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MAJOR-GENEHAL At\DIIBW A. HUMPHREYS. GENERAL WILLIAM w. AYERILL-~llOTOGRArllED BY BnADY.- [SE~ PAGI! 34.]
GENERAL HUMPHREYS. acted for a short time as Assistant Professor of En In 1838 be was again assigned to the Engineers, the means of preventing inundations and increasing gineering. I-le then served on the sea-board and in and in 1844 was put in charge of the Central Office the depth of water on the bars. This "·ork occu THIS veteran commander, whose porh·nit is given the Cherokee Country until assigned to duty with of the Coast Snrvev at Washington. In l &l8 he was pied nearly ten years, in the course of which he vis above, entered the :Military Academy, from Penn the Topograpbicru Engineers. Aftenvard be served appointed Captain. and in 1850 was directed to un ited Europe. He had, moreover, the charge of the sylvania, in 1827, graduated in 1831, nnd was ap in the Florida war. •rnd was specially mentioned for dertake suryeys and in>estigations upon tbe l\Iissis rqilroad explorations from the i\Iississippi to the pointed Second Lieutenant in the Artillery, but his gallantry in the engagement of June D, 1836. sippi River and Delta, tlie object being to determine Pacific. In 1861 he .became Chief of Topograph-
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TIIE WRECK OF THE "AQUILA," AT SAN FRANCISCO. ianl Enginee!'S on General M'Clellan's etaff, and pointed Major-General. At Gettysburg he com sunk while lying at a wharf at San' Francisco. Our brought in and moored alongeide the wharf, the in April, 1862, was appointed Brigadier-General manded a dh·ision of tbe Third Corps, whose noble correspondent furnishes us with a sketch of the ves wind blowing freshly down the bay, raising a heavy of Volunteers. In September be was placed in conduct needs no fresh mention. Since that time sel, taken as she lay on the 25th of November, just sea, to which the broadside of tbe vessel was ex command of the Tbird Division, Fifth Corps - a General Humphreys bas acted as Chief of Staff to after the accident, which we give on this page. He posed. Under her st~rn was a bard bottom, again.st new division, with which he made a forced march tM commander of the Army of the Potomac. writes: ''Early yesterday morning it was announced wbieh she beat, or rather was beaten, until a bole from Washington, performing 23 miles in one night, that the Aquila, having the Camanche on board, had was made, and down she went, At high tide there nnd joined M'Clellan early on the morning after sunk in the night at Hathaway's wharf. It was is 37 or 38 feet of water above her bow. the battle of Antietam, supposing that the battle THE WRECK OF THE "AQIBLA." too true. After surviving stonns and escaping pi would be renewed. The heroic charge of this divi rates, she bad gone down within a stone 's-tbrow of sion at Fredericksburg and its brilliant conduct at Trrn Aquila was some months ngo eent from New our business thoroughfare. I send you a sketch of THE ITALIAN IRON-CLAD. Chancellorsville are fresh in remembrance. 'Vben ¥ ork to San Francisco, having on board, as freight, her as she lies, with only about t).venty-five f~et of WE p~esent on this 11ag~ ~ '\je~~.-;£~ this division of nine months' volunteers was mus ~1le "Monitor" Camanche. Surviving all }ae perils tJre after-bull and deck visible, ~be sea sweeping steam-frigate Re d' fftalta, bmlt for the Italian Gov tered out, of aervice ita ;;:~llant commander was ap- lf the voyage around Cape Horn, the Aquila was through . and over he!' decks. 'The vessel was ernment by Mr. William H. Webb, of New York,
THE IRON-CLAD SCREW FRIGATE "RE D' ITALIA. • 84 JIARPER~s WEEirLY. (JANUA'RY 16, 1864.
AVERILL'S RAID. reader of these reasons for the removal tthat t.crs ot last 1111mmer, in June and Jnly-letters in octavo volumes, with a steel portrait of the anthor. Governor Seymour lendR himself to the pitiful which he plainly said that the Joyal Union men had The work is al•o being translated into ltnlinn, and WE give on pngo 86 tho portrait oC GEN1mAL attempt of Mr. M'Kcon to excite a religious virtunlly i.,-ivcn up the contest, and in which he an will be published at Turin in April. Av1m1LT,, wl10Rc dnHh upon 1ho Virglnln nnrl Tcn rnncor in this country. Do theso gentlemen nounced that the riots were the beginning of the nosRco Jtnilrond lR "0110 or tho moHt lin?.nrclous, lm not know that they arc plnying with edged tools? countcr-rcvolution-nnd then con~ider whethcrit is Cl1arles Reade's "Hard Cash" is now issued com port.nnt1 nn
"Patrick," said a Judge, "what do you say to the CONGRESS. vaded the States of Colombia, have mot with a •erlona de charge: are you guilty or not guilty?'' "Faith, t~t i• Sl!NA'l'l".-Janu.a"!I ts. A m•.ssage was received from the fent. Mosquera, tho President of Colombia, having suc difficult for your Uonor to tell, lot alone myself. Wait till President, recommending that the payment of bounties to ceeded In gathering l\bont 4000 men, nttncked Flor01', who hnd 6l)qo, nnd routed him nftor n Phnrp action, kllling and I hear the endence." veteran soldiers be conllnued until the lat of Feb1"1~ry; ------accompany,irlg thi.s were letters from the Secretary of Wnr 'vouncling, nCCtlrclfng to repo1·t, 1500, 1tn
Her length at the spar-deck is 258 feet, extreme dress, and a curl of her lip in my direction, swept booker, and, with very much the feelings of the In bundle lay upon the sidewalk. She had dropped breadth 55 feet depth of hold 33 feet, draught of wa forward to the head couple, while I, possessed with dividuals who independently advertise "Salary no it. I picked it up and pressed it to my lins ; then, ter 23 feet. She has two back-action horizontal the one idea, eclged toward the table. object," hastened to New York in person to signify struck with a happy thought, took from iiiy pocket engines, built at the Novelty Works, _of 800 ~orse The book lay open still. No cream had soiled, my acceptance. It is true I seemed not much my own carte de visite (I carried a package of them power together, with cylinder:i of 81 mc~es imm.e no Charlotte profaned it. On the opposite page sat nearer the goal of my existence than before; but I always about me), wrapped it in the bundle, collared t.er and 45 inches stroke of piston, supplied by six a stout lady with an ugly cap and still uglier baby; breathed the same air as Miss Smith, perambulated a small boy and sent him np the stoop with partictl horizontal tubular boilers. Iler engineer's trial trip but there on the right hand gleamed out the eyes the same pavements, and no doubt rode in the same lar directions to leave it for Miss Smith. It was a was made on the 12th of November, and though not of my enchantress. What grace I What loveli omnibus. Omnibuses indeed afforded me 0110 of bold stroke, pe1·haps, but the spirit of a Cresar be int.ended as an ultimate h·ial trip, her performance ness! The arch of that snowy neck! that bewitch my greatest hopes. From the Battery to Eighty gan to animate me. I could now say, " I came, I was so satisfactory that the vessel was at once r.c ing mouth! even the fluttering curve of the ribbon sL.._th Street I rolled daily on my wei:.:-y way. saw," I must also add, "I conquered." At least if cepted by the agents of the Itali.an _Govern~ent, that circled the beautiful throat I Life without her Evangeline chasing her lover was nothing to my I didn't it shouldn't be my fault. One hour I re which had reserved the right of reiectmg her if she was, I felt, a blank. I must find her; must woo exploits; yet I cherished a fellow-feeling for Evan mained, rooted to the spot, till the passers-by be failed to answer the stipulations of the contract. and win and wear her as a precious jewel in my geline, and bought the engraving to hang over my gan to regard me suspiciously, and the cravings of On the 30th of December she made an mqierimental heart. My hostess, like a benevolent fafry, ap shaving-glass. The precious photograph was kept nature drew me imperiously off to dinner. With trip down the bay of New York under the charge of proached me. She was in the "grand chain," but in my left vest-pocket next my heart. Alas, alas l the gaslight I returned again. How breatl10 to her own officers. She ran ashore in a fog, but was I arrested her. "Might"'.!: inquire, Mrs. Paulding, what fluctuations of bliss and misery awaited me ! Miss Smith the devotion which filled my soul? how got off in a day or two without serious damage. the name of this-this"-" angel," was on my lips I entered, for example, the Sixth Avenue cars; at penetrate to her presence? The door opened. l\Iy The vessel is in every respect one of the most bean -but in d ~ference to the conventionalities of society the extreme end sat a lady 'vith primrose glons, heart throbbed with expectation. Was she com tiful specimens of naval architecture afloat. It is I substituted "lady?" black lace veil, and a cashmere. There were the ing, like Tennyson's Maude? No, it was only the supposed that she will attain a speed of 12 knots an "That?" said Mrs. Paulding, dancing past, "oh, dove-like eyes and drooping curls-ah, Eureka l servant to bring in the evening paper; but tile lit hour, being considerably greater than that of any that is my cousin, :Mrs. Peele A sweet child, is it could it be l\Iiss Smith? On and on we glided. tle dog had run out from behind him, and stood other iron-clad yet constructed. Her arn1ament not?" Yorkville was in sight. At last she alighted; I wagging his tail at me on the pavement. A wild consists of 82 guns. The last sentence fell upon unheeding ears. I followed. She dropped her handkerchief; I picked impulse fired my brain. I hacl taken the first step was stupefied, confounded, clashed into an abyss of it up. "Miss Smith?" I timidly murmured. "Sir!" in crime in l\frs. Paulding's parlor-the second I woe. This Peri-this priceless Pearl, l\frs. Peek? she responded in a basso voice sadly in contrast fear was easier. I made a sudden rush, seized the The bride of another? Lost to me forever? with the curls, "Do you wish to insult me? l\Iy dog, pocketed him, and walked frantically home. THE "SUCK" .LN THE TEN The book still rested in my nerveless hand. Still name is Van Dunderbergh !" There was a method in my madness, and the NESSEE c..