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THE BRAVE AT HOME
LY 1. ECCriA.SAN I-iAD
The maid who bind* her warrior's sash,
TVjth .snub: that well h->r {Kdn dissembles,
The while beneath her drooping lash
One starry tear-drop li-.ng> and trembles,
Though Ili-awn alcn** the tear.
And Fame rduU never know her frtorv.
Her h*'art has nhod a drop as dear
An over dewod tho Feld of gWry.
The wiff who gird' hu=band*? ewurd,
'Mid little ones' w’no weep br wonder,
And bravely speak* tlio cheering word,
■'Although her heart be rent asunder—
Doomed nightly fu her dr-\ams to hoar
The bolt* of war aroand'him rattle—
Hath shed a* sacred blood ai o'er
Wao pour-'d upon tho field of battle!
in.
The mother who conceals her grief,
While to lie: breast her'son sho presses,
Then breathes a fvw bravo word* and brief,
Kissing the patriot brow she bUsacs,
With no one but-her secret Cod,
To know ilm pain that weighs upon her,
Shed* holy blood as e'er the *od
Received on Freedom’* field of honor!
Home’, July, 1301.
Select Ipsallim]).
S. DE. KAY’S ACCOUNT OF THE
BATTLE,
The following is the'account given by
S. De Kay, the Louisville Courier’s cor
respondent, of the battle of the Manassas.
It will be observed that he was under the
impression that.Ucn, Pattersons division
had reached the field of battle. In a let-
ter written two or three days earlier than
this, he savs Gen. Johnston’s army was
ordered to,Manassas, because Gen. Patter
son had marched with his column to help
M'Dowell. The correspondent seems to
have been confused by the rumors of the
camp. The Southern general officers un
questionably knew how the ease stood. —
The Cuvrier’s correspondent speaks of the
battle as having boon nearly lost by the
South at one time; and he admits that the
slaughter in the Southern ranks was ter
rible.
It was not the good fortune of your cor
respondent to be'in the engagement, that
portion of General Johnston s army to
which the Kentucky battallipn is attached
having been detained at Piedmont by a
railroad accident. We reached the field
of battle just as the victory had been
gained, and only bad the mingled satisfac
tion and sorrow of joining in the huzzas
and uniting in the sadiameutations. The
battle opened on Sunday morning about
five o’clock, near Bull Bun, some four
miles from Manassas: Junction, the Icd
erals advancing with an immense column
fifty-four thousand strong, under Gen.
M’Dowell. The engagement was not gen
eral, the artillery only playing at intervals
until seven o’clock, when the firing of
cannon and musketry became very hot,
and the action was fairly opened.
"Don't LIKE YANKEE TRICKS.
Here an unfortunate mistake for a time
threw our line into confusion. The Yan
kees, infamous in their tricks of war as
well as trade, advanced a large column
headed by the Confederate Flag, and when
within forty yards opened a deadly fire
upon the Fourth Alabama Regiment.—
This caused a retreat, which the South
Carolinians observing, they opened upon
the Alabamians, thinking them enemies,
and nearly decimated their ranks. About
the same time General Beauregard heard
heavy firing several miles to the right,
and immediately went with our main
body to the scene of the supposed conflict.
But this was another decoy. The Yan
kees had sent a largo quantity of ordnance,
with only men sufficient to' man the guns,
| so as to attract the attention of our forces
from the main point of attack. Quickly
discovering the ruse, Beauregard double
quieked his troops to the former battle
field, from which wo bad been driven buck
some two miles. Now came the tug of
war. ■ - !s
THE FORTUNES 01’ THE DAY AGAINST US.
Thu fortunes of the day were evidently
apainst us. Some of our best officers had
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been slain, and the flower of our army
lay strewn upon the field, ghastly in death
or gaping with wounds. The cannona
ding at noon is described as terrific. It
was an incessant roar, for more than two
hours —the havoc and devastation at this
time being fearful. McDowell, with the
aid of Patterson’s division of 20,000, had
very nearly outflanked us, and were just
in the act of possessing themselves of the
railway to Richmond. Then all would
have been lost. B.ut most opportunely —
I may say Providentially—at this jucture,
Gen. Johnston, with the remnant of his
division re-appeared and made one other
desperate struggle to obtain the vantage
ground. Elsey’s brigade of Marylanders
and Virginians led the charge, and right
manfully did they execute the work. —
Gen. Johnston himself led the advance,
and wild with delirium his ten thousand
advanced in hot haste upon three times
their number. Twice was Sherman’s bat
tery, that all day long had proven so de
structive, charged and taken, and our men
driven back. The third time, Virginians,
Carolinians, Mississippians and Louisian
ian?, captured the great guns, and main
tained their position.
