§Quxs at F Amt Turned a Little Pale, but Plunged On,— 1864

Devoted to the Intex'ests of tlie Sol<iiex*s a,iicl Sailoi-s of the la,te Wa,i*. VOL 1. HARTFORD, CONN., OCTOBER 24, 1868. NO. 16 various ind Igences which may be grant- Isay this was the first time I ever heard of When Captain Shaw was coming home ed, this rule, in which his punishment is this plan, which afterwards I had enough —if, as I say, it was Shaw,—rather to tho involved, shdl not be broken. and more than enough, to do with. Ire- surprise of everybody they made one of The Old Soldiei-'s Reward. " It is the intention of the Government member it, because poor Phillips, who was the Windward Islands, and lay off and that he shall never again see the country of the party, as soon as the allusion to I saw, beyond the yours to be, on for nearly a week, Th,^ boys said the An old man bending low which he has disown(!d. Before the end rending was made, told a story of some- officers were sick of salt-junk, and meant Above a book—a history of your cruise you ^will receive orders thing which happend at the Cape of Good to have turtle-soup before they came Of glory and of woe. which will give effect to this intention. His pale lips moved without a sound, Hope on Nolan's first voyage; and it is the home. But after several days the War- He neither sighed norsmiled. " Resp'y yours, only thing I ever knew of that voyage.— ren came to the same rendezvous ; they And one thin arm was twined around « W. Southard, for the They had touched at the Capts, and had A sunny, silent child. exchanged signals; she sent to Phillips Sec'y of the Navy." done the civil thing with the English Ad- and these homeward-bound men, letters Page after page he read and turned, If I had only preserved the whole of diial and the fleet, and then, leavin g for papers, and told them she was outward- And many pauses made he. this paper, there would be no break in As if the meaning was inurned along cruise up the Indian Ocean,Phillips bound, perhaps to the Mediterranean, and In some dim memory; the beginning of my sketch of this story. had borroAved a lot of English books took poor Nolan and his traps on the For though the deods ho read were wrought For Captain Shaw, if it was he, handed from an officer, which, in. those days, as By help of his right hand boat back to try his socond cruise. He They camo as slowly to his thought it to his successor in the charge, and he indeed in these, was quite a windfall. ooked very blank when he was told to As from the spirit-land to his, and I suppose the commander of Among them, as the Devil would order, get ready to join her. He had known, the Levant has it to-day as his authority " My boy," he said, at length, this page. was the " Lay of the Last Minstrel," enough of the signs of the sky to know Must have been writ for me, for keeping this man in this mild custody. •which they had heard of,but which most of that tUl that moment he was going 'home' I just remember it; an ago The rule adopted on board the ships on them had never seen. I think it could not. Ago it seems to be, But this was a distinct evidence of some- ' A sergeant took the flag and ran which I have met " the man without a have been published long. Well, nobody thing he had not thought of, perhaps— A rod before his men ;' country " was, I think, transmitted from thought there could be any risk of any- that there was no going home for him, My boy_, I was tliat very man; the beginning. No mess liked to have thing national in that, though Phillips I see it all again. even to a prison. him permanently, because his presence swore old Shaw had cut out the ''Tem- To be continued. " And hero : ' The horses all were killed. cut off all talk of home or of the prospect pest" from Shakspeare before he let Nolan And every man but one, The grape-shot failed ; he quickly filled of return, of politics or letters,of peace or have it, because he said ''the Bermudas A gun with pebble stones. of war,—cut off more than half the talk ought to be ours, and, by Jove, should be JAMES A. BROWN, CO. N, Snd H. A. Aud fired point-blank below the smoke man like to have at sea. But it was al- one,- day." So Nolan was permitted to join Mr John V. Browne of this city has Into the rebel line. the circle one afternoon when a lot of them And thinned it so it turned and broke;, ways thought too hard that he should received from the Rev. C. H. Siebke My boy, that shot was mine. never meet the rest of us, except to touch sat on deck smoking and reading aloud.— Lutheran Pastor in New Haven, the let- " Again; ' they rushed through mist and rain, hats, and we finally sank into one system. People do not do such things so often now; Up to the clear, blue sky ; He was not permitted to talk with the men, but when I was young we got rid of a ter which we publish herewith. The wounded hushed their groans of pain unless an officer was by. With officers h» great deal of time so. Well, so it hap- It was addressed to Mr. S. as the As ' twero a joy to die So near to God !' I lay that night had unrestrained intercourse, as far as pened that in his turn Nolan took the book letter explains, with the hope that he and read to the others; and he read very Beneath the stars that stood they and he chose. But he grew shy, might be able to obtain information con-« High over Lookout's silent height, though he had favorites:I was one. Then well, as I know. Nobody in the circle Reflected in my blood. the captain always asked him to dinner on knew a line of poem, only it was all magic cerning the matter. We publish it with " And here, and here; 1 never thought Monday. Every mess in succession took and Border chivalry, and was ten thousand the belief that it may reach the friends ' My deeds would find a pen, I only for my country fought up the invitation in its turn. According years ago. PoorNolan read steadily of the deceased soldier referred to. It Along with other men ; to the size of the ship, you had him at y our through the fifth canto, stopped a minute reads as follows: It must have been because I took and drank something, and then began, mess more or less often at dinner. His Duncannon Oct. 1 1868 No thought of history ; without a thought of what was coming,—• This generous man that wrote this book breakfast he ate in his own state-room,— Rev. C. H. vSeibke, Sir, Has put down mncli for me. he always had a state-room—which was "Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said,"— In looking over the " The hills, my boy, are white with snow, where a sentinel, or somebody on the list of names of Lutheran ministers and It seems impossible to us that anybody I feel tho creeping cold; watch, could^ee the door. And whatever the Lutheran almanac I see your name, I hear another bugle blow ever heard this for the first time; but all else he ate or drank he ate or drank a lone. and address at New Haven. Than that I heard of old. these fellows did then, and poor Nolan It calls me, I must go—good-bye ! Sometimes, when the marines or sailors How far is Branford from your city, The book has paid for all :" had any special jollification, they were himself went on, still unconsciously or And then he bowed without a sigh mechanically,— During the late war a young soldier And answered to the calU permitted to invite " Plain-Buttons,"as by the name of James A. Brown waiir they called him. Then Nolan was sent "This is ray own, my native land !" Then they all saw something was to pay; dered from the Shenandoah Valley and with some officer, and the men were for- died hereof congestive chills, August 23d bidden to speak of home while he was but he expected to get through, I supposed, §Quxs at f amt turned a little pale, but plunged on,— 1864. He was buried in the Lutheran there. I believe the tneory was, that the cemetery. sight of his punishment did them good. Whoso heart hath ne'er within him burned, THE MAN WITHOUT A COUN- As home his footsteps ho huth tnrned We never knew his history, or where They called him „ Plain-Buttons "be- From wandering on a foreign s trand 7— he enlisted until this summer We raised TRY. !f such there broatho, go, mark him well." cause, Avhile he always chose to wear a money to get him a tomb-stone and By this time the men were all beside When I was second officer of the In- regulation army-uniform, he was not per- thought we would try andfindhis friends.

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