{IVER. my eyen were fixed upon the fated page. l\Irs. A love like tlline must leave of course its impress. result was as I expected. An advertisement, in Paulding chasseed by n~ain. I began to grow haggard-even pale and thin. It pathetic terms, headed by a $50 reward appeared THE river at the "Suck" is about 800 yards wide "Ah!" she exclaimed with another glance, "I may be well to mention that I had formerly approx in the next Herald, for a pet spaniel, answer and very deep but the current is so rapid that seo you are not looking at l\Irs. Peek. That young imated a weight of two hundred. My eyes became ing to the name of Fidllle, lost or stolen from steamers can ;ot head against it, and are obliged lady opposite, with the nicked spencer, is a l\Iiss hawk-like and prying. Ou~ of office-hours I walked his inc011solable mistress. llfy hemt bled at this to be pulled up by a windlass.. ~he water n1.ns Smith, I think, from New York, or Boston." , and rocle incessantly. I haN said that I sympa record of her stlffering, but it was necessary to re comparatively smoothly until within a short dts I was in the seventh heaven again. Blissful thized with Evangeline; I began also to sympa tain him till the morrow. I fed him, however, upon tanco from the " Suck " when it breaks into waves "l\Iiss !" Never should she change the title till my thize with the Wandering Jew. My melancholy loaf sugar and Italian beef-steaks; and the nerl and dashes agains£ a ~ock on the left, Hinging the euphonious surname had been offered to her accept condition attracted notice. A young man in the morning, taking Fidllle in my arms, I tied a second foam high Jn the air. Waldron's Ridge, on the left ance. Somebody joined me. I shut the album in same office found his feelings moved toward me. I carte de visite to his collar, wrote upon it, "The bank, resembles the Palisades on the Hudson; the stinctively. The gaze of another would be profana bad not confided to him my secret, but he pityingly preserver of Fid01e," and left it at lier door. It trees, however, run nearly to the top. On the right tion. fancied me on the verge of lunacy. "I say, r eath was agony to remain in ignorance of the effect pro is Raccoon Ridge. " Ah, Feathers ! " said my friend Stokes - ers," he remarked one twilight, when gold was down duced by these little manifestations of my feelings ; "Feathers" was the usital unpleasant abbreviation and business dull, "what you need is cheerful so but the manifestations themselves sho.uld, I 1·e by which I was disrespectfully addressed-"it's ciety. Come 'vith me to-night to a little party. solved, continue. Every day for a week a bou THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. past midnight, I believe. Don't you mean to apol illy cousin, Miss Smith-" quet, the richest and rarest that the conservatories Trrn picture on pages 40 and 41, sketched during ogize to l\Iiss Wigham? Yon'd better see her " Bless you ! bless you ! my dear fellow !." I ex could furnish, inscribed, always, " From the pre home. Ilow could you be so awkward?" the late campaign in Virginia, gives an idea of the claimed, falling upon his neck. " Let us go at server of Fidllle," went as an offering to my idol's appearance of this m·my when moving into battle. " Miss Wigham be hanged ! " I returned, almost once. Lead me, oh lead me to my adored Miss shrine. I tried a poem; but '' Smith" would rhyme In the extreme distance the enemy's artillery is seen unconsciously. Smith!" with nothing hut "myth;" and my own name, e\•en on a crest, his infantry below, disputing the ad Stokes stared. "Now, now, Feathers!" he repeated, soothing had I been disposed to disclose it, could have been "I mean J.-I'm very sorry," I resumed, with a ly. "Be cahn ! be calm! I don't know that it compressed into nothing shorter than an Alexnn- vance. N carer are our own guns supporting the drine. · ti·oops. Brigades, recognized by their flags, are stammer, beginning to come to myself. "I'll send will be safe to trust you. If we had a dose of va. pressing on at dou\>le-quick; artillery, enveloped in her a bouquet to-morrow." And thereupon shone lerian !" At last, at last-oh blissful terminus to all earth dust, are galloping to a position. Near by is a before me a vision of the bouquets-all forget-me '' I will swallow it by the bottleful," I returned, ly woes !-there came a day when gold went down, group of ambulances. In the fore- ground are nots and blush roses- which ·I should send some excitedly. "Only take me to Miss Smith." and stocks declined, and bulls and bears waged fiercest war, and Shoddy trembled to its founda French and Birney, with their staffs. In the front day to Miss Smith. " Excuse me, Stokes; I must "But you can't go, you know, unless you're tions over an impending crash; and I, who h!!d is l\Ieade ; near him are Generals Sykes, Hum bid good-night to Mrs. Paulding." quiet," he expostulated in gentle tones. " Go long since lost all relish for such sublunary affairs, phreys, and Pleasanton, with Chief-Engineer Duane. "A delightful evening, my dear Madame!" I home and rest yourself. 'l'ake nothing but weak save only as they might appertain to the dower of The whole picture, though representing but a single observed, with my politest bow. " In your rooms black t.ea and a cracker, and I will call for you at l\Iiss Smith, was neve1theless hurried, for filthy lu moment of action, gives a fair idea of an army we find always the 'feast of reason and the flow of eight. You are sure you will be quiet?" soul.' But the photograph which I was admiring. cre's sake, from office to office in all conceivable going into battle. '' Any thing for Miss Smith ! " I answered, with It is, it is"- what should I say next?-" uncom an effort at composure. "But you will not fail directions. I crossed Broadway, or rather I rasJ. 1 ly essayed it. Omnibuses, carts, and carriages monly like a dear lost aunt of mine. Could you tell me? ' me where I should be likely to find Miss Smith?" "No; punctually at eight. It is a small party, mixed together in one inextricable jumble. There THE PICKF,T. "Why, I sca:rcel:Y) know, Mr. Featherstonhaugh," you know." was a moment's pause; a lady was alighting; un returned the lady, ;f.ubiously. "I have never ?eeu omnibus door swung open 1:1-nd shut ; the horses WllA.T ruddy stain Is this P "And ii}is given by Miss Smith?" Perchnnco of morning flowers her myself; she is an acquaintance of my sister's. "Precist>ly. I will get you an invitation. But started; the lady fell; a patilint nag, wJ ,o had stood Of dmv-wet, odorous flowers; Miss Smith, ofNewYork- yes, I'm positive of New do you know her?" meekly by in the tumult, set his foot upon her bon Did ever mother, ever maiden k!sil, York; but that is all I cant.ell yon." "You shall see, my dear fellow," I returned, net. I sprang forward, raised her in my arms, On cheek of new-bom down, "Perhaps your sister- ?" I suggested, pertina collectedly. " But not a word to Miss Smith." heard her sweet lips whisper, '' :iiy preserver I tha Or sot with bearded brown, ciously. Briggs departed mystified. preserver of Fidl;le !" and l\Iiss Sn ith, my own l\Iiss Thll3e flowers, and think the inner heaven of heaven " Oh, my sister is in Europe ! Will be absent True to his promise, however, he entered my Smith, fainted in my embrace. Gladly would I Had no such bliss? till next summer. You are sure yon don't mean room at eight, and found me irreproachably attired have pressed her to my heart, but stern conven It mny be morning blooms nre passing fair; But since to human cheeks their tints were given, l\Irs. Peek?" in a dress coat and lemon ldds. I was pacing up tionalities forbade it. I called a carriap;o ; I re The sweetest blooms are there. I left in desperation. and down with frequent pauses before the mirror, tained her in my arms ; I pillowed her head upon Returning home I stirred np my fire, lit a cigar, and a heart