fight with him, he alterward remarked, that
fa ■ could not see how as many escaped with their
,—thai it was marvelously wonderful, and that
be, himself, <id not expect td come out of the next
eng ig. ment, if they had another, with his life.
Though he knew the uncertainty of life and the cer-
CSTtfA P , ?.£ P f fi"^i "lent, executed a very neat Mgn-boaid. ...
rW?f ,he re™nantfl of those altars The, , ,0 ..Readquaii,: ■?, -ill R
fopo is served by a camor.ere, and by a | mentj Arkansas Volunteers. H. II. C t,
ihl,v!;.prieV' °r deaCOn' Th?re are at i Commanding, and nailed
.r. \?t,can ten secret caraorier:, more or ; facing th(J ro
e
ad My Rtlention WM firs,
jess, closely attached to the Pope, accord-ing
to their ajje. At the head of them are
Mgrs. Stella, De Merode,Talbot-and Ricel,
who are always near his Holiness. They
keep him company, amuse him, and make
him laogh, which is not very difficult, for
in private life Pins IX is smiling and
happy. At 8 o'clock, his Holiness takes
his coffee and some trifling: refreshment j
called by Peeing people stop in passing to
read it, and ordered it to betaken down.—
Missing it a day or two al'ttrward, 1 sup-posed
my order had ben o eyed, and
thought no^nore of the matter until rath-er
unpleasantly reminded oi it. I was
sitting one evening in front of my tont, in
company with some brother officers, whet
a lean, lank specimen oi the country eon-
Mgr. Stella alone is present at that meal, Ueman fode Q£ disrooQnle(It aml hifeftnp
as be opens the letters which have arrived
and reads them to the Pope. At 9, when
the repast in over and the letters read^
Cardinal Antonelli makes his appearance
from the floor above. Ho is always gentle
and mild—' HolyFather,' here; 'Happy
Father,' there; ho praises tho genius of
the Pope, his knowledge of affairs, &c.
This is the way in which the Cardinal al-ways
addresses Pius IX. Cardinal Anto-nelli
cjnsults him on everything, and is his
most humble servant. Tho political con-versation
and business of the Sovereign
Pontiff with tho Minister lasts for an hour
or two. About half past ten or eleven, the
audiences commence. Tho Pope, dressed
in white, is seated in a largo aftn-chai
his *' critter,' approached the crowd and
inquired :
" Is any of you genllomen Col. C tt.'"
" That is mv name, sir."
" Well, Colonel, I came to see ifyou w.i-ready
to pay for them chickens.'"
" Chickens ! I presume you are mistaken,
sir."
" Nary time, Colonel; and you'll save
trouble if you pay up."
" But, my friend, I never bought any
chickens frejn you."
" Well, I didn't say you bought 'em, Col-onel
; but you can't say you didn't get 'em.
" But I ilo say I didn't get them ! Never
saw you in my—"
1 Eat
A VOI'NC irSBlNu'S SOLILOOiY.
, . ——•
The quetrcM little Jre«»«.«
If] ,yos have erer seen
I som tin..■- ealeh a plin.p«e of
And wonder what they mean.
All folded up so neatly,
And fashioned out with grare.
With little bits of ribbon.
And littl bMe,
I gare on them with wonder;
And in Viola's eyes
1 Iry le re td the ateral—
;he is all toe «lee
And ni.:■» all my questions
She ma'.. ..- reply ;
"If you'll. nee. Thon a«.
I tell \ou—ii/ and by."