JEFF. DAVIS APPEARS ON THE FIELD.
About the pieces tbe dead and wounded
lay five deep, so protracted and deadly
had been the struggle. Now hope again
dawned upon us, and just as the tide
seemed turning in our favor, another good
omen illuminated the fortunes of the day
that at times seemed so ill-starred. Ri
ding in a half column along our lines was
a single horseman with hat in hand, wa
ving to the men, and speaking brief words
of encouragement. By intuition all knew
that this was President Davis, and such
a shout as made the welkin ring arose —a
shout, of joy and defiance. The Presi
dent had just arrived by special .train from
Richmond, and Providence appeared to
be with us again. The contest was no
longer doubtful. As I beard one of our
officers say, “ our men could have whipped
legions of devils.'’
The word “Onward !” was given—Da
vis, bareheaded, in the van. No more
lingering ■or dallying. It was a grand
and sublime onset of a few determined
sons of liberty against the legions of des
potism. The lines of the enemy were
broken, their columns put to flight, and
until after dark the pursuit was continued.
The rout was complete. Off scampered
the Yankees, throwing away guns, knap
sacks, clothing, and everything that could
retard their progress. Thus was the day
won, and the long bright Sabbath closed,
a lovely full moon looking down calmly
and peacefully upon the bloodiest field
that the Continent of America ever wit
nessed.
DEEP SORROW AT THE LOSS,
Our loss is fully Iwo thousand killed
and wounded. Among the killed arc
Gen. Bee, of South Carolina, Gen. L. K.
Smith, Gen. Bartow, of'Georgia, Colonel
Moore and the Alabama field officers, Col.
Fisher, and the North Carolina field offi
cers! Adjutant Branch of Georgia, and a
host of other leading men. Thomas G.
Duncan, of Nelson county, Ky., was in
the fight, and was shot through the left
shoulder. His wound is not dangerous.
Col. Barbour, of Louisville, Capt. Meni
fee and Shelby Coffee, of Kentucky, were
in the hottest of the fight. This is a sad
day. The rain is pouring in torrents. —
The killed and wounded are being brought
in by hundreds, and a gloom pervades all
hearts, that even the sense of our great
victory cannot relieve.
An Aitecting Incident.—Two gen
tlemen named Buck, one of whom lives in
Massachusetts, the other in New York,
having sons in the South, and hearing
that a°young roan of their name had been
taken prisoner, came on to Washington,
and obtained permits to visit the jail.—
Curiously enough, they met at the door,
and entered together. The Massachu
setts man instantly recognized his son a
prisoner, and foil insensible at his feet.—
After he had recovered from the shock,
the son told him he was teaching school
in Virginia, and, when the war broke out,
was impressed into the Hebei service, at
the point of the bayonet, and would gladly
expiate his involuntary treason by serving
as a private in the National Army. Sena
tor Wilson, who is interested in the case,
will doubtless take measures for the re
lease of this victim of Southern terrorism.
A Capture and an Incident.—A
curious incident occurred in connection
with the capture of the Secession prize
Enchantress. As the gun boat Albatross
approached her, she “fought shy,” and
when hailed replied that she was “ from
Nowburyport, bound for Santa Cruz.’
At this moment the negro cook appeared
on the gunwale, crying out as he leaped
into the sea with uplifted hands; “For
God’s sake, save me, Captain! she’s a se
cesher, bound to Charleston!” A boat
was immediately lowered to save the ne
gro and board the brig. On, examining
her papers it was found that herreply to
the hail was true, but she was a prize to
the “ Jeff Davis,” and had a prize crew
on board. Her cargo is first-class assorts*’
gijc.h. suitable for the Union armv.
[independent IN EVERYTHING.']
A DEFENCE OP BED TAPE.
