ling adversary. Heaving a long si^
they retired.

*' Ckxma ttom 'Glimy, Sure I **
At Point Lookout, where the Union
army encamped, the blacks were nearly all
from Virginia. Some, however, ran in
there from the State of Maryland, pre-
tending to have come from Virginia, that
thus they might not stand any chance of
being returned, in any contingency. On a
certain occasion, a rich Marylander came
down to the Point, to look after one of his
boys; finding him, he said, ''Jack, you
rascal, what are you here for?*" Jack
very coolly replied, " Who be you, Massa?
I never seed you 'fore." ** Yes you have
too, you lying scamp, I raised you and
you must go home with me." "Yah!
yah ! Massa nebber can don fool dis nigger.
I's come from ' ginny, sure," replied the
darkey, and utterly refused to know his
old master at alL General Marston was
asked to send the negro back, but respect-
fully declined, and ^ Massa" went off one

darkey short.

»

Literal '* Stamp*' Speech of a Soldier.
One of the attendants at the great
Union meeting held in Troy, Miami coun-
ty, Ohio, during the gubernatorial canvass
between Vallandigham the anti-war can-
didate, and Brough the Union Republican
candidate, was a returned soldier who had
lost one leg at Vicksburgh. He was wel-
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Vallandigham democrat — entering into
ccmversation with the soldier, remarked,
** You were a Democrat when you enlisted,
and I suppose you have come back a Dem-
ocrat" The soldier replied, " Yes, I was
a Democrat when I left, and I am a Dem-
ocrat stilL ' ** That's right ! " replied his
friend, triumphantly ; " and of coiirse you
will vote for Vallandigham," — looking
around to gain the attention of the crowd
to the answer* It came. " My God ! how
can I?" said the soldier, as he raised his
eyes to the crowd, and ptit his hand an the
unheeded stump of his leg. Was not that
an eloquent ^ stump" speech ?



Bogus Tankee LesriBlatore in Oeorgia.

When the Twentieth Corps of Sher-
man's grand army of invasion through
Georgia marched into the capital of that
State, to the music of the Union, the offi-
cers, to the number of about one hundred,
assembled at the Senate chamber, called
the roll of the House, appointed a speaker
and clerks, and opened the ^ Legislature'
with prayer, the facetious chaplain pray-
ing for the overthrow of the Confederate
Government, the return of Georgia to the
old Union, fine weather and little fighting
on their march to the coast, and conclud-
ing with, " All of which is respectfiiUy
Bubmitted."

A lobby member very gravely arose in
the gallery, and asked if this honorable
body would hear from the gallery.

Half an hour's discussion followed, and
on a parliamentary division, it was decided
that the gallery should be heard.

Rising with all the dignity and polish
of a Chesterfield, he quietly put his hand
m a side pocket, drew out a fiask, placed
it to his lips, replaced it in his pocket, and
resumed his seat

ITie Speaker^ — ^I must raise a point of
order. I believe it Ls always customary
to treat the Speaker.

Lnhby Member* — I beg the pardon of
the honorable House for my thoughtless-



ness. I believe it is customary to treat
the Speaker.

Here he produced the flask, and pro-
ceeded : ' Yes, I beg to inform the House
that I shall treat the Speaker — respect-
fully.'

The flask dropped into his pocket and
he into his seat, amid cheers fix)m the gal-
lery and smiles fix)m the honorable Speak-
er's colleagues.

After the organization of the Legisla-
ture the question of reconstructing the
State was taken up and discussed for some
time, with all the gravity conceivable, by
the Yankee * representatives ' from the
various counties. The result of the de-
liberations was that the State was led back
like a conquered child into the Union, and
a committee appointed to kick Grovemor
Brown and President l!>avis at their most
accessible point — which committee retired,
and soon after returned and reported that
they were animated by a progressive
spirit, but that the articles upon which
they were to exercise their pedal extremi
ties were non est.

The Legislature adjourned after the
style of Governor Brown's Legislature of
the previous Friday — by taking a square
drink and a handful of '* hognuts."