"~»sy, Colonel, easy ! I'll leavo it to
with a table before h.m. He sav i two or ; those ^nllemao . Aia{ (lli, -onr 8ign
three words to all the persons who are pre- , bl)Rr(] f„ hand- it from ^ br^t oI
sonted to him, in tho language which they j over,.oat
fa
speak-French, Italian, or Spanish : but if „ Ad'miUe(ij si what thon r
English or German bo spoken, an interpre- j u Ain-t thisyo.ir name on it?"
tor becomes necessary. Sometimes during ; «\\rell what then'"
the audiences, he signs applications for in. j ,, Wo||' • st lh|B. ',ast „;,,,, whcn me
duigencesr which have been made to htm ! and my oid wom.;n went lobb<l t,,„r,. u. ,,.
in writing. The Pope willingly signs those
applications, writing at the bottom of them
' Fiat Pio Nono.' At 2 o'clock, tho Ponti-fical
dinner takes place. From 3 to 4, tho
Pope takes his siesta, as every one does at
Rome. If you "call at the house of a Can
about thirty-two hens besides the oid rocs
ter, in the hen-house, at^j when we get tij-this
morning, ami then it was nigbsan up,
lor wo waited for the old rooster to crow
for day. there was nary darned chicken on
the place, but this here sign-board wa*
escorted by guards, caraorieri and mom IL -
nori. At 7, the I'ope sups, and afterwards
! plays a game at billiards. At 10, ail the
lights at the Vatican arc extinguished."
BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT.—Men soldom think
of tlu great event of death, until the shad-perfect
roar from my comp
ions, I " paid up." The old fellow < mi t-ed
his money and handed me the .or.found-ed
sign-board an my "receipt." Mounting
his bone, ho started off, but taming in his
saddle, he brawled oul—
"G>od-bje, Colonel! when yon come
again lea'otneold rooster and t^o
tainty oj death even in peaceful walks; yet he was
peculiarly and forcibly impressed, on^thhjoccasion, 0W8 fatfa0IO8s .hoir own path( biding for. hens, and don't forget VOW <sign.''
with the uncertainty of a soldiers Wa ana the cer- cver from lheir cye8 tho tracos 0f loved CoupeeEcho.
tainty of a soldier's death. This caused him to ; Qnes whose ioving gmiic was'the sun-light j
j , ;,,../r,-tl,l,re..ou.,lcdh.sex. ; o{ Ulci r exidLence. Death is the great an- , J^^ATM* Foa XHB SUPP3BT or THE Go^
ixnpointingthesolaierto.il -" , taironist of life, and tho tuought oi too rn. _ , . ,. „,.,u„,.,
and i„ persuading bin -to lay up treasnres in | lomb i8 ,ho skeleton of all feasts.' We do BRHMENT.-The Secretary of the lr,.isui.
Heaven.-' "Tod. ood," is tho " true and legifi- not want to go through tho dark valley, has submitted to Congress bis cslima
and unremittingly continued, till the "long-roll"
summoned him to the line of battle on the heights
south of Fredericksburg.
"From morn lifl noon,'' the light raged terrifically
in front of and below the city of Fredericksburg.
Noonday was passed aBbut two hours, and the sun
brigade was double-quicked forward into the
Some half hour after they had engaged the enemy,
silent ad i '!'aI Wul"-'xri'''"i
;.r.d whiM.ieut. Weir was ehecriag his men
did 1 then suppose, that, in less than thirt;
months, my accompli hedyoung tra eling compan-ion
-,.. elf to meet with a fate like* that of
inguished heroes and patriots!*
his rctun - >t not the office! of love and
consauguinity. He visited Wesl Springfield in the
of Mas? wl ei h a mother w ..
born an I atires still lived. Hi
spent several days there, no tl '-less,
.■ven for a moment, that ti. y and he would ere long
. > of - ach
j; ; though thej were, in •• h language,
enen ... i when h on the idfu! field
of Frederi the heart bl ■•'■'■ ith i was
doubtles J, curdled with disaffe tion and i .
towai '. the othen. if hi- relatives in that State
knew he was in thi Confe lerate service and thought
...1. it was, ao doubt, th hoj e, tho
peace waa re-
-•.,.• i. ihat they might be prwileged io welcome
■ to their h i I of Hannah L.^Humes-ton.
But if that hope cver stirred their Barts, it
- raisi d only io be d I II. bath p ■■†I
fn in the Bcenes ... red ones 1 ere to
the home of that dear depart, d mother in iii aven !