A "Washington correspondent of the
New York Commercial Advertiser comes
to the rescue of “ red tape,” in the follow
ing cogent terms;
My experience and observation in camp
life has converted me to a belief in “ red
tape.”
I sec that red tape is nothing xnoro or
less than a strict enforcement of rules,
made by honest and wise officers, on sound
principles of action.
I see that red tape holds an army from
going to pieces, lost iu a pathless forest of
new particulars.
I see, that red tape safely guides each
man through a labyrinth,
I sec that red tape ties the hands of
uncounted numbers who might be tempted
to defraud.
I see that red tape checks any who
might feel inclined to exact just a little
more than is right.
I see that red tape holds back an army
from sinking into unexplored depths of
corruption.
Red tape takes a great deal of time,
but it is time worth less than the order it
ensures, or the money it saves.
Red tape is annoying to the individual,
but annoyance is more easily endured than
disorder or disgrace.
A volunteer who has always managed
his own business at home successfully,
rapidly and independently, finds it hard
to be brought up short at every turn by.
a little piece of red tape. It is bard.—-
He grumbles dreadfully, if, indeed, he
does not indulge in more unseemly vitu
peration. I wish he would picture to
himself an Administration without red
tape. I think he would afterwards en
dure his little piece of the slandered ar
ticle with patience, and even with respect
and approval.
It was hard for mo to consume a day
in getting some hay and oats for “ Ban
ner.” I saw an abundance of hay, but it
was all safely tied up m red tape. I dis
cerned uncounted bags of oats, but each
bag was tied with red tape, aud enclosed
with a cordon of red tape. But when I
learned by experience that the using up
of a day was partly from my own igno
rance—when I saw that the forms through
which I was forced to go, aud the dupli
cate papers I was obliged to make out,
the orders I must obtain, and the receipts
I must give, were each and all necessary
protections to hundreds of thousands of
dollars invested by Uncle Sam in provis
ion for thousands of horses, I cheerfully
submitted to the red tape, and I have
been a happier, a better a'nd wiser mau in
consequence.
By the merest accident, says the New
Orleans Delia of July 25th, Newport
News was prevented from being taken by
General Magrudcr, a few weeks since.—
A gentleman who arrived here from Vir
ginia on Monday, and who, as an amateur
soldier, while on a visit to the Yorktown
Peninsula, threw himself into the com
mand of Col. Dreus, who was then living,
and had secured the regard and confidence
of Gen. Magruder, by his daring, his en
terprise and his prudence, gives us the
following particulars of the plan and its
results :
Late in the evening the gallant Dreux
was summoned to the presence of the
General, and ordered to have his battalion
ready to march at eleven o’clock. His
command was under arms at the appointed
minute, and he found, beside him, other
corps swelling the column to two thousand
men. It was a dark, dreary night, heavy
rain falling, and was chosen as singularly
favorable to the expedition. The march
of many miles was made without a mur
mur, the men trudging over a miry road,
drenched with rain. As day was about
,to dawn, the General found himself be
fore the formidable works of the enemy.
All his anticipations were realized thus
far, and his whole plan was successful.
He had not met a single picket to alarm
the garrison. Ho was within musket-shot
of the foe, and that, too, at the very hour
when the soldiers slumbers are the heavi
est. Everything boded a splendid suc
cess. The column was divided into two
divisions to attack the stronghold on both
flanks. General Magruder took command
of one division, and the other was assigned
to Gol. Dreux. The signal for assault
was about to be given, when one of the
guides accidentally dropped his gun, the
charge of which exploded and alarmed
the enemy. The long roll was immedi
ately beat inside. With the force the
General had, it would have been madness
to make tho attack upon a prepared ene
my. The fort could only have been taken
by surprise. Foiled in that, our troops
were rc-uniled, and, being withdrawn a
short distance, battle was offered in the
open field. Although the enemy was
twice or thrice as strong as our little army,
the challenge was declined, and tho Gen
eral retraced hia steps —his well devised
scheme frustrated, as has been the ease
. with many an enterprising and gifted sol
i ! dier, by an untoward trifle,
a] ' —— :
A Revelation from the South.
501. Now if' the time to- adverthe.
A Literal ‘ Marriage of Convenience.’