t-00 full for words. We left. I pre my shoulder : we drove to Madison A •enue. An A pnle face motionless, and sat down, in the orthodox midnight fashion, sume, indeed I know, that we drove over the Russ elderly individual, evidently :rt1r. Josiah Smith, Close by the strun of flowers, with my feet upon the fender. Rosy dreams flitted pavement; but to me we seemed wafted through stood upon the steps. To him I im,villingly re The etnin of blood or flower•; through my brain. "What were the "Reveries of a translucent skies on the wheels of Apollo's chariot. signed my burden, while Miss Smith, with most Did ever mother, ever maiden press Bachelor" compared with mine? Pshaw ! had I opportune recovery, again mnrmmecl, in my be White fingers on this stone, We paused at a brown-stone front. I grasped Ami think to be alone, written the book my lines would have glowed with Briggs's arm convulsively. Another moment and half, "l\Iy preserver! the preserver of Fidela!" I Auel not feel it were very for from heaven the breath of Cupid. l\Iiss Smith would have looked we were ushered into the apartment where three presented my card to the astonished father. llli1;;ht And hnppiuess? out from every page. Twelve editions in six months l\Usses Smith, one in white, one in pink, and an I be permitted to call that evening to inquire after It mny be. Since white fingers once have pressed would have enriched the publishers, and given me other in blue, received their friends. The blue lady the health of Miss Smith? l\Ir. Smith hesitated, Such sottlpturc, the quick pulses through them driven a fortune to lay at her feet. As it was, my reveries, Btepped forward to meet me ,y;th undisguised curi looked at me, then at the imposing cognomen pre • Are very near to rest. though not pecuniarily profitable, opened to me an osity; the white one smiled; the pink blushed. sented him, and invited me to dinner ! Need I acld that Miss Smith now rejoices with A grave dug iu the sand, Elysium. l\fiss Smith beamed out at me through Ah me ! my heart sank down to zero. I might be Near to the stain of llowers the ei.nbers; l\Iiss Smith closed my eyelids when, at among the Graces, perhaps I was ; but none of them me in the appellation of Mrs. Ferdin!llld F. Feath The red sta\u not of flowers ; three in the morning, I retreated to bed; l\Iiss Smith was my Miss Smith. I felt myself growing pale, erstonhaugh, nee Smith? Shall ever mother, m-er maiden stand awoke 'vith me, and-metaphorically speaking but with one heroic effort controlled myself, and Within 11 lonely home, held my sLaving cup; llfiss Smith accompanied me went through the usual wretched formula of a And say, "When will he come to the banking-house, hovered beside my stool, and night's enjoyment. At the end, however, a glow Out from returning ranks P Ho1v long be linger• SCENES AND INCIDENTS AT almost signed the bills. I lived and breathed in an of virtuous satisfaction reward~d me. I had done With his victoriond bund 1u atmosphere of Miss Smith. Broadway was peopled GE'ITYSBURG. It shall be. Tender, loving lipa have kissed my duty to Briggs, had danced successively with Their Inst: uud nevor more shall thrill white fingers with her image. his three cousins, and not betrayed my despair. ON Sunday, June 14, 1863, the New Jersey Bri For that one picket missed. For two days this luxurious delirium bore me up But the mockery!of pickled oysters and Champagne gade to which I was attached, then at Franklin's on the high tide of bliss; then came a sense of va I could not away with. Indeed I began to experi Run on the Rappahannock, received orders to march cancy in the world around me. ·I niust find her ence an insane desire to sup upon prussic acid; but in pursuit of Lee's army, then moving toward Penn MISS Sl\lITH. must fly to her-must pour out the fullness of my taking refuge instead in a forlorn stoicism, I excused sylvania. Our corps (General Sedgwick's) was the heart! But whither should I Hy? New York was myself early, returned home, smoked six cigars, last to leave the Rappahannock, and the route we I MW her in a photograph album, and my doom wide, and Smiths abounded. V.7 as my inamomt" a and went to bed. The next morning I began a pursued was any thing but direct; but neither heat was Sl'nled. daughter of John Smith, Esq.? What sacred spot, novel in three volumes, entitled, "111ias Smith;" and nor fatigue could abate the ardor of the men ; all We woN mting creams and jelly in l\Irs. Paul from Harlem to the Brooklyn Ferry, should be the while apparently engaged in exchanges and dis were eager to meet the enemy who had dared again ding's parlor. I hatl done tho usual amount of " To the front, Doctor;" and the brave fellow "WHl you do as much as that for the Union?" not care to know. The lantern gone out, the can impressions of the nerves. I knew once a com tried hard to stand firm and speak boldly as he s~ "Yes, my little fellow, if I must." dle which the men had procured lasted but a little mander in the navy whose left eye was shot clean luted the surgeon. • '"Well, I'd do more," and he held up his right time; but the moon had risen and the pale rays it out by a bullet in a naval action in the beginning "To the front! What! a man in your condition? hand; "but then I would have no hands at all to cast through the trees aided us in our task, though of this century, and whom, forty years aftenvard ·why, Sir, you can't roarchhalfamile; you haven't work for oother, and father was killed at Antie they added much to the ghostliness of the terrible it was impossible to convince that he did not see all the strength to carry yourself, let alone yonr knap tam." scene over which they fell. sorts of strange objects with his lost eye. " It is sack, musket, and equipments. You must be crazy, I should suppose, from the little fellow's appear We found one body, that of a young, light-haired not impossible," he would quietly say; "I know it surely." ance, he was not over twelve or thirteen years of boy, not over nineteen at the furthest, whose fore too ~veil." Every body has known men who suf "But, Doctor, my division are in the fight"-here age ; be was a young. hero, but a thorough one-a head was pierced by a ball ; in his left hand he firm fered rheumatism in legs long lost and replaced by he grasped the wheel of an ambulance to support child worthy of the Republic, worthy of its inspira ly grasped his ra=er; his right hand or its fore wo•den ones. himself-" and I have a young brother in my com tions, worthy of the Future in which, maybe, he finger was in the watch-pocket of bis pantaloons. A nervous, dreamy, imaginative lad was walking pany. I must go." sball sit crowned with honors. We examined this pocket and found in it a small one day with some comrades among rank grass. "But I am your surgeon, and I forbid you. You Hardly had my notice been withdrawn from ~ silver shield with Ws name, company, and regiment The place was noted for adders, and the youths have every symptom of typhoid fever; a little over- dru=er-boy when Corporal S-- turned toward engraved upon it. We took possession of this me talked about them. Instantly this lad felt some exertion will kill you." · me, and exclaimed, "Look there ! " I looked in mento, and fortunately finding a fragment of a thing enter the leg of his pantaloons and twist it "Well, Doctor, if I must die, I would rather die the direction indicated, and beheld a sight at once cracker-box, marked upon it in pencil, by moon self with the swiftness of lightning round his thigh. in the field than in an ambulance." so horrible and sublime that it will ever form a liv light, the inscription found on the shield. We He stopped terrified, and a· careful examination The Doctor saw it was useless to debate the point, ing picture in my memory. A strong, stalwart buried him with two of bis comrades, one of wMm proved that the adder was a creature of his imagin and the soldier went as he desired. On the even fellow, with the cheverons of a sergeant on his arm, belonged to the Fffih Corps, and placed the rude ation. The vividness of the fancy of this youth ing of the next day it fell to my lot to bury him ragged and torn, was limping slowly toward us. board at the head of his grave in the hope that it made his waking senses and his discerning facul where he fell, his right arm blown off at the elbow, The shoe on his right foot was covered with blood, would some day enable some pilgrim-friend to find ties of no more use to him for the moment than if and his forehead pierced by a Minie ball. His name and a large rent in his pantaloons, just above the the body. Since that day the shield has been sent they had been asleep. we could never learn; we only know that he be knee, from which the blood was also trickling, to the soldier's father; its inscription was, "S. L. This condition of the brain is called by the sa longed to the Third Division of the Sixth Corps, solved the question of the location of his wound. Caldwell, Company D, 118th Pennsylvania Volun- vans hallucination. Mueller, the physiologist, and and that mark we placed at the head of his