Tableau PoUtloaL

In a letter dated from Murfreesboro',
N. C, January twenty-second, 1862, is a
description of a tableau given there for the
benefit of the soldiers. It must have its
place among the political oUa podrida of
the war of the rebellion : —

We should not do justice to the tableau
unless we were to describe the first scene.
A young gentleman representing King
Cotton, sat upon a throne resembling a
bale of cotton. Down on one side of the
throne sat a representative of the ebon
race, with a basket of cotton. The king
held a cotton doth as a sceptre, and one
of his feet rested on a globe. Around
him stood young ladies dressed in white,
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shoulder with blue. On their heads they
wore appropriate crowns. These repre-
sented the Confederate States; Missouri
and Kentucky were guarded by armed
soldiers.

While we were gazing on this picture a
dark-haired maiden, robed in black, with
brow encircled by a cypress-wreath, and
her delicate wrists bound by clanking
chains, came on and knelt before his maj-
esty. He extended his sceptre, and she
arose. He waved his wand again, and an
armed soldier appeared with a scarf and
crown, like those worn by her sister
States. He unchained this gentle girl at
the bidding of his monarch, changed her
crown of mourning for one of joy and lib-
erty, and threw the Confederate flag across
her, — ^raised the flag over her and led her
forward ; then Kentucky advanced, took her
by the hand, and led her into the ranks.
Need we tell you who this maiden of sable
garments was intended to represent ? We
leave that to be imderstood. If your
readers cannot divine, it is owing to our
description, and not to the scene. The
ceremony was performed in pantomime.
The representative of Virginia had in-
scribed on her crown, ^ Mater Heronan;*
and North Carolina wore on her brow a
white crown, on which was the word
^Bethel.' Both of these States were
represented by their own daughters.



PMBidant Washinflton's Summary DeaUnff
with Bebelllon.

When the Whisky Insurrection broke
out in the eastern counties of Pennsylva-
nia m 1794> Washington said: ^ If the
laws are to be so trampled upon with im-
punity, and a minority, a small one too, is
to dictate to the minority, there is an end
put at one sUoke to republican govern-
ment"

Washmgton issued his prodamation on
the 7th of August, 1794, declaring that, if
tranquillity were not previously restored,
on the first of September force would be
employed to compel submission to the



laws. On the same day he made a requi-
sition for twelve thousand men, afterward
increased to fifteen thousand. He q>-
pointed Governor Lee, of Virginia, to the
chief coipmand, and Lee marched with the
fifteen thousand men in two divisions.
This great military array, says the histo-
rian, extinguished at once the kindling
elements of a civil war by making resist-
ance desperate.

Every thing that Washington said and
did at that period became of singular in-
terest to those who lived in the times of
the great Southern Rebellion, just two
generations following. In writing of the
soldiers to Governor Lee he speaks of
^the enlightened and patriotic zeal for the
Constitution and the laws, which had led
them cheerfully to quit their families,
homes, and the comforts of a private life,
to undertake and thus &ir to perform, a
long and fatiguing march, and to encoun-
ter and endure the hardships and priva-
tions of a military life. No citizen of the
United States can ever be engaged in a
service more important to their country.
It is nothing less than to consolidate and
preserve the blessings of that revolution
which at much expense of blood and treas-
ure, constituted us a free and independent
nation.'*

When the disturbance was quelled, he
said: ^*It has aflbrded an occasion for the
people of this country to show their ab-
horrence of the attempt and their attach-
ment to the Constitution and the laws;
for I believe that five times the number
of militia that was required would have
come forward, if it had been necessary, in
support of them.**

Governor Lee, of Virginia, was the
"Light Horse Harry" of the Revolution
— ^peculiarly dear to Washington, who in
youth had loved Lee's mother before her
marriage. He was also the Either of
General Robert E. Lee, the great Con-
federate chieftain in arms against that
same Constituticm and those laws. Could
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had he been alive in 1861, would have
been found ? Would he have been found
standing side by side with the Virginian
Lee, striking deadly blows at the heart
and life of his country ?



Same old Planter^ Orotohet.