The Observateur Beige tells the follow
ing story, which, if not new, is still old
enough to bear reviving, especially at a
season when office-seekers are so put to
their mettle that no hint of methods can
be thrown away :
“ The grandfather of the present King
of Holland one day received a visit from
a young man who requested to bo appoin
ted as successor to a notary ,deceased on
the previous day. The King said: “The
notary has left nothing for his widow,
with the exception of some half dozen
children to bring up; the person who
succeeds to the office must do: something
for her. There was a candidate here some
minutes before you came, who offered her
a pension of four hundred francs a year,
which is very little.’ ‘I will give her
four hundred florins sire.’ ‘Well, we
shall see. Come again in a week.’ The
young man was punctual to his appoint
ment. ‘lt appears,’ said the King, ‘ that
the connection is a good one; your com
petior now offers to give the widow five
hundred florins a year.’ ‘Well, sire, I
will give six hundred florins.’ ‘ Come
again in a week; he who makes the most
liberal offer shall have the office.’ At
the third audience the other: competitor
had advanced to eight hundred florins,
but our young man declared that such
generosity would be ruinous, and that he
could not offer so much. ‘I venture,
however, to ask your majesty to grant me
the favor of suspending your decision for
a week longer.’
“The delay was granted;, but when
the young man came for the fourth time,
His Majesty could not help saying, with
some impatience: ‘lt is useless, sir, to
say anything more. Your rival has not
hesitated to offer a pension of a thousand
florins; will you do as much for the wid
ow?’ ‘I beg your pardon, sire, I will do
more; lam about to marry her. Here
is her written consent.’ King William
was so much diverted with this place
hunting expedient that ho determined
the Queen should immediately share his
amusement, and the hero of the adven
ture accordingly had the honor of relating
all the particulars to their Majesties, who
laughed most heartily at the story. The
model place-hunter afterwards became an
exceedingly successful man in his busi-
ness.”
Exhaustion of Talk:— How long the
lamp of conversation holds out to burn
between two persons only, is curiously set
down in the following passage from Count
Gonfallioner’s account of his imprison
ment :
“ Fifteen years I existed in a dungeon
ten feet square. During sis years I had
a companion; during nine years I was
alone. I never could rightly distinguish
the face of him who shared my captivity
in the eternal twilight of bur cell. The
first year we talked incessantly together;
we related our past lives, our joys forever
gone, over and over again. The next
year we communicated to each other our
thoughts and ideas on all subjects. The
third year wo had no ideas to communi
cate ; we were beginning to lose the power
of reflection. The fourth, at the interval
of a month or so, we would- open our lips
to ask each other if it were possible that
the world went on as gay and bustling as
when wo formed a portion of mankind. —
The fifth wo were silent. The sixth he
was taken away, I never knew where, to
execution or liberty. But; I was glad
when he was gone; even, solitude was
bettor than that pale, vacant face. One
day (it must have beyi a year or two after
my companion left mo) the dungeon door
was opened, whence proceeding I knew
not; the following words were uttered :
“ By order of his Imperial Majesty I in
timate to you that your wife died a year
ago.” Then the door was shut, and I
heard no more; they had but flung this
great agony upon me and left me alone
with it.”
Abernethy and ms; Match. — A
lady on one occasion entered his consult
ing room, and put before him an injured
finger, without saying a word.' In silence
Abernethy dressed the wound, when in
stantly and silently the lady put the usual
fee on the table, and retired. In a few
days she called again, and,offered the fin
ger for inspection. “Better?” asked-the
surgeon. “ Better !” answered the lady,
speaking for the first timei Not another
word followed during the rest of the in
terview. Similar visits made, at the
last of which the paticnt hcld her finger
perfectly healed. “Well?” was Aberne
thy’s monosylahic inquiry. “ Well 1” was
the lady’s answer. “ Upon my soul,
madam,” exclaimed the surgeon, “you are
the most rational woman . 1 ever met
with /”
lB@b.The following is supposed to des
cribe the “ Dixie” whose praise is grow
ing universal:
Oh is not this a happy land—
With wine upon the toes?
Whore pot-pies smoke in six quart pans.
And dumplings grow on trees!
Where Nature’s lessons msy be rend,
In every babbling brook !
Where bumble-bees don't shej e -hep,
i And snuley cows don’t book ?
EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.