grave. He was hatless, his hair was disordered, his face teers." • Goethe, the poet, have both described hallucinations Shortly after 5 o'clock the bugle sounded "Fall and hands were begrimed with smoke and powder, It was half an hour after midnight when we came to which they were subject, and which they com in." At once drivers of ambulances sprang to their and he looked altogether maniac-like and exhaust into camp, and half an hour after that, lying with pared in conversation together. The rarest case, seats, and the rank and file to their feet from the ed. But he had his col 4:2 HAHPER 8 WEEKLY. [JANUAUY 161 1864, "What a lucky fellow you are, Ames! I might ence of as handsome men and superior officers? his heart is roused. One of those earnest believers SEND THEM HOME. go to the city twenty times, with a list of orders as Perhaps, unconscious to herself, nature asserted it whose faith sometimes makes them blind. So when SEND them home to hiB mother-mournful relics nnd few; long as your arm, all sorts of bearish thing to buy, self for that time, and he sat there listening to the badinage about Miss All thnt he left behind him, our soldier tried nnd true. but never such a duck of an order as 'Miss Nilson's "She looked at him ns one who awakes." Nilson, he suddenly caught a look on Ames's face gaiter-boots!' " P erhaps later she pleased herself \vith the youth, that set him thinking. He knew that look and The cnp with the Maltese cross, nnd badge of honor, the 1 mark "Who is Miss Nilson?" asked Jack Grier, lift letting her heart out more fully and simply, be all it meant. He remembered a time not so very Made by the cowardly bullet nt the picket aimed in the ing his large shoulders out of the depths of the old cause unaware of herself, because she thought both long ago, when Ames was in college, and had got dark: leather chair, and bending forward with slowly too little and too much of tbis young man to sup his head set the wrong way with the full belief gathering interest. that it was the right way; and when his friends The uniform torn, and mended by 'lands unused to the pose there was any clanger. Whatever the rea "The prettiest little rebel in the town or all the toil, sons, from that first "evening," when her aunt, as opposed him he put his face resolutely against Faded by sun and by rain, browned by the dust nnd the country about here l" a relief to the Northern loyalty that had been pent them, with just that pained determination for ex , soil. The flush on Adj ntan t Ames's light skin deep up so long, sent out to the officers of the Federal pression. It was an awful scrape at last, Cap ened, and he broke in hastily upon this assertion : tain G--, who was then one of the seniors, re Send them home to his mother-the pictures we found on army, who now held the town, cards for her recep 'I No such thing. llliss Nilson may not be en his breast, tion, these two, Adele Nilson and Fletcher Ame. membered, and throughout it that look had haunt Iler own, and his father's, and hers, the girl whom he thusiastic in the Federal cause, but she is uo rebel. had progressed more rapidly in their acqunintanct ed him. loved the best.. You must make allowance for her associations when than any of the others, though Donovan hall cs '\?ft.h this previous knowledge of him, of his you expect her io think of the South as we do. sayecl all his grace of pleasing, which was more warmth, his enthusiasm, his rashness, and that Send it-tbe Bible be cherished, and rend by the flicker Besides, she doesn't know any thing, nor care any blind devotedness of character, he felt at once what ing light than most men's, and even the General had pnicl Of the candle that burned in the tent, till the "tattoo" thing for politics any way." deferential attention to his hostess's charming niece, depth of feeling the flushing cheek, the silence, the sounded at night. Nobody had expected this earnest protest, aud who, according to Captain G--, ought to be a clenched under- lip, meant at the discovery and Donovan and Grier shouted; but over the face of good Union girl, but who, by Donovan's assertion, light talk of Donovan and Grier on that day. He ?u.other, weeping afar, and breaking thine heart for the the graye Captain a keen look shot, and he darted was "the prettiest little rebel in the country saw too, by the few words of attempted exculpation boy out from heavy eyebrows a close glance of scrutiny That God and his country have taken, we give thee greet- round." The young fellow had slender proof in which he flung out for Miss Nilson, how really ing nnd joy! at the annoyecl and flushing face of his Adjutant. his O\vn experience of this assertion; and it was ignorant and in the cl ark he was with regard to her In a moment, without being observed, he finished perhaps unjust for him to assert upon the gnrblecl actual sentiments. With his peculiar qualities, Never a· blush shall creep, like a shadow, over thy brow his scrutiny; the usual grave, calm mask dropped accounts o( rumor. I do not think he had ever argued the grave Captain, that "little thing as For him-n hero on earth, n saint in glory now. down over his features ; and he said : personally heard much more than a few things like soft as silk" may do infinite mischief. Not that Blessed art thou among women !-thy tribute pure and "Oh, I remember the young lady; lives with this. he believed that l\Iiss Nilson would be able to sweet, her aunt there, over in the Reynold mansion. She Standing one evening in the vicinity of his Gen poison her admirer's mind with traitorous princi Thine ointment costly nnd precioue, thou hast poured nt ought to be a good Union girl; the aunt is stanch eral, who was in conversation with Miss Nilson, ples. "God forbid l" ejaculated the Captain as he the Master's feet. as steel. What hinders 1\Iiss Nilson?" the following bit of talk reached him. brooded over the matter in his room; ''hut when So •oftly, tenderly fold them, nnd send the relics away: "What hinders? oh, early association," laughed "You were in Newport three summers ago?" once Ames gets to going it blind, there's no know Mother, o. mother was with him, and klsaed thy boy to Donovan. "I know the whole story. The aunt " Yes, and almost every summer previous. I ing what to expect;, and so he'll believe in her :my day. is Northern, bone and sinew; came here only half never missed any pleasme so much. I loved New way, and she'll like enough make an unconscious a dozen years ago-a second wife to old Guy Rey The colors he loved are lying on the heart so lately port locally. Ah me!" with a little sigh, " I don't tool of him, aud pump him for something she wants brave: nold; first love or some sort of romance. Before know when I shall stand on those beaches again." to know." And every day he would find himself With dirge, and prnyer,_nnd weeping, we'll carry him to the war broke out the Hon. Guy dies, leaving Mrs. "Why not? Why not go this summer: us a musing in this strain, and haunted by that small his grave. Reynold with the guardianship of his niece, and Unionist you are safer there than here;" and the commission Donovan had read out: "l\Iiss Nilson's so tied into this slave property that she must stay courteous General smiled down into the pensively gaiter-boots." "What sends that into my mind Then go, little mournful packet, and by that desolate here, will she nil she. So there's the whole thing hearth interesting face. so persistently?" he thought. "Last night I Tell U1at march and battle nre over, and the soldier's" off in a nut-shell. There's the reason why the aunt is "Am I?" dreamed of them ; seven-leagued boots they were duty'' on c1nth. a stanch Unionist, and there are the 'early asso Just the two syllables; but Donovan facing a transformed into then, and pounding away, with all C.usr TYLS:n Hosrn.u., DA.i..T1t.1ons. ciations' you see of Miss Nilson to hinder." mirror caught a certain look which the General sorts of captured plans of ours, into the rebel camp. This time Fletcher Ames kept silence ; but the lost. Long after, when subsequent events made And this morning the first thing I thought of when blonde cheek changeu its colors too frequently to every thing connected with that time a matter of I awoke was, 'l\Iiss Nilson's gaiter-boots.' Con MISS NILSON'S GAITER-BOOTS. conceal the deep interest he felt in the matter, and deep interest, Major Donovan used to tell of" that found it, what have I to do with her boots? She's the uneasy gnawing of his lip gave signal of an look," which he called a" concealed sneer,"" hard not 111y fair enslaver. What ails me? Zounds!" ADJUTANT iUms sat at Captain G--'s table, noyance. In a moment after when he had gone, and triumphant." Then once, later than this, just The grave Captain got up ancl walked down the in the little library the Captain had turned into an Captain G--renewed the subject with Donovan, a few of them stood by the winter fire on a windy, room with the excitement of bis new thought, office and reception-room since he had been ap asking some leading questions. How long had rainy night, drinking the rare