To General Mitchell and his bjave
troops belongs the distinguished honor of
being the first Federal commander to pen-
etrate to the great Charleston and Mem-
phis railroad, and the first to break
through the enemy's line of defence, ex-
tending from Chattanooga to Corinth. A
strong Union feeling was discovered by
the Nationals as they entered the State
of Alabama, but it was ming'ed with the
usual Southern political crotchet 9f State
sovereignty, and the duty of submi8sk>n
thereto. One old Gentleman, a planter,
with an extensive estate, expressed the
views of the majority of the people of
Madison county. Said he —

^ It seems like tearing out my heart,
to give up the old Union, but when Ala-
bama voted to separate, I thought it my
duty to sustain her.**

** But," said his Union interlocutor,
"Alabama, in attempting to break up the
nation, did what she had do right to
do."

'^Ah," responded the oM gentleman,
"passion and prejudice blinded our eyes
to that truth."

**Are you then willing,' he was asked,
" to see the authority of the National Gov-
ernment restored ? "

" Yed, and to pray from this tune forth
that an her people may be willing to re-
turn to their allegiance."

This final answer of the old planter in-
dicated his resolution to abide by the ac-
tion of his State, whether the majority
of her people became loyal or remauied
treasonable. It was the old planter^s blind-
ing and blundering crotchet, as it was of
the South generally, among the planters.
8



«01d Zaok ** and Ills 8<m-in-Law.

When the usual committee was ap-
pointed by Congress to wait upon General
I Taylor, the President-elect, and announce
to him his election by the people as Chief
Magistrate, an incident occurred which the
events of 1861 served strongly to reca'l
in the minds of those who were knowing
to it.

It was doubtless with a courteous intent
that those who moved the spi*ings in this
little matter induced Congress to appoint
as chairman of that committee Jefi*er8on
Daviai^ — his previous domestic relations
with General Taylor suggesting him as
an acceptable medium; though, had the
public been as well informed as the pri-
vate mind, such a choice would have been
the last adopted. The duty in question
is, of course, only a form, to be fulfilled
with the gravity and the grace adapted to
the occasion, but calling for no display of
rhetoric, and no assumption of official dig-
nity ; it is simply a constitutional observ-
ance, whereby the representatives of the
nation testify to the result of the ballot,
and state the same to the successful can-
didate.

General Taylor's want of oratorical ac-
complishments, his aversion to display, his
modest demeanor, and his conscientious-
ness, were known as well as his bravery
and patriotism, and would have beer deli-
cately respected by a thorough gentleman
in the discharge of this simple duty, which
needed for its performance only quitt
courtesy and respectful consideration.

Instead thereof, Jefierson Davis, enter-
ing the hotel parlor, where General Tay-
lor was seated, with the aspect of a quiet,
honest old &nner, threw back his shoul-
ders, turned out his right foot, and with
precisely the air of a complacent sopho-
more, began a loud harangue about the
** highest office in the gift of a free people."
the ^' responsibility of an oath," and other
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of his voice and dogmatism of his empha- 1 the spot, and standing for several minutes
sis, the complacency and elaboration of apparently fixed to the place, hastily turned
his maimer and assumption of his tone, ' and left the chamber, exclaiming that he
in comiection with the meek attitude and I could stand it no longer, for he ^'felt his
deprecatory air of his auditor, made the ! Fourth of July rismg too fast." Would
tableau resemble a prosecutor and prisoner that all whose names are familiar with the
at the bar. The difference of age and the scenes enacted in that Chamber in 1861,
former relations of the parties, (Davis liad been susceptible to the spell of that
having by a runaway match married Gen- same great name,
eral Taylor's daughter, who died a few •



months after,) and the utter novelty of
the good old man's position, made the
scene, to say -the least, a flagrant violation



WitDBnhig and Dyin^r for the Trath in Xlo-
â– issippi.
About fifty miles from Natchez, Missis-



of good taste not less than good feeling, sippi, lived an unflinching Union man.
It was one of tho*e unconscious and During the war, his residence was ap-
therefore authentic revelations of charac- proached by an armed gang of guerillas,
ter, which reveal a
man's disposition and
temper better than a
biography Though
ostensibly doing him
honor, the speaker
seemed to half defy
the gray-haired sol-
dier, whose eyes were
cast down, and whose ;
hands were listlessly ;
folded — to challenge, f
as it were, with his -
fluent self-confidence ^
the uneloquent but

intrepid man of aC- Witnewlng tnd Djing Ibr the TruUL

tiou, and ungracious-
ly make him feel how alien to his habits who foon Fucceeded in securing him as a
and capacity was the arena to which pop- | prisoner, and told him, that if he did not
ular enthusiasm had elevated him immediately and in their presence, recant

