A CUP 07 COLD WATER.
BY ELLEN MURRAY
The wide hot field, where smoke and steam
Of battle only helped the beam
Of south-sun at its noon.
Where trench on trench was filled across
By dying man and struggling horse,
Where death was priceless boon.
There waking from the sudden sound
A soldier on the trampled ground
Was parching with his thirst;
And asked, but only heard, hard by
How dying rebels ia reply,
With bitter anguish cursed.
It seemed to him in fevered trance
He saw the sparkling runlets dance
By his New England home,
And take their way with whirl and loop
In emerald coolness down the steeps
To break in light and foam.
Upon the slope the flowors of May,
The mountain breezes round him play,
ne cannot feel their cool.
Yet watches from the rock’s bold side
How trout and minnow dart and glide
Across the dark, still pool,
no starts to feel his bitter pain
The burning fever-thirst again,
And moans beneath tho sun.
But tender hands were near to bear
To cooling shade and fresher air,—
—Gently their work is done.
He drinks the ice-cooled cup they give
And murmurs how tho angels live
By waters pure and clear,
That break in ripples on tho shore
And those who drink thirst nevermore;
Then sleeps to waken there.
Blessed be they throughout the land
Whose undismayed and tireless hand,
Present in sorest need,
Has help and comfort freely given,
The love of man, the smile of heaven
Be just and fitting meed.
THE SOLDIERS’ SONG.
Are yon all here, boys? We are here.
Will yoa stand by the Union? Never fear.
Then for Abr’am and the nation
Let us fight like all creation,
Give the “ chivalry” a taste of Yankee “cheer.”
Have yon been in Rebel prisons ? See our bones.
Have yon buried any comrades ? Count the stones.
Then for Abram and the nation,
Eight ’em, boys, like all creation—
Give the traitors ample measure for their groans.
God is just—you all know it ? That we do.
God is mightier than evil ? Very true.
Then for Abram and the nation,
Let us fight like all creation,
Till our bullets pierce Rebellion through and through.
Have yon sweet-hearts and wives? We are men.
Then dash away your tears.—And what then ?
Why, for Abram and the nation,
You will fight like all creation,
Till the Union, strong as ever, lives again!
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Details and Jottings.
The Fair buildings were orowded as usual
yesterday. Strange faces thronged every ave
nue, department and corridor, and bore testi
mony to the general and wide-spread interest
taken in the great patriotic, humanitarian
movement. To-day, we will have a visit from
the President to the Fair; and this circumstance
will attract crowds of visitors, who will hit two
birds with one stone by seeing the President
and the Fair at the same time. We resume
our notice of matters connected with the Fair:
THE SCHOOLS.
Since our notice of the Sohool Department,
we have reoeived a few more items in relation
to the Ninth Section. This section was un
avoidably omitted yesterday. The Twenty
lift li Section claims another paragraph.
NINTH SECTION.
As soon as the Fair enterprise was fairly
inaugurated, the Ninth School Section decided
on a concei t to be given by the Zane Street
Girls’ Grammar School. Seventy-three hun
dred tickets were sold, and as it was impossi
ble to obtain any larger room than the Aoademy
of Music, the house was uncomfortably full.
The sole of tickets would have been much
larger if it had been possible to accommodate
the multitude of friends who desired to be
present. To accommodate the thousands who
could not gain admittance, the concert was re
peated on Saturday afternoon, and $l5OO was
the result.
The concert over, scholars and teachers de
voted themselves to the pleasant duty of pre
paring, in the short time which remained,
articles for the table, the decorations of which
were a gift from two of the Directors. How
they succeeded all those who were fortunate
enough to see Ninth Section table on the day
of opening, can testify, If any have been de
prived of this pleasure, we can only recom
mend them to make their way at onoe to the
School Department, and find the centre stand,
immediately opposite the Restaurant, where is
to be seen the most beautifully decorated table
in the Fair.
Among these decorations we specially note
the Polish flag, bearing the Stanislaus coat-of
arms, on a crimson ground; an eagle, with
extended wings, over a handsome frame con
taining the resolutions prepared by Select and
Common Council to be presented to Major-
General Hancock. These resolutions were
kindly loaned by Mr. Everman, Councilman
of the 24th Ward. A committee of the direc
tors superintended the deoorating of the por
tion allotted to this section, and as we passed
by, before the Fair opened, we saw the übi
quitous Mr. Young, mounted high in air, ham- '
mer in hand, while Mr. Keen handed over the
tacks to fasten up the most beautiful paneled
paper in the building, which had been kindly
contributed by Mr. Brown, while the approv
ing smiles of Mr. Tenbrook and Mr. Beesley
testified to their deep interest in the affair.
The table has been presided over by relays
of teachers, managed under the supervision of
Miss Webb in such a way that no school has
been closed. The teachers, generally, have
manifested great interest and zeal in every
thing connected with the Fair.
TWENTY-FIITH SECTION.
In our previous notice of this Section, we
should have referred to a handsome silver set;
a beautiful vase of wax fruit; one very large
and handsomely-dressed doll; a miniature
sofa; children’s clothing of the most beautiful
and fashionable goods; in fact, it is impossible
to particularize among so many. A frame,
prepared from relics from the battle-field of
Gettysburg, made by Miss Mary Leioler, of
the Carroll School, deserve notice; also, the
models of two vessels, one a full-rigged ship,
enclosed in a glass-case, the other of a fast
sailing yacht. The latter was made by the
pupils of the Irving school. Suspended from
the ceiling are three bead baskets, a quilt
from the ladies of Nicetown, and one from the
Carrol School. Altogether, the Twenty-fifth,
for a rural Section, has done well.
PRIVATE SCHOOLS.
A number of tables in this department are
filled with contributions from Private Sohools,
and the display made by each is very credi
table.
MISS SMITH’S SCHOOL.
Perhaps there are none in the Fair, who
have accomplished more, in proportion to their
opportunities, than the young ladies of Miss
Smith’s School.
For years they have had a sewing society
for the benefit of the poor, but when Sumpter
was fired, their charity found a new ohannel,
—charity! they rather had the privilege of
contributing their mite to the noble men who
were hazarding life itself, for our common
country.
They knit one hundred pairs of stockings, made
five hundred housewives, shirts and drawers,
besides sending boxes of hospital stores to
several points during the past two years.
Last Fall, at the commencement of the
school year, they re-organized under the title
of the “Sanitary Aid,” tributary to the Sani
tary Commission, and bright faces lit up from
warm hearts, met Tuesday after Tuesday, not
to “ chase the glowing hours with flying faces,”
but to ply red flannel with busy fingers.
When the Fair was projected, they announ
ced the first private entertainment given for
its benefit in this city,—a series of Tableaux
which will linger in the memories of those who
saw them.
The maternal anoestor of our first families,