Johannisberger, which at that moment flashed into his mind. The pointed Provost down there. He sat bending over Ames known Miss Nilson? which l\Irs. Reynold, in her zeal for the cause and new thought gave him some trouble: he couldn't a memorandum-book, and writing rapidly to the " Oh, don't y01.: remember that night when l\Irs. them, brought forth from its sacred cobwebs for get reconciled to it. Being a staid, sensible fellow, Captain's dictation. Grier and Donovan were at Reynold was ' at home,' for the first time, last Feb their use. As before, they stood facing the mirror, with no fanciful imaginings, this new idea looked the window smoking, idly observant of Ames and ruary, I think; and we four went down to pay our and the General held the younger lady of the house suspicious to him. He looked at it from all quar his work. AU four had been old acquaintances compliments and drink Johannisberger? I don't in talk. ters. He accused himself of nervousness, then long ago, in the old times of peace, when the opera, believe Ames has missed one of those ' evenings' "This is fine old wine," he said, as he lifted his laughed as he glanced at his physique; the healthy the club, or a boat-race, had been chief topics of in since, if we have. I saw he was getting spooney glass tci the light; "but you have none, let me-" flesh and muscle. He smoked upon it; he slept terest. Very old times these seemed to the four on the niece at once. A pretty little creature to he took a step forward, but a motion stayed him, upon it; and finally accepted it as something out young men in their well-worn and a little shabby be sure; not a bit your idea of a Southern girl. A and the words, of his power to reject. uniforms, with here and there a button wanting, a little thing as "soft as silk." I never could get on "No; pardon me, I only drank this with my "There's something on your Captain's mind fodeu stripe, a rusty bit of gold-braid, a whitened with her. She bas a way of looking at a man in uncle.,, more than ordinary," said Donovan to Lieutenant seam, etc. These four, who Imel once stood fault a serene sort of silence, giving him one or two "Ah yes, I can understand. I shoulu be glad Grier. "It's something about Ames, I'm think less in varnished boots and miraculous ties, wait smiles for lumps of sugar' ha lazy kind of air, to drink this wine with the owner who had stored ing. Heard any thing?" ing for the first step of a Redowa to come stealing as if she'd as lief ;1'ou held your tongue as no•.'' _,. it so long \go; there is a peculiar pleasure in that, No, Grier never heard any thing. Grier look out from the drum sounds, and the "flute violin Grier roused with a laugh here. even to one who has no nearer tie of association." ed straight ahead, and smo-heu his pipe in pence bassoon." Since then their ears had been attuned "No," he cried out; "Donovan wouldn't like " If the owner had been here you had never like a steady healthy worker as he was. to different meanings when they stood waiting for that, his tongue is his strong point." stood there drinking,, this Johannisberger, Gen This was the day before Adjutant Ames was ex the sounds of the drum; and their companions So the subject passed off with a laugh for the eral." pected back. The next afternoon Captain G- were no longer wnite-robed fairies, whose light time. When these four renewed it again, no one Looking with a pleased sense of enjoyment into went over to camp. weight rested on their arms like soft plumy doves of them felt like laughing. the rosy depths of his glass, conscious only of com "I want to see Ames when he returns," he had as they glided down the gay rooms; but men, worn "What interested the Captain so much in fort in the warmly-lighted rooms, the sparkling said to Lieutenant Grier as he was mounting his a ncl swart, and sometimes savagely in earnest, Ames's flirtation, eh, J nck? Did you notice ?" fire, the General did not catch any bitterness in horse. "If I'm not here when he comes just send stood instead, and for all weight there was a gleam Yes, Grier had noticed, and did think it rather that low-spoken sentence, did not observe any an orderly for me. Directly he returns, you re ing sabre, or at intervals the dead burden of a fall queer; but in half an hour they had forgotten all change in the serene girl-face. But looking inlo member." ing comrade. Donovan, the quondam dandy of these speculations awakened by "Miss Nilson's the mirror, Donovan averred that the beautiful · Donovan had come over from his quarters, and the party-the" curled darling," whose warm Irish gaiter-boots," while he who had most to do with eyes shot balllful fires, and that tl1e voice was stood by, on the piazza. He gave a whistle when blood thrilled at any touch of festivity-was per them was on his way to Washington. smothered with hatred ; but as he said, the General the Captain rode off, and said to Grier : haps remembering all these past scenes that offered And lie did not forget that one small item on his merely took it for a simple fact, and, la.:zghing "I told you so." Turning into the house, he their broad contrasts to the present; for as he long list so quickly. Remembering it, he remem good-humoredly, answered, followed tlie Lieutenant into the Provost's little of smoked, a spark falling from his short pipe and bered a large pleasant parlor, where the deep em "No, no; I suppose not: your uncle would have fice, minded for a dish of chat; if he had been of burning a clean hole in his trowsers called forth brasured windows looked out upon the cl ark flow stranded on die State rights, you think?" the other sex, it would have come under the name this ejaculation, with a grim smile: ing river and the distant hills. A room whose "A moment after she became aware that I was of gossip. "That'll do, eh, for a bullet-hole, to take back twilight glooms, where the musky odors of old observing her,'' continued this suspicious young But Grier had other employment-writing for for glory to Kate Morris's soldiers' party, Jack?" woods, of cedar and sandal, had helped to fix the historian, "and she spread her little hands with the Provost which must be done; so there was no Jack Grier laughed, answering lazily, yet not spell in memory, as indelibly as it had been stamped the most innocent deprecation in the world, and chat for Donovan there; and away he sauntered without a kindly interest in gay little dandy Tom upon his young impassioned heart. Sitting there declared she had no interest in politics; what did smoking his short pipe, and laughing good-humor Donovan, now turned into fighting Tom : in the car he remembered Adele Nilson as he saw State rights mean? etc." - edly at "the greatest plods he ever saw." " Go in your waistcoat, Tom; that's riddled her on that first "evening,'' when he had stood From this Donovan came to the conclusion that Grier sat there writing until the sun went down, enough with the veritable lead." with his brother officers in her presence. "A little llliss Nilson was the p1·ettiest little rebel in the throwing his head up occasionally when an iron " Waistcoat I-there, that reminds me-good for thing as soft as silk," sphered round, as it were, by country round. Perhaps if she had smiled upon heel rung on the piazza without, or a shadow dark you, Jack! I say, Ames, I want a new waistcoat. that cool, serene silence which had baffied and held him at first-if she had looked into his eyes with ened the window; but twilight fell, and no Adju Will you put me down on your list? Like this aloof the gay insouciant Donovan, who dwelt in e:o: those alluring eyes of her own-if she had spoken tant Ames had appeared, though a boat had sound you know. ie,•er has mv measure. I'm not sur~ teriors. But Fletcher Ames remembered what a to him with that special significance which ap ed whistle down the river, and the scream of a lo though, by Jove! I know the inches, however. thrill had surprised him as he had met those dark pealed to Adjutant Ames-he would not have been comotive had proclaimed the last means of arrival. Here-don't take your glove oft:....hand the memo lovely eyes-eyes which held his own for a mo so sharp-sighted. He might then have followed It was growing dark, and he was sending a serv randum to me; I'll put it down." ment longer than the others, as if their owner had intoxicate, down the soft glooms of the garden on ant for lights when a bend at the window and a Ames, who had finished his work had risen discovered a different nature in him; ancl then the those early days of spring, feeling only the charm voice stopped his meditations, and sent them fly 1 drawing on his gauntlets. He tossed the book t~ few cool tones-Donovan would have called them of her magic presence, and ready to "do or die for, ing into another channel. Donovan at this, and sat down, waiting. Talking words of ice, but they dropped like fine pearls be sigh or swear for;" more than all, the latter; for "Jack, I say, Ames has come." with the Captain, he didn't notice that Donovan fore Adjntant Ames. who under these circumstances could ever doubt or "Where is