VERY FIGURATIVE.
Two young students, while taking a
walk one evening, got into a dispute con*
corning the solution of an arithmetical
problem. The dispute grew warm and
our students were on the point of settling
the question with their fists, when they
arrived at a miserable little shanty; so,
thinking that “ wisdom is often found
beneath tatters,” the students entered at
the broken gate, which swung indepen
dently on one hinge, and, accosting a boy
“all tattered and torn,” who was feeding
a dirty pig before the gate, one of them
asked:
<l I say, my boy, can your father cy
pher ?”
“ Cypher !—what's that ?” asked the
boy, with a foolish stare;
“ Cyphering means figuring; can your
father figure ?”
“ I guess so he figgered wonst.”
Upon this the youug men entered' the
shanty, where they found a dirty, ragged
old codger, engaged in potating from a
little black jug, and accosted him with—
“ Good morning, sir, wo understand
you’re smart at figuring, and wo want you
to solve a little problem for us, if you will
be so kind.”
“ Who the devil said I could figger—
I’d like to know ?”
“Your son told us you could figure,”
said the students.
“ Hero, Bill, you lying, good-for-nothing
whelp—did you tell these gentlemen that
I could figger?”
‘•Yes dad,” said Bill, making his ap
pearance, “you know you figgered Wonst.”
“When and where did I figger wonst,
you lying rascal ?”
“ Don’t you remember, aboutsis months
ago, you figgered in the perleece court, for
stealing neighbor Pupkins’ onions ?” —
[Exit Bill, followed by the black jug.]
Family Troubles. —Was over there
a family without its troubles ? Adam and
Eve had their troubles iu Eden; and all
families have had their troubles. Every
family has a skeleton behind the door;
every person a thorn in his side. It is
said that misery loves company, so take
courage hapless man, wearied woman.—
You are in the majority. “ Man is born
to trouble as the sparks fly upward.” A
Useless family would yours be if it knew
no trouble. Trouble is our great teacher.
It nerves us with the strength; it tempers
our mettle; it develops our self-control;it
quickens our inventive powers. Troubles
are to us what the winds are to the Oak,
what labor is to muscle, what study is to
the mind. Life is a school and trouble ia
one of the great lessons. Troubles a ts
not to be courted, but when they come wo
must get over thorn the best way we eatl,
arouse. Take courage, therefore, troubled
one. Notin vain arc your trials. They
make you brave, strong, and, it is to be
hoped, better. Be not cast down; cheer
up; cast aside your weeds and woes.—
Look the world in the face; do your duty
take every trouble by the horns, overcome
it with the courage of a true soldier ia
lifes great battle, and stoutly contend for
the victory of will and wisdom.
Military Printers having tHsiu
Joke; — A delegation of printers fftfftv
the Twentieth Ohio Regiment, stationed
at Fairman, Virginia, have taken pttsaba
sion of the True Virginian printing-office,
in that town. Their first leading article
was an invitation to Drinkard, the late
editor, to come back—thus:
“Men with military trappings hois' oc
cupy the identical chair in which your
peaceful body once sat. They Write Union
articles with your “secesh” peri; they
drink Union whiskey out of your old bot
tle, Drinkard; and the devil wears your
coat; and the pike you kept as it rfelie of '
John Brown, at Harper’s Ferry, the boys
now use to cut your rjlles, and the paper
and ink you prepared foir secession pur
poses arc now used to print army blanks
upon. 0, Drinkard! you might to bq
here. How can yoU stay away ? Your
types are set up for Union articles; your
press prints them. And more'than this,
the Stars and Stripes float from your win
dow ; and wo all know, from the files left
in your sanctum, that this doesn't suit
you. Come back, then, and take pos
session. Bring all your friends—Henry
A. Wise, John Letcher, and thn test —
with you.” \
time and patience the tftul
berry leaf becomes satin. At what diffi
culty should man quail, When a worm can
accomplish so much with the leaves of
the mulberry tree.
Why is an arithmetician like a dog
with & lame leg ? Because he puss down
three and carries ouc.
Ugk_To determine the power of & mule,
stand behind and tickle his' begs with a
briar.
piano affords a young lady a good
chance to show her fingering and her finger
ring. ‘
Half a million packs of cards ara
annually made in London.
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