Duiing that lour, 1 be ■ . ... imati y ac-quainted
with Mr Weir Hews ayoungmanof
i ity, depth and spr ghtlin. :- e:' mi
of gentle, guild I fiank disposition ; and both
were cultivated. He had red
largely foi iyears, it i i inquisitive was his
mini, that see the meridian of the
usual life-time, he v have become a polished
and profound echo r. 11 ner, too, was un-usually
i'ii i ..i.' an ! pi i-i I, and his cheerfulness,
without running into levity, was always in.
fused at sell into tin > ; >• in his presence.—
Though id% .... a
hood, thouzhofan elevated ambition, yet his walk
«-a - cm witl .. prof, ssion
. he a le. II " IOI efore
ajnodest, but stea
mate end of all aspiring;" and that was bis high although its passage may lead to paradise j tho appropriations necessary for the Blip-and
holy ambition- This blessed workJie acOvely and, with Charles Lamb, wo do not want port «>f the Government from Jnly lsl to
to tie do^n in tho muddy grave oven with Docember 3Ist ,bG3, and last Right they
kincs and iirinces for our bed-lollows. lint , . Tr ,,,. ,;__,
the fiat of nature is inexorable. Ibere is were passed by the House, lhe estimat B
no appeal or relief from the great law are as follows: .
which dooms us to dust. Wo flourish and Legislative, 3 884,04500
we fade as tho leaves of the forest, and tho Executive, sal'y ofPrest. 6 -, 24,025 ""
■nding the western sky, when Cook's flower that blossoms and withers in a day, Treasury Department, «2 ,J11 .■?«)' «-l
fi,hi. ,*hs not i frailer hold upon life than the War Department, 334,8Id.ftlHl-O
lemy mightiest munarcu that ever shook the Xavy Department, 8,248,417.02.
n the earth with his footsteps. Cencrations of State Department,...; 57,07000
,i„.,. i,» men appear and vanish as the grass, and Department of Justice, 178,488! "
hschargeo their perilous and patriotic duly, he J^,,^ mu|utude that throng the Poit Office Department, 112,688.92 Confede
sav. rol.0,lmer,ofthe2ah N C. Regiment, pass- ^ t0.morrow disappear as .Miscellaneous, 110,04000 d 3 large and c^tly onderUtk.iu
Of his regiment and near h.m, limping. footstep8in lbc sal)d Oil the SOU shcre. ■»"« '"",-
At or. . , his noble heart gushed Out in sympathy » ■† t r-and
he ran oul and asked oL Gilmer to allow him A ^|;w YASKVA: DODGE.—The Yankees
to s.nd some one to help him oil the field. Col. Gil- bave l&tten upon a „ew jodge to evade the
Confedorato Powder Mills.
The Lo.don " Tme$," of the 18th March,
contains a letter from its correspondent „
dated Augusta, Ga.: ' .
When, upon the 13th of April, ^HI.Fort
Sumtcr surrendered to Gen. Beauregard
and the Confederated, not one single pound*
of gunpowder was anywhere m»ndlactur>'
ed i" the Confederacy. A rigor i fc.
ade of the seaporteoi thi -; mth vraa immc-diately
commenced. Chrough «>hion the
principal Ingredient ol gnnpowfler (salt-petre)
bad. to be largoly sacked in At •
this janctdro it i advisable to Preei-lien
Davis t" entrust to Colonel Balm
formerly an officer ol the United .States ar-my,'
tho res lity ol planning and
building a large Government mill tor the
manufacture ler. Por thin poet
inel Raines poeseesed eminent quali-
Geations. He had been professor of chem<
istry at West Point,' - >me j are,
slnt o lea\ ing the>
N.'wlni'
on the Hudsoi .An as
■i e of the ii .!■.-..