he?" And up jumps Grier all alert. instead of immediately adding his commission t~ We have all of us, perhaps, at some time felt disbelieve in Adele Nilson, could ever believe her " Gone clown to Neale's quarters. He met the the list, was idly twiddling the pencil between his this sudden nearness, this being specialized bv a on any other side than that of the broadest hu Colonel and reported to him, and the Major want thumb and finger, while he ran his eye down the stranger, that to others seemed colcl and incliffere'nt; manity? He might from some subtle magnetism ed him to take tea with him. Here, where you colmnn: "Spurs for Loring, eh? ditto for Brown; and we all know how fascinating it is, and how it have taken so much for granted, that like young going? Wait and hear the postscript. Coming cap, coat, and trowsers; shaving-soap, tooth actually does bring us nearer and establish a cer Ames he would have forgotten that never on any up street who should we meet but Miss Nilson and brushes, nail-brushes, blank books and blankets . tain relation which no amount of expressed cordial occasion hacl he ever heard llliss Nilson " commit her aunt. Ames dropped behind with the bright Harper's Weekl~ and Magazine-th;t's jolly! watch ity could do. herself" on the side of humanity, or indeed upon est face you ever saw, and I heard him say, 'I for Latham, cham; um, um, um-how much more?" Ames felt all this, and more, as the "stranger" any other side; that she walked with him and shall have the pleasure of bringing your boots round ~n a low, running under-tone, which suddenly broke was a woman youthful and fair. It would be diffi talked with him, apparently with the simplest free this evening, Miss Nilson.' The girl actually trem mto a louder key, that brought all the rest to a cult to tell why Adele Nilson thus specinlizecl dom, yet guarded or utterly silent on the grand bled, and turned red and pale as he spoke. I clear know.ledg~ of what he was saying-" Eh! Fletcher Ames. Difficult, because what might ap subject of the clay. But l\Iajor Donovan from the didn't think she had so much in her. By George, what? 'Miss Nilson's gaiter-boots!'" pear so natural a thing for a girl whose eye was first had never been smiled upon, never been spoken Jack I believe it's a go there!" And Donovan, Adjutant Ames commanded himself enough to pleased, and whose sensibility was touched by the to with special significance, therefore he was· not fair!; started, was lounging in for his "gossip" keep his seat. He was so~ely tempted at the first manly and spirited address of the young officer spelled into un!lsking sympathy and belief like when the Lieutenant vaulted over the sill and to dash forward and seize ti:~ memorandum and united with that gentle air of deference, was ~ young Ames; and perhaps, too, readier to suspect dashed past him, calling out to an orclerly passing: administer some sharp reproof at once to'the offend strange and exceptional thing for Adele Nilson · from the little shadow of pique which might have "Smith Smith, take my horse and run him down er. The next moment proved his wisdom. There because she was not impulsive nor enthusiastic and settled even i1pon good-natured Tom Donovan. to camp, and give Captain G-- this!" banding was a general laugh- kind, good-natured, and gen because beneath that exterior as "soft as ~ilk" But his thought went no further than this fact: Smith a slip of paper containing the intelligence tlemanly; and then Fletcher Ames was very glad there was P?~er and purpose of no mean quality, That l\Iiss Nilson, that "little thing as soft as of Ames's arrival. Finding Smith just detailed he hadn't made a fool of himself by overrating and an nmb1t1on that stopped at no slight barriers silk,'' was a rebel sympathizer. Captain G--'s for duty by the Colonel, and no other messenger what was, after all, only a careless natural action. and that stooped to nothing less than the loftiest went further. in view, he mounted and rode off himself. How many times had they pored over each other's places. It had been said of her too that she had "What interested the Captain so much in'Ames's Incurious as Lieutenant Grier was, an emotion memorandums when a week's furlough had sent rejected some of the finest names i~ the State for of surprise and wonder did come over him as he one and another to the city laden with commissions flirtati ..i, eh?" these lofty reasons of hers, and had kept her heart Sr .aething that went deeper than Ames's flirtn noted the eagerness which the Captain mnnifest for the others! He had never thought of being under the strong control of her head all through tio:.. as a simple matter of heart-interest. He knew ecl in his desire to get back ; and though a man annoyed before ; but then before "Miss Nilson's This was Adllle Nilson at twenty-three. Does it of few words, Grier found himself repeating to him gaiter-boots" hadn't been on the list. He flushed Fletcher Ames better than either of the others. seem .strange that with this character one should Knew him to be one of those single-minded, nrdent Donovan's "postscript." As he finished, his list to the roots of his blonde hair as he pondered this. question and marvel at her special favor either of ener ejaculated, under his breath, "I shall be too And Donovan was running on gayly : natured persons, who will go straight on to death, look or tone, to young Adjutant Ames ~ the pres- or into misery, without so much as a question, when late!" and the next moment was urging his horse JANUAUY 16, 1864.l HARPER' EEKLY._ 43 to his topmost speed. The Lieutenant followed at power warned him away? As they stood thus a What passionate, tender words, imploring him to colder than a ctone to him ; to see her frtr and a more leisurely pace, his wonder not lessened by plunging footstep through the thicket, the panting go no further, for the vow that lay between them he sweet, like the proud fair dame he rememb.:red that low-lireatloecl sentence. of some one in haste broke into the "divinity that could never think of afterward without tears. And that she lookeq on that first meeting. But thcr~ "Too late for what? One would think it was hedged them round." Then a voice broke farther there were tears then dimming his eyes as he held a~ his feet lay his idol; "shattered, desecrated a case of high treason," he mused. yet. Some one was calling him, some dire neces her strained to his heart. overthrown." And while these thoughts wer~ And while they ride, in that old dark parlor, sity had arisen for him. He was as brave a fellow "Think"-she said, at last, drawing herself thronging in his mind he heard the Captain talk half lost in twilight glooms, Adele Nilson waits for a~ ever fought on battle-field. He was never away-" think what it is you refuse me. I ask ing, and listened vaguely as in a dreadful dream. her young lover. Her young lover! Does she known to shrink from the most sudden alarm of you only to have faith in m·e. If you told me the But what was that? "Halliday would have los~ know herself at last? Does the head-that proud action; but a sick shiver went shuddering through co?tents of a letter you held in your hand, do you his colors if this had been carried out. Indeed the suhtle head-acknowledge so much to the heart? him as he heard this voice. .Alas, poor prophetic think I should not be as sure of your word as if I whole regiment must have been sacrificed down Her young lover? heart! had read it myself~ There are but ns two here, there." There is certainly impatience in that waiting Back by the same path he went, and she was and I ask of you only to go back to your Captain Then there broke into his poor struggling mind figure: the bent head, the eager eyes straining into by his side, and now and then her voice was in and say you did not find what he sent you for; who listened the thought of the cause that he the gathering dark, the unwonted flush upon her his ear, and once, in some dark moment, she that there was no ground: )r his suspicions; for you loved better than any other cause. Better than cheek, the burning scarlet of her lips-these all de slipped and his arm upheld her; but still that believe this-you have faith in me?" friends, or home, or mistress. Yes, better than nota the fever of delay. Will she dare to meet mysterious distance, and the sick shiver at his · "I haye faith in you; but oh! my darling, my these. For a moment it had been obscured ; but him with these sign~? Will she confess so much heart. At the door the light from within streamed faith will not serve for them; I have no right-" there it lay, pure pearl of patriotism, shining to him? A step turning upon the stone-walk, a out upon a tall figure, with a sad, stern face, his "And then you give me up. Wait, oh! wait a through tears, radiant, indestructible. mailed heel upon the doorway threshold, and the riding boots splashed with mud, and great beads moment yet; you may be mistaken in your judg He rose up-his bright enthusiastic face aged question is answered. She goes out to meet him of perspiration standing upon his forehead. Ile ment of the