• his former sentiments, and take an oath

KAfflc of Washinsrton** Name. that he never by woixl or deed would

While the disunion Senate of Maryland again favor the principles that he had
were in session in the State House at formerly all along adhered to, his fiate
Annapolis, in 1861, a number of soldiers | would be instant death. His reply was:
entered the ante-room and inquired if the I '*In the sight of God and man, I am
Senate Chamber was not the place where | clear of the crime of treason to so glorious
General Washington once stood? An ' a nation as this was till your wicked and
employee of the house answered that it selfish designs have caused it to be what it
was, and showed one of them as near as , is; and while I draw the breath of life,
he could the very spot where Washington i I intend never to give my children cause
stood when he resigned his commission. ; to brand me as a traitor."
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Hme had him under their special notice,
and that the words he had now uttered
fixed their determination to make an ex-
ample of him, in order that his doom might
serve as a warning to others. Whereupon
they immediately killed him, in spite of
the entreaties, the agony and utter despair
of his grief-stricken wife, and in the pres-
ence of herself and children.

Turning to the widow, they gave her
ten days to get inside of the Yankee lines,
and if she failed to do so, she would share
the fete of her husband, — after which they
rode away, leaving her to her gloomy fore-
bodings and lonely wretchedness. The
cries and sobs of her fatherless children
fell in doleful accents upon her ear, which
added, of course, still more to her wretched
state. The sense of duty that she was
now under to her children, together with
the fortitude that woman is not unfre-
quently known to exhibit in extreme cases
of peril, nerved her to the task of con-
signing her husband to his blood-wet grave.
And then, remembering the words of his
murderers, their parting threat also to her
sel^ she procured an ox team, and after a
trip of a few weary days, such as may
easily be imagined, she arrived in Natcheas,
where she sold her oxen, and by the assist-
ance of the Grovemment procured trans-
portation to her kindred in Indiana.



UnloA Ken BaA in Sontli Oaarolina in Jadk-
son's Day.

What a scene it would have been, —
said Edward Everett in one of his speeches
belbre the citizens of Boston in the autumn
of 1864, — to witness the flash of President
Jackson's eye and to hear the thunder of
his voice, when he heard of the attack on
Sumter. What that scene would have
been, the following anecdote of 'Old Hick-
ory,' as related by Mr. Everett, will pretty
fiuHy show: When the nuUification phren-
tj was at its height in South Carolina, the
Union men in Charleston sent a deputation
to Washington, to inform the President
that they were daily threatened with an



outbreak, and did not consider their lives
safe. Scarcely waiting to hear the words
uttered, the Greneral sprung to his feet,
and with a voice and a look of almost
superhuman energy, exclaimed,



Edw£rd Ererett.

"The lives of Union men not safe, while
Andrew Jackson is President ! Go back
to Charleston, and tell the nullifiers that
if a hair on the head of a Union man is
harmed, that moment I order General
Coflfee to march on Carolina with fifty
thousand Tennessee volunteers, and if that
does not settle the business, ^11 them (he
added with an attestation that need not be
repeated) that I will take the field myself
with fifly thousand more."



Parglnff the Prayer-Book.
The venerable Judge Pettigru, for four,
score years one of South Carolina's noblest
names, continued, to the day of his death,
to bear witness to the value of the Union
against the traitors who surrounded him.
He had no faith in the practicabihty of
their measures, and predicted Grom them
the worst results to the State and the
country. One day, while attending church,
where, by his presence, he for so many
years showed that the character of a states-
man was most complete when religion gave
it grace and solidity, he found that the ser-
vices were purged (by nullification) of the
usual prayer for the President of the Uni-
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from his seat and left the church, thus giv-
ing a silent hut most pointed rehuke to
treason in its most rampant locality.



General Faille's Oonvenation -with the Wifb
of a Seoeeeioxiist.