* •■†r, boU irda the person and tho
all on pit ;:i.
city evinced by tho i Following,
;• as . •■ wus ac with it, l
plan upon which the (runpowder mill at
\ .... .... A.I ■• .. I longii g to llu- English
Gov« 11.met.'., is I i ,.
ledl 'i nstruc! tho works neoossary
fot his j
attc ud d i. ■ 'i such as could
never have I en believed before the prcs-
. id pri 'atii n ].■. 1 a ■ ak< ned
rn ingenuity at;>i enterprise. The
result U lir.,; io cos it.
one ol tho most perf cl gunpowder nfills in
'!•' '■."- Id ha luced, which turns
out five tl po ir por d
and conld produc • !o ible thai amount if
worked day and night, and much i
tndi ft: it y ot :>. pr< B ing •
'i'lir ' r, in spite "I the
coslliness'of the saltpetre' which han been
mt
'.
same as its c md. Tho mill !.
: ow bi en coi no
raoht . 11, more powder
to i [uire
f. i yours to . y been ]
b Govei nment
powder -,..'•:. . n South* na,
cirjj . i ■ i it..' wanl
.; of thi '' ..... derate navy«
;5ut all ifie-gunpowder issoi d for th
vice of the Coftfodera o armies of Virginia
:T,d the \V< st, i I ho defence of
rlesf on i I i id
mill at August i : and it is s tati d to i
an or ii • • .ii, that I
p wd r • bich lie had red
there and te*U-d, was r< ..ly, il not
• II i rely, up to the rd tbe finest
Bnglifb m
n witl: which tho
e G ' has oi l in
Total, ' «396,a37,742.»3
Tilt r.VMii.v.- ■Tho family circle is <!od a
tho
and that he could gel along very well without aid. wi,r,i0 towns in the North gel up a general friendship, and of virtue ; the place where
allthe while the balls were flying thick and faat— parse which is kept open to public eontri- t|,oso tics of mutual depei.donee and he!;.
was in almost erery breath of the surrounding bution, until a sum. sufficient to purchase _, ^.u;„,% •„ ,i,„;i »Tnaade
1. Gilmer turned to leave the field, he no- the exemption of all her citizens is raised,
rdee -in th-- best
nd coi fiilct.ee
with which they have, from the very com-lei
', I ioi dco
;.. g which they could nol fail, to
obtain. Tl Government powder mills
at Coin ••- are by no means
-teS
at, homo ii heir Boldi<*i n in the
» .. [i may hai u td in lhe North al-though
tho ne for I be e "f a
i . I that Lieut. Weir ceased to speak, and, looking which OIK being paid over to the Govern-state.
unite human society; and according Government p< d been
Doj : ;it
r" raised ; §300 t* the head ; a cheek for the Hutchcn of G
ane amount is sent to the 1 reasury at W ash-
M it.gton, which purchases lor the who ef^wn «*£»•
, losed bis i.i-i^!:t eye, andcurb'd his high career'.'
His earnestly entreating generosity, which was o
of his distinguishing characteristics, there display
itself in a sincerity and tenderness, which the most an(i every man in it, entire immunity from
lulouscould.no) i|iiestion. C.ireless of his own conscription. This dodge is said to hafe
rity, he thought only of the suffering aud dan- been practiced by a number of towns in
-.-,■ of hU wounded fellow-soldier, 'such disinter- tbo North, and was first concocted by some
.heroic, selfSaerincing generosity places his ingenious arithmetician in the patriotic
name in the front rank of lhe Messed martyrs of StatO of Massachusetts.
Southern freedom and Southern independence ! He
Graves' batt bas •'
was fortunate in his ending,—without consciousness
of what hurt him, in the bloom of his existence,
au.l without feeling the wasting pain of disease or
the weight of years, he died tho noblest of deaths!