right." with that night's work-a sorry sight to look upon, with two hands extended, all the dark soft night had ridden hard. To give her up! He looked at her. There she for you would have known that never would the softened into her eyes, her lips parted into smiles, " Captain G--!" stood, dark glowing, her splendor softened with the faith and hope you had once seen be seen there and a faint exhilarant excitement visible as she "Adjutant, just a moment, if you please;" and glory of love-there she stood tempting him ! any more. Youth had gone forever. says, the Captain lifted his hat to Miss Nilson for apology The blood rose to his brain-a mist came over The Captain wrung his hand without a word as "Ah, you have come !" as he arew her companion away. his faculties; but one thought boomed through the he went out; but he looked the sympathy that What lover could ask more than t4ose words, in Their conference was brief, but it had wrought whirl and confusion: "She is mine until I give men can to one another, without much ado of out that tone, with that face? a strange change upon the youth and beauty that her up!" ward expression. When it became known, as it He bent down, and she felt a pressure warm shone so joyfully a brief time since. The next minute he had her in his arms, her had to be, among the officers there, what a con and fervent upon the two hands he was holding; When had Adjutant Ames ever been known to lovely face held against his breast. "llfine until spiracy had been discovered in Miss Nilson's gaiter then the silken touch of his fine beard brushed hesitate in the obeying of an order? Never. But I give her up ! What if, after all, I am wrong in boots, and through whose agency, there was a good softly over her fingers as he lifted his head. She now he not only hesitated at the charge given him my judgment of the right? Mine! mine !"-and deal of keen jesting a.bout the means of correspond grew suddenly pale; an embarrasqment that was by his Captain and Provost Marshal, but he actu the world seemed to slip away. ence; but though these gay young men knew hut not shyness oppressed her. Out of it she spoke ally forgot their army relation and all military et In this time her one thought was, "I have con a part of what Captain G--had such sad knowl quickly: iquette, as he had neve, done before, and expostu quered!" It was no simple emotion of triumph edge of, yet to their honor be it said, that in the "You brought me something?" lated in vehement under-tones that had a note like that any girl with greed of power might feel. It presence of Adjutant Ames there was never any He was not daunted n01: troubled by this pallid a repressed cry trembling in them. was salvation from mortal peril. It was rescue jest or unnecessary allusion concerning the subject. embarrassment. The powerof his nature was "It is absurd, preposterous, Richard!" he said, from an abyss so dark and deep, an abyss that site Something in that· stern, pale face touched them making its assertion; and still with his look hold going back to their old relations of intimacy in ex knew how well would engulf this new-found love, with silent respect. Ames had changed, they said. ing hers, though smiling now, he answered her pression. and give her in exchange an agony of pity, of He was no longer the bright fellow he used to be. question: "I will stake my own loyalty upon this." horror, from which no wonder that she shrank. There was nothing but work in him now. "I have brought you Cinderella's shoes." But the Captain shook his head. These were her conclusions. Yes, Ames had changed! She flamed into color again as she touched the "No, no ; it will not do; nothing will do but She had conquered! package, and her hand was unsteady and cold, what I have said. I have charged you with it, No. The mad, mocking dream went by, and that had lately been so firm and warm. He saw Ames, because I trusted you utterly, and I felt it the true heart asserted itself. And still he held WALTERS. NEWHALL. and felt all th is; and there was a look in his face would be less painful for you to carry it out than her there, Still the lovely face crushed out of as if he would guard her from all confession for to intrust it. to any one else; for if it happened that sight against his breast; but when he stooped;md OB. DE 44 HARPER'S WEEKLY. [JANUARY 16, 1864. ARCHBISHOP HUGHES. speech to the Catholics of New York, at the time of the riots of last July. TrrE Catholic Archbishop of New Thia speech was sharply and, we York, the Rev. JOHN HuouEs, died think, justly criticised. Its intent on Sunday evening, January 3, aged was good; but we thought at the nbout 65 years. Few men of hie time, and must think still, that it clay exercised so wide an influence, contained some highly objectionable social, moral, and political, and few features. We apprehend that the men have exercised it, upon the mental, as well as the physical, whole, so honestly and wisely. He strength of the Archbishop was im was born in Ireland in 1798, the son paired when he made this speech, of a respectable farmer. He cnme which we are confident was heard to America in 1817, and soon after or read with regret by the best and became a student at the Catholic wisest of his friends. Apart from College at Emmetsburg, l\Iarylancl. this speech, conceived nncl deliverecl In 1825 he received ordination, ancl when the venerable prelate was not was npp.ointecl to the charge of a his old self, we think it would be church in Philadelphia, nncl became difficult to point to a single import recognized as a man of mark in his ant net in bis long administration Church. In 1838 he was appointed that was not wise and politic, and coadjutor to the venerable Bishop which, viewed from his own stand Dubois of New York, who was fast point, was not right and honorable. sinking under age ancl infirmity. He died as he had lived, a true man, A fortnight had hardly passed be and a sincere Christian. There will fore Bishop Dubois was struck down probably be a sbnrp contest, open or by paralysis, nncl the oversight of concealed, as to who shall succeed the Diocese fell upon l\Ir. Hughes, to the post left vacant by his death. who four years Inter, upon the death It will'be well for the Church and of his superior, became Bishop of the country if the second Archbishop New York. In this position he had of New York be, all in all, a worthy full scope for the exercise of his great successor of John Hughes. nclminist:rative powers. To tlie gen eral public he was best known by the various controversies in wl1ich THE "RAPPAHAN he was at several times engllged, prominent among which were those NOC.K." with Dr. John Breckenridge, that THERE are some cmious circum npon the Public School Question, stances connected with the screw that with his fellow-countryman, steamer Rappahannock, alias the Dr. Nicholas Murray (Kirwan), ancl Scylla, of Loudon, alias her l\Iajes one with the Hon. Erastus Brnoks. ty's steam-sloop Victor. The En But his true work was in the organi glish Admiralty, a short time ago, zation of tho affairs of his diocese, disposed of her Majesty's screw gun and the establishment of its educa vessel Victo1·, and, on being sold, tional and religious concerns upon a she was permitted to undergo some firm basil!? It would require a vol repairs under the superintendence ume to detail his labors. It is suffi of the clock-yard officials. It was cient to say that he gradually gath stated that she was intended for the ered into his own strong hands the China trade, and she was ostensibly entire control of the Catholic schools fitted with that view, while her name ancl churches of his Diocese. The was cbangecl to the "Scylla, of Lon amount of church property nominal don." Several suspicious circum ly vested in him has been stated at stances, however, occurred, and the fully lfrc millions of dollars. He clock-yard officials made a report to found bis Diocese wenk ancl clis the Admiralty. The result was the jointecl; he left it strong nncl con receipt of an order at Sheerness .di solidated. His position ga,•e him recting her to be stopped. The or great political influence ; this he der, however, arrived a few hours rarely used except when he thought too late. Those in charge of the the foterests of the Church were in vessel evidently suspected the in question, and then always wi(h tell tentions of the Go,·ernment, and had ~'..\~ e!fiti:.t. In 1850 the Diocese of her taken out of the harbor. She New York was divided by the erec immediately afterward hoisted the tion of the Sees of 41 bany ancl Buf Confederate flag, and she now sails falo, while that of New York was under the name of the Rappaltan raised to the dignity of an Arch\Jish nock. On lem·ing the Nore the Rap opric. After the breaking out of the paltannock sailed direct for Calais insurrection, Archbishop Hughes, at Harbor, in France, which she enter the desire of our Government, went ecl as a Confederate prh·ateer. The to Europe on a mission to aicl the Customs authorities at Calais, in an Union cause; for his exertions in swer to a qitestion, haye received this mission be received the official instructions from Paris to allow the thanks of the authorities of the City R appahannock to leave whenever her ofNewYork. 