General Paine, with fifteen hundred
men, occupied the town of Mansfield, Ken-
tucky, to the great delight of its loyal citi-
zens. It is a place situated twenty-eight
miles from Paducah, containing one thou-,
sand inhabitants and many fine residences
and public buildings. Soon after taking
possession, General Paine and his staff
went to make a call upon Mr. John Eaker,
an old resident of the town, and one of
the wealthiest rebels in it They all
walked into the parlor and took seats,
when the Greneral turning to Colonel Mc-
Chesney, said : —

" Colonel, you will occupy this room as
your head-quarters, allowing Mrs. Eaker
and family the privilege of remaining in
the house ten days, when she, her family
and husband, if he can be found, will re-
port to me at Paducah, and I will furnish
them transportation to New Orleans, and
thence to Central America, where they
will live hereafter."

<< Madam, Mr. Eaker has been our ene-
my ; he has done all that he could to de-
stroy the Government of the United States
— that Grovemment which has raised him
in the lap of luxury, giving him slaves,
rich crops, tobacco warehouses — all that
his heart could desire, and did he, could
he, think that he could raise his two sons
and send them out to murder that Gov-
ernment, and yet go unpunished ? Is it
possible that he could have been so insane ?
Now, madam, I want you to send your
husband word to report himself to me im-
mediately, and I will spare his life and let
him go with you ? '*

" General, won't you write to him ? **

" No, madam, I have no correspondence
with rebels, except at the cannon's mouth.
You put your boy on a horse and send him
to him to-day, and tell him that he is to



pay Major Bartling, Provost-Marshal at
Paducah, the sum of ten thousand dollars,
which is the fine I have levied upon him.
This money, madam, is to go to make up
a fund that I am raising from you rebels,
from which to pay something toward the
support of the widows and orphans your
husband has made. Five thousand of it
will be paid to the widow Happy. You
know, madam, how the old man was led
out in the front yard, across the street
there, and shot dead! not for having
wronged any human being — ^no, not f(^
this, — ^but because, and only because, he
was unconditionally true to his Gk)vem-
ment. Ohl madam, it makes the blood
boil to think of these things."

" Genera], I have a very sick child in
the other room, and don't think I can pos-
sibly move with it. Won't you let me
visit my friends, five miles above Paducah ?
I have a daughter living there."

^No, madam, I cannot; think of the
four thousand widows in Illinois — think of
their little orphan children coming to me
fi>r help* and protection ! You must go
with your husband. God and nature have
ordained that woman links her &te with
her husbuid, for weal or woe. You have
shared his prosperity, you have Sjrmpa-
thized with him in his rebellion, and now
you must abide with him in his exile. I
am sorry to say these things, to you, mad-
am, but the outraged law must be aveng-
ed. How can you expect to live in' a
country you have robbed and murdered
as you have this? Did you think that
the hand of justice would never reach you ?
Madam, you wHl pack your trunks, take
all your silver plate, and your linen, bed-
clothes, all your ready money, (except the
ten thousand dollars which I fine you,) but
your heavy goods, such as that elegant
bedstead, and this bo&, you cannot take ;
it would cost too much to fireight them.
All your lands and tobacco will go to the
United States, and this will be the end of
John Eaker, his estate and fiunily, in the
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THftdam, one hundred fiunilles from Graves
oonntj will go with you — ^these rebels who
cannot live under our Government must
go out of it And, madam, for every day
your husband revises to report to me after
to-day, I shall increase his fine five bun-
dled dollars."

Then turning to Colonel McChesney, the
General said :

" Colonel, I want you to act as com-
mander of this post You must levy on
as many men, white or black (not soldiers)
as you may need, first to sink a well that
shall supply all your wants ; then repair
this railroad, so that trains can run regu-
larly to Paducah ; after that, you will send
your cavalry out with instructions to rebel
&rmer8 who have been raising crops to
feed the southern army, to bring all their
hay, com and oats, and f&t cattle in here,
and send to Paducah all the grain and
provisions you collect, so that I can oper-
ate my whole district free of cost to the
Government. For I tell you. Sir, these
rebels must pay the cost of this war, pay
five hundred dollars for every widow tliey
make or cause to be made, support and
educate the orphan children of our soldiers,
and finally go to Central America, South
America, or the jungles of Africa, to eat
the apple of their discontent, and die de-
pised of men.''

^ Good morning, madam."

** Good morning, sir."



Jobn Qninoy Adama Foretallinir the Fatore
to Oalhonn.

One day, during the debate upon the
Missouri bill in Congress, Mr. Calhoun,