His was the proudest position "that is allotted to
man,—ho was' not" only the pure, meek, consistent,
■••d soldier of tbe Cross, but he was, also, the
ardent, enthusiastic, chivairic,immolated soldier of
Through the kindness of his brother company
only thought the time ring OUT Iri] ere neatly boxed and sent to
seemed to make him i Ri ■† ' :e, after being coffine.-, were
ught by a friend to this place." On the -1st D?-
Tho Proclamation of Gov. Vance has
had much more to do with the decline in
(lour and other artiolcs than the funding ot
Treasury Notes. We learn that parties at
Hillsboio' who hclel flour a short time ago
at S50 and were very careless about pales,
are now glad te get iff off at HO. There
are lar<re quantities of flour along tho
North Carolina Railroad in the hands of
speculators and monopolies, and if the
Government wants the article it could not
do better than send an impressing agent
that way. But for villainous speculators
fliur would never havo
Jump o-.-ej- all the if* and I
There's always some kind
To lilt life's wagon front the ruts,
Or poke away the sand.
«' Push on : Vo..'rc rusting while you Ukd—
Inaction will not do;
Take IhVs Mnall handle in your hand,
Aud trudge it briskly through.
There is a town out in Texas, in whii
it is said there is but ono grave, upon tho
skib of which is written the following epi-taph
:
Underneath this turf doth li.',
Back to bi ok, my wife an I 1".
Generous stranger, spare the t« if.
For. could .-he speak, 1 cannot hear,
Happier tar than when in life—
Free Irom noise mid frci fro
V. hen the lu-t trump the ah- shall fill,
If she gets up. I'/', '•' ft ••
liivii!. I. In hurrdi mat) . I •
[iicn wa ight by tho North,
iver of
lor
I—an 1 e '. ly Ei gland,
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at-
Mir'
j ice of s| ir-
| Tho mixl
i;, v • » l'"'- '
tl ■• iiii ty
t, . I during tho
and forestallora
much interest in
. the Monumental City
Ihr . which we passed.
■† • be exceedingly fle-
>nd visit places of
• -. !: was to him a
t . spots
■† :' ing fire -'a
;. that he cold, calm, bright Sabbath day, his re- _ono above S15 or 820. Monopolists nave
been called. Occas i thoughts n , - conveyed, in the presence of a large "bought it up and kept it out of maraet,, qu
THE WHEAT CROP SOUTH.—From raj
,ai-tcr we hear the most favorable repo
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and
the
h rub-
, : a is mui.; .
it.
into words, ts to be at the Semi- . concourse oi friends, from his father's home to the ^mj", yf course, the price went up.
Presb; i -yard, where they are now rest-a
the silence and stillness of the grave:
eepinits shadows bright hopes are laid low;
s.—'lhe
nary.
[a Septen . 8t 0, he wi i I. as a studei
.livii,
s; ( v i the 1 n-ion
an I hii pu ion to the cause oi his i v.t.
go soAhward. That, too,
* *
•* i voice lingers yet on the ear
that fall froi te sunnier sphere :
Weep not,parent ol sorrow, for hopes that were thine,
in ;!.e wranglings of wa?. at that tune. .. most excellent religiot s inslitu- rjnoiesI are the gifts ol an unhallowed shrine:
tion. Am. g its great and Thy idol was earthly,—thy life-star has set;
learned Dr I lernwell, who d i Mr. Weir eri- Bright stars are in heaven that beam for thee yet: '
tered the Seminary. Hev aringovei
text-books and pre] - the peaceful missi D I
the Gospel, when the first irj movement the lOUOWIDg
began. He did not, however, ere until about store of friend O , the other day, and
the time of the bombardment of Fort Sumter. He, inquired for the Acts of 1S59. Ou
;ttp.l his studies, returned h • and replied thai I lid not have any
The Winchester fTenn.) Bulletin tells every hour, how can
»e following: "Col. went into the love H.m for what 11
then
- , . r upon a *v.
. toe with excitemeut when I ui.tried life. At that time, there was a stuall bat-.al-as,
but
handed the Colonel a hatchet, which, he
said, was made in 1859." True.
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things; Thou knowest tha.t 1 love Ihee. t
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