'Vithin a few months captain pleases. It is snicl tlint the his henltl1 began to give way, and Engiish Admiralty have also sold his public nppenrnnces became more the war steamers Amplaon, Cyclops, rare. Hi11 lm1t notable effo1·t waa hi1 THE LATE MOST REVEREND JOHN HUGHES, D.D., ARCHBISHOP OF NEW YORK.-[PnoTOGRAPHED BY BRADY.] and Plta:nix to " private purchaser~." TRll Rl~J:L SCRi:W STEAMER "RAPPAHANNOCK, LYINS Arr CALAIS, FR.A.NO. • JA:UAHY 16, 18G4.J HARPER'S WEEKLY. 45 . '}' :: DABOLL'S FOG-TRUMPET IN THE BRITISH CHANNEL. DABOLL'S FOG-TRUM~PET. cession for three minutes ; then they were all sound is placed in the smaller building, ns shown in the OBSTRUCTIONS IN CHARLESTON ed together for tbe same period of time, and after illustration. WE give on this page nn engraving of Dungeness ward made continuous until 2 P.M., when the bell The American public ha>e been made familiar HARBOR. Light-house, in the British Channel, where tbe En and horn ceased, and the fog-trumpet continued to with this signal through repeated discussions rela AN occasional correspondent from before Charles glish Government has recently stationed the FoG give its signals ·at intervals of ten seconds, with ti>e to its being placed on Cape Race. Captain ton sends us a sketch of a Floating Battery now ashoro TRUUPET invented by l\Ir. C. L. Daboll, of New five seconds' length of blast, until 3 P.M., when the Judkins, of the Cunard mail-steamer Scotia, in a near the beach, and of several obstrnctions to the London, Connecticut, and which is destined to pro trial ceased, and the yacht then steamed away for speech at Liverpool on the removal of Captain Stone harbor washed ashore during the late stonn. They duce a complete revolutio.ii in fog-signals for light Dover. \, \Q; •)lowing hie ..,e•Sel ·to get ''f ebore· in a fog r.t will be found below. Ile says: "'Tht;- ]}at;~,!R''-'W-l REBEL BATTERY AND OBSTRUCTIONS IN CHARLESTON HARBOR.-f FROM A.'\ OccASIONA.L CoRRESPONDEST.] .. HARPER'S WEEKLY.. (.'fANUARY 1 46 I 111 1~fl4~ ADVERTISEMENTS. "THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD.'' A Tru.ny Great Stcll"y. Caution THE GOLD PEN-THE BEST OF AJ,L PENS, FROM MonTo:N's GOLD PENS are now sold at the MORTON'S GOLD PENS, NOW READY IN eame prices as before ~!le commencement of the war ; this 'JIBE BEST PENS IN THE WORLD. The American Watch js entirely owing to the Mnnufncturer's Improvements in On receipt of any of the following sums in Cash, the The New York Weekly, mnchinery, his present farge Rctnil Business :i.nd Cash-in Subscriber will send hy return mail, or otherwise, as di. Companya Advn.nce System ; for, until he commenced advertising, rected, n Gold Pen or Peus-selecti71{/ the same according A STORY OF STARTLING INTEREST, ENTITLED, to description, viz. : his business was done on Credit and strictly tllith the Trade. GOLD PENS WITHOUT CASES. It having come to our knowledge that imitations of the The Morton Gold Pens are the only ones eold a.t old The Neglected Warnill:g; For 25 cents, the Magic Pen; for ns cents, the Lucky American Watch have been put upon the market in great prices, ns the makers of nll other gold pen• charge the Pen; for 50 cents, the Always-Ready Pen; for 75 cents, OB, Tim numbers, calculated, by their ntter worthlessner.s. to in Premium on tbe Gold, Government Tax, &c.; but Mor the Elegant Pen; and for $1, tho Excelsior Pen.-These jura the repntllition of our gcnuiue products-to in·otect ton hns in no cnsecha11ged his prices, Wholesale or Retail. Pens are not numbered, but correspond in sizes to numbers Trials of a our own jnterests and the public from imposition, we again 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 respectively. Of the grant numbers sent by mail to nll pnrtB of the publish the trnde marks by which our Watches may ia THE SAME PENS IN SILVER-PLATED EXTENSION world during the past few years, not one in a thousand CASES, WITH PBN(;ILS. PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER. var\ably he known. has foiled to reach its destination in safety; showing thnt For 50 cents, the Magic Pen ; for 75 cents, the Lucky From the pen of the gifted The First Grnde bas the nnme the Morton Gold Pen cnn be obtnlned b,1 any one, in every Pen ; for $1, the Alwnys-Ready Pen ; for $1 25, the Ele AMERICAN W ATUH CO. engraved on the inside plate. gant Pen; and for $1 50, the Excelsior Pen. pnrt of the world, at the snme price, postnge only excepted. These are Well-Finished, Good-Writing Gold Pens, >Vith MARY KYLE DALLAS, The Second Graefe has tbe name Reader, you cnn have n.n enduring, always ready, and Iridosmin Points, the average wear of every one of which APPLETON, TRACY & CO. engraved on the inside whose nnme has become a household word wherever the reliable Gold Pen, exnctly adapted to your bnnd and style will far outlast a gross of the beat Steel J:'ens; although plate. they arc unwarranted, and, therefore, not czcha71{Jeable. English language is spoken. of writing, which will do your writing vastly cheaper than The Third Grade has the name MORTON'S WARRANTED PENS. The story in question is mads-up of mingled fnpt and fic Steel Pens; and at the present nlmost universal High 11 P. S. BARTLETT engraved on the inside plate. The no.me l~A. Morton," HNumber, and HQuaHty,1 ' tion, and the lieroine is a young lady who from affluence Pressure P1ice of everyt.hing, you can have a Morton Gold are stamped on the following Pens, aud the points are war All the iibove grades have also is reduced to poverty by the death of a father, who is ren Pen cheaper, in proportion to the labor spent upon it and ranted for six months:, except against accident. Ai'IIBIUCAN WATCH CO. pninted on the dial, and are '!'he Number~ indicn.te size only: No.1 beingthesmllll dered bankrupt by the schemes and machinations of a vil matorial used, than any other Gold Pen in the Yvorld. wnrra.nted in every respect. est, No. 6 the htrgest, ndapted for the pocket; No. 4 the lain. Thus impoverished, the friendless girl looks to If you want one, see ·•The Pen is Mightier than the smallest, and No. 10 the largest .Ma=oth Gold Pen, for The Fourth Grade hns teaching in n public school for the means of support, and Sword,' 1 in next column. the de;k. WM. ELLERY engraved on the inside plnte, nnd has Long and Medium Nibs of all sizes and qualities. Short the authoress, with that nervous power which marks all Nibs of Numbers 4, 5, 6, and 7, and mnde only of first her liternry productions, carries her through_the trying not t.hc nnme "American Watch Co.'' painted on the dial. quality. AU of these grades of Watches are mnde of various The Deringer Pistol. ordeals which ever beset the young and friendless girl The Long and Short Nibs are fine pointed ; the Medium sizes, and are sold in golcl or silver casei;i, ns runy be re Nibs are Brond, Coarse Business points. Tlte engravings who tries to Jbtn.in n situation as teacher. Having been TIFFANY &. CO., quired. · are fac-similes of the sizes nnd styles. a teacher herself, Mrs. Dallas is thoroughly familiar with 550 and 552 Broadway. New York, It is hardly possible for us to accurately describe the nu GOLD PENS, WITHOUT CASES. her subject. She knows it in nil its details, from the com SOLE AGENTS FOR NEW YORK AND THE EAST merous imitations to whfoh we hnve n.lludcd. They are ERN STAT1'S. For $0 75 a No. 1 Pen, 1st quality; or a No. 3 Pen, 3cl mencement io the finish, and she is posted, also, with re quality. usually inscribed with names 1:10 nenrly appronching our By a recent arrangement with Mr. D!lRINGllR, the sub gard to the characters of most of those who occnpy promi For $1 UO a No. 2 Pen, 1st quality; or a No. 3 Pen, 2d own as to escape the observation of {he unaccustomed buy. scribers hswe undertaken the exclusive agency, for New quality; or a No. 4 Pen, 3c1 qul\lity. nent positions in relation to the management of the public York nnd Ne1v England, of tho well-known pocket arm of For $1 25, a No. 3 Pen, l at quality; or a No. 4 Pen, 2d school system. Where merit is due she freely accords it; er. Some ~re represented us made by the'' UNION WATOEI which he i.a the inventor nnd only manufacturer. They quality; or a No. 5 Pen, 3d quality. Co., of Boston, Mnss.,,-no such companyexisting. Some propose keeping constuntlyin store n full ruzsortment, com For $1 50, a No. 4 Pen, 1st quality ; or a No. 5 Pen, 2d but where censure is warranted, she applies it with an'lln are named the'' Soldier1s Watch,11 to be sold ns our Founrn prising all sizcR anll finishes of this nnique Pistol, an What a Blessing to the Ladies. SOLDIERS IN THE ARMY. B.ABP&IB~S FVr$12;u we will forward by mail ol--express, pre-paid, Illuminated and Pi-:--c-;t,_o,,_r.....1 -al,,______...,. For nearly half a century, amidst obstacles, t~ils," and the following list of Fine Gold-Plated Jewelry:-4 Vest disappointments, he has nobly sustained courage, and by Cha.ins, 12 Gent. 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